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Turning Into Splunge

Discussion in 'BG2: Throne of Bhaal (Classic)' started by Aldeth the Foppish Idiot, Oct 4, 2004.

  1. Ziad

    Ziad I speak in rebuses Veteran

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    @Scythesong: Are you sure the Chaos Shield spells lessen the chance of a wild surge occurring? I remember they make it more likely that the surge is positive.

    I've hardly something to add to your review. I tried the Wild Mage through an entire game, and it was a whole lot of fun, even more so than the Sorcerer. The Wild Surges and NRD add a lot of unpreditability to combats that are usually boring by the Nth time you play the game.

    Hm, I wonder how soloing a Wild Mage must be...
     
  2. Eric Xanthus Gems: 10/31
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    Heh. Soloing a wild mage is...interesting. Count on a few really, really funny flame outs. But unless you place a restriction on reloads, it's not exactly hard. Just unpredictable--a fun test of your adaptability.
     
  3. Abomination Gems: 26/31
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    Do try to avoid casting buffs on your allies though, can lead to some 'interesting' situations. I think I turned Sarevok into a chicken or something once.
     
  4. Klorox

    Klorox Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-mĂȘnu! Veteran

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    I know it is a bit offtopic, but can somebody please answer my question... ?
     
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    I think they will remain dual-classed at whatever level you crossed over to Mage...and when you are importing your character, you get to choose the specialist class all over again. That, or they retain the class you changed them into. I think. I'm not too sure about this, but it definitely cant be anything else...
     
  6. Aldeth the Foppish Idiot

    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot Armed with My Mallet O' Thinking Veteran

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    BGII does not allow kits on dual classed characters, and a specialist mage is treated as a kit. You'll be a fighter dual classed to generic mage. Strangely, you WILL be able to choose a kit for your first class, the fighter. So you could be a kensai-mage, berserker-mage (that's a strange one) or a wizard slayer-mage (possibly even stranger than the last one.
     
  7. Jazhara7 Gems: 7/31
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    I hope this fits into this topic.

    When playing the game as a wild mage, I was in the middle of a battle, when a wild surge happened. The weird thing was, it didn't happen for my character, but for Anomen. He suddenly was of a shining yellow colour! (The wild surge effect was colour change).
    Now I wonder, is this a bug, or is there a very slight chance that characters other than wild mages can get a wild surge? I mean, Anomen isn't even a mage.

    If that has happened to anybody else, please let me know.
     
  8. Colthrun

    Colthrun Walk first in the forest and last in the bog Veteran

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    If you were playing in the Watcher's Keep, there is a room of Wild Magic where mephits dwell. In that room, all spells of any character will cause a wild surge. Perhaps you were playing there.

    If this happened in another part of the game, perhaps your Wild Mage was casting a spell at that time, and there was a wild surge. There is one that causes two random wild surges to take place at the same time. It could have given you something like funny colours and target other than spellcaster.
     
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    It was not in the Watchers Keep, so I guess it was the second possibility.

    Thanks for clearing this up. :)
     
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