I greatly dislike Garrick's stats

[Rithm Fluffderg]

I mean seriously. Bards have enough disadvantages, why does he have to have some of the worst stats in the game to go with them?

Not to mention his song is practically useless because it's a no-kit song.

Oh well. Maybe I'll position him next to Neera while she's casting Reckless Dweomer a lot, while my CHARNAME skald actually makes the party rock a lot at these levels.

...Heh, accidental pun there.

[FAButzke]

Well, you don't need him if you are already a bard yourself, do you? =D
But I agree, he is not the best.

[voehringer_nitron]

Yeah, two bards is redundant.
I would often use Garrick as bait so I could kill Drizzt.

[Rithm Fluffderg]

It's just that I had an empty party slot after booting Xzar and Monty from my party, so I figured "Eh, at least he can hold a sword."

[danconnors]

Garrick is useless, completely. Leave the slot empty, and get more experience per kill.

[Rithm Fluffderg]

I'm a Skald. I give everyone more damage, more hit, and AC.

The more people I have in the party, the more that benefit.

In short, Garrick isn't useful, but he makes ME more useful.

That is, until I get someone like Dorn or Minsc. Then I'm booting Garrick.

I'd kill him but I'm not Evil.

[ÄmJii]

引用自 Joshyx Alfort：

In short, Garrick isn't useful, but he makes ME more useful.

Said nobody. Ever.

Seriously, you can recruit an axe wielding dwarven killing machine just few yards west of Garrick's location.

[Rithm Fluffderg]

I haven't done his quest yet, so I can't recruit him yet. Don't worry, like I said, Garrick's going bye. It's just that, as a Skald, the filled slot is better than an empty slot.

Look at it this way - by doing this, he's more likely to die anyways.

[kaiyl_kariashi]

To be honest...the very fact he can use wands and arcane magic makes him better then anyone else that can't. Though he's definitely a worse bard then Eldoth (who at least gets the nifty ability to craft poisoned arrows).

[Rithm Fluffderg]

And then I remembered that I also hate, what was his name... Jaheira's husband. Why would you be a Fighter without 18/xx strength!? Ugh. I mean c'mon, all of his stats are so low! The only saving grace is that he has more HP than frigging Monty.

Speaking of Monty, I dislike Monty. For some reason, no matter what, at a low level, he always ends up with the monster's attention on him, and then he ends up taking massive damage. And since he only has 9 HP, it's also very likely for him to die.

Sometimes in one hit, even.

It's not even that he has unfortunately low AC, it's that he seems to be a magnet for monster aggressiveness. Then again, I suck at these types of games so it's probably my fault.

[voehringer_nitron]

His name is Khalid. His strength is low for a straight fighter (or even multi class), but he's the only good aligned single class fighter, and thus the only one who can gain grand mastery. If you can hold out until you get the Gauntlets of Ogre Power, his low STR won't matter. His DEX and CON are pretty good, though. A lot of people on the Interplay forums disliked him, though probably more so for his personality than his stats. A common technique was to take away his weapons and armor, then send him to go punch a bear.

Now Quayle and Tiax, their stats are rubbish. Tiax (Cleric/Thief) has an anemic total of 73, including a WIS of 13 which is horrible for a Cleric. Quayle (Illusionist/Cleric) has an absolutely inexcusable total of 67, with just 10 WIS.

[Lord Brahe]

I don't understand how a half-orc like Dorn has such a poor constitution.

[FAButzke]

I actually 'like' that every NPC is flawed. It makes your character the only special one. I agree that they took the concept of 'flawed' a bit too far in some cases, especially in BG1. Most characters get an upgraded in BG2, making them less flawed (Minsc, Jaheira, Viconia...)

[happy]

Brave Sir garrick ran away.
("No!")
Bravely ran away away.
("I didn't!")

seriously, he s my favourite npc by far

he sucks and is perfectly aware of it

long live the brave sir garrick!


"He was not in the least bit scared
To be mashed into a pulp.
Or to have his eyes gouged out,
And his elbows broken.
To have his kneecaps split
And his body burned away,
And his limbs all hacked and mangled
Brave Sir Garrick.

His head smashed in
And his heart cut out
And his liver removed
And his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils rap ed
And his bottom burnt off
And his pen--

"That's... that's enough music for now lads,
*** looks like there's dirty work afoot*** ???."

Brave Sir Garrick ran away."