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09-15-2004, 12:57 AM
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100% would be sufficient in Set Traps and Detect Illusions.
125% will suffice for Detect/Disarm Traps, Lockpicking, and Pickpocketing; since the game imposes penalties on several occasions. Hide in Shadows is probably the biggest red herring when it comes to Thieving Skills. Given the formula of Stealth for a Thief, you have no need to pump points into HiS AT ALL. Stealth = (Move Silently + Hide in Shadows) / 2 I personally went to conduct a test somewhere in... 2001 or 2002 IIRC, and it was in ToB that I conducted the test. The initial findings( which I read) were from the( now defunct) BlackIsle Boards( I learnt a lot of things from there). It is alright to have 0% in HiS, so long as you have 200% in MS, so just pump everything into MS if you want to Stealth. |
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09-15-2004, 11:53 AM
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Elite Waterdeep Guard
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I've found (by testing) in the Macintosh version of TOB that the Hide in Shadows _is_ necessary. When I pumped just MS I was unable to go into stealth mode. Apparently they changed/fixed the stealth equation.
In the Macintosh version of BGII (i.e. without TOB) - the equation you give does seem to hold. |
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09-15-2004, 10:11 PM
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Elite Waterdeep Guard
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@Dundee and User: Don't worry guys, I also thought that bards had 0% in Set Traps and that it didn't affect HLAs. Yaga Shuras will be Yaga Shuras, eh? ^^
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09-16-2004, 12:50 AM
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I will keep this Mac quirk in mind though. |
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