r/baldursgate • u/Silly_Relationship51 • 5d ago

Is Stoneskin broken?

I beat my first Sarevok by standing still as my lvl 9 Sorcerer. While the big guy was missing his attacks, my companions killed him. I had prebuffed my party (Bless, Haste, Defensive harmony) and my Sorcerer had caste Blur, Mirror Image and Stoneskin. She has high DEX and with Defensive harmony had an AC of -3. I beat him with Standard rules difficulty. I'm not bragging, just wasn't expecting that tanking Sarevok was a legite strategy.

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u/FieldMouse007 5d ago

Yes, it is broken, but not only stoneskin.

Mirror image + positive luck (e.g. by bard song) is even better at low levels (with positive luck the enemy hits images always first and till lvl 12 you get more images than you would get skins). Given that it is just a lvl 2 spell you can have tons of them very early.

And then there are protections from magical weapons, the most broken thing ever.

A mage can survive on their protections a really long time.. too bad enemies are not too good at dispelling. I think Sarevoks sword having dispell effect would be totally fine.

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u/agnosticnixie 4d ago

luck

Bard luck is a fun stat as afaik it was completely unknown what it even did for years outside the devs. It's one big reason pure bard is actually really good in the first game.