Actually if you go to the Gith creche before having made a choice in the goblin/tiefling/druid questline, when you come back to the grove the tieflings are gone and die during an ambush, closing the Karlach questline for good same goes for a bunch of content, it's actually not a bad option if you want minthara as a compagnion without having to dirty your hand with the tieflings (and losing Karlach in the process), so yeah it's not technically act 2 but more like act 1.5
@xaviervanberkel4578 I mean its a lot like the choice you make in the shadow fell I'm that regard. It permanently changes act 1 just like thay decision permanently changes act two. That doesn't make it not act 1 just makes it a big act impacting decision the game even warns you in a similar way.
Are the different acts something that is based off the story, or the gameplay? when you go through the mountain pass there's a big warning saying all the act 1 quests will be locked off. seems like it's not really act 1 gameplay wise, but trying to get the parasite out with the creche is linked to the act 1 questlines.
@waterierStone tough to say but the way I personally look at it is even though the mountain pass blocks off some quests it doesn't actually block them all, just the tiefling stuff. You can go there, and then go complete find halsin and stuff he's just dead. This is similar to what happens when you save or destroy the *spoiler* in act two. Once you've made either decision certain quest options are gone, but the act itself isn't finished and you're not really in a new zone. Mountain pass still feels very much like an act one area. You could also realistically call it an intermission zone if you wanna avoid classifying it all together.
Extra bonus for Blood of Lethander, when equipped when fighting Cazador is act3, walking near him while he’s in his misty form triggers Light Sensitivity and knocks him out of the form making it a must equip for any melee character
@@heylolp9I've found casting Daylight on the arena itself will cause Astarion's questline to glitch out if your going for the "good ending" to his quest
8:13 WARNING! if you do this, after a couple of long rests if you are dating asterion he will try to break up with you. at that time there are dialogue options that you can pick that will actually strengthen you relationship and make him not break up but still worth mentioning
Cuz they have no idea about the world of the game they are playing... Im from a country that doesn't have DnD even now! but before playing Baldurs Gate 3 I was researching for about 2-3 weeks.. and the lore was fun really and its not just BG3 for me every game i play is a process of learning no need to imagine like a book nor to see like a movie.. you can be there and do things! so its the most complete type of learning if you think of it.. and if you don't know where you are you don't know what to do.. then its useless.. at least for me its like this!
Could be engagement bait. If more people comment to say that's not the right pronunciation, the video does better. More common shopping and tech vids than gaming but it could still be the case here.
Fun fact: with the Potion of Everlasting Vigour you can increase your Strength score above 20. If you already have 20 and consume it will increase it to 22.
@@charlesbryson7443 Even better and easier to get before the gauntlets is the mirror of loss which can boost any stat +2 to a max of 24. So you can basically start act 3 with 24 strength and no equipment required to make it happen
Regarding Quothe the Raven: It appears to be a generic name for raven familiars, not neccesarily that raven. Using Find Familiar to summon a raven also gives Quothe.
If you are going to consider the blood of Lythander To be act 2, it is criminal not to mention the awakened buff. This let you use tadpole powers With a bonus action, and it is difficult to get from the Device in the creche.
I accidentally came well prepared for this one on my current run. My character is a deep gnome, so advantage on int/wis/cha rolls, but I also just got the buff from the myconids, which adds 1d6 to your rolls but only until your next long rest. That made if very easy.
I had to carry around that dang lantern all over Act 2. Giving it to Astarion at least allowed me to still use his off-hand bonus attack. Also even though it visually is shown as put away, its AOE is still occurring so long as it is equipped in his off-hand. The bell is a serious quality of life improvement for Act 2.
I let shadowheart lead with blood of lathander on her back and her passive flame in the hand. No need for a lantern. Got the perma buff by chance later. 😂
I think what he meant to say was Sunbeam can be re-cast for 10 turns as long as you maintain concentration. It’s an evocation spell so if you give the mace to an evocation wizard it will get Sculpt spell automatically plus the modifier damage bonus you get at higher levels.
Yeah the Selune Spear or whatever is very similar to the Mace as far as being a glowing weapon with the ability to cast a radiant damage spell. I typically find the mace to be better but I suppose with sentinel an argument for the spear could be made
@@Blackheifer is should be, but it isn't. Sunbeam cast by the blood of lathander is unable to be moved or recast till long rest. At least it's that way on PlayStation.
I posted this comment on the first upload, but if you added the Blood of Lethandar, I'd also talk about the zaith'isk (or githyanki purification device), if you manage to succeed the roll to absorb its powers, you gain a permanent perk by which you can use ilithid powers as bonus action instead of an action, really, REALLY REALLY neat, esp once you reach act 3 and unlock the more powerful powers
Fantastic to pair Transfuse Health with Channel Divinity Preserve Life and fully heal urself immediately after halving your health to heal someone. Basically a free Heal spell
There is a secret beneath the statue where you fight Oliver. If you pass the checks, you will get a +5 to Wisdom, Charisma, and/or intelligence until your next long rest. And you can give it all to the same character.
@@DarkRaikon Saying 'the shadow fight' does not narrow it down. It's the place Oliver teleports during the Thaniel quest to fight you. Then around the structure nearby there will be plaques. Interact with all the plaques and a secret door will open. Go inside and see a few statues of Shar. Interact with their plaques, make saving throws, get +5 to Wis, Cha, and Int until your next long rest.
there is even more tadpole you can get at the moon rise tower. but SPOLER ALERT! 1) If you go all the way to the back of Moonrise tower, there is a dock with a few guards, and there is a shipment to Baldur's gate, which you can persuade the guard to let you take a look and steal it. In the shipments, there is a bucket with tadpoles. Upon picking up/stealing the shipment, you can get 2 tadpoles. 2) if you get pulled into the colony by the Absolute (when you stick your hand into the crack on the wall, and fail all the checks), there is a corpse with tadpole you can loot by looking around.
The Blood of Lothander found in Rosymourn is actually still considered act 1. As for the Pixie I thought it was very well voice acted. Also in the mind flayer colony there is an item that if you pick it up it gives your full party a condition where you are susceptible to psychotic damage taking double damage from such attacks but dropping it and moving away gets rid of it.
Fun fact. If you use lantern as offhand weapon (dual weapon masterry allows it) pixie will never die. I had it that way all act 2 and then i released it. At least in my playthrough it happened.
If you are dating Astarion and making him bite the drow, the next long rest will be a cutscene with Astarion and depends on your options, he may break up with you but it will trigger a bug as he will sometime call you "Hello, friend" and also "Hello, my dear".
I genuinely couldn't get Astarion to stay romanced after I made him bite the drow. I had to shitcan a few hours of play to reload a save before and let him decide not to bite her. Though romance or not, I decided then I wouldn't ever make him do it. I felt soooo shitty when he explained how betrayed he felt by it.
@jonathanformlyrics5355 That was the moment that made me stop treating the companions like they weren't actual people and letting them make their own decisions. Usually in RPGs I just exploit companions for my benefit, but Baldur's Gate 3 hits different like that
Short note about the Pixie blessing: Better put the bell into your items tab -- you might need it rather often. When you change zones (like going to the creche and after that again to the cursed lands) the blessing will be gone. Don't forget to ring that bell every time you re-enter the shadow cursed lands!
PSA: The strength potion isn't worth it if you're romancing astarion. He will soon have a breakup dialogue with you that can only be avoided by gaslighting best boy. You have to say something like "You can throw your body at me" then "Am I not attractive to you" and then you can choose sex (don't, he will breakup) friendship or a certain option that I can't remember will cause him to hesitantly continue dating you. Long story short, he is very uncomfortable with your request, and he feels used afterward. Don't do it if you love your vampy boy
Missed the Githzerai mind barrier, the raven pet, and the signed trade visa. It's more fun to just make the gold-crazed undead lady kill herself and her minions by outsmarting them.
You can find the Lathander Mace without having to find the weapons for the puzzle if you have someone with high perception, they will spot that a wall in the room is hiding something and if you beat a 20 on Lockpicking you can get the piece behind it thats needed to unlock the mace at the end, if you feel like skipping looking for random weapons in a temple ofc
You can get the filigreed ball from the moon lantern you receive in Last Light Inn as well. In my playthrough the Harpers ran off with the Drider's lantern so I didn't have a chance to grab it. It is possible, though, that this is the one I was given at the Inn.
That is the same lantern as the one from the Drider, if you listen to the dialogue she'll say she was stuck or something in the hands of some evil drider.
You can also get the visa by tricking the npc into believing they are getting the money for themselves, they will then kill themselves and all the flying skulls with them, giving you the xp and all the glorious loot
You forgot to mention the 2 other parasites you can get at the dock outside of moonrise towers. There is a barrel you can pick up to use in the fight later, but it gives you 2 parasites.
I got the Githzerai mind barrier as a Githyanki. The interaction is funny, with the Githzerai telling the Githyanki is ugly and other things, a rivalry between "cousins". The Githzerai then asks to be put out of misery, while teaching the Mind Barrier.
Mystras benevolence must be bugged because it goes away on my Gale. Which makes me think that the shadow lantern is more worth it in the long run since that can't magically dissappear
when you go from moon-rise towers to the catacombs and pass across a plaza where is combat with shades and posesed people you can check the 3 plates in certain order and get into a secret cave there you have 3 checks on statues and get powerfull buffs for free if succed! (on first time i just accidentally get into the staircase when wasn't even open because is just a mirage jajaja)
Hey. Here is a tip if you want the mystra bonus and the shadow lantern. A transmutation wizard hireling. Can give a party member a transmutation stone that does the exact same buff until long rest. Just means you have to spend 30 seconds switchinh them into a party, casting the stone and maybe Longstrider too and then switchinh them back out. IMO everyone should use a wizard transmutation hireling anyway since they are better at making potions for you at camp.
You get the notification to wrap up what you are doing as you try to enter the pass. Also karlach will yell at you and leave if you keep going into the pass if you have not done her quest yet. The notification and conversation with karlach did not happen going into the underdark. But it will when leaving the underdark to the shadowlands To me that makes the pass act 2.
The large container of mind flayer parasites at the Moonrise docks on the right hand side of the tower :) Break it open and you get another 2-3 parasites :)
I have a feeling new secrets will be discovered months down the road after release. Would be a fun way of player engagement if Larian lets us know there are still undisocvered scenes or results. Could be monthly, every 6 months, yearly newslettet?? How deep is the rabbit hole?
There's actually two MORE tadpoles that you don't even have to kill for. If you go out the prison doors to the docks where the ship sails from, there's a Zhentarim shipping container you can interact with. If you pick it up (sneakily), you get two free tadpoles from the thousands bound for Baldur's Gate. I took them and yeeted the barrel into the water after just because I could.
If you dont meet the drider together with the harfners, but alone, you can talk him into, giving you the lantern, and make him and the goblins walk without protection, through the shadows. Something like, the absolute told to give me that lantern. Later on, you find them near the moonrise tower as undead, it is really funny xd
If you go through the grymforge entrance and make your way to last light, you can be involved in the Harper ambush. If you play your cards right you can still talk them into giving you the lantern and walking to their deaths. The Harper’s are so impressed with your silver tongue that they may let you keep the lantern
4:51 and you’ll be able to do a quest called stop the presses in act three without having to persuade the party in question because it will be thankful that you saved is a pixie
Theres a barrel full of tadpoles outside moonrise tower. to get there, go the moonrise prison and use the door on the right. explore the area, explode the barrel.
Wanted to let you know that you confused the spells Sunbeam with Moonbeam from the Blood of Lathander section. Moonbeam is the spell you were talking about, the one that can be re-positioned, Sunbeam however is a higher tier spell that is a blast of light in a horizontal line AOE, and is the spell granted by the Blood of Lathander.
@@ikwaru lathander's sunbeam is the same as normal sun beam, inspecting the texts lets you know that it's a concetration spell that lasts 10 turns that can be recast for free. But in practice, you're not able to do so. I'm not sure if it was an intentional balance choice, since full on sunbeam would pretty much allow you to trivialize any combat once per long rest, or if it's just a bug.
nah, he didn't confuse. he just read it from the script. this guy probably never play the game seeing how he mispronounced Mystra, the name that Gale said very often
I’m like taking my sweet time in act three because I don’t want it to end but I’m already excited for my second play through where I have all the knowledge I need from the very beginning and seeing how things are different
I almost finished on my first run except a few quests here and there and started a new playthtoguh. 40hrs later I don’t want to go back to my original save lol. Even tho I know. It’s a different expedience somehow o.O. I also missed a lot even tho I thought I hit even corner first time. I still missed a lot this second time around >.
1:26 something i found out yesterday is if you have both moonlanterns (the one you get from killing the drider and the one made with gale in the tower) you can use both at the same time
Great video, thanks for taking the time to make it and share, but... how the heck does someone mispronounce Mystra when it's said so many times in game?
Every Raven summoned with Find Familiar is Quothe. You can have everybody in your party summon a Quothe the Raven, the gloves just let someone do it without knowing/preparing the spell
(At 7:22) I was playing last night as Gale and summoned a raven through the find familar spell and the raven's name was Quoth too when inspected it. Weird. 2:53, lol you are 100% thinking of the spell Moonbeam and not Sunbeam
7:09 or you can just get access to find familiar and use it to summon a raven, which is also named Quothe, opening up your glove slot for something more useful
One of the few videos showing us real secrets. Most of the other videos call their videos SECRETS YOU WILL NEVER FIND, and then show you stuff that anyone can find without any effort lol
My saddest gamer moment in a very long time was when I remembered saving Us all the way in Act 1, but not remembering if he survived the encounter since I went for the early sword on the nautiloid, then getting to the cage in Act 3 & seeing it empty. My year is ruined.
You missed resonance stone, It gives steeped in bliss condition. Entity has advantage on physical checks, and disadvantage on mental saving throws. Entity is also vulnerable to psychic damage
For the blood mace I didn’t do any of that. Astraion got tapped grabbing it and my other characters used Edlritch blast and fire bolt on the platforms projecting energy and everything was perfectly fine after they were all destroyed.
If you bring the devilfoil masks from grymforge to dammon he will make you a couple moderately powerful bombs that can come in handy when first exploring the region at lower levels.
I would highly recommend not doing the absolute one as the only non-neutral result is a debuff that gives you disadvantage on attack rolls until a long rest that can't be fixed by ANY other means.
Regarding Araj and Astarion, if you are romancing him, apart from one very specific path of dialogue that you cannot mess up, it will completely close his romance up and you will not be able to fix it
Missed an impkrtant note about Lathanders Blood. The room is hidden all the way in the back of the creche hideout in the room with the altar. 2 statues to the side of the room can be turned to open a hidden passage. But, one of those statues mechanism is rusted, requiring either a dc 25 athletics check or the Grease spell on hand to turn it anyway.
I don't think the githzerai mind is bugged. You get the buff if you do what the mind wants and purge it, as promised. If you defy it and consume it, you get nothing. Sounds intentional to me.
@@noctoi Really? Weird. Twice now I've mutilated it and didn't get it, while in my latest playthrough I decided to let it ride poke free and finally got the summon. There has to be another decider like you said, I wonder what it is? Maybe it just bugged out my first 2 times through? The cage itself was actually empty in those playthroughs.
Mystra's Benevolence is not permanent, it goes away after a long rest. I also assumed it was permanent when I picked it up, but alas, I should have gone with the Shadow Lantern instead
Act 2 , Moonrisetower, when u speak with ",R'Zell" or like that,...,right hand from Ketheric,give you the quest to find the starnote in Shar-Temple.(Story). You can roll a spezial dialog, she let you buy from her vendor. This vendor ,when you open the dialoge with "Karlach" ,give you 3 soulcoin for free. After thats you close and open a new dialoge with another groupmember. You will get 45 % rabbat for all his unique stuff.😊
8:18 this isn’t just some approval. It’s a lot. His whole story revolves around him being forced to do stuff he didn’t want to, so making him do this makes him reeeeaallly upset with you. If you don’t care for him then, yeah, get it but I personally just skip it if I’m doing a good play through lol.
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Common misconception, the Temple of Lathander/Githyanki Creche is still part of Act I. Act II does not begin until you go to the Shadowcursed Lands.
But since nearly everyone goes through the underdark to get to act 2, it is usually in act 2 that you go to the creche.
Actually if you go to the Gith creche before having made a choice in the goblin/tiefling/druid questline, when you come back to the grove the tieflings are gone and die during an ambush, closing the Karlach questline for good same goes for a bunch of content, it's actually not a bad option if you want minthara as a compagnion without having to dirty your hand with the tieflings (and losing Karlach in the process), so yeah it's not technically act 2 but more like act 1.5
@xaviervanberkel4578 I mean its a lot like the choice you make in the shadow fell I'm that regard. It permanently changes act 1 just like thay decision permanently changes act two. That doesn't make it not act 1 just makes it a big act impacting decision the game even warns you in a similar way.
Are the different acts something that is based off the story, or the gameplay? when you go through the mountain pass there's a big warning saying all the act 1 quests will be locked off. seems like it's not really act 1 gameplay wise, but trying to get the parasite out with the creche is linked to the act 1 questlines.
@waterierStone tough to say but the way I personally look at it is even though the mountain pass blocks off some quests it doesn't actually block them all, just the tiefling stuff. You can go there, and then go complete find halsin and stuff he's just dead. This is similar to what happens when you save or destroy the *spoiler* in act two. Once you've made either decision certain quest options are gone, but the act itself isn't finished and you're not really in a new zone. Mountain pass still feels very much like an act one area.
You could also realistically call it an intermission zone if you wanna avoid classifying it all together.
Don't forget on the docks behind moonrise, there is a barrel that offers 4 tadpoles to the player if they go through some dice checks.
i only found 2
@@Taha-hy4qz you broke the barrel didn't you ?
@@xaviervanberkel4578 no i just stole it maybe its because im on tactician
@@Taha-hy4qzI stole it too.
@@xaviervanberkel4578 I broke it in order to thwart their war efforts and then some tadpoles popped out. I didn't complain
Extra bonus for Blood of Lethander, when equipped when fighting Cazador is act3, walking near him while he’s in his misty form triggers Light Sensitivity and knocks him out of the form making it a must equip for any melee character
The Daylight Spell also works wonders while dealing with any of Astarion's former.... colleagues
@@heylolp9I've found casting Daylight on the arena itself will cause Astarion's questline to glitch out if your going for the "good ending" to his quest
Daylight will do the same trick, plus daylight in act 2 will also remove the Living Shadow buff from the warrior in Sharran Sanctum
8:13 WARNING! if you do this, after a couple of long rests if you are dating asterion he will try to break up with you. at that time there are dialogue options that you can pick that will actually strengthen you relationship and make him not break up but still worth mentioning
who even dates astorian, lazel's ma love
@christianmoyes9599 she is too yea
Blood of lathander is so useful in act 2 with how many undead you'll be up against, blinding them all when you get close enough.
True, also trivializes the cazador fight
How is it, that despite Gale saying her name so many times, there are still people who will pronounce Mystra as "Mice-tra"...?
Same for Lae'zel
In some cases stupidity but in most cases to make people comment
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Cuz they have no idea about the world of the game they are playing...
Im from a country that doesn't have DnD even now!
but before playing Baldurs Gate 3
I was researching for about 2-3 weeks..
and the lore was fun really
and its not just BG3
for me every game i play is a process of learning
no need to imagine like a book
nor to see like a movie..
you can be there and do things!
so its the most complete type of
learning if you think of it..
and if you don't know where you are
you don't know what to do..
then its useless..
at least for me its like this!
Could be engagement bait. If more people comment to say that's not the right pronunciation, the video does better. More common shopping and tech vids than gaming but it could still be the case here.
I'm still wondering how ppl mispronounced astarion.
Man I love your videos because you jump straight to the subject. No intros, no bullshit, no bla blá blá! Keep this!!!
Agreed.
Fun fact: with the Potion of Everlasting Vigour you can increase your Strength score above 20. If you already have 20 and consume it will increase it to 22.
Very useful for my paladin/cleric. Until I get the gauntlets. Too many needed stats on this build, haha. Gloves/amulet will fix that though!
@@charlesbryson7443 Even better and easier to get before the gauntlets is the mirror of loss which can boost any stat +2 to a max of 24. So you can basically start act 3 with 24 strength and no equipment required to make it happen
@@Noosh_ Small note, you can't use the Mirror of Loss until Act 3. The one in Act 2 is broken.
@@altmaster3288can you still use it if you save both shadowheart and her parents? I passed checks but it did nothing
My 22 Str Paladin with the Blood of Lathander trivialized almost all of act 2.
Regarding Quothe the Raven:
It appears to be a generic name for raven familiars, not neccesarily that raven. Using Find Familiar to summon a raven also gives Quothe.
you can grease the statues to open the blood of lathander obstacle course to bypass the athletics check needed to turn the statues
You can also smack it once with a melee attack to loosen the rust. I love this game
I was wondering if you could do this, I didn't have any grease bottles when I got to that point, so I just hit it really hard!
There's even a letter you can find at the monastery that talks about how someone greased the statue and now it was turning every which way.
A lil force damage works just a single magic missile dart
If you are going to consider the blood of Lythander To be act 2, it is criminal not to mention the awakened buff. This let you use tadpole powers With a bonus action, and it is difficult to get from the Device in the creche.
Awakened was Talked about in the Act 1 Video
good buff until you realize you are a monk
I accidentally came well prepared for this one on my current run. My character is a deep gnome, so advantage on int/wis/cha rolls, but I also just got the buff from the myconids, which adds 1d6 to your rolls but only until your next long rest. That made if very easy.
I had to carry around that dang lantern all over Act 2. Giving it to Astarion at least allowed me to still use his off-hand bonus attack. Also even though it visually is shown as put away, its AOE is still occurring so long as it is equipped in his off-hand. The bell is a serious quality of life improvement for Act 2.
I let shadowheart lead with blood of lathander on her back and her passive flame in the hand. No need for a lantern. Got the perma buff by chance later. 😂
Might just be me, but the blood of lathander only does a sunbeam once per long rest. It's been like that since I've gotten it
That's intentional, since it's a 6th level spell you can acquire in act 1
I think he was mixing up sunbeam and moonbeam. There is another weapon that let's you cast moonbeam in act 2
I think what he meant to say was Sunbeam can be re-cast for 10 turns as long as you maintain concentration. It’s an evocation spell so if you give the mace to an evocation wizard it will get Sculpt spell automatically plus the modifier damage bonus you get at higher levels.
Yeah the Selune Spear or whatever is very similar to the Mace as far as being a glowing weapon with the ability to cast a radiant damage spell. I typically find the mace to be better but I suppose with sentinel an argument for the spear could be made
@@Blackheifer is should be, but it isn't. Sunbeam cast by the blood of lathander is unable to be moved or recast till long rest. At least it's that way on PlayStation.
I posted this comment on the first upload, but if you added the Blood of Lethandar, I'd also talk about the zaith'isk (or githyanki purification device), if you manage to succeed the roll to absorb its powers, you gain a permanent perk by which you can use ilithid powers as bonus action instead of an action, really, REALLY REALLY neat, esp once you reach act 3 and unlock the more powerful powers
Wow! That DC was wild. Thanks for the info!
Fantastic to pair Transfuse Health with Channel Divinity Preserve Life and fully heal urself immediately after halving your health to heal someone. Basically a free Heal spell
WHAT
I did it once but I didnt see it in my passive list so i thought it was useless to absorb it :/
Wat, how the hell did I miss like half the fucking game
There is a secret beneath the statue where you fight Oliver. If you pass the checks, you will get a +5 to Wisdom, Charisma, and/or intelligence until your next long rest. And you can give it all to the same character.
just to make sure people understand, its the big statue and the shadow fight....
@@DarkRaikon Saying 'the shadow fight' does not narrow it down. It's the place Oliver teleports during the Thaniel quest to fight you. Then around the structure nearby there will be plaques. Interact with all the plaques and a secret door will open. Go inside and see a few statues of Shar. Interact with their plaques, make saving throws, get +5 to Wis, Cha, and Int until your next long rest.
if you let shadowheart touch the statues, she just gets them with out needing to pass any checks.
I was so happy when I found Us again later in the game! :D
WE’RE GOING TO THE HELM!
Me too, its so cute. At first I was a small bit conflicted, but when we got it back, I realized just exactly how cute it was.
The voice is too cute, I could never harm him
@@f.jideamentit’s a game idiot
@@f.jideament you seem offended IRL about something on the net. Congrats
There's also two more mindflayer tadpoles in moonrise if you go to their docks and pass a check. They are in a barrel.
Interesting fact as the dark urge the gnalls instantly became allies with out the need for a skill check after severing the connection.
Us actually saved me when the genie sent me to the jungle. The raptors have such low int, he can stun lock them one at a time.
Wait, what jungle? The Genie in the Sundries Wizard tower?! I never got sent to any jungle!
@@christopherking6496in act 3, the circus Djinn send you to a jungle
There’s 2 more parasite in the cargo tank at the left out side the tower. (You have to pick up the silver supply looking tank or bottle)
there is also one on a corpse in the cave behind/under the prison, you can get there by jumping in the hole of breaking a wall in one of the cells
there is even more tadpole you can get at the moon rise tower. but SPOLER ALERT!
1) If you go all the way to the back of Moonrise tower, there is a dock with a few guards, and there is a shipment to Baldur's gate, which you can persuade the guard to let you take a look and steal it. In the shipments, there is a bucket with tadpoles. Upon picking up/stealing the shipment, you can get 2 tadpoles.
2) if you get pulled into the colony by the Absolute (when you stick your hand into the crack on the wall, and fail all the checks), there is a corpse with tadpole you can loot by looking around.
The Blood of Lothander found in Rosymourn is actually still considered act 1. As for the Pixie I thought it was very well voice acted. Also in the mind flayer colony there is an item that if you pick it up it gives your full party a condition where you are susceptible to psychotic damage taking double damage from such attacks but dropping it and moving away gets rid of it.
Fun fact. If you use lantern as offhand weapon (dual weapon masterry allows it) pixie will never die. I had it that way all act 2 and then i released it. At least in my playthrough it happened.
“Lose some approval”?
HE BROKE MY HEART
7:30 in this pub, you can also find the rat-bat. It's ..not an amazing weapon, just an easter egg for It's always Sunny in Philadelphia
WAIT REALLY??? that's probably the best easter egg I have ever seen, I need to find it lol
I've never seen the show but remember picking that up - it's blue rarity!
Larian are the easter egg kings!
The fact there’s so many different outcomes to situations, makes this so replayable and immersive. I absolutely love this one. 💞✌😊👍
If it weren't for all dice rolling that decides what happens and the slow progression. Maybe with mods 👍.
If you are dating Astarion and making him bite the drow, the next long rest will be a cutscene with Astarion and depends on your options, he may break up with you but it will trigger a bug as he will sometime call you "Hello, friend" and also "Hello, my dear".
I genuinely couldn't get Astarion to stay romanced after I made him bite the drow. I had to shitcan a few hours of play to reload a save before and let him decide not to bite her.
Though romance or not, I decided then I wouldn't ever make him do it. I felt soooo shitty when he explained how betrayed he felt by it.
@@TheLanceUppercut Right??! When he said that he felt like we used his body like Cazador did, my heart just dropped.
Just ungroup leave ur party outside of castle and solo control astarion and make him donate blood by himself, should work
@@DoffyDogg wow that work? Thanks I'll try later.
@jonathanformlyrics5355 That was the moment that made me stop treating the companions like they weren't actual people and letting them make their own decisions. Usually in RPGs I just exploit companions for my benefit, but Baldur's Gate 3 hits different like that
Short note about the Pixie blessing:
Better put the bell into your items tab -- you might need it rather often. When you change zones (like going to the creche and after that again to the cursed lands) the blessing will be gone. Don't forget to ring that bell every time you re-enter the shadow cursed lands!
PSA: The strength potion isn't worth it if you're romancing astarion. He will soon have a breakup dialogue with you that can only be avoided by gaslighting best boy. You have to say something like "You can throw your body at me" then "Am I not attractive to you" and then you can choose sex (don't, he will breakup) friendship or a certain option that I can't remember will cause him to hesitantly continue dating you.
Long story short, he is very uncomfortable with your request, and he feels used afterward. Don't do it if you love your vampy boy
The meat in the wall actually offers extra dialog for the Dark Urge, too.
And for the monk
Great Old One Warlocks also get some special options
Missed the Githzerai mind barrier, the raven pet, and the signed trade visa. It's more fun to just make the gold-crazed undead lady kill herself and her minions by outsmarting them.
FYI, on the Lathander mace, you can skip weapon puzzle if you have high enough perception and slight of hand skill
Yes, the sleight of hand DC is 30, which is possible for Astarion with the help of Guidance and items like those gloves that give you a bonus to SoH.
I just ripped it out with no skill check or puzzling done, and destroyed the pillars to deactivate the self destruct
I just let the temple self destruct for funsies
You can find the Lathander Mace without having to find the weapons for the puzzle if you have someone with high perception, they will spot that a wall in the room is hiding something and if you beat a 20 on Lockpicking you can get the piece behind it thats needed to unlock the mace at the end, if you feel like skipping looking for random weapons in a temple ofc
You can get the filigreed ball from the moon lantern you receive in Last Light Inn as well. In my playthrough the Harpers ran off with the Drider's lantern so I didn't have a chance to grab it. It is possible, though, that this is the one I was given at the Inn.
That is the same lantern as the one from the Drider, if you listen to the dialogue she'll say she was stuck or something in the hands of some evil drider.
Where did you find it in last light in? Some instances, the leader of thr ambuse team gets the lantern
iirc, it was given to me by Isobel @@synergistex7088
You can also get the visa by tricking the npc into believing they are getting the money for themselves, they will then kill themselves and all the flying skulls with them, giving you the xp and all the glorious loot
Shadow wraiths are very OP. You can take out bosses very quickly with their strength drain if you summon multiple of them.
I am actually so sad now that i missed us in act 2 :(
same I didnt notice him and on second playthru I played Githyanki so US got squashed
@@hunteranubis I killed that ugly lil fker on the Ship, and I couldn't be more happy for it.
@@hunteranubis even more sad
You forgot to mention the 2 other parasites you can get at the dock outside of moonrise towers. There is a barrel you can pick up to use in the fight later, but it gives you 2 parasites.
I got the Githzerai mind barrier as a Githyanki. The interaction is funny, with the Githzerai telling the Githyanki is ugly and other things, a rivalry between "cousins". The Githzerai then asks to be put out of misery, while teaching the Mind Barrier.
Mystras benevolence must be bugged because it goes away on my Gale. Which makes me think that the shadow lantern is more worth it in the long run since that can't magically dissappear
Not a bug, the buff will clearly state like many other permanent buffs that it is “Permanent”. I don’t know why they said this.
when you go from moon-rise towers to the catacombs and pass across a plaza where is combat with shades and posesed people you can check the 3 plates in certain order and get into a secret cave there you have 3 checks on statues and get powerfull buffs for free if succed! (on first time i just accidentally get into the staircase when wasn't even open because is just a mirage jajaja)
"Us" sounds amazing. In my first two runs I killed it, but maybe I will see it again in my third -- thank you!
Hey. Here is a tip if you want the mystra bonus and the shadow lantern.
A transmutation wizard hireling. Can give a party member a transmutation stone that does the exact same buff until long rest. Just means you have to spend 30 seconds switchinh them into a party, casting the stone and maybe Longstrider too and then switchinh them back out.
IMO everyone should use a wizard transmutation hireling anyway since they are better at making potions for you at camp.
Isn't the Blood of Lathander still in ACT 1 though?
Yep.
Up to a certain point you can travel back to Act 1 areas, so it’s likely the uploader went back and did that part during ‘Act 2’
Lathandir's light is act 1. Act 2 starts in the Shadow Forest I believe. Double checked. Shadow Forest is the beginning of Act 2
crèche is part of act 2 since you must finish main quest in act 1 in order to move on to the crèche
I believe Creche is act 2, cause if you go to creche before fighting the goblin. The druid grove will seal it self and lock its subsequent quest
Crèche is not act 2. Act 2 begins when you climb the ladder from grimforge or take mountain pass.
Honestly, the pass/grimforge feels like Act 1.5
You get the notification to wrap up what you are doing as you try to enter the pass. Also karlach will yell at you and leave if you keep going into the pass if you have not done her quest yet. The notification and conversation with karlach did not happen going into the underdark. But it will when leaving the underdark to the shadowlands
To me that makes the pass act 2.
11th: docks West of Moonrise. You can get 4 more tadpoles if you pass a few checks. They're in a container meant to be shipped away.
The large container of mind flayer parasites at the Moonrise docks on the right hand side of the tower :) Break it open and you get another 2-3 parasites :)
on the right of the tower is bay with ship and there is cointainer with ellithid worms, by picking this up u will get 3 extra worms to use
I have a feeling new secrets will be discovered months down the road after release. Would be a fun way of player engagement if Larian lets us know there are still undisocvered scenes or results. Could be monthly, every 6 months, yearly newslettet?? How deep is the rabbit hole?
There's actually two MORE tadpoles that you don't even have to kill for. If you go out the prison doors to the docks where the ship sails from, there's a Zhentarim shipping container you can interact with. If you pick it up (sneakily), you get two free tadpoles from the thousands bound for Baldur's Gate. I took them and yeeted the barrel into the water after just because I could.
I'm pretty sure the githyanki creche and the blood of lathander are act 1, act 2 doesn't start until you enter the shadow-cursed lands
If you dont meet the drider together with the harfners, but alone, you can talk him into, giving you the lantern, and make him and the goblins walk without protection, through the shadows. Something like, the absolute told to give me that lantern. Later on, you find them near the moonrise tower as undead, it is really funny xd
if you don't encounter them or let them leave with the lantern, knock them put etc. they ambush you during the Kethric Thorm fight
If you go through the grymforge entrance and make your way to last light, you can be involved in the Harper ambush. If you play your cards right you can still talk them into giving you the lantern and walking to their deaths. The Harper’s are so impressed with your silver tongue that they may let you keep the lantern
The Oubliette has a parasite on a corpse as well. I missed that area 3 times on my other play through. Really hard to miss tbh
4:51 and you’ll be able to do a quest called stop the presses in act three without having to persuade the party in question because it will be thankful that you saved is a pixie
So cool. So many things I didn’t know about. Great list. Will be rewatching.
Theres a barrel full of tadpoles outside moonrise tower. to get there, go the moonrise prison and use the door on the right. explore the area, explode the barrel.
Mystra’s benevolence is NOT PERMANENT!
You can also get the Signed Visa if you're a bard and pass a few speech checks.
As a new wizard that mind barrier seems pretty sweet. I'll have to remember to try for it when I get there
Wanted to let you know that you confused the spells Sunbeam with Moonbeam from the Blood of Lathander section.
Moonbeam is the spell you were talking about, the one that can be re-positioned, Sunbeam however is a higher tier spell that is a blast of light in a horizontal line AOE, and is the spell granted by the Blood of Lathander.
i think he just confused lathander's sunbeam with normal lvl 6 sunbeam, which you can recast for 10 turns
was looking for this REAL GAMER COMMENT
@@ikwaru lathander's sunbeam is the same as normal sun beam, inspecting the texts lets you know that it's a concetration spell that lasts 10 turns that can be recast for free. But in practice, you're not able to do so. I'm not sure if it was an intentional balance choice, since full on sunbeam would pretty much allow you to trivialize any combat once per long rest, or if it's just a bug.
nah, he didn't confuse. he just read it from the script. this guy probably never play the game seeing how he mispronounced Mystra, the name that Gale said very often
the blood lathander is real useful for shadowheart to use
yeah, shadowheart with the blood of lathander basically trivialises any encounters with the undead
you missed the bell that summons a flesh golem.
I’m like taking my sweet time in act three because I don’t want it to end but I’m already excited for my second play through where I have all the knowledge I need from the very beginning and seeing how things are different
I almost finished on my first run except a few quests here and there and started a new playthtoguh. 40hrs later I don’t want to go back to my original save lol. Even tho I know. It’s a different expedience somehow o.O. I also missed a lot even tho I thought I hit even corner first time. I still missed a lot this second time around >.
Pretty sure "Quothe" is the name of any Find Familiar raven. (When I tried that spell on my Wizard once, the raven was named Quothe.)
1:26 something i found out yesterday is if you have both moonlanterns (the one you get from killing the drider and the one made with gale in the tower) you can use both at the same time
Great video, thanks for taking the time to make it and share, but... how the heck does someone mispronounce Mystra when it's said so many times in game?
6:34 you can also eldritch blast / thunderbolt strike her from a distance in order to make her fall over.
U MISSED THE 3 OR 4 TADPOLES STERE IN THE PORT OF THE TOWERS THEY ARE INSIDE A BARREL
When you've played so much of the game you figured out all the hidden rewards but still haven't learned how to pronounce Mystra 😂
Every Raven summoned with Find Familiar is Quothe. You can have everybody in your party summon a Quothe the Raven, the gloves just let someone do it without knowing/preparing the spell
(At 7:22) I was playing last night as Gale and summoned a raven through the find familar spell and the raven's name was Quoth too when inspected it. Weird.
2:53, lol you are 100% thinking of the spell Moonbeam and not Sunbeam
You are correct. You can't move sunbeam.
7:09 or you can just get access to find familiar and use it to summon a raven, which is also named Quothe, opening up your glove slot for something more useful
One of the few videos showing us real secrets. Most of the other videos call their videos SECRETS YOU WILL NEVER FIND, and then show you stuff that anyone can find without any effort lol
My saddest gamer moment in a very long time was when I remembered saving Us all the way in Act 1, but not remembering if he survived the encounter since I went for the early sword on the nautiloid, then getting to the cage in Act 3 & seeing it empty. My year is ruined.
You’re supposed to save him in act 2
You missed resonance stone, It gives steeped in bliss condition. Entity has advantage on physical checks, and disadvantage on mental saving throws. Entity is also vulnerable to psychic damage
For the blood mace I didn’t do any of that. Astraion got tapped grabbing it and my other characters used Edlritch blast and fire bolt on the platforms projecting energy and everything was perfectly fine after they were all destroyed.
If you bring the devilfoil masks from grymforge to dammon he will make you a couple moderately powerful bombs that can come in handy when first exploring the region at lower levels.
There is a Zentharim barel with parasites in the port/storage area of moonrise, you can get two more parasites from it.
I would highly recommend not doing the absolute one as the only non-neutral result is a debuff that gives you disadvantage on attack rolls until a long rest that can't be fixed by ANY other means.
Long rest isn’t hard. You lose a permanent buff, money, xp and extra tadpoles by not doing it.
Regarding Araj and Astarion, if you are romancing him, apart from one very specific path of dialogue that you cannot mess up, it will completely close his romance up and you will not be able to fix it
Missed an impkrtant note about Lathanders Blood. The room is hidden all the way in the back of the creche hideout in the room with the altar. 2 statues to the side of the room can be turned to open a hidden passage. But, one of those statues mechanism is rusted, requiring either a dc 25 athletics check or the Grease spell on hand to turn it anyway.
You can just smack it and then itll turn
@@bryanimre4992 very good to know
I don't think the githzerai mind is bugged. You get the buff if you do what the mind wants and purge it, as promised. If you defy it and consume it, you get nothing. Sounds intentional to me.
Interesting. Us never changed into a cat for me. It just stayed the adorable brain it is
Regarding "Us"; If you do the DEX mutilation it won't be alive in the cage in Act 2. So no finger poking if you want the summon.
I totally mutilated it and still have a permanent Us summon... I wonder what the decider is that stops you getting him!
@@noctoi Really? Weird. Twice now I've mutilated it and didn't get it, while in my latest playthrough I decided to let it ride poke free and finally got the summon. There has to be another decider like you said, I wonder what it is? Maybe it just bugged out my first 2 times through? The cage itself was actually empty in those playthroughs.
My Dark Urge playthrough I didn't solve the puzzle for the Blood of Lathander and just took it. Cool cutscene and multiple deaths. Plus it saved time
the blood of lathander is technically an act 1 item i think since you can still move between the mountain pass and the emerald grove area
You don't even need to do the monastery puzzle to get the mace, you can just take it if you're quick enough to deal with the repercussions. :)
Mystra's Benevolence is not permanent, it goes away after a long rest. I also assumed it was permanent when I picked it up, but alas, I should have gone with the Shadow Lantern instead
Can you go back once in at 3 and get it?
It is permanent the buff just doesn't show on your character panel. You should notice the saves on your character as you go it's pretty apparent.
wow i literally did none of these my playthrough. started 2nd one lets go!
Blood on lathender is found in act1 o.o
Act 2 , Moonrisetower, when u speak with ",R'Zell" or like that,...,right hand from Ketheric,give you the quest to find the starnote in Shar-Temple.(Story). You can roll a spezial dialog, she let you buy from her vendor. This vendor ,when you open the dialoge with "Karlach" ,give you 3 soulcoin for free. After thats you close and open a new dialoge with another groupmember. You will get 45 % rabbat for all his unique stuff.😊
Oh snap, I needed this video yesterday haha. Entered Act 3 a day ago
Quothe the raven, in this game, is actually a reference to a character in Disc World. That character is a Poe reference.
FYI finding us in act 2 is bugged on the ps5. Even if you free her, she won't be in the cage.
I was actually able to get the Visa without fighting. I just talked to her and gave her such an existential crisis that she died. Lol
8:18 this isn’t just some approval. It’s a lot. His whole story revolves around him being forced to do stuff he didn’t want to, so making him do this makes him reeeeaallly upset with you. If you don’t care for him then, yeah, get it but I personally just skip it if I’m doing a good play through lol.
Looks like I did pretty good if I only missed the raven pet.
Don't forget the 4 mind flayer parasites on the docks of moonrise
Blood of Lathander is actually Act 1. The Achievment for Act 2 only comes after you enter Shadowlands.