I don't know if this is in the video, but a BIG tip for console. Go into settings, turn off adding things to the wheel like scrolls, potions, arrows and all that clutter. And INSTEAD put all your Arrows in a bag, scrolls in another, potions and so forth, and add THOSE to the wheel it makes it a LOT easier, I never used my arrows because of the clutter, now I have a bag with arrows in my main wheel for my ranger and it makes it so easy
This work with equipment too! have two pairs of gloves that use for different things? put them on the wheel for easg quickswap, rings or anything. just know that you can only add things to the wheel that aren't actively equipped, so you will have to add things, unequip/swap, add those to the wheel and then you are set
This could be a stupid question, but does opening the bag count as an action/bonus action? I imagine not, but I've always been too nervous to open bags from my inventory in battle in case it did 😅
Your Baldur's Gate content has been incredible - the way that you lay out information and are able to use plain language to describe some pretty complex systems is awesome. Thank you for putting these guides together - I hope you have a great day!
As someone who has never played anything D&D related, I was quite intimidated playing for the first time. The combat was so complex I felt like an idiot while playing. This video helped a lot to explain things and help me understand how everything works.
I wish I was you, able to actually understand and not feel even more intimidated of all of this "weakness/strength" stuff. How in the hell am I supposed to remember all of this during the heat of battle?? What if I have a "just shoot at it until it's dead" mindset? Don't mind the turn-based combat, but damn this is a lot.
@@BenieTheDragon same, nobody has time to remember all that and waste time, so i just uninstall it, much easier, because it does not relax me, it just makes playing good RPG game more annoying.
Something I like doing is triggering Opportunity attacks from big enemies with my high AC or very tanky characters (like a Bear Barbarian) in order to let my casters or ranged characters move out of threatened reach without getting hit. A very early example of this is, on the Nautiloid, if you're within reach of the Commander after stealing his sword, you can have Us get close to him, then move away to trigger the attack of opportunity against him since he has 20+ HP, and then your main character or Lae'zel is free to move away without any risk of losing health. Making sure you turn spellcasters' attacks of opportunity to "Ask" is CRITICAL if they have access to spells like Shield or Counterspell, because swinging a staff on an 8 Strength character is much less valuable than Counterspelling a Fireball, or casting Shield against an attack that can hit them. If your caster swung their staff and hit for 2-3 damage, and then get downed because they didn't have their reaction to Shield, you'll for SURE remember to switch all reactions to "Ask" 😂
The most important thing that this video shows about combat is the classic 75% consecutive misses and 95% critical miss. Now I can put my mind at ease and keep the Karmic dice turned off.
I was wondering why certain enemies just get consecutive critical hits their first round for no obvious reason. And why in my duel with Orin every attack hits despite my Durge having 24 AC.
I'm getting BG3 next month on PS5. Super excited to just go slow and let what ever happens ...happens. I've tried so hard to stay away from builds and meta bs. Man I can't wait. Your basics for noobs is so good. Ty.
Honestly this the best break down I've ever watched. The fact you're just saying all this off the cuff with no script is awesome. Thank you for the massive tips and information!
I subbed cuz of what you said about shutting the video down and enjoying the game. You a real one❤ why? most creators wouldn't dream of saying something so humble. Thank you for your help
Having a solid party comp is important to do well in combat. especially in the higher difficulties. I usually run a standard 2 range DPS characters, one a bow and the other magic. One melee class that gets in the thick of things, and one healer/buffer to keep everyone alive and healthy. Tore up honor mode using this comp
@@AkaiCrimson One thing that might help is bypassing the dialogue with him by casting daylight on someone/something and approaching him. Daylight used to be able to just drain his life without even entering combat (if you stood far enough), but I think they fixed it. By pre-casting Daylight on my last run, it bypassed the dialogue, debuffed him, and screwed with the regular initiative rolls (that usually favor him). If you do use Daylight just remember to deactivate it before killing him/opening the casket, cause it might damage the spawn and prevent cutscenes from being played.
@@AkaiCrimson Yes I did kill Cazador. He opened up with a lightning spell that would have been deadly but my caster had counterspell which negated it. I was using the one sword for Lae’zel that has soul breaker than can stun an enemy. It landed and Cazador was stunned for 2 rounds. I just melted him while he was stunned and reverted back to his vampire form.
@@AkaiCrimsonfor me he immediately killed my character cuz i went to save astarion and i didn’t notice his legendary action, which hit my character like a truck essentially downing at 124 hp, so i was immediately in alert mode and spread 2 of my myrmidons on the ritual areas and used daylight with shadowheart and gale threw a potion on my character, next round i healed on my character and helped astarion and stabilized the fight, taking the legendary action blows with the myrmidons and before you know it in 2 turns killed cazador, i was a swords bard 10 paladin 2 and gale full divination wiz, shadowheart full light cleric and astarion open hands monk 9 rouge theif 3
This is just an organisation tip for people playing on pc, but it helped me a lot during combat: if you have a lot of pouches and backpacks, keep usable items organized, keep all arrows in one, all potions in another, all scrolls in another etc. AND additional tip for that , because you can’t name the pouches and I can’t be bothered to remember which one has what ,what I do is i keep a pouch, next to the pouch I keep one item that shows what’s inside as an icon (ex. [a pouch with arrows] [1 flaming arrow] [empty spaces]) it helps me A LOT I recommend trying this
In the travellers chest I also keep some boxes organized by the type of damage (ex. Lightning) in case I want to maximize some ability on a certain character. I just got Karlach to take like 20 wooden crates to the camp and I use them for organisation in the travellers chest
Thank you I just watched your beginner video, now i am trying to understand combat as i have no experience in D&D, Then i will head into BG3 for the first time. Thanks ItalianSpartacus.
I just requested this video topic not long ago, much appreciated, this will help a lot, and hopefully plenty of other people. It can be a steep learning curve, especially if you're like me, and this is your first experience with both DnD, and turn based combat.
Ive watched quite a few combat tips videos and this is the best one. 24 hours in, just entered tge underdark, looking forward to the new tools of info you've added to my tool box. Great videos, keep it up.
I'm so glad you have so much content around BG3 and also that it covers ALL questions I have like learning about Spell Save DC, learning what increases that, learning about the importance of AC, and mid maxxing your action econ. I think if I hadn't been watching my subsequent playthroughs would feel so much worse just trying to brute force through everything and not build around what you're given.
This is the ABSOLUTE BEST combat video I've seen. I'm pretty new to the game, and I've watched so many videos trying to understand what you're covering here in simple language, but none have been this clear. THANK YOU! And your How To Enjoy Baldur's Gate 3 video got me inspired to actually start playing the game and stop stressing about all the random distractions. Cheers!
Ive never played a game like this and went straight into tactician and lets just say it was a lot at fiirst. Now i prepare for anything i carry every magic item i pick up with me i buy every useful potion/elixer and supply for alchemy. I learned to be prepared early. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it
Another thing i started doing is dividing up the loot I get with my teammates. When I first started, I found my bags getting full crazy fast and it’s cuz I can’t use it all fast enough compared to the rate at which I loot. I have a character with a bane heavy xbow I give all the magic arrows. Elixirs and potions get divided based on the damage/effect they do. Melee fighters get poisons/weapon coating. And the really heavy stuff (you can sort by weight to see what’s holding you down) I put on my STR character since they can hold more and so the weight isn’t that noticeable for them.
@@Quantum_Bluntz right I have puches and separate stuff by player like my healer gets all potions and elixirs my sorcerer gets all spells my monk just holds all the magical gear and items and other heavy hitters is just the misc picker upper however I do end up using the other characters alot just for misc
Hey Bro, you helped me soo much on a previous video w/ combat. I'm runnin a vengeance Paladin, and I had no idea I could cast Vow of Enmity on myself. Thought you had to cast on enemy. It gives advantage on attack rolls and is amazing
I love the fact that ive played the game through once, Ive never seen any of this armour, i had no idea there was a wolf and literally havent seen half of these characters. lol
"Maybe the first packs of enemies are roughing you up" man, ove got a few starts in this game and never had a problem till I rolled a wizard and I died to the first group of brains on the island several times lol
This is a VERY underrated video, it has helped me more than any other video on BG-3. Thank you for doing this to help us noob players (Me) who simply didn't understand it.
Man, there's so much more to this game than I expected. I thought I'd be ok since I've played a turn-based game before (but it was Final Fantasy 1 (or technically 3?)) and some games with a lot of spells (WoW since BC, FF online etc), but nothing like this. I started on regular/middle difficulty, but quickly switched to story after dying a lot. Ended up in some cave fighting spiders. I won, but my entire party was apparently hit with some DoT poison. Didn't know how to get rid of it, so I panicked and went to camp. Shadowheart ended up dying anyway. So, it was clear that I had to learn wtf to do. Normally, I only research games during the "select your class" section, and then again during a tricky part or two. This game, though, makes me feel like I need to enroll in a community college course. Probably doesn't help that I've never played any D&D, so the terminology is also over my head. tl;dr - this video is exactly what I needed, so thank you!
The game for the most part plays like any other CRPG (i.e. Diablo). It's that it throws so much at you, so many spells, abilities, potions, elixirs and classes yet you have no concept of what these all mean unless like you said you enroll in a college course about it. A lot of games bring you up slowly and let you build on what you already have and learned. Not this one. It gives you stacks of stuff to sift threw all at once so in combat, I often find myself just randomly selecting different weapon attacks or spells and saying "maybe this will work." I want to learn the game because I think it is that good but what is given in this video is just so far above a newb like me that I just lose interest. Give me the core basics and mechanics first. Maybe he did that but I just can't apply all of it now.
Thanks for this "explainer" but one thing that you mentioned is that, such and such is useful if you know that you are going up against a particular enemy. The main issue is that if you don't know who you are going up against in advance, i.e. you have only played through once, then you don't know which consumables etc. you could use. Thanks for walking us through the battle. Some of those checks are on TT much clearer as the players would have to roll die. But in the game many of these die rolls are hidden, which is great for those of us with no DnD experience, but it does also hide the mechanics of why certain things happen.
I love that you confused Shadowheart and Karlach's names all video and then when you were flustered at the end you gave the Potion of Speed to Karlach instead of Shadowheart.
"How did that happen?" is a question I have come up many times. I have learned several good tips here. "O" for overhead view, and elixirs lasting until long rest are just two. Thanks
I'm about 8hrs into my first ever playthrough and I've never played a CRPG so I already know I'm going to have to go back and play again once i beat it because I'm so bad at combat. 😂
2nd video I'm watching by you. I'm a huge fan. I think I've never experienced being this interested in a channel/video. It often happens that I lose interest or the way they're explaining something just doesn't appeal to me. Very nice, looking forward to watching more!
thanks for the clear explanations and lil jokes you get a follow! 2nd Dnd experience for me and so much of the mechanics are quite mysterious to a new Dnd player.
I found it very useful to keep unique containers (the Strange Book, Heavy Backpack, etc) On my characters and sort scrolls, potions, etc. into them. You don’t lose any time in combat going through your packs, and it makes it a lot easier to find the item you want one of the characters to use.
the only issue I have with this is organisation is required! I regularly put Gale back at camp only to realise in a later encounter that he has all my scrolls!
The only reason I take a party member out is if I need the knock spell and I haven’t found a scroll, or A party member specific quest. Do people really switch characters in and out regularly? That seems tiresome, but then I also regularly respec and I can see how that could be viewed similarly.
@@jakeinfactsaid8637I swap characters when I want to do different personal quests. Shadowheart for the gauntlet, Wyll to rescue Mizora & his father, Gale for his custom spells & items, etc.
Been playing this on PS5 and it's a great game but it looks SO much easier to navigate and customize on PC. It really is made for PC. Glad I have a PS5 and a gaming PC :P... but wish I didn't have to buy it twice
This guide actually gave me the tools to beat honour mode on my own the first time! I Have beaten tactician before, but to actually do a honour run required a lot of understanding of the game which i did not have before this. This guide really does give you simple tools/tips to deal with pretty much any combat situation. I got that golden dice thanks to this guide after 105 hours!
Thank you very much for this video....im new and i could not figure out what the deal was with prone. I didnt understand that you could switch characters, while another was in their turn.
MAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH! As someone who's only really familiar with turn-based games like Epic Seven, your video was insanely helpful. Appreciate it a ton!
Nice detailed content as always! It’s helpful to get 3 hirelings as soon as possible, 1 transmutation wizard for alchemy, ( can make double amount of potions), 1 Druid and 1 cleric for longstrider, for aid and poison resistance. Do this in camp at long rest and even at lvl 3 you have a nice boost, and you don’t need to select these spells for your main party.
A good party comp and actually using the potions and scrolls you find is pretty essential. I saved or sold almost every scroll my first go around and now I’m my honor run in using them and all my potions and it’s almost easier than my tact run before
Thank you for this video, perfect timing since I just finished my first playthrough (balanced difficulty, I was fine until approaching the end of act 3 which almost made me want to give up haha). With this information I *may* be brave enough to try tactician for my 2nd playthrough, we'll see! 😅
I’m new to turn based combat like this and it just feels like every time I try to explore I get pulled into combat with enemies a level or 2 higher and get my ass opened. I swing, miss, they swing, half my health gone.
Blaster Warlock, light cleric, str monk, ranged bard. So many encounters are solved with hunger of hadar, hand crossbows, radiant orbs, and gatling displacer beams.
I'm still early on in the video and picking up on things I'd missed on my first playthrough, so I'm not sure if what I mention here is addressed later on. If so, please ignore. Otherwise, something that can greatly improve your experience is proper item management - this can look a lot of different ways, but I'll give an example of what I did with my rogue: Any kind of consumable got their own pouch, and then all of those got stuck in a master pouch. It functions like a file system. Inventory >Key Ring >Ingredients Bag >Master Pouch >>>Arrows Pouch >>>Potions/Buffs Pouch >>>Throwables/Debuffs Pouch The biggest issue is that this is pretty heavy on pouches, requiring 4 per party member. You can sub backpacks here and there, but that extra weight will eventually start adding up. You can also use pouches that aren't called pouches - burlap sacks and other containers that weigh the same as a pouch. The next biggest issue is that I haven't found a way to get this method to function smoothly with the hotbar. I am frequently in my inventory during battle to select which items to throw and such. Personally, those are minor issues compared to the amount of time I spent searching a disorganized inventory trying to find the item I needed. EDIT: As a rogue, if you're wondering where your Thief's Tools/Disarm Kits Pouch is, it's Karlach.
I'm at the end and I'm glad I watched. Most of these you can pick up on your first playthrough if you're observant, but I am still learning things like the constitution saving throw breakdown for concentration spells. I also love the perspective that these resources are party resources instead of individual character resources. It's something that I was finally coming around to but hadn't fully reached on my own. This video helped hammer it home.
I have many videos about such a topic, I just don't need them in balanced mode, which this playthrough is :) I use them on my honor mode playthrough though!!
I have enjoyed your video content of Baldur's Gate, you always let your viewers know to just have fun with the game! I am just starting to play on console and with the first playthrough, I am testing the waters and enjoying the story on the lowest difficulty. I noticed you can't have multiclass on this level, so what would be a good main character to run through this that is a solo class?
Been enjoying the game so far, but watching this video convinced me that I should play on explorer mode 😂 I've been trying to cheese sarevok and it just isnt happening because I'm not nearly as tactical as this video encourages me to be. I just cant possibly manage all the game mechanics. I'll still try though. The game is worth the effort ❤
Another awesome video again, as always. You do such great deep dives and I hope BG 3 continues to be so popular as well as releasing more content to keep being reviewed. Other than jackasses spoiling the game on your live streams, they are awesome as well. You need to check out his live stream on Twitch with his first Honor Run!
I needed this. I'm new to D&D and dice. I'm in my first run, and I'm lvl 10, and I still feel weak. I can get through fights, but they take forever and I barely win. I usually lose a companion or two and have to raise them. Then I have to go to camp after every fight. It makes the game boring. I'll watch this video, and I hope it helps me out. Because I need it. Thanks.
You can play your best but sometimes you just get REALLY unlucky and you'll take some huge losses. Then there's inverse situations where your dice rolls make an otherwise insane boss fight go smooth as silk, or sometimes just skipping it entirely. Such are the heady gambling joys of DnD style games 😹
Respec Gale as a life domain cleric, warding bond and leave him at camp. He heals himself outside of combat at camp for some reason lol he doesn't even know any healing spells
God i suck at this, but i managed to get Everburn Blade for Karlach. As thanks, she had a hissy fit after a fight and turned Shadowhart and Gale to Ash by running around being on fire
it's ok to have karlach on the brain man, we all do 😂thanks so much for all ur great videos! on console so late to the game, ur content is helping me out a ton!
Great video as usual. i would love to hear more about Metamagic. I find it difficult to know what Metamagic options I will find useful. I think it really depends on what type of spells you are using but there are a lot of variables. They can be used in multi classing for Cleric spells and others so that makes it even more nuanced. Any help is appreciated. Thanks for sharing your experience!!
I played Dungeons & Dragons in 1986 - Blue Box. Since then I only had two major campaigns Wolf Queen and Oriental Adventures. Since then I never returned to the game except for Beyond The Supernatural. I bought a 5th E book and only read a little of it to build a Ranger character. Baulder's Gate 3 overwhelmed me to the point of restarting several times. I looked at Wikis, YT content, and I still had trouble with the dynamic of the game. This video fills in something I knew but didn't really understand. If there isn't a beginners guide playlist yet, this should be the third or fourth video. Thanks again Sparticus. Do you have a discord by chance?
I'm in this same predicament rightnow actually. I've had the game now for a few days so far, and i just find this all to be so overwhelming having not played a DnD game b4. Ive made 3 characters so far, and actually thinking of making a new 1 that is a storm sorcerer 😂😂. My 1st character was wild magic sorcerer and i fucked up with Karlach bcuz i raided the Grove, and i really wanted her as a companion.
@@LyranVega I understand about choosing your battles. It will be hard for me to do an evil playthrough, but I'll do it. I love Karlach. I've decided to keep everyone in camp, so I'll have Astarion and Lae'zel. I don't like their personalities, but every part of BG3 is important to pursue. I've never had more than one character, but you do bring to this discussion that you can create multiple character concurrently. It is a better option than restarting...just have a 4TB hard drive, and your set. My issue isn't getting through the dialog; it's going too fast. I collect everything for that reason. I limit myself to the number of major encounters to 2 per session or 2 hours of play time. I want to really explore the possibilities of every inch of Act 1 and Act 2. It is such a fun game.
Thanks for all the tutorial type videos. They DO help. I’ve only beat the game once and missed sooo many things. The silly thing is that I’ve been playing D&D since the 80’s and still find new things about the game. For instance, in this video your characters have all kinds of equipment I’ve never seen. So I was thinking it’d be pretty kewl to see a video for optimized setups. For instance, an “ultimate” ranger build, and where to get the optimized equipment. Anyhoo, my most sincere thanks for all the time/energy and resources that you’ve dedicated to these videos. …maybe even a video on how to make legendary characters like Drizzt, Elric of Melnibone’, or Raistlin Majere
This shows tons of options for actual combat. For me it seems very confusing since I've never been past lvl 5 yet. Can you give an example of things such as, when your characters are not ranged and are far away from the bad guy. Or when you have a few options but not many. I get that disabling the foe seems to be first and foremost but... Well, just with more limited things that can be done per turn. Or maybe as close to a step guide as possible. It's frustrating and NOT fun when you attempt a fight for the 18th (exageration) time and still fail. Having said all that I have learned a ton from this video and your videos in general. I can't thank you enough.
Dash! I don't think I highlighted that enough. You'd dash to get closer. You basically want to threaten them so they have to use SOMETHING to create distance from you. Sorry about that dude!
I see a lot of videos on how to become super powerful in BG3. Why would anyone want to do that? It's okay to lose a fight once in a while. There is so much fun stuff to do in this game, without trying to see how fast you can beat every combat challenge.
I don't know if this is in the video, but a BIG tip for console.
Go into settings, turn off adding things to the wheel like scrolls, potions, arrows and all that clutter.
And INSTEAD put all your Arrows in a bag, scrolls in another, potions and so forth, and add THOSE to the wheel
it makes it a LOT easier, I never used my arrows because of the clutter, now I have a bag with arrows in my main wheel for my ranger and it makes it so easy
This work with equipment too! have two pairs of gloves that use for different things? put them on the wheel for easg quickswap, rings or anything.
just know that you can only add things to the wheel that aren't actively equipped, so you will have to add things, unequip/swap, add those to the wheel and then you are set
Def gunna do that lol
@@Sergio0hfDONT DO THIS WITH QUEST ITEMS
Thanks for this, It seems hard to find console tips!
This could be a stupid question, but does opening the bag count as an action/bonus action? I imagine not, but I've always been too nervous to open bags from my inventory in battle in case it did 😅
Your Baldur's Gate content has been incredible - the way that you lay out information and are able to use plain language to describe some pretty complex systems is awesome. Thank you for putting these guides together - I hope you have a great day!
Thank you so much bro!! Happy to do it :)
Exactly this - thank you for putting this into words, and thank you to you, ItalianSpartacus, for your wonderful and dedicated work!
As someone who has never played anything D&D related, I was quite intimidated playing for the first time. The combat was so complex I felt like an idiot while playing. This video helped a lot to explain things and help me understand how everything works.
Thanks so much for watching!! :)
I wish I was you, able to actually understand and not feel even more intimidated of all of this "weakness/strength" stuff.
How in the hell am I supposed to remember all of this during the heat of battle?? What if I have a "just shoot at it until it's dead" mindset? Don't mind the turn-based combat, but damn this is a lot.
@@BenieTheDragon agreed. I played BG 1 and 2 and dont remember it being this complicated
@@BenieTheDragonjust play on the easy mode. Should be a lot smoother for you!
@@BenieTheDragon same, nobody has time to remember all that and waste time, so i just uninstall it, much easier, because it does not relax me, it just makes playing good RPG game more annoying.
Something I like doing is triggering Opportunity attacks from big enemies with my high AC or very tanky characters (like a Bear Barbarian) in order to let my casters or ranged characters move out of threatened reach without getting hit.
A very early example of this is, on the Nautiloid, if you're within reach of the Commander after stealing his sword, you can have Us get close to him, then move away to trigger the attack of opportunity against him since he has 20+ HP, and then your main character or Lae'zel is free to move away without any risk of losing health.
Making sure you turn spellcasters' attacks of opportunity to "Ask" is CRITICAL if they have access to spells like Shield or Counterspell, because swinging a staff on an 8 Strength character is much less valuable than Counterspelling a Fireball, or casting Shield against an attack that can hit them. If your caster swung their staff and hit for 2-3 damage, and then get downed because they didn't have their reaction to Shield, you'll for SURE remember to switch all reactions to "Ask" 😂
The most important thing that this video shows about combat is the classic 75% consecutive misses and 95% critical miss. Now I can put my mind at ease and keep the Karmic dice turned off.
that hit rate is canon
Since I turned karmic dice off, the game as actually become easier, and my rolls are definitely better overall, crazy but that has been my experience.
I was wondering why certain enemies just get consecutive critical hits their first round for no obvious reason. And why in my duel with Orin every attack hits despite my Durge having 24 AC.
That's insane. I've been getting butchered immediately by the gnolls and can't figure out how they get such a bonus even when I have advantage
Me, too! Now I don't roll a 6 everytime I need a 10! @babayaga4320
I'm getting BG3 next month on PS5. Super excited to just go slow and let what ever happens ...happens. I've tried so hard to stay away from builds and meta bs. Man I can't wait. Your basics for noobs is so good. Ty.
32:49 "doth not cost an action" that's worth a like right there. Great video man very in depth.
My turn to let you know I appreciate you, this channel, and how you run things. You are a model for others.
I love to critically miss my strikes against disabled enemies lying on the ground...
Honestly this the best break down I've ever watched. The fact you're just saying all this off the cuff with no script is awesome. Thank you for the massive tips and information!
I subbed cuz of what you said about shutting the video down and enjoying the game. You a real one❤ why? most creators wouldn't dream of saying something so humble. Thank you for your help
Having a solid party comp is important to do well in combat. especially in the higher difficulties. I usually run a standard 2 range DPS characters, one a bow and the other magic. One melee class that gets in the thick of things, and one healer/buffer to keep everyone alive and healthy. Tore up honor mode using this comp
Did you kill Cazador? I wanna know how you did it since he’s the only boss that turn 1 wiped me before I could get any actions
@crimsondoktah502 pretty sure you can get a surprise round on him, he won't get surprised but all the other enemies will
@@AkaiCrimson One thing that might help is bypassing the dialogue with him by casting daylight on someone/something and approaching him. Daylight used to be able to just drain his life without even entering combat (if you stood far enough), but I think they fixed it.
By pre-casting Daylight on my last run, it bypassed the dialogue, debuffed him, and screwed with the regular initiative rolls (that usually favor him). If you do use Daylight just remember to deactivate it before killing him/opening the casket, cause it might damage the spawn and prevent cutscenes from being played.
@@AkaiCrimson Yes I did kill Cazador. He opened up with a lightning spell that would have been deadly but my caster had counterspell which negated it. I was using the one sword for Lae’zel that has soul breaker than can stun an enemy. It landed and Cazador was stunned for 2 rounds. I just melted him while he was stunned and reverted back to his vampire form.
@@AkaiCrimsonfor me he immediately killed my character cuz i went to save astarion and i didn’t notice his legendary action, which hit my character like a truck essentially downing at 124 hp, so i was immediately in alert mode and spread 2 of my myrmidons on the ritual areas and used daylight with shadowheart and gale threw a potion on my character, next round i healed on my character and helped astarion and stabilized the fight, taking the legendary action blows with the myrmidons and before you know it in 2 turns killed cazador, i was a swords bard 10 paladin 2 and gale full divination wiz, shadowheart full light cleric and astarion open hands monk 9 rouge theif 3
This is just an organisation tip for people playing on pc, but it helped me a lot during combat: if you have a lot of pouches and backpacks, keep usable items organized, keep all arrows in one, all potions in another, all scrolls in another etc. AND additional tip for that , because you can’t name the pouches and I can’t be bothered to remember which one has what ,what I do is i keep a pouch, next to the pouch I keep one item that shows what’s inside as an icon (ex. [a pouch with arrows] [1 flaming arrow] [empty spaces]) it helps me A LOT I recommend trying this
In the travellers chest I also keep some boxes organized by the type of damage (ex. Lightning) in case I want to maximize some ability on a certain character. I just got Karlach to take like 20 wooden crates to the camp and I use them for organisation in the travellers chest
Thank you I just watched your beginner video, now i am trying to understand combat as i have no experience in D&D, Then i will head into BG3 for the first time. Thanks ItalianSpartacus.
What makes the game even better is the fact of how gorgeous it is.
Thanks for the video. Been playing over a hundred hours, but I love watching vids like these
Glad you enjoy it! :D
I just requested this video topic not long ago, much appreciated, this will help a lot, and hopefully plenty of other people. It can be a steep learning curve, especially if you're like me, and this is your first experience with both DnD, and turn based combat.
Ive watched quite a few combat tips videos and this is the best one. 24 hours in, just entered tge underdark, looking forward to the new tools of info you've added to my tool box. Great videos, keep it up.
I'm so glad you have so much content around BG3 and also that it covers ALL questions I have like learning about Spell Save DC, learning what increases that, learning about the importance of AC, and mid maxxing your action econ. I think if I hadn't been watching my subsequent playthroughs would feel so much worse just trying to brute force through everything and not build around what you're given.
This is the ABSOLUTE BEST combat video I've seen. I'm pretty new to the game, and I've watched so many videos trying to understand what you're covering here in simple language, but none have been this clear. THANK YOU! And your How To Enjoy Baldur's Gate 3 video got me inspired to actually start playing the game and stop stressing about all the random distractions. Cheers!
Oh bro that's such high praise!! Hahah thank you very much for watching :)
Ive never played a game like this and went straight into tactician and lets just say it was a lot at fiirst. Now i prepare for anything i carry every magic item i pick up with me i buy every useful potion/elixer and supply for alchemy. I learned to be prepared early. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it
Another thing i started doing is dividing up the loot I get with my teammates. When I first started, I found my bags getting full crazy fast and it’s cuz I can’t use it all fast enough compared to the rate at which I loot. I have a character with a bane heavy xbow I give all the magic arrows. Elixirs and potions get divided based on the damage/effect they do. Melee fighters get poisons/weapon coating. And the really heavy stuff (you can sort by weight to see what’s holding you down) I put on my STR character since they can hold more and so the weight isn’t that noticeable for them.
@@Quantum_Bluntz right I have puches and separate stuff by player like my healer gets all potions and elixirs my sorcerer gets all spells my monk just holds all the magical gear and items and other heavy hitters is just the misc picker upper however I do end up using the other characters alot just for misc
Love how You just tell us to shut the video off and go play the game instead of Liking and subscribing. Totally Savage Chad Move. Subbed.
I always wanted to get into dnd games but it always felt like way too much. This video is helping out so much thanks !
Hey Bro, you helped me soo much on a previous video w/ combat. I'm runnin a vengeance Paladin, and I had no idea I could cast Vow of Enmity on myself. Thought you had to cast on enemy. It gives advantage on attack rolls and is amazing
Right!? It's so fucking helpful hahha
Already 50hrs into the game and already having so much fun, now I realize I have not prepared my fight like this, thank u for the guide!
I love the fact that ive played the game through once, Ive never seen any of this armour, i had no idea there was a wolf and literally havent seen half of these characters. lol
"Maybe the first packs of enemies are roughing you up" man, ove got a few starts in this game and never had a problem till I rolled a wizard and I died to the first group of brains on the island several times lol
This is a VERY underrated video, it has helped me more than any other video on BG-3. Thank you for doing this to help us noob players (Me) who simply didn't understand it.
Man, there's so much more to this game than I expected. I thought I'd be ok since I've played a turn-based game before (but it was Final Fantasy 1 (or technically 3?)) and some games with a lot of spells (WoW since BC, FF online etc), but nothing like this.
I started on regular/middle difficulty, but quickly switched to story after dying a lot. Ended up in some cave fighting spiders. I won, but my entire party was apparently hit with some DoT poison. Didn't know how to get rid of it, so I panicked and went to camp. Shadowheart ended up dying anyway.
So, it was clear that I had to learn wtf to do. Normally, I only research games during the "select your class" section, and then again during a tricky part or two. This game, though, makes me feel like I need to enroll in a community college course. Probably doesn't help that I've never played any D&D, so the terminology is also over my head.
tl;dr - this video is exactly what I needed, so thank you!
The game for the most part plays like any other CRPG (i.e. Diablo). It's that it throws so much at you, so many spells, abilities, potions, elixirs and classes yet you have no concept of what these all mean unless like you said you enroll in a college course about it. A lot of games bring you up slowly and let you build on what you already have and learned. Not this one. It gives you stacks of stuff to sift threw all at once so in combat, I often find myself just randomly selecting different weapon attacks or spells and saying "maybe this will work." I want to learn the game because I think it is that good but what is given in this video is just so far above a newb like me that I just lose interest. Give me the core basics and mechanics first. Maybe he did that but I just can't apply all of it now.
Thanks for this "explainer" but one thing that you mentioned is that, such and such is useful if you know that you are going up against a particular enemy. The main issue is that if you don't know who you are going up against in advance, i.e. you have only played through once, then you don't know which consumables etc. you could use.
Thanks for walking us through the battle. Some of those checks are on TT much clearer as the players would have to roll die. But in the game many of these die rolls are hidden, which is great for those of us with no DnD experience, but it does also hide the mechanics of why certain things happen.
I love that you confused Shadowheart and Karlach's names all video and then when you were flustered at the end you gave the Potion of Speed to Karlach instead of Shadowheart.
Your Baldur's Gate videos are easily the best that I've come across. Thanks for putting all this together!
Throwing monk, with x3 bow fighters, has been really good for me. Solid reliable damage, with no ‘out of spells’ mid fights.
Your video was just what I needed for a primer in strategy.
My pleasure!!
I just bought BG3 so your videos are a wealth of knowledge. Thank you
Thanks for the tips and clear explanation, subscribed!
at 2:32 did you just say "will over here is a warlock so he has bardic inspiration"
That made me laugh a little 😭
Hahaha no! BARDlock Hahahahaha but I might have fuckdd up. I do that
@@italianspartacus and that's what I watch for to find the sometimes :)
Great guide! I’d say I spend about 30% of my game time organising stuff in each session. It absolutely helps you know what you have and what you need
"How did that happen?" is a question I have come up many times. I have learned several good tips here. "O" for overhead view, and elixirs lasting until long rest are just two. Thanks
Over 1,200 hours played and I learned something.
Great content
slammed like for the keybinding at 5:20 alone. this gonna be goooooood 🥳
Your level-headedness and calm, supportive energy made me click subscribe. Love your style, thank you.
Thank you! welcome aboard!!
I'm about 8hrs into my first ever playthrough and I've never played a CRPG so I already know I'm going to have to go back and play again once i beat it because I'm so bad at combat. 😂
Bruh you hopefully will get better by time your at the mid point and won’t have to go back and start all over again
2nd video I'm watching by you. I'm a huge fan. I think I've never experienced being this interested in a channel/video. It often happens that I lose interest or the way they're explaining something just doesn't appeal to me. Very nice, looking forward to watching more!
thanks for the clear explanations and lil jokes you get a follow! 2nd Dnd experience for me and so much of the mechanics are quite mysterious to a new Dnd player.
I found it very useful to keep unique containers (the Strange Book, Heavy Backpack, etc) On my characters and sort scrolls, potions, etc. into them. You don’t lose any time in combat going through your packs, and it makes it a lot easier to find the item you want one of the characters to use.
the only issue I have with this is organisation is required! I regularly put Gale back at camp only to realise in a later encounter that he has all my scrolls!
The only reason I take a party member out is if I need the knock spell and I haven’t found a scroll, or A party member specific quest.
Do people really switch characters in and out regularly?
That seems tiresome, but then I also regularly respec and I can see how that could be viewed similarly.
@@jakeinfactsaid8637I swap characters when I want to do different personal quests. Shadowheart for the gauntlet, Wyll to rescue Mizora & his father, Gale for his custom spells & items, etc.
I didn't realize you could use another character before ending your turn, that changes things...
thanks
SUPER helpful video bro - thank you for posting. I have an entirely new look on combat in this game now. Keep it up your content is definitely S-tier.
Been playing this on PS5 and it's a great game but it looks SO much easier to navigate and customize on PC. It really is made for PC. Glad I have a PS5 and a gaming PC :P... but wish I didn't have to buy it twice
This guide actually gave me the tools to beat honour mode on my own the first time! I Have beaten tactician before, but to actually do a honour run required a lot of understanding of the game which i did not have before this.
This guide really does give you simple tools/tips to deal with pretty much any combat situation.
I got that golden dice thanks to this guide after 105 hours!
Thank you very much for this video....im new and i could not figure out what the deal was with prone. I didnt understand that you could switch characters, while another was in their turn.
MAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
As someone who's only really familiar with turn-based games like Epic Seven, your video was insanely helpful. Appreciate it a ton!
Nice detailed content as always! It’s helpful to get 3 hirelings as soon as possible, 1 transmutation wizard for alchemy, ( can make double amount of potions), 1 Druid and 1 cleric for longstrider, for aid and poison resistance. Do this in camp at long rest and even at lvl 3 you have a nice boost, and you don’t need to select these spells for your main party.
Awesome content. Because of your vids I have become a student of the game. It's crazy how much there is to learn.
sorry for not subbing sooner. it really is too easy to forget to do that. probably my tenth video from you i've watched, thanks for doing what u do
I forgive you
A good party comp and actually using the potions and scrolls you find is pretty essential. I saved or sold almost every scroll my first go around and now I’m my honor run in using them and all my potions and it’s almost easier than my tact run before
Thank you for this video, perfect timing since I just finished my first playthrough (balanced difficulty, I was fine until approaching the end of act 3 which almost made me want to give up haha). With this information I *may* be brave enough to try tactician for my 2nd playthrough, we'll see! 😅
I’m new to turn based combat like this and it just feels like every time I try to explore I get pulled into combat with enemies a level or 2 higher and get my ass opened. I swing, miss, they swing, half my health gone.
Your scooby doo ‘gang sneaks into the library’ bit was so funny I subscribed,,,too funny! 😂 Nice one, man!
man's said: "This is a long video. It's is time stamped. If nothing piques your interest fuck off"
Me: *Subscribe*
Wow you really summed it all up perfectly at the end
Blaster Warlock, light cleric, str monk, ranged bard.
So many encounters are solved with hunger of hadar, hand crossbows, radiant orbs, and gatling displacer beams.
I'm still early on in the video and picking up on things I'd missed on my first playthrough, so I'm not sure if what I mention here is addressed later on. If so, please ignore. Otherwise, something that can greatly improve your experience is proper item management - this can look a lot of different ways, but I'll give an example of what I did with my rogue:
Any kind of consumable got their own pouch, and then all of those got stuck in a master pouch. It functions like a file system.
Inventory
>Key Ring
>Ingredients Bag
>Master Pouch
>>>Arrows Pouch
>>>Potions/Buffs Pouch
>>>Throwables/Debuffs Pouch
The biggest issue is that this is pretty heavy on pouches, requiring 4 per party member. You can sub backpacks here and there, but that extra weight will eventually start adding up. You can also use pouches that aren't called pouches - burlap sacks and other containers that weigh the same as a pouch.
The next biggest issue is that I haven't found a way to get this method to function smoothly with the hotbar. I am frequently in my inventory during battle to select which items to throw and such.
Personally, those are minor issues compared to the amount of time I spent searching a disorganized inventory trying to find the item I needed.
EDIT: As a rogue, if you're wondering where your Thief's Tools/Disarm Kits Pouch is, it's Karlach.
I'm at the end and I'm glad I watched. Most of these you can pick up on your first playthrough if you're observant, but I am still learning things like the constitution saving throw breakdown for concentration spells. I also love the perspective that these resources are party resources instead of individual character resources. It's something that I was finally coming around to but hadn't fully reached on my own. This video helped hammer it home.
Great comprehensive videos, your tutorials in ALL your games are awesome!!😊
You should have a transmutation wizard in your camp to craft all the potions, so you can get 2x as many
I have many videos about such a topic, I just don't need them in balanced mode, which this playthrough is :) I use them on my honor mode playthrough though!!
@@italianspartacus I started doing that after you recommended it and even on balanced mode it's a huge qol improvement
I have enjoyed your video content of Baldur's Gate, you always let your viewers know to just have fun with the game! I am just starting to play on console and with the first playthrough, I am testing the waters and enjoying the story on the lowest difficulty. I noticed you can't have multiclass on this level, so what would be a good main character to run through this that is a solo class?
Been enjoying the game so far, but watching this video convinced me that I should play on explorer mode 😂
I've been trying to cheese sarevok and it just isnt happening because I'm not nearly as tactical as this video encourages me to be. I just cant possibly manage all the game mechanics.
I'll still try though. The game is worth the effort ❤
For the algorithm - and thanks for the useful vid my guy!
Nice video. I'd like to see next a video that will cover more advanced combat, like using throwables, candles, barrels, chests and many more.
Another awesome video again, as always. You do such great deep dives and I hope BG 3 continues to be so popular as well as releasing more content to keep being reviewed. Other than jackasses spoiling the game on your live streams, they are awesome as well. You need to check out his live stream on Twitch with his first Honor Run!
Love your content and delivery
I needed this. I'm new to D&D and dice. I'm in my first run, and I'm lvl 10, and I still feel weak. I can get through fights, but they take forever and I barely win. I usually lose a companion or two and have to raise them. Then I have to go to camp after every fight. It makes the game boring. I'll watch this video, and I hope it helps me out. Because I need it. Thanks.
You can play your best but sometimes you just get REALLY unlucky and you'll take some huge losses. Then there's inverse situations where your dice rolls make an otherwise insane boss fight go smooth as silk, or sometimes just skipping it entirely. Such are the heady gambling joys of DnD style games 😹
Very helpful for newer players, great video
Respec Gale as a life domain cleric, warding bond and leave him at camp. He heals himself outside of combat at camp for some reason lol he doesn't even know any healing spells
I love your content - such a great listen!
God i suck at this, but i managed to get Everburn Blade for Karlach. As thanks, she had a hissy fit after a fight and turned Shadowhart and Gale to Ash by running around being on fire
I have been using players in turn since I started, like you'd play DnD, so group actions is a great tip
Done tactician. Finishing act 1 on honor mode. Did not know the blue circle showed remaining movement.
19:57 - Wholesome, love it.
wow ive been here for an hour good vid man
it's ok to have karlach on the brain man, we all do 😂thanks so much for all ur great videos! on console so late to the game, ur content is helping me out a ton!
Great video as usual. i would love to hear more about Metamagic. I find it difficult to know what Metamagic options I will find useful. I think it really depends on what type of spells you are using but there are a lot of variables. They can be used in multi classing for Cleric spells and others so that makes it even more nuanced. Any help is appreciated. Thanks for sharing your experience!!
Literally never realized you could swap like that during turns.
Great vid, thanks!
I played Dungeons & Dragons in 1986 - Blue Box. Since then I only had two major campaigns Wolf Queen and Oriental Adventures. Since then I never returned to the game except for Beyond The Supernatural. I bought a 5th E book and only read a little of it to build a Ranger character. Baulder's Gate 3 overwhelmed me to the point of restarting several times. I looked at Wikis, YT content, and I still had trouble with the dynamic of the game. This video fills in something I knew but didn't really understand. If there isn't a beginners guide playlist yet, this should be the third or fourth video. Thanks again Sparticus. Do you have a discord by chance?
I'm in this same predicament rightnow actually. I've had the game now for a few days so far, and i just find this all to be so overwhelming having not played a DnD game b4. Ive made 3 characters so far, and actually thinking of making a new 1 that is a storm sorcerer 😂😂. My 1st character was wild magic sorcerer and i fucked up with Karlach bcuz i raided the Grove, and i really wanted her as a companion.
@@LyranVega I understand about choosing your battles. It will be hard for me to do an evil playthrough, but I'll do it. I love Karlach. I've decided to keep everyone in camp, so I'll have Astarion and Lae'zel. I don't like their personalities, but every part of BG3 is important to pursue. I've never had more than one character, but you do bring to this discussion that you can create multiple character concurrently. It is a better option than restarting...just have a 4TB hard drive, and your set. My issue isn't getting through the dialog; it's going too fast. I collect everything for that reason. I limit myself to the number of major encounters to 2 per session or 2 hours of play time. I want to really explore the possibilities of every inch of Act 1 and Act 2. It is such a fun game.
top quality help right when I needed it, subbed. tactician in early levels is Not Fun
Do you have a guide on best armor/clothing for the characters/classes?
Will is a warlock so he gets bardic inspiration? Im guessing you multiclassed him, but i was super confused for a minute.
How to win every batle.
Step 1 run out the room
Step 2 lay ground prone (ice)
Step 3 aoe in the doorway
You sound like fightincowboy. I watch both of yall alot.
He's a fucking hero. Biggest compliment ever
Thanks for all the tutorial type videos. They DO help. I’ve only beat the game once and missed sooo many things.
The silly thing is that I’ve been playing D&D since the 80’s and still find new things about the game.
For instance, in this video your characters have all kinds of equipment I’ve never seen. So I was thinking it’d be pretty kewl to see a video for optimized setups. For instance, an “ultimate” ranger build, and where to get the optimized equipment.
Anyhoo, my most sincere thanks for all the time/energy and resources that you’ve dedicated to these videos.
…maybe even a video on how to make legendary characters like Drizzt, Elric of Melnibone’, or Raistlin Majere
At 1:02:00 you were questioning the spiritual weapon not opportunity attacking. Idk if it is supposed to. I use it a decent amount with suadowheart
You sound a lot like Brian Gottleib from the Arena Deck list podcast
Love your videos. Gj 👌
damn this game is way harder than I expected...
This shows tons of options for actual combat. For me it seems very confusing since I've never been past lvl 5 yet. Can you give an example of things such as, when your characters are not ranged and are far away from the bad guy. Or when you have a few options but not many. I get that disabling the foe seems to be first and foremost but... Well, just with more limited things that can be done per turn. Or maybe as close to a step guide as possible. It's frustrating and NOT fun when you attempt a fight for the 18th (exageration) time and still fail. Having said all that I have learned a ton from this video and your videos in general. I can't thank you enough.
Dash! I don't think I highlighted that enough. You'd dash to get closer. You basically want to threaten them so they have to use SOMETHING to create distance from you. Sorry about that dude!
@@italianspartacus I do use dash but didn't know about the threat action. One more question please. How to organize your panel slots.
I see a lot of videos on how to become super powerful in BG3. Why would anyone want to do that? It's okay to lose a fight once in a while. There is so much fun stuff to do in this game, without trying to see how fast you can beat every combat challenge.
If you learn to play with more effective strategy you can have more fun with planning and play on higher difficulty modes
Great videos
Fantastic, thank you!
1:08:12 lol that's amazing