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antonius · 02-18-2002, 04:05 PM

Here's the deal - I've just finished Bg1 with a fairly impressive (stats wise) elven Thief (STR 19, DEX 20 [img]smile.gif[/img] ) and am about to restart BG2 with TOB installed (when I can find a shop that sells it). I've got a pretty good mental image of who this guy is - and it centres on stealth, backstabbing and poison (yeah, he's an Assassin). I loaded up BG2 last night to get some first impressions on how he's going to look and started to think about weapon profs... (BTW I've played through SOA more than a few times already, including with a Thief)

4 points - 1 for short bow is a given. I can kind of see him dual-wielding (even with massive penalties), but it makes more sense to put a point in single-handed for now. I'm then looking at a couple of melee weapons - I've got a kind of itchy finger that makes me want to select Katana, but the other options are Short Sword or Dagger (2 out of 3).

I can't really see this guy with a katana - is CF an assassin's blade at all? (What's the point of been invisble when there's a sonic boom).

So what weapon is going to be used most by this guy? Obviously different blades for different foes and all, but he _needs_ a trademark slicer - so what's it to be?

02-18-2002, 04:05 PM	#1
antonius Zhentarim Guard Join Date: May 14, 2001 Location: Leeds, England Posts: 384	Here's the deal - I've just finished Bg1 with a fairly impressive (stats wise) elven Thief (STR 19, DEX 20 [img]smile.gif[/img] ) and am about to restart BG2 with TOB installed (when I can find a shop that sells it). I've got a pretty good mental image of who this guy is - and it centres on stealth, backstabbing and poison (yeah, he's an Assassin). I loaded up BG2 last night to get some first impressions on how he's going to look and started to think about weapon profs... (BTW I've played through SOA more than a few times already, including with a Thief) 4 points - 1 for short bow is a given. I can kind of see him dual-wielding (even with massive penalties), but it makes more sense to put a point in single-handed for now. I'm then looking at a couple of melee weapons - I've got a kind of itchy finger that makes me want to select Katana, but the other options are Short Sword or Dagger (2 out of 3). I can't really see this guy with a katana - is CF an assassin's blade at all? (What's the point of been invisble when there's a sonic boom). So what weapon is going to be used most by this guy? Obviously different blades for different foes and all, but he _needs_ a trademark slicer - so what's it to be?