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Old 11-11-2015, 10:53 PM   #50
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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.
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