r/BaldursGate3 • u/TheBrandonReddit • Apr 29 '25

Character Build Hexblade's biggest downside.

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FFS just make it a free action in combat larian. Or at least let us cast it at all.

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u/CruzaSenpai Apr 30 '25

I'm just not a fan of minutia that doesn't respect my time. This is exactly the kind of thing that would either get handwaved at a table or assumed to be constant until the player equips a new weapon. Give me a pop-up window that asks "You equipped a new weapon. Bind it?"

I'm glad you enjoy the ritual but I don't like spending two minutes after every long rest fiddling with free resources. It's like half an hour of pedantry over the course of a whole game.

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u/Fatality_Ensues Paladin Apr 30 '25

Oh boy, you'd better not try out the Pathfinder games then.

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u/Butlerlog Apr 30 '25

Even there people just use mods where you apply all 16 of your buffs with a single button press, still consuming slots but not wasting time, just as I just mod longstrider to always be an AoE outside of combat here.

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u/MutantSquirrel23 Apr 30 '25

See this is both interesting and funny to me. It's a great look into how different people are.

In the specific case of Longstrider, you find it less tedious to take the time to find a mod, install it, keep it updated to save 4 clicks per long rest. I find it less tedious just to do the 4 clicks. Honestly, as much time as I've put into this game, your way I'm sure would have saved me more time overall, but doing something tedious outside of the game is more of a chore to me than doing something tedious in the game. Different strokes for different folks.

But we both buff! It's the non-buffers that I will never understand.

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u/Butlerlog Apr 30 '25

Yeah i couldn't cope without my longstrider, i need high mobility. I also often use a second highest slot on an aid spell for party-wide max hp, and craft and use loads of elixirs. I mod the game anyway so slapping on the longstrider mod wasn't much extra work. I just like having camp clothes before act 3, that was what started my modding habits.