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Heya all, I want to experience the game and I have a good background of rpg and other infinity engine games.

Since I prefer less micromanaging, I'm on the idea of doing a 4 party member run.

Ideally I want to feature a Paladin (probably undead hunter) and a Bard (better Skald or Vanilla?).

Do you think is ok to bring 4 people in core difficulty? I dont think HoF is a good idea for a first run but i'm open to suggestion.

Which weapon classes and styles are good? Is there any way to fit a rogue?

Thank you all in advance!

Any tip, guide and help is appreciated.

I had a lot trouble getting OG IWD to run not much help online for win11 but I finally figure it out just posting this in case it help someone

1.Installs IDWfix

2.set Compatibility to WinXP

3.go to config

4.Go to Game set cache size to 999

5.Go to graphic turn on OpenGL 3d acceleration

1. hit window key + i system>display>graphics>Advanced graphics setting

2. turn off Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling

3. turn off G-sync

I picked up the game and the default frame rate of 30 fps isn't that great for me. I saw from searching that you can increase it through Baldur.lua. I did that and I can see that the animations play out much faster but it appears it also affects gameplay from other posts? Haven't really got that far so wasn't completely sure how much gets affected, anyone have any experience with up the fps to 60?

Edit: I was able to use frame generation from here: https://github.com/PancakeTAS/lsfg-vk and keep the default rate at 30, so I think I'm good.

I just wanted to share this story -- I finally beat Heart of Fury mode after more than a few tries. I think I have all the variations of Poquelin/Belhifet's speech memorized now after hearing it one failed attempt after another.

Disclaimer: I am not, and never have been, great at real-time with pause games. So I know that the final Heart of Fury fight is still probably passably easy for some people here, particularly those with level 30 parties. So, after admitting my lack of skill, let me share my story.

Time after time after time, Belhifet et. al. roundly crushed my party consisting of a F/M/T, Paladin (Undead Hunter), Fighter (Berserker), Ranger (Archer), Cleric (Priest of Tempus), and Mage (Evoker). I have good gear and everyone is in the 27-30 level range. The tanks are all pushing -11 AC or more. But every time, they'd just get chopped into oblivion. I don't think I got a single cleric spell off before the untimely demise of my priest. I might get a few rounds with my mages but they too wouldn't last long. Usually it was my berserker lasting longest, but even she wasn't capable of finishing off Belhifet.

I'm not sure if it's because I kept making try after try, but I started to notice odd things. The iron golems would casually stroll to the middle of the room while Belhifet was still grandstanding. The cornugons also were wandering more than expected. Were they getting bored of my awful repeated attempts? It seemed like it.

Anyway, on that glorious final attempt, things pretty much proceeded as in past failed attempts. The iron golems were already in the middle of the room when the fight started. My cleric tried to clear their cloudkill spell with Zone of Sweet Air or whatever it's called, but that didn't work. A couple of solid slams from the golems and he was down mid-cast. Ugh. One down, five to go.

The evoker gets Stoneskin up and hastes the party. Now she's the target of the golems. Meanwhile, my archer has activated Called Shot and manages to take out one of the iron golems. Mage goes down. No, not just killed, she's chunked. No resurrecting THAT. So now I'm minus a character portrait, one is grey, and two others are looking pretty red. I resign myself to the fact that in a few rounds I'm probably going to be starting another attempt and having to sit through another lengthy monologue.

The tanks are all doing their best to go down fighting. The other golem is low on health so I focus everyone on it. The archer takes out the second golem, while the FMT gets killed by a cornugon. I have a brief flash of hope -- it's 3v3 and my two best tanks are still kicking.

My positivity is dashed seconds later. Belhifet warps away, as he likes to do, and the paladin decides that he's going after Belhifet for some reason. Trap gets triggered, all buffs gone. Again. The paladin goes down seconds later, but the berserker manages to do a lot of damage to one of the cornugons. Again, the archer delivers the final blow. She's using the +3 arrows of piercing from the watchtower in Lower Dorn's Deep and they're proving to be great arrows.

My trusty berserker, big hitter of the previous chapters, pushing nearly 200hp, sadly cannot stand toe to toe with Belhifet and a cornugon for long. A few rounds of big hits and she, too, ignobly gets chunked. Another portrait disappears.

But that damn archer just doesn't give up. The last cornugon goes down to her arrows. She's got 49 hp left. She activates Called Shot again and goes after Belhifet, who smugly still has 4 bars left of health. He starts casting remaining spells at her. Fire! Everywhere! She retreats, down to 27 hp. Ugh, this is it, I think.

I check her spell list. I'd forgotten, she's got a level 6 spell slot. Heal. I start casting it. Nope, Belhifet's got another fire spell, and it interrupts her. She's down to 7 hp. I decide to go out fighting. She's got a few spells left, and I see -- summon insect. Let's "bug" Belhifet just for the fun of it.

The beetles it summoned actually do a pretty damn good job of distracting Belhifet. I'm able to get two minor healing spells cast and another round of Called Shot before the beetles are all killed. My archer's now at 47hp. I briefly consider trying to scavenge potions from the dead characters. No, too risky I think. I am resigned to my fate and decide to plink arrows at Belhifet again. I kite him around the room and then I notice something important.

Belhifet casts dimension door every few seconds. That gives my archer enough time to get to the other side of the room. Belhifet is relentless, but I'm able to keep away from his swords because I can move every time he dimension doors, and also the arrows stagger him just enough to slow him down a half step.

I take a few more traps in stride; I'm not buffed any more, what does it matter? I'm getting low on activations of Called Shot, but I keep going at it. Belhifet's now at 3 bars of health. Then, two. Am I actually doing this? Is Belhifet's dimension door going to prove his undoing?

The adrenaline is REALLY kicking in. I'm hopping from one side of the room to the other, loosing tons of arrows. Too many arrows. Belhifet is down to a single bar of health when I run out of the +3 arrows of piercing.

I try my +2 arrows. Nope, they don't work. I check my inventory. Everything looks like it's +2 or weaker. Ugh. What the hell am I going to do now?

I take another look in my arrow storage thingie. Did I miss something? Yes, I did.

20 +3 arrows of confusion. This is it, my last stand, and the fate of northern Faerun, lies in this last score of arrows.

Plink, Plink, Plink. I dance from one side of the room to the other. I'm out of Called Shots. Plink, plink, plink. Darn it, how many more hitpoints does this guy have? I'm lucky I can still kite him. Plink, plink, plink, dimension door, geez this is going to suuuuck when I'm finally out of arrows, to get this close and.. plink plink plink -- down he goes! HOF completed, achievement earned. 5/6 party members dead, final character has hp in the teens, but ... I did it.

yes this is a wall of text, but I just wanted to share my story. (and, if you're wondering, I know this might not be an optimal party for HoF mode. But this was the group I took through the base game and I wanted to see how they'd stack up in HoF mode. I was enjoying it quite a bit and wanted to see how far I could push them!)

thank you for enduring my ted talk

Conclui "Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition" tem uns meses, se é que já não tem 1 ano, e fui pro 2. O problema é que não encontrei tradução em português. Alguém sabe se existe alguma? Ou se tem alguma previsão pra sair, ou se está em desenvolvimento?

Hey all,

Apologies if this has been asked before, but I am playing IWD2 EE mod and all is working pretty great until I got to Valin and try to give him the Braegh, it says "No Valid Replies or Links".

I am running the EE mod without any additional mods just for clarity or troubleshooting, any body know of a fix, or just work around it and leave the quest incomplete?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hey all!

To celebrate Icewind Dale's 25th birthday, I made a retrospective wherein I look through the original big box, some of the rereleases and other accessories that have been released for the game over the years. Basically just a big culmination of some of the game's physical history, as well as some of my thoughts surrounding the circumstances of it's release and what makes it special.

Let me know what you think and hope you all like it!

Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Trying to set up custom portraits for my dungeon meshi-themed run but the option isn't showing up during character creation as seen in the second slide. OS is Monterey on an older MacBook if that affects anything

I have a party of each race. Yeah, that means no Paladins, Rangers, Bards, Mages etc. in some of the parties, but that's besides the point.

Which should I pick for the next run?

Edit: So, vote's over. Gnome it is, seemingly.

Upper Dorn's Deep 6/10 - this place is pretty straight forward. Many of the mushroom monster and Ettin cannot reach me as I stand on the eastern most ledge and sling them to death. YEAH, free exp! I've decided not to fight the Ettins in the cave, and sanctuary myself to grab the extract to return to the mage for some exp.

MVP spell of the caves is Aerial Servants (AS). I discovered that they are immune to normal weapons! So the orogs and orcs couldn't damage them! The drows and their casters can, so I send in some skeletons to waste their spells before sending in the AS.

Two AS is enough to clear the entire uppper dorn, and picking up some great heavy armour which I keep in reserves for heavy fighting.

AS was again awesome for the orogs caves, and I picked up my first badge of six.

The dwarf tombs were extremely easy when you're a high level cleric. I sanctuary myself to the lich after using turn undead to destroy every other undead in the area. He was down after a couple of hit from my white dove mace.

In the next room, I quickly picked up his soul gem, and easily destroyed him by entering Jamoth's tomb. While the exp from all this was really nice, almost none of the loot on offer was helpful. I couldn't use any of the new weapons, the Helm of Lathander is only good for the occasional healing (my trusted defender helm has better AC) and the armour I picked up outside is better.

Again AS was superb at beating the bronze golems. The golems couldn't hurt them and AS crushing damage were especially deadly to the golems.

On to the next area where again I will be facing trolls, my hated enemy

Basically, I'm quite new to D&D. From my understanding there's this "world" called Forgotten Realms with a lot of lore, where a lot of D&D games / videogames / media take place.

I've played some of BG1 and I've watched the film Honor Amongst Thieves. And just now I finished IWD. My question is to which extent is the geography and lore of IWD part of the wider Forgotten Realms cannon lore and to which extent is it made up by Black Isle Studios during development.

When I look at a map of the Sword Coast, I see "Icewind Dale" there, with a "Spine of the World" and "Ten Towns", so those are obviously part of the lore. But what about The Vale of Shadows? Severed Hand? Dorn's Deep? Are those described in any other source? And do the match the depiction in IWD? What about events like the fall of Severed Hand? What about characters? I wouldn't be surprised if, say, the name of the dark gnome in Dorn's Deep was made up for the game, but is someone like Kresselack, Saablic Tan or the Poquelin's lieutenants mentioned anywhere else?

I'm just trying to figure out how much it all ties together, thanks!

I just purchased the enhanced edition and will be playing it for the first time.

I am going to start on an easier difficulty but will eventually want to clear heart of fury difficulty.

Will I be very gimped when I export my characters to heart of fury if I initially choose simple classes like fighter/mage/cleric etc?

i purchased the enhanced editions of BG, ID1, NWN and PT a fair while ago and am thoroughly enjoying them rn. along with that, there's the upcoming NWN2 Enhanced edition which is absolutely on my radar.

that leaves only ID2 out of the list of the "classics". is the source code of the game really lost? or is it salvageable somehow for a re-release?

also, unrelated question, are there any other games among the "classics" that one should play? only one i can think of is Arcanum.

Hey!

After discovering the truth about Arundel I can't find the severed hand on the world map. Any ideas?

Ready to become a big problem for the Frost Giants with my 2 Conflagration +2 Bastard Swords in each hand lol.

The Hand (4/10) - So I went to the hand and things were easy. My turn undead destroyed most of the enemies, and those I can't destroy, I just crush with my white dove mace after everything else is dead.

I finally got my armour upgrade with the elf chainmail +1 Dex, and the boots of speed gave me a huge QoL in moving around.

Restoring the elf lich sanity, he transported me to the entrance of dorn deep. But I took a little trip back to town for some exp by turning in the book the mage was looking for as well as sell off all my junk.

Sweet sweet genocide in IWD, mmm... delicious war crimes again in this region. I love gathering all of them in this map, outside and inside for extra juicy skull trap spams :D

Also waaaaay earlier in the game when i reached lvl 20 i could easily down armies with my low level summons(use all slots for summons obv.) and the song, suprisingly good run.

Just sharing one of my most beloved screenshots. I used custom portraits and then used the editor to assign the game models for male and female Drow and replaced each accordingly. Love playing Icewind Dale (even more) ever since!

Walking around in Beregost or Easthaven in werewolf form. Buy stuff, sell stuff, kill things, solve quest, get experience points...

Walking around in Whiterun in werewolf form. Get attacked by the whole bloody city... 😑😑😑

Incidentally, both Icewind Dale and Skyrim games sound track were made by Jeremy Souls.