Multiplat BALDUR'S GATE III

[Rozko]

Paladin is probably one of, if not the most powerful classes in the game right now. I'm playing a Fighter class and like it a little too much. Think i might play a Bard on second playthrough or a Sorcerer.

I am having a rough time trying to figure out what I will go with for my second playthrough. I can't stand Asterion but the party needs a rogue

 

[MusterX]

I am having a rough time trying to figure out what I will go with for my second playthrough. I can't stand Asterion but the party needs a rogue

I mean, you don't NEED a rog. They are great for stealth and lockpicking and trap disarm but there are many viable combinations. I'm using Astarion in my first playthrough but I can tell you my fighter could get along and do all the lockpicking and trap disarming if necessary. Picked "Criminal" background.

 

[Rozko]

I mean, you don't NEED a rog. They are great for stealth and lockpicking and trap disarm but there are many viable combinations. I'm using Astarion in my first playthrough but I can tell you my fighter could get along and do all the lockpicking and trap disarming if necessary. Picked "Criminal" background.

I am thinking of running a Sorcerer, Shadowheart, Karlach, and Minthara in the next run. Karlach will be replaced by Minsc as soon as possible in Act 3

 

[Bornstarch]

When you lvl up, you dont even get to assign stat points?

 

[lordsai]

When you lvl up, you dont even get to assign stat points?

The only way you can increase your ability points is by the feat called ability improvements. You get to pick feats every 4 character levels 4 8 n 12.

 

[elreece]

I am thinking of running a Sorcerer, Shadowheart, Karlach, and Minthara in the next run. Karlach will be replaced by Minsc as soon as possible in Act 3

Hol up I didnt think you could get Karlach and Mint in the same team?

 

[Mike]

Hol up I didnt think you could get Karlach and Mint in the same team?

I didn't even know you could recruit Minthara at all. Pretty sure I murdered her lmao.

 

[MidgardSerpent]

I am having a rough time trying to figure out what I will go with for my second playthrough. I can't stand Asterion but the party needs a rogue

I use him as my main because I didn't like the custom faces and I wanted to play as a rogue for once (usually always play as some double-handed fighter of some kind), but when I started playing I realized that picking an established character as your origin base basically makes them mute for 99% of the time. Which is either good or bad depending on how much you like his voice/character. I suppose you still get his personal quest line, but it does feel like you're somewhat nullifying an existing character by picking them as a main if they don't say anything the whole game.

And I don't want to go all 'tHis GaMe Is WoKe', but I would have liked to have a couple of more conventional masculine male companions just to be pals with. Right now my impression of them is that all of them seem to be written for a female or male gay audience.

I am thinking of running a Sorcerer, Shadowheart, Karlach, and Minthara in the next run. Karlach will be replaced by Minsc as soon as possible in Act 3

I read that getting Minthara as a companion requires you to do multiple evil acts, and will exclude 2 or 3 other companions like Karlach, so not really worth it imo.

 

[Rozko]

Hol up I didnt think you could get Karlach and Mint in the same team?

You can have them on the same team. The retard banter will be epic.

I didn't even know you could recruit Minthara at all. Pretty sure I murdered her lmao.

Side with her against the druids and you can recruit her in Act2

 

[Rozko]

I use him as my main because I didn't like the custom faces and I wanted to play as a rogue for once (usually always play as some double-handed fighter of some kind), but when I started playing I realized that picking an established character as your origin base basically makes them mute for 99% of the time. Which is either good or bad depending on how much you like his voice/character. I suppose you still get his personal quest line, but it does feel like you're somewhat nullifying an existing character by picking them as a main if they don't say anything the whole game.

And I don't want to go all 'tHis GaMe Is WoKe', but I would have liked to have a couple of more conventional masculine male companions just to be pals with. Right now my impression of them is that all of them seem to be written for a female or male gay audience.


I read that getting Minthara as a companion requires you to do multiple evil acts, and will exclude 2 or 3 other companions like Karlach, so not really worth it imo.

I just can't stand his banter. His questline was pretty good though. Probably the best story arc in Act 3. He is just annoying as hell.

Spoiler

Also, The Emperor trying to bang was completely unnecessary.

 

[Valhoven]

I am having a rough time trying to figure out what I will go with for my second playthrough. I can't stand Asterion but the party needs a rogue

Why the rogue party requisite I keep hearing about?

 

[Rozko]

Why the rogue party requisite I keep hearing about?

Traps, lockpicking and opening combat with a sneak attack on spell casters. They are great utility characters in the party. On tabletop I usually play rogues with levels in fighter.

 

[Valhoven]

Traps, lockpicking and opening combat with a sneak attack on spell casters. They are great utility characters in the party. On tabletop I usually play rogues with levels in fighter.

Makes sense. Thanks. I remember staying true to Thieves' Guild in Skyrim and pickpocketing + lock-picking quite a lot. There'd always be a door I'd pick in the fog of night in a mountainside town though with some 7 people living there and an angry Imperial guard would show up, lol. Yeah, sure, why not...

 

[Valhoven]

New interview from BG3 principal writer:

"It's easy to forget because the game's out there now, but when we first started working on [Baldur's Gate 3], it was 'shoulders of giants' stuff. [Baldur's Gate] was such a big shadow," Smith says. "We were like, 'Do we ever look okay in this shadow?' There was anxiety about it."

Smith repeats an appraisal he often heard during Baldur's Gate 3's early access: "It's Divinity: Original Sin 3, not really Baldur's Gate 3." It's not a totally unfounded assessment. Larian's Divinity: Original Sin 2, also one of the best RPGs in recent years, was a bit bright and silly, and everything was constantly on fire, and Baldur's Gate 3 does carry some of that Larian vibe.

It is, however, markedly darker and full of body horror. There are still occasions of 'everything is fire,' but fewer, anyway. Baldur's Gate 3 is not just "Divinity: Original Sin 3" wearing Forgotten Realms' hand-me-down robes. It came from a lot of fondness for the original games. Smith says his own first RPG love was Ultima 7, followed by Baldur's Gate, and then BG2, which superseded the rest.

"We were like, 'No, we love Baldur's Gate. We want to make Baldur's Gate 3.' And there was a reason for that, because so many of us did [grow] up with it."
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Full read here. (External)

 

[Rozko]

Makes sense. Thanks. I remember staying true to Thieves' Guild in Skyrim and pickpocketing + lock-picking quite a lot. There'd always be a door I'd pick in the fog of night in a mountainside town though with some 7 people living there and an angry Imperial guard would show up, lol. Yeah, sure, why not...

I used Misty Step and sneak attack to cheese the hell out of some fights lol

 

[GtehMVP]

I am thinking of running a Sorcerer, Shadowheart, Karlach, and Minthara in the next run. Karlach will be replaced by Minsc as soon as possible in Act 3

Who the hell is Minthara I keep hearing about, and Minsc, and where the hell did you find them lol

What are their classes? I try to avoid looking things up because of spoilers.

I feel like scoured every inch of the game before going into Act 3, and I never saw them. After losing a few hours of progress because I deleted saves like I was working on a factory line, I did another pass over the corrupted lands.

I'm about a half hour into Act 3 now, logging 105 or so hours according to Steam. How did I miss these party members?

One good thing about losing my saves and having to redo the battle of the Moonrise towers, is getting Jaheira as a full on party member. She died in my first battle.

She's the milf Elf you meet at the last light Inn.





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[Bob Gray]

i havent been playing too much attention to this game and it kinda flew under my radar. ive never played any baldurs gate games and to my understanding theres a crap tonne of cinematics and i dunno if i can get into those kind of games, and its a turn based thing as well.

so i kinda forgot about it but then i got a buddy who plays the game and some of my coworkers wouldnt shut up about the game yesterday and i noticed it has a 97 on metacritic and the user reviews are through the roof too so i had to check out some videos and stuff on youtube just to see what all the buzz was about and then it caught my interest and then i ended up watching all these beginner tips and tutorial things and holy shit there seems like alot of mechanics to the game, but it looks like one i can totally get down with

so i sailed the seven seas last night and snagged it up, just installed the hotfix 3 because apparently hotfix 4 is borked and even the developers are advising against it, and now im at the launcher screen all ready to go. think ill have me a beer and a smoke before i fuck my life up. think im gonna roll paladin off the bat but there was alot of classes that actually peaked my interest.

Paladin is probably one of, if not the most powerful classes in the game right now. I'm playing a Fighter class and like it a little too much. Think i might play a Bard on second playthrough or a Sorcerer.

Paladins fucking own. I played a Goliath oath of vengeance pally with poelarm mastery in a tabletop game andnit was fun as fuck, and it transfers really well to the game. Smites are amazing and the extra smite from your additional polearm attacks means you can dish out stupid amounts of single target damage in a turn (potentially up to 4 smites in one turn). Especially if you:

Spoiler

use the Illithid worm to get luck of the far realms

I dropped that drow dude from the cave-in on one turn just from my Pally attacking.

 

[Striderxdj]

I mean, you don't NEED a rog. They are great for stealth and lockpicking and trap disarm but there are many viable combinations. I'm using Astarion in my first playthrough but I can tell you my fighter could get along and do all the lockpicking and trap disarming if necessary. Picked "Criminal" background.

I have literally never used Astarion in my group, and haven't encountered anything that prevents me from lockpicking with either my main character (Paladin) or Gale (he's slightly better at it). A Smugglers Ring and Gloves of Thievery are about all you need for 99% of doors/traps/etc.
After they re-enabled the patch my House of Hope saves were fixed, and the final fight there and especially the music is epic.

Who the hell is Minthara I keep hearing about, and Minsc, and where the hell did you find them lol

What are their classes? I try to avoid looking things up because of spoilers.

Spoiler

Minthara is one of the 3 leaders of the Goblins in Act 1 (She is an Evil alligned Paladin), if you sided with the Grove, you killed her. Minsc (like Jaheira) were both characters from the OG Baldurs Gate games, he's a Ranger and you can find him in act 3.

 

[GtehMVP]

I have literally never used Astarion in my group, and haven't encountered anything that prevents me from lockpicking with either my main character (Paladin) or Gale (he's slightly better at it). A Smugglers Ring and Gloves of Thievery are about all you need for 99% of doors/traps/etc.
After they re-enabled the patch my House of Hope saves were fixed, and the final fight there and especially the music is epic.

Spoiler

Minthara is one of the 3 leaders of the Goblins in Act 1 (She is an Evil alligned Paladin), if you sided with the Grove, you killed her. Minsc (like Jaheira) were both characters from the OG Baldurs Gate games, he's a Ranger and you can find him in act 3.

Ahh now I remember, thanks man!

Spoiler

I never played the original BG games to completion, or got very far. They were all really dated by the time I got around to them. I'm listening to the BG books based on the first two games and expansion, so I'll look forward to Jaheira and Minsc being in them!

I remember Minthera now, I still have some of her Gear in my inventory lol

 

[MusterX]

The only way you can increase your ability points is by the feat called ability improvements. You get to pick feats every 4 character levels 4 8 n 12.

There are other ways. There is a potion you can get that will permanently increase your Str +2, there is a ring that will raise your dexterity to 18, etc. and then, yes, you can also select "ability improvements".