As of TODAY Larian Patched out the Infinite Mage Hands! Larian stop using my channel for ur bug finding QA job hahaha

now that's the kind of insanity I'm here for

It was actually comical the way the demon almost immediately killed the Mind Flayer and started one shotting my entire party

can i just say how happy it made me seeing the Dos2 cast in this? great choice of characters

This boss was insanely annoying to do. I plan to work on another tip style video for the next one though! I have a lot more written from my play through so far. Hope everyone is enjoying the full release of Baldur's Gate 3

I was so thrilled when the fight seemed unwinnable on tactician. Before I HAD to kill them all but now I can just move on guilt free cause its impossible without cheezing

I killed the commander demon all the time in EA, but since they buffed him, I've just commanded him to drop his weapon and then left

If you're gonna post more BG3 challenges I'm all for it, fantastic job you mad man! Hope to see more like this soon!

Won this as a duo with a more comfortable strategy, warlock + druid. Using hex dexterity(warlock) allows you to land faerie fire(Druid) way more reliably for advantage on all attacks, making the fight a much easier dps race, and druid has access to shillelagh so i get to ignore their resistances. Shadowheart was used to just bless party (druid/warlock/lae'zel) after command dropping the commander and having Lae'zel Pick up the sword. "Us" went and cleared all the mobs with Shadowheart, whilst everyone else focused on dps on the commander. Having advantage on all attacks, with bless and a fire buff from a candle allows you to absolutely melt the commander before the Cambions arrive - 70% chance to hit on average for anyone. When Cambions show up, I send in the magehand who juggles the 4 nautiloid tanks + a caustic bulb/void bomb to the 2 Cambions. Shadowheart Blowing that up lowered their hp to around 70 each, and from there you focus the Cambion that faerie fire lands on (25% for neither, 50% for one, 25% for both - before hex debuff). First cambion normally dies within 2 turns of entering melee range, but it actually is the 2nd cambion that is hardest to deal with as he knocks a party member out every one or two turns, so another member has to waste a turn healing them back up. We ended up finishing the fight with 5 turns to spare, allowing us to loot up the entire area before we exited to start act 1 :D

I use to play Ultima 7 back in the early 90’s and I would experiment by swapping out different floppy disks to give me insane amounts of explosives in my inventory and using them to kill unkillable enemies. It’s good know that 30 years later this sort of madness is still happening. Hahaha love it!

Doing the lords work Proxy. Top tier BG3 content right here, sincerely. love this stuff

You can shove the commander to position him underneath the caustic bulbs to drop them on him for a fair chunk of damage, and smash some acid near him to drop his AC by 2.

Love the BG 3 cheese videos :) Hope there are many more to come. Hi from the UK

I appreciate you taking this daunting task upon yourself, what fight are you considering for your next venture?

Bro this is crazy hahaha you really destroyed this encounter，love it.

Finally, someone who makes quality videos!

Lol. You are actually one of the three channels I watch BG3 from. Keep the good work please

Welp ive watched all your videos now and there's not a weak one in there. Definitely earned a sub and a sneaky comment for the algorithm

Awesome shit bro! Good job! You're a beast!

Now this is some wild stuff worth views! Absolute madman.

Yeesh. Dude went full "Dormamu, I'm here to bargain' on them. Props.

Simpsons edit was 12/10 cherry on top of this amazing video and achievement. Cheers mate keep it coming

Block the entrance (on the side of the fountain) and the Cambions won't use fly to enter the arena. Remove weapon with drop, use magehand + MC to throw weapons from high ground (advantage). Have Laezel use the greatsword and throw wpns back. If your MC has any casting use Acid to lower AC. Took me 3 tries.

Man im falling in love with you… I mean your channel!

Another great video, also like the dos2 cameos 😂

Big thumbs up for SC2 music. Classy

God that's hardcore dedication, my man. Not enough hours in the day for a humble fella like me.. I killed the little guys on Tactician and kept it pushin'

You are mentaly insane.😂 Great video, the editing is on point👌 What is your favorite build at the moment?

Of course doing a 4 characters + shadow/laezel party is the way to go. I've beaten this fight so many time in so many way during early access but with the full release and tactician mode its another story. Manage to down the commander + mind Flayer with only one char but that about it. Enjoyed the sc2 song in the background and naming the char after DOs2 haha! You know your classics that for sure. 😂👍

Mage hand was clutch in saving the mushroom picker

Best BG3 content I've seen amidst this current oversaturation of it. Subbed, good stuff!

😂thanks for posting this! Looking forward to more videos

You are completely and utterly nuts and I freaking love every second of it. Props!

I noticed the timer today, thought i was going crazy for never noticing before

All your vids have been class bro, Name of the Wind-levels of debut! 🔥👏

Love the videos. I can't get this out of my head: is the background song the Terran Theme from StarCraft? I'm getting the vibes. Cheers!

Good job man, I used to always kill him and his goons in EA. I tried twice in full release and tactician and moved on right away lmao. Too much trouble.

"Ah a guide to beat the guy and get his sword, I've done that. But that was Balanced maybe Tactician is harder let's see." Me when I was naive and didn't know what the hell I was in for lmao

Nice content 🎉. Keep it up bro 😁👍

That’s gotta be the most insane crash report Larian ever received. “…There’s how many mage hands???”

The Simpsons reference was brilliant. Bravo!

Impressive work

I feel so much better about not being able to kill him on tactician on my first playthrough now knowing how many tries it took you to do it! I consider myself to be pretty good at DND so I'm running first playthrough on tactician but for my planned multiclass I needed to start my main as a bard and it was just super rough 😢

Getting the boss to drop the blade and Lae'zel immediately loot it does seem doable. Thanks for the info!

thank you for suffering so I didnt have to. That's been bugging me for a while now.

What I did for mine is that I picked up all the chests I could find on the ship, and blocked the doorway to the "arena" so that the 2 Demons couldn't get through. Worked like a charm!

Well played sir

Great quality video, you need more views!

Gather the purple objects/status things and stack them around the boss. After it reaches 8th round, use a flame attack to blow all of the purple bombs you placed around him up.

cool stuff! keep it up!

Funfact: the 23% of "players" that has not passed the tutorial are people that either has yet to instal it/starting the game. Since achievement count every "owner" of the game, not every "player" of the game.

absolute madman

Great vid, The Bart Simpson edit had me lol

Oh man you really did a good one here

I used all of the void grenades/shoving/dropped containers to keep the mind flayer and the devil outside of each-other’s melee range, he’s hard targeted on the mind flayer so he does some stupid stuff when he can’t path to him providing you don’t set off his opportunity attacks

I actually managed to do this today in Tactician without cheese or extra playable characters. I chose a War Cleric for my starting class, boosted WIS up as high as possible, dex +2 for optimal AC. Got Us, Lae'Zelle, and Shadowheart. Prepared Command spell for all of them. Fun fact, you actually don't want the commander devil to die. Instead, you want his HP widdled down to about 50-30 by the time the other two Cambions come in. I had him drop his blade and gave it to Lae'Zelle like usual. My War Cleric picked up all the void bulbs and caustics in the area. You can throw twice with the War Cleric bonus action. Kept targeting the bulbs to suck the mind flayer and cambions together. If the cambions went after us, it gave the mind flayer an AoO. When they are grouped up, you can have Lae'Zelle use Cleave for big damage on all of them. You can also buff the mind flayer with Protection from Evil and Good as well as Shield of Faith between your two clerics. Spam sacred flame because it ignores their resistances and has about the same chance to hit (100% if they are stunned) The Mind Flayer will do a big stunning AoE on all three of them which can be huge. Focus down the other two cambions, try to make them drop their weapons too. Around 2-4 turns left, explode the barrels in the group, killing the mind flayer and commander, but likely leaving one or two of the cambions alive. From there, it's just a matter of cleaning them up. You can also start the fight with bless active. No need for other buffs since you will break concentration on them anyways, and you won't be attacked by anything dangerous until the other two cambions come in. The goal is to basically keep the Mind Flayer alive and let him do all the damage for you. Lae'zelle will do the most with the everburn blade, but don't overdo it on the commander. Without their weapons, you can go toe to toe with them so long as you've got rounds to do so. Always keep at least one character (shadowheart) near the console spamming at range. Sometimes it can come down to the last round and you gotta bail. If you wanted to, you could technically have one of your companions waiting outside the area spamming the healing tendrils and refreshing your spell slots. Command Grovel works really well. Sometimes you can find a speed potion, and that can be a useful buff, especially if you toss it at more than one person during the last rounds. You can also technically go as a barbarian and use the everburn blade yourself. I've seen it's pretty effective. If you have a friend, one Cleric and a barbarian would work really well. Rage alone makes you tanky as hell especially if they've all dropped their weapons (they only do 3-2 on a hit with their fists while you can do up to 19 and when you cleave that's HUGE damage if you manage to hit everyone) Optimally, you can try and get the mind flayer in a position to stun everyone, void bulb them together, cleave them with Lae'Zelle or a barbarian friend, chip away for one more turn, and then set up the explosives to be triggered by Shadowheart (she always has fire bolt due to elf abilities). If you did a good job and didn't get fucked on the Mind Flayer's damage output and targeting rng, you will either kill all of them in the explosion, or there will be one weaponless loser waiting to be bullied on round 5. If you got lucky enough to find a speed potion in your chest, it can make this process even easier. You can also have your War Cleric throwing potions with their action and bonus action for AoE healing and keeping the Mind Flayer alive. There is also a chance you can trick them with minor illusion, but I have not tried that yet. Plenty of ways you can do this, honestly. Even Warlocks with Eldritch Blast can do a lot of consistent damage with bless active.

Part of the 23% who didn't beat the boss... I cast sanctuary and ran past everything

This dude has exactly what I wanted. The knowledge without doing this herculean thask

Got him down to 40HP last run by getting his weapon and letting mindflayer to burst him into ash, with little push from explosive tanks from other rooms you can finish him, it took around 8 turns before I actually get bored and 2 cambions finally get close enough. With explosive preparations I should have retreat and shoot firebolt to finish the job and activate helm at the same turn. Potentially, you can also bring some stuff from other rooms and barricade the door, so cambions can't even fly through, so no backup for commander. Also, you can "command: grovel" or inflict wounds to commander to ensure high damage from your spells or mindflayer attacks, or bring some water over commander and get 3 rounds or x2 cold and lightning damage to him from your spells and cantrips.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Somewhat figured this out on my own with my friends. We kill everything except the Cambions. Once the Mind Flayer falls we level up and just bolt.

You absolute madman

I imagine all those mage hand doing Anime punching him to death like jojo muda muda

Someone actually did this on tactician the „normal“ way

I thought killing just the commander was hard enough, nevermind the reinforcement cambions, I thought for sure that couldn't be done. Well played.

holy i LAUGHED at the bart edit

As I grow older, I realize playing on the highest difficulty is not a challenge, but a torture test. 😅

My partner and I did this as well just to say that we've at least done it, but we didn't want to kill ourselves so we save scummed. And it STILL took 2.5 hours to complete. If anyone else wants the rewards, just do this on Balanced and switch to Explorer once the other 2 Cambion spawn. You want to be in Balanced because otherwise the 2 Cambion won't appear. The EXP rewards are the same anyways, and the gold is randomly given at around 600 - 750. So good luck.

I killed the commander and cambions on tactician by saves cumming and using explosives. Larian indeed made then tougher than in early access.

Mage hand zerg rush sounds like a good idea, but not without creep. xD

That edit is gold bro, I laughed my ass off at the simpsons bit

The absolute MAD LAD

HAHAHAHA I have full faith you'll come up with more unhinged bg3 content down the line. Nice job! Edit: also love the DOS2 main character comebacks :)

what a beast

Mage hand has been really useful for me and I lone wolf unmoded run either opening doors while letting me stay far away moving stuff, throwing things at enemies it does suck that you could only use it once does short rest and it would be useless if I wasn't doing lone Wolf run

This is a W video if I'd ever seen one

Use Shadowheart's other spell slot to cast Protection from Evil and Good on the Mind Flayer. Zhalk can barely lay a finger on him

Haha thanks for suffering through this idea for us!

We just had our druid cast mighty leap on the Paladin, who then proceeded to jump around the room stuffing the explosive barrels into a backpack, burnt the boss to around half HP then throw the backpack at him and hit it with a firebolt from Shadowheart. big boom, close to 100 dmg if you take the fourth barrel from earlier in the ship. easy.

this fight became its own game

I got him in tactician mode quite "easily" by using command: drop weapon with shadowheart, the boss drops his huge sword that you can pick up and use to smash his face, and he does a lot less damage

I think the best an average run can hope for here is the Commander dropping his sword by using Shadowheart's Command spell (ironic). Then you can pick it up and use it yourself before you activate the console and end the encounter.

No savescumming but spamming bugged Mage hands, very fair test 😂

My currently optimal way to steal sword of Avernus is cast command spell drop with shadow hearth and take sword on ground and get out the scene. 45% chance of success.

I might have just gotten lucky with the mind flayer rolls, but after disarming the demon I managed to steal it and kill him on my third try. It was just in the nick of time, though, because the cambions were up in my face while Us was distracting them and I killed him on the same turn I escaped.

Totally making my dragonborn warcleric to command that bugger to drop my sword.

It took me a handful save scum attack rerolls and the explosives to kill the general. Never would have thought there is a way to kill everything within 15 turns

U are a sick sick sick man. Love it. 😂

If there was any argument for savescumming, this was it ; saves time and saves lives (both in game and IRL) due to avoiding the stress and hours of frustration lmao

That character creation boss is really hard.

Well, of course you came up with it! everything is easier there, you collect all the barrels with explosives at the level, you take the brain into pets at will, you close the passage with a chest (OR BETTER TWO) so that new demons do not pass, you knock out the sword from the general and that's it, you are already fighting with your hands and no problems, you finish off the remaining 40 lives with barrels (approximately).

This certainly was some delicious cheese, as promised. But now that it's been patched, I wonder if there's any other method? Not to make you suffer more, haha. Great content as always.

Legend. Wish there was an easy way to cheese this, I wanna fight without forcing my friend to redo the fight with me 10s of times haha

Command on shadowheart and make him drop him weapon Shadowheart uses bless on the Mind Flayer, Lae Zel and the third best fighter Clear the event behind him before the 2 other dude spawn

I just wacked it a bunch with my sword while shadowheart sat by the controls waiting for the signal lol

I did it legit once but as soon as combat ended i died to burn from the fire on the floor. Had no luck since then.

Wow didnt even think to just make him drop it. Ya im never killing him but the weapon shall be mine next playthrough :P

You can no longer have multiple Mage Hands active at the same time. - From todays Patch lol

Good work! Devs will be patching that asap

You absolute mad lad