Baldur's Gate III Announced - ...and it's coming to Google Stadia and PC

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Soylent Dora said:
I feel like you'd lose a lot. I haven't played Bard, but thief feels entirely different and would not be as solid with melee. What are you looking for? I am also not sure what the trident and sickle thing is. Is that two weapons for dual wielding? Or a specific weapon?
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If you spec thief into assassin and do the murder tribunal questline in favor of Savorok or whatever and get the Assassin of bhaal set it becomes the most overpowered class in the game.

Your backstabs will regularly crit into the 200+ damage range.

I think Jahira might leave the party so if you choose to become a dark assassin so keep that in mind.
 
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Once the new patch drops, I plan to try Honour Mode.
Anyone else tried it? How hard is it? I've already finished the game on Tactician.

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Estate said:
Once the new patch drops, I plan to try Honour Mode.
Anyone else tried it? How hard is it? I've already finished the game on Tactician.

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I beat it with my wife if that's any indication lol. Its definitely a bit harder than Tactician. Biggest thing to look out for is the Legendary talents they gave some bosses, and maybe some additional enemies on some fights. I would examine every single fight to be safe, but 100% the bosses. Those talents can really fuck you up.

I would abuse the long rest mechanic. Never go into any fight you think might be challenging without full spells/skills. We lost once to the owlbear fight, but once I realized what to expect it gets easier. Almost fucked it up on the Spectator fight in the underdark because I was trying to prekill the drow who were frozen. but never had any real scares after that.

Class might be important as well. We dual Pally'd and crushed almost everything half way through act 2 and on. Sorcerer and a Pally would probably be better and damn near impossible to stop if played right. I would also highly recommend scroll usage. Globe of invulnerability, Chain Lightning and Fireballs will not only save a spell slot, but crush mobs and confuse the AI with the Globe.
 
Okay....fucking Orin
Her damn Legends of the Hidden Temple Grandfather skull beefing her up.
 
Some of the recent posts remind me of a question I've been wanting to ask, mostly just because I was bored and a bit curious:

Which classes do you guys think work best for a Dark Urge character, whether from a gameplay perspective or a lore one? I mean, canonically, the Durge in-game is a Storm Sorcerer, but I'm wondering what other classes could fit the psychopath. Off the top of my head, I was thinking a Barbarian class would be obvious, as well as an Oathbreaker Paladin. Fighter goes well with just about everything, while Rogue fits with the sneak bonuses the Bhaalist gear gets.

Anyone have ideas?
 
Scream Aim Fire said:
Some of the recent posts remind me of a question I've been wanting to ask, mostly just because I was bored and a bit curious:

Which classes do you guys think work best for a Dark Urge character, whether from a gameplay perspective or a lore one? I mean, canonically, the Durge in-game is a Storm Sorcerer, but I'm wondering what other classes could fit the psychopath. Off the top of my head, I was thinking a Barbarian class would be obvious, as well as an Oathbreaker Paladin. Fighter goes well with just about everything, while Rogue fits with the sneak bonuses the Bhaalist gear gets.

Anyone have ideas?
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Lorewise almost all of the bhaal cultists you fight in act three are either rogues or sorcerers, Kethric is an oathbreaker paladin so that also fits as a bad guy class.

Necromantic wizard could fit too.
 
Scream Aim Fire said:
Some of the recent posts remind me of a question I've been wanting to ask, mostly just because I was bored and a bit curious:

Which classes do you guys think work best for a Dark Urge character, whether from a gameplay perspective or a lore one? I mean, canonically, the Durge in-game is a Storm Sorcerer, but I'm wondering what other classes could fit the psychopath. Off the top of my head, I was thinking a Barbarian class would be obvious, as well as an Oathbreaker Paladin. Fighter goes well with just about everything, while Rogue fits with the sneak bonuses the Bhaalist gear gets.

Anyone have ideas?
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Wild heart barbarian with the tiger and wolverine aspect is pretty fun. It's a bleed build which is pretty on board for Dark Urge. Other than that I can't really think of any other classes. Maybe gloomstalker ranger if you don't want to go rogue. Ranger has a lot of cool dialogue tags in act 1 that I'd consider more assassin like in my opinion.
 
soda pimp said:
Wild heart barbarian with the tiger and wolverine aspect is pretty fun. It's a bleed build which is pretty on board for Dark Urge. Other than that I can't really think of any other classes. Maybe gloomstalker ranger if you don't want to go rogue. Ranger has a lot of cool dialogue tags in act 1 that I'd consider more assassin like in my opinion.
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How is that Barbarian bleed build? Does it compare well with something like Pally for DPS? I love the barbarian class as a whole, first full playthrough on release was a Wildheart Bear barbarian, but DPS wise it was like a 7/10 where as the pally is 10/10, sorcerer 9/10 IMO.
 
Soylent Dora said:
How is that Barbarian bleed build? Does it compare well with something like Pally for DPS? I love the barbarian class as a whole, first full playthrough on release was a Wildheart Bear barbarian, but DPS wise it was like a 7/10 where as the pally is 10/10, sorcerer 9/10 IMO.
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I'd say it's a solid 9/10 in act 1 and act 3. But in act 2 it's not that useful since some undead can't bleed.

Tiger barb can make a pretty good stun build, but it requires itemization and doesn't really come online until act 2. While enraged it has a free cleave attack which automatically makes the enemy bleed if it hits. Aspect of the wolverine applies the 'maimed' condition to the enemy when you attack one that's bleeding or poisoned. Being 'maimed' sets their movement speed to 0 so they cant move. With reverberation gear like boots of stormy clamor and gloves of belligerent skies you can prone the enemy since a specific amount of reverberation causes the 'prone' status. You'll need to use the draconic elemental weapon to get the thunder damage added to your weapon though, which is sold by Roah at Moonrise, or have someone use Phalar Aluve. Prone causes the enemy fall and to use half their walking speed to get up, but since they can't move because they were 'maimed' they're essentially stunned. Since tiger barb has a free aoe cleave you can apply this to multiple targets. In act 3 you can 100% prone the target with the bhaalist armor and monk amulet but that's a whole other egg.
 
I don't say its as good as the vengeance one, but it is still a paladin and hits like a truck.
 
Scream Aim Fire said:
Which classes do you guys think work best for a Dark Urge character, whether from a gameplay perspective or a lore one? I mean, canonically, the Durge in-game is a Storm Sorcerer, but I'm wondering what other classes could fit the psychopath. Off the top of my head, I was thinking a Barbarian class would be obvious, as well as an Oathbreaker Paladin. Fighter goes well with just about everything, while Rogue fits with the sneak bonuses the Bhaalist gear gets.
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An Assassin(rogue)
He's the god of murder, and you really benefit from the surprise the cloak helps with.
Assassins generally don't benefit from more than 3 levels, so I guess Bleed Barb or gloomstalker ranger might fit.
 
Male Idiot said:
I don't say its as good as the vengeance one, but it is still a paladin and hits like a truck.
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I'm still pissed at how Larian handled Paladin in this game; seriously, you do basically anything outside of what the game wants you to do, and your character apparently just decides to go from "noble enforcer of light" to "imma sacrifice people to demons for funnies". It's ridiculous.
 
Scream Aim Fire said:
I'm still pissed at how Larian handled Paladin in this game; seriously, you do basically anything outside of what the game wants you to do, and your character apparently just decides to go from "noble enforcer of light" to "imma sacrifice people to demons for funnies". It's ridiculous.
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they apparently fixed that in a patch. I've never played paladin because of that but they said it's harder to break oaths than at launch when it was a slight disagreement broke it
 
gaystoner said:
they apparently fixed that in a patch. I've never played paladin because of that but they said it's harder to break oaths than at launch when it was a slight disagreement broke it
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If you want to play Pally and do everything just pick Oath of Vengeance, there's only like three choices in the entire game that can break a Vengeance oath and all of them are so terrible that you would never make them.
 
Gravityqueen4life said:
Is oathbreaker good? heard its the weakest of the paladin class.
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I've completed the game on Honor mode with Oathbreaker and almost finished with the same class on Tactician (Got bored of the class) and neither time did I ever consider using any of the Paladin oaths.

Divine Smite is king, nothing else really matters once you ramp at level 5. Anything else needed can be found through items, scrolls and companions.
 
Durge and Minty going full smite can do great hits. But I admittably play on normal, so I take it that I don't need to min max so my choices can be suboptimal.
 
Male Idiot said:
Durge and Minty going full smite can do great hits. But I admittably play on normal, so I take it that I don't need to min max so my choices can be suboptimal.
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Yeah have fun with it. Hard to mess up the Pally on normal anyways. I don't even bother multiclassing it on Tactician/Honor since its so good.
 
Sniperwoof said:
If you want to play Pally and do everything just pick Oath of Vengeance, there's only like three choices in the entire game that can break a Vengeance oath and all of them are so terrible that you would never make them.
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I'll have to give a Vengeance Pally a shot, then! Was a bit interested in playing one, hesitant because of how pathetically easy it was to break your Oath.

I will say, I do wish there was an outright "evil" open for an Oath; was going to be running a "Kill (Possibly) Everyone Durge" sometime in the future, figured a Paladin would be an interesting option. I mean, there's the Oathbreaker, but I would've preferred an "official" player class. I'll take what I can get regardless; a Paladin doesn't exactly fit an evil Durge anyways.
 
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