Mine is if I don’t re-equip an weapon right away I forget to😂😂😂 I went through 3 fights and in each fight I noticed I forgot to re-equip. Decided to just use an action to put it in cuz action surge
Another excellent video. I knew about a handful of these but some of this quality of life stuff I totally missed. The being able to change the order my characters go in during a turn I am kicking myself about right now. That is huge.
Did they patch the torch barrel thing? I can't seem to make it work, it just moves the torch into my inventory. Or is there something I need to do besides just drag the torch to the barrel?
You can put all your potions, coatings, scrolls, special ammunition, etc. into bags (there's plenty of bags just lying around in the world, just pick them up), then put the bags on your item bar instead of individual items. There, now you have access to all your consumables with just 3-4 slots taken on the item bar (you can still use all of them in combat). Just make sure to organise those items into categories for easier access (picking differenty named/iconed bags can also help with that).
@@myspewedcomment156 so am I. As a full caster or a martial class with a lot of different skills (e.g. Battlemaster Fighter) who's also using a bunch of tadpole powers and on average 3-4 skills/spells from items, even with the skillbar expanded to 4 rows there isn't much room left for items tab. And moving it back and forth in combat can get tedious fast. But with the bag trick you never need more than 2-4 slots, depending how meticulous you are in categorising them. Also, another bag (preferably with a distinct name/icon) can be used to store everything you want to sell instead of manually adding these items to wares. When you're encumbered just send the bag to camp. Once you're ready to sell it's easy to pick it up again and at the vendor you can just sell the bag with all its contents with but a couple clicks. Then you can buy the bag back for like 3gp for further use (even more convenient, it will always be the topmost first item in the vendor's tab because of its type). While there is an option to sell all wares, it doesn't work in barter and sometimes you just want a magical item or two instead of gold. Sure, you can sell wares for gold and then buy the item but with the bag you skip a couple steps for convenience :)
@@cottoncandiez8872 there is if you switch between barter and trade on top, but then you can only buy/sell for gold, and, like I said before, gold is not something you'd always want from the vendor :)
5:48 Against the Hag, we used Create Water over Myra, so she wouldn't burn. A turn later, the hag switched places and casted an illusion on Myra. Myra was still wet from the water, so we proceeded to kick the hag's ass. Such a great detail from Larian.
That’s awesome! I used the frost spell on the burning basket and when the two versions of the girl appeared, I tried to charm them and the hag had a very low chance of being charmed and the girl had higher chances. That was a great hint!
the first time i fought her i splashed water over the basket,too. She still fell down(without me realizing it xD because i thought she was safe) . The second time she did tha illusion you talked about. Why?
@@tr4l1975 Actually at some point (and I'm not sure if it's a feat, a piece of gear, or just a level thing) Gale can start casting his AOE spells without hurting teammates. Sadly the same cannot be said for other characters(
@jacobyrassilon That's most likely the Evocation subclass with Sculpt Spells passive. If you take a different school of magic to spec into, then he won't have that ability. Unless you're referring to something he gains that I missed.
Another tip: use jump a lot to move around in combat. I’ve found that in most situations you can clear more distance by running and jumping, especially with high strength characters. It also allows you to clear many obstacles that you would waste movement running around
it costs 10meters movement to jump up to 15 meters. some races and spells increase this distance and make it even better. but yes jumping increasing your distance by at least 5 meters. with a rush attack as well. can get really far attack radius
the number of times the most random idea like that has worked because larian thought to make it work impresses me more than anything else. I love the way they made this game. cheers!
8:23 remember to press the extract all ingredients button once in a while so you dont end up with 50 undiscovered recipes, that you could've already learned
@@rogerwilco2I personally was really overwhelmed starting the game. Never really played a similar game. Only played DnD once and I was lost the whole time so I’m sure a lot of stuff in that tutorial flew over my head. Now that I sort of understand how the game works, I can better comprehend finer details that’ll help me.
10:30 Instead of throwing explosives, I've been using my rogue main to move in and drag-and-drop them onto the ground next to enemies. If you've hidden the turn before, that leaves you with your entire movement and cunning dash to walk up, drop a smokepowder bomb, and retreat a safe distance. Just shoot the enemy with a fire arrow, and you're getting the fire arrow's damage, sneak attack die, and the fire arrow AoE will set the bomb off. It's effectively two attack actions a turn. You can use this with Alchemist' fire, which generally never really feels worth spending an action to throw, to effectively throw it for free as long as you don't mind using a fire arrow as a catalyst. Alternatively you could synergize with your casters if you know they're going to use AoE fire spells anyways, just drop little surprises on the battlefield since you can effectively be almost anywhere as a rogue, even more so if you took Thief subclass. I imagine there's no limit to how many you can drop in one spot this way, or if dropping them individually or as a stack changes anything. I know some people will set up traps like this before combat and lure enemies in, but this is something you can do right in the middle of combat, useful if you didn't have the option to setup, or were ambushed.
Another tip with the alchemy is that not every component will automatically allow you to extract it from the menu, so if you have 3 of any raw component then open the bag and right click on it and it will give you the option to extract it and if it's not already learned you will learn it and it will then be available in the menu, which could open up new recopies.
One tip i liked was about inventory management. Use empty backpacks and if you are getting encoumbered while looting, shift group the stuff you want to sell - most of the time they are in a line and put them into one backpack. That one you either send to camp or to a companion with enough strength. At the vendor you can just sell the backpack and get money for everything in it. This helped me specifically for the moments when I was full, because than the micromanagent starts. Its also a bit better for vendors because you don't have to select how many you want to sell. For that their might be a command as well, but I don't know it. Thx for the barrel tip, gonna try that.
you can transfer items between characters during combat, just bring up inventory, right click item and send to whoever, It doesn't have to be that characters turn, they don't have to be next to each other and it doesn't take an action. Came in very clutch for me when I had to transfer some dimension door scrolls..
That's what I have been doing and wondered why everyone suggest throwing healing potions. Though I do understand throwing them to heal more than 1 character.
@@ludo5236or if they’re downed. I personally have never thrown a potion though and just use my bard to heal downed teammates, but that’s rare since this game likes to troll me and the few times I’ve had someone go down they usually died from being thrown off a cliff or something. Shit’s hilarious when it happens
Speaking of examining the illusions I remember accidentally foiling the hags illusions because I used create water on the cage, thus soaking the girl so when she tried that illusion, only one had the wet attribute 😂
another way is to cast resistance, guidance or another buff on the girl which will reveal which one is the real one as it doesn't copy the buff,effects. Useful if you don't have the water spell or used invisibility to free her ahead of time.
@tsuchimursu1777 weapon poison is a good way to break invisible. I used the lightning spell that links you to the target. It literally drew a line to her. Reactivation broke the spell.
The two biggest mistakes I've made so far in my first playthrough are not getting music lessons from the tiefling, and killing the owlbear cub. Regrets are being had
Missed out on the Ring of Protection. I was sympathetic to the kids, did everything for them, including stealing the idol. But catching Silfey in the act of going through my pockets is far too unforgivable of an offense for Mol. I would have even donated what she wanted to take in the first place! I guess that'll be corrected for the Durge playthrough
In combat, if you're next to a downed character, you can drop a potion (free action) out of your inventory and attack it. It will heal whomever is within the radius (even enemies) but if no one's around, you can get it as well. And out of combat, group everyone together and do it to heal everyone.
I love the sheer amount of posibilities in this game and also love when you find something new out. Like mentioned in the video, I found a hole my character was too big to fit into but 2 of my characters had the disguise self ability. Decided to give it a try and to my surprise it worked and I went into the hole… straight into a owlbear den. I did not survive that encounter and had to reload. 🤣
About number 2, not just you can act with whatever character you want within those 3, but you can swap them. So you could move Astarion, go back to Gale, use a bonus action, go back to Astarion, use the main action, go to your character, use her fully, go back to Gale, use the regular action, go back to Astarion, and use the bonus action, or whatever other combination you want. it's specially useful against creatures with low hit points left, for example. You might be wanting to drink a potion or use an off-hand attack to finish it off. You could try a ranged attack with a different character, and if that character misses, then use the off-hand, but if they hit, drink the potion.
Re mistake #8: that flaming sphere (and some other spells) can be temporarily deactivated too from making damage, I think the option appears in the passives tab
There is a "Extract All" Button in the Bottem left corner of the alchemy screen that automatically crafts all available suspensions, salts etc. picking up a ingredient for the first time unlocks the recipes you can craft of it, and often times books contain potion recipes. Just open the book and its unlocked. Also, you can hire a hireling (preferebly halfling bc rerolling the nat 1s) from withers and reskill them to transmutation wizard, max out Wisdom, proficiency medicine and multiclass rogue 1 level for extra medicine proficiency. The alchemy trait from the wizard and the high wisdom/medicine lets you reliably craft 2 potions every time you click craft with that hireling. Also on level 4 wizard i believe, you can make a transmuters stone with that hireling and put it on someone. even if the hireling stays at camp, the stone will still give its benefits to the party member.
You can also have that wizard learn long strider and cast it on EVERY team member at the start of the day - it doesn't even require a spell slot outside of combat and the person doesn't have to be actively on the team to receive the buff.
You can send everything in your camp supply pack to camp to save weight and still use it even though it will prompt you that you don't have materials to rest. When you go to rest it will all be there still there. Another thing is to put a backpack in you stash to store all those camp items.
Adding to tip Number 9 for alchemy : You can hire a mage hireling and have him be in the transmutation school of magic, and boost his wisdom as much as possible, that will make it so when you craft any potions with this charachter, you'll have a chance to double the number of potions/elixirs that you craft if they pass a medicine check, it's very strong !
Best use of this, is by taking the halfling bard and respec her to prioritise wisdom. The first two levels are Wizard, to get Trans Wizard, followed by a level of rogue (for the expertise) with Guidance, Enhance ability, possibly Bardic Inspiration, all backed up by halfling luck, failing becomes nigh impossible.
My tip is you can also select targets for buffs/debuffs by clicking on their portraits - instead of having to search around a crowded battle field for them. Really handy and quick way to apply bless etc.
you can cancel an "End Turn" if it's another characters turn. So if you accidentally end turn (space) you can undo it. Or if you need to move again because your target dies, you can go back and move.
9:13 Only wizards can put spells in their spellbook via scrolls. However, as long as the spell doesn't scale, you can put like a 5th or 6th level spell in your book when you have higher level slots but not spells innately at that level, say, if you were multiclassing. The reason I say don't have it scale with your spell modifier is because most spellcasters are either wisdom or charisma, Wizard is the only intelligence one (unless you have the artificer mod), so your intelligence is gonna be low, hence you're gonna want to scribe spells that don't scale with the modifier. Anything with a save is bad. So less fireballs and more twinspelling haste with your Sorcerer 3 bard 1 Wizard 1.
To clarify Mistake #2. This happens when multiple party members roll and get the same initiative. This will NOT always happen depending on party composition. I think LuckyGhost meant to word it so as to look for this and use the party member first that makes the most sense. Instead it kind of came across as him saying that, depending on your comp, this will happen.
No. As long as your party members are next to each other in the initiative tracker, you can choose which one will act first (you can even go back and forth, as in figuring out the combination of action + bonus action that is most optimal, if that's even needed at the time)
I think a good indicator of knowing whether it is or isn’t the case is look at the little icons they have on the top. Usually I’ve seen the two walls of various people be “intertwined” signifying they have the same initiative and you can change who goes first as a result.
I actually had that full harddrive problem on xbox. It told me once my storage was full, so i deleted saves. Died. Something went wrong and my old saves were back and i lost 2 hours of progress👀
Bard performance before sitting down quite a few barrels with a different character and then enter turn based mode to get your bard out before the explosion.. helps with acouple of fights if you know they're coming
ppl just need to take the time to customize their 'custom' tab. it takes a while once...but after that it's super easy to adjust and then you don't have 40 skills/spells/items you're never gunna use, be presented as an option. Plus, utilize the tabs on the bottom and top of your skills. if you click the 'bonus action' it shows you all the bonus actions you can take, only. so it's a lot easier to find the one thing you're looking for. BUT, if you put that on your custom tab... you can just stay on one tab and have your standard rotation and common non-standard actions listed so you don't have to click around and your rotation/topions can be put in a row so you can just click click boom. =P
My biggest mistake I did often for Shadowheart was forgetting that after you cast a concentration spell (Bless/Bane) you cannot cast another concentration spell or it removes the prior. So a workaround I eventually found was cast Bless, then use oil of bane on weapons, so you can both Bless&Bane going...then enemies are thrashing at the air all day lol (and pay better attention to concentration spells, grouped them all up on the bar). Also, found that the smokepowder bombs are highly effective for dealing with groups....then found that if you stack these in a backpack/bag, then throw a bag it can decimate enemies. Note, the backpack/bag needs to have health bar so it breaks open on throw /can be hit. So go ahead, stack 5 smokepowder in backpack, place or throw at enemies feet, set on fire. It is lighter than the barrel trick with higher damage potential.
besides, doesn't the damage value relates to the damage the potion takes, not the character? I'm pretty sure that in the video, the character didn't take any damage and was healed by the full 7 points. In doubt you can take a look at the battle log to check. EDIT: just tested this on a npc I needed to protect that had 1 HP left. The potion thrown in in their face killed them, so yeah, this video is correct and what I read about the potion taking damage is wrong!
My advice for alchemy is respec a companion you aren’t using into a transmutation wizard. Max out wisdom, take one level in rogue for medicine expertise. You should be able to get a +13 or so to your medicine rolls and double everything you craft. After they hit level 6 wizard you’ll also be able to make an alchemy stone you can give to the main party.
By the way I would be careful with quicksaving / loading during conversations or events in Act 3. I bricked a save file because I saved during dialogue choices, and when I loaded I couldn't do anything : the game loaded my game before that conversation triggers (even though I saved in it) but considered that I was IN conversation so I couldn't do anything / move any character. I had to load an earlier save to be able to progress pass that point. Act3 hasn't been tested as much as the others I'm afraid.
As an addendum to #4 check your PC in advance to make sure you have enough space to download the game. I'm playing the game on my laptop because my PC didn't have enough space to download it- and it's a gaming PC.
I just went out and bought a 4tb on sale. Already wishing I would have got x2 and ran them in raid. I have a feeling saving is going to be a big part of this game
Lucky Ghost once stole my DeLorean, traveled back in time, flew to Sweden, impregnated my mother, then returned to the present in said DeLorean, and gave it back to me with a full tank of gas. I am glad he is my dad.
I don't get it saves files shouldn't really need to exceed 1mb each I see plenty of save files in the 500kb's anyways on another note this guide is for pc, can you do them on console too and if so how? would be nice if you included a console, but my guess is you don't have a console or have not played this on console lol
@@LuckyGhost fair enough, right now I'm encountering I think a glitch? When switching between torch and weapon, the weapon used to stay on my back now it disappears like it's being hidden, have no idea why.
another tip is you can respec a chr then when you go to do your levels just go to a trader and do each level up and then x out and the trader will reset his goods and gold each time you level, this allows you to do a ton of trading without long reseting.
@@kingslaphappy1533 It's not too far from where you fight the goblins at the entrance to Emerald Grove. Head up the road north and you look for a place where you can jump up. It's the rocky area right before the bridge headed to the goblin camp. If you equip on a character and keep Shadowheart and respec her (or run with a druid or paladin) and get enhance ability , you can get an advantage roll (roll 2 dice and take the best roll) PLUS get the guidance buff because it's two different buffs from two different characters.
One more useful things about barrels is: you can carry them and then you dont have to throw them. You can jus drop them and set some place as a land of total annihilation. I have dropped few of them in Baltazar office and when I engage fight with fireball he just stay with 3HP and his servants evaporated. Except this big f..er ofc but he alone was not a big deal.😂
5:43 In act 2, when you go to that... "jump and jump and jump and jump" place (You'll know)... in the conversation, DO THAT, because your party will be TOO CLOSE TO THE BORDER and some enemies... like to push a lot.
First time playing dnd been hooked for the last 36hours, but I always go into battles with only 3 of my party, and use astarion to plan out strategies real time as he’s not “initiated in battle” took me one fireball to clear out the group in the ruins early game… distracted them to gather up at one entry, switched to Goblin Slayer(my character) and placed purple explosive barrels I grabbed from the nautilus battle, in true goblin slayer fashion I made short work of lvl 5 enemies with lvl 10 goblin slayer iq
thank you..I just started playing and I am WAY out of my element...even though I have played a lot D&D ...but that was years ago. I just got myself my very 1st PS5 and this is so different but I am sticking to it.
Don't make this mistake (very minor spoilers) - don't ignore the sidequests and exploring and just go for the main quest in Act 2. If you are level 7 or lower when you get to Act 3, it's gonna be though. And you can't return to Act1 zones to grind some xp by the end of Act 2.
Idk what happened but I defeated the paladins with Kathar but then she rampaged and killed everyone including my party lol. This game is a trip. Wonder if I should do some ruins before doing Kathars paladin quest again. Wild.
i accidentally buffed this 130hp monster to have advantage on attack rolls while it was devastating my melee fighters. wish i knew then that i could have cancelled the buff :( RIP, astarion
I have a question, maybe you can answer in future video.. when I steal, no matter what it is, the person I stole it from, knows its gone in a couple of seconds and starts looking around and if I am still close by I get questioned about it. Is there a special trait you have to have NOT to have that happen to you?
Windows has had a directory for almost 15 years in the user documents area specifically for video games to store their save files. Why in the f*ing hell are BG3 saves nine levels deep in a subfolder that's hidden from the user by default?
What if people are playing this way on purpose, its presumptious of you to call them 'mistakes' there is no wrong way to play this game. Different permutations and different endings abound.
Sooo if you know about the hag in Act 1, then sneak attack her in her hut with your strongest spell and she will chose to fight back till u get her to about 90 HP then she will retreat and take mearina with her leaving you to completely raid her whole swanp house without interuption.
Another way to tell between duplicates is thier level. I was fighting a boss and displed before getting any buffs off, it then used a civilian as a duplicate. This was early on so one was level 1 and the other 5.
I'm hoarding alchemist supplies so I can eventually use a transmutation wizard and get more out of them with a higher proficiency which I'm going to get expertise in
If I'm not mistaken there's a limit to how many spells you can copy into your spell book. Use to be tied to your INT modifier I think not sure about BG3 though, haven't made it that far.
So that's why the game gives us all those stupid lit candles 🕯️ lol. I was so confused for such a long time as to why that seemingly useless item was in the game. I guess I never put on my thinking cap.
Fun little tip. If you have a buff that lasts until your next long rest, and you want to keep it for longer, then all you have to is respect your characters and they get all their resources back with no long rest needed. Then just pickpocket your gold back and boom you never have to long rest again!
I did that in divinity original sin I looted the whole 1st town by keeping npc A distracted and had my guy or girl steal everything in sight. It worked for getting spells I needed.
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My personal #1 mistake to avoid: Not rebinding your weapon after a long rest as a Pact of the Blade warlock.
There's a mod now that makes that persistent through long rest.
Mine is if I don’t re-equip an weapon right away I forget to😂😂😂 I went through 3 fights and in each fight I noticed I forgot to re-equip. Decided to just use an action to put it in cuz action surge
My weapon stays bound even after I long rest… am I missing something?
@@jake_quinnif its a summoned weapon then you dont have to bound it after resting.
@@The_JamesVyou do I know for a fact you just resummon it before battle and it’s bound it’s kinda frustrating lol
Another excellent video. I knew about a handful of these but some of this quality of life stuff I totally missed. The being able to change the order my characters go in during a turn I am kicking myself about right now. That is huge.
Pick Athletics or Acrobatics as a proficiency unless you want to be shoved to a insta death. (They don't stack, "choice roll")
Fantastic, thank you.
Kinda wish these were relevant to consoles. (You can't drag and drop loot) I get it and there are work arounds but it's different for sure.
perhaps on console you can "right click" , i mean, open context menu
Did they patch the torch barrel thing? I can't seem to make it work, it just moves the torch into my inventory. Or is there something I need to do besides just drag the torch to the barrel?
trying to figure this out too.....
You can put all your potions, coatings, scrolls, special ammunition, etc. into bags (there's plenty of bags just lying around in the world, just pick them up), then put the bags on your item bar instead of individual items. There, now you have access to all your consumables with just 3-4 slots taken on the item bar (you can still use all of them in combat). Just make sure to organise those items into categories for easier access (picking differenty named/iconed bags can also help with that).
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This did not work in Early Access. I'm glad they chose to fix this.
@@myspewedcomment156 so am I. As a full caster or a martial class with a lot of different skills (e.g. Battlemaster Fighter) who's also using a bunch of tadpole powers and on average 3-4 skills/spells from items, even with the skillbar expanded to 4 rows there isn't much room left for items tab. And moving it back and forth in combat can get tedious fast. But with the bag trick you never need more than 2-4 slots, depending how meticulous you are in categorising them.
Also, another bag (preferably with a distinct name/icon) can be used to store everything you want to sell instead of manually adding these items to wares. When you're encumbered just send the bag to camp. Once you're ready to sell it's easy to pick it up again and at the vendor you can just sell the bag with all its contents with but a couple clicks. Then you can buy the bag back for like 3gp for further use (even more convenient, it will always be the topmost first item in the vendor's tab because of its type). While there is an option to sell all wares, it doesn't work in barter and sometimes you just want a magical item or two instead of gold. Sure, you can sell wares for gold and then buy the item but with the bag you skip a couple steps for convenience :)
@@Mordring😂 I didn't know there was a sell all wares option
@@cottoncandiez8872 there is if you switch between barter and trade on top, but then you can only buy/sell for gold, and, like I said before, gold is not something you'd always want from the vendor :)
5:48 Against the Hag, we used Create Water over Myra, so she wouldn't burn. A turn later, the hag switched places and casted an illusion on Myra. Myra was still wet from the water, so we proceeded to kick the hag's ass. Such a great detail from Larian.
That’s awesome! I used the frost spell on the burning basket and when the two versions of the girl appeared, I tried to charm them and the hag had a very low chance of being charmed and the girl had higher chances. That was a great hint!
I did the same
the first time i fought her i splashed water over the basket,too. She still fell down(without me realizing it xD because i thought she was safe) . The second time she did tha illusion you talked about. Why?
I did the same lol
This game is truly a masterpiece. Should be game of the year.
true!
Has to be game of the year!
Remember the game has still to compete with Hogwarts Legacy on this one.
meh
I wish Larian had left out all the political woke ideologies. It would have been a masterpiece then.
Bonus tip: friendly fire is a thing… don’t accidentally click the wrong person 😂 (don’t ask me how I know)
Let me guess....Gale?
oh ived done that a few times :D
@@tr4l1975 Actually at some point (and I'm not sure if it's a feat, a piece of gear, or just a level thing) Gale can start casting his AOE spells without hurting teammates. Sadly the same cannot be said for other characters(
@jacobyrassilon That's most likely the Evocation subclass with Sculpt Spells passive. If you take a different school of magic to spec into, then he won't have that ability. Unless you're referring to something he gains that I missed.
@@blackhat4206 No, I think that it is his subclass....I always spec him into evocation, so that's probably it.
Another tip: use jump a lot to move around in combat. I’ve found that in most situations you can clear more distance by running and jumping, especially with high strength characters. It also allows you to clear many obstacles that you would waste movement running around
it costs 10meters movement to jump up to 15 meters. some races and spells increase this distance and make it even better. but yes jumping increasing your distance by at least 5 meters. with a rush attack as well. can get really far attack radius
I do it alot, especially with karlach and Layzel, who i then proceed to smack someone 5 times. Jumping takes a bonus action, and no movement
I had a lever out of reach once and used thorn whip to actually pull the lever, I felt like a genius after that one.
the number of times the most random idea like that has worked because larian thought to make it work impresses me more than anything else. I love the way they made this game. cheers!
This is how you DnD, that's a really great idea!
8:23 remember to press the extract all ingredients button once in a while so you dont end up with 50 undiscovered recipes, that you could've already learned
I didn't find this button till act three and was so mad at myself lol
where is this said extract all ingredients button?
@@endphen you can see it in the video at the bottom of the alchemy tab
But very careful as u can extract things you'll need for quests like to fuel of madness (don't ask me how I know 😢)
Party members having their turn at the same time and switching between them is going to be a game changer for me. Thank you, and have a sub.
I am actually surprised people don't know this as it is one of the things the tutorial tells you.
Yeh cos we all learn perfectly all of the time. (Sound of teachers laughing)@@rogerwilco2
I was half way in to act 2 before I realized this. Made the game so much harder on myself.
@@rogerwilco2I personally was really overwhelmed starting the game. Never really played a similar game. Only played DnD once and I was lost the whole time so I’m sure a lot of stuff in that tutorial flew over my head.
Now that I sort of understand how the game works, I can better comprehend finer details that’ll help me.
Honestly I played through act 1 got into act 2 and then restarted with a new playthrough it was way more enjoyable that way lol.
PSA: The torch+barrel trick at 9:51 is no longer possible, they patched it out.
really glad I didn't try it then lol
you can still use a backpack in a similar fashion, although the ground has to be burning when you throw it and it breaks
10:30 Instead of throwing explosives, I've been using my rogue main to move in and drag-and-drop them onto the ground next to enemies. If you've hidden the turn before, that leaves you with your entire movement and cunning dash to walk up, drop a smokepowder bomb, and retreat a safe distance. Just shoot the enemy with a fire arrow, and you're getting the fire arrow's damage, sneak attack die, and the fire arrow AoE will set the bomb off. It's effectively two attack actions a turn. You can use this with Alchemist' fire, which generally never really feels worth spending an action to throw, to effectively throw it for free as long as you don't mind using a fire arrow as a catalyst. Alternatively you could synergize with your casters if you know they're going to use AoE fire spells anyways, just drop little surprises on the battlefield since you can effectively be almost anywhere as a rogue, even more so if you took Thief subclass. I imagine there's no limit to how many you can drop in one spot this way, or if dropping them individually or as a stack changes anything.
I know some people will set up traps like this before combat and lure enemies in, but this is something you can do right in the middle of combat, useful if you didn't have the option to setup, or were ambushed.
Another tip with the alchemy is that not every component will automatically allow you to extract it from the menu, so if you have 3 of any raw component then open the bag and right click on it and it will give you the option to extract it and if it's not already learned you will learn it and it will then be available in the menu, which could open up new recopies.
One tip i liked was about inventory management. Use empty backpacks and if you are getting encoumbered while looting, shift group the stuff you want to sell - most of the time they are in a line and put them into one backpack. That one you either send to camp or to a companion with enough strength. At the vendor you can just sell the backpack and get money for everything in it. This helped me specifically for the moments when I was full, because than the micromanagent starts. Its also a bit better for vendors because you don't have to select how many you want to sell. For that their might be a command as well, but I don't know it. Thx for the barrel tip, gonna try that.
you can transfer items between characters during combat, just bring up inventory, right click item and send to whoever, It doesn't have to be that characters turn, they don't have to be next to each other and it doesn't take an action. Came in very clutch for me when I had to transfer some dimension door scrolls..
So that's how you do it? I try dragging into inventory but if it's not that characters turn it won't transfer. Thanks this is huge!
You can use items directly out of all party members inventories, you don't even need to move it to a different inventory first.
That's what I have been doing and wondered why everyone suggest throwing healing potions. Though I do understand throwing them to heal more than 1 character.
@@ludo5236or if they’re downed. I personally have never thrown a potion though and just use my bard to heal downed teammates, but that’s rare since this game likes to troll me and the few times I’ve had someone go down they usually died from being thrown off a cliff or something. Shit’s hilarious when it happens
The Biggest thing to avoid is neglecting your wife and children...This game will take your life over if you allow it to...
Speaking of examining the illusions I remember accidentally foiling the hags illusions because I used create water on the cage, thus soaking the girl so when she tried that illusion, only one had the wet attribute 😂
same
another way is to cast resistance, guidance or another buff on the girl which will reveal which one is the real one as it doesn't copy the buff,effects. Useful if you don't have the water spell or used invisibility to free her ahead of time.
I had my weapons coated in poisons which also removed her invisibility. Lol
@tsuchimursu1777 weapon poison is a good way to break invisible. I used the lightning spell that links you to the target. It literally drew a line to her. Reactivation broke the spell.
The two biggest mistakes I've made so far in my first playthrough are not getting music lessons from the tiefling, and killing the owlbear cub. Regrets are being had
Had to do this for my oath breaker
Missed out on the Ring of Protection. I was sympathetic to the kids, did everything for them, including stealing the idol. But catching Silfey in the act of going through my pockets is far too unforgivable of an offense for Mol. I would have even donated what she wanted to take in the first place! I guess that'll be corrected for the Durge playthrough
In combat, if you're next to a downed character, you can drop a potion (free action) out of your inventory and attack it. It will heal whomever is within the radius (even enemies) but if no one's around, you can get it as well. And out of combat, group everyone together and do it to heal everyone.
My saves are 15 GB / 16.5 GB and I'm still in Act 1
I am impressed good sir, I am impressed!
First tip: you can also right click and click on the name of the char you want the item to go to
holy crap are you serious?? 70 hours into the game and i didn't even know this. I always got lost in camp looking for the person I was looking for
Yes! And you can also shift click multiple items > right click to send it to a character to make it quicker
Yea, i think it was like that in dos2 aswell.
I love the sheer amount of posibilities in this game and also love when you find something new out. Like mentioned in the video, I found a hole my character was too big to fit into but 2 of my characters had the disguise self ability. Decided to give it a try and to my surprise it worked and I went into the hole… straight into a owlbear den. I did not survive that encounter and had to reload. 🤣
Great stuff, didn’t know about pickpocketing withers or the torch in the barrel thing and will definitely be doing both
There are no mistakes in this game...Just happy accidents
well said!
And when there is, just beat the devil out of it!
@DangerLevel10 just give it a tippidy tap
About number 2, not just you can act with whatever character you want within those 3, but you can swap them. So you could move Astarion, go back to Gale, use a bonus action, go back to Astarion, use the main action, go to your character, use her fully, go back to Gale, use the regular action, go back to Astarion, and use the bonus action, or whatever other combination you want.
it's specially useful against creatures with low hit points left, for example. You might be wanting to drink a potion or use an off-hand attack to finish it off. You could try a ranged attack with a different character, and if that character misses, then use the off-hand, but if they hit, drink the potion.
Re mistake #8: that flaming sphere (and some other spells) can be temporarily deactivated too from making damage, I think the option appears in the passives tab
There is a "Extract All" Button in the Bottem left corner of the alchemy screen that automatically crafts all available suspensions, salts etc. picking up a ingredient for the first time unlocks the recipes you can craft of it, and often times books contain potion recipes. Just open the book and its unlocked. Also, you can hire a hireling (preferebly halfling bc rerolling the nat 1s) from withers and reskill them to transmutation wizard, max out Wisdom, proficiency medicine and multiclass rogue 1 level for extra medicine proficiency. The alchemy trait from the wizard and the high wisdom/medicine lets you reliably craft 2 potions every time you click craft with that hireling. Also on level 4 wizard i believe, you can make a transmuters stone with that hireling and put it on someone. even if the hireling stays at camp, the stone will still give its benefits to the party member.
You can also have that wizard learn long strider and cast it on EVERY team member at the start of the day - it doesn't even require a spell slot outside of combat and the person doesn't have to be actively on the team to receive the buff.
You can send everything in your camp supply pack to camp to save weight and still use it even though it will prompt you that you don't have materials to rest. When you go to rest it will all be there still there. Another thing is to put a backpack in you stash to store all those camp items.
Adding to tip Number 9 for alchemy : You can hire a mage hireling and have him be in the transmutation school of magic, and boost his wisdom as much as possible, that will make it so when you craft any potions with this charachter, you'll have a chance to double the number of potions/elixirs that you craft if they pass a medicine check, it's very strong !
Best use of this, is by taking the halfling bard and respec her to prioritise wisdom. The first two levels are Wizard, to get Trans Wizard, followed by a level of rogue (for the expertise) with Guidance, Enhance ability, possibly Bardic Inspiration, all backed up by halfling luck, failing becomes nigh impossible.
My tip is you can also select targets for buffs/debuffs by clicking on their portraits - instead of having to search around a crowded battle field for them. Really handy and quick way to apply bless etc.
you can cancel an "End Turn" if it's another characters turn. So if you accidentally end turn (space) you can undo it. Or if you need to move again because your target dies, you can go back and move.
9:13 Only wizards can put spells in their spellbook via scrolls. However, as long as the spell doesn't scale, you can put like a 5th or 6th level spell in your book when you have higher level slots but not spells innately at that level, say, if you were multiclassing.
The reason I say don't have it scale with your spell modifier is because most spellcasters are either wisdom or charisma, Wizard is the only intelligence one (unless you have the artificer mod), so your intelligence is gonna be low, hence you're gonna want to scribe spells that don't scale with the modifier. Anything with a save is bad. So less fireballs and more twinspelling haste with your Sorcerer 3 bard 1 Wizard 1.
To clarify Mistake #2. This happens when multiple party members roll and get the same initiative. This will NOT always happen depending on party composition. I think LuckyGhost meant to word it so as to look for this and use the party member first that makes the most sense. Instead it kind of came across as him saying that, depending on your comp, this will happen.
No. As long as your party members are next to each other in the initiative tracker, you can choose which one will act first (you can even go back and forth, as in figuring out the combination of action + bonus action that is most optimal, if that's even needed at the time)
I think a good indicator of knowing whether it is or isn’t the case is look at the little icons they have on the top. Usually I’ve seen the two walls of various people be “intertwined” signifying they have the same initiative and you can change who goes first as a result.
The biggest takeaway I got from this is that withers is a glorified savings account
I actually had that full harddrive problem on xbox.
It told me once my storage was full, so i deleted saves.
Died. Something went wrong and my old saves were back and i lost 2 hours of progress👀
That disguise self is huge for me. I always figured I needed to make a small char in order to get through those little holes, but wow :D
Luckily I played a druid who could shapeshift into a cat. When this worked for exploring, I knew this game was going to be epic.
Bard performance before sitting down quite a few barrels with a different character and then enter turn based mode to get your bard out before the explosion.. helps with acouple of fights if you know they're coming
Bards are such cool distractions
Mistake 1: I just right click and "Send To" the character I want to give an item to, or the camp if I want it in the travellers chest.
80 hours in and still on act 1 because I’m cursed to put my hands on everything and I still appreciated this video
Put on a piece of equipment that let's you cast a buff, then switch the equipment and the buff stays on you.
ppl just need to take the time to customize their 'custom' tab. it takes a while once...but after that it's super easy to adjust and then you don't have 40 skills/spells/items you're never gunna use, be presented as an option. Plus, utilize the tabs on the bottom and top of your skills. if you click the 'bonus action' it shows you all the bonus actions you can take, only. so it's a lot easier to find the one thing you're looking for. BUT, if you put that on your custom tab... you can just stay on one tab and have your standard rotation and common non-standard actions listed so you don't have to click around and your rotation/topions can be put in a row so you can just click click boom. =P
it's useless for classes that have to prepare spells as the spells will keep disappearing on the custom tab. same when switching gear
@@Medikto incorrect. Your tab keeps spells u cant use, they're just grayed out.
My biggest mistake I did often for Shadowheart was forgetting that after you cast a concentration spell (Bless/Bane) you cannot cast another concentration spell or it removes the prior. So a workaround I eventually found was cast Bless, then use oil of bane on weapons, so you can both Bless&Bane going...then enemies are thrashing at the air all day lol (and pay better attention to concentration spells, grouped them all up on the bar).
Also, found that the smokepowder bombs are highly effective for dealing with groups....then found that if you stack these in a backpack/bag, then throw a bag it can decimate enemies. Note, the backpack/bag needs to have health bar so it breaks open on throw /can be hit. So go ahead, stack 5 smokepowder in backpack, place or throw at enemies feet, set on fire. It is lighter than the barrel trick with higher damage potential.
whenever I try to throw potions at peoples feet, it almost always misses and lands next to them, even when the indicator says it'll hit them
besides, doesn't the damage value relates to the damage the potion takes, not the character? I'm pretty sure that in the video, the character didn't take any damage and was healed by the full 7 points. In doubt you can take a look at the battle log to check.
EDIT: just tested this on a npc I needed to protect that had 1 HP left. The potion thrown in in their face killed them, so yeah, this video is correct and what I read about the potion taking damage is wrong!
My advice for alchemy is respec a companion you aren’t using into a transmutation wizard. Max out wisdom, take one level in rogue for medicine expertise. You should be able to get a +13 or so to your medicine rolls and double everything you craft. After they hit level 6 wizard you’ll also be able to make an alchemy stone you can give to the main party.
You can get a wizard hireling from withers! Wizard also can cast long strider on everyone in camp without using spell slots
If you just want to succeed at a die roll. hit F5 at the dice roll screen and F8 until it succeeds
By the way I would be careful with quicksaving / loading during conversations or events in Act 3. I bricked a save file because I saved during dialogue choices, and when I loaded I couldn't do anything : the game loaded my game before that conversation triggers (even though I saved in it) but considered that I was IN conversation so I couldn't do anything / move any character. I had to load an earlier save to be able to progress pass that point. Act3 hasn't been tested as much as the others I'm afraid.
Most of the tip videos talk about the same thing. This video was by far the best and most helpful. Great job
Glad to hear it!
A lot of these are actually going to help me and I have already finished the game once lol
So many great features I've been missing out on between these two videos, thanks!
Shooting buttons, flaming torches in barrels… been playing for 40hours and am still learning so much! Thanks for the good info
Thanks for the vid! I found you through ESO years ago and now I’m able to follow you along on the BG3 journey!
Awesome! Thank you!
As an addendum to #4 check your PC in advance to make sure you have enough space to download the game. I'm playing the game on my laptop because my PC didn't have enough space to download it- and it's a gaming PC.
I just went out and bought a 4tb on sale. Already wishing I would have got x2 and ran them in raid. I have a feeling saving is going to be a big part of this game
I just got a 4 TB SSD and BG3 is the first thing on it!
Lucky Ghost once stole my DeLorean, traveled back in time, flew to Sweden, impregnated my mother, then returned to the present in said DeLorean, and gave it back to me with a full tank of gas. I am glad he is my dad.
I don't get it saves files shouldn't really need to exceed 1mb each I see plenty of save files in the 500kb's anyways on another note this guide is for pc, can you do them on console too and if so how? would be nice if you included a console, but my guess is you don't have a console or have not played this on console lol
Haha ya unfortunately the game wasn't out on console until a month after I made this so no one had played it on console yet 😅
@@LuckyGhost fair enough, right now I'm encountering I think a glitch? When switching between torch and weapon, the weapon used to stay on my back now it disappears like it's being hidden, have no idea why.
The examine feature is amazing for the fight with Auntie Ethel whenever she changes into Mayrina if you don't want to kill Mayrina (:
Man these were so helpful - I feel like an idiot for not realizing some of them sooner. Thank you!!!
Being able to pickpocket withers is a literal gamechanger
another tip is you can respec a chr then when you go to do your levels just go to a trader and do each level up and then x out and the trader will reset his goods and gold each time you level, this allows you to do a ton of trading without long reseting.
Tip: You can get a necklace with guidance on it from the first map up top a hill…especially when you don’t need the cleric lady on your team.
Hi dee, could you tell me where to find this hill as i would like to have the necklace, ty.
@@kingslaphappy1533 It's not too far from where you fight the goblins at the entrance to Emerald Grove. Head up the road north and you look for a place where you can jump up. It's the rocky area right before the bridge headed to the goblin camp. If you equip on a character and keep Shadowheart and respec her (or run with a druid or paladin) and get enhance ability , you can get an advantage roll (roll 2 dice and take the best roll) PLUS get the guidance buff because it's two different buffs from two different characters.
Lucky ghost you're a cool guy, I always like comment and double subscribe.
heck ya brother, I appreciate it!
An easier way for mistake 1. Right click on the item, and you can choose on who to send it or to send it to camp. No dragging required
One more useful things about barrels is: you can carry them and then you dont have to throw them. You can jus drop them and set some place as a land of total annihilation. I have dropped few of them in Baltazar office and when I engage fight with fireball he just stay with 3HP and his servants evaporated. Except this big f..er ofc but he alone was not a big deal.😂
What’s that armour plate you have at 7:34? Looks like a cool leather trench coat
5:43 In act 2, when you go to that... "jump and jump and jump and jump" place (You'll know)... in the conversation, DO THAT, because your party will be TOO CLOSE TO THE BORDER and some enemies... like to push a lot.
#1: right click on loot, send to camp or click on character name in list to put in their inventory
First time playing dnd been hooked for the last 36hours, but I always go into battles with only 3 of my party, and use astarion to plan out strategies real time as he’s not “initiated in battle” took me one fireball to clear out the group in the ruins early game… distracted them to gather up at one entry, switched to Goblin Slayer(my character) and placed purple explosive barrels I grabbed from the nautilus battle, in true goblin slayer fashion I made short work of lvl 5 enemies with lvl 10 goblin slayer iq
Beat the game in 70 hours, never used alchemy 😂🤦🏻♂️ damn that would have been helpful
I'm 50 hrs in and haven't explored the Underdark.. I think I need to speed up a little xD
OMG i now know what that button does... it disarms the traps. I never knew that and was puzzled by what the purpose was. Wow i am dumb
thank you..I just started playing and I am WAY out of my element...even though I have played a lot D&D ...but that was years ago. I just got myself my very 1st PS5 and this is so different but I am sticking to it.
I never would have figured out that you can Donkey Kong flaming barrels at people.
Does anybody know how to do this on console with controller?
7:25 this is awesome..all my characters walk through my cloud of daggers...after the fight
Don't make this mistake (very minor spoilers) - don't ignore the sidequests and exploring and just go for the main quest in Act 2. If you are level 7 or lower when you get to Act 3, it's gonna be though. And you can't return to Act1 zones to grind some xp by the end of Act 2.
Idk what happened but I defeated the paladins with Kathar but then she rampaged and killed everyone including my party lol. This game is a trip. Wonder if I should do some ruins before doing Kathars paladin quest again. Wild.
i accidentally buffed this 130hp monster to have advantage on attack rolls while it was devastating my melee fighters. wish i knew then that i could have cancelled the buff :( RIP, astarion
I have a question, maybe you can answer in future video.. when I steal, no matter what it is, the person I stole it from, knows its gone in a couple of seconds and starts looking around and if I am still close by I get questioned about it. Is there a special trait you have to have NOT to have that happen to you?
My mistake number one is pressing f8 instead of f5 😅
Tip: While traveling, You will come across many bottles of alcohol. Theyre all flammable just as they are IRL. 😅 Let chaos take the world in flames
Windows has had a directory for almost 15 years in the user documents area specifically for video games to store their save files. Why in the f*ing hell are BG3 saves nine levels deep in a subfolder that's hidden from the user by default?
Lots of save files? Why would we be saving constantly? It couldn't be because of the RNG in every freaking aspect of this game.
What if people are playing this way on purpose, its presumptious of you to call them 'mistakes' there is no wrong way to play this game. Different permutations and different endings abound.
This has been the most informative one of these tips and tricks videos I have seen so far.
That Last one Is Gonna Help on the save With my Brother, i tripped the trap by failing perception and overzealously clicking the crypt
you can also throw backpacks full of explosives with the same effect - basically dropped warhead on True Soul Nere’s head and his mercenaries 😂
Sooo if you know about the hag in Act 1, then sneak attack her in her hut with your strongest spell and she will chose to fight back till u get her to about 90 HP then she will retreat and take mearina with her leaving you to completely raid her whole swanp house without interuption.
I was today years old when I found out that button disarms the sarcophagus trap! I thought if I failed the perception check, I was screwed.
Another way to tell between duplicates is thier level.
I was fighting a boss and displed before getting any buffs off, it then used a civilian as a duplicate. This was early on so one was level 1 and the other 5.
I'm hoarding alchemist supplies so I can eventually use a transmutation wizard and get more out of them with a higher proficiency which I'm going to get expertise in
Thanks for the vid I’ve been getting wrecked in my first play through so I’m looking forward to beginning a new playthrough and applying your advice
If I'm not mistaken there's a limit to how many spells you can copy into your spell book. Use to be tied to your INT modifier I think not sure about BG3 though, haven't made it that far.
So that's why the game gives us all those stupid lit candles 🕯️ lol. I was so confused for such a long time as to why that seemingly useless item was in the game. I guess I never put on my thinking cap.
About #2: You know this by looking at the frames on the character portraits. If they are intertwined, you can choose who will act.
Fun little tip. If you have a buff that lasts until your next long rest, and you want to keep it for longer, then all you have to is respect your characters and they get all their resources back with no long rest needed. Then just pickpocket your gold back and boom you never have to long rest again!
That sounds potentially gamebreaking. There's a lot of cutscenes and progression points that come with long resting.
I did that in divinity original sin I looted the whole 1st town by keeping npc A distracted and had my guy or girl steal everything in sight. It worked for getting spells I needed.
Does withers really not care? Because if he gets mad or disappointed im okay💀 I’m trying to be good on my first play through 😅
A lot of PC-heavy tips that I'm not sure I, a console player, can use, unfortunately. But thanks anyways for the ones I can use.