Weapon points

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Are ranged weapons affected by points in "two handed weapon" etc? If so, is a crossbow or a sling 2 handed or one handed?

Thank you

 

A sling is one handed.
Jaheira has the fortress shield equiped when releasing her terrorizing rain of +2 stones while wearing the belt of 19 strengh.

I can't speak for crossbows since I never use them, but I would guess two handed.

And the two handed weapon bonus is for melee weapons only. But you do get the +AC bonus with the shield whether you have a melee weapon or sling. I least I think you do. Jaheira normally uses her spear in melee so I'll have to check that out.

 

By the way, does anyone know the proficiency progression (such as per how many levels do chars gain a proficiency point)?

 

Once every three levels.

 

fighters 1/3 levels (-> 1, 3, 6, 9 etc)
priests 1/4 levels (-> 1, 4, 8, 12 etc)
thiefs 1/4 levels (or is it 1/5 levels?)
mages 1/6 levels (-> 1, 6, 12, 18)

 

For Fighters.

I think it's every four levels for thieves, five levels for clerics, and six levels for mages.

I have no idea for Druids/Bards, but I'd guess 5/4.

 

Warriors - starts with 4, then 1 every 3 levels
Priests (Clerics and Druids) and Rogues (Thieves and Bards) - starts with 2, then 1 every 4 levels
Mages - starts with 1, then 1 every 6 levels

From here.

 

I have been wondering about ranged weapons and 2 handed or 1 handed proficiency points too. Can anyone confirm Aces reply?

I guess you can check by putting two points in the fighting style, rolling a 19 and seeing whether or not your bow/crossbow/sling scored a critical hit.

 

Ranged weapons ain't affected by any style, or at least it doesn't show up in your charactor screen

Edit : sling + shield is affected by the sword and shield style, but sling along isn't affected by single weapon style

 

Are your sure about that for thief?
Is it different than BG1?

I thought Imoen and Nalia were being robbed a weapon proficency because they should have 3 (level 4 up) for thieves and 2 for mages (Level 6 up). Which means they should have 5, but they both start with 4. I went to BG1 and created a pure thief, leveled him up with gate keeper one level at a time and got a weapon proficency at level 4 and 8.



On clerics (my bad):

I checked them too and it was at level 4 they get their 3rd point. My level 8 cleric finished with 3 points and I assumed it was because they get them every 5 levels, but it's because pure clerics are allowed only 3 points in BG1.

 

Like Minh So said, weapon styles have no bearing on the damage done by ranged weapons.

Weapon proficiencies are as follows:
Fighters, Rangers, Paladins, Barbarians get 4 at L1 and 1 every 3rd level.
Thieves, Clerics, Druids, Monks and Bards get 2 at L1 and 1 every 4th level.
Sorcerers and Mages get 1 at L1 and 1 every 6th level.

 

That would make more sense as when you start a fighter you have 6 points to use at level 7, or is it 6 otherwise if it was just every 3 levels you'd only have 2 to start with...

 

If I got this right, anyone using a ranged weapon needn't put a point into one or two handed unless using a sling + shield?

 

Not quite, even if you are using a sling and shield you don't get benefits from points in one or two handed styles - just sword and shield style which is virtually worthless anyway so I wouldn't bother with any of them for a ranged weapon specialist.

 

Whoops, sorry, I only really play with warrior classes, I didn't notice anything different about other classes.