Today we take a look at many of the Easily Missed features in Baldur's Gate 3. We highlight some lesser known mechanics for a video full of great early game tips and tricks. If you learned anything new or want to share some of your own be sure to let me know in the comments! I read them all.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:16 Shapeshift / Mask of the Shapeshifter
1:38 Hirelings
2:53 Item Management Tips
4:37 Dialogue Tips
5:52 Manipulating Objects in the World
6:45 "Stat Stick" Weapons/Shields
7:33 Reactions
8:21 Quick Tip Section
9:36 Exploits - But Fun!
10:10 End of Video
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@@Isnogood12 Oh thanks! I must have missed it
DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DO YOU ARE NOT MY MOM.
I want to add a big tip on the list of tips that you have. Use bedrolls (folded ones) to create walls. It's only 3 pounds and completely block walk. While the big boxes are good for stopping jumps and give you more accuracy on range.
@@SloulDesTucs those ones we can pick up in our camp?? Holy shit that’s awesome
It took me too long to realize that you can throw bottles of water at enemies to give lightning spells a damage boost.
bro.. ur so smart
@@hyupoi5285 It also works with the Create Water spell if you have AOE lightning spells.
Throw using skill throw or just drag on the ground directly from the bag?
Shit man.. i just sold like 20 💀
U can throw alcohol to make then drunk
Quick tip : send your food to the camp regularly, even if the game tells you that you don't have enough for a long rest, they still appear in the long rest menu. It allows you to save a lot of space in your bag
Thank you!
You can even send the camp supplies bag from a companion to Camp and all the food will go in it.
Heh, I am immune to this since I don't read
THANK YOU
@@oxide7 Yes but idk about you it often glitches for me, a lot of food doesn't get in the bag in the chest. It still gets in the chest though.
You can add explosives to a backpack or pouch or similar, use invisibility to drop it at the feet of a tough enemy, then attack the pouch to break it and fire to detonate the explosives. Creates a nuke that destroys most things. I used it to kill a 400hp boss in one hit
Smart! I tried to do this in using a crate and my crate deleted all the items, but I didn't try a backpack Ill try that next time!
The way I do this is gaseous form -> go to camp -> shift click as much smokepowder/runepowder/oil/firewine etc as I need, add to inventory -> shift click drop next to boss (e.g. Ketheric Thorm), if you want you can even blow it all up by punching with the gaseous form'd individual though they will die lmao
Just use a backpack and throw it beside your target (mage hand works too), the backpack will break and then shoot a fire arrow or use a catnip to blow everything up.
@@JAP1994catnip is God. Meow
@@gilgamesh1973 Always use catnip, it always hits the spot 😎
I really appreciate that you are not just baiting clicks and actually present interesting tips and tricks. I always learn something new, which is awesome! Please keep them coming
Absolutely! I am having a lot of fun sharing all the stuff I have been doing.
@@ProxyGateTacticianI have one for you you might know or might not know: Scratch, the dog, is actually extremely useful in combat as he can lick your downed characters back to health, allowing you to save actions on your other characters' turn and almost having a 5th party member! Yes, the best boy in Faerûn is not just good at finding treasures and secrets (and being adorable). 😊
So refreshing
Keep a few candles in your inventory. If you put down a candle and light it, you can dip your weapon in it for extra fire damage.
this is what noobs do. real fighters dip their weapon in 'themselves' while they are on fire.
@ArthurNight not sure why but that made me bust up laughing for a minute
ah a true gentleman ha HA!@@ArthurNight
Damn I kept selling mine off 😂😂😂
I prefer torches. If you prep them by pulling out a torch then switching to normal weapon, you can drop them to the ground already lit and dip in them.
One more tip for the doors: Arcane lock is actually OP early game. It seems like a useless spell, but splitting an enemy group and completely locking out a part of them is so strong. And because of the sturdy effect they negate damage below 10. Meaning early game it will sometimes keep enemies out for 5+ rounds. One level 2 spell, stunning multiple eenemies for 5 rounds is strong.
It's solid for sure, but usually the AI is so bad they get stuck on doors that are unlocked too hahaha
I love how many fun mechanics this game has. I definitely see myself playing this game for years to come.
Same (already played early access for years lol)
They will surely add some great DLC's, so many hinted at enemies which you don't end up encountering.
the fact that you can interrupt a scripted npc death dialogue and the game doesn't crash but changes courses instead, that just blows my mind
I didnt know this for a while: You can right click "open" chests, that are within chests. So you can have a bunch of chests/lockboxes/barrels within your main camp chest with sorted categories like: Food, Armor, Weapons, Jewellery, might-be-useful-later etc.
Except you gave to manually put things in those. Can't just "send to camp" and have it know where it goes.
Wish we could label bags or even an open all option so that all the bags open when you open the camp chest.
Tip/exploit : you can separate one member of your team to initiate combat which locks enemies in turn mode while the rest of your team is free to sneak and land free attacks on them (as they wont be entering combat until spotted) extra points for entering combat with the bard and "perform" while the rest of your team ambushes the enemies (for the sake of RP)
My personal tip is to exploit the use of non-lethal attacks for various benefits. For instance, if you have Gloves of the Growling Underdog, you get advantage as long as you are surrounded by two or more foes. If you don't technically kill your enemies, you can continue to enjoy advantage on every attack. You can also "pop" them as temp HP pinatas with Wyll, keep temporarily hostile characters alive for the next act in the game while still getting XP for their defeat, etc. Just be aware that some enemies don't drop their full loot unless properly killed, and you can't enjoy the effect of Elixir of Bloodlust either.
That’s cool to know about those gloves working like that. The items in this game are so fun. Magic missiles with lightning charges are a blast too lol
@@ProxyGateTacticianso this is why my Gale was deleting ppl with magic missile in my campaing 😅
I just like to kill them after knocking them out for the nice double exp
The dude on the right at 8:06 looks weirdly like shaggy from Scooby doo
okay, but can you put the knocked out enemies in a backpack?
The best thing about the shift-click move is that you can select everything and drag it to the camp supplies bag, and only those items (supplies) that should move to it, will move. Same thing with the alchemy bag. It's awesome.
That's clever. I always just filtered them out and then dragged them in, but that method saves time. Stealing this, thanjs for the tip :)
That's actually pretty good. Does it work for keys too? A lot of keys don't default to the keyring for some reason
My shift drag doesn't work. How can I remedy this? Is there a function in the menu? I can't find it ;-;
Yes, I've done it and it works just fine for keys too@@ProxyGateTactician
@@roelofrooks3070 Not sure if you figured it out, but it's not Shift-Drag. You hold Shift, click on the first item you want to select, then (still holding Shift) click on the last item you want to select. Hope this helps.
It's so interesting how this game managed to not only capture the utter BS party members in a 5E table game do, but make them super-useful features and then stack more, similar BS-features that work only in the video game format. The cheese and tactics and manipulation of mechanics is so fucking cool to me, opens up so much fun factor and variety
Im enjoying discovering these things as I play for sure. It feels so rewarding when you try something that you think is interesting and it actually works
This is a weird comparison, but I sometimes feel like I'm playing Hitman simply because of how creative, outside of combat, the approach to an encounter can be
@@elmhurstenglish5938 I respec'd Astarion into agent 47. Start with 17 strength, 14 dexterity. Expertise in Athletics. Moderately armoured at level 4, increasing strength to 18. At this point the build is done, but I also went for 20 strength at level 8. Sure, he's "bad" at stealth in medium armour & shield, but ... I'd often go turn based mode, main action dash, bonus action dash (or if magically buffed, jump), to completely sneak around the entire vision cone, then bonus action shove someone off a cliff. Nobody is going to get alerted by bodies, if they're all at the bottom of a chasm.
I hate that part about the game. Cheesing encounters is no fun. No potions, no physics, no consumables at all, is the only legit way to play imo.
Legitimately one of the best tips videos I've seen. After 100 hours (and still in Act 2 of my first playthrough!) I only knew, like, three of these. Thank you!
I’d recommend my other 2 tips videos too then if you learned a lot out of this one
I'm glad I'm not the only one at 100h and just getting to the end of act 2 (I think)
Lots of hours here and not even in Act 2. I keep getting irritated with my character or joining others games. Clocking the hours on the damn intro ship. It's a blast though.
Larian decades ahead of Blizzard. The shift+click, ctrl+click and search bar is everything players have been asking for Diablo IV yet the devs say "it's too hard to implement". I really hope Baldur's Gate III wins Game of the Year and set up a new standard for what AAA games should strive for, even with all the "controversies" of lazy game devs saying this game is an "anomaly".
Feaatures that were added and they didn't even mention it lol it wasn't an Early Access feature so they should have highlighted it as a major thing in their streams
What baffles me is that search and sort can be implemented if the base groundwork of inventory is done with that in mind from the beginning. It just shows that Blizzard doesn't have a gamer mind to actually think those things beforehand.
A new standard for what AAA games should strive for? You mean unplayably shit optimization? Someone hasn't reached act 3 yet.
“It’s too hard to implement” literally been a basic windows feature for decades 💀
@@drvofoka7033 sounds like you need a new computer.
One big tip for loot hoarders and barrelmancy is the chest in the arcane tower that hides things inside with magic. It will transform any item placed in it into things like a cup or cutlery. This also transforms the weight into whatever item you put inside into that of a piece of cutlery, plate or cup. It'll transform back into what it was before when you take it back out. The chest weighs 20 but everything inside transforms into like 0.1 weight on average. Putting a single 22 weight explosive barrel into it already saves you on weight. Unfortunately it does not work with corpses but it seems everything else is fair game. I had dozens of barrels in mine and always put looted weapons and armor into it for selling so I wouldn't encumber before reaching the trader. You can also put a container inside this chest and it'll transform into something like a fork... that can still function as a container. This means I can throw a fork with a lot of forks and cups inside at an enemy, and it'll transform back into a 200 weight box while in mid-air carrying explosive barrels. This unfortunately does not seem to do crushing damage through the weight but it does do 4 falling/throwing damage to the container breaking it open and spawning the 10 or so barrels stacked inside eachother at the landing area. Toss a match at it and grab some popcorn. You can also exploit the hirelings and un-used camp partymembers to become Transmutation wizards at level 6 and spawning permanent stones that give nice buffs just by sitting in your inventory. Pass around some Constitution proficiency or movement. Maybe elemental Resistance if you're lacking the elixers or want to keep using another elixer. Which brings me to another tip: Burn some camp supplies on restocking auntie Ethel early game and stock up on dozens of Elixir of Hill Giant Strength by just pickpocketing them or the cash to buy em. This makes strength characters insanely overpowered for the rest of your playthrough if you have enough of them. Using these elixirs and gloves of dex you can make a Wis/Con built Tavern Brawling Monk an untouchable tank with insane DPS. Or give any Strength based char a lot more Con/Wis/Dex for AC and saves.
Those are awesome tips dude! Auntie Ethel is like the only easy source of those eh? I loved those str potions on a Druid because in cat form I can sneak and still have good carry weight
@@ProxyGateTactician Only infinite source that I know of, refreshes 3 per Long Rest.
@@ProxyGateTactician You can easily brew a ton of hill giant and later cloud giant strength (27 STR) by collecting the right elixir ingredients, just have to know the right locations/vendors
Oh shit so there is a bag of holding...
Be careful with that chest it can bug out quest items and hardlock progression
Great video! I didn't realize how op the Mask of the Shapeshifter is. New tip I just found out: shape-shift companions that can't jump into gnomes. Now throw them across the water or whatever with Karlach or equivalent.
That’s another good one!! Smart
Omg, thats amazing
I got really sick of the clickbait around this game. This video is so refreshing!! Also this video made me realize how little I knew you could do in the game
Glad to hear it :)
I never thought to use the attack option in dialogue to save anyone, that’s a game changer! Maybe not for a first playthrough since I don’t want to miss a scene, but definitely for subsequent playthroughs. Those last few will likely get pathed out lol
To be honest it’s hard to use unless you know what’s happening already in the cutscene
Best inventory tip: Get a container, like a bag or a pouch, and add *that* to wares. Now, as you adventure, everything you're going to sell, you just drop in the bag. This is great for things like Alchemical Fire. It's probably sitting in your inventory forever, but you might use it at some point. This way, you can drag it to your hotbar, but automatically sell it when at a vendor [as you clearly didn't use it]. Things getting overweight with all the Githyanki Half Plates? Just send the bag to camp and pick it up when you're ready to head into town. Also. If you place a food bag in the camp chest, and you send food to camp - it automatically goes into that food bag. No more clutter in your camp chest! Vendors will automatically unpack the bag and you can buy it back for 3gp.
So glad to have found your channel, usually these "X things you didn't know" style videos seem like they're for people who haven't played the game yet, but there were 3 times in this video I messaged my party with joyous revelations. Thanks to you, I'll no longer be sending every single item back to camp one by one, right clicking every spoon and cup...
Thanks! I have been trying to find a good mix of interesting stuff for the veterans and stuff for the new players
All great tips! Thank you. Let me add my own for when pickpocketing, that helps if you want to steal large sums of money from a trader. You can use the barter view to shift-drag their pile of money into multiple smaller piles that has a lower DC to steal (easiest way I found was to just split them in half until they became manageable, instead of fiddling about with the slider). So you can choose if you want more but easier picks or fewer but harder.
Thanks really needed to know this, been wearing out my F5 and F9 keys going for the big score 🤣🤣
@@ch.kv.Unfortunately, I think they've patched this little exploit. My graphics card has been acting up lately, so I haven't been able to test myself yet.
First round combat if open hand monk: BA drink potion of speed, Action to activate Wholeness of Body. Still got a BA to use from Wholeness of body and Action to use from potion of speed Next round combat, two Actions and two BA for a total of eight attacks
I’ve never played a monk yet saving that class’s so I don’t know what all of that means yet haha they sound super fun though
Okay, those item management tips are probably the most useful thing I've learned since launch
Glad to hear it!
Huge damage tip: The sharpshooter feat applies to hand crossbows as well for both shots fired (action and bonus). This effectively gives a roughly 20 damage bonus when both shots land. Combine this with multi-attack, College of swords bard's flourish attack, and War domain cleric action charges, and bloodlust elixer can give a total of 9 arrows fired. With hand crossbows such as "Hellfire Crossbow" and "Ne're misser".... you can easily hit upwards of 200 damage with a singular turn. If you want to play a ranger... Don't... just play a college of swords bard with some cleric levels. You'll be a better ranger with even more utility lmao.
This was great. Theres a huge influx of repetitive content for bg3 for obvious reasons, but these were legitimately new tips. Great stuff.
I tried to find stuff that no one else talks about. Not the easiest task haha, but I was pretty happy with this one. Thanks for the feedback!
Best part of this video is seeing the DOS2 cast in the BG3 menus. Nice touch.
This game, man. Can't wait. I've been waiting for a SMART game for ages. People love how difficult From Soft games are for your hands but now we get a game that makes your brain work - or at least rewards you for using it.
You and me both!
Meerna is the Gnome that gets yeeted. And even if the cutscene doesn't play and you just go in and attack Nere the moment the rocks are out of the way, Meerna's character model just vanishes from the game. Welso is the brother and if you talk with then after the gnomes are free'd they will be sad about their Sister. Depending what kind of cutscene route you took he will or will not be crying on the ledge, but will always be crying. Spent over an hour to try different scenarios to not have her die.
Right a couple people pointed it out now I messed up :( My bad there I thought they were the same person. I know that this feature does work in other places though (Specifically at the entrance to the gith mountain pass. You can save 2/3 of the deaths in that cutscene and the door stays open and do a fight that you normally can't do)
oh my god weapon effects applying to spells is amazing. ive never seen it mentioned on any site
Sneaky barbarian to attack the boss, while they're in a monologue dialogue with your face character, is gold! Two bosses got cleaved before they finished their speech in my playthrough lol
Wow, it's a hell of a nice selection of tips! I really didn't know it was possible to interrupt cutscenes using the "attack" button and I haven't tried exploiting gruel or human meat. I'd also like to add a few. 1) Carry a bottle of water and a bottle of grease on one of your melee characters at least. Water gets rid of burning with no action costs and amplifies lightning spells (when an enemy is wet). Grease amplifies fire spells and inflicts DoT through burning. 2) Swap your prepared spells! Some of them are quite situational. Those that are "Rituals" don't expend spell slots. Apart from Speaking with dead/animals, my favourite thing is Jump. Cast it on everyone before a fight (duration = 10 turns) and you'll have godlike positioning! Occupying high ground or reaching enemies casters/archers in the rearguard becomes easy. 3) Pick up all the Oil barrels when you find them and send them to your camp. If you ever find yourself in a tough combat, send a character who's not in combat (ungroup them) to retrieve them, then position them the way you want, then detonate during battle. 4) Interacting with items might break your invisibility but dropping items from your inventory will not) 5) If you attack enemies while being hidden and out of sight, they would not be able to do anything. If you want, you can exploit it to win any combat (almost any). You can hold Shift to see the enemies' lines of sight.
The water can also remove blood on ur chars Grease usually works on objects in the world (the stuck statue in the gith area and the stuck wheel) if you char pass the initial DC. I’ve sometimes done the swapping while in turn based mode to get bless and stuff lol For sure a good collection of tips you typed out here
@@ProxyGateTactician Swapping should not have worked like this if staying true to DnD. But it does) Making a wizard learn a ton of spells from scrolls and then swapping them situationally is so satisfying! One warning though - if you swap out the spells of some buffs (duration = till long rest), they will disappear from the characters you cast it on.
5 - if you attack from the shadows, everytime you attack you roll a steath check, if you dont pass, the character enters in battle/dialogue
Another great use of the swap characters button while in dialogue is that the NPC you're talking to is locked into looking at the character they are talking with. So, you can talk to an NPC from a certain angle to force them to turn away from something, swap characters and do the same with other nearby NPCs, then use your last available character to sneak in and lockpick/steal/read whatever is marked red (things that are marked as a "crime" to interact with). Since all the nearby NPCs will be pre-occupied and looking the other ways, you shouldn't get caught.
Yeah I used that to rob the mage at the city
Damn man. You blew my mind. These are extremely useful! I'm so glad that they made these sorts of things available in the game. The Devs are on a whole new level.
For sure. I love trying something thinking there's no way this works.. then it does. AND IT KEEPS HAPPENING
A thing I noticed that was very helpful to me is that you can change the size of your action/spell/item hotbar thing by clicking the little + or - button at the bottom right of it, saves me from having to scroll through them during combat, and it's nice seeing everything I can do all at once. It defaults to two rows but you can increase it to 4 rows if you want to, maybe more.
Good tip!
@@ProxyGateTactician You too, thanks for the video dude.
Best baldurs gate 3 tips video ive seen so far 👌 👏
Glad you enjoyed!
Excellent video dude. Definitely would appreciate a video that's dedicated to controller users one day so we can figure out how to do some of these options like the shift click or other stuff that may be even exclusive to controller players.
I know for sure controllers her a scan item ability and the ability to switch to the torch by holding down on d pad that keyboard users can’t have
"If you play this game the way I do and pick up every single item in the game because you never know when you might need a severed hand..." I feel seen! Thanks for these tips; they were great, a lot of them even for experienced players like myself. The inventory ones in particular were incredibly helpful. I can't believe I never knew about ctrl/shift-clicking before! Sadly at 5:22, I once thought this was true too but Meerna has always been the gnome who dies, not Apprentice Laridda. There is no way to save Meerna. You never find her body dead or alive; she always "burned to ash" and is mourned by her brother Welso beside the lava pit. That one is hard-coded and it feels so out of place in this game of choice.
Just a top quality presentation brother. Precision, timing, spacing and quick fire info. Perfection. Thx for all the work!
Very welcome
If you want to deny necromancers corpses to raise, but don't want the inventory encumbrance, keep a container in your inventory and put them in there, then drop it. They can't raise a corpse in a chest, backpack or bag. You can make the underdark beach battle easier for yourself by collecting all the bodies before the fight and putting them into whatever baskets and crates are lying around.
Man, I learn so many things from the you tube video's I never knew were possible. This game is F****** HUGE !!! LOVE IT !! Thank you for this video brother ❤
Glad to hear it! It's fun for me to share it all too.
Another great video. There are no videos like this. Top editing Good script Non óbvious and usefull tips. Tired of the generic videos on this game. You could do crazy unconventional builds, with your style it would be a great watch.
Be careful using the helmet on a monk. I made a dragonborn and then regretted it and used the mask to walk around as a masc Half-elf. Well... You can't use deflect arrows and other ki powers while disguised. Must be a bug but it's not easy to know that's what is happening
Really? I haven’t tried monk so I haven’t ran into that issue on any other class I’ve used the helm on (7 classes so far)
It took me a while to find where the hot keys (for using 1, 2, 3, etc...) They're assigned to the custom button/list in case anyone else wondered.
4:54 i actually used that on Gortash. While my Tav and Karlach talked I switched to Minthara and placed a couple of smile powder barrels beside him then once the battle started I blew those up and knocked out half his half.
The hireling can use warding bond. Completely busted because it doesnt need concentration
Yeah lol I’m pretty sure that’ll be patched out pretty quickly. They patched out concentration spells working from camp already so I’m surprised they missed that one
Another stupid question: when I move stuff in the world, they seem to get stuck on each other (like boxes and barrels) and become too heavy to move as a group. How do I detach them? And sorry for using you as an answering machine. Your channel rocks and if you also made mods, I'd probably marry you. :D
The only way to get those unstuck is to right click the item and pick it up. I know exactly what ur talking about there too lol. You probably would have to right click->pick up all the glitched items then when u drop them again they won't be stuck like that
Tip #5 you talk about manipulating items in the world but forget to mention this is best used to put down explosive barrels at choke points. This is a trick that you have to use in Divinity: original sin 1&2 A LOT on the highest difficulty. You also find them a lot and can collect explosive barrels for future use.
I left that one out because I figured it's been talked about in every video in the world already enough times (Even in my past videos)
EVERY ONE of these tips was jaw dropping to me. Ive seen tones of 'tips and tricks' videos sonce the game launched last week, but this is the first one ive seen that was so well made! GJ!
Idk if you already said it but the mundane chest from arcane tower underdark is basically bag of holding. It tuens all items into 0.1 weight iirc so you can carry a lot more
It has a limit, ir can only hold till 120 pounds, then it lose its effect on things that surpasses it. Dunno if its a bug or a feature of the chest.
Here's how to get infinite gold and special arrows / gear / Camp supplies. Spoilers for some early parts of the game, and Obviously huge spoiler chance for the game, as infinite gold is "a bit game breaking" If you are playing single player, each time any character levels up (Not that you get enough exp to level, but actually go through the leveling process) Or if you are playing co-op, each time a Player character levels up. Or each time you finish a Long Rest. All the Traders restock their items from their "loot pool" So you can pickpocket ALL of their stuff, go reset one character to level 1 with Withers (can steal the 100 gold back from him too, so this is free) Level that character ONCE, and steal all the vendor items again.. repeat untill you have too much gold to even move. Extra tip how to make this faster and easier Be level 4 party, Have a caster use Enhance Ability on your Astarion Rogue (The spell gives chosen ability checks be rolled with advantage) You want to use Astarion cause his Bite lets him drink humanoid blood to get the Happy buff, which gives him +1 to skill checks. Have him use the Gloves of Absolute, +1 to sleight of hand checks, give the necklace of Guidance to him, +1d4 to skill checks without the need of a cleric running after him all the time, make his Dex 18+ so he gets atleast +4 to sleight of hand, pick Sleight of Hand as expertise skill to get another +4. Now when you go to steal anything, you have 8 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 1d4 x2 to your Sleight of Hand checks, while the gear and gold in the Grove for example only need a roll of 0-5 to succeed, which is more or less always cause of rolling with Advantage.
Lol this comment is great I love to see stuff like this. So much detail. Reminds me of divinity walking around stealing everything before killing all the npcs
I used to play an Iksar Necro in EQ. This is bringing back memories. Perhaps she shall return
Not sure if this is fixed already, but being shapeshifted has a uh issue with disabling reactions. So if your reactions aren't working, this'll probably be it.
The multiple sales tip was really good. Thank you! Also, wgen you're bartering, you can click the scales to automatically balance the trade with gold. I have a tip I haven't seen elsewhere yet because it's probably a bug - one of the long rest cleric spells lets you cast a Warding Bond on a character to cut all the damage they take in half, and then share that damage with the cleric. However, there is no range restriction. So you can leave the cleric in camp and swap them out while still benefiting from it. The party member will die in camp if they dont get any healing/too much dmg is taken, but reviving is easy.
Even better way is do it with a hireling and tell withers you don’t need the hireling anymore and he dismisses it you keep the buff and no character will die
@@ProxyGateTactician Considering the in-universe explanation for hirelings, technically... they never "die" since they are already dead, and dismissing them is equivalent to them "dying" anyway.
@@Lord_zeel feel bad for those guys lol
This was a really solid video without clickbait. Kudos. You've earned a subscriber
i'm so used to half assed games that baldurs gate keeps blowing my fucking mind with all the features it has
IT feels like everything I can think up to test works
The travel between zones triger events that would usually only occur if you are sleeping, so I think it is intended that you heal up between zone travels as a day elapses in the game. If there is a "bug" it would be that it doesn't require camp supplies and doesn't give you your spell slots back.
Since you mentioned "stat sticks", here are some more. Gandrel's Aspiration and Hunting Shortbow provide advantage against monstrosity enemies, but the attack doesn't need to be made with the weapon itself, which makes them useful even for characters who would never fire an arrow, it even works with spells. Most people see Corellon's Grace and think "monk weapon" because it gives a bonus when doing unarmed attacks, but the second bonus it provides, a +2 to all saving throws, doesn't mention anything about monks or unarmed attacks and it does indeed work on any character, ideal for casters who'd never melee anyway and who can use an extra +2 on their concentration saves. Another small tip: buff your familiars. There's no reason not to cast mage armor, longstrider and aid on them, making them quite a bit hardier. If you don't want to waste spell slots, just use hirelings or give unuased companions access to spell slots.
Stat stick ones are my fav because theyre really hard to notice if they work or not haha
I know you can drop a torch and dip your weapon for fire damage but I always forget
Same lol I always have the candles with me and just never do it unless it's like a dire situation and i'm trying to figure out how to save the run
First time I've seen a video of "tips and tricks" on yt that actually showed me something that wasn't obvious before.
You're a wizard of Larian games!
I wish I would have started this during DIvinity 2 lol I have SOOO Many things in that game too. I had like 15 hidden ways to get XP in act 1 (it was limited there). Everytime I posted on reddit people liked it at least
This is really great I can't believe I didn't think about trying the shape shifting to get into smaller areas.
It doesn’t work for the cat holes though I think that’s Druid specific (also gas form works I saw on Reddit didn’t try it though
Note: all the Shapeshifting tricks can also be achieved with a disguise kit!
That’s only act 3 in the circus right? Or is there somewhere you can get it earlier
@@ProxyGateTactician I found mine at the circus, yeah - but I assume that they're available in some vendors somewhere.
I've got another tip. Make Astarion a bard. Enjoy his flinging insults during battle. It suits him better than a rogue.
He's the only char I changed a class on too. I didn't like him as a rogue at all
Or just kill him!! He is so annoying
You have the most creative tips and tricks out there, awesome video
Glad you think so!
first also shadowcute is life
hahaha you know it
Literally been waiting for your videos to come out before I play.
very much thanked by larian to add the shape shifting mask from dos2, great tribute
Agreed I love that they did that
Super useful. Thanks mate
Glad it helped
Alternative for easy selling of trash : My friend and I took a habit of carrying 1 or 2 backpacks and putting all the things we wanna sell later in them. At shop, sell the filled backpack and then buy the emptied backpack back. Clean inventory while exploring!
That works too. We have to find ways lol the inventory system is probably the only annoying part of the game
3:40 so THAT's what "add to wares" is for! TYSM.
I had zero idea you could just move boxes around lol
Pick up a ribcage from the ground: it counts as a storage item and can be sold. Drag everything you want to sell into it and sell the ribcage to a vendor as a package. You can immediately buy the ribcage back and all the other stuff will have been sold. Keeps your inventory clean and lets you quickly tell how much "sellable item" weight and value you have because you can look at the weight and price of the ribcage.
Those inventory tips are gold.
Good to hear they are helpful for you
These videos are just incredible. Keep them coming please.
The mask is only available to you if you bought the deluxe edition
Well they also gave it to everyone who pre-ordered the game which was most people that are playing. We didn't have to pay extra for it
@@ProxyGateTacticianor 🏴☠
Awesome video, thank you for posting. Learned more than I did in college.
This is just overwhelming! This game is nuts.
It’s refreshing to have a game that allows players this much freedom
Holy shit this is the first bg3 tips video I've found that actually gives useful advice. Hirelings alone is a gamechanger, but the inventory management stuff was a great addition. And that you can just swap characters in dialogue to set ur buffs before combat begins
you can also get crates to push you into a floor above you essentially clipping through the ground
Oh does it still work?! It used to work in EA but when I tried it seemed to be fixed now. I’ll give it another go thanks
@ProxyGateTactician it took a lot of messing around with boxes but eventually one row was invisible and it would let me put a 4th row on top allowing me to do the clip. I will mess around with it and try to see what caused the invisibility
Wow, this is very thorough. I had no idea for most of these.
For the Shield Spell, I find, you should have it ask you for higher Spell levels aswell. Imagine you your're on low HP, and the hit might kill you, but you have no level one, or even level two, spellslots. Maybe you would rather spend a level 3 spellslot, or even higher, to not Die.
Thanks for the way point revival tip. Almost got team wiped by a surprisingly strong frog in the swamp and the tip really came in clutch.
Oh my goddddd, I thought the shapeshifting helm was just Disguise Self, and I tossed it in my camp chest immediately. And shift click!!! You're a saint, sir. 😅
Im just glad it was good. It was one of my fav items from divinity
Bro the attack during cutscene changed my game totally. Thank you for this
Literally the "sell multiple items at once" tip was so helpful I subscribed for that alone, TY!
Glad it helped!
So... my question now is... if you would take with you (totally in theory) all the mindflayer corpses throughout the beginning and give them to a necromancer... what would happen?
Mindflayer corpses are really heavy so it would be hard to pick them up without a Strength potion pushing you above 20 Strength. Not sure how that would work though
@@ProxyGateTactician ...well, good that I gave it to a Githyanki Fighter before the ship crashed. Mindflayer and one of those Big Devils in the final fight, before the ship crashed 😂
Ive watched alot of bg3 help video but this was the most extensive and helpful feature video i've seen by far! Subscribed :)
Good to hear I did my job!
Damn, this is BG3 gold man, thanks, will have to watch a few times to absorb it all!
this video is a literal game changer. thank you!
Super helpful, first time playing DND in a sense along with baldurs gate. Thank me for the vid😊
It's so amazing finding a video with actually cool tips rather than just "save often, lol". Thank you =)
Make sure to pick up the Chest of the Mundane in the Arcane Tower for your barrel storage. Karlach or Lae'Zel will be able to carry all those 25-50 weight barrels for the weight of a plate or fork per barrel. xD
I love using my bard to lure people in, and then using tbm to walk away, put down some barrels, and blow them out taking out the whole group.
turn based mode is a perfectly balanced game
Watching all ur vids tonight. Appreciate the quality vids saving me lots of time and frustration. Common Proxy W
Great quality content and tips that aren't common. Appreciate this!
Glad it was helpful!
another tip, if you find a locked chest that you cant force open because its difficulty is too high, or it needs a key, most of the time you can just break the chest by attacking it. You can also pick a chest to your inventory and send it to camp, and then in the camp drop them to the floor and open them there using a hireling rogue thief
I’ve got it in my other tips video! I’d check it it for sure it’s got a lot of good stuff too
So you're telling me I don't need to bring out Astarion everytime I find myself with a locked chest? I used to keep him permanently in the party for those moments, but it's nice to know I don't have to strictly go get him in the moment, either break it it open via other means or just send it to camp for later. That's pretty cool :) Something I've noticed is that some locked doors (not all) can be broken down without the need for a key or lockpicks.
A lot of this stuff is really useful and I had no idea about it. Thanks for making this video!
No problem!
Wow there is not a single tip in there that I knew of, great video!!!
Thank you for your help. The only thing that you got wrong is she is Laridda (spelling?) not Meera. I found the closed door thing myself. It helps. Thank you for the hirelings' tip. The Selune chest is bugged, so I might have to use one of the hirelings to get into it. It always worked on my previous playthroughs, but I forgot what was in that chest. Thank you for the halfling tip for getting into small spaces. :)
YES Meera is the one that gets pushed into the lava and is scripted to die with no way of saving her.
@@Kotsu-ChanRoss :(