Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 - tips, tricks & helpful information

[Percy]

Btw that Harpy fight you guys constantly talk about, musta missed it. Where is it? Shadowlands?

Druid Grove near the beach.

 

[Grunker]

You can't multiclass them at level up. I don't know if you can multiclass them while respec-ing them.

You can. You just missed the button (it’s kind of small).

Everyone will now rate this post ‘button’

 

[lukaszek]

I literally haven’t shoved a single enemy over a ledge the entire game

i felt cheated, ive executed perfectly pushes to drop cambion warlord to death but it turns out those chasm were fake/were treated as wall

 

[Haplo]

Btw that Harpy fight you guys constantly talk about, musta missed it. Where is it? Shadowlands?

Druid Grove near the beach.

Yeah, its an early game, level 3 fight. But having the entire party perma charmed, unless you can somehow block it, makes it rather tricky.

But yes, Armor of Agathys was great there, particularly that most of it happens in water...

 

[Grunker]

welp, durge bard was a mistake

Spoiler

you have to fight the slayer in a 1v1

EDIT:

Spoiler

lol, my ghouls summoned by tome of necromancy paralyzed it

 

[volklore]

That githyanki fight on the risen road at the mountain pass lol. They were all very nicely lined up for create water + lightning bolt combo. I guess picking Alert on both shadowheart and Gale really paid off. The fighter bitch still won initiative over my martials and killed one of them through blade ward lol. Didn't help that my portent dices were complete ass (both in the midrange, not enough to make her miss). Probably quite a tough fight if you run into it early.
I ended up picking GWM on my MC because it really synergizes well with reckless attacks and the early worm powers, and barb gets some initiative buff and immunity to surprised later but I am starting to wonder if I should just have picked alert anyways on both melees too. GWM is nice to wipe up weak mobs but for now even with bless and advantage there are things I can't hit that consistently. Although 2xGWM with wolf rage creates pretty crazy power turns on bosses but I don't see anything as good as consistently winning initiative on everyone and getting a full turn before the enemy gets to act (especially factoring larianbrew combos and barrelmancy).

 

[lukaszek]

does dungeon delver feat work? wasnt able to spot traps in the swamp. Logs showed rolls up to 5 and nothing about advantage so im suspicious

 

[Yosharian]

Grunker apparently there is a ring called 'The Whispering Promise' that gives 2 rounds of free Bless to a target when it is healed by the wearer. Could work with your combo you mentioned earlier?

I'm unable to test this hypothesis because I can't find the ring in the game files =(

https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/The+Whispering+Promise

 

[volklore]

Grunker apparently there is a ring called 'The Whispering Promise' that gives 2 rounds of free Bless to a target when it is healed by the wearer. Could work with your combo you mentioned earlier?

I'm unable to test this hypothesis because I can't find the ring in the game files =(

https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/The+Whispering+Promise

Dunno if it works with the ring but blade ward on heal or bless on heals worked with healing potions for me, also works with life cleric channel divinity ability and for what seems to be any source of healing. Mass healing word is pretty crazy with that combo bless and bladeward whole party, and you still get a full action out of the round.

 

[Yosharian]

Grunker apparently there is a ring called 'The Whispering Promise' that gives 2 rounds of free Bless to a target when it is healed by the wearer. Could work with your combo you mentioned earlier?

I'm unable to test this hypothesis because I can't find the ring in the game files =(

https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/The+Whispering+Promise

Dunno if it works with the ring but blade ward on heal or bless on heals worked with healing potions for me.

Hmm it probably does work then. jeez that's crazy.

 

[Desiderius]

Btw that Harpy fight you guys constantly talk about, musta missed it. Where is it? Shadowlands?

Dungeon of Nahuelbeck

They down half your team early but all you have to do is get them back on their feet and you’re good.

 

[Grunker]

If you are planning to save the prisoners in the

Spoiler

Iron Throne

, don't heed Enver's warning. Go there when you first take the submersible. If you go back and then return, the prisoners bug and stand still, leaving you unable to complete the quest.

 

[Grunker]

Grunker apparently there is a ring called 'The Whispering Promise' that gives 2 rounds of free Bless to a target when it is healed by the wearer. Could work with your combo you mentioned earlier?

yeah, it could!

 

[Jermu]

hm there is item + ability that would give pretty much unlimited turns with fire spells but it only works few times for some reason

act3 setup

hat that gives bonus action when using fire spell + worm ability that let u swap between bonus and main actions

 

[Yosharian]

Grunker apparently there is a ring called 'The Whispering Promise' that gives 2 rounds of free Bless to a target when it is healed by the wearer. Could work with your combo you mentioned earlier?

yeah, it could!

Need some kind of ability that gives a small amount of healing in an AOE to all allies automatically...

 

[notpl]

Grunker apparently there is a ring called 'The Whispering Promise' that gives 2 rounds of free Bless to a target when it is healed by the wearer. Could work with your combo you mentioned earlier?

yeah, it could!

Need some kind of ability that gives a small amount of healing in an AOE to all allies automatically...

Does it trigger off of thrown potions?

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

What's going on here? Why does she get hit back by twice the damage she inflicted?

Edit: nvm, I see it.

 

[Barbarian]

Lol I got

Spoiler

Scratch the dog

as a familiar, complete with summon familiar ritual spell and all. I'm a pure class rogue.

Nice touch but doesn't the 5e ruleset have class restriction on which characters can have familiars such as older editions? He is pretty weak in combat but quite useful. He can use the "help" action for instance. Also useful outside combat(extra perception rolls for finding hidden loot and etc).

Level 2 animal. No idea if he will gain levels or abilities. Probably not.

 

[whydoibother]

You can also get an imp thingy and a raven, I think on any character, from items and quests.

 

[lukaszek]

i guess Ive entered hag fight too early(im barely lvl4) and just lol at this situation.
Can someone spoil me what do I lose if I push her down the chasm and cant loot?


EDIT:
managed to kill her, got interesting dialogue with the dead but loot is meh? Since in following scenario I get bug(tried 2 times). It doesnt feel like I lose anything by dropping her?

managed to get her to low life, win the check, but then I get this buggy window:

Edit2: while buggy window locks me out of everything, quick save&load works. Loaded into another cutscene and all is fine

 

[Salvo]

Grunker apparently there is a ring called 'The Whispering Promise' that gives 2 rounds of free Bless to a target when it is healed by the wearer. Could work with your combo you mentioned earlier?

yeah, it could!

Need some kind of ability that gives a small amount of healing in an AOE to all allies automatically...

Oath of Ancients Pally channel divinity

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

I'm playing on hard, but I can't win any battles unless I cheese my way through with Darkness. Is this cheating, e.g. akin to spamming skull traps in bg2? Or am I doing alright?

Mostly, mobs are confused by darkness and don't enter it, skipping their turn. You peek out, fire shots or spells and go back in.

This encounter for example.

 

[lukaszek]

I cheese my way through with Darkness

yeah, that skill casts confusion on ai. There are some limited uses for it, but most combat ruins it for me

 

[jackofshadows]

Is this cheating, e.g. akin to spamming skull traps in bg2? Or am I doing alright?

I consider that as a hard AI abuse, it clearly suppose to run at you in this situations while it don't even try. So yeah, I hope they'll fix it so fog/darkness use will be valid. So far, I think not.

Just learned that it's possible to legitimately raise stats above 20 in this game, cool.

Spoiler

Mirror of Loss, by SH's quest

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

With the way Larian has messed with the rules, it seems like 1 Diviner/11 Sorcerer. Do learned wizard spells still use INT? This should be avoidable on a Sorcerer since they have the same spell list, right?