Sneaking in and out of Raphael's House of Hope just to use his bath is exactly the combination of hilarious and practical antics you'd expect from a DND party.
You might know this already, but if you know the location of the chest, all you need to do is use dig with a shovel on that area and you'll be able to dig up the chest. Even if your whole party fails the survival check.
In fact, when you’re running around and see that “failed nature check” or whatever, just look at the ground, pick the spot most likely to have a chest, and start digging around in the area.
I've been hesitant to point this out, but I'm finally finished with this playthrough so here goes. You want unlimited spell slots/sorc points? Get the Free Cast illithid power. It is supposed to work once per long rest, but unequipping/re-equipping a weapon resets it. You can free cast create spell slot for any slots up to fifth level, and also create sorcery points without spending any of those spell slots. It takes a little bit of setup, but it's a lot quicker than going one slot at a time with the shield.
Here I am on vacation in Mexico and taking breaks from the sun and sand in the shade beside the pool and I’m planning my build progress for two or three current playthroughs and considering characters for future runs 😂 Man, this game is great! Good vibes, Toy! 🤙🏼
@@SpartanAltair15 Yeah. I was hoping to see new things and most of them weren't. He does this with things and it's a little annoying. He even lied about the training sword being the only way to deal blunt sneak attack damage. Finesse does not actually matter to do sneak attack damage. it is not a condition for it and never has been in 5e. it only requires either advantage or an ally to be within a certain distance/flanking the target.
@@Quandry1 You may want to look up the Sneak Attack feature again. It absolutely requires a finesse or ranged weapon. You might be thinking of the fact that the attack does not have to be made with dexterity--i.e., if you make a strength attack with a rapier (and meet the other requirements), sneak attack will still work.
Foe the secret room you don't even need to split your team or sit on the chairs, simply put a vase on them. By one of the chairs there's a table with three vases.
I could use House of Hope's faucets even after stealing the hammer. After some of the fights on my way to leave the place, I keep returning to the faucets to heal and get my spell slots back.
Things I will never do. Pretty much anything involving killing a companion or making them unhappy. Or hurting Isobel, or Aylin. Let's face it, I regret losing two Harpers in the fight against the Undead under Moonrise Towers, and am planning to mine the area to blow up the cultists there the next time I play through that part of the game. Don't lobotomize Us either, I feel sad whenever I summon him.
"Here's a bag, good sir!" "Excellent, here is 3 gold in retu- what are you doing?" "Oh just putting your entire inventory into this one bag! For your convenience!" "That's... nice of you, but I don't-" "Just gonna drag this over here..." "Hey! All my stuff is gone! What happened?!" "I dunno! How strange. Gee, look at the time, I must be going. Silvanus be with you!" *sprints away*
You do not need to have played either of the previous Baldur’s Gate games, they are completely different from 3, and at most there’s just some references to the previous games. As a D&D player myself, there are some hiccups and issues I have with the game, but overall I can’t recommend the game enough, it got Game of the Year and nearly every other award for a very good reason. The game has multiplier and I highly recommend playing with friends. Btw, even if you don’t plan on using some Origin characters, recruit them anyway, as sometimes you just get free stuff or quests for having them around.
@@MayHugger awesome! Thank you I’ll strongly consider! I’m still skeptical only because I’m still on PS4 and would like to experience it in all its glory and wanted to make sure the game wasn’t overhyped, ya know?
Playing with friends is a good idea because it is good to observe your friend's reactions when he chooses a dialogue option and you will look at the consequences together. 😁
I’ve been playing D&D since it came out and this game is a dream come true! It’s not exactly 5e, it’s way better. If you can get it for PC, PS4 or GeForce Now please do so. You won’t be sorry.
Hey, @Toyhouze! I finished my first Honor Run using your Sorlock and Light Cleric builds yesterday. It took me 3 tries and 113 hours, but I did it! Thank you for your ideas, keep up the good work!
Arrow of many targets was my go-to for spreading statuses such bane and frightened. Its a good advantage to have.. coming from my rogue, who would more often than not, go first each round.
In act two in the mind flayer colony, you can also find a place that restores HP and spell slots: a blue-shining “pedestal”-ish thing, just before the Ketheric encounter
Hello. I've been watching your videos for quite some time, mostly shorts but there are many informative clips as well as quite good guides. Currently trying out warlock and palading builds from your videos on Wyll and Minthara. I haven't been able to find any video of you for Gloomstalker though. I see there are many out there on the YT but I would love to see one made by you. I'm sure it will cover some aspect and secrets others have missed. ATM in act 2 with my 2nd playthrough.
On console, i just have a bag in a bag, and the second bag has all my spell scrolls and gems. I sell that to them then i can open the bag and hard select it and "send" it to the second person in my party. You still have to buy the first pouch back for 1 gold, but meh.
Lol! I love yeeting Orin in the abyss skipping the entire Bhall encounter, sounds like something that would happen in real DnD game leaving the DM sitting there stunned that his perfectly crafted penultimate boss fight was just finished in one round when the Barbarian says, "I pick up the boss and throw her off the endless cliffs." Then rolls a 20 and succeeds.
I had the same problem with the bombs in act 2 throwing them when they were on the ground, but they weren't purchased from Quartermaster Talli, they were some left over I had from act 1. I believe it's a bug from act 2 itself, not from the seller
Also happened to me when throwing one of the explosives in the Gortash fight. Just exploded in my hand. And sometimes throwing a weapon damages the character throwing it as well. The game really hates throwing I guess.
if you have other sources... go ahead and feed it. the checks where you might need it and don't have access to the caster are few. Unless you are obsessed with using them with very long concentration spells. The amulet's biggest strength is for party combinations that don't have ready access or really need concentration for other things. Such as if you prefer your SH to be Paladin, or doing a solo run.
@@Quandry1 Well, I changed Shadowheart out of the party pretty regularly later on. I'd already done her story and romance in a previous play through so I replaced her with Bard Astarion for healing and support. Turns out he doesn't get Guidance. For more difficult checks it's also worth having the amulet even if you have a cleric, since they can cast Bless/Enhance Ability in conjunction with someone else casting Guidance
@@boianko I did say it was situational and depends on your party composition. That said. Bless and Guidance do not affect the same rolls. So stacking them is pointless. Enhance ability could be stacked but that is a leveled spell so there is a cost to doing so and should be saved for specific rolls, And may actually end up in a greater advantage than using guidance if you have to choose between one or the other. And it's use is also based on not having advantage from other sources on a roll as well, such as certain class based rolls, certain pieces of equipment affecting certain rolls or certain feats. So while they do stack it is another potentially highly situational spell with it's biggest advantage being that it's naturally available to more spell casters.
I doubt it took him 800 hours. He normally posts videos showing a batch of secrets, so rather than just post another one just called More Secrets or some such, he probably wanted to add to his cred by indicating that he's now logged over 800 hours in game.
Most of these should not be took 800 hour materials and are very basic if a little out of the way to do. and one of them is outright wrong. The training sword is not the only way to get bludgeoning sneak attack damage. Sneak Attack does not require finesse to function and never has in 5e. It only requires advantage on the attack roll or another party member/ally within a certain distance/flanking the target. If you meet one of these two conditions and hit with a bludgeoning weapon you will get bludgeoning sneak attack damage.
Any body part, even Gale's hand, can be used to open Balthazzar's secret room, although, thinking about it, why would he even need a secret room? Nobody in the towers would want to piss him off. You can open the room with the seats by placing objects like vases in the seats too.
Funny thing is, if you have a lvl 4 character with 2 lvls in each of druid (land) and warlock you can summon enough good-berries to get free long rests. Even a lvl 3 (1:2 druid:warlock) gives 8 casts so you only need 8 food as opposed to 40.
Dude I have 2k Exp on BG 3 now and all Achievements and still find little interactions/stuff I haven't found/noticed in all my playthroughs....it is what it is 😂😅
"The only item you'll miss out on is the Helldusk armor" Ah sure, just miss out on the best armor in the entire game with absolutely ridiculous stats. I mean sure, those free buffs are nice, but if we're being honest it's kind of redundant unless your party is underpowered for some reason. I usually just use Heroe's Feast and then regenerate the spell slot with an amulet, and longstrider is free anyway.
When you do that it charges you gold for the items, you probably had enough money to buy whatever you dragged. The trick is dragging it to the icon so that you get it all for free.
@@FrostyFyre I’m pretty sure I didn’t pay anything. I also took all of the vendor’s gold, too. Not saying it’s reliable, but I’m realizing in hindsight that it shouldn’t have worked.
You don't need the training sword if you do that. Just use any bludgeoning weapon and meet the actual requirements of sneak attack. which has nothing to do with finesse weapons. Also something to keep in mind for Grim, the Adamantine Golem. One good source is the club of hill giant strength. From that point literally any attack you make with a bludgeoning weapon in your main hand on a rogue that either has advantage or a party member/ally flanking/within a certain distance will trigger bludgeoning sneak attack damage. Feel free to test it out in all kinds of ways.
That Karlach's head trick makes me wonder .... Has anybody tried to see if Karlach's (or Nere's) head works with the Slack-Skinned Head at the end of Act 2?
no they dont, i followed them the entire way and they left through the mountain pass, and even if you dont follow them there is no sign of their corpse
Console players can repeatedly sell a PotB warlock's pact weapon by using multi-select to add it to wares. You have to also add at least one other item in order to do this. Then, just repeatedly sell wares until you get all the gold.
I found an even easier way to do the trader trick. Open the pouch in your inventory, drag everything you want into the sacks icon and you have the loot. But they accuse you of stealing so do it on traders that don’t care for inf money
the bag still works with one item, but it bugs the item and stills appear in the bag u give to the vendor, but if u close the interaction with the vendor after dragging the item to ur bag, the item will appear in ur bag, then just buy back the bag and thats it. Learned it while robbing just money from vendors.
Instead of doing that hoard breaker crap just go to level 11 of hunter ranger and get the volley attack. You can do an aoe against any number of foes with any bow. It counts as an attack for extra attack too, so you can do it twice
@Dk: On ps5 if you place a potion or elixer in the world you can press square to open the quick menu to make them drink it i tested it with an ice memphit, all elementals, all undead, and deva
@@mixelplix Are you using mods or something? It's not possible for it to work 100% for me and 0% for somebody else, unless somebody else is using mods.
"Playing the game as intended and the way 80% of the player base does it" is now "secret". If getting the most well known amulet in the game and understanding how to solve a very, very simple, is now secret, then everything is a secret. Soon the fact that druids grove excist is a secret in one of these videoes..
For the Toll House secret room. You do not need to have characters sit on them. Like traps you can place objects like all of the vases in the room onto the chairs and that will also work to open the door.
I always do the same thing, easier to drag the vases into the pressure plates on the chairs than ungroup, select 2 diff characters and sit them down, then accidentally teleport out after looting and forgetting to regroup them 😂
Firstly, some people may do this on their 3rd/4th run to get their build items easier and faster. Second, it's a single-player game. Let people play how they want and focus on your own playing. Gatekeeping how people play a solo game is pathetic.
