drow equiptment.

[Taran]

i just got a crapload of good drow armor. i can wear it inside underdark, but im worried that if i go out it will go away. is there any way to use drow equiptment in the sun? spoil me

[Xen]

I noticed there was a trick to save the drow items
upon leaving the underdark. I liked this idea, but did not
want to kick a member out of my party to do it. Also, my main
character was in a romance with Jaheira so I didn't know what
kicking her out would do. I decided to try to come up with an
alternate method of doing this. What I came up with works, but
it is somewhat incovenient to do if you're walking around with
full inventories due to having to trade the armor between many
people. My trick works because the game only checks the items
every round or so and will not decay items on the ground. Here
is what you do. (When picking up items, use the inventory
screen instead of the overhead display method of picking stuff
up)

1. Immediately pause the game when you gain control of the
party after leaving the underdark, before the drow equipment
decays. Transfer ALL the drow stuff you want to keep on to
one person and have that person drop it all into a pile on
the ground. You can then unpause it. Adamantine dust will
appear in your inventory just like if the items decayed, but
they will still be on the ground. Also, opening the bag of
holding seems to decay items as well even if paused, so do
not put anything you want to keep in there.

2. Next, string your characters to the edge of the map, and
have one of them as close as you can get without trying to
exit the screen. The trick here is to have the people
close enough together that they may pass items still. Keep
the character that dropped the items in the same spot so
that he can pass them all to the next person.

3. Now, repause the game, and have the character over the
stack of items pick them up and pass them down the line of
characters until the person near the edge has them. Have
that person drop them all in a pile on the ground again.
(Since the game is paused here, you are in effect, moving
the items to the edge of the map before any time can pass,
so they do not decay.)

4. Move your whole party close enough to the edge of the map so
that you can leave the area with just a single click and no
one will have to walk. Leave the guy on the stack of items
again.

5. Pause again, and pick up all the equipment, passing some of
it to other people if you need to again. Leave the
inventory screen, and click where the party will leave the
area. Then unpause, and the party will leave before the
items decay.

[Dadams1]

Very nice Xen, I just tried it in my game and it works beautifully.

[Xen]

Glad to hear it!

[Pirengle]

But if you have Throne of Bhaal, you can't keep your drow armor. The game will make another "drow armor out of the Underdark" check, and Xen's trick won't work then.

[RoSs_bg2_rox]

I noticed that aswell pirengle, but apart from that it is cheating. You are only ment to have it in the underdark and so you are cheating the game.

[Xen]

Yes. I have never used this(i copyed my post from somewhere else!),excatly becuase of the reason wich is cheating.

Altough,the game itslef,sometimes cheates you!

[Vedran]

In short: put all the stuff in the bag of holding, drop it as soon as you have the chance, and pass it along the party to the map edge (while the game is paused).
If I recall correctly, it works with the bag, items don't crumble when the game is paused (?). But I did it about ten months ago so I could be wrong.

And, after all, why bother? The game checks only that area (and some ToB areas), and you can easily create those armors with Shadowkeeper when you're away from it.

[Xen]

True and my opinion is that apart from AC bonus Drow armor suck! There are plenty of better armors in BG2+ToB!

[RoSs_bg2_rox]

Originally posted by Xen: Yes. I have never used this(i copyed my post from somewhere else!),excatly becuase of the reason wich is cheating.

thats the same with me