Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
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I haven’t decided on a final party yet. In BG1 at one point I noticed I had an all female party, except for one guy - so I gave that guy a certain belt…. I was hoping to get an all female party going again, but I don’t know if it’ll be feasible.
Right now I have my sorcerer, Minsc, Aerie, Jaheira, Nalia, and I just replaced Valygar by Mazzy.
You can for sure do an all female party, Mazzy, Nalia, Jaheira, Viconia, Aerie are all available - it'll be somewhat challenging though. You'd need to micromanage reputation to keep it neutral so neither Viconia nor the good characters leave (unless you modded that out), you also probably need to boost thief skills with potions and/or items regularly. Viconia also has some downsides to keep in mind, like the low Con, single classed Clerics being pretty mediocre and not getting Holy Smite due to alignment. She does have base 50% spell resistance though so there's that, and can get to 100% with the right gear. There is also Neera and Hexxat, but I don't enjoy the EE companions much.
I will say for a first playthrough I tend to recommend people bring Yoshimo, as he has some ties into the main quest and also various sidequests around Athkatla. Not a female though.
Viconia is the best party member in BG2, especially if you also recruit... a paladin. I may be biased and my phone SMS notification back when those were a thing was, "trust is for the foolish..."
Mechanically Anomen with his grandmastery capability outshines Viconia imo, whether you go the Flail of Ages classic on him or even Slings and play him back row.
As a character however then yes, Viconia is probably my favourite character in the game and probably the most well written of the bunch.
I am also very fond of Haer'dalis though.