You and Your Questionable Intellect | Let's Play Baldur's Gate 3 Blind Part 2 

1:02:22 “let’s not open more then.” No don’t worry you could loot that bugbear and the rest of the goblins. They just care that you’re looting the corpses of their dead friends. You can tell what things and containers people will be mad at you by the color of the cursor. Red means crime. Gold means good and haven’t opened yet. White is find and have already opened or is an item in the world.

They got mad at you because you looted one of their own who got killed in the battle, haha

About the Camp Event Notifications mod, you can configure it to have only the small blue hand next to your character portrait instead of the big white exclamation point. I think it's better and way less intrusive like that, you have the instructions into the mod page if you want.

poor wellenz born to punch, forced to aim

MY SATISFACTION IS IMMESURABLE AND MY DAY IS SAVED

Instead of calling someone an idiot, I'll tell them they have a questionable intellect.

While the Alt key highlights the MOST important things, it doesn't highlight EVERYTHING. There is plenty of hidden interactibles or books and puzzle solutions hidden away by needing you to hover over with your mouse to notice them

Quick tip always pick up food and drink if it's not considered stealing. They go into your supply bag. You can then open your supply bag and select all the items and right-click send to camp. That way you can keep a decent handle on your weight.

'why do you not like wolves?' *Solas sweats*

Whenever you have Shadowheart, or another character who has the spell 'Guidance', when you roll a skill check you can select 'Add Bonus' from under the die to give yourself an additional 1d4 to the roll!

Right of the start before you get frustrated with Shadowheart missing everything, firebolt uses intelligence as main attribute, not wisdom like her cleric spells. It is a cantrip from her racial background and is extremely useful in setting things like surfaces and gunpowder barrels on fire, but don't try to use it to hit enemies

Some tips and advice: Tutorial messages should all still be viewable in the tutorial tab of the journal. An Opportunity Attack/Attack of Opportunity can occur when trying to leave a creatures melee range, so an enemy can make one against you if you try to walk away from them or vice versa. Opportunity Attacks require a creature to use their Reaction to make one. All creature can make a single reaction (baring certain status conditions or use of certain items) to take specific actions, typically outside of their turn, and regaining their reaction when they start their next turn. By default your party members take their reactions automatically at the first available opportunity, but you can change it so that the game asks before using a reaction in the reaction tab of the Spellbook window (I believe the default hotkey is 'K'). The mouse can be more useful than WASD to find paths or to tell is somewhere is reachable. You can send items to your camp chest at any point by selecting the option from the right-click menu. You can also use shift-click to select a group of items, or ctrl-click to select multiple items individually. The Traveller's chest is your only permanent storage, the other containers are mainly there for flavour. When making a roll in dialogue, you should make use of the "Add Bonus" option at the bottom. Especially with Shadowheart in your party, she has the Guidance spell which adds 1d4 to your roll and is a cantrip (meaning it can be cast an unlimited number of times). Something I find useful in combat is the option to highlight all creatures, giving them a coloured outline to make them easier to see and tell what side they are on. (I think the default key is the top left keyboard key that I can never remember the name of.) If you don't plan on using your Bonus Action on a turn, using your Jump (before you run out of movement to do so) usually allows you to go a little further than normal. Looting the body of one of the friendlies is considered stealing, but looting the goblins and other enemies are fine. You can tell when looting something is considered stealing as the object or creature should have a red outline and text when highlighted by left-alt. (I believe it's a darker red than the text used to denote enemies). Others in the comments is probably going to be saying this too, but it may be a good idea to go back and thoroughly explore the crash site area before moving into the Druid Grove and/or further on.

MY DAILY NOURISHMENT HAS ARRIVED. 😂😂😂😂

Loving the series but I gotta say, there’s a reason the game does not bind movement to wasd. There are portions of the game where it’s crucial to move your camera away from your character and explore. You‘ve been missing out quite a lot

A few (spoiler free obviously) tips: 1) Shadowheart has a cantrip called guidance, most clerics have them actually. They give you 1-4 on all checks, which is really good. Next you do a dice roll, look down and you'll see a "bonus" section. You'll be able to select guidance (and sometimes other things) from it. 2) Terrain type is super important - you can toss or shove people from high ground to make them take fall damage + lose high ground advantage, or set fire to ground covered in oil to set enemies (or yourself if you're not careful!) ablaze. 3) Small thing that didn't matter here, but I'd make sure to have people switch to their melee weapon if they have shields or if they're anywhere near melee range (namely shadowheart.) Shields give extra defense, so if anybody attacks them they get that bonus in defense (AC as it's called in dnd), and also lets your chars do attacks of opportunity which they won't be able to do if they have a ranged weapon in hand.. Switching weapons in the quickbar is free. 4) Direction of where you're facing doesn't matter for the purposes of attacks of opportunity, what provokes aoo's is if you get out of a melee fighter's melee range while you're in combat with them (there are some others but that usually comes later in the game). 5) Make sure to pay attention to the percentages of hit chances. Near the end of the goblin fight, you had a chance to hit with the crossbow for 45% chance to hit, while your firebolt had a 40% chance. There are reasons to choose the 40% option if the damage is significantly higher (expected value and all that), but in this situation you just needed to deal a tiny bit of damage to finish off the enemy, so you should have shot the gobbo with the crossbow.

Normally you can just click-to-move and your character's auto-pathing will find a place to climb up or down if one exists (if it doesn't or you can't, it will notify you) - I suspect your mod to use WASD is messing with that pathfinding AI, resulting in you having to manually climb or jump ledges. It's a recurring problem when modders try to "fix" games, but only change one thing, without considering how it impacts other game mechanics. You play how you want to, but keep in mind, that the game was designed for a point-and-click control-scheme, and WASD may significantly complicate your experience.

The pop up for dialogue in camp is tied to needing to rest to see more stuff, not just going to it unfortunately. You dont HAVE to use camp supplies every rest, you can just go to sleep for no benefits besides story interactions. I recommend doing that, but understand if you don't wanna, and just want to accept you will see some and miss others

"You should be a storyteller" Welonz After hearing Lae'zel's dramatic description of ceremorphosis. Indeed Lae'zel has a way with words. (That's why I was confident with my decision of re-speccing her to a good lore bard build after ALL THAT WENT DOWN if you know what I mean...)

"The goblins are intelligent? They're talking." In the immortal words of Qui-Gon Jinn...

I love Lae'Zel so much. One of my two favorite companions. And yeah you're totally right about the gameplay freedom thing terrain manipulation is very much a thing. There is TONS of depth and freedom for experimentation in this game.

Quick tip! Sometimes you can add some bonuses to your rolls depending on what abilities you and your companions have. For example, Shadowheart has the guidance cantrip, which adds a four sided die to any ability check, including stuff like persuasion!

Something about Shadowheart that is not obvious (applies to some other companions as well), her firebolt spell comes from her elven heritage and therefore uses intelligence as the spellcasting modifier, and intelligence is not Shadowhearts best stat. Her other spells (cleric spells) use wisdom, so you are almost always better off using something other than firebolt.

A tip for movement in combat; Often, jumping can let you move further than your regular movement allows. Especially if you're jumping from a more raised area, since you can go further. Jump distance is tied to Strength so characters like Laezel can move especially far. The downside is that jumping uses a bonus action. But if you just need to close the distance it's super useful.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who got confused by the "Storage Chest" in the camp lol. That's not the actual chest used for storage, it's just a random chest. Traveler's chest is the actual one that's used. Putting stuff in the one labeled "Storage Chest" can actually despawn.

You can take the loot from the goblins just fine. It was only a crime cause you tried to loot one of the good guys bodies. As long as youre cursor isnt red the action should be fine.

Looting things is only a problem when the icon turns red when you mouse over the body/container. Usually it's because you're stealing.

Something to maybe keep in mind: the heals you do with Shadowheart use up a spellslot every time. You can see the spellslots in her UI (they are filled out when you have them left, empty if you used them up). Using those spellslots for small heals instead of just short resting between battles to heal up will probably use up your ressources very fast since Shadowheart can't cast any spells then. Not really a big problem in the beginning, but it might be good to know for more difficult battles to come :)

1:02:04 "I opened a container and they got mad at me", says Welonz, digging through a freshly killed human corpse. Legit laughed at that. Very "Dark Urge" of you. Always press Alt before opening anything. If its highlighted red, you're gonna have to sneak to get it without possibly being penalized. Get noticed enough and you might be arrasted

Just like you hold Alt to see items, you can hold Shift to see cones of vision. If you are sneaking you can get through the cone of vision by passing a Stealth ability check (modifier is DEX +proficiency if you have it). The check's difficulty, aka DC, is the person's passive perception, which is 10+Wisdom modifier + proficiency if they have it

Also there is no modifier for having YOUR back turned. There is only distance, height if you are attacking ranged, and if you already have an enemy on melee range to you to worry with

The dialogue and dynamic between Shadowheart and Laezel in this game is incredible. The devs did an amazing job of creating realistic characters that dont necessarily agree or even like each other much while in the pursuit of a shared goal.

Item selection works like windows folders. Hold control to select multiple, hold shift to select all in the path from one item to the other

These are some controls and tips I found helpful: Spacebar will take all items from a chest, CTRL + Clicking an item will highlight it in the inventory, Shift + Clicking an item will highlight every item between an inventory item you have highlighted and the item you Shift + Clicked in case you want to move certain groups of items. Some spells can be cast ritually, meaning they don't consume spell slots. Common examples of these are Featherfall and Longstrider, Before a skill check some of your party members may have spells or cantrips (spells with 0 spell slot cost) that may make the check easier such as guidance. Using the hide action (C/Shift + C) will show enemy vision cones if you'd like to get up to nefarious acts.

Regarding Shadowheart, she's a cleric, which (super brief ) is like a tanky, healing mage. (They dropped the cleric class from dragon age and rolled up the abilities into mage specializations) They use Wisdom instead of Magic and can do heavier armor and weapons. Not unlike you had Wynne kitted out at the end of Origins with the arcane warrior/spirit healer. Shadowheart may seem mid at a lot of things at first but can be really valuable too. It's worth learning how to use her.

unique camp dialogues and scenes that need to trigger will only happen at night after you end the day :) visiting the camp during the day and just talking to companions in the daytime will give you the same dialogue you would get with them anywhere else in the world. this is why exclamation mark form the mod wasn't going away during the day

Lae'zel is prickly as hell, but she also really grew into possibly my favorite character in the entire game. It's hard to make a character whose so initially rude to you as likable or deeply characterized, but having stuck with Lae'zel for a while I can say; well worth it, amazing character. Ended up really loving my angry space frog lady xD

That combat is exactly why dash is very useful. You are very good with ranged damage, because Monks use DEX mostly, so your DEX bonus is higher than your strength's, but if you really want to get in quick to be able to do your action+bonus actions punches, it could be useful to not do an attack for a turn so you can move 60ft than 30ft on the next round

in the icewind dale 2 game there was a dead cat in one of the first locations. on my first playthrough i ended up carrying it in my inventory the whole game in case it cam come in handy. no, you don't need it even in the final battle.

I really hope you get to play D&D irl one day. I feel like you'd be awesome at it because of your voice acting and how you immerse yourself when you play games. 4:46 You can hold on to slave minds for extra dialogue in act 2. 7:40 Making up your backstory is part of the fun! I hope you think of a backstory for Wellens and share it with us. 30:45 If you find another way into the chapel and exit through the door at 33:40 you can actually get special dialogue with these guys. 34:14 If you ever feel like the dice rolls are taking too long you can press left click to skip it. 35:30 In another universe Materwelonz could have been Munselonz. 38:00 Drow are generally evil so it's not a surprise that they're afraid of you, and they are mainly seen on the surface world only when they're carrying out raids. Drow (and a few other races) live in an underground region called the Underdark. It's a dangerous place where almost everything is trying to kill you. Basically Australia. Down Underdark. Also, Lolth is a spider deity so drow are generally spider-themed.

When you are in a "melee" situation, be sure that your character who is better in close combat have his/her melee weapon at hands, even if you used ranged attack. His/her defense is better that way. One more tip, there are several type of spell. Some uses wisdom, some uses charisma and the most of them uses intelligence, you can see that when you move the cursor above it(INT,WIS,CHA). For example, SH is a cleric and she uses wisdom to cast, so she often miss her shot with firebolt, cause its an intelligence spell.

In my opinion, you should try playing with the usual control scheme without the AWSD. You'll lose a lot of map vision and tactical advantage, as well as general awareness (both in and out of battle) using this fixed angle. And also, DA:O was very influenced by BG 1 and 2

20:25 Some classes have spells that create water or sometime you can find bottles or crates of water ;3

Regarding that camp notification mod, honestly just resting often should mostly do the trick without it, especially if you don't want to drop everything and go rest whenever you get the notification anyway. But I don't mind the exclamation mark either!

Lae'zal is like a cactus, green and prickly, but if you care about it, it still hurts😆

“I’m not stupid! Don’t look at me like this😅😅” I died lol

The Travelers chest is really neat! If you rightclick on an item in your inventory and click "Send to camp" it will be send to the traveler chest. (A small tip if you cannot lockpick a chest: pick it up into your inventory like you did with the mindflayer body and "Send it camp" so someone who is really good at lockpicking can later grab it and open it.) Also you can only have up to 3 additional companions in your party. Once you go over that limit the other companions will stay at camp. When you click open the traveler chest with companions at camp you will get acces to those companions inventory.

I already absolutely love watching you play BG3. It's so nice to have someone take the time to read through the descriptions and the tutorial hints. This is gonna be a long ride but I'm so here for this. A quick word regarding your bonus actions in fights. This early on the characters don't have many interesting options to use for bonus actions so those tend to fall by the wayside. I'd recommend either checking if you have any useful items (i.e. health potions, tinctures, etc.) or using the bonus action at the beginning of your turn to jump and thereby gain a bit of additional distance. With the latter, you only have to keep in mind that jumping uses up movement but not nearly as much as you would by walking the same distance. I'm looking very much forward to seeing your drow battling and sweet-talking her way through Faerûn.

It may seem like a waste of a turn to just move, but for melee classes it's way better to rush into melee as soon as posible. Like, lae'zel is bad with ranged weapons but she's really good in melee, so it's better to get her in the thick of it sooner rather than later, same for your character too.

Red chest icon over a body means you are stealing, normal brown chest is ok

It's great following your process figuring stuff out in this game, and utterly hilarious seeing you do it all with a big exlamation bubble over your head 😂. So many better ways to alert you to a camp event trigger. I think this particular mod will not stand the test of time.

water can be obtained several way,, you find literally jugs and bottles of water out in the world, or one of your magey characters can learn a spell to create water. useful in washing acids from yourself and surfaces or dousing fire...

Ah, yes! Feed the children Welonz, feed us with more BG3 🤣 This game is all about exploration, no need to rush, explore the map at your own pace! And remember, you can always "partially rest" to see in-camp cutscenes etc. without consuming food.

You did very well at your first major combat! One thing from my side: make it a habit to always swap to melee weapons when ending your turn. That way you get a chance for opportunity attacks if the enemy is trying to move away from you.

Definitely be aware that moving the camera HIGH and away from your party to explore the environment from a bird's eye view is a normal, expected part of the gameplay, in and out of combat.

Oh and forgot to mention another thing. Since the entire game is technically "turn-based", even when you're in exploration mode, the time is ticking in turns. Each turn equals to about 6 seconds, so when you take a potion that lasts for 10 turns while exploring, it means potion will last for 60 seconds. You can enter turn-based mode at any time while exploring. This is extremely helpful for sneaking around in stealth mode or doing things like pickpocketing people since everything freezes in turn-based mode, but only around your party meaning an NPC can technically "walk in" on you in turn-based mode so that's something to be aware of. Turn-based mode in exploration is also helpful with some events like running away from an exploding barrel since everything takes turns - you characters, enemies and the world events. And yet another small tip, when you highlight items with ALT you can interact with them by clicking the highlighted name instead of searching the item to click on it. Red text in tooltips/icons means that it's a crime like stealing or looting a friendly corpse like you accidentally did at the end of the battle.

56:33 D'awww Welonz's first ever igmiss

Something you might want to know about Lae'zel and githyanki in general (no spoilers of course). Githyanki have lawful evil alignment and they are constantly at war. The strength of their army is determined by the weakest warrior, so they learn to be tough, even cruel. For them weak = dead, literally. Their youth often fight eachother to death to become part of society, to become worthy warriors. Actually, you're meeting Lae'zel when she is having worst day of her life. She was on her "rite of passage" (killing illithid is considered so), when she was captured and now she is turning into illithid herself. Even so, she wants to share with you information about the cure, and for her this is way more than "thanks" for your help. Behind all her toughness and pride you can see that she is actually terrified, but still wants to save you. This is pretty open-minded, considering her origin. Also good luck deciding who to romance, in this game it is impossible 🤣

When you are out of combat, it's better to short rest than using Shadowhearts spell slots to heal . Those spell slots are very valubale and very limited early game. With a short rest you will restore 50% of your hit points for each party member and refresh any actions that have a cooldown per short rest. If you have a Warlock in your party, they will also restore their spell slots. You can short rest twice between every long rest.

16:50 Clerics are like fighters with some magic abilities. They often have skills that help against undead. Every character type will have a lot more complexity than what you saw in the Dragon Age games.

Shadowheaert is actually great as ranged fighter.. she also has ranged spells and depending on what subclasses and builds you pick for her she can go other melee or range.. but she's not really dex or strength character so I prefer her as range,healer,buffer, controller... but this game is so open you can respec everyone and you can play everyone tones of different way, only your imagination is the limit so don't think there is a right or wrong way :)

I can't get over how much nicer they made Shadowheart since ppl complained about her being too mean to them in early access. she used to be even pricklier than Lae'zel lol.

Man this must be so confusing for someone who is completely new to D&D. I'm sure you are overwhelmed with the game and from all the advice you are getting but believe me you are doing great so far. I won't bore you with D&D mechanics advice, the only tip I will give you is: slow down, be curious, explore everywhere, talk to everyone and free yourself of the "it's a video game" mindset. Try to solve problems like you would do in real life. Roll with the punches and have fun.

giving shadowheart a bow is exactly like giving morigan a bow in origins. it is a great way to miss. a lot. she has a spell called sacred flame. she can use it without limit. just use that for range

A few tips more I didn't notice anyone else mentioning: If you haven't changed your keybinds: C to hide active character, Shift-C to hide the whole party. May not seem like much but it is really important. If during a dialog your only choice is "1. Continue", save your game and reload. For whatever reason the game was unable to load the choices correctly and it gives you this as a default, and selecting it might lead to unwanted scenes/events. I don't think this happens that often anymore but it can still happen. Saving and reloading fixes it.

The quintessential D&D experience: "Carrying a corpse because why not?"

See, because I played Hades II first before this game, I can't hear the narrator and NOT think that Hecate is commenting on visions of another world as a form of killing time (hehe), while Melinoë is throwing herself at Chronos again and again :P

Able to run, then jump then attack, then throw an unarmed strike. That's impressive turn efficiency.

Turn off Karmic Dice!!! You'll never look back.

Oh man, you're in for a ride. I have to say, for someone who doesn't have dnd experience, you're picking up pretty quickly for a game that is heavy on tactics. Just a quick combat tip: Lae'zel has a "Rush Attack" ability that gives her a little extra movement. It's not a Lae'zel exclusive ability, it's a "weapons action", meaning, if you have someone else equip a similar type of weapon, that ability will unlock for them, IF they're proficient with that type of weapon. Every weapon has at least one special thing to it. For your quarterstaff, it's the "topple" action. Topple makes an enemy prone. Prone enemies are easier to hit.

Thank you for playing it, I will definitely watch the full series.

Don't know if it was mentioned already, but when you struggle to select an enemy unit in combat, you can just click on its portrait in the action queue. In the same way you can click on the portraits of your allies or party members to perform an action on them. Ungrouping allows you to move characters independently, i.e. when you move one of them, the others don't automatically follow. Helps a lot during exploration (to avoid traps, for example) and is extremely useful for strategic positioning before important fights. Also, take your time to study the inventory menus - sorting and selection options on both sides of the search bar. Inventory management in this game is hell, and those options can be reeally useful. And lastly, no matter how many times your companions say that time is of essence, do not hurry. You can take as much time as you want and long rest as many times as you want, nothing horrible will happen. Very excited for your playthrough 😊 Like you, I was totally new to this genre when I started BG3 and my head hurt a lot during the first ten hours or so, but it was so worth it. Hope you have a lot of fun as well!

If it helps for the "back to camp" things, you can get by without the mod if you just routinely camp (and you will be forced to for healing). There's very few, not-that-important timed events that you can miss if you oversleep but generally going to camp frequently is a good idea

I don't know if Welonz knows, but the game fails to explain attack rolls. In BG3, attack rolls are like an ability check (a d20) that adds a modifier (depending on weapon, ability or spell) that challenges the enemies Armour Class or Defense Check to determine a hit or miss. Advantage (high ground, flanking, etc) is rolling two d20 dice and using the higher number, disadvantage is rolling two d20 and using the lower number.

No, we will yell for using crossbow with monk :)

I wouldn't worry too much about spell slots, I'd rather just rest often. Pay attention to it of course, but don't be afraid of using the spells. A common thing is for people to save spell slots so much they just end up not using spells at all.

Ha, "questionable" intellect implies that it exists! (I kid, I kid.) Already loving the Shadowheart thirst. She should get in a brood-off w/ Fenris!

Recommended to take rests a lot

I did this same mistake when I was playing for the first time. Usually we're conditioned to "save resources" even if that counts as resting in camp so we try to go as far as possible without, but in this game it's actually recommended to rest very often, especially because we miss events and interactions at camp if we don't.

Also recommend to zoom out a bit when you are exploring just to scout ahead a bit sometimes

Finally I can watch you play the game of the decade. I notice a lot mistakes or not knowing how to in the first and in this video but also see how you learn about things how it works. Probably this game will have a steep learning curve for someone who has never played DnD and Larian studio games but when you will learn more and more about game mechanics you will see how many solutions you can have in conversations/combat or just in game land traversal. I wanted to write a bit more about what and how to do things but then thought maybe it is better if you find things on your own.

The increased font is great I can definitely read more clearly on my phone lol ! Though I'm not vibing with the WASD mod at all, it really changes the way the game is meant to be played imo. It discourages you to use the cursor as much as you need to, especially since hovering the mouse over stuff is one of the most important things to do to get information on the environnement.

Spellcaster classes like Shadowheart's can change the spells they have equipped. Be sure to give it a look next session. Shield of Faith, Guiding Bolt and Bless are all REALLY good. Beware of Concentration spells, these are spells with continuous effects, and each person can only concentrate on ONE con spell at a time. Additionally getting hit makes you roll a CON saving throw that is harder the more damage you take. If you fail it... the spell instantly ends.bYou can check if a character is concentrating on something just under their character portrair, and you can cancel concentration yourself at any time (this is useful for damage areas of effects, only one type of wizard can make them NOT hurt your allies, so be careful not to get damaged by our own spells)

Waited all day yesterday

35:32 Alternate universe where watermelons are called 'sunmelons' and Materwelonz would be 'Munselonz'

when you roll a dice at the bottom beneath you can often add some bonuses to your roll. you can select one. these bonuses can come from gear and equipment, or your companion in your party that have some skill that buffs you, so always select a bonus before your roll if one is available

quick tip, back by the beach and the ship there is actually two more companions that you can pick up, I recommend getting them, even if you have to send them to camp

Spell slots have to be used modestly, because they need short or long rests to refill. Even non-magic classes have their versions of spell slots. A fighter has "Superiority Dice" that need a short rest to refill. A monk has "Ki points" that also recharge on a short rest.

You can check the effects you have all the time if you are under any just beside your character portrait in the leftmost belt-like UI. Stuff like stepping on certain surfaces like knee deep water or listening to the sound of the blown horn at the start of the fight at thw gates all give you buffs and debuffs you can check there. Sometimes, and especially for bosses, it is INTEGRAL to right click them and check their own abilities and buffs before taking the first turn, or you might find yourself looking at a game over screen QUICK.

Slave mind is great camp decorations, it glows pretty at night 🤣

Great video! Really hope you'll explore that area (around 22:00) later. There's something rather important waiting for you out there (no spoilers obviously)

"we can unlock the door, maybe we can find key?" 10sek before picked up lookpicking tools

if you take stuff from red containers its considered stealing, maybe look at container text color from now on

I recommend looking into inventory management mods. Specifically Bags, Bags, Bags.

I love watching you experimenting and learning the game. Regarding opening locked doors, if you right click on door, there should be option to lock pick it, if you have thief tool. I think you already pick one up. Ideally you want someone with high dexterity score and slight of hand proficiency to do lock picking. Regarding Shadowheart in combat, in the early levels of the game, one of the most useful thing she can do for you is cast spell "Bless" on rest of your team, which gives them bonus to hit chance. Bless is a concentration spell, which means if she takes damage, she might lose concentration and end spell effect. So best to keep her further back and use range attacks after casting Bless.

first bigger fight done.. you did well!! those Welonz and Laezell should charge in more while Shadowheart can stay more back :) can't wait for more!! :)

I am very here for my favourite youtuber learning D&D on the fly

Yeah, currently you have choose to either click to get places or constanty have to use Z to jump to places, because there are set locations your character has animation to climb over small ledges, which auto pathfinding would use

More BG3 let's gooooo!!

First 2 episodes and i'm already loving the playthrough. It's gonna be quite interesting seeing how you learn and interiorize the mechanics of the game. One tip if i may... you can break almost every door but you must exmine them first to learn about the "sturdy" condition they have and what resistances/vulnerabilities they (apply to enemies too). Btw, resistance and vulnerabilities are listed together, under the vulnerabilities tab and people tend to glance instead of read and assume ALL are resistances

Congratulations on not losing Lae'Zel - turns out that if she's still in a cage and you walk too far (which isn't very far at all!), she'll despawn and the quest will mark as a failure, and that's that. I also hadn't noticed that the bottom of the cage was shootable, and went looking for a way to get up to the rope holding the cage, and mission failed. BG3 is unfortunately full to the brim with frustrating details like that. Also congratulations on handling the goblin attack at the gate so well, I know a lot of people who had huge trouble with that fight!