Welcome to the skill & build guide to a Two-Handed weapon wielding Cross-bow Paladin in Gothic 2 NotR.

This guide aims to reach:

Strength 160

130 Dexterity

100% Two-Hand-skill

95% Cross-bow skill.

It would be possible to play this character as a Dragonhunter as well. You just need to skill 2 strength more since you will miss out on an elixir that you gain from Neoras that gives you +3 strength but will also gain one more of Thekla’s Stews (+1 strength). You would also need to think about the extra LP it would cost to learn how to pull Dragon scales, Dragon blood, and Minecrawler plates (if you want the armor).

Strength (160):

Chapter 1	Chapter 2	Chapter 3	Chapter 4	Chapter 5
10 Base	01 Stew	01 Apples	03 Bought & Found Elixirs of Strength	Thekla’s Stew
05 Training	01 Fire Stew	01 Thekla’s Stew	06 Brewn Elixirs of Strength	03 Neoras-Drink
	57 Training	15 Brewn Elixirs of Strength		12 Brewn Elixirs of Strength
	22 Stone tables
	10 Prayer
	03 Apples
	02 Thekla’s Stew
	01 Erol
	06 Bought & found Elixirs of Strength

Total: 108 LP

Dexterity (130):

Chapter 1	Chapter 2	Chapter 3	Chapter 4	Chapter 5
10 Base	01 Goblin Berries	01 Goblin Berries	03 Goblin Berries	8-20 Goblin Berries*
01 Goblin Berries	20 Stonetables	06 Found & Bought Elixirs of Dexterity	04 Stone Tables (Valley)
06 Found Elixir of Dexterity	33 Brewn Elixir of Dexterity
01 Rengaru	10 Prayer
37 Training

*The amount of Goblin Berries relies on the amount you find from Paladins. Paladins can either drop them after you beat them up, have them in their trading inventory if they are a merchant, or have them in their inventory if they are already dead. You could theoretically beat up every Paladin in the game to get the maximum amount of Goblin berries (it is random for each playthrough though).

Total: 50 LP

Two-Handed (100%):

Chapter 1	Chapter 2	Chapter 3	Chapter 4	Chapter 5
10 Base	05 Training		15 Stone tables or Double-blocks	07 Training
25 Training			28 Training	10 Stone tables or Double-blocks

Total: 117 LP

Cross-Bow (95%):

Chapter 1	Chapter 2	Chapter 3	Chapter 4
10 Base	25 Training	15 Training	25 Training
			20 Stone Tables

Total: 117 LP

Misc.

Elixir of Strength (20 LP)

Elixir of Dexterity (20 LP)

Skin animals (5 LP)

Sneaking (5 LP)

Pickpocketing (10 LP)

Lockpicking (10 LP)

Languages (30 LP)

Total: 100 LP

Grand Total: 492 LP = LVL 50

Remember, you do not need to follow this guide to the letter, just make sure you do not take too many of the permanent bonuses before investing all the LP into training as crossing a certain level of a stat makes training it cost more LP.

Also, make sure to have a properly optimized and enhanced Gothic 2 Installation with Spine