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Try a four-rogue party. Three to the first row (dagger), and one to the back with bow. Get hide and sneak attack (something else for the bowman). In bigger battles, hide with all of them. Then enemies will not be able to attack, and your rogues will attack for 2x damage! So 4 enemies out without damage. Most-damage weapons and stats are also the best for them, I have killed the corruptor with that party.
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A well-equipped party doesn't need anoint, or even points spent on endurance. Using good timing (eliminate always the monster what will attack next or the most dangerous), spend all points on stats what will increase damage, and get the biggest-damage weapons and use the right skills, and you will be able to kill all enemies before you could take damage (or wih minimal damage).
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I got a conjuror,barbarian,warrior and mage and my main focus is the barbarian he has a level 23 mintour axe with 89 posion damage. great game ^^ 6/5
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I had rolling with a Barbarian, Warrior, Rogue and cleric.
The rogue has such powerful single target abilities, its incredible. Also, my guys were about level 44 and the 50% poison added thing scales incredibly well. The poison will tick for > than his attacks later on.
Barbarian what can I say...use the clerics attack and my level 44 barb was hitting for over 7k.
Annoint is a powerful cleric move, to those who might not like the cleric. Stack up health/armor and you have a healer that doesnt die and can buff your softer members.
Warriors are sick. You stack cleave and an annoited whirlwind and everything is pretty much dead. Then you still have the rogue to finish off anything else, and if you set up the party right, the barb can charge and kill w/e.
IMO, 5/5, but please make the conjurer more useful...didn't seem to be worth the trouble when you can get a mage or ranger instead.
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Cleric is the most useless, and conjurer is the second, I think. Rogues are very useful in boss fights and legendaries (I couldn't kill gorgon without sap strength). The ideal party, I think is a warrior (meat shield+good fighter), barbarian (a little vulnerable but incredible damage), rogue (invincible poison - poisoncraft - 50 % of damage is added as poison :) ), ranger (auxiliary ranged attacker (and mass)). I used once mage instead of ranger, and was effective, too.
Contravente: I can't use clerics because I simply DO NOT NEED healing :). They take anything out in 1 or maximum 2 rounds. They're unstoppable.
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cleric's lithany of pain uses the weapon's special attacks... like poisoning, chance to stun, chance to kill... so with only 1 cast, you spread that chacne on every single enemy and mutiple the %chance... i think 4 cleric was the most easy party i've ever tried. and they dont need strenght at all :S int+life are enough. becos good weapons need good specials and NOT the good damage, you dont want to hit with the weapon anyway :) using lithany of pain is like using expert magic in heroes3 ^^
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The rogue and mage are the two most useless classes! My best group is made of a warrior, cleric, barbarian and ranger.
The warrior and barbarian support each other, the cleric heals and the ranger deals a large amount of damage to several enemies at once, weakening them.
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I love rogue when beating up creature leaders. And rangers. Just hide, sneak attack and let the poison flow :)
Plus, they get awesome poison stuff. I can poison for a LOT of damage.
My best team right now is rogue, mage, cleric and ranger. My rogue can take out single units quickly, whilst the rest of my party poisons the others.
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Ugg what is this fascination with rogues? Seriously they blow about as much as a ring of truth lmao...How long does that take to kill a 6 enemy party? 3-4 turns? Blah watch how fast my 3 mages and a barb move up the level rankings over the next couple weeks ;)
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also its one thing that corrupter couldn't use its power due to sapped strength, but with the 4 rogue set he was dead before he could do anything but pass.
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a 4 rogue party is unstoppable after they all get a nice dagger, hide, and sneak attack.
i managed the 40 waves using a cleric as the meat shield, and a ranger, conjurer, and mage all with emphasis on buffs and resurrection where appropriate. its important to have benediction on the cleric, since its your only way to remove the reduced damage from the dwarves.
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I did not find useful clerics at all. I don't use healing because I don't need to, and to increase their damage both strength and intellect should be raised- That isn't good for me. I planned a mage to a party, but instead ranger, not rogue. Rogue is also very important (ensures that I begin the battle all the time, can eliminate the quickest, allowing rogue to unleash hail of arrows without taking damage bedore it. Also very useful sap strength, what prevents bosses and legendary creatures to use their main powers (Corruptor couldn't cast Dark Mirror because my rogue sapped his strength and he didn't have enough power).
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Here' a party i been testing. Rogue, mage, ranger, cleric. The cleric i more usefull in early level to prevent pwnage in teh firt 3 levle *i find that the firt 3 level are alway the hardest becaue you don't have al you good gear and moves you want yet* and it wa bamph. Pwnt thing quickly at lvl 5 and took on a hydra in 3 rounds. I didn'thave a true tank, but i did have lot of hit reduction from cleric, and the cleric NEVER ran out of power. he ha over 30+ regen. ranger would pin and execute combo *ranger was fastest* and he'd put the hp regen on rogue. Mage would AoE like the hit. And i got teh coolest robe ever. at end of every fight regen 50% of power. It would not die. Not the bet combo though.
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Sweet I started a new party and got a golden axe on level 9 lol. My barb is going berserk :p (I'm MrMonkyBot got tired of 4 rangers wonder how long it'll take to beat my level :o)
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So... warrior, barbarian, mage, ranger would be the ideal group? Could someone also help me.... I just got to lvl 6 (first time, lol) and I am maxed on items and have no scrolls to go sell stuff. Any tips/secrets? thx
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Sure a decent party but slow, you may kill things in one round early(enemies couldn't even get off an attack until about level 300 in my game :o )..But as you progress you will slow down big time. A mage instead of a rogue would have been better but oh well. Y a mage u ask? thier lightning attack is the best in the game(always great damage, no "to hit" reduction like hail of arrows and insta kills pesky wraiths) With the right gear they can blind targets up to 125% making legendaries miss all time.
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However, items what increase both strength and dexterity are good for rogues mainly - who I like for very high damage (my rogue with an ordinary dagger has a lot bigger damage than my golden axe-user barbarian!), and bloodsoaked berserker's armour is very good for barbarian (gives also health, barbarians need that). I don't use robes, because I don't have mage (warrior, barbarian, rogue, ranger - in the Den of endless evil, they become invincible because their passive skills allow them to eliminate anything - except legendary creatures - in one round, maximum two). I don't use replenishment items, too - I use attribute-raising items only (strength to warrior-barbarian, dexterity to ranger, strength or dexterity or both to rogue).
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What items are the best?
I think those what raise both strength and dexterity (bone ring, swashbuckler's pantaloons, facemask of the bandit chieftain...), and golden axe, minotaur axe, hydra's tooth, cloak of flames, retribution. I had once a warrior with retribution (60 % reflection) and cloak of flames (75 % reflection). Both of these gave many strength so his damage became enormous and any enemy what attacked him died right after its attack. :)
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Quick nooby question: Why does my health continually drop? My warriors health is at 50/58 and I haven't been in any battles... just started.
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which items are best? i think ring of boundless energy, signet of the demonslayer, hydra's tooth, head of the gorgon, high five, robe of affliction..any more from u guys?
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a quite tranquile group to use is cleric rogue warrior ranger,
giving sufficient speed to you cleric, he will use holy light to blind every ennemies.
also try to get a lot of life steel to reduce usage of potions
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Thanks for the info Mistical!! Yeah, I am restarting because I just don't like the conjurer as much as I thought I would. Another question: Should I start with difficulty on easy? Seems a waste of points, or should I be able to handle it on something harder? Also, is it a good strategy to kill every group of critters you see or skip harder ones to save potions or whatever? Thanks again!
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to get the complete you kill the end boss @lv10 then it unlocks infinite mode where you go on forever (thats the scores your seeing)
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sailty, the beginers setup is warrior,mage,ranger(or rogue), cleric
your warrior is your tank the mage/rogue/ranger are the dps in the group and the cleric is the healer. check what abilitys scale with what stat (you can see this just under the name, it will say "effect increases with X stat)
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Tips for a complete noob? Good starting group suggestion so I don't have to restart after I get far? There is a badge for completing a campaign but looking at the scores it looks like a never ending game... am I wrong? Any tips, suggestions, info for a new player before I play the heck out of this game? Thanks :) 5/5 btw (at lvl 4 now, bout to restart)
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sheesh they removed my score when I was at 1500 yet it's taking over a week now to pull that super BS 999999 score off...Come on Kong I don't want to send a 3rd request to get that off the score board :/
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Um are you playing the first campaign or the second? In the second you usually get at least one scroll per level....I have like 134 in my inventory and I've been hording/selling the whole time
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For you guys trying to work on collecting a lot of money, how do you come across enough Warp Scrolls to make it back to the Emporium? I've been totally full on my inventory for like 3 floors now and it's getting pretty annoying that I'm not running into any scrolls.
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I've been taking a break but it looks like Formicidae is tearing thru levels so guess I gotta start playing again lol.
Baldurs Gate while being almost 12 years old or something like that still rocks lol. If you like Ad&d then all those baldur gate and neverwinter nights games are awesome go get 'em for cheap and have a blast.
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I am tired of foolish people that keep asking how to get to the "shop" to get to the emporium you must first aquire a portal scroll after that you click and drag the scroll to a picture of one of your characters and it will take you there,it's not rocket science.