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I guess we should be careful about spoilers again in the new thread. Xbox players will never know about the relatively poor ending at launch! I'm already itching for a new honor run but forcing myself to fight all the bosses. I think I'll load some quality of life mods this time though.
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Network42 posted:Good OP, good game. Some people recommend going around the intellect devourers you meet early on with only two party members because that's a common early TPK in honor mode.
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Dec 9, 2023 18:22
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Today, several months after release, there's 150k steam players right now and they expected max 100k.
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Dec 9, 2023 19:12
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Phlegmish posted:Larian recently said that about 1.3 million people had completed BG3. Even with a <20% completion rate, that seems to indicate that total sales must still be far below 20 million. Right? Regardless, it's true that we can only speculate at this point. Steam stats says 17.2% have completed the game so that gives the floor of 7.5M purchases (assuming completion rate is similar across platforms).
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Dec 9, 2023 20:13
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exquisite tea posted:There's kind of no point to making a custom Wizard, is there? Sorc does pretty much everything they do but 2x while also acing their speech checks and you gotta play as Gale to get some of the best spellcaster buffs.
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Dec 9, 2023 22:59
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Shwqa posted:Just use the set int to 17 circlet that is in act 1. My paladin has a 17 int and 18 dex due to act 1 equipment and I basically never switch for any checks The particular Bard/Wizard build I was using didn't use Cha for anything so it's just a dump stat so I can put more into Dex, Con and Int.
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Dec 9, 2023 23:17
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Shumagorath posted:Did they ever patch out buying their affinity up to positive then sleep-picking their entire inventory unopposed?
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Dec 10, 2023 02:19
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Black Noise posted:
I like to then pair it with Auto Loot Aura so I don't have to click on everything. Just exercise self-control and throw away the red version.
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Dec 10, 2023 07:04
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twistedmentat posted:Ah they're completely different things. Got it. Think of it as giving you more time to enjoy you level 12 power.
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Dec 10, 2023 18:59
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Ginette Reno posted:Did my first honour mode fight today. Fought the spider. Maybe I overprepared for it, or maybe it's because I'm level 4 (I often do this fight earlier on tactician but played it safer this time and hit level 4 first), but I kinda owned it. Party was me (Lock), Wyll (Lock), Shadowheart (life Cleric), and Gale (Transmutation Wizard). I noticed the new honour mode ability it received but it actually never got a chance to use that. I knocked it off its webs twice and then it teleported into my group with about 30-40 health left and I was able to kill it before its brood arrived. Reflecting on my honor run, after the owlbear wipe due to catastrophic lack of preparation, the only other fight that actually gave me difficulty was the solo fight as Durge vs Orin which also came down to me being underprepared since I didn't know it as well as the other boss fights in the game. Every other boss fight, I was extremely prepared and willing to utilize any tool I had available to completely incapacitate the boss to the point I didn't even see the legendary action for half of them.
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Ginette Reno posted:I know you can continue if you wipe on honour mode, but do bosses still retain honour mode stuff if you party wipe? Or does it revert to tactician or something? A Moose posted:yeah, we've reloaded a couple times and come back and its still bugged ChronoReverse fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Dec 11, 2023 |
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Dec 11, 2023 05:19
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grack posted:I do this so I can steal more poo poo off the walls from Moonrise and Cazador's Palace. I make a point to steal as many of Cazador's pictures as possible just to spite him.
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Dec 11, 2023 06:55
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Hit level 3 so I thought I'd go and take out the harpies since I have Calm Emotions. Shadowheart's second turn comes along and I thought "why not cast Bless?". Luckily the two elves resisted the charm or it could've been a disaster.
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Dec 11, 2023 18:26
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It's a bug that got introduced in one of the recent patches. They'd fix things and break others lol.
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Dec 11, 2023 21:43
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The harpies are pretty straightforward by level 3 if you use Calm Emotions and don't screw it up by immediately breaking concentration. The problem is knowing that because I didn't find out until I'd already completed the gsme three times.
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Dec 12, 2023 06:42
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You could always respec. Before you get to level 4/5, it'll always be harder.
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exquisite tea posted:- Scrying eyes become immune to all damage and can't be hurt unless pushed off of something They shouldn't be fully immune. You just need to do enough damage in a single hit to actually hurt it in ethereal form. Thunder specifically works well. Most other damage has resistance (or immune) so you'd need to do at least 17 damage all at once to even inflict 1 damage. ChronoReverse fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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The anti-species arrows are extremely powerful. I keep forgetting to use them but they wreck whatever you're shooting at.
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Ginette Reno posted:Overall, not too bad so far. We'll see how I fare at the Underdark/Creche. I have hit level 5 which in my previous playthroughs basically was the point where the game started to become really easy due to the power spike at that level, so I'm curious whether the Honour mode changes to bosses/abilities will give me a harder time this time around.
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exquisite tea posted:I think Grym is the most challenging fight in Act 1 for the sheer number of things that can go wrong. If you have a melee-centric party then you need a good solution for his legendary action. The first is you can activate the hammer multiple times in a single round. Just shoot the wheel to reflow the lava and then the lever to activate it again. The moment he enters the hammer range, he should be dead immediately. The other way is to just leave a thrower above who can safely kill him. Me, I like to bludgeon him to death.
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You do need to position him just right so that the lava can reheat him. Or just use Heat Metal.
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Dec 12, 2023 22:24
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You didn't miss any steps with Karlach. Go watch the epilogue and pay attention to what she says there.
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Dec 12, 2023 22:31
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Just attack her without talking to her and it'll be temporary hostile unless you let a goblin hit a drum or the magic eye sounds the alarm before you kill it.
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Also, 10000gp is like pocket change at that point anyway so unless you're playing an evil character, why not?
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Dec 14, 2023 18:41
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Geekboy posted:You can keep Gale ready to play and use a hireling for this instead. I have been hiring Sir Fuzzalump as soon as possible, respeccing him so he’s proficient in Medicine and his primary stat is Wisdom, setting him to Transmutation, then getting his Wisdom to 20 ASAP for all the double potions I can get. Use the halfling for transmutation so that the 1's are rerolled for the medicine checks.
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Jack Trades posted:Does Honor Mode allow for respeccing/hirelings?
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That is a legendary action from honor mode only yes and my solution was to dps him to death before it became a problem, then take care of the minions.
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The happiest ending for her is actually to give the noblestalk to the husband because she then leaves him and starts life afresh. You'll get the gloves because you save him first before you feed him the noblestalk. If you kill her husband, she just miserably continues to tend the shop.
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Lawman 0 posted:Should I bother with BHOOAL in honor mode or is it a trap? I just went in and wiped them all out with brute force on my honor run.
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lunar detritus posted:About the tadpoles (act 1): I have avoided using them so far. Is this choice worth it by the end of the game? Does it change anything meaningfully? No. /Withers
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Dec 17, 2023 19:07
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I stuffed even my companions' faces with the worms during my honor run. Everyone being able to fly freely is amazing (along with Longstrider on everyone).
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Moon Slayer posted:Oh good it's not just me then. I won but it was very dicey since I was a Sorcerer. I had a lot of buffs on including Warding Bond but still lost almost half of my 186HP.
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grinnard posted:??? Warding Bond also gives damage resistance so losing half of my considerable HP was actually an enormous amount of damage. Is it not a game over if you lose that specific Durge fight? I didn't know so I had prepared to the best I could since it was honor mode. ChronoReverse fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Dec 18, 2023 |
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Moon Slayer posted:Nope, which is why I thought the fight might be impossible to win.
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You have oil of accuracy that you'll otherwise never use, so that's an option too. Otherwise look for ways to gain advantage like a wolfheart barbarian buddy.
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The Lord Bude posted:Now that patch 5 has been out a while, is there any indication of Halsin leaving the party if you keep Minthara on a good playthrough? I had both in my honor run for the entire game.
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I personally love half-wood-elf. You get the human equipment proficiencies (particularly the shield), stealth proficiency, charm resistance, darkvision and permanent extra movement. I wouldn't say it's the best but I like it a lot.quote:Dwarf if you’re playing a throwing barbie; since they get that incredible hammer that requires a dwarf.
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Mr. Lobe posted:I did with the good/neutral merchants I had designated as my regular sellers, or ones that regularly stocked potions of cloud giant strength in act 3
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You do get the dice as long as you initiate the explosion via dialog at the brain stem when he talks to you himself and not via the toolbar.
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You can basically just skip Rivington. I go and get my statue and deal with the Djinn but then I just head to the next area. The nice thing about Act 3 is that you can just do the cool parts since you'll be at level 12 really quickly anyway.
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