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Hey, this game is very enjoyable on the long run. Especially so, since you can exploit it to your advantage without console commands, hacks, editors and cheats! You can begin by setting the difficulty to the Heart of fury, and beat repeatedly the scarabs of the first tavern's cellar, taking care not to find yourself directly in front of their pincers. This way you can get a nice, considerable boost, to start your adventure in a pretty good shape in any class. (i myself made all of my characters level 7 before traveling to Kuldahar).

Also, since the single player mode is treated very similar to multiplayer one, you can use cheesy tactics like item duplication, stash-characters for importing-in, selling stuff and making you stinking rich, and so on. Or kill a npc who owns an item you want to get (and cannot be obtained by pick-pocketing), export your character, load game before the kill and import character and have both decent reputation/npc alive and needed item, all in one go.

Now the most cheesy part, is that if you have a multiclassed character, experience cap applies to each class separately and individually; which means you can get both classes to maximum! It is a good thing having multiclassed characters, because other races get pretty bonuses to many things (like elves resistance against sleep/charm etc.).

Unlike Baldur's Gate, a neutral alignment cleric will NOT get all spells, both those exclusive to good or evil alignment. Avoid having a cleric with Lawful alignments, because there is a certain spell (don't remember its name, there might be more...) that is unobtainable to lawfuls (lawfools, lol!). And finally, a ranger/cleric will get both cleric and druid spells, but is going to miss the 7 level druid ones entirely. Still, as cheesy as ever, but make sure he is not of the lawful good alignment, neutral or chaotic (good) will do.
Post edited September 03, 2013 by KiNgBrAdLeY7
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KiNgBrAdLeY7: Hey, this game is very enjoyable on the long run. Especially so, since you can exploit it to your advantage without console commands, hacks, editors and cheats!
Oh no, not again! <slaps head>
I prefer more traditional game play but thats the beauty of games, play whatever way is funnest for YOU :)

Maybe your tips will help others that like that sort of tweak :)
Once again I have to question why in the name of <insert deity here> you'd go to all that time and effort to get items/gold/XP when you can just do it with the console in a fraction of the time. Seriously, you're just kidding yourself if you think it's any different to do this by using the console.
And something better. Later in game, you find a girdle that turns whatever your strength stat is, to a whooping of 19! Even later, a pair of gauntlets that does the same, but instead of 19, it fixes it on 18/00! And guess what... they both are not warrior exclusives! With import/export tactics in the picture, your entire party can have either. Which means, strength can be a secondary dump stat, because a single item will max it anyway! Which means, amazing stats in total, in general, per character... For some reason though, bards can wear neither!
Post edited September 05, 2013 by KiNgBrAdLeY7
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KiNgBrAdLeY7: For some reason though, bards can wear neither!
If you're referring to the Gauntlets of Ogre Power, they're not useable by Bards, Mages, or Thieves. And again, just use the console to create the damned things.
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KiNgBrAdLeY7: For some reason though, bards can wear neither!
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Coelocanth: If you're referring to the Gauntlets of Ogre Power, they're not useable by Bards, Mages, or Thieves. And again, just use the console to create the damned things.
That's why i propose multiclassed characters. Either those gloves, or the belt that gives +19 strength, they are able to use either. And again, using console is cheating. Play the game like it is standalone. Only 2 chapters until i get my hands on the belt first, then rearrange my party. And load, import the new ones (fully equipped of course). Export import is no cheat, but a valid game function; and the HOW importable characters, have very useful items on them. If game didn't want you to get them, no characters would have been able to import.
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KiNgBrAdLeY7: And again, using console is cheating. Play the game like it is standalone. Only 2 chapters until i get my hands on the belt first, then rearrange my party. And load, import the new ones (fully equipped of course). Export import is no cheat, but a valid game function; and the HOW importable characters, have very useful items on them. If game didn't want you to get them, no characters would have been able to import.
Dude, stop kidding yourself that what you're doing is any different than using the console. How is importing/exporting the same characters in order to duplicate items such as the Girdle of Stromnos of which there is only one in the game, so that now you have multiple copies, any less of a cheat than using the console? The console is also a 'valid game function'. Seriously.

I'll give you an example to illustrate:

I import one of the pre-made characters or one I exported from another game and take his gear. Save my game. Load game, delete the imported character and replace him with one of my creation. Equip my character with the gear I got from the previously imported character. Result: I have an uber-equipped character.

OR

I fire up my game, create my party, then use the console to give myself the exact same gear that I got from the imported character and then just start playing.
Result: I have an uber-equipped character.

Exactly the same result, only using the console is simpler.
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KiNgBrAdLeY7: If game didn't want you to get them, no characters would have been able to import.
If the game didn't want you to get them, the console wouldn't be available for the player to use to create the items. Same logic.
Post edited September 05, 2013 by Coelocanth
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KiNgBrAdLeY7: Export import is no cheat, but a valid game function;
No, you are wrong. So very, very wrong. The export/import function, the way that you do it, is very much a cheat. No matter how hard you try to convince yourself, and others, that it is not... you are wrong. It is a cheat.
Don't get me wrong, KiNgBrAdLeY7, I'm not judging here (I use the console all the time when I play the Infinity Engine games). All I'm trying to point out is that using the console is no more or less a cheat than what you're doing with the import/export 'trick' - and it's generally quicker and easier. But the lengths you're going to in order to get some items/gold/XP just so you can try to convince yourself that you're not 'cheating' the game is just... ludicrous.
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Coelocanth: Don't get me wrong, KiNgBrAdLeY7, I'm not judging here (I use the console all the time when I play the Infinity Engine games). All I'm trying to point out is that using the console is no more or less a cheat than what you're doing with the import/export 'trick' - and it's generally quicker and easier. But the lengths you're going to in order to get some items/gold/XP just so you can try to convince yourself that you're not 'cheating' the game is just... ludicrous.
Taking the middle ground, between playing the game masochistically and playing the game full of cheats, is ludicrous? Why? Never mind, the lengths i go to in order to acquire some items are perfectly near the legit procedure anyway; legit as per your judgements (your including and everyone's above). I do not clone something that i did not find myself, either from adventuring or already existing, game-provided importable characters!

But leaving all this aside, are druids overpowered or what? Spamming thorns AOE or summoning creatures kills masses in seconds, even in Heart of Fury mode. I had no idea druids were so imba here...
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KiNgBrAdLeY7: Taking the middle ground, between playing the game masochistically and playing the game full of cheats, is ludicrous? Why?
It's ludicrous to go through all the hoops you're putting yourself through just for some sense of 'legitimacy' when the net result is exactly the same if you use the console. Am I saying to cheat in powerful gear/items/XP on your first level party? No (although that seems to be what you had in mind in one of your previous games). What I'm saying is, if you find an item and want copies of it, it's a bit crazy to export/import repeatedly so you can dupe the item and give it to other characters in your party. Save yourself some time and just use the console. It's no more of a cheat than duping the item via import/export, because I'm pretty certain duping items/gold is not what the devs had in mind with the import/export function.

But whatever. If you need to do it your way so you can sleep at night, then have at it.

*edit* And yes, Druids are pretty powerful. I never used to use them until one day when I said what the hell and thought I'd try one out. After that, I've never gone without one.
Post edited September 05, 2013 by Coelocanth