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Posted February 03, 2013
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Darkcloud: Keep your party small at the beginning, go to the maps on the right you should reach an area with basiliks and a ghoul that wants to join you. He is no regular party member so no XP shared to him and turns hostile after resting but he is immune to the basiliks petrification, Let him kill the basiliks but watch out that they don't hurt him that much. You don't want him to die before the basiliks are dead. If you are alone you will have around 20k-30k xp more with imoen in the team its half that. This will give you an easy start and other npcs level with the level you first had on that map.
hmm, I've found Korax, but he only survived one lesser basilisk and their mage master, the next greater basilisk destroyed him :) (anyway, how many greater basilisks are there on that map?)

so I should find a way to keep him alive now...
Posted February 03, 2013
I seem to recall finishing the game with exploitation of the fact that my summoned skeletons could hit enemies which were out of my characters' range of vision, but couldn't be hit back. After the final boss died the camera started acting oddly--it turned out that it was trying to scroll to his position so he could say his final words, but it didn't work until I moved close enough to see him.

This is, however, very boring, and I don't know whether it works on a fully patched version.
Posted February 03, 2013
Why not just use the console to give your mage a couple levels? Fast, easy, and you don't waste time trying to find a way to kill high level critters.

As for the greater basilisks on that map, I think there are 4. Not certain on that, but I seem to recall there only being a handful.
Posted February 03, 2013
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Coelocanth: Why not just use the console to give your mage a couple levels? Fast, easy, and you don't waste time trying to find a way to kill high level critters.

As for the greater basilisks on that map, I think there are 4. Not certain on that, but I seem to recall there only being a handful.
hmmm, fast, easy, efficient... I like that :D
Posted February 03, 2013
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Coelocanth: Why not just use the console to give your mage a couple levels? Fast, easy, and you don't waste time trying to find a way to kill high level critters.

As for the greater basilisks on that map, I think there are 4. Not certain on that, but I seem to recall there only being a handful.
EDIT: ok, so it works, thank you a lot! it feels a little bad (I'm not sure yet how I'll feel after a couple of maps which I'll go through seamlessly...) but it's exactly what I wanted, to I'm gonna have to swallow my pride here :)

I'll give myself a little push to level 5 and we'll see...

also thanks to all of you who advised the "high road" solutions, I'm grateful! unfortunately they were all too much work for me, and I'm just too old and have little time...

but hey, it's entertainment, so let's keep it that way! :D
Posted February 03, 2013
Funnily enough I just started re- playing and I'm at that bit with the wolf, but i'm a Blackguard, anyway, a mage and imo havent alot of HP, so maybe you should get J+K to help, as regards the wolf what I did was have them both equipped with bows, then switch to melee when the wolf is in range...never use a bow at melee distance.

I would try to steer clear of cheating in a RPG, because the idea is to "build" your character, it kinda defeats the purpose of levelling, if you are going to do that in BG1, you may as well just move on to BG2 as you wont be missing alot.

Not casting any aspersions, its your game, play how you want, I just think it would be a waste of time to play BG if you are going to mess with the stats as its not a great game.....Unless, you are thinking of importing your character into BG2 of course.
Posted February 03, 2013
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Kunovski: I've read this article in a gaming magazine and I felt the urge to play and finish Baldur's Gate I (as I've played it as a kid but never finished)

what I want to ask is how to go through the game as easily as possible. the reasons are obvious, my time is limited, my backlog is huge, and I simply don't want to spend hours saving/loading at each wild wolf encounter as it happens now.

I'm thinking about a couple of solutions:

a) pushing the "difficulty" bar to zero - can anyone advise what are the cons of that? I know the experience gained is lower, but how is that easier? won't I need the XP to defeat all the monsters anyway?

b) making my group larger - at the moment it's just me (a mage) and Imoen and I'd like to keep it that way. I'm willing to take Khalid and Jaheira as well, but does it help that much (I mean with the difficulty set to normal)?

or if you can think of anything better (although I'd like to go through the vanilla version) please let me know :)

PS: please no "skip it and go straight to BG2", I really want to experience the first game as well...
Here's the easiest method that I found (WARNING: THIS COULD RUIN YOUR GAME AND CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS):

#0) Play on Hardcore -- the only way to play!
#1) (optional) Play as a fighter to survive early levels
#2) Get the bard as early as possible (Beregost, Burning Wizard Inn)
#3) Use the bard to steal Algernon's Cloak (Feldepost Inn)
#4) The cloak lets you spam the charm spell. If you have a horde of 20 creatures coming at you, they are now yours to control. Merry Christmas.
#5) Play the game and use the cloak when you need a party of 20 to get past a rough patch.
#6) You can't really use it effectively in the very last map, so it won't help you beat the game. But you should have the XP you need.
#7) Don't finish the quest for Algernon's Cloak (I think it's in the city of BG) or you'll lose your nifty tool.

Thus concludes my method for breaking the game.
Posted February 03, 2013
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F1ach: I would try to steer clear of cheating in a RPG, because the idea is to "build" your character, it kinda defeats the purpose of levelling, if you are going to do that in BG1, you may as well just move on to BG2 as you wont be missing alot.
yeah, I know... *sobs

I just hate it when my character has 4 hp and he gets killed instantly all the time - a little push to level 5 (out of 20) in the beginning shouldn't ruin the game for me... I think.
Posted February 03, 2013
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F1ach: I would try to steer clear of cheating in a RPG, because the idea is to "build" your character, it kinda defeats the purpose of levelling, if you are going to do that in BG1, you may as well just move on to BG2 as you wont be missing alot.
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Kunovski: yeah, I know... *sobs

I just hate it when my character has 4 hp and he gets killed instantly all the time - a little push to level 5 (out of 20) in the beginning shouldn't ruin the game for me... I think.
Again not casting aspersions, its your game mate :) But, lv 5 is actually quite a leap in BG :)

Just out of curiousity, when you rolled your stats, did you just take the first set that came up, because, you can keep re-rolling until you get a good amount of points, I think I had 93 on my Blackguard after a a good few presses of the re-roll button, which makes a HUGE difference to your stats, also, you can lower stats in skills that you wont need and assign them to skills you will need.
Posted February 03, 2013
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Kunovski: yeah, I know... *sobs

I just hate it when my character has 4 hp and he gets killed instantly all the time - a little push to level 5 (out of 20) in the beginning shouldn't ruin the game for me... I think.
Yeah, level 5 might be a little high, as in vanilla BG, the XP cap is 89,000 (level 7 for a mage) or 161,000 if you have TotSC installed (level 9 for a mage). But don't fret it. It sounded like you're playing the game mainly to experience the story, so it's no big deal if you've pumped your character up a bit.
Posted February 03, 2013
More people in the party does admittedly mean the experience points gets distributed over more people, and you level up slower, but having more people in the party also makes encounters easier because you can have a plated fighter going toe-to-toe against the foes while archers and mages do damage from further away.

And to help with a larger party (in the beginning at least, since one particular mage that you meet early on is quite annoying to deal with, even with the 4-people party you're likely have by then unless you took a detour to get two more), play in multiplayer mode - not only can you create a full party to start with (and then throw them out as you meet people you'd rather travel with and are slightly more integrated in the story), but the game also doesn't UNPAUSE when you enter the inventory as it does in singleplayer.
Post edited February 03, 2013 by Miaghstir
Posted February 03, 2013
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Coelocanth: Why not just use the console to give your mage a couple levels? Fast, easy, and you don't waste time trying to find a way to kill high level critters.

As for the greater basilisks on that map, I think there are 4. Not certain on that, but I seem to recall there only being a handful.
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Kunovski: hmmm, fast, easy, efficient... I like that :D
Iirc the game labels your save file with a "CHEATER" banner if you use certain console commands... Can you live with that? :-P Jk. Seriously tho: Do I have my wires crossed (it has been a long time... ), or does the game do this? (Note that I played the original; this might not apply if you are playing the game with Tutu or BGT.)
Posted February 04, 2013
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F1ach: Just out of curiousity, when you rolled your stats, did you just take the first set that came up, because, you can keep re-rolling until you get a good amount of points, I think I had 93 on my Blackguard after a a good few presses of the re-roll button, which makes a HUGE difference to your stats, also, you can lower stats in skills that you wont need and assign them to skills you will need.
I've re-rolled many times of course :) but I never knew you can roll values above 18...

I got 17 intelligence and 16 strength (I wanted to almost solo so high load capacity was important) so I thought these are quite good (plus none of my stats are below 10... except constitution which I guess is the problem with me dying all the time :))
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Coelocanth: Yeah, level 5 might be a little high, as in vanilla BG, the XP cap is 89,000 (level 7 for a mage) or 161,000 if you have TotSC installed (level 9 for a mage). But don't fret it. It sounded like you're playing the game mainly to experience the story, so it's no big deal if you've pumped your character up a bit.
hmm, strange... I remember when I played as a kid I might have gotten to about 1/2 of the game and my mage had about 7 lvl1 spell slots, and with level 5 now I only have 4... so I thought jumping to level 5 isn't even that much.
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ddmuse: Iirc the game labels your save file with a "CHEATER" banner if you use certain console commands... Can you live with that? :-P
yes, I can live with that :) I'm a sociopath and have almost no self-consciousness :D
Post edited February 04, 2013 by Kunovski
Posted February 04, 2013
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Kunovski: I've re-rolled many times of course :) but I never knew you can roll values above 18...
Normally, you can't. There are though some racial modifiers as I recall, which may give a +1 on a stat (and -1 to others). The second exception is STR for Warriors (Fighter, Paladin and Ranger as I recall), which if 18 also has a subscore with values between 1 and 100. All other classes can have a max STR score of 18.
Too long since I had to recall AD&D 2nd Edition rules, but feel free to ask.
Posted February 04, 2013
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Kunovski: ...
Summon lots of minions (anything is good: animals, undead, etc) before every major battle. That helps a lot!
Send them to the enemy, before they even see you. As soon as the enemy start pounding your minions, start killing them with your party. Have everyone ranged weapons.
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