Baldur gate enhanced edition backstabbing

October in Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition. I put all my skill points into traps, hide in shadows and moving silently, and really enjoyed backstabbing with my point strength. Going into the SoA, I am thinking about specializing in something new, but I have no idea what weapons are going to be there. Also, I've no idea which weapons can and can't be used for backstabbing.

I just don't see how a quarterstaff fits into this role. Elendar Member Posts: October There is nothing wrong with short swords, really.. I would go with two-weapon style as you level up and get more points instead, though. Nothing can beat dual wielding damage-wise. You lose out on the extra crit chance from single weapon style, but unless you're going to use an invisibility potion or ring and try to backstab again in the fight, you'll do much better with dual wielding.

You could also backstab with a single weapon, then toss another weapon onto your offhand for the remainder of the fight if you don't mind taking the time and effort to do that.

There is a good short sword, Kundane, that is great for the off-hand, which adds an extra attack. Longswords and scimitars are also good options. Longswords are plentiful in the game and there is a scimitar called Belm that gives an extra attack like Kundane. And of course if you know where to find a certain katana called Celestial Fury that is certainly an option too. Any weapon that can be used by a singleclass thief can be used for backstabbing. It's a shame the interface doesn't highlight those weapons for you during character generation, because it's fairly easy to come up with an axe or bastard sword build only to realize several hours into the game that backstabbing isn't working.

The quickest way to see which weapons work with backstabbing is to start the character generation process for a singleclass thief, get to the screen where you choose your weapon proficiencies, and then see which ones you can pick. If you can put a star in it as a singleclass thief, you can backstab with it. Great advices, guys. Is there any point in choosing daggers at all?

Daggers can be a good choice in BG2 because the same proficiency covers throwing daggers as well as melee weapons and there are some really good magical and poisoned throwing daggers in BG2. So choosing Daggers gives you a double whammy as it were. You can generate a tremendous amount of force very quickly with minimal effort. It works as a weapon because of physics leverage and what not, bringing one side back from a strike pushing the other end forward, all that jazz.

Now consider the description of the staff spear. A magical staff that when a button is pressed magically extends a spear blade out of the end. That's pretty much the dream sneak attack weapon for like so many reasons. Thrust towards any armor gap, opponent thinks they are safe, suddenly spear blade in said gap.

Tho kind of weird that the staff spear is so much better than the majority of spears in the game, but whatever. That all said, kind of agree that backstabbing should be retooled somehow. Far too many things late game are immune to it, which is a bummer as one running around hasted restealthing around corners or popping pots of invisibility and taking out groups doing hit and runs is really really fun.

Probably the most fun way I ever played through Icewind Dale back in the day can be done with a single party member. Last edited by Grigsey ; 5 Mar, am. The idea is that, barring cheese, you can only hit the enemy once before he notices you, which is why you want to hit him with the biggest weapon you have instead of a smaller weapon that allows you to make 10 attacks per round.

You are describing the effect of single weapon fighting style - double crit range. Also much higher chance to hit compared to two weapon fighting.

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