save scumming is old magic that was needed back in the day

You can find 3 loot chest before boss room. Take all 3 chests to your inventory. Then place them in front of Door of boss room like a pyramid shape. 2 enemy that come later cant jump so they Just stay there. So you can do this without actually risking fight. But you have to place chests before entering the boss room. Then kill commander and other dude. Then Just go back to Door and attack 2 enemy till you kill them.

PSA: If you keep the brain-pet alive during the prologue you get some added interactions later in the game, so you might want to not blow it up!

Also fun tip: If you want to be High Elf (or High Half-Elf) for the extra cantrip but don't want to take Fire Bolt... that's okay! Just pick up a candle, and with a crossbow + Dip(bonus action) = fire source to explode things to your heart's content

Something that I don't think I have ever seen anyone mention or use... those hanging "light" bulb clusters can be shot down and explode on impact with the ground. I believe they act as Caustic bulbs.

Excellent work, 47. Now head towards an exit.

Inspired by the vid, I managed to knock them out without save-scumming and with only one cleric, Shadowheart (in normal difficulty, with a Sorceress Tav). You don't need RNG luck as much as good timing and a strategy that helps divert attention from your party to the Mindflayer, IMO. As soon as you disarm, then kill the commander and the Cambions barge in, MAKE SURE LAE'ZEL STAYS FURTHER AWAY FROM THEM AND THE MINDFLAYER! Ideally, have her retreat as further back from the melee as possible, as soon as she's executed her action. You shouldn't rely on the explosive tanks, but rather on the Mindflayer. The Cambions are way, way more susceptible to its attacks than the commander, so make sure the Mindflayer is left with enough energy to weaken the Cambions, until you can come in for the final hit on them too. The demons have between 70 to 80 hit points in normal difficulty, so the charges are not nearly enough to nail them once you've got them surrounded. If and only if, IMO, the Cambions are left with around 30 hit points, is it a good time to blow up the tanks with Fire Bolt. I got the Mindflayer to retain approximately half its health when the trident demons joined the fight. Do not focus your attacks on the Mindflayer either, if the Cambions are in short distance you are in no danger from it! So, with about 25 to 30 hit points left in the demons and the Mindflayer almost unable to survive another attack, I set and exploded the charges. One of the two Cambions and the Mindflayer kicked the bucket, while the other one survived with only about 10 hit points left, which Lae'zel took with one final sword swing. My entire party survived, including my pet brain (which I kept out of the fight and close to the Transponder). I only used one health potion and had 2 rounds at my disposal to loot the corpses. Also, note: the Cambion resisted my trying to disarm him with Shadowheart. EDIT: Instead of expending Shadowheart's spell slots to disarm the Cambions, I'd strongly recommend saving them to use Bless on the Mindflayer, Lae'zel and your Tav, thus increasing your attack rolls and saving throws.

You could probably use War Domain on Tav to get two strikes at once with the greatsword As for Lae'zel, two scimitars/shortswords works quite well.

Brine bulbs on the ceiling cause 1d4 acid damage each turn, druid thorn whip to pull them into the traps, thunderwave to push them back into the traps, faerie Fire for 10 turns of advantage on them but requires concentration, or entangle to slow them down and possibly entangle them which gives advantage to atks against them and gives the entangled target disadvantages on atk rolls and dex saving throws (also requires concentration) Create water makes the target wet for 3 turns forcing vulnerability to cold and electric damage

Note Paladin and Warlock also have access to the Command spell, but Paladins get their first spell slot at level 2 so you can't do this with a Paladin main character. Also maybe you can abuse the healing station to keep recovering the whole team's spell slots?

Great advice, the extra loot is a nice kickstart for a repeat playthrough, i always forget to put command on SH lol, Also one thing i like to add is to cast grease before blowing them all up , slowing them down & making a bigger boom ! you can start as a wizard or black dragon socerer to get grease then class change later, & this is possible on any difficulty ( with enough savescumming ofcourse)

you could sacrifice one of your party members instead of Us as long as they are not outright killed they will be ok once you have landed

it worked like a charm! thanks for saving me from frustration! !!!!

I've blown up the mind flayer and the commander before, never tried the cambions too. Making them drop the weapons is pretty slick.

Nicely done! Will try when I get around to a Cleric playthrough

this channel deserves to have many more subscribers congratulations for the great narration and editing

Did this in a very similar fashion tactician mode... The cambion reinforcements arrived at round 10 for me, complicating the whole thing, I had to kill 2 cambions with around 42-47 hp with at the end... Was a real pain.

I think a Fiend Warlock might be better for this. Hex pushes extra damage and gives a wisdom disadvantage on your target, making that Command land so much easier. You can recast Hex unto the cambions. Maybe two spell slots is better (+1 guiding bolt with dual cleric I guess) but I feel like a Warlock would pump out a bit better damages turn-to-turn.

Big thumbs up for putting weeping dawn in the video.

This is insane! I Loved it!

If you dont care about the 2 other cambions, you can kill the commander and mindflayer with just faerie fire the apply advantage to both. You will probably need to save scum still, but its definitely doable attempting from the start of the fight without saving and reloading for individual rolls. I find save scumming individual rolls TOO save scummy for my tastes, as it just trivialises everything.

We have a running jome amongst my group where if we really want something we pray to the time god for a retry and they grant us this gift until we get what we want lol

That strat was pretty amazing. Save scumming be dammed, we all do it lol. I’d really like to see you do it on tactician though. I just finished the game on that difficulty and am going back through but have a hell of a hard time killing the commander. But he needs to die. I just don’t see how you can kill the other demons too

Man, I just killed the commander. I didn’t even think of having him drop his weapon with command.

use a fiend warlock (only warlock to get command). commander zhalk and the cambions are both resistant to fire damage so the everburn is going to do 2d6+1-2 fire (do 3-14 at most, this is, of course, not considering class atk bonus). meanwhile take a warlock with hex and eldritch blast you're looking at 1d10 force damage from blast + 1d6 necrotic from hex.. neither resisted by the three. so thats 2-16 damage, (again this is base damage before any modifiers) so you can basically double up on the damage each turn instead of relying on just the everburn.

Hahahaha! God damn this was crazy! Well done, man!

Rangers with Find Familiar from Natural Explorer can make Laezel and the Mindflayer roll more efficiently against Zhaik because the Raven option can blind him which cause attack rolls to be Advantage against him while he rolls on Disadvantage Bards and Cleric has Bardic Inspiration and Bless respectively which make attack rolls be much higher I think only these 3 class can kill Zhaik AND the Cambion at the same time Karlach probably love the Sword more than your character or Laezel honestly

Holy shit dude, on balanced this was tough. Fucked it up 3 times and had to restart. Impossible without save scumming. Really just wanted the sword but those extra items are tough to get as well with the limited time.

I had no idea Morgan Freeman plays BG3!!

nice narration, have my sub.

Wow, i didnt know save scumming for max damage was a thing lol.

Is that your real voice? Awesome Gorion BG1 and 2 nostalgia, thank you.

Demon pact warlock gets access to command

warlocks can get command as well.

I would love to see this done on tactical mode but i have a feeling it will be hard to impossible you just dont have enough time but it could be possible maybe

It’s not scum saving, it’s Godsaving. Karlach knowing she’s in a game, means we’re part of the game. Would you not use Shadowheart to heal, just cuz? But on a serious note, thanks for doing this, on my first play through I wanted to kill the boss demon, just cuz. I did. But when those other fuckers came flying in, I had to book it and I’ve been curious ever since if they were possible to kill and what they could drop. Because that sword was crazy to get.

When Agent 47 starts playing RPGs.

I've been trying to wipe out the Cambions on Honor Mode. With the additional HPs it is tough to do in the time frame. I know there is a tactic to cheese the cambions and attack them out of combat. I have gotten everything down but 1 Cambion with 8 HPs left then the ship explodes lol. One of these days I will figure it out. I havent tried this adding another cleric since I wanted to play a Bard this run I've been going with that class.

I have a question. if I missed the fight with the Commander and left t he ship. Is there any way to get back on it, after the ship has wrecked? I really want to go and take the greatsword.

agent 47 is a real bg3 pro

liked.and subbed becoz of the voice , similar to full throtle protagonist

Fuckin agent 47 out here making tutorials holy shit 😭🙏

Don't let us die

Agent 47 is that you?

I kill the thing waay too fast and it turns on me. But I have no way of disarming the 2nd comers. Shadowheart doesn't have "command."

7:05 there is actually a little rainbow pattern that appears around the subscribe button when he said that. How long has this been a feature?

Is it just me or does this sound like Liam Neeson lol

my man your voice is gold

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Is there a way to get to level 3 before the nautiloid crash?

Tactition MODE!!!!!

Out of curiosity, is there a change in XP gain based on the difficulty levels? (Like could you scum this on the "easy" mode with same XP gain, and just bump it up to Balanced/Tactician once off the ship?

Amazing

Nooooo not Us !

so what exactly did the other 2 demons drop?

Trick that work marvels: make a warlock instead of a cleric. Fiend Warlocks have command and Hex. Turn 1: savescumm the death of the minions, lae'zell go top, shadowheart and MC go down. Turn 2 : Lae'zell go for the top purple crystals; Shadowheart go down and push crystals to the cambionXIllithid fight; MC Hex Cambion's WIS while getting in range for run-by command. Turn 3: Laezell jump from top and join the group middle of the room; Shadowheart trigger the next minions, MC savescumm command "drop" on cambion and move the sword in a easy access place, then savescumm trigger Cambion reaction (full hp+dark one's blessing) Turn 4 : savescumm kill the last minions & let the illithid do God's work. Turn 5+ : savescumm max dmg on Cambion till he die.

How can Shadowheart cast Command twice? Mine can only do it once.

I just hit him with inflict wounds and crit then it was easy to finish him off

mans is talkin bout "save" scumming. nah it's roleplaying as a chronomancer.

Why is agent 47 teaching me how to play a game?

This narration reminds me of bastion

I know how to get them to drop weapons, I unalive them

Lol I beat the demon boss by bullying him. I kept pushing him away and forcing him further towards the console at the end or making him waste actions

tactician or bust

Are you practicing for Optimus Prime’s role one day?

try on tactician next, the enemies have like 50 hp more

I think that if it requires that many saves and reloads it might be better to just go in explorer mode and change to the desired difficulty later. But nice to know that those 2 cambions have good loot

This is all good and all, but... completely unnecessary. Right? And why kill Us? You don't need a bunch of experience early on, just savor the game. When you get to Act 3 you'll spend a lot of time on level 12 without being able to level up further anyways...

Morgan Freeman?

"...technique called save scumming..." lol. Yep, I save scum only in this part of the game, otherwise I hate save scumming.

Not a fan of save scumming. There’s another option to increase the chance of getting the everburn blade to drop - which is the main thing you want from the tutorial section, the rest is just an exercise in tedium and not necessary as you can get to level 2 on the beach without all the extra experience from the other cambions. I play warlock and if you use the hex spell on the commander’s wisdom - the command spell can fail on a wisdom save so nerfing the commander’s wisdom increases the chance that shadow heart’s drop command will succeed. Edit: I saw another comment pointed out that hex doesn’t work for saving throws but only on ability checks and won’t help the command spell - so I totally misunderstood the mechanics here.

Ok, I am not understanding. I can only memorize ONE command spell per character, and I need a long rest to replenish first level spells. Shadowheart already used her, so I would only have one more, but you need 3 in your strategy...

I did it without blessing. And it took way to much time. Miss miss miss with 60% chance is bullshit

tactician is a different ball game i can tell you that lol

should have gave a us a look at the purple item that dropped

Damn you got a beautiful voice, just saying.

Is this tact difficulty? It's only impressive if it's tactician tbh.

I did this devil commandor without this save cheat yet didn't got achievement :(

Why are you talking like Snake of Metal Gear Solid

This is now patched the tanks so cannot be picked up anymore

So scum save, kk.

I call Bullshit because they get a save and this might not work and also we piled ALL the barrels and it did NOT do enough damage to even hurt the commander so this is NOT going to work

i am afraid of your voice

Hate these robo-voice videos.

And because you have to do this and can't control whether you win or not this was poorly designed. Don't care who lijes the game this is poor design and it's poor design throughout the game

If this isn't tactician difficulty then it's pointless making a video on it

Fuck man drop weapon is op as shit

Can just kill them lmfao