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How are everyone’s stories coming along? Have you finished the game? If so how many times?

What tips, remarks or other things of note do you have that you want to discuss here?

As always try to keep things as spoiler free as possible.

Also should I do these posts more regularly (shows up on people’s feeds more and so has more traction) or like this is fine. Definitely don’t want to spam people.

Lucky rolls to you all!

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[-] arya48@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

After seeing an article about dark urge and how special it is I decided to give it a shot. I also read a comment on here saying romance between Shadowheart and Seluna's cleric MC is great. So I decided to combine those two things for my 3rd playthrough! ( i have yet to experience act 2 btw...think I have a problem)

I made a Seldarine drow with the idea being that she used to be bloodthirsty Lolth sworn but eventually she found Seluna and became her cleric, now she's trying to be better. I thought that worked well with heroic dark urge story I wanted and I get to experience the enemies to lovers relationship with shadowheart. Don't know if the way the story will unravel will validate my headcanoned backstory for her but so far I'm quite enjoying it.

This is also the first playthrough where I met Timber the squirrel, I didn't know he was in the game before this playthrough, I was kinda excited to meet him...yeah.

Im at the end of my durge run rn. My advice would be to not shy away from doing evil things despite what other people say about losing out on content. You really dont miss that much, and you get some pretty sweet cutscenes, especially if you commit to it. Plus, astarion and minthara will support you the entire way on your descent into darkness :)

[-] arya48@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You know I would do that if for nothing else than just for the sake of variety, but I'm such a coward >.> Just don't have the stomach for it lol. The idea of this messed up person redeeming themselves is appealing to me, I'm not doing 100% "goody two shoes" kinda character but more of a reluctant hero who's still bit of a dick. Maybe I'll start another playthrough where I play the way you're suggesting...I'll never experience act 2 at this rate <.<

[-] constnt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

If it helps, if you give in to the urge you unlock special powers and stuff.

[-] arya48@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Next playthrough for sure, this one I wanna get the heroic dark urge experience.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Closing in on 100 hours and I still haven't finished the game lol. Could I? Yes. Will I? No. I'm exploring every nook and cranny and doing every damn quest I can. This game is just too good not too.

Yeah, it took me almost 150h to finish my first playthrough, and instead of touching grass, i started a new one.

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

80+ hours on my main playthrough and I’m wandering around the Shadowlands, just finished going through Last Light. I tend to be a completionist and have to explore every possible nook and cranny before moving on. Just a basic druid and keeping everyone else the same classes. There’s so many crazy-ass multi-classing options I’ve seen that I can’t but feel I’m not playing optimally, but it’s going ok. Thank goodness for the Magic Mirror though, my character looked ugly at first and it was really starting to grate on me given the total lack of PC personality.

I have a separate Dark Urge playthrough, but it’s so hard to go the evil route that I avoid doing it, 30+ years of RPG playing habits is hard to break.

[-] ProfessorPeregrine@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

You can resist your dark urge too. That has a fun ending too.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Just started a new playthrough with the mod that removes the party size limit - and damn, it's awesome not to have to choose. Of course it makes things a good bit easier, but to have so many more companion dialogues and so on... Wow, it really improves an already amazing experience.

[-] Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Same here! Even on Tactican it's very easy with so many players on the field. So what I've done is reskill most of my characters and start to really have fun with it. I've utilized spells and manoeuvres which I previously had omitted for being too weak, buffs and debuffs I never would have considered for the action economy, more or less useless roleplay stuff, or simply some funny shenanigans. My battlefields are more colourful and playful than ever. It's not a tactical challenge for sure, but damn it's a lot of fun to play this way.

And all the banter :D That's almost the best part of having the whole band together.

[-] SoggyBread@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Probably close to 40 hours now and ive just reached the goblin camp and im trying to plan how i want to deal with the goblins

[-] halvo317@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Romance them

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

44 in one swing with a one-hander at level 6. Phalar Aluve is busted.

https://i.imgur.com/o6Z1RA5.png

[-] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I'm fairly fresh into act 3, just did the shadowheart part and man, that was heavy.

Definitely gonna be doing a new play though with my opposite choices though.

I do gotta say, I'm enjoying the challenge of tactician but man does my lvl 11 monk suck and is just so squishy, anyone got any recommendations to strengthen her up to take more than 2 hits?

[-] K3zi4@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Multiclass into 3 levels of Rogue and pick the thief subclass for additional bonus action to dish out unarmed strikes like a mad man.

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Go strength and tavern brawler hit like a truck 8 times per turn

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[-] maquise@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I hit a wall I can’t overcome; Shadowheart or Karlach?

[-] SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago
[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I see you like your bits stepped on and abused.

Aye, she'll do it, lad.

[-] SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I only just started act 2 but she's already asked me to fight her. I won and I think she's even more into me now.

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[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

To be fair, you can also be the dom in that relationship, and its awesome

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I chose Shart on my first playthrough because she was kinda nice? And Lae'zel and Astarion were both kinda dicks. On my next playthrough I'll try Karlach first, I think I'll fall in love immediately.

[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Lae'zel is a huge dick at first, but come act 2 and her romancing scenes and she tends to turn around. She's also a prime example of a character that has her pride but her respect for you makes her question her believes

[-] FrozenCorgi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Me too man, I've just barely made it to last light for the first time, and I've been going for shadowheart the entire way, but maaaaaaaaan, Karlach is so damn precious

[-] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I would go for Karlach but none of them want me.

Think my game is bugged because they both like me quite a lot but stuff doesn’t move forward

Might take halsins offer

[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

Shadowheart easy, actual character growth and development. Karlach is so simple

[-] iMastari@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Karlach because she's hot....

I'll see myself out.

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[-] IonAddis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I got to the start of Act 3, but I kinda stopped because I found out a few things...

  • I missed an Act 1 companion
  • I learned you can respec companions (d'oh)
  • Being a wizard who's romancing Gale means too many wizards in my party (and I didn't know I could maybe respec him...)
  • I felt like I was only really "understanding" how best to play by Act 3 and I basically just want a do-over so things are less messy.
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[-] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I think I have around 200 hours and haven’t finished the game yet lol. First playthrough was with an evil drow warlock, but bugs with Minthara’s quest made me quit during act 3.

I’m now playing an evil dark urge (sorcerer dragonborn), and just started a parallel Githyanki Monk too (I would like this one to be a good playthrough, let’s see). I also have a gnome bard somewhere but I don’t have the time 😂

I just can’t stop myself from trying different things, and I love how the slightest change in conversations and choices can results in very different things and how the game accounts for almost every possibility, just love it.

It’s what keeps me entertained vs a regular story, where once I know how it progress I find it kind of boring to replay.

[-] MuhammadJesusGaySex@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I just finished my first play through. My friend hosted and I joined. He wanted to go “good” on tactician difficulty. So, we did. It took us 25 days. We got a lot of the more difficult achievements out of the way.

Next time I’m hosting and we’re doing an evil play through. Larian killed it. One of my better purchases this year.

[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Second playthrough, trying out dark urge and being evil. It's really hard, honestly. I've lost half of my beloved companions and slaughted some favourite NPCs. It feels really fucked up. Minthara better be worth it lol.

Despite the fact I tried to be a completionist in my first playthrough, I've still been discovering lots of things I missed. The biggest so far is that there was a massive amount of the creche to explore on the exterior. I missed that before and basically only went into the basement. I also last time missed that there were 2 mythrils, among many other smaller things.

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[-] Denalduh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Close to 200 hours and I'm still in Act 2. Even with all the patches and hotfixes, my game is still crashing all the time. I tried to play for a few hours yesterday and had to have over 10 crashes. Sometimes it crashes even when I'm loading into the game. My wife has an almost identical setup and experiencing just as many crashes, but she's running two campaigns side by side, good and evil, and is currently in Act 3 with both.

Still fucking love this game tho!

It's not like my rig is ancient either..

  • i7-6700
  • 1080ti x2 in SLI
  • 64GB RAM
[-] moneyinphx@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Getting rid of one of your cards would probably resolve most of your issues. SLI hasn’t been properly supported in a decade.

[-] Denalduh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Holy shit dude you did it! I disabled SLI and I didn't have a SINGLE crash yesterday. I was able to make it past A2 in one sitting. It was great!!!

[-] moneyinphx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Glad to help and have fun. I’m still in act 3 in my first play through and it’s wild.

[-] AnotherRyguy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

My game runs pretty well on a single 1080Ti with very rare crashes

[-] Koopa_Khan@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I just started playing for the first time and did some of Emerald Grove and just completed the ruins near by that took me 5 hours. What an incredible game, I want to stop and talk to everyone. My first play through I’m trying to say and do things I actually think I would do since I created a custom character for the first go around.

[-] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Enjoy!! The game is huge. No need to rush it but you will have plenty of things to do.

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[-] ulu_mulu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I have 180 hours. First playthrough was learning DnD rules and mechanics (I knew nothing about it before), I started on the easiest setting, got up to act 3 but I missed a lot of stuff and I wasn't satisfied so I restarted on normal.

I finished the game on normal, tho I rushed act 3 a bit because I wanted to see the end of the story. Then I started a dark urge run, still at the very beginning, I'll probably get additional 100+ hours by the end of it XD.

[-] Linuto@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Fun for me to hear about experiences like yours. This was my first CRPG after years of TTRPGs. Out of curiosity, would you say you are more interested now in trying D&D as a tabletop experience?

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[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

First playthrough I didn't experience the Bulette burrowing away during a fight, but on second playthrough it does. I don't mind that on it's own but I'm wondering if it's broken or OP. I managed to get it low enough to put it to sleep. I figured one more round of attacks would finish it off but after one attack it woke up and burrowed away. Can it burrow as a reaction?

[-] Linuto@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Starting my 2nd playthrough with a lolth sworn drow cleric(1) bard(11) build. Going dark urge, but resisting it.

I like the idea that through my character's relationship to an evil deity, they recognize the dark urge is something wholly other than Lolth's influence. So lawful evil in the sense that, "yeah I'll be evil, but not because you told me to."

My favorite thing so far had been Shadowheart hesitantly confessing she worships Shar, only for me to be like, "Oh that's nothing. Have you heard about our Lord and Savior, the Spider Queen?"

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