Can You Beat Baldur's Gate 3 With Only Magic Missile, No Companions, and on Tactician Difficulty? 

He’s gonna have a crisis when he starts missing in a different play through

"Hey babe, are you ADHD? Cause you keep BREAKING MY FUCKING CONCENTRATION" -Every enemy in the run

Fun fact: the Healing things on the Nautiloid restore your Spell Slots as well as your health.

Finally the chronicles of Magic Missile Mcgee will be shared with the masses.

In the future, you can steal the idol without a spellslot by crouching, right clicking on the idol to hit steal, and then the go to camp button as soon as it leaves the pedestal.

VA went hard on those magic missels lines

If you explore the castle and find letters, and talk to him trying to spare him, the second time you fight him you can break his spirit and he'll follow his family tradition and kill him self, skipping his fight and going straight to merkol

the production value of this video was absolutely 🔥

Man, I started watching your videos because of the great cyberpunk content, and then started playing Baldurs gate too, and here you are ! Truly a good coincidence, there's an insane amount of ways to do things in this game, so it's perfect for countless ideas.

For future solo challenges, on the Nautiloid you can have Lae'zel just jump into the abyss in the first imp fight (it'll kill her instantly, meaning she doesn't even so much as eat hits for you)

When you threw the eye off the ledge, only for it to land on a lower platform, I laughed so hard!

Devs: *pours their hearts and souls into the game for 10 years* VAs: *spends thousands of hours recording 50,000 lines of dialogue* some powergamer: "skip, skip, skip. Yeah yeah I DONT CARE. Gimme ring."

worst part is, with spellmight gloves from Lucretious you can add another 1d8 damage to each magic missile, cause apparently even though MM cannot miss, it still counts as a spell that does an attack roll...

Excellent video, I love watching all those colorful numbers pop up. It was super fun to watch these streams, and it was cool that a couple of my chats made it into the video. My first character in BG3 was a magic missile sorcerer, and I used the build on Gale for my next three playthroughs, so I'd been thinking about doing it solo right around when you started streaming the run. I was one of the chatters advocating for Phalar Aluve and told you about lockpicking the door for Balthazar. Feels like I may have influenced Magic Missile Mike a little bit.

In the actual tabletop D&D, you can actually make Magic Missile absurdly insane. And before finishing the video I do know you can make it very good in BG3 as well. Now, as a solo challenge and tactician I have no clue how well they will carry. I can't wait to actually finish the video!

I remember feeling so smart when I discovered the dice spam damage mechanic on scorching ray and not thinking about magic missile.

Glad I found your stuff! Helps fill the insatiable need I have for BG3 😆

If you want brutality, then solo with only selune items and equipment. Literally, there are only two weapons besides unarmored attacks you get: one is the glaive for rescuing aylin, and the other is that quarter staff in the underdark just outside the selunite outpost. If you want the moon devotion robe without killing isobel, then you have to knock everyone out in last light after you free aylin, then knock isobel out last and cast sanctuary on her unconscious body so the shadows don't kill her. It kinda sucks, its pretty hard. The only armor in the game you can wear besides moon devotion robe is the two identical selunite robes found in isobels room, its the same ac as the base leather armor a rogue starts with. You want to simp for selune? then try hard all you can at my conjured brutality.

IM ACTUALLY DOING THIS PLAYTHROUGH RIGHT NOW Already made it to Act 3, I have been using companions (All respecced into wizards) and standard mode but wow, nice to see someone else doing this dumb challenge Also i chose to play Evocation wizard, the companions also evocation because they get alot more spell slots, Spell slot recovery, and evocation wizards at lvl 10 add their intelligence modifier to evocation spell damage which Magic Missile is Thus making magic missile even more powerful

Loved this! I hope you continue doing more runs like this for BG3. I've seen too many "challenge" videos of people using OP builds to solo content, but nothing as creative like this.

Haha when you tried to kill the priestess and she Shielded all your missiles.. your face in that moment was exactly like mine, first time I launched my trusted barrage of magic missiles at an undead boss in tabletop D&D, only to discover he was wearing an amulet of permanent shield xD

Beautiful Sudoku build - so many numbers! ^-^

magic missile is good in 5e, but with item synergies it was one of my favorite spells in bg3 - especially when you combine it with the tadpole power that explodes people if they get hp down to your number of tadpole powers

Bro I haven't seen your channel since the beginning of CP2077. Nice to see you doing content on another banger of a game.

Ive watched this run a few times now just on in the background, and I finally realized what "MMM" was reminding me of and when you actually said the letters instead of the sound it clicked. "MM" from the boys! Edit: Love the content, the videos, the live steams. All A+ work

What's awesome is that the magic missile build isn't actually a bad build or anything.

LES GOO I LOVE BG3 AS WELL LES GO

MMM stands for: Mmm, what a fumrun!

It might go against the spirit of the run but there's a scroll in sorcerous sundries called Artistry of war which you can learn as a wizard, it works the same as magic missile but it does 2d6+6 damage instead of 1d4+1

I gotta say , that was hella fun

For anyone following this at home, dont forget to grab the legendary staff in the bottom part of the tower (not the basement, but if you go through the portal then as far down as possible) then set it to lightning, it should add spell mod to all instances of lightning damage as well as give you lightning charges. Basically adds your cha/int to the lightning damage, huge buff. Also could set it to thunder but like. Why? Extra lightning charges. Also draconic sorcerer (blue) would also add cha to lightning damage, which is yet another +x to all magic missiles

For the Grym Forge fight, you can use a mage hand to use the hammer and with the right positioning you can hit Grym multiple times in a round with it

Tried the build with some tweaks and the max damamge i did with a level 6 magic missle was 312 damage...add haste and you do about 500 damage easily on average per round. Jesus this build is amazing

I’m surprised no one mentioned using knock for balthazar or the callous glow ring, also with how much radiant damage you were doing the luminous armor might have been better

Dude, I don't know what quality you're uploading in but this looks WAY cleaner than normal BG3 videos i've seen on other channels. Great video too btw +1

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS

You really should be taking advantage of the storm sorcery flight, it’s super huge when you get surrounded by a bunch of gnolls. This is over now so I know you’ve probably learned this, but for any viewers who want to try this, that is my one piece of advice. Exceptional video my friend.

I can’t get enough of this game. I’ve watched numerous full play through, guides, memes and have a full play though and ready to start my second one. It is D2 levels of good for me. Also, I don’t think you understand how that thunder damage ring works that you got from Nere. Gotta dish out thunder damage to receive the bonus damage from the ring. It says that….right there in the description

I love that at the start of this video you said magic missile wasnt a good spell. I’m sure it upset everyone including myself who knew exactly how good it could be. It was my main build for Gale in Honour Mode.

Bro just summarized my 1st playthru

God, I forgot how much I loved this game!

If you kill all the rats before talking to yurgir, you don't need to fight him and he will not only help you get to the house of hope but fight with you without you having to ever roll any checks with him.

I have never encountered those duelists, like ever. I've completed 3 full runs including an honor mode run and am now on my 4th. I have no idea who they are or where to find them 😂 I love this game.

If you used perilous stakes you could’ve trivialized a lot of these fighting doing literally double the damage more than likely one turning a lot of high health enemies

you can make lae'zel and shadowheart jump off the nautiloid to avoid using them in combat

I ran a sorcerer with a similar build but was mainly a fire sorcerer, so it wasn’t even a min-max. I changed my build because it was just too op 😂 You can use the dancing light cantrip or there a throwable version too

It's one of my fav spells, period. It's an auto-hit, no roll to attack and no save, so it's automatic damage. Even if it's only d4's, those can do some serious damage all stacking up on one enemy. It's a constant in Gale's spell list for me.

22:15 I would hope that the goblins have enough self preservation to notice a full grown grizzly bear

This was fun. Now for honor mode. :P

magic missile mike, make more missiles, make missiles mighty, Mike missile man.

I'm pretty sure anyone who played BG3 an avg amount of hours knows magic missile is pretty much the best spell of the game because of gear "exploits" and its always-hit feature. Still nice vid, good showcase and liked the pace / edit

Mighty morphing magic missile mindslaying man

Wish I could like this video twice

Glad I saw this video, because it's showing one of the same bugs with Lightning Charges I'm seeing. 6:40 when starting from 0 charges, you're generating the correct number of charges per missile, however only dealt a single tick of lightning damage from those charges on your third missile vs the expected behavior of a tick on the second missile, as well. EDIT - Damnit, I put this on as background noise for building a gunpla, but there's a good chance you're also gonna give me video of the Boots of Stormy Clamour not proccing off Reverberation & Gloves of Belligerent Skies not working properly with multi-missile spells as well, aren't you lol? Shit, I even am seeing the same eating of 2 charges on Lightning Charge proc. Honest question, did you just not notice all these interactions not working properly? Because in every clip of combat I'm actively paying attention to, the items aren't working properly multiple times per combat. That's a big part of why you're not dealing nearly as much damage as expected; each cycle of Lightning Charge proc is eating 2 charges it should be giving you, leading to less procs overall, and the Boots not proccing off of the Reverberation that the Gloves cause is leading to less stacks of Reverberation & thus less procs of that overall, as well.

There’s a ring which gives you a magic missile that explodes on hit. I use it as soon as I get it.

"Im not taking the -1 to attack rolls" You are using a spell that has a 100% chance to hit

You beautiful bastard you did it, you really did it😢😂

Good work magic missile macgyver.

Did brother just hit us with the FudgeMuppet intro?

Very cheesy, but the shield of devotion in the inn in act 2 lets you generate infinite spell slots and sorcery points by removing the spell slot it gives you with meta magic, then unequipting and reequipting the shield, rinse and repeat.

If you let Gut roofie you then don't escape from the shackles an assassin shows up and kills her and her ogre for you.

As soon as you reach 3rd Level spells just get your companions at camp to be all clerics with "Create Food and Water" Camp supplies are no issue anymore ever from level 5 onwards You never use all Spellslots on all Companions anyway and the game does give you this way to cheese supplies even in honor mode making long rests free again

wow. I've hear of drs, understand how it's (practically) quadratically scaling damage, and knows how ludicrous it gets. What I didn't realize is that it comes online so quickly. I guess that'd be the biggest difference from honor mode.

You can use the Ogre Horn anywhere in Act 1 (even underground) except the Mountain Pass for some reason

The tales of Most Magic Man.

He could use his bonus action to fly away because it doesn’t provoke an opportunity attack

evocation wizard is actually the best option for this imo. at level 10 empowered evocation provides extra dmg equal to your int modifier to every hit of magic missile. Assuming its +5, for a 6 level magic missile its +40 dmg

I do wonder, though- why not use perilous stakes to make enemies vulnerable to all your extra damage? Is that a requirement of the run?

My god I just had the most uncanny moment. This is the first time (I thought) I had even seen gameplay of BG3 but when you hit the first area I was like "What the hell, I've literally played this before!" Which would be weird since the game hasn't been out a year and I would have known it was BG3 considering all the hype. So yeah, they actually released a demo back in 2020. I was literally questioning my own sanity there for a moment. Freaky.

2:00 but you can make laezel... leave the minute she becomes your team mates. on a tooootaaalyyy different note: did you that "companions" can jump into the abyss wich makes them... lets say leave semi-permanetly?

Somehow your character looks completely identical to my current durge - race, face, hair, scar, even subclass are all the same

potions of speed are a casters best friend.

“dug through troughs of archives known as the BG3 wiki” if that ain’t the realest shit i’ve ever heard 😂

55:25 Why didn’t he just disengage when he moved further away instead of fog clouding?

Well I hope we can upgrade that spell into magic ICBM

lol I like how your character is named MMM. It reminds me of the wrestler HHH.

The fact that he didn´t use the "friends" cantrip at all throughout the run gives me physical pain.

I'd really recommend siding with minthara and the goblins, it’s very easy, unless allies counts against the challenge, you can just retreat for the first part and let the spiders and goblins tear up the tieflings, the hard part is the druids since the spider and ogre mysteriously disappear after the first fight

The really obnoxious thing about shoving is, if it would push them into a wall, it fails.

100%. You can beat it throwing rocks for hecks sake

I don't know why, but I got triggered when I saw you pass the pork loin and pig head at Auntie Ethel's lair. That's 9 food right there.

I like that you use Skyrim music in BG3 video, lol

i haven't checked the channel yet, but i hope you can do an eldrich blast run, it'd be fun as hell watching you learn all the dumb stuff you can do with it.

Magic missile mindflayer

Underdark through the Zhent hideout is probably the fastest/easiest method to get there. I’ve been using it to get Phalar early for my Dex characters. Just a heads up.

My man Magic Missile Mike made mince meat (of) many malcontents. Multiple missiles made men massively malleable.

there is something funny about being like 6 inches away from kethric and holding up your hand to cast 6 magic missiles directly in his face

The spellmight gloves would really dial this up to 13

I feel like I rely too heavily on magic missles, but at the same time I don't like missing when the enemies are at low health. I personally wouldn't mind if it was fixed at 90% or 95% hit rate, but that's what mods are for.

Would Artistry of War count as Magic Missile?

Is there any method to get magic missle on a warlock?

Yo. What's up with the card behind the truck? That is my 15th bday. Curious what happened that day....

siding with nere is way easier than siding with the mercenaries

Can you also try it with melee? Surely will be a lot harder though, I think

2 minutes in and already killing without magic missile, with companions. that was a quick watch.

Lore bard might have been a better choice.. i want to see a solo warlock MM run now. gogo

Back in D&D 3.5, there was actually a class called the Force Missile Mage which was a wizard entirely dedicated to Magic Missile It has lived in my head as one of the stupidest class concepts I have seen, yet just esoteric enough that it could be kinda cool I am glad it's spirit lives on

Every time I use magic missile, I start reciting the missile copypasta. I like to think my Drow does too (and all the companions hate it)

Is the build inspired by cRPG Bro?

Because are you using magic missile, your casting modifier is basically worthless (minus speaking power) you could went wizard the whole way and you could put a bunch of points into wisdom to help prevent getting immobilized