Best Class For Main Character's Unique Abilities

[temps]

Not having played BG2 yet, I recall from the first game the main character [spoilers] as the son of Bhaal[/spoiler] had some unique divine abilities to heal wounds, gain bonuses to STR, DEX, CON, etc.

Do you think given his unique abilities, there is a particular class in this game that is best for taking advantage of those? With bonuses to STR, DEX, and CON, it would seem like some type of melee-combat oriented class would be best?

[Centurion]

The permanent pluses to your stats are solely due to the 8 tomes you can acquire in BG1. These have nothing to do with being Bhaalspawn and can be used on NPCs, if desired.

You do get abilities. In general, Good characters get minor good cleric spells as abilities like cure light wounds, slow poison, and draw on hold might. The latter may be what you are referring to, making it a good boost for any combat-oriented character. Evil characters get things like Vampiric Touch, Horror, and Larloch's Minor Drain. Neutral characters get some combo of the two. Aside from Holy Might, none of these really enhances any one class over another (and by BG2, none are terribly useful.)

[Sstavix]

Originally posted by Centurion:

The permanent pluses to your stats are solely due to the 8 tomes you can acquire in BG1. These have nothing to do with being Bhaalspawn and can be used on NPCs, if desired.

Since I mentioned this to someone going through the games (not on the forums), using the tomes on an NPC in BGEE does NOT carry forward to BG2. For example, if you used a Strength tome on Jaheira to increase her strength to 16 int he first game, it will "revert" to 15 if you pick her up as a companion in BG2.

So be selfish and use all those tomes on yourself.

[Centurion]

Originally posted by Sstavix:

Originally posted by Centurion:

The permanent pluses to your stats are solely due to the 8 tomes you can acquire in BG1. These have nothing to do with being Bhaalspawn and can be used on NPCs, if desired.

Since I mentioned this to someone going through the games (not on the forums), using the tomes on an NPC in BGEE does NOT carry forward to BG2. For example, if you used a Strength tome on Jaheira to increase her strength to 16 int he first game, it will "revert" to 15 if you pick her up as a companion in BG2.

So be selfish and use all those tomes on yourself. :rose:

Don't forget a player-created NPC!

[Wicket W. Warrick]

Originally posted by temps:

Not having played BG2 yet, I recall from the first game the main character [spoilers] as the son of Bhaal[/spoiler] had some unique divine abilities to heal wounds, gain bonuses to STR, DEX, CON, etc.

Do you think given his unique abilities, there is a particular class in this game that is best for taking advantage of those? With bonuses to STR, DEX, and CON, it would seem like some type of melee-combat oriented class would be best?

The only initial ability really useful is draw upon holy might.
The classes that benefit most are the ones that you use in melee but are not pure warriors, like thieves (that also benefit of bonus on thief ability), druids, bards (fightin oriented), monks. Pure warriors (fighter, berserker, kensai, paladin, rager,...) don't really need and can raise their stats in other ways.
Major spoiler, don't read if you don't know the story.
You will lose those ability when you go to SPellhold and you get the ability to transform in a powerful monster. That is useful to all not fighting classes, from sorcerer to all the example already given. For fighter is less useful

[6h0$t942]

They depend on your alignment. They are helpful little tidbits. 1-2 free vampiric touch spells is nice. good for mage hybrid variants.Holy might is nice for warrior variants. Extra healing is always nice. Larcoch minor drain is 95% useless

[red255]

the cannon party for BG1 was jahiera, khalid, imoen, dyaheir, and minsc.

so thats 2 melee classes and jahiera who is also somthing of a fighter/mage.

and imoen as a thief and a mage, and a full mage.

considering BG1 tomes give you +1 all stats but +3 wisdom. my leaning that the canon bhaal spawn is a fighter/cleric. simply because Jahiera doesn't really provide enough healing for 3 tanks and you have plenty of mages.

could be a cleric thief. Romance wise seems like you are a human, half elf or Elf. I mean you FEEL human or almost human similiar lifespan to imoen at least.

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best use of the bhaalspawn abilities? son, the bhaalspawn abilities are the fact that during character creation bhaal readjusted your stat rolls to make you more suited for murder.

thats your ABILITY, not these minor powers you lose halfway thru BG2.

I find a fighter cleric, boring. but if you wanted my opinion on what best fits the canon playthru, fighter cleric is it.

personally I prefer a Fighter/theif hybrid. because BG2 has no high level thiefs until they added hexxat. and a kickass thief is amazing.