Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Lockpick, Repair, Sharpen, ID Item....

What skills are best to get and to what level? I find myself saving skill points until I need something because I'm not sure what to "buy."

Id item hardly seems worth it. The items aways need more skill than I have.

I've never been able to open a lock with lockpick, even when I had poured 5 points into the skill. I restored after that.

Anyone have a good distribution for my mage and DK? I had put a lot of DK into one handed melee slashing. I'm not sure he's using it. I had my mage loaded up with too many skills, so I took ID away from her and gave it to DK. But I still don't know what distribution is good.

I guess I have two questions. What skills should I develop for each. Then how many points relatively. Should I try to keep things like repair and ID equal in ability?

I'm in act 2. When will my mage be able to get fireball? Right now I have her with 2 points of Meteor. It doesn't always knock out a group, but sometimes hits more than one. Is it better to meteor (level 2) than to use a beefed up individual fire skill (level 6)? Meteor uses a lot of mana. I have a lot, but two of those will drain my mage.

I like meteor, but my favorites are 'hammer' and 'lightnight storm' <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />

I gave my DK traps seeing level 5 or so and a BUNCH into 2 handed slashing accuracy and damage.

Is it okay to give my survivor sharpen instead of to my warrior? I only ask because I did this by accident long ago and I don't feel like reloading.

yeah, it doesn't matter at all.

Ethereal magic fireball? In Act 3 - either level 5 from an NPC or level 2 in the BF.
Kiya

For a melee I like almost all points in her weapon - well before the end she hits 10 in death hits.

For a mage I like hammer (as noted above - it is a great spell, paralyzing as well as damaging the enemy) and one mass damage spell like lightning storm.

LOL no one has mentioned the obvious unless I missed it. Cash is fairly easy to get with 1.44 so there is no reason to worry about what skills you may need in a later part of the game. Take what is useful at the moment and unlearn it when you need the points for something better.

I think one major and two minor skills for each character work best. Trying to develop many more skills than that will spread your precious skill points far too thinly.