Is a Cleric/Mage a viable main character in Baldur's Gate...

Is a Cleric/Mage a viable main character in Baldur's Gate? What race should it be and what weapon proficiencies should it have?

If this isn't a good choice, what's the best multiclass?

Just start with a fighter or something

>2017
>Still playing Cuck's Gate
lmao

What did he mean by this?

The uninstall wizard.

Cleric/Mage is eventually one of the most powerful classes in the game but it's got a very slow start.

In BG1 you start at level 1 and mages don't have much health. It's not hard to be killed outright by an attack if you are unlucky. I don't recommend taking Mage for that reason.

Commit suicide nerds.

Should this game be played on core rules or normal?

Core rules. It's not particularly hard.

Mage. Use sleep spell OP early

Archer is the only viable thing in BG1. Low lvl D&D is a penis

LOL

what are core rules? never played this game but would

P&P

That's why BG1 has an abundance of expendable meat shield npcs.

The game is pretty easy if you know what you are doing so anything works. I wouldn't recommend multiclassing first time though because its better to pick a class and stick to it early on to understand its strengths

I have a hard on for battle mages, how do I play wizard/fighter multiclass?

>beamdog announced a new patch, a very much needed after the disasters that brought the 2.0 patch, after 1.5 years
>doesnt fix shit
can't say I'm surprised

Baldur's Gate poisoned the whole genre and it wasn't long before shit like dialogue wheels and romance sub-plots started to be considered as 'rpg elements'.
It undermines RPGs as a whole. Consider how linear it is compared to a true RPG like Ultima IV or V. There is no challenge or enjoyment in following a linear plot thread and levelling up at almost predetermined points along the way. You might as well be playing pac-man: going down straight corridors, being fed the exact prescribed amount of experience, and going to the next level in time for the next set of corridors.
How can anyone say that Baldur's Gate is among the best Role-playing games? You are stuck with a set list of pre-determined, pre-written party members in a pre-written plot having a pre-arranged 'experience'. It's hideous compared to what RPGs could have and should have been had it not come along and had filth like you not suckled at its teat for twenty fucking years intil your so spoiled by its milk that you can't get nourishment from anything else.
If I met you irl I would hit you with a bat, i swear. OP, you are a complete shithead and a fucking cancer on this race for liking Baldur's Gate. You, YOU, activity contribute to the ruin of a beautiful genre, please fuck off.

you won't like them
in the D&D version the game is based on you can't wear heavy armor and shit spells which sucks

shut the fuck up

I don't even have a consensus on this game, but that was pretty good.

Original BG:
don't

BGtutu/EE:
To achieve real ultimate power, Kensai/Mage or Berserker/Mage and multi at level 9 or 12

Specialize in Katanas for extra cheese

i bought it on steam and tried playing it on the hardest difficulty
its fucking brutal dude. each battle is like a game of starcraft

get a load of this faggot, you realize this came out in like 1997 and the genre was pretty much dead?

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That little joke was used on this very site before you were born.

Do yourself a favor and stay the fuck off BGT/TuTu/EE if it's your first time playing this classic.

I'm still playing the first game but does it get any better once you reach Baldur's Gate?

So far its about stupid mines and why the weapons turned to crap so he can sell working ones at a high price...