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Increasing dexterity
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2002 9:37 am
by Thehalfelf
How many pionts can dexterity be increased in the game?
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2002 10:10 am
by Pebz
This depends very on class/alignment...
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2002 12:34 pm
by frogus
2
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2002 5:31 pm
by Pebz
Originally posted by frogus
2
Which ones are those?
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2002 7:19 pm
by Delita
You get one point of Dex in Watcher's Keep.
There's a piece of armor that gives 1 dex.
Gaunts of Dex don't really do much if you already have 18.
You'll prolly lose a point of Dex in Hell if yer a Paladin.
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2002 11:10 pm
by UserUnfriendly
if you are running with nalia or immie as main thief in party, give the dex bonus to either of them.
if you increase thier dex, their thief skills go up!!!I gained about 40 points per type when I gave immie a 1 point dex upgrade.
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2002 4:27 am
by Phantom Lord
Originally posted by UserUnfriendly
if you are running with nalia or immie as main thief in party, give the dex bonus to either of them.
if you increase thier dex, their thief skills go up!!!I gained about 40 points per type when I gave immie a 1 point dex upgrade.
Sorry to correct you, but you only gain 5% in each of those abilities that rely on DEX per point and only if your DEX is on a certain level, in all cases if it's above 17.
There are 7 abilities and at least DI (not sure about ST) isn't influenced by DEX. So you'd gain 30% in total rather than 40% per type. Maybe the large difference you've noticed was influenced by a change of armor?
For further information see also
Game Banshee's BG2 character class section, -> thieving skill dexterity adjustments. Game Banshee has it all covered, as usual.

Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2002 3:06 pm
by frogus
Which ones are those?
Racial modifier and and the Engine of Lum the Mad (or whatever it was called

) I wasn't talking about DEX enhancing items...
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 6:20 am
by Loki
if you're a rogue, you can get an extra oint in dex from the 3rd level of watchers keep
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2002 2:24 am
by UserUnfriendly
Loki, if youre talking about deck of many things, DONT WASTE it!!1 you can use lum and hell to get all teh good dex bonuse, in fact you cant give any hell bonuses to anyone but you, so yeah, dont waste the deck of many htings and star card on dex for rogue pc.. give to viccy or jahiera, any you gain wisdom.....MORE SPELL SLOTS!!!
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2002 11:51 am
by UberJason
3 maximum if you are a thief or thief multiclass
1 from Machine of Lum the mad
1 from attacking Sarevok in Hell (in addition to two points of strength)
1 from Deck of Many things
Multis benefit more from Deck/hell they get a point in each of their main attributes.
Kep in mind you can alos lose a point in the selfishness test or the dream in Spellhold
Theoretical maximum unmodified dex
Import elf/halfing with 19 dex from BG1 + tome of dex
20 dex
+those three bonuses
23 dex.
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2002 12:15 pm
by Loki
Originally posted by UserUnfriendly
Loki, if youre talking about deck of many things, DONT WASTE it!!1 you can use lum and hell to get all teh good dex bonuse, in fact you cant give any hell bonuses to anyone but you, so yeah, dont waste the deck of many htings and star card on dex for rogue pc.. give to viccy or jahiera, any you gain wisdom.....MORE SPELL SLOTS!!!
Dude, just sayin' where you can ge the "extra" one from... and that you need to be a rogue...
personally, I gave everything to my character - but that's because I'm selfish...
Loki
PS.. and i'm a paladin... the difference in str was meaningless - as i use a str enhancing belt... what the hell eh?