Help on Piercing,Slashing,Crushing,Weapons

[Q'alooaith]

Originally posted by Olorin: damage types by making it easier or harder to hit something.

It's hit for damage in fact, combat in AD&D is not about hit and miss, armor simply allow's you to deflect attack's better making it harder for you to be hit for damage..

Originally posted by Imrahil: You're much better off just focusing on one weapon type than you are spreading your proficiency points out so that you can take advantage of your enemy's armor type (which you might not know til after he's dead anyway).

I must dissagree, you see all them purty diffrect grafical effect's when you change armor, well if you look closely you can tell of what sort, either chain, leather or plate and in some rare cases none at all.. Though if you look at the chart above you can see it's generaly better to beat the snot out of people with blunt and blugioning weapons, with the exception being splint mail..

And if your not a fighter type, say if your a bard or other such getting more than one * in a weapon is impossicible (I hearby declair a new word born) so carrying around an enchanted spear, longsword and big stick can be usefull... Though you could just slug it out with whatever happen's to be in your hands, though though force of habit of an ill spent youth I change weapon to face diffrent foes.... //You are attacked, roll two D6 and disscard the lowest to escape//

[Barry]

Originally posted by Olorin: In the back of the BG2 manual there should be a table of Armor vs. Weapon types: Armor.....Slashing..Piercing..Bludgeoning Leather......0.........+2........0 St. Leather..-2........-1........0 Chain Mail...-2........0.........+2 Splint Mail..0.........-1........-2 Plate Mail...-3........0.........0 Fulll Plate..-4.......-3.........0

Ah i must have missed that part as my manual is a pdf file come on a separate cd don't know if it's the same for you guys, so it's a pain to read especially when ingame and you won't a quick refrence on something but that was exactly what i was looking for thanks.

Thanks for all the tips guys been a great help as i was struggling on what to do with prof" points when creating a char,like i say me new to all this,must say it's a great game.

Oh i have the throne of ball aswell should i install that straight away or after i have finished shadows of amn?At the moment both are installed and not sure if i should have done this, would it have effected anything in the shadows of amn?Like overwrite certain quests and stuff?

Thanks for help guys.

[ 03-24-2004, 07:18 AM: Message edited by: Barry ]

[teardropmina]

since you have both SoA and ToB installed now, I'd say go ahead playing that; you can take your party all the way from SoA to ToB.
but make sure downloading and installing the latest ToB official patches (the order of installation -- SoA -> ToB -> ToB patch v. 26498 -> ToB patch v. 26499). Without the patches, you'll be plagued by annoying bugs.

[Imrahil]

Originally posted by Q'alooaith: quote: Originally posted by Imrahil: You're much better off just focusing on one weapon type than you are spreading your proficiency points out so that you can take advantage of your enemy's armor type (which you might not know til after he's dead anyway).

I must dissagree, you see all them purty diffrect grafical effect's when you change armor, well if you look closely you can tell of what sort, either chain, leather or plate and in some rare cases none at all..
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And if your not a fighter type, say if your a bard or other such getting more than one * in a weapon is impossicible (I hearby declair a new word born) so carrying around an enchanted spear, longsword and big stick can be usefull... [/QUOTE]True, but if you mistake Studded Leather for Leather & switch to a Piercing weapon, you've gone from expecting a +2 to getting a -1. If you can't tell the difference between Chain Mail & Splint Mail, your Club may suffer a 4 point swing in To Hit modifier.

As for non-Fighter types, I agree. If you have no choice but to spread your proficiencies around, then you may as well spread your proficiencies around. [img]smile.gif[/img]

- Imrahil

[Barry]

Originally posted by teardropmina: make sure downloading and installing the latest ToB official patches (the order of installation -- SoA -> ToB -> ToB patch v. 26498 -> ToB patch v. 26499). Without the patches, you'll be plagued by annoying bugs.

I done all installs in that order luckily i have that patch 26498 on my manual cd,as for the 26499 patch my saves and loading times are pretty quick but if they slow down i will install that.Thats it guys i'm out of questions for now.
Time to do some serious Irenicus butt kicking.
Thanks for all the help guys. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ZFR]

Welcome Barry.
Just a propos, (sorry for posting in your thread), where can i get the v26499 patch. The sticky thread gives link only to 26498... or have i missed it?

[teardropmina]

Originally posted by Barry: quote: Originally posted by teardropmina: make sure downloading and installing the latest ToB official patches (the order of installation -- SoA -> ToB -> ToB patch v. 26498 -> ToB patch v. 26499). Without the patches, you'll be plagued by annoying bugs.

I done all installs in that order luckily i have that patch 26498 on my manual cd,as for the 26499 patch my saves and loading times are pretty quick but if they slow down i will install that.Thats it guys i'm out of questions for now.
Time to do some serious Irenicus butt kicking.
Thanks for all the help guys. [img]smile.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]you're welcome...better install v. 26499 now...the slow loading will be in effect eventually -- when you get to ToB. Happy Irenicus butt kicking

[Balintherlas]

by the way, we share the same first name barry