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#Baldurs Gate 3
feral valley
storm horizon
I did recall some boots fitting that build - ||sonic damage in radius when you land||
hollow vortex
nice
I've somehow made my armour-less sorceror the second highest AC in the party,..
halcyon flume
I rolled a nat 1, decided to use inspiration and got a nat 20, love the game
hollow vortex
Nice
feral valley
kinda funny that nowdays my wizards fire attack cantrips are causing enemies to be encrusted in ice ( item additions ) 😄
halcyon flume
gotta hate dying, and then realising you didn't save for a while so you have to do so much work again
feral valley
Unless its a party wipe, it should be solvable without re-loading
accidentally nuked the whole party in couple of seconds while doing heist shenanigans that was the only time i could not salvage it 😄
halcyon flume
it was a party wipe, I was trying to salvage it and I was close to, but when it was just myself, with the rest of the party dead, even running away to recuperate is difficult
fair marten
Since my restart as a normal custom character ||(couldn't quite agree to see Gale die permanently, Dark Urge is a nasty beast)|| I have discover that the stealth tactics is absolutely busted while used to engage a fight
halcyon flume
stealth engaging fights is great
being thrust into a fight with little places to hide as a rogue though, less great
feral valley
😄
prime sigil
Already beat it?
feral valley
Sorta, sorta not 😄
fair marten
Let me guess
feral valley
i guess should have spoilered it up 😅 but there are multiple endings
fair marten
||Gale?||
halcyon flume
so close
feral valley
Sorta, sorta not 😄
well, at the very least i will be able to get back to working tomorrow with "i beat it", today is the last day i can play xD
fair marten
Not the best way to finish the story Bunkovsky
feral valley
Indeed, i shall explore more options 😄
fair marten
So far I only has to cast revivify once.... Because someone reminded me were all subject to gravity, poor Astarion made quite the long fall + in the water
halcyon flume
hmmmmmm
luckily I saved recently, and I also saw an autosave
it crashed so hard, it gave me the first time launch things like gamma correction, looks like I still do have saves though
maiden parcel
yeah that happens whenever you crash for me at least
halcyon flume
ok, managed to get to level 5
maiden parcel
HA
Us stuff ||He appear at end of Moonrise towers and you can get him back as a companion||
maiden parcel
😄
i now know exactly where you are, what was your playtime to get there?
cause they said act 2 was the longest, but it doesn't feel that long
feral valley
not sure how much it was when i got there, but now im sitting at - ||"61.7 hours past 2 weeks"||
so - reduce the hours from the screenshot time 😄
maiden parcel
hmm
either i missed something big or because im on easy its going faster
im at ||31 hours||
feral valley
Steam time of save time? 😄
maiden parcel
save time
feral valley
I was not rushing, im starting to rush now tho 😄
feral valley
hmm, well, i guess im just slower xD but i also found some "whole regions" that i had missed recently and was like... "fek" 😄
maiden parcel
what regions?
feral valley
re@region txt || the githyanki monastery, as well as some directions on map i forgot to go in. and from time to time stumbling into random "mini dungeons" ||
The first time i played i somehow missed the whole ||swamp zone around ethel|| in early access 😄
had no idea it existed untill someone asked if i did this and that 😄
that said ( i think game was also open for a bit while i was chatting )
maiden parcel
holy shit
||that myrkul reveal after killing thorm||-major act 2 spoilers
my immediate reaction ||"ah im boned"||
like
just
Holy crap
halcyon flume
Late act 1 spoilers ||(after the big drow led goblin raid on the tiefs)||
||Help, everyone wants to bed me, even the gith who I blatantly ignored throughout the entire game so far||
In a sweet little scene, and my fight or flight response triggers at this
storm horizon
Critical miss on a stealth sneak attack :/
maiden parcel
Late act 1 spoilers ||(after the big drow led goblin raid on the tiefs)||
||Help...
Re ||lae'zel just wants to fuck, if you reject her she beds astarion and gale||
storm horizon
If the dead enemy has these special camp supply/alchemy pouches - i assume they were supposed to be a party member option in some branch/playthrough?
maiden parcel
Yup
hollow tapir
No idea, but there are mods that alter the races
halcyon flume
Karlach character spoilers
||I feel you on that one||
plucky tapir
Me, with roughly four hours so far:
maiden parcel
only took 45 hours
Don't think the game will be the 75-150 they claim, so that sucks
but its totally long
feral valley
huh, interesting, game actually looks better with dlss on @ 1080p, it eliminates some random hair flicker etc
hot warren
yup
storm horizon
i may have angered 20 goblins. this is going to be fun
lime silo
prime sigil
... oh that's awful
storm horizon
barbarian with haste spores around is a meatgrinder.
hollow vortex
Holy crap y'all are finishing already?
Here I am not even through act 1
18 hours on the save file
hollow tapir
Same
maiden parcel
Close to the end
Took me ||19|| hours till the end. Though if you've done the first act in EA it's pretty much the same
And nah, not finished the game
Just on final act
But i think i skipped a lot by accident through act 2?
i have no idea how
@feral valley have you gotten to act 3? or did you stay in act 2?
or maybe im in the middle?
think i triggered something that started act 3 before i finished act 2
oblique quail
||It stopped earlier for me. After the double feeding where he said it wasn't quenching the hunger, all the "Gale can eat this" bits disappeared, as did the "I found a thing you can eat" dialogue option.||
maiden parcel
Overall a great game
Think im going to have to go back and actually finish WOTR now
oblique quail
Highly recommend the Toybox mod, to help mitigate the tedium bits of Wrath.
maiden parcel
Link?
hollow tapir
Haven’t heard of that one
oblique quail
Mainly just for the Crusade Tab of the mod, because the Crusade is terrible.
Not just tedious, actively terrible.
maiden parcel
i like the weird chess game!
its fun
i didn't like the hub compared to the town in kingmaker
hollow tapir
Oh for WOTR
I do have that
Also there was some drama with that game recently
I heard they added Spyware or something? Needs more research
maiden parcel
"drama" is an exaggeration
they added it, people said they didn't like it and Owlcat reversed the entire change and put the game on sale and published a bunch of feedback forms on how they could do better
It was a mistake, it was recitifed and thats that
but i think i'm going finish the game in under the 60hour mark
Which is fine, its been fantastic
and just means i can go the other routes a few months down the line
hollow tapir
Oh I didn’t hear about that
Good to know it was resolved I thought I wouldn’t be able to finish that
maiden parcel
Yeah, they added it, didn't realize it went that far/that wasn't their intention(shitty move though) but within 24 hours it was solved, reversed and dealt with
and they owned up
wasn't like "you guys took this the wrong way" it was "yeah no we screwed up, we're sorry"
storm horizon
The auto alchemy is should not consume quest items -_-
hot warren
feral valley
<@269110111962791937> have you gotten to act 3? or did you stay in act 2?
im in act 3, but im sad 😄 because it does not seem like ill be able to finish the game
i guess will return to it in september or some other week
feral valley
i took friday and monday off for baldurs, thinking that 4x14-16 could be enough-y 😄 but looks like i was mistaken.
and next have weekend camping for 2nd part of the week, so gotta sneak in at least 3 days of work for wrapping up some things
and the week after is not less busy 😄
maiden parcel
working on a new game or moved onto greener pastures?
feral valley
both
i have game cooking, but also gotta do some client work to eat 😄
Ill probably end up takink part of tomorrow off too, if it smells like end might be in sight @ bg3 😄
storm horizon
looks like no working mods for release to spawn items :/
||Timmask mushrooms should respawn ||
maiden parcel
just started act 3 and think it'll take me another 15-20 hours to finish
which should bring it to 70 or there about?
which is about what they said contrary to my previous statements on not thinking it'll be long enough as they said
i could see it stretching to 150 hours
More i play though, the more i disagree with the act of limiting it to level 12/20
won't spoil anything, but it really feels like it should have gone to the top
That being said, Its still FANTASTIC
It manages to blend the crunchy and hard to approach CRPG with the ease of modern RPG's in an amazing way
Its carved its entirely own niche of RPG's for me, blending both well
but i think it really goes to show how good the game is, when the only complaint i have is level cap
feral valley
tbh, if ~1/4 of the game is left, 12 levels should be about right
especially if you take in account the gear buffs + brainworm powers
feral valley
especially if you take in account the gear buffs + brainworm powers
i think this in general adds a lot of potential power to your chars, mby even gapping multiple levels.
the thing you lose out on -> spell slots and HP, but there are mulitple hp buffing items out there + the very generous longrest/shortrest system does not leave you too stranded for slots
they took the longer days, and more or less gave you option to rest before each encounter ( at least larger ones )
and there are them "super rest" potions amongst other means of recovering thingies, like the || pods @ meatplaces ||
fair marten
I have a question about the second part of act 1, ||do anyone know how to reach the lower section of the ancient forge?||
maiden parcel
I have a question about the second part of act 1, ||do anyone know how to reach ...
yeah, ||its not accessable in act 1, gotta wait till act 2||
maiden parcel
yeah, ||its not accessable in act 1, gotta wait till act 2||
||if you mean the temple off to the right, if you mean the forge. just jump down||
fair marten
||if you mean the temple off to the right, if you mean the forge. just jump down...
this
fair marten
thanks Weegy, this will be for later then
feral valley
he is in the location to access it, no?
maiden parcel
no?
feral valley
wait am i misremembering?
maiden parcel
i had to ||go through the shadowlands||
ultra spoilers(Don't click aisu)|| its the temple below Thorm's grave area||
feral valley
re || if you opened the cave-in, the doors with miasma, you should be able to ride the cart/platform above it to get in, then jump down, then jump down || 🤔
maiden parcel
oooh
feral valley
gotta reload 😄
maiden parcel
re ||see i was exploring too much and he just beefed it because i waited to long||
oblique quail
re || if you opened the cave-in, the doors with miasma, you should be able to ri...
||I assume you need to wait for them to clear out the miasma room via more long rests?||
feral valley
||I assume you need to wait for them to clear out the miasma room via more long ...
||no, iirc you go above it. im reloading to check if i misremember||
oblique quail
||no, iirc you go above it. im reloading to check if i misremember||
||The spot in Aisu's screenshot is just past the miasma room behind the cave-in that Nere was trapped behind.||
feral valley
||The spot in Aisu's screenshot is just past the miasma room behind the cave-in ...
location spoiler || you just get up on this platform, and ride over it ||
continued || pull the lever on the left side of the screen, while standing on platform, and you in the forge ||
oblique quail
location spoiler || you just get up on this platform, and ride over it ||
||And how does one get onto that platform?||
maiden parcel
Bunk thats a completely different area
feral valley
somehow (tm) 😄
oblique quail
Bunk thats a completely different area
That's the area just outside where Aisu was.
fair marten
another spoiler for one of the second part of act 1, ||i do love myself a level 18 cleric of life feat on an amulet ||
feral valley
Bunk thats a completely different area
re ||i mean that is the lower level of forge 🥲 ||
oblique quail
That room is the one you ||fight Nere in||.
||Or find a dead Nere in from having napped twice after accepting the quest to help try to "rescue" him.||
maiden parcel
I know it goes against the theme of the game, but i wish they had an option that let you know when a quest outcome would "change" like "x" amount of rests means this quest will not be the same as you pick up
hot warren
I mean in an adventure you never know that as well
I took a rest after going into the grove as I had no spell slots and was low HP , as a Wizard a death sentence.
Took a rest and a nearby event "expired"
Also
maiden parcel
yeah, hence why i started it with going against the theme of the game
hot warren
What do you call the child of Mike Tyson having fun with his mindflayer maid ?
|| his ilithid heir ||
oblique quail
What do you call the child of Mike Tyson having fun with his mindflayer maid ?
Mind Tyson
fair marten
you can't, Ilithid never partake in suck activities
maiden parcel
food
hot warren
looking for another hivemind then
fair marten
unless
feral valley
||act 2, can't access now|| -answer
ah, wait, yea. in reference to screenshot || you cant access there || in reference to first sentence before that screenshot- || the thing in my spoilers ||
fair marten
spoiler end of the first part of act 1, ||your the lucky one with arcane heirloom and a ring of mind shielding||
i do wonder if free Ilithids will try these activities that are for most of them a waste of time and energy
feral valley
we are aproaching court document levels of [redacted] 😄
hot warren
And I have to stay strong
maiden parcel
Lae'zel actually has a whole line of dialogue on how the Githyanki have sex
conversation*
feral valley
Lae'zel actually has a whole line of dialogue on how the Githyanki have sex
re || not in my playtrough, im exterminating them ||
but yea, i dont know what it is about them but their look and the way they talk leave me deeply uncomfortable 😄
fair marten
i can't stop to think there is something to do with ||these mask||, again spoiler second part of act 1
maiden parcel
@feral valley important q, ||did you find the chest that the flowery key from the One Hand Temple goes to? if so where is it?||
hollow tapir
Is the limit cap 12 or something? I keep seeing mods for levels and it's confusing me
maiden parcel
why 10 or why they gave us 2 extra levels?
hollow tapir
Why not 20?
maiden parcel
sequel
hollow tapir
Ah
maiden parcel
bg1 was 1-10ish, 2 was 10-20
i imagine its the same thing here
bg3 is 1-12, bg4 or dlc is 12-20
Wouldn't be surprised if the definitive edition that comes out in a year or two bumps it up to 16
but they also say its practicality and Pacing. adding 1-20 was simply too much content and balancing
oblique quail
Is the limit cap 12 or something? I keep seeing mods for levels and it's confusi...
Level limit without mods is 12, yes.
maiden parcel
any mod that bumps it up rn i doubt is any good
oblique quail
12 is a common level to end a tt campaign at, and leads into any potential DLC or sequel.
Would've been nice if it went to 14, lots of classes get their best stuff at 14, but 12 makes sense from a balance perspective.
maiden parcel
due to the scale, i doubt we'll get a sequel and the fact its a trilogy puts a nice bow on it
However, i do highly think we'll get a bunch of DLC in the form of mini-adventures
oblique quail
Or a full on expansion, as Larian's first ever proper Paid DLC.
maiden parcel
or full on expansion
My bet though, is that they'll make the Tales from the Yawning portal book into the DLC for the game
oblique quail
Would be the perfect game to do it with, too, unless they want to save it for DOS3, which they've said they'll be working on next.
maiden parcel
That im less excited about
DOS2 just... wasn't that fun
The number creep and system felt really poor compared to DnD and it really shows here
fair marten
the strange Ox is indeed extremely strange
hollow vortex
"Finish the Masterwork Weapon" quest: ||I finally found the bark and made the sword.. this is baller||
The acid damage is from one of Karlach's equipped gear enchantments
hollow tapir
Oh right, I should probably tell you guys there's a carry capacity mod now
hollow vortex
I talked to a frog in the swamp area after killing ||the hag|| and she lead me to a stash of valuables
hollow tapir
Also I'm annoyed I don't get all my spell slots back
hollow tapir
I talked to a frog in the swamp area after killing ||the hag|| and she lead me t...
|| I thought it was a person turned into a frog ||
I also found out that if you make Shadowheart hold an idol of Selune her approval of you tanks
hollow vortex
|| I thought it was a person turned into a frog ||
||there wasn't any indication of that in the speak with animals dialogue||
hollow tapir
Goblin Camp question || Is Minthara a companion? Because I killed her and she has a bunch of stuff a companion would ||
Also, can I take a long rest inside the goblin camp? They don't actually know I'm killing them all
hollow vortex
Think you can take a long rest anywhere tbh
hollow tapir
What about Minthara?
hollow vortex
No idea
oblique quail
Goblin Camp question || Is Minthara a companion? Because I killed her and she ha...
Eventually she becomes one.
Not in Act 1, though, in Act 1 she only ever acts as a temporary ally, ||if you side with her instead of the druids.||
oblique quail
If you're planning a "good route", she would've been incompatible with you anyway.
hollow tapir
Oh okay
oblique quail
She's the "Evil route" non-origin companion.
Halsin's the "Good Route" non-origin companion.
hollow tapir
Finally got my dream-visitor, now to decide whether or not to eat all these juicy tadpoles I have
FREEDOM
Free to be an absolute Loot Goblin!!!!
hollow vortex
I haven't had any issues with carryweight
hollow tapir
You're not a loot goblin then
oblique quail
I haven't had any issues with carryweight
How high is your strength though, and are you playing as a human? If you have high strength and are a human, you get a butt ton of Carry Weight from the strength and the +25% capacity from Human racial bonus.
hollow vortex
How high is your strength though, and are you playing as a human? If you have hi...
Half elf with 8 strength is my custom character and main packmule
hollow tapir
fair marten
"Finish the Masterwork Weapon" quest: ||I finally found the bark and made the sw...
this ||greatsword ||(spoiler weapon type) is soooooo strong, it's currently my best weapon on my warlock
hollow tapir
Speak with the dead looks so cool
hollow vortex
that it does
fair marten
i should try to take a screenshot from Astarion casting it, but later because i'm ded tired xwx
take care everyone and have fun on BD3
hollow tapir
Oh the Ilithid tree is very uncomfortable
oblique quail
Oh the Ilithid tree is very uncomfortable
The ||squirming and writhing and squealing, you mean||?
hollow tapir
Yes
oblique quail
But think of all the power you gain! :P
hollow tapir
I got a few, but I'm not sure it's a good idea
Damnit Mol, she completely glitched the guards
Oh I have to do a deception check for every character in my party, annoying
hollow tapir
There is also a mod to increase party size, and another mod to adjust the difficulty for the bigger party
hollow vortex
oooh nice
I might have to get those ones for my second run
it feels a lil awkward to have half of the origin folk along with me, and half just sitting around at camp
feral valley
<@269110111962791937> important q, ||did you find the chest that the flowery key...
Re || ye, it is for an attic room door, that is disguised as a closet|| ( didnt read convo after question, just woke up )
halcyon flume
Why do I have to go work today, I'd rather be doing more things in act 1 not progressing the main story
halcyon flume
After I eventually finish this first run of mine, I'm going dark urge murder mode
hollow vortex
I got pushed into lava and mcfriggin died
hollow tapir
feral valley
Its always fun when you position yourself for a great push with last m of movement, but an enemy has the same idea and slaps you off the ledge instead 😄
hollow vortex
lol
halcyon flume
I had to reload one big fight multiple times because I was in a position that lead to one of my people being insta-killed on multiple occasions
The tactic that ended up working was hiding up a ladder with a big AOE concentration spell at the bottom
And any time an enemy climbed the ladder, they get Eldritch blasted off again
halcyon flume
I've been having Wyll in my party, (character spoiler) ||he's such a good tiefling||
hollow vortex
hah
I wonder, is there some kind of checklist out there I can look at before continuing? Cuz I'm not sure what all else I have left to do in act 1
whole cedar
I've been having Wyll in my party, (character spoiler) ||he's such a good tiefli...
wouldn't he ||count as a devil|| more than a ||tiefling||
feral valley
I couldnt solve one encounter, so i ended up stealing bunch of explosive barrels, stacked them up to where the main baddie usually lands/starts, equipped wizard with initiative gear and exploded them on first turn 😄
whole cedar
stealth was broken before they fully released the game
so I would abuse it
alas, It's not as broken but it's still pretty good
feral valley
I wonder, is there some kind of checklist out there I can look at before continu...
i think main thing is - dont worry about the checklist too much. especially if you will play again at some point.
If you miss something, you might be able to do it later, if not it can change story and still work out. ( and doing everything also changes some bits )
hollow vortex
alright
feral valley
That said - if you want to romance karlach, do find her quest things 😄
not sure how realistic is finding them in act 3 as i have not went thru it yet
And if some quests will become unavailable, the NPCs usually are fairly obvious about "i will move, make sure to interact with me"
hollow vortex
with Karlach's quest: ||I recruited her after the grove refugees left, so I can't go to the guy who said he was an infernal smith to talk about Karlach's heart with||
whole cedar
with Karlach's quest: ||I recruited her after the grove refugees left, so I can'...
||You'll find him in baldur's gate||
hollow vortex
alright good
feral valley
alright good
||you can also meet him in act 2||
hollow vortex
I'm pretty sure by this point that I've explored all of the act 1 map that isn't the Underdark
less sure about that part, but ||I've found my way to Grymforge and fought Nere. Dude was a bastard and a half to kill||
hollow vortex
What level should I aim to be when I go through the mountain pass?
feral valley
if i remember correctly - the game warns you, if your level is too low for area
hot warren
if i remember correctly - the game warns you, if your level is too low for area
*the dm warns you
„Do you really want to go that way ?“
hollow vortex
bruh
I go to the ||Zhentarim|| hideout
they let me in, saying oh you saved our buddy
and then I walk inside and the entire bloody place explodes
ah
that's some nonsense
They had oil all over the floor, and somehow me holding a torch (in my hand, far above the floor) detonates it all
hot warren
fuuuuuuumes
feral valley
@ romancing characters - act 3 start spoiler(-ish) ||They talk about the bear seduction... lol... but they dont talk about the more special ones 😄 a mind flayer just tried to get naughty with me ||
storm horizon
I guess there are no functional release mods yet for adding items? I think i locked myself out of a quest. ||I just autocrafted timmask spores at unknown point in time as i continued exploring. I have also destroyed all the mushrooms. Now i can't get those tadpole eye drops||
halcyon flume
What quest is that a spoiler for?
storm horizon
Its act 1 underdark
scarlet girder
I guess there are no functional release mods yet for adding items? I think i loc...
||The Arcane Tower has what you need.||
storm horizon
Yes, but unfortunately ||the spores count as crafting ingredients and aren't locked as a quest item. I continued exploring rest of the underdark and beyond and hit the "craft all ingredients" button in the herbalist window several times before i went back for the quest. That was likely 10+h ago in save when i picked them up||
And as always with these games: "i'll just look at that last corner" and you end up in Narnia fighting space mushrooms.
halcyon flume
That reminds me that I need to go back there and properly explore it since I ran away since I was level 3 at the time and I'm level 5 now
storm horizon
Can you go back? No "story progress" that lock you out of old areas?
maiden parcel
Re || ye, it is for an attic room door, that is disguised as a closet|| ( didnt ...
where? i can't find it
nevermind got it
fair marten
just throwing a random theory about the strange Ox, don't tell me if i'm right or wrong ||the strange Ox is a conduit of The Absolute||
hot warren
just throwing a random theory about the strange Ox, don't tell me if i'm right o...
|| I think its just someone polymorphed ||
fair marten
|| I think its just someone polymorphed ||
||i'm probably sticking to much on the spell descriptions, but isn't polymorph locked on turning people into sheep? if anything it can be that, a level 21-29 druid, a victim of a Wish spell or a sneaky "divine" conduit||
fair marten
oh yeah, pretty sure you can use it to turn anyone into almost anything
a good control or wonderful defensive tool for wizards
you thought you reach the flimsy wizard? your now next to a red dragon
storm horizon
Polymorph into yourself right after long rest.
maiden parcel
The official 5e rules is that you can only polymorph into something your character has seen
plucky tapir
I’m just
Having the thought of a wizard who periodically tries to polymorph into a mimic whenever they see a chest
They don’t think they’ve see one, but there’s an easy way to check
fair marten
i mean, you can always ray of frost the chest
whole cedar
You can always fire ball it
fair marten
also i wanna ask, it's me or potent cantrip doesn't always work? Gale end up missing a lot of cantrips
plucky tapir
i mean, you can always ray of frost the chest
You can but this is funnier :p
fair marten
this feat just make anyone targeted by a cantrip take at least half damage right? no way of missing them
storm horizon
can it halve 1 damage to 0/miss? or guarantees 1
fair marten
i don't know, but it's impossible because at level 6 every damaging cantrip deal 2 damage minimum
other than eldritch blast
storm horizon
And i guess resistances would still show 0 damage or resisted in log
fair marten
yeah, but it only show miss
storm horizon
It seems it only applies to cantrips with a save roll
fair marten
maybe it's only limited to ray of frost? i'm focusing gale on ice damage (because when dealing ice damage he have a chance to make the target vulnerable to ice damage)
storm horizon
they take half damage if they succeed a save roll.
but if it has no save rolls, it does not apply
fair marten
but if they succed they also doesn't take the additional effect
maybe said additional effect is tied to the damage
storm horizon
ray of frost has no saves i believe? But it works with it?
fair marten
well it inflict ray of front on impact, so there is a "saving" throw with the target AC
storm horizon
i think this is just the cold effect saving throw. but not for the damage.
fair marten
OR, it's because Gale have an equipment that make dealing cold damage making target vulnerable
storm horizon
only poison spray, bone chill , acid splash explicitly say there is a save
yes, the +1 cold damage gear likely always applies.
fair marten
||mourning frost|| weapon spoiler
another thing amulet spoiler it's me or ||periath of wound closure only maximize healing magic on self||
storm horizon
so the potent cantrip does look rather sad overall
https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/Spells
not that many cantrips with saves
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1086940/discussions/2/3110267314120219157/ looks like it's correct. only 2 cantrips are affected
fair marten
for real? damn it all
is there a merchant selling a scroll of acid splash/bone chill?
(this must be one of the busted thing wizard can do in BD3, just copying cantrip for almost nothing)
storm horizon
may need to check multiple, the inventory should reset on long rest/level up
but is there even a scroll for cantrips?
Likely better option is the class reset and choose different ones.
fair marten
i think yeah, i remember looting a scroll of mage hand or shocking grasp and noting it in Gale's spellbook
storm horizon
Wish they also had a special "spellbook" you could autostack all the scrolls into.
oblique quail
so the potent cantrip does look rather sad overall
https://baldursgate3.wiki.fe...
Highly recommend using this BG3 wiki instead of Fextra's. https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Main_Page
Fextra's "Wikis" are a blight on wikis, due to his hyper-gaming of Search Engine Optimization in order to push his "wikis" of games over any actual fanmade ones, with the main intent being to push his Twitch Streams even harder via the embeds for the streams on the "wikis". Also the editing policy on Fextra's "wikis" after a few months have passed since a game's release are very draconian, and leads to wikis that are unable to properly inform players in the long run.
(Fextra himself is a perfectly fine guy, it's just his "wikis" are garbage and exist almost solely to push his Twitch streams via hypergaming of Search Engine Optimization with people trying to look up information on various large games, with very draconian editing policies in place in order to protect that SEO potential.)
scarlet girder
IMO Fextra is kinda meh.
Using a series of wikis to exploit twitch's auto-play embedded streams to boost his channel is kinda skeezy.
hot warren
Its not skeeyz
its straight up scum
The chat is dead most of the time on their channel
The views are entirely artificial and not even viewing the channel
Twitch does nothing because money
oblique quail
Other than his wikis being garbage for actual information in the long run and pushing out other wikis via his hypergaming of SEO, there's nothing really that bad about him. No drama beyond the "SEO-Wikis to Push his Streams" nonsense.
hot warren
The moment twitch would dissallow embedding from this source their channel would collapse
I'd rather use fandom
oblique quail
Anyway, use https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Main_Page, guys. It's fanmade, rather than Fextra, so it's not going to have the draconian editing policy to maintain peak SEO.
Also help edit it, if you can, they need as much help as they can get with making sure all the pages are made and filled in.
storm horizon
Is any camp persistent or they wipe anything dropped?
oblique quail
All camp variations seem to be persistent, far as I can tell.
||Shadowheart killed Lae in the generic Act 1 surface environ camp somewhat early into Act 1, her body was still there as I was heading into the Mountain Pass.||
storm horizon
For now, i put dead mimics into camp storage. Can decorate later.
oblique quail
Each camp variation seems to be it's own thing, though, as the random bit of Mugwort near Gale keeps showing up again each time I get a new variation.
halcyon flume
act 1 underdark spoilers ||(adamantite forge)||
||Yeah, thinking about it now, using the forge hammer would've been a smart idea, but hey, I got an achievement out of not thinking outside the box||
storm horizon
Somethign bugged out shafowheart and i'm not sure when. She can't teleport anymore to camp or waypoints. no debuffs, not encumbered
had to force her to commit suicide to reset.
hot warren
HOLY SHIT
Wander
you still playing Dark Urge ???
I know the Urge is about this wicked evil side in you
but JESUS CHRIST
Watch at own disgression
but again
JESUS CHRIST
storm horizon
I stopped and restarted early. Didn't like where it was going. Not for main playthrough.
||early on the Wizard was stuck in a portal, so he ripped his arm off instead of helping him out||
hollow vortex
interesting gloves
hollow vortex
Don't think I have it
hollow vortex
huh
protip
if you need to flip a lever or button that's like a mile away
cast firebolt or some other cantrip on it
it'll flip
maiden parcel
@ember aurora how did you enjoy the first two hours?
ember aurora
<@188095410924027904> how did you enjoy the first two hours?
Seems decent enough but runs into the same problem I have with all games of this type. I never feel like I'l playing the character I want to.
scarlet girder
I restarted my Dark Urge run.
ember aurora
Also a complete lack of interest in the story line so far. It's not bad, just doesnt hook me
ember aurora
That's why I never made it past fort joy
scarlet girder
||I killed the companion Bard on the first night and noped out of that character.||
maiden parcel
it gets super interesting around midway through act 2
Which is sadly between 25-50 hours in
scarlet girder
Does the Tadpole ||stop being the only thing talked about? Because I want the thing out so I can hear other topics.||
ember aurora
I understand that games can't dish everything out from the begining. But I HATE how often I hear "it gets good 20 hours in"
maiden parcel
Does the Tadpole ||stop being the only thing talked about? Because I want the th...
re|| yeah it really opens up and goes beyond the tadpole then. You only have to deal with constant tadpole talk until the start of act 2. then it gets super interesting, especially with JK Simmions characters it gets great||
||And the Tadpole talk gets interesting, especially with the concept of "are you still good or corrupted?" and much more spoilery stuff||
maiden parcel
I understand that games can't dish everything out from the begining. But I HATE ...
yeah its honestly the games worst feature
also|| lae'zel and shadowheart are essentially the main characters, not the MC or anyone else. ||
hollow vortex
I am loving using the Spirit Guardians spell with Shadowheart. Cast it and walk up to someone and they just die
maiden parcel
honestly though the game is probably the most accessable cRPG, though calling it a cRPG feels like a stretch to me
Its carved out its own niche rather then being a cRPG and a RPG
or an RPG*
feral valley
Spirit guardians is mega field clearer, very much like
super convenient when you gotta fight infinite enemies with 3hp too 😄
hollow vortex
Grymforge spoilers: ||The adamantine forge made a set of godly armour||
Cont. ||What did all of you make there?||
More cont. ||The Grymskull helm the boss dropped is pretty epic too||
oblique quail
Cont. ||What did all of you make there?||
||Nothing, I skipped it because it was a crashfest (the Crash to Desktop kind). No crashes since deciding to leave it behind.||
oblique quail
Grymforge spoilers: ||The adamantine forge made a set of godly armour||
||Also, unless you respecced Karlach out of Barb, she really shouldn't be wearing that chestplate. Barbs have that whole "Unarmored Defense" thing going on.||
hollow vortex
Wait, they do?
oblique quail
Yeah, Barbs have that feature.
It's why Karlach starts with an AC-less bit of gear in her Chestplate slot, when you recruit her.
halcyon flume
Cont. ||What did all of you make there?||
||I made that same armour, and also a shield||
In other news, I've reached level 6, and I haven't gotten to act 2 yet, still in act 1
hollow vortex
||I made that same armour, and also a shield||
||I also made that shield, actually||
In other underdark inquiries: ||How do I reach the Arcane Tower? I tried to get past those turrets but they're freaking lethal||
halcyon flume
In other underdark inquiries: ||How do I reach the Arcane Tower? I tried to get ...
||If you can get to the base of the tower, you can power the generator and it turns the turrets off, either that or run through like a maniac||
hollow vortex
||If you can get to the base of the tower, you can power the generator and it tu...
||Is there an alternate route to that generator than past the turrets?||
halcyon flume
||Is there an alternate route to that generator than past the turrets?||
||I personally just ran through, but you might be able to get around with liberal use of feather fall||
maiden parcel
In other underdark inquiries: ||How do I reach the Arcane Tower? I tried to get ...
Re|| Use blunt damage, that and sending one guy out in front of party can down the turrets fast and easy||
fair marten
welp i think i went too far too fast, vendors only sell scrolls for spells of level 2 and above TwT
hollow vortex
Where can I check a companion's spellcasting attribute?
oblique quail
Where can I check a companion's spellcasting attribute?
Spellbook tab, 2nd one at the top of the inventory menu if they can cast spells.
hollow vortex
27 hours exactly on the save file, heading to act 2
fair marten
Astalion casting Speak with Dead (spoiler in case doesn't want to be spoiled)
hollow vortex
neat helmet
fair marten
he does look cool in drow scout armor
scarlet girder
Oh jeez. ||Letting Volo have a crack at the parasite is... traumatizing.||
fair marten
Oh jeez. ||Letting Volo have a crack at the parasite is... traumatizing.||
very very much
oblique quail
Oh jeez. ||Letting Volo have a crack at the parasite is... traumatizing.||
||Permanent Free See Invisibility, though, from his Ersatz Eye he gives you afterwards.||
||That Ersatz Eye has come in useful so many times.||
whole cedar
|| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viE-RcTtKdE ||
HOLY HELL
storm horizon
||I killed the companion Bard on the first night and noped out of that character...
The exact moment i restarted as a wizard.
scarlet girder
I'm very glad I had it, but the whole section had us low key screaming.
hollow vortex
This game doesn't shy away from the gore huh
feral valley
Well, damn it... saves started bricking with 304,116 error code after last update 🤦♂️
At least some older ones are ok and i made a copy of them just now
Experienced no other issues till now, quite sucks that it happened now
That said - good that i had save after one encounter that i worked on for hours xD - Act 3 spoilers related to raphael || raphaels house of hope fight is great, even if its a bit tedious, and has banging soundtrack. 😄 and you might regret or enjoy some past choices in that one ||
hot warren
Also dont know if it was said but Spell level and caster levels dont work like normal DnD
They just add the total spellcaster level and apply it to all classes of you
feral valley
welp, i guess this is how my run ends, saves are screwed after latest update.
every time i save / quicskave it does not manage to fully save and load does not work for newer saves. sucks.
halcyon flume
Guess it's time to finally move on, after doing what I think is literally every quest I am capable of
halcyon flume
welp, i guess this is how my run ends, saves are screwed after latest update.
ev...
Well, I'd say look on the bright-side, you can try a new run with different character and race
the game seems like it can have a lot of difference based on even that choice
finally
feral valley
What bright side? i was almost done with the game @ end of act 3, lvl 12, the only time for playing till october was this week.
Anyways, hopefully they will patch it at some point. will check out later i guess.
feral valley
will check later if there are some fixes applicable to my situation, but on quick glace it seems like its not really know what causes these and im not the only one with save corruption happening ( seemingly precisely in the same way -> game only writes partial save 18 mb instead of full 32 mb )
could try reverting to the previous game version too
feral valley
naa, they are probably mega overloaded atm
save bugs require lots of time to solve usually
and they seem to not be commenting on the topics with that issue
feral valley
We did some debugging on our side, one guy dissected save file-files and i did some running around, and it seems, like maybe its related with game going over some kind of internal buffer. once savegames size reaches certain size - it seems to collapse in on itself.
can save fine within one room, as soon as i move a little bit or interact - it corrupts itself ( seemingly the magic number is 33 mb )
on one hand if thats correct - should be relatively easy fix
on other hand - might not quite be the thing
the worse news - if it is true -> the more content one consumes/explores the more likely one is to get this.
tho we did not verify it with others, if someone else is in act3 ( weeg? ) could you check out the latest save size? (c:\Users%uysername%\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\PlayerProfiles\Public\Savegames\Story\ )
halcyon flume
Hmm, that could certainly be problematic, given I have just progressed into act 2 after many many hours, meaning my save file can certainly be big
I just got to act 2, I might be in danger at this rate
maiden parcel
I'll check in a bit bunk
But also
i love the cats
and their responses when you have speak with animals
feral valley
Aw yes, they are great 😄
maiden parcel
"Don't talk to me ape-slave"
feral valley
I just got to act 2, I might be in danger at this rate
It seems like they clear the save-file size between acts or some situations ( dont have to track act 2 anymore? ) - so you should be good for act 2 ( tho maybe mine was just smaller? no idea, gotta check more 😄 )
plucky tapir
I took Bard purely because I saw speak with animals on their spell list
And didn’t feel like doing a Druid
plucky tapir
(Oh, and also Feather Fall which in a game like this I know enables shenanigans)
halcyon flume
I've used feather fall for some shenanigans
mainly circumventing some awkward spots in the underdark
oblique quail
Paladin also gives it
Ancients Paladin only, though.
Minthara doesn't have SwA on her list, due to not being an Ancients Paladin.
scarlet girder
You can easily respec her though.
oblique quail
I'm already playing as a Bard, so I don't need to respec Minthara to Ancients Pally for SwA.
feral valley
y, that would be neat qol
oblique quail
like how pathfinder is
Owlcat's autolevel is trash though.
maiden parcel
better then none
oblique quail
Some of them barely work on Normal Difficulty, they're so trash.
feral valley
its not like BG3 does not have higher level templates for more than one companion
could just produce "this how the final one should look and feel in their story" and auto add the spells/skills
most of the things are fairly streamlined anyways, it would just require autoselecting couple spells/cantrips and feats more or less
maiden parcel
act 3 spoilers ||FUCKING ETHEL IS BACK. I'll KILL YOU AGAIN ||
oblique quail
act 3 spoilers ||FUCKING ETHEL IS BACK. I'll KILL YOU AGAIN ||
I mean, ||the "Disadvantage against Hags" effect on the Hag Eye you can get from her would be pretty worthless as far as downsides go, if you didn't get to fight another Hag for the rest of the game.||
oblique quail
|| count the toes ||
||10 toes. I'm guessing there's only supposed to be 9?||
hot warren
Yep Hero
oblique quail
Yep Hero
||Maybe this was stolen from "elsewhere". :P||
||The animal kingdom is full of really weird looking rods, after all.||
maiden parcel
Really like how the game ties into 1 and 2
fair marten
I have a very accurate question regarding Shadowheart in the second Act. (Heavy spoiler for Shadowheart's story line)
||If you decide to side with Selune and not kill Nightsong without changing Shadowheart's class, does she become a cleric of the Moon?||
hollow tapir
I would also like to know
oblique quail
||She learns an ability based on which route you take, but the only "functional" change is her hair, and an extra tag if you go Dark Justiciar route rather than "Spare the Nightsong" route.||
hollow tapir
hm
fair marten
a little question about the relationship you can forge with an origin story character, I am locked out of continuing it if i have the option
||"I regret we didn't had the chance to continue forging our relation... i feel like there is no way back"||
or something that sound like that, i'm at the beginning of act 3
fair marten
i don't really want to be locked out of my romance option because i didn't long rest enough time before act 3, like i think i did 6 long rest so far
hollow tapir
How? How did you manage to use so little?
On another note, I finally got to the Volo thing and, it’s ... a thing
Still not sure if it was worth it because Dragonborn eyes look really cool
oblique quail
How? How did you manage to use so little?
Bards and Warlocks are a potent combo.
hollow tapir
Meanwhile I’m over here modding in more spellslots and modifying short rests just so I can do multiple battles between long rests instead of just one
I also discovered that the eldritch blast I got from the spell sniper feat I got on my sorcerer levels up like a warlocks does
oblique quail
Are you playing on Explorer, or Balanced? If Explorer, there's apparently a bug right now where the Explorer bonuses are applied to the enemies instead of the Player.
So it's basically a case of "Tactician, Balanced, Tactician" for the difficulties.
halcyon flume
I picked tactician, if the bonuses are applied wrong, then maybe it's secretly been on easy for me :p
hollow vortex
Early act 2 ||Damn shadowheart, that's brutal
||
halcyon flume
We did some debugging on our side, one guy dissected save file-files and i did s...
hotfix has fixed that
halcyon flume
It might not fix an already dead save, but it should stop future saves from dying
feral valley
I have working saves, so that is all good, the problem was progressing
Swung by home - opened - tested - saves seem to be working properly now 😄
heck yes.
The curse of "Bunk, you played too much baldurs gate this week, stop" has been lifted 😄
Can continue with my day in better mood
fair marten
How? How did you manage to use so little?
3 long rest to complete act 1, 2 long rest to complete act 2, one last long rest to progress toward act 3. I think abusing potion throwing and having z cleric of life help a lot
feral valley
yea, potion throwing is great for Upping downed allies
bonus action for raising instead of action ( potion throwing was bonus action, right? )
fair marten
Gale was almost at 100 approval before the third long rest
Nope throwing is an action
feral valley
ah, misremembered, anyways - beter return 😄
fair marten
But if you throw a potion, they make a small cloud of healing potion multiple people can heal from
Also for some reason, clerics of life heal more with potions. I don't know why
fair marten
please tell me the relation is not tied to current act progression i really don't want to replay 40+ hours only for that
maiden parcel
Shouldn't
Theres limits, but theres no missing
Like you can't push Shadowhearts romance past a certain point before act 3, but you can intiate it anywhere
fair marten
beginning of act 3 i got a choice in Gale's dialogue option "clearly" stating i did not did enough with him
plucky tapir
...Should I be long resting more? I've only done it once, maybe twice so far in act 1 (having just gotten to the blighted village)
hot warren
I use too many spells for that
fair marten
what the hell man, i really should replay through the entirety of act 2
only because i should have played on Strategist and LR accordingly
halcyon flume
When you try and do everything possible, you end up needing to LR at times
fair marten
yeah, this is why i only have 8 total LR on my 70h savefile
7 sorry
3 in act 1, then the obligatory one when you go from act 1 to act 2
2 in act 2 then the obligatory one from act 2 to 3
i may have cheesed some encounters thanks to some quirky items and stealth
and abusing turn-based mode outside of combat to engage combats with Astarion
like... with this amount of LR i'm not locked out of Shadowheart's romance but i'm locked out of Gale's one
HEY GOOD NEWS
i can do all that from the point in time when i did not enter the (spoiler for act 2) ||shadowfell|| and lock me out of act 1
that is only a 10 hour set back
feral valley
please tell me the relation is not tied to current act progression i really don'...
You can miss certain things. Im not sure all are reversible
For example for karlach romance you kinda need some other story beats happening
halcyon flume
I assume it's the obvious story beat
fair marten
well for Gale it was for some reason, saying i wanted to see more of him in act 1 (||so prior to the stabilization|| further in act 2)
another great thing, i can just partial rest to complete these
now i just hope the ||stabilization|| event doesn't mess things up because Gale said he could envision more about the relationship while unstable
feral valley
I assume it's the obvious story beat
Re: kinda, but also missable if understand correctly, spoiler on the person you need to meet || im not sure if the preson survives to the 3rd act or if there are alternatives, but you need tiefling blacksmith from act 1 sanctuary, and they move when traveling to city ||
neon osprey
pffff, just cast thunderwave for the first time. thing's so broken compared to the ttrpg
maiden parcel
@feral valley do you know how to dispell the doll in act 3?
feral valley
<@269110111962791937> do you know how to dispell the doll in act 3?
Havent found it yet(know the context) , where is it? Would guess - remove curse spell
Will return to bg on sunday
fair marten
i was kinda right about Gale's relationship path, (spoiler in case anyone want to discover it.)
First step, ||after providing him enough artifacts|| (act 1)
Second step, ||after encountering Elminster(stabilize the netherin orb) and defeating the big boss on top of the tower|| (act 2)
Third step?, ||after preventing him from doing a war crime||(end of act 2)
feral valley
i was kinda right about Gale's relationship path, (spoiler in case anyone want t...
Re || gale was a bit of an ass, as a dude char i shut him down hard with his first advance and he still tried to sex me another time after 😅 ||
fair marten
Re || gale was a bit of an ass, as a dude char i shut him down hard with his fir...
i'll give Gale a fair trial, ||he was an ass when he was needing an artifact to absorb but the dude only wanted to prevent blowing a quarter of the sword coast, other than his rude begging i didn't had any negative dialogues from him||
aah shite, sorry for pinging you
maybe because i'm a chaotic good type of player
feral valley
No worries 😄 i very much like gales char development in general, core party member
Additional || im going for supporting his crown ambition ||
fair marten
can't really say no to a wizard! always useful to have a magical toolbox at your disposal
even more when you run warlock on custom character
combat engagement in turn-base mode.
Cast Ice storm or fireball, instant combat start with action recovery into another cast
with my warlock i do the same but only with fireball oor another wide area spell / summon
plucky tapir
Me, over here where the most “that’s cool” thing I’ve done so far is broadly abuse Mage Hand:
fair marten
how to you manage to give cold damage to spells? i proobably missed a magical item --'
feral valley
I kinda want to make electric barbarian(or palladin) next run, there are boots that apply lightning to all wet surfaces you are on when moving, and a lot of gear that generates lightning charges when moving/interacting
feral valley
how to you manage to give cold damage to spells? i proobably missed a magical it...
its an item, y
hot warren
I'mma try and make my wizard a mario build
fair marten
ah yes, you strengh wizard
hot warren
Some items and spells related to jumping and I already have a few
plucky tapir
Me, over here where the most “that’s cool” thing I’ve done so far is broadly abu...
“Oh I don’t have any trap disarm kits”
“But I can leave a mage hand next to the off button”
hot warren
Wizard Barbarian Multiclass it will most likely be
feral valley
its an item, y
item spoiler
fair marten
item spoiler
||fireball inflict a condition?||
feral valley
||fireball inflict a condition?||
||fireball can inflict burn or something similar iirc||
plucky tapir
||Fireball makes people catch fire, news at 11 :p||
fair marten
i mean.... yeah but aren't fire spells only able to lit things on fire only if they are not on someone?
feral valley
tbh, im not sure how it works precisely, but i know i have made enemies crusty after casting fire ( or mby it was because of some other effect applying )
i wonder if ground effects also counts as you causing them
because if it does - by extension you also cause fire effect to the enemies that get ground effect
perhaps. 😄 anyways it was a fun synergy
i like the item effects in the game
hollow vortex
can you cast revivify on dead NPCs/non-party members?
hollow vortex
dang
fair marten
maybe there is a mod for that on the nexus
hollow tapir
Haven’t seen one
hollow vortex
being able to bring back like, a quest important npc who died in the crossfire of a fight, would be nice
oblique quail
can you cast revivify on dead NPCs/non-party members?
Revivify is a Larianbrew thing, and only works on recruited companions.
hollow vortex
sad
oblique quail
being able to bring back like, a quest important npc who died in the crossfire o...
Speak with Dead.
hollow vortex
ehhh there's that but
Well, end-of-act-1 spoilers: ||There's that NPC you rescue from the goblins that strapped him to a windmill, with the amulet looking for his buddy. You later encounter him in grymforge enslaved by the Duergar there, mining out the dude stuck in the cave in. He died for me in that fight and I was wondering what would've happened if I could revive him and help him out||
Cont. ||As it stands, I've got that amulet in my bags||
fair marten
spoiler act 3 necklace : ||it's me or this little beauty on an evocation wizard is completely busted? sad part being the evocation feat only cover evocation cantrips||
hollow vortex
why I am so tempted to start a second, villain playthru
I'm barely into act 2
on another note, friend shared this screenie with me O.o
salami is equippable
hollow vortex
Villain playthru begins: Dark urge halfling called Mad Madeline
hot warren
Prove the dog evilness theory
hollow vortex
The what?
hot warren
Cut their shins , stab em where it hurts
oblique quail
Cut off their legs, make them smaller, and thus more full of evil.
hollow vortex
But then how will she walk?
oblique quail
With magic.
plucky tapir
why I am so tempted to start a second, villain playthru
Because you’re seeing bad options and wondering “how would that go”?
halcyon flume
I'm barely into act 2
Same
Barely into act 2, but still itching to play a different character from start
hollow vortex
Because you’re seeing bad options and wondering “how would that go”?
too true
halcyon flume
Just unlocked the greatest achievement
maiden parcel
Now i've hit 12
earnest crypt
on another note, friend shared this screenie with me O.o
I wonder how you would be able to maximize Salami damage.
storm horizon
Time for another weekend. Might reach Act2 this now.
Accidentally played drums (poor performance), someone didn't like it. ||Blurg: Musicians are wankers||
hot warren
Weegy , intending to use the mod for 13-20 ?
storm horizon
Is there a way tyo wash yourself without a full rest? I'm constantly covered in blood in dialogues.
fair marten
why using the mod that extend levels? BD3 is a lvl 1-12 campaign if i'm not mistaking
plucky tapir
Because some people want to get to 5e’s max rather than the campaign’s max
maiden parcel
What is an "Atelier"
plucky tapir
A fancy word for workshop
maiden parcel
Thank
plucky tapir
Usually but not always in fiction one that doubles as a specialty shop
(See the Atelier franchise of crafting focused rpgs)
storm horizon
spike growth sucks after combat. it lasts 10 minutes :/
hot warren
Welcome to the reality of DnD spells
and how long they actually last
Cloud of daggers is the same
storm horizon
Oh wait. had to google.
Apparently you can cancel concentration - but it's a tiny icon under the left side profile
hot warren
I once cast it in a spot where I trapped myself
storm horizon
wish i knew this 40 hours ago
maiden parcel
Yeah it really needs to be bigger
Or have an option to auto cancel concentrate spells after combat ends
hollow tapir
Yeah
earnest crypt
why using the mod that extend levels? BD3 is a lvl 1-12 campaign if i'm not mist...
I am of the idea that, if you're using an XP system, you should feel somewhat rewarded and level up accordingly. And more levels (just multiclass) are mostly for fun.
Though I am still at 8 and at end of act 2, I still believe having the choice is better.
(First run is modless.)
hot warren
Same
earnest crypt
Act 2 Spoilers ||I decided to go one route on Act 2 and I somewhat regret not doing other things, but I decided to iron-man my decisions and Diplo rolls.||
ember aurora
Level caps kill games for me really. I hate hitting the point where I can't level up more and have dropped games over it. It's kinda a thing of why bother fighting or doing quests if I can't get the full benefit from it
earnest crypt
Twitter
hot warren
Also again for spells since we are talking about those with the lvl cap
Known spells are determined by caster level and not class level
halcyon flume
Oh wait. had to google.
Apparently you can cancel concentration - but it's a ti...
I found that out when I had a spell like that, and needed to find a way to cancel it as it was in front of me and I needed to go that way
ember aurora
Would have a much easier time playing if it weren't for Shadowhearts hair
maiden parcel
slap a helmet on her
ember aurora
Intend to as soon as possible.
scarlet girder
I call this tactic: you shall not pass.
Wall of fire, cloud of daggers, and spirit guardians. I've killed 20+ undead who keep running through this hell gauntlet.
And then Halsin just walked through it all and almost died because he's a dumb NPC.
maiden parcel
for that wander
if you(or others) ||save nightsong, you have to heal her between encounters with cure wounds or such otherwise she won't heal||
they either need to make vital NPC allies immune to friendly fire or we can revivify them
storm horizon
I decided to go ahead and get Volos help. ||The needle and icepick, combined with the sound effects were uncomfortable to watch||
hot warren
Also Cloud of Daggers wiped my party twice already
Because dumb NPC
I surrounded two big shots with cloud of dagger and my party around to deal hits
Fight ended and those idiots walked towards me straight through the cloud...
Insta wipe
And I dont mean down
maiden parcel
Don't hit temp allies with it as well(green borders)
hot warren
It was so fast and I was so far away they just got killed while downed
maiden parcel
Otherwise after combat they'll turn on you
hot warren
They werent inside it
they walked into it after combat...
in real time mode
No sense of self preservation
halcyon flume
if you(or others) ||save nightsong, you have to heal her between encounters with...
Good to know
neon osprey
got a crew of 4 players, and I'm the archery rogue. most of my share of the gold has been spent on specialty arrows, and there's a knockback one.
best part of all players? no NPCs to blunder into AoE spells.
halcyon flume
I'm in a all player group, it's nice, although I am always confused where we're going
and with items, I always hoard them and never actually use them
neon osprey
yeah, we've had to sprint across levels to join combat twice already, and we're still in early act 1. ||the well||
storm horizon
37h act 1
halcyon flume
I was around 50 hours in when I left act 1
act 2 has been going a lot quicker though
maiden parcel
which is shocking
since they said act 2 is the longest/most content
but it feels the shortest compared to act 1 and 3
halcyon flume
mind, I haven't really explored nearly as completely as I did act 1
and I already went through a point of no return
maiden parcel
I think thats how they mean it
its a much more diverse and different options
and thats where all the content is, many runs
ember aurora
Act 2 has the most content. You can just only do so much in a run
halcyon flume
I didn't mean to go through a point of no return, but when the pop-up appeared, I was just like "f it"
to give context on my point of no return (obvious act 2 spoilers)
||I made shadowheart a selunite, freeing the nightsinger||
maiden parcel
to give context on my point of no return (obvious act 2 spoilers)
||I made shado...
||Her real name is somehow cooler then "Nightsong" Dame Aylin||
maiden parcel
ORin
TERRIFYING
I wish they introduced the three big bads they had in the ads in act 1 and 2
fair marten
i would have loved if they introduced them earlier, man Orin's aura is so.... i don't know how to put it
maiden parcel
Bum-clenching
as it works, it works amazingly
and wanting to have the characters introduced earlier just because of how the buildup has made them terrifying is amazing credit to writing
but Orin is just., Bum-clenching look over your shoulder fear
fair marten
i'll put this under spoiler without context
maiden parcel
straight to the point
fair marten
instrument? i only shout very loudly
hollow vortex
So I'm a level 3 barbarian/berserker subclass, what should I multiclass into?
I wanna try that out
hollow tapir
Fighter? Paladin?
fair marten
this angery man specialize in forcing people soil their pants, oneway or another
plucky tapir
Still in act 1, a bit after the blighted town and the toll place
||Wyll's patron just showing up in camp is definitely going to inspire some DMs to make more chatty and present patrons for warlocks||
fair marten
10 at base, 4 from unarmored defense, 2 from the gloves
and mage armor?
wait does unarmored defense and mage armor even stack together?
hollow tapir
Clothes exist
fair marten
yeah but clothes doesn't give AC, and i hardly believe you can gain a woping 3 AC from 1 necklace and 1 ring
hollow tapir
I just meant you could equip something in the torso slot
fair marten
oh dear lord no, i think i know. it must be a dark urge thing
there is LOADS of disturbing things on Dark Urge that give you broken buffs to help you with your lack of living allies
i'll put this one under spoiler for 2 reasons: first it's disturbing and disgusting as heck and second it's broken
||you'll cut your genitalia off for a +10 in intelligence||
hollow vortex
you launched the goblins at'em?
||First, I let the druid kill the kid with the snake. Then I went to Zevlor and convinced him to pay me to kill Kagha, and did so which sparked a civil war in the grove, leading to a bloodbath of tieflings and druids. Only THEN did I launch the goblins at em, when there was only Zevlor and a single other fighter manning the gates, vs actually dozens of goblins. It was a slaughter, I feel so bad.||
fair marten
||First, I let the druid kill the kid with the snake. Then I went to Zevlor and ...
||I instantly noped out when i took my first LR as Dark Urge, i did NOT want to gut Gale, Alfira was so fricking nice and all||
pretty sure you only get her in your party if your a bard tho...
oblique quail
||First, I let the druid kill the kid with the snake. Then I went to Zevlor and ...
||But did you sneak into the grove through the secret entrance involving the stone door outside the gate that leads into the tunnel filled with the animal statues, to reach Zevlor to announce the betrayal? Because I did, and he is shocked you reach him without going through the main gate, and then extra terrified when you announce the betrayal.||
hollow vortex
||But did you sneak into the grove through the secret entrance involving the sto...
||No, I just went thru the gate, up the battlements then announced the betrayal||
oblique quail
||No, I just went thru the gate, up the battlements then announced the betrayal|...
||Shame. The sneaking in way was hilarious.||
hollow vortex
and now ||I'm killing Minthara and the gobbies||
fair marten
and now ||I'm killing Minthara and the gobbies||
and thus balance is restored, ||everyone had their fun||
hollow vortex
and ||everyone but me is dead||
fair marten
surely, but you ||wont most likely end this adventure in one piece, literally||
fair marten
||the fricking sacrificial sigil, i really don't want to be in the Absolute's place||
i wonder, if you accept your dark side early do you get any boons?
hollow vortex
I dunno, I havent gotten any 'boons' yet
oblique quail
i wonder, if you accept your dark side early do you get any boons?
||You get boons based on a certain number of Urges given into, from your butler, on Durge.||
fair marten
||You get boons based on a certain number of Urges given into, from your butler,...
||i see, so i guess you gotta munch as many people as possible||
plucky tapir
...Yep never doing a dark urge playthrough
I'd probably feel worse than just playing a bad guy (which I'm already not going to do)
hollow vortex
That's valid. It goes to very morbid places
oblique quail
Even basic badguy goes to some morbid places.
||If you check the child tiefling hidey cave during the Grove Assault, the kids are all dead, for example.||
||All of them.||
hollow vortex
inflict wounds is actually a really great spell
shadowheart is kicking butt with it
fair marten
2d10+1d10 per upcast level
hollow vortex
yup
das a lot of damage
I was shy on using it cuz it was touch range, but its really good
and since shadowheart is able to stay alive in a melee fairly well
halcyon flume
I'm a bit skittish on dealing damage with shadowheart's spell slots since having a lot of heals is very useful
I even gave her a melee weapon that heals her when she hits things so she's a touch more survivable at close range than before
hollow vortex
fair
halcyon flume
Mass healing word my beloved when my entire party gets downed except shadowheart
fair marten
Preserve life my beloved
storm horizon
Picked up a bunch of dead ravens. You throw them like paper planes and they fly for a short distance.
whole cedar
whole cedar
I should get back to exploring the ||underdark|| and maybe switching to warlock
storm horizon
I couldn't place the last box to climb over the wall, "can't see", "not enough space"
So barbarian just threw the last on and it got stuck on the wall., just glued to the wall
maiden parcel
Near the end, will give final thoughts probably monday or tuesday at this rate
gotta ||get last netherstone then upper city, which i expect is short||
Major Act 3/game spoilers there
fair marten
something extremely funny and broken i discovered 2 days ago while redoing my progress with Gale's romance path.
You can "exploit" Regenerators to stack spell effects, Larian buffed/fixec Regenerators cleansing spell effect and summon
So i started the fight again the (major Act 2 spoiler)||Apostle of Myrkus with 2 fire elementals, 2 ghouls, 1 skeleton archer, Aid lvl 5 (20 additional maximum HP on EVERYONE), death ward on everybody (yes even the summons had death ward)||
when you think about it... summon elemental on Warlock is kinda a free ally
storm horizon
When you reclass a wizard to reselect talents, do you lose all learned spells?
fair marten
this moment when you add twice your spellcasting ability modifier on the damage roll of your cantrip
hot warren
Can be with mods
The rave isnt there but a nice addition indeed
But the transition and general scene yes
halcyon flume
Act 1 spoilers
||Decided to go on a new save and attack auntie ethel in camp, and she's still alive at 0 health||
plucky tapir
Oh I just fought her
||For a given value of "fought", does thunder waving her into the chasm in her boss room count :P||
hot warren
A hot take in the literal sense :
Karlach best girl
halcyon flume
true
maiden parcel
you guys just don't understand waifu
ember aurora
Oh believe you me. I understand waifus. She just aint Kawaii.
maiden parcel
we are degenerates
ember aurora
Speaking of. The nexus page has mods. More mods making female bratwursts bigger then mods making the sandbags bigger
plucky tapir
I don't know what the problem with Shadowheart's hair is honestly I've seen a lot of people bring it up but it didn't even ping as weird to me
...I do really like Karlach tho
hollow vortex
I don't know what the problem with Shadowheart's hair is honestly I've seen a lo...
same
ember aurora
It's how boxy the frame is around the face. It looks like a poor attempt to convert anime hair to a real person
plucky tapir
I file it under the same place I do most somewhat impractical hairstyles which is "not weird for fiction" in my head
hot warren
The Hair just looks like a helmet
thats the issue
Her hair later down the line is okay
The issue is that her hair reminds too much of this
prime sigil
Oh that looks fine.
hot warren
Spoiler about that
|| Her hair turns later in the game THAT style but silver/grey ||
|| So she can have a different cut but you are stuck with the helmet for a long time ||
Its not that its super bad, but the fact we could have better from the start
maiden parcel
it makes sense with her story||, i wouldn't have had it another way since it would take away from the subtle storytelling about her character||
plucky tapir
Honestly it just processes as "Yep, that's a fantasy character alright" to me
hollow vortex
Egads that was gruesome, volo
oblique quail
Egads that was gruesome, volo
Yes, but ||Permanent Free See Invisibility||.
hollow vortex
Yes
oblique quail
||The Ersatz Eye is amazing||
hollow vortex
I might've killed most of the readily accessible traders I had access to
whoops
which is a problem cuz I have about 70 kgs of assorted weapons I want to sell
oblique quail
The ||gith patrol|| near Mountain Pass?
hollow vortex
The ||gith patrol|| near Mountain Pass?
Yup.
this is ridiculous
great job laezel
you almost TPK'd us
I am not trusting that idiot around other Gith again
plucky tapir
summoned axe mvp
scarlet girder
Baldur's Gate... just deleted all of my clothes.
I went back to rest, and poof! Absolutely naked.
oblique quail
Not absolutely naked. You've got the free fig leaf.
hollow vortex
wow.
hollow vortex
Dark Urge spoiler, this time not gruesome: ||your strange gremlin lookin butler appears and gives you a reallly nice cloak||
fair marten
Dark Urge is made to play ||rogue||
whole cedar
I went back to rest, and poof! Absolutely naked.
Happened to a friend of mine aswell, we were long resting and then he started complaining about his clothes just vanishing into thin air
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hollow vortex
huh. I crashed by cancelling Gaseous Form concentration when it wasnt my turn in a combat I just entered
hot warren
So your game farted
halcyon flume
Act one, in summary: ||
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/83769737370612...
Yeah, that's accurate
storm horizon
The shadowlands can be pretty annoying when you get soflocked because of your choices. ||I killed Nere - no lamp. I missed the spiderdude with stealth. No lamp. All quests point to the "strong" dark region that wipes the party in a minute.||
Had to specifically reclass barbarian to be able to just leap half way across the map.
feral valley
The shadowlands can be pretty annoying when you get soflocked because of your ch...
re ||there are more ways for acquiring lanterns or perma-blessings||
scarlet girder
You can get one at Moonrise.
hollow tapir
So I was trying to download an improved camera mod and this disclaimer came up, should I be worried?
oblique quail
Nah. It's just a super basic EULA, running through Command Prompt for simplicity (no need to code up a UI by doing it through Command Prompt).
halcyon flume
UI is difficult to code
oblique quail
It's basically saying that if the program bricks your system, they're absolved of fault.
hollow tapir
I see
oblique quail
It shouldn't brick your system, but in the event it does, they want you accepting responsibility for not being more careful.
hollow tapir
I didn't add the mods to the list, I just put them in the folder, ugh
The Improved Camera mod is bad, the pan sensitivity is super low
hollow tapir
Turns out the game reset my graphics setting to Ultra again
hollow tapir
I think a mod I installed has given everyone religion
I can choose everyone's diety now
Who do you think Karlach's diety is?
maiden parcel
Murder
hollow tapir
I'm thinking Tempus or Gruumsh
maiden parcel
And finished
||86 || hours
Overall 9/10
Amazing soundtrack, amazing maps, amazing everything
It just had a few too minor hickups and issues for it to be 10/10
But easily best CRPG i've ever played
Its what pathfinder WOTR wanted to be
Very good
Endgame ||is setup to go either way, which is nice. DLC could naturally build upon whats happened but at the same time its a perfectly good place to end on|| Spoilers for endgame