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

[Yosharian]

Hmmm. Ok. Well I'll try him out and see if he's bearable.

I'm probably going to start my actual playthrough in a few days! I found what I am hoping is a way to play the game in its current broken-ass state while still maintaining a level of challenge.

Basically it's Attunement. I'm going to create a list of every item in the game using the wiki, and mark it either as Attunement required, or free to use. If it's an Attunement item then you can only have up to three of those.

This is actually making me excited for my run now.

 

[Desiderius]

Part of the appeal of Wyll is playing Haplo's Sentinel Sorrow Armor of Agathis build. Make sure to keep things Wet to double the Cold damage (and let Gale murderlate things with Witch Bolt - no save). Level six Abjurer can prevent damage to allies, and Warding Bond halves all damage, including randow surfaces and whatnot.

Did just see it trigger multiple times on Harpy fight

 

[notpl]

Is Wyll really that bad?

He's just painfully boring. He's supposed to be this relentless interdimensional bounty hunter, a sort of judge dredd who sold his soul for the privilege of killing evildoers more effectively, but he has no sharp edges to be found anywhere in his personality. It's funny they made him black because he is the most flavorless untoasted white bread of a character in the game. A shame, because the she-devil you get to interact with as part of his plot is cool. I almost suggest people play as him so that they get his plot without having to hear his dialogue.

 

[Desiderius]

If you make him your main (and play the Armor of Agathis melee build) it crowds out other melee companions if you like to swap them in for their quests and inspirations.

 

[HumanMaleFighter]

Helpful information: It's very difficult to play as a sword-and-board human male fighter, because the game literally doesn't contain any good longswords. They're all trash.

 

[lukaszek]

Is Wyll really that bad?

yes. He is unbearable. retarded warlock that somehow thinks that is a paladin

 

[Yosharian]

Sigh. But who else can be my Bard, lol. I guess I could use Lae'zel, I struggle to imagine her as a CHA archetype though

I might have to use... Astarion. Barf.

I'd have to give up the Adamantine Shield if I did that, hmm.

 

[Yosharian]

Is Astarion bearable in a Good-aligned party, or will he leave after a while?

 

[Anthedon]

Is there any kind of pay off for not consuming any tadpoles? I stashed them in the beginning stages of the game and forgot about that whole aspect until after I finished my playthrough.

 

[VerSacrum]

Is Astarion bearable in a Good-aligned party, or will he leave after a while?

If you let him drink your blood, bum you and kill the monster hunter in the swamp, yes

 

[Eisenheinrich]

Is there any kind of pay off for not consuming any tadpoles? I stashed them in the beginning stages of the game and forgot about that whole aspect until after I finished my playthrough.

You don't get your face messed up but are unable to use said tadpoles powers.

 

[Grunker]

Is Wyll really that bad?

He is the blandest character I’ve ever met in an RPG. Blander than an Andhaira post. Blander than rye bread without butter.

The rewrite really shines through - they had no time after abandoning his initial concept so they played it Uber safe and wrote a non-character

 

[lukaszek]

Sigh. But who else can be my Bard, lol. I guess I could use Lae'zel, I struggle to imagine her as a CHA archetype though

I might have to use... Astarion. Barf.

I'd have to give up the Adamantine Shield if I did that, hmm.

astarion background supports bard activities.
I like respeccing emo girl into bard too.

above 2 works thematically. If you discard that: fantastic choice is karlach. racial advantage to intimidation and performance is good. My main is tiefling bard for that reason.

 

[whydoibother]

Is Wyll really that bad?

He is the blandest character I’ve ever met in an RPG. Blander than an Andhaira post. Blander than rye bread without butter.

The rewrite really shines through - they had no time after abandoning his initial concept so they played it Uber safe and wrote a non-character

Doing his quests, you are waiting for the twist... and there is no twist. He's played straight. He's just a straight very generic good guy.
In a party made up of hostile weirdos, him and Karlach are the odd ones. But Karlach has that timebomb, and general anger issues, she's The Hulk sorta kinda. Wyll is just Captain America.

 

[Grunker]

Is Wyll really that bad?

He is the blandest character I’ve ever met in an RPG. Blander than an Andhaira post. Blander than rye bread without butter.

The rewrite really shines through - they had no time after abandoning his initial concept so they played it Uber safe and wrote a non-character

Doing his quests, you are waiting for the twist... and there is no twist. He's played straight. He's just a straight very generic good guy.
In a party made up of hostile weirdos, him and Karlach are the odd ones. But Karlach has that timebomb, and general anger issues, she's The Hulk sorta kinda. Wyll is just Captain America.

Captain America who sells his soul to the hells and then the game just acts like that is actually a very captain America thing to do lol

His father is like “I can never forgive you you sold your soul that is inherently evil”

“Yeah but I saved you though”

“True I forgive you for everything”

 

[whydoibother]

Is Wyll really that bad?

He is the blandest character I’ve ever met in an RPG. Blander than an Andhaira post. Blander than rye bread without butter.

The rewrite really shines through - they had no time after abandoning his initial concept so they played it Uber safe and wrote a non-character

Doing his quests, you are waiting for the twist... and there is no twist. He's played straight. He's just a straight very generic good guy.
In a party made up of hostile weirdos, him and Karlach are the odd ones. But Karlach has that timebomb, and general anger issues, she's The Hulk sorta kinda. Wyll is just Captain America.

Captain America who sells his soul to the hells and then the game just acts like that is actually a very captain America thing to do lol

His father is like “I can never forgive you you sold your sold”

“Yeah but I saved you though”

“True I forgive you for everything”

Writers somehow managed to make selling your soul to a devil a mundane thing. His dad would be more mad if he came out as gay, than when he came out as a demon pawn.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Is Wyll really that bad?

He is the blandest character I’ve ever met in an RPG. Blander than an Andhaira post. Blander than rye bread without butter.

The rewrite really shines through - they had no time after abandoning his initial concept so they played it Uber safe and wrote a non-character

Doing his quests, you are waiting for the twist... and there is no twist. He's played straight. He's just a straight very generic good guy.
In a party made up of hostile weirdos, him and Karlach are the odd ones. But Karlach has that timebomb, and general anger issues, she's The Hulk sorta kinda. Wyll is just Captain America.

They managed to create a boring warlock, who can also be a Baldur's Gate noble with lots of influence. Will is much more boring than WotR's Greybore and that is quite the achievement.

 

[Shaki]

Is Wyll really that bad?

He is the blandest character I’ve ever met in an RPG. Blander than an Andhaira post. Blander than rye bread without butter.

The rewrite really shines through - they had no time after abandoning his initial concept so they played it Uber safe and wrote a non-character

Doing his quests, you are waiting for the twist... and there is no twist. He's played straight. He's just a straight very generic good guy.
In a party made up of hostile weirdos, him and Karlach are the odd ones. But Karlach has that timebomb, and general anger issues, she's The Hulk sorta kinda. Wyll is just Captain America.

They managed to create a boring warlock, who can also be a Baldur's Gate noble with lots of influence. Will is much more boring than WotR's Greybore and that is quite the achievement.

Boring characters aren't bad, I enjoy grounded and simple companions. I would have nothing against traveling with an ordinary lawful good Paladin for example. The problem is where you give your character a snowflake backstory, and manage to make him boring at the same time. Greybor was cool because he was supposed to be boring, his whole personality was "I am professional", I quite enjoyed him. Wyll sucks because he's obviously supposed to be exciting, being a super snowflake noble who sold his soul to the devil to be a vigilante, but despite all that backstory he's boring and bland af, and it's obvious it's not intentional, just bad writing.

 

[volklore]

Is Wyll really that bad?

He's just painfully boring. He's supposed to be this relentless interdimensional bounty hunter, a sort of judge dredd who sold his soul for the privilege of killing evildoers more effectively, but he has no sharp edges to be found anywhere in his personality. It's funny they made him black because he is the most flavorless untoasted white bread of a character in the game. A shame, because the she-devil you get to interact with as part of his plot is cool. I almost suggest people play as him so that they get his plot without having to hear his dialogue.

You get his plot regardless of wether he's in your party. Interractions with Mizora happen at camp for the most part.

 

[volklore]

Helpful information: It's very difficult to play as a sword-and-board human male fighter, because the game literally doesn't contain any good longswords. They're all trash.

Lots of good onehanders though, don't have to stick to longswords as fighter. There's not weapon focus in this game.

 

[Yosharian]

Helpful information: It's very difficult to play as a sword-and-board human male fighter, because the game literally doesn't contain any good longswords. They're all trash.

Complete nonsense.

 

[volklore]

Is Astarion bearable in a Good-aligned party, or will he leave after a while?

Only consequence for being good is you don't get minthara (and get to keep Wyll, Karlach and Halsin instead). Seems like companions don't really leave on the good path unless you go entirely against their goals during their personal quests. And they will make it pretty clear when that's the case.

 

[Grauken]

Is Wyll really that bad?

He is the blandest character I’ve ever met in an RPG. Blander than an Andhaira post. Blander than rye bread without butter.

The rewrite really shines through - they had no time after abandoning his initial concept so they played it Uber safe and wrote a non-character

Doing his quests, you are waiting for the twist... and there is no twist. He's played straight. He's just a straight very generic good guy.
In a party made up of hostile weirdos, him and Karlach are the odd ones. But Karlach has that timebomb, and general anger issues, she's The Hulk sorta kinda. Wyll is just Captain America.

She's She-Hulk written like in that recent awful Marvel TV show, aka the worst version of She-Hulk

 

[Yosharian]

I think I will stick to Wyll anyway just to see how bad he is, at least I'll have some good quality companions left for the Evil playthrough

Lae'zel and Astarion don't mind Minthara right?

 

[whydoibother]

I think I will stick to Wyll anyway just to see how bad he is, at least I'll have some good quality companions left for the Evil playthrough

Lae'zel and Astarion don't mind Minthara right?

He's bad as a personality, you probably won't have this issue if you are playing as him. Plus Warlock is a fun protagonist class, charisma and selfish and self sufficient, can deal damage in melee and in range, has single target and AOE tools, has social interaction boosts you can pick up.
He gets 2 unique quest rewards from his personal quest, a powerful robe and a powerful rapier. I think only him and Dark Urge get that?