13 Things That are Actually Overpowered in Baldur’s Gate 3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this Baldur’s Gate 3 video we’re going to talk about the most underrated things that are deceptively better than you might think with a ton more functionality and applications than you might suspect, or just way stronger than you might estimate at first glance.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:13 Backpack
00:54 Light
01:37 Find Familiar
02:31 Send to Camp
03:40 Mage Hand
04:22 Silence
05:01 Healing Potion
06:07 Wooden Crate
06:42 Dip
07:21 Candle
07:43 Shove
08:22 Iron Hinge
08:51 Featherfall
Backpack
The backpack might seem like just an item to store and organize items, but you can also throw your backpack which deals light damage, but more importantly if you throw it far enough it breaks open and drops everything that was inside where you threw it. When you throw a backpack filled with explosive items like Alchemist's Fire, Smokepowder Bombs, Caustic Bulbs, and Spiked Bulbs and so on, you can create a massive bomb that you can set off with an arrow of fire, or other flame source. This backpack bomb might just be the highest amount of damage you can do in a single turn in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Light
You can use the spell Light on an item to make it glow and emit light. You can then throw that item to a dark place to create a light source. This can be done on low value items to create light sources cheaply. This can be particularly helpful in dark places like the underdark to assist a ranged character that might not have darkvision, to help those ranged attacks connect with their target.
Find Familiar
Cats can jump through bars, and go through some small places, so you can get your familiar to reach places you might not be able to otherwise. Also if you’re a druid and shapeshift into a cat, you can also take advantage of jumping through bars. Not only that, but if you summon a Spider familiar, you can use it to scare Goblins and Trolls, which are both terrified of them. The Cat familiar is great for distracting enemies to get them out of position, or to gather them in a group for an AOE spell, similar to minor illusion. What’s also great about familiars is that they persist through a long rest, so if you summon them before a long rest, you’ll get your spell slot back, and keep your familiar.
Send to Camp
Send Chests to Camp after looting to crack them later if you can’t figure it out now - maybe your skill is too low. You can also do the same thing with camp supplies - send it to camp so that you have more room in your inventory, and it goes to the travelers chest. As a bonus, if you put a camp supplies backpack into the traveler's chest, the supplies you send to camp will automatically go into that bag. This will save a lot of room and weight in your bags for more important items while you’re out in the world.
Mage Hand
This spell should have my top underrated spells list, but since I didn’t add it, it’s going in this list. This spell has a ton of amazing uses. You can cast it before a fight and drop some bombs next to it, and when the fight starts, it can rain explosives down on your enemies each turn. Or you can summon a Mage Hand next to a ranged attacker standing on a cliff and shove him to his death.
Silence
Another underrated spell - this spell is most commonly used to stop enemy spellcasting, however, it can also be used to mute any sounds in the environment that might wake up or alert nearby enemies. For example, using Silence on an area you’re about to cause an explosion on, will not wake up any sleeping enemies - because it didn’t make any sound. Not only that but everything within the silence radius is also immune to thunder damage. So there are a lot of cool uses for Silence.
Healing Potion
Most players use healing potions individually, but if you throw your potion, it can heal in an area of effect. This can be extremely useful if your party is grouped up, you can essentially multiply the value of your healing potion by throwing it between them. Make sure not to throw it directly at a teammate though, as that will damage them instead. Also, if you’re a Life Cleric, you’ll grant bonus healing on the potion, so you’ll be able to get a massive AOE heal off on your party if you use this tactic, which is basically the same as a short rest in terms of healing your whole group. And what’s amazing about this is that you can also do this with other potions, such as a potion of speed, but I’ve noticed it doesn’t work for every single potion, so be careful to quicksave before you throw your potion just in case you’re not sure if a certain potion will work. Knowing this can be very helpful to buff up your team right before a difficult fight.
Crate
If you stack 3 crates on top of each other, you can give your character the high ground advantage. It might take a few seconds of preparation to stack the crates, but once set up, you’ve given yourself a nice advantage, and as a way to protect that same character from ranged attacks by giving the enemy disadvantage...
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One run while playing as a moon druid, I was shifted into owlbear form and was using a colossus potion. I weighed 5,005kg. Friend grabbed me with telekinesis and chucked me at monster and it missed the saving throw. I hit it for 213 damage. Since then many things have died to a flying owlbear. Many people would also be surprised at how few creatures in the game are concerned about a cat running around placing explosives everywhere. Currently doing a Dark Urge run as a Half Drow druid mad bomber cat.
How can the cat place explosives? Does it have an inventory?
Man I wish my first playthrough of this game would’ve been multiplayer. Throwing owlbears at enemies sounds hilarious
@@brunovital4207I immediately wondered the same thing
@@brunovital4207I assume he's wildshaped as a cat and is placing the explosives that way.
Godspeed you fucking lunatic.
Longstrider is the most OP spell in the game. Its a ritual so it costs nothing, does not require concentration and last until long rest. So its essentially free buff.
i have plenty of arcane support in my avatar (bard paladin) and plenty in Wyll (warlock\sorc) - so I respec gale into a ritual caster\transmuter. Free potions and free spell slots for longstrider\leap
There's one thing to remember about it though. If you remove it from the prepared spell list of the caster the effect will end (same as with other persistent spells in general). So what is best to do here is get a hireling with this spell (I use my alchemist-build halfling hireling for that) and cast it on anybody you need. Then remove the hireling from the party to just chill at the camp.
Note: unfortunately doesn't work with concentration spells like Magic Weapon - removing the caster from the party ends the spell.
if you upcast longstrider, you'll be able to target multiple people and it wont take the spell slot (as long as you're not in turn-based mode).
but when upcasted like this, it won't remove the effect when you unprepare it. likely will be patched at some point, but it works as of 13/9/23
@@arf101088 Well damn that is a neat trick! I just tried and it works, thanks for sharing!
Boo. Boo is OP.
For Light, take your armor off, drop it on the ground, illuminate it, and put the armor back on.
Boom, you’re a light source, and you don’t have to worry about putting your weapon away and dispelling your light
😮
that's brilliant !! this is the beauty of D&D and full credit should go to Larian over here that they allow us to do such things !
For me that worked by just selecting my character. I did it in the shadow lands.
Pretty much how I killed Cazador on my honour run. I cast daylight on all my characters and then he took a ton of damage every turn
I just cast light on myself every time. Instant light source that moves with me.
40 years after my first D&D game and I'm just finding out about hurling backpacks and firebombs?
If you cast light on a bottle and throw it, when it breaks, the area of light is much larger than an object of the same size.
A list that's actually useful and actually listing sleeper picks.... nice
Shoving enemies off high places has definitely changed combat outcomes in my favor a number of times.
A warlock with repelling eldritch blast does do wonders.
@@DehJarlorNoob currently rebuilding my barb/lock with this. Thanks a bunch!
Some more specifics on mage hand: They can punch enemies to break concentration, and I believe shove also can break it. They can use Fly, Shove AND attack all in the same turn. Additionally, enemies have a habit of attacking the mage hand when it's nearby, which is a wasted Action for them (or even wasting a spell). Now they just need to buff it so we can pickpocket people with it
im pretty sure if rogue takes it as arcane trickster it can do additional rogue-type actions
I only recently discovered that familiars can use potions. I dropped a Hill Giant Strength potion and then clicked on it as my raven. Thus my 21 strength raven was able to move around explosive barrels without anyone caring whether I was in a restricted area.
if you jump onto a web surface it negates all falling damage, and create water will reveal invisible enemies when they become wet :) oh and dancing lights can be put over a trap vent/gas pit to block the substance while you concentrate
The dancing light thing is huge! I hate those stupid traps!
@@nikolastiscareno4963 same, that didn’t used to work in early access and I’m not sure if it’s intended but I’ll take it lol
@@nikolastiscareno4963 also another trick I’ve learned is if you get a vendor to 100% attitude towards you can cast feign death on them, take all their stuff, and they won’t accuse you of anything lol It’s pretty cheesy tho so I don’t do it personally
@@7Feather that to me makes no sense lol like that should not be a thing 😂
Forget game of the year. BG3 is game of our life...
I used the cat shapeshift to rob the treasure from underneath the temple of Umberlee. Normally the priestesses would throw me out or detect my invisibility, but they don't mind the cat.
Sussur Bloom. If you plan a fight with powerful spell caster like Lorroakan, you can sneek and place sussur bloom in his inventory. I bet trading works as well 😁
I usually slow them down and throw a sussur flower next to the spellcaster
you can pick up the small phase spiders from the phase spider matriarch, you can use them as a dip to add poison to your weapons
You can probably also throw them around
Hold on I gotta get my giant spider out 😂.
In the Act 1 you can get at least 2 wyvern poison bottles. If you throw one on the ground in the camp it'll make a puddle that never goes away. You can dip weapons in it, and the poison stays forever unless you get wet or take a long rest. And the wetness removes the poison only from your active equipped weapon.
If you think this is a waste of a wyvern poison bottle, you can throw a toxin bottle as well. Not as great, but still nice.
@cjnf11 that seems pretty useful actually
@@cjnf11Wow that's so useful I thought all coating items only last for a couple turns
I love how a lot of these are applicable to tabletop D&D play, especially the silence spell one. Thanks a bunch!
you can put a torch in a smokepowder barrel and throw the barrel. it'll explode instead of scatter.
Either they patched that out or I haven't figured out how to do it. I don't see a combine button when I pull up the smoke powder barrel
@@DopadroidI think they mean setting the barrel down placing a lit torch on it and use “throw” on the barrel while it’s on the ground not your inventory.
@@Alexandrosps12 I saw in another video that you could combine the items but the video was a few months old
Re: #5 discussed at 5:00 --> If you're not in a combat situation and can prepare you should AVOID THROWING the potion in favor of placing it on the ground, gathering your party around it, and then attacking it since this results in a LARGER AOE/SPLASH radius. Additionally, when throwing a potion it's possible to aim poorly, hit your ally resulting in dealing throw damage prior to the potion's effect. I found this hint out the other day while watching another video.
also, dropping water bottles and shoving them into your guy that's on fire, which saves your action.
Last game night i found out something really cool :)
So, I dropped a couple of options on the ground (not shater them, just left those intact) to use them with mage hand later in battle. Your mage hand can literally throw things (potions included). Cool right?
What's even cooler - the other guys who joined the fight on my side - used those options that I dropped before to heal my party!!
I find throwing potions on the ground confusing, everyones in the radius shown but it seems like there a percentage chance for it to actually heal even though it shows everyone in the radius. This also happened alot when i tried to throw potion to revive allies, i feel like it caused the heal area on the ground but maybe because of it being a hard throw to high ground it never healed the person in the radius?
@@Necro_furythe way to tell if it will work or not (at least on Xbox) is if the character lights up green. Sometimes you can throw the potion directly in someone’s radius, on their model, but it won’t count, and the potion will stay on the ground (except in very select cases).
Also stairs make it god damn hard in this game loo
@@kingofgrim4761 thanks for the reply, though i think i learned alot more over the months since i posted. But yeah, on an incline or something similar theres a good chance itll just make the blue puddle even though it looks like the char is in it.
With Light you can just cast it on a melee person and it puts it on the weapon they are holding, which would work pretty much the same for a ranged character to see in the dark.
Find Familiar is a ritual spell, so it should not be using a spell slot to cast in the first place.
You can also use "Dip" on Flaming Sphere, and I think that's hilarious.
For Featherfall, there are boots in Act 1 that let you cast AoE Featherfall as well and it doesnt have a long/short rest limitation so you can always swap to the boots and then use the spell and swap back. One of the best items in the game lol.
Jboots for gen z
I keep accidentally casting it on the wrong weapon, melee vs ranged, but I have it on 3 to 4 characters, so at least one is lit up at all times, and out of combat, by pressing U to unsheath your weapons.
@@sterlinggecko3269 Yep. And honestly a lot of mid-late game weapons glow on their own anyways so you dont even really need to worry about them some times.
I fed those boots to Gale and I'm kinda regretting it now
@@Dopadroid Gale needs to be sent to rehab
Here's my tip: Feather Fall and Enhance Leap especially, but any other low level rituals like that, have them on Astarion as an Arcane Trickster rogue. Because you'll be primarily casting them outside of combat and they won't take up a spell slot. - That way you can keep your dedicated spellcasters damage oriented or give them the higher level utility spells. - Alternatively use Astarion for setups, like casting Grease before you throw a fire spell with a different character.
Also remember you can have Aid and Longstrider cast on your party by hirelings that you leave at camp, and the benefits will persist. - Keep some buff bots in camp like that to keep those spells on your crowd. - And cycle your party members, folks. - If Karlach took a beating and is down to 3 HP, don't rest for just her sake, send her to camp and bring Lae'Zel for a fight, use her superiority dice. - Gale used up his spell slots? Swap him out for Shadowheart or Wyll.
Lastly, "Retreat" is OP AF.
Devil you can fight in act 2 for example? Sneak up to him, lay down some barrels of smoke powder and some explosive bombs, send ALL your party members to camp. - ungroup, bring only Astarion back with Haste to shoot a fire arrow to ignite the thing, then using the surprise round have him cunning action dash, normal action dash, run away to be way out of enemy range and retreat to camp. - That will reset the aggro and you can sneak back in to plant more barrels to deal with more enemies. - Also know what will and will not ignite, and try out some combos. - If you hit a smoke powder barrel in the middle of some firewine barrels, the force damage won't ignite the firewine barrel, but throwing a fire bolt on the firewine barrel in-between smoke powder barrels will, and it will deal more damage. - And exploding a firewine or oil barrel deals a portion of force damage when it explodes, too, but smashing it and setting the contents on fire won't, so remember that as well when stacking explosions like that.
This is a very possible way to not play a video game 😂
Good job
That's a lot of work😂
List of spells for your designated buff hirelings:
-Aid
-Longstrider (easily the best of them all imo)
-Darkvision
-Death Ward
-Protection from Poison
-Thoroughly Stuffed (late game but super strong, whole party is immune to poison and frightened...makes Protection from Poison obsolete and even if you have a Cleric in your party having someone in camp cast it saves them from using a precious lvl6 Spell Slot on it)
-Freedom of Movement (can't be paralyzed or restrained)
-Transmuter's Stone (advantage on constitution saving throws or even better a 2nd Longstrider for one party member)
-Warding Bond (don't forget to pick up your hireling when you enter camp before he dies)
-Goodberries (Jaheira has that one for me, so I use ALL her Spell Slots on giving me like a 100 of them)
and lastly, have the Drakethroat Glave ready before setting out (in camp or just in your inventory),
-Draconic Elemental Weapon: gives one weapon in your party +1 Attack Roll and a +D4 of additional elemental damage of your choosing...put it on a character other than you want to buff and be sure the one you want to buff has the right weapon out (so many times I accidentally cast it on my crossbow instead of the melee weapon and then I'm stuck with it until the next Long Rest)
Unless you're struggling on tactician I don't recommend going through ALL of them EVERY new day, but some of them I don't want to live without anymore (Longstrider especially)...one Cleric casting Thorougly Stuffed(lvl6) and Aid (highest level available) on your whole party (grouping them in camp can be annoying but not that much honestly), Warding Bond on your most important party member and Freedom of Movement on every party member. And a Transmuter Wizard casting Transmuter Stone on one person and then Longstrider and Darkvision on every party member. My third hireling is a bard just in case I want a 3rd short rest
the first one (explosive bagpack) was something I never thought about, nice.
Also, at 3:00 you talk about dealing with a cluttered up inventory while showing us your inventory filled to the brim with keys - made me chuckle, a bit.
The Command spell is pretty op, especially the drop command, as you can use it to get some powerful weapons from some big bosses way before you should be able to
Also all of them waste the enemies whole turn. Grovel is free advantage. Flee can proc all your melee opportunity. Approach can help close distance for melee fighters. Halt can be used to keep a boss in cloud of daggers, flaming sphere, moonbeam etc
The best thing about this spell is that it's lvl 1 and can be upcast! So, with a 3rd level spell slot you basically disarm THREE enemies simultaneously. And since picking up objects from the ground does not require an action, you can have your more agile character just come closer and pick the enemies' weapons, rendering them permanently disarmed.
@@freddywright4239I used grovel to break concentration on a harpy tonight
Another thing I've been doing a lot is using Shove to push other characters into range when they don't have the movement speed to hit the enemy I want them to hit. I also once needed to use my MC's see invisibility to see some invisible enemies but she was across the room so I had Lae'zel with the special Githyanki gauntlets use Telekinesis to harmlessly throw her all the way over to where I needed her in hilarious fashion and then pushed her into where the invisible enemies were.
My new fun way to do so, is improvised weapon attack. Pick up ur ally, and you don’t even need to throw them. Cancel the action before the end of the movement and they’ll move there. Though I feel it breaks the game, so I only use this if I’m like *just* outside of range
In your inventory tab at the top... click the organize by type. Then click the first item of the type and shift+click the last one on the list and it will select everything in between, you can drag and drop everything at once, or right click and send all of them at once to wherever.
Wait. Wait. Wait.
What?
This is gonna make my loot hoarding way easier.
Very helpful! I never thought you can make backpacks into c4 explosives 😂
Backpack bombs.... just when u thought BG3 couldn't get more creative...
For any summoning spell (find familiar, conjure minor elemental, animate dead etc) you can use the spell and swap it out for another one as long as you're outside of combat and the summons will persist.
I was just about to test this. Thx!
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To be fair, that first thing with the explosives has existed in the last 3 Larian games. There's even a video on youtube about one shotting Divinity Original Sin that uses this sort of strategy to nuke the entire end of the game
One useful tip for shove is that in the mid game you'll be encountering a lot of slow AoE (Ice Storm, Cloudkill, Steel Watcher Nukes) so you can shove allies out of the radius or enemies into the radius of said attacks. Just something I've done.
For anyone that's never used it, try out fog cloud. You can get it as early as level 1 if, for example, you are tempest cleric. You are blinded while inside it but enemies are as well and they can't see through the fog cloud while you can and you can stand on the other side of it and shoot through it with no penalties. You'll also be completely invisible if you go into stealth while inside the fog cloud.
0:47 you can get more damage by wildshape owlbear and build a box tower. Cast enlarge and drink colossus elixer. Then pounce from tower. I've seen 40k dmg. Quick tip: if you dont want to be bloody in cutscenes, just group your party together and throw a water bottle on the ground. No need for the water spell or a rest.
Why shouldnt you want your party to be bloody in a cutscene? These are hilarious xD
@@burningtheevidence8038 kissing shadowheart when we were all bloody made me think of Megan fox and machine gun kelly. I'd personally rather be clean. There is a cloak you can get from a djinn in act 3 that when you put it on it makes you wet and therefore clean. Top 5 item. No need for spells or water bottles.
@@nunya_bizniz Right now I don't see my characters doing something like that to her. She's too annoying for that ;)
A tip to skip a boss fight entirely. Cleric's get daylight. Vampires take damage in daylight. So if you get close enough to one without triggering dialogue a certain vampire will just die without having to fight them.
in my experience, the AoE of Daylight is so big that it also killed the other spawns. on the other hand, the Blood of Lathander has a passive toggleable light feature, and you can turn it on and off infinitely in a single turn lol
@@PanEtRosaSee, that *would* be helpful, but I gave that particular weapon to Shadowheart and she apparently has a bad habit of *fuckin dropping it* and now I can't find the damn thing anywhere.
@@PanEtRosajust do it while he’s not paying attention.
This has been pached in honor mode
I've also notcied that blessing of the trickster plus greater invisibility gives you near gauranteed invisibility for 10 turns on a character with high dexterity. You can attack multiple times and still stay invisibile. This totally screws up the AI and often enemies won't even try to fight back.
You can make gale a cleric, cast warding bond on your whole party and leave him at camp. He heals in camp
It is not infinite. If you check the log, you will realize that he can only heal himself this way a limited number of times per day. The last time I check it was nine times. Might be equal to the level.
@@philippegauvin-vallee9371 ive never had him die
I actually used shove once to wake up a friend in coop, i wanted to help but accidentally shoved. I thought it was hilarious but especially when i realized i just saved myself an action by using a bonus action i was very happy with that accident and told my friend this is how i wake people up from now on
You didn't point that Silence is a RITUAL, which is honestly insane.
For dip, throw a poison vial at a waypoint you frequent and it will leave an acid surface that lasts permanantly and you can dip your parties weapons in at start of day.
So, throw a poison vial next to Withers in camp, and then dip every time you wake up...?
@@Shachza yes, or even better a wyvern poison
Geez I never conceived of doing stuff like this. This game is on a whole ‘nother level
5:00 that healing trick is BUSTED!! Thx a LOT friend!
Another thing that's probably missed. Araj Oblodra. Where you can get the permanent buff of extra strength by having Astarion bite her neck in Act 2. If you go through with this you can meet her again in Act 3. At x:-89 Y:-81. If you agree to drink another one of her potions it'll give you volatile blood. Your blood goes boom when set on fire now. Could be seen as a buff if you play accordingly.
I took the permanent +2 str potion and pissed Astarion off. Too bad I massacred everyone in Moonrise Towers, thus cannot meet her in Act 3.
Sending to camp was the single best ability in the game.... period.
Kinda sad it makes the Human Racial feature of enhanced carrying capacity obsolete :( And it's probably the reason there's no bag of holding in the game
@@knight_lautrec_of_carim Agreed , The feat of enhanced holding capacity is just strange
1:37 summoning a boar also attracts goblins, handy if you want to drive attention from a lot of goblins away from something
6:45 Dip Tip: a vial Simple Toxin can be smashed on the ground and all your characters can dip their weapons into it to add a little extra damage to their attacks. (At this time this buff will last until you make a long rest, however I expect this mag get patched out eventually).
A baldurs gate video that's actually helpful/solid ideas!?!? I love it ❤ keep up the good content
For anyone who wants to use the longstrider trick, there is a way to have it on everyone while not needing to have it constantly prepared on Gale or your local wizard: just ask withers for a wizard hireling and get one level of druid on it; this way you can use the hireling to cast longstrider on everybody, maybe cast protection from evil and good on one member and then spend all the remaing slots on goodberries
you can also cast Light on one of your party members and they'll glow like a flashlight lol. It's how I made it through the underdark my first playthrough
You don't have to worry about getting your spell slot back after summoning a familiar - is a ritual spell. It does not take a spell slot
They're talking about having an alternate spell prepared, Just for the extra tactical option, not expending a casting slot.
Fog. Put down a cloud run out fire arrows, run back in. people can fire at you but you have heavy cover. You can't be targeted by spells with line of sight and enemies that melee you have disadvantage while you have a free disengage. One warning on those melee enemies you might end up in a fight where you both have disadvantage so shove those jerks out of your friendly cloud when you get the chance. Fog is particularly great for rogues and gloomstalkers who can hide in the cloud with a bonus action
i feel like gaseous form is better than all shapepshift spells since u can literaly go anywyhere with this
You can't take other actions in that form, and it it is a higher level spell slot that can't be ritual cast
I like the terror bomb bag. will be using that lots.
Love that tip about throwing the potion bottle and having an AoE heal ! great idea !
and love the Anakin reference at 6:36 brilliant
😀
I think respec character is actually op. So many ways to abuse areas, fights,etc. it just takes a bit of time so most people opt out of really breaking the difficulty curve with it. I’m pretty sure it gives you back full health and spell slots. You can even find a build that has a power spike for each respective level
There's a lot in this game that is super OP, it is not a hard game after all. True difficulty is always self imposed by limiting yourself to a certain roleplay, no save-scumming, no respeccs, lone wolf/duo etc.
Just using barrelmancy is already completly breaking the game's difficulty but that's fine if that is how you want to play.
I thought find familiar was a ritual so didn't cost a slot too?
Good voice cadence, sounds like you actually workout, breathing is very controlled or used to speaking.
it is a ritual spell.
What an odd comment...
That is a great list !! Thank you
Awesome video man! You’re a gem, sir! 💎
Dude, it never even crossed my mind to actually pick up the backpacks...
I have 3 packs in my avatars inventory at all times. One for potions, one for scrolls, and one for crap to sell. My inventory is always bare lol
Pouches too.
The candle idea is f**king brilliant! Never again am I traveling without one.
Awesome video :3
This is probably a bug and likely will be patched eventually, but I tested it yesterday and it still works. Warding bond can be applied to your whole party, and if you dismiss the caster and make them wait at camp, it doesn't go away. Shadowheart will eventually die in camp if you do this, but for some reason Gale doesnt?? So you can just have a permanent Warding Bond without worrying about the caster dying.
Damn that familiar part was mind opening, thx bro
The one with the backpack actually makes me really happy because one of my favorite stories that I've heard from D&D is about a character that, from the beginning of the campaign, what caste Fireballs into a bag of holding at every opportunity.
The DM thought nothing of it but when it came time to fight the BBEG dragon, he asked a party member to teleport him behind the dragon, turned the bag inside out, detonating every Fireball, turning himself and the dragon into a glorious mist in just one turn.
That's now how dnd 5e works. The DM allowed homebrew rules there
@@crazysnypa I'm guessing you meant to say that's not how it works?
If so, it doesn't surprise me but I can definitely still appreciate the ingenuity
you can put a lit torch in the backpack so when it breaks it explodes without needing to light it or throw it into fire.
Bro the backpack bomb is genious wow !
You said "Backpack Bomb" with my Alexa sitting by the speaker. Now I'm flagged on the keyword list, thanks.
Shove also helps if you have a team member who has run out of movement to get close to an enemy. Shove the enemy to them and get that last pommel hit in
Long strider. Ritual that is easily cast on every part member including summons for 10 ft more movement.
I cannot go without Longstrider. Too used to the extra movement.
Longstrider and expeditious retreat for my melee fighter that has boots that give buffs for dashing.
Movespeed is overpowered too! My rouge could cover 90+ meters of distance in one turn; Phase spider matriarch wouldn't even get to know what stole her precious gem
@@MikeKnight009as a wood elf, with Crusher's ring, lol
Great tips very unique ones
I will remember that backpack bomb to cheese a hard boss fight in the future
You should start using Ctrl and Shift keys to select multiple items and send stuff all at once instead of one by one which is very tedious. It works the same way as clicking multiple files in Windows File Explorer.
I’m now convinced that Larian just watched Happy Souls on repeat every single day they were working on this.
Didn't know half of them, thanks for sharing.
You bet!
You real show horned in the feather fall one at the end…even kept in the “um” like you were reaching lol
There are soooo many potential things to do and learn in this game. And that is just the gameplay in itself, then we have the story and game world story telling. Game lore, game of the decade in my books!
BACKPACK BOMB IS SO COOL
man i love bg3
There's only one thing I want to dip into Karlach and it was in a cutscene at camp.
Actually used the potion throwing to get out of a bind in the forge cause 2 of the characters got thrown in a hole, and had to fly back up. Very handy tip
Find Familiar is a ritual spell and doesn't take a spell slot.
You can use Send to camp to collect explosive barrels. Then you can drop it and use for ambushes. Just think about instakilling Hug in her house by a bunch of barrels and locking the exit door
the damage number you see from throwing a potion directly at them is the potion bottle taking damage, not the ally
Not if you have a throwing build. I killed so many companions with healing potions in my current Monk playthrough lol.
@@KokosNaSnehu2 Tavern Brawler, both a blessing and a curse
Yeah, I love dipping my weapon into Karlach 😏
If your select throw with a potion and it highlights an aoe on the ground then it will work. Otherwise it will break. So that will save you some loading screens
Backpack bombs are nice and all but have you eveer heard of the Owlbear Nuke?
List of spells for your designated buff hirelings (buff spells that remain until Long Rest without concentration):
-Aid
-Longstrider (easily the best of them all imo)
-Darkvision
-Death Ward
-Protection from Poison
-Thoroughly Stuffed (late game but super strong, whole party is immune to poison and frightened...makes Protection from Poison obsolete and even if you have a Cleric in your party having someone in camp cast it saves them from using a precious lvl6 Spell Slot on it)
-Freedom of Movement (can't be paralyzed or restrained)
-Transmuter's Stone (advantage on constitution saving throws or even better a 2nd Longstrider for one party member)
-Warding Bond (don't forget to pick up your hireling when you enter camp before he dies)
-Goodberries (Jaheira has that one for me, so I use ALL her Spell Slots on giving me like a 100 of them)
Other spells that last until Long Rest but can only be cast on self (if your player character doesn't have them I recommend buying scrolls of them whenever you can):
-talk with animals
-speak with the dead (can be infinitely recast until long rest...but should be cast as soon as possible after you leave camp because it will highlight every corpse that has information in a green outline)
-and whoever has speak with the dead should also have disguise ready...the majority of corpses won't talk to you without it
and lastly, have the Drakethroat Glave ready before setting out (in camp or just in your inventory),
-Draconic Elemental Weapon: gives one weapon in your party +1 Attack Roll and a +D4 of additional elemental damage of your choosing...put it on a character other than you want to buff and be sure the one you want to buff has the right weapon out (so many times I accidentally cast it on my crossbow instead of the melee weapon and then I'm stuck with it until the next Long Rest)
Unless you're struggling on tactician I don't recommend going through ALL of them EVERY new day, but some of them I don't want to live without anymore (Longstrider especially)...one Cleric casting Thorougly Stuffed(lvl6) and Aid (highest level available) on your whole party (grouping them in camp can be annoying but not that much honestly), Warding Bond on your most important party member and Freedom of Movement on every party member. And a Transmuter Wizard casting Transmuter Stone on one person and then Longstrider and Darkvision on every party member. My third hireling is a bard just in case I want a 3rd short rest. And my player character has a scroll of Talk to Animals for breakfast every day
The Healing Potion part - sometimes it doesn't work for some reason.
very helpful
0:44 WOW never though about it realy, first thing on list and its amasing
Random tip that involves send to camp: the god offering in act 3 dont curse you if you just send the items to camp from the chest inventory and then grab them out of your camp chest
web can be used for the same effect as feather fall and its a 1st level spell, castable by a rangers familier
Asterion's Mage hand is also invisible. I use it to turn off the guardian statues. My visible mage hands get destroyed by the guardians before they can deactivate them... but the invisible mage hand does not get shot.
dropping that candle on the ground gave me phub vibes
Im like 30 hours into the game and had no idea I could just send stuff to camp. Woulda save me so much time!
Enemies: “Why is this guy stacking three crates on top of each other?”
Does this work on invisibility spell as well? Does effect only apply to the caster or the wntire party? Like feather fall?
You can buff mage hand with stuff like aid, mage armor, longstrider, bonding Ward to become a strong ally in combat
chromatic orb when you use lightning effect creates water. Now every wizard has access to create water.
I have been searching for this video for weeks. *PLEASE MAKE A LIST OF ALL OF THE WEAPONS MAGE HAND CAN PICKUP AND "USE"*!!!
All the things I want mage hand to do: open things, pull levers, pick locks, pick up items; it doesn't do. Waste of a cantrip slot.
This is insane. Coming up with creative solutions was always part of DnD. But LArian had to think of them beforehand to code them into the game ...