Talk:Viconia DeVir/@comment-4248922-20180402081720/@comment-35415494-20180426215708

Just to clarify, all I'm saying is she will never be able to dish out as much damage as someone with fighter levels. Her magic resist IS great, though. The only other way to reach 100% is to use Carsomyr and equip your items in a specific order (which gets ruined every time you load a save or a new area).

It just takes too much investment to make her even a half-decent melee combatant. A lot of equipment, and a lot of spells that you could use on someone else (or spell slots she could save for support). While she becomes immune to magic (unless someone lowers her resistance with a spell), she is still somewhat vulnerable to melee. She can get 45% physical damage resist using armor of faith and defender of easthaven, but warriors can use hardiness to raise that by another 40% (Dorn or Minsc are the only ones that can use all 3 for a total of 85% physical resist).

Really the point to me, is more that you don't LOSE much by making her a ranged attacker, but you lose a lot of opportunities for other characters in trying to force her into melee. In the back row, spell resistance means that when other party members go down/get controlled, she is still around to support/dispel/revive. You can still send her out to draw fire from mages, even with a sling in her hand.