Experimenting in the Grove (Baldur's Gate 3)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- Answering the most urgent questions about the Grove in Baldur's Gate 3, like: is it possible to sneak into the Grove before the goblins attack? What happens if you kill Sazza the Goblin before Arka arrives? And, how can I become besties with Sazza? Plus, you all had a few follow-up questions about Healer Nettie...
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yknow.. sneaking sazza through a secret tunnel makes a lot more sense than what i did, which was just walk out normal and constantly having to pass persuasion checks
Lmao I've never tried just walking her out because I figured the whole Grove would instantly aggro, that's beautiful that you're even allowed to do that
Well at least you sneaked out... I just killed everyone who got in my way to get Sazza out xD
I didn't know about the secret tunel in my first playthrough, so I did the same thing. Luckily I was a Warlock so persuasion checks were easy since I Shadowheart's Guidance, but I got a nat 1 on the last one and didn't have inspiration to reroll it, leading to aggroing a lot of the grove since of course I got caught in the middle of it. Sazza died in the fight before I could have a chance to save her and I never got to see her interaction with Minthara, or that there even was one 😅
I could have save scummed to before rescuing her I suppose, but I'd saved a bit before that point, and it'd taken me a lot of sneaking and turn based mode shenaggigans to get that far and didn't want to do it again so after she died I just fled combat.
Nowadays I just use that tunnel to save her easily; sometimes I've cleared out the goblins waiting in there and disabled the traps to make it easier, but most times I do it while I have her with me.
My brother and I are playing as Dwarves. No goblin shall be suffered to live.
@@erininsoup My first plan was buying from Aunty Ethel an invisibility potion, so i could turn Sazza invisible - except she already left to her hut, and while i searched for the way towards the hut i found the secret tunnel, where i could bring Sazza out safely. The goblins at the camp are easier to deal with, if you are either a Drow, or can Disguise Self yourself into one. They have a strict order to be respectful toward Drows. It helps a lot, if you has some basic knowledge about Drow culture - they are matriarchal, so being a male Drow doesn't give as much advantage, than being a female one. Just do not forget to change your disguise when you are not among them - there is no sane race, who would trust a Drow...
Also, if you wish to kill Sazza personally without consequences, you need to CLOSE THE DOOR. Then the guard doesn't see, what are you doing there.
normally nettie gives you the apple and mugwort pouch anyway in thanks, but it was really cool to see they add the antidote to the pouch if she managed to successfully poison you!
Oooh, I was actually wondering if she still gave you the apple normally - somehow on my regular playthroughs I've never gone back and talked to her after rescuing Halsin!
maybe it's my choices, but she has never tried to poison me.
@@adamskeans2515It is your choices. If you're open and honest with her, and not a prick to the bird she healed, she doesn't attempt it. If you're secretive and guarded she poisons you
Trust me, there are so many many players like us that just DO stuff. Doesn’t matter how small. We love it
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Always shut the door to keep guards from seeing you.
The game REALLY wants Zevlor to survive that goblin fight, and also REALLY wants you to be able to interact with the tieflings, so if you kill him during that encounter (You won't get in trouble), it can break some stuff. Aradin for example, ran to the top of the hill in my game with his buddies after the goblins died and got stuck there with no dialogue.
Wait that's so fun, brb have to try this immediately
Still hoping that the bug where you can’t recruit Sazza as a companion gets fixed
Please Larian hear our prayers 🙏
Even though it's all murdery and deceitful, this video is so cozy to me.
Awwww, cozy is the best compliment ❤️ thank you!
You can skip the gobbling fight cutscene at the Druid gate at the beginning if you enhance leap jump somewhere BUT the game will still treat you as if you still helped fight the goblins off at the beginning but there will be no dead bodies for you to loot outside the gate. Kanin is still dead and you’re still a hero of the grove.
I should truly use enhanced leap more often - I guess maybe this would be a fun route to go if you wanted to be a character (probably a bard) who loved bragging about their accomplishments and being praised as a hero but was a coward at their core
@@erininsoup The problem is, bards don't get to learn Enhance Leap. You need to be a sorcerer, a druid or a wizard to get it on level 1, rangers can get it on level 2.
Officer I wasn't eating the salami that doesn't belong to me off the table, I was just having a gobbling fight
yeah, right by the warp point, I found it too. The goblins never actually spawn though if you do this, so might miss out on some xp?
@@saphironkindris I’m using an instant lvl 12 mod so I’m ok with exp haha. Played the game enough times and I just want my complete build the moment I’m in the game.
2:58 I'm no expert, but if i had to guess, it's because your party was out of the enemy's vision while stealthing, so nobody was seen to join combat
This is probably it! I thought I had been in stealth mode out of vision a couple other times that I tried it out, but I went around the other side of the clearing so maybe the rock kept me partially obscured?
"Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl boss." 😂
John Wick entire goblin camp...
Now it is my official name for the brute force way to deal with them.
Did you know you can befriend those spiders and have them fight on your side?
They won't attack you after that.
It's too bad though that they don't seem to be very strong once outside their case.
Yes I love befriending the spiders!! I use them a lot off-screen when I need to take down the goblin prison but don't want to do alllll the hard work
You can get Zevlor to jump down during the grove entrance fight, where he will use his smites too. You have to be a druid that wildshapes into a spider to set up a webbed surface. I have a video on my channel if you're curious.
Oh that's sick!! Interesting that he'll only do it with a webbed surface...I wonder if there's any other way to get him down, or what would happen if you got up from behind him and shoved him down haha
@@erininsoup Webbed surfaces negate fall damage. The AI is seemingly smart enough to take advantage.
The AI does a lot of surprisingly smart things in this game. One of my favorite moments was a group of enemies trapping me on the stairs with a Steel Watch on the stairs leading to a cloud kill on my entire party with two enemies on the stairs preventing me from escaping. Really forced me to search through everyone's spells and look at the environment to find a solution to prevent a TPK. Luckily got out of it with a dimension door scroll and some fortunately placed explosive barrels.
He randomly jumps down at certain spots where he doesn't take damage too.
someone should try casting feather fall on him
i prefer to play a good guy in rpgs because it makes me actually uncomfortable being evil. i appreciate videos like these where it's all played for laughs. i can experience other parts of the game without having to be uneasy about it
Aww, that's wholesome - you must be a good person in real life! (Also love your username, soup)
@@erininsoup oh thank you haha, it might be because i'm autistic i'm not sure. i know it's just a game but it still bothers me lol
I have the habit of before I leave discarding Nettie's poison back on the table in front of her after accepting it. I never thought she would do anything but this was more just my own personal "Screw this shit" approach. lol
Lmao that would be hilarious if she did call you on it though!
glad the algorithm sent me to this channel, this is exactly the kind of BG3 shenanigans i wanna watch. subbed
Awww, that's so sweet! More shenanigans are around the corner ♥️♥️
The reason sazza is temp hostile is so you knock her unconscious and still get the "she cannot be caged" achievement.
Oooooh, that's cool to know! I need to pay more attention to achievements - the only one I remember for sure getting is the Mind Blown one hehe
I dont know what it is about Sazza, she wants all the good people dead, she tries to betray you when you bring her to Minthara, but i still want to save her for some reason. I dont know, there is just something about Sazza that is endearing in a weird way.
So true - it's just something about her tone of voice, and the way she rolls her eyes at you when you're naive but just saved her life. Sazza romance WHEN Larian?!
The Findal "Oh No!" took me out!
In case you needed any more confirmation i also love watching tiny experiments in big game! Gonna binge the rest of your videos
Awww that makes me so happy, thank you!! I don't have that many of these out yet, but I'm working on a druid one that'll be done later this week 💛
For the goblin fight, you can also just spam the horn while out of combat, which will give everyone on your side temp HP whenever you sound the horn.
Oh this is such a good tip, thank you!!
Nettie never poisoned me, tho maybe is cause I always chose the honest options
I always kill Nettie for her headband.
With triple jump distance, you can skip the fight by jumping over the rocks that are one step before triggering the cutscene
I really hope that Larian makes the Definitive Edition! the story still needs that final polish from bigining to end!
I would love a Definitive Edition (but even if the game was 100 percent polished everywhere, I'd still crave more 🥺). From what I've heard, I don't think we'll get one - but I'm super psyched for the Evil Endings patch.
Yeah not happening sadly. Larian is done with BG and has moved on to other projects.
That be great, a Definitive Edtion. However, I agree with others I doubt it will happen sadly. Really feels as if they are building to a wrap-up of sorts. Once they finish up with all the mod-related stuff that seems to be happening in the coming months.
thanks to hasbro that wont happen
Your videos are so under appreciated! I love that you took the time to answer all the questions I have but are to lazy to seek the answers for! It makes me appreciate BG3 even more. And btw, production, video and VoiceOver quality are far above what a channel of your size normally has. Keep up the great work!
Awww this really made my whole week 🥺 thank you so much!! I still have a lot to learn about editing too, so hopefully I'll continue to get better at that but that's so encouraging to hear ❤️
@@erininsoup doing a bang up job so far! I really like the special fx in this episode ;)
This. Utterly this.
as for Saza Experiment, as in killing guard who'd push her and attacking Minthara while talking: it works. She didn't talk to me afterwards, but still appeared at the Moonrise.
Great stuff! I tried so hard to bypass that cutscene with no success. Experiment onwards, it is the path to revelation
Revelation here I come 🫡🙏
the vibe and tone of this video are really fun. glad to have found your channel
Awww, thanks so much - so glad you found my channel too 🥺❤️
yeah, sneaking around that first fight is a thing i wanna do too - really weird they haven't thought of that... got the same as you, sneaking out of the fight, nobody ever saw me... everyone died... and still got greeted as a hero inside the grove...
I guess it's a good option if you're playing a selfish rouge who wants all the credit but none of the danger 😅 but yeah it would have been so cool if the people in the Grove called us cowards or something
Dude great video as always, all of these permutations are wild, I'd love to see more experiments videos.
Aww so glad you liked it 😊 definitely planning on making at least a couple more!
As an Australian, I always 'saw' and 'heard' Sazza as "Shazza". Aussie bogan slang for Sharon :)
Use the Wyvern poison on the Hag in her house, and she doesn't turn invisible, which means you can kill her before she escapes to her lair. That means all her victims (or at least as many as possible) will survive and can be spoken to.
Ooooh, love this tip! Was planning on experimenting with the hag at some point, so I'll definitely try this one out if I do
I have had people tell me that Minthara has a spider web tattoo on her neck, but that is clearly the prism.
The reason why probably she is temporarily hostile is because there's an achievement to save her up until the Moonlight Towers and maybe considering that, you just not really meant to kill her
Question
What if you free sazza take her into the cave.
Then have your separate party members raid the grove.
Then with sazza in the party head back to minthara
Oooooh good question! I'll have to try it out sometime
Oh and definitely love these small idea vids. Bg3 has a ton of small shit, insanity to try and find em all ourselves
I will note that a round is 6 seconds. So I'm shocked that you were able to distort time by fighting those goblins in the cave, talk to people and steal the gloves from zevlor in 6 seconds before helping lae'zel!
Satisfying my need for speed
"you lead goblins here?!" "where is the druid?!" IDK man i love this cutscene so much
open the gate vro
If you come in from the far left path, you may be able to jump around, it's the same mountain top you get the neckless - Guidence.
Wonderful that you go to the trouble to answer questions that we daren't try. Well not all of them anyway.
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23:30 this literally happened to me on my first play through in balanced. I was in such a state of shock, I sat there and stared at my screen for a solid 20 seconds
Whoa that's really cool that if you save sazza and she'll take you into the camp and stop dialog checks basically
Yeeees, and if you want to roleplay being good you can just betray her in the end
It should also be noted that this is also somewhat of a double-edged sword. Either passing the checks or using a Drow disguise will reward exp for passing the area via checks, but Sazza doing the work for you results in no exp (interestingly, it makes sense since Sazza is denying the party any persuasion/combat experience they'd develop via doing it themselves). Saving Sazza is safer, but also comes with a bit of a penalty for how safe she makes goblin camp contact.
Oh that's cool that using a drow disguise still gets you the XP. I played as a drow in my third run, but I don't remember if I got any experience from just using my drow-ness to force my way through
What you should have Tried was to get past the fight OUTSIDE the druid grove then Run straight to Minthara to tell where the Grove is and THEN See if the battle is still going on outside
I love this idea so much - definitely gonna try this
really nice video, one tip that may help you with further testing, when you grab a character to go somewhere with them, you can cancel which stops your character on the spot and they gently drop the character you were holding. and combining that with a teleportation to a waypoint you can grab anyone and bring them anywhere you want.
Ooooh thank you so much for the tip! Another commenter let me know that you had to cancel the action, but I didn't know it still works when paired with a waypoint teleport - definitely have to try out some shenanigans
Omg you are literally so funny, I’ve been showing my sister your vids and we both are 100% newly subscribed to you!! This series is soo interesting like and it’s also making me come up with questions I want to find the answers to as well! Thank you so much for the wonderful content!
(p.s your editing is literally so funny like,the humor is so relatable I was laughing so hard❤😂!)
Awww wow, thank you so much 🥺 that means so much to me!! So happy that you and your sister have found my channel ♥️
This got me thinking. What if you make it so that the goblins win the battle? And can you open the gates while the fight is going?
Ooooh good question!! You can open the gate in the fight, but when I've done this no one acknowledges it - either during or after the fight. I honestly don't know if the goblins can win the battle, since when we flee the Grove still wins, so they don't necessarily still need my party. Buuuuut...maybe if my party started 'accidentally' wounding allies, that could tip the scales. I'll have to give that a try!
I love you videos :) Not sure if you're aware, but if you use improvised melee weapon you can target a creature and throw them on the ground far from you, you can cancel the action (using right click) mid-walk, which basically lets you move npcs around.
Additionally, I know this'll take a lot more time, but I wonder what'll happen if you recruit Halsin in act two then go back to talk with Nettie as Halsin?
Looking forward to more videos :)
Aww thank you!! And omg thank you for the improvised melee info - I vaguely knew people could do it, but I was wondering what the heck I was doing wrong 😅 I can't wait to have some fun with that!!
And oooh, good suggestion - I'll definitely try that out, but I think by the time you can recruit Halsin in Act II he refuses to go back to Act 1 (?), but there might be some ways to get around that.
If you enter Act 1 after Halsin and/or Minthara become playable party members, then they just won't be available and you'll get their inventory packed into backpacks and sent to your own inventory. You can't play them or send items to them from Act 1 but they'll function normally again once you re-enter Act 2.
Source: me traveling back between the 2 acts to get stuff I missed. IDK if people have found some weird strat that otherwise makes it possible tho
1:55 Hahaha "form a line" nevermind let's just go at! Abandon the line.... righttttt. haha
I didn’t know that I needed all of these questions answered. And now… I shall frantically go through all of the other questions I didn’t know needing answered as well. I can’t wait to partake in more of your content.
Awww happy I could provide a few answers ♥️ Baldur's Gate 3 is so massive that every time I find one answer to a question I suddenly have a dozen more
@@erininsoup we are glad you do. Also, piggybacking on someone else’s comment… your production value is really impressive. I was convinced that you would have tens of hundreds if not hundreds of thousands of followers. Your diction and approach paired with your mic make you sound golden. And as a company that knows a thing or two about production value and the voice, I just gotta say, “Brava!”
@OBPmusical1430 💛 thanks so much! That's so sweet, and truly made my day. Also, Off the Beaten Path seems like such a cool musical - so fun that it's a choose your own adventure hybrid play!
@@erininsoup Thank you! There is a free online reading of the show May 27th... The cast has credits from Disney & Cats (not the movie, you're welcome) and more... If ya wanna...
@OBPmusical1430 that sounds groovy! Thanks for letting me know
calm emotions works against the harpy's luring song. 22:42
Okay that is great to know!! I think I've been using it in the wrong situations
FYI - if you loot the gnome that is laying in that cave with the goblins (the first cave near the grove fight), they have a headpiece that allows you to sneak into the other entrance in the grove right in that very cave. (not the door going to the prison to Sazza.)
You'll know you went into the correct place because the room has basically unbeatable poison traps you can just walk around.
To kill Sazza quickly before she heals, turn on Turn-Based mode and you should have enough time to kill her.
Seeing you use speak to the dead on Aradin made me wonder about using speak to the dead on Wyll before you revived him
30:00 I neverrrrr got this cutscene so it’s so interesting to see it! 😮
“Gaslight” “Gatekeep” “Girlboss”
LMAO
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I have an essay due tonight that I haven’t started, but Bg3 experiments are much more important
you can do it lmao
Finally someone with their priorities straight 👏 👸
I finished it eventually lmao. Maybe I missed something, because I’ve never gone to Minthara with Sazza, but why does Minthara get angry that she brought us to her? Just because we’re a True Soul? What’s so bad about that?
Just now seeing this sorry, but good question! I think it's because Sazza intends to betray us (she says something like let's reward them with a good poke I believe) and Minthara can't have that. But perhaps it's just because poor Sazza didn't manage to murder the Grove and capture the artifact either way Minthara remains equal parts scary and mesmerizing to me haha @GabbyPlaysGames02
You can also revivify companions, if you kill them before they join you. As happened to Astarion after he threatened me when we first met.
Lol, did he have any sassy lines when you revived him?
Maybe close the door when you kill someone so your not spotted. (If that works).
I've skipped the grove fight by getting Storm sorcerer and flying after stacking a bunch of boxes into the village
I've greatly underestimated the power of boxes stacked upon each other it seems 😭 (that's so cool)
Funny enough, I also killed all the goblins but Sazza, but I did so in the comversation with Minthara.
I brought Sazza to Minthara, talked her down from executing Sazza, then triggered the encounter. Nonlethally taking down Sazza and Minthara led to the next day Sazza appearing near Gut's area in the middle of the hide out, thanking me for bailing her out from Minthara like she normally would.
Sazza even appeared in Moonrise, the next act!
I did this at the grove a long time ago because I wasn't in the mood to do that fight. I managed to avoid fighting my first try at this.
What I did was have everyone hide and moved them one at a time towards the hidden door. The fight scene does start, but I wasn't locked into the cinematic. Also, I was far enough from the battle that being part of the initiative wasn't a problem. Not a single goblin attacked me and I snuck in the back way.
After clearing the caverns I came to the jail and freed the female goblin and led her back out through the now empty cave.
Once she left I went around to the main entrance again, the fight was over, the goblins dead and all the good guys alive inside. There was no confrontation with the tiefling leader and mercenary either because they were no longer on the path inside. They had gone to their 'after confrontation' places.
Edit: I disabled all the traps behind Nettie's secret door when I first cleared the cave. I didn't know how to open it though. Now I know.
Oooooh, cool that you got everyone to sneak past initiative! The only time that happened to me was the time where we were hidden by a rock or something but still too close to the battle. But the Zevlor and Aradin moving positions thing also happened to me - it's kind of nice in a way because I have had to watch their pre-fight dialogue too many times to remain sane
The map is designed to funnel you into that first goblin encounter and the trigger is big enough to cover all paths leading towards it. Even though a couple of the paths are far enough back that you would not know the gate was there if you pass through them correctly.
In one of my playthroughs Wyll made the stupidest decisions possible and died before I recruited him so I do know that one from experience -.-;
Wait, did he die in the opening fight? I didn't know that could happen unless you fled or something haha, that's so tragic
@@erininsoup Yeah he did 😭. He tried to attack a different goblin and took like 3 opportunity attacks. I think that character was cursed cause then two of her allies proceeded to die in the Harpy fight.
Keep up the great work!
Awww, thank you! I really appreciate that
Oh, I actually tried directly go away after get involved the druid fight since I thought playing as Lae'zel won't bother in fight like this (I realized maybe not like this afterward though), I have zero involvement in the battle but after go into the grove for accidental encountered Karlach, I still regarded as saved the Tieflings.
Yay! More experiments! (Including the one I wanted to know about LMAO)
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You did not enter combat in the grove because you were hidden from sight. Characters who start a combat sequence while hidden will not enter combat themselves.
I'm surprised you needed to buy a speak to the dead scroll. Every time I restarted BG3, I get to Wither's temple before the grove and there's an amulet to cast speak with the dead/recast speak with the dead infinite amount of times.
I have found that amulet before, but I beelined straight to the Grove for these experiments. Although I am ashamed to admit during my first two playthroughs I went into the crypt, pressed the button that unlocks the doors to Withers, but somehow never opened the sarcophagus?! 😭
If you pick a high strength character with enhanced leap, there is a way to get past the grove without the fight triggering.
I see a lot of people use the jump spell to avoid cutscenes
If you fast travel while midway through carrying an npc as part of using them as an improvised weapon they will teleport with you. You can also just cancel the attack after carrying them as long as you do it just before reaching the location you clicked to attack and it will drop them at the location you cancelled at. The best part is that neither of these count as you attacking that character too.
Whoah, I'm editing a druid experiment video right now where I tried to drag Arabella's dead body over to her parents but I couldn't get it to work (I got stuck by the door) but the waypoint could help with that! For some reason, I kept leaving her behind - is it not enough to click on an NPC using improvised weapon? Or do you have to click on them, then click on a different point on the map, and before you throw them down hurry and click the waypoint?
@@erininsoup You have to click them, click a point (preferably far away to give you as much time as possible) to throw them on the ground at and then quickly fast travel while your character is making their way to the point you clicked to throw them down at after having visibly picked up the NPC.
I've never tried it on dead bodies though so I'm not sure what happens then.
@@erininsoup There's a video titled "Gortash would never have imagined that we could do this | Baldur's Gate 3" that demonstrates it pretty nicely. It was done on an older patch but I've still been able to do it on the current one.
@@falsetitle6940thank you × 100 - can't wait to try some shenanigans out
@@erininsoup 👍
thank you for doing all this so i dont have to!
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What happens if you steal and then drink the wyvern poison before meeting Nettie?
Hmmm so you can't actually drink it you can only coat it to use as a weapon (unless you're poisoning the goblin camp) but she doesn't react if you do it off-screen, but thanks to you I just learned that if you spark a conversation with Nettie inside her office but kill Tav before Nettie says anything, then resurrect Tav and talk to Nettie again, she'll act as if she poisoned you even when you're fine. She also has two lines I've never heard her say in the other versions, and Gale wanted to speak to me after.
In my first play-through, I didn’t talk to Arka or Sazza at all. Later on, I found Sazza dead in the cell. Seems like Arka always kills her.
I managed to go from the grove straight to Karlach recruitment point by jumping from Lakrissa's place to the High Road.
I wonder if one can do this the other way around? Perhaps by going solo, specking into thief rogue, using a scroll of flight and dashing three times.
Perhaps you could get into the grove this way even if it gets locked down.
I just found out that you can see Karlach from that point earlier this week, during some different experiments! I was so shocked that I had never gone that route before - but that's a great suggestion 💛
17:40 not quite... The next place Sazza will wait is in the front hall arguing with the entry guards lol
Got a bit confused myself
27:00 only 1 jailor now, throw him into the pit before he can push Sazza?
29:40 LOL, attack button EXTREMELY bugged there considering using the dialogue option to attack him, only he agros and no else finds out
I really do need to go back and just push that one lone guard into the pit! And haha, good to know that Findel triggering the Grove fight was likely a bug - I just thought Kagha had eyes everywhere 😂
There is a random chance the battle goes either way when you flee combat. Each time you do anything pretty much, its RNG that determines the outcome, AKA a dice roll. Aradin might be alive in one playthrough, dead in another.
Can you leap up the rocks to sneak past the fight AND grove? Yes. Use use enhanced leap, elixir of glorious vaulting, or anything similar (flying pots, etc., going invisible and running that one invisible character past the battle area, and so on). Then you just bypass the fight and go on your happy way. The fight will wait for ya and the scene will trigger when you finally get by.
Random idea, after killing Sazza, Arka (crossbow tiefling) decides to go solo the goblins by herself, but doesn't get past the goblins in the first area, the one where they try to ambush you. What if you were to kill all the goblins in that area before letting her kill Sazza, then going back, see her kill Sazza, and head back to that goblin place? Would she still be dead?
Ooooh, that's such an interesting question - definitely never thought about this before, as I didn't know Arka heads that way after Sazza. I'll definitely have to give this a try in the future - thank you 💛
People used Enhanced Leap to skip the Goblin fight. But it was in earlier versions of the game. I don't know if it still works :P
i love experimenting in the game... i like finding backside entrances so much... a shame you can't just jump from the cliffs by the waypoint into the grove to avoid the fight...
ever so proud finding one before having seen a video about it...
i like flying on the roofs and slipping in through balconies in the city... (Philgrave, Steelwatch) what i had to play around with the camera to find the right ancles to get where i wanted to....
as i rarely play as gaseos form or little animal but more with flying ability...
and just shadow step through walls... it was such a find that made me so happy - that you can play things you just see and are not highlighted in the game... so proud of finding that you can shadowstep through holes in walls... like into the arcane tower cellar or outer entrence of the Orin dungeon... at the time i know 3 ways into the cellar of arcane tower and lets says 4-5 ways into the Orin dungeon first door... (being assissin and bring hands, deliver any dead body, the body there, any blood sacryfice just being bloodied, and shadowstep into the chamber above)
just a shame i didn't find a way around the inner door till now...
and so surprised as i lately played a druid and found out the statues in the grove don't attack me if i transform into a wolf... and still allways hard for me to get that bear of the elevator from above.. the fishes i throw just disapear instead of luring him away... only found that mage hand works till now...
Oooh, I didn't even know you could shadowstep through holes in the wall! That's pretty cool. And I like that you were creative enough to try and throw fishes at the bear in the Grove...that would have been perfect if it worked!
@@erininsoup yeah was proud of that find... didn't know how to open the first Orin door, then saw the crack in the wall and the box in front of it... thought that must be some hint... moved the box so that when i stepped up i had an imaginary line of sight onto the dark floor in that upper room... and voila - it worked... - arcane tower just a few steps up, and on can step through the crack in the wall behind the oven... no need to learn poems 😄
so impressed by the game that you can play without shift or strg or anything the mouse can hover, but only with your eyes and brain...
As an FYI I do not believe that jumping up the cliff would have worked to avoid the fight even if it was possible, I summoned a bird and had it fly up the cliff and that also triggered the fight, so the trigger is way bigger than you would think
Ooooh summoning a bird is genius, though! If only it could fly in stealth mode
" Nobody gets in" Nobody...
I wonder if you can REALLY get passed the fight using longstrider and feather fall to get behind it.
You missed one w/ Sazza... you almost had it too. After you get her sent to the spiders you *can* save her before she's thrown into the pit, and only have to deal with the two guards there. This will give a new conversation w/Sazza (and I believe an achievement... something about saving Sazza again, and again). She rewards you with her loot (no unaliving her necessary) thanks you and then leaves... sadly I do *not* know if she reappears later if you successfully save her as I'm still in act 1 on that run and it took me 5 attempts to save her (the guards tend to focus on shoving her off, so you pretty much have to go first in combat and take them both out quickly)
Ooooooh thank you for detailing what happens for me!! I can't believe I gave up on that one after accidentally killing lil Sazz with the cloud of daggers. I wonder if the loot she gives you is the same one you get if you intervene on her behalf with Minthara. Either way, super cool there's an achievement for that route!!
If you don't stop Arka from killing Sazza, when she leaves, you can find her dead body on a cliff across the chasm with view to the temple where the goblins are having their party, after Blighted Village. So stopping her rage saves her life. :)
If you "gatekeep" Sazza with Minthara, she gives us a cool magic knife, so if you are hunting items you can't get other way, that's a plus. :)
Finally, Netty is a stupid druid, so I find it's better to just kill her and get the magical diadem (Nature+1) she carries, that is also the key to the doors in that room. You can barter with her for both the Elixir of SIlvanus and the poison when you are talking to her in the previous room.
Ooooh that's so interesting that Arka dies if you let her take her revenge - an interesting thematic detail!
You can also jump into the grove with a high strength character that has Enhanced Leap
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💛💛 I want to see a complete remake of John Wick that takes place inside Baldur's Gate 3 but he still has a gun
@@erininsoup do more funny edits 😄
I wonder what would happen if you saved Halsin before even going into the grove
👀👀👀 (I might have tried this out for a follow-up video a few days ago)
@@erininsoup I watched that too! How did I miss it? 😂
Oh haha you didn't miss anything!! Sorry, I meant I tried it out in the game the other day for a follow-up video! It'll be done in the next week or two.
@@erininsoup ohhhh omg yay! i can't wait!!
Very good presentation and content
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I enjoyed every moment of this, but I have such a huge question about what the HECK happened when you killed Findal???? You incited some kind of random massacre between the tieflings and shadow druids?? And we are just gonna not talk about that?? 😂 Why did that even happen? There are little question marks spinning around my head ike a cartoon rn 😵💫
Hahaha, I love the way you wrote this (and I'm glad you enjoyed!). The massacre wasn't even the shadow druids - it was just the regular druids who slaughter all the tieflings if we, 4 random strangers who are not affiliated with the tieflings in any way, happen to do something bad while in the Grove. It's happened to me a couple times on runs for different things - like stealing the idol of Silvanus - but I've never got it for attacking Findal. Weirdly, you can kill him without triggering this - but I guess you can't hit 'attack' while in dialogue. Still, there was no one else to see so I was very sad lol
@erininsoup oh my goodness 🤦♀️ in all my playthroughs I guess I've never seen that happen somehow, how ridiculous! 😂 Thank you!!
If you can revive Will before he joins the party, what about everyone else? I’m most interested in Minthara. Can you kill her like normal then revive her?
Oooh good question! I'll have to try and report back
Sazza should have been a companion and romance option, imo.
A tier opinion
Am I going crazy? Why was Minthara's voice so sultry, and then all of a sudden it completely switches in how it sounds at 20:08
what if you leave one party member holding up the fight and then go of to adventure ignoring that fight? and finish the act 1 with 3 party members lol
Love the idea - I don't think you could leave act 1 based on some experiments I did with Gale (your party has to be ready) but it'd be fun to try and see how far you could go. I did a little something similar in my next video with the druids!
I really wish Sazza was a PC, we need a ranger… But Larian hates having short NPCs
Keep'em coming!
So I belief you can get to level 3 before getting to the Druids grove if you kill the commander and the mind flayer on the nautaloid then do everything you can before the Druids grove. Which means you could get Misty step. Could you use that to skip triggering the grove fight?
Ooooooh definitely going to try this when I have a free afternoon! Thanks for the suggestion 😊
what would happen if you skipped the first grove fight and brought sazza back to minthara and started the second attack on the grove at the same time?
Great question!! I'll have to try that out if I do a follow-up
Imagine if Kannon just opened the dang gate while there were no goblins in sight instead of arguing about protocol during what was obviously an emergency. Zevlor and Aradin got heated but the biggest one at fault was Kannon. Zevlor gets there late and is in shock before doing what Aradin said from the start and Halsin was the one who volunteered to go with the mercs on his own knowing the risks
close the damn Door!!
It's my fatal flaw
I like the tone of your voice, lol :>
Awww that's such a nice compliment, thank you 🥺
@@erininsoup just the truth ✨