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Ginette Reno posted:I like Karlach but she's a little too well adjusted for spending a decade in hell. She should be a bit emotionally damaged from that, no? Hell the fact that she's just a grunt fits her background perfectly. It is always the unimportant grunts that get taken in by the kind of ideology she was raised to believe.
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Runa posted:Astarion's Charisma is low because he's built using strict point buy and you need a dump stat or two if you want to afford a higher stat somewhere else. The amusing bit is Halsin and Minsc have their stats reworked when they become companions: both have strength scores as NPCs that reflect their rippling muscles that are then tossed because it's not a good build for their classes (since Minsc defaults to a ranged fighter(?!?) and Halsin should always be wildshaped and never need his physical stats).
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Morrow posted:The amusing bit is Halsin and Minsc have their stats reworked when they become companions: both have strength scores as NPCs that reflect their rippling muscles that are then tossed because it's not a good build for their classes (since Minsc defaults to a ranged fighter(?!?) and Halsin should always be wildshaped and never need his physical stats). lmao nice
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Jan 7, 2024 20:42
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After finishing up Act 2, I think I actually like the combat when you're facing 4-6 enemies or a setpiece encounter. I really didn't like the fight at the base of Moonrise Tower because there was like 12-15 enemies and keeping a certain NPC alive was very difficult because of her suicidal AI. Then again, I think I missed some side quests that could have possibly thinned the ranks out or made the fight easier. I think having that many actors in a fight gets pretty tedious after a while. The Apostle of Myrkul fight was really great and I had a huge pop when The Dead Three Chosen got revealed. I'm a few hours into Act 3 and I can't wait to see how everything gets wrapped up.
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Jan 7, 2024 20:45
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Lore question: why do mind flayers imprison their prisoners with their weapons and armour intact
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Jay Rust posted:Lore question: why do mind flayers imprison their prisoners with their weapons and armour intact Generally mindflayers enthrall their victims and use them as bodyguards or slave labor (or food). Having some captives armed makes sense if they're under complete psionic control.
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Ginette Reno posted:I like Karlach but she's a little too well adjusted for spending a decade in hell. She should be a bit emotionally damaged from that, no? Did you not have her with you when you confronted (Act 3 boss) Gortash?
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Jan 7, 2024 20:52
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The (act 3) final confrontation with Gortash is a bit off if you sided with him at first, betrayed him at the iron throne, and have Karlach in the party. If Karlach is out of the party, the final dialogue goes straight to “I thought we were friends” etc.. If she’s there, you get a whole separate dialogue first between him and Karlach that seems to assume you’re still buddies, then you have to trigger it again for the “I though we are friends” bit that leads to a battle.
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Jan 7, 2024 21:04
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Vargatron posted:Generally mindflayers enthrall their victims and use them as bodyguards or slave labor (or food). Having some captives armed makes sense if they're under complete psionic control. Yeah mind flayers are generally accustomed to their prisoners barely even needing supervision, since they're kept mind-controlled and thus will never bother trying to escape or rise up. Every once in a while some illithids get ganked when this predictably fails, but mind flayer "society" is always surprised by it/has never adapted to it because the flayers themselves are relatively expendable as far as the Elder Brains are concerned, so a little outpost of them getting murked by their slaves once every century or so warrants little more than a shrug of the Brains' metaphorical shoulders
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K so I am trying to recruit Minthara. I have: kill Gut, killed Dror Ragzlin, and knocked out Minthara. I haven’t rescued Halsin. Should I? I am in dire need of a Long Rest due to some poor planning. If I Long Rest here doesn’t Halsin just show up at the Grove? Will doing that mess up recruiting Minthara or no? Edit: I think I messed it up anyway, since I didn’t agree to raid the grove first.  HaB fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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Professor Beetus posted:I found this very confusing until I remembered that British people exist. The cast of this game is almost uniformly English.
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Jan 7, 2024 23:00
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HaB posted:K so I am trying to recruit Minthara. Did you do it in that order? If you killed Dror before Monthara, you aggro everyone there, and turn them permanently hostile including Minthara. I think you have to knock out Minthara first while she is temporarily hostile, then everything else. And don't long rest after knocking her out, as she wakes up again and may go hostile. It's easy to mess things up actually.
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JBP posted:The cast of this game is almost uniformly English. Yes and they are very likable in spite of that tremendous handicap e: for real though I originally read that quote and pictured an actual bird and then thought about it and went "oh" Professor Beetus fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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HaB posted:Edit: I think I messed it up anyway, since I didn’t agree to raid the grove first. This is not required.
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AgentHaiTo posted:Did you do it in that order? If you killed Dror before Monthara, you aggro everyone there, and turn them permanently hostile including Minthara. I think you have to knock out Minthara first while she is temporarily hostile, then everything else. And don't long rest after knocking her out, as she wakes up again and may go hostile. It's easy to mess things up actually. No, I did Gut, knocked out Minthara, then did Dror Ragzlin last. I made sure she was Temp Hostile.
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EorayMel posted:He loves it when you sleep with Mizora, but he doesn't love it as much as when Astarion knows about it
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I started my second playthrough on Tactician, and decided to do the Investigate Kagha quest that I had apparently missed the first time through. Was not prepared. Walked into the Swamp at Level 3, having basically only done the ruins and the immediate area around the Grove so without many items either. Did not have any idea what I was walking into with the Wood Woads and Mud Mephits. I barely managed to eke out a win with just my fighter and Shadowheart standing, having helped her up twice in the fight. Both Asterion and Gale went out after getting knocked down and then having enemies attack them again, which I don't think ever happened in Balanced! I only came through because Gale had managed to set fire to the Woads before dying, halting their regen, and I had a Haste potion to give my Battle Master fighter to blow through a bunch of Superiority attacks once I could actually attack without Disadvantage from Muddy. These early fights are brutal because your mage has 12 HP or something and can drop to any bad roll.
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Shumagorath posted:Just occurred to me: Can an origin PC Karlach or Wyll bang with Mizora? Yep
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HaB posted:No, I did Gut, knocked out Minthara, then did Dror Ragzlin last. I think you've got it- I knocked out Minthara, killed the Priestess, long-rested, and then had to knock out Minthara again before I killed Raglin, and then I either rescued Halsin after that or left him standing in the dungeon and it was fine.
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 it bugged out and made me the weird feral bhaal fucker even though I resisted at every turn and never got slayer form or did anything bhaal wanted but I got my dice
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Do you have to do durge for honor mode? That seems like extra-hard mode.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Do you have to do durge for honor mode? That seems like extra-hard mode. Nope, but it does seem like a fun challenge
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Do you have to do durge for honor mode? That seems like extra-hard mode. the cape was extremely helpful
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Welp, I guess I won't be recruiting Minsc this honor mode run. Protip: arrows of many targets can bounce to unconscious enemies!
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It can hit Invis ones too loving Githyanki 
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Do you have to do durge for honor mode? That seems like extra-hard mode. I did durge for my first honour mode run and it’s indeed extra hard mode. Having Aylin present for a couple fights makes life much easier
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The only thing that was challenging for me in the Durge Honor Mode was the fight with Orin, but that was mostly me being underprepared and a squishy caster.
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Halsin loves to cum too much which let me tell you is definitely a disability Do they actually show some ropes I never hooked up with Halsin he seemed way too needy.
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The ropes are off screen but you just know they’re there
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Question re: honor mode. Are you making things needlessly difficult for yourself if you don't go all in on the brainworm powers?
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Question re: honor mode. Are you making things needlessly difficult for yourself if you don't go all in on the brainworm powers? Yes kind of. There’s no malus for having them and lots of them are very powerful. If back in the crèche you pass all the checks in the zaithisk then the brainworm powers become insanely useful.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Do you have to do durge for honor mode? That seems like extra-hard mode. Apparently Durge is the easiest way to do it. Orin is the only mandatory boss fight in act 3 and if you have Slayer form you can just chump her.
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Good god. The devs didn’t animate anything in this game sadder than Wyll’s face when you tell him you don’t want to dance tonight
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Trevor Hale posted:Good god. The devs didn’t animate anything in this game sadder than Wyll’s face when you tell him you don’t want to dance tonight "Wyll I don't wanna dance." .......oh
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I finally beat da drat game. Anyone else do this? I basically had it in mind from the second I looted the item thanks for lettin me borrow it ya jabroni
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BizarroAzrael posted:When multiclassing, it doesn't matter what order you take the different class levels in does it? Just all the Eldritch Blast videos seem to say play to lvl 6 as Warlock, then respec and take Sorcerer levels then Warlock. The order matters in a couple of respects: The main one is casting stat for items: when you cast a spell via an item, like a scroll or a spell granted by a ring or something, it uses the casting stat of the last new class you took. The other is proficiencies - sometimes you only get them when you take a class at level 1.
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Ginette Reno posted:"Wyll I don't wanna dance." For me this scene came right on the heels of some party banter in such he hits on Lae'zel, gets shot down, then immediately hits on Shadowheart, who shoots him down while pointing out that he just hit on Lae'zel in front and of her and got shot down. That made it a little easier in my run.
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  Special shout out to globe of invulnerability, which is probably the biggest "gently caress you, I win" button in a game full of them. In the final battle it can even no sell the netherbrain's platform deletion. I'm a fan of how honor mode made me stick with my choices, generally, although I did miss being able to quickload when an npc kills themselves in a really stupid way. Looking at you here, Zanner, you could have waited 10 more seconds for all that hellfire to go away. Also post-credits I got a scene where Raphael chewed me out for violating our contract and not giving him the crown, despite the fact that I destroyed the contract and murdered him extremely hard. I'm assume that's only supposed to trigger if you don't do House of Hope?
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Neorxenawang posted:For me this scene came right on the heels of some party banter in such he hits on Lae'zel, gets shot down, then immediately hits on Shadowheart, who shoots him down while pointing out that he just hit on Lae'zel in front and of her and got shot down. That made it a little easier in my run. It came right after I gave Shadowheart the night orchid so I was already committed to her and he dropped a “the beating of ours hearts can keep time on me. Wyll, I love you dude, but that’s a bit much! Bad enough I already had to say no to Karlach who wanted to visit me after everyone else had gone to sleep. I feel like I handled platonic relationships much better in my second playthrough. This time around I’m tripping all the “please gently caress me” buttons on accident
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Neorxenawang posted:For me this scene came right on the heels of some party banter in such he hits on Lae'zel, gets shot down, then immediately hits on Shadowheart, who shoots him down while pointing out that he just hit on Lae'zel in front and of her and got shot down. That made it a little easier in my run. the power of initiative knows no bounds
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