Unfinished Business 20 lvl in main company?

[Battler]

Hi. I want to get a relatively smooth gaming experience, and go through the main company of Solasta + direct continuation (ice palace). What percent of experience modifier I need to get 20 lvl by the end of the game.

[DeLastOne]

Reminds me of those math problems from middle-school about trains, speed, departure and arrival time ;)

[Zloth]

Originally posted by DeLastOne:

Reminds me of those math problems from middle-school about trains, speed, departure and arrival time ;)

So you know how to solve this problem!

[Grumpy Old Dude]

just leave the XP without midifier. Make sure you do ALL the Crown sidequests, travel even when you dont need to for random encounters. Do that until you start getting the message:

The bad guys run from you in fear

Once you get that, you wont get anymore random encounters in that campaign. You'll be lvl 12 ending the Crown Campaign, MAYBE with the UB mod, you could possibly get to lvl 13, or close to it I'd imagine.

[Battler]

Originally posted by Grumpy Old Dude:

just leave the XP without midifier. Make sure you do ALL the Crown sidequests, travel even when you dont need to for random encounters. Do that until you start getting the message:

The bad guys run from you in fear

Once you get that, you wont get anymore random encounters in that campaign. You'll be lvl 12 ending the Crown Campaign, MAYBE with the UB mod, you could possibly get to lvl 13, or close to it I'd imagine.

So you can't reach the maximum level, and there's still a third of the game ahead? (I'm talking about you BG3),
Sounds good

[Ommamar]

Originally posted by Battler:

Originally posted by Grumpy Old Dude:

just leave the XP without midifier. Make sure you do ALL the Crown sidequests, travel even when you dont need to for random encounters. Do that until you start getting the message:

The bad guys run from you in fear

Once you get that, you wont get anymore random encounters in that campaign. You'll be lvl 12 ending the Crown Campaign, MAYBE with the UB mod, you could possibly get to lvl 13, or close to it I'd imagine.

So you can't reach the maximum level, and there's still a third of the game ahead? (I'm talking about you BG3),
Sounds good

When this game originally came out that was exactly how the Crown of the Magister was. At the time the level was only 10 levels which you got to with a good bit of the campaign left. With the rise in levels as things developed it got better on that front. When Palace of Ice first released you could get to level 14 just based of the left over experience you gained doing the CoTM campaign. They have since adjusted that for PoI so you can only start at level 12 regardless of what you accumulated in the other campaigns. Interestingly in the Lost Valley campaign I usually maxed out level 10 for some paths it was level 9.

[Dallas S]

Originally posted by Ommamar:

Originally posted by Battler:

So you can't reach the maximum level, and there's still a third of the game ahead? (I'm talking about you BG3),
Sounds good

When this game originally came out that was exactly how the Crown of the Magister was. At the time the level was only 10 levels which you got to with a good bit of the campaign left. With the rise in levels as things developed it got better on that front. When Palace of Ice first released you could get to level 14 just based of the left over experience you gained doing the CoTM campaign. They have since adjusted that for PoI so you can only start at level 12 regardless of what you accumulated in the other campaigns. Interestingly in the Lost Valley campaign I usually maxed out level 10 for some paths it was level 9.

palace of ice raises level cap to 16 and you can start anywhere from level 10 to 12 for that DLC.

Then unfinished business mod raises it to 20 which many custom campaigns go up to

[ResumeMan]

If I'm understanding this right, what you want is that, at the point in PoI you would normally hit L16, you want to instead hit L20? Wouldn't just the ratio of xp required to hit each level be the answer?

Assuming it's the same as 5e, and the chart* I looked at is correct, you need 195,000 xp to reach L16, and 335,000 for L20. So I think that increasing your XP gain by (355/195) = 1.82 or 82% increase would do what you want. You'd presumably want to boost the difficulty level as well.

Is that correct?

* https://5thsrd.org/rules/leveling_up/

[Battler]

Originally posted by ResumeMan:

If I'm understanding this right, what you want is that, at the point in PoI you would normally hit L16, you want to instead hit L20? Wouldn't just the ratio of xp required to hit each level be the answer?

Assuming it's the same as 5e, and the chart* I looked at is correct, you need 195,000 xp to reach L16, and 335,000 for L20. So I think that increasing your XP gain by (355/195) = 1.82 or 82% increase would do what you want. You'd presumably want to boost the difficulty level as well.

Is that correct?

* https://5thsrd.org/rules/leveling_up/

Your calculation is applicable only on the condition that at the end of PoI you will have exactly exp for level 16. But it is quite possible that even without a modifier you have enough experience to get level 20, just the game artificially restricts you.

[ResumeMan]

True enough. Does that happen? I haven't played POI yet. My guess would have been that 16 doesn't happen till the campaign was almost done. Do you end up at 16 for awhile at the end?

[Isaacorion Ceres]

Originally posted by ResumeMan:

True enough. Does that happen? I haven't played POI yet. My guess would have been that 16 doesn't happen till the campaign was almost done. Do you end up at 16 for awhile at the end?

In my POI runthrough I believe I hit 16 at either 1/4 or 2/4 of the tribes completed. So I still had quite a bit of the game left. I don't think the group would have hit 20 by the final dungeon, but I could be wrong.