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Gortash is fine. That's just how the bad guys look in these things. Pull up some of the production art of one of the greatest and most insidious villains in gaming, Jon Irenicus, and report back.
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Recommended YouTube summaries of general strategy and tactics? I’m struggling to find something above the v basic level of guide videos (“hold alt to highlight items”) but below the extremely specific and spoiler-y build guide videos. Like, I’m trying to find a video explaining things like how to determine when buffing/debugging outweighs damage, movement implications in combat, specific bonuses (ex/ how much extra damage from being higher up), etc. Anybody know of good videos at that level of detail?
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Mar 17, 2024 17:44
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So I decided I'm never going to even attempt this game on Honor Mode, I'm too old for that type of investment. Decided to look around on Nexus Mods and found save files, had to fiddle with it a bit but got it to work, if anyone wants to be a dirty cheater like me - 1a - Turn off cloud sync for BG3 on Steam, then exit steam. 1. Go to %appdata%\local\Larian Studios 2. Rename your Baldur's Gate 3 directory to something like "old" 3. Load into BG3, it will be as if you've never played it. 4. Start an Honor Mode save. 5. Close the game, close Steam 6. Extract the save file (I used this one on nexusmods but I can link it in onedrive if anyone wants. 7. Copy the .lsv and .WebP files into %AppData%\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3.honormodecheese\PlayerProfiles\Public\Savegames\Story\978d218c-3db9-5278-7593-0f7b28f009f9__HonourMode 8. Load back into BG3, load the save and talk to Withers. Watch cheevos pop and feel shame, shame, shame.
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Mar 17, 2024 17:47
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I really desperately wanted MORE ludicrous Jack Palance Outlaw of Gor style evil magician costumes like Kressa Bonedaughter there at the end of Act 2 (personal fav)
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Mar 17, 2024 17:50
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Playing on Honour Mode after completing a Tactician run has taught me that I'm better at this game than I thought and I was save scumming way too much for no good reason in my previous playthroughs. Everyone hyped up the Honour Mode Owlbear fight omg there's two of them! and I managed to beat it at level 3 without anyone going down. I have a feeling the end of Act II is still gonna kick my rear end though. wizard2 posted:I really desperately wanted MORE ludicrous Jack Palance Outlaw of Gor style evil magician costumes like Kressa Bonedaughter there at the end of Act 2 (personal fav) It sucks that you can't take her hat.
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Mar 17, 2024 17:53
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Recommended YouTube summaries of general strategy and tactics? I guess just getting knowledge from this thread on learning which buffs/debuffs/utilities are good and which are bad, would be great  Any good wisdom on this topic? Also is there a generally summary of the niches provided by the different classes? Like what’s the practical difference between a melee monk and a melee fighter? Both are melee dps right? Or a ranged warlock and a ranged sorcerer? Both are ranged dps?
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Mar 17, 2024 17:53
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wizard2 posted:Gortash is fine. That's just how the bad guys look in these things. I refuse to look at the gimp elf, you can't make me
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Mar 17, 2024 17:58
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Vermain posted:frankly i think it rules how gortash looks like your uncle trying to cosplay ardyn izunia This is the exact comparison he always makes me think of
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Mar 17, 2024 17:59
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It's kind of a character design that's in right now. Every time I saw Barnabas from Final Fantasy 16 I had a moment of "Gortash is that you"
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Mar 17, 2024 18:02
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Lol look at this mf Bigby's Crushing Codpiece
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Mar 17, 2024 18:04
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Mr. Lobe posted:I refuse to look at the gimp elf, you can't make me again, I think BG3 has a very outlandish plot on paper, and a lot of your choices barely hold together in the conclusion, but it made me realize that storytelling really is all about the delivery and execution BG2 has a gimp elf but the gimp elf has Shakespearean Bombast™
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Mar 17, 2024 18:04
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Isn’t there a line in BG3 that points out how dumb it is to have an elf named “Jon Irenicus” or did I imagine that.
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Mar 17, 2024 18:08
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Medullah posted:So I decided I'm never going to even attempt this game on Honor Mode, I'm too old for that type of investment. Decided to look around on Nexus Mods and found save files, had to fiddle with it a bit but got it to work, if anyone wants to be a dirty cheater like me - I'm not touching honor mode because the idea of getting one bad roll in a dialogue check leading to a fight where the enemy gets a bunch of crits in a row and thus invalidates 50+ hours of progress sucks rear end
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Mar 17, 2024 18:08
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Listen man it wrecks my ✨immersion✨ to see the lead singer of Green Day in my fantasy RPG
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Mar 17, 2024 18:14
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EorayMel posted:I'm not touching honor mode because the idea of getting one bad roll in a dialogue check leading to a fight where the enemy gets a bunch of crits in a row and thus invalidates 50+ hours of progress sucks rear end there are infinity ways to prevent that, honor mode is honestly still too easy
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Mar 17, 2024 18:21
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watchoutitsabear posted:Listen man it wrecks my ✨immersion✨ to see the lead singer of Green Day in my fantasy RPG I mean, I would actually love an actual Fantasy RPG that's all Larry Elmore'd out where the barbarian lady's braid blows in the bitter wind, she is contemplating grief and loss for a future that will never came to pass, the stars were wrong, her now sullied blade offers no comfort, blah blah, shadows grow, but the funny part to me is that for all the outlandishness Baldur's Gate 3 has to offer it is wayyy more on brand to Baldur's Gate and The Forgotten Realms than not 🙃
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Mar 17, 2024 18:23
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EorayMel posted:I'm not touching honor mode because the idea of getting one bad roll in a dialogue check leading to a fight where the enemy gets a bunch of crits in a row and thus invalidates 50+ hours of progress sucks rear end Saraiguma posted:there are infinity ways to prevent that, honor mode is honestly still too easy Maybe. But for me it's not worth the potential loss.
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Mar 17, 2024 18:38
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never played with a monk before because I think they're a stupid class, so I only just found out they're ridiculous for iron throne. jumping without using bonus actions is crazy. Astarion basically opened every cell on his own and went all the way to Omeluum in turn 1, then came back down to loot the northwest section and jumped back to help dimension door stragglers and kill fishmen after omeluum's submarine port. easiest iron throne i've done despite doing honor mode and refraining from using haste this game.
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Mar 17, 2024 18:40
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under the best circumstances, D&D Monk almost universally sucks unless you have a lot of good D&D Loot to supplement, and BG3 has the best D&D Loot
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Zodium posted:never played with a monk before because I think they're a stupid class, so I only just found out they're ridiculous for iron throne. jumping without using bonus actions is crazy. Astarion basically opened every cell on his own and went all the way to Omeluum in turn 1, then came back down to loot the northwest section and jumped back to help dimension door stragglers and kill fishmen after omeluum's submarine port. easiest iron throne i've done despite doing honor mode and refraining from using haste this game. Yeah I was slow trying out monk since it sounds kinda weird and isn’t on any of the default companions. But multiclassed with thief, the damage, mobility and utility (stun or prone or push while doing like 50 damage of various types? Several times per turn? Yes please) are insane. And everything recharges on short rest. And there is a bunch of sick gear designed for unarmed combat. I’m a huge monk stan now lol, they are so good in so many situations. Never played one in tabletop. Wild to hear they are rear end there
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Mar 17, 2024 18:57
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it's not that I thought monks were bad, just stupid. and I still think monks are stupid, just not as stupid as the iron throne.
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I usually like to make Karlach a Monk when she's not a TB Barb because her 1d4 soul coin buff hits twice on most attacks. And her "HIYAAA" battle cries are the best.
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exquisite tea posted:I usually like to make Karlach a Monk when she's not a TB Barb because her 1d4 soul coin buff hits twice on most attacks. And her "HIYAAA" battle cries are the best. She's got big miss piggy doing karate chops energy and I'm here for it
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The real answer is making Gale a berserker barbarian and Lae'Zel a college of lore bard
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Prop Wash posted:Everyone says Dragonborn don’t have any advantages and that’s simply not true. They can eat the special tadpole and still look fairly normal! My dragonborn ate the special tadpole at my party's request then immediately fired off a black hole and flew around. So the party wanted to reload then every was passing that tadpole to the left and they got pissed when they realized how terrible their characters looked afterward.
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Having some fairly gross face veins is literally the only negative consequence for filling your brain with alien parasites and I can't believe how mopey some people get about it. Just take your free infinite flight and shut up.
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Having some fairly gross face veins is literally the only negative consequence for filling your brain with alien parasites and I can't believe how mopey some people get about it. Just take your free infinite flight and shut up. Don’t forget to savescum the githyanki healing machine so you can black hole and mind blast people as a bonus action too.
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Having some fairly gross face veins is literally the only negative consequence for filling your brain with alien parasites and I can't believe how mopey some people get about it. Just take your free infinite flight and shut up. no
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Having some fairly gross face veins is literally the only negative consequence for filling your brain with alien parasites and I can't believe how mopey some people get about it. Just take your free infinite flight and shut up. Emperor alt account spotted.
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Medullah posted:Emperor alt account spotted. lol
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Having some fairly gross face veins is literally the only negative consequence for filling your brain with alien parasites and I can't believe how mopey some people get about it. Just take your free infinite flight and shut up. The way people talked about it, I thought I was going to get Good Ending (Astral Tadpole Route) by the way it was talked up both in game and online but [spoilers]: your skin does end up clearing up! yay! only Illithidism is permanent, and not that big a deal, actually???? so much for not gazing long into the abyss
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EorayMel posted:The real answer is making Gale a berserker barbarian and Lae'Zel a college of lore bard  using mods to magic mirror companions is inspiring!
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Goa Tse-tung posted:can you see into my game? Gale literally malding here over his Oneitis ex-gf 🤣
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wizard2 posted:The way people talked about it, I thought I was going to get Good Ending (Astral Tadpole Route) by the way it was talked up both in game and online but [spoilers]: your skin does end up clearing up! yay! only Illithidism is permanent, and not that big a deal, actually???? so much for not gazing long into the abyss The couple of perma-illithids say it’s fine actually and even better than being a human. But I get intense cult/stockholm syndrome vibes off it. But yeah all consequences of popping tadpoles like candy going away in the ending was weird
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exquisite tea posted:Isn’t there a line in BG3 that points out how dumb it is to have an elf named “Jon Irenicus” or did I imagine that. I might have missed the line in BG3 but IIRC the explanation in BG2 was that his elf name was Jonaleth, but when he was stripped of his elf soul he took on a human appearance and subsequently a human name. Maybe that’s still dumb?
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Can a mind flayer eat devil or demon brains and if so does it turn them evil? Asking for a friend 
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Ornery and Hornery posted:I guess just getting knowledge from this thread on learning which buffs/debuffs/utilities are good and which are bad, would be great You have: Warriors - tanky, single target damage and control boys. Fighters, Paladins, Barbarians, Monks. Rangers too if built for it. Skills Dudes - skill guys for sneaking around, disarming traps and picking locks, usually double as good archers since they have high dexterity. Rogues, Bards, Rangers. Support - buffs, healing, controlling enemies. Clerics, Druids, Bards. Mages - area damage and control. Wizards, Sorcerers, Warlocks, Druids Party face/talky character can also be important. High charisma and social skills. Paladin, Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock. In terms of which specific spells are good or not, the fun of the game is trying them all out to see. The main caveat here is that Shield and Counterspell are extremely important wizard spells that you won't find scrolls for, meaning you have to pick them on level up. Haste is massively powerful to the point that it's pretty busted.
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Docjowles posted:But yeah all consequences of popping tadpoles like candy going away in the ending was weird It's especially weird given how the intro cinematic and much of Act 1 is set up to emphasize how alien brainworms are gross and invasive and very not good. The game is so good with reactivity for the most part that the strange lack of negative consequences for this make it stand out quite a bit IMO
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Goons don't see becoming butt-ugly as a consequence of their own actions. Curious!
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I mean people in Faerun must be mega polite because you can spend like half the game looking like you're in a black metal band and nobody says a peep about it.
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