Can You Beat Act 1 As A LONEWOLF Bard On TACTICIAN?

Can You Beat Act 1 As A LONEWOLF Bard On TACTICIAN? - Baldur's Gate 3

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7 ай бұрын

I know I say it a lot but seriously thank you so much for watching!
I can't get enough of making content and this was probably the most fun I've had making my videos so far so look forward to act 2 cause I know I sure am!
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@AlmightStick 7 ай бұрын

So small fun fact: Volo isnt actually a bard. He's a Wizard. Which is why he is REALLY bad at poetry and songs when encountered in the Goblin Camp.

@the_truant 7 ай бұрын

That makes so much sense

@azel7056 5 ай бұрын

REALLY?! Huh…2 playthrough 400+ Hours and never thought that…Man, That does make sense

@benjammin5328 5 ай бұрын

He could be both. Whenever you're playing music, one of the random text pop-ups from the NPCs is "Know any Volo tunes?". His bumbling at the Goblin camp was because he was terrified lmao

@ImfrAfreak 4 ай бұрын

Nah then why would he need a potion of invis and not just cast a spell, and use a ice pick and not magic to get the parasite??

@AlmightStick 4 ай бұрын

@@ImfrAfreak Oh thats easy. Not his trained area. Or Potions are just easier to do than spells. Same for the Ice pick, just a more hands on approach.

@dostic8771 7 ай бұрын

Small thing for the grym fight: You can activate the valve with a bow shot so you can save yourself the jump and position before the fight and trigger the valve with an arrow.

@the_truant 7 ай бұрын

That makes a lot of sense haha

@ulkem 5 ай бұрын

In dead of night, out on the streets, I met a 7 year old highly articulate kid who likes to play chess and run marathons, named Bartholomew. Then when I woke up this morning, realised in my sleepy stupor I opened the playlist last night and fell asleep. 10/10, would watch again.

@ChessQuestionMark 7 ай бұрын

You know you're an Illithid when you're wrestling a goblin over a tadpole thank you. Great video king

@Splitboltxful 7 ай бұрын

“she is in fact secretly sleeping” made me laugh out loud

@blankepitaph4407 7 ай бұрын

Oh my god I thought that after the Fighter series a Bard series would be a distant dream. As a career DnD Bard I absolutely cannot wait to start watching this. Thanks for all your quality content as always!

@the_truant 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely my pleasure, I'm glad you're enjoying it!

@lemonlefleur6236 7 ай бұрын

I think for an extra challenge you should turn on Karmic Dice so that they can guarantee your rolls being progressively worse despite existing to make them better.

@Captain-Stink-of-the-Void 5 ай бұрын

Karmic dice saved me I rolled not one. Not two. But three DOUBLE ones in a row Karmic dice saved me from my shitty luck lol

@spider-man6088 5 ай бұрын

@@Captain-Stink-of-the-VoidThign is, Karmic dice applies to the enemies as well. Meaning if you get hits, the more likely you will suddenly start missing.

@Fenric859 7 ай бұрын

i love the commentary and the editing is fantastic!

@MetalGamer666 5 ай бұрын

This is more like it! I've been watching various BG3 challenge videos, but they usually all make some cheesy respecced multiclass build, and use plenty of barrelmancy, which makes it kind of pointless. Your 8 rules is what all BG3 challenge videos should follow! You've earned a like from me!

@eggbag4182 6 ай бұрын

28:30 The dream visitor gives you Bless once you leave them

@Vitor87C 7 ай бұрын

The rockstar jokes were SOOO on point, the narration felt very "in character". 10/10, looking forward for act 2

@tbkgaming522 7 ай бұрын

I'm surprised you didn't pick up the wonderous gloves in the underdark. +1 to AC and an additional bardic inspiration dice. Either way this is going to be one crazy run and I'm here for it.

@the_truant 7 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm a little surprised about that too, I forgot they existed cause I was so focused on getting the flawed helldusk gauntlets in act 2 haha

@shuckleman6779 5 ай бұрын

I loved the run. I've been watching the live stream VODs while working from home and they are very enjoyable. Wishing you all the best in your future challenge runs!

@davidmills1520 7 ай бұрын

So entertaining how you do these runs and videos. Somebody may have mentioned this, but you can just send in Scratch to pop the mephit ambush while hiding above. It is then easy to pick them off with a bow. If he isn't your familiar yet, you can just long rest without supplies to advance things like that.

@elmtre3 7 ай бұрын

Love it, bard is definitely a favorite of mine too, neat seeing how vers it is

@Jaevwyn 7 ай бұрын

very clean content, definitely deserving of more views, thanks for all the effort you put in!

@the_truant 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much I really appreciate it!

@RandomZagreus 7 ай бұрын

I'm really hyped for this one, good luck man!

@RoryDavidWatts 7 ай бұрын

This was great, looking forward to the next instalments.

@UndoubtablySo 7 ай бұрын

the series is back! this is exiting, good luck!

@Aldranor 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing vids boi keep it up waiting for part 2

@LordAryu 7 ай бұрын

I played as a Lore Bard in my first ever BG3 run (also my my first experience with CRPGs and DND), and boy was it so fun!

@RoseBeeKind 7 ай бұрын

Yay! I really enjoy your videos😊

@AzureTheSky 7 ай бұрын

Fuck yesssssssss, happy to see you're continuing the series!

@drunemeton Ай бұрын

Dude, you got roofied by Gut and thought you couldn’t hold your liquor? Man, you gotta be more careful around those cougars! They’ll do _anything_ to ride a young hog… (PSA: GET TESTED!) In less salacious news: your videos are freaking amazing! So well done, and entertaining. Too bad I’m 1/2 way through Act 2, and therefore can’t watch them all the way through, yet. Cheers!

@Wonder324 7 ай бұрын

A fun tip, If you wanna grab the ring of protection you can complete the investigate kauga quest. if you do things right the ritual will stop meaning you can take the idol and get the ring consequence free!

@jakecain5107 7 ай бұрын

Excited for this one!

@Accionfull 7 ай бұрын

Oh man i´m loving Bardtholomew´s story, can´t wait to hear him in the big leagues, and I still can´t believe you made the Spectator work, you´re a god gamer Truant, can´t wait for Act 2 and the next streams, keep it up dude! im loving the content 🧡

@dontknoww8939 7 ай бұрын

Volo is actually technically a wizard, he’s just a really stupid one. In the lore Elminster often fact checks his self published books lol

@the_truant 7 ай бұрын

Go figure haha good to know, I just assumed he was a bard cause well, just look at him

@metsu4467 7 ай бұрын

Loving this series! Consider doing monk next!

@dPlayer_5b 7 ай бұрын

once again a banger video!

@GottaLuvJohnLen 7 ай бұрын

Let’s go! So ready to see this!

@devinodell3076 7 ай бұрын

I Love this. Cant wait for act 2

@SANSTIGA 7 ай бұрын

Make more bro your video is so good and your storytelling are good too :D

@Diivoniis 5 ай бұрын

I couldn't help but think of Dave Navarro the entire time looking at your character. The hair and facial hair combo was just too spot on to not be on purpose 😭😂

@Dino9474 7 ай бұрын

It’s been so fun watching the livestreams and seeing Bardtholomew’s story uncut and at it’s rawest ❤ Convinced me to to do Bard after my Durge Oathbreaker/Warlock run 👍

@the_truant 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching both, good luck on your run!

@thomasmissell4288 7 ай бұрын

great stuff as usual

@fitmcdeezy8778 7 ай бұрын

You're a beast at this game 👍

@jinxtheunluckypony 7 ай бұрын

It’ll be fun to see how this compares to the Fighter in the long run.

@TRPLD 7 ай бұрын

I played a Bard Lonewolf (mostly) but focused on Shield/Sword combo in Act II and III. It hugely increased my survivability while my damage was still high enough.

@sunsetsbymidnights 7 ай бұрын

Sad to say I didn't realize that the key to the minthara structural damage approach was going into turn-based mode... I literally reloaded that moment over 8 times trying to do it in real time LOL great video though

@grayhatjen5924 5 ай бұрын

Just noticed that you're at 9.99K subs, so here's a subscription to get you one step closer to 10k!

@JTC161 7 ай бұрын

Keep up the video, your video is very high quality for a small channel. Cheers

@the_truant 7 ай бұрын

Thank you, more to come!

@Goatnime 6 ай бұрын

How don't you have more subs this was hilarious lmao

@t_tune_s 4 ай бұрын

laezel jumping off the nautiloid gets me every time 😂

@MaxifyGG 7 ай бұрын

Even tho I watched the stream the video was amazing to watch. Great editing!

@the_truant 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching both!

@arrowodd7695 7 ай бұрын

Great MC build. I rolled something similar, but with a party. Using Karlach and Wyll as warlocks and Shadowheart as a Light Cleric.

@thespreer2142 7 ай бұрын

karlach as a warlock seems so strange thematically

@corbettmyers 7 ай бұрын

Keep up the great work man

@the_truant 7 ай бұрын

Thank you thank you, will do :)

@DrXtoph 6 ай бұрын

Great job!

@okimura690 7 ай бұрын

Great stuff.

@deadeyexl8392 6 ай бұрын

Withers: "dost thou know of Weezer?"

@McFunbags-im7cc 6 ай бұрын

I will say for the mephit fight you could drink an Elixer of Vigilance. It gives a +5 to your initiative and prevents you from being surprised. You still killed without it, but this might help you out with future runs.

@DbzOrDie 5 ай бұрын

The fight is even fully avoidable by just sneaking past them to the mythrill ore

@Snapdragon-zj2pp 7 ай бұрын

I didn’t expect Barr next on the block, I thought he’d go sorcerer

@tarvod4855 7 ай бұрын

in the trap room where withers is you can just press a button right next to the middle sacrophagus to deactivate the trap

@Drakenwild 7 ай бұрын

Love me some Bardtholomew in the morning ^^

@mrbutish 7 ай бұрын

I played act 1 for 3rd time, just ran past everyone with invisibility as wizard into act 2 straight to moonrise towers with the spider. Goblin camp bypass to creche, avoid creche into shadow lands, call for bard without lyre. Level 3 into moonrise towers. Edit: So my point was act 1 is completely optional Act 2 has one mandatory fight, for the netherstone. Even act 2 can be cheese with invis + runepowder barrel to make it optional. Act 3 is optional if u have gale ending. :]

@Dynamic_Pear 2 ай бұрын

Traunt - you are the original rockstar

@blujay1294 5 ай бұрын

Throwing up a salute and obligatory like just for virtue of honour mode probably coming out mid you filming this LMFAOO

@infamousminer5820 7 ай бұрын

OH YA some more bg3 challenge runs!!!

@TrixR4kids876 7 ай бұрын

In druid's grove, over by Alfira, there's a hat that when you inspire an ally, you heal 1-6 hp, but I guess that doesn't really work with solo.

@alexis_ethos 5 ай бұрын

12:10 The way that cut was done, it looks like volo killed you and dumped your body into the underdark

@keremcantarhan 7 ай бұрын

I'm on my second lonewolf run as my first one got corrupted at the end of Act 2, and honestly it's so much fun. Granted I don't impose on myself the same limitations; I used a lot of barrelmancy on my first solo run, and now on my second I'm doing Durge with full illithid powers. On both playthroughs, I've discovered that invisibility is broken if you're doing lonewolf as you can keep resetting combat.

@UndoubtablySo 7 ай бұрын

its a shame u didn't go college of lore bard, u can get some nice spell slot efficiency with call lightning, spiritual weapon and conjure elemental, plus the rest of the lore features are rlly good

@PlayDrumGood 5 ай бұрын

my favorite thing about beating BG3 is the fact I can finally fucking watch BG3 challenge run videos

@iamDirectoriam 7 ай бұрын

Nice video, thx 🙏

@RvB_Fan_since_8 5 ай бұрын

*Sets incredibly difficult challenge for himself* Hmmm I need to make it EVEN HARDER, NO MULTICLASS, NO ILLITHID POWER, NO RESPEC, NO NOTHING, FI WE BALL

@ianschultz2489 Ай бұрын

4:38 I had no idea you could fall into that pit without dropping the cargo on it!

@hypno9022 5 ай бұрын

A tip for Nere and Brithvar, you don't ACTUALLY need to kill the scrying eye to get them to help in the fight. Personally I just talked to them about their plot, got to the step where you need to kill the eye, and then just attacked Nere anyways after freeing him. They'll automatically join in as neutral to you, but hostile to Nere and his allies.

@ajyhimst2782 3 ай бұрын

Bardtholomew be wantin to party, BUT YOU GOTTA TELL BARDTHOLOMEW NO!!!

@kshea4231 4 ай бұрын

I just realized my dude isn't even using magic armor or weapons in every slot possible. My man is making it even harder on himself

@thepizzaman9159 7 ай бұрын

the bless comes from the dream visitor! its their way of aiding you in the gith fight.

@the_truant 7 ай бұрын

Oh thank god I'm so glad someone told me haha, that makes so much sense

@davidmills1520 7 ай бұрын

@@the_truant With any weapon-based class ( as opposed to something like a Sorc that HAS to long rest), I keep that bless along with bliss spores and morninglord's blessing throughout half of Act 1 and all of act 2. Also, the +5 shar's blessing to all mental stats. You just need to not have Laezel in your party so that Voss doesn't show up and force a long rest.

@joseywales7463 7 ай бұрын

For a party of 4 is normal Difficulty too easy?

@davidmills1520 7 ай бұрын

@@joseywales7463 It really depends on whether it is your first playthrough. If you aren't too familiar with the game and the encounters, it can be hard sometimes on 4 party normal. I only play solo tactician, after trying the game for a bit on balanced and with a party. Once you have a decent idea of the game, and especially if you know about a fight beforehand, anything less than solo tactician is trivial. With certain characters, like a gloomstalker, fire sorc, or fighter, it is realistic to never die once on solo tactician even as a single class with no respeccing and no barrel stuff.

@joseywales7463 7 ай бұрын

@@davidmills1520 wow. So I'm guessing this game is much easier than DOS2?

@LordZeck 7 ай бұрын

Love it

@jimmyhill5079 7 ай бұрын

I'd love to see this done with Permadeath. A chronicled death-free run that isn't a ranged gloom talker or some other variant.

@jessecook4466 7 ай бұрын

DUDE YES

@bryanimre4992 7 ай бұрын

For the mephit fight you can summon scratch from the broken bridge and he takes the aggro and surprised round. (I prefer doing this with mage hand for obvious reasons)

@the_truant 7 ай бұрын

I will be doing this in every future run

@bengraf3329 7 ай бұрын

You can sneak past the Mephits. Directly to the ore.

@ComfyCherry 4 ай бұрын

my rolls were consistently worse with karmic on, probably something to do with it apparently also applying to enemies so maybe they were eating up all the bonuses it gave out. idk how it works so I'm just guessing

@j.w.7608 7 ай бұрын

i was trying to follow along but at the end of act 1(end of the video) what does your item set look like?

@vamp_hater 7 ай бұрын

barcus the mixtape recipient☠️☠️☠️

@T1mo777 5 ай бұрын

About that pit fall in the overgrown ruins, the bunch of ruin raiders you encounter after falling down the hole can be easily annihilated by throwing a fireball or a lit torch at the red barrel in the middle of them :)

@TheGreatDanish 5 ай бұрын

Yeah. Level two encounters are typically made quite easy by a mid game spell lol

@abysswalker3891 7 ай бұрын

Indeed A'jak'nir Jeera is the ultimate gith waifu i would sell my soul to have her as a companion member.

@ianc3442 4 ай бұрын

Alfira is the bard at the Grove, not Volo! Great video!

@fiddlerfiddle5761 7 ай бұрын

Holy shit the view to like ratio is insane, congratulations man!

@the_truant 7 ай бұрын

Thank you, I'm blessed by all the support!

@joaoguilhermeassim 6 ай бұрын

Do druid next ^ ^

@Godlyfishy 6 ай бұрын

now do it on honor mode

@alexhopwood8340 7 ай бұрын

Ahahaha I had to use the same Pokémon Strat when I massacred the crèche my first play through

@xXVintersorgXx 3 ай бұрын

I've yet to see Raphael... Not sure how I've missed him so many times

@TheEpicSpire 5 ай бұрын

13:38 tbf, Mizzora was pretty racist towards the goblins, calling them "these creatures" to their faces and was their boss, so it is pretty realistic that the goblin guard would be more upset about having to replace the bridge.

@Pindarwin 6 ай бұрын

I don't wanta a one man bad thrown stone all on my own

@tianrunzhang6557 4 ай бұрын

maybe it's im playing an earlier version of the game, but is karmic dice on on default? I couldn't find the button

@strigoi_guhlqueen8355 7 ай бұрын

Love your profile pic

@natrob8179 6 ай бұрын

volo is a wizard

@Bourbon1173 4 ай бұрын

I play BG3 with explorer difficulty, with companion also AND still struggle lol

@revivetosurvive3169 7 ай бұрын

please do druid next time ! its my favourite class

@ZeSgtSchultz 6 ай бұрын

:55 Ive been playing for a few days now, you can save during combat??? I didnt even try...

@ControlledThievery 5 ай бұрын

I swear when bg3 was made its like youtubers actually wanted to put effort into editing again like all of these amazing youtubers I've been watching all have like 10k subscribers yet the make really good edits