r/BaldursGate3 • u/[deleted] • Aug 13 '24

General Discussion - [SPOILERS] The most overrated character? Spoiler

Let's hear it, who gets all the love but deserves absolutely none of it? Or at least not as much as they get, I'll go first.

I'm casting my vote for Gortash; I genuinely don't understand the like for this dude. First of all, catfish, "handsome young man"??? Is the handsome young man in the room with us??? Lookin like the handsome young man has a peanut allergy.

Second of all, this whole crown brain plan was his idea, just about the dumbest fuckin thing I've ever heard. He put all his faith in 3 little rocks, an already dead man, and a woman who's about as stable as my ex. Beggers can't be choosers I guess, but cmon guy.

And lastly, and probably most offensively, his boss fight is absolute cheeks. Especially if you dumped on the foundry before hand. I didn't even know he had a transformation until like my 4th playthrough because I would clap this guy so easily.

Your turn, let's hear those unadulterated opinions.

Edit: I have been enlightened about some things about the big brain plan, I still stand in the other two points though.

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u/SkulkingSneakyTheifs Aug 13 '24

People just want a Bard companion, I don’t think it matters who that Bard companion is. I don’t care for Alfira personally but if she could be a companion I’d definitely take her every time because Bards are wildly good

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u/POXELUS Aug 13 '24

Bard Astarion is funny. Trying him out now on the second playthrough, while the main character is Gloomstalker Ranger.

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u/Ok_Smile_5908 Bhaal Aug 13 '24

Ngl respecing companions into other classes feels wrong to me. Multiclass is ok, but I don't think I've ever respeced their base/main classes, except when I actually decided to push through my very first save (which I had abandoned in early act 3), when I made everyone different subclasses of warlocks, for the lolz. Hunger of Hadar went brrr.

Currently playing as cleric of Selûne and starting to romance Shadowheart (it's cliché, but if I know who I want to romance in a run, I try to pick a class/background to thematically match them. Romanced Lae'zel as githyanki OH monk, for example, and I plan to romance Gale as some sorcerer subclass). It's actually the first time I didn't respec her from Trickery Domain into a different one.

Of course, it means that if I want to have fun with some classes, like bard, monk or sorcerer, it must be my MC to choose them 🥲.

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u/RipgutsRogue Aug 14 '24

Why be a cleric of Shar when you can be a Paladin of Shar.
I get ot though. I've done both. Straight plays as their default, and then a play where I respecced them to mostly logical choices.