Minstrel BG1 spec

[old.Ozwin]

Anyone got a proven succesful spec for bg1 for a minstrel? Not really sure how high to take stealth or instruments.
Any help gratefully recived. Thank you

 

[old.Flamin]

24instrument 12thurst 10stealth or lower stealth and higher thrust.

 

[Murcalumis]

Not that I know much about Minstrels but I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't go for high stealth at this stage. The battlegrounds are pretty much crawling with assassins which have see hidden. This means they'll pretty much spot you with no problem no matter how high your stealth. So I'd go for max instruments and a higher weapon skill (maybe with a bit of stealth, not sure.)

But, as I said, don't take my word for it; I don't know much about Minstrels. Just wait till that Spammer Gombur sees this, he'll give you some advice! <grins>

 

[SFXman]

The battlegrounds are pretty much crawling with assassins which have see hidden.

You need to be RR1L8 as far as I know to get your hands on see hidden, and this is not even in the game yet but will be as soon as we get 1.50. I remember that see hidden takes 8 points and so you need the RR1L8 and I am sure you can't get RR1L8 in Thidranki... only in Caledonia.

 

[Murcalumis]

Erm, then I meant detect hidden.. the assassin skill that you get at 16 stealth. I think that allows assassins to see through non-assassin stealth (archers, minstrels) pretty easy and that was what the whole out-cry was about, because scouts were uncovered so easy? (I'm not at all sure about this, but what's new? <grins>)

 

[Danya]

No see hidden is the one the outcry is about, detect hidden isn't a problem, all it does is lengthen detect range, you still have the level modifers and such on spotting. See hidden is the assassin sees all thing, and as sfx says, you need RR1L8 to get it.

 

[Murcalumis]

Ah, OK. I'm wrong as ever! Ignore everything I said! <grins>

 

[Amanita]

Menolly's spec of (at lvl 24) 24 instruments, 16 thrust and 1 stealth seems to work nicely Much fun

 

[kr0n]

Originally posted by Dannyn
No see hidden is the one the outcry is about, detect hidden isn't a problem, all it does is lengthen detect range, you still have the level modifers and such on spotting. See hidden is the assassin sees all thing, and as sfx says, you need RR1L8 to get it.

It doubles the bubble basically.
Lets say L24 archer with 24 stealth and L24 assassin with 24 stealth meet, assassin sees the archer 2x that far away when the archer sees the assassin. (basically you see the assassin when he stands infront of ya but anyways )

 

[case-rigantis]

my minstrel was something like 24 inst, 15thrust, 11 stealth
and boy did i regret spending those points in stealth(can`t remeber exactly i`m afraid so these are probably off)

just go for 24 instruments and high as possible thrust.....you can compete with pure stealthers so why bother trying?
if it`s a stealther it`ll see you anyway if it`s not a stealther you`ll run it down and kill it.

just run about like a mad thing Mezzing and killing anything that moves worked for me if you don`t stand still those blasted SB`s can`t get a hold on you

managed to take out 3 even con middies on my own...2 even con hibbies and plenty of other single even cons

only thing that ever killed me was forgetting i was a mnstrel and not a pally and charging into melee with all the rest of the tanks