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Is, in my opinion, without a doubt, Anomen DelRynn. I've been through Shadows of Amn three times now, and have sworn up and down NOT to continue using him, but just cannot help myself. I simply do not understand how anyone could choose Jaheira over him. Anomen's fighter level will forever remain at seven, but that really doesn't make all that much of a difference, since he can fully specialize in the flail or hammer, giving him plenty of attacks per round. THACO tends to rendered irrelevant by the time your reach higher levels (especially if you have any sort of giant strength girdle), so on pure fighting ability, Anomen is just fine. His spell casting ability is superior to Jaheira as well, since he doesn't waste time as a multi classed character. In my TOB game, Anomen is now 25th level, and has so many heal spells that I ditched Jaheira from the party in favor of Saervok. In my opinion, multi classed characters simply do not measure up. In my experience, they are less effective the further you get into the game. Jaheira was about 15/15 as a fighter druid, but had so few HP's that she simply could not tank fire giants for any amount of time. She simply did not have enough spell power (when compared to Anomen, who was 10 levels higher) to really amount to all that much use as a healer any longer. Now that Anomen has so many heal (the sixth level spell) spells at his disposal, I really don't have the need any longer for a second healer, especially considering that I have a Rod of ressurection to rez Anomen in case of emergency.
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