

So if you have a level 10 character that you want to quickly soup up and get to level 40 like your main party, you won't be able to bring him or her to the final level of the game and gain massive amounts of experience. The key thing to remember here, especially when dealing with characters that have been in your Inn for a long time, is that characters won't earn experience from killing monsters that are more than five levels above them or less than five levels below them, approximately. Like any good RPG, Dungeon Siege II is all about gaining experience and increasing in level. This isn't a big deal if you just need them along to complete one of their secondary quests, but if you want to get them back up to your level, then you'll need to get them some experience, which can be difficult to do.

Unfortunately characters that sit around in the Inn aren't going to be getting any experience, so if you want to change your party later on, you may find that characters you haven't used in a while are substantially weaker than the ones you've constantly kept in your party. You can select and choose any character you've previously disbanded this way, even pets. If you want to bring a character back into your party, head to the Inn and speak to the innkeeper (the NPC with a candle above their head). You can disband a character at any time, for any reason - they'll just go to the inn and wait for you there.

They'll retain all of the items on their person and in their inventory, so you don't have to worry about losing any valuables, although you may not want to keep a character with a lot of excellent equipment in your Inn all the time it's better to move it to your treasure chest in town before disbanding them so that other characters can equip it while they stay with you. (On Mercenary difficulty, for instance, the character limit is four this goes up to five on Veteran and six on Elite.) When you disband a character, they'll return to the Inn, where they can be found if you want to add them to your party again. You can only fit so many characters into your party at once, so on occasion you'll need to disband an old one to add a new one. You can also open their inventory screen and click on the small character icon with a red arrow next to it, in the upper-left hand corner of the screen.This is a difficult command to find in the in-game help system, but that's what it is. If you happen to want to disband a party member, select that member and hit CTRL-D. Luckily for you, GameSpot's Game Guide to Dungeon Siege II is here to help, with a complete walkthrough for the title, including all of the sidequests, as well as tips on party composition and battle tactics.

For Dungeon Siege II, Gas Powered Games has gone back to the proverbial drawing board, and while the sequel retains the same obsessive-compulsive item-hunting of the original, the combat system has been overhauled, allowing your characters to switch spells on the fly and use a comprehensive skill and power systems, which lets you customize your party members as you see fit.Īnd, of course, there's a huge new storyline to delve into as well, which will probably take you anywhere from 25 to 50 hours to complete, depending on how many of the 40+ side quests you choose to do, and that's just on the first difficulty level. Although they were immensely popular, selling over half a million copies between them, many people who played them were disappointed with the relatively small amount of interactivity you had with the game, as the AI for your party would often take over and fight battles on their own. By Matthew Rorie Design by Randall Montanariĭungeon Siege and its expansion, Legends of Aranna, elicited some mixed opinions from the computer RPG gaming crowd.
