Many Tips For Act 2 That You (Probably) Don't Know | BG3 Honor Mode Guide 

Watched a third of the video and I thought i have seen everything but there is still 2/3. I’m impressed how much research you did

@@sleyana_ I appreciate you settling in to watch the whole thing; I figure most people probably just skip to certain fights and then close it hahah.

Thank you very much! Yeah, I spent a long time just digging into the game and testing tons of ideas for this one. I figure the farther into an honor run, I'm covering, the more important it is that I test everything very thoroughly before asking people to trust that my tricks will work consistently. I'm probably crazy for spending so much time on one video like this, but I'm glad you appreciate it hahah.

@@SlimXG Just an update, my wife and I BREEZED through Act 2 thanks to this video! Thank you so much again for all the research and testing you did, I've literally never had an easier time fighting Myrkul, even on lower difficulties, lol.

@@ellydhasacamera That makes me happy to hear. I'm really glad the effort actually helped someone hahah. Wait, you AND your wife? TWO people!

@@SlimXG We're making our way cautiously through Act 3 now! Also, I don't know if you take suggestions, but one thing we found really helpful for the Cazador and House of Grief fights was to cast globe of invincibility before the fight starts and chuck a rune powder barrel (stolen from the Ironhand gnomes) right in the middle of the map. For both fights, it really softens up/sometimes completely eliminates some of the weaker enemies, and in the case of the Cazador fight it doesn't kill any of Astarion's siblings. Once in tactician my wife was able to make it so that Astarion never even got grabbed by Cazador, but we weren't able to repeat it for honor mode. We managed to get a few turns in before the scene triggered, but it did once Astarion got close to Cazador. Not sure if it's random or if you have to keep him in a certain spot to not trigger the scene.

@@ellydhasacamera Barrels?! How dare you! But fighting Cazador without triggering the conversation is one of the things on my list to test and create a consistent method for. Will probably have a heavy focus on tips for that that fight, in general.

Thank you. I'm happy to help.

Yeah same

Yeah, with how long it took to make, I've been wondering if there's anyone left to watch it . .

Also, to anyone reading this, don't forget the killer's sweetheart ring from the top of the room after completing the self same trial. Free crit per long rest can be... critical :)

@@SlimXG at the very least, me. i've also finished an honor mode (big thanks to your first video) but later lost my save and thus the golden dices so im going for it again i think.. but since im VERY lazy about it i might even catch an act 3 part (if you plan to make it) ongoing. these vids are fun to watch regardless tho!!

Much appreciated. I would like to make an Act 3 video, but I'm starting to think making it more like the Act 1 video when it comes to detail/duration is probably the way to go. >.>

I'm glad it was helpful!

@@SlimXG Hello! I just wanna let you know that I got the golden dice today thanks to the majority of your tips from your Act 1 video and this video. I don’t think I could ever complete it without the guide, so thank you again for putting in the hard work to help us gamers out there :D!

@@campusbunny That's awesome. Thank you for letting me know, and I'm glad I was able to help. And sounds like you don't need an Act 3 guide, now . . >.>

@@SlimXG I do want to see how you do it so I can copy for my next runs bc Act 3 for me was just yeeting Orin off the temple and barrelmancy’d the brain XD XD

@@campusbunny Yeet will probably be included, though I'd hope to find some other interesting stuff. Brain is tough to come up with anything new, since it's such a restricted space to work in. So unless I can work a miracle on that one, it'll probably be pretty boring :/ (still no barrels, though)

Well I hope this one improves them a little bit more!

Thank you very much. Makes the effort worth it.

Thank you very much! I appreciate you actually watching the whole thing hahah, and I'm glad you liked it.

And thank you for the excellent watching.

Thank you. I really appreciate you watching them!

Well, then I guess you should tell 98k of your friends about it

@@SlimXG I'm afraid I don't have a single friend. Shall certainly share the videos around if I ever make any :)

Thank you very much for the kind words. I'll see what I can come up with, next . .

@@SlimXG Any fun builds? Also obv Tier 3 video like this one. :D

That's awesome. Glad to know it helped. I hope this one has at least a few useful tidbits.

Thank you! Act 3 happening kinda depends on how well this video does. I'd really like to complete the set, but with how long it takes for these full act videos, BG3 popularity may be gone by the time I'd finish it hahah.

@@SlimXG It is already gone i think, but you still fill gap in my opinion. And good to see you improved your audio quality as well. :)

@@sleyana_ Hahah yeah, thanks. It could still be better, but I'm continuing to work on it.

I first found out that sword existed at all when I was trying to get Voss's silver sword, and tried running away from the gith to get out of combat. I couldn't run far enough away to flee, so I ended up running all the way to Waukeen's Rest and got the Flaming Fist to join in the fight. The gith ended up killing Yeva, and I saw the sword on her corpse. So my next step was to try to find a way to kill her for the sword without having to fight all the fists, which you can do by saving Florrick and then following Yeva out of Waukeen's Rest until she's split up from the other fists. But because she doesn't always go in the same direction, it's not always as easy to get her alone, so I wasn't satisfied with that method when it comes to the video. Further research led to Command Drop, and I just kept experimenting to find all the different nuances of that method.

Thanks a bunch. Hopefully some more people stumble onto this one.

I plan to make an Act 3 video, though I think it's probably gonna be more like Act 1, focusing on specific problem fights and out of the way stuff, rather than spending two straight months digging into every part of the act hahah.

Happy to help!

Yeah, but I had to leave out some stuff. I already included way more than I should have hahah.

Hahah ok, in all my testing on that fight, I have to admit that I never encountered a second Ketheric. The game musta figured that things were going too easily and bumped up the challenge. Now I just gotta figure out how to spawn a second Netherbrain . .

@@SlimXG Well count me out, because I am NOT doing that again! :D

@@_potatodude_542 How about two Ansurs? Or two circuses?

And this one's got way more detail (probably too much detail . .) I hope it ends up useful.

That'd be the extra clearing that I skipped in the video because it's more complex than the parts I showed. You can carefully pull each of those cultists, usually only getting one at a time, but it has to be done in a certain order and from certain positions to not aggro a larger group. One quick tip I can give if you want to try it is to close as many doors between the rooms as you can, to cut off sight lines. Standing at the top of the stairs that lead down to the prison and pulling Adept Nola through the doorway works, allowing you to escape down the stairs to break combat. But there are also patrolling Scrying Eyes to worry about . . You can see why I didn't include it in the (already too long) video hahah.

I could, but they're pretty basic builds. I intentionally keep the power of my characters low in these videos to show off techniques that can be used by a wide variety of classes.

@@SlimXG yeah they don’t seem to be that op, but they have a great variety of spells/skills

@@thebelones8284 Right, I used a variety of classes to show different useful abilities. And did some class switching occasionally if I wanted to show off something specific, like cleric or druid spells

He was still in my camp and I was able to do the Thaniel quest just fine, while making the video. The only thing I noticed is that every time you go back to Act 1, Halsin's backpack appears in your bags, but he just gets a new backpack each time.

Hahah perfect timing

Psh, bombs are just miniature barrels! I have one shorter video that's a bit of a follow-up to Act 2 first, then Act 3 as soon as I can. Though it'll definitely take a bit of time to make.

@@SlimXG the orin and house of grief fights gave me some trouble. Definitely interested into seeing how you navigated these(besides just tossing orin off).

@@jakeklaver5054 Won't really know until I get there and start testing ideas. Though I do try to include some already proven effective methods, so tossing her will probably get a mention hahah.

Afraid I don't have a trick to help with that . .

You don't actually need to play Hide and Seek with Oliver unless you want the ring that he gives. And even if you fight and defeat Mummy and Daddy during the game, they will still show up again, later, during the normal fight with Oliver. Thank you for the awesome watching!

That's just how it works. Its damage type on attacks is Force rather than Piercing.

I don't know if that's a compliment or an insult . .

@@SlimXGit’s a great compliment

@@keg8129 Oh, well, ok, then good! I'm glad I'm not a chore to listen to hahah.

Hmm, I've considered that, but I've also heard that mixing audiences from shorts and long form often doesn't go well.

​@SlimXG you could try to test it put and see how it goes. If it works it is exposure, if it doesn't you just go back to doing what you're doing already 😊

Hahah I originally planned to include an explanation of it in this video, but it was going on for too long, and in the end, it wasn't necessary to spare the Nightsong for free. But I still find it interesting, so I may make a separate video just about Nightsong Points.

Maybe I shoulda included a tip to start by killing Aylin before moving on to Ketheric >.>

I think there's a brain you're supposed to kill, somewhere. Try looking around for that.

@@SlimXG i’ll try that ahah