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Posted September 24, 2012
I read once when someone was complaining about not getting enough early XP: If you get to Naskell and Jaheria hasn't been complaining to you for the past few days, you've haven't explored enough.
Posted September 24, 2012
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DProject: Got Branwen from the carnival, I think I now have a party I'm satisfied with, though there's still room for one more. I think I'll manage with just five people though. Just one more question: I found a Magic Missile wand, does it ever run out of missiles? I gave that to Branwen, might as well let her use it full-time if the wand never runs out. It doesn't show any number though, so I guess it has unlimited uses?
It can hold up to 100 charges, but how many it actually has when you find it depends on where you were. Once you use the last charge, it'll be destroyed. Unfortunately, in the base BG1 engine there's no display of how many charges it has, so you won't know to recharge it until it's too late. You can view or edit the charge amount in Dalekeeper of Near Infinity, or you could just keep an eye on it and reload if it's destroyed. To recharge it, just sell it to a vendor and then buy it right back; it'll be at max charges then.

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Pangaea666: About respawning at the Gnoll stronghold. I read somewhere that when you save some creatures respawn there. First time I played I didn't know that, and saved all the time, as I always do. So there were piles and piles upon gnolls and such everywhere. Next time I played it without saving once, and there were considerably less. So there is something to that. You probably saved in between, and then they respawned. I agree it's a bit silly when you have already cleared it out, but it's free XP ;)
They'll respawn as soon as there isn't anyone within visible range of the spawn point. If you load the area a bunch of times, every out-of-sight spawn point will create more dudes every time you load, so you can get huge mobs of 50+ gnolls where there were only supposed to be 5. You can avoid this by either reloading as little as possible, or you can put a character next to the spawn point that's bothering you and just leave them there while the rest of your party explores. As long as they're nearby, that point won't make any more monsters. This is pretty useful in the gnoll stronghold because it's so twisty and turny, and it's even more useful in Firewine because you can drastically decrease the numbers of kobold archers you face.
Posted September 24, 2012
Alright. Thanks everyone for your responses!
Posted September 25, 2012
Like someone already pointed out the maximum experience in this game is 161,000, so compared to the 8 million maximum in IWD you can see why there would be a difference in levelling. But your experience with levelling being slow in BG is normal. The highest level any class can get in the game is 10 (single class druids and rogues)

But, with BG2 and its expansion installed you can get 8 million experience, but only if you really have a party of less than 6 (you'd may have to grind to get that level of experience with a party of 6).

I've really got nothing else to say, seeing how I made this post before realising there was a second page to this thread. Well, umm. If you ever need more guidance feel free to post again.
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DProject: The characters hardly get past level 7 by the time the game is over. Is this really true?? I mean, I think it must be, because I just started Chapter 3 and my main character is still level 1, and not even halfway through to level 2. She's also a multi-class, so, what, the character's going to be like level 3 when the game ends? That's a greener world savior than an 8-year old kid that's been bitten by a radioactive mite. I really hope the character leveling is done better in BG2. I miss Icewind Dales, how often (within reason) level ups happened in that game and how fun it was to see the characters get better and better in regular intervals. In this game, I'm probably still going to toss plain chromatic orbs at the end boss (if there is such), because I have no know-how to cast anything better. Such a wasted opportunity to make the game even more interesting.
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