Greetings
I'm going to play IWDEE, but coming from BG1EE I'm feeling a tiny bit overwhelmed having to roll a whole squad compared to 1 custom dude and a rotating selection of companions. Even after planning the party I'd like to use, I ended up with a bit of decision paralysis.
The pillars of my party are:

- Bard, Half-Elf
Will get all the scrolls I find, not sure about proficiencies but I don't think they'll matter much, since they'll be mostly singing with the occasional spell, so I guess whatever weapon has defensive version plus bows

- Avenger, Elf
Avenger gets more shapeshifting forms and extra spells, the STR penality is inconsequential since they'll polymorph into a giant spider during scraps. For weapon pips I suppose the usual scimitar/club and sling, followed by whatever fighting style works best with a polymorphed character

- Paladin, probably Cavalier
Undead Hunter may be better, but I like to have Lay on Hands available for some emergency/extra healing. Weapon pips on longswords, flails and then I suppose dualwielding?

- Dragon Disciple
Not sure if Elf for more DEX, or Half-Elf for more CON, probably the latter.
Won't have to compete for scrolls, and with the "free" spell selection I'd like to set this up so the character can be focused around Polymorph Self, self-buffs and such.
Dagger proficiency, want to be Lawful Evil so they can read the Find Familiar scroll and get an imp for mustard jelly pet during fights

And now, for the remaining party slots:
I'd like to add a kitted thief, of any sort, mostly because BG1 drowns you in unkitted thief companions (and a few multi-class ones), either as Half-Orc for that 19 STR, or human so I can dual class it out in case I get bored of its playstyle.
Now, I'd stop at 5 party members, but I've realized that with this setup I miss out on a side-tank or archer role (I'm missing on a cleric too, but I don't think it matters much with a single class druid and paladin on the party). I've been considering either roll the thief as Swashbuckler with two pips in longbows, have the thief dual as fighter, roll a poison archer blackguard, or a gnome barbarian (mostly to get use of that fancy midget helmet). But I'm open to suggestions.

What are your opinions about all of this?

Is it a pretty smooth experience?

Hello! I’ve finally decided to tar the jump from the Baldurs Gate infinity titles to IWD. I love the kill and loot crawl so I figured it’s time I try IWD. I’m having some decision paralysis when crafting my party tho. Can I get away with doing a playthrough with 2 custom characters and using the pre generated ones to fill out the other slots? Will either do core rules or hard.

Thanks!

So, with all the recent decomp craze, will Beamdog finally do their own IW2EE?

I am making one of my childhood dreams come true!

Icewind Dale II is the only Infinity Engine game that never got an Enhanced Edition. Its source code was lost, so everyone assumed it never would.

My goal is a Diablo II: Resurrected-style remaster: the same game you remember, with all its rules and quirks intact, running on modern PCs. A new look draws on top, and one key switches back to the classic graphics. IWD2EE support is planned too, and it will always be free.

It’s early, but it’s moving fast. If IWD2 was part of your childhood too, get your agents to work so we can do this faster!

https://github.com/thierbig/iwd2r

What a journey it's been so far. Decided to do the expansion before reaching the endgame for this one, so that we may get a few extra levels and unlock some key abilities (such as Limited Wish on our next sorcerer's level), prior to the final confrontation.

Previous post.

The first time stepping outside and hearing the beautiful music never gets old.

This party probably not optimized at all but I like using characters just for the vibe in IWD.

Elven blade + halforc cleric/ranger + gnome theif (gonna dual to mage) Modded for flexibilty, I like mixing up options.

I'll see how it will go.

I played through this game when it came out decades ago, but this is my first playthrough of the Enhanced Edition. I got all the way to the Poquelin fight in the Ascension cavern, beat him, and then hit the wall trying to fight his final form. So I did what any experience RPGer would do, I looked for a way to grind up some levels so I could increase my power.

My only problem is that since I am basically done the game, I can't find any reliable, decently fast, places to grind for experience. I have resorted to cranking the difficulty up to Heart of Fury and rest spamming in the Frost Giant caves. The only problem with that is THE INSANE DIFFICULTY!!

My group is comprised of a (now) level 12 Human Undead Hunter, level 12 Human Barbarian, level 12 Human Cleric of Tempus, level 12 Human Dragon Disciple Sorcerer, level 12 Human Shaman, and a level 15 Human Buccaneer (I went with an all human group to kind of RP that they were native inhabitants of Icewind Dale).

I tried rest spamming in the Great Forge of Lower Dorn's Deep, but all I got was stupid Salamanders, which are only worth 2000 xp each on Core Rules, and would do WAY too much damage with their ambient fire damage on Heart of Fury.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I would like to NOT have to pour days of my life into grinding up these characters.

Thanks!

I have a mage-thief who identified and equipped the Ring of Shadows found in Kresselack's Tomb. But now when I try to heal him, my game auto-pauses for "Target gone" and I get a message in the log "Spell canceled: Cannot target spells on invisible or sanctuaried creatures." He's not currently wearing the ring. He's not hiding in shadows or invisible.

This seems like a bug. I'm 100% sure that on previous play-throughs of this game (definitely on OG version, but I'm like 99.99% sure I've played through on EE), that I've used this ring, and my healers could still target the wearer. Anybody else seen this?

EDIT/UPDATE: So it turns out that the game had a stale status effect on him. He had previously used an invisibility potion to go disable some traps that were within sight of some enemies. After combat with those enemies (wherein he had attacked and broken his invisibility) I had saved, quick-saved, and quit the game. For some reason, on loading the game, the invisible status effect was still on him, even though he didn't have the little icon on his portrait. After going and explicitly attacking another enemy, the status has been removed and my healers can target him. So: annoying, but not game-breaking.

So I've played Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 but wonder what's to expect here in Icewind Dale. Can I solo it? Is a barbarian sort of character viable? Gear I should look out for? Any tips and all. I was planning on getting into this after I finish Pillars of Eternity. Edit: Forgot, any good mods to use after a good run?

Edit: Thanks everyone for your inputs; my girlfriend said I'm almost done with Pillars of Eternity 2, apparently. Once over, gonna check out IWD.

Heya all, since I dont want to spoil myself reading gear and other stuffs of the game, can anyone help me optimize a 4 man party? I will provide the classes, and need to know for each one alingment, race, stats and weapon pips. Will also add some questions related to each one.

Paladin Undead Hunter, which weapons and styles?

Cleric, better single class for good turn undead? Or better to multi?

Thief, which multi?

Pure Bard or Skald?

Also asking which important spells for each caster for each level.

Will this party works?

Thank you all in advance!

I've been through IWDEE 4 times total. Once with the OG party on Normal, once with a randomly crafted terrible party on Normal, once with an all Melee Party on Insane, and once with a 4 Monk, Thief, and Felicia party on Insane. Had two other parties on insane that got too powerful and I lost interest in playing with them.

So what I want to do now is try a solo run with a druid on Insane mode. Why? I don't know, maybe because I think the idea of leveling up super quickly will be fun and I like summoning creatures and shapeshifting. However, what the heck do I do about traps and locks? Buff myself up as much as possible and hope for the best? Ignore locked chests since I don't need anything in them as a druid anyways? Genuinely curious if anyone has done this and how they managed that. Otherwise, seems like it will be fun and rather challenging in many places.

What race do you consider "best"? I'd like to say something like higher ECL races, but in my latest run I had a lot of bows and swords, so the plain old Elves of the party had a lot going for them.

Hi hope you all are doing great. Wanted to ask if there is any guide to mod IWD. I wanna add like the Tweaks in BG, Bubb's spell menu, maybe any mod to increase the difficulty on Heart of Fury too. Also in which order should I install the mods, should I go back to version 2.6.6.0? And if I modded succesfully will Steam still count the hours played on the game. Thanks!

Dears,

sometimes in my meaningless life I get stuck on incredibly minor things and until somebody explains them to me as if I was born yesterday, I am not able to fall asleep.

So, straight to the point: why Elves in Icewind dale get <+> 1 THAC0 bonus while using bows, swords and long swords. If I understand correctly, for THAC0 in this game, the lower, the better. And since Elves are supposed to be the ones who know their way arround bows and swords, I would expect them to get negative THAC0 bonus.

So, could anyone elaborate? :)

I'm about to play some IWD2 multiplayer with a friend.

Gameranger works fine for the connection.

Since EE mod is not suggested for MP, I've applied Special Edition mod which seem to work fine in MP so far. I also suggest the SE mod as an alternative to EE to give it a try.

My question is if anyone have managed to mix components from both mods? Specifically I use SP as base mod and only need a few minor components from EE. Obviously I am not talking about Class and feat changes and such and anything they both change.

playing EE version on Steam on core rules, I like to use custom portraits and as close as I can get for builds of each character (see my good and evil comp screenshots). Good run is GoT themed, evil run is just my favourite evil characters that fit in a balanced party from comics and games, so thinking along those two lines for the neutral run.

Yeah, I dabbled a bit with prompting online to pass time, and this is what I got.

Human Paladin, Dwarf Dwarven Defender, Half-Elf Cleric/Mage, Gnome Illusionist Thief, Elf Archer and a Human Fighter. We'll see how it goes.

I found it at a store for ten bucks, but people online are selling it for mortgage prices.

Salut à tous !

Je recherche 1 ou 2 joueurs pour faire le jeux en coop. Pour faire une partie chill, entraide et partage, pas de speedrun ou de tryhard ^^ J'avais joué un peu au jeu il y a quelques année mais je l'avais pas fini et je m'en rappel plus trop :')

Merci d'avance

Hey there everyone I was just wondering the best spells to take with a sorceror and shaman both of which I have in my party, I also have a bard, cleric/fighter, and paladin which can help fluff out the spells even more. I just got access to level 2 spells, thanks