baldurs_gate_2

The thing is, dual wield is superior. You hit faster if you skill the right talent, a full attack attacks with each weapon, torment's reach as well. With weapons like godansthunyr and we toki, you even inflict stun / prone on enemies. ACC is most likely the most important stat. Doesn't matter how much damage you deal, if you don't hit the enemy.

Stunning blow is so bad, because you only have 2 casts. Force of anguish on the other hand is wound based and because monks generally have a high amount of acc, will even prone dragons without a problem and there is no immunity to it.

The whole thing is very confusing and there is no list of enemy attacks, that shows which defense they tackle. You could only figure it out when you fight enemies and look it up at the combat screen to the bottom right. You could be basically immune to everything besides prone and stun, with the right scrolls or priest spells.

Just take the character guides in this subforum and build it that way?

It's only micromanagement, if you play in a party, what i avoid of all costs. The games are just too easy in a party, i want a challenge, so solo is the way to go. And i hate micromanagement. It's ok in JRPGs and round based combat like divinity OS, but in pillars or baldurs gate it's just tedious.

Ok i did the alpine dragon, was much easier with my ultimate than with the regular potd barb. The bounties were pretty easy, only vs. magran i had to reinitiate. And i still don't know, why they put the most difficult main game bounty (nalrend) in first tier, where you want more lvls beforehand. Only od nua, llengrath and thaos left. Only llengrath bothers me, but i think you can just use persistence if things go wrong.

I think it is a shame that the pillars games where not commercialy successfull. This game will be like skyrim and that game was so ridicioulus easy, no challenges at all. I never cared about the story, but i know right now, this game will not make as much fun as the pillars games.

Hmm, i really wonder how you are be able to beat the alpine dragon with barb. Any ideas?

OK, but you can't get the duplicate in a solo run =(

Damn, that would be really good =( So dual sabres will most likely the better option with heart of fury.

Thanks Do you know if "disorienting" per hit increases or is that a flat -5 max?

Ok i did it with my ranger. It took me 3 hours more than with a monk (14:30 to 17:30). The llengrath fight was way easier than i thought with spirit spiral and the headgear for charming. The dragon even killed llengrath for me It could be more optimized for timesaving. A mod with more supplies for pearls and other ressources would be cool, without you have to basically travel around to get a good amount of crafting material. Hardest fight in my opinion is Alpine dragon without the concelhaut skull. Those nasty spectres with their stun projectiles. I had to try this fight with my other ranger several times until i got a good strategy. Monk just wrecks him.

I have a question, esp. for that munacra headgear. I charmed the green llengrath dragon and it was about 13 seconds, but he quickly turned hostile again. Is that a bug? Sometimes he stays charmed for the whole duration and other times he just turns hostile again (with still enemies near him).

But that is supposed to be a party build or? Because as solo, you have to rely on summons, that the enemies won't just kill your pet fast. What is the best pet for that? I am using a boar because it is more sturdy.

Just use a paladin as tank, priest that casts barring's death door on him and a wizard that just throws his spells in. So he won't die but the enemies are toast.

That is a pretty good, damage dealing priest guide: The race is not really important, so you can use durance. Druid is really good with plague of insects and relentless storm + spiritshift. It has basically the highest melee dps in the game, but you can't use any potions / scrolls shifted. The problem with some of the soulbound items is, they come pretty late. Abydon's Hammer is the best weapon against the eyeless, because they die with one hit basically. Gref's is really good on Wizard. Because you can use Blast + Penetrating Blast, that deals AoE damage with the weapon instead of single target on other classes. Dangerous Implement improves the damage further. I never tried a offtank paladin, because he is the best tank in the game with a shield and his DPS is pretty bad compared to other classes.

It's possible in the second game, because there are actually better abilities for a melee build. But Rangers are pretty weak tbh, even more in melee range.

At the moment i try a ranger run. There are just two problems. In Eothas Temple, when you talk to the spirit, your pet will be teleported to you. But it gets spotted so easily by the oozes, that you have to kill the whole enemies in the room. But it's not difficulty with the one-eye ara. Second one, what is a bit too RNG for me is, the throne room in od nua. The pet is unable to sneak past the first ones. So you have to trigger the statue, cast your minion and rush with your pet inside the door and hope, that max two enemies follow you. But as i said, that is RNG and at that point, you allready played 1+ hours and it would be a shame to **** that up. Any ideas for a better solution?

I will try that soon how good this range weapon is compared to the 2h fire sword.

Nice. I am not really surprised that a wizard is faster than a monk. I should have skipped more fights with my monk but on the other hand, then i had to plan my resting better and it would be more risky. I think, wizard and monk are the easiest ones to pull it off. I hope there are more people that try these runs with other classes and recorded it.

Wizard is pretty straightforward. The hardest fight in the beginning is that one against the templar for the doemel mainquest (10.000 coins). He has pretty high damage spells and sometimes refuses to die. I died there two or three times. It's just important to not get too ****y, especially against the eyeless. One fire-ray and you are basically dead if you don't act wisely or the paralyze does not proc. Alpine dragon is most likely the hardest fight, because ice-beam / shadowflame / freezing rake does not work. Those pesky spectre tend to graze stun you and the dragon is immune to paralzye, so you have to petrify or confuse him. That's most likely the only fight where things can really get wrong.

That's my monk run xd I haven't found any others besides Wodjee's that recorded a full run. I can understand it, because it takes a long time and just not enough people play the game.

Yes i know that. But the focus gaining was pretty tedious all the time and he is more on the squishy side. Firebrand worked pretty good in the beginning, because it has such a high damage output. But i even tried Bittercut + Another sabre and it did not really perform well in my opinion. Maybe i just play him wrong.

Hmm yeah, but the charm duration is not very high or? At least i remember so. Cipher is the only character besides Wizard i would try on an second ultimate, just because with psychic backlash he can easily stun the dragons.

Oh that must have hurt. I can not even imagine how you could do the Llengrath fight.