Baldur's Gate 2 - Quick Leveling Guide (and early items!)

Hello everyone!
In this video guide I will be showing some quick and easy ways to get experience early on in Baldur's Gate 2 in order to start your adventure with some more power and recruiting your companions at higher experience thresholds.
This will follow a route that is safe and viable for any class, that will not only give you a lot of experience but also very useful spells and items to gear up your party.
Baldur's Gate is a very complex game with an immense amount of tools and options for the player to explore different approaches, so there's a lot more I could mention in this guide but am leaving it out so as to not spoil too many areas or quests and/or showing certain tricks that would require a deeper knowledge of game mechanics, or resorting to class specific abilities, which would defeat the purpose of making this guide viable for whichever class you want to play with on your main character. Having said that, even trying to keep the guide simple, we are able to raise our main character's experience from 147k to 500k (if the main character is capable of learning learning spells from scrolls, the steps in this guide would easily put you at 750k) which is a very nice boost!
Useful timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:11 Experience thresholds
02:22 Disclaimer
04:12 Getting started
10:07 Taking off
12:37 Dangers of early encounters
13:31 Storing our bounty
17:02 Solo quest
20:57 Stealing spree!
24:59 Purchasing thieving supplies
26:52 Stacking potions of Master Thievery
28:33 Stealing targets - Mrs. Cragmoon
32:44 Stealing targets - (Optional) Ribald
33:44 Stealing targets - Lady Yuth
37:09 Stealing targets - Galoomp
38:34 Stealing targets - Jayes
41:02 Stealing targets - Cutpurse
42:30 Stealing targets - Bernard
44:07 Stealing targets - Black Market Thief
45:15 Stealing targets - Shady slums storekeep
46:23 Stealing targets - Arledrian
47:35 Stealing targets - Wand recharging
50:40 Managing ambushes
54:21 Stealing targets - Marina
55:36 Infinite gold loop
57:46 Stealing targets - Gorch
59:24 Thief gauntlet for free experience
01:01:32 Reaching next exp threshold
01:03:07 Escaping ambushes
01:09:38 Alternative easy exp to reach threshold
01:13:04 Recruiting our scroll scribe
01:15:58 Stacking potions of Genius
01:16:32 Scribing scrolls for exp
01:18:17 Re-learning spells
01:26:02 The power of wands
01:27:32 Boosting companions
01:28:07 Gearing up new companions
01:30:06 Wrapping up
01:33:49 Edwin judges you :D
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