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I think I auto-failed every quest at Waukeen's Rest? I went in, did the normal dialogue, went to the left, found Zhenti, they attack me, kill them, pop into the Underdark from there. Then I do Underdark quests for a while. Eventually Wyll complains about how Waukeen's Rest went down and I'm like, sir, I have no idea what you're talking about. I eventually go back there and there's nothing of interest. Florrick? Huh?
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Perry Mason Jar posted:I think I auto-failed every quest at Waukeen's Rest? I went in, did the normal dialogue, went to the left, found Zhenti, they attack me, kill them, pop into the Underdark from there. Then I do Underdark quests for a while. Eventually Wyll complains about how Waukeen's Rest went down and I'm like, sir, I have no idea what you're talking about. I eventually go back there and there's nothing of interest. Florrick? Huh? Did you not notice the flaming fists trying to break down the entrance to the flaming building? There were survivors in that building. Were.
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Dec 31, 2023 17:13
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Yeah, I helped them break it down
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Dec 31, 2023 17:20
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Yeah, I helped them break it down Did you go in and actually rescue the survivors? Busting the door down and leaving won't help the situation.
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Dec 31, 2023 17:23
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Well I was gonna go back! I just got distracted. Anyway, do I have to do everything? How useless are the Flaming Fists then smh
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Dec 31, 2023 17:30
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Well I was gonna go back! I just got distracted. Anyway, do I have to do everything? How useless are the Flaming Fists then smh Lollin at the idea of a scatterbrained protagonist getting distracted halfway into a fire rescue by some unchecked box on a cart across the map as the victims burn to death
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Dec 31, 2023 17:33
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I was excited to find a different way into the Underdark  Cause the first way I went in was Selune's. First I went left and got stomped by a Spectator (which is not a Beholder??). Then I went straight and took down some minotaurs. But they were tough and I got scared the whole area was that hard so I went back to the surface
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Dec 31, 2023 17:35
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Mr. Lobe posted:Lollin at the idea of a scatterbrained protagonist getting distracted halfway into a fire rescue by some unchecked box on a cart across the map as the victims burn to death 
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Dec 31, 2023 17:47
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Hmm looks like the goblin party won't proc if all the goblins are dead. Not sure what I expected. It does mean that Minthara is still standing there in Zevlor's hideout telling me we'll 'celebrate our victory'. No we won't honey.
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Mr. Lobe posted:Lollin at the idea of a scatterbrained protagonist getting distracted halfway into a fire rescue by some unchecked box on a cart across the map as the victims burn to death We’ve all been there.
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Dec 31, 2023 18:01
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Morrow posted:It's the boots that cause the condition. If you want to stack even more, there's a set of lightning robes that also provide some minor buffs for lightning charges. Boots of Stormy Clamor add Reverberation when inflicting a creature with another condition, so the game is treating lightning as a condition here, which is great but not how I understood it.
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Dec 31, 2023 18:19
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Hmm, maybe I'll respec Shadowheart to Tempest so that she can be my Phalar Aluve wench all game and also get some benefit herself.
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Dec 31, 2023 18:26
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I do think Honour Mode was supposed to fix a lot of the DRS madness.
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Perry Mason Jar posted:How useless are the Flaming Fists then smh [Baldurian] Well,
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Finally got into the city with my resisting Durge and I finally get why you are all saying it should have been the regular main character. I always felt like the plot just kind of flies at you at the end of act 2 and into act 3 and with a Durge the pieces fit so much better. Even the little character scenes are so great. Astarion: when you tell him you’re a Bhallspawn his little speech about how you’re more alike than he thought was so good. Jaheira: the camp scene where she watches you sleep is rad. Another Jaheira scene I didn’t see my first time that I loved, not Durge-related but with Lae’zel: she pledges to help Lae’zel fight Vlaakith not for “political reasons” but because “she was just so loud.” Jaheira is the best.
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Dec 31, 2023 19:01
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My preferred tactic of playing through Tactician is twincasting Haste with my sorcerer hiding in a corner and then letting everybody else run up to all the nefarious villains and beat the everloving poo poo out of them. Also: 
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EorayMel posted:My preferred tactic of playing through Tactician is twincasting Haste with my sorcerer hiding in a corner and then letting everybody else run up to all the nefarious villains and beat the everloving poo poo out of them. Then you get to act 3 and realise that 2 levels of spore Druid will let you give your entire party haste as a bonus action.
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Dec 31, 2023 19:07
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The Lord Bude posted:Then you get to act 3 and realise that 2 levels of spore Druid will let you give your entire party haste as a bonus action. Yeah but then I'd have to play as a stupid smelly druid and the last thing I want is any more association with Halsin. Unless it is Vinesauce Vinny's character:
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The Lord Bude posted:Then you get to act 3 and realise that 2 levels of spore Druid will let you give your entire party haste as a bonus action. unfortunately, this requires wearing a frankly not very good piece of light armor, has a teeny tiny effect range, only lasts for a single turn if you move out of the cloud, and can only be used once per long rest if you've built optimally on tactician you only need the 3 turns of a potion of speed anyways
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Dec 31, 2023 19:21
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There's a brain worm haste cloud too that's a bonus action if you got zaith'iskd sufficiently
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Haste potions are honestly probably the best option because encounters are rarely lost past the first couple rounds and there's no chance of it breaking early.
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Vermain posted:unfortunately, this requires wearing a frankly not very good piece of light armor, has a teeny tiny effect range, only lasts for a single turn if you move out of the cloud, and can only be used once per long rest Haste Spores and Mind Sanctuary on Honour mode create an extra action loop because neither surfac inflicts lethargic if you move in and out of the AOEs. You don’t need to be a Druid to do this since it’s craftable but it’s something they overlooked when they made the Action Economy changes.
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Vermain posted:unfortunately, this requires wearing a frankly not very good piece of light armor, has a teeny tiny effect range, only lasts for a single turn if you move out of the cloud, and can only be used once per long rest The armor is adequate for an archer - if you do 6 sword bard, 2 spore Druid, 4 fighter for eg you can create a godly archer with sharpshooter who can put a crap ton of damage out. You can more back into the cloud to get the effect again (but you won’t need to, because you really should be finishing pretty much every fight in one round at that point in the game) and the radius doesn’t matter because you can just move people through it. It’s better than wasting an action on haste. It also doesn’t cause lethargy. And let’s face it, you can long rest whenever you want.
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DeadlyMuffin posted:Boots of Stormy Clamor add Reverberation when inflicting a creature with another condition, so the game is treating lightning as a condition here, which is great but not how I understood it. What's actually enabling this interaction from the way it's described is the Gloves of Belligerent Skies (inflict Reverb whenever you deal Thunder, Lightning, or Radiant damage) which are great (especially if you have something else riding on inflicting conditions, or if your party forces a lot of physical saving throws) but also not available until the Githyanki Crèche
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does Honour mode change XP availability? I'm quite a ways into Act 3 and still level 10 so you either get to max level 12 later than I recalled or Honour mode has different XP. kinda reminded why focusing on level 12 builds are overkill when you spend 80-90% of the game not at level 12
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Pellisworth posted:does Honour mode change XP availability? I'm quite a ways into Act 3 and still level 10 so you either get to max level 12 later than I recalled or Honour mode has different XP. I had an HM run that I got to the start of Act 3 before rerolling and I believe I was already level 10 by that point so it felt pretty normal to me?
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I could just be misremembering, my recollection is you hit level 12 about half or a little more the way through act 3
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The Lord Bude posted:And let’s face it, you can long rest whenever you want. You can, but that's not a fun way to play the game for some people. I actually like the challenge of winning fights when I can't rely on long-rest actions and my casters are running low on spell-slots. It's somewhat broken me of my habit of hoarding consumables "just in case." Except for arrows. I don't really have an archer in my party, so I still don't use those as much as I probably should. The smart thing to do would be to use those arrows and just about any other consumable you get early in Act 1, and maybe on my next go-round I'll remember to do that. I am in late Act 3, with a bunch of "grenades" I pulled off of the nautiloid clogging up my camp inventory. I totally understand the desire to figure out new ways to use the systems the game provides to eliminate enemies in a single round, it's just not the thing that motivates me to play the game.
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I usually hit Level 12 shortly after getting through Wyrm's Crossing. Maybe take a couple more steps into the murder conspiracy plot and I'm there. Obviously there's a lot you can miss, especially if many of your prospective questgivers are dead.
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256 hours in, just found out there's a morgue under the House of Healing and it sure isn't a tiny area.
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TraderStav posted:256 hours in, just found out there's a morgue under the House of Healing and it sure isn't a tiny area. I've played for 450 hours and I'm on my third single player playthrough and I just found the big fight between the Guild and Stone Lord goons by the cult ship in Rivington. Didn't realize I'd missed out on 3 parasite specimens! (act 3)
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TraderStav posted:256 hours in, just found out there's a morgue under the House of Healing and it sure isn't a tiny area. Is that the one full of poison gas that gives you disadvantage on die rolls so if youre not in combat it doesn't matter but your party still refuses to walk through it so you have to manually guide them all through it one at a time? cos I hate that poo poo
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Is that the one full of poison gas that gives you disadvantage on die rolls so if youre not in combat it doesn't matter but your party still refuses to walk through it so you have to manually guide them all through it one at a time? cos I hate that poo poo You only need to get one party member across the gas cloud in the morgue to the room at the other end. You can set your party just outside of range of the gas and plink away at enemies using ranged attacks. Easy fight.
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I read about 5 pages but missed any discussion on the topic so sorry if this has been repeated a lot. I just bought BG3 and I'm wondering what a good first character would be. I usually go Paladin for DnD games but since this game is very very story heavy I've heard that could really limit me. A bard would be good for that but from what I remember they're pretty weak. I find fighters pretty boring and pure casters too difficult. Cleric is good but I don't know if they have the dialog issues that Paladins have. I don't like multiclassing. I've been out of the DnD game thing for a few years. Any ideas for a character for simple first time playthrough?
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I was being a smartass and picking all the spells that don't have scrolls to min max my spell list and save money scribing all my evocation spells, but I still haven't seen a single magic missile scroll yet and I'm up to Ethel. 
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I read about 5 pages but missed any discussion on the topic so sorry if this has been repeated a lot. Half-Orc or Halfling Barbarian. You don't have to worry about magic or spells whatsoever, just pop Rage and run in front of people and cut them down with big axes. Also don't need to worry about armor that much. Also Barbarians get the best dialogue of any class. EorayMel fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Dec 31, 2023 |
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Is that the one full of poison gas that gives you disadvantage on die rolls so if youre not in combat it doesn't matter but your party still refuses to walk through it so you have to manually guide them all through it one at a time? cos I hate that poo poo Yeah, not sure what the lever did in that one room, assumed it unlocked the 30 DC door, but that didn't. So got lucky that my thief saved a poison ST and brute forced it with 10 thieves kits. Feel like I missed a puzzle for that room.
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Also the only appropriate way to play Paladin is to go Oathbreaker(kill the first innocent/nonthreatening people you encounter ASAP) while you're the Dark Urge origin
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