PC and neera as wild mages

[Dionysosss]

how much fun would it be? or should my main char just be some other wizardy type>?

[Hjelpmooglene]

It would be fun for comic relief, but right now I'm just reloading if Neera does a wild surge. I don't want to lose my gold. Wild mages seem to play as a normal mage except with the chance to cause a wild surge which the effect seems to be random.

[happy]

neera, the only time i used her, made 25 000 gold vanish...are you sure you want to double the odds of that happening?

[Hjelpmooglene]

引用自 happy：

neera, the only time i used her, made 25 000 gold vanish...are you sure you want to double the odds of that happening?

I feel like her side quest is for high level characters.

[Dionysosss]

who need gold when you have stuff disapearing enyway...

[danconnors]

Neera, useless as a mage. But she has her uses.

[Kyoko]

Pretty sure there is an item for neera to protect vs those effects. It might be in the bg2 though, can't remember.

[ÄmJii]

引用自 danconnors：

Neera, useless as a mage. But she has her uses.

Eh, 5% chance to Wild Surge on regular spellcasting is fair tradeoff for extra spell slot each level (Wild Mage counts as specialist mage class).

[kaiyl_kariashi]

Yeah....unless you abuse the crap out of NRD, you should almost never see a wild-surge, it has the same probability as a critical hit, but nothing boosts the change of it occuring.

On the other hand, I like Wild Mages, they add an element of unpredicability that no amount of foreknowledge can by-pass. At best you can to try to tweak the odds in your favor, but there are potentially negative consequences scattered all across results table, even at the top, they just become rarer then at the bottom.

Which is one thing I've always felt Baldur's Gate sorely lacked....there's very little replayability since there's very little that changes from playthrough to playthrough, and your own choices don't matter very much (the story is solid, but once foreknowledge comes into play each playthrough becomes much shallower due to the limited amount of RP available). Having all dropped loot have a table of possible items instead of garunteed would improve the overall experience, since like IWD, you'd have to adapt your tactics around what you found, rather then around a bunch of powerful items you're garunteed to get (sometimes very early depending on how tactically sound your decisions and party choices are).

Wild mages to me, do the same (albeit in a much more narrow and optional sense), since anything short of immediate game-over (assuming you don't cheat and reload) requires you to alter your experience and work around the results which helps quite a lot imo.

[Banshee]

引用自 ÄmJii：

引用自 danconnors：

Neera, useless as a mage. But she has her uses.

Eh, 5% chance to Wild Surge on regular spellcasting is fair tradeoff for extra spell slot each level (Wild Mage counts as specialist mage class).

Hum, according to me it's more like 50%, I lost more thant 80/100 000 gp, she changes sexe, and use bad spells against my team... One spell on two is wrong for me, and it's just really annoying, I have already enough problem with magic resistances and now that...
There is not a lot of good spellcaster but make one of them as bad as her class it's... annoying to say it gently...

[Isomodia]

From a powergaming perspective, it's pretty mediocre. That said, if you're the kind of person who enjoys immersion and can deal with the occasional bad/catostrophic consequences, it could potentially be a lot of fun.

There is also the fact that Wild Mages are pretty disgusting once you make it through the first 10 levels or so.

Do what you want, if you're willing to deal with the headache (I actually think it's quite fun having to think on your feet, but I've also played through this game a few dozen times, so I may be an edge case) it's worth a shot, at least.