Is this a good 2 person party?

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I am planning to run a 2person party, one Drow Ranger 1/Wizard x and one Assimar Paladin1/Cleric x (the axe wielding one). Would this be effective throughout the normal and HoF mode? Plan to emphasize bow and twowielding for the drow for personal defense and heavy armor and axes for the assimar. Any Suggestions for 2 party

 

i reckon thats a pretty good combo, ive done the game with a drow sorcerer and a drow dreadmaster of bane. its pretty sweet.

 

I would not have the paladin using the ax, everybody loves the cera summat

 

The Axe wielding is only for the start, since the cleric specializes in it. I will be mastering it and long swords. Or should my other proficency be in Great Swords? Any suggestions.

 

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Why are you giving ranger level,give another wizard level.
And if you want something that is efficient in both modes(normal and HoF)play with a pure sorcerer maybe add a palain level or two...
Axe wielder is called battleguard of Tempus and it's really pointless to have him since you have a wizard,if it was a fighter i'd say ok but...clerics are made for fighter stuff dude...
Anyway Morninglord of Lathander is better than Battleguard of Tempus for me with so many aggressive spells,give 2 points of evocation mastery and spirit of flame feats and see what happens

 

Forget about some axe-wielding paladin/cleric. The only reason you would like to add one paladin level to a cleric is Holy Avenger and/or having high charisma (for rolls). If he's going to wield an axe, he'd much better be a Battleguard of Tempus pure class. A Morninglord with high charisma and two or three paladin levels makes more sense - large sword prof for free, one point from feats to get WF, divine grace for rolls, divine courage, divine health (if you need) for disease immunity and removal. With high cha you also get better turning and Morninglords have Improved Turning for free. It's useful indeed, but not really worth sacrificing something of use through all the game.

 

Battleguards of Tempus are very good cleric domains... Personnally I play with one as my party leader... Alas, I reconsidered and started again but this time with 4 chrs... It was just to damn difficult...

Shield Dwarf Fighter4/Battleguard of Tempus
Halforc Barbarian2/Fighter1
Strongheart Halfling Rogue3/Demarch of Mask2/Fighter1
Aasimar Sorcerer

 

I think that a fighter 4/barbarian x or a pure fighter would be nice and a 6 character party would be even nicer if you plan to go through HoF mode because it's a living hell.

 

Demarch of Mask???

 

Rogue10/MonkX That is an incredibly nimble character.. Use fists up close, good ow for distance.. Improved evasion.. Fairly good character.. and no Multiclass penalty for the Old Order..

 

i'm a bit confused as to why you would want to take a single level in ranger. dual wielding is not the way to go for personal defence even if you have two weapons with deflection bonuses as these bonuses do not stack. go with a single weapon and shield for the best AC. best to go for fighter1/wizardX in your case: the extra feat is useful for getting dodge and expertise feats to increase your AC. remember that you'll be essentially a wizard in combat so you want to avoid hand to hand tactics of defending/counte-attacking. the tactics are commonly something like mirror-image and throw a fireball at your feet (mirror image absorbing one fireball blast).

as for the paladin / tempus cleric, i thought that the alignments of the two were mutually exclusive? paladins must be lawful good and tempus clerics can't be lawful good. someone correct me if this is wrong - i can't remember with certainty. personally i'd go for paladin / ilmater cleric. you get stoneskin and extra holy word later which is great for protecting yourself as you draw enemies. holy word is so useful as it is pretty succesful at stunning all non-good persons, which is useful for repositioning as well as inflicting unblockble damage. at the higher levels i think you will get wail of banshee which is one of the best one-against-all spell you can have. you also get horrid wilting for your undead summon tactics.

 

Well, not entirely... You can put few levels on Fighter to make him tougher boy to beat - e.g. to get the bow skills...Something like that Rogue3/Demarch of Mask2/Fighter1...

 

If the cleric has physical stats high enough he doesn't need warrior pool levels. He'd better keep his high-level spells instead of trading them for some marginally useful bonuses. My morninglord didn't have a single fighting-related feat except from ones that clerics start with. He was a decent frontliner and many a time served as the main tank even.

Another thing is that if you have more cleric levels you have more spells and better spells. Thus you can jave more buffs memorised, perhaps better ones and lasting longer. It pretty much outweighs the advantage from multiclassing.

Also instead of multiclassing to fighter why not just take weapon focus: mace (+1 to hit) and improved critical (+1 critical range) plus perhaps crossbow (he already gets one 'star' at start, contrary to bow). Sacrificing 4 levels for +2 damage in melee from weapon specialisation isn't good for warrior pool characters even. The only class that could benefit from them is rogue -the best multiclass potential actually and perhaps ranger if his wisdom is too low to cast spells (weapon specialisation: bow, improved critical, rapid shot - hehe, and with so high dex weapon finesse is in order and thus dual-wielding small blades and that is really asking for +2 damage, esp with low strength ).

 

Tempus and Paladin - Perhaps he is using one of Weider's "bugfixes" To remove the alignment requirements for the Classes. With that in mind, I've seen a guy on multiplayer with a Paladin Necromancer.. Strange thought for those of us who still Roleplay..