Hell yeah thanks for watching friend!

Me too. Started my first SCS run after not playing BG for many years.

yup. same 👍

Just started a few weeks ago cuz steam had the whole infinity engine series. Only played bg ee so far but ill go to bg2 soon.

@@crasykills4718 how's bg2 going?

indeed grate guides

It's a blast, good luck with it!

I played Neera cast the spell *wild magic appears* summons a kind of badass demon... (can't remember what it was) (and I needed help so much, I was already overwhelmed) !!! Wild Demon also attacks enemies. I run away they fight among each other. crazy demon wipes the floor with them and then disappears after a while ?!?! = PROFIT ! :D

There is an old mod called Wild Mage Additions that adds a bunch of wild magic spells if you can defeat the mage who has that spellbook. It is awesome beyond imagining. I don't know if it works with the EE, though.

Thanks for watching!

I'm glad you enjoy it friend thanks for watching and commenting!

Yeah a lot of spicy shit doesn't translate well from pnp sadly :(

Thats what im fkn saying dude.

Very much seconded good sir Damian and I bow before you Arch-Tutor Davaeorn!

@@Davaeornlol this comment is S Tier.

Good comment, but needs lots more f-bombs.

Can''t say enough good things about this.

God bless u buddy

Soon.tm Thanks for watching and commenting friend!

Thanks for watching! Divine casting soon

Definitely would've been more interesting

So you originally had to kill the hand to save the target? But instead they just made it a save in bg2? Damn. And without the theoretical exponential scaling after turn 3.

Thanks for watching and commenting friend!

I'm glad you enjoy them thanks for watching!

Soon.tm, thanks for watching and commenting!

Very true and fun to play with!

True! Thanks for watching and commenting friend.

Interesting thanks for commenting! It's so difficult to tell whether or not you're correct in this regard. Evidence to the contrary would be the fact in bg1 you're pretty much guaranteed to get a wild surge even with chaos shield on, which would imply your roll is not added, but compared. In bg2 on the other hand you are far more likely to NOT get a wild surge, which would support your claim. I can confirm that shields are stacking in my version, it shows up on the parameters effects as separate incremental entities, and I have tested it just now for about 300 surges, not once have i gotten one below 25+15+mage level. However, that could as always just be dumb rng. I will definitely do some more testing, thanks for commenting friend

I don't know if u are correct in what you write, but definitely, wiki disagrees with you. baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Wild_Surge " Wild Surge occurs when a Wild Mage casts Nahal's Reckless Dweomer, a d100 dice is rolled and the number is compared to another factor number, which is the sum of Wild Mage’s level (31 max), Chaos Shield Improved Chaos Shield modifier and Equipment modifier. If the former number is equal or less than the latter, the desired spell is cast normally, if greater, a wild surge effect will take place according to the number you rolled, refer to the table below." Also when there is a natural wild surge the caster level is not counting as u write ofcourse.

It actually directly says in the spell description that they don't stack. Doesn't mean that's actually the case but it seems that the intention is for them not to stack.

no you're awesome buddy

Ikr feelsbad, thanks for watching and commenting friend!

Yeah it seems for the most part 90% of spells don't seem to give a shit about range but others do, hard to say. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!

In progress as we speak, thanks for watching friend!

Glad you enjoyed it friend thanks for watching and commenting!

Thanks for watching friend!

Thanks friend!

Thanks for watching and commenting friend!

Yeah implosion is amazing because its a stun with no save, I typically don't bother with bigbys on dragons because if I'm rocking 8s id rather just spam horrid wilting as it's more reliable, though perhaps with multiple wizards I might get one off. Thanks for commenting friend!

I'm looking forward to 32 and when it comes out ill probably add a video on it.

Interesting thanks for watching and commenting buddy!

Wild magic really is fun as hell. Thanks for commenting friend!

Thanks for watching friend!

Glad you enjoy them friend thanks for watching and commenting!

Glad you enjoyed it friend thanks for watching and commenting

Possibly tbh, we're gonna do companions and classes after divine guide.

Oh, really nice! I stuck at solo-poverty-insane mode, and feel that here i need understand the mechanic very deep to pass this challenge. Your guides anwered most of the questions about the spells. Thanks once more! And looking forward for the new guides:)

I'm redoing arcane with IWD after class guide is finished. I played pathfinder but not all the way through, prolly wont see them on here for a while since I got about 150 videos of BG still to upload. Unfortunately getting one video up is an ordeal, takes about a full day of work that slows my comp and internet to a crawl sadly :(

I've heard that too, the problem is there just isn't a fight that will go in that direction. Either the mage has his protections up, in which case he's invulnerable, or you break through them and he dies instantly to your fighter with imp haste. If you're able to bring a mage into kill range via power word kill, chances are what few protections he puts up with a contingency aren't gonna save him from 1 breach. The only exception to this rule would be liches or other scripted encounters who will put up more than one chain contingency, and naturally these guys are immune to the spell in the first place. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying I have put in a billion hours and haven't had the sequence of events come up in such a way where I would ever consider taking and using the spell. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!

Edit: After reading another comment below, I see what you're saying and will have to do more testing. Thanks for commenting friend God bless!

They are quite convinced it's a best in slot spell XD

Yeah they're a blast to play, thanks for watching friend!

It's quite strong I just don't like my enemies disintegrating and it IS a level 9 spell slot after all.

Possible indeed!

Spell shield will block and completely absorb spellstrike. You will need to ruby ray to remove spell shield before spell striking. It says it remove spell shield, which it does, but it can't remove both at once. Lets say you're a cleric mage, you have minor globe up, shield of the archons, spell shield, and spell trap up. If i cast spellstrike on you, you lose spell shield, thats it. If i cast ruby ray to remove spell shield, then cast spell strike, you will lose ALL of those other protections at once. Likewise you can cast spellstrike back to back, that will do the trick too, but obviously it's better to use a 7 and 9 spell than 2 9 spells XD. It can be confusing, and it really depends on what else they cast. If you don't have something to "block" spellstrike, it will remove all non-combat protections (breach is for combat protections, spellstrike is for spell protections)

A good idea! I've never done it before since you don't get shapechange until long after you've wiped out the beholders but if you're a sorc obv you can pick it up in time for the underdark depending on how hard you've boosted xp. I'm pretty sure the shapechange isn't immune to lower resist though (unlike some other golems) so i'll have to test it to see how well it performs against a hive mother. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!

@@Davaeornlol your welcome and thank you for the videos. Also, you can do the same thing at lower levels with the cloak of the sewers by changing into mustard jelly form, which is completely immune to magic. It has a poison attack that can eventually kill the beholder. Just put it on a high health, good thaco character as they will resort to biting you. Plus you gotta be mindful of the timer. Polymorph self works too, but I play a kensai/mage and health and thaco are not too much a problem.

99% of enemies who use spell trap will also have a spell shield up which blocks the first anti spell protection spell, so you wanna ruby ray first to remove spell shield THEN spellstrike to remove their other protections.

I hope they make it bigger and better :) Thanks for watching friend.

Lol maybe at some point, I wanna get ascension up for next run for sure and new scs is looking great. Thanks for watching friend God bless

Depends on who else is in my party tbh. If i have good front line I dont take imprisonment, if i dont I do, if i have lots of mages I dont take spellstrike, if i dont have the arcane back up, I do.

It still is for sure, not sure when it was changed tbh.

Soon my friend, thanks for watching!

To scribe level 9 spells you need 18 int or chug an int pot, when casting wish you dont need any int at all, just wisdom. It's a weird outdated mechanic that you rarely see.

SCS makes it go through sadly, one of the few changes im not a fan of

Absolutely, first divine video is coming soon. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching friend, soon.tm

Sequencers don't work in my version but it's still got aura cleansing, considering how RNG they are I don't feel like they should have removed the alacrity part. Oh well. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!

Yes! Soon.tm

Wild mage > DD > Sorc > Invoker > Diviner > Conjurer > Necromancer > Regular mage > Enchanter > Bard > Illusionist > Transmuter > Abjurer if we're talking about terms of power. Wild mage is bis, NRD is just insane. DD I think is next, I love the defensive bonuses they get with sorc being right behind it. Invoker loses the charm school which is pretty much non existent after bg1, so it's solid, the emotion spells can be cast by anyone. Diviner loses conjuration which again loses next to nothing, just find familiar really, and if you cared about hp you would be dual classing not making a specialist mage. Conjurer loses true sight which is pretty useful but can still be done by other classes. Necromancer loses mirror image blur and imp invis, pretty damn useful shit tbh but not the complete end of the world, I never use project image or mislead, and simulacrum is complete dog shit for a pure wizard. At this point a regular mage is better than the other kits. Enchanter loses out on evocation spells, no magic missle, force missiles, if you don't have the SCS component making sequencers any school this puts them on par with illusionists, really really bad, otherwise just slightly below a regular mage. Bard can't progress to level 9 spells so I'd put it here in terms of power. I'd rather have a bard than the others, and yes that includes fallen planetar and imp alacrity. Illusionist loses skull trap and horrid wilting among other things but these 2 are your primary damage dealing spells. In my playthroughs mages already struggle to do any damage, since they're forced to take a ton of defensive spells. Losing out on these 2 mean they really don't contribute to fights at all damage wise and that's really unfortunate. Transmuter can't cast ANY abjuration spells which is spell protection and removal, pretty fucking terrible but it's not the worst. If abjurers only lost one spell and not all of alteration, and that spell was stoneskin, I would still put it last, this alone makes it so bad it's insane. If we're asking what I'd rather play, same order but move bard up right behind sorc, I don't ever play specialist mages, I'd rather dual to mage (which means u cant specialize) or play bard.

@@Davaeornlol Interesting. Yeah, now that I think of it, the loss of stoneskin really sucks, I just struggle to think of a way you can even keep a transmuter alive! I totally need to give wild mage a try or take Neera one of these days, their wild surges just scare me away, but I need to give them a chance, I see so many good players praising them. Thanks for your input!

I do, I'm literally bed ridden atm but I'll be back online eventually. When I do Bane will go up and I'll also edit out the small segment that upsets youtubes algorithm and get George Michael's run up too. Thanks for watching friend God bless!

Indeed

My computer is a dinosaur so any editing tool that isn't shit destroys my memory and ends up crashing. Some day I will have a good pc and can actually make a real video instead of just recording me talking for hours in one take XD

@@Davaeornlol im praying for that, you deserve it man!

I would like to see it in action for a course of the game, I'm imagining it happening in countless fights in ToB and it just looks like a great way to get my cleric mage killed XD. Every fighter has GWW and hits for about 50 damage on insane so you can expect to eat 500 damage in a round if you lose stoneskin, mindflayers beholders burning men breach wish casters will game over you very quickly and I don't think you can kill a 1500 hp dragon before it kills your stoneskins and then kills you. I'm pretty sure you can't even hit demi liches with it and it cant be cast at all in the maze of watchers keep (which is a shame because I think vs demons it would shine nicely) Don't forget planetars every hit can decapitate with a negative two penalty and every hit is a level 30 dispel magic and since you're a multiclass say goodbye to all your buffs (including death ward). I just don't see it being viable at all against, honestly anything outside of a few specific fights where you're NOT fighting multiple HLA fighters, NOT fighting a high level mage with hlas, NOT fighting a powerful magical creature, and NOT fighting a combination of those listed above while at the same time requiring 6 mil xp to do (unless you cast via scroll ofc). You'll have to give me some examples where it really shines to convince me that it's anything other than a really fun toy to play with in specific situations. Love the idea though it sounds super fun, thanks as always for commenting friend!

Correct, nor does it affect a few others. He does have a cast of it though which is devastating if you're unprepared. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!

Luck be a lady.

Spell shield will block spellstrike, there are certain spells (like dispel magic) that will NOT affect spell shield so the game tells you which ones will eat a spell shield and which ones wont. Basically anything that dispels that ISNT dispel magic should get eaten by spell shield. However, if spell shield isnt up, spellstrike will break ALL the protections as opposed to just one like ruby ray.

Yeah I'm quite sick atm but more videos will be coming soon hopefully. I also wish they would stick to 2nd edition but there isn't a snowballs chance in hell. It's ironic that they're going to use an edition to appeal to the more "modern" crowd because thac0 is too complex when the exact opposite is true. I just hope they go hard on the story ( I don't think its possible to have too many options for dialogue/story plot stems) and don't overdo the mechanics too much. Baldur's gate is special because it's both simple and has layers of complexity, I hope they do it justice. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!

@@Davaeornlol For me what kept the replayability in Bg2 was the fact that you could become godlike and had to start so small. And also the spell system, which is complex in a very fun way. This onion like defences with many layers of magical protections and dispells! I didn't look much into the modern editions but from what I see 5e spells are just like "deal XdY damage to Z creatures. Pretry boring :/ Anyway, get well soon! And don't push yourself

@@ronnymueller1918 yeah, no chance DOS3 (I mean BG3) will be close to BG/BG2 level, since it's based on 5e D&D and made by clowns at Larian. Shame, really.

Spicy!

He is indeed, If i said he wasn't that was an oopsie on my part. Abazigal, balthazar, the ravager, demogorgan, and smellysan are all immune to timestop and more depending on mods, but those are the ones that come to mind. Gromnir illisara and yagashura aren't without ascension.

There was a lot of bugs with dweomering sequencers, I THINK in the last patch I played wild mage in you couldn't dweomer a sequencer at all but I'm not sure if that was a mod doing that or an actual patch. Wild mage is stupid fun though.

Nah it works everytime, same thing goes for petrification.

Sorc gets like 6, a specialist mage gets 5, edwin gets 7. If you're a multiclass yeah it's gonna be a hot minute until you get those extra slots but everyone else will have at least 4. Most importantly, if you have more than one mage (chances are you do) you can spread your spell selections out that way.

I'm just so damn hesistant about using tensers It's done nothing but get people killed in the past even with protections. I think it could work for very specific fights tho.

No idea, not even 100% if they are stacking since the modifiers are behind the scenes but I can see them as separate on my editors and what testing I did could not prove they aren't.

It's funny I kinda wondered that myself. Supposedly it's added to your base level compared to the roll, so by stacking it, you have a higher chance of the spell working normally if you dweomer. It's fucking weird though. Thanks for commenting friend!

@@Davaeornlol I guess it makes sense with your kind of playthrough. But most of the early bad ones are gonna oneshot you, like the fireballs centered on you, that just means a reload for normal playthroughs. Although maybe in the original it makes a weird sense. Remember playing Fallout 1 back in the day with potato computer and saving a game could take 2-3 minutes. Perhaps with similiar saving and loading times saving is more of a "resource" in the game developers mind when balancing these kind of things. I have watched your spell overview content pretty much back to back. XD Have been meaning to play through the whole BG-series for the first time. Spent almost 3 days "choosing" character. Leaning towards sorcerer, but I am so greedy so probably gonna go Fighter/mage/thief like i always do in these older titles.

@@avenderiel No matter what you pick its fun, the only real way to play wild mage with these rules is have another mage cast protection spells on you (so you don't kill yourself casting them) then you can go all out fairly safely. In bg1 you gotta be a bit careful, but in BG2 there's really nothing you can do that will 1 shot you or 1 shot your frontline. My last wild mage playthrough died in watchers keep, he got pretty far. We ended up getting swarmed by multiple planetars and I finally got hit with the worst wild surge, spell casting failure. I had no way to defend myself and got ripped to pieces.

Soon my friend, thanks for watching!

You can keep using it but by the time you get it you wont be able to drain enemies to death unless you're rocking a lot of mages XD

I have not had that happen before no. It might be your install I'd ask the forums tho.