Hit me with a hidden detail\feature\trick that you found and I might feature the comment in a video I'm working on!

Protip for those not familiar with D&D: If you want to play a caster with armor, Githyanki get proficiency in light and medium armor and swords. In githyanki language a warrior wizard is called a gish, which is where the gaming term comes from (but not the Smashing Pumpkins album title).

If you trade with vendor you can shift + drag their gold into smaller piles to make pickpocket easier.

The thing with Barbarian's (and Monk's) unarmoured defence bonuses, is that it's impossible in early-mid game to get comparable AC to just wearing a piece of medium armour. And it's not like your choice is between +1/2AC, or a nice perk, because there are no clothes useful for barbarian until Mountain Pass or Shadowlands. There is no 'but a nice perk' at the other side of this equation, it's just whether you want more AC or not, and in some cases it's literally a choice between +2AC AND some nice perks... or -2AC and no perk. (like Hide armour+2 (no stealth checks disadvantage, +1 to initiative, +1 bonus to dexterity saving throws and checks (basically an equivalent to +2 dex if you're not using ranged or finesse weapons)) or the Grymforge Armour) Even If I could agree that still using armour can be classified as a mistake in the 3rd act, where you do get some really nice barbarian-oriented stuff, it's by no means a noob trap, nor is it obviously a mistake, because it isn't. Do the math people, it's basic addition. No, Medium armour is not 'similar to light armour' its much closer to the heavy armour in terms of AC than the light armour, in many cases matches the AC of heavy armour, if we add that +2 from dex (which is how it should be considering what those armour pieces actually are) The reason you got a wrong impression of medium armour, is that you were comparing a good piece of light armour, on a character that has 20 dex, against literally The Weakest Medium Armour In The Game. Even the starting armour of the Fighter or Paladin has more AC. Honestly is the Light armour that's garbage, and the only reason one would ever use it, is for some specific pieces that have special effects (and all of those are reserved to act 3, like the bhaalist armour) or because you really don't want to dip into fighter or paladin multiclass for your Astarion or Wyll, or respecc Astarion into a gloomstalker ranger. Aside from that, there is literally no point- If you're a mage of any kind you either get the mage armour, or draconic bloodline which gives you 13 AC+dex modifier for free, which will be more than (or at least equal to) any piece of light armour you can find until act 3 and/or until you get to lvl 9 at which point the traders will get "studded leather+2" which gives 14 AC and +1 to initiative. If you're a rogue or warlock, you can just dip 1-2 lvl's into fighter, paladin, or ranger, (especially gloomstalker ranger for a rogue) to get that medium armour proficiency (and some nice perks like divine smite, action surge, or +3 initiative and completely free attack on the first round of combat, from ranger's gloomstalker sub-class) and, in case of rogue, use some special armour pieces that won't give you disadvantage on stealth checks (like the aforementioned hide armour+2) and you'll still get more AC from it, despite the dex cap: 12+3 or 13+4 (ie. what you can expect from light armour in act1/2) is less than 14+2/16+2/15+4 (ie. what you can expect from medium armour in act1/2. The 15+4 is from a special piece of armour that doesn't have a cap on bonus AC from dex, to get it you need to visit the forgotten realm of... Last Light's Inn's Quartermaster Talli's trade dialogue option. Yeah you can just buy it, it also doesn't impose disadvantages on stealth checks so even Astarion can use it without any issues, and it gives +1 to initiative, and costs just ~600gold). And that keeps being the case until the end of the game- The Best Light armour gives 14 AC, plus up to 6. The best Medium armour gives 17AC plus up to... also 6, because The Armour of Agility has a special perk that removes the dexterity cap, it also imposes no disadvantage on stealth checks.

I really wish reactions were explained better in the game, especially with regards to under what conditions they are triggered.

I think, minmaxing is a matter of taste. You can basically play all origin companions as they are and still finish the game. I like to let the main companions be as they are. Maybe except for Shadowheart though, she has an event where it would be naturally to do at least some respecing, but of course not necessary. One addition to the reactions, because it got a little lost in video: Some reactions cost spell slots or other resources that replenish not so often. So as you said correctly: It is better to let the system ask, because by wasting resources unnecessarily, you might give up other opportunities. Besides this addition from my side, very good information!

A 17 to hit when tying armor class wins the tie. So using the dual wield reaction to get at +2 while at 15 to beat a 17 is incorrect. The attacker wins the tie

It seems that the non lethal option isn't working correctly. Npcs and Quests react as if you killed

A cool idea? Get yourself Featherfall and jump down the hole at the end of the cave where you fight the spider-matriarch. Just dont do it before lvl 5 ok? Trust me... :)

if your AC is 15: and they roll a 17, adding +2 isn't going to help you. They need to MATCH your AC to hit you, not EXCEED it.

Two small tips I learned the hard way. 1) Haste is amazing, making potions via Alchemy is easy. 2) Mol’s quest in the Druid Grove has a reward that you’ll likely use for the whole game. Steal that Idol!

Hey hello ! Firstly thanks for all this advice it’s make the game more smoother for new players !!! Secondly a small quration, lots of people have issues with the critical smite reactions. When you crit on your normal smite normally the reaction box with the critical smite have to open and ask if you want to use it, but lots op people, include me, have this with nothing is opening. No reaction nothing. And the reaction menu is correctly adjusted…

for that first one, I've generally found that medium armor is most often better than unarmored defense for barbarians, in terms of both AC and utility. I'm playing a Dexterity-based barbarian right now with 21 AC using medium armor and a shield. Also, medium armor may be better than light armor for AC on a dexterity-based character. If we're talking nonmagical armor on a character with 20 Dexterity, they will have 17 AC whether they're wearing medium or light armor, so long as they're wearing the best type available for each (12+5 vs 15+2). That 17 AC is much easier to achieve with medium armor though because you only need 14 dexterity, and can increase it to 18 AC if you take the medium armor master feat and have at least 16 Dexterity. And about finesse weapons, the damage calculations the games give you are correct. They take the finesse into account. You just need to look at the numbers to see which does more damage. Again, I'm seeing this a lot on my Dexterity-based barbarian. Source: I'm a notorious D&D minmaxer in my friend group and a massive nerd.

Im new to this game and KZfaq guides and videos have been extremely helpful since this game is pretty overwhelming normally i play action rpgs or adventure and 1st person and 3rd person shooters and souls games so i have no clue how to even play baldur's gate. I got it because i wanted to play something new with loot and the rpg mechanics that come with those games. I am definitely taking it all in and just reading everything to understand it all. I was stuck at the characters selection screen for 3 hrs. Lol i finally went with paladin

I gave astarion the yuan-ti scale armor which used his whole dex modifier and it boosted his ac significantly enough to dual wield scimitars or use just the legendary rapier you get from the captain from act 3

In NWN EE I found once I got around 25 AC, my guy became almost untouchable. I always found it amusing how Haste was good for double attack speed, double run speed and like +4 AC.

Tip: Superiority dice do not work with unarmed attacks. Even though the wording of the manoeuvres state attack, which is both unarmed, melee weapons and ranged weapons, they still do not work. Haven't tested riposte, and precision should work, but the others require a melee weapon in the hand to work. In 5e, making an unarmed Battle Master was possible due to the same wording on the manoeuvres as in the game, but the game says no.

This video just made me twice as good at BG3.

You got me at thick and fast mate

If you use disguise self while pickpocketing or knocking merchant's unconscious you won't loose rep cause your disguised

In most cases ive found that if you take the feat medium armor master that allows the ac mod to go up to 3 makes it better than light and heavy armor, for instance the adamantine splintmail is 16+2dex and with the feat 19 total. The only thing thta will out do this is a good set of +1-2 studded leather or a buffed set of full plate which is normally a flat 18. If you want an ac tank you have to run a shield just a fun bit of stuff i realized trying to min max my ac on a rouge/fighter build

My personal "major mistake" is selling or throwing out any special enchanted items (ie not just +1 stuff). You never know when you may discover later that it would've been the perfect item for a certain way you decided to build your character. It's happened to me more than once, and a friend I'm playing with will just not stop selling off his old enchanted gear. I've had to go and buy (steal) back his old stuff because a lot of it was either super useful, just not to him (like the gloves of dexterity), immediately useful to my character, or something I thought it was likely we'd want in the future. It's so much better to just rob merchants blind with Astarion than it is to sell off your uniques.

Im pretty sure that reactions that add AC or affect a roll only ask/trigger if they at least have a chance to succeed. Cutting Words wouldn't ask sometimes and I'm pretty sure it's because the roll was just too high.

there are few medium armors that don't limit your AC and increase it further based on your constitution modifier. First one like this that I've found is in Last Light Inn yuan-ti scalemale armor

Kind of glad I’m a dnd dm and understand the game before playing Baldurs gate

Fun tip: while collecting loot, respec your characters based on how well they can take advantage of it. It’s a really fun way to play. Basically let the loot inform what classes your characters should be rolling with.

I'm pretty sure shields do count as armor my monk goes from 19-down to 15 armor when putting on a shield because my character loses the "unarmored" traits

Karlach is my tank. Lae’zel is so obnoxious listening to after awhile

Cool stuff: in the camp, let the bard rip your eye ball off while searching for the tadpole. It was a hard time but never saw better

the feat medium armor master can rise your dex limit by medium armors to +3 and for some reason the shar cleric (idk the english name) have this feat even if u respec her

You were changing the stats of Astarion, Im not using Astaron because im a Rogue thief myself, so I was wondering what would be the optimal stats distribution for me? 17Dex and 16CON, but what about the other stats? Is there something detrimental for me? (im playing a meele rogue with permanent sneak attacks) And if you would allow me to ask a 2nd question: So I have used the Grymforge once, then the boss battle appeared and I killed it. After the Battle I can't (for some reason) dont put a 2nd mold into the forge, as of right now the Boss is LAYING on the thing where you put the mold in. Meaning the lever is "blocked" and also I cant pull in lava to melt him or something because the wheel is blocked aswell for some reaosn. The only "button" that works in the forge is the hammer button, that does nothing anymore. Can I fix that? I already re-loaded and short/long rested multiple times

Doesn’t Astarion get the highest AC from medium armor profiency and using a shield?

Karlach’s reckless attacks almost ALWAYS misses lol

Hey, can you make a video about magic and mages? I haven't really been understanding the hit/miss chances of spells or what actually determines how much damage they do

Question: can you like just straight up change shadow hearts class ? I have been playing a cleric but wanted to have shadow heart in my party, so I have just been running around with 2 clerics. Could I change her to a paladin or something?

Where can you get that Elven mask?thats on Astarion

I believe, at least in EA, if you are caught stealing from a vendor, it will affect your approval rating with all the vendors. At least that seemed to be my experience. I decided to improve my approval rating with certain vendors in EA, through the donation process; and it seemed that process became more expensive after each Long Rest. And, as has been stated elsewhere, vendor inventory refreshes after every level up from any individual character & long rest.

00:13 i NEED this armor

All praise BOOOAL!

Use withers to build full clerics to use the one time use permanent divine intervention skill to get weapons/armour

Damn had no ideia i could respect th3 companions as well

What you said isn’t exactly wrong. But. Unless you are rocking a +5 or more to dex for a rogue medium armor is almost always the better option. 13+2 is 15. The best early medium armor you can get that still gives dex is 14+2 which is better than any light armor. And most medium armors offer no penalty to dex.

I never thought of stealing from vendor...nice...Gonna be a billionaire before I complete Act 1

good info

@1:00 I'm confused, you said attack roll is compared to armor class to determine if you land a hit or not, how is that calculated? Here it's attack roll is 28 but armor class is 20, whats the percentage of me landing a hit then? 8%? 108%? 🤔

I forget most people don't know damm near everything about dnd 5e and don't realize how the small things work in bg3

Are you still playing Diablo immortals? Your guides are very helpful for begginers. Thank you

Me too thanks.

Its a waste till Asterion gets caught picking pockets and you can't switch to your face and he goes to jail or starts fights your just not ready for.

I wouldn't say that it's a mistake to not respec companions. Even on tactician and letting all the characters be pure, non multiclassed with their original stats and natural class pathing the game isn't incredibly difficult.

Persuasion on the talking character affects vendor prices

I played a lot of games during my life time. Everybody seems all positive about this game. I consider myself not that dumb but how does a new player get going in this game? It seems all really conveluded.

I love these type videos, but at the same time they frustrate me. It’s because the game itself goes through no effort to actually explain this shit

Is ask on by default for those reactions?

I didn't even consider how the game story wise thinks Astarion is going to be an Arcane Trickster and gave him a lot of Int. Yeah you hide in shadows and stab people buddy I'll make sure to fix that.

CTRL and SHIFT click items in inventory then right click add to wares!

Easier and faster way of robbing vendors of items/gold is to just buy everything you can and then steal their gold. You might have to save scum a bit, but it's far less time consuming.

8:40 this info is out of date. any and all inspiration points gain will give you experience. this experience is also party wide, not character specific

They should give better sng longer descriptions

If you get your hands on a headband of intellect, toss it on Astarion, and dump his natural intelligence as far as you can, get a ton of points to play with. 😉

There’s no X in “especially”

I was wondering why the last time I leveled one of them needed a sliver of XP still

This video hurt my brain 😣

Yeah, but anytime you steal the moment you’re free from dialogue they suspect that you stole something. Pickpocketing does not work in this game.

Wow a whole eeek! Lol

in bg3 armor does not restrict spell casting.

Man, I think this one is bricked. I don't want to go back so far when art is still alive. I already used speak with dead on art and can't do it again

Mistake one, not playing on easy

I built astarion into a Assassin

One of the biggest mistakes you should stop making is in fact: To let idiots tell you how to play

you rattled off lots of numbers with more screens with more numbers but i didn't see anything that actually relates to each other ... i'm still not getting it. i need a video that don't sound like he is reading a book really fast to get it out there

I found your armor class explanation highly confusing.

Too much min max and exploits on video game stuff, Ppl should at least beats 2 or 3 times in a tabletop manner first and than begin to min max to beat the game faster or perfectly. Thats my opnion ofc 😅

No and you can't make me

This game is way to complicated

if you play dnd, you can skip this shit

Please talk faster. It’s too easy to follow.

Not here for a "tip" that literally just explains finesse weapons. For somebody eating and breathing this stuff, your tips are surprisingly pedestrian.

I wish the game pushed the dice stuff a little to the background. As someone who never played dnd, it's VERY unintuitive to think in terms of dice, at least with DnD you actually roll the die so you can understand the reasoning behind it.

Biggest mistake is buying this below average game. Loaded with bugs still after the 3rd patch. Hidden items that unlock only with specific characters that you have to pick as your own not just in your party. The garbage collection to sell to traders. Spend more time opening crates and reading useless notes for clues to overly obnoxious puzzles than moving forward. This should be on the free download page and I would still say your computer is better off without it.

Do not respec your origin characters

Armor reducing your chance to be hit instead of reducing damage is such an unnintuitive design. This also makes combat feel bad because the main source of mitigation is complete misses, not reduced damage. The items are also really boring compared to arpg's or pillars of eternity. Spellcasters running out of spells feels absurd, and there's too many spell overlaps between classes. These ruin battle and class identity. Don't even get me started on concentration and giving many classes mostly concentration spells, which stifles the ability to do anything else. Finally, classes are pigeonholed into the same stat each time. This wouldn't be so bad if they weren't tightly couple to skills. Dnd systems are really showing their age.

These guides are mostly disappointing. Information akin to "did you know when you walk, you have limited movement in turn based mode?" Nothing useful except for the obvious. "Major mistakes". Enough of the clickbait to cash in on views.

Number 1 mistake was buying this game because of the manufactured hype to realise it's mid at best and only ground breaking if you compare it a 90's game.