Started playing BG again after 15 years because these vids got me hyped!
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah thanks for watching friend!
@SCDJMU5 жыл бұрын
Me too. Started my first SCS run after not playing BG for many years.
@sp10sn3 жыл бұрын
yup. same 👍
@crasykills47183 жыл бұрын
Just started a few weeks ago cuz steam had the whole infinity engine series. Only played bg ee so far but ill go to bg2 soon.
@brucechamberlin25452 жыл бұрын
@@crasykills4718 how's bg2 going?
@cinnashowdown739711 ай бұрын
Dav is just roleplaying an archmage writing a treatise on 9th level spells
@zulemazahir6666 ай бұрын
I'm so happy I found your channel. Your guides are genuinely so incredible/& helpful. Thank you so much for all of your hard work!!
@mbalazs35445 ай бұрын
indeed grate guides
@Arkaine1972 жыл бұрын
No, i understood the wild magic rundown perfectly, you explained it well. I've never really used wild magic outside of picking Neera up in BG1:EE and being extremely underwhelmed. But now that i understand the benefits i feel inspired to go try the game with a Wild Mage. Thanks man.
@Davaeornlol2 жыл бұрын
It's a blast, good luck with it!
@NerdGlassGamingPA Жыл бұрын
I played Neera cast the spell *wild magic appears* summons a kind of badass demon... (can't remember what it was) (and I needed help so much, I was already overwhelmed) !!! Wild Demon also attacks enemies. I run away they fight among each other. crazy demon wipes the floor with them and then disappears after a while ?!?! = PROFIT ! :D
@MrSprigg6 күн бұрын
There is an old mod called Wild Mage Additions that adds a bunch of wild magic spells if you can defeat the mage who has that spellbook. It is awesome beyond imagining. I don't know if it works with the EE, though.
@Ibex_Moon5 жыл бұрын
Your Spell Guide series is so killer, man. I really can't wait for the Priest version.
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@ronnymueller19184 жыл бұрын
I cannot like this video more really. I come here again and again just to look stuff up. Awesome compendium, with the rest of the episodes, really great work!
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you enjoy it friend thanks for watching and commenting!
@brandonstrife97384 жыл бұрын
Energy drain is something to be feared in the table top cause its permenant.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Yeah a lot of spicy shit doesn't translate well from pnp sadly :(
@BobT36 Жыл бұрын
lol every time you moved your chair or whatever it is, I thought it was part of the game ambience, a creaky gate or something. Thanks for this btw, always good to get another perspective on spells.
@DamianusNT5 жыл бұрын
Davaeorn's Arcane Spell Guide - definitely an S tier series. As all the previous uploads, this is a divination video, but everyone can watch it, regardless. It has an instant play time and it lasts for around an hour (so it's pretty long and fulfilling), and it can be used both on single or multiple targets. Basically what it does it to teach you about the viability, potential, and respective power level of every single arcane spell you can find in the Baldur's Gate series. This video should be very useful and fun not only to low level BG players, new to the saga, but also to high level veterans who may learn a thing or two about the spells they usually don't care about. I highly recommend you to spam the s**t out of this video, on the Internet. Tell your friends, tell your mother, tell your partner. I can't say enough good things about it. The sky is the limit with this series. Learn about the spells, use them, experiment and have fun. The world is your oyster, bois. Much love and God bless.
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Thats what im fkn saying dude.
@Intedujag5 жыл бұрын
Very much seconded good sir Damian and I bow before you Arch-Tutor Davaeorn!
@jasonmitchell51483 жыл бұрын
@@Davaeornlol this comment is S Tier.
@Carpet_Carp2 жыл бұрын
Good comment, but needs lots more f-bombs.
@George-iz2ce2 жыл бұрын
Can''t say enough good things about this.
@waldemarmarwalde68172 жыл бұрын
S tier spell guide. Can not say enough good things about it.
@Davaeornlol2 жыл бұрын
God bless u buddy
@jessem31495 жыл бұрын
Ive played Baldur's Gate since I was 10 years old...and have never really understood mechanics and wasnt that good at it...but loved the game and continued...now I want to really do the game properly and these videos with all your info have really upped my game...playing BG1EE at the moment...and your in-depth description of the technicalities to the spells and why they are so good and why others are not...thank you so damn much! Hope to see eventual videos for priest/cleric spells! Subscribed for sure and really enjoying your SCS Insane gaming videos.
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Soon.tm Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
@jacobmill21695 жыл бұрын
This was a great series, I'm making much better use of my mages after watching these. Looking forward to more.
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! Divine casting soon
@209852291472 жыл бұрын
In AD&D, Bigby's "Hand" spells(there were several) were essentially summons. They lasted one round per level of the caster, had AC of 0 and as much HP as the uninjured caster. In the specific case of Bigby's Crushing Hand, it dealt 2d10 damage on first round, 3d10 damage on second/third round and 4d10 damage on fourth round and beyond; for a theoretical maximum of 72d10(!) damage over 20 rounds. I assume this never made it into the game because a damageable summon that occupied the same space as the target was too hard to code, while making the hand just an effect that couldn't be cancelled would be way too powerful. So we got the weird sucky version.
@brucechamberlin25452 жыл бұрын
Definitely would've been more interesting
@Byssbod10 ай бұрын
So you originally had to kill the hand to save the target? But instead they just made it a save in bg2? Damn. And without the theoretical exponential scaling after turn 3.
@Nah_Bohdi2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! These guides are what I will use to make a power party with only 2 or 3 characters.
@Davaeornlol2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
@Tigereye0855 жыл бұрын
Good to see you back. I love listening to your guides during my driving job. It keeps me entertained. :)
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you enjoy them thanks for watching!
@Rafalucija5 жыл бұрын
Never played a wild mage but I finally understand wild surges, thanks to your explanation. Awesome guides, looking forward to seeing the divine side of things, never know what spells to take on clerics.
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Soon.tm, thanks for watching and commenting!
@awesimo4684 Жыл бұрын
About the Wish intoxicate-all option: You can also use Limited Wish to cure your own party from intoxication. It's nice because whoever is casting the Wish in the first place can follow that up with Limited Wish, and not need to rely on a Cleric.
@mukumuku47234 жыл бұрын
Forgive me if I didn't see this buried in the comments but Shapechange: Mind Flayer is one of the most hilarious and broken things in the game when combined with time stop and improved haste, especially for a pure caster, or dual/multi with crappy apr & thac0. Mind flayer gets 4 apr baseline, 8 with improved haste. Cast improved haste and turn into a mind flayer, cast time stop then zip around sucking out all of the brains in your three round window. Thac0 isn't an issue since everything hits in a time stop anyways. This tactic is useless against time stop immune baddies but can make tough fights laughable otherwise!
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Very true and fun to play with!
@normanred9212 Жыл бұрын
I think a way to make so many spells good, especially the bad spells in all BG, is to make them utility spells. Ex. a spell like Shocking Grasp should be used to interact with the environment, if something needs to be turned on and needs power where a shocking grasp would work.
@TheFrozenWasteland5 жыл бұрын
Another awesome guide! Timestop is one of my favorite spells, but there are certain fights where it will end up killing your party, as not EVERY enemy will be frozen. :D
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
True! Thanks for watching and commenting friend.
@visceraltwist5 жыл бұрын
FYI, Chaos Shield and Improved Chaos Shield don't stack. And the way Nahal's Reckless Dweomer works is that you roll on the wild surge table, 1-100, and add your level, whereas with a normal wild surge you don't add your level. You also add your chaos shield or improved chaos shield and if you have any wild magic items that can increase your roll. So, you add that to your roll, and if it is equal to or greater than 100, the spell goes off as normal. If it is less than 100, you get a wild surge, and they spell may go off differently or not at all, in addition to a number of different effects. So if you roll a 37 on the table after casting NRD at level 18 with Improved Chaos Shield up, you add 18+25+37=80, which would create gems on the target instead of casting the spell. If you had rolled a 57 or higher, the spell would go off normally. This is because the 100 result on the wild surge table is "spell goes off normally" and any result greater than 100 is treated as 100.
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Interesting thanks for commenting! It's so difficult to tell whether or not you're correct in this regard. Evidence to the contrary would be the fact in bg1 you're pretty much guaranteed to get a wild surge even with chaos shield on, which would imply your roll is not added, but compared. In bg2 on the other hand you are far more likely to NOT get a wild surge, which would support your claim. I can confirm that shields are stacking in my version, it shows up on the parameters effects as separate incremental entities, and I have tested it just now for about 300 surges, not once have i gotten one below 25+15+mage level. However, that could as always just be dumb rng. I will definitely do some more testing, thanks for commenting friend
@ganeshamahesvari80775 жыл бұрын
I don't know if u are correct in what you write, but definitely, wiki disagrees with you. baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Wild_Surge " Wild Surge occurs when a Wild Mage casts Nahal's Reckless Dweomer, a d100 dice is rolled and the number is compared to another factor number, which is the sum of Wild Mage’s level (31 max), Chaos Shield Improved Chaos Shield modifier and Equipment modifier. If the former number is equal or less than the latter, the desired spell is cast normally, if greater, a wild surge effect will take place according to the number you rolled, refer to the table below." Also when there is a natural wild surge the caster level is not counting as u write ofcourse.
@carlnielsen1458 Жыл бұрын
It actually directly says in the spell description that they don't stack. Doesn't mean that's actually the case but it seems that the intention is for them not to stack.
@stuff4ever2 жыл бұрын
First time I understood whats up with Nahal's Reckless Dweomer. You're awesome, man
@Davaeornlol2 жыл бұрын
no you're awesome buddy
@ambioniskariot506911 ай бұрын
There was a reason why 9th level was out of range for original BG:SoA xp cap.
@andrzejkulakowski5 ай бұрын
I think got it about the wild magic! Thanks, love the work that you do 😃
@kidnicky74898 ай бұрын
I actually thought that was a pretty solid quick breakdown of what wild mages can do
@TheGXDivider2 жыл бұрын
Imprisonement suck, you can't loot what doesn't lay dead on the ground. Thanks for the vid !
@Davaeornlol2 жыл бұрын
Ikr feelsbad, thanks for watching and commenting friend!
@raudotestoman58485 жыл бұрын
I think that the difference between Incendiary Cloud and Meteor Swarm is the range. However, rangecasting doesn't work in the game. Its probably pen&paper thing, never played pen&paper myself. In the game everything only works within visual range of the caster. You've said that Wizard Eye with Simulacrum/Project Image is damn busted. Now imagine Farsight and Meteor Swarm. But yeah, can't cast spells outside the visual range of the caster, atleast in an unmodded game. Maybe some mod removes the rangecasting restriction.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Yeah it seems for the most part 90% of spells don't seem to give a shit about range but others do, hard to say. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
@ahmedharoun45915 жыл бұрын
I recently discovered your videos and they are awesome !. I learned alot about spells i usually avoid and will be using them in the future. I hope you are planning on doing a druid/cleric spell guide as well
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
In progress as we speak, thanks for watching friend!
@hm09235nd3 жыл бұрын
Dude, you fucking rule. Grew up sitting next to my dad playing the 5+1-CD version of the game and have had some of my best gaming experiences bar none in the IE games. Really appreciate learning new things about spells like MMM and other weird shit. ty!
@Davaeornlol3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it friend thanks for watching and commenting!
@Mrmusicman2000 Жыл бұрын
Powerword kill is a great psychopath spell for going on a rampage in town
@ELA1ization2 жыл бұрын
Used 28:03 Black Blade of Disaster to absolutely roll the final encounter in ToB. If used on Jan during a timestop, he is backstabbing consistently for 170 dmg and all buffed up, he will do like 8 backstabs a round while enemies are frozen. He did several thousand points of damage just doing this enounter for me. Insanely powerful. Just for this usecase as HL mage/thief, it deserves S-class imo.
@Koshea695 жыл бұрын
Great video series, haven't played BG, BG2 or TOB since they originally launched and there have been tons of changes with the EE engine. Thank you for going over all this and I can't wait for your Divine Series to know how to make clerics the bad ass fighting machines that mages are in this game.
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching friend!
@IZn0g0uDatAll2 жыл бұрын
« Every time you roll a 69 it’s gonna petrify you ». I just don’t understand how you could talk about the effect of 69 for like a whole minute without making a single joke. Hats off.
@menisc27975 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the guide, you have a really good radio voice, makes things easy to follow.
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Thanks friend!
@Gargantupimp5 жыл бұрын
Great series. Looking forward to videos on druid and priest and even classes. So many choices in this game, many of them just noob-bait. Subbed and liked.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
@slavemonkey50634 жыл бұрын
I think the one use for Bigby's Hand would be, as you alluded to, combining it with Malison and Doom etc, for specific enemies such as a dragon or other big boss that you might be having trouble with which could just be stunlocked. Sure, there are probably way better ways to get around the problems you're having, but it could be used to hold down a single, really tough enemy and just beat him to death while he can't fight back.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Yeah implosion is amazing because its a stun with no save, I typically don't bother with bigbys on dragons because if I'm rocking 8s id rather just spam horrid wilting as it's more reliable, though perhaps with multiple wizards I might get one off. Thanks for commenting friend!
@hrothgar1 Жыл бұрын
In IWD Black Blade of Disaster also gives 3 APR (6 with improved haste) turning your mage / sorcerer effectively into a figher mage. This makes soloing much easier and is especially good for sorcerers. If IWDfication mod does the same for BG I'd probably rate Black Blade of Disaster as S+ tier for solo sorcerer walkthroughs - you don't need a lot of items anyways. In core rules it is still a decent thing to give to Imoen with Belm, also that combined with strength girdle it make her THAC0 to be about zero while having respectable number of APRs.
@NdranC5 жыл бұрын
Awesome video once again. I have a request but I'm not sure if fall under the purview of this video series. SCS v32 added many changes and new features, one of them being adding arcane and divine spells from Icewind Dale to Baldur's Gate. Would it be possible for you to check and or talk about all of these spells? Looking forward to the sorcerer spell pick video when you get to it. Thanks for making this series.
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
I'm looking forward to 32 and when it comes out ill probably add a video on it.
@User_Un_Friendly2 жыл бұрын
Ok, based on comments on Reddit and Beamdog, wands can target invisible. This means either doing Neera’s quest, visiting Watcher’s Keep, or spamming Wish scrolls off random drops, you can get Wands of Spellstriking. Breach Improved Invisible Liches with spell immunity: divination, and just whack them. Awesome! (Wish can give you random wands/potions. Potions are sucky, but random wands can give you wands of spellstriking and cursing.)
@Davaeornlol2 жыл бұрын
Interesting thanks for watching and commenting buddy!
@Akaens4 жыл бұрын
Niko: Casts Limited Wish : Niko Niko: Wild Surge: Area effect Getting a separate wish for each party member and each nearby enemy... I decided around this time that wild magic could only be a joke played the gods.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Wild magic really is fun as hell. Thanks for commenting friend!
@Nebulous9992 жыл бұрын
You mention in the Wild Magic section that Chaos Shield and Improved Chaos Shield stack. The in-game description says they do not, though... I just wanted to double check with you and see which is correct. Might be good info to clarify if you ever do a standalone Wild Mage video. Also, you mention in your other class guide video about how Evermemory is fantastic (double first level spells up to 12). It's too bad it's only a BG1 item, though. I guess it would be too OP in BG2 / ToB. Anyway, thanks for such an amazing series of videos on the mechanics of Baldur's Gate. I really appreciate the work you put in to help us all understand the game a bit better. Cheers
@Scorpius1653 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed your series, excellent explanations. Thank you!
@Davaeornlol3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching friend!
@robertcampbell63492 жыл бұрын
The Seventies called. They want their Bigby's spells back.
@Ruud_G4 жыл бұрын
thanks for your lessons on baldurs gate. Playing bg on and of since its release, and realy like it. i just play core rules (average player at best 8-) ) learned a lot from your spell guides.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoy them friend thanks for watching and commenting!
@ctakitimu2 жыл бұрын
My first encounter with Time Stop was in either slums or docks area where I investigated a house but when I went through the door with the party, a rogue stone activated and suddenly there were high level monsters in the room with my 10th level party! There was a Vampire, A mage, a lich and a beholder. Someone in that room liked timestop *edit* Question about Freedom, do the newly freed creatures from the other end of the map gain their freedom where you left them? Or do they get a friendly teleport to inflict their vengeance on the party?
@DanDoel Жыл бұрын
You can actually do the Spelltrap refill cheese with Black Blade of Disaster. Spelltrap absorbs the on-hit effect of the black blade, counting as a 9th level spell. This means you can refill several 9th level slots from one casting of BBoD (instead of 1-for-1 from power word). You also need simulacrum instead of project image (the latter can't attack) and stone skin to avoid the hit point damage. That makes an infinite loop easier, since you only need two 9th level slots instead of 3 for a net gain (and each simulacrum lasts for multiple iterations). I'm not sure how high a level you need to be to pull it off, though (due to the simulacrum losing spells). All assuming you don't find that this makes the game boring. :)
@philwendisch4894 Жыл бұрын
Best guide period.
@eduardofilippi7698 Жыл бұрын
You're a freaking genius.
@gigglestomp54032 жыл бұрын
Id love a video on what your memorized spells are for an edwin or a F/M going in to each chapter but I imagine with your game knowledge you probably always know whats coming up so it is pretty specialized.
@brandy19996 ай бұрын
58:00 Does Chaos Shield + Improved Chaos Shield actually stack? Since looking at the fandom wiki, it says theyre mutually exclusive and that "A bug in the original edition lets (Improved) Chaos Shields stack when shoved into a sequencer and contingency." And it says in the description of the spell itself that it does not stack. PS. Your explanation of how wild mage works was actually really good and simple! edit. I just read your reply to one of the older comments thatwere also pointing this out, has this been tested conclusively since then by any chance?
@unskilled8223 жыл бұрын
nice video :D i also had a laugh time to time so it wasnt boring at all hearing all of it
@Davaeornlol3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it friend thanks for watching and commenting
@marsmars82384 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for all these guides! What do you think about series of guides about bosses? E.g., their stats, a strategy against them an so on. For example, slayer-irenicus has a very high regeneration but very few info about it.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Possibly tbh, we're gonna do companions and classes after divine guide.
@marsmars82384 жыл бұрын
Oh, really nice! I stuck at solo-poverty-insane mode, and feel that here i need understand the mechanic very deep to pass this challenge. Your guides anwered most of the questions about the spells. Thanks once more! And looking forward for the new guides:)
@NdranC4 жыл бұрын
Would you consider making an addendum to this series with the IWD spells? I noticed you are playing with the component and included it for the Divine Spell guide but unfortunately missed it for this ones. Also, did you ever play Pathfinder or Pillars? Curious to see if you had plans to upload those playthroughs to youtube.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
I'm redoing arcane with IWD after class guide is finished. I played pathfinder but not all the way through, prolly wont see them on here for a while since I got about 150 videos of BG still to upload. Unfortunately getting one video up is an ordeal, takes about a full day of work that slows my comp and internet to a crawl sadly :(
@OgGSUS3 жыл бұрын
i cant remember when i used power word kill the last time but i like to look at as an executioner move, especially for mages once you take down all their protections hit them a few times and a chain or standard contingency goes off and they are again fully protected and you have to start again to remove protections. however the damage dealt might have been enough to bring them under the 60hp threshold and instantly kill them instead of dealing with all the protections again. yeah there are many other spells you want to prioritize but i see some usefulness to it even if it is situational.
@Davaeornlol3 жыл бұрын
I've heard that too, the problem is there just isn't a fight that will go in that direction. Either the mage has his protections up, in which case he's invulnerable, or you break through them and he dies instantly to your fighter with imp haste. If you're able to bring a mage into kill range via power word kill, chances are what few protections he puts up with a contingency aren't gonna save him from 1 breach. The only exception to this rule would be liches or other scripted encounters who will put up more than one chain contingency, and naturally these guys are immune to the spell in the first place. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying I have put in a billion hours and haven't had the sequence of events come up in such a way where I would ever consider taking and using the spell. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
@berentook5 жыл бұрын
Great videos i have agreed with almost all of your choices thanks heaps. I am not sure wild magic works like that though since on the wild surge table 100 is spell is cast normally the way you explained it you could never get that since mage level 31 + 15 + 25 = 71 the highest total you could get will always be lower than 100. The way i always understood it was you add the wild surge roll + level + chaos and imp chaos and whatever that is you look up on the table to see what you get, i could be wrong though.
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Edit: After reading another comment below, I see what you're saying and will have to do more testing. Thanks for commenting friend God bless!
@fwiffo13764 жыл бұрын
Wail of the Banshee is an S Tier spell for the AI.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
They are quite convinced it's a best in slot spell XD
@bogan9875 жыл бұрын
just checking out the wild mage wiki because I'm running one and its super fun. #17 is 80% of the party's gold is destroyed hahaha
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Yeah they're a blast to play, thanks for watching friend!
@temmy93 жыл бұрын
Black blade of disaster is godly when paired with righteous magic esp. If you stack on some debuffs
@Davaeornlol3 жыл бұрын
It's quite strong I just don't like my enemies disintegrating and it IS a level 9 spell slot after all.
@User_Un_Friendly3 жыл бұрын
I just had an insane thought. Biggest drawback to Black Blade is the 10% level drain, destroying loot. But what if you’re using improved haste, and Greater Deathblow? You’ve mentioned before that either the EE or SCS increased the level of many opponents, making G Deathblow not effective. But if G Deathblow is active with Black Blade, if you get several level drains in a row, the G Deathblow will instakill your opponent once you level drain to 12 or less. This protects the loot, and shortens many battles. 🤣 This obviously applies to Blackrazor as well.
@Davaeornlol2 жыл бұрын
Possible indeed!
@chaosapiant4 жыл бұрын
I'm confused about Spellstrike. The description of the spell says specifically it dispels Spell Shield and Spell Trap, but you're saying that's not the case, and Ruby Ray is needed prior to casting this? Is the description wrong or am I misunderstanding?
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Spell shield will block and completely absorb spellstrike. You will need to ruby ray to remove spell shield before spell striking. It says it remove spell shield, which it does, but it can't remove both at once. Lets say you're a cleric mage, you have minor globe up, shield of the archons, spell shield, and spell trap up. If i cast spellstrike on you, you lose spell shield, thats it. If i cast ruby ray to remove spell shield, then cast spell strike, you will lose ALL of those other protections at once. Likewise you can cast spellstrike back to back, that will do the trick too, but obviously it's better to use a 7 and 9 spell than 2 9 spells XD. It can be confusing, and it really depends on what else they cast. If you don't have something to "block" spellstrike, it will remove all non-combat protections (breach is for combat protections, spellstrike is for spell protections)
@michaelcameron764 жыл бұрын
Shape changing into an iron golem is handy in dealing with beholders, esp with improved haste.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
A good idea! I've never done it before since you don't get shapechange until long after you've wiped out the beholders but if you're a sorc obv you can pick it up in time for the underdark depending on how hard you've boosted xp. I'm pretty sure the shapechange isn't immune to lower resist though (unlike some other golems) so i'll have to test it to see how well it performs against a hive mother. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
@michaelcameron764 жыл бұрын
@@Davaeornlol your welcome and thank you for the videos. Also, you can do the same thing at lower levels with the cloak of the sewers by changing into mustard jelly form, which is completely immune to magic. It has a poison attack that can eventually kill the beholder. Just put it on a high health, good thaco character as they will resort to biting you. Plus you gotta be mindful of the timer. Polymorph self works too, but I play a kensai/mage and health and thaco are not too much a problem.
@The_Esteemed2 жыл бұрын
I'm sure I'm a bit late to the party but in the description for Spellstrike it states that it removes spell trap but you're saying that you need to ruby ray first. Is that a mistake or am I missing something?
@Davaeornlol2 жыл бұрын
99% of enemies who use spell trap will also have a spell shield up which blocks the first anti spell protection spell, so you wanna ruby ray first to remove spell shield THEN spellstrike to remove their other protections.
@melissasmith22695 жыл бұрын
Man, I wonder how they are gonna handle wish in BG 3. Also nice guide!
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
I hope they make it bigger and better :) Thanks for watching friend.
@jorgejuanferrandisferrandi94955 жыл бұрын
Thanks again for an interesting analisis, I always learn more. I was thinking about different challenges for your walkthroughs (not as hard as iron man+scs+insane for sure) : 1.No HLA, ascension (become the ravager) , insane, no potions and generally speaking no cheese , scs.
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Lol maybe at some point, I wanna get ascension up for next run for sure and new scs is looking great. Thanks for watching friend God bless
@vinceslapchopper4 жыл бұрын
since a sorcerer can only learn 4 lvl 9 spells, do you take imprisonnement or spellstrike? i figure time stop and chain contingency are too good to pass.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Depends on who else is in my party tbh. If i have good front line I dont take imprisonment, if i dont I do, if i have lots of mages I dont take spellstrike, if i dont have the arcane back up, I do.
@AzureDrag0n14 жыл бұрын
When did they change Chain Contingency to have a cast time? It used to have a cast time of 0 and did not count towards your 1 spell per round limit. This made it the most powerful spell in the game. It was super broken. Even with this mega nerf it is still super powerful.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
It still is for sure, not sure when it was changed tbh.
@PetalousPanoply5 жыл бұрын
I think it'd be fun to watch your analysis of all the classes too, which kits are better and why, fun combos, that sort of thing
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Soon my friend, thanks for watching!
@redelephantsdotnl3 жыл бұрын
Wait... I don't think I have even considered this.... Can a simulacurum cast Project Image? Edit: Yeah, you can be turned into six level 30 squirrels, too. That's fun. Edit again: Hmm, shape change contingecies? Awesome if you're also a cleric. Get your Stoneskin, PFMW up, go into Flayer; contingency Holy Power, Righteous Magic, Draw Upon Holy Might on sight and be that Lord of Murder. Never tried it, but a Flayer with those stats is something to be feared. I think I'm going to try to solo a cleric/mage in IWD and eat Behlifet's brain. Edit even more: Actually, even in ToB section of the game, there is a fair amount of goons using non-enchanted weapons. All those guards in Saradush, many in Yaga Shura's army, all of the summons in Neera's Quest, for instance. Charname is quite the tank after the Hell Trials as the good guy. PFMW is still the better choice, of course. Edit just a bit more: Bigby's Hands are super useful in Icewind Dale/ HoF mode. Everything takes ages to kill, so stunning *and* damaging something large in front of a door, holding his friends back is great. Wail of the Banshee is even better in IWD/HOf. Because of the stupidly high HP values and the massive numbers of the enemies, bypassing the HP entirely killing off a bunch of them is a great timesaver.
@ilteriskagan61932 жыл бұрын
Hi. Thank your videos and effort budy. I read a Sorcerer FAQ by Roman Grigoriev. This FAQ is very very good. But I didn't understand a subject about intelligence for Wish Spell. Wish spell need 18 Wisdom, this is ok. But why Wish spell need intelligence? I bought Baldur's Gate games from Steam and I will start the game being a Sorcerer. I want to cast Wish spell. But I can't decide my stats. Before I wrote this I read other forums and FAQ's. Most of them pointed this man's guide about Sorcerer stats "Intelligence" for Wish Spell. I couldn't start one week. I will be glad if you explain this issue to me. What should my stats be? Wish 18, Intelligence 18 or Wish 18 enough for Wish spell??
@Davaeornlol2 жыл бұрын
To scribe level 9 spells you need 18 int or chug an int pot, when casting wish you dont need any int at all, just wisdom. It's a weird outdated mechanic that you rarely see.
@Nictator4211 ай бұрын
Breach doesn't work on liches tho, its a level 5 spell and is also programmed in with power level 5
@Davaeornlol11 ай бұрын
SCS makes it go through sadly, one of the few changes im not a fan of
@eliearama Жыл бұрын
Hi, are you sure Chaos shield and Improve chaos shield stack? The description says it doesn’t. Thanks!
@visceraltwist5 жыл бұрын
Are you planning on doing divine spells as well?
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, first divine video is coming soon. Thanks for watching!
@ryanp565 жыл бұрын
These videos are amazing, would be very excited to see your thoughts on priest spells lvl4+
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching friend, soon.tm
@Kelsper5 жыл бұрын
I believe they got rid of Aura Cleansing from Nahal's on newer version of Enhanced Edition, right? I know they got rid of the ability to use sequencers at least.
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Sequencers don't work in my version but it's still got aura cleansing, considering how RNG they are I don't feel like they should have removed the alacrity part. Oh well. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
@leefellows87704 жыл бұрын
Love these guides man. Is the Divine guide still on the books?
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Yes! Soon.tm
@295Phoenix3 жыл бұрын
If you're still keeping track of comments, how do you think the specialist mages are ranked? I'm thinking it goes something like Conjurer>Invoker>Illusionist>Sorcerer>Enchanter>Diviner>Necromancer>Dragon's Disciple>General Mage>Abjurer>Bard>Dogshit>Transmuter.
@Davaeornlol3 жыл бұрын
Wild mage > DD > Sorc > Invoker > Diviner > Conjurer > Necromancer > Regular mage > Enchanter > Bard > Illusionist > Transmuter > Abjurer if we're talking about terms of power. Wild mage is bis, NRD is just insane. DD I think is next, I love the defensive bonuses they get with sorc being right behind it. Invoker loses the charm school which is pretty much non existent after bg1, so it's solid, the emotion spells can be cast by anyone. Diviner loses conjuration which again loses next to nothing, just find familiar really, and if you cared about hp you would be dual classing not making a specialist mage. Conjurer loses true sight which is pretty useful but can still be done by other classes. Necromancer loses mirror image blur and imp invis, pretty damn useful shit tbh but not the complete end of the world, I never use project image or mislead, and simulacrum is complete dog shit for a pure wizard. At this point a regular mage is better than the other kits. Enchanter loses out on evocation spells, no magic missle, force missiles, if you don't have the SCS component making sequencers any school this puts them on par with illusionists, really really bad, otherwise just slightly below a regular mage. Bard can't progress to level 9 spells so I'd put it here in terms of power. I'd rather have a bard than the others, and yes that includes fallen planetar and imp alacrity. Illusionist loses skull trap and horrid wilting among other things but these 2 are your primary damage dealing spells. In my playthroughs mages already struggle to do any damage, since they're forced to take a ton of defensive spells. Losing out on these 2 mean they really don't contribute to fights at all damage wise and that's really unfortunate. Transmuter can't cast ANY abjuration spells which is spell protection and removal, pretty fucking terrible but it's not the worst. If abjurers only lost one spell and not all of alteration, and that spell was stoneskin, I would still put it last, this alone makes it so bad it's insane. If we're asking what I'd rather play, same order but move bard up right behind sorc, I don't ever play specialist mages, I'd rather dual to mage (which means u cant specialize) or play bard.
@295Phoenix3 жыл бұрын
@@Davaeornlol Interesting. Yeah, now that I think of it, the loss of stoneskin really sucks, I just struggle to think of a way you can even keep a transmuter alive! I totally need to give wild mage a try or take Neera one of these days, their wild surges just scare me away, but I need to give them a chance, I see so many good players praising them. Thanks for your input!
@Flammiedrum5 жыл бұрын
Love the series, every video is worth a full watch...it's looking like George Michael's playthrough is doomed for youtube, do you still have Bane's epic run?
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
I do, I'm literally bed ridden atm but I'll be back online eventually. When I do Bane will go up and I'll also edit out the small segment that upsets youtubes algorithm and get George Michael's run up too. Thanks for watching friend God bless!
@trazyntheinfinite98953 жыл бұрын
I still like casting black blade, then use contingency to imp haste, prot mag and tensers. Sure, a mage COULD do more potent things.... but it is hilarious.
@Davaeornlol3 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@mbalazs35445 ай бұрын
41:14 I teted shape change with time stop, dead elder draons, planar, and even a Lich1/10, the reviger in human form, all taken dwon, monks of light and dark, drou hords all dead before my time ilithad combo its S+++ :D
@chupachichiquequeres3 жыл бұрын
It would be sooo good to see some videos of yours USING the spells. I cant find videos like those on youtube :(
@Davaeornlol3 жыл бұрын
My computer is a dinosaur so any editing tool that isn't shit destroys my memory and ends up crashing. Some day I will have a good pc and can actually make a real video instead of just recording me talking for hours in one take XD
@chupachichiquequeres3 жыл бұрын
@@Davaeornlol im praying for that, you deserve it man!
@Cornholers2 жыл бұрын
Ranger/rogue/shadow dancer multiclass is completely broken 😂
@brandonstrife97384 жыл бұрын
Shapechanging into the greater wolfwere produces the most damage per round for a cleric/mage that has to fight. You set up your trigger and sequencers to buff but cast regeneration before you shapechange. You'll be regening like 20 to 30 hp a round, 6 apr with improved haste, and damage into the 30's per hit with righteous magic. Can't hit anything cast tenser's you won't be able to cast anyway. It used to be the phase spider till they nerfed it.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
I would like to see it in action for a course of the game, I'm imagining it happening in countless fights in ToB and it just looks like a great way to get my cleric mage killed XD. Every fighter has GWW and hits for about 50 damage on insane so you can expect to eat 500 damage in a round if you lose stoneskin, mindflayers beholders burning men breach wish casters will game over you very quickly and I don't think you can kill a 1500 hp dragon before it kills your stoneskins and then kills you. I'm pretty sure you can't even hit demi liches with it and it cant be cast at all in the maze of watchers keep (which is a shame because I think vs demons it would shine nicely) Don't forget planetars every hit can decapitate with a negative two penalty and every hit is a level 30 dispel magic and since you're a multiclass say goodbye to all your buffs (including death ward). I just don't see it being viable at all against, honestly anything outside of a few specific fights where you're NOT fighting multiple HLA fighters, NOT fighting a high level mage with hlas, NOT fighting a powerful magical creature, and NOT fighting a combination of those listed above while at the same time requiring 6 mil xp to do (unless you cast via scroll ofc). You'll have to give me some examples where it really shines to convince me that it's anything other than a really fun toy to play with in specific situations. Love the idea though it sounds super fun, thanks as always for commenting friend!
@sergiotc784 жыл бұрын
Time stop does not affect Demigorgon, just his demons....
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Correct, nor does it affect a few others. He does have a cast of it though which is devastating if you're unprepared. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
@Knightoflodis123 жыл бұрын
Wish: Take your chance with Lady Tymora.~
@Davaeornlol2 жыл бұрын
Luck be a lady.
@BuzzKirill3D4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video. I honestly still don't understand how Spell strike works. In the description, it says it dispels Spell Shield (as well as Turning, Deflection and Immunity). But then you go on to say "if [the target] has Spell shield up, this [Spell strike] will get absorbed". What? But it says it dispels Spell shield... I'm so confused.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Spell shield will block spellstrike, there are certain spells (like dispel magic) that will NOT affect spell shield so the game tells you which ones will eat a spell shield and which ones wont. Basically anything that dispels that ISNT dispel magic should get eaten by spell shield. However, if spell shield isnt up, spellstrike will break ALL the protections as opposed to just one like ruby ray.
@ronnymueller19185 жыл бұрын
Have you heared they will be doing Baldur's Gate 3? I think they won't stick to dnd 2e though which was a big part of making bg so good... Anyway, I loved this series and watched it alot! Helped me a ton, thanks! You may do the level10 / hla too? Anyway I would appreciate! Cheers
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Yeah I'm quite sick atm but more videos will be coming soon hopefully. I also wish they would stick to 2nd edition but there isn't a snowballs chance in hell. It's ironic that they're going to use an edition to appeal to the more "modern" crowd because thac0 is too complex when the exact opposite is true. I just hope they go hard on the story ( I don't think its possible to have too many options for dialogue/story plot stems) and don't overdo the mechanics too much. Baldur's gate is special because it's both simple and has layers of complexity, I hope they do it justice. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
@ronnymueller19185 жыл бұрын
@@Davaeornlol For me what kept the replayability in Bg2 was the fact that you could become godlike and had to start so small. And also the spell system, which is complex in a very fun way. This onion like defences with many layers of magical protections and dispells! I didn't look much into the modern editions but from what I see 5e spells are just like "deal XdY damage to Z creatures. Pretry boring :/ Anyway, get well soon! And don't push yourself
@megamastah4 жыл бұрын
@@ronnymueller1918 yeah, no chance DOS3 (I mean BG3) will be close to BG/BG2 level, since it's based on 5e D&D and made by clowns at Larian. Shame, really.
@brandonstrife97384 жыл бұрын
Oh and if you use the regen spell in the trigger your regening 96 hp a round.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Spicy!
@donniemarshall5704 жыл бұрын
I think I remember Demogorgon being immune to Timestop.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
He is indeed, If i said he wasn't that was an oopsie on my part. Abazigal, balthazar, the ravager, demogorgan, and smellysan are all immune to timestop and more depending on mods, but those are the ones that come to mind. Gromnir illisara and yagashura aren't without ascension.
@DL-ss1ut3 жыл бұрын
Was thinking of rolling a wild mage, what your experience with Dweomering sequencers and contingencies ?
@Davaeornlol3 жыл бұрын
There was a lot of bugs with dweomering sequencers, I THINK in the last patch I played wild mage in you couldn't dweomer a sequencer at all but I'm not sure if that was a mod doing that or an actual patch. Wild mage is stupid fun though.
@IRGhost03 жыл бұрын
Question: if you wanted to cheese XP, could you timestop and imprison an enemy, then use freedom to get the enemy back, and keep doing that and keep getting XP? Or can you only get XP for the enemy just the first time you imprison it?
@Davaeornlol3 жыл бұрын
Nah it works everytime, same thing goes for petrification.
@michaelbaxter8554 жыл бұрын
How do you take "a couple of these" and a "Couple of these" and "a couple of these" when the most l9 spells a mage can have is 3?
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
Sorc gets like 6, a specialist mage gets 5, edwin gets 7. If you're a multiclass yeah it's gonna be a hot minute until you get those extra slots but everyone else will have at least 4. Most importantly, if you have more than one mage (chances are you do) you can spread your spell selections out that way.
@trinketmage814521 күн бұрын
According to the Wiki, Wish with 18 wisdom only has a pool of 25 wishes to choose from(with only 4 that will instantly fuck you). Is this info correct?
@brandonstrife97384 жыл бұрын
Even a pure mage can push a -8 thaco with it. 6 attacks pretty decent damage.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
I'm just so damn hesistant about using tensers It's done nothing but get people killed in the past even with protections. I think it could work for very specific fights tho.
@chimertaur5 жыл бұрын
Going from the wild surges, the descriptions for both chaos shields say they do not stack with each other, is this right, or a mess up by the developers?
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
No idea, not even 100% if they are stacking since the modifiers are behind the scenes but I can see them as separate on my editors and what testing I did could not prove they aren't.
@avenderiel4 жыл бұрын
I don´t see the point of the Chaos shields. Looking at the surge table it´s not like the top of the table is much better than the lower end of the table.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
It's funny I kinda wondered that myself. Supposedly it's added to your base level compared to the roll, so by stacking it, you have a higher chance of the spell working normally if you dweomer. It's fucking weird though. Thanks for commenting friend!
@avenderiel4 жыл бұрын
@@Davaeornlol I guess it makes sense with your kind of playthrough. But most of the early bad ones are gonna oneshot you, like the fireballs centered on you, that just means a reload for normal playthroughs. Although maybe in the original it makes a weird sense. Remember playing Fallout 1 back in the day with potato computer and saving a game could take 2-3 minutes. Perhaps with similiar saving and loading times saving is more of a "resource" in the game developers mind when balancing these kind of things. I have watched your spell overview content pretty much back to back. XD Have been meaning to play through the whole BG-series for the first time. Spent almost 3 days "choosing" character. Leaning towards sorcerer, but I am so greedy so probably gonna go Fighter/mage/thief like i always do in these older titles.
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
@@avenderiel No matter what you pick its fun, the only real way to play wild mage with these rules is have another mage cast protection spells on you (so you don't kill yourself casting them) then you can go all out fairly safely. In bg1 you gotta be a bit careful, but in BG2 there's really nothing you can do that will 1 shot you or 1 shot your frontline. My last wild mage playthrough died in watchers keep, he got pretty far. We ended up getting swarmed by multiple planetars and I finally got hit with the worst wild surge, spell casting failure. I had no way to defend myself and got ripped to pieces.
@eliaspatrikis19265 жыл бұрын
Can you do a class breakdown into your tier system too?
@Davaeornlol5 жыл бұрын
Soon my friend, thanks for watching!
@macloko4 жыл бұрын
Does Energy Drain only work once? Or can you keep hitting the enemy with it over multiple attacks?
@Davaeornlol4 жыл бұрын
You can keep using it but by the time you get it you wont be able to drain enemies to death unless you're rocking a lot of mages XD
@normanred9212 Жыл бұрын
Bigby's spells are way better in Neverwinter
@Wheeaze3 жыл бұрын
I am playing with SCS v33.7 installed and I am finding that whenever an enemy mage casts Wish, the djinn speaks to me and I have to choose a Wish as if I had cast it myself. Have you (or anyone else ofc) ever encountered this issue before or more likely to be an issue with my own install do you think?
@Davaeornlol3 жыл бұрын
I have not had that happen before no. It might be your install I'd ask the forums tho.
@user-ke3pm1zw3j Жыл бұрын
Meteor doesn’t hit Allies bout the only thing its good for in baldurs gate ee