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Leveling Up Imoen's Thieving Skills

Discussion in 'Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition' started by Sorvo, Jul 13, 2016.

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    Ready to go to level 4. Currently have 25 OL, 50 FT, 50 PP, 55 MS, 55 HiS, DI 0, ST 5. This is with the Boots of stealth and Shadow Armor and I've been using my Paladin with 18/00 Str to open locks. I'm wondering if it's worth it to throw in some Set Traps or Detect Illusion?
     
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    Only if you play with difficulty mods. You don't get a lot of opportunity to lay traps in BG since most difficult battles start with your party surrounded by/standing in front of the enemy party. Enemies also tend to have low HP so brute force approach works. Drop a few fireballs/sic a few hasted warriors on enemies abusing illusions and they don't last long.

    Add to that the fact that you can't export your customized Imoen (bummer) and you might as well focus on the basic stuff (Lockpicking/Find Traps for extra XP, MS/HiS for scouting). If you plan on bringing along another thief though (Coran, Safana, dual-classed Shar Teel) then sure. Go nuts.
     
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    OH CRAP! I forgot about XP for locks and traps, DUH! :bang::wail::thanks:
     
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    IIRC itr's only like 20 xp per unlock/disarm anyway, so i doubt you're missing out on a ton of exp, though at the early levels it still counts for something i guess.
     
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    Does the XP go up with the level of lockpicking like in BGII?
     
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    Don't quote me on this, but i don't think it does. from what i remember, there is some variance in xp , but it's all <100 total.
    It's been a while since i played a thief through bg1 though, so that mightr have been changed in one of the later patches.
     
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    So far I noticed lock pick is 10 and disarm is 20
     
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    Yeah, that sounds about right - i don;t recall the XP reward going up for higher skill requirement traps/locks either, so as i said in my earlier post - you're not going to miss out of a ton of xp if you don't unlock/disarm everything
     
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    I was a little lit when I read that, almost restarted my game!
     
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