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Anomen - 4/10 - invited him, had his first conversation then kicked him out, didnt really do it for me
Serevok - 9.5/10 - one of the best fighters, also his quote about going back to baldurs gate together.
Keldorn - 8/10 - One of better pally kits for me, however him killing edwin when they got into an argument really put my mixed party in a bind.
Jan - 10/10 - ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love this small bastard, Vic: "Charname how is your travel.." " Truthfully?, it all goes back to that time jan's cousin..." Hes the only character thats been in everyone of my playthroughs.
Dorn: - never invited
Minsc - 9/10 - i normally have him as one of my front liners - i tend to replace him with serevok. This guy is just loveable
Edwin - 8/10 - best mage but his pompus manner tends to rub you that is until.... well his character quest ;)
Korgan - 9/10 - First i didn't like him too much cause iw as trying to romance aerie. Then Aerie was getting all sour and annoying. So i ended up kicking her out and enjoying my time with Korgan's bloodthirsty lines
Vic - 8/10 - thorughly enjoy trying to romancing her, Highest Wis - her downfall is her Con but you can have a solution for that. Shes still a massive ♥♥♥♥ at times though.
Hexxat - 4/10 - tried her - already had one haughty girl in the group and i already had a thief, her personality didnt do it either so i stabbed her.
Nalia - 6/10 - at first i liked her, then i started to find her slightly condescending. Also her lack of specialization didnt do it for me.
Imoen - 8/10 - I liked Imoen as a character, she is a weaker mage which brings her down a few pegs.
Jaheria - 8/10 - Only druid with a rez, slightly ♥♥♥♥♥♥ at first then gets nicer.
Yoshimo - 1/10 - ever since i found he betrays me, i only use him to start the quest chain in the docks
Valygar - 7/10 - liked his character - weaker backstabs cause of his kit, his interactions with mazzy are awesome though
Mazzy - 9/10 - Its only recently that i fell in love with mazzy, voiced by jennifer hale ( that voice) and her interactions with alot of the other companions makes him a must for this (jan and valy).
Nerra - 8/10 - i Hate the first part of her quest. I liked her personality as every game needs the outspoken clueless person who has something they hate alot. Also the kit isnt bad, until you accidentally throw a fireball at yourself.
Rasaad - 7/10 - i find rasaad to be Meh, i like monks and all that but i just wasn't attached to him, guess somethings dont mesh with me.
Haer Dalis - 4/10 - This is the guy i love to hate, his kit concept is cool ( even though there are way better options) but its the bloody poetry that annoys me. I wanted his play director Raelis Shai :D His interactions with Aerie are cool, didnt get too see the full interactions of them as aerie was kicked out and Haer Dalis followed shortly.
Cern - 5/10 - i loved his kit at first, the i found the flaws in it. Then i didn't like his kit and invited jaheria back. His quest is quite fun but like haer dalis i didnt like his speech.
Anomen : 9/10 probably. Gold rating stuff due to his personal quest, becoming Sir Anomen, and when the romance soundtrack kicks in while he talks to a female main character.
Aerie : 6/10 at most. Too girlie, too much whining, cannot get accustomed to her beyond letting her join only for a little bit of the beginning when a versatile caster is helpful. Experienced the romance option once all the way to the end, uhm, not my cup of tea.
Jan Jansen : 10/10. His babbling is just awesome when he still tells a new anecdote late in the game.
Haer'Dalis : The banter and his special story related to Aerie is the one and only reason to try him out once.
Rasaad : 4/10. I avoid him like a plague already in BGEE. Don't open your mouth, Rasaad! If I want a monk, I play one myself. Fortunately, the replayability factor of BG2EE is high enough to play multiple monks in the same party and do Rasaad's quest, too.
Yoshimo : Yeah, low rating for him. That would be different, if he had some special personal quest (or more than one) and options to safe him either early or late.
Cernd : Similar to Rasaad.
Neera : 8/10. What drags her down is the geekiness. Too much in my point of view, but great stuff around her already in BGEE. Clearly she's a better romance option than Aerie. Neera's new voice in Siege of Dragonspear isn't too bad either.
Keldorn : 7/10. Good idea, but regardless of what path you choose with him on his personal quest, it is underdeveloped, isn't it? If it were not for Keldorn and Mazzy to team up in the party and some role-playing on top of that, I would always recommend Keldorn to retire. Extra sad that Ajantis isn't available in BG2EE.
Dorn : 9/10. Just too good for an evil party. His bisexual romance options are worth a shot for anyone, who hasn't tried out them yet with either a female or male main character. Subtle and better than Glint Gardnersonson's obtrusiveness.
1. Yoshimo. One of the best utility characters, as outside of hexxat he is the only pure thief. Great voice acting and personality, and frankly he has the most interesting backstory. He's the only character who's willing to challenge the priority of the player's interests in the narrative. I like that. I seem to remember being able to resurrect him in my first play-through but that was ages ago, and I guess thats impossible.
2. Minsc: Excellent voice acting and characterization. Easy to get along with, and tough, Minsc's kindness and devotion to doing the right thing are actually kind of inspiring.
3. Korgan: Again, the voice acting and characterization do it for me. Korgan's bloody mindedness can be refreshing in a game about reading through paragraph after paragraph of expository dialogue.
4. Valygar: Smooth Operator. Thats all I can think of when I hear Val's voice. The guy just oozes competence. Plus I love rangers.
Now for the NPC's I like least:
1. Anomen: What a prick. If his class kit wasn't so damn useful no one would ever have this guy in their party.
2. Viconia: A fussy drow? who is also a glass cannon? who spends all of her spells making herself barely decent in combat? No thanks.
3. Nalia: She and Anomen are made for each other. I hope they have a happy life together in the Copper Coronet, not following my party.
Viconia with the right equipment is pretty much a tank, if you give her that mace (from the adventurer's mart) that sets her str to 18, you can equip her with the best armors and shields in the game, and that coupled with her 19 Dexterity will yield the companion with the single lowest armor class there is period! Furthermore if you give her the belt that selts her constitution to 18 for 8 hours she will have decent hit points, and if you take into account that her inherent 65 magic resistance makes her almost unhittable by enemy spells you'll realize Viconia is the single toughest and most resilient caster in the game period. No other caster can get to be that tough just out of equipment and inherent abilities without having to use any of her own spells.
And if of course you do make her use her own spells on her, she could be a really kick ass toon indeed.
So I think you should reconsider your approach to her since you are missing out on a truly epic toon, and she clearly is the very oposite of what you stated. :)
PG - Paladin/Undead Hunter - Too many vampires and other level draining suckers out there
Keldorn - Paladin/Inquisitor - One of the only Tanks that gets more powerful at very high levels due to Dispel Magic and Truesight
Anomen - Cleric/Fighter Dual Class - Part Tank, offensive/defensive spell caster and (later) Undead vaporizer
Nalia - Mage/Thief Dual Class
Imoen - Mage/Thief Dual Class
Aerie - Mage/Cleric Multi-Class
Along the way:
Minsc - to get out of Irenicus's dungeon, replaced with Keldorn. He just doesn't get more powerful for ToB the way Keldorn does
Jaheria - also to get out of Irenicus's dungeon, replace with Yoshimo for Spellhold after completing her Romance (100k expereince for the PG if you have the patience) and Harper Quests (good experience and gear to be had by killing off the Harpers)
Yoshimo - to get out of Irenicus's dungeon, stash him at CC until going to Spellhold. You don't have to take him, but if you don't you either leave somone permanently at SH or have a hole in your party. Plus, you want the 200k experience for bringing his heart back to the Temple of Ilmater don't you?
Jan Jansen - I know right? Between the Irenicus dungeon and leaving for Spellhold, he's actually pretty useful as a thief and back up spell caster. You also get experience for all of the scrolls he scribes. He picked a lot of pockets and stole a lot from stores, especially the Bookkeeper.
Edwin and Korgan: Only for the initial trip to the Graveyard to get the Book of Kaza and Scroll of Netheril. I let Edwin get killed by the Red Wizard, so I couldn't recall him in ToB because he's dead. Interesting that it remembered that.
Hexxat: Only for her initial quest, I want that bag of holding before I go to Spellhold
Neera/Rasaad: Only for their quests after Spellhold. If you do their quests without them in the party you miss out on some of the rewards.
Valygar - Just to unlock the Planar Sphere. By the time I got to that after Spellhold he was pretty useless
I go back to Haer Dalis and Jan to scribe scrolls for experience later from time to time.
I think that's about it
I rate them 10/10 because I make them myself ;D
No one takes Jan along because they need a mage/theif...they take him along so that they can see him try to steal Boo...or annoy Jaheria...gross out Nalia...piss off Edwin...ect. I probably have litterally played this game completely through dozens of times and I will still trigger character interactions from Jan that I haven't seen before and they will typically have me in stiches.
Spoiler alert here!!!!!
Agree and disagree! Agree with the Jan's lore part, dissagree about his capabilities part. No caster in the game has perfect stats, that still doesn't mean you don't need them. Jan is actually very amazing from a tactical perspective, most of the times he's in one of my parties is because I have a need of a good thief/mage combo. His illusionist class goes especially well in your party if you have a Conjurer, say your main toon, and he's also a safe bet since nobody conflicts with him, and when you take into account Nalia is a broken thief, Imoen you can't get till chapter 5, and Yoshimo, well you know the deal with Yoshimo, so Jan is one of the most heavily needed toons in the game. As I have said mulitiple times before in these forums, now you can create a whole party, but this feature will render the game almost effortless, unless you are playing LoB difficulty. So for many purists like myself companions are still the main deal, and just like you said the game wouldn't be the same otherwise. Just know you might need to make your own party if you go LoB though.
Plus the EE version has thrown another theif into the mix.
That may work for someone who just go on as soon as possible to get Imoen. I think most players would spend their time doing the Immense amount of quests in Chapter 2 before worrying about Imoen. If they are worrying about Imoen at all. As for Nalia, well she is a good mage but really a subpar thief, and I really can't even imagine myself using her as that. If you are going to waste potions on her to get the job done, which are expensive, then you are reducing the value gained from your finds on those locked chests because now you have to factor in the cost of those potions, Jan gets the job done flawlessly, and he's a pretty good Illusionist. Also at the high level, Jan gets HLAs from both classes wich is truly an epic thing.
If you are going to use Imoen, I would suggest taking Yoshimo instead of Nalia till you can get Imoen, and don't worry about the backstab, consider it part of the story. Yoshimo's traps are extremenly helpful, especially early on in the game!
That's one powerful combo right there, pitty they can't use the limited wish spell due to low wisdom. I say an awesome combo would be Imoen with a PC wizard with high wisdom. Also Aerie will do well with her.