The xp cap

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can someboedy please work on how to remove the xp cap?
this is for Modjahed you said youll release the chapter 4 update so why dont you? (i know this is irrelevant but please dont delete this)

[ October 04, 2002, 17:51: Message edited by: karmelo ]

 

Sorry for the delay, I had to make a BIG update of the walkthrough, it is up already.

As for the XP cap - it is high enough IMHO.

 

After level 30 what is next? Do you become the avatar of a God? Wait, you'll have already kicked Xvim's butt and that was an avatar of a god...

Besides, what kind of creatures would you have to fight to gain xp above level 30? At levels 15 and 16 I was getting no xp for killing some creatures like spiders and trolls. It was nice to get up to level 40 in IWD1 but even in HoF mode the game was no longer much of a challenge.

 

Well....I'm interested in a level cap remover so I can play a solo game with a f/m/t. With the cap in place I'm under the impression that I can only get as high as 10/10/10. I am considering playing with a M/T or a Sorcer/Theif, but I'm not sure how a 15/15 character will do in HOF, and with the sorcer/theif my hp and THACO (oops...sorry 3ed..how about attack bonuses) will be horribly low.

 

llandon i couldnt agree more thats also the reason i want the xp cap removed so i can play my multi classes and reach high levels and as for how to reach the high levels grey ghost i agree with you too but that is a whole different case . the xp cap must be removed!

 

i understand you saying that there will be a problem with getting the xp after the highest levels but there at least should be an option to be able to obtain levels higher than 30

 

Why? The basic game is scaled for characters to end up between 15 and 20, depending on party size.

Are you just failing to grasp that the level effects stack in 3e? Its not like 2e, where you got the best mod from each of your classes. They are cumulative now. A F10/R10/W10 would fight the same as a 22nd level fighter, have the Will save of 22nd lvl Wizard, the Reflex save of 22nd lvl Rogue, and the Fortitude save of a 22nd lvl fighter. HP would be similar to a 20+ lvl fighter, too. And you would have an extra 7 stat points over what you start with.

You would have 11 base feats, 1 rogue bonus feat, 6 fighter bonus feats, and 2 wizard bonus feats. That's 20 total feats!

The only area you would be somewhat hurting in is spellcasting power. You would only cast as a 10th lvl wizard (ie max 5th lvl spells and 10th lvl for penetration and damage totals). But you could afford all the enhancing feats to partially compensate.

How much better do you need to be?

 

Actually, I never thought about the stacking that goes along with 3e multi-classing. Thanks for the info! Makes me feel better!

Blackthorne, I'm a 6th level rogue/7th level sorcerer right now with a effective character level of 15 (drow). I'm finding that most of the monsters I kill give no exp. at all, and It's starting to scare me a little.

[ October 07, 2002, 06:13: Message edited by: Llandon ]

 

There is a stretch in the game where that happens to just about everyone. You are threatened by large numbers of only moderately tough critters, which results in little or no experience gained because xp is evaluated on a critter by critter basis. DMs are expected to fudge these numbers as appropriate for their encounter design, but the game does not do so. As a result, the IE engine treats killing a 10 orc mob the same as killing one orc ten times. That can easily result in inequities in the xp distribution.

Your solo character will end up noticably higher level than other characters, but it will be due as much to the fixed nature of Quest xp (you get all of it) as it will be from killing stuff.

 

Well, since it's rather a "level cap" instead of "XP cap", and judging from that in IWD2 each level up will have many effects instead some extra HP or spells, I think it's would be very hard to remove the cap...

 

I solo'd the game with an aasimar sorceress... well, I'm actually trying to finish the ending battle right now, which is proving quite the challenge (what's that blue shield **** around madae?)... I haven't gotten exp from a monster since like level 10, and I'm 23(24) now Something like 320k exp total, 110k from mobs.

-V

 

If gaining xp can be a problem, then download from Sorcerer's Place the Weimer Mod called Ease of Use and install just the modified MonCrate file that will still award a modest amount of xp for killing a goblin at level 30. Hope this helps.

Cheers.