Amazing , your Sword Bard murder Ethel , your Open Hand Monk destroys Grym , your Fighter Battlemster annihilated the gith patrol, can't wait to see what you are going to come up with next , 1 more and we have a full honor mode party =)
We were so scared of wiping on this fight that I went in alone to check what the legendary action was. After reading it we decided not to risk it and instead threw torches (20 bludgeoning damage each) and shot arrows from the cliff above until the protector was dead xD
I feel like the fact that you can respec characters so easily in this game (maybe even slightly easier than DOS2, because you don't have to buy spells) makes solo honor mode such an interesting challenge. You can create the right build for every encounter, and I think monk is 1000% best for Grym - the pummeling vulnerability works perfectly with monk, and it was always my preferred way to do this fight on tactician. Also, the fact that legendary actions don't trigger while hard-cc'ed might be an argument for giving the bosses more legendary resistances lmao
Yeah I mean even solo there are layers to the challenge. This person is either soloing bosses or switches characters and can do all their story content for the gear vs someone who does the whole game without recruiting companions.
Monks get surprisingly fun! I played a deep gnome monk (I wanted to get in on the deep gnome rebellion but, no dice), and when I got the Club of Hill Giant Strength, I realized I could be an Elements monk and have a super strong long distance fire punch w/o guzzling str elixirs all the time!
grym is the only cause of concern for me on act 1 lucky i already had a monk and everything except the enlarge scroll (still viable without scroll). thanks for the strat man o7
yeh i went into it with no spells slots and low hp as everything was a piece of cake this far forgot to read what the legend action was and almost got wiped killed hiim with like 5hp one person left
We now know what Astarion, Karlach and Sin's builds are... What's Shadowheart build? The enlightened one or a new cool twist we'll get to see soon? B-)
This is the prime example as to why open hands monk is mechanically the strongest subclass and it's not even close 😭 That ki restoration ability meant you had like 2 or 3 more punches to spare with a flurry
You are wrong. The strongest class in this game is Barrelmancer, no other class can deal hundreds of damage to multiple target at once. But serious though, Fighter is still leagues above Monk, it has innate Con save proficiency, 3rd attack, riposte, tons of crowd control and burst damage without relying too much on gears and potions. A lvl 5 fighter can easily defeat all encounters in Act 1 while a lvl 5 Monk, eh...
@@sanguin3this is pure cope. Monk steam rolls fighter in terms of damage . Con proficiency is irrelevant for a martial class that shouldn't cast many spells. Remove gear from the equation and monk still outperforms fighter in both damage and survivalbility
open hand is the best glass cannon build out there...legit goes scots free from restraining and terrain problems by level 5....mobility is off the charts...it just comes down to setting up the barrage punches to prone the enemy. Not to mention the dex boost also compliments using the mini crossbows also....
@@sanguin3 actually just false, TB OH monk literally breaks the game and essentially puts your game on explorer difficulty. You'd have to actively try to lose honor mode with just 1 TB monk
this is insane..lol I was thinking about how much imma hate this fight and skip it on honour, but thats crazy o.o I'm going to try working something out w/ Rogue, idk if it'll be possible.
if you dnt want to cheese the game, archers are your best bet cause of the crazy selection of arrows. Make sure you also get cull of the weak ability in the tadpole tree and you are golden. Arrows that hit multiple targets, arrows for specific enemy types, elemental arrows, you got it all. You go 5 ranger 5 rogue and 2 figther its crazy. I finished a bow only run this way without cheesy tactics and it was so fun.
Monk is sooo fun to play. No armour, jumping all over the battlefield, leaving 2-3 ppl laying PER turn lol. OH monk and throw barb are crazy fun but make the game almost too easy lol
What would the initial stat spread be? I’m trying to look at the scores but confused how you have two 16s and a 17 (I get the strength comes from the elixir).
Cool trick with the potion. Why didn't the legendary ability of the guardian do anything? I mean, I'm used to the text being completely misleading, in BG3, but it says that every time the guardian is hit, it gets 10 hps and emits a damaging shockwave...
Some people complain about surprise taking the fun out of encounters, but that's just using the game mechanics to your advantage. Honor mode is about survival not truly honor, use whatever you need to win, and if you want challenge you can probably find good team comp and strategies for the encounters as well. Doesn't exclude fun destructive builds demolishing bosses
Question: How come the part of the legendary action never triggered? When struck he is supposed to generate 10 temporary HP, and when that is gone he explodes outward dealing 4d8 thunder damage and pushing creatures back. I saw in the Combat Log where it said he gained Reverberation, but I never saw the hit points pop up or any thunder damage dealt to the player. Not saying it would have stopped you beating them lol
Grym was always either surprised or prone, and you can't take any action while surprised, and can't take reactions (including legendary) while prone. So there was never any occasion where Grym could have gotten its shield.
Strength is used for Tavern Brawler feat which adds your Strength modifier twice to attack rolls on unarmed or thrown attacks. Wisdom is for Unarmored Defence which adds your Wisdom modifier to your AC if you are not wearing armor.
They aren't that expensive and ethel carries them in the grove. I normally level to 3 in the grove fight (not on honour) and don't level up until I am at ethel. I buy three, level one char, which resets ethel's inventory, cancel out of the next level up, buy three, then rinse and repeat for 4 characters. That gives me 12 right there. Then I get whomever I left in the camp, (gale, wyll) and do it with them. Both are at level 1 so I get 2 level ups each from them. So that gives me 12 more. I get one from being early access and so I have 25 now. This is enough long rests to get to act3 but I tend to get more from both crafting (hireling transmutation wizard, with medicine and high wis) and there are a few sold by other vendors. The money comes from the ruins full looting, including stuff not flagged. There are some items that are not lite up by alt that are worth 20-30g.
the gnome in the underdark sells a new one every day so after you long rest go to her and buy another for 90g as long as you arent long resting loooads it should be enough to cover you for the whole act 1
I solo him with a monk on tactician and for this boss prone is the best. I couldn’t stun him but you can stagger which prevents him from an opportunity attack. When you prone him he loses half of movement each time. Monks are amazing.
it is, but it's basically exploiting the fact that : - tavern brawler monk obliterate grim to begin with and is a busted build - a prone target can't use action and reaction, and a legendary action (which is what make grim a true menace in honor mode) ... is an action. So he can't use it while prone (or surprised)
Я раз 4-5 проходил игру и решил пройти ее на доблести. В первой попытке меня как раз убил грим так как я больше из за его легендарного действия не могу просто избивать молотами сам. А тут его избили голыми руками за ход.
if you're here on this channel watching this video so early as it is released it probably means you're part of the small percentage of tryhard metagamers, for the average player the game isn't as easy as it is for us, only 0.1% of players completed honor mode on steam, on the weekend they release stats so it was only something around 500-600 people across all platforms... but yeah i hope they keep trying to make it more difficult and add more layers to it, but i what i really want more is that they just add more content to be honest
a decent challenge (and in my opinion only, the only decent challenge) is solo, single class, no respec, no exploits, on honor mode. Anything other than that is fairly trivial. The minute you multi-class, you get the equivalent of around 5 feats, or can just respect to fit a fight, etc. Honor mode is silly because it isn't fully solo. You can always just resurrect any character that dies, no? I'd have a lot more respect for BG3 if Pillars of Eternity didn't exist, which showed how to do combat and challenges well. Pillars 1 had a real honor mode (The Ultimate), where you had to recruit no companions after the tutorial and do all major fights, hardcore, hardest difficulty. Of course, if somebody is new to the game, anything can be a challenge.
@@davidmills1520technically... you can just dismiss all party members and it would be the same, you technically recruited them but if you dismiss them and you die it's game over
thats straight up just wrong lol. Its a genre crpg and dnd game the audience for the game wants turn based. If you dont like that then ur not the audience. The game is extremely good becuase it knows what it is and what it is not
Amazing , your Sword Bard murder Ethel , your Open Hand Monk destroys Grym , your Fighter Battlemster annihilated the gith patrol, can't wait to see what you are going to come up with next , 1 more and we have a full honor mode party =)
I always want to see more interesting Cleric solo builds. Right now, there's only Light Cleric who keeps spamming upcasted Inflict Wound.
@@sanguin3don't forget the tempest nukers
I'm so hype for a monk build from you !
We were so scared of wiping on this fight that I went in alone to check what the legendary action was. After reading it we decided not to risk it and instead threw torches (20 bludgeoning damage each) and shot arrows from the cliff above until the protector was dead xD
I feel like the fact that you can respec characters so easily in this game (maybe even slightly easier than DOS2, because you don't have to buy spells) makes solo honor mode such an interesting challenge. You can create the right build for every encounter, and I think monk is 1000% best for Grym - the pummeling vulnerability works perfectly with monk, and it was always my preferred way to do this fight on tactician. Also, the fact that legendary actions don't trigger while hard-cc'ed might be an argument for giving the bosses more legendary resistances lmao
Which is why it’s cheatin… perspective
Yeah I mean even solo there are layers to the challenge. This person is either soloing bosses or switches characters and can do all their story content for the gear vs someone who does the whole game without recruiting companions.
The way you started this fight to get surprise is pure genius!
I wouldn't have thought of the gloves without your video! Thank you very much!
Monks get surprisingly fun! I played a deep gnome monk (I wanted to get in on the deep gnome rebellion but, no dice), and when I got the Club of Hill Giant Strength, I realized I could be an Elements monk and have a super strong long distance fire punch w/o guzzling str elixirs all the time!
I have 900hours in this game, and this was my easiest honour mode boss kill ever. Thank you for this
grym is the only cause of concern for me on act 1 lucky i already had a monk and everything except the enlarge scroll (still viable without scroll). thanks for the strat man o7
You sir are a god!
thanks, this was exactly what I needed :)
I really wanna have your build for Monk... All your other builds are sooooo fun to play with! Good content, keep your hard work
Who needs a big hammer when you have big and fast fists?
thank you very much 😅 was such an easy fight with this Video , thanks a lot
excellent work!! 10/10
My honour mode run failed because of his legendary action… and you took it like a piece of cake….
I nearly lost my solo run because of it but luckily the half-orc racial saved me.
yeh i went into it with no spells slots and low hp as everything was a piece of cake this far forgot to read what the legend action was and almost got wiped killed hiim with like 5hp one person left
Congratulations!!!!
Running a monk on tactician rn, this was a very nice sight to see
We now know what Astarion, Karlach and Sin's builds are... What's Shadowheart build? The enlightened one or a new cool twist we'll get to see soon? B-)
This is the prime example as to why open hands monk is mechanically the strongest subclass and it's not even close 😭
That ki restoration ability meant you had like 2 or 3 more punches to spare with a flurry
You are wrong. The strongest class in this game is Barrelmancer, no other class can deal hundreds of damage to multiple target at once.
But serious though, Fighter is still leagues above Monk, it has innate Con save proficiency, 3rd attack, riposte, tons of crowd control and burst damage without relying too much on gears and potions. A lvl 5 fighter can easily defeat all encounters in Act 1 while a lvl 5 Monk, eh...
@@sanguin3this is pure cope. Monk steam rolls fighter in terms of damage . Con proficiency is irrelevant for a martial class that shouldn't cast many spells. Remove gear from the equation and monk still outperforms fighter in both damage and survivalbility
open hand is the best glass cannon build out there...legit goes scots free from restraining and terrain problems by level 5....mobility is off the charts...it just comes down to setting up the barrage punches to prone the enemy. Not to mention the dex boost also compliments using the mini crossbows also....
@@sanguin3 actually just false, TB OH monk literally breaks the game and essentially puts your game on explorer difficulty. You'd have to actively try to lose honor mode with just 1 TB monk
nicely played!
Ahh I love monks in this game so muuuuch!
Monk is so underrated being it’s the top 3 least played class. Can’t wait for the build
It ain't underrated so many do nothing but sing it's praises. Druids and Clerics, now those two are underrated.
That was awesome! Hope you do a build for this one!
That was sick
Immaculate!
this is insane..lol I was thinking about how much imma hate this fight and skip it on honour, but thats crazy o.o
I'm going to try working something out w/ Rogue, idk if it'll be possible.
if you dnt want to cheese the game, archers are your best bet cause of the crazy selection of arrows. Make sure you also get cull of the weak ability in the tadpole tree and you are golden. Arrows that hit multiple targets, arrows for specific enemy types, elemental arrows, you got it all. You go 5 ranger 5 rogue and 2 figther its crazy. I finished a bow only run this way without cheesy tactics and it was so fun.
A monk build? now thats what I'm talking about
Monk is sooo fun to play. No armour, jumping all over the battlefield, leaving 2-3 ppl laying PER turn lol. OH monk and throw barb are crazy fun but make the game almost too easy lol
damn completely destroy this big boy, like it just can't stand up
2 monk videos from sin tee christmas cam early
I think just a little bit that monk is woefully underappreciated.
What would the initial stat spread be? I’m trying to look at the scores but confused how you have two 16s and a 17 (I get the strength comes from the elixir).
8 Str, 15 dex (+1 from auntie ethel's hair), 15 con (+1 for 16), 8 int, 14 wis (+2 for 16), 8 cha. That is how I did it atleast.
@@magnushaveland2526 Thank you!
thought I would prove I'm not a meta slave by having an element monk fight and almost got completely wiped
Title for solo honor mode series: Sin Tee breaks BG3
Why doesn't the legendary action AoE trigger when getting hit?
Nice amourath you have there
Cool trick with the potion. Why didn't the legendary ability of the guardian do anything? I mean, I'm used to the text being completely misleading, in BG3, but it says that every time the guardian is hit, it gets 10 hps and emits a damaging shockwave...
It doesn't seem to happen when it's prone
My guess is that it's something with being prone. But good question
Targets that are prone cannot make any Action or reaction. Since legendary actions count as a reaction he was unable to use it
@@shadowkage998 wow that's why making it prone is important
@@shadowkage998 he was also surprised which removes reactions as well right?
Why are people asking for a build video when all the information you need is in the description?
Please make a monk build guide 🙏
Please make a build video for this!
Some people complain about surprise taking the fun out of encounters, but that's just using the game mechanics to your advantage. Honor mode is about survival not truly honor, use whatever you need to win, and if you want challenge you can probably find good team comp and strategies for the encounters as well. Doesn't exclude fun destructive builds demolishing bosses
Lovely.
i was surprised how piss easy this was with the monk, no need for other characters or using the hammer, just couple of rounds monk punching that thing
Question: How come the part of the legendary action never triggered? When struck he is supposed to generate 10 temporary HP, and when that is gone he explodes outward dealing 4d8 thunder damage and pushing creatures back. I saw in the Combat Log where it said he gained Reverberation, but I never saw the hit points pop up or any thunder damage dealt to the player. Not saying it would have stopped you beating them lol
Grym was always either surprised or prone, and you can't take any action while surprised, and can't take reactions (including legendary) while prone.
So there was never any occasion where Grym could have gotten its shield.
By any chance is there gonna be a build video?
I have a question.
I'm not clear that why we need high str and wis for monk?
Strength is used for Tavern Brawler feat which adds your Strength modifier twice to attack rolls on unarmed or thrown attacks. Wisdom is for Unarmored Defence which adds your Wisdom modifier to your AC if you are not wearing armor.
@@samophlange3809 thank you so much!
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nice vid still don't know how people get so many hill giant potions or the money to buy them
They aren't that expensive and ethel carries them in the grove. I normally level to 3 in the grove fight (not on honour) and don't level up until I am at ethel. I buy three, level one char, which resets ethel's inventory, cancel out of the next level up, buy three, then rinse and repeat for 4 characters. That gives me 12 right there. Then I get whomever I left in the camp, (gale, wyll) and do it with them. Both are at level 1 so I get 2 level ups each from them. So that gives me 12 more. I get one from being early access and so I have 25 now. This is enough long rests to get to act3 but I tend to get more from both crafting (hireling transmutation wizard, with medicine and high wis) and there are a few sold by other vendors.
The money comes from the ruins full looting, including stuff not flagged. There are some items that are not lite up by alt that are worth 20-30g.
Also I loot every book, every torch. Torches are 5g, books are 7g. I loot the area near nettie pretty hard.
Loot everything that isnt nailed down and you could have 50+ hill giant potions and several 1000's of gold in act 1 😂
the gnome in the underdark sells a new one every day so after you long rest go to her and buy another for 90g as long as you arent long resting loooads it should be enough to cover you for the whole act 1
I loss my honors run here because I was doing 4 archers run ;-;
Balanced.
Isn't stunning better against bosses? Or is Grym stun-immune?
I mean either way the boss didn’t touch him so it doesn’t really matter
@@kiriu6408 Just asking to get a more precise idea - I am a newb! ;)
I solo him with a monk on tactician and for this boss prone is the best. I couldn’t stun him but you can stagger which prevents him from an opportunity attack. When you prone him he loses half of movement each time. Monks are amazing.
@@ANCIENTWARRI0R Ah, so he can't even be stunned at all. Thanks!
I thought Karlach was your monk
Thank you beat this sunna of a gun , on honor mode... not solo tho!
Wtf did I just watch? Is this honour mode with no save scumming?
it is, but it's basically exploiting the fact that :
- tavern brawler monk obliterate grim to begin with and is a busted build
- a prone target can't use action and reaction, and a legendary action (which is what make grim a true menace in honor mode) ... is an action. So he can't use it while prone (or surprised)
@@kalzhaeAnd fists do bludgeoning damage which is the construct is vulnerable to.
Those Memphits still waiting for the call clueless lol.
Я раз 4-5 проходил игру и решил пройти ее на доблести. В первой попытке меня как раз убил грим так как я больше из за его легендарного действия не могу просто избивать молотами сам. А тут его избили голыми руками за ход.
wtf.... how is that possible...
One day developers will make bg3 difficult enough, at least looks like they are trying.
if you're here on this channel watching this video so early as it is released it probably means you're part of the small percentage of tryhard metagamers, for the average player the game isn't as easy as it is for us, only 0.1% of players completed honor mode on steam, on the weekend they release stats so it was only something around 500-600 people across all platforms... but yeah i hope they keep trying to make it more difficult and add more layers to it, but i what i really want more is that they just add more content to be honest
@@gxrdian yep, more content would be nice too.
a decent challenge (and in my opinion only, the only decent challenge) is solo, single class, no respec, no exploits, on honor mode. Anything other than that is fairly trivial. The minute you multi-class, you get the equivalent of around 5 feats, or can just respect to fit a fight, etc. Honor mode is silly because it isn't fully solo. You can always just resurrect any character that dies, no? I'd have a lot more respect for BG3 if Pillars of Eternity didn't exist, which showed how to do combat and challenges well. Pillars 1 had a real honor mode (The Ultimate), where you had to recruit no companions after the tutorial and do all major fights, hardcore, hardest difficulty. Of course, if somebody is new to the game, anything can be a challenge.
@@davidmills1520technically... you can just dismiss all party members and it would be the same, you technically recruited them but if you dismiss them and you die it's game over
@@gxrdian yeah my friend plays this game and gets clapped even in explorer mode 😅
wtf
another weirdo hiding the armor on their female character
Gosh the turn based combat is boring. If only this game would have been real time
It would have been like 4 times less popular lmao
no
hell nah real time doesn't fit the game at all
thats straight up just wrong lol. Its a genre crpg and dnd game the audience for the game wants turn based. If you dont like that then ur not the audience. The game is extremely good becuase it knows what it is and what it is not
This idea is SO bad everyone is forced to comment just to make sure devs dont get the wrong idea 😂
Cool use of surprise.