I'm in a dilemma here. My next character will be a bad guy. The bad guy wasn't supposed to have Shart spare Nightsong. But right there in picrel is a perfect opportunity to utterly betray her by giving her over. In my understanding this only works if Viccy is disappointed. What is better here? "Straight" sharran Shart? Or moon'd Shart who gets handed over for support of the Sharrans?
In terms of evil YOU can do, sparing the Nightsong and then handing over Shadowheart to be tortured by Shar is pretty fricked up.
In terms of collective evil for your party, having dark justicat Shadowheart kill Viconia and claim the temple is better.
You could have one be "characters selfishly seeking power for themselves" which every origin (except Karlach) have a path for.
Then I guess the edgelord main character that just ruins everything.
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One will be actual TAV with no attachments and kind of pragmatic evil for power gains. The other will be "The Durgest" Durge I can pull off.
This is a blog post but I was looking for a BG3 thread to post it in. I have OCD where I constantly restart over and over again because I didn't pick the right dialogue option or I screwed up the order I did something and after 650 hours I finally beat BG3 and man. I just broke down, this is the first time in years I've been able to power through the uncomfortable feeling of constantly wanting to restart and make things "perfect" (which is why it took 650 hours) and actually beat a fricking game.
Thanks anons.
It is bait because there's no way you're moronic enough not to have tried reloading your save at least once and instead decided to restart every single time.
You underestimate OCD brainworms. Plus it's not just decisions about dialogue or order of completing things, its also "oh I should try this character idea" over and over again as like a nagging thought that constantly overwhelms your desire to play your current save.
No, restarting your entire playthrough instead of reloading save is moronation.is not just OCD; it's utter moronation.
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Fair. I'm not trying to defend any of the decisions I made as good or intelligent, I'm just glad to have finally beaten a game in this genre with my brain on overdrive.
What makes something perfect for you?
I can understand reloading to try to improve your battle technique, save as many Gondians as you can, or see what different dialogue options result in. Each time there is a reasoning why you want a do-over. But what's in it for you?
>Elder brain plays a 500000000000000d chess to gain ultimate power and take over the world >Kelemvor sees that the Sword Coast soul line seems to be lacking the yearly mass genocide influx >Sends in the J-Man to deal with this problem
The *one* Mistake the Absolute made cost her everything.
What class should I pick? I was told by anons that barbarians and monks are fun, but has almost no abilities. I want to have options or some semblance of depth. Thinking maybe pact of the blade, paladin. Do the classes matter at all in terms of story or is it all just flavor text? As long as I feel like I’m thematically my class when I use my abilities, I’m good.
Strength Monk (which can include some Barbarian) is pretty bonkers with how hard you just punch things to death.
The class/race flavor dialogue will never add an entirely unique event, but it can offer additional insight into a scenario or trivialize a roll (Bard does this a lot).
I did my Durge as Barbarian and the absurd amount of Barbarian Intimidate options along with how often you get advantage made it pretty smooth sailing even with 10 CHA.
Ah, I see it. Thanks anon. Why is it customizable and the rest of the companions aren’t? I was just going to play as the astrion since I like rogues in most games, but I’m analysis paralysis type of gay, so now I’ve just been staring at the starter screen for like an hour before I saw this thread kek
It's customizable because Dark Urge is more about a specific trait the character has and is open to interpretation for things like class/race.
I would recommend just biting the bullet and taking the plunge into the game a bit before you burn out just overthinking where to start.
All the origins have some kind of mental illness, durge is basically the customizable character with one of it's own unlike the regular customizable character.
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It's customizable because Dark Urge is more about a specific trait the character has and is open to interpretation for things like class/race.
I would recommend just biting the bullet and taking the plunge into the game a bit before you burn out just overthinking where to start.
I’m just gonna say frick it and play durge and make a rogue. Thanks for humoring my autism, bros.
7 months ago
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Don't take arcane trickster as your subclass though
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Not exclusive to AT but I'm still angry at how useless they made mage hand. Can barely do any of the stuff it should be able to and on top of that they made it come back on a rest instead of just being useable whenever despite the fact it's a fricking cantrip. Not the only incredibly questionable decision they made with regards to balance changes either. Fricking Larian.
Bard or Pally are probably the best classes for a first time solo run. Versatile, very strong, CHA based so speech checks are easy without savescumming or relying on partners. Pally is probably slightly more versatile since it's more friendly to multiclassing overall (imo)
Bardlock is a good face character, basically warlock 2/lore bard x. Has good damage output from eldrich blast + invocations, lots of utility and control spells, haste and counterspell from magical secrets, easily passes all speech checks, can scout/lockpick/disarm, and later on with stat gear, illithid expertise, and/or the skilled feat can handle all the knowledge checks too.
There are a few rogue based variations that do the same thing, but basically you a minimizing the need to savescum or swap characters.
Probably my biggest complaint is how game altering consequences are rolled on by whoever happens to trigger the check/dialogue/cutscene.
>Do the classes matter at all in terms of story or is it all just flavor text?
Bard gets unique dialogue options for pretty much every conversation so if you care about that, pick bard. Barb also gets many dialogue options, in terms of amount it's probably bard followed by barb. Paladin rarely gets unique dialogue checks.
People like to shit on act 2, but it's by far my favorite zone, specifically the destroyed town. I'm a big sucker for ruins of civilization and overall desolate atmosphere.
Shame after however many patches Minthara is still broken, not to mention the opportunity cost for recruiting her the right way.
Speaking of romances why is there 45 minutes of romance related party chatter that I have never fricking heard ingame? https://youtu.be/aF0hkB1A1NU
What's weird too is Minthara has a certain amount of respect for Karlach even though recruiting Minthara should generally make Karlach leave (unless you just skip the grove conflict).
7 months ago
Anonymous
Mama K might be a sweetheart, but she is also a blood war veteran powered by an infernal engine. Can't help but to respect that, anon.
7 months ago
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Nah Minthara's respect comes from the fact Karlach is on a timer and is just trying to live her life. Despite Drow's long lives Minthara has a deep fear of being forgotten and lost to time so she admires Karlach for living in the moment.
Karlach is also protective of Minthara's unborn child in the cut pregnancy dialogue.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Okay, that's fair. >Karlach is also protective of Minthara's unborn child in the cut pregnancy dialogue.
The frick now?
7 months ago
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>he doesn't know
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Why were these cut? Whose kid is it? TAV's?
7 months ago
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The game has a lot of cut content, most of it related to the Upper City because it seems that entire zone was removed outside of the final battle.
It's implied to be your (Tav) child, though Astarion has a line about it being another potential person probably if you did not romance Minthara.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Makes sense.
No it's goblins child which Minthara gets pregnant with wile being in goblin camp and Tav adopts him according to datamined content
Top kek
7 months ago
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No it's goblins child which Minthara gets pregnant with wile being in goblin camp and Tav adopts him according to datamined content
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I'M... I'M GONNA
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Yes?
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CUUUUUUUM
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7 months ago
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Ok
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sus
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>tfw want to do a run with jaheira/minsc for laughs >tfw it means basically not having two core companions for act 1/2 and having to rush minsc
I really hate late game companions.
7 months ago
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They should have let you recruit Jaheira at Last Light Inn straight away then you could have had her for pretty much Act 1/2.
>What was your favorite area?
Honestly probably Baldur's Gate itself. Everyone shits on Act 3 but I found it far better than Act 2/Shadowlands. The Sewers, Temple of Bhaal, the Iron Throne too.
I only ever see people talk about the girls in this game
Is it like Overwatch where the only thing people like is the girls and not the story or gameplay?
Yeah I saw my face and immediately reloaded my save. I'm managing combat on tactician difficulty and while challenging I manage to get by without using much of the illithid power.
Mind Blast, black hole and turn into a Displacer Beast are extremely good and I constantly use them. Free shot of counterspell and the check buffs is also generally useful. Freecast is bugged and doesn't work properly, but it was still helpful on my Cleric to cast the level 6 perma buff for free. The only bad final tier skill is mind leach since you already have dozens of potions that are better use of your bonus actions. And as stated previously, the abillity to fly without using an action is fricking awesome, especially in act 3 with lots of tall buildings and vertical maps.
I loved the Lower City most, probably. Not in terms of content quality, but setting-wise it was my favorite. The githyanki creche and shar's temple were also great.
The back of my eyelids when I closed them to stop looking at this awful game
Scamfield lost.
Picrel
Jaheira's cave was comfy
and pic rel was kino. Still didn't finish it yet
I'm in a dilemma here. My next character will be a bad guy. The bad guy wasn't supposed to have Shart spare Nightsong. But right there in picrel is a perfect opportunity to utterly betray her by giving her over. In my understanding this only works if Viccy is disappointed. What is better here? "Straight" sharran Shart? Or moon'd Shart who gets handed over for support of the Sharrans?
In terms of evil YOU can do, sparing the Nightsong and then handing over Shadowheart to be tortured by Shar is pretty fricked up.
In terms of collective evil for your party, having dark justicat Shadowheart kill Viconia and claim the temple is better.
Thanks. Damn, I need to do 2 bad guy runs then.
You could have one be "characters selfishly seeking power for themselves" which every origin (except Karlach) have a path for.
Then I guess the edgelord main character that just ruins everything.
One will be actual TAV with no attachments and kind of pragmatic evil for power gains. The other will be "The Durgest" Durge I can pull off.
yeah that was one of the best fights
Easy ass fight, hunger of hadar + wall of fire on the part leading up to the stairs. Just run up the stairs and wait.
You can make it even easier if you have a half illithid character with black hole.
I'd explore her cave anytime.
This is a blog post but I was looking for a BG3 thread to post it in. I have OCD where I constantly restart over and over again because I didn't pick the right dialogue option or I screwed up the order I did something and after 650 hours I finally beat BG3 and man. I just broke down, this is the first time in years I've been able to power through the uncomfortable feeling of constantly wanting to restart and make things "perfect" (which is why it took 650 hours) and actually beat a fricking game.
Thanks anons.
This is bait.
It's not, I know it sounds like a reddit post or anything, but all my friends are asleep and I just wanted to express it.
It is bait because there's no way you're moronic enough not to have tried reloading your save at least once and instead decided to restart every single time.
You underestimate OCD brainworms. Plus it's not just decisions about dialogue or order of completing things, its also "oh I should try this character idea" over and over again as like a nagging thought that constantly overwhelms your desire to play your current save.
No, restarting your entire playthrough instead of reloading save is moronation.is not just OCD; it's utter moronation.
Fair. I'm not trying to defend any of the decisions I made as good or intelligent, I'm just glad to have finally beaten a game in this genre with my brain on overdrive.
Based. Congrats on overcoming your own dark urge.
Fitting I did it as Dark Urge too.
I have the same autism.
We are gonna make it fellow brain damaged anon.
What makes something perfect for you?
I can understand reloading to try to improve your battle technique, save as many Gondians as you can, or see what different dialogue options result in. Each time there is a reasoning why you want a do-over. But what's in it for you?
>Elder brain plays a 500000000000000d chess to gain ultimate power and take over the world
>Kelemvor sees that the Sword Coast soul line seems to be lacking the yearly mass genocide influx
>Sends in the J-Man to deal with this problem
The *one* Mistake the Absolute made cost her everything.
What class should I pick? I was told by anons that barbarians and monks are fun, but has almost no abilities. I want to have options or some semblance of depth. Thinking maybe pact of the blade, paladin. Do the classes matter at all in terms of story or is it all just flavor text? As long as I feel like I’m thematically my class when I use my abilities, I’m good.
i started with a bard and it's cool
Strength Monk (which can include some Barbarian) is pretty bonkers with how hard you just punch things to death.
The class/race flavor dialogue will never add an entirely unique event, but it can offer additional insight into a scenario or trivialize a roll (Bard does this a lot).
you get dialog choices from your class quite often
Any CHA class if you are Durge
Any WIS class if you are not Durge
I did my Durge as Barbarian and the absurd amount of Barbarian Intimidate options along with how often you get advantage made it pretty smooth sailing even with 10 CHA.
What’s Durge? Sorry, anon, I’m looking at all the classes now and I genuinely feel moronic, i don’t see it.
Durge stands for Dark Urge which is the customizable origin option.
Ah, I see it. Thanks anon. Why is it customizable and the rest of the companions aren’t? I was just going to play as the astrion since I like rogues in most games, but I’m analysis paralysis type of gay, so now I’ve just been staring at the starter screen for like an hour before I saw this thread kek
It's customizable because Dark Urge is more about a specific trait the character has and is open to interpretation for things like class/race.
I would recommend just biting the bullet and taking the plunge into the game a bit before you burn out just overthinking where to start.
All the origins have some kind of mental illness, durge is basically the customizable character with one of it's own unlike the regular customizable character.
I’m just gonna say frick it and play durge and make a rogue. Thanks for humoring my autism, bros.
Don't take arcane trickster as your subclass though
Not exclusive to AT but I'm still angry at how useless they made mage hand. Can barely do any of the stuff it should be able to and on top of that they made it come back on a rest instead of just being useable whenever despite the fact it's a fricking cantrip. Not the only incredibly questionable decision they made with regards to balance changes either. Fricking Larian.
You can change at any time for 100 gold. Don't overthink it.
Bard or Pally are probably the best classes for a first time solo run. Versatile, very strong, CHA based so speech checks are easy without savescumming or relying on partners. Pally is probably slightly more versatile since it's more friendly to multiclassing overall (imo)
Bardlock is a good face character, basically warlock 2/lore bard x. Has good damage output from eldrich blast + invocations, lots of utility and control spells, haste and counterspell from magical secrets, easily passes all speech checks, can scout/lockpick/disarm, and later on with stat gear, illithid expertise, and/or the skilled feat can handle all the knowledge checks too.
There are a few rogue based variations that do the same thing, but basically you a minimizing the need to savescum or swap characters.
Probably my biggest complaint is how game altering consequences are rolled on by whoever happens to trigger the check/dialogue/cutscene.
>Do the classes matter at all in terms of story or is it all just flavor text?
Bard gets unique dialogue options for pretty much every conversation so if you care about that, pick bard. Barb also gets many dialogue options, in terms of amount it's probably bard followed by barb. Paladin rarely gets unique dialogue checks.
Forge by far even after EA
Iron throne was also interesting
People like to shit on act 2, but it's by far my favorite zone, specifically the destroyed town. I'm a big sucker for ruins of civilization and overall desolate atmosphere.
Shadowheart's pubic area
grymforge/shar temple by a mile, was so awesome, loved the music
Something about the House of Hope and the Nautiloid.
Shame after however many patches Minthara is still broken, not to mention the opportunity cost for recruiting her the right way.
Speaking of romances why is there 45 minutes of romance related party chatter that I have never fricking heard ingame? https://youtu.be/aF0hkB1A1NU
>2:45 - 3:02
Based
Minthara and Lae'zel have a great dynamic.
Which is exactly why they are both patrician choices.
What's weird too is Minthara has a certain amount of respect for Karlach even though recruiting Minthara should generally make Karlach leave (unless you just skip the grove conflict).
Mama K might be a sweetheart, but she is also a blood war veteran powered by an infernal engine. Can't help but to respect that, anon.
Nah Minthara's respect comes from the fact Karlach is on a timer and is just trying to live her life. Despite Drow's long lives Minthara has a deep fear of being forgotten and lost to time so she admires Karlach for living in the moment.
Karlach is also protective of Minthara's unborn child in the cut pregnancy dialogue.
Okay, that's fair.
>Karlach is also protective of Minthara's unborn child in the cut pregnancy dialogue.
The frick now?
>he doesn't know
Why were these cut? Whose kid is it? TAV's?
The game has a lot of cut content, most of it related to the Upper City because it seems that entire zone was removed outside of the final battle.
It's implied to be your (Tav) child, though Astarion has a line about it being another potential person probably if you did not romance Minthara.
Makes sense.
Top kek
No it's goblins child which Minthara gets pregnant with wile being in goblin camp and Tav adopts him according to datamined content
I'M... I'M GONNA
Yes?
CUUUUUUUM
Ok
sus
>tfw want to do a run with jaheira/minsc for laughs
>tfw it means basically not having two core companions for act 1/2 and having to rush minsc
I really hate late game companions.
They should have let you recruit Jaheira at Last Light Inn straight away then you could have had her for pretty much Act 1/2.
sex the hag
Respect the sag.
>3:51 - 4:12
Oh, the poor Shartcucks
Has there been worse case of magical realm in recent memory?
>21:26 - 21:46
To quote Astarion: "Time for a cull."
The dykes need to go, regardless of which god they worship.
The area below Shadowhearts underbelly
you should frick your mom, preferably on camera
Haven't beaten it yet, currently at Lower City, but Shadowlands for me. I love themed cursed zones like this, and everything playing into the theme.
The entirety of the Underdark was pure kino.
This is my answer too. I also liked the shadow lands.
where does one obtain this armor for shadowheart?
You have to mod it in, same as Ironfinger’s premium bawdwear
>same as Ironfinger’s premium bawdwear
the thigh gap
if she doesnt have one, shes not worth my time
I loved the Shadowcursed lands and all of act 2.
>shadowheart
>not an obvious troon
I love my wife Shadowheart.
I liked the Underdark. Scenery was nice and lots of quests to do.
the pubic area
Jennifer English looks like an actual psychopath.
Anon, that's called smiling. Usually happens in moments of joy and happiness.
Just because you are required to carry pic related, doesn't make you an expert on emotions. She looks fricking unhinged in her eyes.
Are you on the spectrum?
>What was your favorite area?
Honestly probably Baldur's Gate itself. Everyone shits on Act 3 but I found it far better than Act 2/Shadowlands. The Sewers, Temple of Bhaal, the Iron Throne too.
I wish it was possible to explore Iron Throne instead of it being exclusively a turn based mode area.
Necromancers where we at
does anyone have the image of Shadowheart's butt with the camera under it where you can see the mole ? need to show it to a friend
I keep fapping to my character, send help.
sex
What part of the game is that?
Goblin camp at the entrance there's a wardrum.
Your character better be getting railed by goblins after pulling this prank
I only ever see people talk about the girls in this game
Is it like Overwatch where the only thing people like is the girls and not the story or gameplay?
In this very thread you have people talking about their favorite locations. Can you read?
Ralphie's dungeon and the underdark
Who is this area for?
Me, that's my crib.
I refused the illithid pills from the Emperor. Should I take them ? Will I miss out if I'm not a semi illithid ?
You don't miss anything, you just unlock the next layer of skills but at the cost of looking like a Sith lord.
Yeah I saw my face and immediately reloaded my save. I'm managing combat on tactician difficulty and while challenging I manage to get by without using much of the illithid power.
The crit skill is the only good skill anyway.
Mind Blast, black hole and turn into a Displacer Beast are extremely good and I constantly use them. Free shot of counterspell and the check buffs is also generally useful. Freecast is bugged and doesn't work properly, but it was still helpful on my Cleric to cast the level 6 perma buff for free. The only bad final tier skill is mind leach since you already have dozens of potions that are better use of your bonus actions. And as stated previously, the abillity to fly without using an action is fricking awesome, especially in act 3 with lots of tall buildings and vertical maps.
Semi Illithid naturally gives Tav the abillity to Fly without using an action, it's super fun and probably the best ability.
Frogpussy
I loved the Lower City most, probably. Not in terms of content quality, but setting-wise it was my favorite. The githyanki creche and shar's temple were also great.