Who should I choose for a sixth npc???

[Strider132]

ok, jan died in the shade dungeon and although he could have been resurrected (this was my first game) i tossed jans body onto the ground and adopted mazzy instead.... i got rid of aerie, but when i go to the circus its innaccessable, because its stil kalahs illusion, evn though i have completed this... my ranger is a standard ranger, i was gonna have an archer but i figured valygars close enough (especially when using modifiers...), i had a ranger mainly because i wanted the umar hils stronghold and to fight umar... which I would appreciate some tips on because im getting fed up with the hordes of skeletons turning up just as viconia left, and im wanna try an do this without anomen first..

[Nerull]

Originally posted by Strider132: ok, jan died in the shade dungeon and although he could have been resurrected (this was my first game) i tossed jans body onto the ground and adopted mazzy instead.... i got rid of aerie, but when i go to the circus its innaccessable, because its stil kalahs illusion, evn though i have completed this... my ranger is a standard ranger, i was gonna have an archer but i figured valygars close enough (especially when using modifiers...), i had a ranger mainly because i wanted the umar hils stronghold and to fight umar... which I would appreciate some tips on because im getting fed up with the hordes of skeletons turning up just as viconia left, and im wanna try an do this without anomen first..

Sound like a bug with the circus; if you killed Kalah, then you should be able to enter the tent (the illusion ends when you kill Kalah). There is no reason you should not be able to enter the tent and get Aerie. You might want to check to see if there is a patch for it (Baldurdash usually has the best patches).


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Death is only the beginning...

[Nerull]

Originally posted by Nerull: Sound like a bug with the circus; if you killed Kalah, then you should be able to enter the tent (the illusion ends when you kill Kalah). There is no reason you should not be able to enter the tent and get Aerie. You might want to check to see if there is a patch for it (Baldurdash usually has the best patches).

http://members.home.net/mrkevvy/

That is the Baldurdash site.


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[TeKNiKaLL]

The best npc is edwin

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Real power, its never having to say you're sorry.

[TheDutkanator]

My professional opinion? Start a new game with a mage/thief and don't allow any NPC's to join (SOLO Baby Yeah!). But, you want that dang ranger thing huh. Well, you could start a multi-player game and use the serial connection (faster loading) and just create your own characters for everyone. How about a ranger for the leader and mage/thief as second hand man. Then, you get the best character in the game (mage/thief) and you still get the ranger quests.
Also, you could still have 4 NPC's join if you really must!

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Let's get'em guen!

"I'm sorry, did I kill you?" -TheDutkanator

[Guyan Sethe]

Originally posted by TeKNiKaLL: The best npc is edwin I totally agree. Jan Jansen is another favourite.

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Might makes right.

[Gil-Galad]

Hey, what about Yoshimo...The famous Yoshimo?

[Sigmar]

No, what about Tiax.

[Strider132]

Originally posted by Gil-Galad: Hey, what about Yoshimo...The famous Yoshimo?

Yoshimo is good, the only pure theif... but whts this i heard about
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yoshimo trying to poison and assasinate your party because he is working for irenicus???

[Darviathar]

Originally posted by Strider132: Jan is dead, aerie is inaccessable, my party is me (Ranger), Minsc, Jaheira, Nalia, Valygar. Viconia left cos my rep was too high and i didnt do the keep evil characters trick... who should i use? I was thinking about Keldorn, especially cos i hate anomen and he becomes a pyscho (or in my case a dead pyscho....)

You really cannot afford to drop Anomen from your group! You are going to struggle big-time with only Jahiera as a healer. There are portions of the game in which you've really got to have certain clerical spells (death ward, negative plane protection) cast on your fighters, and Jahiera simply isn't going to have enough spell slots to memorize enough of the spells to protect your party. She's also multi classed, and will be leveling quite slowly. The sixth level clerical spell Heal is a must have towards the end of Shadows of Amn, and certainly by the beginning of Throne of Bhaal. Because you are a ranger PC, you certainly don't need Valygar AND Minsc. Replace one of them with Keldorn, because you will definitely want a paladin in the party in order to employ the holy avenger sword.

Also, if you want Viconia back, there are ways to lower your reputation. Just keep it at 18 and under, and she'll stay. She'll bitch constantly from about 15-18, but she won't leave. Try going into some out of the way shop and getting caught stealing an item. Turn your party AI OFF so that they won't instinctively chunk the shopkeeper (instant loss of 10 rep points and ranger status). Run outside and don't go back into that shop again (don't do this in the adventurer's mart whatever you do; you definitely don't want that store inaccessible).