Baldur's Gate 3 Playthrough Discussion

[Zed Clampet]

What is the point in making you become visible when attacking when the enemies can just go invisible again right after (and move some more)?

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Things are coming to an end. The Raphael fight was fun.

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Lae'zel is an absolute murder monster. I tried Karlach again at level 12 and there is no comparison. She had great gear and 22 strength, too. I'm going to switch her in my solo game to a fighter because I absolutely love her character.

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@Pifanjr I wouldn't carry your lack of enthusiasm for magic gear into Act 3. There's some great stuff to find and sometimes buy. Makes a huge difference in your stats.

 

[Zloth]

Yeah, I came into Baldur's Gate loaded with cash. Two stores and it was almost all gone. I even pulled out all those plate armors I had sent off to camp storage and sold them off.

 

[Pifanjr]

What is the point in making you become visible when attacking when the enemies can just go invisible again right after (and move some more)?

You could do that too. I recently did that with Wyll's imp familiar: I snuck up on an enemy while invisible, attacked it causing it to be surprised, attacked it again in the surprise round and then became invisible before they could act and flew away.

Sadly the enemy could heal itself when out of combat, so I couldn't kill her like that, but she started with a decent chunk of temporary hit points that I removed that way.

@Pifanjr I wouldn't carry your lack of enthusiasm for magic gear into Act 3. There's some great stuff to find and sometimes buy. Makes a huge difference in your stats.

I do now have a ring on Karlach that gives her extra acid damage on every attack and a cloak that possibly inflicts an enemy with a damaging acid aura if you do acid damage, which is a pretty fun combination.

Yeah, I came into Baldur's Gate loaded with cash. Two stores and it was almost all gone. I even pulled out all those plate armors I had sent off to camp storage and sold them off.

Oh no, I had just stopped picking up every single piece of gear of every single dead enemy (and ally), but now I feel like I might need to start again...

Though I don't think there are that many enemies left before I reach Act 3, I'm pretty sure I'm almost at the end of Act 2.

 

[Frindis]

What is the point in making you become visible when attacking when the enemies can just go invisible again right after (and move some more)?

You could do that too. I recently did that with Wyll's imp familiar: I snuck up on an enemy while invisible, attacked it causing it to be surprised, attacked it again in the surprise round and then became invisible before they could act and flew away.

There is even a cape that makes you go complete invisible for two turns after you kill an enemy.

Things are coming to an end. The Raphael fight was fun.

Beautiful music in it

Lae'zel is an absolute murder monster. I tried Karlach again at level 12 and there is no comparison. She had great gear and 22 strength, too. I'm going to switch her in my solo game to a fighter because I absolutely love her character.

Barb is stronger early on (throughout Act 1), but fighter wins it later with more attacks and more feats. There is a new subclass for barb I believe, so it could be that it changes things, but I hardly think so.

@Pifanjr I wouldn't carry your lack of enthusiasm for magic gear into Act 3. There's some great stuff to find and sometimes buy. Makes a huge difference in your stats.

I do now have a ring on Karlach that gives her extra acid damage on every attack and a cloak that possibly inflicts an enemy with a damaging acid aura if you do acid damage, which is a pretty fun combination.

I think that is probably the coolest thing with BG3 item wise. You can just go to a vendor in act 3 that sets you up for life, as more of the better gear is obvious in Act 3 or you can tinker more with builds and get some synergies to really pop off. Besides that, some of the early items can also be extremely powerful by themselves, like if you get the bow that gives you haste or the one that frightens people. Just being at the right location earlier in the game can really give you an advantage.

Oh no, I had just stopped picking up every single piece of gear of every single dead enemy (and ally), but now I feel like I might need to start again...

When you arrive at the main capital and feel really broke, you can always get an instrument and start playing for the NPC's. I'm not saying it will not take an extremely long time to get rich from it, but I am saying it is honest work, a good hard living and you'll probably lightened someone mood. Just...be wary of anyone wearing a red t-shirt. Oh...and probably don't play at the graveyard..or stand to close to one of the boat jetties and whatever you do, do not start playing any music down in the darkest of dark because there you'll find the [censored].