I've just created a straight fighter character, and wondered when the best time would be to dual to a thief? I want to try and obtain commendable fighting skills, but without progressing too far into the game, as I want to get the Mae'Var guild hall.

Any advice would be appreciated

Thanks in advance

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A question. Do you have ToB?

Hi and thanks!

I do not have TOB, but I'm hoping to pick it up next weekend, so anything that will apply to that would be useful to.

In that case, I would suggest level nine.
Once you get ToB and are interested in going for the long haul, try level 13, or even higher!

Okay thanks for the advice!

www.geocities.com/sixospades/bg/exp.htm

If you have just plain SoA, your character can attain no more than 2,950,000 total EXP points.

If you also have ToB installed, the EXP cap is 8,000,000.

[ADD:]
A Warrior gets the most out of his hitpoints by not Dualing until at least Level 9.
A Warrior's THAC0 will stop improving after Level 21.
A Warrior's Saving Throws stop improving somewhere around 3,000,000 total EXP.

[ 03-09-2003, 02:47 AM: Message edited by: SixOfSpades ]

Thanks SixOfSpades that's most useful, I basically want a good fighter with decent weapon proficiencies that can also perform trap and backstab duties, so I guess i'll hang around on Chapter 2 and get my fighter up to about level 12 or something.

A quick question though: when I get TOB, will the experience caps on my existing characters be automatically changed?

Yes.