Can a LONEWOLF Beat Act 1 Using Illithid Powers Only? - Baldur's Gate 3
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- Thanks for watching everyone! I hope you enjoy this brief break from the usual class challenges we've been doing, thanks to everyone who caught it live here on youtube, and stay tuned for the act 2 livestreams in the coming days! As always these videos have been an absolute pleasure to make so thank you all endlessly for the support!
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Video Chapters:
0:00 Intro & Rules
1:14 Character Creation
1:53 A Corrupted Commencement
3:37 Level 2
4:00 Gaining Power
4:28 The Whispering Promise
4:46 Gaining Power (cont.)
5:30 Haste Helm
5:50 Level 3
6:08 Power Gained
9:56 Level 4
10:14 Tonics & Tussles
16:10 Periapt of Wound Closure
16:21 Power Overwhelming
18:28 Defender Flail & Vital Conduit Boots
18:49 Stealing a Boat
21:03 Level 5
21:31 Grymforg Gallivanting
22:20 Wondrous Gloves
22:27 Grymforg Gallivanting (cont.)
26:39 Adamantine Gear
27:07 Final Ferocious Foes
Songs Used (in order of appearance):
Start a cult -cult of the lamb
Castlewars - OSRS
Greenpath - Hollow Knight
Dragon Roost Island - Windwaker
Up the spirit caverns walls - Ori and the Blind Forest
Hollow Bastion - Kingdom Hearts
Secret of the Forest - Chrono Trigger
Resurrections - Celeste - Ігри
Mindfreak vs the Mind Goblins
goblin nuts 🥴🥴🥴
@@ryanfleshbourne3547 you forgot deez
Mind goblins? What are those???
A lil green guy with tentacles on his face
@@the_truant would you mind goblin on deez nuts?
Yes, the "handsome younger man" comment always made me laugh too. Gortash is a washed up train wreck 😂
Vicious Mockery deals 1d4 psychic damage!
My favorite way I’ve heard Gortash described was, “He looks like the oldest guy at a My Chemical Romance concert who isn’t someone’s dad.”
well the narrator is attracted to him
I kept on protesting that description of him on stream every time it brought up, it really is hilarious that they call him handsome OR younger.
Listen, he used to look handsome and young, but planning a whole ass world conquest conspiracy while wrangling Orin will take a few years off your lifespan.
I still find it to be the ultimate irony that every method of strengthening your tadpole is from trying to get rid of it, besides the emperor's little gift that is
I’m just imagining how confused the goblin raiders were when they went back to camp only to find everyone dead.
Something you can do with cull the weak and a dead body is throw it, and since it does damage to the dead body that has 0 hp, it lets out a little blast of psychic damage
That's a neat fact and a half!
I should add, it only works if they died to cull the weak before throwing@@the_truant
I like how the community decided that gith names just involve adding apostrophies.
It’s really cool how you can make basically anything viable in this game with the right item setups
First charater I actually caught the streams. It was a blast.
blast...BLAST. BLAST!!! ELDRITCH BLAAAAAAAST
So, I tested the assertion about the parasites, that you get more as a reward from Minthara when you don't kill Gut or Ragzlin. In my playthrough, I went to the Goblin Camp, straight to Minthara, talked to her, send her to the grove, long rested and raided the grove. I didn't talk to Gut or Dror. I only got one parasite after the raid was done and one more after spending the night with her, just as you. So fighting the leaders (especially Dror) was not in vain.
Huh no kidding, thanks for clarifying that!
@@the_truant You're welcome! :)
“Dead as a drornail” is crazy
Great video, Watched all of the streams after the fact, wish I could have been there in real-time
Your hampter profile picture will never not make me laugh.
Great video
5:39 😂 I’m still wearing this helmet in act 3
OK but in what world is a Cleric of Vlaakith not OK with harming enemies?
Have been binge watching your videos ever since I found your channel. Keep up the awesome content and godspeed!
As per usual fantastic video, an absolute gem one might say.
One major thing though! In future runs, if you have heavy armour proficiency make sure that as soon as you go to the mountain pass, you go to that undead fight. It's really scary yes but that's not the point, chug an invisibility potion and loot the bodies in turn based for safety (last run I did which wasn't on the LATEST version but I'd be SHOCKED if this was changed, looting doesn't break invis). The bodies have basic plate armour, which while is minor, we all know the insanity that can come from stacking "just one more AC." I noticed you had what looked to be normal splint before that and thought I'd mention!
Also also, there are elixirs that claim to buff tadpoles. I have absolutely no clue what they do, but might be worth checking out!
Finally, you should probably try to rush upping your spell save DC ASAP! As illithid abilities scale with it, but they scale with *the DC*, NOT the stat, meaning that magic items that buff your spell save dc can get ungodly. Just imagine a DC ~24-25 black hole being thrown around every turn, followed by other abilities of the same level.
Also I lied, there's more, I'm thinking of these as I write the comment and am FAR too lazy to go back and change my wording: This one's way later but a thought I thought I should share nonetheless, the displacer beast form doesn't take up your concentration slot, it's basically like a wildshape iirc. Do with that information what you will.
This was a treat to watch both now and when you were doing it live, keep it up truant!
One of the few channels i actually liked and subscribed when asked to... REALLY love the runs and you inspired me to do some more challenging runs myself!
Nice challenge! Can’t wait to see how this goes in the future
Love your vids dude! Easily some of the best BG3 content on youtube right now
I love your videos and im looking forward to all the bg3 challenges to come, keep up the good work champ ❤
man, you have no idea how eagerly i wait for your vids. great stuff
Ooh this should be good, looking forward to see how you deal with the cooldowns
best BG3 content or some of.... liking all 13 videos and subbed. You need more support which is overdue for sure :)
awesome video, can't wait for act 2!
Hell yeah! What was happening on stream was vile😂 Can't wait for part 2!!
Love your narration
Cult of the Lamb bgm goes hard
Very good video! Would definitely want to see more of it
This video gave me brainworms in the best way
solid video, as always :)
Don't mind me. Just enjoying the hit of nostalgia while listening to a surprise Hollow Bastion. :D
Glad you had a good time. I prefer being in a party. The social interactions and the talking to the other party members is just too entertaining for me to pass up.
usually I don’t comment on videos I watch but I just wanted to let you know I love all your videos ❤
Thank you so much!!!
Flind lost? That's crazy, I've had 3 playthroughs where after getting her to attack her pack she fucking soloed them every time
My brain tuned in on that Cult of the Lamb soundtrack.
the level of knowledge in this game is amazing
I feel like adding Bard to the build could be great. You’d be making the most of some of those bardic items and have an extra short rest which would be great for many of those tadpole ability’s
The return!
Awww yeah, here we go.
Damn, some excellent strategy, and i heard some ori music!
I set up Astarion partly as a Gloomstalker (also as a Thief) and also with Concentrated Blast. This way he can concentrate on Hunter’s Mark (bonus action) and cast Concentrated Blast in the same turn if needed. You could also set up a Warlock to use Hex for the concentration, which is also a bonus action. A War Domain cleric could use Divine Favour in a similar fashion, and there are probably other combos I’m not aware of 😸
The Goat keeps feeding us.
Ohhh, I was counting days till I see this :")
Was too lazy to watch second stream, sorry
But thank you for enjoyable content :)
No need to be sorry thanks for watching the first one!
a pleasure to meet you Miss Mindfreak 😂
If Michelle's "sound effects" aren't in this video, I'm crying censorship
Im a simple gal, I hear hollow knight music, i see cool bg3 content, I like.
I heard cult of the lamb music and also immediately slammed like
Barrelmancy, never heard this before, i guess i should look it up. It would never occure to me honestly 😂
What I like to do with Gehk is sneak up behind him and drop a Sussur Bloom in his pocket. No counterspells or zombies. Also you know those two levers on the platform overlooking the Nere fight? If you stand up there, take potshots at the enemies below, and then back up before ending your turn, nobody can hit you. Oh, and if you jump back up to the stairs that lead to the forge, Grym will just stand around unable to reach you, and you can use Minor Illusion to draw him into the center of the room and hit the lever with a ranged attack.
Bro needs to finish the series with this challenge
Shout out to Volo for helping you with your Trotsky impression.
Ilithid powers only. Casts Sanctuary and Guidance.
You dont need perilous stakes to find out which one is the real Ethel. She is always the first one in the turn order because she has a buff that gives her a bonus to initiative while the clones do not. You just hover your mouse over the first one to highlight the real Ethel.
It also doesnt help her case that she always starts the fight in the same position (top near the entrance)
So real for not respecing
THE GUTSCENE
I have found heat metal has good synergy with concentrated blast even if you can’t use it this run
I really should have used these abilities more. Mostly didn't because I could never figure out how they actually worked lol
ARREST THEM!
“Relax, Grandpa Gehk.”
Sorry again about being just a few minutes too late to the stream tell you about the gift of the absolute before you started fighting dror 😅
No need to be sorry at all, it's good knowledge for the future!
sacrificing the slaves in a brutal massacre is a pretty tough choice just for 1 more worm 🙃
Honourmode run beating ALL possible bosses!
sounds pretty easy tbh
Have no fear I'll do a lonewolf honour mode at some point!
MIND FREAK
Have you ever considered doing a multiplayer challenge run w/ some of the other UA-camrs? Like Morgana Evelyn or Fracture
I think that could be cool but I'm really bad at not playing singleplayer haha, I even started up a run with Pheeon and Player_5 but our scheduling is terrible
oh sheeeet
Hmm can’t help but wonder if I’m act 1 you could raid the Druid grove for the reward of parasites and then kills the goblin leaders for a total of 6 mind flayer parasites
bro called Volo a wizard 💀💀💀
Favorable beginnings seems to be bugged for me, since i never see it trigger when lockpicking or any skill check for that matter
Hello truant if you want to have the difficulty of honor with the freedom of tactician if you download bg3 mod manager and move the honor mod which is pre added to the manager at download you you most likely(not sure if I works with out other mods) you can fight bosses with their legendary actions
Or. Or more just use custom difficulty lol
I. I didn't know there were mimics in Act 1.
Am I insane or are you playing hollow knight music in the background in the underdark segment
Not insane at all!
I knew a guy this happened to lol
Bummer :((
Baldurs Ghaik run!! Romance Emperor and have your happily everafter woth your squiddy soulmate
How did you escape the temple and blow it up at the same time?
I love you
No u
@@the_truantno u
@@the_truant no u
How far after the Druid grove do you have to get to get the 3 worms? I just sided against the tieflings for the first time a couple hours ago and minthara only gave me 1 worm at camp even though all 3 leaders were alive
I was actually misinformed about that, just realized you always get the same amount of worms from Minthara yesterday! Sorry about the misinformation!
@@the_truant ah okay, no problem!
Volo isnt a wizard. Hes the most bard of all bards
Ong
Will you be giving us a honour mode run some time? gg
At some point eventually yes!
waitwaitwait
how do you manage to cast that many concentrated blasts in combat? don't you need to rest after using it once?
It's once per turn!
@@the_truant ohhh... I never noticed.
I mean all other ilithid abilities are once per short/long rest
Any idea how you're gonna kill Myrkul? ;)
Already done, it was quite the trick!
Did you not get the upgrade to cast ilithid powers on a bonus action?
I did get it, somewhere around 16:50 !
28:35 on est corda qu'il a dit "c'est la vie" ?
Great video, but just for the sake of accuracy, Volo is a Bard, not a Wizard ;)
What's karmic dice?
Go Honor mode...
Why
How is it that Perilous stakes work on any creature for you? In all my playthrougs it only worked on allies
If you were playing on honor mode it only works on allies in that difficulty
@@the_truant Oh I see. thanks.
And thats why honor mode is the only. Mode that counts lol so many base rule set changes tac and lower is only for new players to get a basic understanding@the_truant
DAmn, I know you said no companions allowed, but something seems wrong about straight up making her full-on off herself.
I like your premise, but neither karmic dice nor the opposite maje the dice rolling more authentic. That's the trouble with RNG, it'll never fully replicate dice rolling.
Wait how do you have six songs?
You get more songs if you have the deluxe edition!
the reeling effect from the adamantine shield and armor cancel each other out so u just get neither
And why would it?
Where's all the Theodosia cameos????
I didn't want to interrupt the flow too much, don't worry she'll be there in plenty of future streams
@@the_truant I've been loving her havoc when watching back the streams
Before you explained your race choice, I thought you chose Githyanki for irony's sake, luhl.
Or - perhaps - it was your real reason after all 👀
YAY CELESTE MUSIC
cool video
One critism is that you don''t simply just make laezel jump then dash away in the first fight with the imps. Laezel is useful because if you went high-elf or half-high elf for minor illusion, after the first fight with the two tieflings, you can lure laezel over to either the goblins at the grove hollow or the thieves at the ruin all without her joining your party. Then again, I am a freak that has literally 1000 hours in this game and had hyper optimized everything for solo play.
But you don't need it.
Have u pirated the game or do u just not play on the current patch lol? They patched Perilous Stakes like 3 months ago, so that u can't actually hit enemys with it anymore.
That's an honour mode only change!
@@the_truant i didn't know
Love the video as usual, but one piece of feedback. The Music is distracting, please do not put that in for part two.
What music?
@@moonlight2870 There was some music near the start of the video around the druids Grove bit that was rather distracting. Thank fully it was not through the entire video.
How did you manage to make a character uglier than mine?
Ghaik propaganda
L
dislike for "dream girl"