What's up with the insane difficulty spike towards the end of chapter 1?

What's up with the insane difficulty spike towards the end of chapter 1?

>mage tower robot with an AC of 19 that can down my barbarian in 1 turn
>dwarven / slave fight where they all spam mind-control
>Shadowheart can't hit shit no matter what weapon I give her

DoS2 was too easy, but this shit is just frustrating

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  1. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >fighting the tower robot

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I try not to make it a habit of avoiding encounters / cheezing them through dialogue

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Well good luck, that thing is a fricking monster, not to mention the other enemies there. I never beat it because of that, but the dwarven/slave fight should be easy by just throwing and shoving Black folk into lava, and Shadowheart should be a cantrip/spell machine more than anything else.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          wait until you get to the doctor in act 2

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            NTA, but I just cheesed the doctor using assassin Astarion

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              i tried fighting him a bunch of times and got downed after two rounds every time so i just savescummed until i could dialogue cheese him, which is honestly more rewarding than the fight because the cutscene is really cool

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Oh yeah? I need to play a diplomancer run. If even just to see all the missed content

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I regret missing the tower fight as I’m told it’s the toughest in the game. Also missed the psychic dwarves. Who new a game with no time limits had time limits?

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >psychic dwarves
          I've never heard of this.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Level 4 generally sucks because you're starting to deal with Level 5 enemies who have a higher proficiency bonus and access to some of the best spells and abilities you get. If you're running around with a bunch of basic single class characters instead of taking advantage of low level character builds, you're going to have a rough time.

        Ignore this guy. Clearing an encounter through dialog gives you just as much EXP. All combat usually does is use up your resources in exchange for some cheap weapons to sell.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I regret missing the tower fight as I’m told it’s the toughest in the game. Also missed the psychic dwarves. Who new a game with no time limits had time limits?

        I was able to do it, but it took me like 6 tries. I had wyll eldrich blast the big fricker down to the stairs below, and then just took out as many of the adds as I could before he came back. Karlach was the only team member alive at the end, had I not gotten a crit the robot would have killed me the next turn. The glaive it drops lasted me until the end of act 3

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      He's a fun unique boss. A lot of the bosses you can dialogue crush like the Thorm family are awesome.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frick dialogue wins. The unique fights are actually awesome. Like the doctor in chapter 2 with the unique skills was pure kino.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      tower robot is lightweight even on honor mode

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >throwzerker
        You didn't beat the game

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          my first playthrough on tactician was all self made zero multiclass builds knowing frick all about dnd so I reckon I did

          learning about all the sweaty builds online and playing them for the honour playthrough is fun in its own way

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Not pushing him out the window on turn one

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      The fight is really easy. The susser flowers deactivate the adds.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        A lot of people don't know how to use them. I actually watched some streamers play the game and they were all incredibly bad at it. People don't read the tutorials/books/item descriptions or inspect enemies etc.

  2. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Apparently Shadowheart's stat spread is the worst in the game and you have to respec her to make her viable at all. Also the trickster is a terrible choice in general for a cleric.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Managed to beat the tower robot by knocking him down a level with force tunnel, had to do it twice.

      can you respec characters in chapter 1? so far I've only seen the option to change how the PC looks

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yes you can, talk to Withers in your camp.
        It's really cheap, 100g.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          How do you get 100g in chapter 1?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Sell ten books.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              How do you publish a book?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            killing about 10 goblins will sort it. Just keep their gear and sell it

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Sell 6 or 7 enemy weapons. Dp you not loot?

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              I never loot enemy weapons they are garbage

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Congrats on having no gold then, genius

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Well at least I am not carrying heavy metal left and right like a fricking MORON

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >you can send it directly to your camp from your inventory
                >you have 4 (four) party members to distribute loot between
                yeah he's the moron for sure

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Well at least I am not carrying heavy metal left and right like a fricking MORON

                I think you're both dumb. If you're not modding in infinite gold or infinite inventory weight then you're a brainlet.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                You didn't beat the game

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                You mean this visual novel tier story game?

                >infinite gold

                Boring. Just pickpocket if that's your problem.

                >infinite inventory weight

                That one I agree with.

                So just play a PP focus build and so monotonous PP/sell/pp/sell/pp/sell? Why?

                [...]
                >people complaining about weight
                Just play Human STR character. You'll even forget that you have a weight limit.

                No.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >PP focus build

                homie Astarion is a whole companion you have access to anytime in the game by getting him from your camp.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Then stop being a little b***h and learn how to send to camp. I am playing an 8 STR forest gnome monk of the 4 elements right now and i have no trouble with weight.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >infinite gold

                Boring. Just pickpocket if that's your problem.

                >infinite inventory weight

                That one I agree with.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                [...]
                I think you're both dumb. If you're not modding in infinite gold or infinite inventory weight then you're a brainlet.

                >people complaining about weight
                Just play Human STR character. You'll even forget that you have a weight limit.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >just play as this one build in this game that is fun because of the possibility of playing multiple builds

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Then stop being a little b***h and learn how to send to camp. I am playing an 8 STR forest gnome monk of the 4 elements right now and i have no trouble with weight.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I am playing an forest gnome and i have no trouble with weight

                'Cause you weight the same as a little school girl you fricker. It's easy to judge others for the weight issues when you're a midget.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous
              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                [...]

                Or I can just mod out weight limits with zero effort.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      tbh on my second playthrough I made her a life cleric and it was the best decision I could have made

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        life cleric with multiple warding bonds felt like cheating.
        also why the frick to i need to pass a captcha to solve a captcha? wtf is asiatic doing?

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >why the frick to i need to pass a captcha to solve a captcha?
          I thought that was just me, good to know the site is fricking up for everyone else too.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            life cleric with multiple warding bonds felt like cheating.
            also why the frick to i need to pass a captcha to solve a captcha? wtf is asiatic doing?

            >>why the frick to i need to pass a captcha to solve a captcha?
            are you sure you're not robots? Really sure?

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              No I am the lord of murder uwu

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Also no two hit per turn is shit
      I just use a full cac team, I won the game by the sword not with gay ass magic, never consumed a parasite either

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >and you have to respec her to make her viable at all.
      You have to do this with every character as soon as you get Withers. All of them have odd stat numbers, like Gale having 17 in INT and 13 CON when it doesn't work.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      If you prioritize dex you can give shart a bow/xbow and eventually get the class trait (divine strike:trickery?) That gives you poison on your attacks, I know it might seek strange but clerics have some of the most flexible Stat build varieties depending on the subclass you choose and dex actually ups your AC with med armor, at the end of the day tho yes trickery cleric isn't the most flashy but can be viable if you do a dex cleric.

  3. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    The difference between meta whoring and the default builds for many characters is a lot.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      There is a viable "metaprostitute" build for each subclass in the game thoughbeit.
      You might have to tweak your stats/traits to get it right but it exists.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        The difference between meta whoring and the default builds for many characters is a lot.

        simply knowing how to use the spells you get will get you a long way even with default builds.
        Shadowheart could have 10 in all stats except wisdom and she'd still be extremely useful just walking running around with spirit guardians and the floating weapon spell.

  4. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    The tower robot hugged me, not sure what your problem is.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      kek

      >psychic dwarves
      I've never heard of this.

      I didn’t fight it so just going off this description
      >dwarven / slave fight where they all spam mind-control

  5. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Shadowheart is a Cleric, anon. She should not use her weapon at all.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      THEN WHY IS THE SPEAR OF SHAR SO GOOD

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I mean you could respec her as a great weapon fighter if you want
        Or give the spear to Karlach
        Idk what to tell you, anon.

  6. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What's up with the insane difficulty spike
    Sounds completely typical of Larian

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      larian games usually get easier and easier as you go, there's zero difficulty spikes on dos2 and 1, the hardest part is when you're at level 1 with no skills and no gear and no gold to buy anything.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >there's zero difficulty spikes on dos2
        Reaper's coast has plenty, especially if you sequence break by accident, which is incredibly easy to do.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >there's zero difficulty spikes on dos2
        Did you even play that game? There is a massive, well known spike in the final chapter.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >There is a massive, well known spike in the final chapter.
          The kraken fight they added? Adremhalikmyballs? Those homosexual flying Black folk in front of the gate? I don't remember chapter 3 being hard.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          The funny part about it is you played your cards right you only have 1 mandatory fight in arx and you can tell the final boss to take a hike as well.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >There is a massive, well known spike in the final chapter.
          maybe if you fight everyone right at the last fight.

  7. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >>mage tower robot with an AC of 19 that can down my barbarian in 1 turn
    Blast it to death with wyll, preferably off the tower
    >dwarven / slave fight where they all spam mind-control
    You can get them to turn on each other if you explore a little. Besides that, you can take the high ground up the ladder and start thowing them down when they come up.
    >Shadowheart can't hit shit no matter what weapon I give her
    >Using Shart

  8. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >8 INT

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      She's been mindraped multiple times. She's a 100 times lobotomy survivor.

  9. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Bring Mushroom-man with you and have him spray his spores all over a dead Bulette.

  10. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What's up with the insane difficulty spike towards the end of chapter 1?
    They thought they were done after Act 1 and would make expansions because the game ran out of money in EA. And then they sold their company to Tencent.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >he does it for free

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Phew you had me worried for a second there! Looks like they just sold off 30% and Swen kept majority shares meaning he makes all the decisions

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Sadly, that isn't the case. Even civvie talks about it in one of his uploads. There is always tangible benefits to funding a studio.
        Tencent wumaos know just like normal people do.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Sadly, that isn't the case
          souce? I mean you have posted source on the 30% thing, so surely you have source that shows that somehow 30% onwership means they get to make all the decisions.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Common sense.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >no source
              Common sense would dictate that 30% shares is not enough to make decisions. You're gonna have to explain better.
              I mean you post this every day, surely you have an argument right on your fingertips.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Common sense is the source. Sorry bing wumao.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Common sense would dictate that 30% shares is not enough to make decisions. You're gonna have to explain better.
                I mean you post this every day, surely you have an argument right on your fingertips.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                No common sense would dictate that it does happen since it happens irl all the time. That is why no one will ever listen to your stupid drivel, the real world shows that 30% is enough to get what you want.
                Again, I'm sorry about this bing wumao. I really am.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >the real world shows that 30% is enough to get what you want.
                Examples?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I can spare you about an hour's back and forth, anon; you won't get shit from him.
                He has the childlike mentality that if he gets the last word he wins, so he will simply become obnoxiously obstinate until autosage.
                When you get bored he'll samegay until someone else responds and start again

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >He has the childlike mentality that if he gets the last word he wins
                That’s crazy I never would have expected someone on the internet to act that way. Especially on Ganker. It’s inconceivable.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                We truly live in dark times, fren

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Civvie has a video talking about it with some boomer shooter company that had a 40% take by tencent.
                It's a known truism at this point.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                It only happens when no one else has a larger stake
                Guess who at Larian has a larger stake than Tencent?

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Which you have none of

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Damn that's crazy, but whoever that Civilian guy is it sounds like he's way more interested in whatever it you're trying to say than anyone here

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      You know, in all the long 3 years of you posting this, I still don't know why I should care about who owns the company.
      If the devil himself made a game that I liked, I would still buy it.

  11. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >DoS2 was too easy, but this shit is just frustrating
    I've seen a lot of people say the opposite.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      probably people who looked up the "GIGA BG3 GAMER GUIDE"
      its near impossible to brick your character in dos2 and very easy in bg3

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        No it isn’t you can change your character class at any time for 100 gold. How would you ever brick your character?

  12. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why are you using weapons with Shadowheart? That is if she's in her default class.

  13. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    / slave fight where they all spam mind-control

    There's a lot of different ways this fight can turn out depending on what quests you do and what dialogue choices you pick.

  14. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >fighting the robot dude

    it's much more fun to find the play lines in the tower to make him think you're his master

  15. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    shadowheart is a caster anon

  16. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    the only fight i had trouble with in act 1 was the gith c**ts near the mountain pass
    those frickers never miss

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Man frick those guys. Failing that fight made me go back down to the bottom of the goblin camp.

  17. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    The undead in the mountain pass is the first encounter that filters you hard if you aren’t high enough level. Everything else I didn’t really have trouble with tbh

  18. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm interested in going into a third play through on Honour Mode, how tough is it compared to tactician?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      generally not THAT much harder i'd say, but there are some nasty surprises that can absolutely frick you over if you're not prepared for it (which you won't be), but that only matters if you abide by the hardcore rule and delete your save after wiping. you can still keep on playing on honor difficulty after wiping and the only consequence is you don't get the die skin i believe

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Okay awesome,

        can't hit shit no matter what weapon I give her

        You need to re-class Shadowheart. Her base class is ASS.

        I've generally found that for maybe half of my party I have to reclass or multi-class to make them good. It's insane they didn't give Minsc his rage from BG1 and 2 and I had to multi-class into it.

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    Anonymous

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    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >people discussing the game without resorting to sjw, politics, or dumb shit
      >actually discussing mechanics and party builds
      >try to derail the thread with tencent tankman copypaste
      God forbid we can have one thread without your dumb ass in here, swallow glass

  20. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    can't hit shit no matter what weapon I give her

    You need to re-class Shadowheart. Her base class is ASS.

  21. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I made her dual wield maces and flails and it works well enough

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      but she's a cleric, she shouldn't be trying to be a fighter

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Clerics make excellent martials in 5e
        They can do anything

  22. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Most of act 1 was balanced around player feedback due to early access, the game literally falls apart on parts most people didn't bother with

  23. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Attack enemy 7 times in a row, every time with success percentages exclusively between 65% and 88%
    >MISS
    is there a mod that fixes this shit? I want these percentages to actually reflect the real chance at overcoming enemy AC. I'm on tactician.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is the real chance. You're just unlucky.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        the probability of getting one result in 7 consecutive coinflips is 0.0071825, my dude. something is fricked with the game.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      roll with advantage
      problem solved

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      karmic dice homie

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        that makes you miss more on high percentages

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Its not karmic dice. The game intentional makes you miss so every encounter doesn’t end in a single round. Enemy one hit away for death? Expect to miss twice.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >magic missile
        >great club
        >AOE spell
        nothin' personnel kid

  24. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know. For me at this point the game became really easy. Night be a skill issue

  25. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is regular tav good for a CN/CE run or is durge that much better?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      You can be an butthole with TAV, Durge is more for CE.

  26. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's the easiest CRPG i've played. i don't know what your issue is.

  27. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    In underdark you can recruit the mushroom guy who can then resurrect the bulette, so it expects you to have 2 mini bosses aiding you in combat. You can also throw the sussur flowers nearby at the adds in that fight to permanently disable them, or just simply throw the boss off the tower.

  28. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    My loading screen and UI is pixelated as frick does anyone else have that problem? I have everything on max unless there's some cheeky hidden setting somewhere in the files

  29. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    You are too good aligned and it shows.

    >Poison the alcohol and get rid of some duergar
    >Convince the spiders their tamer is not their friend so that they frick off
    >Destroy the floating eyes and kill the guards stealthy without being seen

    At this point you can choice to either use the mercs to deal with Nere (and then betray and kill them because they are filthy inferior duergar that don´t deserve any better)
    You can also kill that filth beforehand and then take some strategic position to kill all of Nere´s helpers before even detonating the rubble. I personally choose a defensible high ground position and started throwing javelins and shooting arrows without warning. Killed all the ranged attackers before they knew what was happening. Melee fighters were received up top and sent right back down.

    Then i detonated the rubble and dealt with the drow when he was all alone. My point is that ff the battle is hard is because you are making it hard on yourself. That´s how this game works.

  30. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Shadowheart can't hit shit no matter what weapon I give her
    Respec her. Her starting stats are iffy.
    >mage tower robot with an AC of 19 that can down my barbarian in 1 turn
    >dwarven / slave fight where they all spam mind-control
    Inspecting enemies to change prepared spells and preparing an ambush helps.

  31. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    The only difficulty spike in this game is trying to resist the urge of falling asleep.

  32. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    A lot of the "difficulty spikes" in chapter 1 should also coincide with your own power spikes at level 5 and 6. With bernard theres a gimmick where he's the only one you actually have to fight while the duregar its a matter of starting the fight from a good position to LoS the mind control manlets until you can take care of them. And yeah that might mean starting a fight manually instead of through dialogue or picking off the stray ones without alerting the others.

    As for shadowheart yeah IDK. Most of the time I just use her for utility which was fine since you really only need 1-2 people doing actual work and the few times a buddy has used a cleric in multiplayer its always been sun or tempest to blast dudes like a regular caster so weapons aren't really their thing.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >With bernard theres a gimmick where he's the only one you actually have to fight
      Explain

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        The other bots don't like it when anti-magic flowers get put near them or they run into its range, makes them shutdown.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Woah don't remember seeing this anywhere in game. Neat. Had a feeling there was a use for all those sussy flowers besides making some cheesy anti-spell fighter.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Honestly I randomly discovered it on my first run when the fight went wrong and I had to escape back into the elevators only for them to suddenly become inert when they ported to my last alive dudes floor. As a bonus sorcerers get a scene when getting silenced by it the first time where one of the companions talks to them about it, like karlach being confused since your very existence is supposed to be tied to magic and to stick behind her while you sort it out

  33. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sounds like you haven’t hit lvl 5 yet. Enjoy that last vestige of challenge in the game.

  34. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >muh eceleb said
    get better material if you want a real (You)

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I still got the (you) though. A no quote seethe (you) is the best type.

  35. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you think that's hard the first boss of Elden Ring will cause you to break down into tears.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      not really comparable. I have good reflexes but am dumb so elden ring is easy until they start with the delayed attack shit (which is the point I have to think instead of pressing roll on reflex), and bg3 is hard cause I never think of using pits or remember what the spells do, until you have enough magic items that your characters are disgustingly powerful (around mid chapter 2)

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >brings up Elden Ring for no reason
      Man you gays are annoying

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Go back to fighting Hosenoth, action-gay.

  36. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hint: if you think the game is a bit too hard, make a paladin 2/sword bard10 build.
    Literally the easiest build in the game.
    There are stronger builds, but this one is braindead to make. Str and cha, some con, and you're done.
    Frankly sword bards are disgusting, they're also the best archers of the game.

  37. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Not really feeling warlock at the end of act 1 right now. Only 2 spells per fight is really lame when sorcerer is twin spelling haste while throwing multiple fireballs per turn and hasted fighter is getting 4-6 2-hander attacks per turn. If I'm lucky I can get a funny environmental kill with eldritch blast.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, warlock feels super lame in a vidya game. They only exist as multiclass fodder.
      There's nothing lost from going warlock 2/any charisma spellcaster class 10 instead of warlock 12.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        If food weren't so plentiful I could see their utility, but there is zero incentive for me to not nuke down every fight with sorcerer spec'd Gale + hasted Lae'zel and then long rest. My inventory is full of food to the point that it's a hassle to loot things

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's not only that food is plentiful, you SHOULD be resting after nearly every fight in order to se all the damn camp events.
          When I got to chapter 3 I installed the "warn you of a camp event" mod, and I ended up just resting without using supplies a bunch of times to se all the backed up events.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >I installed the "warn you of a camp event" mod
            I did the same on my second play through and I'm glad I did, I missed out on a ton of shit on my first run because I hoarded camp supplies and the benefit for that was nil.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Warlock gets access to one of the strongest spells in the game - Hunger of Hadar - use it. Pick devil's sight in eldritch invocations so you can hide in your own darkness clouds, pick spells that benefit from upcasting. I had my fiend warlock shut down 5 enemies at once with 100% chance with Command: grovel in act 3 thanks to scorching ray and this hat https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Hat_of_Fire_Acuity

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Warlock gets access to one of the strongest spells in the game - Hunger of Hadar - use it. Pick devil's sight in eldritch invocations so you can hide in your own darkness clouds, pick spells that benefit from upcasting. I had my fiend warlock shut down 5 enemies at once with 100% chance with Command: grovel in act 3 thanks to scorching ray and this hat https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Hat_of_Fire_Acuity

      Warlock's biggest benefit over other spellcasters (besides the obvious in the ability to regen spell slots on short rest) is eldritch blast.
      Take agonizing blast to add your cha mod to it as damage, grab the spellsparkler from the burning inn to tag lightning charges to every attack, and watch it scale into an absolutely monstrous ranged attack by 5 (where it gets a free second blast).

      I'm about to head to act 2 in honor mode and my Tav is a warlock/bard that's been kicking ass with a hex+spellsparkler+eldritch blast combo. Stack on Phalar Aluve's shriek from a teammate or some other damage rider and the damage can get dumb really fast.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        at act 3 there's an armor that adds +1 per attack you make cumulative till +9, it's even better than the +cha to cantrip robe you get from saving the tieflings.
        That +9 is added to EVERYTHING, each time. Even save spells like fireball, or auto-hit shit like magic missile.
        +9 per blast is disgustingly powerful

  38. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Murder Tribunal was kinda easy in normal but I think I'm about to get my ass reamed in Tactician, can't imagine fighting it in Honour mode.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      IIRC its been buffed multiple times. Kinda needed it to, my 4-man group steamrolled it on our initial playthrough

  39. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you struggle at any given point during BG3 you should stick to moviegames. It's literally one of the easiest CRPGs I have ever played.

  40. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    every time I start a new playthrough I reclass the named characters to fix their stats

  41. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    can't hit shit no matter what weapon I give her
    >activate her damage AOE sustain
    >she becomes a walking no-no zone for enemy
    >good placement means she's easily doing more damage than anyone else save for a mage at full nut or throw barb.

  42. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    would a drizzt game work in current year

  43. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Shadowheart can't hit shit no matter what weapon I give her

    See, that's one of the reasons for the difficulty spike. I'm on my second playthrough and it has been WAAAY easier because I'M NOT using Shadowheart. Her basic class is AWFUL. Her shit are all based on intelligence but she is a wisdom character, that's why she keeps missing. Her DEX is also mediocre. Her STR and DEX are equal, which is atrocious. You should repec her immediately or drop her. Turn her into a light or life cleric. After you know what you're doing the game gets much easier.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Her shit are all based on intelligence but she is a wisdom character,
      no anon, all her shit is based on wisdom, only the shitty firebolt is based on intelligence, and actual melee attacking which is based on str.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      All of the base classes for origin characters suck

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        nah. Karlach, Astarion and Wyll are great.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Frenzy Barb is fine if you're going TB throw but for a traditional martial it sucks compared to bear totem
          Rogue is a fairly useless class altogether, taking more than 3 (for thief) or 4 (for feat) is pointless. Astarion cleans up as a Ranger with a dip into either thief (two hand crossbows) or assassin (strong magic two-handed bow).
          Warlock also shines brightest in multiclass and great old one is vastly superior to fiend

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >great old one is vastly superior to fiend
            how so? you're the first person I see who thinks great old one is better than fiendlock

            also ranger is dogshit compared to Rogue

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Tasha's hideous laughter.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Rogue is a fairly useless class altogether, taking more than 3 (for thief) or 4 (for feat) is pointless.
            Damage on backstab.

            Double hand crossbows Ranger is better damage ouptur but not much, more important ranger has bonus to hit with Archery Archery. Ranger is more metagame optimized class but thief is not THAT bad, you can backstab every turn damage is ok.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >great old one is vastly superior to fiend
            Fiend gets access to the best CC spell in the game which is Command.
            GOO is only superior when you're building an eldritch blast bot or pact of the blade.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >GOO is only superior when you're building an eldritch blast bot
              There are other kinds of warlock?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yes, locks have a very good spell list and can do great area denial and CC. Hex + eldritch blast is the most boring way to play them. I don't know why you'd even keep hex beyond level 5-ish when there are so many better spells to be concentrating on at that point, like darkness, hunger of hadar, hypnotic pattern, fear, etc.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I don't know why you'd even keep hex beyond level 5-ish
                for compounding damage procs for abilities with damage riders and for the ability to re-cast it without spending more spell slots
                I'm not gonna say there aren't other good spells to use but eldritch blast is extremely good damage and the best CC is death.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Explain. Aside from shadowhear and wyll the other 4 are levelled from 1 so everything is player choice. Their stat distribution is obviously not optimal but I can't see how barb, fighter, rogue and wizard are bad classes.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Base stat spreads are always unoptimal, IIRC Karlach starts as frenzy but I could be misremembering.
          Straight fighter and rogue are definitely pretty bad. Straight wizard is ok of you go divination or evocation

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            I'm like 90% certain that the origins all join at level 1 so you can assign their levels/subclasses from there. I think barb in general defaults to frenzy in the subclass level up screen but that's not a canon choice or anything. I can buy rogue not being great, but whats wrong with straight fighter? What other single class martials eclipse it so much that it doesn't even warrant an it's okay?

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >What single class martial outdoes fighter
              Paladin and Monk both handily outclass Fighter
              Also unless you're a wizard you probably shouldn't be staying one class

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Paladin and Monk should both be getting fighter 2 for Action surge

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Like I said, unless you're a wizard you should be multiclassing.
                Either way a straight Paladin or a straight Monk is stronger than a straight Fighter.

                paladin is THE strongest martial. Smites are ridiculously strong, the 1 extra attack at level 11 fighter get does not make up for it.
                The sad part however is that both are just food for multiclassing.
                A paladin 2 or 6/caster is just a paladin+, and 2 levels of fighter for action surge are great on everyone else too.

                Paladin multiclasses get more and bigger smites (bardadin/sorcadin) or smite recharges on short rest (palalock), they're outdone by some of the more broken class/feat combos but are very very strong multiclass characters

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              paladin is THE strongest martial. Smites are ridiculously strong, the 1 extra attack at level 11 fighter get does not make up for it.
              The sad part however is that both are just food for multiclassing.
              A paladin 2 or 6/caster is just a paladin+, and 2 levels of fighter for action surge are great on everyone else too.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      This. Shadowheart's base stats are abysmal. I think since she's your first companion they wanted to make her 'balanced' but they fricked it up too much. On top of that she's trickery domain cleric which is the worst in the game lol

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Shart starting as trickery is hilarious when storm and light and life and even war cleric are all dramatically superior

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Its annoying how few domains there are, this shit was in EA for like 5 years.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            I'm glad the mod scene took off, there's a mod that adds all the tabletop domains already, it's a 8/10 mod. (2 points removed for adding garbage from the critical role setting book)

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              I'm looking forward to more in depth mods when the mod tools get released.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Critical role
              BOO

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                indeed.
                The critical role domains added by the mod (moon and blood) are moronic as frick, just as you'd expect.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                honestly looking at those two circles they're kinda dumb but not that bad
                real homebrew shit is appalling and I will occasionally let someone at my table use really bad homebrew to dissuade others

                Highlights include a guy who played a class that was literally just ben 10's omnitrix, a "cuisiner," and a psychic.
                These characters did not last long.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                the one homebrew mod I like is the sorcerer subclass "bladeweaver". The gimmick is that after you cast a spell, you can use a single metamagic point to make an attack with any weapon.
                It basically fulfills my wish for a class that allows me to make an attack and cast a spell on the same turn without needing some exotic multiclass setup or picking a shitty class like eldritch knight.

                It can be overpowered if you combine it with paladin but paladin/sorcs are already strong anyway, it's not that stronger.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Ben 10's omnitrix
                LMAO no way

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Omnitrix_Wielder_(5e_Class)
                This was the player's starting character for Curse of Strahd. To call it an interesting year would be a massive understatement

  44. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Your builds suck
    I've been doing honor mode with a bardlock tav, frenzy throwbarian Karlach, OH monk Lae'Zel, and life cleric Shart. No challenge so far.

  45. 4 months ago
    Anonymous
  46. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >mage tower
    >end of chapter 1
    The end of chapter 1 is the creche
    You're not even in Grymforge

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >creche
      >end of chapter 1
      Im pretty sure Chapter 1 ends the moment you step into the elevator for the dank woods of shadow homies

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Chapter 1 is the initial crash site map with the swamp and goblin camp and such, the underdark with the myconids, the underdark grymforge, and the creche.

  47. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >black hole
    >confusion
    Let me guess, you need more?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Using Illithid Powers
      There's another way Emperor.

  48. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    So are there any new OP synergies

    Last I checked the super strong builds were Tavern Brawler Barbarian, OH monk with Tavern Brawler, thief, and action surge, Archery Ranger/Rogue, Storm sorc+Tempest cleric, and Blade pact Palalock

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      sword bard/thief crossbow isthe only one you're missing. It's not new tho.
      Also blade pact warlock has been nerfed in honor mode to no longer grant 3 attacks if you multiclass with another class that gives a second atk.

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