Sorcerer or Barbarian?

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Im torn between these two for my MC. At one side, barbs have amazing con & str and great survivability paired with damage, they get stale due to no magic at all. Gameplay might be the same over and over again.

Sorc might have way more fun in higher levels, but starts with 6 hp on lvl 1, which is basically 1 hit to die.

Im really torn which option to choose for my MC. What u guys think?

[Wicket W. Warrick]

Publicado originalmente por Vambran:

Sorcs are okay. I suggest taking familiar as one of your first spells for a easy HP boost. just keep it in your backpack.
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What a bad advice! Have you noticed that number of know spell for a sorcerer is limited?
You have 2-3-4 kinds of spells and you waste one for another that you use once in the game? No way.
You get a familar scroll quite early in the game, use that instead.

Publicado originalmente por Vambran:

Barbs from a min / max point of view are not good. You are better off going Fighter with Beserker Kit. Losing 3 points in weapon skill is not worth the slightly more DR barbs get late game.

The fact that a berserker is stronger than a barbarian doesn't means that the barbarian is weak. Weapon mastery is significant only for grand mastery, that you don't get so early in the game and you can invest in mor weapons being more versitile.
Even if you don't max the damage, you still have a damaga rate more than sufficient to make the game easy and the rage immunities makes the barbarian a stronger solution than many other fighter type classes.
Surely a more friendly solution for a first walkthrough.

[Vambran]

berserker has pretty much the same immunites as barb. Barbs are mostly end game tanks like BG2 lvl +20 where the DR starts to stack.

[CrescentMouse]

Publicado originalmente por Vambran:

berserker has pretty the same immunites as barb. Barbs are mostly end game tanks like BG2 lvl +20 where the DR starts to stack.

dope pfp btw!

[Wicket W. Warrick]

Publicado originalmente por Vambran:

berserker has pretty the same immunites as barb. Barbs are mostly end game tanks like BG2 lvl +20 where the DR starts to stack.

I agree, but berserker wasn't an option. The confrontation is between barbarian and sorcerer and we can't say that in BG1 a sorcerer walkthrough is easier than a barbarian walkthrough. That is a bad advice for a new player.

In BG1 the bigger constrain for a barbarian is not the mastery, but the limit in armor that prevents to reach very low ac that in BG1 is more important, expecially in the second part of the game.

Anyway still barbarian is one of the strongest class and can manage the game quite easily in all the parts, due to fighting skills and immunities (that also berserker has, but who cares, we are not talking about it). not the same for sorcerer that begins to be useful only at the end of the game and that dies very easily at the beginning.

Fighter mage for a player used to dnd is another very good option, probably the best one for a first playthrough, maybe too good (the game can become boring).