Baldur's Gate 3: There's a ghaik in my loot! (Now out on Xbox!)

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Medullah: Aug 14, 2003; FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

Black Noise posted:

No witnesses No Problems. Clean up your mess adventurer. Evidence can be shoved into nearby containers!

Also what the guy below said. Probably leave the traders alone though until its the finale.

I walked around for a bit and no one aggrod on me, am I probably safe to keep talking to people, or will someone eventually spot the bodies? I went downstairs to the prison.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 23:11

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# ? May 24, 2024 22:17

woodenchicken: Aug 19, 2007; Nap Ghost

I walked in and slaughtered the tower indiscriminately bc I felt like it, but for what it's worth, an NPC that gives you a stat boost didn't aggro and gave it to me.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 23:12

OzFactor: Apr 16, 2001

The thing about living in the headquarters of a death cult is that you see a lot of poo poo, man, and you learn to stop asking questions. That body, over there? How are you supposed to know if a rogue Harper got in here, or if it was your boss's doing, or her boss, or his boss, who encourages random people to kill him all the drat time? Just keep your head down, man.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 23:17

Dawgstar: Jul 15, 2017

There is indeed a ridiculous amount of content in Act 1 alone. I was in the Underdark for hours and remembered "Oh, yeah, the goblin leaders."

# ? Feb 13, 2024 23:48

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

OzFactor posted:

The thing about living in the headquarters of a death cult is that you see a lot of poo poo, man, and you learn to stop asking questions. That body, over there? How are you supposed to know if a rogue Harper got in here, or if it was your boss's doing, or her boss, or his boss, who encourages random people to kill him all the drat time? Just keep your head down, man.

I totally forgot about the multiple instances of people in that place killing people for you while no one bats an eye

# ? Feb 13, 2024 23:55

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

I love that all the Bhaal cultists carry like four daggers on them at all times. It always makes me smile.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:00

DarkHorse: Dec 13, 2006; Nap Ghost

Trevor Hale posted:

I totally forgot about the multiple instances of people in that place killing people for you while no one bats an eye

The only thing that got people to bat an eye at me was allowing the goblins to leave

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:02

Max Wilco: Jan 23, 2012; I'm just trying to go through life without looking stupid.

It's not working out too well...

rojay posted:

If you are asking what the best feat is, there is no question that it is Alert. If you take that feat on a character, that character will almost always act before the enemy and will never be surprised. If that character has 14 or higher dexterity, it it will go first in every encounter in the game.

There are feats that will maximize your damage or give you defenses or other really neat stuff, but going first in every combat is much better than any of those things and it's not even close.

You may be thinking, "but this feat is going to add +2 to my chance to hit and +10 damage, why is that not better?" The answer is that if all of your characters get to act before the enemies, those bonuses are overkill; you don't need them to wipe every enemy in your first turn or, at the very least, to set your characters up to win the combat in a turn or two more just by using spacing and crowd control spells.

It would be a decent feat to take if they used a D20 for initiative, but as things stand, it's completely overpowered. I took it on four characters in my run, basically everyone in my "standard" party except Shadowheart, and she was usually high up in the initiative order because she had a magically-enhanced dexterity of 18.

I was moreso just wondering which were the recommended feats. Monathin did a write up on the feats in the previous thread, but that was from October, so I didn't know if any of the patches since then buffed/nerfed any of the feats.

I took Alert on my PC, but I think that's it. Gale, Wyll, and Shadowheart have Durable, Lae'zel has Tavern Brawler, Astarion has Sharpshooter, and Karlach has Savage Attacker. I don't think I've actually had Halsin join the party yet, so he might be due for some.

I thought Tough would be a good pick for the whole party, since it seems like in some encounters, I have someone end up at half-health by the end of the first round, but then I wonder if it's better to diversify feats among the party. The problem is just trying to pick what feat would be best. Truth be told, a lot of them seem kind of useless, either because the bonus is insignificant, or is covered by another party member and/or by switching classes. With the ASI feats, it's more of just figuring out whether you up a character's primary ability, or put the points towards another ability. Like, do you up Shadowheart's WIS so you can maximize the strength of her divine spells, or do you put it towards STR, so she can do some more melee damage? That's where I get caught up.

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

You know respeccing at Withers allows you to tweak their ability scores right

I forgot, but I can't recall if I tweaked anyone's ability scores or not. I probably need to sit down and make note of everyone's stats.

Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Feb 14, 2024

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:09

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Unless you're trying to make Shadowheart a War Cleric or respec her into a melee class then STR is kinda bad for her. 13 base STR is already overkill for non-martial Clerics and most of the time I reallocate those points for more WIS/DEX/CON as soon as I can. I'm never relying on Shadowheart to tango in melee even if she occasionally has to bonk a goblin on the head.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:16

Big Bowie Bonanza: Dec 30, 2007; please tell me where i can date this cute boy

The game loves to give clerics stats they�d need in tabletop but not at all the ones they�d use in BG3

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:20

Professor Beetus: Apr 12, 2007; They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus

I'm past the point of no return to finish up my first honor mode run and I am still waffling over whether to be a big drat hero and do the fight legit or cheese it by sending Gale to his noble end. I think I'd rather do the former, story wise and to be a big drat hero, but tales of fuckery in the last fight in here make me feel concern over having my honor made fail spectacularly in the last moments. Any advice from you fine folks on how to ensure a clean finish, outside of backing up the save or Ctrl alt del'ing?

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:27

Snake Maze

Jul 13, 2016

3.85 Billion years ago

Having seen the explosion on the moon, the Devil comes to Venus

Professor Beetus posted:

Any advice from you fine folks on how to ensure a clean finish, outside of backing up the save or Ctrl alt del'ing?

Globe of invulnerability in the final phase if you want to ignore the boss�s gimmick and mechanics and just mindlessly dps to victory.

It�s great in all the other fights too, if you have enough scrolls and/or casts, but being able to ignore the platform deletion in particular makes the fight pretty trivial.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:35

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

1. There's a sewer grate just below the final area before the big courtyard fight that will actually lead to a much smaller and less tedious encounter. You'll end up just past the courtyard and will only need to make a few jumps to reach the Netherbrain.
2. There are no restoration fountains on Honor Mode so after the "you reached the top" cutscene plays, have your entire party drink those potions of angelic slumber you've been hoarding all game.
3. You can do the penultimate fight in one of two ways -- kill everything so that you have a clean transition to the final area, or summon allies and run past everyone. I've done it both ways and I think it's more convenient to just burn summons and run. You want all your characters to be close by when the first of them enters the portal.
4. Movement really is of the essence for the final battle so pre-buff your entire team with Longstrider, give them haste potions, teleport items etc. anything so that they won't be caught on the glowing platforms.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:39

Black Noise: Jan 23, 2008; WHAT UP

exquisite tea posted:

3. You can do the penultimate fight in one of two ways -- kill everything so that you have a clean transition to the final area, or summon allies and run past everyone. I've done it both ways and I think it's more convenient to just burn summons and run. You want all your characters to be close by when the first of them enters the portal.
4. Movement really is of the essence for the final battle so pre-buff your entire team with Longstrider, give them haste potions, teleport items etc. anything so that they won't be caught on the glowing platforms.

Let�s say my movement speed is absurd what happens if I�m the only one near this portal? Am I going to break something? 1 v 1 vs Andross?

We�ve got like 3 long rests left before this can finally end.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:46

Kolodny: Jul 10, 2010

Black Noise posted:

Let�s say my movement speed is absurd what happens if I�m the only one near this portal? Am I going to break something? 1 v 1 vs Andross?

We�ve got like 3 long rests left before this can finally end.

It�s all one big fight so you can stagger people in. Gets kind of annoying flipping back and forth.

On Balanced I could summon allies by the brain, took me by surprise when this didn�t work on Tactician but it was still doable. No restoration fountains on Tactician either but I think I remember a couple angelic potions on the way as loot, and the kobold trader before the courtyard sold some.

# ? Feb 14, 2024 00:54

The Wicked ZOGA: Jan 27, 2022; Can't post for 5 days!

Dawgstar posted:

There is indeed a ridiculous amount of content in Act 1 alone. I was in the Underdark for hours and remembered "Oh, yeah, the goblin leaders."

I literally only just found out you aren't supposed to attack the spectator until it dies and the intended gimmick is to dink the drow it unfreezes so they come to their senses and help you.

I didn't even know you could talk to those guys. Dhourn copped it but sounds like he was a dick anyway. plus he has part of the stick

# ? Feb 14, 2024 01:07

Ginette Reno: Nov 18, 2006; How Doers get more done; Fun Shoe