Solo Thief Ponderings

[Xen]

No maximum is +7. Now if you were a F/T you would engage Critical Strike and then backstabb that would be more then +7. +14 I think. (Becuase it is x2 from Critical Strike) [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Assassin]

You can get, IIRC, the x8 if you have Rogue Rebalancing installed.

I would strongly suggest you dual-class into a Fighter, especially if you have no party backup, being a solo character.

Backstab increases every 3 levels, yes.

I'm finding now that the two weapons that I'm using are the Tuigan Bow +1 and the Tansheron Bow. I used 3 traps on Ihtafeer (not too cheesy; they were in the shadows, and I had a job trying to get her to move her but) and just ran past the worst Trolls. Tuigan for the high AC enemies to poison-lock them. Tansheron's for the low AC enemies that I'm having trouble hitting.

In any case, would anyone be interested in reading a very slowly paced adventure of an Assassin dual'ed to a Mage? I might be inspired to write it, but everyone and their brother has solo'ed a Mage before, and it might be kind of boring. And when I mean slowly paced, I mean really slowly paced. I don't exactly have a lot of time, and aren't as good with BG2 as some people, so I finish slower.

By the way Lord, do you have the no-experience cap installed?

[ 02-16-2004, 04:41 PM: Message edited by: Assassin ]

[Lord]

Originally posted by Assassin: You can get, IIRC, the x8 if you have Rogue Rebalancing installed. I would strongly suggest you dual-class into a Fighter, especially if you have no party backup, being a solo character. Backstab increases every 3 levels, yes. I'm finding now that the two weapons that I'm using are the Tuigan Bow +1 and the Tansheron Bow. I used 3 traps on Ihtafeer (not too cheesy; they were in the shadows, and I had a job trying to get her to move her but) and just ran past the worst Trolls. Tuigan for the high AC enemies to poison-lock them. Tansheron's for the low AC enemies that I'm having trouble hitting. In any case, would anyone be interested in reading a very slowly paced adventure of an Assassin dual'ed to a Mage? I might be inspired to write it, but everyone and their brother has solo'ed a Mage before, and it might be kind of boring. And when I mean slowly paced, I mean really slowly paced. I don't exactly have a lot of time, and aren't as good with BG2 as some people, so I finish slower. By the way Lord, do you have the no-experience cap installed?

No, I have the Level 50 mod installed (or is it 50/50 or 50/50/50? ).
I think I'll be dualing to a fighter, but probably at lvl 33. That way, I can get 1 of every single thief HLA. Thief hits 3M xp at lvl 24, and there are 10 HLAs, so I'm going straight to lvl 33 for all 10. That's a little over 5 million xp, but that can easily be achieved around the time that I enter the Underdark. Sounds like a good idea?

[Assassin]

Well, I'm going for level 19 Assassin, then dualling straight for a Mage (sacrificed Move Silently and Hide in Shadows because of Invisiblity Rings/the spell. Got 80 in Find/Remove Locks. Going for 90 or so in both Set Snares/Detect Illusions). I'm just not sure of what level a Mage can get if it's already a level 19 Assasin under the ToB cap. If it's a decent level, then I might uninstall the thing. If it isn't, then I'm keeping it, but just refusing to level up after level 31.

How far are you in your adventure?

[Lord]

Assassin dualed to Mage at level 19 will result in a max lvl of 25. That leaves you with 3 lvl 9 spells and 8 HLAs. There are only 6 HLAs though, so you can get all of those. But there's also the extra level 6 and level 7 spells, so you can get those too. So you can get a good deal.

I've only come out of Irenicus's Chateau since I haven't actually started playing. All I did was complete that dungeon yesterday and then leave. At a meager lvl 11 Assassin .

[ 02-16-2004, 06:04 PM: Message edited by: Lord ]

[Assassin]

[img]redface.gif[/img] You did Improved Ilyich? I almost tried it out, but realized that I had DBG, and skipped it. =/