Maximum??

PatrickC · Post by **PatrickC** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 10:46 am

has anyone actually maxed out their characters by going through the game once? i mean without exporting a high level character and starting from the beginning again. I only could get up to level 29 for a paladin!?!? and i completely killed all the quests...someone help!! what am i missing!!

PatrickC · Post by **PatrickC** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 10:55 am

this is because for those ppl(who bought BG2 really early on) would have went into tob (with an import) with level 20 max characters. my paladin only moved about 9 levels....not even close to 34....i know that one can solo through the game but that just kills the story line...

Obsidian · Post by **Obsidian** » Fri Nov 30, 2001 7:52 pm

To be honest, its impossible unless you cheat by killing spawn monsters like the dwarves in ToB, or by having a 4 person or less, I'd say its not possible.

Coot · Post by **Coot** » Sat Dec 01, 2001 10:50 am

I suppose it would be possible with a group of three or less. That wouldn't kill the storyline.

Xyx · Post by **Xyx** » Sat Dec 01, 2001 4:06 pm

How about resting 5000 times in the sewers under the Copper Coronet? Hobgoblins and Kobolds spawn there to interrupt your rest half the time.

Aegnor · Post by **Aegnor** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 8:04 am

Super-cheese tactic for getting extra exp with mages:

Write all the scrolls you can, then erase 'em (new feature with ToB). Buy more scrolls, repeat.

Limited only by your cash flow, and willingness to cheat the system. I was horrified when i stumbled on this tactic.

Xyx · Post by **Xyx** » Tue Dec 04, 2001 4:15 am

Summon Pit Fiends and kill them with impunity while Protected from Evil... 16K a pop. You'd only have to kill, oh, 80 or so to level your party.

sigurd · Post by **sigurd** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 4:26 pm

Just solo the game, then you will get there easy, and might actuallt get a challenge as well.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Wed Dec 12, 2001 9:37 am

Solo intil you reach the cap then get party members they will be the same lvl as you!!

MegaToerist · Post by **MegaToerist** » Wed Dec 12, 2001 12:46 pm

Isn't there a maximun amount of XP the NPCs can have when you summon them?

Sabre · Post by **Sabre** » Thu Dec 13, 2001 1:08 am

The maximum amount of experience any NPC will have when you summon them is 2.5 million.

Xyx · Post by **Xyx** » Sun Dec 16, 2001 11:24 am

Letting the game level up your NPCs might not be such a great idea... They get lousy Hit Point rolls and not-so-useful proficiencies.

Whailor · Post by **Whailor** » Thu Dec 20, 2001 2:16 am

Get a char at the beginning of BG2 and play thru BG2 with it. Then, when you are thru, start a new game with that same char (import from savegame)

And let the XP roll in again. Just that play this time that char thru the game in different manner. I.e. take other romances and so on.. And first time play thru the game without ToB, second time play thru the game with Tob as well.

Second time you can already take a smaller party or solo, since char is stronger and some additional bonuses from the SoA end, like immunity to +1 and lesser weapons sure is neat

Other then that, don't know. I did ALL the quests I could, with all the NPC's who joined me. Basically I took 1 NPC, did all his/her quests, then took another and so on. I started the char from BG1 (plus TofSC expansion) and got the char to lvl 29 in BG2. However, that's without the ToB yet. So with the ToB I could get it perhaps higher, but whether all the way to 40, not sure.

[ 12-20-2001: Message edited by: Whailor ]

Aegnor · Post by **Aegnor** » Thu Dec 20, 2001 4:13 am

For an idea of how much exp. is available in ToB/WK, I took a pary of four from BGII with just over 3 million. They finished the expansion with over 6 million each. So playing solo, or just a dynamic duo of some sort, should get the PC pretty close to 8 million if not over.

Remember that while kill exp and some quests are awarded as lump sums divided amongst the party, some quests award a set amount to each character. So smaller parties will level up faster, but maybe not as fast as you'd like