Nearing end of first playthrough and looking for spoiler-light recommendations from others for my second playthrough, which I plan to start right away.
My first run was a human bard (with 3 lvls of rogue) playing classic 'good guy' role and shunning the mindflayer power. High skill checks, buff/control. Played on normal difficulty. Main companions were Shadowheart, Gale and Karlach (with some Jaheira and Minsc in Act 3). Played almost zero with Astarion or Wyll. I'm kicking around the following...
Play an origin character, maybe Dark Urge
Take Shadowheart in different direction for her companion story
Go with the more evil or maybe power-hungry path vs. good guy path
Play mainly with other companions I didn't use last time (Astarion, Wyll, Lae'zel, the druid, the drow)
Play a different class - maybe a primary spell caster (if I don't use Gale), or a Paladin as the whole vows thing looks cool, also interested in eldritch knight. My bard talked his way through a lot of stuff.
Also thinking I will bump the difficulty to hard to make combat more challenging / tactical (since I've already been through a lot of the story)
My overarching goal is to get at the content that I didn't see in the first playthrough.
All ideas welcome