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I am noticing someone missing from your submarine and I can’t remember the choices you’ve made before this that would’ve kept them from being there
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I glitched Cazador and gave him some kind of uber surprise. I snuck into the boss room and clicked slashing flourish, clicked on him, and was just about to click on some werewolf as my second target when I got spotted. It made the combat start noise and set up the initiative order, and then Tav started a conversation. Cazador did his speech, and when it ended I saw he was going first. poo poo, right? But he didn't do anything, as if all my characters were invisible. My characters took their turns, then all his minions took their turn, and didn't do anything either! Except the bats, but all they did was dash. On Cazador's next turn, he did the same thing, standing in place. The werewolves still didn't do anything at all, but the Ghouls did some futile slashing. My guess is that I glitched it and Cazador still thought he was in a conversation. Maybe the werewolves and the other tougher minions have some kind of "part of Cazador's dialog" flag, too. I think the bats get spawned after, so they're clear to do what they want. I almost wiped on the Orin fight though. I did the Durge duel, with her as the Slayer, but walked my other characters in. She got twelve stacks of unstoppable. My Tav has Magic Missile, but he was on the opposite side of initiative with Orin as my primary damage dealer, Astarion. It was a crazy rush of trying to clear the stacks of unstoppable, her legendary counterattack, and keep my characters healed. I think it was my first fight in this honor mode where I had characters get downed during combat and successfully brought back up without them getting KO'd before their next action.
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May 18, 2024 15:47
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bird with big dick posted:She Cannot Be Caged! is the best achievement, get it on your next playthrough if you don't already have it. Recruitable Sazza DLC when? 
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May 18, 2024 15:51
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The song is one of the coolest surprises in a game full of cool rear end stuff. Spoiling that would be criminal. And yes, The Goon, avatar of your worst posting enemy, always gets an lol. E: I got the Sazza achievement on my first run lol. Didn’t know it was a thing til it popped up. Sassy goblin queen did me a solid I’m not gonna backstab her. Docjowles fucked around with this message at 16:05 on May 18, 2024 |
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May 18, 2024 15:56
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LifeLynx posted:I glitched Cazador and gave him some kind of uber surprise. I snuck into the boss room and clicked slashing flourish, clicked on him, and was just about to click on some werewolf as my second target when I got spotted. It made the combat start noise and set up the initiative order, and then Tav started a conversation. Cazador did his speech, and when it ended I saw he was going first. poo poo, right? But he didn't do anything, as if all my characters were invisible. My characters took their turns, then all his minions took their turn, and didn't do anything either! Except the bats, but all they did was dash. On Cazador's next turn, he did the same thing, standing in place. The werewolves still didn't do anything at all, but the Ghouls did some futile slashing. My guess is that I glitched it and Cazador still thought he was in a conversation. Maybe the werewolves and the other tougher minions have some kind of "part of Cazador's dialog" flag, too. I think the bats get spawned after, so they're clear to do what they want. Finally my people have arrived. Artists quest? Don't use the front door. Cazador? DO THE SNEAKY. DO THE SNEAK.
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May 18, 2024 16:43
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Apparently if the game crashes for any of the players during the last 2-3 of the game then there's no loving way for them to re-join ever again, even for the epilogue, unless you go back and re-do all the most annoying parts of the ending. Multiplayer in this game truly sucks rear end, in contrast to the singleplayer.
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May 18, 2024 21:10
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Use invisibility and take the Gale option 
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May 18, 2024 21:50
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I'm looking at that light armor that increases necrotic damage by 1 and I'm wondering how this works out. Would it be like this: Shar gloves: Adds 1d4. +1 Sword: 1d4 necrotic. +1 Druid spores: 1d8 +1 Or will it just add 1 extra damage total to that attack?
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May 18, 2024 22:17
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I don’t know about that armor specifically but unless you’re using playing on honor mode, a ton of bonuses get applied to every source of damage. I think there’s a good chance you’d get the +3 from your example rather than a flat +1. Combat log should be helpful confirming. They eliminated that triple (or more) dipping of buffs on honor mode which is a bummer but also probably a saner way for effects to work. Cause people of course found ways to abuse it for hilarious amounts of damage per attack.
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May 18, 2024 22:24
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Jack Trades posted:Apparently if the game crashes for any of the players during the last 2-3 of the game then there's no loving way for them to re-join ever again, even for the epilogue, unless you go back and re-do all the most annoying parts of the ending. You can sometimes fix this by loading an old save and long resting, then having the other players join. Then go back to the endgame save and they should be able to join again. This worked when my husband’s controller ran out of battery during the endgame, so hopefully it works for you! Multiplayer is extra janky, yeah.
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May 18, 2024 23:25
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Trevor Hale posted:I am noticing someone missing from your submarine and I can’t remember the choices you’ve made before this that would’ve kept them from being there A bit of googling says that a friendly mind flayer is down there if you do an Underdark questline, but I kinda skipped that section of the game so I think I got everyone? I'm saving that area for a maybe future playthrough. Docjowles posted:The song is one of the coolest surprises in a game full of cool rear end stuff. Spoiling that would be criminal. And yes, The Goon, avatar of your worst posting enemy, always gets an lol. My second favorite thing from that fight is that his buddies all have Anti-Paladin/Cleric Countermeasures, namely radiant damage getting reflected back twofold as fire damage. Except Zehra is a tiefling and has innate fire resistance, and being the clever sort I am, I put Protection from Energy: Fire on Minthara and Shadowheart before the fight because devil=fire right? It still stings, but hey, that gives Hope something to do besides hiding in the corner. Some people might suggest just not using Divine Smite on them, but that's a horrible idea, why would you even think that? It would have been wildly out of character, but I almost regret not sleeping with Haarlep just to be able to call out Raphael's lack of prowess in bed. Solo Wing Pixy fucked around with this message at 23:35 on May 18, 2024 |
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May 18, 2024 23:32
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 What in the gently caress happened to my character portrait. I can't tell if I'm angry, badly constipated, or angry because I'm badly constipated
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May 19, 2024 00:30
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Thought I had a really cool idea to build a necromancer based team with an oath breaker paladin to boost, but it turns out hatred aura only works on attacks made with weapons, which summoned undead are entirely without. Cambions work, but otherwise you have to use control undead/fiend to make it work so gently caress it.
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May 19, 2024 00:43
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Being a Necromancer seems like a cool idea, but in practice involves adding a bunch of extra dudes to every combat and makes everything take three times as long. Unless you have the stomach for that, just smite people or chain lightning.
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May 19, 2024 01:05
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Yeah the necro with 25 summons has little appeal to me. I get annoyed microing like 2 extra dudes grack posted:
Ashton Kutcher rear end character
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May 19, 2024 01:17
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grack posted:
haulin' rear end gettin' paid
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May 19, 2024 01:36
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Do not like this shadow cursed area. The first encounter was a mess. I had Shadowheart cast light on Hazel thinking that she wouldn't need to carry a torch and could use her two handed weapon, and Gale cast light on himself so he could carry his staff. But as soon as combat started they both seemed to lose their light and had to switch back to a torch. It wound up being a Keystone Kops sort of affair chasing shadows all over until I accepted that I'd screwed the whole thing up. I restarted by having Shadowheart cast a ball of light in what would be the center of the battle, then triggered the encounter. That worked much better as now no one needed a light source and could just fight, and the shadows remained visible unless they moved all the way to edge of the lit area. I still don't understand how the light spell works that you can cast on a party member because they sure did look lit up, but oh well.
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May 19, 2024 05:48
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Dick Trauma posted:Do not like this shadow cursed area. The first encounter was a mess. I had Shadowheart cast light on Hazel thinking that she wouldn't need to carry a torch and could use her two handed weapon, and Gale cast light on himself so he could carry his staff. But as soon as combat started they both seemed to lose their light and had to switch back to a torch. It wound up being a Keystone Kops sort of affair chasing shadows all over until I accepted that I'd screwed the whole thing up. Yeah it is a pretty lovely mechanic. Follow the main quest pointers and you will be given tools to deal with it almost immediately.
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May 19, 2024 06:21
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grack posted:
You ugly
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May 19, 2024 06:27
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Dick Trauma posted:Do not like this shadow cursed area. The first encounter was a mess. I had Shadowheart cast light on Hazel thinking that she wouldn't need to carry a torch and could use her two handed weapon, and Gale cast light on himself so he could carry his staff. But as soon as combat started they both seemed to lose their light and had to switch back to a torch. It wound up being a Keystone Kops sort of affair chasing shadows all over until I accepted that I'd screwed the whole thing up. did you swap weapons? light cast on a character casts it on the weapon they are currently holding
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May 19, 2024 07:51
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very very late Act 3 spoiler thingy and preview of posts to come. gently caress it, why not try...   not like i'm going to need these inspiration points later on...i hope...  oh my god, that actually worked?    not really but you know, it'd be too easy to kill the final boss with a DC20 check.
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May 19, 2024 08:12
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the BOOOAL's benediction that you get from sacrificing a companion seems like it sucks. advantage on attack rolls on bleeding enemies is a pretty bad reward for losing a companion, if i'm not planning on using karlach at all this playthrough. i'm trying to do an evil run but it doesn't feel like it's fun to be evil so far. seems like the rewards are crap/worse than otherwise and there's often not even a good RP reason to do it. crepeface fucked around with this message at 09:39 on May 19, 2024 |
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May 19, 2024 09:37
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crepeface posted:the BOOOAL's benediction that you get from sacrificing a companion seems like it sucks. advantage on attack rolls on bleeding enemies is a pretty bad reward for losing a companion, if i'm not planning on using karlach at all this playthrough. you get it on three of your dudes and pairs with Amulet of Bhaal or Slicing Short Sword or Scrap and Shrapnel Grenade or the Lacerate ability, stuff like that Act 1 is very weak (e: I think I mean in terms of motivation) for evil crap... I had a much smoother time playing nice with everybody as Durge than my arbitrarily murderous Astarion? Act 3 has a lot of potential for truly gnarly set ups and payoffs tho wizard2 fucked around with this message at 09:54 on May 19, 2024 |
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May 19, 2024 09:45
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wizard2 posted:you get it on three of your dudes and pairs with Amulet of Bhaal or Slicing Short Sword or Scrap and Shrapnel Grenade or the Lacerate ability, stuff like that i feel like the payoff of advantage on attack rolls (which you can get from numerous other methods) is barely even worth wasting a turn on setting up bleed on enemies. there's also a fair amount of undead/constructs that can't be bled at all. i'm still trying to decide if i'll side with the goblins, the loss of all the tiefling refuge content seems like a big ask.
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May 19, 2024 10:08
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my feelings regarding siding with gobbos: it's not really "worth it" and it barely carries over into Acts 2 and 3, but it is fun
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May 19, 2024 10:16
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crepeface posted:the BOOOAL's benediction that you get from sacrificing a companion seems like it sucks. advantage on attack rolls on bleeding enemies is a pretty bad reward for losing a companion, if i'm not planning on using karlach at all this playthrough. if you switch to a pickpocketing companion during the dialogue and steal the sickle from the fish priest, you get the benediction without sacrificing a companion if you follow the dialogue tree that would normally give you the sickle.
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May 19, 2024 10:30
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crepeface posted:i feel like the payoff of advantage on attack rolls (which you can get from numerous other methods) is barely even worth wasting a turn on setting up bleed on enemies. there's also a fair amount of undead/constructs that can't be bled at all. I mean, if you are trying to evaluate evil choices through the lens of "how much payoff will I gain when I do them versus how much content will I lose" then they are all objectively terrible and not worth taking. They are there so that you can roleplay a murderous rear end in a top hat if you want, they do not offer an alternative path through the story.
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May 19, 2024 10:33
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yeah the evil path is basically there so you can not take it, and that's fine.
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May 19, 2024 10:35
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wizard2 posted:my feelings regarding siding with gobbos: it's not really "worth it" and it barely carries over into Acts 2 and 3, but it is fun current plan is to clear out the underdark and the rest of the act 1, then make a save and raid the grove. skip the creiche, make another save and go straight into act 2 from the underdark and see how moonglow towers go. will reload from save 1 or 2 depending on how fulfilling moonglow is. Zodium posted:if you switch to a pickpocketing companion during the dialogue and steal the sickle from the fish priest, you get the benediction without sacrificing a companion if you follow the dialogue tree that would normally give you the sickle. did that, but the game said i was a cheap tart of a false god so i'm going to kill them all now
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May 19, 2024 10:36
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In my first playthrough atm, I just had a very smooth / dumb fight against Raphael. Gale threw down a sphere of invulnerability in the first round, Lae'zel threw out the runepowder bomb I'd saved from the factory, and boom, no more pillars, most of the adds were dead. Shadowheart has a Jinn and so she drops the swarm of insects and the Jinn's whirlwind on Raphael and he just kind of sits there for several rounds not doing anything, until the other demon guy I'd persuaded to flip sides eventually bonks him and then he transforms with about 200hp left. The gang just sits in the sphere dropping AOEs and ranged attacks on him until he dead. Then I accidentally kill the other demon guy because he bugged out in an invisible state and couldn't do anything, and I tried to get his attention by throwing acid on him. Oops. Trip report: sphere of invulnerability very good, enemies do not seem to know how to react to it. Loved that Raphael sung along to his own theme song. RIP that loser, never thought of taking his dumb deal. Now I'm going to betray this lovely mindflayer because I don't want Lae'zel to be mad at me for keeping the prodigal evil(?) gith son in prison.
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May 19, 2024 10:48
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Just lost my second HM run to Grym. Was careless about running across lava, but was still a couple of unlucky rolls from just about surviving. Gonna continue as origin Laezel is pretty cool so far. I keep finding new stuff too!
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May 19, 2024 11:52
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Raiding the Grove means you kill the guy who can fix Karlach's heart and is therefore a complete non-starter. and is it...is it time? Episodeon CXXXIV: The Final Day    first off, I'm drowning in purple and yellow and orange 1H weapons, and yet I'm still using the decidedly non-fancy, non-high tier Blackguard's Sword. the 1d4 necrotic damage means it still keeps up with some top-level 1H weapons, and daze on demand is really, really nice against Big Scary Enemies. we entered Wyrm's Rock, and, well, I guess Gortash decided to remove any threats to his rule in a very...direct manner. except the bodyguards, we killed them. and all that's between us and him is this door.     interestingly, Gortash was suddenly keen on rekindling our, uh, partnership. not that this would ever happen after what we saw in his factory. or with Karlach in tow. he and his bodyguards actually put up a decent fight, especially when he channeled Bane and punched a huge chunk of Karlach's health away, but in the end he was no match for us. I split Karlach's monologue here out, just because it's a ton of images (in an already extremely long post) but also beautiful and crushing: a lifetime's worth of pent up, suppressed rage and terror and sadness bursting out. and, of course, the mandatory conquest of his throne.    to the Morphic Pool we go! we sailed into the darkness on a little skiff, and in the finest tradition of video game protagonists on boats, it sank, leaving us to swim for it. wait, am I a video game prot- no of course not, I'm going to be so glad when this tadpole is gone once and for all and these dumb thoughts stop popping into my head.     the brain and probably our death was right around the corner, so why not sneak one last kiss in, just in case? i'm holding you to at least a thousand more if we live, Gale.    with every nerve in our brains screaming to SURRENDER and TRANSFORM, we came across another dark lake. then this floated out of it. i was drawn into some kind of...pocket dimension? and while trying to fight it with the Netherstones, both myself and the Emperor realized something to make our blood run cold. this was...we were the brain's plan all along.   I still fought back with everything I could muster, but fate cannot be changed and force of will can't make the impossible possible.     or can it? the brain was stunned for a moment, but even this wasn't enough to seriously harm it. even then, that meant it wasn't invicible.    thankfully, the Emperor had the prescence of mind to pull a tactical withdrawal, and bring us along into the prism world. outside? the hells unleashed. then the emperor asked us for the stones, and I had to make the hardest decision of my life.    but how could I justify turning our blades on an ally who's saved us dozens of times? that didn't make witnessing Orpheus's fate any easier.    in the hellfire and chaos outside, we came upon something unexpected: friends. not pictured: a very, very angry Kith'rak Voss, though he was convinced to stay his blade, at least for now.    posting all of those friends would make this already-massive entry twice as long, but there's no way I'm leaving Big Armored Owlbear out.  I gave a little rallying speech to the many, many troops, and...you know, sometimes I wonder about the "soulless and humorless" thing with mind flayers.    one fight through a seemingly-endless wall of goblins, cultists, and mind flayers later, we made it to our goal, the brain stem. nowhere to go but up...     and we will end you.    a brutal fight against some high-end thralls, mind flayers, and a possessed dragon ensued. Minthara, Gale, and Shadowheart focused on the enemies while I rushed the Crown alongside the Emperor. Minthara actually managed to outright kill the dragon just as the Emperor finished channeling Karsus' Compulsion on the brain, tearing open a portal into its very psyche. we dove in into this strange place for the real final battle...    and found out that defying fate actually worked. already weakened by both my allies and my sheer will, Gale launched a barrage of magic missiles into the core, crippling it.... and, well, how else could it all end?     the tadpole/netherbrain tried one last trick, begging me to betray the Emperor and take control instead. or at least I like to think it was the tadpole, and not some dark urge hidden inside of my mind. either way, it didn't work. i told the Emperor to command the brain to destroy its flock and itself, and so he did. he didn't even try to convince me to take control (or let him do it himself), which I was kind of expecting to be honest.    and with that, it was finished. mostly. the tadpoles had one last gift, sharing the pain of their death with us. but unlike them, we were still alive. for the moment, at least, as the brain started to disintegrate and tumble towards the sea.     i'm not quite sure what happened right after that. at some point I got thrown into the sea, and all I can say is thank the gods for feather fall. the dying brain exploded into a ball that almost looked like lightning, with the bolts striking all of the remaining mind flayers and cultists. the people of the city, previously frozen by fear, took the opportunity and struck them down with whatever weapons were handy, and it was truly over.     at some point I came to and swam to shore, incredibly sore but otherwise completely intact. well, minus one tadpole, as Minthara summed up with a glorious poo poo-eating face. the Emperor was alongside us too, perhaps disappointed that we hadn't agreed to take control of the brain, but still...grateful? or whatever passes for that with mind flayers. And I'll leave off there because it's very late and I'm very tired. I do have to point out that final save counter though, that wasn't even on purpose! The hours played counts are all wrong, I installed a few mods (like the pretty horns because, well, they're pretty) midway through and apparently that resets it to zero. Real save time was roughly 134 hours...it's a long game if you didn't know that! Solo Wing Pixy fucked around with this message at 12:20 on May 19, 2024 |
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Solo Wing Pixy posted:Raiding the Grove means you kill the guy who can fix Karlach's heart and is therefore a complete non-starter. it's fine i sacrificed her to boooal so i don't need him
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May 19, 2024 12:29
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Why not simply murder Booall and cannibalism his flesh to gain his power? It works for Christians!
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May 19, 2024 12:34
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okay, i've found a good resolution to the BOOOAL situation. i persuaded him not to kill me and had astarion pickpocket the sickle so i'd get the buff. my durge character got mad about feeling like a little bitch so i sent astarion back in after the head priest finished wandering around looking for a pickpocket and assassinated him and fled the scene. when my party came back, BOOOAL had been revealed. he was a buggy and unresponsive but i killed him (other fish men didn't aggro). i now have the buff, sickle, worship of the remaining fish men and most importantly, my dignity. edit: damnit, i had already finished the glut/spaw quest. would have been good to use glut's ability to resurrect BOOOAL's body as a final insult. crepeface fucked around with this message at 13:18 on May 19, 2024 |
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May 19, 2024 13:15
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E: son of a bitch there was another page of replies Dammon can make some nice gloves that inflict bleeding early in act 2, I remember having them on my monk. However most things my monk attacks, he kills on the same turn. So I agree the BOOAL buff’s value seems limited. Useful vs high AC + HP bosses
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oh! I tried it, just to see how it would go, and I beat Grym the other day with the excellent strat suggested itt of "beating him up with hammers" lol
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May 19, 2024 16:15
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I also brutally neutered the Phase Spider Matriarch encounter by having Shovel take a swipe at her from invis and then applying all the stuns and knockdowns Shovel ftmfw 
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May 19, 2024 16:23
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I killed the big spider by throwing a bomb at her while she was on the web bridge which caused her to take like 50 fall damage and be knocked prone. Maybe a fire spell is a more economical option for breaking the bridge, but I didn't think to try it at the time.
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if i have the option to set up for a fight beforehand, one of my favourite things is leaving a lit torch on top of a barrel or two and to shove enemies into/atop of it. found out an exploity thing with monk. sometimes you'll want the stats of a weapon (like Corellons Grace that gives a +1 to unarmed attacks) but you want to punch to take advantage of the bonus (and Tavern Brawler). you can put anything in the mainhand and the other weapon in your offhand (might need Dual Wielder feat). then go to a different character and remove all their weapons. click on the mainhand item box and select the monk's mainhand. your monk will now have an empty mainhand and a weapon in their offhand. this persists through respeccing (from a mod at least). also found out that Symbiotic Entity applies to ranged weapons despite the tooltip. it's quite good on my drow druid dual wielding hand crossbows.
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