Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[Reinhardt]

 

[Cryomancer]

serious dress-wearing

I already explained many times to you. Dress is what you wear. Robes is what your mage master wears.

You can now use the Magic Mirror on hirelings.

They should allow us to change the appearance of companions too.

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But here is another question. Just by curiosity. If there was no hard level cap, by using all sources of xp possible, which level would PC's be able to obtain? My guess? 14.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Not sure why just about everyone turned into “adult kids”. That’s literally a 10-year old humor and I bet that wasn’t the target audience. The last mentally adult person I met in my life was my grandfather born in 1931. Everyone else, including my parents, refused to grow up. I am like that too.

Peter Pan syndrome, later morphed into kidultism by the time Shrek and My Little Pony rolled out. The core target audience for internet entertainment is between 15 to 25. By the time you hit the latter, you're already too old.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I already explained many times to you. Dress is what you wear. Robes is what your mage master wears.

 

[Hagashager]

Really guys? *really*? This is what you're arguing about?

Back on topic, got to Act III, had a decent time so far, most of the bitching here is unfounded, but some of it is true.

In Rivington I am starting to run out of steam.

 

[Reinhardt]

got to Act III

who cares.
now dresses are important.

 

[Cryomancer]

One thing which I noticed is that in P&P, martials get a 3rd attack at lv 11. In this game, at lv 10.

But here is a lore question. Is Storm Sorcerer White Dragonborn the canon Dark Urge character and Dark Urge the canon main character?

And other question about Dark Urge, if he gives in into his dark urge, he gets the Slayer form. Does he get anything from suppressing it?

Other question. How do I get the +1 int in act 1? I din't finished the game but decided to start again and din't remember how to do it. And where exactly I go to start teh quest to get dense macabre spell in act 3? Other question. There is any spell better than GREASE in early game? The chance of putting enemies prone and giving advantage to martials is huge.

 

[Rhobar121]

One thing which I noticed is that in P&P, martials get a 3rd attack at lv 11. In this game, at lv 10.

But here is a lore question. Is Storm Sorcerer White Dragonborn the canon Dark Urge character and Dark Urge the canon main character?

And other question about Dark Urge, if he gives in into his dark urge, he gets the Slayer form. Does he get anything from suppressing it?

Other question. How do I get the +1 int in act 1? I din't finished the game but decided to start again and din't remember how to do it. And where exactly I go to start teh quest to get dense macabre spell in act 3? Other question. There is any spell better than GREASE in early game? The chance of putting enemies prone and giving advantage to martials is huge.

The best spell in early game is hold person, this practically allows you to kill every humanoid boss within 1-2 rounds (auto crit).
Another good spell at the beginning of the game is sleep.

Anything that isn't a paladin (except Outbreaker) and a cleric makes sense as a Dark Urge, although it's best suited as a rogue.

Dark Urge

If you do everything dark urge wants, it doesn't end well.
You get the worst possible scenario in act 2 (death of most characters and traders) and you can potentially lose all your companions. Slayer's form is ok, although not that good. You also have a new extremely shitty ending (worse than the basic one)
If you resist (make sure you don't have negative wisdom) you only lose your Slayer form.
You also get a decent redemption story

If you want +1 one to any stat, you have to let auntie Ethel live when she surrenders.

Danse Macabre is unlocked through Necromancy of Thay.

 

[jf8350143]

One thing which I noticed is that in P&P, martials get a 3rd attack at lv 11. In this game, at lv 10.

But here is a lore question. Is Storm Sorcerer White Dragonborn the canon Dark Urge character and Dark Urge the canon main character?

And other question about Dark Urge, if he gives in into his dark urge, he gets the Slayer form. Does he get anything from suppressing it?

Other question. How do I get the +1 int in act 1? I din't finished the game but decided to start again and din't remember how to do it. And where exactly I go to start teh quest to get dense macabre spell in act 3? Other question. There is any spell better than GREASE in early game? The chance of putting enemies prone and giving advantage to martials is huge.

In BG 3 only fighter gets 3rd attack at lv 11, other classes don't get 3rd attack.

The only way to get 3rd attack for other martial class is to muliti-class 5 level of Warlock.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Or to sleep with a bear...

 

[Cryomancer]

got to Act III, had a decent time so far, most of the bitching here is unfounded, but some of it is true.

I really loved Act 2. Act 3 is not as bad as people said but in many times I just don't know what to do. The siege in the tower was very cool.

But I started again cuz Slayer form.

hold person, this practically allows you to kill every humanoid boss within 1-2 rounds (auto crit).
Another good spell at the beginning of the game is sleep.

Yep. But require concentration and can't be used to make animals prone.

dresses

I din't knew that humans get proeficiency in light armor and shields in 5e. Now I'm using a shield and light armor. 17 AC at lv 4.

 

[Vyvian]

I can't believe the Frog is actually becoming my favorite companion.
There's a lot more to her than it first seems that's for sure.

 

[MerchantKing]

I already explained many times to you. Dress is what you wear. Robes is what your mage master wears.

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This is why true Gnome Wizards wear custom made leather armor. Unfortunately, unlike robes, they're dry clean only. But such is the price to avoid being gay.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

avoid being gay.

Wizards

Lol ok bean counter

 

[jackofshadows]

The best spell in early game is hold person

You realize that you can upcast it, right?

 

[MerchantKing]

avoid being gay.

Wizards

Lol ok bean counter

I count turnips. Not beans.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

avoid being gay.

Wizards

Lol ok bean counter

I count turnips. Not beans.

Turnips just swollen beans in denial.

 

[Cryomancer]

Honestly, one of my critiques which I sperged a lot against Larian is that I din't knew how they could continue the Bhaalspawn saga.

Now, I must public admit that I was wrong. The Dark Urge storyline is a good continuation.

For those who unlocked Slayer form. Is Slayer form in BG3 as powerful as in BG2? Seeing the statistics in wiki, seems a lot weaker but without the huge drawbacks from 2.

 

[Rhobar121]

Honestly, one of my critiques which I sperged a lot against Larian is that I din't knew how they could continue the Bhaalspawn saga.

Now, I must public admit that I was wrong. The Dark Urge storyline is a good continuation.

For those who unlocked Slayer form. Is Slayer form in BG3 as powerful as in BG2? Seeing the statistics in wiki, seems a lot weaker but without the huge drawbacks from 2.

Think what would happen if they followed the original idea and did not separate custom character and dark urge.

 

[Fedora Master]

Now, I must public admit that I was wrong. The Dark Urge storyline is a good continuation.

No it isn't

 

[Infinitron]

Behind the scenes with BG3's sound designer: https://www.youtube.com/@gullskjeggsoundwizardry/videos

In Baldur's Gate 3, when you wear shoes with metal on them, we wanted them to have a unique sound layer of metal clanks. I made some sabatons in the forge (I learned blacksmithing) and recorded an hour session of walking on various surfaces with them loosely on.

"(I learned blacksmithing)"

 

[whydoibother]

For those who unlocked Slayer form. Is Slayer form in BG3 as powerful as in BG2?

Its not. Slayer is weaker than a minmaxed character at that point.
One of the mods I ran on my Dark Urge play was a mod to improve the Slayer form. I only used it where narratively sensible, so no biggie.

 

[MerchantKing]

avoid being gay.

Wizards

Lol ok bean counter

I count turnips. Not beans.

Turnips just swollen beans in denial.

Of course a retarded barbarian wouldn't know the difference between a legume and a vegetable.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

nsfw

dat jaw lmao

lmao. of course Astarion would be the only decently drawn one.

The others look like AI art.

 

[Cryomancer]

Slayer is weaker than a minmaxed character at that point

I see. Slayer in BG2 was nuts, able to destroy effortless a mindflayer colony alone. But the reputation cost and the fact that you could't spend much time in the form otherwise the damage kills you was fitting drawbacks.

mods

Any good guide on how to install mods in Linux? I broke my installation when tried.

like AI art.

Nope. Way worse than AI art.

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Doing everything in chapter 1, is possible to reach lv 8? I only reached 7.