Finished Act 2 on October 11th:
^ The gang are well-equipped. SH carries everthing. As usual, MC gets stuck with the Club of Strength. Lae'zel has an elixir of strength so carries barrels and heavy shit where possible. Re-configured her as a classic heavy armour warrior with two-handed sword to make use of her GWM. Still a War Cleric! Astarion gets to be my dual wielder - I really like having one in the party. Finally Gale gets stuff to aid his water/ice/lightning/thunder stuff.
^ Spell preparation for 4 clerics at level 8. I think SH had 25 Wisdom here thanks to the Well of Shar as I call it. I just made sure everyone had Healing Word, Animate Dead, Spirit Guardians (was not too reliant on them) and just a good spread of stuff. Thanks to Arcane Acuity and a high WIS Shadowheart/SH could use stuff like Hold Person to great effect.
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| While Astarion especially but all party members made great use of the Skeleton Squad. |
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| Cloaker couldn't handle the size of my Small Army, so just floated there while I pelted it with arrows. |
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| Essential for getting passed Shar's Trials. Fuck the Faith Leap Trial. |
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| Getting nekked so the Self-Same Trial was cheesed. Had never done it before but it was ridiculously effective. The enemy shadow squad couldn't do anything when we put all our gear back on. |
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| Ran around clearing any leftover combats. The Shadow Mound is somewhat infamous as a run killer but I've usually found it grand? Astarion's Blight helped a lot. |
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| Decided to rebel against Shar even though it had been at best a Chaotic Neutral run. |
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Moonrise was easy enough with area of effect spells and whatnot; here is one of my fave encounters trivialised by Insect Plagues and whatnot.
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^ It won't let me caption anymore. The entire army I summoned to fight Myrkul. Went way smoother than other runs such as the all-Fighter and Barbarian runs.
^ How did they NOT notice us?
^ Two casualties for the final pose; Earth Elemental (scythed 2-3 times) and a Zombie. Wow.
^ re-spec to Light as soon as I left the Shadowlands/dyed hair.
Assessment:
It's going good! I have since cleared Rivington and much of BG itself;
