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Feeling the Mazzy love?

Discussion in 'BG2: Shadows of Amn (Classic)' started by Chelsea, Nov 8, 2008.

  1. Chelsea Gems: 8/31
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    [​IMG] Just returning to playing the game after a few years off and looking through the board I see that people STILL fail to get the Mazzy love.

    So why do y'all hate our prim little Brit hobbit?

    I have to say she is a staple for my groups as support archer.

    Fairly early in the game you can give her the Tuigan bow and she is up to 5 attacks a round. FIVE!!! By then you will surely have lots of good arrows like acid and fire. And she is then SUPERB. Especially against Mage-types who when taking constant acid damage fail to get off any spells quite often.

    Add this to me flailing in with the FOA and mage opponents seem strangely 'de-fanged'.

    So will you now all admit that she is the second most vital NPC next to Boo ( ;) ) or will you continue to defy us...and why? :(
     
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    Mazzy is especially good when combined with a monk. I had a female monk, Anomen, Keldorn, Mazzy, and Jan (just for fun) -- great party.
     
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    Are you kidding? Mazzy rocks. Isn't she like one of the only straight up fighters in the game?
     
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    I can agree that she is useful, with true grandmastery in shortbows and with the cute little halfling saving throw bonuses, in addition to her special powers and sword, she is a solid NPC, no doubt! I personally prefer melee-oriented fighters for tanks, and rip enemies to pieces with magic from a distance.
     
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    Screw Minsc, give me Mazzy any day. That girl can murdernate anything.

    I am a determined, stalwart Mazzy fan - as 8people could probably attest. :p
     
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    Klorox Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-mênu! Veteran

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    Archer? Screw that, slap a Halberd in her hands. She's a great melee combatant as well.
     
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    Oh and in higher levels her ability to cast strenght becomes champion's strength, which gives a high Increase in Thaco, yum! :yum:
     
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    Why halberd? With the tuigan bow that gives the extra attack she is easily the most capable archer in the game for a good aligned party, and then there are those handy shortswords, like the one with the extra attack. I teamed her with my halfling cavalier.
     
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    Mazzy makes an appearance in my party in every game I play. She's very versatile. I don't really understand where you're getting the notion that nobody likes Mazzy because it looks like alot of people are in agreement that Mazzy is very useful.
     
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    Mazzy is the Don.
     
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    Very useful no doubt, though seems best equipped at the start as an archer, and an archer CHARNAME is much more powerful...
     
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    I like Mazzy too. Very good NPC. Lots of fun bantering as well.
     
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    Well I recently came back onto the board after a few years off and looked through old threads. In most threads that discussed NPC's Mazzy seemed to get a bad rap. Minsc and Keldorn had a lot of love and Edwin was a fave of the mage-heads. Imoen was another that recieved little or no love.

    I just wanted to redress the balance in a thread (rather than resurrect 2 year old threads) and I am glad that people seem to have come around to Mazzy's delights. For me she is a lethal weapon if given the Tuigan bow. 5 shots a round with acid arrows disrupts even the best spellcasters and obviously she mows down most normal foes.
     
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    This is making me wish I had the time to play the game again. Talk about a great game - so replayable.
     
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    Olivia de Havilland in her prime playing Mazzie, that might have been something to see. ;)
     
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    She's too tall....
     
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    She is good at hand to hand, I don't think she is as good as Keldorn but she works well. I think the Halberd is a good idea for her as she just switches from 2-handed weapon to 2-handed weapon. Giving her a short sword seems like a waste unless you fight with a different weapon in each hand and even then you can give her a better 2nd weapon.
     
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    In my experience she is best kept as a bow specialist with sword and shield 'in case'. As a tank she does not cut it and it ignores her BIG advantage...the GM of bows.
     
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    Just try it and you'll see.

    She may be the most capable archer NPC, but she's even better in melee.
     
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    Klorox,
    yes, grandmastery and all that. Who needs those 1d4 extra damage? You?
     
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