Secrets I Learned After 1000 Hours In Baldurs Gate 3 

Some clarifications and new stuff you guys commented: Meli was arguably lying to get the locket, many have pointed this out and tbh that may be true, so Minthara fans can eat good. There is infact another Katana available which is behind the Djinn in the Circus, not just Galbraiths Home You can also revive the Matriarch Spider (just like the bulette and the minotaur) IF you push her down. Forgot to add the description on how to get Wulbren, which is through siding with him against the Gondians. Dont need to go completely naked to get the +4 bonus for Abdiraks ritual, only torso armor. You dont actually have to kill the owlbear for one of the components, just leave and wait for the goblins to do it. I am currently working on a continuation of the series plus another funny playthrough, so be sure to subscribe!

Fun fact about Arabella’s parents poisoning Kagha. She only apologizes if they’re actually about to kill her. If you intervene and stop Komira from killing her she does NOT say she’s sorry and gloats

In my 200 hours I’ve learned that if it says 99% with 5+ advantages highlighted you will still miss

If you go and talk to Barth after he tells the kid to keep the amulet, you find out that he originally got the amulet from HIS mother, and he thinks she’d be happy that the kid has it now.

Aradin's lackey being more compassionate than him was a surprise.

I have 580+ hours in BG3 and when I saw your "39/54" achievements I felt so validated THANK YOU! I'M NOT ALONE!.

Extra fact about Meli, the kid who stole the locket: If you return to the Grove after the Tieflings have left you can find it in a box in the kid's hideout. It seems he left it behind.

his may be known to people who played DOS2, but if you find yourself failing survival checks, you can simply keep a shovel on your hotbar to dig and find the buried chest regardless

You can also revive the phase spider matriarch if you push her down the hole to the underdark.

You can also give the poisoned gnome an antidote, health potion or poison resistance poison and you don't have to kill the owlbear mother for the spear, she'll be killed by goblins no matter what. You do have to trigger the encounter and visit goblin camp though. Anyway damn, I had no idea you can have Ethel be your ally in the final fight, jesus.

Stripping for Abdirak’s ritual and the Amulet of Silvanus were the ones that really surprised me. Most others I had seen in one form or another before.

If you let Volo try to remove the Tadpile, stick with it all the way. You lose an eye, but he gives you a new one that gives you "See Invisibile"

Always remember to keep Disguise Self handy if you want to use Speak With Dead on a creature you killed! Also, you can use Speak With Dead to talk to Yurgir's bed of corpses in the Gauntlet of Shar.

At the Last Light Inn, there is a log book that lists Boo and companion as former guests. Somewhere in act 3, I found a book that detailed the beginning of Dribbles the clown. I didn't get Rolan at the wizard tower until my 3rd play through. I am at 1098 hrs into the game.

Some things: If you become an Unholy Assassin as the Dark Urge, Sarevok will tell you to come back and talk to him, after you fight Orin. If you do, he'll fight you to the death. Gauntlet Yeva shows up again in the Mind Flayer Colony, in Act 2. She's in trapped in one of the pods along with Zevlor, if he survived to that point. There is another katana in the game, but, if you try to loot it, or any of the other items on the Djinn's prize shelves, whoever tries to pick them up will remark that everything there is absolutely worthless. My neat thing that I've only done once is, if you get the Gith egg from the Creche in Act 1 and keep it until the end of the game, and are in a relationship with Lae'zel, AND she survives into the Epilogue, she'll comment that the egg has hatched into a Gith boy. This means that you can, more or less, have a child with Lae'zel.

6:00 Annnnd this is why Rapheal is a GOAT of a villian. God I love Rapheal. I never cared for villains but boy this guy this guy is such a great character.

One of my favorite secrets is the fact that you can kill the last dark justiciar in the gauntlet of shar before meeting yugir to completely skip the encounter and have access to a secret vendor. Yugir even helps you find the devils fee and automatically helps on the Raphael fight

During the locket incident, you get a cool unique dialogue if you manage to pickpocket the kid before speaking to them.

Got this one in my recent playthrough: if you save the zen duo from the gnolls as a rogue, you get a dialouge option where you can convince them to sell the shipment themselves and report it missing. When you go to the hideout they welcome you with open arms. Going down it turns out they caught the duo trying to backstab them with the youngest already dead and the other beaten to a pulp tied to a chair. You get "asked" to slit his throath and deliver the package in his stead. Welcome to the family!

There are some very fun wild magic interactions with characters like the hag and some conversations with Gale. Speaking of Gale if you bring him with you to see Tara she’ll give him a blink ring and Gale will tell her to stop eating the pigeons to solve the mini-quest without a roll.

Booal fish people in underdark is my favorite.

A small detail I found really intresting and sad...the tiefling Ellyka you find before the githyanki patrol can be found later in the game, in one of the prisons at the entrance hall of the Githyanki Creché. Dead. She never avoided them after all.

If you side with the tiefling kid and get Barth upset, you can steal the locket from Mols stash and get a quest to return to him

In act 3 there is a poor cabbage merchant with an overturned cart in the city. If you approach as a monk you get some fun ATLA references.

what I found interesting is that if you put an elixir of Arcane Cultivation inside Nere's body and bring it to the underdark then you can resurrect him with Sovereign Gut and use his unique abilities. I think the same thing could be done to any boss in act 1-2

"You have to kill the owlbear mother, which you shouldn't" damn I've done 3 playthroughs so far and killed her in every one🤣

6:06 this is evidence of him preparing his song in the house of hope XD

*Kagha being poisoned, then casting protection from poison* "oh no, anyway, Moonbeam"

On the topic of curing NPC ailments, you can remove Pandirna's paralysis (the Tiefling sitting on the floor of the storage building in Emerald Grove).

I am gulity of not knowing any of these, thankfully this video exists to help me out. So cool, thanks for another banger of a video. Much love from me (and I'm sure from the rest of your community)!

10:30 You can also later find her dead body in Githyanki creche prison, so yeah she couldn't handle herself.

omg how cool is it that you can disguise yourself as a gith and the npc reacts to that?! I love it! There are some hidden details in the game, it's wonderful!!

Okay. There were a few new ones for me. But most are like....not even obscure.... Hell, the dialog with the poisoned gnome literally prompts you to give her an antidote if you have one on hand...

I knew the first one, halfing one, and glut. Very interesting to learn all the other ones. It's amazing how many things can happen in this game.

2:15 Sarevok Anchev’s voice sounds like one of those epic voiceovers for movie trailers (or at least I feel like I’ve heard it somewhere before)

Raphael practicing his monologue made me giggle

You don't have to kill the owlbear mother the goblins will anyway and the cub will be at the goblins camp. Walk back and loot the spear tip from the corpse

My first play through I didn’t even know how to summon allies. Did over an hour long fight in Baldurs gate, before even getting to the brain

You don't have to kill the owlbear mother for the spear component at all. Just have the peaceful dialogue in order to leave, rest, come back later. You'll find that the goblins have killed the owlbear and you can just loot the spear off of her, and the egg in the nest. This route also lets you achieve the owlbear cub from the goblin camp.

If u revive priestess gut with soverign glut at the underdark, she can cast armour of protection on all party members that gives +2 AC for free (until long rest), and her version of the spell doesnt even require concentration! Great buff for act I if u ask me. Im currently sitting on 725 + hrs on gameplay time

didn´t know about the revenge plot on khaga and the gith disguise. as for aradin´s companion. the kid runs away laughing, so i think that sob story was just made up to keep the amulet.

The kid and the locket scene made me cry. It's just so genuine. Thank you for the video!

You don't have to kill Owlbear mother. Goblins will kill her and will take a cub with them in their camp. You can save him from there and get a camp follower and later an ally in the fight against Absolute. You can visit a cave later and get a second half of a spear from her body. The cub in the camp will become a good friend with Scratch. 😊

You can go turn-based while the kid is running away and pick his pocket, if you can get hidden. Then you'll have an extra dialogue option because he really doesn't have the locket.

Ive never seen that scene with the kid and the locket ! I always defend him on the spot, that's really good to know !

Great video! Seeing Raphael rehearsing is hilarious! I found at 8:15 you don't personally need to kill the owlbear mother. If you go to her, get close to her, then prevent her from attacking you, you'll still find the owlbear cub at the goblin camp. If you return to the cave you'll find the owlbear mother was killed by a goblin hunting party and can loot the spear half from her body

There are a few good pickpocket interactions too. For example, if you pickpocket the amulet from Keli and talk to Barth, you have the option to hand it back to him, in which Keli complements you on your skill, then walks away after taunting Barth. There's a similar dialog with Mattis if you pickpocket his "magic ring" before talking to him, then claim responsibility for its disappearance. If you pickpocket the Runepowder Vial off Philomeen, she'll turn hostile when she reaches for it to try to hand over to you. However, there is an exit point for the conversation before this happens. This can allow you to obtain both the Runepowder Barrel and Vial (pickpocket the Vial first before taking the Barrel, the Barrel immediately triggers dialog) while leaving Philomeen alive and the game thinking she still has the Vial.

Found during (another) durge run: if you kill any Druid after talking to Kagha, she uhh- takes matters into her own hands about the teiflings. You get a special dialogue scene from Karlack and Minthara when you meet them

When I played as a vengence paladin I failed to save Arabella and then when the parents wanted to poison Kadga on my party I stopped them and I broke my oath of vengence XD

You don’t actually have to kill the owlbear mother, you can long rest after encountering her and goblins will have killed her (leaving the spear head on her body) and taken her cub back to their camp.

15 playthroughs, over 900 hrs in BG3 - I had no idea this could happen to Kagha

I’m about to hit 1000 hours in BG3 myself and I’m a very thorough player (hence the 1000 hours) so I wasn’t expecting to hear anything new, but I was pleasantly surprised how wrong I was! Thanks for so many new tips I can incorporate in future runs! This was excellent!

Didn't know a lot of these but they are all super useful. Thank you

You can misty step in the myicnide cave/reward area and steel the stuff in there. Also you can kill everone in moonrise (exept for the pilgrems and the merchaints) by use the sword shreek to push people out side or in the main hall and kill them. Also greater invisablity is hands down the best way to take down bosses. So aslong you have andvantage and a based stealth profeicesy with pass with out a trace. Like my durge thief shado monk with pass with out trace had 23 to stealth checks.

I was playing as a dwergar and found out that the petrificated dwarf in Ethel's house thought that he got a disease that would make him a dwergar. If you play any other race, the name of disease will tell you nothing, but not to my dwergar Tav. And the dwarf was a little bit ashamed after the conversation.

2:49 You get the same dialogue if you're a dwarf for the same reason

If you pick up one of the clubs off the ground from the Moonrise tower prison docks where you save the prisoners, you can reverse pickpocket Duke Ravenguard to get his unique long sword as the club auto equips itself when you put it in anyone’s inventory. I was even able to do this as of yesterday (03-15-24) on Honour mode patch 6…. Used Greater Invis and some buffs. I would not suggest trying this while controlling Wyll as if you fail and get caught you lose the Duke and Wyll and Mizora will also leave if she is in your camp. The Duke and Mizora will also leave notes for you on the ground where they were standing in camp.

I am kinda proud of myself that I caught about 1/3 of this in my first playthrough

You can mistake the Halfling for a dwarf as any race though the dialogue is slightly different

There's nother place that you can find a katana, just by the Djinn in Act 3 in the circus area.

funny enough - I ended up doing a lot of these on my first run on accident, but completely missed very large chunks of things like the actual forge and guardian at grymforge.. lol

I knew like 90% honestly. Except for the Katana, Amulet of Sylvanus and assassin one

I just finished my 5th play through. This is the first time I discovered the chest of grateful words at the reunion.

thing is with the guy, the locket and the tifling it may be less sweet to some once you learn the backstory of the locket from the man himself. He got it from his mother yes, but his mother also stole it from the house she was working as a maid for. So funny in a way the locket that was stole by his mother was stolen from him in return. XD

You can also resurrect the phase spider queen with glut, if you push it down the big hole during the boss fight.

It took me 3 runs to realize Florick appears again in Act 3. I somehow missed her completely on my first run (even in Act 1) and just never came across her Act 3 quest in my second run lmao

There are some other, interesting revive candidates with Glut. Harpy, Priestess Gut, Dror Ragzlin, and many more

You dont need to kill the owlbear mother, goblins will kill her after you visit the goblin camp and you can just loot it off of her body

8:18 you don’t have to kill the owlbear mother by the way, sad as it is, if you come back after some time, goblins will have already done it. On the plus side, you can rescue the cub, get a baby owl bear as a companion/pet and then seek righteous vengeance in the form of mass goblin genocide~

At the tiefling party after killing the goblin leaders Korilla may make an appearance in the grass near Wyll, but I think you have to be in stealth for her to appear

One more thing, you can resurrect the spider queen with Glut: you have to throw her in the abyss with thunderwave in act 1

If you shove the phase spider matriarch into the pit during the bossfight you can find its carcass in the underdark AND revive it with Glut

You only need to remove chest armor to get ardent follower buff and Glut can always be added to your party until you kill the myconid boss thing. So you can kill the druegar at the beach and he won't leave the party and if you leave the area just talk to him in the myconid colony to add him to party again.

I believe there's a second katana at the circus djinn behind him as a stealable item (if folks want to dual wield)

Knew: dog collar and meat, Arabella's parents' revenge, ways to save the poisoned deep gnome, the two craftable weapons, Amulet of Sylvanus, Sovereign Glut's underdark rampage (and in fact I have an addition here - if you kill the Phase Spider Matriarch by shoving her in the pit, her body can be found in the Underdark and Sovereign Glut can resurrect THAT and really wreck the underdark) Didn't know: full range of final battle allies, halfling unique dialogue, full scope of interactions between Meli and Barth, Gerringothe's unique animation, Astarion's Grimishka reactions, Rafael's practice, Ardent Apostle buff, the katana, the Woundseeker, the Bonespike Gloves, gith disguise unique intaraction Nice vid!

Theres also a Katana behind the Djinni

I got the touching reaction. And knew about the fungus guy from other vids. The rest was all new to me.

You can throw the Spider-Mom in the Underdark and resurrect it with Gludd as well.

You can find a Bottle of Doni try to write his parents in the Underdark near BOOOAAL

If you push Gerringothe Thorm out the window she'll completely disrobe making her 1 easier to kill, 2 lead me to believe the skulls have a certain range (might be fun with certain hold spells or sussur blooms).

You don't have to kill the owlbear. Just go to the goblin camp and the cub will be there, and then go back to the cave and the mother will be dead.

I knew about the one of the little tiefling kid pocketing the locket, but I ended up telling the guy to shut up and stop threatening a kid so I didn't see the really good one.

8:10 You do not have to kill the Owbear mother to get the other spear component. You can enter the cave and resolve the encounter with her peacefully by succeeding at the dialogue checks. After you leave the cave and take your next long rest, return to the cave and you'll find the mother slain by the goblins and the cub taken to the goblin camp. You can retrieve the other piece of the spear from her corpse. You can still acquire the owlbear cub by engaging in the dialogue to rescue it from the goblins.

In the underdark , if you knocked the spider down, you can resurrect it too! Its pretty good lol

almost all were new to me, cool vid!

8:09 you don’t have to kill the owlbear. If you visit and pass the checks to leave peacefully, you can come back after a couple long rests to find that the goblins have killed her. You can then make sure you guarantee getting the owlbear cub by intimidating the goblins in the camp to give him to you.

I only knew a few of those, most I did not know. Thanks.

Yeah good vid bro. Fun watch.

You don't have to kill the owlbear yourself you can let the goblins do it. once you've been to thier camp you can go back to the cave and loot the now dead owlbear.

Great list, thanks.

I'm just behind you at 930+ hours, have 51/54 achievements, and am weak in the knees for Astarion. I didnt know about that necklace. Thank you 🙏😆

You can get the Vision of the Absolute without killing the Owlbear. Enter the cave, talk/interact your way out of the encounter, exit the cave, long rest, reenter the cave: the owlbear will be dead, killed by Goblins. The state of the Goblin encampment is irrelevant to this development.

I'm pretty certain there is a katana just chilling on a shelf behind akabi, the genie at the circus.

Another way to save the deep gnome in the miconid colony is to buy the Herbalist's Gloves Sold by Derryth Bonecloak in the colony and cast any healing spell

5:00 you will find out the kid lied if you get into the cave where the Tiefling kids are.

WooT didn't know about the collar and button in arcane tower. You can also save the deep gnome with a antitoxin.

If you tell the Absolute Cultist siblings in Act 1 to avenge their brother, the Owlbear will aggro in the cave. But if you use minor illusion to lure them far away enough from the owlbear mother, you can salvage getting the owlbear cub. Just long rest in the cave immediately after taking care of the siblings

How exactly do you recruit sarevok? On my honour mode I did the assassin of bhaal as durge, got the 1v1 against orin and sarevok told me to return. When I did, there was seemingly no way to talk him down from attacking you.

you don't have to kill the owlbear mother. if you leave her, then go to the goblin camp (where our owlbear cub is), then go back, the piece is there on her body (the goblins killed her).

I intentionally played a really weird Dark Urge choice path so I did actually see a lot of these my first run surprisingly ;)