Multiplat Baldur's Gate III

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Thrawn said:
You can get away with it on the lower difficulties or if you have a super-specific party in mind that front-loads all the damage and hopes the fight ends quickly. There are still potions and some classes have their own little heal, like the fighter. But the way you're at the mercy of the dice, you won't always get that damage off in time... so a cleric is something I always have in a party unless I want to make things particularly challenging.

For other RPGs that aren't so chance based, having a cleric or other healer class isn't as important. Like you could get on fine with someone who brews pots or scribes scrolls, or even food as an alternate source of healing.
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Are you finding you're able to outheal the amount of damage being put out though? I gave up dedicated healing because I didn't feel I could. I'm still using Shadowheart for buffs and CC but have switched to just dealing as much damage as possible ASAP. Granted I'm playing on balanced though. My PC is a sorcerer so I'm opening with a nuke (or a double nuke if using quickened spell) or haste on myself and a melee like Karlach with twinned spell. Karlach in my party is a great weapon master and has a ton of actions on top of haste (from my sorc or speed potion) and just either bounces between 1-2 shotting trash or smashing a boss. Then for any healing I've been chugging pots using bonus action if needed and also any damage resist spells or potions.
 
AFDogs said:
Every fight I get into I’m getting obliterated. Even got obliterated by a mage who exploded a barrel in a cutscene lol. Frustrating
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A few early tips I found helpful (I do play on the lowest difficulty cause I had no idea what was happening and died after the ship crashed FWIW)
  • Scavenge all the healing items you can early on
  • Use your short rests if you just need a burst of health
  • Scavenge as many camp supplies as you can, that way you can use your spell slots at whim without worrying about what might be next and if you need them. That way you can long rest and have all your spells back
  • Explore as finding new areas gives XP
  • Depending on your race/class trying to win dice rolls can be better than combat but still gives EXP
 
dwwaino said:
Are you finding you're able to outheal the amount of damage being put out though? I gave up dedicated healing because I didn't feel I could. I'm still using Shadowheart for buffs and CC but have switched to just dealing as much damage as possible ASAP. Granted I'm playing on balanced though. My PC is a sorcerer so I'm opening with a nuke (or a double nuke if using quickened spell) or haste on myself and a melee like Karlach with twinned spell. Karlach in my party is a great weapon master and has a ton of actions on top of haste (from my sorc or speed potion) and just either bounces between 1-2 shotting trash or smashing a boss. Then for any healing I've been chugging pots using bonus action if needed and also any damage resist spells or potions.
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I don’t even try and out heal the damage. I actually spent most of Act 1 without a cleric, getting by with my bard’s healing spells, as long as your companions have 1 hp it’s fine. Often I’d just let my squishy companions (I.e. Gale) die. I’d only heal them up again if I was being completely overrun, even now in Act 2 where I’m using Shadowheart and Halsin a fair bit I don’t really heal unless I absolutely have to. Damage is key in BG3. I never prioritise healing unless I absolutely have to.
 

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joelsyt said:
I don’t even try and out heal the damage. I actually spent most of Act 1 without a cleric, getting by with my bard’s healing spells, as long as your companions have 1 hp it’s fine. Often I’d just let my squishy companions (I.e. Gale) die. I’d only heal them up again if I was being completely overrun, even now in Act 2 where I’m using Shadowheart and Halsin a fair bit I don’t really heal unless I absolutely have to. Damage is key in BG3. I never prioritise healing unless I absolutely have to.
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That's sort of how I'm playing it too. I use Shadowheart for the occassional clutch heal but it's generally been about putting out more damage than I'm taking. Health potions being on a bonus action has made this quite viable.
 
dwwaino said:
That's sort of how I'm playing it too. I use Shadowheart for the occassional clutch heal but it's generally been about putting out more damage than I'm taking. Health potions being on a bonus action has made this quite viable.
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And there’s so many health potions in the game, I feel like every other battle there’s at least one corpse with a health potion. So you’re probably never going to run out of them.
 
joelsyt said:
I don’t even try and out heal the damage. I actually spent most of Act 1 without a cleric, getting by with my bard’s healing spells, as long as your companions have 1 hp it’s fine. Often I’d just let my squishy companions (I.e. Gale) die. I’d only heal them up again if I was being completely overrun, even now in Act 2 where I’m using Shadowheart and Halsin a fair bit I don’t really heal unless I absolutely have to. Damage is key in BG3. I never prioritise healing unless I absolutely have to.
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dwwaino said:
That's sort of how I'm playing it too. I use Shadowheart for the occassional clutch heal but it's generally been about putting out more damage than I'm taking. Health potions being on a bonus action has made this quite viable.
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I'll use Shadowheart for a clutch heal as well and drink a crap ton after a big fight if I wasn't due for a rest. I found resting to be better than healing potions. Once I finish this playthrough I will probably try to go healer-less for most of it to use characters I didn't get to much the first time around

I am romancing Shadowheart so she comes with me. My next playthrough I want to play a tankier character so I can bring Wyll and Gale with me but torn between romancing Karlach and Lae'zel and who to take with me cause I have used Karlach a lot and I want my 3rd playthrough to be a full evil Dark Urge with Minthara
 
Millky95 said:
I'll use Shadowheart for a clutch heal as well and drink a crap ton after a big fight if I wasn't due for a rest. I found resting to be better than healing potions. Once I finish this playthrough I will probably try to go healer-less for most of it to use characters I didn't get to much the first time around

I am romancing Shadowheart so she comes with me. My next playthrough I want to play a tankier character so I can bring Wyll and Gale with me but torn between romancing Karlach and Lae'zel and who to take with me cause I have used Karlach a lot and I want my 3rd playthrough to be a full evil Dark Urge with Minthara
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I actually highly recommend
Lae’zel, her arc is amazing and she’s such a great character. She’s got such a great journey from where she began, I’ve not finished her arc, but her Act 1 arc just made me love her so much. She’s great and fighter is such a strong class as well, she can be absolutely deadly if you give her the chance.
 
joelsyt said:
I actually highly recommend
Lae’zel, her arc is amazing and she’s such a great character. She’s got such a great journey from where she began, I’ve not finished her arc, but her Act 1 arc just made me love her so much. She’s great and fighter is such a strong class as well, she can be absolutely deadly if you give her the chance.
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I think I will need to do a 4th playthrough at this rate
 
dwwaino said:
What's up with the rats? I talked to them all and they told me they were an army and for me to go away. One was sitting on a throne above the demon guy you have to kill and other rats were worshipping the rat on the throne. I couldn't work out anything else about them other than they would occassionally try to bite my party if I ran past too close.
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Once you kill enough of them you'll be drawn into a pretty difficult two-part battle. Make sure you've got lots of AOE attacks handy.
 
the big lebowski said:
Admittedly im playing on tactician but wow this game is going slowly for me.

Which I love.
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I’m finding things unexpectedly pop up and kick my butt on balanced unless I back off and regroup. I wonder how much harder tactician is.
 

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blackshadow said:
I’m finding things unexpectedly pop up and kick my butt on balanced unless I back off and regroup. I wonder how much harder tactician is.
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I’ve had 2 impossible fights so far.

The harpies by the beach. I’ll have to go back to those. Their luring spells killed me for 4 hours straight before I gave up. I hear I need to pre cast bless there.

Then the spider queen dis the same for a few hours before I gave up. I got pretty close but couldn’t deal with her and the 2 spiders and the hatching eggs.

Then I read you can one shot her by blowing her off the bridge down the hole. Just needed a slight respec and hazza! Into the abyss she went.
 
65 hours in a play through later (Steam says 90) and I finally finished my first playthrough

I didn't want to be a mind-flayer but I was mentally prepared for it when the Emperor was suggesting it. Then Karlach offered to change instead. She was right. I hated that she was right. She was going to die otherwise. She became the mind-flayer and saved the world

Loved it. Have about 3 or 4 other ways I want to play it particularly I now know what the hell to do.

Time for my Dark Urge resisting Dragonborn Sorcerer to have that farm with Shar defying Shadowheart. Until Astarion and his vampire hoard start acting up
 
the big lebowski said:
Then I read you can one shot her by blowing her off the bridge down the hole. Just needed a slight respec and hazza! Into the abyss she went.
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Discovered that by accident.

Can also burn/shoot webs she’s on so she takes falling damage but doesn’t get pushed into the chasm.

Did it again with Astarion being sneaky and destroying all the matriarch eggs and sneak attacking the spiders before triggering the big mumma - she wasn't so tough without her minions
 
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the big lebowski said:
I’ve had 2 impossible fights so far.

The harpies by the beach. I’ll have to go back to those. Their luring spells killed me for 4 hours straight before I gave up. I hear I need to pre cast bless there.

Then the spider queen dis the same for a few hours before I gave up. I got pretty close but couldn’t deal with her and the 2 spiders and the hatching eggs.

Then I read you can one shot her by blowing her off the bridge down the hole. Just needed a slight respec and hazza! Into the abyss she went.
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There are lots of bosses you can boink off edges but just be aware that means you won't be able to loot them.

That spider boss is tough early especially because there are adds too and early game you don't have a lot of tools to deal with those kinds of things.

Early game can be really tough. It's not that the game gets easier but you get better equipped to deal with things and you can get away with not preparing for a fight to the nth degree.

During the first act I had to pay close attention to the level under the enemy's name everywhere I went. Even one level under makes for a much harder fight. So I always tried to look for enemies at my own level and that's how I knew I was where I was supposed to be
 
Man cannot for the life of me figure out how to
save the tieflings and Wulbren from the moonrise towers
.

Any ideas would be appreciated. :(
 
joelsyt said:
Man cannot for the life of me figure out how to
save the tieflings and Wulbren from the moonrise towers
.

Any ideas would be appreciated. :(
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How I did it
Shut the door and killed the warden and the eye. After realising opening the cells meant they run out and get killed by guards I reloaded found a way around the back of the cells (anti clockwise around the prison you'll see somewhere you can misty step of bigger leap onto and run around) and destroyed the back of the cell walls. There is a boat waiting for them. From memory Wulbren mentions all this but it doesn't appear in the quest journal. You may or may not want to deal with the rest of the guards there. I'm not sure if events change but lets say while I killed a few I wish I killed a few more. And for the record killing guards there doesn't affect the rest of the tower.
 
joelsyt said:
Man cannot for the life of me figure out how to
save the tieflings and Wulbren from the moonrise towers
.

Any ideas would be appreciated. :(
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About half way down this article:
www.gameskinny.com

Baldur's Gate 3: How to Rescue the Tieflings in Moonrise Towers

Enter the Moonrise Towers prison in Baldur's Gate 3 so you can free the prisoners.
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I didn't manage to do it in my first playthrough so I am assuming this works
 
dwwaino said:
How I did it
Shut the door and killed the warden and the eye. After realising opening the cells meant they run out and get killed by guards I reloaded found a way around the back of the cells (anti clockwise around the prison you'll see somewhere you can misty step of bigger leap onto and run around) and destroyed the back of the cell walls. There is a boat waiting for them. From memory Wulbren mentions all this but it doesn't appear in the quest journal. You may or may not want to deal with the rest of the guards there. I'm not sure if events change but lets say while I killed a few I wish I killed a few more. And for the record killing guards there doesn't affect the rest of the tower.
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Oh
you can Misty step into the cell? I would never have even thought of that despite having misty step on a few of my characters. I am honestly tempted to kill everyone in the prison now btw.
thanks.
 
joelsyt said:
Oh
you can Misty step into the cell? I would never have even thought of that despite having misty step on a few of my characters. I am honestly tempted to kill everyone in the prison now btw.
thanks.
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Looking at the cells keep going anti clockwise and there is a ledge that takes you behind. I didn't actually try going into the cells
 
dwwaino said:
Looking at the cells keep going anti clockwise and there is a ledge that takes you behind. I didn't actually try going into the cells
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I actually
found Wulbrend’s hammer, so I could throw that to him and thankfully I’d already killed the warden and the patrol before giving him his hammer back, it’s the fight just before the boat escape that almost got me, Tav and Shadowheart went down so fast and I lost a few of the tieflings unfortunately, oh no I lost Rolan and Lia’s brother, Rolan is going to be so pissed, well pissier than usual anyway
 

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