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Thanks. There are a lot of nuances to it, but with this technique it is possible with many builds. It is vital however to only destroy 3 Soul Pillars, do not listen to the wiki or anyone else who tells you otherwise, if you destroy all 4 none of this works and Raphael will be able to kill you. It makes the encounter much more difficult; I am not sure why it says it makes it easier on the wiki still. The retreating also only works if you can distance out of combat before Raphael takes his turn, so if you have poor Initiative, just be aware of that. He will heal from the remaining Soul Pillar and change forms if not. Collecting the Curriculum of Strategy: Artistry of War scroll from Sorcerous Sundries Basement helps to destroy the pillars, Disintegrate is short range but works too.

Thank you.

Thank you, I have had a lot of practice.

@@QuiteDisquietly dang. The second, the literal SECOND you commented I just took out Grym. Thank Mystra for magic missile Gale

@@hyperblue3137 Just for future reference, if you ever do have a problem with Grym, you can destroy him just by throwing literal junk at him from above. You just have to make sure the last hit is from real damage and not from the damage of something falling on him or you do not get experience. This video I used a throwing build, but you do not have to. czcams.com/video/V-x93Zrkthw/video.html

@@QuiteDisquietly Ooo my god I never thought of that. I just sicked Laezel and Karlach (monk) on him and Gale provided artillery

Thanks, I normally would not use this equipment set in most situations, but here for long sustained combat and safety it was necessary.

I used Enraged Throw, it always makes enemies Prone unless they are immune to it, there is no Saving Throw. I tried to see if I could make him Prone before that by opening on the Water Myrmidon with an Arrow of Ice, but there was no luck. He has to be able to use a Reaction to use Elemental Retort, so he cannot. On a side note, I read patch notes for patch 7 and they fixed his Elemental Retort Reaction not using up his Reaction, but it also says now that Elementals can give him extra Reactions. I guess I'll find out if I make it there on my Shadowheart playthrough, I took a week break from playing because I got hurt stupidly in an ice climbing accident, so I still am at the end of Act 1 with her.

Yeah, I used Disguise Self from Mask of the Shapeshifter. You cannot get racial features from Disguise Self, but you can get race specific bonuses from equipment. I had the Dwarf disguise on in case I wanted to use Dwarven Thrower. That weapon gets a 1d8 bonus to damage rolls when thrown by a Dwarf. I am taking it that you are an INTJ, I am as well, if you could believe that.

@@QuiteDisquietly Oh, that's sick! I was always curious about that. Thanks for the quick reply, man. Yeah, I am a INTJ-A but I ain't going to get too technical about it. I did, the test like what? 3 years ago.. :P That's wild that you are an intj as well. Intj unite! lols but we will most likely stay home and away from people all jokes aside! thanks for answering my questions man and keep up great vids dude!

@@Intjdevil Yep, no problem.

Thank you!

Sleet Storm is just so good. I probably even overuse it. It never gets the proper attention it deserves, yet worse spells, like Hunger of Hadar, are praised constantly. Hunger of Hadar is good, just not as good as Sleet Storm.

My actual AC here was 24. It was 35 because I used a Speed Potion, Haste gives you +2 AC, and Eldritch Knight get the spell "Mirror Image" which creates 3 duplicates of yourself and increases your AC by 3 per each duplicate. So, with a full Mirror Image on and Haste, it gave me +11 to AC temporarily. Solo Honour Mode can be challenging at times, but it is possible. It is not possible with all builds though, of course. You will lose sometimes, even if you play "perfectly". Personally, I have completed probably around 25 solo Honour runs with a variety of builds.

You can get 24 here as a result of the "Gather Your Allies" buff from Halsin, for successfully completing "Lift the Shadow Curse" and having him survive Act 3. It gives +1 to all Attributes. I planned ahead before entering the Morphic Pool. It's actually possible to get higher than this. You can get 26 Wisdom for all of Act 2 with 20 base, +1 from Hag's Hair and +5 from Dark Lady's Awareness.

Other than Cleric, I think archery is the best way to go, if you have enough Arrow of Many Targets. With a bow enchanted with Drakethroat Glaive cold damage and Snowburst Ring, it's really nice. On my Lae'zel playthrough, which I won't upload for a bit as I did Wyll's after Karlach's, I risked doing this with a two-handed melee focused build of Fighter/Ranger. I had to use some archery and Ice Storm scrolls, but it didn't turn out to be as bad as I thought it would be. I had Spike Growth from Ranger, but it was disappointing, as its area of effect was too small.

@@QuiteDisquietly Yeah, Spike Growth doesn't hold them enough, too small. Never thought of Sleet Storm, so I'll have to try it. I find Wall of Fire working fine if you can output enough damage after they pass it.

Right here it was... Head: Haste Helm Back: Cloak of Protection Chest: The Graceful Cloth Hands: Flawed Helldusk Gloves Feet: Boots of Speed Neck: Periapt of Wound Closure Ring 1: Crusher's Ring Ring 2: Ring of Protection Ranged Weapon: Bow of Awareness, Titanstring Bow & Ne'er Misser

That may be true, but he'd also be the best archer as well.

I play with it off. I haven't ever tried it on. I think it would be a bad idea to use it for solo Honour Mode. I don't really know much about it, but I think it could affect you much more negatively than benefit you. I've heard people say that it works for both the enemy rolls and yours, so I think it would be dangerous to play with it on, but I have no idea really.

@@QuiteDisquietly Thanks for replying, I appreciate it. Gonna start my first honour mode run soon 🙂

@@coolfunguy4382 No problem. Good luck with it!

Yeah, just would be nice if you could destroy the iron doors as well. 😜

Thank you, I had more fun with Monk than I thought I would.

It usually does not, but sometimes does. It's weird.

So, it can sometimes be complicated, it depends on a lot of factors, like whether you are playing certain origin characters or which characters you care about surviving. Firstly, I usually ignore Gale at the start of the game. I do not interact with him at all in the portal. He will be missing from the rest of the game thereafter, and Elminster will not force a long rest. You do not have to do this, but it makes it simpler and since I only play solo, I have no use for Gale anyways. Secondly, I usually let Shadowheart kill Lae'zel, this prevents two separate instances of being forced into a long rest, including as you mentioned, the Voss cutscene. You do not have to do this either, you can kill Lae'zel yourself before going into the Créche and resurrect her in Act 3 if you wish. If you are Lae'zel, which makes everything much more complicated, I had trouble triggering the Voss cutscene for some reason for instance on my origin playthrough with her (it seems you have to manually enter Act 2 to trigger it, I could not get it to trigger from teleporting back and forth between Act 1 and Act 2), you obviously have to do Créche though before getting the buffs if you are Lae'zel. If you let Shadowheart kill Lae'zel, she cannot be resurrected. If you kill her yourself though, she can be. I do save Lae'zel at the start, as you get experience for it. It is best to not enter the Astral Plane for Vlaakith. This may block the Voss cutscene as is, I'm not certain. It did for my Lae'zel origin playthrough though, I was trying to force that scene and couldn't. I had to do Créche before getting Bliss Spores in that playthrough to be safe. Thirdly, after you get Wyll and Karlach, make sure you force cutscenes from camping until Mizora appears. You do not have to force her Act 2 cutscene of her asking you to free her from the Mind Flayer Colony, she will appear on the bridge to Moonrise Towers and ask you anyways. Also, be sure to get all of the camping scenes from the Dream Guardian, obviously, though some are not necessary (the ones that only start appearing in Act 1.5/2). Fourthly, the only things you have to do in Act 1 before entering Act 2 to get anything you would need there are the Goblin/Grove situation. That means if you want Ring of Protection, you'd have to do Harpies and Kagha thing before the Goblin situation. I tend to do the Goblin situation soon as I can, after getting Ring of Protection. I almost always manually kill the Goblin camp and bosses, but you do not have to, I only do that for fun. It's much easier just doing the raid one way or the other. Finally, do not enter Grymforge until you are ready to complete it. Now, I usually wait until I get some things from Act 2 and Bliss Spores before doing it. If you are in Grymforge and go between acts or rest, it can kill Nere. I'm not sure what happens if that happens, it may not even matter other than not being able to kill him yourself. You can do everything in Act 2 up to dealing with the Nightsong situation before doing Grymforge or the Créche. The one requirement for doing all of this is that you have to have the Spider's Lyre, either from Minthara or Nere. When you get into Act 2, you must play the Spider's Lyre to summon Kar'niss where his fanatics are. It's best to kill them before summoning Kar'niss. Do NOT speak to Kar'niss unless you plan to have him kill himself. I am not certain if it is always the case, or if it is a bug, but I have had an issue before of going to Last Light Inn without summoning Kar'niss, and multiple NPCs at Last Light Inn were missing, as if I had done the raid on the Grove, except for Alfira still being there for some reason. There was no dialogue or any explanation as to what happened, and there were no corpses either, I am thinking it was a bug. To make things simple, there's no penalty to enter Act 2 soon as you get to Trielta Crags (Act 1.5). Entering Act 2 does not lock you out of anything that wouldn't already be locked out from entering Trielta Crags. Basically, with any character, I go into Act 2, kill the fanatics, summon Kar'niss, leave him there and make my way to Last Light Inn (avoiding the Harper ambush, that is very important), buy stuff at Last Light Inn, then (unless you have Lae'zel alive) you'll know you are more or less safe to get Bliss Spores and whatnot. Then I will either go back and do Act 1 stuff or kill Kar'niss and get the Dark Lady Buffs and gear from Moonrise Towers. Of course, before getting the buffs I rest a time or two to see if any scenes will play, I do that anyways to reset the vendors in the Myconid Colony to check for Haste Spores on the vendors. Hopefully I didn't leave anything out. Basically though, don't get Gale, kill Lae'zel, do Grove/Goblins, don't enter Astral Prism or Grymforge, kill Minthara and summon Kar'niss but do not speak to him, force any rest scenes, go to Last Light Inn and back and forth (manually again through Trielta Crags to be sure) and you should be good.

@@QuiteDisquietly whoa many thanks for your detailed answer. You should add those tips in a steam or wiki section it’s really a useful shared experience. As you’re run inspired me I’m trying to reproduce it so I’m playing solo with astarion at the moment. I killed laezel and shadowheart and didn’t interact with gale or wyll. I’m losing exp but as you explained it I should be good. Thanks again

I will make a build video someday, probably, but I don't know when. In the meantime, I can give you at least a somewhat detailed response. I cannot say much on the matter of Ability Scores, because that is dependent on several factors, but you obviously want Dexterity high as possible, then it's your choice whether you focus more into Wisdom (Wisdom will be your spellcasting modifier) or Constitution, but you want both of those as secondary choices. You can dump Strength and Intelligence for the most part. Always choose Ranger last when multiclassing throughout, as this will choose Wisdom for your spellcasting ability on scrolls and items, and that is what you want. Wisdom is the best spellcasting modifier to have, as it is also the most valuable Saving Throw. The other classes you choose (Fighter and Rogue) will use Intelligence, so you want to take those classes first when you respec. To start off the game, start Rogue, it makes everything much easier. I'll break down what my build looks like by level, I do not worry about getting a Feat until level 8 (I do same even with Assassin/Gloom Stalker Archery build). Levels 1-3: Rogue 3 - Assassin Subclass @ 3 Level 4: Assassin Rogue 3 / Fighter 1 (for Two-Weapon Fighting Style and Armour Proficiency; allows you to use Hide Armour +2) Level 5: This can go two ways, either 3 Assassin Rogue; 2 Fighter (for Action Surge) or 3 Assassin Rogue; 2 Ranger (For Longstrider, Ranger get Fighting Style @ 2 so it's okay to dump Fighter for now) Level 6: 3 Assassin Rogue / 3 Gloom Stalker Ranger Level 7: 3 Assassin Rogue / 4 Gloom Stalker Ranger or 3 Assassin Rogue / 3 Gloom Stalker Ranger / 1 Fighter Level 8: 3 Assassin Rogue / 5 Gloom Stalker Ranger (Feat I get here for melee is Dexterity +2, but you can get whatever) Level 9: 1 Fighter / 3 Assassin Rogue / 5 Gloom Stalker Ranger OR 4 Assassin Rogue / 5 Gloom Stalker Ranger, depending whether or not you want to respec again at 10 and if you prefer a Feat over another Fighting Style (Defence) Level 10: 2 Fighter / 3 Assassin Rogue / 5 Gloom Stalker Ranger (I prefer this, for Action Surge) OR 4 Assassin Rogue / 6 Gloom Stalker Ranger Level 11: 3 Champion Fighter / 3 Assassin Rogue / 5 Gloom Stalker Ranger Level 12: Now, by time you are level 12, you can do 2 different things, either go 6 Champion Fighter / 3 Assassin Rogue / 3 Gloom Stalker Ranger for slightly more HP and simplicity OR 4 Champion Fighter / 3 Assassin Rogue / 5 Gloom Stalker Ranger to keep Spike Growth (Though Spike Growth isn't that useful in Act 3 for this particular spec) The spells I get with Ranger are Longstrider and Enhanced Leap for Act 1 and Act 2. Then Hunter's Mark (which you will hardly have the chance to use unless you reset combat) or Fog Cloud. Then Spike Growth. Spike Growth can be great in some situations, but for melee, it's not so useful. It can really help in Act 2 though with things like the Needle Blights that deal damage to you when they die. Longstrider is the main thing you always need. I don't really use much else after getting to Act 3, you could use "Pass Without Trace" though. You could go Eldritch Knight or something instead of Champion as well near endgame, mostly for "Shield" spell reaction, but you shouldn't allow yourself to be hit anyways, though it can help with some bosses, though those same bosses are the ones you want the extra critical chance from Champion for. If you want to know about equipment usage, let me know, I'm not sure what you know already though. This would be especially important for Act 3 if you are unfamiliar, as it drastically changes your capabilities. Feel free to ask any specific questions, I'll try to answer it. I could probably be more detailed or explain why I make certain choices.

Oh, man, I didn't rewatch this when I posted it, just skimmed through for time stamps and I forgot how frustrated I was that I couldn't hit Minthara from there.

I always use some sort of Cleric here, it's the best for doing this solo. A thrower turned out to be pretty good actually.

I do sometimes. Maybe even in most videos actually. I keep other equipment in the "Bewildering Adventurer's Pack", potions and other consumables in the Pouch, and scrolls in the "Curious Book". I have to open the Pouch and the Curious Book a lot, and you can see everything in the Bewildering Adventurer's Pack when I'm switching gear, I don't open it much because there's no need to. I'm not going to be silly and apologize for being organized. I basically carry at least one of just about anything I'd need, or anything I can think of that I may need, and nothing else. If you have any specific inquiry, let me know.

@@QuiteDisquietly what I ment was what build, including eq, you are using (could just keep the mouse still for a bit longer so it's not a game of slowing the video to 0.5 speed then pausing to be able to read what armour you're wearing, etc.)