The reason the gnome calls the duegar 'the greys' is because at one time in the lore, only the duegar were described as grey-skinned. The drow were very dark black(more so than most humans would be) and I believe the deep gnomes were described as having earth-colored skin. I'm not entirely sure why Larian/WOTC decided to make them all greyish looking, or whether that was a decision for this game specifically (maybe just to have a greater color palette?) or official lore elsewhere. I'd rather they stuck to the original lore, it made all three races more distinct in appearance, and made the duegar nickname make more sense. 🤷‍♀

13:05 oh my god that was such an epic move even if it was not intentional ahahah. killing an enemy by dropping an enemy on it, thats so awesome. you're actually super smart by destroying the webbing in the first place, i never even considered that 💀

I know this is an old video but thanks for the shoutout to prey. One of my favorite underrated games. Also I really dig your videos!

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Also Welonz I hope you figure out soon Astarion can dual wild two daggers or swords at once :D and if you give him "dual-wilder feet" during of of level ups he can even dual-wield rapiers that do most damage with him

great EP 👍

Quick Lore on the Ethereal Plane: The Ethereal Plane borders the material plane, and is considered very "close" in proximity. It's close enough such that from inside, you can see into the material plane (but everything looks hazy and turquoise). Creatures like Phase Spiders can easily move between the two planes (which is implemented as teleportation in BG3). Other creatures like ghosts also live in the Ethereal, and when they manifest, they exist in both at the same time. Many spells and magical artifacts can also allow access to the Ethereal Plane. Not too much goes on in the Ethereal Plane, but it's a good place to hide. It's also possible to reach other planes from the Ethereal, but you need to travel further into the Ethereal, and it's very easy to get lost there.

49:55 "This program is lagging, how old is this?" It's pretty clear that you are remotelly controlling some actual mechanical devices which may be slow (white rotating) and/or quite far away. So, obviously, there's gonna be some latency involved. It is insane that developers would properly simulate even small details like this one. Must be the infamous German perfectionism. 😅

Killing spider queen, forging sussur weapon, fixing Karlach and saving Findal.. damn this was a productive episode! 👏👏👏👏 btw confronting Kagha does not automatically mean killing her.. it's just .. confronting :)

I dont know why it's so hard to figure out for most people that you can just simply sneak in front of those statues that shoot beams 🤣 just go into hide and sneak, go to the rune and disable it and they dont target you if you sneak. seen so many playthroughs and almost no one figures it out yet for me it was the first thing I've tried when I encountered this. it just seams like such a simple logical solution lol. I guess that this game is often so complicated that people overthink things sometime...

One small tip for the Sussar Dagger and Silencing enemies in general (in case anyone else hasn't shared already) is that it will block any dialogue from happening as well. Not a concern with most small enemies, but if you silenced Auntie Ethel, you would have missed out on the final conversation/ negotiation. Just something to be aware of

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8:25 Chromatic Orb is a bit strange, it is an 2 meter aoe radius for all elements except the one you chose, Thunder, that one is single enemy attack that is why it has higher damage. because there is another spell in game called "Shatter" that does aoe Thunder damage is very OP

0:20 in a Blighted Village that you are currently exploring.. somewhere there is a certain sleeping NPC that Astarion can always bite multiple times that doest react or die... you will find him. he is basically put there by Larian for players that want to be able to always give Astarion that buff after every long rest but dont want him to feed on them :)

astarion biting you and using lesser restoration or suing him if you know you're going against human-like enemies work i never had astarion try to bite gale though LOL though i think he can bite your character if you just control him and do that because i've seen astarion's actor play and he was biting the person's character he was playing with for fun lol

Confronting Kagha with what you found out doesn't necessarily mean killing her.

When you're on turn based mode and you're trying to get to something but you're only walking dont forget to use your dash as an action too, you're only using the bonus action ones, that way you can walk more!

Minthara mentioned!

So I'm about to talk about some of the outside worldbuilding, but this is really not a spoiler as this affects nothjng about the plot. You wouldn't even know unless you read some codex entries in the third game. . . . . I love how all of Din Korlack's gripes ring so very hollow nowadays. You're willingly a client race of a council race and you're acting like you shoukd be considered their equals lol

tip of the day! daggers, sickles, shortswords, clubs, and handaxes are classified as light weapons and can be dual-wielded: equipped in the offhand. characters like Astarion and potentially Wellens would benefit from welding a second weapon. there is no downside, it just grants an option for an offhand bonus attack (and whatever attributes the second weapon grants). you just drag the second (light) weapon into the shield slot. it won't work if your main hand weapon is not also light, unless you take dual-wielder as a feat. also, dash is and action, click heels and step of the wind and Astarion's cunning action -dash are bonus actions. they can be chained together for massive movement speed.

Hurt a bit to watch that last part when she blows all her Ki points instead of just normal dashing!

Hmmm, in my 3 playthroughs totalling 400h or so, I never even tried biting people in the camp. Cool dialogue. Btw you can bite enemies in combat. No need for biting friends 😁

the leliana to shadowheart pipeline with all the secrets and religious trauma and they being really sweet when you get to know them is real (its me, im the shadowheart and leliana wife talking)

Congratulations on another great victory against the spider Queen. But the funniest part of this episode was with the goblins when you said I should have got some information off of them but they just died. Lol! Like wow still think this might be your evil playthrough. Keep up the good work.

bruh I'm waay too stupid for those chambers

Welonz you can just have Astarion bite enemies if you want him to get the buff. Also great job with the Spider Boss fight!

Great job with the spiders! That fight gave me a lot of trouble on my first playthrough and that was on the easiest difficulty 😅 The goblin camp is gonna be a cake walk for you (for several reasons)

About this hole in a spider cave, I don't know if I should say it or not in terms of too much hinting, but screw it, someone will correct me if it is wrong. Spell name: Feather Fall (or potion of Feather Fall). And that's all I'm going to say.

I wonder if you could use Wyll's Eldritch Blast (Force damage) to break the statues 🧐 itd probably take a long time tho...

Well, at least you don’t seem to be save-scumming lol. This will be fun.

You can also just bite beast and humanoid enemies :D

Welonz looking for Shadowheart before flirting with any companion is so entertraining to watch

I see that she still has no idea how the game works. Yet manages to unintentionally achieve some beautiful combat scenarios. That's actually amazing.

welonz will soon hit level 5 and proceed to steam roll the rest of act 1. I, for one, cant wait to see it

Oh my god I LOVE THIS GAME WELONZ! It's a shame thanks to youtube we don't get to enjoy the wonderful soundtrack with you but I'm looking forward to this one!

So far this is the most "huh?"-worded title in the playthrough alongside "Animal Cruelty" ;). Very cool. Great episode, keep em coming For Elemental Sphere - thunder one is not an AoE, that's why the damage on it higher, it is single target. Others are lower on damage, but AoE (sort of, the area of effect for them is still pretty small). If it is AoE, It shows the circle with area of effect, which area would be affected, even if you target someone specifically. 7:22 Lmao, what a start to fight! Btw, if an enemy/NPC didn't see you attacking and the fight didn't start, it has a "guess" from where attack came (you sort of tell of some direction of an attack). So NPC comes to investigate this are you attacked from. Just in this case, spider literally teleported to investigate (or specifically moved out and in of material plane). 21:36 "Let no one live" That's the drow spirit right there. Especially Seldarine butchering all the spiders. 33:04 Eh, I would say that pretty much dedicated cult of Lolth nonsense, a bit too far, but Spider Queen does like all sort of these type of "transformations". The third male child of the family is sacrificed to Lolth, if I remember correctly, some of these types of "worship". 41:20 You can still give the other dagger to Astarion to an offhand to dual-wield

In three playthroughs, I've *never* found Findel alive. I didn't know that was a possibility!

i think it could be fun to try the jump shockwave you have on lae’zel with wellens’ unlimited monk jump thing

Somewhere in that place with the spiders you can find boots that can walk on the webs.

Cmon Welonz, dont ask it here

Karlach is not getting the benefit of her unarmored defence ability because she is wearing a helmet that counts as medium armor.

Okay, here's a fun bit of BG3 logic: * You know how the surface effect is called "Simple Toxin"? Toxins are a class of effects that deal damage. There's also Wyvern Toxin. (From Nettie, iirc?) * Poisons, on the other hand, have some adverse effect, like Disadvantage on attacks. Drow Poison (which you also picked up) makes them fall asleep. Poisons don't usually deal damage. * Guess what the damage type of toxins is called?

Hi @Welonz, I really enjoy how you play and I'd like to give you some spoiler free pointers that the game really doesn't explain for spoiler free reasons but are really important for someone who is new to DnD, Larian games and the other Baldur's Gate franchise products. I'm in the same scenario as you but I watched a few 1-2nd act gameplays so I'll give you some tips I learnt the hard way but made me stop until I watched a true blind gameplay like yours. 1. You definitely are in the right place in your DnD journey to watch the latest DnD movie, honor among thieves. It didn't receive the best critical acclaim and I couldn't understand it blind but after watching and playing a few early BG3 playthroughs it made the movie so much understandable for a DnD noob with only entry level experience from BG3 and made me subconciously understand subtle gameplay nuances like the speak to dead spell. 2. Stay the course for your character. No one is doing your femme fatale drow monk combo so its pretty refreshing for a unique gameplay perspectives. Just remember the level 1 from 100 G character reset from Withers also resets base stats. BG3 stupidly assigns base stats to odd numbers so this is the only way to even them out when you reset to L1 and then even them out when you re-level your character. 3. Hard save when entering new locations. You'll miss important character specific dialogue that companions have which will inevitably make sense when you explore the character dialogue or go back to camp e.g. Wyll in Waukeen's rest has a very uniique dialogue tree as a Ravenguard that you missed and future zone transitions where you meet unique NPCs that have different dialogue where they complete a companion story in a different way if they are missing in your party but really hint it heavily. For act one, its heavily Shadowheart and Lazel zones which you should notice immediately. Ultimately BG3 has good ways to get around missing content but I think as a completionist a hard save when entering a new sub zone or map area is a good safety net for filling out stories when YT comments retrospectively tell you what you missed. 4. Be free with your levelling since a respec with multiclass build since its just 100 gold, way less than a Gale munchy for shiny loot. You can be respectful of a character's base personality class but you only need to leave it at 1 level character background and x levels multiclass e.g. for Astarion 1 level rogue and x level whatever class you want.

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Somebody can hold two daggers at the same time if you wanted them to. They could even attack with both of them instead of just one of them.

Trying to use the Sussur plant on the magic barrier is actually such a smart thought, you will have fun with this game if you keep thinking like that :D

This episode highlights how fast Welonz learns battle strategies and many tricks that the game provides to carefully exploring every opportunities player. Immediately catching on the destroying the webs with spiders on it and using invisibility potion to disable protective statues - great gameplay, really, for someone who never played DnD before. Welonz always trying new things and not being afraid to experiment with it to learn something new is 100% build for this letsplay. I'm pretty confident that by the time Welonz fully explores Act 1, she will be totally ready for Act 2; basically the whole Act 1 purpose is providing proper knowledge and XP to the player (if player attentive enough), so Act 2 wouldn't be too overbearing (it is tougher in terms of fights and quests). But there's no need for rush, anyway, I really enjoying this slow-burning exploration of every location, these videos making my days brighter! I recommend to buy some special arrows. There's a lot of useful ones (the only ones I dislike is the acid arrows as looting the corpses after the fight in the acidic splash isn't healthy option lol): Fire and Ice equally good, and something more rare as Arrows of Many Targets is amazing in the battle with many enemies around; Arrows of Ilmater is essential against enemies which constantly heal themselves, and Arrows of Darkness is great to put a few enemies at disadvantage). Because you use ordinary arrows, you damage level is lower than if you used special arrows. So exploring weapons in the shops will be immensely useful in the long run! If you afraid that it takes too much precious time for your videos, you always can edited out the process of buying these weapons and only notify us about it during the fight, it's not a big deal. I, for example, spend 30-40 minutes at any BG3 shop - more than I would at any shop in a real world lmao Plus certain things respawn there after long rests - healing potions, for example; it also can help you with particular quests because sometimes (not always) the shop can provide you items needed for completing the quest.

A very minor controls tip: you can do a standard attack with your current weapon by using ctrl + left click, rather than having to pick it out from the right click dropdown menu.

26:37 even if Scratch drops to zero hit points, he will not die, he will just boop back to camp. Don’t worry <33

I think the elemental orb of thunder has more damage because of all of them it's the only that isn't aoe