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How do you switch to duel-wield fist if there are other weapons in your weapon slots?

Do all the stuff in the second major city in the game and the wilderness area North of it. But don't travel to the island. Then do Od Nua. The boss at the bottom is more difficult than the final main quest boss.

Soul power makes you shoot things with a gun better?

Case in point the load times for the 8mb map and 300+mb about the same at 10s. Autosave is at least 5s of that

Now I'm even less sure if I played IWD 2 or not. I remember the underdark....wasn't that also in BG2?

All this talk about PoE being the spiritual successor to BG / IWD etc. made me realise something... ...I can't remember playing Icewind Dale 2! I'm a huge fan of all the IE games. I can distinctly remember player BG while I should have been studying at university in 1999. Back it those days it was really difficult to find games here in South Africa i.e. before steam / digital download. I still miss the feeling of buying the retail boxes and some of them still have special places in my collection: BG was my first IE and it was an excellent game at the time. Soon after finishing BG I found an Icewind dale demo (the demo might even have been on the BG discs?). I played that demo quite a few times and it took me years to trace a retail box copy of IWD. I was very excited when I actually randomly found BG2 in a store a few years later. No matter what anyone says I still believe BG2 (including Throne of Bhaal) is in the top 5 games ever made. It was also a big effort to find a retail copy Throne of Bhaal. I also heard of Planescape Torment but was never able to locate a copy. It was not until last year that I discovered GoG and played PST for the first time! It was slightly disappointing as it didn't live up to the "best game ever made" billing. It was still very good. With PoE 3rd play-through almost done, it is time to find IWD 2 on GoG...

Someone on the other thread posted this: https://fs07n4.sendspace.com/dl/e5d55967ab0e5e9556fd7f280eb73b05/5533934234ee44a5/cvs411/PoE_Portraits_CE_1.2.zip

Good post. I think the Spiritshift should ultimately be at will. Maybe first talent to increase duration, second talent making it at will and further increasing duration.

Not many female choices really. GM seems a bit distant, depending on your RP it might be difficult to connect with her.

Awesome!

Some good suggestions Noin

It does help moving older savegames to a different folder

I'm sue the loading times are connected to auto saving?

P.O.S. = Pillars of S###? This is what happens if you don't kill the trolls with fire or acid arrows

I'd say a monk would do more damage (although I haven't played one yet). The rapiers don't do enough damage

Why are my characters randomly engaging friendly NPCs in melee combat? This happens when I'm just walking around in Twin Elms. Luckily they don't attack them too. But sometimes if the NPC moves it results in an automatic disengagement attack and then all NPC turns hostile...

What are you doing wrong? 1. Don't give everyone shields: Try one with a 2handed weapon or one with 2 weapons. Possibly give Pelligrina a 2handed weapon 2. No real range weapons: Give Kana a bow or a rifle instead 3. 2x wands: Rather give Durance another weapon like a staff or a rifle/bow

Vicious and penetrating

Since when has there been mana in IE games?

I'm gonna go with this one for next time:

Jip, basically Petrify = hard counter for Adra Dragon

To give you some idea this the damage of my party in my second play though at the end of Act II, all just reached level 9: I think the highest single hit on my first play through was 150 from an arbalest sneak attack.

But surely status effects shouldn't proc on grazes?