icewind dale 2 party size question

tom91x91

tom91x91

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Hi ive just started playing this, im just wondering if having less members in your party enemys scale accordingly also things like XP, i hate playing with a big party prefer just a few members i can specialise in.

cheers/
 
I found it easier with a party of 4 spellcasters than a traditional party of 6 including melee.

Less people = more XP per person per kill, until it becomes trivial and stops giving XP.

Think I had necro,illusionist,cleric,druid. They kicked ass.
 
tom91x91 said:
ah ok cheers, 4 sounds like a better size tbh, im finding it quite hard actually, i dont know these d&d rules lol.
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AE fire spells makes things a lot easier :) When you get a spellcaster who can cast level 3 spells (fireball!), things become easier. IWD2 likes to throw you up against hordes of creatures at a time.

It's quite a bit harder than Baldur's Gate. It's more a min/maxer's game, I think.
 
ah ok thank you :)

Hmm are there any games like this you can play solo? Guess diablo 2 is similar but i tried playing it on my new pc but the widescreen mod kept crashing it, icewind dale 2 was running at 1024x768 natively which is fine on my laptop, but planescape torment the widescreen mod just crashed it :(

or can you have a solo party in this or maybe just two people and play it ok?

thanks
 
Only if you know what you're doing. 4 is good number, or even 3, to start with.

Dungeon Siege can be played solo, and there's plenty of games like Diablo around (Torchlight, et al). Witcher is played solo - I didn't like it but plenty did.

So yes, there's plenty of solo RPGs.
 
FoxEye said:
Makes dual classing pointless tho :(

3rd ed was a bit retarded in that it cost the same XP to add a 10th level of wizard as it did to add a 1st level of fighter....
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Not true, 1st levels often give special abilities that are exclusive for some classes. It's often worth mixing them and most power builds in DnD world are multi-classes. XP penalty can be a pain in the ass though.

On the subject, a "standard" party in DnD consists of 4 members of different classes - usually a warrior (or any hybrid that can do tanking), a cleric (or druid, or paladin), a rogue and a spellcaster. There's plenty of hybrids though that can do many roles and most parties with 4 or more members should be able to complete the game :)
 
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