Christian

Don't bother with Secret Word. Liches are immune to everything below level 6 exceptions being Breach and the priest version of True Sight.

To give more detailed advice we would need to know his spell protections according to combat log.

1 hour ago, AL|EN said:

I've tested it and it's Windows Defender latest update. Please exclude ProjectInfinity folder from you AV.

I can confirm that this works.

Don´t know, where to post it elsewhere since Beamdog Forums are blocked. The recent Win10 Update seems to have broken Project Infinity. It does not start anymore.

The component that makes High Level Abilities on mages and priests innate will probably alter their scaling on Dual- and Multiclasses since the innate caster level is the average level of classes. I noticed the same effect on the now deprecated innate sequencer component. Nalia, Imoen and Anomen should have way shorter durations for planetars and devas as well as fewer energy blades as expected. This should be at least noted on the readme (if it applies as I suspect).

10 minutes ago, polytope said:

No, single target spells higher than 7th level go straight through Minor Spell Deflection and Minor Spell Turning, while any lower level spell (except Breach, depending on your installation) would fail to affect a Rakshasa anyway. The only single target spells that can be used against Raks are Bigby's Clenched Fist, Maze, Power Word:Blind (if you use the SCS option to make it single target), Bigby's Crushing Hand (weakish spell anyway), Imprisonment and Power Word Kill all of which work regardless of Minor Spell Deflection or Turning.

Breach will be absorbed by MSD with default SCS behaviour and also strip Raks, but it's still not clear to me why the Raks use MSD rather than Spell Immunity:Abjuration or Spell Shield for that purpose. I'm not sure if they should even buff with spells below 8th level (i.e. not Absolute Immunity, Protection from Energy or Spell Trap)., that's David W's choice.

After carefully reading the spell descriptions it turns out, that you are right. Minor spell turning won´t affect spells of lv5 (Domination) and higher and minor spell deflection won´t help with lv7 and higher. I honestly didn´t know that until now.

3 hours ago, polytope said:

Further, Raks buff with Minor Spell Deflection and Minor Spell turning, both are useless to them as these only bounce spells up to the 7th level which Rakshasa are naturally immune to anyway.

Those spells protect against enemy spells until they are exhausted. The spell that exhausts them gets used up even if it is higher level than the remaining protection. So both of those force the player to remove or burn through them with lv7+ spells before being able to directly affect the rakshasa with spells.

I have a feature request regarding NPC-Quest trigger timers. What I mean by that is the time needed for a companion to be in your party until the Companion quest starts. Something similar like banter accelaration or romance speed up. Jan for example needs to be 15 days (according to Wiki) in your party for his questline to start. Unless you spam rest it is almost impossible to start his quest before leaving for spellhold excption being maybe your first playthrough, when you don´t know what to do.

edit: Just seeing, that some quest timers are also quite extensive. Like Anomen Knighthood test decision takes ten days. I know this involves bureaucracy and is only realistic. But some players may not want it to be that realistic.

5 hours ago, Guest mro1978 said:

would love it if this tweak restores the cleric/ranger to its former glory........by getting access to every divine spell. There are several OP classes in this game and several tweaks to make characters OP why not add this one?

You don't need a mod for this. Just edit the baldur.lua file. 

In my game (BG1EE, 2.6.6.0, weidu log attached) the game repeatedly crashes, when Aec'Letec is just about to spawn. Is there some way to collect logs or memory dump if that would be of help? 

WeiDU.log

Someone on Beamdog forum claimed that Breach bypasses SI: Abjuration in his install. Is this intended? Can anyone confirm?

Edit: nevermind. Reporter tested it on the wrong game install (without SCS).

Ok, not sure its mod related at all, but I got some weird behaviour with Sarevok. He got imprisoned during the fight with Sendai. I cast freedom during the fight and got him to join back with the group still while the fight was going. Once the fight was over and the group got teleported back from the pocket plane after talking to the solar there was a Balor left to kill. The instant the Balor was killed, Sarevok triggered his alignment change talk. Ever since this fight he has almost no sight radius (no fog of war gets cleared) and he doesn´t trigger the leaving Dialogue, when I reform the party to kick him out. This may be related to him having no sight of the other characters to walk up and talk to them. I really don´t know. I would appreciate any advise on fixing this.

edit: Nevermind, I fixed it. I guess it was some wonky blindness effect going on. I power-word blinded him and then cured it with neutralize Poison. Now he´s back to normal.

But then again I would rather use spell shield and minor globe. There are like 3 spells that may be worth it for to cast a GOI over a minor GOI. And those are either not that harmful or are used rather rarely by enemies. Teleport Field, Icestorm and Greater Malison. And on the last one I am not sure, if GOI actually protects against it. So using a lv6 slot instead of a lv4 slot for that seems like a horrible waste. 

I am just irritated because GOI did protect your spell shield against spell thrust in earlier versions. I have been watching mivsans SCS-Ascension playthrough on youtube and on several occasions his (and the enemies) spell shield was not affected by spell thrust because of a GOI.

Another question (maybe bug): When having a spell shield and a globe of invulnerability, shouldn´t the spell shield be protected against spell thrust by the GOI? I just tried it and the spell shield gets consumed by a spell thrust. If this is intended, GOI is a very bad choice over minor globe.

Don't know if it is SCS doing or it is intended or vanilla but in Watchers Keep Level 3 in the room behind the first talking demons with Cornugons, pit fiend and velithu (and the traps on each exit) my party got instantly greeted with several lightning bolts and fireballs. Later a meteor swarm was summoned by the pit fiend. Rather unfair in a dead magic zone.

Why would he be chaotic good??

The component to make high level spells on mages and priests to innate abilities is bugged. It works at first but over the course of the game the abilities get lost and won´t refresh when resting. My mages now reached about level 22 when I first noticed that dragons breath and planetar were missing on Imoen.

Are there that many dependencies out there in the still maintained mods? And will it be feasible to keep such listings up to date?

Don't really know much about modding but maybe it is possible to gather for every mod(-component) the information, which resources it creates/reads/updates? This information could be used to calculate such dependencies instead of maintaining them manually. But this is a wild guess.

I am not sure this is mod related or more specifically Ascension related. Anomen told me about the Hillgnasher Giants like 5 times in SOA. And Jan told him off.

I just loaded a save from chapter 3 ( if I remember correctly) and travelled to Watchers Keep. The intro to Watchers Keep plays (the text that is read out) and so I know, this is my first visit. Once the area opens after that the message displays that my char got Improved Slayer Form (on the save I am above 2 million XP). And true enough, once I check the special ability tab I have the ability to transform into the Slayer (with a 3 on it). The ability is usable just like if I aquired it naturally in spellhold.

My main char is part mage and I have SCS option for spell triggers to be innate abilities. Maybe there is some cross influencing going on. I Don´t know.

edit: To clarify: The save is from before spellhold, because Yoshimo is still in my group and he died in this playthrough. 

Bhaalspawn powers now don´t get doubled, but the main character still gets the ability to transform into the slayer (before spellhold). 

Great, thanks! Gonna test it in the next few days with an appropriate savegame.

edit: getting a 404 when trying to download the .exe .

Is it intended, that a project image clone can use set up spell triggers (by original caster) but the triggers of the clone are actually empty (so nothing happens)? And when using the setting, that makes triggers, sequencers and such innate abilities, the clone can set them up themselves, but they too won´t work. Also intended?

edit: it gets even weirder. When trying to prepare a sequencer with a clone of Imoen the spell book of named character opens instead of Imoens one. Just noticed that one.

for the record: Chain Contingency set up to fire on hit DOES work on the project image, when the clone sets it up.

15 hours ago, subtledoctor said:

Ah. A simpler explanation, and good to know. 

Frankly I think this sort of thing is a perfectly acceptable trade-off for 2E dusl-classing. 

Yes, i am fine with that. Although it also applies to multiclass (Jan Jansen). I guess, his traps will be affected too and his advancement in them will be slowed down quite a bit due to his mage class. He will need like around 6.2 million XP instead of the expected 4.8 million to get the last trap type.

Ok, that explains it. Thanks. Not a big issue, was just wondering.

The component 

~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #4250 // Make spell sequencers and contingencies into innate abilities: v32.4

misses the level scaling of Contingency. On both my lv 16 Mages I can only set up a Level 4 spell although I should be able to set up a lv 5 spell (one spell level per three caster levels).

edit: Ok, now it gets strange: Jan Jansen with only Illusionist Lv 13 (level 16 thief) can put lv5 spells into his contingencies. The other two mages above are dualclass (Imoen T7/M16) and main character is a kensage (9/16). I guess there is something wonky in the level calculation when used as a contingency.