Baldur’s Gate 3

[clear quail]

Haha

[white stirrup]

Damn...

[clear quail]

Well you can't get it

So

[white stirrup]

Is it that portent robe or something

[clear quail]

Nope

Armour of persistence

Gives permanent resistance to bludgeoning piercing and slashing

And 22 ac

And also 3 less damage on all attacks

[white stirrup]

Goddamn

Fortunately though for my party I have decent enough armor

I forget the name though

Its the weave robe for main character, adamantine splint on cleric astarion (yes I made him a cleric when shadowheart left), I believe adamantine scale and another armorpiece which I can't recall rn

[clear quail]

Did you not get the helldusk from Raphael?

[white stirrup]

Thats my plan

[white stirrup]

Blackguard plate

[clear quail]

Oh you haven't done it yet??

[white stirrup]

Its the one thing I am spoiled about but I've only just started it

Aka I now just need to do another room, get the item then free hope

I did it early for the free gauntlets and amulet of health

Slightly outdated but this is my armor

[white stirrup]

Add this onto the orc and replacing the helm with mintharas, and a helmet which makes you crit easier on minthara with the adamantine scale

[clear quail]

If you can find it I recommend the cloak of displacement

It's one of the best capes in the game

Gives disadvantage on all attacks against you till you get hit each turn

[white stirrup]

I found it but thought it was ey

[white stirrup]

Probably because I read it as not each turn

Will go back and get that then before getting helldusk

[clear quail]

Yeah the effect restarts at the beginning of your turn

[white stirrup]

Ah ok thats good

Oh yeah astarion has the very rare healer glove item

Which is an upgrade to the one he is wearing

But that will wait for after yakuza 8

[agile reef]

If you were chummy enough with shadowheart when confronting the Nightsong (assuming she was with you) you could try to convince her to sway from the path of killing her. Otherwise she does that thing where she gets mad and permanently leaves

[white stirrup]

Yeah thats what happened

[agile reef]

Honestly I’ll take alive Nightsong and Last Light Inn over Shadowheart

[white stirrup]

So about that

I found out you could help marcus so thought it would be cool to do that instead

[agile reef]

Hmm

Well enjoy your slightly evil playthrough

[white stirrup]

Honestly I kinda full sended it after that point

So I was like 'fuck it, siding with the absolute'

And thats how astarion, who I was gonna abandon became my cleric as I literally had no other party member slot

[agile reef]

Is Jaheira still alive?

[white stirrup]

She died during the defense

Tbh in hindsight I probably should had resurrected her

[agile reef]

If she was just an ally the game wouldn’t have let you. It only lets you revive actual party members

So with no her that also closed off the option for Minsc

[white stirrup]

It let me revive her I believe

[white stirrup]

Well I have lae zel who might be dead or alive idk
Astarion
Minthara

[agile reef]

Lae’zel get yoinked by Orin?

[white stirrup]

Yep

I remember seeing that and was like

Oh hi orin

[agile reef]

A lot of act 3 is just Orin dicking around and it becomes tiresome very quickly

[white stirrup]

Doesn't it only happen like 4 times

[warped hawk]

she kidnaps someone, tells you about your love life, cosplays as a child in the sewers

I feel like im missing something

[agile reef]

Shows up as a reporter, and injured soldier, some other times

She only shows up as a child in the sewers if you have no other party members she can kidnap

[warped hawk]

never had that before

[raw bay]

the grymforge was ass

[agile reef]

Did you fight grym or just everything else?

[raw bay]

the drow and duergar

[white stirrup]

The gyrm fight is the coolest fight in the entire game.

[raw bay]

God Karlach really is just the nicest person in this shit show

then theres Astarion

I hate that slutty twink

[white stirrup]

I love his essentricness

Same with gale

[raw bay]

he's such a dickhead though

I can even appreciate Lae'zel at times, she at least seems like she's growing

[white stirrup]

Maybe I haven't selected the correct options but he never has been

[clear quail]

really?

i found it to be one of the best areas in the game

[white stirrup]

Tbh it at least has one of if not the best boss in the game imo

[clear quail]

eh grym is good but not that good

can't compare to the later ones

i meant the overall feel of the place

[white stirrup]

Tbh I need to fight the later bosses to tell

Because he was the one boss I had to keep on my toes and use actual strategy

[clear quail]

ketheric didn't?

[white stirrup]

Nope

[clear quail]

were you not playing tactician?

[white stirrup]

I was

[clear quail]

hm

[white stirrup]

I fucked up the fight once

And beat it second go

[clear quail]

oh

thought you were saying you did it first try

[white stirrup]

Because first time I didn't know the nightsong was there till she talked

[white stirrup]

Of course not

Because I saw the aura

Got scared and pelted him with ranged attacks and realised I fucked myself

Then second attempt I disarmed him

So uhh

Yeah was very easy

[clear quail]

you can disarm the fucking avatar??

what

[white stirrup]

Yeah

I found out accidentally

It was the funniest shit

[clear quail]

dang i didn't know that

would've probably made the fight easier

well good to know for honour mode i guess

[white stirrup]

Yeah

It makes battle master really cracked for the fight

[agile reef]

Yeah then he just punches you with his wimpy skeleton arms

[sudden nacelle]

ketheric is the easiest boss tbh

sad you can't steal the avatar's scythe when you disarm him tho

[white stirrup]

The many other bosses in question:

Also I heard without nightsong he is genuinely hard

[sudden nacelle]

my first run I didn't have nightsong

[white stirrup]

Normal or tactician?

[sudden nacelle]

had shadowheart and two hirelings because I'd missed every companion, absolutely ruined him

tact

[white stirrup]

Huh neat

Tbh he is hard compared to other bosses like

The goblin camp leaders for an example

[sudden nacelle]

just eldritch blasted his ass a million times with a bit of guiding bolt for flavour

too far away for him to do any of his good attacks

the goblin leaders are the first bosses in the game obvs they're gonna be easy

[white stirrup]

Also I had a hard time with him with a party of life cleric, 2 fighters and a sorcerer the first go since I didn't know the gimmick with nightsong

[white stirrup]

The point is he definitely ain't the easiest boss in the game

[sudden nacelle]

he's certainly up there tho

genuinely every other boss in act 2 is harder than him

[white stirrup]

Yeah tbh it doesn't help to me that like

[clear quail]

yurgir?

[white stirrup]

I didn't side with emerald grove

So I couldn't use warlock

[clear quail]

literally any of the other thorms?

[sudden nacelle]

all the thorm kids have hard fights if you don't talk them to death, same with balth

[clear quail]

i'ma be honest i found the thorms super easy

[sudden nacelle]

oh yeah I forgot about yurgir, he's ez as fuck.
I just use him to farm orthon bombs

[white stirrup]

Yurgir for me just

Tried to kill my party but ended up killing himself

[clear quail]

balthazar when i turn undead and then into a shove

[sudden nacelle]

yurgir's bombs are just so fukin good I need them

last run I got his entire stack of bombs

from his legendary action scatter

Just procced it, spent the rest of the turn picking up every single one of them

those lasted me into halfway through act 3 of just having really powerful bombs to throw at ppl

vicona did not appreciate them

[white stirrup]

Also yeah the surgeon one if you just get him to kill the ladies then

Hes really easy

[clear quail]

they said without any of the talking

[sudden nacelle]

the other throms are fun challenges if you don't speech them, obvs you can easily ruin them

[white stirrup]

Without talking it's trickier

But I believe just aoe helps a lot

[sudden nacelle]

though thisobald is just a bad fight

like it's just tedious as hell

not difficult

[white stirrup]

Oh yeah idk why the gnoll boss guy

He was simultaneously hard yet really really easy

Since his ai broke and only used ranged attacks

[sudden nacelle]

lmao

[clear quail]

i always just burn the ogres on that boss

it's annoying at level 4 otherwise

[white stirrup]

I forgot to use the ogres

[clear quail]

plus it allows me to kill them afterwards for the headband cuz they take a ton of dmg

[white stirrup]

Same with the flesh golem

[sudden nacelle]

y'know you can make the gnoll kill themselves right?

[white stirrup]

Idk how to talk to them

Fairly sure they just aggro on sight?

[sudden nacelle]

Sneak up to the big one and then unhide

on it's turn if you're right next to it you go into dialogue

[white stirrup]

That's oddly specific damn

[sudden nacelle]

you don't have to sneak

it triggers if it starts it's turn up in your face,

[white stirrup]

Tbh my only interaction with gnolls were the chef ones

[sudden nacelle]

but sneak is the easiest way to make that happen

[sudden nacelle]

love those lil guys

[white stirrup]

Where I got them to maul the main person

[sudden nacelle]

yeah

it made me so happy in the attack how they come in on your side after that lol

like "OH MY BOYS!"

[solid fiber]

Easily the most hype moment of the whole end sequence of act 2 lets be real

Like "wow its battle time i did all this cool stuff im so ex- NO WAY!!'

Even if they kinda have bad aim and barely hit at least for me I was their biggest cheer leader lol

[white stirrup]

I remember specifically my experience was like

Huh this fight is really easy

Then realised the second phase

[sudden nacelle]

Exactly.
Tho mine were insane last run, the battle was only a few rounds but atleast one and normally two of them would crit every round which was hilarious

Wish I could've kept them into act 3 as my gang of pals

[raw bay]

If I wildshape into a wolf will Shadowheart hate me

[sudden nacelle]

no but i wish there was a thing for that

even funnier tho: make her a ranger/druid multiclass

shadowheart with a wolf familiar and also is a wolf

[clear quail]

If only polymorph worked like in dnd and you could turn her into a wolf

Too bad that's impossible outside of a tabletop

[warped hawk]

why not make shadowheart a druid?

[clear quail]

That's smart.

[dreamy dove]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ao5abq

[agile reef]

I’m sure there’s lots of cool Druid things to do, but circle of the moon owlbear too stronk. Maybe I’ll do an all Druid playthrough to see how the others are

[clear quail]

Honestly spores is pretty broken

Simply because of the amount of summons it has

[white stirrup]

I want to see if the displacer beast thing works with druid

[raw bay]

im a big fan of the stars druid mod

if you are using mods

[agile reef]

Console player here, no mods

[raw bay]

rip

[sudden nacelle]

spores druid + monk is great

symbiotic entity just gives you bigger punch for all of your many punches

[warped hawk]

me when I oneshot ragzlin with a level 2 witch bolt (and also crit and a cleric ability that maxes my dice role for damage)

[sudden nacelle]

yep

tempest zappy cleric is insane

[warped hawk]

add storm sorcerer for funny meta magic and lightning spells

and you go brrrrr

[raw bay]

its so funny seeing every companions reaction to Karlach upon meeting her

both Shadowheart and Laezel are immediately down bad its funny

[sudden nacelle]

I mean

can't blame 'em

[warped hawk]

me when I buy a hireling for the sole purpose to feed astarion

[warped hawk]

apparently roasted dwarf does not count as camp supplies

I thought my dwarven dark urge would love to eat roasted dwarf

[warped hawk]

omeluum = hair

ear too

[warped hawk]

pretty well rounded character me thinks

(if you wonder how that is, str, dex, and int are all my dump stats, but I have the club of hill giants strength, the dexterity gloves, and lumps headpiece of intelligence)

but hey having funny weapon that increases your strength only when you hold it is cool for when you only use a bow

[warped hawk]

tried to use party as bait, didnt work out too well but its okay

[raw bay]

lmao Lae'zel is soooooo salty if you pick shadowheart over her after rescuing the grove

she's totally not upset definitely not

[agile reef]

“Lae’zel gets better later in the story, I promise”

Bruh, no she doesn’t. I’m using her in this playthrough to follow her plot line and she’s still upset with half the things you do

[clear quail]

she does?

did you not do the correct plotline or smth?

i did the one where i ||got her against vlaakith and then got her against orpheus so by the finale she's completely free to make her own choices||

she got much better

[agile reef]

I’m doing that yeah. If she is getting better I’m blinded to it. Being a constant asshole for all of act 1 does not make me like you any better

[warped hawk]

did funny portal thing again in honor mode, god was is stressful for a second time lol

[agile reef]

No area control this time around?

[bronze bay]

she very much does

also depends on what your definition of "better" is she's pretty funny from the get go

[warped hawk]

not much no

unrelated but I just beat act 2 (minus the gith encounter soon)

[agile reef]

Aoe does trivialize the fight quite a bit

[warped hawk]

Yeah all I had was a few lightning bolts

[warped hawk]

my party has now consumed many many yummy tadpoles

[warped hawk]

Im sure this person is perfectly normal

[solid fiber]

https://youtu.be/ClezDg8n6uw?si=jSqL-n_y6HJ4AjAS

Yeah, very accurate

[raw bay]

Githyanki Egg aqquired

time to make one amazing omlette together with the owlbear egg

[warped hawk]

soon I will make people go boom

[solid fiber]

Yippee

[warped hawk]

update: Ive broken into wyrmrock fortress, angered literally everyone, and am currently fighting gortash, alone

that being said they have 0 idea to where my character is and are all just doing weird things like constantly buffing each other with their spell slots that should likely run out soon

[agile reef]

It’s not like the people there are hard (unless the steel watch is still active), but it’s the sheer number of people in combat that kills me

[sudden nacelle]

wbt the runepowder

three barrels of superboom is always a good time

[white stirrup]

Very easy to overkill the entire game

Queue someone I know dealing effectively 2k damage

[agile reef]

They’re most helpful against ||honor mode Netherbrain. It gets an ability where it’s immune to all damage types dealt to it from the previous turn. So if you just nuke it in one turn 👍||

[white stirrup]

Exactly

[warped hawk]

I have 1 now, its on karlach whos been sitting in camp

[sudden nacelle]

that the one from grymforge?

can get some more if you saved wulbren

[warped hawk]

yeah I havent yet, but I havent talked to any of the ironhand gnomes since I finished act 2

[sudden nacelle]

d'ya know where to find 'em?

cus breakin into the fortress you've skipped the trigger that would've given them to you

[warped hawk]

ive made an awful mistake

[warped hawk]

nope lol

I dont know how Minsc ended up dying though, somehow he died when I cast witch bolt?

kinda sucks though, lost Jaheria too

[sudden nacelle]

i mean witch bolt is a spell

only melee attacks are affected by nonlethal toggle

[warped hawk]

yes, but I did not use it on minsc, which is why Im so confused

I killed another guy

[sudden nacelle]

before the first bridge, not wyrm's rock, the one before that, there's a path down to a cave where they live.

[sudden nacelle]

huh that is weirds

[warped hawk]

kinda upset too cause its my honor run

so minsc cant just be save scummed back alive

[sudden nacelle]

rip

no boo for you

[white stirrup]

The rotation symbols makes him look like he has eyes there

Its very cute

[clear quail]

if he was on fire when he gets knocked down he instantly dies when he wakes up

it's a very very silly bug that confused the heck out of me during my first run

[warped hawk]

He died mid combat, and I found the culprit to what killed him, this little reaction thing that I did not know happened, happened, and killed minsc

which is weird because it didnt always activate whenever it should have activated

[warped hawk]

I have murdered orin the red, she went down way too easy lol

a hold monster, some lightning and she was dead

Durge spoilers

||I am dead yay||

I win

[sudden nacelle]

No, you lose simply for dressing like that

Tho in all seriousness beatin Orin at lvl 11 is impressive, I've never done any of the act 3 bosses before level 12, tho partly because xp just comes in truckloads in act 3

[warped hawk]

turns out if you prepare, bosses become really easy sometimes

I one turned the Hellfire Steel Watcher Titan

[agile reef]

News flash: boss prep trivializes boss fight

[warped hawk]

interesting shes normal now

[warped hawk]

the end is in sight, last boss I really need to do is ||Gortash, ||though I will likely do ||Cazador, the House of Greif, and Raphael still||

I need gale to become the strongest monk in the sword coast

[warped hawk]

oh my first round of combat and hes not doing too well

all of his friends are dead too

[warped hawk]

I will obliterate raphael, this is my goal

[warped hawk]

Its soon time

he will not make it out alive

didnt even use half of em lol

I have 4 runepowder bombs ready to explode too

I will likely put more in next time I play

[agile reef]

What mode are you playing on?

[warped hawk]

honor lol

I grabbed the rest of the barrels anad laid em out

[agile reef]

Gotta save the rest for the brain

[warped hawk]

nope too late

I will punch the brain really hard

gotta be really careful with which types of damages I use though

cause astarion and gale for me do like 5 different types of damage a hit

[agile reef]

Gotta plan it out

[warped hawk]

my durge who is no longer durge will entirely use Lightning for her damage

gale atm is bludgeoning, radiant, and force damage in every hit of his

astarion is piercing, fire, and psychic damage

and shadowheart is a bit of a wild card

her best types are radiant, thunder, force, necrotic, and fire

[warped hawk]

something to note, the ||restoration faucet in honour mode works an unlimited amount of times, unlike the nautoloid pod thingies)||

[agile reef]

Wasn’t the pool always unlimited use in house of hope?

[sudden nacelle]

yes they were

but so were the mindflayer restoration bits, which got changed in honour

[agile reef]

When I did my tactician playthrough they removed the restoration spot before the netherbrain fight

[raw bay]

want to do modded coop with friends, but the issue is we all like Karlach

[raw bay]

ok but what the fuck

got to the harpies on a beach (new playthrough missed them on the first)

In the dialogue i'm able to make the wisdom save and become immune to the effects

combat starts and im immediately charmed and die :/

[sudden nacelle]

maniacal giggling

[white stirrup]

Btw out of curiosity where even is it

[sudden nacelle]

two taps in the hot tub

[white stirrup]

ok thank you

Just tackling the area now at level 11

[sudden nacelle]

they're called font of restoration, should glow if you pass a perception check too when you get near

[white stirrup]

Yeah also realised that this is gonna be really easy to do

[agile reef]

Perfectly balanced tavern brawler monk

[sudden nacelle]

Fun fact I realised after screencapping that that I missed my spore druid buff.
My actual max damage exceeds 100

One-turned cazzy, Vic, and Orin, Raphael didn't get any turns because stunning strike,

[agile reef]

What’s your multi class spread? Assuming level 12

[solid fiber]

1 of each class except wizard for now

[warped hawk]

soon I will have that myself, except I may of accidentally lost the boots for wisdom bonus being added to your unarmed strikes in honor mode

all I need is for gale to aquire the soul catching gloves, which im just about to do next time I play

[warped hawk]

my current build for gale is 9 levels monk (open hand) and 3 levels rogue (theif)

add the one ability to temporarily gain an extra bonus action for a few turns, and you slap ememies at least 8 times a turn, more if you use haste

the only downside is that you drain your ki points like mad, but I dont think anything has really survived that lol

that being said that specific ability restores half of your ki points

its really powerful, and it also heals you

oh yeah gale is consistently buffed with cloud giant strength so he does a casual +16 more damage than he normally would

each hit

[white stirrup]

Beat him second try on tactician

||I completely forgot about the meteor swarm type of damage||

[agile reef]

You’re usually dumping all your ki points in major fights anyway

I know Astarion is most optimal for TB monk cause ||vampire ascendant grants 1d10 necrotic to unarmed strikes in addition to all the other nonsense you get for monk.||

Haste + wholeness of body + 8 open hand monk + 4 thief rogue = 472 average damage. At least according to the math from this extensive Reddit post about it

[warped hawk]

yeah but that dont fit the run im going for rp wise, otherwise I would do it in a heart beat

if anything I would do karlach on her soul coins, but its a bit late now me thinks

[warped hawk]

shiny

||yurgir|| just committed suicide and killed everyone in the room besides the few that I cast globe of invulnerability around

so glad I had alert feat on everyone, though unfortunately my tav perished

only two enemies lived, ||Raphael, and one random cambion||

I know I cast fear on him but for it being literally round two and how much he just got obliterated I think it makes sense

with how easy the fight is going I made ||Hope cast divine intervention for the camp supplies lol||

was gonna dimension door ||yurgir|| into the globe of invulnerability but nope he died, so I wont see him later

[white stirrup]

I kinda struggled on tactician

Then again I am not using barrels

[warped hawk]

I saved all of my barrels for one thing or another lol

[white stirrup]

Yeah I haven't used them period

What a casual first playthrough does

(Tbh I am surprised how well it is going besides the death shepherd incident)

[warped hawk]

also unrelated but its becoming near impossible to hit astarion

[white stirrup]

Tbh thats kinda what I do for astarion considering rn he is my healer

[warped hawk]

everything perpetually has disadvantage to hit him, he cannot be restrained in any way, has an AC of 24, and on top of that with the help of aid he has 165 hitpoints

[white stirrup]

Btw one thing I am disappointed about battle master is no unarmed versions

Oh yeah is there any reason to use wisdom for a monk using helldusk

Going for 16 regardless but just curious

[warped hawk]

the boots of Uninhibited Kushigo add wisdom modifier to unarmed strikes

the one githyanki who holds them I fuckin shoved into a pit in act 3 on honor mode and Ill never get em

divine intervention moment

[white stirrup]

I think I didn't pick them up on my end...

Same with idk where the monk amulet went now

[warped hawk]

yeah, they were one of the 3 in the ||astral prism apart of Orpheous's honour guard||

[warped hawk]

tbh I have not gotten much use out of that amulet lol

[white stirrup]

I searched inventories and I must have sold it somewhere

[white stirrup]

It must be better than misty step

[warped hawk]

I unironically think misty step is better for the rare time youll use it then the extra 2 ki points that wont matter much because whatever you are fighting is long dead

[white stirrup]

Trye

Tbh though I am not entirely planning to optimise

Just doing random things which I think are funny

Hence I got a 6 fighter 3 bard 2 paladin

(will be 4 bard)

[warped hawk]

oh wait im learning something

the amulet can be upgraded?

[agile reef]

The monk one? Yeah

[white stirrup]

Btw do vendors always keep the item in their inventory if you sell it?

If not I missed out on it

[warped hawk]

I believe so

[white stirrup]

If they do I just need to find the merchants

Which is easy enough because I didn't talk to many

[warped hawk]

but yeah gale is a little strong

[agile reef]

What’s granting all of the extra damage?

I’m assuming:
Gloves of soul catching
Boots
Ki-empowered strikes
That one helmet for necrotic

[white stirrup]

My guess is thats how flurry of blows works, in reality its 1d8+16+1d4+2+1d10

[warped hawk]

I dont have the boots, the helmet I do not have (currently have one that grants an extra bonus action when below 50% hp), but I do have
Tavern Brawler, Cloud Giant Strength Potions, Gloves of Soul Catching, and Monk of Open Hand level 9 (the 2d8 bludgeoning + strength) and Manefestation of the Mind, which can be 1d4+2 necrotic, physchic, or radiant

unrelated but I had to use Shadowhearts divine intervention mid battle with ||Cazador||, most my party was wiped but shadow heart and I nearly done died

also unrelated, Karlach has just been what I can only assume to be high off of her ass and magic free since I ended act 2, cause I sent the weird orb thing from the ||mind flayer colony|| to her inventory shortly before fighting the boss

and shes just been dancing ever sense then

[warped hawk]

I think its time I kill the final boss

[white stirrup]

I still need to figure out where the fuck ||Gortash is||

[warped hawk]

Hes in ||wyrm rocks fortress, upstairs, in a hallway||, if youve already talked to him, he is ||further upstairs, on one of the highest floors of the building||

[white stirrup]

And where is that area?

[warped hawk]

the area directly before you enter the ||lower city||

[white stirrup]

Ive struggled so badly to try and find him

[warped hawk]

forget whether or not hes on the left or right though

[white stirrup]

Thanks, I just didnt know where the area was

[warped hawk]

"There is no turning back", it is time

wait no I found them, the boots that I have needed for so long to turn gale more so into the stronk

I didnt knock the body off, it was still there

[white stirrup]

Neat, for me I need to loot it still

[warped hawk]

Withers out here still (end game spoilers) ||trying to get me to buy some hirelings to save the world||

[white stirrup]

Tbh he kinda forced my hand in my case

[warped hawk]

shoutout to the guy using his silence arrows on my one party member who doesnt cast spells

holy shit the ||owl bear cub is all grown up, and is equipped with battle armor||

[white stirrup]

gameplay

[warped hawk]

how did you make the ||duke|| made at you

[white stirrup]

No clue

They are all aggroed for no reason

[warped hawk]

I would advise not killing him specifically

unless you wanna

[white stirrup]

Well I mean it really depends on if the game wants to stop being a black screen

for whenever its their turn

But yeah ||No pushing gortash off a cliff||

Played the game for 2 seconds

back to black screen sim

[white stirrup]

I mean I think he is perma aggroed

also this fight is taking forever

[warped hawk]

does he have "temporarily hostile" or nah

[white stirrup]

None

he is just aggro

[warped hawk]

yeah have fun lol

[white stirrup]

Yeah this might be tougher than house of hope tbh

Due to it being a test of patience

Like its taking forever

Oh yeah a fun thing the ai is doing is counterspelling through walls

[warped hawk]

they keep firing shots at astarion in particular, even when a spell caster is much closer and more deadly

[agile reef]

The duke is still mind controlled if he’s mad at you in the Gortash fight

[warped hawk]

yeah

[white stirrup]

Thing is

he isnt even in the same room as me

its just black

[warped hawk]

but normally he isnt there, unless you just ran in and attacked him first encounter

[white stirrup]

Also I am gonna save scum this fight

because like

its taking so long

its been 20mins btw

What I might do is just run away from the battle then go back here when I am done

but yeah

[agile reef]

Yeah it unfortunately aggro’s every single person in Wyrmrock

[white stirrup]

Well if its not baldurs gate

then its all good

besides I cant enter from wyrmwood anymore

[warped hawk]

(final boss spoilers) ||SANS UNDERTALE NOOOO, I TRUSTED YOU AND BELIEVED IN YOU||

[white stirrup]

So uh

Ulder just suddenly appeared

Like he teleported downstairs

[warped hawk]

npcs kinda teleport through gateways like stairs

similar to how you do

[white stirrup]

Ah I see

Gortash is also here oh god oh fuck

Well this is now really manageable

But yeah ||Gonna have to fight gortash's avatar after this, which is gonna be pain||

And that was really easy to deal with

[clear quail]

Are you fighting gortash without the steel watch being dead?

If so that's epic

I've haven't done it yet because I can't control the urge to blow it up

[white stirrup]

No

I fought him

where black screens was all overt the shop

[clear quail]

Oh

I didn't realise there where that many enemies normally

[clear quail]

It perma dies if you take it into the final battle!!

Make sure not to let it die

[white stirrup]

Also fuck this guy

Hes just stayinhg upstairs

But yeah I finally won

only took 40 years

[clear quail]

Hmm

[white stirrup]

Wow that fight unironically took 50 mins

[clear quail]

Anyone got any recommendations for what to do in my next run?

[clear quail]

Yeesh

[white stirrup]

Oh well one boss left

then finale

which may as well beat the game today

[solid fiber]

Go for the jack of all trades achievement

[warped hawk]

man am I glad that dame alyin is immortal

ladies and gentlemen, that is honor mode completed

that was so fucking terrifying

especially with the ending bit where ||the brain spawned immediate not one but TWO orbs of negation on the first turn and threatened to end me a turn later||

the ending was really bugged lol

so many choices didnt happen that were supposed to

[white stirrup]

Btw where can I buy like camp supplies

I might be running low (I have had like 10 rests total)

[warped hawk]

||orpheus is 'dead' according to lazeal, no lazeal hes just a mind flayer and also now a displacer beast, Wyll just didnt exist and karlach died, etc., they thought I was a mindflayer??? no thats orpheus who is actually a displacer beast who is actually dead or something||

[warped hawk]

in act 3 volo sold a camp pack a day

[white stirrup]

Yeah rn I am missing 10 for one

[warped hawk]

you can partial rest too if you want, but also I think many vendors in rivington and lower city both sell stuffs

[white stirrup]

yeah for health but its spell slots that are the issue

Anyways time to find the final stone then win

Because I heavily doubt the final boss to be harder than ||Raphael on tactician||

[warped hawk]

I just (epilogue spoilers)||voluneteered shadowheart to become the owlbears mother with absolutely 0 input from her||

also an oversight I think, but I think Omelluum may have made his brew a little too strong come the epilogue

oh my god

yesssss

[white stirrup]

I found a funny glitch

[warped hawk]

why are they so tiny

[white stirrup]

the boat ride in baldur gate sewers

ride it and open the menu

[warped hawk]

should note that I didnt even end up cheesing anything (besides feigning death shadowheart to the shadowfell again because the spear 'disappeared' and I think I accidentally dropped it somewhere)

[white stirrup]

Wait

||How do you get to orin?||

I am gonna search a guide since I checked everywhere I think

[warped hawk]

if you wanna find out for yourself

[white stirrup]

nevermind I am just blind

as fuck

[warped hawk]

thats the door yes, but you gotta get through it

dont know which one that is but the first one requires something

[white stirrup]

I have already done it so

[warped hawk]

should just open me thinks

[white stirrup]

You need to prove it so

[agile reef]

Is that the door attached to the sewers? Shoot that hanging body

[white stirrup]

I just said to let me in

got a casual 2 nat 1s in a row

[warped hawk]

reloaded the save that I beat honour in and killed myself in the camp lol

aw yeah

[white stirrup]

Oh yeah how long did it take for you to do the ending

[warped hawk]

fight or epilogue

or both

[white stirrup]

Just going from the end

Aka runup to final boss

and beating it

[warped hawk]

from the moment that you go to the final boss, probably like 60-90 minutes

[white stirrup]

Ok yeah I can do it tonight

[warped hawk]

it was a drag though this time compared to the other two times i beat the game

[white stirrup]

Oh ok

so it should be shorter on the tactician difficulty

[warped hawk]

because I wasnt able to cheese a certain part

broke concentration on two very important spells and had to fight many powerful things

[white stirrup]

Well time for the no turning back point

[white stirrup]

I love how the allies are like ||A writer, an ox, a flying small elephant, a hag and astarion||

[agile reef]

What got bungled?

[warped hawk]

globe of invulnerability and ||Karsus's Compulsion||

if it werent for the fact that Gale is immune to being stunned due to Monk I would have literally lost

[agile reef]

Ahh, I had that happen on tactician as well. Shame mind blast just goes through the globe

Just got to act 2 on honor mode in my coworker playthrough

[warped hawk]

good luck

be prepared

my personal #1 suggestion would be get alert on literally everyone

[agile reef]

Just go first, no surprises?

[warped hawk]

yes

its so nice being able to always go first and not being able to be surprised

because you can easily take out a person or two before their round starts

and if you surprise them its even better cause you get 2 attacks for each person before they get one

its quite easy to activate surprise too, they just cant see you and you gotta shoot them, and 90% of the time they are surprised

[agile reef]

For netherbrain fight, ||did you take out all the counterspelling guys near the crown then set up globe and compulsion, or just wing it?||

[warped hawk]

||I actually just had someone cast a random cantrip and all 4 of them counterspelled it lol||

[agile reef]

They’re so dumb, I don’t get it

[warped hawk]

I had a similar thing happen earlier too

I dont remember when though

actually I do

it was during ||gortash, with the guys in the throne room, and 3 different people counterspelled a firebolt cantrip||

which was really funny because they ||got zapped for like 180 damage on the next persons turn||

[white stirrup]

So for the ending ||I guess I just avoid the dragon||

[agile reef]

It does help yes

[white stirrup]

Can I just ||Haste and invis emperor||

[agile reef]

Karsus’s Compulsion is a spell so that’ll drop invis

[white stirrup]

Yeah unfortunately greater invis doesnt work either

unironically idk what the fuck I am supposed to do

Its like kill the enemies? I lose anyways

[warped hawk]

||yeah I literally just didnt do much with him, he kept targetting the one guy who had stupidly high dex and fire resistance||

[white stirrup]

I might just switch it to adventure then back to tactician for this fight, it just feels like bullshit with the fact idk what I should do

||Like do I have to do the dominate thing or not||

[agile reef]

||You could dimension door to the crown, then pick off the spellcasters nearby to avoid counterspells or bait with cantrips. Set up globe to avoid damage (doesn’t block mind blast though)||

[warped hawk]

||yeah mind blast will get you and break your concentration||

[white stirrup]

Yeah I think I thought of a solution

Ignore the gimmick

Take out the problematic enemies then presto

Which I have done the first one ||enemy with harm who he uses it on astarion which equals I am fucked||

Also I am a dumbass I forgot about 1 important ability in particular ||Divine intervention||

But yeah this attempt is going way better

||Dragon is dead, only 2 of the copies remain and also my game crashed||

[agile reef]

If you’ve still got divine intervention for that fight, probably the heal and revive one

[white stirrup]

Yeah thats my plan

[agile reef]

The damage one is downright awful

[white stirrup]

Healing is always the best one usually

[agile reef]

Something I learned from my first playthrough: the revive will not work if you have a split party between inside and outside the portal. I used it outside hoping to heal and revive people I had inside the portal: nope

[white stirrup]

Oh yeah

||Nautilod, what does that do?||

[clear quail]

it justs sends an explosion

[white stirrup]

Oh its the thing from ok that isnt bad

[clear quail]

i killed it

it's pretty weak compared to ansur to be honest

though it is simply a waste of time and you're better of misty stepping to the netherbrain so that you can kill it before the timer runs out

i do think you get an achievement for killing the dragon tho

[white stirrup]

Already done

rn this is the board

[clear quail]

summon some dudes

[white stirrup]

I have

[clear quail]

not having like 50 allies in the final battle is criminal

[white stirrup]

on cooldown

[clear quail]

oh i didn't even realise they had cooldown

i had the big bois like yurgir and aylin who barely died

[white stirrup]

My squad is very smalll

The bug free experience

Oh I did it

Thatr was really easy with savescumming

[agile reef]

Savescumming makes many things easier

[white stirrup]

Ok good thing I am because I would have gotten so angry

And its done

wait... it didnt register as tactician

oh well at least I beat it

[white stirrup]

I think I know why...

I started the game in normal mode but like very quickly went into tactician

Oh well

To me I beat the game in tactician

after the tutorial... Oh well

Also the ||take over the world ending is so short compared to the good ending||

[agile reef]

Yeah…tactician you would’ve had to start in and never change it

You could try honor mode which is just tactician+ with no save scumming

[white stirrup]

I will do that with friends probably

Or people who are confident with bald gate and dnd

[warped hawk]

Honour mode is brutal

it took me like 7 attempts to get through it

only one oddly enough made it to act 3

speaking of divine intervention i made ||Hope|| give me camp supplies

[agile reef]

We’re on our 2nd attempt of honor mode cause Gale’s lifeless corpse blew up (we didn’t know)

[white stirrup]

I mean I struggled with specifically act 3, end of act 2 and death shepherd act 1

[white stirrup]

Act 3 ones were ||Cazador, Netherbrain, Raphael, I didn't fight ansur||

[agile reef]

Ansur is trivialized with lightning elixirs and a globe of invuln when he charges his giga attack

[white stirrup]

And also just

Killing him

[warped hawk]

I was gonna do ansur, and then i read is legendary abilities and supposedly he makes people wet

[agile reef]

I think it’s just the myrmidons that apply wet. Ansur’s legendary action is just a reaction lightning breath

[agile reef]

Ah, that move. The giga breath

Something something globe

At least that’s how I did it on tactician

[warped hawk]

you telling me I should switch my one level 6 spell slot to something that shouldnt do lightning damage against a boss who is immune to it?

[white stirrup]

Wait you didn't go for the one staff in the tower?

[clear quail]

Wait you don't lose your honour mode if you die in the camp??

Omg thank god

I somehow made everyone near priestess gut angry at me

I did not survive

Laezel is living tho

It sure is going

THEY TOOK LAEZEL'S FIRE SWORD

NOOOOO

It was so amazing sadge

This may be the first time I use disguise self

Because I need to get into the underdark

And I can't be bothered to go the other routes

Oh they're not hostile

Dang larian make disguise self good for something smh

[sudden nacelle]

just steal it back, it's in the confisation chest

[clear quail]

I accidentally killed everyone in the worg pens while tryna assasinate someone to get a chest beforehand

Thank ye

I will go get it now

[sudden nacelle]

everburn blade is so good

legit kept it through most of act 2 and a bunch of 3

[raw bay]

ok I hate Gale

he made the owlbear club leave

[clear quail]

How

[raw bay]

why do I even keep you in my party I'm already a wizard

[clear quail]

Make him a bard

[raw bay]

can I reclass him with Withers?

having an evocation wizard is useful though

also I have come to appreciate Lae'zel

[clear quail]

Yes

I've never had him on a wizard in my runs

I only find wizard good as a multiclass dip

Otherwise it's a pretty useless class

[raw bay]

I am playing with the expanded spells mod

[clear quail]

Every other full caster eclipses it

[clear quail]

Not familiar

[raw bay]

I did hear that it isn't as good in bgIII vanilla

it add all the 5e spells in

like dragons breath

[clear quail]

As scrolls?

[raw bay]

turn your cat into a burning hands dispenser

[clear quail]

Also dragon breath is in the game but only for dragonborns

[raw bay]

getting spell slots back on a short rest is cool though

like warlock does too but worse

i like arcane recovery

[clear quail]

Yeah fair but like you get that with a dip

[raw bay]

yeah the owlbear was a bout to join the camp, I handed it food

then Gale showed up and confidently declared it wouldn't leave me

and then it got spooked

I had not saved in a while before going to camp

[clear quail]

It comes back lol

[raw bay]

thank god

[clear quail]

Gale is just funny like that

Love him

[raw bay]

confidently incorrect

[clear quail]

I have him in honour mode

[raw bay]

how did this man rizz up a goddess

[clear quail]

I know lae zel and astarion is better

But I can't resist taking him

Oh speaking of which I haven't stolen the funny sword off of kithrak voss yet

I need that for gale cause he can disguise self

[white stirrup]

Yeah its main use is the fact wizard spells are broken

Like you just need 1 level in wizard and enough slots to make it whatever level

Then you can put those in the book

So basically just ones which don't use int like haste

[raw bay]

they got rid of the haste drawbacks didn't they

from 5e

[white stirrup]

They didn't

But they buffed it

(unless honor, honor mode its the same as normal dnd)

[raw bay]

you don't become unable to move for a round afterwards?

[white stirrup]

You do

But the buff is now its just an extra action perood

Rather than a few actions plus one extra attack

[bronze bay]

this is a powerful image

[warped hawk]

no you do, I just reloaded my save at the epilogue cause i finished the game and went out with a bang (of fire wall)

[clear quail]

No I meant goblin camp

[warped hawk]

oh i see

[clear quail]

I was talking about my honour mode

Well mine is over now anyways

I got surprised by a spectator fight in the underdark

I've genuinely never seen that before

I thought i could kill it with glut but it ended up killing all my guys

[warped hawk]

yeah thatll do it

either way from the underdark selunite outpost has relatively difficult enemies

[clear quail]

Yea I was trying to do arcane tower to get club of hill giant for my monk build

But I very much underestimated the enemies

[agile reef]

You can stand across the pit from that area and shoot one of the petrified drow to spawn the spectator without starting combat

That way when you actually go to fight it on a proper playthrough you won’t be surprised

[white stirrup]

Also I think I could have got more allies ||Could have gotten yurgir and dame||

[clear quail]

I'm so silly

Just remembered I could have used glut to resurrect the minotaurs I killed

They would have definitely been really good smh

[warped hawk]

I think its funny cause in my honour playthrough ||Yurgir detonated 4 runepowder bombs that were about 10 feet away from him, you can probably assume what happened to him after||

[sudden nacelle]

that always happens,
it's not always gale, idk how the companion who speaks there is chosen actually but yeah that's not just a gale thing

[scenic fulcrum]

for me it was shart being shart

[bronze bay]

gale's is probably the funniest

the owlbear smelled a nerd

[scenic fulcrum]

"ah fuck, a bookworm!" -owlbear cub, probably

[raw bay]

it is incredibly funny to me that Larian did not change how true strike worked at all

they were faithful and kept it shit

[iron sequoia]

You can also reanimate the Bullete and the Monarch spider

[warped hawk]

you can use it to reanimate basically anything you could bring to glut

[agile reef]

No spider on honor mode, she’s immune to being shoved in the hole

[sudden nacelle]

fight it properly

don't be a coward 😛

[raw bay]

thunderwave

[warped hawk]

I did the spider really easy at level 5

personal recommendation though, take out the babies asap

[white stirrup]

Wait you mean the phase spider?

[warped hawk]

yes

im not aware of any other spider bosses that involve being shoved in a pit

[white stirrup]

I remember my first time fighting it

It just fell off by itself

[warped hawk]

master level ai

that being said, Ive only had one boss go kinda wonk on me, and that was during specifically my tactician run in act 3 where ||Saverok|| walked into a cloud of daggers and stopped taking turns, because apparently staying in sanctuary was better than dying, but also not moving out of range of a melee character who was near by was also a good idea, despite being in sanctuary and standing currently inside an AOE attack

[iron sequoia]

The phase spider just kept jumping on the webs for me so it was an easy like half of its health by destroying the web each time

[white stirrup]

So far I had 2

One was in act 3 against these random people

Where basically one of them basically all they did was move up and down boxes

And of course the spider killing itself

[sudden nacelle]

Yeah that's what it's kinda programmed to do, keep warping onto the webs.
It can do other stuff sometimes but that's p much at its core level of choice

[warped hawk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zdlTlVtYMQ

this is absolutely stupid

[raw bay]

ah true strike

you would have thought they'd change it to be the 5.5e updated version

but no

kept it shit

[warped hawk]

yeah but its clearly overpowered

[raw bay]

of course

the only actual use I can think for it is before starting a combat

useless in combat

[clear quail]

anyone know if you can use ranged attacks while sitting down

i have had a glorious plan for the stool of hill giant strength

[raw bay]

Wait

the I'm a hater and a gatekeeper is an actual voiceline

[sudden nacelle]

nope

[warped hawk]

I had astarion (ranger) use the club of hill giant strength for most of the game while wielding the titan bow

[clear quail]

Aw man

There goes my plan to take the stool with me everywhere and become an artillery cannon

[clear quail]

I had no idea you could actually trigger the traps in the withers temple

Everyone in my party died except karlach

Thank god withers appears as soon as you go into the goblin camp otherwise I would've just been screwed

[raw bay]

i only just learned you can cheese fights by setting up explosives with the other characters when Tav is in dialogue

[clear quail]

That's how I did most of the fights

It's a funny little thing called barrelmancy

[white stirrup]

Tbh on my friends playthrough they are bringing a kobold in a wine barrel through the entire game

[sudden nacelle]

yeah same

i always bring the barrelbolds with me on my adventure

[warped hawk]

my next run of BG3 will be an interesting one

im gonna try to 100% the remaining achievements in the game

[warped hawk]

got some like these

and then I got others like this

[white stirrup]

So try a weird durge playthrough then

[raw bay]

honour mode durge jack of all trades

[white stirrup]

No need for honor mode

[raw bay]

bout to start modded multiplayer with friends

modded just to include all the 5e subclasses

[warped hawk]

dont need to do either of them, so thank god lol

[white stirrup]

Also if you are lazy, for the achievement ones you can go to a prior save and beat the game with a different ending

[warped hawk]

yeah but there are really only two I need to get still, and both can be done at once

[white stirrup]

Yeah and will post a guide for the achievement
||Act 1:

• One must be rescued from the hobgoblin assassin in the druid grove.
• Don't let the evil druid kill the baby Arabella.
• Save the kid from the harpies on the shore.
• Talk another one out of killing a goblin in jail.

Act 2

• Do not let a single tiefling die during the Marcus and flying creatures raid. And stop him from kidnapping Isobel.
• Take quests to save the tieflings that have been taken, including the petty thief Mol.
• Save Rolan at the bottom of the map near the river in front of the place where you can jump into the Towers.
• Find Arabella near the Healing House and complete her quest. Her parents are not rescued.
• Rescue all the tieflings from the Tower Prison BEFORE you go to complete the Nightsong quest.
• Rescue Zevlor in the illithid colony

Act 3

• The children of the thieves will be in the refugee camp.
• Bard Alfira and Lakrissa in the Elfsong tavern.
• Rolan with his master archmage in the tower. Joins in battle with the master if you do not give him Nightsong.
• Male in the thieves guild (at least if she is dissuaded from accepting the devil's offer in the second act)||

[clear quail]

Oops

Accidentally killed auntie ethel

No +1 for me

[warped hawk]

good job

[clear quail]

Anyways jeez that was so super easy

I even have a 3 spellcaster team so they did no damage to not trigger the legendary action

But still it was not like how other people said it would be

[warped hawk]

the legendary action makes auntie ethel basically turn into 5-7 clones of herself to cast spells on you

but magic missile is real good to stop that

[clear quail]

But magic missile causes her to split again?

[warped hawk]

it should kill the clones no?

[clear quail]

I used hunter mark instead to find the real one

[clear quail]

She resummons them if you cast a spell tho

[warped hawk]

ah

I thought she just kinda did that whenever tbh

[clear quail]

Lmfao

[warped hawk]

when I killed her in my honor run I had 3 martials and 1 spell caster

[clear quail]

They should have her do that in honour honour mode

Oh I see I see

Well I only really have the phase matriarch left to do in act 1

And I'm not doing that

Because arachnophobia

[warped hawk]

and the spell caster may or may not have obliterated her health in one turn

ah I see

good luck getting the necromancy of thay then

[clear quail]

I don't think I'll need it's buffs too bad..

Tho the wisdom +1 looks nice

[warped hawk]

+1 wisdom and a free 4 ghoul spawning every long rest

(in act 3 for the ghouls)

[clear quail]

Not me turning laezel into a ranger to get her to steal voss's sword

And then being surprised when she leaves the party to meet him

My intelligence knows no bounds

70% chance alright let's fucking ball

missed

[warped hawk]

lol

[white stirrup]

Tbh for my plan for honor whenever I do it, depends on the players but also will probably be me as a warlock. Another as a monk, another as a paladin bard and another an life cleric

[clear quail]

This game is so dang good

Instead of summoning the dude in the shadowlands immediately

I first assassinated all of the absolute people in the convoy

And he had special dialogue for doing it

With intimidation and deception checks

Not just an auto attack

They put so much damn effort into a scene probably only a couple people will do

[clear quail]

...I just....what...

[warped hawk]

shes evolving

[clear quail]

Well that githyanki fight was stupidly easy?

Am I overprepping???

I looked up all the usual honour mode run enders and the inquisitor was at the top

I killed him in one turn???

Well whatever time to blow the creche up and leave

[white stirrup]

Tbh he's probably difficult for like

Level 6 standards

[clear quail]

I did do it at level 6 is the thing

[white stirrup]

What was the party?

Tbh I haven't done honor mode so I can't say much

[agile reef]

Inquisitor at top of run Enders?

[clear quail]

Yea

[agile reef]

We also found that fight extremely easy

[clear quail]

People said the fight often lost their honour run

[white stirrup]

I looked it up

And he is like

Number 6

[clear quail]

Idk maybe they didn't focus on the inquisitor and instead the minions

Huh

Well I was looking at reddit posts

[white stirrup]

Hardest is of course ya boy

[agile reef]

We had everyone on psychic elixirs. Also silenced the inquisitor to waste his turn moving. I also just beat the shit out of him cause monk

[clear quail]

Reddit sucks but they have really good info for bg3 ngl

[white stirrup]

For me I just use wikis and dnd strategies

[clear quail]

I didn't even need psychic elixir because I lucked out and got voss's legendary sword early so lae zel tanked all his damage

Oh yeah I also had a monk

[white stirrup]

Tbh though my idea for honor mode is just pure dps

[clear quail]

Tav as bard is good for skipping stuff

But yea dps is better then healers for honour mode

[white stirrup]

Aka warlock for ranged dps and kinda aoe, monk since monk, paladin bard for paladin bard things and life cleric for healing

[clear quail]

The only good healer is life cleric and that's only with the accessory that maxes healing from any heal spell imo

[agile reef]

TB throwing eldritch knight is also gas

[white stirrup]

But also this requires a honor mode run

Which I can do after playing normal mode with a friend

And doing 100% in dark souls 2

[clear quail]

Lol lae'zel threatening voss with his own sword

That's funny

[white stirrup]

I know a few people I can do it with

[clear quail]

Man doing co op sounds fun

[white stirrup]

Tbh its the only way I can be bothered to do honor mode

Since I am not the best at baldurs gate

Nor do I tend to actually try whenever I play dnd or baldurs gate because trying is boring

The only time I actually tried was during the final fight

[clear quail]

That's true

I'll probably never do honour mode again after getting the dice

Because using meta builds and having to metagame has been pretty boring

[white stirrup]

Yeah to me tactician is more my speed than anything

[white stirrup]

It is yeah

I prefer doing dumb shit

Like for example

Making a 6 fighter 2 paladin 4 bard, accidentally sabotaging teammates

[agile reef]

I’m doing honor mode with some coworkers. I’ve got 350+ hours in the game, they’ve played it a bit. So I’m mostly the shot caller

[white stirrup]

Tbh for honor mode I want to play a simple class

Aka warlock

[iron sequoia]

I don’t think I’ll do a for honor mode run simply because it doesn’t seem fun to me

[warped hawk]

I mean you dont gotta

I did honour mode cause I was bored one day

and then decided id spend the next 2 weeks trying to do it

I actually think itll be how I play (Minus the permadeath and no saving bits), in custom mode from now on, cause legendary actions are neat me thinks

and also I have an issue dropping difficulty in games because I end up thinking its too easy once I try a harder one

the only one where I have actually gone back on was Age of Calamity, but thats just because it literally took me 45 minutes to do one boss (thats without dying or anything, he was just a damage sponge)

[agile reef]

I’m doing honor mode cause it’s the last trophy I don’t have

[raw bay]

why is the scroll of TRUE RESSURECTION a 9th level spell, only worth 100 measily gold pieces

what

[white stirrup]

Because no

Revivify just got buffed

[white stirrup]

Also polearm master got half fixed

The opportunity thing is no longer a thing but the other is

[agile reef]

Have they fixed shield bash or not being able to pick up gold stacks yet?

[white stirrup]

Not sure about gold stacks, shield bash yes

[warped hawk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/1asaj42/polymorphed_due_to_a_wild_magic_surge_for_a_key/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[clear quail]

And with this final choice....

My honour mode run is complete

I'm actually gonna cry. As a gale lover this choice physically hurt me.

[clear quail]

Yippee

I will be taking my gold dice

And never coming back

Time to go back to balanced and doing stupid builds

[warped hawk]

to be honest, ||gale (orb ending) and karlach (death endings)|| are immensely sad, especially in the epilogue

especially when ||romanced||

[agile reef]

They weren’t able to put the good ending in for Karlach

[bronze bay]

https://vxtwitter.com/Honeyhaunted/status/1758583912425566227?t=Q_ED0Ff2GK8NkoMfsw-gQA&s=19

[raw bay]

me when I heard that one of my current DMs ||fucking beheaded Karlach||

[warped hawk]

only one character like that for me, and thats funny ||Emperor squid guy||

only because (final boss spoilers) if you ||wanna free Orpheus, hes just like yeah im out lol, ima try to kill you now||

[clear quail]

literallly whenever i talked to anyone about gale and they're like yeah i killed him in my durge playthrough!!!!

LIKE WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[clear quail]

||i have killed orpheus 3 times now i just can't resist doing it lol||

i have literally not experienced him being alive

[warped hawk]

||I actually quite like him as a character, hes actually nice if you free him (after the initial yelling at you about fornificating with a mindflayer if you did that)||

[warped hawk]

apparently BG3 is getting official modding support eventually

eventually being the next big patch

[clear quail]

Consoles getting mod support wowowowoowowowo

Well it'll probably take a while

But still!!

[warped hawk]

I think itll be very interesting

[agile reef]

Cleared ketheric fights on honor mode, wasn’t stressful at all

[sudden nacelle]

every single explosive I've found in the whole game, never used any of them

all four runepowder bombs, fireworks, firewine, smokepowder barrels, the whole lot

[raw bay]

barrelmancy is really strong

the moment i learned that other characters can place objects when another is engaged in dialogue I realised that the game is actually very easy

it does kind of break the immersion for me though because that is the type of thing you could absolutely not do in an actual irl ttrpg

[warped hawk]

not with that attitude

you just need a bunch of bags of holding, better yet a portable hole

[raw bay]

yeah but

your DM is not going to let other playes set up chains of explosives when another player is in dialogue

[warped hawk]

well thats why you have the explosives on you

[raw bay]

the NPC would notice

[warped hawk]

at all times

if something goes to shit, throw the bag and firebolt it

[sudden nacelle]

stealth checks baby

[raw bay]

i don't care how high your stealth roll is, if you put down multiple powder kegs in direct view of an NPC they will notice

its not like the powder kegs are stealthed

[warped hawk]

exactly, thats why you pass without trace

or be a gloomstalker ranger

[raw bay]

only affects creatures

[warped hawk]

minor illusion

[sudden nacelle]

in direct view sure

but right behind is a whole other matter

[warped hawk]

though major image might be a bit better

hell you could even make it seem like you are talking to them when infact you are about to obliterate them

it just takes a bit of prep thats all

[raw bay]

i suppose so

[warped hawk]

and for the bags of holding and explosives

just make your team a pure artificer team

[raw bay]

bags of holding are magical items, they are difficult to damage

also if you do manage to tear one it will suck everything within a 10 ft radius into the astral plane

[warped hawk]

that is true

I have experienced that first hand

3/4 of the party members got zooped into the astral plane and the guy left behind went back home to his hut made from spears (in a town dubbed 'spearsvil") and did taxes

oh yeah there was also an abelith with the 3 that got transported, and it had did its abelith fuckery to make one of our party members its own slave, until it failed to astral gravity well and died from fall damage

[raw bay]

interesting

[sudden nacelle]

Me: I'm gonna bring every explosive in the game so I can use them on the brain for funsies
Also me: just one-round solos it with my monk because I got distracted.

[warped hawk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=246klKBuWPo

repeatedly killing astarion to get 89 weapon attacks in one turn

[sudden nacelle]

One of many good reasons to repeatedly kill him lol

Mainly being that he has so many funny things to say about being killed tbh

[clear quail]

"What in the sweet hells were you thinking!!!!!" I was right THERE"

[sudden nacelle]

Exactly

I literally cannot do a run without making that happen anymore

It's just too entertaining

[solid fiber]

late game builds be crazy man