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I hate my stupid klepto/hoarder gamerbrain. I am compelled to click on every loving container so I have more scrolls and potions and arrows than I could possibly use. And then I don't use them. You know, just in case I need 8 scrolls of Ray of Sickness later. For something.
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Docjowles posted:I hate my stupid klepto/hoarder gamerbrain. I am compelled to click on every loving container so I have more scrolls and potions and arrows than I could possibly use. And then I don't use them. You know, just in case I need 8 scrolls of Ray of Sickness later. For something. Can I introduce you to the 20 scrolls of Speak to Animals/Speak to the Dead that my Druid with the Amulet of Lost Voices has
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Mar 16, 2024 22:31
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Medullah posted:There are a gajillion scrolls in the game. I pretty much had Gale learn everything he could (which, in case you didn't notice it like me, there's a button to see what he can learn when you're in the preparing scrolls menu...I was clicking each scroll individually to see if I could learn it for the first ~100 hours). Is there a (Known) tag or icon or different color or something when you're in the Barter menu? I knew about that submenu, but I feel like I always was missing something when buying the scrolls.
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Mar 16, 2024 22:34
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The Berzerker posted:I have trouble not seeing JK Simmons as his character from Oz, so it adds a certain amount of menace to any villain role he's cast in. same, Schillinger was such an iconic piece of poo poo. bg3 really could have reached its full potential if A2 ended with Dame aylin finishing off Ketheric by taking a dump on his face and giving the sieg heil while everyone watches and cheers
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Mar 16, 2024 22:41
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Snowy posted:As a still relatively new player, I'm trying to start using up more of the consumables I'm hoarding. Are there any scrolls in particular that I should have Gale learn? I'd like to get use up a bunch but I keep thinking he needs them. Evocation spells if that's the subclass of Wizard your Gale is, because your party will be safe against Evo spells he casts.
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Mar 16, 2024 23:06
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Snowy posted:As a still relatively new player, I'm trying to start using up more of the consumables I'm hoarding. Are there any scrolls in particular that I should have Gale learn? I'd like to get use up a bunch but I keep thinking he needs them. Have him learn stuff like animate dead, cloudkill, and later on, disintegrate. Sell all the crap like protection from good and evil and dark vision.
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Mar 16, 2024 23:07
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Hey played various characters on ps5 for act 1 and got to act 2 a few months ago before playing other games and taking a break. I’m now starting a “for real” playthrough as I know a bit more as to what I’m doing now and am following a gaming podcast through it (the bonfireside chat/woff guys) and I have a question- Is playing as a Storm Sorcerer (as a good person) a good time? Was thinking of doing that with a kitted out Storm Cleric shadowheart, wild magic Karlach and then probably battlemaster Laezel. From reading around online it sounds like it could be a lot of fun. Any other suggestions if not that? Thanks!
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:Hey played various characters on ps5 for act 1 and got to act 2 a few months ago before playing other games and taking a break. I’m now starting a “for real” playthrough as I know a bit more as to what I’m doing now and am following a gaming podcast through it (the bonfireside chat/woff guys) and I have a question- All of that sounds good, almost any build will work well enough to win which is nice I don’t personally love playing sorc or wizard because only being able to cast your best stuff a couple times before long resting to recoup spell slots bums me out. Classes that regen their important abilities on short rest like monk and bard are more my speed. If you don’t have this particular hangup though there’s no denying it is a powerful class. Especially by act 3 when you get access to cone of cold and chain lightning and can annihilate a whole group in one shot. But it feels bad when I’m out of spell slots and doing 12 damage cantrips while the monk is hitting dudes for like 70 multiple times every turn. I can’t get away from having monk/thief Astarion in my party. Just running around one shotting everything he can get his hands on. Plus all sleight of hand checks are basically auto win. There’s also a lot of really OP monk gear that goes to waste if you don’t have one. My current crew is sorc/wizard/storm cleric dark urge. Monk/thief Astarion. Throwing barb Karlach. And archery bard Jaheira. It feels awesome, very little gives me trouble. The one thing I wish I had was more low level AoE for when you have to clean up 50 1 HP rats or some poo poo.
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Docjowles posted:All of that sounds good, almost any build will work well enough to win which is nice Thanks for this write up. This is the thing I dislike about it so far and why I typically enjoy more melee type fighters- it just kinda sucks not always being able to use the good stuff. I do really like how sorcerer is super high charisma though! Your current party sounds fun and when I eventually do a dark urge, I can’t wait to have astarion in my party. I’m saving a play through with him as that. I have mulled over going storm cleric as my main character and then spec’ing shadowheart as a monk, but I’ll probably stick with this sorcerer for awhile still to see if I can get into it more when I get a few levels under my belt.
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Docjowles posted:I can’t get away from having monk/thief Astarion in my party. Just running around one shotting everything he can get his hands on. Plus all sleight of hand checks are basically auto win. There’s also a lot of really OP monk gear that goes to waste if you don’t have one.
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Mar 17, 2024 00:33
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the objectively most fun build is 1 fighter/1 wizard/10 sword bard with titanstring, helm of arcane acuity and band of the mystic scoundrel
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Mar 17, 2024 00:54
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Docjowles posted:All of that sounds good, almost any build will work well enough to win which is nice Ice knife is good for the latter, scribe it with your wizard. Also smokepowder bombs are cheap Mr. Lobe fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Mar 17, 2024 |
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Mar 17, 2024 02:13
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Medullah posted:Can I introduce you to the 20 scrolls of Speak to Animals/Speak to the Dead that my Druid with the Amulet of Lost Voices has Same but my main can cast both of those at will due to having the speak with animals item and having read the Necromancy of Thay.
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Mar 17, 2024 02:38
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Scrolls are lighter than gold.
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Mr. Lobe posted:Also smokepowder bombs are cheap Yeah I just keep some alchemist's fire etc. for those situations to save spell slots, or just shoot AOE arrows
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Finished tactician play through. Feels good man. Guess I will start beating my head against honor mode at some point. I expected it to be a lot harder but for the most part it felt pretty similar to balanced. To be fair knowing what’s coming and how to build an efficient party helps massively. Had trouble with a handful of fights. First was Grym just because he kept walking like one pixel too far for the hammer to crush him, it is annoyingly finicky. Balthazar also gave me trouble as the big skeletons kept throwing everyone off a cliff round 1 lol. Better positioning fixed this. My Durge duel with Orin was a nightmare. She would win initiative every time and kill my poor sorcerer on the first turn. Had to reload repeatedly til I finally got to go first and then she saved against all my spells, lived to her turn, and killed me in one round. Only time I REALLY wished I had Alert. And finally the House of Grief was of course a bitch. I don’t think I would even attempt it on honor. Every other boss pretty much just fell over. Also a couple ending spoilers I had no idea Gale’s outcomes could vary so wildly. First run I told him to definitely not try to steal the crown of karsus, and he became a frumpy old professor. This time I just told him “you do you man I don’t really care”. Was not expecting him to turn up at the epilogue as a LITERAL loving BRAND NEW GOD lmfao. That story took quite a turn. I also reloaded my final save so I could see what the become the Absolute ending looked like. I respect how cartoonishly evil it is. Game very much stands up to repeated plays. I thought I was very thorough on my first run but I found SO much stuff I missed. I’m sure there is even more still to find. And I’m glad I did the resist durge option, it’s a pretty wild and cool story
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Medullah posted:There are a gajillion scrolls in the game. I pretty much had Gale learn everything he could (which, in case you didn't notice it like me, there's a button to see what he can learn when you're in the preparing scrolls menu...I was clicking each scroll individually to see if I could learn it for the first ~100 hours). Wait what
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ZearothK posted:Scrolls are lighter than gold. real Barterheads know
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Loel posted:Wait what did you know you can still use a shovel to dig, even when you fail all survival skills?
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Goa Tse-tung posted:did you know you can still use a shovel to dig, even when you fail all survival skills? wait what
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Mar 17, 2024 12:16
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if you summon scratch he'll even point to where you should dig
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Zodium posted:if you summon scratch he'll even point to where you should dig what
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the flaming fistr just arrested Basket and my deva, fire myrmidon, and mummy but left everyone else. i love this game edit: apparently this disarmed my fire myrmidon and deva. 
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Loel posted:Wait what  
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drat this will come in handy since I am playing Gale in a MP game with the homies
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ZearothK posted:drat What do you do when you’re frequently (I presume) forced to stay back at camp so that they can take a better character along with them?
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bird with big dick posted:What do you do when you’re frequently (I presume) forced to stay back at camp so that they can take a better character along with them? i eat their shoes and hack vendors also i pet my cat [edit] in and out of game
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Oh that's very neat. Any way to tell if the vendor has any scrolls I dont know? Right now I just
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How's the stability of this game in Act 3 these days? I got to Act 3 in like August and lost interest in the game because of how buggy it was, specifically with quest tracking
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Loel posted:Oh that's very neat. The only spells you can't learn from scrolls that are on the Wizard list are iirc Resilient Sphere, Arcane Gate, Counterspell, to a lesser extent Arcane Lock, and Knock. Scrolls for the last two exist but are pretty rare despite being green (uncommon).
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johnny park posted:How's the stability of this game in Act 3 these days? I got to Act 3 in like August and lost interest in the game because of how buggy it was, specifically with quest tracking it wasnt perfect, but I had a drastically better time in Act 3 last month than at release, and theres been a patch since
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johnny park posted:How's the stability of this game in Act 3 these days? I got to Act 3 in like August and lost interest in the game because of how buggy it was, specifically with quest tracking I’m in Act 3 right now for my second play through and for some reason jaihera is a neutral party when she’s in my party. Haven’t yet encountered any other bugs though, just my computer having a hard time handling the environment.
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Loel posted:Oh that's very neat. I'd be lying if I didn't admit I often quick save, buy all the scrolls, look to see if any can be scribed and then quick load and buy just those heh
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Woolie Wool posted:Gortash looks like he planewalked out of a Final Fantasy knockoff series and never found his way back home. Professor Beetus posted:Jason Isaacs is great in the role of Gortash but they whiffed hard on the character design. "Handsome young man" lol, he looks like a 45 y/o has been that still tours with their emo band that was popular in the 90s (and still creeps on young teen fans). The Wicked ZOGA posted:Gortash would've been a slam dunk if they just hadn't explicitly described him as a 'handsome young man'. I'm ok with the villain being an obviously evil middle-aged pervert with a lovely dye job. Really appreciate that every time I peek in this thread people are dunking on Gortash. It makes me so angry how dumb he looks.
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watchoutitsabear posted:Really appreciate that every time I peek in this thread people are dunking on Gortash. It makes me so angry how dumb he looks.  I just see Miguel from Tekken.
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I was mad his big disco king collar wasn’t big anymore once my hobbit bard wore it.
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Someone pointed out he is wearing a Guy Fieri flaming button down under his big dumb jacket and can’t stop laughing every time I see it
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Medullah posted:
That guy pulls it off way better
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frankly i think it rules how gortash looks like your uncle trying to cosplay ardyn izunia
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Entropic posted:JK Simmons is one of those guys who seems to just always play himself and it takes you out of anything he's in. JK Simmons is a big part of why Portal 2 is great as Cave Johnson
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