Best and worst HLAs

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As some1 stated earlier that you cannot use more than 1 HLA per round as they count as a spell. Well what if you char was a fighter/mage. Improved alacrity and then HLA to you hearts content. Does this work has anyone tried.

For major cheese why not try this in conjunction with a time stop and see the heads roll.

Can someone try this(I currently don't have ToB on the go) and give me an answer.

 

Death Rabbit is right on the money with this one!

 

Has anyone checked my suggestion yet??

 

you can use improved alarcrity with any other level 10 spells......

cast improved alarcrity and then time stop and then dragons breath if you wish......
it works

but you cannot do whirwind and then assasination simply because the whirlwind will wear off before you can utilize an assasination .

 

I haven't tried, but I don't think alacrity applies on special abilities.

 

What's the difference between the Light/Dark Planetars, and the Regular/Fallen Divas? I know if you're good you only choose the good ones, if evil you only choose the fallen/dark ones, and if neutral you get either. But does it matter? I assume the spell selection is slightly different, but I can't imagine one would be more powerful than the other in combat.

 

They are identical, except for one thing. Dark Planetars have Unholy Word, while regular Planetars have Holy Word. In addition, the dark summons look a lot cooler.

 

tracking is a useless skill, no doubt about it, though its nice if you are playing through the game for the first time and dont know the location of enemies.

Scribe scrolls is not useless, first of all it is a nice source of experience (if you take the time), second of all, it gives you some scrolls to be used in thight situations, especially if you solo. I admitt that its not a good ability either, but its not useless either.

 

Menion Leih

"Deathblow stuff. If anything dies by this, it probably wouldn't have lasted very long anyway"

Heh, don't forget UserUnfriendly's Cheese Guide, greater deathblow PLUS an area effect weapon equals dead baddies (i.e mindflayers, the drakes in the Improved Abazigal fight etc). Nice to have Druid fire seeds then.

 

Greater Deathblow affects Mindflayers? That's somewhat unbelievable. It's a great strategy for the Underdark and Crom Faeyr hunting if it's true.

 

@jeremiah

Well, if you're willing to use that kind of cheese, I guess it's an OK skill. But I still don't think it is a very useful skill. Most enemies that die by greater deathblow won't give me any problem by the time I get it.
Mindflayers are pretty though (although they pose no real threat by this time), but you barely ever meet them in ToB, so unless you want are getting your HLA's before the Underdark, there isn't much use.
Second, I don't think the drakes at Improved Abazigal are your main concern. But since they're pretty annoying, it can be useful.

@Rastor
Not really THAT great a strategy since it means getting more than 3,000,000 xp before the Underdark. And if you have that, the mindflayers should be easy anyway.

 

I've always thought it's really stupid that a thief can scribe scrolls but a mage can't! Where is the logic in that??!!

[ November 05, 2003, 17:18: Message edited by: Lord Keldin Depaara ]

 

Sounds illogical, I know, that mages cannot scribe scrolls but this is probably for reasons of game balance. Otherwise, you could rest, copy all the spells that you've learnt onto scrolls and rest again, effectively doubling your spells (or generating infinite gold). In pen and paper D&D, mages and clerics of a certain level can make scrolls, but it requires rare and precious materials and a lot of time to do so (the expense and time being at the DM's discretion). You couldn't have such a scheme in BG2, so no scrolls for mages.

 

Well Deva is the worst. Unless im mistaken in this game it has no abilities more than the Planetar, but the planetar also has a better spell selection. Could be wrong though. Perhaps the deva has more cleric spells or something. I prefer planetar however.

 

i have picked energy blades, and they are like improved melf's minute meteors - really rip through enemies

best HLA = use any item - the possibilites are endless...

worst HLA = tracking - eh.... about as good as infravision

 

Favourites:

Use any Item
Assassination
Greater Whirlwind
Critical Strike

Worst:

Tracking
Create Scroll
Deathblow

 

From a role playing perspective, tracking rocks in that once I've determined a particular enemy in an area, I no longer feel cheesy about prepping for that enemy. But for game mechanics, it's kind of stupid once you've already played through.