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08-31-05, 12:07 PM
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#2 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands
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| RE: Fighter/Wizard
I'd suggest taking the wizard levels early, favoured class only goes if it's the higer class. Or at least to 5 levels wizard, then you can take lengthen (stretch, double, something) spell and you'll have buffs that last 10 minutes, or do you wear armor and use still spell, because then getting those wizard levels is even more important. | | |
08-31-05, 12:12 PM
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#4 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Missoula, Montana
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| RE: Fighter/Wizard Involve yourself in RP more with others in and around town, do what feels right for your character and worry less about what your average damage is. Layonara is foremost an RP server, and although at times it's nice just to get off work, and go bash things with friends for a while, a high level character with great hitpower but no personality isn't going to be much fun to play here.
Take my above comments with a grain of salt too, I'm completely unaware of the status of your RP, and my comments are made in a general sense, so apply the broad brush to 'you' and not the specific 'you'.
Besides, once you get to level 10 and have an even split of levels you'll be strutting around just fine.
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08-31-05, 12:17 PM
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#5 | | Orc of the Black Hand Join Date: Jul 2005
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| RE: Fighter/Wizard I've had a lot of trouble myself with a similar character. I went 4 Fighter, 2 Wizard, and I'm still getting killed by Skeletons (albeit a bit less now that I'm 5 levels higher than 1.)
How to survive it? *shrug*
I guess I'd try to save up on gold to buy a nice heavy suit of armor and just buff myself until I could afford not to wear the armor anymore. I haven't saved up that much yet so I can't really say the strategy works. | | |
08-31-05, 12:18 PM
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#7 | | Beholder Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Pennsylvania
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| RE: Fighter/Wizard Quote:
Filatus - 8/31/2005 5:07 PM
I'd suggest taking the wizard levels early, favoured class only goes if it's the higer class.
| You're thinking of humans.
pg. 41 NWN manual:
"Favored Class (Wizard): A multiclass elf's wizard class does not count when determining whether he suffers an XP penalty for multiclassing."
My suggestion? Extended Ghostly Vision will be your bestest friend until Stoneskin. | | |
08-31-05, 12:26 PM
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#8 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Dec 2004
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| RE: Fighter/Wizard I'd just alternate fighter and wizard levels untill level 10 (5/5)
You wont be able to extend ghostly visage untill you hit level 5 wizard (char level 10 in this option) and stoneskin will be worse than ghostly visage untill you are epic if you keep the split even.
Stoneskin was one of the spells tweaked with a pure class wizard in mind. Its not worth memorizing for a multiclass wizard (unless you're planning to cast it on allies since GV is caster only.)
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08-31-05, 12:37 PM
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#10 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Jul 2005
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| RE: Fighter/Wizard Here is why I can't really plan ahead well.
I enjoy thinking of possible places my character could end up (Acacea continues on her merry way forever, Acacea is eaten by a dragon when trying to ride it, Acacea becomes bitter after her less than good friends try to sacrifice her to demons, Acacea goes sober and decides to become a cleric...), but I don't know what they're going to encounter (which is part of the fun), or what will influence them.
I don't much enjoy agonizing over which class to take a level in or spells to take, etc, because I just go with whatever Acacea has been doing the most of at the time. She hangs out with Ozy and performs a lot at the inn, hey, a bard level. She tags along after Key and tells everyone to pike off and practices leaping on people from behind, gets taught all the bad places to get hit by "Jarvis," hey, a rogue level. And Dirty Fighting.
Most of her spells can double as prank spells. Like Darkness and Grease. She mostly uses GV to scare people and pretend to haunt the inn.
So, yeah...actually, she's pretty useless. What am I saying? | | |
08-31-05, 12:56 PM
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#13 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Missoula, Montana
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| RE: Fighter/Wizard Personally, if I were making this character I would go with a fighter/sorcerer character, and after level 10 multiclass further into a paladin of Lucinda I think, Or abandon the whole thought of fighter level untill level 9 sorcerer and go to a paladin then. But, thats just me, Paladins aren't easy to manage either.
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The problem with doing nothing, is knowing when you are done. - Ben Franklin
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Sadly, society has progressed to the point where stupidity is no longer fatal - Gulnyr to Me
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08-31-05, 01:09 PM
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#14 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Dec 2004
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| RE: Fighter/Wizard "i'm hoping to know up to lvl 10 spells by my twentieth lvl."
There is no 10th spell level.
"But I love Wizards. I love the powerful spells."
perhaps you should be a pure wizard.
"That would mean I would have to be lvl 16 wizard and 4 fighter."
You have to have at least 5 levels of each class you take by level 20
Also, wizards get spell levels at odd levels. Look at the chart in the manual
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08-31-05, 01:19 PM
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#16 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Phoenix
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| RE: Fighter/Wizard I like sorcerer
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08-31-05, 01:22 PM
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#19 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Phoenix
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| RE: Fighter/Wizard Well I'm not to keen on you either.. :P
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08-31-05, 01:27 PM
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#21 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Jul 2005
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| RE: Fighter/Wizard His character is a sorcerer, hence the joke. Or was it?
Hah? *sigh*
Edit- Acacea will probably either adore or hate him, too. Have a talk-off. She's a champion yammer-er.
Edit again- I was just trying to clarify that you probably weren't misunderstood. So, sorry. | | | |