how do we level up?

[Asenath]

how do we level up in icewind dale and icewind dale ee?

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

On the Steam store page for this game or on the Internet find the official PDF manual.

[ruppe27]

What a strange question...
You kill stuff, complete quests and level up.

It's been like this since the early 80ies.

[ruppe27]

I mis understood you, hope this helps:

Things that improve when you level:
Thaco:(basicly accuracy/hitrating)
Hitpoints
armor class(some classes and kits only)
spellslots
special abilities if you have a class that has them
thieving skills,
weapon profiencies(allows you to upgrade skill in certain weapons)

new spell selections(priests and druids automaticly gain new spells every few levels,Sorcerers have to pick manually and mages have to learn them from scrolls.


I'm probably forgetting some things but this is the gist of it, every class is unique and gains stuff at a different rate.
If you use a kit then you can click on kit description in the stats screen to check at what levels you gain all your special abilities.

The attribute points will never improve naturally so you have to think a bit and have a role for them in mind when creating your characters.

[Asenath]

so we can't choose what new spells we want nor spend points on theif skills in icewind dale like you can in basldur's gate? I see then the char lvl up is different compared to bg bg2 thus we are stuck with the plus sign on our picture panels.

[Ghoul Hunter]

Originally posted by gypsyblackmore:

so we can't choose what new spells we want nor spend points on theif skills in icewind dale like you can in basldur's gate? I see then the char lvl up is different compared to bg bg2 thus we are stuck with the plus sign on our picture panels.

Go to your character screen, where you see your portrait. Then click on the level up button. Then it gives you points that you can spend, if any, and it tells you any stats you gained.

[Asenath]

um I did go to my character screen and there was/is no level up button that is what I have been trying to explain thinking this is a ingame bug unless this is caused by the icewind dale character ediitor?

[ruppe27]

If you messed around with an editor like dale keeper or eekeeper then that might be your problem.
Whenever you get a plus sign there should be a level up button in your stat screen.

[Asenath]

I have dale keeper and used it so I guess that means I can not do nothing when I level up since dale keeper disables the level up button and yet it still saying I am at lvl 1 for all my charaters I wonder why the people who upload the dale editor don't post any warning in the dale editor description on the download page.

[Asenath]

I foundout that when using the dale keeper for icewind dale it disables the level up button strange and the dale keeper for icewind dale 2 I have no issues like this as I am able to level up just not the first one.

[GameЯ]

Uninstall the game I doubt you will make it passed the first ogre

[ruppe27]

You shouldn't use dale keeper with the enhanced edition,that's what's causing the problem. Use eekeeper instead.
You can use eekeeper for both Baldur's gate ee and Icewind dale ee.

[tecknode]

Originally posted by Raven:

how do we level up in icewind dale and icewind dale ee?

The problem I have, even with the PDF manuals, is they do not explain what "Proficiency Slots" are (and how you get them), nor "Skills" that appear above the selections. Most times both = 0.

Just want more detail on how Level Up works.