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  @GianniCampanaleКүн бұрын

  Drakethroat glaive's spell can be twin casted by a sorcerer. You probably know, others maybe don't. 28:48 about risky ring, but more generally, how can i see if one of my characters has advantage in something out of combat or dice rolls? this really bothers me. I don't see your Astarion having his +1-to-all buff after biting someone! Did you already say in some of your videotutorial that summoned unit can drink elixirs?

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  @FluffiestWalrusКүн бұрын

  Personally, I think you should be able to change off of Druid because they changed the ability. If you don’t though, I’m curious to know what build you would have for your 4th slot to be the most OP possible if it wasn’t a Druid

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  @MelthКүн бұрын

  I think I might go with a Swords Bard titanstring user in that case. That retains some good battlefield control while adding more excellent ranged damage Further, with two bards in the party that means I can do 2 Song of Rests. Meaning 4 short rests per act. That's a substantial increase in my resources and would give Karlach more ultra lightning bolts and give both bards more super powerful inspirations Gloomstalker 4/Swords Bard 6 would probably be the most tempting version for act 2 to tear through enemies with extra attacks every combat. But by level 12 I think I would want more spellcasting so I can summon water myrmidons and/or have Counterspell. So for act 3 I would probably instead shift to swords bard 10/ranger 2 (fighter 1 is also ok, but I prefer ranger 2)

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  @FluffiestWalrusКүн бұрын

  @@Melth very nice idea! The Druid does feel a bit limited in terms of the “make things dead” ability. The unlimited spike growth is very nice, though

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  @darthimperious1594Күн бұрын

  The way you manage to logic your way through the roleplay aspect of metagaming this run is honestly hilarious and almost as entertaining as the min-max nature of the run itself. Bravo for not just giving yourself an easy out of "I have to do this due to the rules of the run" and honestly trying to reason it out SOMEHOW.

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  @Melth23 сағат бұрын

  Yeah, trying to roleplay and make things make some sense is sort of the unwritten 10th rule of the challenge. Unwritten in part because I'm sure there will be times where I do have to sacrifice RP for other aspects of the challenge

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  @scorchdelta6241Күн бұрын

  This actually does help, not because I’m going for level 8, but because my friend and I are playing an honor mode run and bugged the game so we didn’t get the XP from the first grove goblin fight (my fault). For some reason only 2/5 (I think is the total) bandits spawned at withers church. And we accidentally sequence broke a bit and locked ourselves out of XP from the grove, the paladins, and the town that’s on fire just because we went to the mountain pass WAY to early to grab gear we needed for our builds before we were confident enough to fight tougher battles. We’re about level 5 right now maybe 6😬

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  @MelthКүн бұрын

  Oof, I'm glad this guide helps claw back some XP. Luckily the grove goblins aren't worth very much and neither are the bandits in Withers tomb, but losing all the major content by going to the mountain pass too soon is pretty devastating

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  @AcBaLkXКүн бұрын

  This is the best BG3 content I have seen on KZread yet. Just seen that the series is still going, please finish this! It is a treat to watch. Thank you for this. You provide a ton of things here, intricate knowledge about dnd, the game itself and obviously the games mechanics, it feels like 16 yo me is watching old school let’s plays again, but this time it’s about one of the greatest games ever with the most insane strategies I could have never thought of myself!

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  @MelthКүн бұрын

  @@AcBaLkX thank you very much! Knowing that people like these videos is what makes all the work worthwhile

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  @surr3ald3signКүн бұрын

  I dont mind Volo personally, hes a bit excentric but all true writers are and in universe id assume that exageration and tall tales are totally normal kinda like our own world in older eras where stories were more or less all we had

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  @surr3ald3signКүн бұрын

  Ah yes fighting the oathbreaker dude in act 1 😐 effectively a level 12 paladin, imma be real thats a rough fight even 4v1 thats rough level 12 pally is nothing to sneeze at

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  @MelthКүн бұрын

  It's pretty manageable at level 5 though. He has strong offense but is weaker than several other act 1 fights on defense, so a good party should be able to kill him in about 2 rounds without spending many resources

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  @surr3ald3signКүн бұрын

  @@Melth i thought hed be alot scarier than that

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  @MelthКүн бұрын

  @@surr3ald3sign he does have an AoE fear effect so he IS scary in that way at least 😆 But yeah, he's pretty manageable once you have decent spells and multiple attacks. His HP and AC are comparable to various end-of-act 1 bosses. His offense is very high in melee, but it's mediocre at range.

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  @surr3ald3signКүн бұрын

  I LOVE that you dont just consider the game mechanics themselves but also the roleplaying aspect of every decision, because yeah some times its great to just brutally minmax for maximum possible efficiency at the cost of having very little true roleplaying come into play but the game really is so much... ✨️more✨️ if you take the roleplaying aspect seriously and actually follow cohesive morals and a consistent alignment, your channel (subbing after i finish typing this 😊) has awakened me to the value and enjoyment of roleplaying, i did somewhat roleplay my first playthrough all the way to act 3, took me 250 hours in total the very first time just finishing act 2 and seeing act 3s intro. But after that i had many short playthroughs where i burnt out 20-50 hours into act 1-2 bc i was trying to minmax everything possible and was just not having fun. You helped me find that same attitude i had in ths first playthrough i did, thank you

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  @dinospfcКүн бұрын

  Also, as far as build goes, I recently found out that you can basically permanently immobilize almost all enemies in the game with an Aspect of the Wolverine barbarian throwing spike bulbs. This would be amazing for ranged parties like this one. Not to mention full party advantage all the time from BOOOAL's benediction

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  @MelthКүн бұрын

  @@dinospfc yes, that's quite a good way to immobile a target because the spike bulb is guaranteed to work and the wolverine barbarian inflicts Maimed even on a miss anyway It IS a pretty significant build investment though to put 6 levels into barbarian, which for my run where I can't get rages back would be a generally bad class

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  @dinospfcКүн бұрын

  @@Melth while subpar, I think you can get away with a 6 barbarian/6 Eldrich Knight fighter throwing build even without rage and still do decent damage. With Bhaal's amulet and magic missile, you can also lock down enemies that are spread apart.

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  @dinospfcКүн бұрын

  Alternatively, if you go all in on barb, you can also get Aspect of the Honeybadger and eat rotten food before fights for free rages

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  @Mordring2 күн бұрын

  Just got this video via the grace of the almighty algorithm. Really nice guide to boost that XP early on. I think I managed to hit level 8 in act 1 (or VERY early in act 2) on my Dark Urge run, but it was mainly due to killing pretty much everyone, including those bonus spawns. Otherwise, I was leaving around 7.5-ish so supporting your data. Level 8 is an important level as many of the great multiclass builds go live then, considering how it's typically 5 levels in one class for that extra attack/3rd level spells and then a 3-level dip for the second subclass perks. As for Act 2, you're probably aware of this, but just in case... You can farm some extra XP in the Gauntlet of Shar's Dark Justiciar fights with enemy-summoning Umbral Tremors (at the main crossroad and Balthazar's Outpost). I did the counting once and I think you can get roughly 30 enemies worth 60 XP each (except the big one who's worth 280 IIRC) in the fight outside of Balthazar's room alone. As they only have about 40-50 HP on Tactician, they're killed easily by a party that should be around level 9 at least at that point. Easy 2K XP that feels almost free.

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  @drakenastor2 күн бұрын

  Dance macab is pretty gud tho, more bodies to throw at enemies

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  @@drakenastor it would be if you could control those bodies. You can't throw them at enemies anymore, they throw themselves at whatever target they want. And they might pick a useless target, or one that blocks you, or one that sets off an obvious booby trap that blasts your team. Not to mention you have to spend a high level spell slot for the privilege of having these uncontrollable idiots running around, instead of spending it summoning your own controllable ghouls (or flying ghouls) with high level animate dead

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  @drakenastorКүн бұрын

  @@Melth oh, sounds like they changed it big time from the last time I used it, wow that is bad. Even cost a spell slot now? This is real disappointing if true.

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  @Alirion144-jx4uj2 күн бұрын

  Wow, thanks for the great video! I always find episodes in which you explain your plan and put the team together extremely exciting! You get a deep insight into the mechanics of the game (I was surprised how the selected spell modifier is determined). Please keep up with your great content...!

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  @ironbar20092 күн бұрын

  I tried to do the same in my HM run with the Shar blessings but ended up having to long rest because I never triggered the celebration cutscene at the Druid Grove. This bugged out the Halsin/Thaniel quest since I couldn’t find Halsin anywhere after the portal defense no matter which camp I looked in. He showed up in camps after a LR but annoying that something minor kinda screwed up my buffs

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  @MelthКүн бұрын

  I hate that bug! It spoiled my first attempt at a no test run too (which is also my only complete run). Whether a bear or an elf, Halsin is *always* a party animal

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  @The-Great-Penguin2 күн бұрын

  Single player game. No such thing as cheating here.

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  @wekashipo75072 күн бұрын

  I think I said this on the last video, but I would not fault you for changing Minthara's subclass to something that wasn't made obsolete in a patch. If the game changes, it's fair to change your plans.

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  @bi_smth2 күн бұрын

  Ohhhhh so thats why my companions suddenly become shit when i respec into multiclass. they really shouldve made that info accessible cus some of my companions became utterly unusable.

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  @MelthКүн бұрын

  Yeah, it's needlessly complex, needlessly hidden, and can cripple a character. Not a good mechanic. It would have made more sense and been simpler that your spellcasting modifier for items and whatnot is just the highest of your Int, Wis, and Cha

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  @RoryDavidWatts2 күн бұрын

  Great to see your subscriber count increasing Melth! Very well deserved. Thanks for the video!

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  @dinospfc2 күн бұрын

  Surprised you skipped over Shadeclinger Armor from Quartermaster Talli. Advantage on all saving throws is simply amazing, especially on story driven ones like the Zaith'isk and Shar buffs. The obscured condition is fairly easy to create, especially with Cloak of Cunning Brume from Mattis because it also works outside of combat infinitely. There's also currently an exploit where if you unequip Shadeclinger Armor while obscured, you get the buff for the rest of the day.

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  @sintanan4692 күн бұрын

  It's not that Larian hypes up runepowder in the lore, the game just underpowers runepowder mechanically. A one ounce vial of runepowder is equal to roughly two 100-lb barrels of gunpowder/smokepowder. If we use real world math, that means a one ounce vial of runepowder is roughly 64kg of TNT. The vial of runepowder Philomeen is standing over is supposed to be 17 pounds of runepowder... that's, spitballing, basically a 56m radius fireball explosion (likely vaporization within 18m radius) with the shockwave causing damage out to about 303m radius. So, yeah, runepowder is mechanically vastly under-powered.

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  @spyrochick1012 күн бұрын

  Thank you very much for explaining how spellcasting and use of items/scrolls works with mult-classed spell casters. The way you described it makes a lot more sense now. I will definitely be trying it going forward in my playthroughs.

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  Glad it's helpful! All these magic items that let you use your spellcasting modifier for different purposes are certainly fun and interesting, but the mechanic of *which* modifier is used is pretty crazy!

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  @serenisma34022 күн бұрын

  i love this

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  Thank you, it's always good to hear that people enjoy these videos

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  @kingtickeler2 күн бұрын

  I will literally never understand why anyone would pray to an evil God/Goddess when there are countless other (often more powerful) good or neutral aligned Deities to choose from instead. If that father "Frakes" was so hungry why not pray to an agriculture god like "Chauntea" for example instead of an Archfiend like Zariel who possess far less divine power and doesn't even possess an agriculture domain in her portfolio. The only way I would have sympathy for those that end up as soul coins is if they truly didn't know that they had other options to pray to (Which would be highly unlikely).

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  I guess some of the evil races in D&D are stupider than people and perhaps cannot put coherent thoughts together well enough with their negative Int and Wisdom to figure this kind of basic stuff out, but it's very hard to explain for intelligent races. The existence of numerous verifiably real, good-aligned deities who are much more consistent about blessing people than the evil gods, and who don't even demand any kind of onerous codes of conduct, AND who also grant you a verifiably real and nice afterlife does make it unimaginably stupid to choose an evil god or a devil instead for this kind of thing. An excuse they sometimes give for devils is that gods only sometimes answer prayers, but devils consistently do. That leaves no explanation whatsoever for evil gods, but it *could* offer an explanation for desperate people praying to devils when the gods don't answer... But the devils themselves undermine that by randomly scamming people like Frakes because they're stupidly evil rather than intelligently evil. If Zariel had gone "That's a very badly worded prayer and you're an idiot, but ok, here's plenty of delicious and healthy food anyway", she'd surely get more souls in the long term!

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  @kingtickeler2 күн бұрын

  @@Melth I completely agree with you on the "Attract more flies with honey instead of vinegar" angle for the devils and their deals. The fact that it's common knowledge that Devils routinely screw people over in their dealings yet people like Wyll still made that pact with Mizora is ludicrous. I'm glad Bhaalista doesn't have a Patron and just got the power by association which is a far more reasonable decision. What further compounds the silliness is that most of the time a lot of issues could have been solved by mortals in most worlds. I imagine Ranger would be one of the most common Classes encountered because of sheer necessity of having people that can safely forage the wilderness, hunt game/bounty hunt, and trailblaze for civilization. Since Rangers learn spells like "Goodberry" at level 2, Father "Frakes" could have had his issue solved by a local mortal Ranger IF Frakes didn't accidentally become a Ranger himself by surviving in the wilderness long enough to potentially pick up that skillset. Issues, like "Hunger" and "famine" are hard to sell when simple low level spells like "Goodberry" counter it so handily.

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  @@kingtickeler the super high magic nature of d&d settings (especially modern ones, but even old ones) really breaks and ruins storytelling because there is an easy magical solution to every big problem, and it's usually a low level spell

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  @brokenmeats59282 күн бұрын

  I love ALL Melth videos!

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  Always glad to hear it

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  @unwise65182 күн бұрын

  It's far from necessary given how strong your party already is, but I was a little surprised you didn't have your fourth character as a throwing build. The best build (Barbarian 5/Fighter 4/Rogue 3) relies on rages to get bonus action throws, but I think the Eldritch Knight 12 build is still very good and doesn't use any resources at all. There's just a ton of item support for throwing throughout the game, and elixirs of cloud giant strength + tavern brawler mean you basically never miss and the damage is massive.

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  Throw builds are fun for sure! And in act 1, they're very strong. So I certainly did a lot of throwing back in act 1 myself. And if I could have a 5th party member, they would probably be a thrower. However, on this run where I can't rest and therefore a rage thrower would be ineffective, I don't think a dedicated throw build is worthwhile overall. Tavern Brawler in general stops being very good after act 1 in my opinion. Earlygame when accuracy is scarce and requires spending scarce resources like Bless spell slots or Oil of Accuracy, doubling your Str to attack rolls is great. But by this point I think all my characters, even the ones not really built for attack damage, have like 90% to hit without spending resources. By act 3 I expect I'll have 95% or 99% to attack absolutely anything, so the Tavern Brawler accuracy boost becomes unimportant. The damage boost remains decent, but it's not competitive with the +10 from Sharpshooter unless you use a cloud giant elixir. The trouble with a cloud giant elixir is it means no bloodlust elixir! And that means 1 fewer attack (or spell) per turn, which is really painful. Now admittedly it's not *always* possible to give your bloodlust user a kill every single round. But it's almost always possible. Again, if I had a 5th party member, they might end up using a cloud giant elixir and doing some throws, because I can't reliably get enough kills every round to justify more than 2 bloodlust elixirs I would say. Anyway, with pure fighter, I just don't think a throw build would be competitive with a good archer at this point. I'd probably take a titanstring user instead if I wanted another damage dealer who could use strength.

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  @Frazec_Atsjenkov2 күн бұрын

  Unfortunately, I had to stop watching due to too many spoilers.

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  @thomasbotond21522 күн бұрын

  Calling Dammon a gyarados was a perfect way to put it. That act 3 gear is ludicrous

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  And at least he learned tackle here in act 2 so we don't need to switch him out with another blacksmith to feed him XP every single fight 😆

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  @cannyvalley85222 күн бұрын

  For goddess of loss Shar gives surprising amount of buffs in this game :)

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  @@cannyvalley8522 more like goddess of win!

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  @Frazec_Atsjenkov2 күн бұрын

  On my last honor run, I got the last Cambian to 12hp and the Mindflayer to 3hp... It was the first time I was close to succeeding. I was pretty unlucky as well. Your video was helpful, and I learned some things that will be useful in the rest of the game.

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  @jordanpelaez85322 күн бұрын

  10 minutes in and no StarCraft reference im saddened

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  @lukesandadordoceu48352 күн бұрын

  I don't think you would be unjustified in wanting to change the 4th build since they nerfed the free haste spores item (which was absolutely correct to do, you can already trivialize any fight in this game without that insane of a buff). Although I think sticking to druid is probably the best choice: - they get the most summon spells in the game I think, especially with the 1 level dip in wizard; - keeping to wizard levels is almost useless, they get arcane recovery which is pretty good, but not for your run where it would mean you use it once per act (you can also have this by switching to land druid, besides their additional spells which sometimes contain spells not usually available to druids, but then you would have little use for wild shape) - wizard's strong spell list is also meaningless when you can have it in other casters with a single level dip, so more wizard levels would only mean more preparation slots which aren't all that necessary; - also, a normally good option like sorcerer relies more than other casters on long rests because of spell slots and sorcery points which you wouldn't get back frequently; so druids end up being a very strong option for this last build, they have a ton of strong options for control spells, especially with the dryads (who can also summon wood woads), and some damage and utility in spell choices

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  @darthimperious15942 күн бұрын

  I do appreciate that someone else found the whole "Oh, I'm a Bhaalspawn. Again." thing a bit trite. By the end of Throne of Bhaal, all the Bhaalspawn were supposed to have been killed off. That was the entire point: uniting all the Bhaal essense so that you would either rise as the new God of Murder, or put an end to the essence of Bhaal, once and for all. When I started playing Dark Urge, I, too, figured it out fairly early on. After all, it's a mirror of the battle the main character had in Shadows of Amn, to keep control of his Slayer self, or give in and use the power. Overall, I really like Baldur's Gate 3, and it opened me up to enjoy some aspects of 5th Edition, which was good, because before it, I was a 3.5 purist, especially after the abject failure of 4th edition. I also think the overall story is good, I just hate what I call the "Force Awakens Effect", aka the retelling of a story that's already been told well enough.

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  @maker-maker_2 күн бұрын

  Hi Melth, amazing video! I'm a noob to DND and Baldurs gate, on my first playthrough (tactician difficulty). I have definitely fallen into the noob trap of having a healer. The problem is that I always end up needing healing! Maybe it's due to bad tactics, maybe it's due to not having someone consistently dealing damage (probably both). I was wondering how I could change my party comp to escape this trap. I'm at the very start of act 3 now. My main character is a pure warlock that is generally concentrating on crowd-control while firing away eldritch blasts. I have an Astarion that is essentially the same as your Astarion, gloomstalker assassin. I have Lae'zel as a pure battlemaster fighter at 22 strength that also wields a titanstring bow, also has great weapon master and tends to dish out major chunk damage, especially with gloves of the underdog. Then I have Shadowheart as a pure life cleric focusing on supporting Lae'zel on the front line (sentinel, healing, bless, etc.) while casting short-range AOE like spirit guardians. Also a debuffer in act 2 with some radiant orb and blindness stuff but I don't think that will be as important in Act 3. What should I change? Also would love to see other viewers' opinions too!

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  @wekashipo75072 күн бұрын

  If it's a first playthrough and you're new to D&D as a whole, then I think you're doing really well just by making it to act 3. Less than 40% of players even get that far, according to the achievements on Steam. If you're not constantly TPKing, then don't feel bad about using a healer. Healing may be suboptimal compared to not getting hurt in the first place, but a win is a win at the end of the day. Bit of a copout answer, but minmaxing and optimizing really aren't necessary outside of an Honor run.

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  @ironbar20092 күн бұрын

  Healing is a called a noob trap because you can never really out heal the damage that will be incoming. Most healing spells are 1) weak (low amount of health regained) and 2) costly (taking up spell slots and bonus actions). That being said, Life Clerics are very viable because they get to apply on-heal buffs using their channel divinity which they can use multiple times per short rest. This means bless + blade ward 3 times per short rest with the added bonus of healing your party for 30+ hp. You can also pre-cast spirit guardians and then stack movement speed to run around applying a bunch of debuffs with radiant orb and reverb to your enemies so they cant hit their attacks and cannot save against your control spells. This is still a very viable/broken strategy going to Act 3 as your damage may scale off, but the on heal buffs and widespread debuffing are invaluable.

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  @ironbar20092 күн бұрын

  Overall your builds are solid and will easily carry you to end of act 3. Honor mode itself is pretty trivial with decent optimization and some game knowledge. If I had to nitpick, I would say you lacked a true control character that abused one of the two main arcane acuity helms. Swords Bard Archer or Fire Sorcerer would go well here (perhaps a respect for your warlock tav) but honestly its your first playthrough so just enjoy the journey 😊!

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  @maker-maker_2 күн бұрын

  @@ironbar2009 Thanks for the feedback! I already know I want to do an Honor Mode run after this (maybe even a small challenge run) so I just want to get a better sense of party composition before I do that.

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  @man_apologist2 күн бұрын

  karlach not really caring about the souls in soul coins is apparently a relic of when they played a bigger role in the game earlier in development the disguise self bug is so unique and funny its honestly a shame it ended up being so inconvenient, was very curious to see what kind of potion araj would make for bhallista lol! excited to see karlach control in action :D

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  Interesting, I hadn't heard that soul coins were ever going to do more. It makes me curious what ideas they originally had.

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  @GianniCampanale22 сағат бұрын

  I wonder if you can disguise on purpose to receive a different elixir

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  @Melth22 сағат бұрын

  @@GianniCampanale as far as I can tell it uses your true race rather than your disguised one

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  @MrBlitzballer2 күн бұрын

  Watch out with that morninglord's radiance when you get to the gauntlet of shar btw. The undead justiciars have a buff that when they take radiant damage they double it and send it back as force damage.

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  @@MrBlitzballer yeah, radiant retort. Some shar people in act 3 and some Raphael devils have similar abilities. It's only an average of 10 or so damage in this case. (1d4 base damage x2 because they're weak to it x2 because they double it). Which on a normal run is absolutely trivial, but even for me where I can't heal it's not that bad since I have lots of ways to generate temp HP. The bigger thing though is that I have a lot of ways to do damage without weapon attacks, which means I can avoid the problem entirely on everyone except maybe Astarion.

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  @MrBlitzballer2 күн бұрын

  @@Melth Astarion was the one I was worried about lol. Unless you are killing with each shot and thus getting back the bloodlust temp hp he is gonna have to find other targets to shoot.

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  @@MrBlitzballer or throw smoke powder bombs or something! But he quite possibly can kill with every shot if other people are setting him up anyway

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  @MrBlitzballer2 күн бұрын

  To bad you don't have a sorcerer to twin the drake throat glaive's weapon enchant. Then Astarion could have an extra +1d4 on both crossbows.

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  @@MrBlitzballer a nice perk, but certainly not good enough to justify having a sorcerer imo

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  @MrBlitzballer2 күн бұрын

  @@Melth Not with your rest restrictions for sure. Also worth noting that the shield that gives 1 extra spell slot (I think you had it on Minthara) gives 1 full spell slot if you equip and unequip it. A lot of people use it to get infinite sorcery points but just wanted to make sure you know about it so you don't accidentally end up with extra first level spells over the course of the act. (not that I think 1st level spells are ever going to make or break an encounter for you.)

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  @Bilndmann2 күн бұрын

  Not mandatory by any means, but with as large a party as you have, you might consider getting the “hide silvanus’ blessing chat message” mod to avoid some visual clutter.

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  That's a good idea, yeah!

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  @lendial2 күн бұрын

  Lifesaver, did not know there was a mod for that.

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  @cannyvalley85222 күн бұрын

  Why not leave that Silvanus idol in your camp chest?

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  @@cannyvalley8522 and give up on the useless free knowledge nature skill?!

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  @cannyvalley85222 күн бұрын

  I mean Nature literally never comes up after leaving Underdark? Oh but Animal handling can be quite different experience than Speak with animals

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  @WhitedDMaxwell2 күн бұрын

  The bot has infinite resources and food is disabled. I destroyed the left base and this made the others stronger. Blue came and almost destroyed my army at 90 limit with golems...

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  @Thegingerbass13 күн бұрын

  One concern I have is this Lathander’s blessing that gives you radiant damage on your attacks. In the gauntlet of Shar, you are going to face some enemies that have Radiant Retort. Do you have a plan to handle these yet?

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  Those guys will be a nuisance for sure, but I think it's worth it to benefit from +1d4 damage in every other fight in act 2 The retaliation damage is only an average of 4d4 = 10 per attack, which adds up but is ok once in a while since I can have lots of sources of temporary HP. I also have a few ways to reduce damage like adamantine armor if I want to. The biggest thing though is I can just beat them with non-weapon attacks like smoke powder bombs, Eldritch blast, fireball, etc. Only Astarion relies heavily on weapon attacks for damage

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  @radbarij3 күн бұрын

  About the Minotaur: You call kill him really easily if you get to the Underkdark via Priestess Gut's chamber. Once in the Selunite Outpost, simply destroy the radiating orb held by the Selune statue to depower the defenses. From there you can have a single character take potshots at the Minotaur from atop the gate. (The Minotaur will damage the gate on a critical, but otherwise will deal no damage, so you'll have plenty of time.) The way to avoid the minotaur leaping up at you is to go to the very top of the gate. It'll attack the gate on its turn, you can then spend half your movement to go down one level, shoot at it, and then back up again to the top level of the gate. Rinse and repeat. (This probably isn't really necessary for regular runs, but I found it helpful for level 1 and/or solo challenges and such.)

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  @gortanek3 күн бұрын

  You dont need to disarm anything at the books place. Just walk in, turn based mode, yoink, leave, real time mode

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  @thomasrosendahl27833 күн бұрын

  Melth, im planning on doing a Zentharim/Guild classes party playthrough on Tactician. Would a Bard, fighter, Rogue and ranger be the most accurate, or would you suggest?

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  @normy68013 күн бұрын

  this is some 5000 IQ strategy jesus christ

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  @Melth3 күн бұрын

  @@normy6801 elder brain Int strategy perhaps!

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  @Thegingerbass13 күн бұрын

  Hi Melth, your content is amazing!! Over the last few days I binged this whole playlist, and I have just been blown away by your strategy and knowledge. It’s helping me with my first ever honor mode run! I just took down Gortash and Orin tonight, onto the brain tomorrow 😎

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  @Melth2 күн бұрын

  Nice job, sounds like you've got this run in the bag! I'm glad you like this series

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  @trevorsreya82773 күн бұрын

  My question has to deal with dialog vs deletion. Which gives better exp, and which events allow you to double dip?

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  @SimonGrandell3 күн бұрын

  You can use disguise self drow for auto sucess on diplomacy for the goblin ambush to get the xp. And then ambush them for the fight xp.

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  @Melth3 күн бұрын

  @@SimonGrandell I think they've patched it and you can't get double XP for most things anymore

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  @SimonGrandell3 күн бұрын

  @@Melth Oh okay.

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  @Melth3 күн бұрын

  @@SimonGrandell it might be worth checking if this particular fight is possible to get double XP for! But a lot of places that used to be aren't anymore

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  @SimonGrandell3 күн бұрын

  @@Melth I'll check it in my current game. It's worth checking if it's the same amount of xp if nothing else.

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  @SimonGrandell2 күн бұрын

  @@Melth I just checked it the same xp and you can't doubble dip. But astarion gets inspiration which is abit more xp for astarion. And your main character if you have the charlatan background.

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  @darthimperious15943 күн бұрын

  You: "Weird how the game is lagging so much. I wonder if it has to do with my recording software." Me, as my laptop is hot enough to boil water: "Huh. You mean, it's not supposed to be that laggy...?" I need to get a new PC so I can play this game properly...

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  @Melth3 күн бұрын

  @@darthimperious1594 I eventually got a new computer around episode 15 which fixed the problem, but it remains weird to me. When making episode 1, it didn't lag. When making my previous series, it didn't lag. But it started lagging around episode 3 of this series for some reason

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  @darthimperious15943 күн бұрын

  On my first playthrough, I recognized the intellect devourer for what it was and, as a Paladin of Vengeance, promptly destroyed it. I had no idea that it would actually have a role to play throughout the game, even if only a small one. Alas, Paladins, especially Vengeance ones, tend to be single-minded in those regards.

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  @Melth3 күн бұрын

  @@darthimperious1594 Us is a weird character that way. No good explanation is ever given for why he's not under the control of the Absolute later but serves the Absolute in the beginning, why he'll help you kill a mindflayer while serving the Absolute, but will attack you if you start a fight with some random intellect devourer, and all kinds of other oddities To be honest I think the developers just thought it would be cool to have one of these little brain guys as a pet and didn't think about making it make sense in or out of character

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  @SimonGrandell4 күн бұрын

  If you wait until you have shadowheart before getting Us you can use her guidance to help with the rolls.

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  @Melth4 күн бұрын

  @@SimonGrandell yep! I did it that way on my guide video about this fight. Another benefit (albeit a very minor one) is that if you delay getting Us, then you're allowed to attack the other intellect devourer running around in the room last Shadowheart for 10 XP. Whereas if you fight that thing with Us in the party, Us becomes hostile

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  @darthimperious15944 күн бұрын

  Earned a sub here, easily. You're voice is soothing, easy to understand, but most importantly, you get to the point with no rambling. You highlighted everything necessary, but didn't linger, and you also kept roleplaying as a significant thing to consider in the game. I watched your guide to the final Nautiloid encounter, then came to this, and now I'm off to watch your Nine Hells Challenge run, because hot damn, that seems insane, but, well... you actually seem good enough to do it! A far better player than I, but you don't seem to lord it over us peasants :)

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  @Bilndmann4 күн бұрын

  Can’t wait for combat with minthara in the party. She’s one of the stronger companions given soul branding. Curious as to how valuable you think that ability is.

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  @Melth4 күн бұрын

  @@Bilndmann my initial opinion is that it's amazing, in that it's free to buff with before combat. Movement is tremendously valuable and she could give massive movement bonuses to many teammates. The damage is nice too. I think one could get greedy and exploit it for bonus damage on like 50 summons if you cast it really fast, but that's the kind of cheesy thing I wouldn't do on this run