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

[lukaszek]

so...technically durge might have the hardest path in a2?

It is actually easier, just go through the mountain pass, get solution immediately and you can still get blessing.

clearly i did post different path. Either way none of them appear hard really. Too bad as this is cool mechanic

 

[Desiderius]

I have found that the anti-gae party is Shadowcute, Froggy and Astarion.

Ignore all others and nobody will try to stick one in your butt show you magic tricks or suck your dick dance ballet with you.

Quite ironic that the most overtly effeminate character has in practice the least amount of GAE.

Finally made it to the Wyll dance dialogue after discovering Duke. *You * have to ask him to show you some moves.

Why are you doing that?

Yeah, it sux that MC is written as default female and her secret prince got the obligatory blackwashing. Don't let chix and phaggots take over your civilization and that wouldn't happen. Also, don't pick their dialogue options then whine about characters being ghey. He's not ghey in my playthrough.

 

[volklore]

Lae'zel romance is also obviously written for a male char, and so is SH with her ''I can save her'' vibes
Halsin who end up feeling the most gae because he comes on to you by just doing his quest, even if you never pick any flirty line, was written as a female romance (big dude, but also soft he likes nature ...).
Most chars were written with heterosexual preferences in mind and were retroactively turned into playersexual without any rewrite.

 

[HumanMaleFighter]

In all fairness to HumanMaleFighter he's not wrong insofar as Longswords specifically are concerned, there aren't that many good Longswords right at the tail end of the game - legendaries and the like. But for s&b characters, there are tons of great options. A lot of them are finesse weapons though, and maybe a dagger or two.

Phalar Aluve is an S-tier longsword but it isn't necessarily because it hits hard, it has a special aura that fucks up the enemy. Perhaps not the type of weapon you want your big bad fighter to use, I dunno.

I autistically fixate on using longswords for aesthetic reasons. Phalar Aluve might be a good sword for a support class, but it's lackluster for fighters -- and doubly so if you don't rest often. (And, in this game, you can go long periods between rests...)

Aside from Phalar Aluve, there's the Emperor's sword and the Blackguard's sword, but both are late-game pickups and objectively mediocre (or worse) by the time you get your hands on them.

Damnit.

 

[Yosharian]

I figured it was something like that, yeah there should be like a Legendary longsword tbf

 

[Barbarian]

I have found that the anti-gae party is Shadowcute, Froggy and Astarion.

Ignore all others and nobody will try to stick one in your butt show you magic tricks or suck your dick dance ballet with you.

Quite ironic that the most overtly effeminate character has in practice the least amount of GAE.

Finally made it to the Wyll dance dialogue after discovering Duke. *You * have to ask him to show you some moves.

Why are you doing that?

Yeah, it sux that MC is written as default female and her secret prince got the obligatory blackwashing. Don't let chix and phaggots take over your civilization and that wouldn't happen. Also, don't pick their dialogue options then whine about characters being ghey. He's not ghey in my playthrough.

Dude is wearing a tank top and dancing ballet at camp. It is still teh gae if you refuse his advances.

I just ignored him, Gale and Karlach and my playthrough is much better because of it.

 

[Desiderius]

I have found that the anti-gae party is Shadowcute, Froggy and Astarion.

Ignore all others and nobody will try to stick one in your butt show you magic tricks or suck your dick dance ballet with you.

Quite ironic that the most overtly effeminate character has in practice the least amount of GAE.

Finally made it to the Wyll dance dialogue after discovering Duke. *You * have to ask him to show you some moves.

Why are you doing that?

Yeah, it sux that MC is written as default female and her secret prince got the obligatory blackwashing. Don't let chix and phaggots take over your civilization and that wouldn't happen. Also, don't pick their dialogue options then whine about characters being ghey. He's not ghey in my playthrough.

Dude is wearing a tank top and dancing ballet at camp. It is still teh gae if you refuse his advances.

I just ignored him, Gale and Karlach and my playthrough is much better because of it.

If you don’t ask him to dance there are no advances. Ballroom dancing is not ballet. Most brilliant swordsmen in history took pride in bringing the haughtiest beauties to their knees with their dominance of the ballroom floor. Git gud.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

I'm a bit confused about feats, bonus attacks and multiclassing. Is it no longer every 4 character levels a feat as in third edition. And when/how do you get get bonus attacks? I thought I could do Barbarian 4 and Fighter 1 and would get a bonus attack but this seems not to be the case, while Barbarian 5 grants me a bonus attack.

 

[lukaszek]

I'm a bit confused about feats, bonus attacks and multiclassing. Is it no longer every 4 character levels a feat as in third edition. And when/how do you get get bonus attacks? I thought I could do Barbarian 4 and Fighter 1 and would get a bonus attack but this seems not to be the case, while Barbarian 5 grants me a bonus attack.

its per class. You get feat every 4 lvls within single class. 8barb4rog gets 3 feats, 3rog3pal3barb3clr gets none.
Same for extra attacks, althrough they dont stack(with warlock being exception)

 

[Blutwurstritter]

I'm a bit confused about feats, bonus attacks and multiclassing. Is it no longer every 4 character levels a feat as in third edition. And when/how do you get get bonus attacks? I thought I could do Barbarian 4 and Fighter 1 and would get a bonus attack but this seems not to be the case, while Barbarian 5 grants me a bonus attack.

its per class. You get feat every 4 lvls within single class. 8barb4rog gets 3 feats, 3rog3pal3barb3clr gets none.
Same for extra attacks, althrough they dont stack(with warlock being exception)

Thx, so fith edition D&D tries to put a stop to the excessive multiclassing from third edition. I can work with that.

 

[Desiderius]

Yeah, they probably overdo it a little, same with PF. Understandable since people with their heads in 3.5 are still nerfing themselves trying to find the uber build, but if they were going to do that probably should have eliminated it altogether.

Usually a trap but not to the extent of say Wiz8. True pros can still find combos where it (multi-classing) works.

 

[Desiderius]

Y’all gather round and have a seat on these Firewine Barrels while Bard Karlach with Actor Feat and Thaumaturgy up plays a rousing rendition of “I have Hellish Resistance and you don’t” on her fiddle.

That brazier hanging over us? No the engineers re-certified it last week. Perfectly safe. The Bard Outback hat is a little over the top on her.

 

[notpl]

I don't think perform skill makes any difference whatsoever with NPCs wandering over to you when you use the Perform action. Also, despite the loading screens talking about it, I was never actually able to shoot down a hanging brazier. They don't even have health or combat stats in general for you to interact with the way doors, containers etc., do.

 

[Desiderius]

I don't think perform skill makes any difference whatsoever with NPCs wandering over to you when you use the Perform action. Also, despite the loading screens talking about it, I was never actually able to shoot down a hanging brazier. They don't even have health or combat stats in general for you to interact with the way doors, containers etc., do.

Shoot the chain holding them up. It has 1 hp.

You can absolutely fail a Performance check. DC is 10 for initial check. People walk away if you do. She had like 10 gobbos from all over the back half of the Sanctum keep wandering closer.

 

[notpl]

I don't think perform skill makes any difference whatsoever with NPCs wandering over to you when you use the Perform action. Also, despite the loading screens talking about it, I was never actually able to shoot down a hanging brazier. They don't even have health or combat stats in general for you to interact with the way doors, containers etc., do.

Shoot the chain holding them up. It has 1 hp.

You can absolutely fail a Performance. DC is 10.

But does that stop NPCs from walking over to you? They start animating long before the roll even happens.

 

[Desiderius]

They go back to where they started, vendor will turn around etc...

If you try to play an instrument on non-bard they'll razz you.

 

[Desiderius]

Looking at some DCs:



Basic attack for lvl 5 Beast Master Spider companion comes with free Poison (CON save disadvantage) proc. 15 DC is sohlid. Attack finally gets Prof bonus to hit and so does DC. 20 AC with Mage Armor.



Unlimited use Cocoon ability also gets 15 DC. Mez a guy for 3 turns, breaks on damage.



Web (AoE, also unlimited use, Spider itself is immune) looks like it's bugged and staying at 12. Might be too good if it weren't. Kinda cool that enwebbed creature gets disadvantage on Cocoon save. Biggest downside of Spider is atrocious pathing.



Acid from Acid Vial debuffs AC by two, while doing some splash damage. More janky math on the DC. Note that it uses caster stat.



The Ensnare ability on the Wood Woad Shield (Bonus Action) says cast and calculates DC with Caster stat. She has higher STR bonus since she has Hill Giant Elixir but it's still using WIS. The Ensnare it applies doesn't require Concentration. Damage is 1-4 on application without adding STR bonus.



Ray of Enfeeblement is a strange one. No save, evidently doesn't even need an attack roll on application. Like Otto's Irresistible Dance in that respect.



Ogre threw a rock at Shovel and it says Resistance but I don't think Shovel has Bludgeoning Resistance. The reduction is from Enfeeblement. Kept Shovel alive. Of course the next attack the Ogre got off was unarmed even though it's carrying a club so did full damage. It gets weirder:



Ogre got a saving throw against the Feeble effect (15 DC is nice, no idea where it comes from, Gale has 18 INT and +2 prof bonus), but no stat bonus.



Next round got another save, this time with a CON bonus.

There's some weird ass shit going on under the hood with this game.

In any event vs big stuff with weapons (like Minos or just enemy fighters/barbs) cutting damage in half from weapon attax can give you time to get things under control. Not so much Pals.

 

[lukaszek]

I don't think perform skill makes any difference whatsoever with NPCs wandering over to you when you use the Perform action. Also, despite the loading screens talking about it, I was never actually able to shoot down a hanging brazier. They don't even have health or combat stats in general for you to interact with the way doors, containers etc., do.

useful in every prison break scenario. All 2 of them that I encountered. Also helps with stealing from merchants, but only once



side question: can adamantine weapon be used to free orpheus?

 

[Jermu]

side question: can adamantine weapon be used to free orpheus?

no, you need

Spoiler

hammer from Raphael's domain house of hope

anyway finished ironman run act 3 was pretty easy when u are familiar how to abuse the game took only 2 runs to finish the game. Compared to kotc2 that shit took 2 figures of tries. act 1 was easily the hardest part because of limited resources + you get most op stuff later other than sanctuary which is very abusable.

think Im done with bg3 for now until there is something new or definite edition. I would be curious to test no rest run or finish my solo run but don't feel like it for now.

 

[lukaszek]

 

[Lady Error]

So I just installed it...


A few questions:
1) Is it about pixel-hunting, with no tab highlight of interactive objects?

2) Any way to speed up the dialogues?

 

[volklore]

- There is highlight but It's not tab by default. I think there is a perception threshold which affects what gets highlighted but even low perception will highlight anything that really matters
- spam space bar

 

[lukaszek]

was gradually losing interest after making it to baldurs gate. Its quite packed in content while nothing poses challenge to my party.

so ive restarted as durge(thief) and going evil duo with shadowstar(bard).
I am having fun, proper dos3 experience like sven intended.

Both are helves so can wear shield. Bard is supposed to be casting tank

 

[HumanMaleFighter]

Bard is supposed to be casting tank

Sword bard is probably the best tank in the game. The bard gloves (+1AC) and evasive boots (+1AC) are extremely useful, and with a good shield and heavy armour proficiency you can get up to 24 AC, easy. Then, with defensive flourish, which is an S-tier ability, you're at 28AC. People attack you, they miss. Simple as.

You can peak at 31AC with lategame armor + a shield that gives you +3 AC + boots/gloves/helm + defensive flourish.

...This is all before spells. Frankly, at this point, AC-boosting spells are practically unnecessary.

 

[lukaszek]

so im rolling arcane trickster now and working hard to push mage hand to its limits
- it can perform unarmed strikes Its bad
- it can throw items. Its quite bad at it with +2 modifier. Bigger problem however is lack of inventory. Both of those problems however can be fixed with grenades on the ground. Either prepare battlefield in advance or drop from inventory on the ground. It doesnt cost anything
- was not aware but improved version does not expire
- does not expire
- enables sneak attacks
- doesnt appear to reenter invisibility, ever
- athletics/str modifier 0



btw my trickster got 8int. I think it is using 14cha as spellcasting enabling stat? DC is however based off int

heavy armour proficiency

yeah can ditch dexterity and go throwing instead. thunder/sonic trident even makes it thematic. Not sure if I get proficiency for it though? tridents are not part of human/helf. Although not sure if its required for throwing