Wrong class listings??

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Did anyone notice the weird class listings some NPCs have?
For instance Imoen and Nalia.
AFAIK, if you dual from a thief to mage, your class is listed as Thief/Mage.
(For example Anomen follows that rule, he's dualed from a fighter to a cleric and he's listed as Fighter/Cleric).
So WTF is up with Imoen and Nalia then?
They're both listed as Mage/Thieves while it should be exactly the other way around??
I didn't even notice this until I leveled Nalia for the second time or so and I never got to improve her thieving skills. I just looked at the class where it's written Mage/Thief and said ok, so she's gonna go up as a thief when I took her into my party.

But obviously I was wrong. Does anyone have any insight on this?

 

AFAIK, it means As Far As I Know

 

Ok, three replies and none have anything to do with what I asked... Grrr...
Anyone???

Sylvus, I left you the details on ICQ.
Actually, I'm in Chapter 3 now doing everything in Athkatla. Already did most of the quests and am just about to plunge underground to the sewers. All the quests have brought me quite a nice amount of XP, gold and weapons/items.

The vampires are bloody annoying though... I didn't even go the the graveyard yet and I fear to walk the streets at night because those bloody vamps keep popping up and attacking me. And I can't bloody hit them with anything else but slings, since all my other weapons are only +1. Damn. I think I'll need to go shopping soon.

Yogurt, AFAIK = As far as I know.

[This message has been edited by Taluntain (edited November 26, 2000).]

 

Taluntain - It seems like an arbitrary choice on the developer's part... If you look in the manual under Multi-Classed Characters, they only list Mage/Thief not Thief/Mage, so I would say they only included the listed combinations. I seem to recall somewhere (maybe IWD) that a dualled character would read: First Class Dual Second Class; but that could be a hallucination on my part...

Oh, and for Vampires, might I suggest your first purchase be Azuredge from Bernard in the Copper Coronet...

[This message has been edited by Blackthorne TA (edited November 26, 2000).]

 

Sure, but who'd wield it? I've had my eye on it but then noticed that the char has to be evil or neutral to use it. None in my party. (That is, if I remember right. Could be another good weapon in the CC.)
My main char is a mage, obviously.

Maybe for multiclasses chars, but these aren't multi I'm talking about. They're dual class.
And I obviously got to the bottom of this. The game is simply wrong. (However impossible that may seem).

First, read what I just wrote about Anomen above.
Second, look in the manual at the description of the NPCs.
Check Nalia and Imoen. GASP!
They're both listed as Thief/Mage!!!
The same problem is with Jan too. In the game he's listed as Illusionist/Thief, while he's actually Thief/Illusionist.

Well, here we go then. A serious error to report to Bioware? Not that it's that important, I mean, it doesn't make any difference when you think about it, but it's very misleading when you first recruit a new NPC.

[This message has been edited by Taluntain (edited November 27, 2000).]

 

Yeah, you're right about the classes being right in the manual and not in the game... I'm still guessing that for dual-class and multi-class characters they use the combos listed under the section I described above... All four of the NPC's you described follow that list... <shrug> I'd suggest trying to deduce the reality by looking at the individual's experience; the origianl class would've stopped gaining experience...

And, about Azuredge, you read that wrong... It's NOT useable by evil/neutral characters, you must be of a good alignment (my Neutral Good Archer vanquished quite a few Vampires with it )

[This message has been edited by Blackthorne TA (edited November 27, 2000).]