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Originally Posted by Tequila Personally I'm loving the Tactics mod. I just don't understand all the complaints about it. So far I've beat Ilyich, Torgal, Maevar, Firkraag, Bodhi(chapter 6) and Twisted Rune without any cheese. Did I get my ass handed to me before I figured them out? Yes. Did I enjoy the process of coming up with a strategy? Hell yes! All of them with the exception of Ilyich are very reproducable for me. I also don't have any problem admitting that Kurosian is kicking my ass and I had to disable him for now since I have other things I want to do. Take Torgal for instance. I read the SixOfSpades review on it where he said he had to resort to cheesy set trap and sleep tactics. I don't particually enjoy that kind of gaming and when I got my butt kicked the 5th time around with a 8-9 level party I came to the realization that I needed one more level so my mages could cast lower resistance allowing me to land slow. That's all that was needed to turn that fight from seemingly impossible to very doable. Once you slow his regen he goes down easily. Bodhi and Twisted Rune IMHO have been the most fun so far. Once again I read the SixOfSpades review of Bodhi where he tried it with a party between 10-12th levels. Now that I can see would be next to impossible but by the time I got out of Underdark my party was all 14-16 with Anomen at 17. Bodhi was very difficult but not impossible. With cleric regen and mage improved haste, cold resists, PME, not letting NPP drop, lots of heal potions and timly healing from Jahiera this one is very fun. Twisted Rune finally gives you intelligent enemies. Shangalar's contingency fires off Remove Magic followed by two Horrid Wiltings so stay away from the entry room when the fight starts unless you want all your buffs removed and to die quickly Layene doesn't win the fight for you by gating in a deamon and casting meteor shower(I never understood the sheer stupidity of that). She actually uses the Staff of Magi to continuously invis herself - way cool! The random city encounters are finally getting a bit more challenging although still easy at this point. It's nice to see a combo of a druid, mage, cleric, bounty hunters, zerkers and wizard slayers fighting against you in chapter 6 instead of the usual losers. I find the Tactics mod a very satisfying experience. When you kill an improved fight you really feel like you earned what was dropped by them. As for unbalancing drops the only one I've seen is the claw from Torgal which was a 2D6+3 dagger. Pretty sick but I don't have anyone who can even take advantage from it. The +3 club from Ilyich is nice but not unbalancing at all. All other drops are unchanged: Carsomyr, SotM, etc. My advice is this; if a fight is way too hard then back off, get a few more levels, spells, toys and try again. Not something you can do with Illyich but you can with all the others. This is not a mod where you can hack+slash your way through and claim to conquer Kangaxx and Twisted Rune at 9th level. It takes a combined effort and in some cases you have to wait a few levels before you can get those nice drops. The way the game should be, IMHO.

The Illyich fight alone at the very start made me go sour. After that I tried the Mae'Var fight. Sufficient to say I absolutely hated those fights because they are retardedly overpowered and required loads of cheese and reloads. Nothing I would call fun at all. That's just my personal opinion. On the other hand what interests me most in an RPG is story and character with battle at the third place only. It totally destroys the BG 2 feeling for me and does not add anything fun/interessting for me.
I prefer the Sword Coast Stratagems II mod for BG2 which makes the NPCs more believable intelligent without relying on cheating or making opponentns unbelievable powerful.
Currently I struggle to make my few mods work all together properly. My latest installation prevented me importing saved games into ToB and the improved Illasera from Ascension/Longer Road addon.

I want to get working that:

Ascension
Longer Road
G3 BG 2 Fixpack
Rogue Rebalancing
NPC Kit
G3 BG 2 Tweakpack