Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

[cvv]

To be fair I have a multi class build for SH that I think is quite decent if you're looking for one

Gimme.

 

[Cael]

This is gonna be a lame normie question but I don't give a fuck, I don't play DnD ok.

Every build video I've seen always talks about "five three split barb wiz" and "eleven fucking fifty split whoremonger hentai master". Multiclassing? I'm about 40 hours in this game and I haven't seen anything pointing to multiclassing. Why should I do it and also how? The fuck? Levelling is mostly automatic, I just press the button and something awesome happens. How do I "split" my character?

By design, everything is hidden so that normies don't get confused by having options

Also don't bother, multi classing isn't necessary in the least, game is fucking easy

It may not be necessary, but what's the point of playing a crpg if you don't even play with the numbers and optimize your build?

Dramaqueenery.

 

[Ryzer]

It's a bummer they ditched the expansion, I'm eager to see how high level spells and combat turn out to be in BG3. I think it would be insanely broken for a turn based game.

Imagine Time Stop or Wish in BG3.

 

[cvv]

Whispering Promise, Hellrider's Pride, Luminous Armor, Boots of Stormy Clamour, Gloves of Beligerent Skies and Holy Lance Helm

I thought I'd scoured Act 1 clean but I have none of those kek. Now looking into it most of them are obtainable by trading or stealing and I've now realized I've been doing very little trading (mostly selling) and NO stealing. Even though in DOS 1/2 I stole everything not nailed down. That's gotta change.

 

[Haplo]

To be fair I have a multi class build for SH that I think is quite decent if you're looking for one

Gimme.

To be fair, I think most cleric domains are fine as pure classes. The high level spells are good, particularly Hero's Feast and Planar Ally. Just... her default domain sucks badly.

 

[Haplo]

Whispering Promise, Hellrider's Pride, Luminous Armor, Boots of Stormy Clamour, Gloves of Beligerent Skies and Holy Lance Helm

I thought I'd scoured Act 1 clean but I have none of those kek. Now looking into it most of them are obtainable by trading or stealing and I've now realized I've been doing very little trading (mostly selling) and NO stealing. Even though in DOS 1/2 I stole everything not nailed down. That's gotta change.

I wouldn't say most. But yeah, Whispering Promise needs to be stolen and is therefore easily missable. And Luminous Armor is pretty well hidden, therefore also missable. The Helm needs some decent exploration of side areas also. Hellrider's Pride I guess needs a specific (good) resolution of the major quest.

 

[Ryzer]

Hellrider's Pride I guess needs a specific (good) resolution of the major quest.

You can steal it from Zevlor.

 

[Haplo]

Whispering Promise, Hellrider's Pride, Luminous Armor, Boots of Stormy Clamour, Gloves of Beligerent Skies and Holy Lance Helm

Hellrider's Pride I guess needs a specific (good) resolution of the major quest.

You can steal it from Zevlor.

Oh yeah, that makes sense.

 

[Ryzer]

Whispering Promise, Hellrider's Pride, Luminous Armor, Boots of Stormy Clamour, Gloves of Beligerent Skies and Holy Lance Helm

Hellrider's Pride I guess needs a specific (good) resolution of the major quest.

You can steal it from Zevlor.

Oh yeah, that makes sense.

There is also an improved version of the gauntlets later in the game, so there is no need to be good if you want it. However chosing the evil path blocks you from obtaining the potent robes which is a great item.

 

[cvv]

the evil path

How is it btw? IIRC there were some complaints initially the evil path is undercooked and IIRC they improved on it.

Been wary about evil paths in RPGs since Wasteland 2 where the evil game is about 50% shorter and extremely grindy because the arch-baddie that you join requires you to kill half the map. But if the evil path in BG3 is good I could go for it.

 

[Hydro]

This is gonna be a lame normie question but I don't give a fuck, I don't play DnD ok.

Every build video I've seen always talks about "five three split barb wiz" and "eleven fucking fifty split whoremonger hentai master". Multiclassing? I'm about 40 hours in this game and I haven't seen anything pointing to multiclassing. Why should I do it and also how? The fuck? Levelling is mostly automatic, I just press the button and something awesome happens. How do I "split" my character?

By design, everything is hidden so that normies don't get confused by having options

Also don't bother, multi classing isn't necessary in the least, game is fucking easy

It may not be necessary, but what's the point of playing a crpg if you don't even play with the numbers and optimize your build?

Utilizing what you’ve been given to the maximum extent eh? Accepting something may have flaws? Honestly, mixmaxing should be considered an illness.

 

[Hydro]

extremely grindy because the arch-baddie that you join requires you to kill half the map

Literally same here. Evil=murder hobo

But if the evil path in BG3 is good I could go for it.

Lol no, not in the slightest

 

[Ryzer]

the evil path

How is it btw? IIRC there were some complaints initially the evil path is undercooked and IIRC they improved on it.

Been wary about evil paths in RPGs since Wasteland 2 where the evil game is about 50% shorter and extremely grindy because the arch-baddie that you join requires you to kill half the map. But if the evil path in BG3 is good I could go for it.

You will lose 3 companions (but their content isn't good), gain a somewhat good item, and a lot of exp.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Yeah I was looking into multiclassing Rogue into Ranger Gloomstalker and I guess Barb into Fighter for fighting style, other two I was planning to keep pure.

Although yeah it's already becoming quite an easy game so I am not sure about going multi since its probably gonna ruin the experience if I'm just blasting through combat for 60 more hours.

Shadowheart I ditched pretty quickly, there's almost never a need to have a dedicated healer in a TB game. It's just an action economy thing, 99% of the time attacking is more effective use of your action, since AI doesn't focus fire and you do.

It feels like the same thing that plagues PF:KM - where most of the build guides have you splitting between 8 classes for some fucking reason (and all of them pick vivisectionist1/monk1, so fucking original) - even though a single classed level 20 build will oftenly perform the same if not better anyway.

Played my first run of WOTR on core with companions on auto-level, worked just fine.

 

[Yosharian]

To be fair I have a multi class build for SH that I think is quite decent if you're looking for one

Gimme.

In my sig

 

[Hydro]

Imagine Time Stop or Wish in BG3

Swen should have implemented spells into a banging mini game. Imagine Metacritics score he’d have gained. Man oh man.

 

[jackofshadows]

How is it btw? IIRC there were some complaints initially the evil path is undercooked and IIRC they improved on it.

You lose a lot of cringe content which is amazing. Also you lose a very good trader though.

 

[Ryzer]

Shadowheart I ditched pretty quickly, there's almost never a need to have a dedicated healer in a TB game. It's just an action economy thing, 99% of the time attacking is more effective use of your action, since AI doesn't focus fire and you do.

Do you play on Honor difficulty? Cleric is one of the strongest class in the game both DPS-wise with spells and as a tank-healer.

 

[Haplo]

Whispering Promise, Hellrider's Pride, Luminous Armor, Boots of Stormy Clamour, Gloves of Beligerent Skies and Holy Lance Helm

Hellrider's Pride I guess needs a specific (good) resolution of the major quest.

You can steal it from Zevlor.

Oh yeah, that makes sense.

There is also an improved version of the gauntlets later in the game, so there is no need to be good if you want it. However chosing the evil path blocks you from obtaining the potent robes which is a great item.

Yeah, but then you play half the game without an awesome buff effect that helps a lot in combat (although makes it easier )

 

[Haplo]

Shadowheart I ditched pretty quickly, there's almost never a need to have a dedicated healer in a TB game. It's just an action economy thing, 99% of the time attacking is more effective use of your action, since AI doesn't focus fire and you do.

Cleric is one of the strongest class in the game both DPS-wise with spells (...)

Only Tempest and Light Clerics. With Tempest having a huge advantage due to the Wet status doubling the shock damage.

 

[cvv]

To be fair I have a multi class build for SH that I think is quite decent if you're looking for one

Gimme.

In my sig

A Wildheart/Barb Shadowheart sounds fun but I'll keep her at least partially cleric for RP reasons.

As for the Gale Battlemage build - what's the use of his one Fighter level? Do you actually fight with him (use his staff)? Also any tips for an alternative lvl 4 feat? My Gale never uses any concentration spells, he just blasts fools with fireball and MM.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Shadowheart I ditched pretty quickly, there's almost never a need to have a dedicated healer in a TB game. It's just an action economy thing, 99% of the time attacking is more effective use of your action, since AI doesn't focus fire and you do.

Do you play on Honor difficulty? Cleric is one of the strongest class in the game both DPS-wise with spells and as a tank-healer.

Yeah playing on Honor, never feels like I need a healer at all. Extra short rest I get with Bard definitely helps.

 

[Yosharian]

To be fair I have a multi class build for SH that I think is quite decent if you're looking for one

Gimme.

In my sig

A Wildheart/Barb Shadowheart sounds fun but I'll keep her at least partially cleric for RP reasons.

As for the Gale Battlemage build - what's the use of his one Fighter level? Do you actually fight with him (use his staff)? Also any tips for an alternative lvl 4 feat? My Gale never uses any concentration spells, he just blasts fools with fireball and MM.

No that's a different one, the one I was referring to is the Wizard/Cleric build.

The Gale build uses the Fighter level for heavy armour and for CON save proficiency. If you want a blaster build you'd need a different one

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Baba Yaga fight was fun, hardest boss so far, mostly due to positioning and illusions teleporting all over the place, but cleared it comfortably in the end. Sacrificed the girl to get ability point of course.

Think I mostly cleaned up the first map, found the ladder to Underdark now, really cool location with great visuals.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Sacrificed the girl to get ability point of course.

You coulda had the cake and ate it too