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Originally posted by andrewas:
Imoen is *not* useless. OK, shed be better if bioware hadnt severely short-changed her (she was much better near the end of BG1, but bioware saw fit to redistribute her levels to fit a minor plot point). Still, she is more than adequate to finish the game with.
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Personally, I disagree. It seems that BioWare's intention was to screw you over regarding Imoen: You finish BG1 with a Level 10 Thief, who has 100% in Find Traps, Open Locks, and Stealth. Then you get slammed with a Level 7 Thief who doesn't have 100% in
anything, cannot change that fact, and didn't even bother to take the Swashbuckler kit, even though it's obviously right for her character, both for powergaming AND roleplaying. In order to be useful, Imoen has to drag around the Ring of Danger Sense for the
entire game, or at least until you get to the Marching Mountains. Compare her to Jan: Except for his lack of Abi-Dalzim's, he's almost every bit as good a Mage, and in ToB, I could put him in Backstab mode with an AC of -12. Let's see Imoen do that.
Imoen is my #1 Most Frequently Hacked character: Either I hack her back to a pureclass Swashbuckler (who can Dual to Mage at some later time), or I hack her Thieving points to more closely resemble her setup at the end of BG1.