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About spells improving beyond level 20 (BG2EE)


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Hello, modders and users alike.

I've just noticed that in IWDEE, it seems that spells improve beyond level 20 and up to 30, at least. For example, Spell Deflection, at level 30, lasts for 540 seconds (9 minutes), which is a lot.

In BG2EE, this is not the case. Spells either have a clearly defined limit (like Fireball), or always stops scaling at level 20 (or 18, for unknown reasons, such as with Phantom Blade).

I'm wondering if anyone can chime in as to why this would be case, and also, if you think that mirroring the behavior in IWDEE would cause any trouble or game imbalance. I'm not convinced it would. Honestly, it rather annoys me that it stops there, especially considering spells that lasts for a short time, and "scale" slowly per level.

In the case of damaging spells, I can see why it should stay this way (such as Horrid wilting, 30d8 damage is fairly insane and broken).

Cheers!

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As I understand, the 20-30 difference between BG and IWD has a lore reason: IWD happened before the Times of Troubles when the cap was 30. The ToT go through, and then Mystra imposes a lv20 cap. Enter BG...

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7 minutes ago, Connelly said:

As I understand, the 20-30 difference between BG and IWD has a lore reason: IWD happened before the Times of Troubles when the cap was 30. The ToT go through, and then Mystra imposes a lv20 cap. Enter BG...

Huh... I didn't think for a moment it would be a lore-related reason.

(Also, I just realized this is not the right forum to ask about this -- although I can see making a mod out of this viable)

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