Baldur's Gate

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IT’S A ME! IMOEN!

I can't decide what class to play

That’s me for every RPG other than BG.
In BG, martials suck because there’s nothing for you to actually do besides telling them what to attack and drinking potions.
So you just pick a flavour of caster and play that.

Is there any point playing a mage in BG1? Early on their complete shit unless you're spamming rest

Cavalier paladin is pretty fun. Go two handed swords and mess people up. If your RPing lawful good is a little tough, but I just play my guy like a chaotic good.

>early on
Yeah, a whole 2 hours. Also, the XP curve on mages just makes it more satisfying each time you level up, and especially once you’re past the peak.
Druids are the best for both the leveling satisfaction and the stronghold in 2. bards don’t @ me

Kensai / Mage

By caster you mean Arcane caster I found divine much worse, almost like they were made for multi/dual
There's an hidden ring south of the friendly arms inn that doubles your level 1 spells, grab it and after a couple of level up you'll be able to spam sleep
>spoiler
Elaborate, I love druids but they have so many shitty spells in bg I never managed to play one long enough

Low-level mages are not weak, just spam sleep on all groups of random enemies you encounter and let your group do the rest

Druids have a lore-based rollercoaster XP curve that has them level quickly, stall at one point, and then go super saiyan, but they drop off at really high levels, unlike mages. They also get their own grove, which imo is better than castles, theatres, or big magic balls

Any time I try to play druid I cheat and improve the pitiful Earth elemental transformation because it's pitiful foe a hla
I never reached a point where I could take hla with a druid though
>They also get their own grove, which imo is better than castles, theatres, or big magic balls
Yeah but it doesn't beat the cabin in the woods and the theater is great

Yeah but even if I had more casts, that's only like what, 5 casts or somehing. I'm still resting all the time is my point

Don't use spells on trash, let the dumb martial handle them

Still though that means most of the fights I'm doing nothing or did you meant ot add in use a sling too or something

yeah, any caster should have a ranger weapon for thrash

Yeah, that's the low level mage experience. Most of the time you cast 1 or no spells and just use your sling that's why you take sleep over magic missile and glitterdust over acid arrows at first

Skip part 1 and play monk

bg4 doesn't stand no chance if it releases too close to diablo 4

bg4?

Pick the dedicated cuckold class, since you're playing BG.

monks aren't even good in BG2

>20 replies without anyone posting those pedo cartoon avatars
Good thread

>monk
>bad

They start being able to absolutely obliterate anything they can hit about the time you get to the end of BG2. Pair them with casters that are able to breach/dispel their way through caster defenses and Irenicus/Kangaxx fucking melt in seconds.

Wasn't it a new class when the game came out?

Arcane casters being weak at low level is a meme. You use one of your starting spells on find familiar and have health similar to fighters, other on sleep and fill your spellbook with it, which is like 4 casts with ring of wizardry at level 1? That's more than enough even if you limit your resting
Then you get web and glitterdust when you get level 2 spells and with wands the whole game becomes a joke

Fuck you man, the anime portraits are great. The recent Dungeon Meshi ones are great, too.

>use one of your starting spells on find familiar
Why? You get a scroll after mulahey anyway.

All you need for early BG is sleep/blind/charm person.

A high level monk is still worse than a high level berserker wielding axe of unyielding and belm or whatever

>thief
>terrible at everything until you get HLAs, then becomes only good for progressively cheesing via trap spam which is a waste of time
>cleric, monk
>terrible at everything
>druid
>good at interrupting spellcasters
>fighter/ranger/paladin
>good at beating up stuff
>inquisitor
>good at beating up stuff, and especially mages
>mage
>amazing at absolutely everything, invalidates the existence of nearly every other class
>fighter/mage
>godly at absolutely everything, invalidates the existence of every other class aside from the druid and inquisitor

Imagine being this shit lmao

Getting that extra hp early can mean a lot, otherwise a lot of stuff can one shoot you at one level. But yeah unless you play hardcore it isn't necessary to get it that early
Also you don't really need charm person either, you can get Algernon's cloak very early

These ones?

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>cleric
>bad
If you try and play like an arcane specllcaster, sure. You should be combining it with fighter or thief to make combat machines.

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If all you need are fighter/mages how do you heal damage/cure paralysis etc?

the problem with mages is that they’re fucking gay cookie cutter designated spell spammers

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