Hryme

First post.

Just wanted to add that my idea of a balanced character in BGII is that the character is not more powerful in a class/kit than the protagonist could be if they chose that class/kit (and spent some time rolling their stats)

It seems to me that Chloe is a tad unbalanced as a kensai, as she seems more powerful than the protagonist would ever be if you chose kensai as a kit (at least within SoA and excluding slayer changes). Looks like the only thing you need to do is to give her a strength-enhancing item and remember to cast spirit armor in addition to the usual buffs. She will then have a 3 better AC than the kensai-protagonist could ever get. Add in her innate abilities/weapons (though I would still go for Celestial Fury) and she is definately over the top. In my opinion

I've never tried her though. Based this post on reading all the responses in this topic and her description.

Then again this is also true for Edwin as a mage. It is almost pointless to make a pure mage as your main character when you can pick up Edwin and get a much better mage. One of the reasons I never use him. (Way back when he got 2 extra spells per level. Haven't tried him in ages, so I have no idea if it is fixed now)

Though I hope people add Chloe to their parties because of roleplaying reasons, not because they min/max.