Roah survived the Fireworks blast because she has Evasion, which fully negates damage on successful Dex Saves, which she is proficient with and the Fireworks have a middling DC to begin with.
Makes sense! It just really shocked me that she could save against roughly 25 explosives stacked on her head lol the imagery of her somehow dodging these
@@ProxyGateTacticianyeah I imagine it was evasion. I once started the Ansur fight by blowing him up but due to turn order couldn’t move my monk. Just blew him up anyway and didn’t take damage cause of Dex saves cause I had 20 dex and advantage due to the cars grace cloth.
I thought evasion uses a reaction in which case she shouldn't be able to dodge all of them (at least imo) i know a singular action triggered all of them but those were a lot of different instances of dmg from technically different sources.
"How Quickly Can You Become a Millionaire in Baldur's Gate 3?" *Spends an overabundance of hours and playthroughs doing runs, mapping routes, obtaining a certificate and licensure from Microsoft for Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, and makes a splashing jolly image of Mr. Monopoly* "This quick." This is the effort and results I've come to love from this channel.
It'd be like it was in 3e, where if you wanted to dig a hole and put bamboo sticks at the bottom the rules said you'd need to spend several tens of thousands of gold of supplies to do it. If you used such exotic methods as "putting palm fronds over the hole to hide it" or "rub the bamboo spikes in dung" it was supposed to cost you up over a hundred thousand. Luckily I don't remember anyone seeing that rule and not thinking it was stupid so I don't think I saw it in play.
I was similarly stunned by the Evasion mechanic when, in a desperate move, as a Monk with a sliver of health left I dropped all my explosives at Myrkul's...feet? I could not move away without his reaction killing me so I dropped Alchemist's Fire onto oil barrels, firewine, smokepowder, and even runepowder, safe in the knowledge that I had a companion that could revive me. It dropped the bag of bones down to 2 health, but me? I took zero damage. Level 7 monks and rogues, with a high dex score, will never take damage from traps, explosives, and dodgable spells. I now find it easier to clear minefields by just walking through them.
At the same time the game curses your monk with a baked-in passive that repeatedly steals your action in some fights once you get to that high level, so it kinda balances out.
@@pepper7880 "You automatically cast stillness of mind at the beginning of your turn when charmed/frightened/bla bla" That's not a bonus, that's your actual character being forced to cast this. It's not a reaction, it literally just steals your action. I guess it's not the absolute worst, given how bonus actions are the bulk of your damage, but stealing your ability to stun when you're just frightened next to an enemy is awful.
That explains why my ranger/rogue durge walked away unscathed from the heart of an explosion while minthara who was standing further away almost died lol
Ever since Patch 7, Honour Mode is no longer the hardest difficulty. The hardest difficulty is a Custom Game with Honour Ruleset, then you set everything to Tactician, set the Proficiency Bonus to -1 (this will effect your enemies slightly, but you even more), set Camp Cost to 3, Trader Price to 4, Turn off Multiclassing (no OP builds for you), Hide NPC Health, Failed Perception Rolls, Passive Rolls in Dialogues, and Difficulty Class During Rolls. Absolute hell.
@@gingergreenmashups you can manually choose your proficiency bonus on a custom ruleset. Normally, it follows basic DnD rules, increasing as you level from a +2-+4 by level 12. However, on the lowest difficulty, they give the players a higher bonus from the start of the game, so it's something you can choose in a custom ruleset, including the option to subtract when you have proficiency instead of adding to your roll, making your characters worse at what their class gives them proficiency in, like attack roles with proficient weapons and skill checks.
I play with most of these rules already, except trader price I set to the lowest. I hate gold farming, lol. The other one is proficiency bonus. I haven't touched this as I assume it'll be un-fun. On the other hand I use a mod to unlock the camp cost slider and set it to the hidden max of 10. And class-lock scrolls. That's another hidden option of that menu.
I've been doing a similar build since early on to practically guarantee thieving. If you're not speed running it like you were, I'd suggest picking up the Cloak of the Cunning Brume from Mattis in act 2. This allows you to create a free small radius cloud of fog (via disengage) allowing you to rob targets that might otherwise be difficult to rob (such as Rolan/Larroakan projection as example). I primarily used this to farm the Blue Angel potions from Moonrise as those suckers are ridiculously OP.
6:18 she has both evasion, which means she either takes half damage on a failed saving throw, or no damage on a succesful saving throw, and she has high dexterity, meaning she's unlikely to fail her dex saves. I hate her 👍
My favorite BG3 (and other Larian games) channel. Apart from learning about things in the game I never knew existed even for someone with 300+ hrs for each game (bg3, dos1, dos2), the best part is your narration and dry humor,
im not even halfway thru this video and youve already reduced me to tears with “if america has taught the world anything, its that all problems can be solved by using bombs” proxy you will always be famous 😭😭😭
I was literally playing BG3 today, looked at my Gold amount and thought I wonder how fast I can get to 100’000 from the 50’000 Gold I have now. I wish there was a video about earning Gold quickly and whaddya know boom. Proxy Gate Tactician uploads a video about that exact topic. I swear PGT videos always come in clutch lmao 😂
According to the weight of one gold piece in the game, minsc is carrying about 1/4 of an entire elephant, in just gold coins. If the gold had the same mass as irl gold it would be a whole lot worse for his spine
RE: the ketheric smokepowder strat. When acquiring smokepowder from the vendor in last light you need to discard the first stack to prevent that unfortunate accident, why I don't know but that is part of the speedrun route.
I did read that, and when i tried it still screwed up afterwards. I actually had lost 3 runs in a row to that bug because of reading that advice in the speedrun discord. Maybe I did something wrong or it got changed in patch 7? I don't really know.
It's because some grenades (I've personally seen it with smokepowder bombs and alchemist's fires) have glitched collision that causes them to explode on you when you chuck a stack of them. Barring corruption of stacks inside your inventory (which we are fairly sure happens but unsure as to how or why) you can only get them in the first stack from certain traders. With smokepowder bomb misfires specifically: Talli for sure has them, Derryth definitely had them before patch 7 but probably doesn't anymore, Araj will only ever sell you a single smokepowder bomb that is NOT glitched, and Barcus and all of the act 3 merchants seem to be safe. Bombs found in containers in the overworld are also safe (per my non-exhaustive testing).
@@ProxyGateTactician I don't believe there were any changes to Talli's misfires, but I can double check for you. Edit: There don't seem to have been any changes. As long as you buy the first 3 bombs (or the whole stack if she has less) and drop them on the ground/put them in a bag/put them in another character's inventory, you shouldn't run into the bug
@@aluc0hc strange i really wonder what i was doing wrong. Thanks for checking that. In one of my attempts I had 8 misfires (I read you can long test to see if they float).
Your Only Throw vid came up in my feed again, and the thought jumped into my head “Can you beat BG3 only throwing rotten food?” Anyway, keep up the good work!
The reason the bombs explode in your hands is because the 1st batch of bombs Tali sells when you first talk to her are bugged somehow, get rid of the first batch and you're good to go, you only need about 8 bombs for kethric and 10 for the avatar, I've speedrun the game enough times to know throwing the bombs right next to them deals more damage than directly hitting them. I assume there's a phisics reason that causes it to deal slightly less on a direct hit not sure exactly though.
The best thing is to trade with them to put all their gold and any items you want into a single container, then go into turn based mode to hide and pickpocket that container and all the items inside instead of needing multiple rolls to pickpocket the items separately.
I always have this pickpocketing hireling in my camp, but I use the halfling hireling for the halfling luck passive to help me out until that level 11 perk. Was able to use this build worry free on honor mode. I focused on stealing scrolls and high value low roll items (like gems) in acts 1 and 2 to sell for max gold with 100 approval merchants and a maxed charisma character. Since it was a hireling, I would just resurrect them if they died after a failed pickpocket attempt. Also, if you enter turn based mode, you can pickpocket everything in a merchant’s pockets within a single turn, so no risk of being spotted if you position right
You can pickpocket it all, but each item has a separate risk of a failure. Before you get the reliable talent perk that means you will almost certainly get a critical failure eventually if you try to steal too many items separately. I prefer to go to the trade (barter) menu to drag every single item and all their gold into a single container, so I can just take that one container and all of its contents with a single roll.
@@magister343 I play on PS5, so that’s unfortunately not an option. I just limit my pickpocketing (pre-natural talent, anyway) to only items that are a 6 or under roll-wise (or one or two weapons/armor I really need and want to try for before paying for them)
I was thinking of a challenge run of "How much gold is in BG3?" before realizing shopkeepers inventories are randomized meaning that's not calculable. I'm glad you thought of this much more interesting and testable question instead.
Love the puns in all of this Tactically placed "down by the river" Also, somehow this character reminds me of an '97 version of Lo Wang from "shadow warrior" Let's see if he's gonna buy ancient demonic katana with that million
I think Larian did something because after Patch 7 I still had a TON of gold I got using the 2 bag trick with vendors, but when I played 2 weeks ago after a week or so of not being able to play, almost all of my Gold was gone. Now I gotta come up with something, but unlike a Mandalorian, this is not the way. Thanks for this video!
I was just thinking the other day that Wulbren is the "best" villain. He sounds totally reasonable 80% of the time! All the villains are written to different standards though, it would be really interesting to compare them. Mar'hyah is the "kick the dog" villain written literally!
My party had three times the entire wealth of Baldur’s Gate during the Countinghouse quest, and we still thought a little bit about keeping it for ourselves lol
You can make it a lot easier to pickpocket if you enter turn based mode before starting to pickpocket. Look at vision cones, find a good spot to stand, sneak, enter turn based mode, go wild and steal everything. Stealing isn't considered an action so you never need to end your turn.
For theft, lately I have been shoving all the items a merchant has, gold included, into a bag I gift and then steal it. The game seems to cap the DC at 30 regardless of the coin value. In act one you can comfortably begin stealing everything pretty quickly from all the merchants as long as you give Advantage. I used Astarion for his additional +1 from being Happy. Loot Happy.
@Proxy Gate Tactician So about the bombs, they are actually bugged. When you buy the first set of bombs (1-3) you're supposed to give them to a companion then afterwards you can freely buy them without them exploding in your hands after you attempt to throw them.
I tried doing that but no matter what my bombs would bug. I tried ditching the first 3 sets one attempt even. I don’t know what I was doing wrong. Even had no mods enabled to mess with it
@@ProxyGateTactician Aah, yeah it bugs out with the first 3, Whenever I buy them I send them to shadow heart in the same trader/barder screen that way when I level up to reset her inventory I buy the amount of bombs she has. When throwing them after placing a set of 8-9 bombs into the world I use throw to grab them and toss, then for the phase two I set down another 8-9 and repeat.
Switching to turn based mode before pickpocketing stops the npc's from moving around and turning on you. You can still steal everything in their inventory.
So actually a lot of people have the bomb exploding in hand when thrown from the floor issue, people think it's caused by talli 's first batch with every reset batch working fine
In my session yesterday, I noticed that Rolan's hologram in Sorcerous Sundaries, who mans the shop after you depose Lorroakan, could be pickpocketed indefinitely, with fails, without guards being called. Unless I had just encountered a weird bug, this seems like a quicker glitch free method.
Ur right about him I had found the same thing, but I didn't use that area because of my PC being hot garbage at loading that location. I think that could be a faster area because it's also next to 2 other high gold vendors
With Roah, I had a similar thing where Astarion had Evasion and avoided the ~10 or so explosions when I picked up a trapped teddybear. Several gaurds came running to see what what happening and wondered where the explosison where, and Astarion was standing there totally unharmed.
What? Still no Disney princess playthrough? I hope you could remedy it at the sooner the better. Your fans remember your promise... even if you wish we hadn't.
I wonder if it wouldn't be faster to use respecs to get one vendor reset per level up instead of long resting. Another strategy could be to stack vendor inventories using a container, then kill them for it. That method could work without going act 3 first.
Get rouge, get shapeshifter spell, get rings for ability chrcks while SS, get gear that boost SoH and Dex. Use blessing spells to boost it further. Start pickpocketing every NPC 😂😂😂 have a 1 million in camp chrst and 70k at hand 😊. Enjoy till they either nerf pickpocket.
@6:15 Roah Moonglow is short so maybe the game thinks she's a Tiefling child and therefore invulnerable? Or more likely she had the lowest priority for the one-target missile that comes out of those explosives.
The throwing bomb doesn't work because it mixes in the stack of the glitched bomb, which is either the first bomb you buy or start with, I always get invariable results when trying to separate them in half and saving game before throwing that halved stack to single out the one glitched bomb, sometimes it's 2 or 3 glitched bombs but anyway, that's why throwing bombs doesn't work and it's better to put 8-9 on the ground first in stack before throwing the two stacks from ground, one for each phase (with ring equipped)
3:52 Yep… happened to me…. But what have worked is not “move” bombs out of your inventory and throw, but choose to “drop off” bombs with RMB and throw.
Roah Moonglow has Evasion. She most likely passed her saves against the fireworks, as Evasion makes you take no damage on passed Dexterity saves, rather than half
You put so much work into these, kind of a shame that it only results in a 10 minute video where I almost have to pause and slow it down to see what's actually happening. I don't know if this is true for anyone else, but personally I wouldn't mind a less hectic pace for explaining everything and showcasing the route etc.
Thanks for the feedback. I honestly tried to slow it down here and it didn’t really happen lol Not sure why I struggle with that. I’ll try to keep working on it!
So I tried replicating this, and there was no way 16 bombs could one shot Ketheric phase 1. I tried using 19 and it consistently put him down to about 70-85, but with so many saving throws, and with them having a low DC and Ketheric being a paladin, I don’t think he could fail enough of the saving throws to make up the extra damage. I upped it to 25 but that was still just too short and then I was worried I wouldn’t have enough for Myrkul
The speedrunners do it with 8 on honour mode. Bombs are not consistent unfortunately so you can sometimes get away with a lot using few and other times need a lot
@ so it’s just kinda a lot of luck? I’ve honestly just resolved to pair getting the smokepowder bombs with the rune powder barrel and that should be overkill
@@karlwittenburg5868 Are you throwing them? The Speedrunners discord wrote that bombs deal double damage when thrown beside the target not directly at the target. That's why they use 8 and I went with 16 in mine. To me that's a bug, but they use it in the glitchless category.
Roah survived the Fireworks blast because she has Evasion, which fully negates damage on successful Dex Saves, which she is proficient with and the Fireworks have a middling DC to begin with.
Makes sense! It just really shocked me that she could save against roughly 25 explosives stacked on her head lol the imagery of her somehow dodging these
@@ProxyGateTacticianyeah I imagine it was evasion.
I once started the Ansur fight by blowing him up but due to turn order couldn’t move my monk. Just blew him up anyway and didn’t take damage cause of Dex saves cause I had 20 dex and advantage due to the cars grace cloth.
I thought evasion uses a reaction in which case she shouldn't be able to dodge all of them (at least imo) i know a singular action triggered all of them but those were a lot of different instances of dmg from technically different sources.
@@starwarslover015 high dex monk is so much fun.
Roah pulling some Matrix moves to avoid the blasts 😂😂
Nice, now I know how to get enough money to buy one piece of armor in Act 3 on Honor Mode!
the funny part is because you can't fail pickpocketing gold is entirely useless. It's quicker to just steal the item
@@ProxyGateTacticianMaybe for the stormshore tabernacle?
1000000 gold or one rat trading card 🤔
@@ProxyGateTacticianwhat do you mean can’t fail pickpocketing?
Edit: i got to that part, i see now
bro turned bg3 into a mmo gold farm sim
I fear years of Blizzard gaming has rotted parts of my brain
"How Quickly Can You Become a Millionaire in Baldur's Gate 3?"
*Spends an overabundance of hours and playthroughs doing runs, mapping routes, obtaining a certificate and licensure from Microsoft for Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, and makes a splashing jolly image of Mr. Monopoly*
"This quick."
This is the effort and results I've come to love from this channel.
Time to cause hyperinflation in Faerûn, let's go
Well they did destroy all the gold via blood money, I'd call that the opposite of inflation, deleting a million gold from circulation permanently
It's not hyperinflation when no one else has money ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
It'd be like it was in 3e, where if you wanted to dig a hole and put bamboo sticks at the bottom the rules said you'd need to spend several tens of thousands of gold of supplies to do it. If you used such exotic methods as "putting palm fronds over the hole to hide it" or "rub the bamboo spikes in dung" it was supposed to cost you up over a hundred thousand. Luckily I don't remember anyone seeing that rule and not thinking it was stupid so I don't think I saw it in play.
based use of 1 milly
"Disney princess test"-- interesting...
Nobody pay attention to this
One offhand joke can lead to many things...
@@ProxyGateTactician waiting eagerly for it!
@@ProxyGateTactician the princess run shall haunt you till you do it
His dreams will be haunted with uncanny valley mixed CGI/live action bad Disney remakes until he shows the world how a real princess run is done ..
I was similarly stunned by the Evasion mechanic when, in a desperate move, as a Monk with a sliver of health left I dropped all my explosives at Myrkul's...feet? I could not move away without his reaction killing me so I dropped Alchemist's Fire onto oil barrels, firewine, smokepowder, and even runepowder, safe in the knowledge that I had a companion that could revive me. It dropped the bag of bones down to 2 health, but me? I took zero damage.
Level 7 monks and rogues, with a high dex score, will never take damage from traps, explosives, and dodgable spells. I now find it easier to clear minefields by just walking through them.
At the same time the game curses your monk with a baked-in passive that repeatedly steals your action in some fights once you get to that high level, so it kinda balances out.
@@dowfreak7 ?
@@pepper7880 "You automatically cast stillness of mind at the beginning of your turn when charmed/frightened/bla bla"
That's not a bonus, that's your actual character being forced to cast this. It's not a reaction, it literally just steals your action.
I guess it's not the absolute worst, given how bonus actions are the bulk of your damage, but stealing your ability to stun when you're just frightened next to an enemy is awful.
That explains why my ranger/rogue durge walked away unscathed from the heart of an explosion while minthara who was standing further away almost died lol
@@dowfreak7Heroes Feast at least nullifies that when you get to level 11, just can be an awkward bit of daily juggling to get the buff on everyone…
Learning that combination of items was... breathtaking... to say the least
You really are a madman
Thanks Oracle. You may have ruined my hearthstone plays by clearing my board, but at least you're here to make beautiful comments
"what to do with 1 million gold?"
"MURDER"
9:59 Cinderella build otw
Ever since Patch 7, Honour Mode is no longer the hardest difficulty.
The hardest difficulty is a Custom Game with Honour Ruleset, then you set everything to Tactician, set the Proficiency Bonus to -1 (this will effect your enemies slightly, but you even more), set Camp Cost to 3, Trader Price to 4, Turn off Multiclassing (no OP builds for you), Hide NPC Health, Failed Perception Rolls, Passive Rolls in Dialogues, and Difficulty Class During Rolls.
Absolute hell.
care to explain how the proficiency bonus thing at - 1 works please?
@@gingergreenmashups you can manually choose your proficiency bonus on a custom ruleset. Normally, it follows basic DnD rules, increasing as you level from a +2-+4 by level 12. However, on the lowest difficulty, they give the players a higher bonus from the start of the game, so it's something you can choose in a custom ruleset, including the option to subtract when you have proficiency instead of adding to your roll, making your characters worse at what their class gives them proficiency in, like attack roles with proficient weapons and skill checks.
And this is fun?
@AnyaBlackk having to deal with things differently than you would normally is the fun part
I play with most of these rules already, except trader price I set to the lowest. I hate gold farming, lol.
The other one is proficiency bonus. I haven't touched this as I assume it'll be un-fun.
On the other hand I use a mod to unlock the camp cost slider and set it to the hidden max of 10. And class-lock scrolls. That's another hidden option of that menu.
I've been doing a similar build since early on to practically guarantee thieving. If you're not speed running it like you were, I'd suggest picking up the Cloak of the Cunning Brume from Mattis in act 2. This allows you to create a free small radius cloud of fog (via disengage) allowing you to rob targets that might otherwise be difficult to rob (such as Rolan/Larroakan projection as example). I primarily used this to farm the Blue Angel potions from Moonrise as those suckers are ridiculously OP.
6:18 she has both evasion, which means she either takes half damage on a failed saving throw, or no damage on a succesful saving throw, and she has high dexterity, meaning she's unlikely to fail her dex saves. I hate her 👍
My favorite BG3 (and other Larian games) channel. Apart from learning about things in the game I never knew existed even for someone with 300+ hrs for each game (bg3, dos1, dos2), the best part is your narration and dry humor,
I’m watching these challenge runs thinking about the mitten squad and how much he would have loved your content. Keep up the great work.
🫡
man mittensquad was the goat
if only mitten was around long enough. this game would have kept him going
im not even halfway thru this video and youve already reduced me to tears with “if america has taught the world anything, its that all problems can be solved by using bombs”
proxy you will always be famous 😭😭😭
My favorite quote in this whole video.
If bombs didn’t work you were not using enough bombs.
@@JRandall0308 truer words have not been said about this game... or America
I was literally playing BG3 today, looked at my Gold amount and thought I wonder how fast I can get to 100’000 from the 50’000 Gold I have now. I wish there was a video about earning Gold quickly and whaddya know boom. Proxy Gate Tactician uploads a video about that exact topic. I swear PGT videos always come in clutch lmao 😂
According to the weight of one gold piece in the game, minsc is carrying about 1/4 of an entire elephant, in just gold coins. If the gold had the same mass as irl gold it would be a whole lot worse for his spine
Thanks for this information that I never knew I needed lol
0:53 Don't you mean: "Down down down by the riveeeerrrrr"?
*In Jeremy Clarkson's voice*
Looks at the newest Proxy video: This is brilliant.
Looks expectantly at the Disney Princess video: But I like this.
Wasn't expecting the first half to be a speedrunning play! Those dedicated speedrunners really are a special breed, bless them.
They really are. I still don't understand how they can do kethric using only 18 bombs consistently. When I tried it bugged out 3x in a row
Blood Money on the kennel lady was absolutely the correct use of 1 million gold, good job
RE: the ketheric smokepowder strat. When acquiring smokepowder from the vendor in last light you need to discard the first stack to prevent that unfortunate accident, why I don't know but that is part of the speedrun route.
I did read that, and when i tried it still screwed up afterwards. I actually had lost 3 runs in a row to that bug because of reading that advice in the speedrun discord. Maybe I did something wrong or it got changed in patch 7? I don't really know.
It's because some grenades (I've personally seen it with smokepowder bombs and alchemist's fires) have glitched collision that causes them to explode on you when you chuck a stack of them. Barring corruption of stacks inside your inventory (which we are fairly sure happens but unsure as to how or why) you can only get them in the first stack from certain traders. With smokepowder bomb misfires specifically: Talli for sure has them, Derryth definitely had them before patch 7 but probably doesn't anymore, Araj will only ever sell you a single smokepowder bomb that is NOT glitched, and Barcus and all of the act 3 merchants seem to be safe. Bombs found in containers in the overworld are also safe (per my non-exhaustive testing).
@@ProxyGateTactician I don't believe there were any changes to Talli's misfires, but I can double check for you.
Edit: There don't seem to have been any changes. As long as you buy the first 3 bombs (or the whole stack if she has less) and drop them on the ground/put them in a bag/put them in another character's inventory, you shouldn't run into the bug
@@aluc0hc strange i really wonder what i was doing wrong. Thanks for checking that. In one of my attempts I had 8 misfires (I read you can long test to see if they float).
Are the blood explosives that Araj Oblora sells also affected by this glitch? Or is that a safe/good way to get a lot of explosives?
Yoo great video my dude
Your Only Throw vid came up in my feed again, and the thought jumped into my head “Can you beat BG3 only throwing rotten food?” Anyway, keep up the good work!
man i love you i was too giddy to see this video on my feed, best bg3 creator imo u actually make me laugh hella
3:39 OMG this is so good I loved it 🤣🤣🤣
The reason the bombs explode in your hands is because the 1st batch of bombs Tali sells when you first talk to her are bugged somehow, get rid of the first batch and you're good to go, you only need about 8 bombs for kethric and 10 for the avatar, I've speedrun the game enough times to know throwing the bombs right next to them deals more damage than directly hitting them. I assume there's a phisics reason that causes it to deal slightly less on a direct hit not sure exactly though.
The way you talk in your videos, and your humour, reminds me a lot of Mitten Squad
the best thing to do when pitpocketing in a densely packed area like the guild hall is to go into turn based mode, then hide/pitpocket
The best thing is to trade with them to put all their gold and any items you want into a single container, then go into turn based mode to hide and pickpocket that container and all the items inside instead of needing multiple rolls to pickpocket the items separately.
I always have this pickpocketing hireling in my camp, but I use the halfling hireling for the halfling luck passive to help me out until that level 11 perk. Was able to use this build worry free on honor mode. I focused on stealing scrolls and high value low roll items (like gems) in acts 1 and 2 to sell for max gold with 100 approval merchants and a maxed charisma character. Since it was a hireling, I would just resurrect them if they died after a failed pickpocket attempt. Also, if you enter turn based mode, you can pickpocket everything in a merchant’s pockets within a single turn, so no risk of being spotted if you position right
You can pickpocket it all, but each item has a separate risk of a failure. Before you get the reliable talent perk that means you will almost certainly get a critical failure eventually if you try to steal too many items separately. I prefer to go to the trade (barter) menu to drag every single item and all their gold into a single container, so I can just take that one container and all of its contents with a single roll.
@@magister343 I play on PS5, so that’s unfortunately not an option. I just limit my pickpocketing (pre-natural talent, anyway) to only items that are a 6 or under roll-wise (or one or two weapons/armor I really need and want to try for before paying for them)
I always had Astarion do it, the +1 happy bonus makes it a bit more consistent in earlier acts
I was thinking of a challenge run of "How much gold is in BG3?" before realizing shopkeepers inventories are randomized meaning that's not calculable. I'm glad you thought of this much more interesting and testable question instead.
the effort you put into this is amazing. subbed
Casually sneaking up on someone with a lit torch equipped just never gets old.
Bro always got the best videos. Liked and subscribed
that bomb line was too good, got me. that was a sick burn dude. LOLz, Pho real tho
hurts cause its true
7:27 - 8:21 My favourite part of the entire video. Using all those little hacks so your lowest roll is a 30 is brilliant.👏
I love stacking.
Love the puns in all of this
Tactically placed "down by the river"
Also, somehow this character reminds me of an '97 version of Lo Wang from "shadow warrior"
Let's see if he's gonna buy ancient demonic katana with that million
I think Larian did something because after Patch 7 I still had a TON of gold I got using the 2 bag trick with vendors, but when I played 2 weeks ago after a week or so of not being able to play, almost all of my Gold was gone. Now I gotta come up with something, but unlike a Mandalorian, this is not the way. Thanks for this video!
A lot of act 2 and 3 guards wear full plate armour. It sells for _a lot._ The other thing is selling the scrolls you realistically wont ever use.
@@korakys Thanx!
It would be great to see uncut videos of these challenges, especially the “Can you beat” challenges. Something like …more Ginomachino VODs
Awesome video Proxy! I thought Wulbren would've been your target, but Angry Mar'hyah was a great choice!
Thanks Toyhouze! I await your “And next up a way to get 100% success rate when pickpocketing”
I was just thinking the other day that Wulbren is the "best" villain. He sounds totally reasonable 80% of the time!
All the villains are written to different standards though, it would be really interesting to compare them. Mar'hyah is the "kick the dog" villain written literally!
this boi don’t miss, another great video
My party had three times the entire wealth of Baldur’s Gate during the Countinghouse quest, and we still thought a little bit about keeping it for ourselves lol
The random Starcraft 2 music in the background though
Human music just slaps
I just now heard terran soundtrack. Man this made my day and remided me about glorious rts times.
I have so much World of Warcraft brainrot that I see 'gold guide' and instantly assume it is WoW-related.
lmaooo same here. Played it for like 10 years straight
While pickpocketing, you can go to turn based mode, and you basically have all the time in the world to take whatever you want
insane video LOL
Technically, good advice too.
You can make it a lot easier to pickpocket if you enter turn based mode before starting to pickpocket. Look at vision cones, find a good spot to stand, sneak, enter turn based mode, go wild and steal everything. Stealing isn't considered an action so you never need to end your turn.
Great work on your videos my guy, keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
the ad I got on this video: "international saving day"
Starcraft 2 terran music in the background kind of works :P
For theft, lately I have been shoving all the items a merchant has, gold included, into a bag I gift and then steal it. The game seems to cap the DC at 30 regardless of the coin value. In act one you can comfortably begin stealing everything pretty quickly from all the merchants as long as you give Advantage. I used Astarion for his additional +1 from being Happy. Loot Happy.
People think of autism as something terrible, I for one love these kind of videos
@Proxy Gate Tactician So about the bombs, they are actually bugged. When you buy the first set of bombs (1-3) you're supposed to give them to a companion then afterwards you can freely buy them without them exploding in your hands after you attempt to throw them.
I tried doing that but no matter what my bombs would bug. I tried ditching the first 3 sets one attempt even. I don’t know what I was doing wrong. Even had no mods enabled to mess with it
@@ProxyGateTactician Aah, yeah it bugs out with the first 3, Whenever I buy them I send them to shadow heart in the same trader/barder screen that way when I level up to reset her inventory I buy the amount of bombs she has. When throwing them after placing a set of 8-9 bombs into the world I use throw to grab them and toss, then for the phase two I set down another 8-9 and repeat.
ammazing video as always :D
Switching to turn based mode before pickpocketing stops the npc's from moving around and turning on you. You can still steal everything in their inventory.
Evasion is a helluva drug
Oh god, can't imagine getting that much money in BG3, this is gonna be ridiculous
So actually a lot of people have the bomb exploding in hand when thrown from the floor issue, people think it's caused by talli 's first batch with every reset batch working fine
In my session yesterday, I noticed that Rolan's hologram in Sorcerous Sundaries, who mans the shop after you depose Lorroakan, could be pickpocketed indefinitely, with fails, without guards being called. Unless I had just encountered a weird bug, this seems like a quicker glitch free method.
Ur right about him I had found the same thing, but I didn't use that area because of my PC being hot garbage at loading that location. I think that could be a faster area because it's also next to 2 other high gold vendors
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AMERIKA! FUCK YEAH!
This Underpants Gnomes reference is AMAZING!
God Bless you ALL!
With Roah, I had a similar thing where Astarion had Evasion and avoided the ~10 or so explosions when I picked up a trapped teddybear.
Several gaurds came running to see what what happening and wondered where the explosison where, and Astarion was standing there totally unharmed.
What? Still no Disney princess playthrough? I hope you could remedy it at the sooner the better. Your fans remember your promise... even if you wish we hadn't.
Isnt the Disney Princess playthrough just playing as Shadowheart? Lol
I wonder if it wouldn't be faster to use respecs to get one vendor reset per level up instead of long resting. Another strategy could be to stack vendor inventories using a container, then kill them for it. That method could work without going act 3 first.
Get rouge, get shapeshifter spell, get rings for ability chrcks while SS, get gear that boost SoH and Dex. Use blessing spells to boost it further. Start pickpocketing every NPC 😂😂😂 have a 1 million in camp chrst and 70k at hand 😊. Enjoy till they either nerf pickpocket.
I see we are applying the speedrunner defenition of quickly here.
@6:15 Roah Moonglow is short so maybe the game thinks she's a Tiefling child and therefore invulnerable? Or more likely she had the lowest priority for the one-target missile that comes out of those explosives.
Smoke abilities are great for a thief in this game. In the late game , Shadowheart are very usefull for this
The throwing bomb doesn't work because it mixes in the stack of the glitched bomb, which is either the first bomb you buy or start with, I always get invariable results when trying to separate them in half and saving game before throwing that halved stack to single out the one glitched bomb, sometimes it's 2 or 3 glitched bombs but anyway, that's why throwing bombs doesn't work and it's better to put 8-9 on the ground first in stack before throwing the two stacks from ground, one for each phase (with ring equipped)
I reclassed Wyll into a Warlock/Bard, so I make him play his lyre as a distraction while I steal from people.
Wow bro really made a whole spreadsheet for optimal robbery😂
Minsc, Master Thief has a certain ring to it.
I want that %100 pickpocket build so bad now
0:30 the censor bar becoming bigger on "illegal penis" has me dying
New proxy video to rewatch 100 times let's gooooo
I have never seen that bear before
3:52 Yep… happened to me…. But what have worked is not “move” bombs out of your inventory and throw, but choose to “drop off” bombs with RMB and throw.
When roah escapes you can find her leading the attack against nine fingers and take the gold off her then, it’s pretty good!
Love the Mitten Squad vibe. A nice homage
The moment he said down by the river.
My mind:
“Down down down by the riverrrrrrrrrrr~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!”
Thank you proxy you never fail to impress with what you can do
I cannot think of a better use for a million gold, honestly
I want someone to blood money and modify the nether brain's outside stats so it doesn't have the damage immunities, and one-shot the brain.
Mammon would be proud.
Roah Moonglow has Evasion. She most likely passed her saves against the fireworks, as Evasion makes you take no damage on passed Dexterity saves, rather than half
You’re right but I still feel robbed
best ending imaginable
...now I want to see how he kills all the enemies with the use of the money at low level 😂
10:00 Viel Glück dir auch!😁
it took me too long to realize your char is mr monopoly lmao
You put so much work into these, kind of a shame that it only results in a 10 minute video where I almost have to pause and slow it down to see what's actually happening. I don't know if this is true for anyone else, but personally I wouldn't mind a less hectic pace for explaining everything and showcasing the route etc.
Thanks for the feedback. I honestly tried to slow it down here and it didn’t really happen lol
Not sure why I struggle with that. I’ll try to keep working on it!
@@ProxyGateTactician I will catch the next one and see how that's coming along, cheers =)
Awesome effort! :D Can't you just do round-based mode and loot those vendors without haste?
Appreciate the Terran soundtrack
I may have been a protoss main, but everyone can admit Terran had the best music
So I tried replicating this, and there was no way 16 bombs could one shot Ketheric phase 1. I tried using 19 and it consistently put him down to about 70-85, but with so many saving throws, and with them having a low DC and Ketheric being a paladin, I don’t think he could fail enough of the saving throws to make up the extra damage. I upped it to 25 but that was still just too short and then I was worried I wouldn’t have enough for Myrkul
The speedrunners do it with 8 on honour mode. Bombs are not consistent unfortunately so you can sometimes get away with a lot using few and other times need a lot
@ so it’s just kinda a lot of luck? I’ve honestly just resolved to pair getting the smokepowder bombs with the rune powder barrel and that should be overkill
@@karlwittenburg5868 Are you throwing them? The Speedrunners discord wrote that bombs deal double damage when thrown beside the target not directly at the target. That's why they use 8 and I went with 16 in mine. To me that's a bug, but they use it in the glitchless category.
@ no I just placed them down next to him and threw a caustic bulb to ignite them
@3:50 you can shift click to drop all bombs quickly.
Disney Princess Test...Excellent. 😁
Yay new uplaod
I understand why you sound tired when you did this on honor mode :o
I always just pickpocket every vendor using Astarion with guidence on repeat after every long rest.