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@AlexAnder-dh8qz he is an annoying little/big asshole who believe he's God. I love him tho. He is currently outside in the shade. After like 5 years of heat exhaustion because he wouldn't come inside he's learned to drink water and come inside after being in the 3 season room.
@@OneVintageWitch Blessings of The Three upon you! Also named my wee man after a god too (Chronos, a little jest based on Quantum Cat/Schroedinger's cat) - great minds think alike!
Larian is so good at the animal dialogue. It genuinely sounds like the thoughts of an animal while being absolutely hilarious writing and voice acting.
The funny thing is that is extremely common in the animal kingdom and even humans did stuff like that in the past. Turns out that what we often consider "Animalistic" or "Monstrous" is actually quite normal and often more sane then we realize when you don't have houses to hide in and guns to use.
I don’t remember which one was it exactly, but there were two wolves with an armored corpse of a dwarf. One said something along line of, “If master makes me eat the armor again, I’m going on a hunger strike.”
I learnt all the way back in divinity OS1 that talk to animals is a must get in every one of their games. Not only do animals often give good hints for puzzles, but they also are the funniest parts of the game
You can also speak with the spider under the goblin castle on act 1, and convince them that Goblins are delicious for some extra muscle if you're going to attack them, or just for fun because they will not trigger hostile if you do it, they are their own team.
Oh, and if you fail to convince the spider that you're Lolth, Lolth herself gets angry at you. It's like she's perfectly fine with people pretending they're her so long as they do it right.
I learned the vital importance of the talk to animals perk in Divinity Original Sin and made sure I always picked it up. I'm thrilled to see it has been expanded to glorious new extremes.
@@bookfishtrue, being able to cast 3 fireballs as a sorcerer fighter (action, quicken spell bonus action, action surge) ignoring the d&d action/bonus action spell rule is dope as hell
Choose a Forest Gnome specificly for the 100% free uptime of the spell. Its added alot of flavor to the game. Specially as a Bard with high Persuasion.
A lot of classes can also easily access free Speak with Animals. Karlach Origin with Beast Heart Barbarian, and Wyll with a certain pact can both get for free. I highly recommend people go with Origin characters, you're missing out on so much if you don't.
You're very mistaken if you think this has little or no effect. Animals have valuable information and you'll sometimes miss solutions to or entire quests when you dont speak to them.
@@faselfasel2864 I don't think he's referring to the ability to speak to animals. I think he's referring to all of the conversations that mean nothing to anyone and provide nothing to anyone.
OMG, I hadnt heard Scratch's voice, he really IS the bestest boy. My Ranger can summon him, but I wouldnt dare in case he got hurt, it doesnt matter if I can heal him, look, Ive seen every party member dissolve in acid, turn to stone, rot to death, drown in lava, fly off cliffs...but you harm ONE HAIR on his precious head and they wont find enough of you to bury, they'll be picking up your scraps up and down the Sword Coast for 100 years ...Im going to go play fetch with him now
I'm on my evil dark urge playthrough and have murdered, back-stabbed and done the unspeakable at every turn. BUT YOU HURT A DOG AND I DRAW THE LINE. Legit the only good choice I made was saving the doggos from the asshole handler in Wyrm's rock and being nice to Scratch.
@@iknowthatyougreatlyloveyou1613Technically they are all but extinct in the 100 years between Baldur's Gate 2 and 3 (Orin is the last one if you don't play as the Dark Urge).
Nothing really. I did it. Scratch doesn't react. I had no Talk to Animals though. Don't know if he reacts then. So far in my playthrough, bystanders always ignored me doing that spell.@@tinker9278
Okay but... if you DON'T use it on His Majesty... and you just hiss back... and you have been romancing Astarion... he gives you the gem of a response of: At least you PURR for me. 😏
That dog one is just sad. You can tell Scratch is in denial. Even though we all know that his owner isn’t getting up and is clearly dead he still holds onto a false hope that his owner will be fine. And honestly even though I almost always play as an evil character in these types of games even I wouldn’t have the courage to tell him the truth.
His majesty is great. when he told me the cleric was a lier i was like "ooooo important plot hints?". then he just told me "She didn't give me any milk >:(c" and i lost my shit
Speak with dead is super useful too. Tip I figured out somewhere, if you kill an npc in combat they won't "speak to their killer" but if you disguise self and THEN speak with dead you can get the info you want. My evil necromancer characters favourite interrogation technique. lol
I've cast Speak With Animals after every long rest and it's made the game WAY more enjoyable. Getting Scratch as a familiar made me more happy than anything else this past week
@@falconeshield Idk, game doesn't go deeper into this thing's lore. It just shows you a massacre of creatures and then it appears as a blob. Chances are it's just a monster of sorts that got tired of killing and wanted a simple life.
@@falconeshieldThis is all off the top of my head dnd knowledge so I might be wrong about some details but I think oozes pretty much kill whatever for food but they retain the memories of creatures they kill. They can also shapeshifter into whatever they kill, so I guess this ooze killed an Ox one day and just decided it wanted to be an Ox from that day on?
@@moalex6617 IDK if loot is random or predetermined but for me the blob dropped a bunch of mage gear, so he might have been a mage who messed up an experiment and turned into a blob?
I met that unusual bull outside of Baldur's Gate in that small town. When I chose the option of leaving, he was like 'No, don't go, let me come with you into the city in a smaller form'. Being a villain, i said okay.
If one thing i know for sure larian studio best kept secret are : if you have a opportunity to talk to animal, however hard or might like you should invest in other important thing, you should talk to animal properly. Since divinity ( forgot if divinity 1 have the option, but surely cemented in the 2) talking to animal early on gives you advantages to unfair level
FYI if you have 1 character with the Ritual Spell feat you can slot Speak With Animals and Speak With Dead as ritual spells meaning you can cast them anytime out of combat without consuming spell slots and access all that extra content (which is QUITE significant!) at the cost of 1 feat on 1 character but without the downside of spell slot consumption. FYI the game will highlight animals/dead who are "interactable" if you have these abilities; not all of them do.
The dog one is so on point though, I have heard so many stories of dogs refusing to leave their master's side long after their master has already died. Or if their master leaves and dies somewhere away from them, they will wait at the spot they expect their master to return to for days or even weeks until someone forces them to stop. It can be heartbreaking but it really is true that dogs do have a strong tendency for extreme unwavering loyalty like that
speak to animals, read thoughts and raise dead are almost a requirement. the amount of content let alone optinal things it unlocks is amazing. also the benofit about those three skills you dont need to lern them. all three can be found on items within the first act area
If you played Divinity 2, you know that the "Talk to animals feat/perk" increased the amount of quests and rewards by at least 30%. Rangers, Druids, Warlocks, and Nature Clerics are going to get access to so much more of BG3 than the classes that don't the speak with animals spell/invocation.
Gotta be honest I’m only in act one but so far speaking with animals has only gained me some funny dialogue interactions… it hasn’t “benefited” my character in any tangible way tho, and half the animals say sad shit like, “don’t hit me human” or something along those lines lol… not sure how useful it becomes later but so far I may just swap it out for a spell that actually affects things
It also increases the chances of emotional damage by at least 40%. Being an animal in a Larian game can go from whimsical to tragic in less than a minute.
I fucking adore the fact that the cat speaks as if he’s royalty! It’s EXACTLY how I imagine a talking cat would converse in the real world, if only such a mighty being existed
Speak with Animals is a ritual spell, and as of Hotfix 2 any class that can cast it essentially casts for free. Druids: prep it after a long rest, cast, then swap it out. Stays up till you rest and the game doesnt penelaize you for swapping spells.
@@athomenotavailable You ever eaten a fruit or vegetable in your life, gamer? also, y'know. Plenty of those animals have malicious intent, or are just taking their place in the natural order of things. Cooking and eating an animal is not an evil act. (Real life climate change and widespread habitat destruction from the agriculture industry and the excessive amounts of meat consumption across the world today, on the other hand...)
TIP: Don't skip through dialogue, Sometimes it will exit out of conversation after the first sentence leading you to believe that npc held no additional dialogue.
First time watching this spell work on "His Majesty", he immediately reminded me of the famous talking black cat that was Salem Saberhagen who was voived by Nick Bakay in Sabrina the Teenage Witch and its animated series.
My main is a Druid so I've been talking to every animal in game. I tried another class and party that didn't have it...Playing without Speak with Animals feels like an entirely different game.
Warlock is perfect. You only ever use 2 spell in fights: eldritch blast and EX. So first boons are agonizing blast and speak with animals, second repelling blast, with pact of the book you get speak with the dead, if eldritch entity is your patron you can read minds. And since all abilities come from Charisma i slay in both persuasion and combat. purrfect.
So you're telling me he had those in handy and still decided to interview a bear without drinking one? What a loon. Glad I didn't let him stick a needle in my eyehole
It's amazing how a whole line of characters can be missed simply because you chose a non-magic playthrough and didn't bother with scrolls that let you talk to them. Best part is, the animals are literally everywhere. You could do a whole run as a druid who attacks everyone on site and only makes friends with animals lol.
I literally take ritual magician as my 4th level feat so I can grab this spell. It's so much fun. It's a shame speak with the dead isn't as good. But then again if you could speak with EVERY corpse it would be kinda .. impossible to do.
A tip: if you want to speak to someone you killed, use Disguise Self. People you've killed refuse to talk to you because they recognize you as their killer, however if you have Disguise Self active, they won't recognize you, and so they'll be willing to talk to you.
The only other game I've seen that gives you a spell to speak with the dead is Arcanum and it trivialized quite a few quests. I wish more games did that.
I also believe Speak with the Dead is another must-have spell. Even though you have limited questions to ask before the spell wears off. You can get some lore out of them sometimes whenever it's important or not.
Well for a "normal game" you expect one or two extra options but in bg3 if they get you an option they fucing go all out and i mean it: they made every fucing animal speak, the same with the dead. Truly majestical: on a good RPG you may want to try out different approaches to a problem but here... there are literally no boundaries on how you want to address the problem!
Because if you've ever played a Larian game you know that even just the *hints* animals can give you are incredibly helpful, and that's before you get into how they can sometimes either be integral to quests or be quest givers themselves
Once I started using this spell or potions to give me the ability, I realized how helpful this ability is for your character, and the lengths that Larian went to with their voice acting.
When you start looking into every bit of detail the devs have put in. Details that aren't necessary at all for the game to work, but add that extra layer of immersion and fun. You have to give it to Larian studios... Slow clap 👏 for them
As someone who plays a fairy druid in D&D, Speak With Animals has actually helped us out considerably with quests and situations. Highly recommend this spell! Nice to see that it helps in the game, too. Can't wait to get this game for the PS5.
There are even Speak With Animals potions lying around, if you either didn't spec for SWA (Bard, Nature Cleric, Druid, Ranger) or if your perfect squad doesn't include Wyll (who can get Beast Speech) or Halsin (who has SWA as a Druid spell).
My only complaint with this spell is that I wish you could use it to talk to a wizard familiar, or a Beastmaster Ranger animal companion. that would be cool.
I was very disappointed that we couldn't even talk to the Imps or Quasit Pact of the Chain familiars. The game does such a delightful job that missing this, along with being able to communicate with / pet your Beastmaster companions, seemed an odd oversight.
Wizard familiars, imps and quasits are not animals though. They are spirits that just happen to take that form. It's not a mistake, it's true to the rules. Beastmaster companion is a different thing though.
The bear Volo is talking to has another interaction immediately after if you talk to him again! He complains and asks why can't Volo understand him when you and the druids all can. He then repeats slowly, like he did before, about how he's come from far away and then smiles and does a couple of nods.
This is the exact reason I gave Gale magic initiate as soon as possible. Somewhere at the druid's grove I realised that nobody in my party can actually speak with animals or save me from my terrible luck with guidance. The luck could be savescummed away, however unpleasant that might be, but speaking with animals was irreplaceable, especially because I absolutely love the animals' outlook on the world and the dialogue.
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Why Speak with Animals is a MUST HAVE Spell
Hmm, why speaking with animals is a must have in a Larian-based RPG. Because.
Player: "I only wanted to admire you up close."
Cat: "Hmm. I'll allow it."
*That is the most cat response ever*
Almost a 1000 likes and no comment. For shame. And ya my cat would totally say it, especially after I named him after a god
Yes, you May approach
@@OneVintageWitch How does it feels like - to feed the god every day?
@AlexAnder-dh8qz he is an annoying little/big asshole who believe he's God. I love him tho. He is currently outside in the shade. After like 5 years of heat exhaustion because he wouldn't come inside he's learned to drink water and come inside after being in the 3 season room.
@@OneVintageWitch Blessings of The Three upon you! Also named my wee man after a god too (Chronos, a little jest based on Quantum Cat/Schroedinger's cat) - great minds think alike!
“Hiss I say hiss!” A proper gentleman cat.
So perfect for a hairless
Quite so, such a refined show of disdain for a lower life-form presents🧐
Nice I had the 1,000th like
More like an ... aristo-cat?
Is that Dwight Shultz I hear?
Larian is so good at the animal dialogue. It genuinely sounds like the thoughts of an animal while being absolutely hilarious writing and voice acting.
The little bird trying to attract a mate with shiny things was also a highlight.
In DOS2 there's a lovely throughplot involving a squirrel with EXCEPTIONAL dialogue.
@@wenting2457 IT SPEAKS, QUERCUS!
@@bobloerakker7010if you play as a dwarf you get a special dialogue option to make it a perfect arrangement!
I dunno they are all way too eloquent and intelligent for animals
“You have a brother”
“Used to, mother ate him”
Owlbears, they’re monstrosities for a reason.
The owlbear cub is so cute 🥺💜
I mean, there are plenty of animals in nature that would eat their young for one reason or another.
The funny thing is that is extremely common in the animal kingdom and even humans did stuff like that in the past.
Turns out that what we often consider "Animalistic" or "Monstrous" is actually quite normal and often more sane then we realize when you don't have houses to hide in and guns to use.
im sure she had a good reason, we shouldnt judge a mother's love
Well, no. They are Monstrosities because they were MADE by some deranged Wizard.
I don’t remember which one was it exactly, but there were two wolves with an armored corpse of a dwarf. One said something along line of, “If master makes me eat the armor again, I’m going on a hunger strike.”
This is in the Mountain Pass, before Act 2 starts.
Was at the creche in mountain pass.
oh damn, you are supposed to go the pass first? That explains why lae was pissed at me the whole time xD@@majnuker
@@VanHoldyou’re free to choose your own path. Thats the glory of the game
You can go back there as long as you haven't finished Act 2
@@VanHold
I cant imagine how fun it must of been to be the VA of the animals in this game.
*must have.
@@RevanAlaire 🤓
@@DairyIsles So you want them to continue making mistakes?
@@RevanAlaire Don't worry about it. 🤡
@@RevanAlaire You misspelled mistake. Its spelled RevanAlaire
I learnt all the way back in divinity OS1 that talk to animals is a must get in every one of their games. Not only do animals often give good hints for puzzles, but they also are the funniest parts of the game
live divinity original sin 2 the crab at act 1 fort joy is a boss in act 3 or 4 if you let them live after talking to them
@@The_Queen_Chrysalis Septa the Ineffable!
@@The_Queen_Chrysalis She was? I only found a different crab, talking about her later down the line xD
In "Majin: The forsaken Kingdom" you mostly talk to animals and some dialogues are just comedy gold
Can we appreciate that they wrote and acted voicelines for every single animal in the game just for one spell.
They were like "Okay if we include this people are going to try & talk with every single animal even as a sett piece inthe game. Better Get Going"
Thats a Larian thing
no, they made one spell for every little animal they voiced ;)
You can also speak with the spider under the goblin castle on act 1, and convince them that Goblins are delicious for some extra muscle if you're going to attack them, or just for fun because they will not trigger hostile if you do it, they are their own team.
You can also convince her that you are Lolth. Not a cleric but the actual goddess herself.
You do not require speak with animal, you can also get this by passing an animal handling check
and in Grymdark you can incite a little spider revolution that will make them abandon the goblins alltogether.
Oh, and if you fail to convince the spider that you're Lolth, Lolth herself gets angry at you. It's like she's perfectly fine with people pretending they're her so long as they do it right.
Lolth has standards, after all.
Larian took the rules for speak to animals and tossed them out the window in exchange for fun. Unsurprising considering their previous titles.
I learned the vital importance of the talk to animals perk in Divinity Original Sin and made sure I always picked it up. I'm thrilled to see it has been expanded to glorious new extremes.
Rule of Cool is the way to go.
Larian is the DM, who rather follows the rule of cool instead of the PHB.
@@bookfish never thought id see or hear that term again lol
@@bookfishtrue, being able to cast 3 fireballs as a sorcerer fighter (action, quicken spell bonus action, action surge) ignoring the d&d action/bonus action spell rule is dope as hell
There's also a hyena at the beginning of Act 2 that you can save from being abused by the goblins if you speak to him using Speak with Animals.
Choose a Forest Gnome specificly for the 100% free uptime of the spell. Its added alot of flavor to the game. Specially as a Bard with high Persuasion.
Oh shit forest gnomes can do this? Hell yeah
Welp, now I gnome what sort of character I'm running first
A lot of classes can also easily access free Speak with Animals.
Karlach Origin with Beast Heart Barbarian, and Wyll with a certain pact can both get for free.
I highly recommend people go with Origin characters, you're missing out on so much if you don't.
Oath of the ancient paladins can get it permanently as well
@@Alhu15take your like and get out 😂
the little things they add to this game that has little to no effect overal is just amazing
This is the way. Larian's way
You're very mistaken if you think this has little or no effect. Animals have valuable information and you'll sometimes miss solutions to or entire quests when you dont speak to them.
@@faselfasel2864 I don't think he's referring to the ability to speak to animals. I think he's referring to all of the conversations that mean nothing to anyone and provide nothing to anyone.
The effect is "entertainment"
@@pmarreck Impossible
OMG, I hadnt heard Scratch's voice, he really IS the bestest boy. My Ranger can summon him, but I wouldnt dare in case he got hurt, it doesnt matter if I can heal him, look, Ive seen every party member dissolve in acid, turn to stone, rot to death, drown in lava, fly off cliffs...but you harm ONE HAIR on his precious head and they wont find enough of you to bury, they'll be picking up your scraps up and down the Sword Coast for 100 years ...Im going to go play fetch with him now
ALSO: can we just appreciate that this is 100% superlative; you could miss ALL of this in 100 satisfying playthroughs. games just dont DO that anymore
i have to knock him down (not kill him) cause he attacked me.. the owl bird also
I'm on my evil dark urge playthrough and have murdered, back-stabbed and done the unspeakable at every turn. BUT YOU HURT A DOG AND I DRAW THE LINE. Legit the only good choice I made was saving the doggos from the asshole handler in Wyrm's rock and being nice to Scratch.
@@th0rne_999 truly the Yin and Yang of a person brought out by the best doggo. 😉🐕
I've seen people say you summon his spirit but not the real Scratch???
The ox is the real Dark Urge
many a bhaalspawn outthere...
For real
@@iknowthatyougreatlyloveyou1613Technically they are all but extinct in the 100 years between Baldur's Gate 2 and 3 (Orin is the last one if you don't play as the Dark Urge).
@@Zaudejis You're an ooze
I would say the frog is the dark urge.
You get a ton of the talk to animal potions. Theres a necklace that gives you talk to the dead as well. Make sure you use them!
so。。。。can u talk to dead animal then?
@@enishiyukishiro6751 nah, thats not allowed
I wonder what happens if you Speak with the Dead to the dogs master.
I just straight up rob the druid seller everytime I rest. He usually have to talk animal potion all the time
Nothing really. I did it. Scratch doesn't react. I had no Talk to Animals though. Don't know if he reacts then. So far in my playthrough, bystanders always ignored me doing that spell.@@tinker9278
Okay but... if you DON'T use it on His Majesty... and you just hiss back... and you have been romancing Astarion... he gives you the gem of a response of: At least you PURR for me. 😏
he does??? I love him lmao
I love how the animals are consistent too the cats are all little snobs and the squirrels are all little nutters
This is exactly how I imagine cats would be if they could talk.
They’re not as smart as us, but they’re certainly acting like they are
@@tikimillie They domesticated themself too get free lunch.. that's smarter them me who has to work for his lunch :/
That dog one is just sad. You can tell Scratch is in denial. Even though we all know that his owner isn’t getting up and is clearly dead he still holds onto a false hope that his owner will be fine. And honestly even though I almost always play as an evil character in these types of games even I wouldn’t have the courage to tell him the truth.
The details and the different options and stories we get just by using a simple spell is insane
His majesty is great. when he told me the cleric was a lier i was like "ooooo important plot hints?". then he just told me "She didn't give me any milk >:(c" and i lost my shit
The cleric also neglected to mention that the main bad guy of the act is her dad
The Addled Frog has different dialogue and can show you treasure if you cleanse the area before talking.
Damn, I just yeeted it out the map since none of my attacks were landing
@@lenchudPoor thing :( And its so cute and happy too once Aunt Ethel is dead!
The most amusing thing about this dialogue that Astarion aproves it twice. He found a kindred spirit :D
Speak with dead is super useful too. Tip I figured out somewhere, if you kill an npc in combat they won't "speak to their killer" but if you disguise self and THEN speak with dead you can get the info you want. My evil necromancer characters favourite interrogation technique. lol
I've cast Speak With Animals after every long rest and it's made the game WAY more enjoyable. Getting Scratch as a familiar made me more happy than anything else this past week
Im unaware of DnD lore, but I felt bad for killing it after it said all it wanted was some hay, clean stall, and some brushing.
What was up with all those corpses. Was that bull human once!
@@falconeshield Idk, game doesn't go deeper into this thing's lore. It just shows you a massacre of creatures and then it appears as a blob. Chances are it's just a monster of sorts that got tired of killing and wanted a simple life.
@@falconeshieldThis is all off the top of my head dnd knowledge so I might be wrong about some details but I think oozes pretty much kill whatever for food but they retain the memories of creatures they kill. They can also shapeshifter into whatever they kill, so I guess this ooze killed an Ox one day and just decided it wanted to be an Ox from that day on?
@@moalex6617 IDK if loot is random or predetermined but for me the blob dropped a bunch of mage gear, so he might have been a mage who messed up an experiment and turned into a blob?
@@moalex6617 tbh it's probably just a Rick and Morty reference with that talking cat
This game has made a history. The amount of contents this game has should be the new industry standard
Have fun waiting for a new game only once per decade.
Long ago..... that was the point.
@@gandalf8216 fine by me
@articusramos808 no it wasn't, unless we were told of the game late in its development.
@@redflame300 older games in general
I gave my sorcerer talk with animals specifically because of how hilarious it was in DOS2. I do not feel disappointed at all.
Waste of spell slot
Just buy the cheap af potions
@@lachieking9669 it's a ritual
it doesn't waste spell slots outside of combat
@@Konpekikaminari still a waste of very limited spell choices as a sorcerwe
I just chug a potion after each rest
@@lachieking9669Oh yeah, as a Sorcerer yes. But other classes it's a not as much of a waste.
I met that unusual bull outside of Baldur's Gate in that small town. When I chose the option of leaving, he was like 'No, don't go, let me come with you into the city in a smaller form'. Being a villain, i said okay.
If one thing i know for sure larian studio best kept secret are : if you have a opportunity to talk to animal, however hard or might like you should invest in other important thing, you should talk to animal properly.
Since divinity ( forgot if divinity 1 have the option, but surely cemented in the 2) talking to animal early on gives you advantages to unfair level
FYI if you have 1 character with the Ritual Spell feat you can slot Speak With Animals and Speak With Dead as ritual spells meaning you can cast them anytime out of combat without consuming spell slots and access all that extra content (which is QUITE significant!) at the cost of 1 feat on 1 character but without the downside of spell slot consumption.
FYI the game will highlight animals/dead who are "interactable" if you have these abilities; not all of them do.
It’s such a shame you can’t use them both and talk to dead animals
The dog one is so on point though, I have heard so many stories of dogs refusing to leave their master's side long after their master has already died. Or if their master leaves and dies somewhere away from them, they will wait at the spot they expect their master to return to for days or even weeks until someone forces them to stop. It can be heartbreaking but it really is true that dogs do have a strong tendency for extreme unwavering loyalty like that
speak to animals, read thoughts and raise dead are almost a requirement. the amount of content let alone optinal things it unlocks is amazing.
also the benofit about those three skills you dont need to lern them. all three can be found on items within the first act area
If you played Divinity 2, you know that the "Talk to animals feat/perk" increased the amount of quests and rewards by at least 30%. Rangers, Druids, Warlocks, and Nature Clerics are going to get access to so much more of BG3 than the classes that don't the speak with animals spell/invocation.
Bards and wizards also get it
luckily the potion is pretty cheap and common and lasts for a whole long rest.
Gotta be honest I’m only in act one but so far speaking with animals has only gained me some funny dialogue interactions… it hasn’t “benefited” my character in any tangible way tho, and half the animals say sad shit like, “don’t hit me human” or something along those lines lol… not sure how useful it becomes later but so far I may just swap it out for a spell that actually affects things
It also increases the chances of emotional damage by at least 40%. Being an animal in a Larian game can go from whimsical to tragic in less than a minute.
@@jwithextrajj 😂
I fucking adore the fact that the cat speaks as if he’s royalty! It’s EXACTLY how I imagine a talking cat would converse in the real world, if only such a mighty being existed
Speak with Animals is a ritual spell, and as of Hotfix 2 any class that can cast it essentially casts for free. Druids: prep it after a long rest, cast, then swap it out. Stays up till you rest and the game doesnt penelaize you for swapping spells.
You also get it at second level as Oath of the Ancients Paladin and it's always prepared, so that's convenient.
You can also just load up on potions
@silverblade357 Exactly! So many ways to talk to every animal you see!!!
If amazing how anyone can still to enjoy a good meal after they know this spell
@@athomenotavailable You ever eaten a fruit or vegetable in your life, gamer?
also, y'know. Plenty of those animals have malicious intent, or are just taking their place in the natural order of things. Cooking and eating an animal is not an evil act.
(Real life climate change and widespread habitat destruction from the agriculture industry and the excessive amounts of meat consumption across the world today, on the other hand...)
TIP: Don't skip through dialogue, Sometimes it will exit out of conversation after the first sentence leading you to believe that npc held no additional dialogue.
The best part is when you intimidate His Majesty: he responds “oh, I suppose you’re right” and then just calms down.
First time watching this spell work on "His Majesty", he immediately reminded me of the famous talking black cat that was Salem Saberhagen who was voived by Nick Bakay in Sabrina the Teenage Witch and its animated series.
Talk to Animals AND Talk to the Dead are important. :)
My main is a Druid so I've been talking to every animal in game.
I tried another class and party that didn't have it...Playing without Speak with Animals feels like an entirely different game.
You can take it on wyll or karlach, since wyll starts with 17 cha I take it on him as it helps with persuation and deception checks on animals.
Just buy potions
They are cheap
Wildheart Barbarian also gets it for free!
Grabbed it on my fey patron warlock as one of my first invocations.
Every long rest first thing, speak with animals, pet the dog.
Warlock is perfect. You only ever use 2 spell in fights: eldritch blast and EX.
So first boons are agonizing blast and speak with animals, second repelling blast, with pact of the book you get speak with the dead, if eldritch entity is your patron you can read minds. And since all abilities come from Charisma i slay in both persuasion and combat. purrfect.
talking people to death
Talking to that cat made me love the game even more
fun fact: astarion approves of every dialogue choice in his majesty’s interaction.
The dialogue cutscenes are so pretty and then it switches to the third person top down view where you can barely see any detail at all.
Honestly really glad I took Beast Speech as an invocation early. Animals are just other NPCs now. It's fun
Also scratch is the goodest of bois
For those who don't know, Volo has speak with animals potions for sale, and those last until you long rest
So you're telling me he had those in handy and still decided to interview a bear without drinking one? What a loon. Glad I didn't let him stick a needle in my eyehole
This was where i learned that Astarion likes cats :D He had an approve + when i talked to the cat and once more when i admired His Majesty :D
Astarion is like cat himself
Speak with animals, speak with the dead from thay book, disguise self, and detect thoughts are all must haves
12/10 best game ever.... you know sometimes when we wait really long, a good game shows up afterall
It's amazing how a whole line of characters can be missed simply because you chose a non-magic playthrough and didn't bother with scrolls that let you talk to them. Best part is, the animals are literally everywhere. You could do a whole run as a druid who attacks everyone on site and only makes friends with animals lol.
That cat in particular was just PRICELESS to me 😂❤
Dude, this might be the whole reason I actually get this game.
How the hell do they have cat interactions down to a T in literally the first minute of speaking to them. How dedicated were these devs?!?
Nah the guy who voiced the cat enjoyed that waaay too much 😂😂😂
I literally take ritual magician as my 4th level feat so I can grab this spell. It's so much fun. It's a shame speak with the dead isn't as good. But then again if you could speak with EVERY corpse it would be kinda .. impossible to do.
If you want to speak to every corpse you should play OS2
A tip: if you want to speak to someone you killed, use Disguise Self. People you've killed refuse to talk to you because they recognize you as their killer, however if you have Disguise Self active, they won't recognize you, and so they'll be willing to talk to you.
The only other game I've seen that gives you a spell to speak with the dead is Arcanum and it trivialized quite a few quests.
I wish more games did that.
It was VERY difficult to not steal the milk from the ritual in order to give it to His Majesty.
2:51 Watch out! That ox has a knife!
Can you imagine if Larian actually went so far as if you cast speak with dead and speak with plants, you could talk to furniture.....
As a DM I hate this take becuase I KNOW my players will try to talk to every single fucking chair possible.
@@MythicMachinasounds like a slippery slope to some kinky stuff
I've encountered two hairless cats in this game so far, and they're both voice acted immaculately.
The strange ox in the druid grove is my favorite speak with animals target thus far.
moo
The fact that they spent the time to do this is incredible.
4:00 I really didn't expect this one cave goat to be one of the best conversations in the game, but here we are
I also believe Speak with the Dead is another must-have spell. Even though you have limited questions to ask before the spell wears off. You can get some lore out of them sometimes whenever it's important or not.
Just remember not to use that spell with the person WHO KILLED the dead person you want to speak to! I always seem to do that mistake lol!
Everything I've seen so far about this game's dialogues is so much funn, I'm loving it so much. Can't wait to play 😂
I freed a giant spider from a cage and used the spell on him and he screamed "FREEDOM!!!"
I wish stuff like this existed in real life, I would be great to be able to talk to animals and organize with them better~
“Hissss I say, Hissss!”
This line has convinced me to purchase this game
I cannot say enough how perfect the owlbear is. Menacing, cruel but not in an evil way. Definitely dangerous.
Well for a "normal game" you expect one or two extra options but in bg3 if they get you an option they fucing go all out and i mean it: they made every fucing animal speak, the same with the dead.
Truly majestical: on a good RPG you may want to try out different approaches to a problem but here... there are literally no boundaries on how you want to address the problem!
HISS! I say: HISS! My absolute favourite line in the game
Yup. this is me. Just gathering an army of animals. And talking to'em.
Because if you've ever played a Larian game you know that even just the *hints* animals can give you are incredibly helpful, and that's before you get into how they can sometimes either be integral to quests or be quest givers themselves
Dogs: These beings feed me and give me shelter! They must be gods!
Cats: These beings feed me and give me shelter. I must be a god.
the frog has different dialogue and is celebrating after you kill that old lady who's the monster thingy, and it takes you to treasure
I LOVE when my players pop Speak w Animals at weird times! You just have to reward the creativity!
Once I started using this spell or potions to give me the ability, I realized how helpful this ability is for your character, and the lengths that Larian went to with their voice acting.
The music in the background with the ox was a really good choice.
I never leave camp without this spell. Talking to animals is one of my favorite features.
does anyone else also switch to their main character when starting any dialogue even if they don't have the best stats for the checks
Agreed. It was one of the first spells I pick up in my Ranger playthrough.
Voice director : You're voicing a cat.
Voice actor : Well sure my good sir !
When you start looking into every bit of detail the devs have put in. Details that aren't necessary at all for the game to work, but add that extra layer of immersion and fun.
You have to give it to Larian studios... Slow clap 👏 for them
Wow… they have cutscene dialogue and animations JUST in case you save both dog and owlbear. 3 playthrought idk how I miss that but damn
As someone who plays a fairy druid in D&D, Speak With Animals has actually helped us out considerably with quests and situations. Highly recommend this spell! Nice to see that it helps in the game, too. Can't wait to get this game for the PS5.
There’s a fairy class option?
@@Batzy8 There was in our session! We used Foundry and it was listed as an option I could play.
@@pixiethebug omggg that’s so cool. I need this game 🥹🥹
that is the most fitting voice for a cat ever
There are even Speak With Animals potions lying around, if you either didn't spec for SWA (Bard, Nature Cleric, Druid, Ranger) or if your perfect squad doesn't include Wyll (who can get Beast Speech) or Halsin (who has SWA as a Druid spell).
THAT OWLBEAR CUB ATE SCRATCH ON MY PLAYTHROUGH!!
That Owlbear cub is the cutest thing i've ever seen
The strange ox is literally the talking cat from Rick and Morty.
This is a lesson you learned back in DOS2
Speak with animals is 90|% of the reason I multiclassed into bard.
Its all fun and games until you fight the owlbear with speak with animals and see what happens. Broke my heart, had to restart my playthrough
I hope they add His Majesty as a recruitable pet at some point...
My only complaint with this spell is that I wish you could use it to talk to a wizard familiar, or a Beastmaster Ranger animal companion. that would be cool.
I was very disappointed that we couldn't even talk to the Imps or Quasit Pact of the Chain familiars. The game does such a delightful job that missing this, along with being able to communicate with / pet your Beastmaster companions, seemed an odd oversight.
Because the familiars aren't actually animals, they're fey spirits in the shape of animals.
The ranger companion I don't have an explanation for.
Wizard familiars, imps and quasits are not animals though. They are spirits that just happen to take that form. It's not a mistake, it's true to the rules. Beastmaster companion is a different thing though.
@@faselfasel2864 Aren't the Beastmaster companions fey bound in the shape of an animal?
@@DreamersOfReality No, they are actual physical animals that need healing/food/rest etc.
The bear Volo is talking to has another interaction immediately after if you talk to him again! He complains and asks why can't Volo understand him when you and the druids all can. He then repeats slowly, like he did before, about how he's come from far away and then smiles and does a couple of nods.
This is the exact reason I gave Gale magic initiate as soon as possible. Somewhere at the druid's grove I realised that nobody in my party can actually speak with animals or save me from my terrible luck with guidance. The luck could be savescummed away, however unpleasant that might be, but speaking with animals was irreplaceable, especially because I absolutely love the animals' outlook on the world and the dialogue.
The Dreaded Frog... *PTSD Intensified!*