Outfitting

[Pirengle]

Psst! As any Zelda/FF veteran knows, the best items cannot be found in stores. (Or, at least, stores known to the rest of the community.)

*hijacks thread*

Has anyone ever given a character proficiency points in spears? There are some kickass spears in SoA/ToB, even without Item Upgrade installed. You can get a +3 spear before Chapter 4, in fact. More people should use spears!

[Link]

I never use spears for my protagonist, but Jaheira seems to be spearfighting in my games all the time. Usually with the Spear of the Unicorn.

[Dundee Slaytern]

When Jaheira uses the Impaler, she redefines the meaning of being a pain in the a$$.

[Faceman]

Originally posted by Pirengle: Psst! As any Zelda/FF veteran knows, the best items cannot be found in stores. (Or, at least, stores known to the rest of the community.)

Actually in BG2 a lot of the best items can be found in stores (two of the best belts for example)

[ryaldin]

Originally posted by Pirengle: Psst! As any Zelda/FF veteran knows, the best items cannot be found in stores. (Or, at least, stores known to the rest of the community.) *hijacks thread* Has anyone ever given a character proficiency points in spears? There are some kickass spears in SoA/ToB, even without Item Upgrade installed. You can get a +3 spear before Chapter 4, in fact. More people should use spears!

not to belittle the wonders of the almighty spear, but aren't a lot of creatures immune to peircing damage? or maybe just highly resistant? I remember having some enchanted spear or another with Valygar. I tried to take out a golem and it didnt' to whoop-de-squat.

[Faceman]

that's because you won't do whoop-de-squat to a Clay Golem with anything else than blunt weaponry (Hammers, Maces, Clubs,...)
So the same way you blame it on the spear you could blame it on a longsword or an axe because they also won't do whoop-de-squat to a Clay Golem

[ryaldin]

Originally posted by Faceman: that's because you won't do whoop-de-squat to a Clay Golem with anything else than blunt weaponry (Hammers, Maces, Clubs,...) So the same way you blame it on the spear you could blame it on a longsword or an axe because they also won't do whoop-de-squat to a Clay Golem

I think the only reason you replied to this post, was so that you too could enjoy the fun that is typing whoop-de-squat. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

[Faceman]

Originally posted by ryaldin: quote: Originally posted by Faceman: that's because you won't do whoop-de-squat to a Clay Golem with anything else than blunt weaponry (Hammers, Maces, Clubs,...) So the same way you blame it on the spear you could blame it on a longsword or an axe because they also won't do whoop-de-squat to a Clay Golem

I think the only reason you replied to this post, was so that you too could enjoy the fun that is typing whoop-de-squat. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]Actually I copy-pasted it but let me try that out:
whoop-deqs
whoopsd-e
whoop-de-squat!
That was fun

[Userunfriendly]

Originally posted by Faceman: Especially the bonus merchants have some nice cheesy items. What bothers me the most is the Sling of Everard +5. It's the most powerful sling in the whole game (up to ToB when it is overtaken by a forged item) and it's simply available for purchase right at the beginning. As you don't use slings that often it makes the finding of any other sling utterly pointless.

urm...its the most powerful sling in the game period...

using the no pause options at the walls at saradush, with aerie and a belt of strength, the sling of everard completely edges out all other slings for raw damage...

unlike the game description, all slings add strength bonus if you put a bullet in your sling...so since even if you put a bullet in your sling, the ghost bullet affect adds to the damage of a strike, by my test the sling of everard beats out every other sling in the game...try it with +4 sling bullets, you will see..

[Faceman]

There is a sling in ToB which is just like the sling of Everard but can do some extra stuff [img]smile.gif[/img] This is what I meant.