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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribe" data-source="post: 9117254" data-attributes="member: 6807152">I dont know that reference, but given the plot, the enemies, the stakes, and all the things going on, if you want to be 'the good guy that does good things and is the hero' while also dropping righteous bursts of damage, its hard to go wrong with Paladin, Folk Hero. (I was swimming in Inspiration).Now that I've slept on it, thinking about the game its obviously great. I didnt engage with spoilers or reviews, I played it mostly blind and so while I know I missed a ton, I'm going to be able to go back and now start looking at any guides or whatever to see where things could have changed or gone better.I really liked the game, I really liked the plot/story, I admit I thought I was going to be betrayed in the end but it never happened.Some of the stuff, I have to wonder how canonical it is, maybe Larian took some liberties, I dont know really without getting into full blown spoilers.There's likely too much good stuff for me to bother writing it all up. Lets just say this game reignited my passion for D&D/FR, in a way nothing has in well look at the Calendar, probably decades if I'm honest. If Larian does add a DLC or 2, I'm right there for it...assuming its still in the FR/Planescape/Avernus type setting. If they jump into something else (CR) I'm going to be very sad.With this and Wrath of the Righteous, we have truly been given 2 CRPGs that are experiences we can look back on and continue to enjoy on par with the classics of BG1 and 2.Minor quibbles, I'm sure with both games, but honestly, I loved my ending with Karlach, the story arcs for Shadowheart and Wyll, Halsin (still horny/bugged? I shot him down completely eventually) and Gale (I reloaded and let him fulfill his destiny) all good stuff.There's enough I didnt do, I just need to consider how I want to get it done (I want to max my time with Jaheira and Minsc somehow for a "Its BG1 time run) with I guess Gale again as my Edwin...hmm and an evil run, and then a "me and 3 mercenary" run...and then theres the mod side of things which I dove into with BG and NWN back in the day.Performance in Act 3, was a problem honestly but thats not something I'll blame the game for, I'm on a laptop that is 3 or 4 years out at this point.Great game.Oh, and I played on Normal, with a group ofPaladin (Ancients) - TavGale - no respecKarlach - Great Sword most of the time, BerserkerShadowheart - Thief (4) / Life (8) - I didnt want to miss out on the Feat at 4, and by the end she was putting out a ton of healing if needed, dropping silences, picking any door I needed, dropping special arrows (Darkness/Thunder/Disruption) or throwing Smokepowders. A glue character.I absolutely missed out on gear choices, and I'm quite sure there is nothing 'optimal' about what I was doing, but Gale did huge work with counterspell later in the game, rendering many fights dead simple, Tav/Karlach killed most things, and yeah Shadowheart just kept things flowing.</blockquote>

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