Baldurs Gate 3 5 MAJOR MISTAKES To Avoid! - (Baldur's Gate 3 Tips and Tricks)
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- In this Baldurs Gate 3 Mistakes to avoid guide, I'll cover important tips and tricks that you need to know to succeed in this expansive RPG. Baldur's Gate 3 is filled with mechanics, like reactions, proficiencies, backgrounds, inspirations etc., that can confuse new and veteran players. This beginner's guide will ensure you understand these systems and succeed in Faerun!
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0:00 - Baldurs Gate 3 Mistakes to Avoid
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This isn't a big one, but helpful to save scum players like me.
You can quicksave in dialog. This means you can save before that roll, and F8 if it doesn't go how you want without having to redo the entire conversation from the beginning.
Here’s something I’ve not seen anyone comment on and it’s amazing!
Wizards and Clerics can do ritual casting which is casting spells without losing the spell slot.
My day starts ALWAYS with every party member getting longstrider cast on them. Lasts until long rest, no concentration and no spell slot cost. It’s a huge movement boost for free.
Same with detect thoughts, speak with dead, jump and feather fall. None cost spell slots!!!
Pressing Tab in the inventory page lets you see the whole teams inventory+spells etc, O M G (either the game doesnt tell or i dont pay attention)
Don't long rest too physically close to time sensitive quest (saving someone, house on fire, etc) or you'll find the house burnt down and the person dead. Go outside the autosave point if you remember it.
- Levelling up OR doing a long rest will reset vendors gold/reroll their current inventory.
- A vendor requires exactly 600g or 600g worth of items to get to 100 approval. At +5 persuasion, you need to move 2400gp as selling/buying combined to recoup the 600gp investment. After that it is profit.
- Go to your camp in a ruin, or open world or any different sort of layout will give you the opportunity to loot your camp again, which in the early game (for example when you get Withers and you are in a ruins environment) is very easy extra gold that you may need. (those incences at Shadowheart's tent give 30g each!)
- On the Nautiloid the moment you spawn in, in that room you can go upstairs to both sides to get extra loot/gold (most people miss it)
- Go to Long Rest from the "outside world" to 100% trigger any events (such as meeting the guardian for the first time for example), if you do that from your camp when clicking on your bedroll to end the day, they not always load in.
- And a bonus one: There is a Pitchfork behind the jail in the grove where the tieflings are, at the caverny bit, it's tricky to find, you have to jump around to get it, but its a Pitchfork!! lol
Any many more, I'm about to make a YT vid about it myself, so not gonna shoot it all haha
Protip for those not familiar with D&D: If you want to play a caster with armor, Githyanki get proficiency in light and medium armor and swords. In githyanki language a warrior wizard is called a gish, which is where the gaming term comes from (but not the Smashing Pumpkins album title).
Humans and half-elves are also proficient in light armor
@@xander1300That's unique to BG3 then. They don't have that proficiency in D&D, but still, medium armor and being able to use a greatsword is better, especially since you get decent medium armor and a flaming greatsword in the nautiloid if you beat the commander before leaving.
Too bad Githyankis are not cool, I prefer to be an orc than Githyanki.@@MannyBrum
I mean medium is pretty sweet! The look of the sword is pretty awesome, but several other characters can rock that sword better!
lol, gish coming from Githyanki, good one.
If you trade with vendor you can shift + drag their gold into smaller piles to make pickpocket easier.
Why are large piles of gold hard to pick pocket?
@@xrasor9592....because the DC is related to the value of whatever you are trying to steal
@@xrasor9592hmmm... 🤔
im sorry, i was unknowing. now i know that in order to pickpocket something you have to win a dice roll and the more gold is pickpocketed at once, the higher the dice roll you have to win gets @@Wintercide
@@xrasor9592 it just makes sense. If I take 5 coins vs 500 coins, it's gonna be harder
The thing with Barbarian's (and Monk's) unarmoured defence bonuses, is that it's impossible in early-mid game to get comparable AC to just wearing a piece of medium armour. And it's not like your choice is between +1/2AC, or a nice perk, because there are no clothes useful for barbarian until Mountain Pass or Shadowlands. There is no 'but a nice perk' at the other side of this equation, it's just whether you want more AC or not, and in some cases it's literally a choice between +2AC AND some nice perks... or -2AC and no perk. (like Hide armour+2 (no stealth checks disadvantage, +1 to initiative, +1 bonus to dexterity saving throws and checks (basically an equivalent to +2 dex if you're not using ranged or finesse weapons)) or the Grymforge Armour) Even If I could agree that still using armour can be classified as a mistake in the 3rd act, where you do get some really nice barbarian-oriented stuff, it's by no means a noob trap, nor is it obviously a mistake, because it isn't. Do the math people, it's basic addition.
No, Medium armour is not 'similar to light armour' its much closer to the heavy armour in terms of AC than the light armour, in many cases matches the AC of heavy armour, if we add that +2 from dex (which is how it should be considering what those armour pieces actually are) The reason you got a wrong impression of medium armour, is that you were comparing a good piece of light armour, on a character that has 20 dex, against literally The Weakest Medium Armour In The Game. Even the starting armour of the Fighter or Paladin has more AC.
Honestly is the Light armour that's garbage, and the only reason one would ever use it, is for some specific pieces that have special effects (and all of those are reserved to act 3, like the bhaalist armour) or because you really don't want to dip into fighter or paladin multiclass for your Astarion or Wyll, or respecc Astarion into a gloomstalker ranger. Aside from that, there is literally no point- If you're a mage of any kind you either get the mage armour, or draconic bloodline which gives you 13 AC+dex modifier for free, which will be more than (or at least equal to) any piece of light armour you can find until act 3 and/or until you get to lvl 9 at which point the traders will get "studded leather+2" which gives 14 AC and +1 to initiative. If you're a rogue or warlock, you can just dip 1-2 lvl's into fighter, paladin, or ranger, (especially gloomstalker ranger for a rogue) to get that medium armour proficiency (and some nice perks like divine smite, action surge, or +3 initiative and completely free attack on the first round of combat, from ranger's gloomstalker sub-class) and, in case of rogue, use some special armour pieces that won't give you disadvantage on stealth checks (like the aforementioned hide armour+2) and you'll still get more AC from it, despite the dex cap: 12+3 or 13+4 (ie. what you can expect from light armour in act1/2) is less than 14+2/16+2/15+4 (ie. what you can expect from medium armour in act1/2. The 15+4 is from a special piece of armour that doesn't have a cap on bonus AC from dex, to get it you need to visit the forgotten realm of... Last Light's Inn's Quartermaster Talli's trade dialogue option. Yeah you can just buy it, it also doesn't impose disadvantages on stealth checks so even Astarion can use it without any issues, and it gives +1 to initiative, and costs just ~600gold). And that keeps being the case until the end of the game- The Best Light armour gives 14 AC, plus up to 6. The best Medium armour gives 17AC plus up to... also 6, because The Armour of Agility has a special perk that removes the dexterity cap, it also imposes no disadvantage on stealth checks.
Scrolled down to say exactly this - both by theoretical design and by actual gameplay (what's available and when), medium is far and away the strongest outside specific game-breaking items. Also worth noting that cleric is an effective dip for people who just want to unlock armor - my tavern brawler monk now has a couple casts of bless, guidance, and thunderous reaction, which is more useful to me than the +1 AC and second wind from a fighter dip. Will respec him out of it once I grab an armor that gives proficiency when you equip it. Ranger can also do the trick: med/martial by default, favored enemy can give you heavy proficiency if needed, 3-5 skill proficiencies, resistance to one of fire/cold/poison. Save proficiencies are pretty bad though (str/dex).
Medium armor and shields actually doesnt impact a Barbarian, only heavy. Tho Monks basically lose all of their features for putting any armor on.
What you CAN do, to help this, if your AC is a little low, is buy a mage from Skelly bro, and have them learn mage armor, to cast on you, on them and any familiars.
@@swanky147 Ranger also gives light and medium armour proficiencies, and martial weapons proficiency so now your monk can use any longsword as a "monk weapon" and use dex for scaling- even if that longsword is not Phalar Aluve or Larethian's Wrath. Also, ranger is the only class that can give you heavy armour proficiency from a multiclass- just pick a "favoured enemy: Ranger knight" at lvl 1.
@@GreyfauxxGaming I know, I literally said that you should use medium armour on Barbarian.
No, it doesn't. Just like with barbarian, no monk feature (except of course for the unarmoured defence, just like with barbarian) is tied to not using armour, you can just dip 1 lvl into fighter/paladin/ranger and use medium armour on your monk, nothing bad will happen because of it. The thing that probably maybe happened and why you think it's different is- unlike barbarian, monk doesn't have any armour proficiency by default, so you have to do that multiclass to get them, so if you wore a piece of armour on your monk without that multiclass dip, you got smacked in the face with very harsh penalties that come from using a piece of armour you're not proficient in.
Also, mage armour doesn't stack with barbarian's/monk's unarmoured defence features, it would be insane if it did, they also don't stack with each other- you can't just go 1lvl barbarian 11lvl monk (or the other way around) to get both. The game will just choose whichever gives you more AC and apply that one- if you have a barbarian with 14 dex and 16 con, mage armour will do nothing, because the game can either apply +3 AC from con, or from mage armour- same with Monk, just switch con and wisdom.
I really wish reactions were explained better in the game, especially with regards to under what conditions they are triggered.
The way I think about it is reactions are a response to an enemy’s action or movement.
So the enemy moves outside your melee range? As long as you have a weapon equipped, you can take a reaction to swipe at them as they’re leaving, unless they take the disengage action.
So an enemy caster is throwing a fireball right in the middle of your party? Reaction to counter spell.
With the protection fighting style, if an enemy attacks someone other than you, you can use your reaction to interfere with their attack(give them disadvantage) as long as you’re within melee range of the enemy.
So it’s a reaction to someone else’s action, and it doesn’t have to be on your turn, unlike every other action (movement, action, bonus action).
Yeah, it would be great for newbie to DnD. What's a Versatile weapon? Finess? CA? Saving Throw? Spell slot to cast? Up cast a spell? Concentration? No Dex bonus on Heavy Armor? Full caster/half caster? Etc...
To be honest a new player can play on normal difficulty without knowing too much mechanics (and probably learning little by little).
And still BG3 has 95%+ positive reviews on Steam, I love it.
@@anto8375I’ve never played DnD and playing on tactician isn’t impossibly difficult. I’m sure I’m doing a ton wrong but it’s still very doable.
No it absolutley shouldn't. Otherwise you would play a 20h tutorial and 90% of people would quit because it's to complicated
@reallifesupermann1848 Yup unless you're fighting big groups it's definitely doable. Just make use of high ground and try to get every lil advantage to have things swing your way (gotta get crafty or set some traps). Most underated spell would be jump since anyone can then jump to upserd heights. Combo with featherfall and you can just navigate nearly anywhere.
I think, minmaxing is a matter of taste. You can basically play all origin companions as they are and still finish the game. I like to let the main companions be as they are. Maybe except for Shadowheart though, she has an event where it would be naturally to do at least some respecing, but of course not necessary.
One addition to the reactions, because it got a little lost in video: Some reactions cost spell slots or other resources that replenish not so often. So as you said correctly: It is better to let the system ask, because by wasting resources unnecessarily, you might give up other opportunities.
Besides this addition from my side, very good information!
A 17 to hit when tying armor class wins the tie. So using the dual wield reaction to get at +2 while at 15 to beat a 17 is incorrect. The attacker wins the tie
A cool idea? Get yourself Featherfall and jump down the hole at the end of the cave where you fight the spider-matriarch. Just dont do it before lvl 5 ok? Trust me... :)
He is not hard just shot down the webs he walks on so he falls and take alot of damage i killed him in level 3
Or her prob
lv4 is easy. You just need 2 mage to cast AOE spell to kill small spider. Warlock is the best,his ELDRITCH BLAST can push enemy away
@@Jannylove29 I killed her lvl 4 with shooting down the webs, she takes about 1/3 HP from falling down ^^ But the fight aint what i want you to experience ;) ^^
Yeah I did the spider at lvl 3.
Thunderwaved her the fk down off of a web-bridge. Instant -70hp 😁
It seems that the non lethal option isn't working correctly. Npcs and Quests react as if you killed
if your AC is 15: and they roll a 17, adding +2 isn't going to help you. They need to MATCH your AC to hit you, not EXCEED it.
Two small tips I learned the hard way. 1) Haste is amazing, making potions via Alchemy is easy. 2) Mol’s quest in the Druid Grove has a reward that you’ll likely use for the whole game. Steal that Idol!
for that first one, I've generally found that medium armor is most often better than unarmored defense for barbarians, in terms of both AC and utility. I'm playing a Dexterity-based barbarian right now with 21 AC using medium armor and a shield.
Also, medium armor may be better than light armor for AC on a dexterity-based character. If we're talking nonmagical armor on a character with 20 Dexterity, they will have 17 AC whether they're wearing medium or light armor, so long as they're wearing the best type available for each (12+5 vs 15+2). That 17 AC is much easier to achieve with medium armor though because you only need 14 dexterity, and can increase it to 18 AC if you take the medium armor master feat and have at least 16 Dexterity.
And about finesse weapons, the damage calculations the games give you are correct. They take the finesse into account. You just need to look at the numbers to see which does more damage. Again, I'm seeing this a lot on my Dexterity-based barbarian.
Source: I'm a notorious D&D minmaxer in my friend group and a massive nerd.
My Karlach has 18AC and can get to 19AC if I throw a cape on her I am not using as a strength build. She is wearing clothing currently. She has 20Str/16Dex/16Con for stats.
What were your barb Dex starting stats/skills?
My barb has 20 str 18 constitution and 14 or 16 dex. His current AC is 20 or 21 naked (no armor). Its perfectly doable.
Was looking for this comment. What good is a tips video if it's misleading in the first tip
😂
@@tricorn How is it misleading when Barbarian can get over 20AC with cloth gear...?
Hey hello !
Firstly thanks for all this advice it’s make the game more smoother for new players !!!
Secondly a small quration, lots of people have issues with the critical smite reactions.
When you crit on your normal smite normally the reaction box with the critical smite have to open and ask if you want to use it, but lots op people, include me, have this with nothing is opening. No reaction nothing.
And the reaction menu is correctly adjusted…
Probably because you already used smite, you have to crit on a normal attack to get the reaction to add a critical smite
Im new to this game and CZcams guides and videos have been extremely helpful since this game is pretty overwhelming normally i play action rpgs or adventure and 1st person and 3rd person shooters and souls games so i have no clue how to even play baldur's gate. I got it because i wanted to play something new with loot and the rpg mechanics that come with those games. I am definitely taking it all in and just reading everything to understand it all. I was stuck at the characters selection screen for 3 hrs. Lol i finally went with paladin
I gave astarion the yuan-ti scale armor which used his whole dex modifier and it boosted his ac significantly enough to dual wield scimitars or use just the legendary rapier you get from the captain from act 3
In NWN EE I found once I got around 25 AC, my guy became almost untouchable. I always found it amusing how Haste was good for double attack speed, double run speed and like +4 AC.
Tip: Superiority dice do not work with unarmed attacks. Even though the wording of the manoeuvres state attack, which is both unarmed, melee weapons and ranged weapons, they still do not work. Haven't tested riposte, and precision should work, but the others require a melee weapon in the hand to work. In 5e, making an unarmed Battle Master was possible due to the same wording on the manoeuvres as in the game, but the game says no.
This video just made me twice as good at BG3.
You got me at thick and fast mate
If you use disguise self while pickpocketing or knocking merchant's unconscious you won't loose rep cause your disguised
In most cases ive found that if you take the feat medium armor master that allows the ac mod to go up to 3 makes it better than light and heavy armor, for instance the adamantine splintmail is 16+2dex and with the feat 19 total. The only thing thta will out do this is a good set of +1-2 studded leather or a buffed set of full plate which is normally a flat 18. If you want an ac tank you have to run a shield just a fun bit of stuff i realized trying to min max my ac on a rouge/fighter build
My personal "major mistake" is selling or throwing out any special enchanted items (ie not just +1 stuff). You never know when you may discover later that it would've been the perfect item for a certain way you decided to build your character. It's happened to me more than once, and a friend I'm playing with will just not stop selling off his old enchanted gear. I've had to go and buy (steal) back his old stuff because a lot of it was either super useful, just not to him (like the gloves of dexterity), immediately useful to my character, or something I thought it was likely we'd want in the future.
It's so much better to just rob merchants blind with Astarion than it is to sell off your uniques.
Im pretty sure that reactions that add AC or affect a roll only ask/trigger if they at least have a chance to succeed. Cutting Words wouldn't ask sometimes and I'm pretty sure it's because the roll was just too high.
there are few medium armors that don't limit your AC and increase it further based on your constitution modifier. First one like this that I've found is in Last Light Inn yuan-ti scalemale armor
There's another one like this in act 3
@@helsharidy123 yea i know. two of my characters use them 😁
Kind of glad I’m a dnd dm and understand the game before playing Baldurs gate
Good on you 👍🏼
Fun tip: while collecting loot, respec your characters based on how well they can take advantage of it. It’s a really fun way to play. Basically let the loot inform what classes your characters should be rolling with.
With how easy respec-ing is, I also rebuilt almost every of my character with what gear I found. The game is way easier tho, even in tactitian
I'm pretty sure shields do count as armor my monk goes from 19-down to 15 armor when putting on a shield because my character loses the "unarmored" traits
Karlach is my tank. Lae’zel is so obnoxious listening to after awhile
Cool stuff: in the camp, let the bard rip your eye ball off while searching for the tadpole. It was a hard time but never saw better
I went with that on my teifling, who has the "Demonic Green" eyes, and now his prosthetic eye actually looks *_less_* esoteric than his real eye, lol.
the feat medium armor master can rise your dex limit by medium armors to +3
and for some reason the shar cleric (idk the english name) have this feat even if u respec her
You were changing the stats of Astarion, Im not using Astaron because im a Rogue thief myself, so I was wondering what would be the optimal stats distribution for me? 17Dex and 16CON, but what about the other stats? Is there something detrimental for me? (im playing a meele rogue with permanent sneak attacks)
And if you would allow me to ask a 2nd question: So I have used the Grymforge once, then the boss battle appeared and I killed it. After the Battle I can't (for some reason) dont put a 2nd mold into the forge, as of right now the Boss is LAYING on the thing where you put the mold in. Meaning the lever is "blocked" and also I cant pull in lava to melt him or something because the wheel is blocked aswell for some reaosn. The only "button" that works in the forge is the hammer button, that does nothing anymore. Can I fix that? I already re-loaded and short/long rested multiple times
For stats, I'd start Astarion with 16 Dex and 16 Con. There's really no reason to go 17 because you can respec later to make it 17 if you are adding a +1 to get to 18. Odd ability scores don't give you any modifier bonus.
After that, you could choose to add points to str for jumping or shoving, but tbh I'd put most into wisdom for saving throws (wisdom is common and is the save against most of the nasty spells) or charisma if you want him to be a dialogue option.
Theres a seperate eject mold button
@@JB-xm1cs what? where? To be clear, I already got the splint very rare armor. I also cant communicate with the crucible in the middle. Everything is blocked besides the Hammer button
@SpaNkeee i just found the splint mold, the only one ive made so far is scale mail. Theres an eject lever next to the mold holder. I didnt see it at first and thought it was a one an done. Then went back and got my mold out of it and now im just tryin to find more of the metal to make more stuff
Rogues also need wis for perception for trapfinding along with proficiency in perception. 12 is sufficient. My ranger/rogue has expertise in perception with wis 14 and rarely misses traps.
Doesn’t Astarion get the highest AC from medium armor profiency and using a shield?
Karlach’s reckless attacks almost ALWAYS misses lol
Hey, can you make a video about magic and mages? I haven't really been understanding the hit/miss chances of spells or what actually determines how much damage they do
With melee, you have to beat the AC (armor class) of the target. So if they have a 15 AC, you need to roll a 15 or higher to hit them.
A spell like Sacred Flame has a Dexterity saving throw. Meaning, the caster doesn't roll dice to hit with it, it will always hit. The target will roll a dexterity saving throw. if they beat your spell casting modifier (whatever it may be) then your sacred flame won't do any damage.
Spells from support classes that lower saving throws,AC or give you buffs to gain advantage are huge when trying to hit with spells and abilities.
@@erikholum4772 thanks! What about spells like lightining and fire balls? I am using Gale in this position and I feel like I am missing way too much. Is there any values in his stats that increase base damage/hit chance or is it all to do with the enemy saving throws and having to apply debufs to them (or buffs to my caster)?
@@MateusVIII Each spellcasting class has a "Spellcast modifier" stat. For wizards , this is intelligence. Sorcerers and Warlocks are charisma, and Druids are wisdom. Other classes also use one of those stats if they subclass into a spellcaster.
This stat will add to any attack roll you make with your spells. As a Wizard, if you have 10 intelligence, you will make attack rolls at base stats, while at 20 intelligence you will have a +5 bonus to hit.
In addition, when a spell uses a saving throw, like Sacred Flame, the higher your spellcast modifier, the higher the enemy needs to roll to avoid it affect.
Essentially either way, increasing your spellcast stat will benefit your hit chance, but attack rolls have you rolling the attack, while saves have the enemy rolling the defense
@@quantummidget that really helped, thanks!!
@@MateusVIII
Just to add to the other guys point -
If you hover over a spell, at the bottom it'll save, for example, "WIS Save", so it requires them to roll a wisdom saving throw. Basically, the higher their wisdom, the more chance they'll save against it.
So, examine enemies first, see what stats they're high/low in, and use spells that make them roll their low stats 🙂
Question: can you like just straight up change shadow hearts class ? I have been playing a cleric but wanted to have shadow heart in my party, so I have just been running around with 2 clerics. Could I change her to a paladin or something?
No
I believe, at least in EA, if you are caught stealing from a vendor, it will affect your approval rating with all the vendors. At least that seemed to be my experience.
I decided to improve my approval rating with certain vendors in EA, through the donation process; and it seemed that process became more expensive after each Long Rest.
And, as has been stated elsewhere, vendor inventory refreshes after every level up from any individual character & long rest.
If you're caught stealing it does affect your approval rating with yes. But just don't get caught ;)
and there was limit previus games you can steal only 1 time at any char is it same in BG3 ?
@@norzza Do they always catch you if you knock them out and loot them? Or will the approval rating not change after they wake up? Can I knock them out from behind so they don't see me perhaps?
Where can you get that Elven mask?thats on Astarion
00:13 i NEED this armor
All praise BOOOAL!
Use withers to build full clerics to use the one time use permanent divine intervention skill to get weapons/armour
Can you explain in more detail please? I am unfamiliar with clerics
Is what?
@@roykong7024 I ...think he means to respec a leveled cleric to cast the spell, get the weapon or armor etc. , and then respec again - rinse repeat.
I do not have a cleric at level to check if that works atm thou.
Damn had no ideia i could respect th3 companions as well
What you said isn’t exactly wrong. But. Unless you are rocking a +5 or more to dex for a rogue medium armor is almost always the better option. 13+2 is 15. The best early medium armor you can get that still gives dex is 14+2 which is better than any light armor. And most medium armors offer no penalty to dex.
I never thought of stealing from vendor...nice...Gonna be a billionaire before I complete Act 1
good info
Glad you think so!
@1:00 I'm confused, you said attack roll is compared to armor class to determine if you land a hit or not, how is that calculated? Here it's attack roll is 28 but armor class is 20, whats the percentage of me landing a hit then? 8%? 108%? 🤔
If you match the armor class or higher it's a 100% hit. Otherwise you miss. It's just a hit os miss
The roll isn't the only factor. Like other rolls, there are bonuses that might be applied to attack roles and defense roles. For attack roles, notably the bonus of the associated ability score is one, but applicable feats, weapon proficiencies, and temporary buffs may provide others. When the game calculates chance to hit you see when hovering over an enemy in combat, the percentage value you see factors bonuses automatically. For example, if your character has +8 from weapon specialization, feats, buffs, etc. and is rolling an attack against an enemy with AC of 13 from armor and +2 from DEX, the chance to hit is 20 - ([target total AC] - [enemy total attack bonuses]) / 20, which in the case of this example is 20 - (15 - 8) / 20 or .65 = 65%.
In the example you gave, the role had already been done. If the total value of the attack role is equal to or greater than the total AC of the target, the attack hits. Period. There is no chance left to it once the roll is done. Or, in other words, the percent chance to hit comes in *before* you roll since chance will decide that factor you get from the dice.
@@cleydsonsandro1267 awesome thanks. Last question, he says the higher the armor class, the better but how will the attack roll be calculated? If my AC is 80, would there then be a dice to try and match that showing as (1d80)? Cause if a 20 dice is the max, thats kinda impossible to match...
@@Mixels thanks. I understood most of what u said except your example. But the main idea i get
@@dksannkat141 No, a d20 is used for all attack rolls (except in tabletop where the GM can mix things up if they want and have support from the players). If you have 80 AC and the enemy attacks you, the only way they can possibly hit you is if they've piled enough debuffs on you AND have sky high bonuses to their attack. So, hypothetically (these numbers are imaginary and not obtainable in normal D&D), if they debuffed your AC by 20 and then had a 50 total bonus from attribute bonuses, proficiencies, and buffs, that would bring the difference between attack modifiers (70 total) and your AC (80) to 10. Roll d20 for the attack. If greater than or equal to 10, the attack hits. If less than 10, the attack whiffs. Oh, and one more thing: if an attack rolls a d20 value within their critical attack range (usually natural 20 but the range can be increased by feats or class passives), it hits no matter what and does critical damage (double the number of dice for the damage rolls). Yes, this means that if your AC is high enough and you're fighting a totally incompetent enemy, it's possible to avoid all attacks unless the attacker rolls a 20.
I forget most people don't know damm near everything about dnd 5e and don't realize how the small things work in bg3
Are you still playing Diablo immortals? Your guides are very helpful for begginers. Thank you
Hey mate, I still play now and again (can't wait to check out that new class). I don't have the time currently with all the other best releases happening sadly.
Its a waste till Asterion gets caught picking pockets and you can't switch to your face and he goes to jail or starts fights your just not ready for.
At least you'll get a achievement 🤷🏼♂️
Me too thanks.
I wouldn't say that it's a mistake to not respec companions. Even on tactician and letting all the characters be pure, non multiclassed with their original stats and natural class pathing the game isn't incredibly difficult.
Super disagree here.
-Just because you can overcome/succeed in spite of a mistake (or something suboptimal) doesn't mean it isn't a mistake.
-Saying tactician isn't very difficult even with limitations is way too subjective. There are lots of people out there who're playing insane challenge runs (lone wolf, permadeath/no reloads, etc.) but for the vast vast majority of players tactician is still terrifying. A list of "mistakes" is subjective too, but to an enormously lesser degree.
-Audience matters here too. This is essentially a "top 10 noob tips" video, written for and largely viewed by people who haven't already played years of 5e, Bg3 early access or sunk dozens/hundreds of hours into a campaign. The people for whom your comment is correct are also the people who're a) a minority of viewers/audience and b) know enough to recognize this as generally-applicable tips that can have caveats or nuance for advanced players. Effective communication isn't always the same thing as precise/exhaustive communication. When I'm teaching something I usually give the answer that's correct in 95% of cases and add a "there are a few cases where that isn't true but we'll get into those later" disclaimer.
Unless you want to for other reasons like immersion or challenge constraints, most of the companions should be respecced to fix their awful stat distributions (and in some cases domain/style/subclass choices) even if you plan to play them as their starter class. And respeccing doesn't even have an opportunity cost in a minmaxy run, because it's already part of an important mechanic you'd want to be doing anyways (vendor attitude purchase/gold & stock refresh). Shadowheart starts with 13 strength, 13 dex, 14 con, 10 int, and 17 wisdom - literally the only stat she has which is at an appropriate number is her cha dump of 8 (and arguably 14 con depending on your build plans). Even if you were gold-limited, the power bump you get from a 100g respec far exceeds any gain you could get by spending that gold on an item. This is all *if* you want to improve your gameplay, which presumably somebody who watches a video like this is looking to do. I'm not going to invade some random player's space and say "hurhur you're doing it wrong," but if you ask me how to be more effective, respeccing your companions at some point in a1 is one of the answers.
I played a lot of games during my life time. Everybody seems all positive about this game. I consider myself not that dumb but how does a new player get going in this game? It seems all really conveluded.
If you needed not positive review, here it is.
This game is played with save/reload and by reading wikies. If you want immersion, dice rolls will kill it. Object highlighting is f...ed up. Party path finding got problems in some areas and you have to move with each party member individually. Bosses can be easy pickings in one way and pain in a back side in other. Actions cause irreversible effects on playthrough and you can lock out yourself by inadvertently taking wrong action. There are six craft options in forge, but only two craft materials. There is unique item in underdark that can be destroyed by action that is the most sensible thing to do in the area. Lose that item and you are screwed as merchant continues to ask about it and you can't feed it to one party member. Some characters are likeable, others are annoying as hell, if you do not play as them. Game is designed to be replayed until you git gud.
@@tokul76Most of the problems you mentioned add replayability though
I love these type videos, but at the same time they frustrate me. It’s because the game itself goes through no effort to actually explain this shit
Persuasion on the talking character affects vendor prices
Is ask on by default for those reactions?
No I'd previously enabled them. Some reactions it is, but most its not.
@@norzza ok good to know. Just started a playthrough with some friends last night and im doing a barbarian orc. I just want to be able to pick anyone up and throw them
I didn't even consider how the game story wise thinks Astarion is going to be an Arcane Trickster and gave him a lot of Int. Yeah you hide in shadows and stab people buddy I'll make sure to fix that.
He is an educated Baldurian, it is normal (in a rpg point of view) to have a good intelligence.
CTRL and SHIFT click items in inventory then right click add to wares!
But what does that actually do? I didn't see an option to add all wares in a trade screen
@@omgfackdehell you mark items that way. Then when you right click its the option furthest down (move to wares).
Easier and faster way of robbing vendors of items/gold is to just buy everything you can and then steal their gold. You might have to save scum a bit, but it's far less time consuming.
8:40 this info is out of date. any and all inspiration points gain will give you experience. this experience is also party wide, not character specific
They should give better sng longer descriptions
If you get your hands on a headband of intellect, toss it on Astarion, and dump his natural intelligence as far as you can, get a ton of points to play with. 😉
I see you also killed Lump the Enlightened 😂
@@mystycomega6547 I did not, actually. I convinced him to come fight for me, and he was, tragically, killed. I then looted him.
@@denisemarsh8725 oh I mean I also got him to come fight the goblins with me, then I used thunderwave to throw them all off the high ground and got it that way!
There’s no X in “especially”
I was wondering why the last time I leveled one of them needed a sliver of XP still
Probably the others had Inspirations and that one didn't, or was dead during combat, etc
This video hurt my brain 😣
Yeah, but anytime you steal the moment you’re free from dialogue they suspect that you stole something. Pickpocketing does not work in this game.
You have to instantly teleport to camp.
Wow a whole eeek! Lol
in bg3 armor does not restrict spell casting.
yes it does
In D&D armor only restricts spell casting if you are not proficient in the armor type.
Mistake one, not playing on easy
Man, I think this one is bricked. I don't want to go back so far when art is still alive. I already used speak with dead on art and can't do it again
I built astarion into a Assassin
I built him into a dead body
@@number1360 🤣I stabbed him on one of my playthroughs lol
I started as assassin but switched to thief as I wanted that extra bonus action.
One of the biggest mistakes you should stop making is in fact: To let idiots tell you how to play
you rattled off lots of numbers with more screens with more numbers but i didn't see anything that actually relates to each other ... i'm still not getting it. i need a video that don't sound like he is reading a book really fast to get it out there
I found your armor class explanation highly confusing.
Too much min max and exploits on video game stuff, Ppl should at least beats 2 or 3 times in a tabletop manner first and than begin to min max to beat the game faster or perfectly. Thats my opnion ofc 😅
No and you can't make me
This game is way to complicated
Please talk faster. It’s too easy to follow.
if you play dnd, you can skip this shit
Not here for a "tip" that literally just explains finesse weapons. For somebody eating and breathing this stuff, your tips are surprisingly pedestrian.
I wish the game pushed the dice stuff a little to the background. As someone who never played dnd, it's VERY unintuitive to think in terms of dice, at least with DnD you actually roll the die so you can understand the reasoning behind it.
Thats kinda the entire point is its based off DnD ruleset. Try Larians other Gems especially Divinity Original Sin 2. Very similar less dnd
@@bobstoner415 I definitely appreciate the DnD DNA even though I've never played it. I'm just saying it's a little jarring for a non-DnD player to see 3d8 when they don't even know 8 sided dice exist. I've already gotten used to it tho lol, but I can see how it might be frustrating to even read what shit does.
@@karayi7239 Its fun when given a chance, def try divinity 1 and 2 when your done or tired of bg3 tho. Divinity 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. BG3 is def gonna be too i can tell
Enjoy your time
@@bobstoner415 thanks for the recommendation. weirdly enough, I was interested in original sin2 ever since i played elden ring cuz someone said it has so much build variety.
i'll definitely play it after bg3
Biggest mistake is buying this below average game. Loaded with bugs still after the 3rd patch. Hidden items that unlock only with specific characters that you have to pick as your own not just in your party. The garbage collection to sell to traders. Spend more time opening crates and reading useless notes for clues to overly obnoxious puzzles than moving forward. This should be on the free download page and I would still say your computer is better off without it.
Do not respec your origin characters
why
Really
I was going to respect shadowheart. To cleric tempest or something
I'd love to hear the why on this. I know they still get treated as their origin class and spec (shadowheart would be trickster cleric still) for story.
from what I heard, for eg; respec shadowheart to whole new class like fighter and you will still see dialogue choices like (sha, cleric)
it won't break the game but will feel akward
Why? They still keep their dialogue responses even if you go as far as completely changing their class. Plus their stats and build choices are... questionable.
Armor reducing your chance to be hit instead of reducing damage is such an unnintuitive design.
This also makes combat feel bad because the main source of mitigation is complete misses, not reduced damage.
The items are also really boring compared to arpg's or pillars of eternity.
Spellcasters running out of spells feels absurd, and there's too many spell overlaps between classes. These ruin battle and class identity.
Don't even get me started on concentration and giving many classes mostly concentration spells, which stifles the ability to do anything else.
Finally, classes are pigeonholed into the same stat each time. This wouldn't be so bad if they weren't tightly couple to skills.
Dnd systems are really showing their age.
I won't say you are explicitly wrong about any of these points, but this really is a case of "different strokes for different folks". All of these complaints you have are due to familiarity with other games and unfamiliarity with this game and it's systems, if you did understand the game you could mitigate all of your issues.
One thing you did not mention but leads into your other complaints, is that all of the information regarding what you SHOULD do is so convoluted and tough to find hard info for that the game becomes a major turn-off for people new to D&D inspired games. All of this BS seems like it's explicitly in place to dissuade newcomers from interfacing with the roleplay elements when they get hamstrung by the combat and character building. If you believe the excessive glossary and math in the game is simple by any means, tell me what Hex can affect in combat besides damage. So, so many people playing pen-n-paper have the wrong ideas about what mechanics overlap it's insane, which only compounds when BG3 has so much more combat than the tabletop game.
@@SaturninePlacesnah he is right combat system in this game is bad divinity origin sin 2 combat system was way better and fun
The jank makes it fun.
I think that having it reduce damage would be nice, but keeping it the way it is will feel more natural to 5e players getting the game. It will also make it easier for people getting the game to transition to TTRPG.
@@whitewolf1028 I was of the same opinion in the beginning, DOS2 was more fun when it comes to combat, but after putting more hours into BG3 and evolving my chars, combat is def more fun in BG3. the DOS2 "endgame" became very repetitive imo, just stunlocking the mobs until they're dead even on hardest difficulty.
These guides are mostly disappointing. Information akin to "did you know when you walk, you have limited movement in turn based mode?" Nothing useful except for the obvious. "Major mistakes". Enough of the clickbait to cash in on views.
Number 1 mistake was buying this game because of the manufactured hype to realise it's mid at best and only ground breaking if you compare it a 90's game.
🤦♂️ I bet your just not good at the game so your made change your difficulty to easy and plan out your fights better or maybe its not your type of game so pick one
@@alvitesy7455 Just simply don't enjoy it and don't think it's all that impressive compared to the hype surrounding it. Played D&D for years and been through BG 1&2. I don't think the game is awful just really not impressed.
You're mid
@@grasp_veritas9099 Genuinely got a laugh outta me.