Suggest me a powergaming party for normal + HoF please...

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Should I keep the 2 new ones on a low level then?
How long and at which level exactly?

Hmmm....
Perhaps I wont take the second cleric and only take the second sorcerer...
Will he become good in melee later?

Do items which add an attack bonus stack?

 

No, keeping characters at low level despite having the exp to level up would be cheating. I have a paragraph about different engine loopholes and this specific one would be "muling".

The only characters in my guide that are NOT strong in melee are the decoys. Even the sorcerers manage to carry a mean punch whenever needed. However, there's hardly ever a reason to melee anything with anything but your tanks and summons - ranged attacks and spells are just as good if not better in a vast majority of situations during the game, especially once you consider the fact that anyone but the tanks are just as good as dead if they stick their necks ahead of the tanks in HOF mode.

Edit: Yes, all forms of attack bonus from items stack, contrary to other types of stat bonus in this game.

 

I do occasionally have my spell casters use reach weapons to assist in melee...reaching around the backs of the tanks or summons.

I also might let a sorcerer approach a helpless enemy, such as an archer that was hit with "hold person" and wail away on them with their melee weapon.
This is only if there are no active enemies nearby. I'll do this while the tanks are in melee with enemies hit with disablers, I let the sorcerer or other weakling take out some of the easy targets in melee before the spells wear off.

Then again, I often use blind on archers and let the sorcerer take pot shots with his missile weapon, so maybe that wasn't such a good example.

 

I sometimes have spear users behind 2h axes/swords users behind 1h weapon users

 

Do you have a mod that fixes reach weapons? I sometimes have trouble packing the party members tight enough to use spears at all, and I haven't noticed much difference between various reach weapons.

Note that I'm talking IWD2, not P&P where this is a viable tactic.

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