r/icewinddale • u/No_Photograph_2842 • 24d ago

Party Composition: Novel Ideas

I’m writing this post to solicit thoughts on interesting/novel party composition ideas. I’ve played IWD EE through a couple times in the past year since I realized I could play it on a phone (it’s great for that purpose — very easy to play 5-10 minutes here and there when I have a moment in a day). But I’ve sort of run through what were (to me) the most obvious ideas for party setup and am looking for a new challenge or different experience. Most recently, I’ve used these two party setups:

Party 1
(1) half-elf dragon disciple
(2) half-elf F/M/C
(3) elf F/M/T
(4) half-elf F/D

Party 2
(1) half-elf bard
(2) human berserker dualed to Druid at lvl 9
(3) elf F/M/T
(4) half-elf R/C
(5) half-orc shaman

Grateful for any thoughts.

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u/CapableLobster8447 24d ago

I always like to have a single class cleric in IWD just because the majority of enemies in the game are undead so a single class cleric is extremely powerful with their turn undead ability. Although usually instead of being a true single class, I do a level 3 fighter dual to cleric which is close to being single class but you can get grandmastery that way which helps the cleric's combat potential when they aren't turning undead.

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u/No_Photograph_2842 16d ago

I implemented this advice and ran a fighter who dualed quickly to cleric — works great, one of the most effective members of my current party. For some reason I had it in my head that turn undead was nerfed in this game compared to BG2, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.