Just curious which is more useful in IWD1. A few things I've noticed about stealth thus far is that its a bit bugged. It takes 6-10 sec sometimes for stealth to engage. Once this happens, monsters will go after your party even if they're on the other side of the map. I haven't tried sneak attack yet so I figured I would ask. Thanks.
IWD1 Backstab or Sneak Attack
Started by cbarchuk, Oct 02 2011 05:44 PM
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Posted 02 October 2011 - 09:44 PM
Well, apparently you pretty much explained the benefits of both in your thread at GOG. It seems like you've already tested sneak attack based on your post in that thread. And if you really haven't, then it would appear that you at least know how it works, so what exactly do you want to know? I'll give my opinion if that's what you want, but whether either one is useful to any great extent depends on your party and strategy.
Backstab is a 2E feature, which makes it canon for IWD and HoW. Sneak Attack is a 3E feature, but only Icewind Dale II uses the 3E ruleset. Personally I'd just go with backstab because it's actually a 2E feature unlike Sneak Attack.
Backstab is a 2E feature, which makes it canon for IWD and HoW. Sneak Attack is a 3E feature, but only Icewind Dale II uses the 3E ruleset. Personally I'd just go with backstab because it's actually a 2E feature unlike Sneak Attack.
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Posted 03 October 2011 - 06:41 AM
Well, apparently you pretty much explained the benefits of both in your thread at GOG. It seems like you've already tested sneak attack based on your post in that thread. And if you really haven't, then it would appear that you at least know how it works, so what exactly do you want to know? I'll give my opinion if that's what you want, but whether either one is useful to any great extent depends on your party and strategy.
Backstab is a 2E feature, which makes it canon for IWD and HoW. Sneak Attack is a 3E feature, but only Icewind Dale II uses the 3E ruleset. Personally I'd just go with backstab because it's actually a 2E feature unlike Sneak Attack.
Yea just really looking for opinions. Since that post I've played through the whole game using sneak attack and it worked surprisingly better than I thought though it requires alot of micromanaging. At any rate, what I meant to say was backstab. But I know how backstab works from playing the Baldur's Gate series. I'm currently playing a new game and I'm going to try out backstab all the way through. Just wanted to get some other peoples opinions, that have used both extensively, and see how they compared in their games. The stealth bug is really odd to me. Sometimes it works, other times it takes forever for it to engage. It will even work right in front of another monster.
Edited by cbarchuk, 03 October 2011 - 06:57 AM.
