"Any attempt to open a door is unexplainably locked" My brother in Christ you're a bird.

The idea of failing 4 constitution saving throws in a row is so absurd that flesh to stone doesn't even make npcs hostile

Shovel is a permanent member of my party. I've replaced Sceleritas Fel with a better little bloodthirsty minion. Shovel doesn't tell me what to do, and she shouts rude things at my enemies. 10/10 Would Summon Again

I just love the image of a grasping vine shooting a crossbow. Genius.

instead of gaining a leagendary weapon for summoning 4 vines in halsin's bedroom you should get a legendary cutscene 👀

Oddities aside, the fact the Monk gets different SFX for their spells just scratches a good itch in my love for Sound Design haha It’s perfectly thematic to each of the names, eg. Firecracker sfx for the alternate dragon dance fireball

Protip for quasits and other summons - they're all affected by the Aid spell. Summoning everything you possibly can, then casting aid with your best spell slot, will boost the HP of weaker allies substantially. Quasits benefit from this even more than the normal summons, because they have resistance to a lot of common damage types and low base HP - using this you can get them way up higher to soak up hits during combat at later levels. Even without that, the invisibility quasit can actually be SUPER useful - superseding the Alert feat! How you ask? By being invisible, they can enter the cones of vision in an enemy dense area without alerting them, and then effectively begin combat from stealth, surprising all non-immune enemies. Then, cart in the rest of your crew - first turn every fight. And since it's infinitely refreshable invisibility and they don't need a spell slot to summon, it's a good way of entering tons of combat encounters as an ambush.

I UNIRONICALLY USED ENTHRALL! On an animated armor that was staring at a door to someone's office in Lorrokan's tower It did exactly what I needed it to...

Fun fact: I used flesh to stone on gortash during the boss fight with him and it actually succeeded in fully petrifying him however after clearing the room of all enemies it still said I was in combat until I destroyed his statue so in it's best form you can just use it to get a free kill on a boss it petrifies

I love the quasit, used it to kill a few bosses by summoning it before they die and letting it get the last hit just because I find it hilarious that these bosses are being defeated by a potty mouthed porcupine creature

As a bard in a party with lootgoblins, Enthrall is useful over Performing as it makes the sightline of an NPC more predictable, and there is no risk of gathering extra NPCs you didn't intend to have in the area. Sometimes, one person is watching a chest or door you wanna get into, and performing causes people to gather around you from all sides, so sightlines end up still being on it.

In act 3 my dc gear stacking wizard had basically a 100% chance to get flesh to stone to work on bosses like cazador, sarevok and such. Being able to turn them to stone outside of combat utterly trivialised some major fights and led to the funniest moment I’ve had playing the game where 3 of my characters pulled up a circle of chairs around statue gortash whilst monk karlach whooped his ass

An odd interaction with Summon Shovel(Cheaky Quasit) is that Storm Sorcerer and Wild Magic Sorcerer can't learn the spell. Shovel will have a unique dialogue for each of the subclasses saying something to the effect of "Thunder is powerful and too scary for Shovel or some such...". So in effect only Wizards, Warlocks and Draconic Sorcerer's can learn the summons.

Divine intervention’s sunder the heretical can actually be cast multiple times if your cleric is killed by radiant retort. I cast it twice in a row against ralphael, Shadowheart instantly died but the mace of lathander brought her back and she could instantly cast it again. Made the fight rly easy tbh

For grasping vine you could snatch volo out from Baldurs gate when he’s being held hostage by the crowd.

My favorite thing to do in my first playthrough (where i loot goblin kleptomaniac-ed absurdly hard and had stacks of scrolls) was to have the wizard drink a haste potion and cast six otilukes before the haste wears off, pass the spheres to the fighter and have them solo something they absolutely should not in two rounds

I love Shovel (who i named Fork) just a great add for Gale

Potion of Angelic Slumber also restores all spell slots during combat.

Shapechanger is such a wasted ability because the ttrpg version lets you just cast polymorph on yourself once a day for free which would obviously be useless in bg3 with how they changed the spell

Grasping vine is actually really useful with things like spike growth or grease.

That vine summon also is an enemy in Act 2 during Hudson's Quest I'm assuming they just copy the enemy AI over to the summon variation

I used enthrall once on my playthrough. In Act 3, when rescuing councillor Florrick. I used it on the patrolling guard to be able to break her out and sneak out of the prison without starting combat at all. I could've used invisibility - but I wanted so bad to use enthrall at least once!

4:45 believe it or not, the one and only time I ever used Flesh to stone, was on a shape-shifter in Act 3, and it actually worked 😮

Amazing videos, great choice of background music as well, sc2 ost bops. Looking forward to the Stormgate content too :)

If the ice cube spell was a cantrip, Larian would make it a 1/rest cantrip. Because these cantrips that are defined as "The magic associated with a cantrip is so inconsequential that a spellcaster might cast it without limit" spells are 1/rest.

I would've liked to at least see an honorable mention of Power Word: Kill, simply because it's similar to Divine Intervention a one time use.

1:48 A sweet summer childs, as an Indie dev in Unreal myself, I bet this is because they included "Shadow curse" mechanics in the main blueprint and then used a child of the Shadowcurse vines main blueprint as the summon, then the function transported to the vines summoned by you. Makes sense though to save dev time, despite the bugs, it would not be worth it to remake the vine blueprint

I guess enthrall can be useful to make a guard look away when one of your other character sneak around, but the o'ly zones I can see it being useful is act 3 where you most likely can make your rogue invisible anyway. Plus you could also perform if you're one of the two classes that learn the spell

I actually took Enthrall on my Bard playthrough also thinking that it's some weird taunt spell or some sort of conditional blind. Never got to use it because Hypnotic Pattern and Glyph of Warding (Sleep) exists, and the one time I tried to use it, I found the range to be painfully short. Immediately swapped it out the next time I wanted a new spell.

Way of the 4 elements 4th spell type is actually earth, cause their fists still hit hard as rocks! (okay, that pun was bad on my part lmao)

Turning Gortash into stone was pretty effective, his low CON helps.

you know what would be an amazing easter egg ? if you could make your character blind (by playing Wyll and going through with Volo's surgery or Volo surgery + aunty whisper "cure") and then being a monk of the four elements would unlock the earth spells. heh, prolly too farfecthed anyway, great as always. Hundreds of hours in this game and I never gave most of those spells a second thoughts (beside the monk shitty cantrips, but I didn't realized that they didn't upgrade at lvl5 lmao they really stinks)

What a fantastic video man good job

Oooh the terran broodwar music. Nostalgia straight to my heart!❤

Way of 4 elements Monk ki spells aren't effected by the spell Sniper feat, but they do trigger unarmed attacks like a monk weapon.

Wasn’t expecting StarCraft music in a bg3 video, it got me hyped when it came in!

I actually used flesh to stone for the first time on Viconia during the big Shar fight and it succeeded all 3 turns, letting me fight all the other guys without her wrecking shop. You can then use one of those items from vendors that depetrifies to kill quicker, or they will be resistant to your weapon attacks

NICE, thanks for the info!!!

Grasping vine saved my ass when I was fighting Balthazar, low key goated

I love the background music choice

Shovel was in fact really useful to me. He succeeded in two or three instances to induce fear into a high level NPC -- thus making him/her a lot less difficult to kill. He also likely will suck up at least one hit (and deal one if you are lucky) which can make all the difference you need in tight fights. Really neat at low levels. Might be different at higher levels though.

Consistently the most interesting BG3 videos on KZfaq.

Hey I like the sound track playing in the background.. good ol’ div2 music and even some sc

flesh to stone is actually super effective if you have certain gear, a really easy way to get it tho is someone poisons the target and the other flesh to stones them, its really fun turning bosses into statues and even one failure makes them restrained

I wasn't expecting that sc2 soundtrack. Fair enough

For number 2, use it to keep enemy looking at your tank so you can sneak if it's lookin at your rouge and wanna use sneak. Also it's good for pickpocketing

You made some interesting points about enthrall. I'm also trying to think of useful applications for it. The only one that comes to mind is - turn undead requires enemies to be able to see you. I also wonder if enthrall could work on invisible/hidden characters.

For some reason that grasping vine section made me laugh out loud. It's just so random and funny (to me 😳) I love all weird/absurd spells. It's fun to experiment with them! Oh and BG3 is very awesome! The creativity and cunning freedom is amazing.

I guess Enthrall could make it easier for your rogue to be hidden, and therefore, easier to get off Sneak Attack? but there's so many better ways to do that. Just use Blindness instead for the same effect re:Sneak Attack ease, and it also benefits everyone else.

Honestly the shapechanger sounds to me more like someone at Larian reeeaaaallly wanted to be a bird ... It's really cute though

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I didn't even think to get multiple hirelings for divine intervention :o Damn, I'm gonna abuse that now that I know 😆

Shovel is better though, because there are only a few ways to get quasits, and they're better than the default familiars. If you want one and don't want to invest in other classes, hes a good upgrade

Always a killer video!

Grasping vine seems like it could be used as a shove, but for enemies across gaps. It's a bit more stylish too. Feels more like a "Yeet!" that way too

About Enthrall, there is the fearfull condition for which you can make a save throw if you are out of the casters sight at the end of your turn so someone can cast enthrall on the caster and place accordingly to allow the save throw. And in this case the spell is better than fog because you might want to still be able to see the enemy to hit him. If it worked the same way for the frighten condition it would make Enthrall a pretty good spell imo.

Grasping vine would be pretty great early game. Gyrmforge being the obvious area it would excel but there are a lot of holes/pits in the game

The vine suddenly doing that got me good 😂 1:38

Just a little reminder that physics actually work in this game ^^ If you use a form of cold wind on a burning target it gets brittle, wich does dmg per turn and doubles thunder dmg. You can use a blow of wind on an icestorm for instance to chill everything before you too, works awesome for an ice mage ^^

I imagine enthrall would be good to help a rouge get a sneak attack off by allowing them to hide easier, or remove threaten from said rouge to allow them to hide next to the enemy for advantage.

Ooo now do a challenge using only the weird / bad spells xD

I like how the top Paladin smite spell is only available to Bards.

Enthrall is also incredibly useful for stealthing lmao

Flesh to Stone got me through the House of Hope and proced every time on Tactician. I used Wyll to cast it and made short work of Harleep and Hellfire Stones. It even activated on Raphael but I didn’t realize he had that buff wich removes any spell like that at the start of his next turn. Still, a cool spell to play around with.

Nice music choice. Terran Theme ftw 🤘

5:45 that 1 rat has plot armour

Withers hirelings have unique dialogue with npc’s. I used the drone to talk to the blood potion lady and they discuss houses she knows him

I used enthrall to help with sneak attacks for a friend who was learning the game

Otiluke's reminds me of sneaking around with grenades in Fallout games

I actually had a way of four elements monk and used the ice block thing a couple of times throughout

Ok so one wierd thing is I made gale full transmutation. In act 3 in the counting house, the bluejay can fly through/above the gates that separate the safes. So that and knock made for easy picking. Conversely carefully positioned misty step makes quick work of the traps in the vault room.

7:20 - please tell me I'm not the only one who just learned there is something there

To be fair to shapechanger, with the knock spell a lv 11 wizard can completely empty the first 2 sections of the counting house for no resource cost because the blue jay goes through the iron grates

Way of the Four Elements monk sounds like another way of saying “the Avatar”

in coop getting a target to look at you outside of combat could have great thieving opportunities

I am about 500 hours deep. And you tell me things I did not know. Best bg3 vid!

I guess if you used enthrall to narrow an NPCs vision cone, it might make sneaking for good positioning in combat possible. A sneaky thief bonus action hide might could make use of this?

I could see people using enthrall to get guaranteed sneak attacks off. But that’s the only use I could really see for it.

flesh to stone was interesting for me because i got the roll to succeed on the vampire lord astarions after (i forgot his name

if I'm pickpocketing a merchant I just have a party member talk to them, blinding is optional but would probably help lol.

omg 2:46 explains why I thought my game had glitched because my character just started getting attacked by my party out of nowhere even at camp 😭

the purpose of enthral is to get npc to look at you while your party robs them blind. but you can do this just by having dialogue with them so ya bad spell but i like that it exists.

7:22 Otilukes freezing sphere is a rather common scroll so I use them for lighting based characters

those grasping vines show up in the Marcus battle in Last Light Inn which might explain the Shadow Curse bug

I have used enthrall a grand total of once, Astarion got caught trying to steal something and I had my bard cast it on the guy who caught him before performing to distract everyone (if you're caught stealing the NPC who caught you will just keep watching you so I enthralled them to stop them looking at astarion)

6:21 the very rare potion of angelic slumber will also restore a character’s full spell slots

4:06 The 4th Element is the friends we made along the way

The biggest issue with flesh to stone in bg3 is that in 5e it works like death saves, you need 3 successes after the initial casting (so 4 total fails, cause if they save on the first part it doesn't take hold) But obviously if it succeeds then they are easily killable as you can have your local stone mason use their body as the foundation for your house. so it is easier to get off in 5e because they can't just save once against it to succeed.

Shovel has unlimited turn invisibility which makes it amazing for scouting and surprises

I love shovel! He can be invisible and give your arcane trickster automatic sneak attack or just be a meat for traps

Divine intervention is not the only way to restore slots in combat, as you can use the angelic slumber potion in combat

I didn’t even know the blue jay spell existed. Maybe it can be useful for a stealth gameplay? When you don’t want to use up your potions or spell slots to become invisible but still sneak past enemies? Still, seems more like a spell designed for RP instead of a useful application in game

For flesh to stone I actually used it to beat Raphael! I was really struggling to deal significant damage to him and he was annihilating my team so I used Eyebite to put him to sleep, killed all the other enemies and pillars making sure not to wake him up, got Wyll to regain his level 6 spell with the long rest effect potion, bestowed a constitution curse on Raphael to give him disadvantage on the saving throw then turned him to stone. After that I could just beat him up freely!

I think that Enthrall’s most applicable purpose is synergistic with Rogue sneak attack on a tougher/boss enemy or an annoying enemy who is simply just blocking the rogue from sneaking based on vantage point alone. Because it is not concentration, it allows your caster to focus on other potentially more powerful concentration spells. Plus, it’s a charisma save which as far as I have experienced in the game so far, is often a weaker stat that can often be taken advantage of. But, if there are ANY other creatures in the battle with line of sight on the rogue that makes it a tougher to actually set up for. Overall, pretty mid but has potential in some uncommon scenarios.

I fucking LOVE that you use the Starcraft soundtrack on your videos.

Okay, not BG3 related, but when you said "subscribe to the channel," the subscribe button flashes rainbow. That's awesome.

hahaha so i learnt the quasit spell on gale because it though it would be more useful that way but i never actually summoned it, interesting to see how much ive missed on hahaha

Enthrall could be used to save the dwarves by making the patrols stare at you instead maybe? Similarly maybe it could be used to steal things with one person being a distractor

Tbh I like the blue Jay one. Wish you got it earlier but it let me clean out the bank pretty easily.

I love shovel