If you enjoyed this video check out my other Challenge Run, where I took on the challenge to beat Baldur's Gate 3 Without Killing Anything: ua-cam.com/video/FrhMXqazGYY/v-deo.htmlsi=P5mxzOlmVDU3-kCr If you enjoyed these challenge runs let me know! They take a long time to create, but if people are enjoying them I'll keep them coming. I've got solid ideas left which add interesting challenges.
Imagine exploring the treacherous dinasour-infested jungle and finding a random beholder flying around because some idiot couldn't jump. I love this channel
@@ProxyGateTactician you can also use the kobalds in barrels from the monestary, if you pick up the barrels with kobalds in them without breaking them they can be thrown for portable kobalds
You can Throw Scratch's Ball to summon him where it lands and he has the Help action, so he could Help Nightsong. A part of me thought this would be the strat because if Shadowheart kills Nightsong she simply stabs her with the Spear of Night, but if she spares her she Throws the Spear of Night away
Oh really?? I didn't know I could summon him like that. I only ever threw the ball in camp and it never summoned him there which makes sense. That would have been a great way wow thanks for sharing
@@ProxyGateTactician Yeah np. I only found out about it a week or two ago because I learned Scratch doesn't *die* die if he is reduced to 0 hp outside of camp
@@nathanfivecoate5848 I learned that trick when I decided to throw something nonlethal at my friend while he was away from the keyboard and all of a sudden Scratch was in the middle of Baldur's Gate. Now I throw the ball whenever someone needs help and I can't get to them fast enough
@@ProxyGateTactician Shadowheart will also be unable to sacrifice Nightsong if you have her Throw the Spear of Night into the Shadowfell before talking to Nightsong
The Nyrulna part was genuinely really impressive! I would have never in a million years thought to use the displacement gloves AND remembered the hostile summon. That was insane
“Woke up to find two women fighting over me….confirming this is a fantasy game”. Why did that hit me so hard? Didn’t help that i was watching this with my wife close by and her first reaction was “did you do a youtube video?”
For the Hag fight: you could've avoided the cutscene that starts the fight, gone into her room and use her mushroom circle teleporter to bring all your teammates in.
@@ProxyGateTactician I about died when I saw that as well. The other bit that got me was the one with that "List of Astarion's fan girls" because I have female friend that's guilty of simping for him as well lol. I had to subscribe for masterpiece. Well done sir.
I had no idea that the dinosaur jungle existed. I’m continually astonished by the number of unique, thought-out scenarios this game has hidden behind some very specific choices
@@ProxyGateTacticianjumping directly on a mob (or teammate) sometimes deals damage, soooo.... Maybe build a crate tower at every fight and dive bomb the enemies to death?
There actually IS a little spot in the back of the brain that you can target directly with thrown weapons, was very good to know for my solo thrown weapon character
I had no idea both drows can walk past the goblins or that you can go to a jungle by messing with the genie, this game has SO much stuff 14:45 is also the most insane tactic i have ever seen
Just want to say this and the pacifist build video convinced me to buy the game. Been on the fence but your videos just showed how intricate and engaging this game is in a new way.
My first play through I thought the maze was some kinda joke at the temple because my tav was an elf that could see in the dark. So the path was clearly visible and it just took walking from one end to another. I scratched my head and wondered why they would make it so easy until my second play through I realized why it was so easy the first time. Yeah just use the scroll to see in darkness
@@akinyx5407 hahahaha I couldn’t believe how easy it was at first but the second time was a breeze too I cheesed every single test in that temple. Sending only astarion to the far end in the sneak one, then when the test activates he was already at the item to teleport back, the one where you fight yourselves you just unequip all your gear and put it back on after it starts and your doppelgängers all have no gear, this one use darkness scroll or just fly from one end to the other and so on its kinda funny actually
Maze tip! If you have a bright object out, you can actually see a bit of the path if you zoom in, it looks like little dots. It's how I did it the very first playthrough
Tip for the Umbral Portal room in Shar's Gauntlet (7:36): Further back, in the room with the lanterns that you have to snuff at the beginning of the area... The room off to the left has a back way to get to the Umbral Portal fight. This allows you to bypass some stuff and be better positioned. You just need to get your lockpicker close enough to the locked vault-looking door that Balthazar is behind. The Sharran NPCs and Balthazar's minions automatically want to fight each other no matter what you do. But, opening that door means you release a bunch of ghouls, Flesh, and possibly Balthazar himself into the fight. This makes it a lot easier to just whittle everyone down, until you're ready to betray Balthazar's side.
You could also have thrown one of the kobold barrels from act 1 (they are in the monastery in the mointain pass) in the jungle to spawn a less deadly enemy and mabye preserve a throwable spectator.
For the shar temple maze, if you just click at the end platform, your character walks through fine on their own, so you shouldn't need to memorize it for future runs.
I love the box placing and then picking up trick for the Astral plane/nightsong section. I do think you potentially missed a trick there - I think you can stack boxes at the wonky angle that you got the first one to sit at, so you could have made a leaning tower of Pisa boxes and then just picked up the final one. I may well be wrong! Kudos on a great vid.
Genuinely such a funny video, after watching all of these challenge videos your humor is my favorite I’ve come across in the playthrough I’ve watched, and I learned a bunch of new tricks!
so I did a throwing build for my first playthrough of BG3 after release, and you CAN use throwing weapons against the brain, but the actual damage point is the BRAINSTEM, and you will lose any weapon thrown. This is where all the Murderous Cut daggers you've been collecting come into play. You get the brain below 50% HP by throwing stuff (I threw dead rats), then switch to chain-throwing these daggers which proc another 1d4 damage. You'll lose them, but you WILL do damage and they'll hit twice and apply all bonuses to each hit.
Funnily enough, you could have killed Grym this run even easier than if you used the hammer. just have someone post up at the bottom of the staircase leading to the forge, and throw something at the lever to send it down without you and activate the lava. Once Grym spawns you can just throw your returning pike or javelins at him until he dies. Because you're so high up you get a bunch of extra bludgeoning damage from gravity, and Grym just so happens to take double bludgeoning damage when he's superheated, meaning you can kill him in about 5 or 6 hits and he cant do anything about it...
That's awesome haha glad to hear. I worked extra hard to get this one done because I'm excited for Classic WoW soon. Would like to try to get 1 more mostly done before the new season starts
@@steamfang5371 Oh I know I can't finish a video in 5 days hahaha but if I can get it like 70% done that would motivate me to play WoW a little less which is always a good thing in someone's life.
I was rewatching your challenge videos that you included in you BG3 birthday video, and this has to be my favorite by far! Just because of the way you designed your character, and the name Bom Trady
You know that you can cheese labyrinth trial by pressing shift? You can use shift to see path that your character will travel, and it also shows you differents in heights and path that teleport you away is lower than intended path. I discovered that on my 1st playthrough and thought that it is intended solution, but then wondered why no one uses it lol
Just a tip for 7:02 - you can actually wash away blood, acid, etc with the create water spell or in this case just throwing a bottle of water on the ground :)
Hey Proxy, in the gauntlet of shar, at the maze, use the tactical view and zoom in until you can faintly see the path, then just go on the right hand side of the platform and you will win. Great videos, they are fun to watch
For the final fight regarding barrelmancy/Explosives. You can stuck explosives/barrels into a bag and throw the bag, the bag is destroyed and then you light them up with something. BOOM!
Lol, this exact stuff is why I made a Shove/Throw Thief build, and made it one of the first things I made a video for. I love throwing stuff in this game! Glad to see someone else is having fun with all the fun mechanics.
Throwing tips: 1. the berserker subclass gives you a free throw as a bonus action while you are raging 2. as an eldritch knight fighter, you can bind your weapon and use any pike or spear as a returning pike
In my current playthrough, I did actually let all the Umbral Terror portals spit out all their people as was wanting to cheese Balthazar using the trick you showed off in your "Without killing anything" video. I basically had Astarion sneak through to the door and as couldn't be bothered to gamble on him unlocking it via lockpick, I used a Knock scroll, then opened the door and went invis and let the chaos begin. I only intervened when Balthazar and Flesh were both at low HP and as the game was considering me as being on their side, I attacked them to make it a 3 way fight and got the XP for killing them and the remaining Justiciars. I did this on Classic difficulty, not sure what it would be like to do it on Tactician.
1:52 there’s also an ability you can learn that “binds” weapons or equiped items to the character, so when thrown they return, and enemy’s can’t make people you drop your weapon
I'm pretty sure you could've put a bunch of fireworks in a backpack to throw at the end then detonate it with an alchemist fire or something like that. It probably would've made everything go a bit faster, but overall cool challenge
My first full playthrough I was blessed to learn how powerful throw is. My tavern brawler Karlach used the returning pike all game. I too ran into the problem with the Elder Brain then learned that if I targeted the brainstem underneath the main brain it would hit every time.
I think that throwing Hill Giant Elixirs works too; it doesn't leave a cloud, so you need to throw it at your feet like with potions. Interestingly, if you do this the effect lasts for only 10 turns instead of until long rest.
Great video as always and taught me about a LOT of things I didn't know. Also the fact that the displacement gloves are sold like 10 feet from the djinn is so serendipitous. 17:06 is it not possible to knock the pillar over with thrown weapons? Not that it matters that much, you'd still have to leave at least one person behind and they all get teleported to you when one person reaches the door anyway, but still. Just curious.
@@ProxyGateTacticianYeah you can either push it and pass a strength check or hit it with an attack. It has one of the "sturdy" or whatever defenses, I forget which, so it only works if the attack does a certain amount of damage, but yeah.
This was great fun! Though I feel like you could have not used furniture against Balthazar, not because im opposed to cheese just seems a bit not in the spirit of the challenge when most enemies were handled "properly"
Excellent video, now you have to try cantrips only or spells w/o spell slots only (so only cantrips, class features, weapon spells, and rituals) I think it'd be fun. Painful, but fun
If you do this you can use misty step from a couple items like the disintegrating night walker boots or the amulet of misty step to traverse jumps, plus Lae'zel gets misty step as a racial power eventually
You also missing out on the amazing throwing boots 😅 found by following gale's treysm. It would complete your team with full returning weapon, so no more picking up stuff.
The long fight against midflayers, goblins and so on at the end is probably there to let you use ur mindflayer powers properly cause in the last fight u dont rlly get to and that would be sad. (i take mindflayer transform for MC everytime cause its hilarious)
I don’t know why but I’m dying because you’re halfling character decided to climb on the platform instead of using the stairs, 2 feet away from them @ 3:00
Finally a use for that ring from the first trader you meet! I've only just started the video but already thinking that bind weapon thing Eldritch knight fighter gets would be good as it always returns to hand like the legendary from the end of the game. I think having a halfling companion from withers would be good too as you can throw them as ammo and have that be their only job lol.
For the Gauntlet of Shar maze puzzle, just click to move on the bottom right of the final platform. Your character will auto path to it safely and it saves so much time.
7:14 the easiest way to do this maze is to separate shadowheart from the party, then just click ONCE AND ONLY ONCE on the final platform. She will path automatically to it. Do not under any circumstances click on anything else until she’s safely on the final platform. And boom. Easy.
10:25 Fighting the avatar of a god: "It wasn’t that much of a problem." Some magical stairs you need to jump: "Well sh*t, looks like I’m the only one surviving."
Instead of using a bunch of fireworks, you can grab a pair of smokepowder barrels from the Ironhand Gnomes back in Rivington during Act 3 as well as the Smokepowder Bomb they give you as part of the quest to destroy the Watcher Foundry. You can then put them into a backpack and throw them at a platform near the brain, then throw another explosive to do like... 500 force damage in a single round and one-shot the boss.
If you enjoyed this video check out my other Challenge Run, where I took on the challenge to beat Baldur's Gate 3 Without Killing Anything:
ua-cam.com/video/FrhMXqazGYY/v-deo.htmlsi=P5mxzOlmVDU3-kCr
If you enjoyed these challenge runs let me know! They take a long time to create, but if people are enjoying them I'll keep them coming. I've got solid ideas left which add interesting challenges.
Please keep them coming! I love these! Also, your witty and hilarious commentary really buffs your videos!
So i realize your throw only playthrough is more difficult, but i always let the umbral portals summon all mobs for the exp 😂
@@TheRealTiburon it was surprisingly tough! Especially when they take half damage in the dark and i cant generate any light easily
@@ProxyGateTactician Hearthlight Bombs! (honestly not sure I've ever used one lol)
Imagine exploring the treacherous dinasour-infested jungle and finding a random beholder flying around because some idiot couldn't jump. I love this channel
I love imagining stuff like that hahaha. They probably would blame the genie
@@ProxyGateTactician you can also use the kobalds in barrels from the monestary, if you pick up the barrels with kobalds in them without breaking them they can be thrown for portable kobalds
Some random safari goer is going to be in for a nasty surprise
@@crestfallensunbro6001 Thank you for having pointed this out 6 months ago
@@crestfallensunbro6001whoa, instant lizard
I LOST IT when you just STOLE GORTASH FROM HIS OWN CORONATION. Just stole the whole man! then threw him away XD
Exactly what he deserves tbh lol
You can Throw Scratch's Ball to summon him where it lands and he has the Help action, so he could Help Nightsong. A part of me thought this would be the strat because if Shadowheart kills Nightsong she simply stabs her with the Spear of Night, but if she spares her she Throws the Spear of Night away
Oh really?? I didn't know I could summon him like that. I only ever threw the ball in camp and it never summoned him there which makes sense. That would have been a great way wow thanks for sharing
@@ProxyGateTactician Yeah np. I only found out about it a week or two ago because I learned Scratch doesn't *die* die if he is reduced to 0 hp outside of camp
@@nathanfivecoate5848 I learned that trick when I decided to throw something nonlethal at my friend while he was away from the keyboard and all of a sudden Scratch was in the middle of Baldur's Gate. Now I throw the ball whenever someone needs help and I can't get to them fast enough
@@ProxyGateTactician Shadowheart will also be unable to sacrifice Nightsong if you have her Throw the Spear of Night into the Shadowfell before talking to Nightsong
Literally a Pokéball
The Nyrulna part was genuinely really impressive! I would have never in a million years thought to use the displacement gloves AND remembered the hostile summon. That was insane
“Woke up to find two women fighting over me….confirming this is a fantasy game”.
Why did that hit me so hard? Didn’t help that i was watching this with my wife close by and her first reaction was “did you do a youtube video?”
Lolol that’s awesome
Peak fantasy experience: women actually like me and want to sleep with me
🥲
@@requiem5151 wanna trade? I'd prefer if nobody wanted to sleep with me
@@waffleaffle231 Ofc I wanna trade, just tell me how and we do it
@@requiem5151gym, hygiene and confidence will get you there
For the Hag fight: you could've avoided the cutscene that starts the fight, gone into her room and use her mushroom circle teleporter to bring all your teammates in.
Didn’t know I could use that teleported if she was still there lol good to know for the future thanks
11:41 "If thou art a broke boy, just say thus"
That's some AAA grade memeing right there man. Absolutely love the humor you sneak into those videos!
Lol just glad someone knew what it’s about
@@ProxyGateTactician I about died when I saw that as well. The other bit that got me was the one with that "List of Astarion's fan girls" because I have female friend that's guilty of simping for him as well lol. I had to subscribe for masterpiece. Well done sir.
@@kingtickeler lmk when she finishes the astarion to gale pipeline pls
I had no idea that the dinosaur jungle existed. I’m continually astonished by the number of unique, thought-out scenarios this game has hidden behind some very specific choices
Right! I found a hidden cave recently in act 3 as well that I’d looked over for ages
Pfff, you used move. Misleading title
Damn u got me :( i'm a failure
LMAO gg
@@ProxyGateTactician maybe you could do a video where you test how many arrows of transposition you need to complete the game using truly only throw
@@Djo-Hop only jump and no move maybe lol
@@ProxyGateTacticianjumping directly on a mob (or teammate) sometimes deals damage, soooo.... Maybe build a crate tower at every fight and dive bomb the enemies to death?
I expected the Gortash fight to be about lobbing the bombs from traps at him, instead you did something dozens of times more hilarious
There actually IS a little spot in the back of the brain that you can target directly with thrown weapons, was very good to know for my solo thrown weapon character
I had no idea both drows can walk past the goblins or that you can go to a jungle by messing with the genie, this game has SO much stuff 14:45 is also the most insane tactic i have ever seen
Yeah it’s insane. I bet there’s content somewhere that no one has found still
You can also tp with him and drop him at a spot that allows you to loot him
Pushing the 5E "you get one object interaction for free per turn" rule to its limit. ;)
"We witnessed a mind flayer who appears to also be attempting the throw only challenge". I love this channel so much
"I told these goblin's help them. I didn't" is the very definition of what Baldur's Gate 3 is, embodied in a single sentence. I'm dying. xD
This is tavern brawler propaganda, and I'm here for it
Best feat in the game or what
Awesome video Proxy. Mind blown by the shadowfell section. Can only imagine the hours trying to figure that out 😅
Lol it was even worse when I solved it and then found out the chars it left alive have no way out
I'll never get over the creativity you have for these videos xD
One of my favorite channels to watch, im loving every video!
Glad you enjoy it!
Man I love your dumb challenge runs. Totally unnecessary restrictions, 100% awesome.
Just want to say this and the pacifist build video convinced me to buy the game. Been on the fence but your videos just showed how intricate and engaging this game is in a new way.
That’s awesome Chris. You’re gonna love it
There's always some weird challenge or new narrative angle to keep things fresh
My first play through I thought the maze was some kinda joke at the temple because my tav was an elf that could see in the dark. So the path was clearly visible and it just took walking from one end to another. I scratched my head and wondered why they would make it so easy until my second play through I realized why it was so easy the first time. Yeah just use the scroll to see in darkness
I just learned that there's a maze 😭
@@akinyx5407 hahahaha I couldn’t believe how easy it was at first but the second time was a breeze too I cheesed every single test in that temple. Sending only astarion to the far end in the sneak one, then when the test activates he was already at the item to teleport back, the one where you fight yourselves you just unequip all your gear and put it back on after it starts and your doppelgängers all have no gear, this one use darkness scroll or just fly from one end to the other and so on its kinda funny actually
Now with the new patch potions like hill giants strength can be thrown. Looks like Larian watches you.
I love your videos, always creative and your humor is great! Can’t wait to watch the next one already
You can indeed hit the brain with throwing things. You just have to aim directly at its tail thing
After using my own brain I came to the conclusion its called a brainstem
700+ hours for science, you're an absolute unit. Amazing vid, as always.
It's at 790 now lol this video added a lot to that.
Invalid. Shadowheart didn't use throw to kill the Nightsong.
Maze tip! If you have a bright object out, you can actually see a bit of the path if you zoom in, it looks like little dots. It's how I did it the very first playthrough
Wait there's a maze?
Amazing!! Love the creativity and the patience. Spectacular editing too, gg 🧠
Thanks a lot!
Tip for the Umbral Portal room in Shar's Gauntlet (7:36): Further back, in the room with the lanterns that you have to snuff at the beginning of the area... The room off to the left has a back way to get to the Umbral Portal fight. This allows you to bypass some stuff and be better positioned. You just need to get your lockpicker close enough to the locked vault-looking door that Balthazar is behind. The Sharran NPCs and Balthazar's minions automatically want to fight each other no matter what you do. But, opening that door means you release a bunch of ghouls, Flesh, and possibly Balthazar himself into the fight. This makes it a lot easier to just whittle everyone down, until you're ready to betray Balthazar's side.
Oops. NM, I forgot you can't lockpick in this challenge... smdh
Dude, you are a genius. Holy cow
"Up the road, a hyena exploded."
This is my favourite sentence.
duuude, i just stumbled across your account and your videos are so funny! i enjoyed them so much - insta sub! keep it up man
I need more of this goodness. I absolutely lost it when you just stole gortash
You could also have thrown one of the kobold barrels from act 1 (they are in the monastery in the mointain pass) in the jungle to spawn a less deadly enemy and mabye preserve a throwable spectator.
Genuinely always so excited for an upload from you! These videos are so creative and persistent, amazing as always
0:55 missed oppurtunity to say you killed two imps with one thrown
3:20 it says in the item description that you can throw it to apply the effects lol
For the shar temple maze, if you just click at the end platform, your character walks through fine on their own, so you shouldn't need to memorize it for future runs.
This strategy will be gone with patch 7
I love the box placing and then picking up trick for the Astral plane/nightsong section. I do think you potentially missed a trick there - I think you can stack boxes at the wonky angle that you got the first one to sit at, so you could have made a leaning tower of Pisa boxes and then just picked up the final one. I may well be wrong! Kudos on a great vid.
Genuinely such a funny video, after watching all of these challenge videos your humor is my favorite I’ve come across in the playthrough I’ve watched, and I learned a bunch of new tricks!
I found when throwing weapons at the elder braim, that targetting the stem was the only way to make it hit with a non-explosive
so I did a throwing build for my first playthrough of BG3 after release, and you CAN use throwing weapons against the brain, but the actual damage point is the BRAINSTEM, and you will lose any weapon thrown.
This is where all the Murderous Cut daggers you've been collecting come into play. You get the brain below 50% HP by throwing stuff (I threw dead rats), then switch to chain-throwing these daggers which proc another 1d4 damage. You'll lose them, but you WILL do damage and they'll hit twice and apply all bonuses to each hit.
I love that you used dead rats primarily
@@ProxyGateTactician "Woe, plague be upon ye!"
Funnily enough, you could have killed Grym this run even easier than if you used the hammer. just have someone post up at the bottom of the staircase leading to the forge, and throw something at the lever to send it down without you and activate the lava. Once Grym spawns you can just throw your returning pike or javelins at him until he dies.
Because you're so high up you get a bunch of extra bludgeoning damage from gravity, and Grym just so happens to take double bludgeoning damage when he's superheated, meaning you can kill him in about 5 or 6 hits and he cant do anything about it...
Great videos, man! Your humor is fantastic.
I appreciate that!
I want to ask what’s wrong with you in the most impressed, loving, inspired, astonished way :D amazing videos, amazing ideas. Thank you so much!
Those OSRS rune daggers were *chef's kiss*
Oh excellent timing! I just visited your channel hoping you had uploaded!
That's awesome haha glad to hear. I worked extra hard to get this one done because I'm excited for Classic WoW soon. Would like to try to get 1 more mostly done before the new season starts
@@ProxyGateTactician Good luck getting it done then! Your videos are genuinely really solid but i know making them takes a lot of time.
@@steamfang5371 Oh I know I can't finish a video in 5 days hahaha
but if I can get it like 70% done that would motivate me to play WoW a little less which is always a good thing in someone's life.
ah hell yeah! love throw 😂
id love to see you do this again with another ability, if possible
I've been thinking about it, and there's only 1 other ability it's possible with. You can probably guess it.
@@ProxyGateTacticianfirebolt, or eldritch blast?
@@ProxyGateTacticianwait no push
@@algernopkrieger7710 No. It has to be an ability that allows for movement because you would get stuck in the Nightsong's Prison otherwise.
@@ProxyGateTacticianinteresting! Would those few jump skills which deal damage and knock enemies prone count then? Do you even get them early enough?
I was rewatching your challenge videos that you included in you BG3 birthday video, and this has to be my favorite by far! Just because of the way you designed your character, and the name Bom Trady
lol that's great to hear. I was waiting for anyone to mention that character's name since I created it. Please tell me you know why I picked it
@@ProxyGateTactician im sorry to say, I don’t😭 but if i had to guess, its based on Bon Jovi?
@@F1shyBab1shy T_T It’s just Tom Brady switched around a famous thrower 😂 why did no one post about it
@ProxyGateTactician ohhhhh, see that makes sense. Idk how I got Bon Jovi
You know that you can cheese labyrinth trial by pressing shift? You can use shift to see path that your character will travel, and it also shows you differents in heights and path that teleport you away is lower than intended path.
I discovered that on my 1st playthrough and thought that it is intended solution, but then wondered why no one uses it lol
Just a tip for 7:02 - you can actually wash away blood, acid, etc with the create water spell or in this case just throwing a bottle of water on the ground :)
Very glad to finally see an 'only X' run where the player truly does ONLY use X
Thanks! I always see others make those runs and then use all the other stuff still and I was always like that ain’t really an ONLY X run then is it
Hey Proxy, in the gauntlet of shar, at the maze, use the tactical view and zoom in until you can faintly see the path, then just go on the right hand side of the platform and you will win. Great videos, they are fun to watch
For the final fight regarding barrelmancy/Explosives. You can stuck explosives/barrels into a bag and throw the bag, the bag is destroyed and then you light them up with something. BOOM!
Lol, this exact stuff is why I made a Shove/Throw Thief build, and made it one of the first things I made a video for. I love throwing stuff in this game! Glad to see someone else is having fun with all the fun mechanics.
The spectator trick was really clever. Touchè
Throwing tips:
1. the berserker subclass gives you a free throw as a bonus action while you are raging
2. as an eldritch knight fighter, you can bind your weapon and use any pike or spear as a returning pike
Can't rage
Another great challenge run. I've found out a couple of days ago with a throw-loving friend that you can hit the spine of the netherbrain with throw.
I had one weapon attack hit him but Found it difficult to reproduce. Is the truck just to aim at the spine?
@@ProxyGateTactician I think so! either way there was a point that showed a percentage instead of nothing.
Spawning the beholder to swap places was a great move.
In my current playthrough, I did actually let all the Umbral Terror portals spit out all their people as was wanting to cheese Balthazar using the trick you showed off in your "Without killing anything" video. I basically had Astarion sneak through to the door and as couldn't be bothered to gamble on him unlocking it via lockpick, I used a Knock scroll, then opened the door and went invis and let the chaos begin. I only intervened when Balthazar and Flesh were both at low HP and as the game was considering me as being on their side, I attacked them to make it a 3 way fight and got the XP for killing them and the remaining Justiciars. I did this on Classic difficulty, not sure what it would be like to do it on Tactician.
Cool to hear that worked for you. I couldn’t open my door for his help. That’s interesting you still got the xP that way
Wait! WAIT! You can teleport back to the beginning of the shar trials?!? On god damn it!
lol isn’t it funny when you learn little things like that
1:52 there’s also an ability you can learn that “binds” weapons or equiped items to the character, so when thrown they return, and enemy’s can’t make people you drop your weapon
There is, but casting it was not allowed by my ruleset. Eldtritch Knight Bound weapon I think is the name.
I LOVE creative runs for this game. There's so much attention to detail in BG3.
I didn’t know Gortash could be PICKED UP AND THROWN and the fact it’s done by a dwarf is EVERYTHING TO ME
I'm pretty sure you could've put a bunch of fireworks in a backpack to throw at the end then detonate it with an alchemist fire or something like that. It probably would've made everything go a bit faster, but overall cool challenge
My first full playthrough I was blessed to learn how powerful throw is. My tavern brawler Karlach used the returning pike all game. I too ran into the problem with the Elder Brain then learned that if I targeted the brainstem underneath the main brain it would hit every time.
I love doing the portal fight without destroying the portals in Act. 2. Especially when the big guy shows up. Sadly he doesn't drop anything special.
Yeah I was hoping he would too, but holy crap does that fight go from being super easy to probably the hardest fight in act 2 in an instant
I think that throwing Hill Giant Elixirs works too; it doesn't leave a cloud, so you need to throw it at your feet like with potions. Interestingly, if you do this the effect lasts for only 10 turns instead of until long rest.
I noticed Hill Giant doesn't, but the Cloud Giant one does (The higher lvl one). Not sure why that is
Thats insane how well you know this game ! I love your vidéo, continue your good work 😊
Thanks appreciate it!
3:05 you could have snuck past the hag into the other room, activated the mushroom portal, then have your party teleport directly there
Great video as always and taught me about a LOT of things I didn't know. Also the fact that the displacement gloves are sold like 10 feet from the djinn is so serendipitous.
17:06 is it not possible to knock the pillar over with thrown weapons? Not that it matters that much, you'd still have to leave at least one person behind and they all get teleported to you when one person reaches the door anyway, but still. Just curious.
I didn't realize you can knock a pillar over there. I've always jumped up or went the Door path.
@@ProxyGateTacticianYeah you can either push it and pass a strength check or hit it with an attack. It has one of the "sturdy" or whatever defenses, I forget which, so it only works if the attack does a certain amount of damage, but yeah.
This was great fun! Though I feel like you could have not used furniture against Balthazar, not because im opposed to cheese just seems a bit not in the spirit of the challenge when most enemies were handled "properly"
I knew the Ring of Self-Immolation would come in handy at some point! 8:59
Yeah seriously what’s the point of that ring
Wow the use of the displacement glove is so cool!!!
Excellent video, now you have to try cantrips only or spells w/o spell slots only (so only cantrips, class features, weapon spells, and rituals)
I think it'd be fun. Painful, but fun
If you do this you can use misty step from a couple items like the disintegrating night walker boots or the amulet of misty step to traverse jumps, plus Lae'zel gets misty step as a racial power eventually
14:52 yooo I did this too on my 2nd playthrough lmao, it’s so funny
You also missing out on the amazing throwing boots 😅 found by following gale's treysm. It would complete your team with full returning weapon, so no more picking up stuff.
The long fight against midflayers, goblins and so on at the end is probably there to let you use ur mindflayer powers properly cause in the last fight u dont rlly get to and that would be sad. (i take mindflayer transform for MC everytime cause its hilarious)
Praise be!
For a good gem I've stumbled upon!
Bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase "throwing for content."
Loved it! Must say it's always nice to wake up to "two women fighting over me" LOL
"we smashed a mirror for good luck" I can't 😂
I did NOT expect to hear a SPBLU reference in my BG3 video
Saw a sheep in the intro, my first thought was wondering if it was a redcap in disguise.
I don’t know why but I’m dying because you’re halfling character decided to climb on the platform instead of using the stairs, 2 feet away from them @ 3:00
Finally a use for that ring from the first trader you meet! I've only just started the video but already thinking that bind weapon thing Eldritch knight fighter gets would be good as it always returns to hand like the legendary from the end of the game. I think having a halfling companion from withers would be good too as you can throw them as ammo and have that be their only job lol.
12:57 I'm not sure if you can throw it, but there are cobolds in barrels (to store at camp) at Lathander temple. You also could've swaped with them
For the Gauntlet of Shar maze puzzle, just click to move on the bottom right of the final platform. Your character will auto path to it safely and it saves so much time.
The jungle bit with a spectator is really fucking smart
7:14 the easiest way to do this maze is to separate shadowheart from the party, then just click ONCE AND ONLY ONCE on the final platform. She will path automatically to it. Do not under any circumstances click on anything else until she’s safely on the final platform. And boom. Easy.
Your challenge runs are amazing!
The displacer tactic for the jungle is just genius
You remind me of Mitten Squad. Then I get sad. Then I enjoy your video again after a little while, because I liked Mitten Squad, and I like you too.
Fun fact the maze is a test of faith, if you click direcly at the end next to the stone your character will go in a straight line without dying.
They’re fixing that in the next patch though they’ve already said. It’s not intended like people thought
10:25 Fighting the avatar of a god: "It wasn’t that much of a problem."
Some magical stairs you need to jump: "Well sh*t, looks like I’m the only one surviving."
Ethel putting you on death’s door before surrendering is hilarious.
This was pretty entertaining. I love your videos!
Instead of using a bunch of fireworks, you can grab a pair of smokepowder barrels from the Ironhand Gnomes back in Rivington during Act 3 as well as the Smokepowder Bomb they give you as part of the quest to destroy the Watcher Foundry. You can then put them into a backpack and throw them at a platform near the brain, then throw another explosive to do like... 500 force damage in a single round and one-shot the boss.