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[yoga]

Good riddance. Death to Demogorgon!

Thank You.
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about the bard:

To make Dermin appear the first time (Jaheira quest) it needed 3 days from the previous party (Reviane) appear, AND reaching that limit by a sleep. *shrugs*

I know that Janeira is Fighter/Druid?
But You speak about solo Bard?

Q:
You play solo Bard, yes?

If Yes, why Janeira appears?

Excuse me, so many variants, i go grazy.

[yoga]

Please help.

i meet some nasty problem:

-I killed this stupid Gromnir and using Pocket Plane spell of
my leader Kmonster i visit North Forest - very small place outside Saradush.

Here i killed all opponents and met in left up side a shopkeeper, who inform me
that some temple dissapeared.

OK.

Now i wanna visit another place Forest of Mir - The temple,
but my pointer is unactive and i duno what to do.

[twillight]

Q:
You play solo Bard, yes?

If Yes, why Janeira appears?

Because I want the Harper's Pin. I NEVER had that item, or never used it, or just I WANT IT now.
Jaheira does nothing, just stands in the background stealing my exp. She don't carry item, don't even has a weapon (but she has a simple Splint Mail to avoid accidental shots toward her).



Now i wanna visit another place Forest of Mir - The temple,
but my pointer is unactive and i duno what to do.

Leave the area to the east.
Oh, and pay attention, that the story won't ever send you to Watcher's Keep. That - despite its size - is a completely optional area. Filled with most of the items Caspenar can upgrade for you (the imp in the pocket dimension).
I'd say visiting Watcher's Keep, and at least clearing Floor 3 is a very good idea right after Forest of Mir.

[yoga]

Köszönöm haver!

(TY, friend).

Now i understand about Janeira.

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I wish You luck with Harper's Pin.

Sure You will do it..

After 13 passed You are Master of course.

[yoga]

Great!!!

It works!

God bless YOU, dear twillight.

Respect.

Bow.

grateful brave

Now i am in Forest of Mir - The Temple

[twillight]

Originally Posted by yoga

God bless YOU, dear twillight.

Respect.

Gods, man, gods!

[yoga]

Originally Posted by twillight

Gods, man, gods!

[twillight]

So, back to the future playthrough:

I decided I'm strong enough to finally get rid of Jaheira. Between her leaving again (where you have to destroy two group of harpers in their guildhouse going in-and-out) and Dermin's final I dpn't know howmany days must be spent, as they did not appear to me anywhere in Amn - I had to go to the De'Arnise Keep to make them appear, and they came right aftera sleep (which is convenient for you can cast Stoneskin and still have it after the sleep). Send Jaheira ut of the way, release 2 sunray, and finish the fight (if you casted MMM before sleep that remains too).

During this the bard guildhouse keeps rolling of course. I went for the best result (naturally, although just once it'd be interesting to see the play suffer like a slimegod), with one possible exception. While hiring the famous musician according to one source is the very best solution in terms of quality of the play, I wanned to see my troupe happy, so I went rewriting the music "myself" and let Marcus play it. That reaction is just heartwarming, and, well, we have to think about developing the future generation of bards, non?
Also, while the net says to the barbarian invasion from the one before 7-30(!) days passing, or in accordance to the ingame story 13 days as it should be, it only took me no more than three days to happen!

The bug which causes Elminster to appear and give the Harper Pin is STILL bugged and demands 5 days real time (if not romancing) instead of ingame time... So just use the console.
Oh, and despite the description the item is Harper Only (until we get Use Any Item of course).

And just for a sidenote, here is the best map I could cut from the various sources for WSK lvl3:

MAP

Yes, I see the picture is too big for the forum but if you copy it out you'll see the whole of it.

NOTE: yes, the graphic is cheating. With 1 attack per round you actually do 1 attack while you see 4 attack to happen.
Also, the Boots of Speed with this pathetic sluggishness gives no extra (half) attack, I even think it leads to missing out on attacks. I suspect the engine tries to syncronize the visuals and the unrounded number of attacks. This is of course conclusion from what I see from the attack-rolls. So with low attack per round do not wear Boots of Speed in battles if you can afford that.

Shadow Dragon:
finally I was able to stand shadows, although for the first light gem I had to cast a sunray to get rid of the horde. Yep, Daystar's ability would also suffice, but you know, inventory-space.
Unfortunately the dragon sees the invisible (Mislead won't work). My initialide a was to greater malison + chrmatic orb or similar, but I had enough stuff left to try my luck. Precasted stone skin, released Ras, casted MMM with arrow of dispel as weapon (I'm not sure if the "MMM carries abilities" apply here, but there was nothing to loose and a lot to gain), also mirror image, draw upon holy might and finally offensive spin (it is bloody hard to hit the thing with this char's thaco). Had to throw in some other spawns (doesn't really matter, they are to make the monster waste its memorized spells), but eventually worked it down with 2 MMM and like 5 magic missile.
The Shadow Lord was almost pathetic, and just this first time I saw I don't have to kill Shadow Patric (does this mean the Shadow Lord is SpongeBob?).

Btw, Valygar's armor (Crothala Family Armour) is bloody strong! It has the same AC as the Melodic Chain, but also gives resistances, immunity, AND don't hurt the thief-abilities!

At Firkrag the traps from HLA comes in, so that's no biggy. Still rising eyebrows how will I finish Watcher's Keep lvl 3, but now I at least I have something better than the Staff of Rhynn (namely Carsomyr).

[yoga]

Hi, dear Bard,

Would be so kind show me your data?

Ty

[twillight]

Originally Posted by yoga

Hi, dear Bard,

Would be so kind show me your data?

Ty

This is of course not the final stats/equipment, but at least I have Carsomyr:

stats at lvl 31

NOTE: I noticed the Ring of Gaxxes "fell" down, so the magic resist is improper. That's 70% (had to re-apply the rings and nwit is correct at me).
Actually the net called my attention that with Carsomyr (50% MR), HumanFlesh (20%), Amulet of the Seldarine (10%), Ring ofGaxx (10%), Tear of Bhaal (10%) it is actually possible to reach 100% MR.

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Now something different: how name/sex/portrait changes your game:
- name: there is an easter egg if you are an elf, with low reputation, called Drizzt, then in BG2 you will have a nasty surprise
- character portrait: does not effect the game
- sex (male/female): aside romances, you also won't be able to lay down with the drow lady (the BG-series can be very conservative with issues, Nalia's reaction to the proposal of marriage is especially rude), nor will be able to piss of Anomen being proudly evil. So Anomen won't retire to his home waiting for you hostile, meaning you can't legally kill him. I consider this loosing a sidequest.
- alignment: lawful good characters have only access to Purifier. It is a onehanded Carsomyr-wannabe, but there's no reason making a protagonist just for this: higher Keldorn if you somehow need it (it feels like Lilarcor: everyone knows about it but none actually use it).
There's also an issue with the familiars. If you really want it, you can have a familiar with pickpocket skill (chaotic neutral / lawful neutral, although cat might be bugged and not be able to steal ever).
The major issue is though being Evil. Evil is good. You can avoid (or delay conveniently) a serious fight in Watcher's Keep lvl 3, as well as allows you to side Firkrag during its quest for a change.

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Final words on Pickpocket:
We all know bard gains a fixed amount of pickpocket stat, but noone tells how much. Not even any of the manuals. Not that'd seriously matter you'd think...
Pickpocket is poorly implemented. Not just there's nothing to steal so to say. Aside some nifty items - who am I joking, the +1 dagger at the start of BG1 and the Ring of Regeneration in BG2 are probably the only items you'll ever steal, unless you abuse bugs, as in BG1 you can many times steal the quest-reward w/o doing the quest (but you'd want to do the quests for the exp, and the items are that good), or in BG2 you want to duplicate some items via stealing (specifically Ring of Ram and Ring of Gaxx, no more. The ring of acuity from Lavok can no longer be dupped.).

With that, my Blade since some levels seem to be capped out at 140% pickpocket. Why that'd be an issue? Because of the Deck of Many Things.
It might be just an urban legend, but DSimpson's walkthrough states at a point you can steal DoMT only with 150%.
Of course it might turn out it's like Bodhi, whom you ever try to steal from it is an automatic failure, and not just that, you are automatically killed. There's not even a fight.