Why you want to recruit every single Companion in BALDUR'S GATE 3
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- BALDUR'S GATE 3 tip for recruiting and managing your party.
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Recruit all characters, respec them to bards with different instruments and you have a band at your camp xD
Hahaha! That's friggan amzing @sxiiiify. I will have to give it a go.
A very expensive but very fun time
Oh. So we *can* respec them. Good!
@leftyzappa Yessir. I think the old dude in the camp charges 100 gold per respect. It's too bad we can't change their appearance though.
@@OttoResolve exactly. Maybe I like the Fellowship Of The Ring motif….
Some more reasons to recruit a lot of companions:
- Out of combat utility wizard or two to cast invisibility on your thieves and other out of combat spells you might need like feather fall.
- Make those wizards Transmutation wizards to be able to craft 2x potions with medical skill as well.
- Some summoning spells for familiars, imps and mage hands will help with getting loot from unreachable places and help with puzzles.
- Arcane tricksters invisible mage hand can push characters off roofs and into chasms or lava to help out before a fight.
- Give some of your extra characters the ritual caster feat to talk to all the deaddies that refuse to talk your murder squad.
- You can have a dedicated pickpocket so your own important characters don't land in trouble and you don't have to swap gear constantly.
- A high strength mule character to bring those explosive barrels from the camp to the battlefield. (Pick-up and send to camp barrels from the environment to use later)
- I love this game.
@Saxiiiify Awesome breakdown! I love the insight! Thanks so much for sharing.
Brilliant
I have been sending items to the camp, but I can send barrels too? I need to use them more if this is the case!
I was stealing from a mercanary camp and was trying to disarm it; Astarion just picked the whole chest up and I looted it at the camp 😂. So I'm trying to build s strong, stealthy thief.
YOU CAN ONLY HAVE A MAXIMUM OF 3 HIRELINGS! WITHERS WILL NOT GIVE YOU MORE UNTIL YOU DISMISS THEM ENTIRELY
i am looking for a mod to raise this cap. i can have 16 compainons out at a time 8 can be multiplayer i only have 3 hirlings one is a mod. it sucks.
Yeah, I discovered that shortly after making the video. My friends, who at the time had played the game more than myself had misinformed me. In any case, it's my bad for not doing my due diligence and checking for myself.
@@kristoferhorninghorning9747 Same here-
Another HUGE reason to use these guys is they have NO MORALS. These guys go along with whatever you do without consequence so if you want to do something somewhat controversial, you don't have to do it alone. Origin characters have really complex reactions especially if you have 3 of them it becomes a lot to balance. So I prefer to take one or two at a time and always use at least one hireling. Currently playing as a Deep Gnome Thief (MOST UNDERATED RACE - OBCENELY OP) and I use the hirelings to make a small people party for exploring places only small size creatures can fit. It also really pays huge dividends if you make a few characters with godstat perception rolls (wisdom rouge/bard with expertise) to find all the secret stuff you're missing.
That's a great point. I didn't even think about that. Also, depending on the situation and the character's race or class you may even get a few extra dialogue options. Thanks for the comment. My apologies for the delayed reply.
a lot of the story around the companions seems to be based around the campsite, I'm not sure it's actually that advantageous to spend as long as possible between each long rests, at least in terms of advancing relationships. You also get A LOT of food that can weigh quite a bit, so I don't think there is much of a downside to camping more often and using it up
@NickKrige Good insight. I will have to keep that in mind and try not to be so stingy before taking another long rest.
Tac mode use 80 camp resources.
Send food to camp. That will lighten the load.
There are time sensitive events in the game
Yes, main story progress and companions personal quest progress in BG3 is build around resting often and talking to the Companions often, even if they don't have an exclamation mark over their heads they usually have something to say after a major encounters or dialogue with a named NPC. Any story-relevant event, basically. It's useful to jump to camp even for a Short Rest if possible, that can already trigger cutscenes. And if you don't Long Rest enough, you will skip important story-relevant or character-relevant cut-scenes simply because you're way past the area or quest that would've triggered them. Or they start to queue and pile up, as the game starts shovingthem backwards.
If the player keeps going without properly resting, some important NPC encounters like Raphael are sometimes forced in the middle of the day outside of camp, simply because you need to have encountered him in Act 1 or else whole plotlines in Act 2 would become impossible.
Looks like I will be stealing some more underwear lol
The three-hirelings limit is the reason I’ll have to save Minthara the next time by knocking her out, so that I still have access to a paladin. Because my hirelings are a potion maker, a monk, and a ranger. If Larian finally made Alfira playable for the entire game, you’d have at least one character of each class available.
I guess I could respec the ranger into a paladin, once I’ve found Minsc. But he will only be along for the ride for the final portion of the game.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I was wondering what the big deal of companions were. Left a like.
Cheers, thank you @Miloascape. Have fun experimenting with all the different companions.
I killed drow paladin in goblin camp and its fine she was very evil anyway, that's why replayability exists, so when we play second time we choose differently.
You can never trust those dang drow. The replayability for this game is pretty crazy. I feel like mixing up the party now and again won't hurt it too much though.
You can have her as your companion if you side with her and kill the tieflings at the grove, but Wyll will leave your party
@doncagape5409 Ah, decisions, decisions. I wanna collect 'em all!
@@doncagape5409 Several characters might leave if you slaughter the tieflings and druids, not just Wyll. Shadowheart and Gale and Karlach will hate it, even if they don't leave right away. And of course recruiting Halsin the bear druid becomes impossible if you sided with the goblins and slaughtered everyone at the grove, although he will break out on his own if you didn't kill him and hunt you down later.
Sadly, currently the only way to have Minthara (the evil drow paladin from the goblin camp) plus Wyll and Halsin in your group seems to not to take _either_ side in the druids vs goblins conflict in Act 1, effectively skipping a large chunk of Act 1 storyline and quests. If you don't kill the three goblin camp leaders that include Minthara, she will later turn up as a prisoner in Moonrise Towers where you can save her and recruit her (and even turn her away from the Absolute cult). But if you ignore the entire conflict, AFAIK the druids led by Kagha will push the tieflings out and the tieflings will all die on the road trying to reach Baldur's Gate.
From what I've seen and read, you can portaljump back into Act 1 area after Moonrise Towers but before you enter Act 3 to eradicate the goblins then and rescue Halsin if he's still there... but since Minthara will already be in your group then, I honestly wonder how that screws up the "kill all three goblin camp leaders" quest? Or what happens if you expose Kagha and the Shadow Druids or kill Kagha, but never rescued Halsin? But exposing Kagha means having to interact with the druid storyline anyway.
If you sided with the tieflings and killed the goblin leaders (and thus stopped their attack plans) so the tieflings can travel safely, a few of them will still get abducted will going the Underdark route and will end up prisoner in Moonrise Towers where you can free them and send them to Baldur's Gate. You will also re-encounter a tiefling child rogue you had previously met at the Grove when you get to the Last Light Inn in the Shadow Lands in Act 2... she is playing chess with Raphael.
@@TF2CrunchyFrogwoow, I played that all wrong then. I killed all the tieflings when they caught me sneaking out the goblin from the prison. So wyll left my party.Then the druids sealed the Grove and the Drow found out when she went to attack them. Because of that, she turned on me and I had to kill her too. I lost both characters and i forget his name, but the druid that turns into a bear, he's in my camp, but for some reason, the game won't give me the option to have him in my party. I hate it here 😂
Awesome tip!! Never would have thought of this
that's an amazing tip
Huh, good point. The scroll easily covers the cost, and beyond. TY
Cheers. Glad to help Baraz.
@@OttoResolve By the way, some players report they cannot expel a hireling from their party. Did you see any such issue?
@Baraz_Red I have not encountered it as of yet. I will let you know if it happens.
Withers was at my camp before I went to the ruins.
Nice. I've heard he shows up once you hit level 3 regardless of whether you hit the ruins.
I was thinking of going with these guys for my Dark Urge run going full evil and story characters would run off with everything equipped
Ah, nice. I wonder if the Dark Urge gets tempted to kill these characters as well. Haha. Thanks for the comment. Sorry for taking so long to get back to you.
liked and subbed, nice vid dude, keep it up!
Cheers @Lucaslui7421! I appreciate the sub and the encouragement.
i never thought of subbing out my party to extend a long rest. I was thinking that the 80 camp supplies on tactician seemed like a lot(i hate scouring barrels and boxes)
Hahaaa. It's funny because I have a friend who loves rummaging through absolutely everything. Camp supplies probably not too much of an issue as you go through the game but it's nice to have options for different playstyles. Thanks for the comment. Apologies for taking half an age to get back to you.
Basicly i had the same thoughts, but when I let join someone my party I wanna see every moment of his history...... I know is a big help have an army where y can choose but...... Dk maybe is just what I want and not what is better :)
True, true. It is nice to see the character's back story. Maybe that's something Larian could add at some point for these auxiliary characters.
Do hirelings come as extra to our origin companions? I mean can we have all origin companions + all hirelings?
@kz7784 Yes, the hirelings come in addition to the origin companions. However, you can only have a max of three hirelings in your party at a time. It doesn't effect how many origin companions you can have.
@@OttoResolve Thank you. I can try other classes as hirelings :)
Id mainly hire them to adventure with if i was doing an evil walkthrough
That's not a bad idea, spices up the playthrough a bit. It's too bad that we didn't get an options for completely customizable hirelings.
awww I was hoping that we could change their appearance
@dungeonsanddioramas8068 I know right! So weird that we can completely respect them but are only allowed to have the one custom character we started the game with.
Consulta lo mas importante podemos editarlos ? o este es el gran fracaso de sistema de mercenarios, ya que hace mucho tiempo los mercenarios en todo juego son editables incluido en Divinity original sin 2 , igual juego es una joya pero si van dar un sistema mercenarios sin edicion mejor ni lo hacian igual amo el juego pero admito si no me dejan editar los mercenarios , no le veo el sentido a los mercenarios
So, if I can trust google translate, I believe you're saying the mercenaries aren't worthwhile unless we can edit them. Just like all of the origin characters, the hirelings can be respec'd by talking to Withers in the camp. However, we cannot edit their appearance. It would have been nice to edit their appearance and create your own custom party. But, at least we can change their class and skills and what not.
0:41 this may have been mentioned already but Withers eventually just showed up in my camp around level 3. I never went into the ruins
Ah, shoot, that's very interesting. Good to know. @Jam Thanks for the comment.
I will probably do an evil play though at some point
Nice. Plenty of replay-ability for this game.
a hireling is a half price rez at the least so I totally agree and 1k is easy to come by even in act 1 thats 10 res from withers it would be 2k .. maximize 😆
@desertmaker Absolutely. I was a little disappointed that you can only have a max of 3 at a time but I suppose it makes sense.
Just use revivify with shadowheart
i would rather spend my ill gotten gold to the 3 troll brothers ahahha.
Not that you mention it, who could resist 3 troll brothers?
If you are roleplaying a good character, you wouldn't associate with their kind. After all, they did want eat at first.
I cannot locate Theo Soloman, he's not by the kids anymore....need help?? Where is he?
My apologies, I don't know who Theo Soloman is. I've been asking around a few of my friends who are more familiar with BG3 than myself. If he turns up, I'll let you know.
scroll of revive becomes useless when you get a cleric with revive. you get it around level 5.... welll.... untill that claric is dead anyways.... then they become inportant.
@Honed- Good to know. It's nice to have them as spares though, you never know when there may be an emergency.
@@OttoResolve also theres a hidden guy that can revive dead party members for 200 gold. but uh.... youll have to find him yourself as i dont wanna spoil anything.
@Honed- Sweet, I'll have to see if I can track him down. I appreciate you not spoiling his location form.
@@OttoResolve its kind of hidden, I found him on luck.
withers auto joins you in full game after some time... (1-2 days)
Ahhh... good to know. Thanks for the info. Apologies for the late reply.
Bummer that we can't make them from scratch.
@leftyzappa Super bummer man.
U can also change Shadowheart to Life Cleric
Shoot, that's kinda cool.
I respec'd her to tempest cleric and now she's bring in big dps and keeping the party healed :)
I wanted to play support bard and keep her in the party so I respecced her to 1 level of war cleric (couple of free sneak attacks per long rest and the sanctuary spell) and rest in rogue.
@Saxiiiify It's going to take me forever to learn all of the different classes and subclasses. War cleric sounds awesome.
It’s a good thing respec was added. Though I’m playing the game as built. Shadowheart staying as a trickster makes her a potent crowd control character.
While I am currently playing as a nature cleric. Which offers amazing terrain and character buffs.
Gonna grab me a gnome first
Hahaa. Nice.
Me in act 3. Hirelings Bleh! 100 g a piece for these mooks. with 20k gold.
This guy explains they can just be healing bots who hang out in camp and heal shit.
Hol' up.
Lol. Mooks. I love it.
Lol i yeeted minthars because it wouldnt give me the option to recruit her
Hahaa. That's hilarious. Cheers, thanks for the comment. Sorry for the delayed reply.
why not long rest?
Haha. Good point.
3 hirerings is the max in Camp
Yessir. My bad. You can always sub them in and out for a price. Also, you can steal back your payment from Withers, doesn't seem to bother him one bit. Thanks for the comment. My apologies for taking so long to respond.
Why are the hirelings infected with tadpoles?
Good question dantrag. I have no clue.
Because when you hire them, you get a tad-poorer
Wrong you can only have 3
Yes, yes, we're aware. Lol. My bad. You can sub them out, and also steal back any payment to Withers. So, technically, you can have access to all of them if you want.
LIKE
Cheers.
Who the fuck feels the need to do this xD
wow you're really minmaxing the game where minmaxing it is kinda making it less fun. But I guess someone had to do videos like this
To each their own. There's is either a market for it or people that want to optimize a certain aspect of their own gameplay.
Fun is subjective.
@MrTerry1298 I'm an old school Total War player. So taking every inch of an advantage comes second nature to me. Aside from that though, the experimentation of using different classes and party compositions has been fun, rewarding and a great learning experience for myself. Especially since the game is completely new to me. I never played any of the Divinity games, Early Access, Table Top or watched any of the countless BG3 videos out there. Just purely experimenting and trying to take advantage of all the tools the developers provided.
What a useless video, you can't take the three minutes to recruit them all and see if you can ... Not to mention the main point of having extra people is to respect them into having very high skills. So you can go back to areas and find stuff where your party missed checks.
My apologies, I was told that there was no limit to the number of companions you can have in camp. I should have verified myself. That's my bad. However, there still is a lot of value in recruiting all of them simply because of the gear they carry. Especially the scroll of revivfy's. I do really like your insight into respecing them to redo missed checks. I think there are a lot of different ways they can be used. I like to respec them into life clerics myself in order to keep my main party healed. Also, @Saxiiiify has some really great uses in a comment here if you want to check that out as well. Thank you for the criticism, I will try and make sure to cover all my bases next time. Cheers.
i let shadowheart murder laezel in my camp in the middle of the night. I woke up, saw her with a knife to her throat...and just watched murder and went back to bed. Hated that girl.
Spoiler :(
Yikes! Hahaha. I feel like all of the characters a bit of a dark streak.
Until a mod comes out that allows us to change their appearance/race I won't be interested in hirelings.
Can't blame you there @anthonymendoza. It's so bizarre to me that Larian allows us to complete respec all of the characters but not change their appearance.