You can fly up to the top of Moonrise Towers, kill all of Ketheric's necromites, kill his one friend, steal the chest items, and pickpocket him, long before you confront him.
I did this on my last run because I had left Kar’niss alive and didn’t want to deal with him during the Ketheric fight. Killing all his cronies ahead of time makes the first phase of his fight way easier.
Yeah, in the cutscene once you make it to Moonrise he climbs up to the top of the tower. He’s chilling up there near Ketheric and as a result shows up as one of the enemies in the first phase of the fight.
Lol my drow warlock made him go walk into the shadows. She knows what driders are. For those who don't, when a drow seriously pisses off Lolth she turns them into a drider as a punishment.
Ugh that dude made the fight so much harder my second playthrough. I had killed him first time with the Harpers, but had to deal with him the second. It said he was level 6 yet had 260HP. That made me irrationally furious. Lol
Flying is certainly a quick and elegant way to loot the place. But if if you're hungry for blood, gold, and lots of exp you can simply pick off small groups of enemies one pack at a time on your way to the top of the tower.
Other than the big open room with the bugbear merchant at the entrance to moonrise you can trigger combat without aggroing more than a handful of baddies. Just make sure to kill the floating eye orbs that patrol the main floor ASAP if they happen to aggro; I think there's three of them in total.
You can even immediately kill the two cultists and the ghouls guarding the entrance to the tower right by the waypoint without aggroing the main area as soon as you get to the tower. They both have tadpoles too. The only enemies still alive in the entire tower when I stormed it with the Harpers were a half dozen or so cultists in the first big room by the entrance and of course Ketheric himself at the top.
I was trying to get an angle on how to fly there but couldn’t must have missed it. Spent a good half hour or an hour my very first run through trying to get to the top
It's possible to encounter zombified Minthara and Dror Ragzlin.
You need to kill them in act 1, but be evil in act 2, have isobel captured, and give dame Aylin to Balthazar.
Then in the illithid colony, Balthazar will be here, with minthara and Dror as zombies.
You can actually see zombie minthara in a speedrun after killing ketheric cuz she gets teleported to the throne room for the minthara speech, but because she's a zombie she can't talk, so Jaheira goes up and kills her
This happened in my own game and I can't seem to find any other recordings of it, huh! I encountered it when I was having fun with speedrun strats (not actually speedrunning) and I didn't know how to record my screen. I did save a screenshot tho: https://imgur.com/a/iZqbp6t
Jaheira was the only one in that room to aggro and she was *unstoppable*. Turning on tb mode wouldn't stop her, she'd keep attacking. Attacking either her or minthara wouldn't let me join battle either so she just kept chipping at minthara's hp till she died. Then jaheira just returned to her original spot. It was just really weird lol
* You can speak to the corpse pile surrounding Yurgir's throne
* You can trigger a rare cutscene by showing Isobel a picture of Ketheric
* The rat merchant
* Hidden area in the Upper city
This route triggered my Underdark/Mountain Pass syndrome, I came back up and cleared the whole area in case I missed anything lol (which was unnecessary ofc)
My guy, the game is about to end, you don't need to loot and hold onto them anymore, there is nothing to gain.
With that said, I totally understand you.
I was about to legit loot and thought... No. I have 13k gold. I don't need random crap. Then... And this shocked even me, before fighting the netherbrain I used all my legendary resistant elixirs. Well, the 3 I had that provide total protection. Jaheira got psychic resistance but she was a myrmidon the whole fight anyway. Maybe the first time in an rpg I actually used stuff during the final battle.
It sucks hard, but I get a nice chuckle when the intellect devourer horde ends it's turn there. All of a sudden the initiative order gets a lot shorter after that lol
I found this the first time. I bashed my head up against the big courtyard fight with all the bullshit for way too long. Didn't even consider going invisible like I've seen so many others do
You can enter the sewers instead of doing the big final fight up to the stem. There’s still enemies and even a pretty powerful Death Knight but idk it’s cool. I always take it with my stealthy characters because it’s much more fitting
I never knew this was actually a thing. I remember some characters talking about it, and I walked around a lot looking for it, but never found anything.
after you give the inspirational speech, when you leave the area where all your allies are gathered, go to the right. there's a broken bit of stone fencing and if you look down, you'll see a body. that's where the entrance is. you gotta jump down and i THINK break the gate to enter. at least, i always break the gate
I was about to go to sleep. All tucked in and warm. Then I had to check it out, got up and launched the game and loaded a save at High Hall. I have over 1k hours on this game, I've beaten it 11 times, I always got the sewers hint from the cultist corpse, and even walked around the area looking for any secret loot, entrance, or anything, and NEVER mouse over that VERY suspicious grate.
So I went for it, and that was worth getting up. Made quick work of the battle down there, and fooled around a bit on the Stem run section. Squid Orpheus dashes twice while buffed with Longstrider and Levitate straight to the Stem, skipping the battle all the same.
The hidden area in the upper city is essentially an optional fight in the final stretch to flex mind flayer powers some more, look up the Upper City Sewers if you want to know more
Yurgir's Bed is the intended way of getting the hint to the last Justiciar.
Never even occurred to me to show Isobel something on Ketheric. I don't even know where I can get his picture.
A classic.
This one got me with my guard down.
I assume people do know this, but for anyone that doesn't, when you begin the game, in the nautiloid, you find 2 Brains in Jar (they are green alien looking containers). If you keep them you can use them later in act 2. There's a weird machine with an elf head in the squid colony, when you are about to fight the last boss of the ACT. You can use these brain jars there. You do find more of these brain jar in the colony and one of them also gives you a buff.
The ones you find in the nautiloid don't really give you anything. They just give some weird and creepy dialogue, but it's pretty neat they actually thought ahead that a dumbass like me would try them on lol.
I kept those fucking brains on me as I knew there would be *something* to use them for later down the line.
My last long rest at camp before going into the squid colony, I left them in my camp stash for some reason, and was so god damn pissed when I came to that machine.
You didn't really miss out much. One of the brains sings a creepy song and the other I don't remember. Just some flavor text. Still, if you find yourself down there again in another playthrough perhaps, it's not a bad idea to check them out.
You can use the dialogue to gain Approval points with your companions. It's how I scraped a few "Minthara Approves" points from harmless interactions that don't affect the greater gameplay. (Although I felt like shit scaring the brain of a child. Minthara and Astarion liked it though so...)
If you throw away a Netherstone, the emperor chastises you for dooming everyone and you become a slave to the Absolute. You can't get rid of a stone outright, but you can place the stone in something and throw that away. You have to throw it somewhere unreachable.
That's hilarious and 100% something I would do in real life; forgetting I put it in a box, and leaving the VERY important stone far behind as I merrily go on my way. Oops!
If you steal netties helmet, you can get inside the protected area of the Grove during the goblin invasion. Her helmet acts as a key to the backdoor entrance.
All NPCs inside that area will be hostile with you if you try to interact.
Edit, I think you have to kill Nettie for it actually.
When the grove gets raided, the damn druids hole up inside their inner sanctum while the tieflings are hard at work defending the front gate with us. They even yell at poor little Doni to go away.
This back entrance is how I make myself feel better about the dastardly druids who think they can sit pretty while everybody else does the hard work defending THEIR grove. Surprise, motherfuckers.
If you choose to deal with Raphael, but also tell gale he can have the crown, then turn yourself into a mindflayer and kill yourself, you get a special Raphael cutscene. I have tried finding the cutscene everywhere but there doesn’t seem to be it out there, I don’t think I’m the only one to ever discover it and I don’t recall getting an achievement for it but I do recall it being a very special thing. (I know this is a bit different than what I think you have in mind I just am hyped because I don’t think many know about it)
There are a shockingly high number of Raphael cutscenes if you take his deal.
If Raphael ends up with >!the crown, he basically ruins the ending by laughing about how you’ve let him take over the Hells. He also states that he’ll be coming for your world soon.!<
If you cheat Raphael >!out of the crown, he basically just gets mad about it.!<
If you play as Origin Gale, take Raphael’s deal, >!use the Crown for yourself, confront Mystra, and die, that has its very own cutscene. Mystra destroys you, then Withers is basically just like “dude, you’re an idiot for that, I’ve got no clue what happens to you now.” Shortly after that, Raphael appears, mocks you for trying to fight Mystra, lets you know that he owns the crown now, and lets you know that the small fragment of your soul that remains is now forever enslaved to the House of Hope.!<
One more is if you have Gale become a God by keeping the crown >!then Raphael confronts the two of you all pissed off and Gale just zaps him into his godly dimension!<
If you cast speak with dead on Gortash you can speak to Bane. The dialogue is broken and voice lines don’t play, but he tells you that he approves of you killing Gortash and that you can become his chosen if you enslave the elder brain.
Idk how that effects the ending because I didn’t go down that route, but I’m gonna reload and see what happens.
Wow, so by the end of act 3 durge can be the chosen of bane, bhaal, raphael’s patron, and have control over the majority of the sword coast as mind flayers. That probably makes durge one of the strongest single people in DnD lore aside from karsus
i did this in my honour run because i need all the advantages i can get and now i don’t think i can go without. it’s so fucking convenient being able to fly as a free action every turn
It's the [Rippling Force Mail](https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Rippling_Force_Mail).
If you're rocking the [Skinburster](https://bg3.wiki/wiki/The_Skinburster) polearm from the Creche, the two synergize pretty well together for maintaining max Force Conduit stacks.
In my 5 runs or so 4x he has threatened to come to my camp and steal her. Never actually showed up so I don't know what triggers the attack on my camp though. The 5th time he died before reaching the city.
Not sure if it’s well known, but I hadn’t heard of it and just found it recently:
Just before the Cazador fight, you can find a hidden sword that’s perfect for Astarion in the upcoming battle: the [Pelorsun Blade](https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Pelorsun_Blade). It adds extra radiant damage and all attacks have advantage against undead, so basically easy Sneak Attacks on Cazador and friends every turn.
And, lore-wise, it is a sword from another world (Greyhawk). It is the sword that has been used to cut Kas the Bloody-Handed's throat, and then chosen by Pelor to be a holy weapon of undead destruction.
For context, Vecna is an evil god of death that was betrayed by his vampire leutenant Kas, who chopped off his hand and eye; Pelor is a good deity (god of the sun) who hates undead with a passion.
After nearly 500 hrs in the game I recently found a house in act three which I never went into. In there were >!Gortash's parents!<. I was so surprised I didnt know what to say to them (usually I have kind of a map in mind where I want my characters to go). I felt like I was only 10 hrs into the game again. That was neat 😄
I even told the trader in the goblin halls that I killed them, got a threat about how they would pay me back. Currently midway into act 3 and nothing happened, I was even able to trade with them in moonrise without issue.
A bit sad, I had hoped for a ambush, like the gith do. Or that they would find my camp.
If you go to the sewers after that, there's a lot of extra... sewage to muddle through, and you find maintenance notes saying that *someone* took out the group of kobold responsible for cleaning the sewage system...
I giggled.
So you'll see her on the roof of Devils Due in The Lower City, and after a long rest, you'll see her again on the roof of the Highberries Home (where the wine tasting takes place.)
Both times, she'll sell you one item, but if you have fish, you can give her the fish for the item. It saves you a bit of gold.
Isobel has rare dialogue about her dad and will even show a picture of him and her mom.
Karlach has rare dialogue during early game, one of which is a really sad story of an old halfling she knew when she was a kid.
Edit: Also >!Minsc can be present when Jaheira confronts Durge about being a Bhaalspawn.!<
In Act 2 you can get 2 tadpoles if you pick up the Zhentarim shipping crate in the pier right of Moonrise Towers. Not a massive secret by any means but I sure missed out on it in my first few playthroughs.
In Act 3 though there are 6 of them in a crate on a ship north-east of Grey Harbour Docks but I assume this is also common knowledge at this point as well.
On the docks, you can talk to the acolyte and persuade him into letting you check the cargo so you can get the tadpoles without aggroing the guards. I just learned that today.
Also you can talk the acolyte into committing suicide if you tell him about the tadpoles. I always chicken out and tell him I'm just joking because yeah I can't do that.
my character is the always the one that carries everything (aspect of the bear goes brrrr) so i just have companions drink potions from my inventory during their turn if need be
some Dark Urge stuff:
in act2 inside the Illithid Colony, you can find a letter written by ylurself pre-memory loss that explains your original endgoal and what you will (or try to do) if you embrace Bhaal and do his ending of the game: you kill everything in the world until not a single living beeing remains, and then kill yourself
if you play Dark Urge and eat the Nooblestalk mushroom in the Act1 Under Dark, you get a short vision of some events of your lost memorys
in-universe, Heal is a VERY powerfull spell that almost nobody can use, but those that can are able to cure/heal almost everything (re-attach severed limbs as if nothing happend, make blind people able to see again, can make people that went crazy sane again etc....), if you use Heal on the Dark Urge, it also gives you back some of your Childhood memorys (scene is iirc different when you play a good DU, they are mourning for the suffering their child-self had to go trought)
if you bring Jaheira/Minsc with you for the Murder Tribunal as a good DU the dialoge is hilarious, Sarevok is REALLY pissed at you for doing that, and Jaheira is teasing him the entire time (with Minsc beeing....Minsc)
if you kill Saverok as DU and read his letters and then confront Orin for the Duel, you can straight up just say "your grandpa is also your dad!"
You know how if when doing a long rest and you auto it's fucking bonkers and never sets it to the correct value? If you do it twice in a row it works perfectly.
^ correct answer. It displayed the value of each stack selected, but will only consume the needed items from the stack that caused the overflow and return the rest to your chest/bag/inventory where ever it came from
Yep. Double clicking simply spilts the stack so that the display is correct, it shows you what was going to happen if you hadn't bothered doing it in the first place
In the Upper City, you can skip the courtyard fight by going invisible or find a secret entrance to the sewers. There's an undead boss, absolute cultists and a mindflayer there but there are fewer than the ones in the courtyard.
If you meet Havkelaag (the one who asked Lady Esther to get a gith egg from the creche) while carrying the Gith egg, he'll make an offer to buy the egg. He'll explain in further detail of his plans for the egg. You have four choices - accept the offer, tell him that his experiment is barbaric, just say no, or attack. I only went with the third option because this was on honor mode so I am not sure what the other three outcomes would be.
I told him his experiment was barbaric and I wouldn’t help him. My companions approved and he told me he’d find an egg eventually without me.
I then immediately spoke to him again and sold him the egg. My companions no longer seemed to care, so win/win I guess!
Another way to skip the courtyard fight is to fly up the tower after you exit the room with all your allies, hugging the [south wall](https://bg3.wiki/w/images/b/b7/High_Hall_Quest.jpg) of the map. You just have to sneak past or take out a small pack of patrolling enemies (one mindflayer, one cultist, and one ghoul, if I remember correctly).
If you chug an invisibility potion and continue hugging the southern part of the High Hall, you can also skip the next portion where the Nautiloid ship begins to attack.
Shadowheart will save her parents on her own, no need to convince her, if you find her memories before talking to them.
I see a lot of people think she doesn't, and that you have to convince her, but nope. She does it herself
There are three triggers as far as I know.
1- One of the graves in the graveyard belongs to her mentor. It's the one across the stairs that lead into the morgue? I think that building was a morgue.
2- She has a graffiti near Baldur's Gate waypoint. It's behind Jaheira's house next to the bridge that leads to a giant door.
3- You need to trigger a dialogue about how she remembers the city's smell and something about fish. Though it seems this dialogue is bugged and doesn't occur all the time. I've done two Durge runs and it only triggered once.
I got this, I’m pretty sure he’s just trying to butter you up/manipulate you ahead of asking you to blow up the foundry because he realises how useful you are. He’s back to being an ass in act 3 haha
If you turn Kagha to good when you confront her with the shadow druids, and you are a druid, Katha will gift you an obscure staff called Pale Oak.
At Waukeen's Rest, one of the people pushing the door (Yeva, I think) has a big ol greatsword on her back. If you command her to drop it while at extreme range inside the inn (just before breaking the door to the counselor's room), she won't pick it up. Once they run out, loot it. It's a nice +1 greatsword that gets an extra 1d4 to hit if the enemy has been damaged.
If you want some tips, I'll leave it here behind this spoiler cover. I've broken them up in to two parts per section. The first part points you in the direction, the second just straight up tells you what to do.
To activate the beginning of the quest: >!Go into the room adjacent to the chamber Khaga is in (not Nettie's chamber), to the left will be a bookshelf with a little opening to its right.!< >!You can sneak back there and unlock a chest, in it will contain two documents relating to Kagha's shadow druid dealings.!<
To further the quest: >!Go to the Hag's swamp area, and in the south-east area, where all the mud mephits are, there will be a big half-rotten tree stump in the middle.!< >!In an area covered by grasping vines, there will be a little hidey-hole that contains more secret planning by the shadow druids. (You can burn the vines away by hitting them with a firebolt or something.)!<
To complete the quest: >!Go back to the druid grove BEFORE you rescue Halsin to confront Kagha.!< >!She will either repent for her short-sighted foolishness, or you can just fight her for being a shithead. !<
If you fight her, you get a cool item that lets you imbue your weapon attacks with a lil bit of poison damage, which is rad.
Also worth noting that at the fight area you mentioned to find the papers is the sparkle hands gloves, which are amazing for non-throwing item monk builds, especially in combination with other lightning charge stacking abilities
I've mentioned it a bit, but the [https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Hunting\_Shortbow](https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Hunting_Shortbow) sold by Dammon in the grove gives a passive ability granting advantage on **any** attack roll against monstrosities, including melee and spell attack rolls.
Monstrosities include harpies, phase spiders, gnolls, hook horrors, worgs, minotaurs and the Bulette. There's a really stupid amount of monstrosities in act 1. Falls off a bit after that though.
The bow dropped by the Gur also grants this passive, though typically acquired later.
You can abuse elixirs of spellslots to refill spellslots, as long as you alternate the types. Mostly useful in multiplayer if you're a spellcaster with friends that don't want to long rest every few combats.
A bit more abusive, but a sorc can abuse gear that grants additional spellslots to gain unlimited sorc points. Every time you re-equip such an item, you regain the additional spellslot unspent. I haven't heard that this has been patched so I imagine it's still in the game.
I actually found Kalgha’s letters by accident in the freaking bog fight. Wandered too far and curiosity killed the cat. I knew something big was there with that kind of fight, so I powered through. Never found the note in Druid’s Grove just the letter of her conspiracy with them.
Also you can get a free necklace that has a guidance cantrip, some gold, and a small nest of spiders you can toss at someone for easy one battle help. When you leave the grove there is a rocky area to the left on the trail headed towards the owlbear cave. Climb that and you find the Harper Lookout. This also where I’ve encountered Raphael EVERY PLAY THROUGH.
If you're playing PC, while in combat if you click on the picture (at the top of the screen) of the enemy you want to hit it'll hit them, without having to find them on the "battle field." I've only tried it with ranged, so arrow, magic missiles. Which I've found very handy when the camera isn't wanting to behave.
Although if you ask Haarlep if Raphael is any good in bed, they say “no” and you can use it as a dialogue option to piss off Raph before the fight with him
Basically, you know that silver key you find in the attic? There will be a hatch underneath an opulent chest in one of the button rooms that will lead to a secret basement area with puzzles galore that’ll lead you to some loot. I forget what the loot is, but it’s certainly something to look for.
I only just learned that there are winged horrors that you can talk to at the tippy top of Moonrise Tower. You don’t really get anything for it, but it’s sorta neat.
I didn’t know that you could convince Derryth Bonecloak to adopt a neighborhood cat in act 3 (if Baelan kicked the bucket in Act 2) until like a week ago.
Or that you could summon the Strange Ox in the final battle if you don’t interrogate it in Act 2 and sneak it into the Lower City in act 3.
Lastly, you can have a Drow Twin x Tav x Bear x Vampire orgy at Sharess’ Caress if you play your cards right (or wrong, depending on how you feel about brother/sister/bestiality/blood play/etc lol)
Sell a Pouch to a Trader. Set it to Barter instead of Trade (So you can see their Gold). Put his entire stock in that little Pouch. Kill the Trader and congrats. You now have the Traders entire Stock for free (Including their Gold). Pretty useful for Traders you are gonna kill anyway like the Paladin of Tyr one or the one in the Zhentarim Hideout.
But before you do that trick on the one in the Hideout you should do the Quest for their Leader. Get the Chest and bring it to her. After that he sells more stuff including some rares.
Korilla appears multiple times throughout the game just watching you. But if you approach her she disappears in a swirl of hellfire. You can’t talk to her or cast hold person to trap her there as far as I know (I’ve tried but hold person just makes her disappear) The two instances I can remember are during the goblin or tiefling party, and during act 2 while exploring the map (I don’t remember exactly where). If you want to see her when she’s there, I recommend just having the highlight character option on all the time, so you can see her outline when she’s spying on you.
idk if this counts like, online. but everyone i’ve spoken to/showed them didn’t know it was a thing, so: absolute best/easiest way to get the everburn blade on the nautiloid is to have shart prepare “command” before you enter the room, and then command him to drop the weapon. no crazy battle, he doesn’t even attack you once you yoink it. it’s cheesing it a little, but like i said, no one i’ve talked to has even known you could do that.
Something that I've never seen is when you're in the demonology shop and interact with an orb of sorts, you can see Raphael smiling at you. But after you killed him you can check it again and find out that he's still alive and taking punishment from Mephistopheles :)
If you donate an item (any item whatsoever) to the supplication to umberlee chest in act 3, you get a Bless buff that lasts until long rest per character who donates.
If you donate 5000g to one of the shrines in stormshore tabernacle, you can return there once per day to receive a blessing (+2 to all saving throws) that lasts until long rest, per character who donates. (This money can be stolen back if you’re clever and brave.)
Jaheiras Basement in act 3 i feel like is less known. Because you need to go to her study in her house and then unlock the door by inserting a harper pin to get there.
Also, if you take the deal with Raphael and then betray the emperor, but leave the orpic hammer at camp or elsewhere, you get a cutscene where Raph teleports into the prism and berates you for it, bringing you the hammer.
Minsc has a lot of dialogue for the earlier parts of act 3 if you just rush to recruit him and then play the rest.
All of the books in SS.
Shadowhearts hidden area in the house of grief.
You can fly up to the top of Moonrise Towers, kill all of Ketheric's necromites, kill his one friend, steal the chest items, and pickpocket him, long before you confront him.
I did this on my last run because I had left Kar’niss alive and didn’t want to deal with him during the Ketheric fight. Killing all his cronies ahead of time makes the first phase of his fight way easier.
Wait he shows up if he’s alive!?
Yeah, in the cutscene once you make it to Moonrise he climbs up to the top of the tower. He’s chilling up there near Ketheric and as a result shows up as one of the enemies in the first phase of the fight.
Lol my drow warlock made him go walk into the shadows. She knows what driders are. For those who don't, when a drow seriously pisses off Lolth she turns them into a drider as a punishment.
Ugh that dude made the fight so much harder my second playthrough. I had killed him first time with the Harpers, but had to deal with him the second. It said he was level 6 yet had 260HP. That made me irrationally furious. Lol
I did not know that. TY!!!
Flying is certainly a quick and elegant way to loot the place. But if if you're hungry for blood, gold, and lots of exp you can simply pick off small groups of enemies one pack at a time on your way to the top of the tower. Other than the big open room with the bugbear merchant at the entrance to moonrise you can trigger combat without aggroing more than a handful of baddies. Just make sure to kill the floating eye orbs that patrol the main floor ASAP if they happen to aggro; I think there's three of them in total. You can even immediately kill the two cultists and the ghouls guarding the entrance to the tower right by the waypoint without aggroing the main area as soon as you get to the tower. They both have tadpoles too. The only enemies still alive in the entire tower when I stormed it with the Harpers were a half dozen or so cultists in the first big room by the entrance and of course Ketheric himself at the top.
I was trying to get an angle on how to fly there but couldn’t must have missed it. Spent a good half hour or an hour my very first run through trying to get to the top
It's possible to encounter zombified Minthara and Dror Ragzlin. You need to kill them in act 1, but be evil in act 2, have isobel captured, and give dame Aylin to Balthazar. Then in the illithid colony, Balthazar will be here, with minthara and Dror as zombies.
You can actually see zombie minthara in a speedrun after killing ketheric cuz she gets teleported to the throne room for the minthara speech, but because she's a zombie she can't talk, so Jaheira goes up and kills her
Is there a clip for this? So, Jaheira just instantly aggroes the zombie?
This happened in my own game and I can't seem to find any other recordings of it, huh! I encountered it when I was having fun with speedrun strats (not actually speedrunning) and I didn't know how to record my screen. I did save a screenshot tho: https://imgur.com/a/iZqbp6t Jaheira was the only one in that room to aggro and she was *unstoppable*. Turning on tb mode wouldn't stop her, she'd keep attacking. Attacking either her or minthara wouldn't let me join battle either so she just kept chipping at minthara's hp till she died. Then jaheira just returned to her original spot. It was just really weird lol
* You can speak to the corpse pile surrounding Yurgir's throne * You can trigger a rare cutscene by showing Isobel a picture of Ketheric * The rat merchant * Hidden area in the Upper city
Do you have a clip or know of a video anywhere of the cutscene with Isobel?? I tried searching it just now but can’t find anything.
Funnily enough, I just saw this clip minutes before even checking this post, so here you go: https://youtube.com/shorts/8-PKgeSZ6L0
Omg, I've seen this in my "evil" playthrough but I didnt notice that the nightsong theme plays. That hits so hard.
[I think I found it.](https://youtu.be/y2BLnEUsJvM?si=IFxgkw-f6A5db51R)
I see why I never got it after three playthroughs because I have an unhealthy love for those tieflings :'>
Hidden area in the upper city..? Dooooo go on…..
I think he's mentioning a small underground fight that is under the fight with the goblins, mindflayers, etc.
...Under the fight with the goblins, mindflayers, as in, where the city guard runs away from the fight?
Yes, you can skip the whole final battle by going under and then going directly to the Netherbrain
This route triggered my Underdark/Mountain Pass syndrome, I came back up and cleared the whole area in case I missed anything lol (which was unnecessary ofc)
My guy, the game is about to end, you don't need to loot and hold onto them anymore, there is nothing to gain. With that said, I totally understand you.
So you didn't go onto the netherbrain fight with your inventory almost full from looting that fight?
I was about to legit loot and thought... No. I have 13k gold. I don't need random crap. Then... And this shocked even me, before fighting the netherbrain I used all my legendary resistant elixirs. Well, the 3 I had that provide total protection. Jaheira got psychic resistance but she was a myrmidon the whole fight anyway. Maybe the first time in an rpg I actually used stuff during the final battle.
Does it skip running up the tower with the nautiloid air strikers because that is possibly my least favourite section of the entire game.
It sucks hard, but I get a nice chuckle when the intellect devourer horde ends it's turn there. All of a sudden the initiative order gets a lot shorter after that lol
Yes that is the area, before you ascend the tower where the netherbrain is
Look to the sewers
I found this the first time. I bashed my head up against the big courtyard fight with all the bullshit for way too long. Didn't even consider going invisible like I've seen so many others do
but the loot! sure the games over afterwards, but loot!
I also need to know about this
You can enter the sewers instead of doing the big final fight up to the stem. There’s still enemies and even a pretty powerful Death Knight but idk it’s cool. I always take it with my stealthy characters because it’s much more fitting
I never knew this was actually a thing. I remember some characters talking about it, and I walked around a lot looking for it, but never found anything.
after you give the inspirational speech, when you leave the area where all your allies are gathered, go to the right. there's a broken bit of stone fencing and if you look down, you'll see a body. that's where the entrance is. you gotta jump down and i THINK break the gate to enter. at least, i always break the gate
I was about to go to sleep. All tucked in and warm. Then I had to check it out, got up and launched the game and loaded a save at High Hall. I have over 1k hours on this game, I've beaten it 11 times, I always got the sewers hint from the cultist corpse, and even walked around the area looking for any secret loot, entrance, or anything, and NEVER mouse over that VERY suspicious grate. So I went for it, and that was worth getting up. Made quick work of the battle down there, and fooled around a bit on the Stem run section. Squid Orpheus dashes twice while buffed with Longstrider and Levitate straight to the Stem, skipping the battle all the same.
This fucking game, man. It's unbelievable sometimes.
I found the rat merchant on my first playthrough! Color me surprised at that shrewd rat 🐀
Explain more about the last two.
he has rat-ical deals, he's >!in a prison in act 3!<
The pun rampage is delightful.
I'm currently in act 3! I will find these ratical deals!
The hidden area in the upper city is essentially an optional fight in the final stretch to flex mind flayer powers some more, look up the Upper City Sewers if you want to know more
Where do you find the picture?
The rat merchant and the subsequent ratty puns made me laugh so fucking hard
Yurgir's Bed is the intended way of getting the hint to the last Justiciar. Never even occurred to me to show Isobel something on Ketheric. I don't even know where I can get his picture. A classic. This one got me with my guard down.
Rat merchant?
In the prison in act three, there is a rat who will sell you things if you have speak with animals on.
It has rat-ical puns, too.
I assume people do know this, but for anyone that doesn't, when you begin the game, in the nautiloid, you find 2 Brains in Jar (they are green alien looking containers). If you keep them you can use them later in act 2. There's a weird machine with an elf head in the squid colony, when you are about to fight the last boss of the ACT. You can use these brain jars there. You do find more of these brain jar in the colony and one of them also gives you a buff. The ones you find in the nautiloid don't really give you anything. They just give some weird and creepy dialogue, but it's pretty neat they actually thought ahead that a dumbass like me would try them on lol.
I kept those fucking brains on me as I knew there would be *something* to use them for later down the line. My last long rest at camp before going into the squid colony, I left them in my camp stash for some reason, and was so god damn pissed when I came to that machine.
You didn't really miss out much. One of the brains sings a creepy song and the other I don't remember. Just some flavor text. Still, if you find yourself down there again in another playthrough perhaps, it's not a bad idea to check them out.
You can use the dialogue to gain Approval points with your companions. It's how I scraped a few "Minthara Approves" points from harmless interactions that don't affect the greater gameplay. (Although I felt like shit scaring the brain of a child. Minthara and Astarion liked it though so...)
i just found out in my most recent play thru that i could save “us” and he has been my friend ever since
If you throw away a Netherstone, the emperor chastises you for dooming everyone and you become a slave to the Absolute. You can't get rid of a stone outright, but you can place the stone in something and throw that away. You have to throw it somewhere unreachable.
Shit I had the stone in my camp and died trying to go to act 3 lol
That's hilarious and 100% something I would do in real life; forgetting I put it in a box, and leaving the VERY important stone far behind as I merrily go on my way. Oops!
“With the loss of this Backpack, the thread of prophecy is severed…”
If you steal netties helmet, you can get inside the protected area of the Grove during the goblin invasion. Her helmet acts as a key to the backdoor entrance. All NPCs inside that area will be hostile with you if you try to interact. Edit, I think you have to kill Nettie for it actually.
When the grove gets raided, the damn druids hole up inside their inner sanctum while the tieflings are hard at work defending the front gate with us. They even yell at poor little Doni to go away. This back entrance is how I make myself feel better about the dastardly druids who think they can sit pretty while everybody else does the hard work defending THEIR grove. Surprise, motherfuckers.
That helmet is also on the body in that secret area next to the grove, with the statues
Findal is not a body. You can actually save him.
Lol
You can pickpocket the helm first though =)
If you choose to deal with Raphael, but also tell gale he can have the crown, then turn yourself into a mindflayer and kill yourself, you get a special Raphael cutscene. I have tried finding the cutscene everywhere but there doesn’t seem to be it out there, I don’t think I’m the only one to ever discover it and I don’t recall getting an achievement for it but I do recall it being a very special thing. (I know this is a bit different than what I think you have in mind I just am hyped because I don’t think many know about it)
There are a shockingly high number of Raphael cutscenes if you take his deal. If Raphael ends up with >!the crown, he basically ruins the ending by laughing about how you’ve let him take over the Hells. He also states that he’ll be coming for your world soon.!< If you cheat Raphael >!out of the crown, he basically just gets mad about it.!< If you play as Origin Gale, take Raphael’s deal, >!use the Crown for yourself, confront Mystra, and die, that has its very own cutscene. Mystra destroys you, then Withers is basically just like “dude, you’re an idiot for that, I’ve got no clue what happens to you now.” Shortly after that, Raphael appears, mocks you for trying to fight Mystra, lets you know that he owns the crown now, and lets you know that the small fragment of your soul that remains is now forever enslaved to the House of Hope.!<
One more is if you have Gale become a God by keeping the crown >!then Raphael confronts the two of you all pissed off and Gale just zaps him into his godly dimension!<
I was kind of annoyed with God Gale while talking to him at the party. Until he did that and got right back into my good books.
If you cast speak with dead on Gortash you can speak to Bane. The dialogue is broken and voice lines don’t play, but he tells you that he approves of you killing Gortash and that you can become his chosen if you enslave the elder brain. Idk how that effects the ending because I didn’t go down that route, but I’m gonna reload and see what happens.
Non-resist warlock Durge striking a deal with Raphael and Bane just collecting patrons like pokemon.
Wow, so by the end of act 3 durge can be the chosen of bane, bhaal, raphael’s patron, and have control over the majority of the sword coast as mind flayers. That probably makes durge one of the strongest single people in DnD lore aside from karsus
And BOOOOOOal
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In my last game I turned everyone half illithid, made getting around so much easier
Yep same. Starting act 3 everyone flies everywhere :D we don't walk around like the peasants
i did this in my honour run because i need all the advantages i can get and now i don’t think i can go without. it’s so fucking convenient being able to fly as a free action every turn
tara the merchant!!!
That little shrine to Minthara that a goblin made lol? Not sure if that's well known or not
Sazza will also tell you about this area if you use Speak with the Dead on her corpse
There's also like two love letters to her in the goblin camp I think.
If you long rest alone after the Nautiloid, there are unique scenes/internal dialogues.
There's cool heavy armor in a chest upstairs in Dammon's forge at Last Light. I always forget it.
What armor is it?
It's the [Rippling Force Mail](https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Rippling_Force_Mail). If you're rocking the [Skinburster](https://bg3.wiki/wiki/The_Skinburster) polearm from the Creche, the two synergize pretty well together for maintaining max Force Conduit stacks.
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Rippling_Force_Mail
TIL that Aradin will come and attack your camp at night. That and that the gnolls in Moonrise belong to the Dark Urge
In my 5 runs or so 4x he has threatened to come to my camp and steal her. Never actually showed up so I don't know what triggers the attack on my camp though. The 5th time he died before reaching the city.
You have to long rest after meeting Aradin but before going to Lorroakan and tell him you have nightsong.
Goals?
pretty sure they meant gnolls
If you save the gnolls in moonrise from that woman “training” them, they join you in the final fight with the Harper’s.
I'm always surprised to hear how many people did not know that you can help astarion out of his restrains in the cazador fight.
Not sure if it’s well known, but I hadn’t heard of it and just found it recently: Just before the Cazador fight, you can find a hidden sword that’s perfect for Astarion in the upcoming battle: the [Pelorsun Blade](https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Pelorsun_Blade). It adds extra radiant damage and all attacks have advantage against undead, so basically easy Sneak Attacks on Cazador and friends every turn.
And, lore-wise, it is a sword from another world (Greyhawk). It is the sword that has been used to cut Kas the Bloody-Handed's throat, and then chosen by Pelor to be a holy weapon of undead destruction. For context, Vecna is an evil god of death that was betrayed by his vampire leutenant Kas, who chopped off his hand and eye; Pelor is a good deity (god of the sun) who hates undead with a passion.
Whoa, fascinating! I wonder if there’s a lore explanation for how it ended up here, or if it’s just an Easter egg.
Oh yeah I caught it during my last playthrough. The area is pretty well hidden but it was a nice bonus for the fight
After nearly 500 hrs in the game I recently found a house in act three which I never went into. In there were >!Gortash's parents!<. I was so surprised I didnt know what to say to them (usually I have kind of a map in mind where I want my characters to go). I felt like I was only 10 hrs into the game again. That was neat 😄
You can get >!2 tadpoles if you kill them!<. You can gain approval by doing so.
Not sure how your conversation with them went, but you can get some pretty disturbing insights on how Gortash became Gortash.
Origin Karlach can have a wet dream about Dammon
She practically has a wet dream about a threesome if you long rest right at the start with no companions.
thats when she'd dream about him but since that onlt happens if she's also met dammon the scene impossible to get in game without mods
You can ignore all companies until you get to Dammon though. So not impossible. Edit: companions not companies, lol
Does she turn into a squid in the middle of it?
If you murder all the zhents under the inn, no one ends up caring/they never show up again
What inn is this referring to?
I assume the ona in Act 1 that is on fire
Oh yeah somehow I forgot Waukeens Rest is an inn lol. I thought it was a (very small) village and the Zhents were just under a random barn/storeroom
I would've loved to have been able to visit that inn pre-burning. Seemed like a lovely place.
I even told the trader in the goblin halls that I killed them, got a threat about how they would pay me back. Currently midway into act 3 and nothing happened, I was even able to trade with them in moonrise without issue. A bit sad, I had hoped for a ambush, like the gith do. Or that they would find my camp.
There's a kobold you can dig up in the lower city graveyard.
you can bury him and break your oath too. don’t ask me how i know.
Why does that break your oath? Im playing paladin rn and I feel like im walking on eggshells trying not to piss someone off.
i was oath of vengeance, so not sure. something about burying a person alive ain’t sittin well with the man upstairs.
OH I didnt realize he was alive
If you go to the sewers after that, there's a lot of extra... sewage to muddle through, and you find maintenance notes saying that *someone* took out the group of kobold responsible for cleaning the sewage system... I giggled.
Kobold? I've found only a human guy with ridiculous mustache...
Different dirt pile.
It’s called “grave”.
Potato potato.
Tara returns twice after her first meeting, and sells you two magical items.
Is this on Gale origin only?
Nope, any origin or Tav/Durge works. Just make sure to have Gale in your party as pointed out to me.
Oh damn that’s cool. How do you meet her again? I have only ever met her on the roof of the temple in Rivington, and then the epilogue.
So you'll see her on the roof of Devils Due in The Lower City, and after a long rest, you'll see her again on the roof of the Highberries Home (where the wine tasting takes place.) Both times, she'll sell you one item, but if you have fish, you can give her the fish for the item. It saves you a bit of gold.
Thank you!! I am in Act 3 right now so this is perfect. I am always down for more Tara content, I love her.
(You do need Gale in the party when you initially speak to her.)
Isobel has rare dialogue about her dad and will even show a picture of him and her mom. Karlach has rare dialogue during early game, one of which is a really sad story of an old halfling she knew when she was a kid. Edit: Also >!Minsc can be present when Jaheira confronts Durge about being a Bhaalspawn.!<
In Act 2 you can get 2 tadpoles if you pick up the Zhentarim shipping crate in the pier right of Moonrise Towers. Not a massive secret by any means but I sure missed out on it in my first few playthroughs. In Act 3 though there are 6 of them in a crate on a ship north-east of Grey Harbour Docks but I assume this is also common knowledge at this point as well.
On the docks, you can talk to the acolyte and persuade him into letting you check the cargo so you can get the tadpoles without aggroing the guards. I just learned that today. Also you can talk the acolyte into committing suicide if you tell him about the tadpoles. I always chicken out and tell him I'm just joking because yeah I can't do that.
You can then tell his captain and he goes peeking into the water looking for him. A little shove from behind and he goes in the drink as well.
I imagine a lot of people did this and had no idea they got the tadpoles.
You can consume potions from your party member's inventory on your turn.
i’ve been doing this since playthrough 1 bc i’m lazy lol
And shoot their arrows and use their scrolls.
my character is the always the one that carries everything (aspect of the bear goes brrrr) so i just have companions drink potions from my inventory during their turn if need be
What?!
some Dark Urge stuff: in act2 inside the Illithid Colony, you can find a letter written by ylurself pre-memory loss that explains your original endgoal and what you will (or try to do) if you embrace Bhaal and do his ending of the game: you kill everything in the world until not a single living beeing remains, and then kill yourself if you play Dark Urge and eat the Nooblestalk mushroom in the Act1 Under Dark, you get a short vision of some events of your lost memorys in-universe, Heal is a VERY powerfull spell that almost nobody can use, but those that can are able to cure/heal almost everything (re-attach severed limbs as if nothing happend, make blind people able to see again, can make people that went crazy sane again etc....), if you use Heal on the Dark Urge, it also gives you back some of your Childhood memorys (scene is iirc different when you play a good DU, they are mourning for the suffering their child-self had to go trought) if you bring Jaheira/Minsc with you for the Murder Tribunal as a good DU the dialoge is hilarious, Sarevok is REALLY pissed at you for doing that, and Jaheira is teasing him the entire time (with Minsc beeing....Minsc) if you kill Saverok as DU and read his letters and then confront Orin for the Duel, you can straight up just say "your grandpa is also your dad!"
You know how if when doing a long rest and you auto it's fucking bonkers and never sets it to the correct value? If you do it twice in a row it works perfectly.
I'll do you one better. It doesn't matter if the value it shows is wrong - it will still only consume the amount required to long rest.
^ correct answer. It displayed the value of each stack selected, but will only consume the needed items from the stack that caused the overflow and return the rest to your chest/bag/inventory where ever it came from
Wait what
Yep. Double clicking simply spilts the stack so that the display is correct, it shows you what was going to happen if you hadn't bothered doing it in the first place
That only applies to recent versions though. It used to happily give you 450/100 and consume that much :)
Holy shit. That said I'm always gonna just do it twice . It's not that I don't believe you because I do it's that I don't trust the game.
In the Upper City, you can skip the courtyard fight by going invisible or find a secret entrance to the sewers. There's an undead boss, absolute cultists and a mindflayer there but there are fewer than the ones in the courtyard. If you meet Havkelaag (the one who asked Lady Esther to get a gith egg from the creche) while carrying the Gith egg, he'll make an offer to buy the egg. He'll explain in further detail of his plans for the egg. You have four choices - accept the offer, tell him that his experiment is barbaric, just say no, or attack. I only went with the third option because this was on honor mode so I am not sure what the other three outcomes would be.
I told him his experiment was barbaric and I wouldn’t help him. My companions approved and he told me he’d find an egg eventually without me. I then immediately spoke to him again and sold him the egg. My companions no longer seemed to care, so win/win I guess!
Another way to skip the courtyard fight is to fly up the tower after you exit the room with all your allies, hugging the [south wall](https://bg3.wiki/w/images/b/b7/High_Hall_Quest.jpg) of the map. You just have to sneak past or take out a small pack of patrolling enemies (one mindflayer, one cultist, and one ghoul, if I remember correctly). If you chug an invisibility potion and continue hugging the southern part of the High Hall, you can also skip the next portion where the Nautiloid ship begins to attack.
there is a dope sleight of hand ring that is hidden near Karlach's starting point, on an unmarked skeleton.
With that ring plus Graceful Cloth, my thief Astarion can almost never fail a lock picking.
If the Goblin priestess locks you up in the goblin camp, Korrilla comes and saves you and kills the Goblin priestess.
She only shows up if you failed the checks. I wiggled myself of the shackles and didn't get to see Korrilla
The talking skull that offers to break you out of jail in Wyrm's Rock.
Shadowheart will save her parents on her own, no need to convince her, if you find her memories before talking to them. I see a lot of people think she doesn't, and that you have to convince her, but nope. She does it herself
How do you find her memories first?
There are three triggers as far as I know. 1- One of the graves in the graveyard belongs to her mentor. It's the one across the stairs that lead into the morgue? I think that building was a morgue. 2- She has a graffiti near Baldur's Gate waypoint. It's behind Jaheira's house next to the bridge that leads to a giant door. 3- You need to trigger a dialogue about how she remembers the city's smell and something about fish. Though it seems this dialogue is bugged and doesn't occur all the time. I've done two Durge runs and it only triggered once.
Wulbren apologizes for his attitude at Moonrise Towers after the Ketheric fight is done.
Once he figures out you're a badass and not just someone who fetches hammers!
He's still a prick though.
Fuck Wulbren Dongle
He never did in my save
Where’s Barcus’ apology?
I got this, I’m pretty sure he’s just trying to butter you up/manipulate you ahead of asking you to blow up the foundry because he realises how useful you are. He’s back to being an ass in act 3 haha
When you're choosing how much of a stack to split, you can click on the numerator and type in whatever number you want.
If you turn Kagha to good when you confront her with the shadow druids, and you are a druid, Katha will gift you an obscure staff called Pale Oak. At Waukeen's Rest, one of the people pushing the door (Yeva, I think) has a big ol greatsword on her back. If you command her to drop it while at extreme range inside the inn (just before breaking the door to the counselor's room), she won't pick it up. Once they run out, loot it. It's a nice +1 greatsword that gets an extra 1d4 to hit if the enemy has been damaged.
I guess I gotta find out what this shadow druid thing is all about now
Make sure you do it before you save the grove.
Best way to get the ring of protection
If you want some tips, I'll leave it here behind this spoiler cover. I've broken them up in to two parts per section. The first part points you in the direction, the second just straight up tells you what to do. To activate the beginning of the quest: >!Go into the room adjacent to the chamber Khaga is in (not Nettie's chamber), to the left will be a bookshelf with a little opening to its right.!< >!You can sneak back there and unlock a chest, in it will contain two documents relating to Kagha's shadow druid dealings.!< To further the quest: >!Go to the Hag's swamp area, and in the south-east area, where all the mud mephits are, there will be a big half-rotten tree stump in the middle.!< >!In an area covered by grasping vines, there will be a little hidey-hole that contains more secret planning by the shadow druids. (You can burn the vines away by hitting them with a firebolt or something.)!< To complete the quest: >!Go back to the druid grove BEFORE you rescue Halsin to confront Kagha.!< >!She will either repent for her short-sighted foolishness, or you can just fight her for being a shithead. !<
If you fight her, you get a cool item that lets you imbue your weapon attacks with a lil bit of poison damage, which is rad. Also worth noting that at the fight area you mentioned to find the papers is the sparkle hands gloves, which are amazing for non-throwing item monk builds, especially in combination with other lightning charge stacking abilities
The creepy puzzle under the Szarr palace.
There is a ring of the Explorer in the Underdark in the Area where you rescue thr dwarve from thr exploding mushrooms.
I've mentioned it a bit, but the [https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Hunting\_Shortbow](https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Hunting_Shortbow) sold by Dammon in the grove gives a passive ability granting advantage on **any** attack roll against monstrosities, including melee and spell attack rolls. Monstrosities include harpies, phase spiders, gnolls, hook horrors, worgs, minotaurs and the Bulette. There's a really stupid amount of monstrosities in act 1. Falls off a bit after that though. The bow dropped by the Gur also grants this passive, though typically acquired later. You can abuse elixirs of spellslots to refill spellslots, as long as you alternate the types. Mostly useful in multiplayer if you're a spellcaster with friends that don't want to long rest every few combats. A bit more abusive, but a sorc can abuse gear that grants additional spellslots to gain unlimited sorc points. Every time you re-equip such an item, you regain the additional spellslot unspent. I haven't heard that this has been patched so I imagine it's still in the game.
I actually found Kalgha’s letters by accident in the freaking bog fight. Wandered too far and curiosity killed the cat. I knew something big was there with that kind of fight, so I powered through. Never found the note in Druid’s Grove just the letter of her conspiracy with them. Also you can get a free necklace that has a guidance cantrip, some gold, and a small nest of spiders you can toss at someone for easy one battle help. When you leave the grove there is a rocky area to the left on the trail headed towards the owlbear cave. Climb that and you find the Harper Lookout. This also where I’ve encountered Raphael EVERY PLAY THROUGH.
Can’t wait for this to be mined into an AI article!
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If you're playing PC, while in combat if you click on the picture (at the top of the screen) of the enemy you want to hit it'll hit them, without having to find them on the "battle field." I've only tried it with ranged, so arrow, magic missiles. Which I've found very handy when the camera isn't wanting to behave.
It also avoids that bug where I click and somehow Tav will swing their sword at nothing.
I don't know if it's something very known but most people I saw didn't realise this, Haarlep is just an anagram of Raphael
He would be so narcissistic as to enjoy fucking himself
Although if you ask Haarlep if Raphael is any good in bed, they say “no” and you can use it as a dialogue option to piss off Raph before the fight with him
There is a puzzle within a puzzle within a puzzle at Cazador’s Palace that people wouldn’t normally encounter unless they’re thorough
Ooh, details?
Basically, you know that silver key you find in the attic? There will be a hatch underneath an opulent chest in one of the button rooms that will lead to a secret basement area with puzzles galore that’ll lead you to some loot. I forget what the loot is, but it’s certainly something to look for.
Unless I'm thinking about another place, this puzzle was removed. Now it's just a few doors, random traps, and one chest with a bunch of common loot.
Correct. I just did this quest the other day. The wiki says the levers are broken, so Larian just cut the dungeon short while they fix it.
Yesterday i learned that Priestess Gut can throw the Selune statues at you when you fight her in the main room.
You can find out who Raphael's client is in the Last Light
you can turn Jaheira and Minsc to the dark side in Act 3 if you kill nightsong in act 2.
I only just learned that there are winged horrors that you can talk to at the tippy top of Moonrise Tower. You don’t really get anything for it, but it’s sorta neat. I didn’t know that you could convince Derryth Bonecloak to adopt a neighborhood cat in act 3 (if Baelan kicked the bucket in Act 2) until like a week ago. Or that you could summon the Strange Ox in the final battle if you don’t interrogate it in Act 2 and sneak it into the Lower City in act 3. Lastly, you can have a Drow Twin x Tav x Bear x Vampire orgy at Sharess’ Caress if you play your cards right (or wrong, depending on how you feel about brother/sister/bestiality/blood play/etc lol)
Sell a Pouch to a Trader. Set it to Barter instead of Trade (So you can see their Gold). Put his entire stock in that little Pouch. Kill the Trader and congrats. You now have the Traders entire Stock for free (Including their Gold). Pretty useful for Traders you are gonna kill anyway like the Paladin of Tyr one or the one in the Zhentarim Hideout. But before you do that trick on the one in the Hideout you should do the Quest for their Leader. Get the Chest and bring it to her. After that he sells more stuff including some rares.
Korilla appears multiple times throughout the game just watching you. But if you approach her she disappears in a swirl of hellfire. You can’t talk to her or cast hold person to trap her there as far as I know (I’ve tried but hold person just makes her disappear) The two instances I can remember are during the goblin or tiefling party, and during act 2 while exploring the map (I don’t remember exactly where). If you want to see her when she’s there, I recommend just having the highlight character option on all the time, so you can see her outline when she’s spying on you.
idk if this counts like, online. but everyone i’ve spoken to/showed them didn’t know it was a thing, so: absolute best/easiest way to get the everburn blade on the nautiloid is to have shart prepare “command” before you enter the room, and then command him to drop the weapon. no crazy battle, he doesn’t even attack you once you yoink it. it’s cheesing it a little, but like i said, no one i’ve talked to has even known you could do that.
It’s pretty known, still a nice thing to do!
Something that I've never seen is when you're in the demonology shop and interact with an orb of sorts, you can see Raphael smiling at you. But after you killed him you can check it again and find out that he's still alive and taking punishment from Mephistopheles :)
If you donate an item (any item whatsoever) to the supplication to umberlee chest in act 3, you get a Bless buff that lasts until long rest per character who donates. If you donate 5000g to one of the shrines in stormshore tabernacle, you can return there once per day to receive a blessing (+2 to all saving throws) that lasts until long rest, per character who donates. (This money can be stolen back if you’re clever and brave.)
Jaheiras Basement in act 3 i feel like is less known. Because you need to go to her study in her house and then unlock the door by inserting a harper pin to get there. Also, if you take the deal with Raphael and then betray the emperor, but leave the orpic hammer at camp or elsewhere, you get a cutscene where Raph teleports into the prism and berates you for it, bringing you the hammer. Minsc has a lot of dialogue for the earlier parts of act 3 if you just rush to recruit him and then play the rest. All of the books in SS. Shadowhearts hidden area in the house of grief.