Baldur's Gate 3

[Jaymann]

I found a trick for an open hand monk so you can hit enemies with bludgeoning resistance (convoluted):

Spoiler:

1. Get the Adamantine Mace from the grimforge.
2. Equip the mace plus a shield on a character other than your monk.
3. Equip 2 light weapons on your monk (e.g. daggers).
4. From the all characters screen drag the shield over to the monk's off hand. This will magically place the mace in the monk's off hand.
5. Drag the weapon out of your shield character's main hand.
6. Click on the empty main hand slot, and from the popup screen select the weapon currently in the main hand of your monk.

This will leave the monk with an empty main hand and the mace in their off hand.

Just tried it and it actually works!

[Kurth]

I hate Orin. That is all.

[Jaymann]

Orin once halted one of my Honour Mode runs. I have since developed a sure fire method to take her down.

Spoiler:

1. Become an unholy assassin (so Bhaal doesn't help her).
2. Have a ranger assassin (with pass without a trace) and a sorcerer in your party.'
3. Equip your ranger with your best bow, caustic band and strange conduit ring.
4. Cast pass without a trace and have the sorc cast extended greater invisibility on your ranger.
5. Have your ranger fire at Orin from the steps until she goes down.
6. If she survives (don't end your turn) have a melee character take an invis potion and get up close and personal.

So far has worked every time.

[Jaymann]

Running short on cash? Here is how you can get all the gold in the game:

Spoiler:

Get (or respec) a Warlock up to level 3 and take Pact Weapon. Bind your best weapon to your Warlock. (Note: even if you spec out of Warlock the weapon remains bound!) Equip your pact weapon and open a trade window with a vendor. Put a dagger in the trade window then drag it onto your pact weapon which puts the pact weapon in the trade window (it can't actually be traded). Hit balace offer and trade over and over until you have all their gold. You can also buy anything and then get your money back.

Hurry before they patch it out.

[Kurth]

And, I’m done. Finally finished BG3 last night. Over 200 hours in this game. What a great experience that was!

[Kraken]

I'm convinced I'm going to play this game for the rest of my life. Well over 200 hours and I'm only just getting into the meaty part of Act 3. I'm going to let at least one, maybe two, side quests go because I'd have to back up to get their prerequisites. I spend too much time on fiddly things like optimizing my inventory.

Still enjoying it, though, and already thinking about playing again with a different character and party.

[Jaymann]

Congrats Kurth! I am taking a break to play Cyberpunk 2077 atm, but I'm sure I'll Be Back. Especially once user made campaigns start coming out.

[Kurth]

Congrats Kurth! I am taking a break to play Cyberpunk 2077 atm, but I'm sure I'll Be Back. Especially once user made campaigns start coming out.

I would love to play a user made campaign. Afraid that will be a PC-only thing, though.

[gbasden]

I'm amazed at how much content is still being released. It looks like Larian announced that new subclasses are going to be added in the next patch for each of the classes. It also adds crossplay and photo mode as well.

...it makes sense that Larian is adding new subclasses for each class in Patch 8. This will allow players to equip new abilities and specialize their experience further. For example, barbarians can choose Path of the Giants for Giant Rage, while warlocks can form a pact with a Shadowfell entity for Hexblade abilities. You can read up on the full list on Steam.

[Blackhawk]

I saw that on the same day that I finally decided to go back to BG3 (I didn't get far before I decided to wait for the updates to slow down.) The fact that they're adding the swashbuckler (rogue), arcane archer (fighter) and hexblade (warlock) have me excited. Those are absolutely some of my favorite subclasses.

It's actually got me tempted to put it back on the shelf and wait for that update - I'd love to be able to dual class into swashbuckler with my bard.

Side note: D&D swashbucklers don't use shields. They can swash, but they can't buckler!

[Punisher]

Side note: D&D swashbucklers don't use shields. They can swash, but they can't buckler!

That sounds a lot like false advertising.....

[Jaymann]

In all fairness, they CAN buckle.

[Skinypupy]

Just read that BG3 made $262 million profit. Not total revenue, profit.

I love to see such a quality game get so richly (ha!) rewarded.

[Kraken]

I think I'm about 240 hours in now and getting down to the endgame. Last night I finally fought Raphael on his own turf. The interwebs say this might be the toughest boss fight in the game; I was doing better than expected, but at 3 a.m. I realized it probably wasn't good enough and had to pack it in.

Tonight, Raphael. Tonight.

[Jaymann]

I think I'm about 240 hours in now and getting down to the endgame. Last night I finally fought Raphael on his own turf. The interwebs say this might be the toughest boss fight in the game; I was doing better than expected, but at 3 a.m. I realized it probably wasn't good enough and had to pack it in.

Tonight, Raphael. Tonight.

There's one weird trick he doesn't want you to know about:

Spoiler:

Globe of Invulnerability. Put Hope inside it and she can ban some minions and heal your party.

[Kraken]

I think I'm about 240 hours in now and getting down to the endgame. Last night I finally fought Raphael on his own turf. The interwebs say this might be the toughest boss fight in the game; I was doing better than expected, but at 3 a.m. I realized it probably wasn't good enough and had to pack it in.

Tonight, Raphael. Tonight.

There's one weird trick he doesn't want you to know about:

Spoiler:

Globe of Invulnerability. Put Hope inside it and she can ban some minions and heal your party.

What sorcery is this? OK Raphael, you beat me tonight. But tomorrow....

Also, I'm at 160 hours, not 140. And I'm already thinking about my *next* game.

[$iljanus]

Damn I'm in my second playthrough and don't feel like restarting. I think Withers is gonna get a lot of business when the new patch drops. I feel the need to hire some swashbucklers