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Do the speed bonuses stack? I can't find a solid answer anywhere.

Lol,man you're right. I was reading sneak attack damage done and regular damage done assuming they were added together. I was wrong. Thanks.

Does crippling strike lower SA damage? The reason I ask is my rogue just hit level 10 and I figured I would try it out. Without crippling strike I was easily doing around 40 damage give or take on a sneak attack. With crippling strike the average is in the 20s and I haven't seen any damage higher ...

I agree. I typically love thieves but they do become rather pointless in many ways as the game goes on. The amount of backstab-immune opponents shoots through the roof. This is really frustrating since I love backstab. UAI is powerful but I don't like it. Your thief turns into some kind of swiss ...

Yea I really just couldn't think of anything else to do. Yea the fog of war really helped out tremendously. I just killed off Aesgareth and his goons. This fight was extremely difficult and I just got lucky I think. At any rate heavy use of traps were deployed and thank goodness the tieflings were ...

Nice...lol. Good to know.

Okay, the demon wraith was next. This time there was no getting out of LOS to set traps. I was able to do it but it was extremely cheesy and it took me about 15 minutes or so to do it. Any suggestions here would be great but this is what I did:

1. Use a scroll of ...

Definitely not a bad idea. The only issue is I haven't been saving my wands...ugh. The only advantage I've been able to get is right as I enter the room, all the baddies are still blue. At that point I unpause and move right next to the portal I just came through which leaves me out of sight of the ...

Trying to solo the game with an assassin. Started out a bit slow but now I've gotten a few HLAs and some nice equipment and things have been going much smoother until I decided to try Watcher's keep. The 1st and 2nd level were no problem. The third has been an extreme test of patience. By luck, I've ...

That's why I prefer SCSII over Tactics, which is still good for challenges like Kurosain, Pontifex and the Ritual, the venom party, ecc ;)
I can't stand the vanilla AI anymore... With enemies chargin the closest target like brainless bulls, casting spells when you are protected or attacking when ...

yeah, I play Tatics mod and i found out that it's not actually impossible or made for macho people, it's just not...right, not polished and a bit unprofessional.

One shining example is the Druid challenge battle in the Trade Meet quest. Probably you already know the quest and the challenge battle ...

Haha so true, that's why it's very tough to use Katana for Tatics mods so I often start out with Celestial Fury (one hell of a battle just to get the damn katana so you'd be better off buying the +4 one in the bonus merchant in slum) + belm and then build up Flail for Flail of Ages and hammer for ...

Yea I'm a big assassin fan and thief fan in general. The only wicked combo I haven't tried yet is the whole kensai/thief I keep hearing about. I started one once before but I didn't know how to get past the kensai's initial weaknesses so I quit. I've learned a lot since then so maybe it will be ...

Yea it was awesome. Part of the fun is still learning tactics with classes. I really want to try and use the assassin's main arsenal(poison and backstab) as much as possible and only venture outside of that box if I have to. It's funny though, most of these tactics I'm just now learning have been ...

Yea I've heard about Fighter/Clerics. I haven't played one but I'm sure your right. What I do like about Fighter/Thieves is they still level extremely fast for a multi-class.

Also what made this particular easy for me, solo-wise, is I finally learned to switch weapons and not stick to the same ...

Thanks again for the assassin help. I just finished all of Watcher's Keep as a solo elven fighter/thief and it was the easiest its ever been for me. Now granted, It was only vanilla and on core difficulty but hey...I'm not very good...lol.:laugh:

I like the assassin class a lot. I've played one in ...

I hear ya man and I totally agree. I currently waltzed through 4 levels in Watcher's keep solo with an elven fighter/thief. What a beast!

Thanks for the tip Cren. The assassin solo is a much slower game but intense at the same time since I have to actually think about how I'm going to handle a situation. One of the worst levels I'm thinking of for a solo assassin is the 3rd level of watcher's keep. All those demons absolutely suck ...

medeluxe: He's a very solid fighter even without a party - just keep an eye out for items that give you magical effects upon activation. In turn, not only will that give you ore utility, but also solve your current predicament.

cbarchuk: That's very nice of you to say, and I appreciate it, but I ...

Yo Cren,

Man I would love to see you do a solo assassin let's play at some point of BG2. That would be pretty sweet.

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I'm running the GoG version ...