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Old 10-12-2001, 03:55 PM   #3
Drawde1
The Magister
 

Join Date: May 25, 2001
Location: Cookham,Berkshire,UK
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In IWD as well as BG2 and BG1 I always specialise fighter/druids in scimitars and clubs, and single-classed druids in spears and quarterstaves (you need a blunt weapon for skeletal undead, golems, jellies et al). You can get some really good scimitars in IWD especially with HoW installed (Lucky Scimitar, Frostbrand, Talon of the Gloomfrost, etc) but since the only decent magical shield single-classed druids can use is the Rhino Beetle one, they're better off with two-handed weapons. The only problem is that magical spears and staves are very hard to find until you can afford the Spear of White Ash, or get Arundel's staff.
I find fighter/druids are generally a better choice in IWD, despite the slower leveling up, as apart from the above points, decent leather armour is very hard to find in IWD and the only druid-usable non-leather armour is the Umberhulk plate, which you don't get until much later. Whereas in BG2 druids can wear ankheg or dragon scale armour, plus you can get some very good leather armour fairly quickly.
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