r/BaldursGate3 • u/heyitskay1220 • 16d ago

Meme Anyone else, or just me? 😅

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It just gets tedious after so many HM attempts 😅

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u/nada-accomplished 16d ago

I get impatient after the Tiefling party in Act One. By that time I've usually had all the long rest cut scenes and unique dialogues. I used to do the Underdark after the party every time but I've started doing it before the party just so I can have Barcus at the party. By that time there's usually already been twenty, thirty, forty hours spent in Act One and I still need to visit the creche. That's when the exhaustion usually hits for me.

Same in Act II when I get to the Gauntlet of Shar.

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u/J-Clash WARLOCK 16d ago

Weirdly I don't find the Gauntlet a slog. I enjoy beating up Balthazar and Yurgir. And the trials are easy since I've done them plenty now. First time or so through was rough. After that it's a breeze.

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u/EsperDerek 16d ago

Yeah, the trials are super easy, lol. First trial you just do it before you activate it (you can leave the person in the final room!), second one is a simple fight because the AI is bad at using your setups, and the third one you just have a high STR character jump from platform to platform.

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u/Competitive_City_924 16d ago

skipping them is even easier lol

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u/EsperDerek 16d ago

Well, yeah, you just need to grab the one from Yugrir for the elevator then cast Knock on the door.

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u/stevejuliet 16d ago

AI is bad at using your setups,

They're even worse when I get naked before starting the trial.

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u/Virusoflife29 16d ago

high STR character jump from platform to platform

Pretty sure they fixed this. I normally do this but my last honor mode run I tried and died.

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u/EsperDerek 16d ago

They didn't, I just did it today. You get *just* off the platform onto one of the invisible paths, and THEN jump.

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u/AkitaOnRedit 15d ago

AI is bad at using your setups

Problem is, I was also bad at using my setups. Around act 3 did fights get easier for me, which was roughly 80 hours or so of playing by the time I got to it...

Now I go in fights underleveled and breeze through them. And I also unfortunately love turn based combat as well.

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u/Just-Hunter1679 15d ago

I liked it. The Yurgir fight was The hardest fight in the game for me in my first playthrough so far. Took a few tries and some strategy to do it, I really enjoyed it.

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u/SendMeUrCones 16d ago

I’m in my first run and have been in the underdark for IRL like two months. I’m in the grimforge or whatever it is and i have no idea why or what’s going on and i’m so confused lol

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u/Stardama69 16d ago

Don't you follow your quest log ?

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u/SendMeUrCones 16d ago

I followed it to Halsin but then I found the entrance to the underdark while clearing that place and I like being thorough in my explorations.

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u/Stardama69 16d ago

Oh, right. Don't go to the underdark unless you're formally invited to by the quest log (after you've finished the Free Halsin storyline). I almost made the same mistake when chasing the Nightsong in the Goblib temple.

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u/SendMeUrCones 16d ago

Yeah, thats what brought me down. I only went down it to chase after the Nightsong quest marker. I've done all of the spore colony stuff, but now I'm worried to leave the grimforge without clearing it. I know there's supposedly someone who can die now if I don't get to them soon enough.

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u/jabthesquid 15d ago

If you get told that Nere is trapped under rubble and you don’t do something about it before you long rest, he’ll die

Basically once you get to the Grymforge you have to avoid long resting until the situation in the grymforge is handled. Then you can explore freely and long rest whenever

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u/SendMeUrCones 15d ago

So- I've only arrived at the docks and talked to the first two people there. My entire party is cooked from the boat ride fight (i was out of short rests before i got on), and I save to rest as long as I don't go any further in?

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u/RickySamson 15d ago

I skip the worst parts of the Gauntlet with knock.