Docjowles posted:

Yeah act 1 is very big. Plus you're lower level and still learning the game so you're going slower. As a very rough estimate I'd guess it's something like 35% act 1, 20% act 2, 45% act 3? If you do everything. If you think act 1 has a lot of poo poo going on, buckle up for act 3 lol.

I really enjoy respecing Astarion into an open hand monk with the tavern brawler feat (and eventually 3 levels of rogue thief for an extra bonus action). Although monk is not great until level 5 or so. Also I was recently reminded that "sneak attack" doesn't have to come from stealth despite the name. You can use it any time you have advantage, which includes someone else being in melee range of the enemy. So if Lae'zel is in the thick of it whaling on fools, you can sneak attack whoever is around her. This makes rogue feel less terrible. Because yeah, hiding and sneaking in this game sucks.

Casters are kind of bad at low levels so no harm gluing Gale to the bench imo. Especially since you are a sorcerer. Karlach makes an awesome throwing weapon barbarian, again with the tavern brawler feat. There's a great throwing weapon in the goblin camp, and several items in act 1 that buff throw damage. She's totally carrying my party at level 4.

Entropic posted:

It's so funny that WOTC put out a Magic D&D Tie-in set with cards for all the BG3 characters but did it a year before the game came out when it was still in early access so completely missed out on the hype bump when the game came out and was a huge hit.

Docjowles posted:

If you want you can do like 95% of the gauntlet. Similar to act 1 there’s a big “point of no return” popup before you do something that will lock you out of all remaining quests.

But yeah I definitely got the vibe that you are supposed to do Moonrise last since there has been so much build up. When in fact you should go there ASAP cause you get more quests and there are vendors with sick gear.

Docjowles posted:

I'm sure it's a side effect of arbitrarily cutting off the D&D leveling curve at 12. But it's a little weird that the classes don't have some kind of capstone ability at max level to make multiclassing less of a no-brainer. As it is the later levels tend to be like "you gain one spell slot". Which is cool, but pales in comparison to the power of an extra action/bonus action. Or the whole "you can learn 99% of the spells in the game with 1 dip into wizard" thing. It doesn't bother me. I just wonder if Larian would have set it up this way if they weren't coloring inside the lines of D&D. Usually there is more of a reward for depth over breadth in character builds.

McCloud posted:

You will never guess who the companion in question is


https://x.com/ign/status/1772390778813173805?s=46&t=yPIpoeD_1zo6-P4nl9Hh1g

Lawman 0 posted:

Congrats.
Got a favorite quest/companion/fight?

Shockeh posted:

I mean, I met him, he told me to kill murderchick, I did a bunch of checks to find out if he was going to betray me, he wasn't, so I didn't. I killed Raphael because he was openly trying to gently caress me over, so my logic was 'This guy is a dick, but he's not trying to gently caress me over', and then The Netherbrain killed him so I didn't have to deal with him.

The only plot point I actively hated was (ENDGAME SPOILER) The Emperor U-Turning entirely and rejoining the Netherbrain? What the gently caress man. You might think I'm completely wrong choosing to free Opheus, and I could even handle having to fight you for it, but that doesn't make joining the Big Bad make any sense. It was a huge letdown, and it felt very against his arc, given how much of his story was escaping slavery. Also Monk Minsc murked him in a single round.

Zodium posted:

he didn't escape slavery though. that's the big reveal immediately before he flips!!

Jay Rust posted:

getting three critical misses in a row is ILLEGAL

Loel posted:

Goddamn, Jaheria is hard to keep alive. Everyone else is at 75% health, boss is at 25% health, but shes at 3 hit points.

Guess we'll see you next campaign.

Eau de MacGowan posted:

is there a 'what does tali's sweat taste like' breakdown about why egg-born githyanki have breasts

EorayMel posted:

Imagine not using your wizard/sorcerer as a magic missile machine smh

Jay Rust posted:

wish the missiles had more of an "oomph" to them, right now they feel like little pebbles that can kill people who are at low hp leave people at 1 HP

Node posted:

I was kinda disappointed that the superior plate mail is sold by Dammon in act 3 and not found in some epic dangerous location like where you found the adamantine set. Although I guess that is the theme with the Baldur's Gate games, the robe of vecna is sold in the very first shop you go to in BG2 and that thing is way more game breakingly powerful than anything in BG3.

Zodium posted:

ascended astarion as a monk in particular is completely absurd, he gets like an extra 1d10 necrotic per hit.

EorayMel posted:

Snowy posted:

I just realized I was supposed to give the dowry ring back to the dude in the burning building and shouldn’t have vendored it. Took a while but I was able eventually find the vendor who still had it in their inventory. I love that I was able to get it back.

The only downside of vendors keeping all that stuff is when I go back I’m not sure what their good stuff is and what I had unloaded on them.

It’s my first playthrough and I’m constantly thinking I’m choosing the wrong equipment and end up standing at the vendor way too long with choice paralysis

Shwqa posted:

For another crime, you can just kill the shop vendor that sells the cat grace clothing. She is all by herself in the mountain area and she is a jerk. On honor mode, that is a saving of over 2,000 gold in act 1.

Goa Tse-tung posted:

being able to build new areas and assets would be a killer

Deltasquid posted:

Perhaps to elaborate slightly on this: there's a few moments in every act where the game tells you to go to a certain place and a lot of players think this is like in Bioware games where going to that place automatically locks you into or out of content. This game is honestly really hard to sequence break and telegraphs points of no return really well.

Clarste posted:

Honestly I'd say they were extremely bad at telegraphing that Moonrise Tower was a quest hub that you're supposed to visit first, rather than the final dungeon of the Act. Like, when you do actually hit the point of no return they have a big pop-up going "are you absolutely sure you want to do this? it will permanently change the state of the world and fail all your sidequests," which is definitely nice of them, don't get me wrong, but it happens at the very bottom of a dungeon that until that moment felt like it was a character's sidequest that had little to do with anything else. Unless, of course, you were crazy enough to visit what was obviously the final dungeon before doing anything else.

Zodium posted:

dual crossbows is very good for act 1, but 1 fighter/1 wizard/10 sword bard with titanstring bow is the strongest build in the game once you get to act 2, and it's not close. the reason is that at level 10 sword bard you get magical secrets, and thus command and counterspell. take sharpshooter at level 4 and be sure to stock up on oils of accuracy and you'll lock down entire encounters while putting out 100+ dpr with ranged flourishes.

edit: you should level bard to 8 at first before respeccing into the multiclass.

this is what i did for my first playthrough and what i would recommend doing.

Medullah posted:

Pshaw if you want to CHEESE it you just use someone else's save, you're still putting in the work

Beasteh posted:

The game never makes it clear how often you need to long rest to trigger specific cutscenes (spoiler: it's a ton more than a normal player would)

Reveilled posted:

Shadowheart as a character has some of the most authentic D&D player character energy I've ever seen, specifically the character you get when the player at the game table who always plays kind and heroic characters decides they're going to make a dark and edgy character and can't keep it up for more than about 5 minutes at a time after session 3 cause they feel bad for the NPCs. Then someone at the table reminds her she's supposed to be a cleric of Shar, so she makes a snarky comment about Selune worshippers and then goes right back to wanting to help save random strangers.