New Game Smell- Icewind Dale II

[Felch]

I mob through there with a pretty fun party.
Fighter
Cleric
Paladin
Fighter/Cleric
Sorcerer
Bard

Is there any reason to use a wizard? Normally in PnP they have the Scribe Scroll feat for free, along with some other item creation and metamagic dealies. I don't play PnP, but I'd figure abilities like that would go a long way to make the wiz as useful in a party as a sorc. Problem in a game like this is that a wiz is just a weaker varient that uses intelligence instead of charisma. Oh well...

[Dis]

I have a drow wizard/rogue. Their abilities go very well together. 20 int for lots of skill points. And 20 dext for lots of rogue skill.

so I have one of those in addition to a sorcerer. And I have 2 clerics well one is a paladin/cleric.

[monolith94]

I'm still stuck on "Pools Of Radiance"

[Traianvs]

Well, in my games, battles are often over very quickly.. either my char dies, or the enemy does within a few moments

I mean, casting a few summoning spells costs a lot of time, unless yo uuse a sequencer, but you don't have endless amounts of those...

Also I tend not to sleep very often, In BG2 I wos like in suldanesselar in what 2 weeks or so? and I do all the sidequests I can.. therefore wizards are not much use to me.. you could do perfectly without a wizard, but hardly without a healer (i just use all my cleric slots for heal spells )

of course things get nasty when enemy wizards cast protective spells so your kickass fighters can't hurt the mages...

[Dis]

no mages

I love them. I don't use all their spells though. I use them to bring down protetions so my fighter types can do some smashing. And I use them for direct offensive power. I also do use summons on difficult battles. I don't bother summoning on easy battles.