Mastering Act 1 as a Lonewolf Jack of all trades - Baldur's Gate 3 Tactician 

I love the "Astarian disapproves" popup when you are killing him lol.

If you intend on using a shield, you can actually make an Adamantine Shield at Grymforge with another mold. It gives enemies 2 turns of Reeling on a miss.

The ribcage full of candles in your backpack got me

To those who are unaware, you can get the jack of all trades achievement off of a hireling

So funny thing about survival checks for digging spots is that you can just USE the shovel from your inventory/hotbar. So it got to a point in me and my friends playthrough that whenever we failed a survival check we just used the shovel in the general area of the check and it just gives you the chest regardless. Edit: shoot just saw someone also mention the shovel thing. Either way the tidbit about using shovels whenever a survival check happens is still good

Pro tip for underdark stuff, Mage hand can trivialize rescuing the dwarf from the mushrooms and can be used to pull the lever and twist the lava wheel during the grymforge fight.

Out of all the people I've seen playing lonewolf, you are the only one recruiting all the companions and immediately killing them. Congratulations you psychopath.

For anybody going for the achievement. Go Paladin last. If you accidentally break your oath, that counts as "respeccing" (I believe it counts even if you don't officially become an Oathbreaker subclass)

13:00 Love the pannenkoek Scuttlebug Transportaiton reference, that deserves my sub

Helping the wifebeater with the noblestalk is WILD lmao

while your box-jutsu is mighty, you don't need to ever fight or toss gut if you aren't playing a race who resists magical sleep (like elves). Just go along with what gut wants and drink the potion. it may seem bad, but you'll get some unexpected aid that handles Gut and her ogre guard. I'm doing a pacifistic run atm myself, and this was a nice way to get another Tadpole easily!

you can disable the lasers at the selunite outpost by hitting the crystal in the main statue's (the one actually inside the outpost) staff with 1 damage

fun fact: You can dig up a spot even if you fail the check, just use your shovel somewhere vaguely near where it usually it and it will work

This is an amazing video dude! I learnt so much about how to strategize in different ways. I was a bit nervous to try out a tactician run but some methods here are so good! Great explanations too! Keep it up. Definitely looking forward to ACT 2

That is quite Abserd

If I didn’t know any better I’d say you and Lemon from the Backlogs were either twins or best friends because your delivery, voice, thoroughness in editing and presentation, and sense of humor is almost spot on. He does like rogue like challenge runs (dark souls, salt and sanctuary, etc)

Fun fact about the Grym fight. The wheel will turn if it takes damage. Meaning a well placed arrow will allow lava to flow, or even companions

9:56 fun fact: You don't actually have to detect the dig spot to dig it up, so if you know where a spot is and have a shovel if you just use the shovel where it should be you will still dig up the chest. Very nice for future playthroughs.

Dude I just found this video and your content is AMAZING! You're doing everything I've thought of and been like "hey, that would be fun"

love this idea, hope you continue the series!

Great video! It kept me from boredom while I'm very sick. Just so you know, since you're a human, you can let Gut kidnap you. Raphael will panic and send his minion to free you, killing Gut and her ogre. Your way was really clever too though :)

The cuts back to you in the bed while balthazar was fighting was KILLING me lmaoo

Not sure if this has been commented or not but whether or not you pass the check for dig spots you can use the shovel from your inventory to dig them!

I am shocked that nobody else has seemed to figure out that you can demolish Minthara and get her loot by standing on that platform with the two ladders near the bridge She and the nearby goblins can’t do anything but throw a few rocks and after that they hide beneath the platform and are completely free to AOE damage (I prefer to unwildshape Halsin and Call Lightning, but throwable grenades and arrows also work, just take even longer)

This should be a challenge! Bard Cleric Wizard Warlock Druid Sorcerer Paladin Ranger Monk Barbarian Fighter Rogue is sort of viable. You get a ton of good cantrips and 1st level spells, plus Wizard spells to something like level 3 from scrolls. Your gear, scrolls, and barrels fight the war for you.

Dude your videos are awesome, i have already watched all of your challenges back to back 3 or 4 times.

This video was so good! Hoping to see more from you soon And good luck on your run!

Crazy video, good job!

I'm glad I found this video, I didn't know how to muliclass without withers

Fun video! Good stuff!

20:59 i mean you COULD eat, but you could also save camp resources by doing partial rest

I saw this live, awesome!

Oh boy, this is gonna be good. Can't wait for the other parts.

Looking forward to part 2 in the shadow curaed lands!

really cool idea for a run. Should be interesting to see.

Yet another banger

Thanks for the content👌👌

Don't forget, if you fail your survival check you can just, you know. Dig with the shovel anyways!

I will subscribe, When you mentioned it, the subscribe button lit up and my neurons activated.

your videos are really enjoyable, keep up the good work

One easy way to fight the goblin priestess is have 3 nautiloid tanks in the far corner next to the door where her room is, have Minor Illusion cast so she'll go near them, then Fireball one of the tanks, she dies immediatly in the explosion. She survives if you only put 2, I tried it. Then you can just get the key and the parasite from her corpse.

Excited to see the journeys of SoJoT

someone made ABSURD best video

What's funny is I am doingthis on Honor mode, and your random wheel gave you the same starting classes I had been taking haha!!

"Now for a name... Oh! I know" Saw it coming from a mile away but still comedy gold

I love the caustic band

Good stuff

I like how you just ignore the fact that you have the blood suddenly.

5:20 I had to replay that part because I really thought you said "There's a lot of actors here besides the jews." I wasn't paying much attention and it caught me off guard for a second

Spidercave is toughest.. I unlock illithid powers and perilous stakes first. Cast that on bosses helps with quick 100-0 a lot. The one from the travelers, one from Netty and the easy route with Gut (drink the sleep potion and let the assassin handle her). Gives u 3 illithid powers before minthara and Drag boss and makes those fighst “easier without barrels or cheese”.

The sovereign fungus who travels with you in the underdark is considered friendly by those exploding mushrooms.

Pretty surprised you just threw Gut into a pit. Not only does she also have a parasite, she’s IMO the easiest one to fight.

The amount of tips people are giving you as if you wouldnt know about easily accessible routes and mechanics

ah yes going with the absered character route the ultimate lifeform

Just an fyi you can right click a shovel to dig up any spot so you dont need anything in survival👍

Everyone seems to miss the best ring in act 1. If you steal the idol after stopping the ritual but before killing the goblin leaders. you can give it to mol who then gives you a ring that gives +1 ac and i think +1 to saving throws. Just pass a check for the grove to not care about the theft.

Asking the real questions

My favourite part about the gnoll area was convincing the warlord and the pack to feast on the humans then for the warlord to feast on her own pack and eventually tear her own throat out shit was funny

what was that weapon at grymforge? did you get the blood before the grym?

Good video

You know there’s 2 mitigation deposits in grim forge? You can forge the armor and the great sword.

I love this insanity

Him pushing lae’zel off sent me 😂😂😂

I can't believe you made Abserd

I was hoping someone would do that

It's him, Bald Gate.

I went all out charisma for Jack of all Trades. Eldrich Blasted my way through it

13:14 - Chasm is pronounced like this: ka·zm. I had to look it up as I wasn't sure. Words that start with ch- are weird like that.

doing grymforge with lathander's blood before the mountain pass mmmmmmh

Solid tip, make a route... Some items in the game give extremely useful stats and it really helps getting those on a run like this...

A truly Abserd playthrough

where did you get the legendary mace from?

Better to use absolute warboard than adamantite shield?

Wait, since when do shopkeepers drop all their loot?

You dont actually need to succeed in the survival checks. You can just use the shovel in the approximate spot and it'll work

23:52 What is that blood of lathander doing there 👀- a little bit of sequence breaking? ö..ö

Bro is making Abserd.

26:00 you can avoid this combat by shooting the ore with a bow from far away and sneaking the whole way to the ore and back

what mods were you using during this playthrough?

Trader Jack Jack of Alltradia

Got the achievement myself but did it with a full party and on balanced, you're mad xD

I'd love to see someone do this in Honor Mode.

3:32, nah bro your not slick. I saw what you did.

do you have charmic dice on?

If you had picked shillelagh early you could've started with 8 strength and used your 16 wisdom for attack rolls

what was that armor on the thumbnail

This video is a great way to tell that tactician isnt hard engouh 😂

how do you see all the nearby items?

21:23 you could just break the moonstone up top and you cant be shot anymore

True JOAT? or are you using barrelmancy and cheese? I've put around 100 hours in JOAT solotact attempts without cheese, its better to get sorcerer or fighter online for the concentration proficiency. I've been attempting to beat the game deathless resetting every time I die. Patch 4 has made dual hand xbows worse. If you need help when it comes to act 2 without cheese, im your guy.

for the temple security just break the crystal

just casually steal's Astarion's under garments

This is Abserd

i got the jack of all traits as warlock by accident

i killed grym in my first run with a barbarian the other 3 where doing nothing (just taking damage) and now i see the 300 iq move

It hurts to see companions getting killed. I love them all too much >_

why not go with 10 dex and just use heavy armor? both cleric and ranger can give any class heavy armor proficiency with the right subclass. so unless you want the initiative bonus(not a bad reason to be honest), it would work better to min max charisma, and use eldritch blast or one of the spellcaster blades. also, would give higher bonus in conversation, and since you arent save scumming, that charisma mod, could be the diference between a nice talk, and a hard fight. as a side note, i feel like shilleilagh would be incredibly usefull at the start. you could basically dual wield 2 torches, and shilleilagh both, to turn them into 1d8 + 1d4 + wis mod. so with a 16 wis, you would be getting a 2x(5-15). and you dont even need neither dual wield, or 2 weapon fighting, since shilleilagh already forces the wis mod on the weapon it is cast, completely ignoring the need for either(specially since, torches are considered light weapons anyway).

You forgot phalar aluve in the underdark

I had no idea you couldn’t multiclass so many times😅

Bruh tf I had this idea for a playthrough and you did it