Got to talk about the amazing battle music for the raphael fight. When Raphael starts doing his disney villan song was when i onew i f'ed up.

@crispy_338

11 ай бұрын

For me I knew I was fucked when his health popped up as 666.

@dieterhinzmann5559

11 ай бұрын

Omg, yes! When it finally struck me i paused the fight to fully concentrate on the Song! 😁 And you are so right, it made him such a disney-villain like Disney hasnt come up with in decades!😂

@Reaperherpderp

11 ай бұрын

Did this last night with my friend on Tactical it was so cool when the music started

@CorpseDaddy

11 ай бұрын

*chuckles* “I’m in danger”

@epic7vet206

10 ай бұрын

It’s sooooooo good omg.

A note about the pillars: hitting them with radiant damage once a turn until they’re dead disperses the souls and removes some buffs from Raphael, cutting his damage and making him easier to hit.

@mournwood

11 ай бұрын

Even better: he has a relatively weak Wis save, so Hold Monster will park his ass in place AND allow your melee to auto crit him. Once held, it was simple to deal with the other cambions, and then everyone gathered around Raphael, especially my 22 STR and hasted monk, and well....know that scene from Jojo where they are all stomping on the guy? Yeah, that. Also helps to drop Sanctuary on Hope and just heal with her, just keep her far enough from the fight to avoid any AOEs.

@theepicduck6922

11 ай бұрын

@@mournwood the mucus poison or some ghouls (for paralysis) put in work here.

@user-ti5rb1mx5x

10 ай бұрын

​@mournwood make sure to have Hope use Divine Intervention for the Legendary Devotee Mace. Have her drop it

@darrellsaewhat50

9 ай бұрын

@@user-ti5rb1mx5xso chucks down a blue staff when you do that now lol Edit: nvm. She auto equips it lol

Theres another way to get Helsik to help you. Instead of killing Yugir in Shars Gauntlet you get him out of his contract by finding the last jusitcir and killing him. One night in your camp Yurgir will show up and talk to you about Raphael and tell you to go talk to Helsik. The other bonus to helping Yurgir is he will turn on Raphael in the fight and bam you get another very strong ally.

@alexsnider8247

10 ай бұрын

You can Talk no Jutsu Yugir into helping you even if you killed him.

I just wanted the healing gloves for my monk build. I was worried that by rushing to the South part of the map, it’d fail all time sensitive missions. This was a great guide to know what items I can get. Thanks!

I just cast hold monster on Raphael and it worked for pretty much the whole fight, didn't even know he had a phase 2 :D

@DoppelgangerTH

11 ай бұрын

I didn't even know he can cast anything

For the portal in the House of Hope, you can actually find all the components to open the portal by searching through everything...I think most of the stuff came from inside the office. I didnt pass the conversation checks, and I didnt want to pay her the gold.

@apetime9039

11 ай бұрын

Like just looting all her belongings or like pickpocketing?

@Thanir

11 ай бұрын

@@apetime9039 I believe most of it was in her office. I invis'd into the office and took everything and when I went back down to talk to her I figured out I had everything I needed except a skull, which I had sold to her so I bought it back and had everything to do the ritual

Gotta respect a boss that sings his own boss fight song.

Fought and killed Raphael in my most recent play-though. Such a good quest line, loved the challenge even at level 12. Definitely going to go at it again on subsequent play-throughs.

I didn't sign any contract and promised Helsik to bring back the Gauntlets of Hill Giant strength thereby saving the 20K she charges (I was unlucky with my persuasion rolls). When I came back I gave them to her as promised to conclude our contract. Then I traded with her and could immediately pick up the Gauntlets of Hill Giant strength for somewhere around 400-500 gold.

@Wytchlettv

11 ай бұрын

that’s hilarious i also promised the gloves but i was thinking i was going to have to kill her to keep the gloves but that saves me a lot of effort

@davidcrawford5324

11 ай бұрын

This is great, but what does she give you as a reward for following through and giving her the gloves to begin with? Anything? Or is it solely to get the items needed to teleport to the House of Hope? If so that's kinda lame. I heard though you can pick up 120k-150k gold from all the loot you get in there so in the end it's probably better to either give them to her and buy em back or decide to keep them afterward.

For those who don't know, when you kill the NPC for the gloves if they're not in the room you may not get the drop. If you pick up their body and throw it in the room the gloves will appear in their lootable inventory.

@surroundsoundsolutionsptyl782

10 ай бұрын

Haarlep didn't even spawn for me, I cleared that whole place and never found her

You can get the silver sword of the astral plane early in act 1 at the githyanki patrol if you do command drop on the dragon rider while you don't have lae'zel in your party otherwise she will run up at start the conversation you have to go invis right behind him and it's best to do when no other party members are with you and then do command drop

@kyuuzoryuusuke

11 ай бұрын

This ^ I did it with Disarming Strike with a party that had freshly reached level 3, and in tactician mode. Incredibly early legendary weapon. With Command, you can do it even before level 3. Needless to say, it's a perfect weapon for Lae'zel!

@robertgatewood514

11 ай бұрын

If you enter moonrise and then just fast travel to Waukeens Rest you can go through the dialog and start combat but nothing happens. Then you can kill the whole patrol AND the dragon without them going hostile. Def a bug, but easy way to get a bunch of xp and loot.

@chickenbob562

11 ай бұрын

@@kyuuzoryuusuke or an even crazier weapon for your own githyanki hexblade

@kyuuzoryuusuke

11 ай бұрын

@@robertgatewood514 wait you can actually kill that dragon?! I gotta see that!

@robertgatewood514

11 ай бұрын

@kyuuzoryuusuke you get nothing but XP for it. It isn't supposed to happen so it's a lame fight. Might be fixed in patch 1.

Another tip you can use deception in Voss to get the sword earlier to retrieve the hammer this way. Also can get him to command drop it early in act 1 if you really wanna cheese the game early.

the first go-round i pulled off the win, but just barely. i went into the fight completely blind to knowing anything about it and ended up surviving mostly because of lots of potions of supreme healing. but then because it was a challenging/fun fight, i had to do it again and honestly, knowing what to expect the fight was pretty easy. keep everyone in your party grouped together, use either a scroll or the spell globe of invulnerability and then just beat on everyone until they die. my main is a warlock so anytime the enemies got within the globes protection i just eldritch blasted them out. hope also has her banishment ability which can pluck the non-raphael baddies away one by one. haste/speed potions on everybody make things even easier, you just have to be careful not to use another concentration spell on whoever cast the invulnerability.

Don’t use Hope’s divine intervention aoe attack if the minions haven’t been hit by radiant damage, otherwise she’d just die from recoil

@slayonce

9 ай бұрын

That happened my first play thru and I was so shocked. But I thought it was fitting sacrifice for her bc the fight was looking rough af

In my play through I used a paralysis poison with Astarion focused on Raphael and he was cc’d almost the untied fight. I took a bit of damage from the adds but used the divine intervention on hope for a long rest mid fight. I didn’t even realize he had a transformation.

@KingKari_

11 ай бұрын

Right like what’s the prerequisite to get him to go into his form cause I had lae’zel stun him and me and her just kept him on the ground with topple 😂

@MrFryTastic

10 ай бұрын

I actually got him with a hold monster purely because he transformed into his monster form. He went from 200 health to dead in 1 turn from my palalock with the guaranteed crits.

You can get the astral sword 5 minutes into your playuthrough . U meet Voss and his red dragon at the beginning near the groove. Just go behind him with invisibility, cast command (drop weapon ) or disarm with a fighter and he will drop it. I had this weapon since lvl4 on lae zel .

@Nhire

10 ай бұрын

cool, good to know you cheese video games.

@darth4872

10 ай бұрын

@@Nhire why not

@exz1tar

10 ай бұрын

and then the entire questline gets fucked cause he'll be hostile in act 3

@darth4872

10 ай бұрын

@@exz1tar no hes not

@blackhat4206

8 ай бұрын

This has been patched out to prevent this specific cheese, if I recall correctly.

The fight was very fun and challenging! However my way of doing it was basically hypnotize Raphael while i deal with the rest of the enemies and pillars, and when hes alone just pour everything onto him lol. I didn't kill him as i think hes very cool character and didn't know about the armor. Hopefully we see him again in bd4 :)

For the portal, you can distract Helsik with conversation and have your “Rogue” character lock pick and steal everything to open the portal on the first and second floor. To get past the glowing trap in front of the top floor door, give the staircase head some looted frost..wine (can’t remember specific name) on your way up the stairs to the second floor. It will drop the floor trap and let you in to the second floor where you can loot the rest of what you need to open the portal. Don’t enter the basement though. For some reason this created a glitch in the game where I couldn’t switch back to my main character’s conversation with Helsik to end the conversation. I had to reload to a previous save. Sometimes the glitch will still happen. I created a separate save and reloaded that save to “fix” the glitch.

Yes you can do the whole Raphael fight as you described, and that's how i did it the first time actually, or you can also hammer him until he is dead using necrotic damage to prevent him from healing if you need more then 1 turn to finish him (I did both methods on tactician since i actually did it twice the first time)

Gale with a potion of speed and 4 scrolls of desintegration took down the last pillar at the start of round 2. That helped a lot.😂

i had to use both hopes and my clerics divine intervention to rez party members, heal, and refill spell slots. having to use 2 once per campaign spells to defeat him really might make him the hardest fight in the game. but that made it so we could get the pillars down, and once we got the pillars down he wasnt so bad. plus my fighter killed yurgir before he even got a chance to attack and disappear

Great info! I was dismissing Raphael through the whole story because, you know, a devil. I didn't think you'd ever get to actually fight and beat him.

I'm running into an issue. I've seen 2 of the items to unlock the secret shop, but she won't talk to me about going to the house of hope. she'll only have an option to see the shop. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Used vortex for the Raphael fight, from one of the elemental summons. Poor guy couldn't cast a single spell, didn't even transform for me

Haha lol I actually just did that yesterday :D Fighting Raphael was a very nice and welcome challenge and was a lot of fun. I marched in there with every summon I could use and think off and thus had a small army of like 10-12 characters. I tactically placed those around the room and then fought for like half an hour until I won the fight. Then I saw the loot and totally freaked about about that legendary armor I mean holy shit that is crazy op xD

@edgarasbaksinskas3152

11 ай бұрын

Haha same story here, summons rules,plus couple angelic potions and an easy fight, I'm on tactician and did it first try :p

@theepicduck6922

11 ай бұрын

Yep, on average you're geared to hell by this fight.

that staff of spell power is not the best staff you can get from the house of hope. there is another that is even better in a hidden vault in the main circular area. you gotta succeed a roll to see the way in. the staff is called Markoheshkir. Edit: sorry markoheskir is in the sorcerous sundries tower.

If you got the silver sword off Voss in act 1, can you still get a second one in act 3? Cause I won't say no to two Silver swords xD

TBH Markoheshkir is probably easier to get and comes with Kereska's Favour as an action.

when i fought raphael he did not live long enough to transform, i didnt destroy the pillars, i kept tripping him with shadowheart and lea zel, shadowheart is a fighter subclass cleric in my run, so both of them have trip attack and bonus actions, i kept raphael on his back till the trash mobs were gone, then i used brand the weak to make him weak to slash and tore him apart with guaranteed crits and double base damage due to him being "prone".

Sadly the monk legendary fists are overshadowed by the house of hope strength gloves. On my rogue after going through the house i reset and put str and con at 8, dex 17, wis 16. With gloves and amulet str and con are 23, dex is 22 with hag hair, ability point feat, and the mirror buff. That, with tavern brawler, gives +14dmg to every fist strike, +3 more with the boots that adds wisdom modifier to unarmed strikes. Thats +17 +whatever manifestation dmg you take, +1d8+6 dmg that comes with a normal dice roll. Thats potentially 40ish dmg per hit. With 3 lvls in rogue for thief subclass, and ki special ability, plus haste, thats 2 actions and 3 bonus actions per turn, which ends up being 10 attacks at 40 dmg each. If you get the ring to add 2 dmg to every illuminated target and the eingcthat adds 2 dmg every time you are surrounded by 2 or more enemies, thats a potential of 440 dmg per turn for 3 turns. And thats without even considering what neck piece or helmet or chest you might be using... Monk is absolutely BROKEN.

@ashdaniels2332

11 ай бұрын

You can hit 24 str in the game and then use the damage monk gloves for even more damage

@Draciele

11 ай бұрын

@ashdaniels2332 sure you can but you lose out on other stats that are just as beneficial, especially since your main character tends to get into concersations. This allows 14 cha for those speech checks as well. I have not been able to find a setup yet that allows for more dmg than the setup ive put up above

Awesome guide!!😊

In the treasure room with the staff, above the pile, I saw a golden face that was labeled "portal".. but I couldn't reach it... Anyone figure that out?

does main quest line interfere with this? or I can rush to house of hope immideately when I get to baldur gate

In case no one's said this already, DO NOT use Hope's Damage divine intervention if Raphael still has his Radiant resistance. Hope will die and be unrezzable since she's technically a summon and not a part of your party. For this reason, I only use her healing divine intervention just to play it safe. If Hope dies you won't get the gloves of soul catching, so best to avoid the possibility completely imo. If you must use her damage intervention, make sure you use Shadowheart's first (or some other source of radiant damage) that way she'll tank the radiant retort blast and be knocked unconscious leaving Hope to cast freely (as demonstrated in the video, actually).

Hold monster is super strong against Raphael, he didn’t even transform or get a turn when I killed him

I failed the raphael fight at least 8 times b4 i got lucky enough to beat him pretty easily. That music definitely made that fight tho

1. You dont need to sign with Raphael to get the silver sword, you can lie to Voss that you signed and get it. 2. In the Devil's fee you dont need to pay or lie or pass skill checks you just give a bottle of water to the skull at the top of the stairs to deactivate the trap and all the items to open the portal are lying around or in chests.

man I did this completely differently, what a great game this is

The best prize you get for going there though do not forget is that sweet ass boss music my god I am still in bliss from that shit.

If you take Voss’s sword, does it lock you out of siding with the Emperor?

Tbh the fiest time I fought Raphael I wasn’t prepared . I ended up just using a scroll of sphere of invulnerability , putting my entire party inside (they’d only leave to deal damage then come back) , then hold monster on Raphael , potion of speed on my barbarian and fighter and he was dead before he could do a single attack xD

Place 2 or 3 barrels of smokepowder around each pillar prior to entering the rest of the House of Hope. When the battle starts just light 'em up.

What is the body type you used for your character?

3:11 u can steal a legendary version fo this staff from the amge tower place lorroakan in u use the correct portal to port to him then go to the window then u drop down to level below go in sneak and touch the nroith button to port and u can steal the legendary staff and a chest gotta disable the barriers but nto ahrd if u goit a thief can always destroy them with thunder damage

Wait! How do you handle the Hell Sphere? You never mentioned anything about that. Im having a difficult time handling it. Killing it would just spawn another. How do you handle that flaming ball?

I didn't even know Raphael could transform, I used hold monster on him and that... Well that stunned him for the rest of the fight, also gave my fighter 100% chance to hit and guaranteed crits on every strike, fighter also had giantslayer greatsword so he died after a volley of 9 crit swings

If you have a character that can stun focus those stuns on raphael, i was a monk so he was stunned the entire fight and shadowheart can even cast planar binding on him so he'll help you fight lol. Just dont cast it on him if hes the only one left because the game bugs out a bit.

I don't think Raphael transformed to his other form for me on my run, and I don't think I killed any of the pillars, also did not know about the full rest pool, had a kind of hard time doing it all on short rests and Hopes Divine Intervention.

Perilous Stakes illithid power can make Raphael vulnerable to all damage. With hold monster he literally dies in 4 hits.

I just used hold monster on Raphael and went full ham lol. Dude never moved the whole fight.

this gear is absolutely insane.

someone please tell me how he was attacking that much @ 12:30

I’m baffled that I was able to kill Rafael first try and had the big guy join me in the fight. Somehow I had more chances to get the big guy to join me which is a 30 check when the infernal control gem i was not able to get passed with a 20 intelligence check.

Man!!! As soon as you said, “Starting in Act 3…” I had to pause. I just barely made it through the Mountain Pass 😭

What I did is dash and run to restoration faucet then kill 1 by 1 Rafael's minios before fighting him. Takes a lot of time tho. :D

Just a heads up. the githyaki sword you can get in act 1 if you really wanted it. you can command him to drop his weapon or sneak up and disarm attack him before conversation and pick it up.

for the fight you talk about, did you loot the flowers in act 1 underdark that cause silence?

@davidcrawford5324

11 ай бұрын

Yeah great idea except for the fact that the Sussur blooms don't work once you leave the underdark. They wilt into petals and are useless thereafter. You DO have the option of using your Sussur bark forged weapon to silence but it doesn't last long and it's only a chance on hit and needs to be continually reapplied. Spells or items that will CC him will work a lot better.

@theepicduck6922

11 ай бұрын

@@davidcrawford5324 yep just using silence at this point or hold monster would be preferable.

Had to do a double take 5:54 ish mark thought I heard coin of my mom lol.

10:29 unneccessary. Just do Yurgirs questline in Shar. He'll thank you later by automatically joining you in the fight.

Can't find Voss, anyone knows where is he at?

He didn’t transform in my fight cuz I didn’t even try to take out the pillars - I trolled him with death warded summons - including minscs hamster. I cast haste on my moonbeam caster so I could ‘move moonbeam’ twice a turn to do a ton of damage + the damage when it’s rafiels. If you have someone with the glyph spell - the sleep 100 knocks out rafiel for 2 turns everytime so you can sneak attack with a gloomstalker rogue build for hella damage. U also can spam the fountain before the fight and cast major level 6 buff spells and get the slot back with out losing the til long rest buffs.

I absolutely trivialized the fight. Used ''Hold Monster'' with Gale, while My lv 12 Paladin, Lae'Zel and Yurgir wrecked him from 666 hp to 0 in 2 turns. He couldn't react. However, I cast Hope's divine intervention while his minions still had the buff of returning radiant damage, and she got one shot. Not worth reloading a 30 roll on charisma to get Yurgir on my side and that perfect no-transformation Raphael just to get gloves that I won't use.

You can not sign the contract and use deception on Voss to make him believe you have the hammer. High DC but he just gives you his sword if you pass it.

Thank you

Idk if this is a bug or not. But I have the Helldusk armor, and I put it on Karlach to see how high I could get her AC. And even though the armor says you will be proficient while wearing it, cause she is not proficient with heavy armor herself, she gets a nerf to her berserk skill. Anyone know if this is a bug or intended with this piece?

@jaesaces

11 ай бұрын

The problem isn't proficiency, but rather that Barbarians' abilities specifically only work if wearing Medium or lower armor.

@joshholmes1372

11 ай бұрын

No that's not a bug. Barbarians and monks have special abilities that don't work when armor is worn.

Save some money, You don't need to pay Helsik to use the portal! I'm sure someone already said it in the comments but just in case: Go up the stairs and disarm the magical circle in front of the door by giving a Thirsty Statue some water. Then lockpick the door. Once in the ritual room you need to find the 5 items, the skull, the coin, the diamond, the incense, and the marble. They're all in the room in various chests and on tables then follow the video for where to place the items. (You'll also find a snazzy new helm too along the way)

the diolauge option isnt appearing even though i identified the items

you can also get a free devotes mace if you use hopes divine intervention and just throw it to the ground

Hold Monster on Raphael and then beat him down in 1 turn. Epic lol. He didn't even get a turn.

to tell you the truth I started this out with convincing Yugir to fight with me then Raphael killed me in an instant. I found that using Globe of Invulnerability on the party and keeping them inside until I kill all of Raphael's help made this combat super easy, once they were all gone I just circled him with the whole party (Karlach, Lae'zel, Yugir, myself and Gale from afar). I do have a sword of Dual that compels the target to dual with one character which proved a great trick to no allow him to use any magic on the rest of my team. but all in all I think this fight is the best so far because of the music 😁, hope this helped someone

i fought raphael and never transformed into his final form! was that a glitch or me just being very lucky??

I killed Raphael without him transforning did i lose something?

I missed some items, am i able to go back?

Damn, i didn't kill harleep. Is there a way to find him again?

Raph never transformed in my game, he stayed dead after I killed his first form. Also Hopes divine intervention spell killed her every time, they all just reflected the damage back to her as fire damage

You can get the silver sword immediately without signing the contract you just have to pass a deception check on voss telling him that you did sign the contract

I had to double take when he said the coin of "ma mom"

The end rap is cute AF.

You can just pickpocket the pouch from her as well. Along with a lot of other goodies

the shop for the portal in lower city is devils fee for anyone that was confused

It's crazy this channel has 2 people posting the exact same content and no one says a word...

I got hope obliterated in my first playthrough, because of the devil's reaction to divine damage

Considering upping my difficulty before i finish my first playthrough Edit: i made a paladin oath but have been an oathbreaker the whole game

I beat him with hold monster i was able to make Gale's spell save dc 20 and it was so easy

You don't have to identify the two items to get the ritual. I bribed for 1000 then used persuasion to get the materials for the ritual.

Omg I did this fight at level 9 and it was sooo hard.

fyi if you go to the house of hope before talking to Voss in the sewers he will not be there when you get back :(. No idea how or if I can get my githyanki his sword now

@gammer878

11 ай бұрын

Same problem, he shoud be on the underground but when u get there is buged. U talk with his dragon and he shoud be right there.... I think is buged

Or you can is the spell hold monster and you can use that on raf for ez w

I did not sign the contract and lied to Voss and got the sword PSA as well if you didnt kill that big demon guy in act 2 you can kill him after the big fight and get his 1h xbow

Staff of spellpower I keep in my inventory and use on my cleric to summon a deva for freeeeee

if you don't have a wizard in your team when fighting Raphael, do not even try to destroy the pillar because his ascended form deal way too much damage compare to his normal form ever does. When Raphael is in ascended form, he can easily wipe your party in bad positioning if you don't have counter spell vs in his normal form his AoE is really pathetic and your clearic+hope can outheal any dmg he and his minions can do. I have fighter and barbarian both above 20 str with bless, straight pump his normal form seems the easiest.

The best part about the Gauntlets of Strength and the Amulet of Greater Health is that you get to dump those stats completely. Got them both on my Barbarian, dropped STR and CON to 8 and cranked my dex so I could use the Armor of Agility to get 23 AC (with Cloak of Protection). That goes up to 24 once you get the Helm of Balduran. Now my Barb has 23 STR, 20 Dex, 23 Con and 24 AC while also maintaining 10+ in mental stats to help with saves. Absolutely disgusting how useful magic items are. Also, hilarious how all these videos are like "YOU'LL NEVER GET THESE ITEMS, NO ONE ON EARTH HAS THEM" - Then the comments are all just people correcting Rage on how to do things inside of House of Hope. Obviously most people are going there during their playthrough.

@user-mu8dm4rk7g

8 ай бұрын

Bro, you just blew my mind lmao I only thought about using Club of Hill Giant Strength, Dexterity Gloves, that Intelligence Circlet and that Constitution Amulet. Other points are dumped to Wisdom and Charisma. But your idea sounds cool too!

I legit killed raphael in 1 turn with this strat 1.- perilous stakes 2.- hold monster 3.- divine smite x3 4.- action surge 5.- divine smite x3 I legit was flabbergasted at the damage I did, it was like 190-ish per divine smite 💀

Yeah I murdered him so fast after killing everyone else that he didn’t even have a chance transform before dying

Raphael is super easy. Grab two druids and spam confusion . 70 percent chance to succeed and you can comfortably auto attack raphael without taking damage after destroying soul towers.

Lmao i beat this with convicing yugir, ….. with only 1 character left standing after 😂 but good thing tho you gain yugir as a ally in the final. (Also Raph. never went into his second phase)

10:32 Or don’t kill him in act 2 and he will turn on Raphael without a check

7:44 can’t you disarm the trap?

No time stamps of what they are?

So I followed the strat it worked but it killed hope! No matter what I do, everytime I cast Divine on her she kills herself