party and weapons

[alphadruid]

What is the best party and weapon distribution you've ever made? and why?
(heart of fury)

For me its
1) Paladin - sword, flail, bow, great sword
2) F/Druid - sword, club, sling, spear
3) F dual to Druid - dagger*****, sling
4) F/M/T - bow, sword, short sw, axe
5) Cleric - sling, hammer, mace
6) Bard - bow, cbow, axe

[ultramarine]

Try and cover all the weapons available in the games and put in all character types. That will increase fun. Each character should have a ranged, a blunt, a slashing type and a 2hand.

My paladin usually get bows/sword/flail at level 7. I put in great sword later on.

F/mage combos get bows/mace/axe.

F/Thief combos get bows/staff/daggers. The staff is the only weapon you can effective back stab. If you try a sword, the enemy turns around and attacks the thief trying to backstab/sneakattack.

F/Druid - slings/clubs/spears. Remember that there are good +4 clubs for free at level 4 spells.

As the cleric, dual class a ranger to a cleric at level3. The next sweet spot is at level7. Put in a sling/hammer/staff and should cover almost all weapons in the game. the ranger class does a +1 to apr for the cleric. That +1 works for staff.

A harp and a flute works well with a bard

[Konalan]

I recently completed HoW+TotL with the following party:

Paladin - Axes, Bastard swords
Fighter - Longswords, Crossbows
Cleric - Maces, Flails
Druid - Spears, Staves
Mage - Daggers
Fighter/Thief - Short swords, Longswords, Bows

After a complete playthrough of IWD+HoW+TotL all party members are level 17 or higher. I tried to span as many of the great weapons as I could (see list below):

Axes: Axe of Caged Souls, Axe of stunning +5 (forget the name)
Bastard swords: Trollslayer, Amaunator's Legacy
Longswords: Singing Blade of Aihonen, Flaming longsword +2, and a host of others
Crossbows: Hoping to get the Repeating Heavy Crossbow +5 in my second playthrough with this party.
Maces: Three White Doves, Giving Star
Flails: Shocking flail +4, Fire Flail +3, Flail of Mae, and others
Spears: Spear of Kerish, and a Spear +5 (I forget the name)
Staves: Staff of Nature's Wrath
Daggers: Mage dagger +4, Ol' Withery, Kiss of the Gloomfrost
Short Swords: Blood Iron
Bows: Hoping to get Longbow +4, Hammer

[Aerich]

I think the Hammer Longbow was taken out with HoW. It used to be a random drop in Ilmadia's hut (along with the Repeating Heavy Crossbow).

[kmonster]

The only chance to get the longbow +4 hammer with HoW installed is killing Emmerich in his shop in Lonelywood. It's tricky since he runs away when attacked.

[Konalan]

I did get the Repeating Heavy Crossbow +5 a long time ago (with HoW). I believe I got it from Presio on insane difficulty but it's been a few years since I've done it so I'm not sure.