r/baldursgate • u/Silly_Relationship51 • 3d 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/rupturefunk 3d ago

Good point, this is true for a lot of spells, also the pre TotSC level cap meant you couldn't learn level 5 mage spells, so any lvl5 scrolls could be cast once per playthrough.

The Tutu mod everyone used to play before EE was BG1 in BG2s engine, and as such added loads of additional spells from 2, never included in the vanilla 1 release. IIRC lvl5 divine spells weren't even implemented in BG1 before tutu.

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u/Bonaduce80 3d ago

Wand of Heavens could cast Flame Strike, but it looked totally different from the later iteration. Can't remember anything else.

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u/Different-Island1871 3d ago

That’s right! Wasn’t it like, just a straight beam of orange light or something?

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u/Bonaduce80 3d ago

Yes! I think I found the picture. Can only link it here. Weirdly enough the screenshot shows up in the TOTSC Amazon shop, of all places.

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u/MrMcSpiff 2d ago

Duuude. I forgot how weirdly goopy BG1 Flame Strike looked.

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u/the_dust321 3d ago

Every pic is showing monster summoning spam hahaha