Problem with Virgil's dexterity...

I'm having a problem with Virgil's dexterity. A rather big one, actually. It's stuck permanently at 1. It is. And it won't go up. Not even when wearing 'gloves of dexterity.' I have no idea why it's like this. He's not weilding any cursed items. Not encumbered at all. He just crawls along like a slug, being totally useless. Any idea why this happened, or how I can remedy it?

 

The only thing I can think of is this: have you rested recently? Try sleeping at an in or in the wilderness for a couple of days. See if that helps. He also might have a crippling injury.

 

Ditch the gloves

The gloves of dexterity will not help Virgil in the slightest. He is only slightly magickal. If you put your pointer over the gloves as he is wearing them, you'll see zero as the magic power availible. PS you'll need the patch for this to work corectly.

 

Virgil Dexterity problems and cursed staff...

There's a staff, found I believe in the Tarant Sewers open sector, that will do this, if he equips it and uses it even once in battle. Even after unequiping it his DX will keep on going down and down...

Actually the gloves of dexterity add +2 to DX even on Virgil, at least they do on my Virgil, no problems with those, actually they even work on Sogg although he only gets 1 DX. Also the only time you see 0% magick available is when your character is over 50% Tech, and Virgil never goes anywhere close to that. Sogg sometimes shows 49% magick available on some items but he's usually at 50% to 54%, wich still gives a little bonus on some items.

The reason why you don't see any change on his DX when you equip the gloves is because his DX is actually negative, the game won't allow it so it always shows as 1, this can be easily checked if you pick an halfling at startup and then choose a background that'll give him -6 ST, after doing this try assigning some CPs to ST and you'll see his ST going up only after you add about 2 or 3 of them.

Some weird stuff going on... Carefull that staff is bugged but provided he does not strike anything with it you can equip and unequip it safely. Giving it to him for holding will immediatly make him equip it, unless he has one that is better, wich my Virgil didn't have when this happened to me. The only way I was able to get read of this bug was to restart the game. You can however just dump Virgil, he's not really needed.

In the future be very carefull what items you pick up... damn, 2 of my games had to be restarted due to this blasted staff! Once for Virgil and another time for Sogg, he was just carrying it but he dropped his weapon during combat and immediatly equiped and used the blasted staff :sad:

 

Are you talking about the Staff of Hypocrisy? That's the one in the Tarant sewers I believe, although it does a random shield of protection.

I think there's another staff that has a chance to reduce certain stats, or boost other ones, but that's found somewhere else.