My IQ is 146 and I genuinely do not believe it is possible for someone of above-average intelligence to enjoy this game without willingly ignoring a host of problems.
I have a friend who is way smarter than me academically and he loves it, but I think it's mostly because he, a) hasn't played many actual RPGs, and b) fell hook-line-and-sinker for the hype surrounding it.
Am I necessarily claiming that he is stupider than me for enjoying Baldur's Gate 3? Not at all, I know I would probably have fun with it. But from a bird's-eye view there is so much more to play, and it's absurd to claim Larian are changing the whole industry.
>attack a Tiefling child just to frick around >script takes over and they just run away and disappear >Bethesda game rules I guess >get to the worg pen >"I'll just attack the kids once then they'll frick off" >split a goblin child in half with my greataxe
To my knowledge 5e doesn't have any official rules structure for alignment shift outside of magic items doing it for you or the DM/Player says so. If 5e did have game rules for alignment shifts then killing goblin children still wouldn't shift your alignment towards anything other than good.
Genociding evil races like goblins does actually count as a "good" act as far as D&D alignment is concerned because alignment is more sports team with shared ideals than real world morality.
The blood was not on my hands in my game; it was on Halsin’s.
I had Gale put them both to sleep since I didn’t want them to bring more goblins into the room before I dealt with the ones right in front of me, and the first thing this heckin’ wholesome druid saw fit to do with his newfound freedom was to immediately make a beeline for both of them and maul both of them to death.
You're making a claim that is nearly impossible to prove without research, but based on anecdotal evidence I would agree with it.
My point is that if you can't or won't emphathize with fictional characters you will probably not enjoy the game.
My IQ is 146 and I genuinely do not believe it is possible for someone of above-average intelligence to enjoy this game without willingly ignoring a host of problems.
I have a friend who is way smarter than me academically and he loves it, but I think it's mostly because he, a) hasn't played many actual RPGs, and b) fell hook-line-and-sinker for the hype surrounding it.
Am I necessarily claiming that he is stupider than me for enjoying Baldur's Gate 3? Not at all, I know I would probably have fun with it. But from a bird's-eye view there is so much more to play, and it's absurd to claim Larian are changing the whole industry.
The game is the capeshit of cRPGs, shiny and pretty with pretty much exclusively fanservice, a medium tier plot and ultra-simple gameplay. World reactivity they made is pretty cool though, but story and plot reactivity aren't.
>actual RPGs
I have played a ton of RPGs and BG3 for RP/reactivity purposes is the best of them. The combat is noob friendly because of 5e but it is still incredibly fun to play and varied.
The game is the capeshit of cRPGs, shiny and pretty with pretty much exclusively fanservice, a medium tier plot and ultra-simple gameplay. World reactivity they made is pretty cool though, but story and plot reactivity aren't.
>i got 161 >buzzwords and 4th grade english, repeats "pretty" 3 times, twice in one sentence
low iq take, comprehensive tests (not the 20 multiple choice online ones) include word definitions, you'll find nary a real genius who isn't verbally adroit
>verbally adroit
Only pseudo intellectuals talk like this. People who are meaningfully intelligent will prioritise clarity in their speaking and prefer more simple, direct words. Vocabulary flexing occurs only at the high parts of the IQ bell curve.
Kek, I wonder what that would look like in person. Even more mathematical geniuses like Einstein and Newton had good control over their words and speech
>Hireling druid when you can either have Astarion pumping out damage, Wyll to easily soak up counterspells for your bless and damage bots to work, or Karlach to be a smooth brain aggro sponge
Sure druid is fine but the guy is going to melt without being able to fight back, specially against the enlarged roid monster with dankness up every round
This is normal. I'm in the mid 120s and I frequently reuse words. Sometimes I'll catch it and go back to punch up my writing, but that's fundamentally a waste of time. People who are actually smart just wanna get their ideas out as quick as possible and then gtf away from people again.
>People who are actually smart just wanna get their ideas out as quick as possible and then gtf away
People who are truly smart know that your ideas are only as good as how well you are able to convey them.
What you said is a laughable midwit cope for people whose ideas wouldn't stand up to scrutiny (and no, I don't just mean grammar and verbiage), but who want to protect their ego by telling themselves their ideas really are great and it's just that they don't care enough to present them well.
>Explaining things in a simple way is not intelligent, TRUE geniuses run their shit through a thesaurus and convolute their language as possible to show off their superior vocabulary >People that are truly smart also elect to use their time conveying their genius to anonymous Baldur's Gay players on the Gankers >surely people wouldn't just immediately mentally write off everyone that doesn't like the same video games as a moron, especially not here
You are a Black person
First of all, dubious proofs but I'll engage. >Absurd to claim Larian are changing the whole industry
Not quite, the level of polish, quality, and general work in the game for what it is (AA+) is genuinely impressive and especially compared to weaker games like Starfield or TOTK (Zelda DLC on steroids)
It is especially impressive that what's been considered to be a niche AA crpg developer made a reasonably priced game that can compete with industry titans and AAA gaming, especially with full voice acting, mocapping, and having for the most part a sensible and well put-together journey. Yes, the game has flaws, but you can't in good faith expect to enjoy gaming by hyper analyzing every single flaw you see. Either way, gaming and further the enjoyment of all things artistic are subjective, and everyone can be susceptible to bad taste. Not weird at all you wouldn't like or enjoy it, sometimes that just happens even for games as "inclusive" as BG3.
Eh, the current Republican party isn't even conservative. It's genuinely turned into a Trump cult and the current Democratic party is an anti-white, troony cult.
Yes the dems don't want power at all and there most certainly isn't a deepstate/uniparty comprised of Black folk from both parties who should have retired 2 decades ago. This is your brain on propaganda.
The dems don't seek power because they already have consolidated the power of finance and tech/social media and big pharma, ironically they're slipping on cultural institutions but the repubs are too moronic and genuinely uncool to gran this area so it'll be ceded back to the left in less than a decade or potentially (long shot) third/lib party will become to heralds of counter culture.
In all honesty, this is probably an 97 IQ game. I did enjoy it, but you don't need to be an acting MENSA representative to get the plot. It has a few nuanced elements but it's not as if it's some kind of Sherlock-tier mastery of deduction to figure out the Emperor is the Ilithid who tadpoled you in the starting sequence. They make it pretty obvious.
I played and enjoyed the game.
It is not mechanically bad or poorly-written.
However, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone and the only reason I even played it was because I bought the EA version back when it became available.
I think the side content is morally disgusting and what could have been a great game was ruined by pandering to degenerates and the mentally ill.
The only time I ever made any progress in this game was when I gave Astarion abilities/gear that made his evasion 100% exclusively thanks to a bug. He wasn't immune to spells but enemies would still run up to him to try and punch him. At the end of Act 2 he was surrounded by ten people at once who all missed every turn for ten turns. This is the caliber of "game" "design" you are dealing with here.
the game design is aggressively shit >wander into area but didnt toggle hide on every party member so you all move like snails >suddenly a new enemy type >this one uhhh let's see grabs you so you cant use spells, teleports everyone 5 miles away, has a bonus 20 to rolls, has a spell called mega Black person ass fister that does 50 damage (not available to player characters hehe) >die because that's moronic if you dont see it coming or respec >repeat every encounter
The game is absurdly easy on the lowest difficulty.
It's 'hard' for all of five levels on the highest difficulty.
Anyone complaining about the game's difficulty is admitting that they know nothing about the game's systems.
Example
the game design is aggressively shit >wander into area but didnt toggle hide on every party member so you all move like snails >suddenly a new enemy type >this one uhhh let's see grabs you so you cant use spells, teleports everyone 5 miles away, has a bonus 20 to rolls, has a spell called mega Black person ass fister that does 50 damage (not available to player characters hehe) >die because that's moronic if you dont see it coming or respec >repeat every encounter
>Have alert, I go first, not surprised >Most boss fights open with dialogue >You can end multiple boss fights WITH dialogue checks
Its a game made for midwit redditors, its fricking piss easy like all mainstream video games, they are meant to be accessible to normies.
Also i don't give a shit about challenge in video games, i play for having fun. Dragon's Dogma gives me fun, this snooze game does not. So i dropped it. It's that simple.
t. 138 IQ
dragons dogshit is the most dogshit game shilled on v
I beat it on hard by spamming light attacks
the women are ugly as sin too
the only reason i finished it was because I kept thinking it would "get good later"
No quest but she does have the most to say and is the most interactive with the quests in act 3. While most companions jusy have the generic "leave party / nevermind" options you can ask minthara a lot about her thoughts on whatever current quest you are on. I really liked her.
early game bless = got tier
mid to late game bless = wasted concentration slot
>even having a cleric
Just bard of swords and double shot everything to death behind aoe spells on chokepoints and win every encounter
What's wrong with a generic children's fantasy story?
>MISS
i beat the game and i fricking hated it. Every single fight is east even on tactician, the hardest part of combat is relaoding. If you call that difficulty then youre the problem.kys troony homosexual
It's just the epilogue for the game which ended with the Thorm story and dressing for the bonus Raphael fight. The game is over but you're hungry for more so you wander around the pretty city while something about brains happens in the background.
>MISS
i beat the game and i fricking hated it. Every single fight is east even on tactician, the hardest part of combat is relaoding. If you call that difficulty then youre the problem.kys troony homosexual
>Save scumming in combat because you're a shitter?
Worst argument you can make is to defend mandatory miss chances no matter how hard you invest when you only get 1-4 actions at the most per turn and you roll a miss. I beat the game in a fake honor mode run without save scumming, it was more fun because i just went with whatever bad decisions i made and the game still sucked. Im sorry you defend the laziest combat system. Im glad youl never reproduce.
>mandatory miss chances
It's based on the rules of a dice game, of course there's mandatory miss chances.
But it's a shitty dice game, and your lowest chance to miss is 5% (roll of 1 on a d20). Shitters will defend this game design.
>mandatory miss chances
Turn off karmic dice, moron. Learn how advantage works and stop trying to use spells that don't scale with your character's stats. It's not hard to hit things in this game. You just sound moronic.
Thats not karmic dice you fricking moron. There is always a chance to roll a miss no matter what you do. You can increase your advantage all you want but tmthe gane still decides "hey no matter how much you buff your character and perfect your build. You can still miss and it wouldnt have mattered" and you only get 1 action for a large portion of the game. Well guess you just waste your turn. Kys
Holy projections lmao, i think the only moron defending the 5e ruleset is the moron here, also exposing yourself for liking the most braindead form of d&d. You dont even know what karmic dice is lmao.
Have you ever played a crpg? It's a staple in the genre, there's not one game out there barring maybe Div 2 that doesn't have miss chains and random flops when you want something good to happen instead
8 months ago
Anonymous
>It's a staple in the genre
the dumbest reason to do something is "because we've always done it that way"
8 months ago
Anonymous
Shit happens, you try to kick the ball to your pal and a cyclist passes by and gets knocked off his bike.
8 months ago
Anonymous
What a oddly specific example.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Natural 1s are supposed to represent freak accidents like that. I think in 5e you aren't necessarily supposed to treat skill checks the same with 1s and 20s, but most people do anyways.
8 months ago
Anonymous
god I hate critfail skill checks >your level 20 thief that stole the pants off a god has a 5% chance of fricking up even the most basic of locks
8 months ago
Anonymous
Actually, rogues can't royally frick the checks they're supposed to be good at. Reliable Talent makes any roll under a 7 count as a 7.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>what is Reliable Talent
8 months ago
Anonymous
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I was off on the number, 9 and lower counts as a 10 for RT.
>level 20 rogue >literally has a short rest 'my die is a 20' ability
bad example with rogue, but it is still true for any other skill check that a character should ace without even trying.
8 months ago
Anonymous
It isn't, because other classes (except bard, who also have access to expertise etc.) aren't skill masters in terms of roleplay. It makes sense for them to be subject to the whims of fate
8 months ago
Anonymous
Actually, rogues can't royally frick the checks they're supposed to be good at. Reliable Talent makes any roll under a 7 count as a 7.
I was off on the number, 9 and lower counts as a 10 for RT.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>level 20 rogue >literally has a short rest 'my die is a 20' ability
If you got filtered by BG3 you're too dumb to play D&D 5e, the goyslop of tabletop games. Literal morons can "git gud" at D&D, make a supergay build and learn the exploitive bullshit to win the game. Sub-morons play D&D too, these are the people who have to ask the GM for help all the time.
If you're smarter than a moron you can beat BG3. As long as you don't try to "role-play" like a fricking moron, D&D is not a role play game, it's a game system that only handles killing the monsters and getting the loot.
>Literal morons can "git gud" at D&D, make a supergay build and learn the exploitive bullshit to win the game
No they dont. These games have been inaccessible for how many years? Every time they try to make it appeal to casuals you still have to engage in some high octane autism to make an effective character. This is so often the case that people just make one build that works and slightly tweak it.
Literally not the case. It's inaccessible solely because TTRPG is considered some nerd hobby only nerds do, and because it requires scheduling with actual friends.
5e is a piss easy to understand game, DMs literally have to constantly houserule the game to make it harder and actually interesting, like what BG3 does.
You are clearly power gamer. It's fine but remember PG is not the only type of players. AD&D first of all is social meeting (of nerds). theater with some boundary rules and DM narrator. Power gaming and slaying goblins is only a part.
If you are seeking pure power gaming you would be better with MtG.
>appeals to women and 100-115 IQ neckbeards
Yep, it's a midwit game. IQ 120+ and the juvenile writing and lack of any challenge or build experimentation make it dreadfully dull
I just made it to the “underground boney boss” in act 2 and it one shots me every time. I’m level 8 and I think I hit the wall. Do I have load an old save?
>217 hours
do you just leave the game on while you sleep? I finished my first playthrough in 90 hours completing like 95% of the quests >2960
are you fricking quicksaving every single turn? every single dialogue option?
Exact same thing happened with DOS2, most people that played it lauded it as some RPG masterpiece with a gajillion choices when the only thing revolutionary it did was moving objects around and surfaces (that was heavily nerfed to be near useless in 2). It had companions that barely did anything in the story and basically never reacted to anything you did beyond what you do for their main quest, for fricks sake.
Funny thing is, if I were to recommend the beginner CRPG, I would say Wasteland 3 is the better option, so BG3 and DOS2 can't even win on that department.
im in that underground part of act 1 with the big mushrooms and i agreed to kill the dwarves for the fungus people but man those dwarves put up way more of a fight than i expected and i tried 3 times then gave up and havent played since. that was only 2 days ago but it felt pretty demoralizing to accept a quest then flat out be unable to do it meanwhile it seems like ive explored everything else there is to do but i guess i just need to look around more
use acid, it's fricking broken, basically gives you +2 to hit
use a zombie hook horror to distract either the dwarf hiding in the building or the ones down by the dock
what's your team?
level 4, very close to level 5.
i have an iron flask, the horn that summons the ogres, the deathstalker mantle, that hood that makes you go invisible i think but i guess its on some other character i cant find it right now
>Hireling druid when you can either have Astarion pumping out damage, Wyll to easily soak up counterspells for your bless and damage bots to work, or Karlach to be a smooth brain aggro sponge
Sure druid is fine but the guy is going to melt without being able to fight back, specially against the enlarged roid monster with dankness up every round
ive been using enlarge on him to make him hit harder
Sounds like a bad idea, but if you're intent on beating these guys at level 4 you can bring glut with a hook horror or the fat lizard/minotaur from the start of the map, and throw the flask at them to deal with the consequences later. Personally enlarging the bear when Lae'zel is probably more efficient instead is somewhat wasteful, but against the level 7 guy your sorc and shart would benefit more from having Wyll around to eat up all the counterspells and let your toons use their abilities. You should probably accept that Lae'zel or glut might have to die or that you'll need to take it one dwarf at a time to win
8 months ago
Anonymous
wyll is dead because he's black but i forgot, i got so close the second time, everyone was dead except astarion and some other guy and they both had just below 10hp. astarion missed lmao
i should just leave him behind and use laezel how the frick do you even make astarion not suck balls
8 months ago
Anonymous
Sneak attack, rogues get much better at level 5 but generally >Bless to hit more often >Thief because it's OP >Assassin if you want more consistent damage
He's just bursty, but you need to buff him a bit especially early to get use out of him. I recommend you keep your druid around and make him spam cheap shitty spells while frontlining so that Shart and your sorc can apply spells like grease and bless for free, since that's all you can rely on for right now anyway. The level 7 will be hard no matter what, so you either need to focus him while keeping everyone alive or kill everyone first while you distract him by chasing easy targets and then gangbang him. For shart, knowing sentient weapon is great as you get a free sponge and some damage output. This might be one of the few fights I'd give Lae'zel a shield if you were so intent on doing at 4. There should be enough xp in the underdark/act 1 for you to hit 5 pre grymforge
8 months ago
Anonymous
bro every single time i try to initiate a fight with my characters hidden then literally none of them can be moved at all until they get discovered by the npcs or some shit, i cant click on them and move them, it seems broken and ive seen a lot of other people talking about it but ive also been told that no such issue exists, i do not get stealth in this game at all and have given up on it
8 months ago
Anonymous
>literally none of them can be moved
*except the one who actually attacks them obviously, and he sits there being gangraped while i cant move anyone else
8 months ago
Anonymous
Have you tried just clicking their portrait?
8 months ago
Anonymous
of course. they wont move. they cant do any actions. nothing. lots of other people seem to have the same experience. idk wtf is the deal
8 months ago
Anonymous
I had that issue before the 2nd to last update. Haven't seen it since. Shitty.
8 months ago
Anonymous
You can start a fight with just the guy you want to sneak attack with hiding and everyone else just outside of the detection cones and they'll autojoin the fights. Can also quickly tap alt c to unhide everyone. Either way rogues aren't for starting fights unless you're desperate cause then they'll be out of position unless it's a range sneak attack, just use their bonus action hide or flank to get sneak attack damage
there's no point going full rogue in this game, more powerful sneak attack is inferior to extra attack, thieves should multiclass to something that can exploit bonus actions like swordbard or monk
If he already went 4 rogue he might as well go 5 or 6 for the features and ASI, Astarion also struggles to multiclass into things that aren't dex fighter, barb, or ranger without respeccing
8 months ago
Anonymous
swordbard with dual crossbows is fine for astarion, or if you still want to lean into the rogue aesthetic you can multiclass gloomstalker, but imo swordbard is so hilariously strong that gloomstalker is basically irrelevant
8 months ago
Anonymous
I don't want to give a guy advice for making a companion work with multiclassing, just sort of telling him how he could make default astarion good. I made him a AT and he was pretty reliable for the entire game swordbard is also dangerously close to cheese tier but then again some anons here swear that they do nothing and that they keep losing in encounters with swordbard
8 months ago
Anonymous
>swordbard is so hilariously strong
7 rogue (thief) + 5 fighter (champion) is actually better
8 months ago
Anonymous
can't self-haste so i disagree
8 months ago
sage
Self-hasting is bad action economy. Your attackers should be doing nothing but attacking.
8 months ago
Anonymous
? you cast haste then initiate the fight
8 months ago
Anonymous
bro your twinned haste buffb***h sorc?
8 months ago
Anonymous
the sorc can’t haste everyone so an extra source of haste is still good
8 months ago
Anonymous
Self-hasting is bad action economy. Your attackers should be doing nothing but attacking.
>Haste potion >Buff bawd >Orin Bane Serum (bloodlust elixir) >Wizard with free time to buff you >Shart with scroll
A lot of ways to haste yourself without applying it on the same character, it just isn't worth it considering you could just save your con for something useful like a debuff or greater invis
8 months ago
Anonymous
i mean you can use bard’s haste on anyone else if you like. the reason for swordbard is that it can haste while still doing good damage. if you don’t want to haste on bard (why wouldn’t you), swordbard is still free to use any spells up to the 5th tier. the flexibility and utility of swordbard is much higher than fighter, especially outside of battle where you might want ritual spells like longstrider/featherfall, remove curse, knock etc.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I'm fairly certain rogue-fighter still outputs more damage. The math for this was settled ages ago.
8 months ago
Anonymous
because they forgot that bard can cast spells
8 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah it's still not doing more damage than rogue-fighter.
8 months ago
Anonymous
if you’re actually a fighter user, you would immediately understand how much of an edge an extra action provides
8 months ago
Anonymous
>what is action surge
8 months ago
Anonymous
>for 1 turn
8 months ago
Anonymous
The point is that fighters are the first class to understand the importance of extra actions—the concept is literally baked into the class. And this is all beside the point anyway as rogue-fighter has been mathematically proven to output more damage. Being able to self-haste via a spell is convenient, but that's about it.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>mathematically proven to output more damage
it hasn't, that's the point >Being able to self-haste via a spell is convenient
it has the same potency on the first turn as action surge and far more after that
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Concentration Failed turn 2 >Haste now has negative value
nta and i love haste but i hate this shit
8 months ago
Anonymous
>it hasn't
It has. Check online. >it has the same potency on the first turn as action surge and far more after that
Fighters can be hasted and can action surge, bards can be hasted but can't action surge—it's as simple as that (in addition to bards also lacking ICH).
8 months ago
Anonymous
Consider 2 Paladin + 10 Bard
Can equip any item.
Attacks twice.
Can cast level 6 spells.
Can Smite.
Bardic inspiration.
8 months ago
Anonymous
there's no point going full rogue in this game, more powerful sneak attack is inferior to extra attack, thieves should multiclass to something that can exploit bonus actions like swordbard or monk
No it's good if you build for it, also everyone sucks lighting magic off and completely ignores that ice does double dmg to wet targets too like lightning.
>Hireling druid when you can either have Astarion pumping out damage, Wyll to easily soak up counterspells for your bless and damage bots to work, or Karlach to be a smooth brain aggro sponge
Sure druid is fine but the guy is going to melt without being able to fight back, specially against the enlarged roid monster with dankness up every round
level 4, very close to level 5.
i have an iron flask, the horn that summons the ogres, the deathstalker mantle, that hood that makes you go invisible i think but i guess its on some other character i cant find it right now
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ive been using enlarge on him to make him hit harder
I don't know if you've taken this into account but the Underdark is DARK
characters without darkvision need light in order to effectively hit
from your lineup this would be the druid (who has darkvision as a tiefling but not as a bear) and Lae'zel, plus your sorc if you made a human or something
what you should do is use a torch on your sorc, respec shadowheart so she has the Produce Flame cantrip and maybe change her to a light or war cleric, then go to the arcane tower and find the ring that casts Light
I think that specific area is pretty well lit, it's more of a problem of the prime dwarf being a level 7 gigachad compared to his party of sub 5 toons. I still don't recommend the druid though
wait how the frick can you tell if an area is too dark for your characters to hit well. i cleared like this entire ass fricking place almost and didnt realize this at all
hold shift I believe on keyboard? it's the button to show the red vision cones, you'll also see a little sun that gets more obscured as it gets darker, you can't trust the actual visuals because the whole thing is too goddamn bright even on the normal brightness setting
8 months ago
Anonymous
but i swore the red just shows the cone of vision of NPCs not in my party...
8 months ago
Anonymous
hold shift I believe on keyboard? it's the button to show the red vision cones, you'll also see a little sun that gets more obscured as it gets darker, you can't trust the actual visuals because the whole thing is too goddamn bright even on the normal brightness setting
oh nvm i see
the area ive been fighting them in is fully lit but gives them a height advantage over me. what happens if you fight in the half sun icon areas?
8 months ago
Anonymous
lightly obscured is fine I think, I actually had a whole darkvision team so I didn't need to think about it. As long as you're not getting the red number when you mouse over the enemy they're lit up enough, at least for that character
Playing through act 3 now, I've definitely noticed a spike in bugs and nonsense happening, still fun though, I'm also loving seeing Orin scaring me, b***h surprised me both in the blacksmith and guard part
Everything until act 3 is peak kino game.
It made me go back to replay divinity OS 1 and 2 and i wish they would remake them just to give the players a jump action in the overworld.
They even comment on this in divinity 1 with a chest behind a rope >2 magesters stopped by a measly rope!
I never wanted to jump over a damn rope more in my life
Gideon Emery Astarion voice replacer module is at 370 Epochs. I tested it at 350 and it still seems really rough, though. Is this normal for a 45+ minute source audio? Think he'll fix himself after another 350?
Reminder to IQtards that ideas are worthless if you can't translate them into action of some sort. Whether it's in the form of literature, art, science, sport, whatever.
Everyone can consume the next film/book/vidya/technology/lifestyle choice/news/etc., whether it's slop or kino. But only very few create something of value.
the dragon sex market is pretty full in all fields but the scientific and I don't think I'm going to be the one genetically engineering tame, intelligent, frickable real-life dragons
>Difficult fight starts >Hm my party looks like they're in a bad position >Load >Pre buff >Optimal positioning >Barrels if i feel lazy
Is loading into precog levels of fight preparation high IQ??
>Is loading into precog levels of fight preparation high IQ??
It is low IQ >Difficult fight starts >Hm my party looks like they're in a bad position >buff >gain Optimal positioning >overcome adversity and save after I loot everything
I am already playing video games which is lazy in itself so being even more lazy and ruining the fun by save scumming every encounter is just plain stupid. I don't play games to power game and win everything, I play them to have fun.
brother just use your prior video game knowledge to guess when an upcoming area looks like a good place for a battle to start and then prepare. stop running everywhere blindly
>Is loading into precog levels of fight preparation high IQ??
It is low IQ >Difficult fight starts >Hm my party looks like they're in a bad position >buff >gain Optimal positioning >overcome adversity and save after I loot everything
>c-coooope!
actually just put your ranged b***hes on the highest ground you can before running into a new area with an obvious cliff and you'll be fine
>the combat is bad >how? >it's slow!
Every time. Gaming going mainstream was a mistake. We have a medium for people that want to relax and watch keys jangle, it's called TV and movies, or gambling
i havent tried a bard in bg3 yet but from my limited knowledge of dnd 5e you are supposed to do nothing but be a buff/aura bot and provide skills to your party (trickery, stealth, knowledge checks like world religion etc)
also bardic performance in public will distract everyone allowing you to steal
ITT: tards seething about getting filtered by one of the easiest cRPGs ever
I liked it, you could make it as easy or hard as you wanted. On medium I died 5 times with 0 respecing or save scumming. It was enough to keep it interesting.
What I hate is XCom 2 where iron manning your first run is impossible, even on easy.
BG3 focuses on nice visuals instead of the traditional RPG staples like extensive dialogue, challenging combat or meaningful plot, which makes it easily approachable. It's more a spiritual successor to Dragon Age: Origins instead of the Bladur's Gate series.
I’ve given up on plot. I think it’s next to impossible for a massive game to have a good plot.
Elden Ring may have a good plot, who actually knows. Horizon Zero Dawn had a great plot, but was a meh game. That’s it for huge games with plots.
>Elden Ring may have a good plot, who actually knows.
I didn’t care for it. The game’s story is propped up entirely by good voice acting and character designs.
>Elden Ring may have a good plot, who actually knows. Horizon Zero Dawn had a great plot, but was a meh game. That’s it for huge games with plots.
wtf did I just read, go back to tumblr
I guess the reason why she would fall for it is because it's so basic, isn't she from space? I assume the traps she would know how to avoid in the astral plane are roadside picnic anomaly tier
but then again I could be moronic and overthinking
Imagine thinking that the video games you play are an indicator of intelligence. It's the sort of thing youre meant to grow out of in high school. Very sad.
I don’t think anything outside of programming games are really good indicators of intelligence, but some of them are pretty reliable indicators for stupidity, like Starfield for example
Just the act of arguing about intelligence one way or the other makes you seem a bit more of an idiot. Might as well start spouting your opinions on phrenology while you're at it.
I know. I’m trying to play it cool and not nerd them out but I’m already asking what they’re rolling so I know how to comp them kek. I can’t believe me and the boys are finally going on another adventure I thought it was over
Just be ready to hit the brakes. I'm assuming they're new but you aren't, don't end up railroading them or rushing. I hope you don't get bored if they go at a snail's pace, I ended up not being able to play with my bros because they were somehow both incredibly slow yet also somehow skipping past stuff.
I don’t give a frick. They’re the type to wanna read everything they can be as slow as they want. I just wanna be the shadow monk in the back frickin shit up when needed. The silent enforcer of the newbies on their first go (but tbh im also semi new as I pumped the brakes in act 2 cause I didn’t want it over so fast)
It filtered itself out of my install list when I learned how heavily botted by China this game is. Not to mention the boring predicable D&D elements that suffer from over the top rng and a narrator that can't substitute for a DM.
Typical Larianslop. A regression from DOS2
>redditor, c*ck, women game
>filtering low IQs
LMOA.
You are the living proof it's working.
no he isn't and you don't ever understand how dumb you are.
my iq is 129 and i don't like this video game
i stand corrected
>*filters people with sub-130 IQ*
>>*filters people with sub-147 IQ*
132, also not into this gay shit
yes anon the formula has been refined
I uninstalled after Halsin forces you to kill children in the worg pens. Frick that.
spoiler tag you wienersucking snowflake moron
sorry
you deserve it
Not a force; you can kill Haslin instead.
You don't need to kill them, bro.
>Feeling bad for non humanoid children
homosexual
goblin children are animals that should be put down
>attack a Tiefling child just to frick around
>script takes over and they just run away and disappear
>Bethesda game rules I guess
>get to the worg pen
>"I'll just attack the kids once then they'll frick off"
>split a goblin child in half with my greataxe
In my game I burning hands'd them to death outside the goblin camp walls, then threw the only witness in the river
>chaotic evil murderers are OK if they're children
What's it like to be moronic?
killing a goblin child is an alignment shift in dnd 5e which is what the game is based on
To my knowledge 5e doesn't have any official rules structure for alignment shift outside of magic items doing it for you or the DM/Player says so. If 5e did have game rules for alignment shifts then killing goblin children still wouldn't shift your alignment towards anything other than good.
Genociding evil races like goblins does actually count as a "good" act as far as D&D alignment is concerned because alignment is more sports team with shared ideals than real world morality.
moron, the kids run away if you don't attack them
no one forced you to shoot an arrow into the back of their skull
>he havent killed elf gay to save children
literally hitler
Lmao you don't have to kill them you fricking moron, they run away.
The blood was not on my hands in my game; it was on Halsin’s.
I had Gale put them both to sleep since I didn’t want them to bring more goblins into the room before I dealt with the ones right in front of me, and the first thing this heckin’ wholesome druid saw fit to do with his newfound freedom was to immediately make a beeline for both of them and maul both of them to death.
>Gobloid spawn
Must be killed thats right
My girlfriend literally shot those kids as they were running hahahahahaha pussy
those children will be Black folk i means goblins when they grow up
g*blin children do not qualify for empathy thoughever.
*above-120
more like
>filters people with no friends
I think it's more of an empathy check.
most people that easily empathize with fictional characters don't really extend the courtesy to most everyone in real life
You're making a claim that is nearly impossible to prove without research, but based on anecdotal evidence I would agree with it.
My point is that if you can't or won't emphathize with fictional characters you will probably not enjoy the game.
My IQ is 146 and I genuinely do not believe it is possible for someone of above-average intelligence to enjoy this game without willingly ignoring a host of problems.
I have a friend who is way smarter than me academically and he loves it, but I think it's mostly because he, a) hasn't played many actual RPGs, and b) fell hook-line-and-sinker for the hype surrounding it.
Am I necessarily claiming that he is stupider than me for enjoying Baldur's Gate 3? Not at all, I know I would probably have fun with it. But from a bird's-eye view there is so much more to play, and it's absurd to claim Larian are changing the whole industry.
>My IQ is 146
This is where we all stopped reading.
>without willingly ignoring a host of problems.
How do you enjoy anything without willingly doing this? We live in a fallen world and society.
I got 161 but it doesn't mean anything.
The game is the capeshit of cRPGs, shiny and pretty with pretty much exclusively fanservice, a medium tier plot and ultra-simple gameplay. World reactivity they made is pretty cool though, but story and plot reactivity aren't.
>World reactivity they made is pretty cool though
How I knew you don't actually have an IQ of 161
>actual RPGs
I have played a ton of RPGs and BG3 for RP/reactivity purposes is the best of them. The combat is noob friendly because of 5e but it is still incredibly fun to play and varied.
>my iq is 146
>writes in 6th grade english
>i got 161
>buzzwords and 4th grade english, repeats "pretty" 3 times, twice in one sentence
To be fair, a significant amount of 'smart' people are poor writers.
iq is a test of whether you can tell which shape comes next in a sequence of shapes. it doesn't make you a better writer
low iq take, comprehensive tests (not the 20 multiple choice online ones) include word definitions, you'll find nary a real genius who isn't verbally adroit
case in point
>verbally adroit
Only pseudo intellectuals talk like this. People who are meaningfully intelligent will prioritise clarity in their speaking and prefer more simple, direct words. Vocabulary flexing occurs only at the high parts of the IQ bell curve.
Bro if you think verbally adroit isn't simple and direct word choice I've got news for you kek
This is reminding me of when law students or random people that read what fallacies are keep trying to mention whenever they can, and in latin form.
He has 200 spatial and 60 verbal
Kek, I wonder what that would look like in person. Even more mathematical geniuses like Einstein and Newton had good control over their words and speech
You'd only find a split like that in savant-tier autists
I'd figure yeah
This is normal. I'm in the mid 120s and I frequently reuse words. Sometimes I'll catch it and go back to punch up my writing, but that's fundamentally a waste of time. People who are actually smart just wanna get their ideas out as quick as possible and then gtf away from people again.
>People who are actually smart just wanna get their ideas out as quick as possible and then gtf away
People who are truly smart know that your ideas are only as good as how well you are able to convey them.
What you said is a laughable midwit cope for people whose ideas wouldn't stand up to scrutiny (and no, I don't just mean grammar and verbiage), but who want to protect their ego by telling themselves their ideas really are great and it's just that they don't care enough to present them well.
nta but my iq is around 120 and my ideas include sex with dragons and not much else
true intelligence is knowing when it doesn't fricking matter
>messi gif
ignored
>Explaining things in a simple way is not intelligent, TRUE geniuses run their shit through a thesaurus and convolute their language as possible to show off their superior vocabulary
>People that are truly smart also elect to use their time conveying their genius to anonymous Baldur's Gay players on the Gankers
>surely people wouldn't just immediately mentally write off everyone that doesn't like the same video games as a moron, especially not here
You are a Black person
Me have 170 IQ, u dum. troony troony troony on me mind all da timez
First of all, dubious proofs but I'll engage.
>Absurd to claim Larian are changing the whole industry
Not quite, the level of polish, quality, and general work in the game for what it is (AA+) is genuinely impressive and especially compared to weaker games like Starfield or TOTK (Zelda DLC on steroids)
It is especially impressive that what's been considered to be a niche AA crpg developer made a reasonably priced game that can compete with industry titans and AAA gaming, especially with full voice acting, mocapping, and having for the most part a sensible and well put-together journey. Yes, the game has flaws, but you can't in good faith expect to enjoy gaming by hyper analyzing every single flaw you see. Either way, gaming and further the enjoyment of all things artistic are subjective, and everyone can be susceptible to bad taste. Not weird at all you wouldn't like or enjoy it, sometimes that just happens even for games as "inclusive" as BG3.
*filters republicans*
Eh, the current Republican party isn't even conservative. It's genuinely turned into a Trump cult and the current Democratic party is an anti-white, troony cult.
It's all the same, idiot.
The voters are not all the same.
Yeah republisharts are dumber, proven by science
They are even dumber.
>the current Republican party wants to help the people
FTFY
I despise the left, but all the Republic politicians want to do is gain power and own the libs.
And I'm a leftist, so I am able to see through the mirage of lies that is being fed to us. Sadly, that is how things are now.
Yes the dems don't want power at all and there most certainly isn't a deepstate/uniparty comprised of Black folk from both parties who should have retired 2 decades ago. This is your brain on propaganda.
The dems don't seek power because they already have consolidated the power of finance and tech/social media and big pharma, ironically they're slipping on cultural institutions but the repubs are too moronic and genuinely uncool to gran this area so it'll be ceded back to the left in less than a decade or potentially (long shot) third/lib party will become to heralds of counter culture.
they just want power, period
"owning the libs" is just a cope rep voters use to justify supporting politicians that fricks them in the ass, no spit
>>>*filters people with sup-78 or sub-147 IQ*
>or
and*
no one on this board has an iq over 120 besides me
wrong, I have a 134 and since you watch ruby I can only assume "over 120" means 121.
*filters democrats*
>filter chuds and trannies
>"bug"
Admire my wiener, lowly peasant.
>Modern game for modern audience
No thanks.
*filters your thread*
In all honesty, this is probably an 97 IQ game. I did enjoy it, but you don't need to be an acting MENSA representative to get the plot. It has a few nuanced elements but it's not as if it's some kind of Sherlock-tier mastery of deduction to figure out the Emperor is the Ilithid who tadpoled you in the starting sequence. They make it pretty obvious.
I played and enjoyed the game.
It is not mechanically bad or poorly-written.
However, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone and the only reason I even played it was because I bought the EA version back when it became available.
I think the side content is morally disgusting and what could have been a great game was ruined by pandering to degenerates and the mentally ill.
>cast bless
>win game
was that so hard?
early game bless = got tier
mid to late game bless = wasted concentration slot
>he doesn't know
*filters incels and nazis and homophobes and transphobes*
The only time I ever made any progress in this game was when I gave Astarion abilities/gear that made his evasion 100% exclusively thanks to a bug. He wasn't immune to spells but enemies would still run up to him to try and punch him. At the end of Act 2 he was surrounded by ten people at once who all missed every turn for ten turns. This is the caliber of "game" "design" you are dealing with here.
You've described nearly every RPG with gear, talents, or feats.
the game design is aggressively shit
>wander into area but didnt toggle hide on every party member so you all move like snails
>suddenly a new enemy type
>this one uhhh let's see grabs you so you cant use spells, teleports everyone 5 miles away, has a bonus 20 to rolls, has a spell called mega Black person ass fister that does 50 damage (not available to player characters hehe)
>die because that's moronic if you dont see it coming or respec
>repeat every encounter
3/10 Bait
Sounds like a campaign designed by a complete tool.
The game is absurdly easy on the lowest difficulty.
It's 'hard' for all of five levels on the highest difficulty.
Anyone complaining about the game's difficulty is admitting that they know nothing about the game's systems.
Example
>Have alert, I go first, not surprised
>Most boss fights open with dialogue
>You can end multiple boss fights WITH dialogue checks
How does it feel to be bad at video games?
>wait for portals to nearly die
>take invis potion near balthazar's door
>watch both sides kill each other for me
bait or moronic
Its a game made for midwit redditors, its fricking piss easy like all mainstream video games, they are meant to be accessible to normies.
Also i don't give a shit about challenge in video games, i play for having fun. Dragon's Dogma gives me fun, this snooze game does not. So i dropped it. It's that simple.
t. 138 IQ
Dragon's Dogma is the most contrarian midwit game that exists.
dragons dogshit is the most dogshit game shilled on v
I beat it on hard by spamming light attacks
the women are ugly as sin too
the only reason i finished it was because I kept thinking it would "get good later"
Literally proving OP right. DD is a shallow game propped up by nice visuals and animations
> t. Save Scummer
Does Minthara actually have a full story or is she a half-assed companion? Deciding if I want her or Karlach for second playthrough.
No, she doesn't have a quest.
And yet they know that men aren't women.
She's too high IQ and elite for plebian things like quests.
No quest but she does have the most to say and is the most interactive with the quests in act 3. While most companions jusy have the generic "leave party / nevermind" options you can ask minthara a lot about her thoughts on whatever current quest you are on. I really liked her.
>even having a cleric
Just bard of swords and double shot everything to death behind aoe spells on chokepoints and win every encounter
You genuinely have to be sub-70 iq to think act 3 is good. It literally turns into a generic children's fantasy story.
What's wrong with a generic children's fantasy story?
>reloading
My brother, why do you do this?
It's just the epilogue for the game which ended with the Thorm story and dressing for the bonus Raphael fight. The game is over but you're hungry for more so you wander around the pretty city while something about brains happens in the background.
Act 3 is like a bad version of divinity OS act 1 right down to the murder mystery and dock workers being lazy
>MISS
i beat the game and i fricking hated it. Every single fight is east even on tactician, the hardest part of combat is relaoding. If you call that difficulty then youre the problem.kys troony homosexual
>the hardest part of combat is relaoding
Save scumming in combat because you're a shitter?
>Save scumming in combat because you're a shitter?
Worst argument you can make is to defend mandatory miss chances no matter how hard you invest when you only get 1-4 actions at the most per turn and you roll a miss. I beat the game in a fake honor mode run without save scumming, it was more fun because i just went with whatever bad decisions i made and the game still sucked. Im sorry you defend the laziest combat system. Im glad youl never reproduce.
>mandatory miss chances
It's based on the rules of a dice game, of course there's mandatory miss chances.
But it's a shitty dice game, and your lowest chance to miss is 5% (roll of 1 on a d20). Shitters will defend this game design.
>mandatory miss chances
Turn off karmic dice, moron. Learn how advantage works and stop trying to use spells that don't scale with your character's stats. It's not hard to hit things in this game. You just sound moronic.
Thats not karmic dice you fricking moron. There is always a chance to roll a miss no matter what you do. You can increase your advantage all you want but tmthe gane still decides "hey no matter how much you buff your character and perfect your build. You can still miss and it wouldnt have mattered" and you only get 1 action for a large portion of the game. Well guess you just waste your turn. Kys
Holy projections lmao, i think the only moron defending the 5e ruleset is the moron here, also exposing yourself for liking the most braindead form of d&d. You dont even know what karmic dice is lmao.
>shitty game makes you miss
TuRn oFf KARmIc dicE
Holy shit youre braindead
>reddit caps
off yourself
Have you ever played a crpg? It's a staple in the genre, there's not one game out there barring maybe Div 2 that doesn't have miss chains and random flops when you want something good to happen instead
>It's a staple in the genre
the dumbest reason to do something is "because we've always done it that way"
Shit happens, you try to kick the ball to your pal and a cyclist passes by and gets knocked off his bike.
What a oddly specific example.
Natural 1s are supposed to represent freak accidents like that. I think in 5e you aren't necessarily supposed to treat skill checks the same with 1s and 20s, but most people do anyways.
god I hate critfail skill checks
>your level 20 thief that stole the pants off a god has a 5% chance of fricking up even the most basic of locks
Actually, rogues can't royally frick the checks they're supposed to be good at. Reliable Talent makes any roll under a 7 count as a 7.
>what is Reliable Talent
bad example with rogue, but it is still true for any other skill check that a character should ace without even trying.
It isn't, because other classes (except bard, who also have access to expertise etc.) aren't skill masters in terms of roleplay. It makes sense for them to be subject to the whims of fate
I was off on the number, 9 and lower counts as a 10 for RT.
>level 20 rogue
>literally has a short rest 'my die is a 20' ability
>filters people with under 150 IQ
If you got filtered by BG3 you're too dumb to play D&D 5e, the goyslop of tabletop games. Literal morons can "git gud" at D&D, make a supergay build and learn the exploitive bullshit to win the game. Sub-morons play D&D too, these are the people who have to ask the GM for help all the time.
If you're smarter than a moron you can beat BG3. As long as you don't try to "role-play" like a fricking moron, D&D is not a role play game, it's a game system that only handles killing the monsters and getting the loot.
>Literal morons can "git gud" at D&D, make a supergay build and learn the exploitive bullshit to win the game
No they dont. These games have been inaccessible for how many years? Every time they try to make it appeal to casuals you still have to engage in some high octane autism to make an effective character. This is so often the case that people just make one build that works and slightly tweak it.
Literally not the case. It's inaccessible solely because TTRPG is considered some nerd hobby only nerds do, and because it requires scheduling with actual friends.
5e is a piss easy to understand game, DMs literally have to constantly houserule the game to make it harder and actually interesting, like what BG3 does.
You are clearly power gamer. It's fine but remember PG is not the only type of players. AD&D first of all is social meeting (of nerds). theater with some boundary rules and DM narrator. Power gaming and slaying goblins is only a part.
If you are seeking pure power gaming you would be better with MtG.
Fricking lmao you need to be a dumbass to like this trash
>appeals to women and 100-115 IQ neckbeards
Yep, it's a midwit game. IQ 120+ and the juvenile writing and lack of any challenge or build experimentation make it dreadfully dull
I'm a grug. I like the game and finished it just fine on tactician by casting fireball.
I just made it to the “underground boney boss” in act 2 and it one shots me every time. I’m level 8 and I think I hit the wall. Do I have load an old save?
>save simulator
this is stupid. should have been negated in some way
Click on excidium and use the delete all but most recent button, why do you save so much on balanced???? I only had like 380~ saves by the end.
>217 hours
do you just leave the game on while you sleep? I finished my first playthrough in 90 hours completing like 95% of the quests
>2960
are you fricking quicksaving every single turn? every single dialogue option?
my cousin sent me this pic of his game idk. he got "all the good shit" or whatever. dont know if he read a walkthrough or something too
I guarantee you missed a lot of stuff you didn't even know about.
118 hours and I missed a ton.
It's a social game bro, there's a reason normalgays loved it so much. It's not filtering anyone.
>easiest crpg ever made that is worshiped by normies and women
>filter
lol
lmao
The state of lariantrannies
Exact same thing happened with DOS2, most people that played it lauded it as some RPG masterpiece with a gajillion choices when the only thing revolutionary it did was moving objects around and surfaces (that was heavily nerfed to be near useless in 2). It had companions that barely did anything in the story and basically never reacted to anything you did beyond what you do for their main quest, for fricks sake.
Funny thing is, if I were to recommend the beginner CRPG, I would say Wasteland 3 is the better option, so BG3 and DOS2 can't even win on that department.
im in that underground part of act 1 with the big mushrooms and i agreed to kill the dwarves for the fungus people but man those dwarves put up way more of a fight than i expected and i tried 3 times then gave up and havent played since. that was only 2 days ago but it felt pretty demoralizing to accept a quest then flat out be unable to do it meanwhile it seems like ive explored everything else there is to do but i guess i just need to look around more
use acid, it's fricking broken, basically gives you +2 to hit
use a zombie hook horror to distract either the dwarf hiding in the building or the ones down by the dock
what's your team?
ive been using a hireling druid in bear form to tank a lot of damage and im doing a sorcerer and i have lae zel and shadowheart
level? subclasses? spells? any standout magic items like mourning frost?
level 4, very close to level 5.
i have an iron flask, the horn that summons the ogres, the deathstalker mantle, that hood that makes you go invisible i think but i guess its on some other character i cant find it right now
ive been using enlarge on him to make him hit harder
i guess ill replace astarion with laezel because he kinda sucks in combat for me for whatever reason
Sounds like a bad idea, but if you're intent on beating these guys at level 4 you can bring glut with a hook horror or the fat lizard/minotaur from the start of the map, and throw the flask at them to deal with the consequences later. Personally enlarging the bear when Lae'zel is probably more efficient instead is somewhat wasteful, but against the level 7 guy your sorc and shart would benefit more from having Wyll around to eat up all the counterspells and let your toons use their abilities. You should probably accept that Lae'zel or glut might have to die or that you'll need to take it one dwarf at a time to win
wyll is dead because he's black but i forgot, i got so close the second time, everyone was dead except astarion and some other guy and they both had just below 10hp. astarion missed lmao
i should just leave him behind and use laezel how the frick do you even make astarion not suck balls
Sneak attack, rogues get much better at level 5 but generally
>Bless to hit more often
>Thief because it's OP
>Assassin if you want more consistent damage
He's just bursty, but you need to buff him a bit especially early to get use out of him. I recommend you keep your druid around and make him spam cheap shitty spells while frontlining so that Shart and your sorc can apply spells like grease and bless for free, since that's all you can rely on for right now anyway. The level 7 will be hard no matter what, so you either need to focus him while keeping everyone alive or kill everyone first while you distract him by chasing easy targets and then gangbang him. For shart, knowing sentient weapon is great as you get a free sponge and some damage output. This might be one of the few fights I'd give Lae'zel a shield if you were so intent on doing at 4. There should be enough xp in the underdark/act 1 for you to hit 5 pre grymforge
bro every single time i try to initiate a fight with my characters hidden then literally none of them can be moved at all until they get discovered by the npcs or some shit, i cant click on them and move them, it seems broken and ive seen a lot of other people talking about it but ive also been told that no such issue exists, i do not get stealth in this game at all and have given up on it
>literally none of them can be moved
*except the one who actually attacks them obviously, and he sits there being gangraped while i cant move anyone else
Have you tried just clicking their portrait?
of course. they wont move. they cant do any actions. nothing. lots of other people seem to have the same experience. idk wtf is the deal
I had that issue before the 2nd to last update. Haven't seen it since. Shitty.
You can start a fight with just the guy you want to sneak attack with hiding and everyone else just outside of the detection cones and they'll autojoin the fights. Can also quickly tap alt c to unhide everyone. Either way rogues aren't for starting fights unless you're desperate cause then they'll be out of position unless it's a range sneak attack, just use their bonus action hide or flank to get sneak attack damage
If he already went 4 rogue he might as well go 5 or 6 for the features and ASI, Astarion also struggles to multiclass into things that aren't dex fighter, barb, or ranger without respeccing
swordbard with dual crossbows is fine for astarion, or if you still want to lean into the rogue aesthetic you can multiclass gloomstalker, but imo swordbard is so hilariously strong that gloomstalker is basically irrelevant
I don't want to give a guy advice for making a companion work with multiclassing, just sort of telling him how he could make default astarion good. I made him a AT and he was pretty reliable for the entire game
swordbard is also dangerously close to cheese tier but then again some anons here swear that they do nothing and that they keep losing in encounters with swordbard
>swordbard is so hilariously strong
7 rogue (thief) + 5 fighter (champion) is actually better
can't self-haste so i disagree
Self-hasting is bad action economy. Your attackers should be doing nothing but attacking.
? you cast haste then initiate the fight
bro your twinned haste buffb***h sorc?
the sorc can’t haste everyone so an extra source of haste is still good
>Haste potion
>Buff bawd
>Orin Bane Serum (bloodlust elixir)
>Wizard with free time to buff you
>Shart with scroll
A lot of ways to haste yourself without applying it on the same character, it just isn't worth it considering you could just save your con for something useful like a debuff or greater invis
i mean you can use bard’s haste on anyone else if you like. the reason for swordbard is that it can haste while still doing good damage. if you don’t want to haste on bard (why wouldn’t you), swordbard is still free to use any spells up to the 5th tier. the flexibility and utility of swordbard is much higher than fighter, especially outside of battle where you might want ritual spells like longstrider/featherfall, remove curse, knock etc.
I'm fairly certain rogue-fighter still outputs more damage. The math for this was settled ages ago.
because they forgot that bard can cast spells
Yeah it's still not doing more damage than rogue-fighter.
if you’re actually a fighter user, you would immediately understand how much of an edge an extra action provides
>what is action surge
>for 1 turn
The point is that fighters are the first class to understand the importance of extra actions—the concept is literally baked into the class. And this is all beside the point anyway as rogue-fighter has been mathematically proven to output more damage. Being able to self-haste via a spell is convenient, but that's about it.
>mathematically proven to output more damage
it hasn't, that's the point
>Being able to self-haste via a spell is convenient
it has the same potency on the first turn as action surge and far more after that
>Concentration Failed turn 2
>Haste now has negative value
nta and i love haste but i hate this shit
>it hasn't
It has. Check online.
>it has the same potency on the first turn as action surge and far more after that
Fighters can be hasted and can action surge, bards can be hasted but can't action surge—it's as simple as that (in addition to bards also lacking ICH).
Consider 2 Paladin + 10 Bard
Can equip any item.
Attacks twice.
Can cast level 6 spells.
Can Smite.
Bardic inspiration.
there's no point going full rogue in this game, more powerful sneak attack is inferior to extra attack, thieves should multiclass to something that can exploit bonus actions like swordbard or monk
Mourning frost fricking sucks
No it's good if you build for it, also everyone sucks lighting magic off and completely ignores that ice does double dmg to wet targets too like lightning.
>Hireling druid when you can either have Astarion pumping out damage, Wyll to easily soak up counterspells for your bless and damage bots to work, or Karlach to be a smooth brain aggro sponge
Sure druid is fine but the guy is going to melt without being able to fight back, specially against the enlarged roid monster with dankness up every round
I don't know if you've taken this into account but the Underdark is DARK
characters without darkvision need light in order to effectively hit
from your lineup this would be the druid (who has darkvision as a tiefling but not as a bear) and Lae'zel, plus your sorc if you made a human or something
what you should do is use a torch on your sorc, respec shadowheart so she has the Produce Flame cantrip and maybe change her to a light or war cleric, then go to the arcane tower and find the ring that casts Light
I think that specific area is pretty well lit, it's more of a problem of the prime dwarf being a level 7 gigachad compared to his party of sub 5 toons. I still don't recommend the druid though
wait how the frick can you tell if an area is too dark for your characters to hit well. i cleared like this entire ass fricking place almost and didnt realize this at all
hold shift I believe on keyboard? it's the button to show the red vision cones, you'll also see a little sun that gets more obscured as it gets darker, you can't trust the actual visuals because the whole thing is too goddamn bright even on the normal brightness setting
but i swore the red just shows the cone of vision of NPCs not in my party...
oh nvm i see
the area ive been fighting them in is fully lit but gives them a height advantage over me. what happens if you fight in the half sun icon areas?
lightly obscured is fine I think, I actually had a whole darkvision team so I didn't need to think about it. As long as you're not getting the red number when you mouse over the enemy they're lit up enough, at least for that character
>pallock
>sorcerer with twincast haste
>sorcerer with twincast haste
>monk
yep, it's metagaming time
You're all a bunch of clowns. D&D isn't complicated at all.
Playing through act 3 now, I've definitely noticed a spike in bugs and nonsense happening, still fun though, I'm also loving seeing Orin scaring me, b***h surprised me both in the blacksmith and guard part
Everything until act 3 is peak kino game.
It made me go back to replay divinity OS 1 and 2 and i wish they would remake them just to give the players a jump action in the overworld.
They even comment on this in divinity 1 with a chest behind a rope
>2 magesters stopped by a measly rope!
I never wanted to jump over a damn rope more in my life
Astral tadpole is OP.
Gideon Emery Astarion voice replacer module is at 370 Epochs. I tested it at 350 and it still seems really rough, though. Is this normal for a 45+ minute source audio? Think he'll fix himself after another 350?
More like filters non-sodomites
131IQ certified Mensa holder. The game is a mediocre bloated slog and I can't force myself to finish 3rd act. 7/10.
>Mensa holder
>mediocre
>7/10
lol
7/10 is a bad score in videogame parlance, just look at Starfield
>parlance
131 IQ and you still suck wiener for a living
But what if you decided to use the 1 to 10 scale as intended instead of emulating video game “journalists” for some godforsaken reason
Reminder to IQtards that ideas are worthless if you can't translate them into action of some sort. Whether it's in the form of literature, art, science, sport, whatever.
Everyone can consume the next film/book/vidya/technology/lifestyle choice/news/etc., whether it's slop or kino. But only very few create something of value.
the dragon sex market is pretty full in all fields but the scientific and I don't think I'm going to be the one genetically engineering tame, intelligent, frickable real-life dragons
I took an online IQ test when I was around nine years old and got 127, but I doubt that really means anything.
>Difficult fight starts
>Hm my party looks like they're in a bad position
>Load
>Pre buff
>Optimal positioning
>Barrels if i feel lazy
Is loading into precog levels of fight preparation high IQ??
>Is loading into precog levels of fight preparation high IQ??
It is low IQ
>Difficult fight starts
>Hm my party looks like they're in a bad position
>buff
>gain Optimal positioning
>overcome adversity and save after I loot everything
>working smarter not harder is low IQ
You were probably a slave in a past life.
I am already playing video games which is lazy in itself so being even more lazy and ruining the fun by save scumming every encounter is just plain stupid. I don't play games to power game and win everything, I play them to have fun.
You didn't deny my claim. Presumably you've already accessed your akashic records then—my condolences.
I looked up my last name one time and someone with the same last name in my state owned a bunch of Black folk. Cope.
>t. William Ellison
Mississippi actually
brother just use your prior video game knowledge to guess when an upcoming area looks like a good place for a battle to start and then prepare. stop running everywhere blindly
Uh oh Baldurrs cope bros
>c-coooope!
actually just put your ranged b***hes on the highest ground you can before running into a new area with an obvious cliff and you'll be fine
>the combat is bad
>how?
>it's slow!
Every time. Gaming going mainstream was a mistake. We have a medium for people that want to relax and watch keys jangle, it's called TV and movies, or gambling
whats the frick is the use for bard? My heals cant pass the 10 hp recovered
>whats the frick is the use for bard?
Being the face character and CC/Support spells.
i havent tried a bard in bg3 yet but from my limited knowledge of dnd 5e you are supposed to do nothing but be a buff/aura bot and provide skills to your party (trickery, stealth, knowledge checks like world religion etc)
also bardic performance in public will distract everyone allowing you to steal
>want to replay the game
>remember shar's gauntlet exists
I don't understand why people complain about this, it isn't even difficult.
It's just tedious is all
>20 second stealth segment followed by 2 fights and an """invisible""" walkway segment
it's hardly even a gauntlet.
ITT: tards seething about getting filtered by one of the easiest cRPGs ever
easiest crpg doesn't mean it's easy, and i am shocked it got this much normie appeal despite being a crpg
>playing in a group of morons
>they can just go fighter/barbarian/paladin and we've only teamwiped once due to a bug
I liked it, you could make it as easy or hard as you wanted. On medium I died 5 times with 0 respecing or save scumming. It was enough to keep it interesting.
What I hate is XCom 2 where iron manning your first run is impossible, even on easy.
BG3 focuses on nice visuals instead of the traditional RPG staples like extensive dialogue, challenging combat or meaningful plot, which makes it easily approachable. It's more a spiritual successor to Dragon Age: Origins instead of the Bladur's Gate series.
I’ve given up on plot. I think it’s next to impossible for a massive game to have a good plot.
Elden Ring may have a good plot, who actually knows. Horizon Zero Dawn had a great plot, but was a meh game. That’s it for huge games with plots.
>Elden Ring may have a good plot, who actually knows.
I didn’t care for it. The game’s story is propped up entirely by good voice acting and character designs.
>Elden Ring may have a good plot, who actually knows. Horizon Zero Dawn had a great plot, but was a meh game. That’s it for huge games with plots.
wtf did I just read, go back to tumblr
Thought tumblr died when they killed porn?
>horizon had a great plot
Women dont deserve to play games.
Single most moronic thing i have ever read
So you beat the game? If it wasn’t for the plot than why? Gameplay wasn’t that good.
Don't slander Origins like that
How is it slander? Origins started this trend of cinematic RPGs, and BG3 built on that legacy.
I wish Gale looked cool like that instead of just looking gay
More like, it bores people with above 150 IQ
>Tadpole Vortex
>Quickcast
>Fireball
Its so satisfying, bros
3 billion IQ here bg3 is good you are all Black folk, sage.
I have a double digit iq and I've played this game for 60 hours and still haven't finished it.
Never mention IQ in the OP or you get a million gays bragging about the score they got on an online test instead of talking about video games.
>Arrogant species and extra-arrogant individual
>gets caught by the most basic and shittiest trap
Froggays?
Something something cutest when they’re almost moronic something something
I guess the reason why she would fall for it is because it's so basic, isn't she from space? I assume the traps she would know how to avoid in the astral plane are roadside picnic anomaly tier
but then again I could be moronic and overthinking
She's just Tsundere, she wants you to save her to setup your later budding romance
Uh huh. Sure.
Imagine thinking that the video games you play are an indicator of intelligence. It's the sort of thing youre meant to grow out of in high school. Very sad.
I don’t think anything outside of programming games are really good indicators of intelligence, but some of them are pretty reliable indicators for stupidity, like Starfield for example
Just the act of arguing about intelligence one way or the other makes you seem a bit more of an idiot. Might as well start spouting your opinions on phrenology while you're at it.
My bros (I’m neet they’re not) just told me they have time for a campaign. God im so frickin stoked bros you have no idea
Humongous W
I know. I’m trying to play it cool and not nerd them out but I’m already asking what they’re rolling so I know how to comp them kek. I can’t believe me and the boys are finally going on another adventure I thought it was over
Just be ready to hit the brakes. I'm assuming they're new but you aren't, don't end up railroading them or rushing. I hope you don't get bored if they go at a snail's pace, I ended up not being able to play with my bros because they were somehow both incredibly slow yet also somehow skipping past stuff.
I don’t give a frick. They’re the type to wanna read everything they can be as slow as they want. I just wanna be the shadow monk in the back frickin shit up when needed. The silent enforcer of the newbies on their first go (but tbh im also semi new as I pumped the brakes in act 2 cause I didn’t want it over so fast)
i can let halsin die in the portal "accidentally" AND i can sacrifice wyll to fish people, yeah im thinking its based
Any game that women can enjoy aren't high IQ games.
It filtered itself out of my install list when I learned how heavily botted by China this game is. Not to mention the boring predicable D&D elements that suffer from over the top rng and a narrator that can't substitute for a DM.
Typical Larianslop. A regression from DOS2
the witcher?
More like >filters straight and normal men who aren't redditors
You got BEARED
>Reddit writing
>save scum simulator
>combat is slower than fricking death
>current claim to fame is "at least it's better than Starfield tho"