Best build OverAll - Minmaxing

[Corpsen]

Yo, i completed the game as a ''mage'' when this mod was released. Now i want to return and i want to ask you guys who completed it many times..
What build you recommend with minmaxing for maximum OP results (OFC kill everything in CH1 even with big city, collect all herbs/mats)
So what builds are the strongest ones at the endgame?
2hSTR/2hDEX, 1hSTR/1hDEX, archer, xbowman?

I just want to ask cuz someone said 2h are bad and 1h are better... another person said 2h are best mid/end game...tbh i like melee combat, u can easily evade attacks and not just standing, shooting and letting them bites.
THX for answers <3

[teafarer]

1h STR, imo, was always the optimal, designed for - help yourself with scrolls - way to play Gothic 2. Archolos being on par with it.

SO! Immunity frames with fast back-step is nothing to scoff at, as you get more room to dodge, strafe and pace yourself.

dmg/range of 2h weapons wasn't ever any advantage, given that additionally your swing rate is slower, "harder" to get the timing of - not as responsive - relative to a scenario of fighting multiple opponents.

Many 2h weapons in Gothic 2 had exact same range as 1h, to then have all the cons going along that play style, to which point I remember the same problem existing in Archolos.

But if to think only about the end game, then 2h might or might not, take 1 hit to kill something, opposed to 1h, two hits. And then, maybe.

Go for it if you want to add some spice, a challenge - fashion as you walk about, have that two-handed back-wrapper-soil-scrapper.

At the end of the day, all builds are viable. 1h, 2h, bow, crossbow. Just a matter to specialise.

[SunfireKnight86]

Bow/dex build is hilarious, stupidly overpowered very early in the game. More so even than Gothic 2. Think before NOTR Gothic 2 levels but even slightly stronger. I cleared almost all of the map in the first few hours of the game between good positioning and piles of dex.

[Rawk]

I've just completed it as 2h dex + crossbow, had both str and dex over 200, one shotting in both ranged and melee most of the late game enemies