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Other than that choose whatever you want as your 4th skill. You’ll want maximum Intelligence to maximize your mental attack damage.

Focus on Arcane Barrage, Mangar’s Mind Jab, Meditation (get the +1 and 2x Meditation options) to build up SPs fast. Outlander Human Practicioner – Focus on skills that do mental damage as your Practicioner’s main job will be to disrupt the focus of the opponents.

However, since my Rogue is in the back row (because like all non-Fighters they are very squishy) ranged attacks work much better and let you strike any opponent. I found the ranged multi target damage of the ranged Rogue was way better and more versatile than melee even through melee does do better single target damage.

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Outlander Human Rogue I went with a Sniper, Assassin Rogue with the Bow/Dagger Crit Skills, and Strength plus the Subterfuge skills. Be sure to get the Grand Rabble Rouser skill. Outlander Human Bard – come on it’s Bard’s Tale for goodness sake! Honestly, Bard’s aren’t really that strong and you could replace with another Rogue or Practicioner if you wanted to, but I liked have a Bard in the party for variety and I loved the Bard character creation screen when he/she jams the electric guitar. While it’s tempting to take Baed Humans for the extra skill points, resist the temptation as the Outlander Humans will make your back line much tougher and you’ll be very happy with the choice, especially late in the game when the opponents will hit your back line with Bleed, Poison, and Fire often. Why 3 Outlander Humans? Easy, the back line will get hit most often with Bleed, Poison, and Fire attacks and if you’re immune to those your back line will take MUCH less damage. Taunt and Biting Taunt – make them attack you, strip their armor, and then retaliate with Champion Back Line: Once I had this skill and Vanguard and Shield Block I could just let my front line stand there and all the melee opponents would die. Your shield will block all of their attacks and your Champion counter attack will hit them back for each time they attacked you for about 30 points of damage each. Once you get this you’ll love enemy melee opponents who strike you multiple times. Once you have this Shield Block, and Vanguard it easy mode for melee opponents. Get all the Sword Crit abilities for extra damage Command:Ĭommander (only for 1 of your fighters, and it should be the one that off to the side)Ĭhampion – maybe the best (other than Shield Block) fighter skill in the game. Sundering Smash – Good to remove enemy armor and many of the late, higher level enemies have lots of armor, so you will need this and Biting Taunt to strip it Sweeping Slash – Great to hit 3 melee foes at time, makes your front line fighter good damage dealers, although with Champion, you can really just stand there and watch melee opponents die Vanguard – all your Fighters should have Vanguard so they can use 2H Swords and shields. Shield Bash – Can stun melee attackers when you block them, and you will block about 100% of the time Attack: Quick Reflexes – once you get this you will block nearly 100% of incoming attacks and take 0 damage DefenseĬritical Shield Block – this happens much more often than the 10% would indicate Further they have the best front line skills in the game, and it’s not even close. Not because they have lots of hit points or lots of armor, but because they are the only thing standing between your squishy back line and death.

It’s important that your fighters are not moved. I choose only the Dwarf race for my front line fighters, because Dwarves are the only race that cannot be pushed or moved, and if your front line gets pushed or moved then your enemies can attack the back line with melee attacks. Ok, it’s a bit boring I will admit, but there’s two things you want your front line to do. The Winning PartyĪfter much experimentation, I settled on the following party to beat BT4 easilyĭwarf Fighter, Dwarf Fighter, Dwarf Fighter

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Read this brief guide to understand how to build a strong party that will serve you well throughout the game. Like many CRPGs, some race, class, and skill choices are better than others. This is a brief guide on how to create a Bard’s Tale 4 party that will power through your foes. The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut game guide focuses on How to Buld a Winning Party.

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