How are everyone’s stories coming along? Have you finished the game? If so how many times?
What tips, remarks or other things of note do you have that you want to discuss here?
As always try to keep things as spoiler free as possible.
Also should I do these posts more regularly (shows up on people’s feeds more and so has more traction) or like this is fine. Definitely don’t want to spam people.
Lucky rolls to you all!
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I’m on my 2nd playthrough, after ending my first abruptly in Act 2 (Someone here knows how that happens). Currently just hit Act 2 in my new game. Going on 458 Hours total. Think that includes OA time as well…
Yeah, I hit a wall I can’t overcome; Shadowheart or Karlach?
Neither. Lae’zel.
I see you like your bits stepped on and abused.
Aye, she’ll do it, lad.
I only just started act 2 but she’s already asked me to fight her. I won and I think she’s even more into me now.
Karlach because she’s hot…
I’ll see myself out.
After seeing an article about dark urge and how special it is I decided to give it a shot. I also read a comment on here saying romance between Shadowheart and Seluna’s cleric MC is great. So I decided to combine those two things for my 3rd playthrough! ( i have yet to experience act 2 btw…think I have a problem)
I made a Seldarine drow with the idea being that she used to be bloodthirsty Lolth sworn but eventually she found Seluna and became her cleric, now she’s trying to be better. I thought that worked well with heroic dark urge story I wanted and I get to experience the enemies to lovers relationship with shadowheart. Don’t know if the way the story will unravel will validate my headcanoned backstory for her but so far I’m quite enjoying it.
This is also the first playthrough where I met Timber the squirrel, I didn’t know he was in the game before this playthrough, I was kinda excited to meet him…yeah.
Im at the end of my durge run rn. My advice would be to not shy away from doing evil things despite what other people say about losing out on content. You really dont miss that much, and you get some pretty sweet cutscenes, especially if you commit to it. Plus, astarion and minthara will support you the entire way on your descent into darkness :)
You know I would do that if for nothing else than just for the sake of variety, but I’m such a coward >.> Just don’t have the stomach for it lol. The idea of this messed up person redeeming themselves is appealing to me, I’m not doing 100% “goody two shoes” kinda character but more of a reluctant hero who’s still bit of a dick. Maybe I’ll start another playthrough where I play the way you’re suggesting…I’ll never experience act 2 at this rate <.<
I just finished my first play through. My friend hosted and I joined. He wanted to go “good” on tactician difficulty. So, we did. It took us 25 days. We got a lot of the more difficult achievements out of the way.
Next time I’m hosting and we’re doing an evil play through. Larian killed it. One of my better purchases this year.
80+ hours on my main playthrough and I’m wandering around the Shadowlands, just finished going through Last Light. I tend to be a completionist and have to explore every possible nook and cranny before moving on. Just a basic druid and keeping everyone else the same classes. There’s so many crazy-ass multi-classing options I’ve seen that I can’t but feel I’m not playing optimally, but it’s going ok. Thank goodness for the Magic Mirror though, my character looked ugly at first and it was really starting to grate on me given the total lack of PC personality.
I have a separate Dark Urge playthrough, but it’s so hard to go the evil route that I avoid doing it, 30+ years of RPG playing habits is hard to break.
I got to the start of Act 3, but I kinda stopped because I found out a few things…
- I missed an Act 1 companion
- I learned you can respec companions (d’oh)
- Being a wizard who’s romancing Gale means too many wizards in my party (and I didn’t know I could maybe respec him…)
- I felt like I was only really “understanding” how best to play by Act 3 and I basically just want a do-over so things are less messy.
Oh no, you are showing the first signs of Restartitis. This disease is incredibly contagious and currently at epidemic levels in the CRPG community. Good luck my friend.
Just started a new playthrough with the mod that removes the party size limit - and damn, it’s awesome not to have to choose. Of course it makes things a good bit easier, but to have so many more companion dialogues and so on… Wow, it really improves an already amazing experience.
Same here! Even on Tactican it’s very easy with so many players on the field. So what I’ve done is reskill most of my characters and start to really have fun with it. I’ve utilized spells and manoeuvres which I previously had omitted for being too weak, buffs and debuffs I never would have considered for the action economy, more or less useless roleplay stuff, or simply some funny shenanigans. My battlefields are more colourful and playful than ever. It’s not a tactical challenge for sure, but damn it’s a lot of fun to play this way.
And all the banter :D That’s almost the best part of having the whole band together.
Closing in on 100 hours and I still haven’t finished the game lol. Could I? Yes. Will I? No. I’m exploring every nook and cranny and doing every damn quest I can. This game is just too good not too.
Yeah, it took me almost 150h to finish my first playthrough, and instead of touching grass, i started a new one.
I’ve never tried this kind of thing before but a mechanic seems bugged. I had a tough persuasion check (30) and my character had only one bonus. Guidance wasn’t enough to get me to 30 if I rolled a 19 so I looked for other options. I thought I’d get some kind of bonus if I charmed my target but it didn’t help at all. I never use Charm for conversations so I don’t know if that normally helps. Possibly the normal effect is negated because (avoiding spoilers) the outcome of the convo was very important to the plot. If that’s the case it still seems unfair. Took me like 8 reloads to roll a Nat 20.
Also, venting a little, charming that character was only 1% easier than rolling a 20.
A DC 30 check in the DMG is considered Nearly Impossible. If it seems unfair it’s because you aren’t supposed to be able to make the check unless the character is literally built for it.
All Charm does is grant Advantage (roll twice and take the best). This will make you more likely to roll a Nat 20, but won’t help you hit 30 otherwise.
That said if you do build for it you can get a +17 to +30 with the right buffs(+6 Cha Mod+4 Proficiency+4 Expertise+1d4 Guidance+1d4 Bless+1d8 Bardic Inspiration).
All Charm does is grant Advantage (roll twice and take the best). This will make you more likely to roll a Nat 20, but won’t help you hit 30 otherwise.
If that’s really what it’s supposed to do then the mechanic wasn’t working as I didn’t get advantage when the character was charmed.
If your character cast it and they failed their save you should be getting advantage. If you didn’t it might be worth making a bug report.
Probably close to 40 hours now and ive just reached the goblin camp and im trying to plan how i want to deal with the goblins
Romance them
Close to 200 hours and I’m still in Act 2. Even with all the patches and hotfixes, my game is still crashing all the time. I tried to play for a few hours yesterday and had to have over 10 crashes. Sometimes it crashes even when I’m loading into the game. My wife has an almost identical setup and experiencing just as many crashes, but she’s running two campaigns side by side, good and evil, and is currently in Act 3 with both.
Still fucking love this game tho!
It’s not like my rig is ancient either…
- i7-6700
- 1080ti x2 in SLI
- 64GB RAM
Getting rid of one of your cards would probably resolve most of your issues. SLI hasn’t been properly supported in a decade.
Holy shit dude you did it! I disabled SLI and I didn’t have a SINGLE crash yesterday. I was able to make it past A2 in one sitting. It was great!!!
Glad to help and have fun. I’m still in act 3 in my first play through and it’s wild.
My game runs pretty well on a single 1080Ti with very rare crashes
I’m fairly fresh into act 3, just did the shadowheart part and man, that was heavy.
Definitely gonna be doing a new play though with my opposite choices though.
I do gotta say, I’m enjoying the challenge of tactician but man does my lvl 11 monk suck and is just so squishy, anyone got any recommendations to strengthen her up to take more than 2 hits?
Multiclass into 3 levels of Rogue and pick the thief subclass for additional bonus action to dish out unarmed strikes like a mad man.
44 in one swing with a one-hander at level 6. Phalar Aluve is busted.
About 50 hours and just got my ass handed to me by Fist guy or whatever at the inn while most of my party had 1 HP left, so there’s that. This is my first playthrough.
Starting my 2nd playthrough with a lolth sworn drow cleric(1) bard(11) build. Going dark urge, but resisting it.
I like the idea that through my character’s relationship to an evil deity, they recognize the dark urge is something wholly other than Lolth’s influence. So lawful evil in the sense that, “yeah I’ll be evil, but not because you told me to.”
My favorite thing so far had been Shadowheart hesitantly confessing she worships Shar, only for me to be like, “Oh that’s nothing. Have you heard about our Lord and Savior, the Spider Queen?”
