POLL: Dual wielding CF and FOA

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I liked Blackrazor, the best longsword in Baldur's Gate. Come to think of it, for me it beats any weapon in SOA, even Celestial Fury and Crom Fayer.

 

@Kulyok Blackrazor is the second greatest item I see in BG2. The greatest item in BG2 is the wand which you find 2 parts during the unseeing eye quest.But it has only 1 charge and you can't get it out of the sewers

 

@Argohir

Actually...you can get it out of there. I read in a post somewhere on the board that you can have your familiar pick-pocket you for it. When you return to the surface, ask the familiar for whatever he's pick-pocketed. Woalla.

 

Holy Avenger is best

 

i prefer to dual CFs

 

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Still nice but not really better than Celestlial Fury(or even Mace of Disruption +2 for that matter). Blackrazor is one of the best longswords in the game and would be unquestionably best if not for it being only +3. [snip]

I personally never bothered with Belm and the like because it seemed like a tradeoff of "Get an extra attack with a crappy weapon or get only one attack with a good weapon"(I may well have been misunderstanding something).

My main dualed CF and the qualizer in the latter part of SoA(switching to otehr weapons for specific immunities/resistances/bonuses at certain times).
The evil dwarf 'zerker dualed Crom Feyr and whatever +3 battleaxe he had on hand until he got the AoU.

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[ToB content removed] - Beren

[ April 24, 2005, 09:58: Message edited by: Beren ]

 

Honestly, CF is better to put in the main hand because you'll get the stun effect and the 20 extra electrical damage more often than when its in the off-hand because it'll make more attacks. From what I can tell, I think CF's stun effect happens with each attack too, so you'll try and stun many times per round. So the enemy does make a save, you get a lot of oppurtunties to try again.

FoA's slow effect only happens 1 out of 5 attacks, so you'll only get to invoke it once every 2 rounds. While FoA has a no-save on it, the CF effect is better all-round because stun is preferable to slow. You still get FoA's slow effect every 5 rounds in addition to what CF already gives you when you use FoA in your off-hand, and the elemental damage will still happen once every round, killing trolls and the like anyway (which is one of its main usefulnesses).

In some ways, I think these are both meant to be main-hand weapons on two different characters becasue FoA's best ability is better when you give it multiple attacks per round. You're not using FoA to its full potential. I think it's fair to say CF is better than FoA and you should probably be using a shield or an off-hand weapon that makes CF better, like Crom Fayer or Belm.

However, once in ToB, FoA would be better because +3 enchantment simply sucks.

I hope that answers your question.

[ April 24, 2005, 06:52: Message edited by: egervari ]