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Do u worry about efficient leveling at all new to the game not sure if its necessary late game

You are the goat.

Archers are far better than base fighters as archers. Bow damage, whilst very solid in BG1, scales atrociously in BG2. Bonus damage from both the bows themselves and ammunition are largely removed, at the same time as melee weapons becoming dramatically more powerful in BG2 vs BG1. For example, a composite bow +1 with a +2 ammo will get a total of 5 bonus damage in BG1. A composite bow +3 (and it requires 19 strength to use) with +2 ammo gets only +3 damage in BG2. Also, you dont get higher than +2 ammo in BG2 with arrows, and only get +3 in TOB. This is a serious problem as a significant number of enemies in BG2 require +3 to hit and several important enemies in TOB require +4 to hit. In BG1, no enemy requires more than +1 to hit, so there is no issue with enchantment. In practice, if using bows you actually do a lot better with shortbows as you can get a +4 bow that launches its own ammo and the lightening damage averages a +4.5 bonus damage if using ammo. Its more damage and solves the issue with enchantment requirements. But if using its own ammo, the base damage is only 6.5, increasing to 11.5 with grandmastery and 13.5 with the best gloves in the game, which honestly is rather puny. In BG1, the +2 to hit and damage from an archer is nice, but not huge. The +5 to hit in damage in SOA scaling to +8 in TOB, on the other hand, is a very big deal. 21.5 is proportionally a massive damage increase over 13.5. Its still not that strong, and you go from being exceptionally good in BG1 to decidedly mediocre in BG2 and TOB. But if you insist on playing an archer (and in BG2 and TOB, Firetooth is your best bet), then the archery kit is definitely the way to go. Limited melee proficiency really doesnt matter - with grandmastery and the archer kit bonus damage, the only time you should melee is to bash things with a quarter staff if you need bludgeoning damage and the reach will help keep you safe even in light armour. With decent strength and greater whirlwind, you can still to pretty decent damage for the short bursts where crushing specifically is required. Stealth is nice, armour of faith is nice, called shot is a moderate damage increase and actually quite a nice situational debuff (dropping someones strength from over 18 to 18 or lower can really lower their damage, and with 9 or 10 APR, doing this to something like a fire giant is actually quite feasible and you can really tank spell saves too) and so all around, this is a much better option as a dedicated archer than anything else.

Is point blank master at lvl 6 still relevant since turn based mode allows you to just disengage for free with the five step thing (don’t remember the name exactly)?

It's been quiet on your channel lately and I've been missing the series...everything okay?

Wait, which edition of NWN is this? It’s so smooth and polished

I am curious as to whether these guides were designed for higher difficulties.

crazy times, we look to the Rangers. Thanks Tony! UK Checking in. Be safe m8. to all the rangers/druids and crews out there - be well.

So very few videos on PFKM that are actually helpful. This one is not an exception.

Can this guy smack his lips anymore? Jfc

Hello, could you please tell where i can buy a lot of arrows in this game? Now I have finished quests in Neverwinter's trader district

why did you just make a single video?

Archer was my very first build, and still my favorite. this is great btw love your commentary

Finding combat boring and repetitive is a sign that you are not playing at the proper difficulty level. At the moment I am playing in Honour Mode with a single character. Not a single combat is either boring or repetitive. It seems paradoxical that an experienced D&D player, who is bored by the combat in BG3, would choose to play in Explorer Mode...

Ranged works great in this game

One day I will be able to actually play this, G_d willing. You should have seen the mods I dealt with in my last BG2 run.

I know you have read some forrgoten realms books, I really want to get into it. Do you have any recomendations?

Tony have you considered giving solasta another look? With the unfinished Business mod you get a 6 player party, lots of new subclasses, races and even multiclassing. There are also some custom campaigns in the Steam Workshop specifically done for this mod

You are playing on explorer? Try balanced, its better, fights are more interesting.

Solid build! :)

I think it's great that you added Lae'zel. I'd like to see you give the characters and their potential for growth a chance.

Late to the party. Now I'm trying Death Knights troop. All Death Domain Crusader build. Can't wait to reach level 8 so I can utilise channel negative energy.

Это прохождение за Ноя? Или это Эйс Вентура?

Ahh you actually went and started a BG3 playthrough! Great to be able to watch your streams again. I started with the Rogue playthrough video’s because you’re challenging yourself more and I’m curious to see how you will make this work. Thanks for the video’s keep it up 👍🏻👍🏻

Healing Radiance is such a strong ability!

You could just park a character at a store, with potions and feed the others in combat, health, debunks, scrolls etc.

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I gotta say, I do not understand the problems you are having with the combat engine. It's not 'broken'... the game forcing your character/party into turn-based combat is based on the enemies' ability to detect you. If one party member attacks NPCs, they attempt to detect where any hostile actors are located at that moment; other party members may not be detected if they are in stealth OR are too far away. Even the attacker may not be detected if he initiated from stealth and then succeeds on a stealth check, which is why sometimes you can attack and turn-based mode doesn't start. The way the game engine handles these two different states (and NPCs' ability to detect you) is certainly not perfect, but it is intentional, trying to judge what enemies know is a threat to them. So (as it was in your previous video) when your party is all in stealth and you initiate with one character, others remain out of combat if they cannot be detected. You can then maneuver them into combat and once they attack they will roll initiative and be placed in order. Sure this may come off as a bit janky and immersion-breaking, but if you think about it even for a moment, combatants standing around waiting for each one of them to have their turn is itself not realistic or immersive; you have to imagine that it's really all happening together and the turns just allow you to control your party effectively. You can likewise imagine that party members outside of turn-based combat were actually maneuvering into position at the same time as your first character was readying his attack and joined combat on his cue. This also explains what happened in the crypt: Your rogue was able to break line-of-sight then slip into stealth mode, which caused said enemy (who was the only one previously detecting you) to lose track of your character thus drop aggro. Turn-based mode ended at that point because it was initiated by the enemy; if you had initiated the turn-based mode, it wouldn't have forced you out of it as you found when you went back in, killed the enemy and was not released until you did so manually. You may also notice if you were to watch that encounter again that at the beginning, some of the enemies knew where you were and charged, while others (because you are a rogue and are sneaky) stood around until they 'detected' you attacking their mates, at which point they too ran over. The entire thing is based on NPCs' detection of hostile actors.

Good idea to do a signle character. I think I will try this too. I will try a Human Fighter who is an archer.

That bard look similar to Paris Hilton 😂

All these kinds of games are just s*** tried to get into them and you spend ages in a fight just missing anything thats like BG Is so bad. Give me an action RPG any day

56:29 lmao that´s why I only make human characters. Love the gameplay btw.

Have you tried a Kensai missile weapon build? They can out damage an Archer!

Good stream man!!!!!🙂

A few points about the background and weapon selection: - If you are using a one hander with an empty offhand, as a magus does, you will be able to take slashing grace. Once you have this, you can finesse and add dex bonus to damage with 1 handed slashing weapons even if they are not otherwise finessable. If you take neither fencing grace nor slashing grace, you wont add dex to damage, which is simply a non starter for a dex based character build. The other options are to take a 3 level rogue dip or mythic weapon finesse at mythic rank 2, both of which represent a much higher opportunity cost. Consequently, you really dont need to worry whether the base weapon is finessable. Level 3 is very early, and that is when you can qualify for fencing or slashing grace as a human magus (or level 1 as a human sword saint). - Duelling sword is not a good base weapon. A scimitar or rapier's increased threat range is far more valuable than a higher base damage, which averages only 1 damage per hit. The difference between a 20% and a 30% threat range with improved critical is FAR more than 1 damage per hit on average. In Wrath of the Righteous in particular, mythic critical means at least a x3 multiplier. For every 20 attacks, a 17-20 threat range will average 28 attacks worth of damage, vs 32 attacks worth of damage for a 15-20 threat range. This is assuming 100% crit and crit confirmation rate, but when factoring in auto confirmation mechanics or increased hit on threat roles specifically, and the fact that threat ranges are at the higher end of attack roles, allowing for a less than 100% hit chance will tend to increase rather than decrease the value of criticals. Anyway, 32 vs 28 is 14.3% more damage. If 14.3% increased damage is not significantly more than 1 damage by midgame, your damage is simply way too low. And this is to say nothing of other on crit effects, like triggering attacks of opportunity through outflank. 14.3% is really the worst case scenario. The actual value on the increased threat range may well be significantly higher. The best base weapon for a finesse warrior is estoc, though I believe this will always require an additional feat investment. - This may well be something you could not have know when making the video, but duelling swords happen to be very poorly itemised in WOTR. There are MUCH more powerfully enchanted scimitars and rapiers (although another party member will want to use rapiers), in addition to the base weapon being superior. The estoc is well itemised in chapter 1 (woljif sells one you can acquire very early on and is one of the best chapter 1 weapons), but scimitars are clearly better from late chapter 2 onwards and is better even without considering the extra feat cost of estoc. The best weapon is actually hand axe, with a 18-20 threat range variant (which increases to 15-20 with improved critical, unlike the keen weapon property) with its x3 base multiplier in chapter 3 and improved version of this in chapter 5, but there would be no way to anticipate that without metagame knowledge, as the base threat range is 20. - Pickpocket is a good background selection for the initiative bonus, which is a stat most players severely undervalue.

I have been so confused trying to figure out Wyre Bash- thank you so much for the easy to follow tutorial!

I'm loving your playthrough.

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Hi Tony, nice to see you streaming. I think a d&d veteran like you can play on balanced difficulty, the fights in bg3 are much easier than in other Larian games, im no expert but i eventually played on tactician difficulty. If i remember correctly you can hover over your helmet in the inventory and check the option that makes it disappear in dialogues

hi rogertony try two worlds 2- game of the year edition is better game . good video about two worlds 1 on youtube

I am a bit puzzled by the idea this is a hit and run class. The reality is that this almost never makes sense to do. For starters, combat is generally resolved rather quickly. Just go in with your tank first and the combat will usually be over by the enemies give up and try someone else. Any warrior should be focussed on full attack actions, which requires you to root in place. A monk especially gets 2 extra attacks per round, so no way do you want to do anything other than full attack actions where possible. And if your AC is bad, you absolutely do not want to provoke attacks of the opportunity by disengaging. Also, unarmoured tanks generally are better than armoured tanks. Scaling with 2 attributes for AC and using mage armour/bracers scales much better than armour. +5 full plate is 14 AC, allowing only 1 dex bonus. Lets say you start with 16 wis and dex, which honestly is pretty conservative. You finish with 20 in 1 stat, and were items giving a plus +6 bonus, so 26 in 1 stat and 22 in the other. That on its own is +14 AC. You then get 4 AC from monk and up to +8 from bracers. Defensive fighting mode with crane style also works better. You can also benefit from reduce person much more effectively than a plate wearer (no AC cap and few issues with encumberence), you get 2 decent saves, evasion and several immunities and spell resist. You also get monk robes which add significant dodge AC, stacking with everything. Pure monks certainly are not the best tanks (though builds with scaled fist dips are), and you can optimise better than this even with 20 levels in monk pretty easily (halfling scaled fist adds a lot to AC), but a pure monk is not an unusually squishy fighter. As for why halflings are good, a dex based scaled fist is going to get +2 hit from size bonus and dex, +3 AC from dex, charisma and size, +1 initiative, +1 to DCs, an extra +2 AC when defensive fighting and +1 to all saves. Tanks generally do not go heavy into monk anyway, so you wont be using fists, and the size penalty on base weapon damage with weapons like kamas and sais is tiny. Even with one handed non monk weapons, its going to average 1 point of damage per hit, which is offset by your bonus to dex and the +2 hit is a significant offensive bonus. If you wanted to go for an offensive monk, basically forget about AC, rely on someone else to tank and use enlarge person for reach. A motherless tiefling gives bonuses to strength and wisdom and gives you a bite attack, though to be honest, classes like slayer or fighter will do substantially better. Alignment is pretty significant for a monk, because alignment specific monk robes offer significantly different bonuses. Good monks get a large boost to AC, evil unarmed monks get a large damage bonus, neutral get balanced bonuses. I believe 1 minute is 10 rounds. Crushing blow, it should be noted, is a full round action, which is fairly painful. You can stunning fist and perform a full attack action, and the stunning fist itself lands a lot sooner. Leg sweep is the best style strike. Prone is a hefty AC penalty, and the attacks of opportunity it generates amounts to a lot of extra damage. Pummelling style is like clustered shots. Cold ice strike is much better than shout, because its a swift action and is AoE. Shout is not going to do more damage than your attacks. Ice strike is something you can do in addition to your attack. Its also better than quivering palm, which is seldom going to work on the targets you would like. And monks absolutely do NOT excel at bosses. The DCs of their abilities are way too low to work against bosses reliably. They also have quite bad AB for a warrior. They get 2 extra full BAB attacks, which is nice, but literally no direct bonuses to AB as a class feature. Fighters, get +4 from weapon training (increased to +6 with gear) and greater weapon focus, netting +7 in total. Rangers get a whopping +14 with instant enemy and improved quarry. Paladin's smite unfortunately doesn't work against a significant number of enemies in this setting, but allows AB to scale with 2 stats when it does (conservatively, this is +6AB) and get divine favour for an additional +2 in excess of prayer. Slayers get +5 from study target. Barbarians get +4 base from rage, with a further +6 from lethal stance or reckless stance, being +10 in total. AB matters because its the most significant hurdle warriors face when fighting bosses in this game. If a fighter has a 50% to hit with a full BAB attack, a monk has a 15% chance, which is less than 1/3rd the damage (before accounting for a fighter's attacks hitting significantly harder when they do land).

I dont know why ur lamenting about the bandit encounter. U won! And u had enough gold to raise ur losses. Plus ...the encounter gives enough spoils that it almost makes up the costs ( 20per longbow and 50per skalp). Completly viable encounter.( although very deadly if ur main is a rogue or wizard) Silke is actually a lvl10 bard. Way more imba than the bandits

the joke was also not lost on me, i kind of want to see a true custom party system, same way you role the main character - do you think withers could do that ? os is there a mod that you know of ? thanks for tracking Tony - much love blighty

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you might want to read up on the 5e rules

Love this title, Tony! good to see you enjoying

You might have chosen your Subclass and background for roleplaying reasons, but just want to say that if your highest priority is Crit Fishing, you should probably choose Oath of Vengeance, as it comes with Vow of Emnity, which allows you (when cast on yourself) to gain advantage on all attacks for its duration. I'd also argue that Oath of Vengeance paladins are not evil; they're zealots - similar to Judge Dredd if that helps. I'd wager that most half-orc paladins would most likely default to being Vengeance ones. But I mean, that's all up to what kind of background you want your character to be. Also, as you mention, dexterity greatly influences your initiative rolls. The earlier you can act, the earlier you can render people dead and out of combat, and remove the likelihood they impose debilitating effects on you. It is arguably the best stat in the entire game - all classes can use it, and I'd wager the penalty for having 8 in non-pertinent stats is greatly outweighed by the benefits you get from pertinent ones (to saving throws, your spell DCs, ability checks, accuracy, damage, blabla). You also chose Folk Hero for the Survival. If you have a shovel in your toolbar, and you know where there's a hidden chest, you can simply dig adjacent to it and you'll get it. Now, if you don't like to do this for roleplaying reasons (if your character failed the Survival check) that's totally fair. Keep it up and have fun

Good stream. Nice to see you back. Thank you.

good vid

About 1:29:00. I was a new player for this game, and as soon as I get Imoen in front of the fortress I got ambushed by bandits, I was crazily astonished.