Looking for a 6th NPC

[krunchyfrogg]

The thing about Aerie is that the only thing she really adds to my party (mage spells, since the protagonist will be the best cleric possible), can be covered by other NPCs that will do that job better than she will.

[Lord]

Originally posted by krunchyfrogg: The thing about Aerie is that the only thing she really adds to my party (mage spells, since the protagonist will be the best cleric possible), can be covered by other NPCs that will do that job better than she will.

Not completely true. She's the only NPC that can put cleric spells in a contingency, which makes her very powerful since a chain contingency can hold any cleric spell.

[krunchyfrogg]

Yeah, true. But that's a minor advantage (IMHO) compared to what Nalia, Jan, or even (I'm considering) Kelsey would bring.

After reading this thread, Kelsey seems very appealing. I might just add him in there.


If I were to dual Sarevok right away (and not touch Watcher's Keep until he was in my party), would I be able to advance Sarevok to a high enough level to pass his Fighter level (I think he comes in at 19)?

[Lord]

Yeah, you can easily pass it since ToB gives out lots of XP.

[krunchyfrogg]

Cool. It'll be a while before I have to make this decision, but Dual Classing Sarevok is in my memory banks now.

[Skunk]

Originally posted by krunchyfrogg: Cool. It'll be a while before I have to make this decision, but Dual Classing Sarevok is in my memory banks now.

You might also want to rethink your protagonist.
Why not duel from cleric to ranger (or better still to fighter) at level 9 (to get 1 level 5 priest spell) - rather than multi-classing him?

You'll still have all of the most important cleric spells and will be able to get your THACO down a more acceptable level much quicker (esp. if you duel to fighter). It would also mean that you can have a kitted cleric with special abilities that you could keep... But don't choose priest of talos though (if you want to duel to ranger) because ranger's can't be evil aligned.

You'd need wisdom at 18 to make the most use of this duel class...

[ 03-30-2004, 09:39 AM: Message edited by: Skunk ]

[Morgeruat]

actually he'd have to be a cleric of Lathander, as Helm is Neutral and requires his clerics to be as well.

My vote goes to Aerie for the next NPC, Sarevok is evil, and most of your party is good aligned, it doesn't fit well from an RP standpoint, unless you're trying to turn him to good.

[krunchyfrogg]

Dual: More than one
Duel: Fight somebody

Originally posted by Skunk: You might also want to rethink your protagonist. Why not duel from cleric to ranger (or better still to fighter) at level 9 (to get 1 level 5 priest spell) - rather than multi-classing him? You'll still have all of the most important cleric spells and will be able to get your THACO down a more acceptable level much quicker (esp. if you duel to fighter). It would also mean that you can have a kitted cleric with special abilities that you could keep... But don't choose priest of talos though (if you want to duel to ranger) because ranger's can't be evil aligned. You'd need wisdom at 18 to make the most use of this duel class...

My character is Dual Classed, not Multi Classed. I'm going from Ranger into Cleric because I want to have a high level Cleric in my party. From just two levels of Ranger, I have access to all Cleric AND all Druid spells. The minor loss of being a specialist Cleric of Lathander pale in comparison to this.

My Wisdom should be 20 or 21 by the end of BGI.

Originally posted by Morgeruat: Sarevok is evil, and most of your party is good aligned, it doesn't fit well from an RP standpoint, unless you're trying to turn him to good.

I would undoubtedly try this, were I to add Sarevok to my party.

[Skunk]

Originally posted by krunchyfrogg: My character is Dual Classed, not Multi Classed. I'm going from Ranger into Cleric because I want to have a high level Cleric in my party. From just two levels of Ranger, I have access to all Cleric AND all Druid spells. The minor loss of being a specialist Cleric of Lathander pale in comparison to this.

Not entirely true.
A level 9 ranger will only get access to level one spells
A level 10 ranger will get access to one level two spell and
A level 12 ranger will get access to level three druid spells.

But the remaining druid spells, like that oh-so-funky 'Summon insects' will never be achievable.

What's more, if you dualed at:
level 9, it would cost a total of 750K of XP points before you got your first level druid spell back;
level 10, it would cost a total of 1,275,000 of XP points before you got your 2nd level druid spells back;
level 12, it would cost a total of 2,700,000 of XP points before you got your 3rd level druid spells back.

Clerics and Rangers both require a lot of experience points to level up - spending 300,000 points of exp just to access to to the 'Entangle' spell seems rather expensive to me - esp. as you wouldn't get access to it again until a fairly advanced stage of the game. And you would never get enough exp points to gain access to the third level spells again in SOA with a party consisting of more than four members...

[Nerull]

Originally posted by Skunk: quote: Originally posted by krunchyfrogg: My character is Dual Classed, not Multi Classed. I'm going from Ranger into Cleric because I want to have a high level Cleric in my party. From just two levels of Ranger, I have access to all Cleric AND all Druid spells. The minor loss of being a specialist Cleric of Lathander pale in comparison to this.

Not entirely true.[/QUOTE]Actually, Skunk, krunchyfrogg is right. You only need one level of ranger to open up the entire priest spellbook. Please read this thread where I explained how the game figures out the spellcasting for the ranger/cleric, and how essentially you are "exploiting" this to cast all of the priest spells in the game.

[ 04-01-2004, 10:05 AM: Message edited by: Nerull ]