Talk:Garrick/@comment-178.209.130.138-20190717020725

I think even pure bard can be useful. I start understand it lately. I use him just as temporary companion sometimes. Once I forgot him until high levels and now he junped to 6th lvl (some forgoten mod I think). His lore is 60 on 6th lvl (70 with wis. potion), which is enough to identify 9/10 magic items and Ppoc. with dex gauntlets is 75. This can ease your thieving point if you are dualing or multiclassing thief. He can use +2 longbow, army scythe. I red someone used Ches. crusher Haldberd on bards, but unless u want buff/speed him for every fight, just let him shoot or cast. Everytime I swim badly in gold very soon and bard is good primary or secondary wand user. If you dislike mages like me, bard can be your only wand user if the rest or your party is smart as brick (no offense Minsc, big fam here). U can recharge them in most shops until it get boring (last chargé sell and buy after). Just 1 simple fear/paralyze (and fireball) can turn a lot of battles to easy walk. If you position carefully u can burn 3-4 enemies in line with Aganazar from fire wand and dont want/cant buff f.ressist for fireball spamming on tank. I burned hard hitting battle horors/stalkers in BG in Balduran helm q. like this. In theory he can be a leader if u have not someone else, 15 char is not that bad. Good think for pure bard, he can wash off every fear/morale failure with bard song no matter how far (Bg1ee 1.3). There are some fights with magic users, who are spamming fear constantly (like the 4xmage party E.BG 2nd floor in S.Sundries shop) and bard can sing through. I actually never found a place for brawling hands (str 18/00) or archer bracers and Garick can use it. U can make str. axe thrower like 1 interesting build of Khalid, if u dont mind 1 Apr. But generally I prefere Longbow +2 or Xbow 2 Apr. If he has not such a baby-face I was tempted to Keeper him to blade, but I gave him a chance anyway. To my surprise Garick was seriously useful. I learned to use wands, synergize with thief, shoot, sing, indentify. This experience made me roll my own blade, I dont understand where all hate come from, Garick is not powerhouse, but something like reliable support mechanician. Basically everything in game u can make anyone else make better by magic (especially arcane magic)/potions/equipement but bard can do a lot. After reading Priest of Lathander soloing BGII on insane with Scs mod I dont dare to say any class or Npc is weak, it is only a a skill.