Talk:Fighter / Mage / Thief/@comment-2605:A000:161E:8663:71C5:340:54F2:FF4D-20181104163357

I love this class. Don’t think of it as a Fighter who can pick locks or spell cast, or a Mage who can use more and better weapons and can undo traps. Think of it as a high-level thief who can make use of virtually anything even at low levels. This is what the Bard should have been.

I have soloed the entire game (BGEE, BG2EE, BG2ToBEE) on Core Rules difficulty with this class. Invest two proficiency slots in Two-handed Sword, and when you get the “Use Any Item” ability, you can wield Carsomyr, and use all of the cool objects that lower MR to create a fighter that is practically immune to magic. And cast multiple stoneskins a day, set massively powerful traps, conjure, cast, have True Sight at will (via the Detect Illusions/Traps ability), you name it, and the world is your oyster. Remember that this class can cast 9th level spells through scrolls.

With the right imagination, this class beats all others.