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playing BG II with a chaotic good sorcerer plus minsc, jan, anomen, valgyr, and mazzy-- and have to say that so far mazzy is more of an ass kicker than minsc in battles, esp with that lay on hands ability. I'm only in act 2/3 so far, so am wondering if anyone here has played with her in the party much farther and how useful she is later on, she has such a high starting ability with short sword and short bows.

I checked through the older messages and haven't found much mention of her.

I love how she treats valgyr(sp?) so far, ordering him to clean her armor and prepare her bedroll.

thanks in advance--

I purposefully want an odd party since I've watched my husband play with the popular minsc/kelorn/archer/aerie/jahira/imoen combo

Mazzy is pretty good with the shortbow, but for melee she is pretty much stuck with the short sword (for roleplaying purposes it makes sense for a halfling, though I don't think she gets special benefits). You can give her the Tuigan bow and the Short Sword of Backstabbing +3 (if you have ToB, you can get the Sword of Mask +4). The fact that she is a fighter gives her a combat edge over Minsc. But Minsc is so much more cuddly.

I used Mazzy all the way, and she is always useful.

You can give her either the Gesen bow or that, uh, other infinite arrows deal. The former is more powerful, the laters arrows travel faster. Brilliant for dealing with some mage near the back, she keeps them from doing anything too nasty.

BTW, for melee, you should concentrate on Spears for Mazzy, at least, so I've read. I just gave her a decent short sword that I had to hand

I have played a similar party to yours all the way through TOB, except my PC was a fighter dual to mage, I had Keldorn instead of Minsc and Jaheira instead of Valygar.

Anyway, Keldorn and Mazzy were my tanks, but I made Mazzy the general tank and sicced Keldorn on enemy mages (for obvious reasons). Mazzy performed incredibly well in the front rank. She needs STR enhancement, and then she destroys quite well. I made her a sword and shield fighter for best AC, and only had her switch to the Gesen bow in a few situations (she is a great archer but I wanted her right in front).

I think the big problem is her proficiencies (although it did not end up a problem) - there are some good short swords, some with some good immunities or abilities, but still the best weapons later in the game are not short swords. So as she gained levels, I gave her first a proficiency in Katana, and gave her celestial fury. She did VERY well with it. Even with only one or two stars she hits all the time. STR enhancement helps. She levels up quicker than Paladins and Rangers, anyway. The I gave her next two profs in Hammer, and gave her crom faer. Then she really kicked butt everywhere. (of course anybody kicks butt with crom faer) so basically i'm saying don't worry about her proficiencies she's tough no matter what she uses.

She has a lot of HP too. I gave her: the red dragon scale, the dragon shield, whatever helm, a ring of regeneration, and a ring of whatever, periapt of poisson protection: AC of -12. She had great fire resistance so I could run her in to battle and then shoot fireballs in after her and she just keeps fighting. Good abilities, good saves, good personality. Not quite as good a fighter as Korgan, but she is a good girl and says a lot of nice supportive things to you during the game.

Anyway I hope you have fun with your game

Arbane's Sword is a pretty good shortsword... I carry that thing with me everywhere I go. Ilbra- thingy (the one that casts Mirror Image) is also OK.

Mazzy is very good and can do much more than shooting with a Tancheron's/Gesen/Tuigan. In my current party I let her use Axes as melee weapon. If you get her early on, she will come with five stars in Short Bow and only one in Short Sword.

When I use Mazzy I place all extra profencies into 2 handed fighting and give her 2 short swords (that sword +2 you get early) - tank

For me.. (if I play yet another game with Mazzy), I'd let her be proficient in 2Handed Swords.. haha.. imagine, a halfling with 2Hsowrds. But I mean.. for convinience sake, it's easier for her with the quick slot thing. I know it's not ethical for halfling to wield 2H sowrds.. but who cares right? As long as it gets the job done.

I never played with mazzy. For your posts, this halfling seems very versatile for a fighter( Spear, Shortsword, Two weapon Stile, Sword and shield style, 2H sword[putz!], shortbow). I'll try er latter.

BTW if I'm a halfling male ( protagonist) I'll not have relationship with her. Is that right, isn't?

mazzy + long sword full proficiency + whatever longsword (I used equalizer at the end) + sentinel/shield of harmony = slaughter city.

Not to mention she's a handy gal with tansheron's/tuigan's bows.