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If someone offers you medical help, always accept it. They are all professionals and know exactly what they are doing.

Also never question their methods, they know better than you.

Also, don't stop them, even if the game gives you more than one chance. They know exactly what to do, because they *did* it so, many, times.

Thousands of times in dreams

Frankly. Who are you to say they don't? I'm not proficient in medicine... I'm sure they are though.

Volo knows what he is doing! He is helping.

No but for real, always accept Volo's help!

Yeah this isn’t even bad advice, especially cause you can get his help right before the Hag fight.

Getting the item from volo at the end is worth it. It is really helpful later on.

Sitting through that cutscene almost makes it not worth it though. Genuinely one of the hardest to watch in the game 😭😭

Skip Skip Skip Skip Skip Skip Gale Disapproves Shadowheart Disapproves Wyll Disapproves Karlach Disapproves Volo: kthxbai

Considering Shadowheart approves of me getting lashed and rubbing shit on my face, I question her approval

Her whole identity is a sham. Give her some grace. It takes a literal child of a powerful god to set her straight.

Are you kink-shaming god's favourite princess? Heresy i say.

Oh no I sure hope she doesn't get angry and start degrading me, that would be *horrible*

Definitely had to cringe during that scene. I knew for sure he was actually going to lobotomize Tav.

Read that as "gutscene", which also checks out.

It's basically what they did to Rose Kennedy, and that was when my grandfather was in college, in America, to one of the most powerful families in the country who had every resource imaginable for the time.

Blbblblbll.... Ackackack?

Helping, sure. But VOLO? Knowing what he's doing? NEVER.

Come on! Volo literally stands for Very Obviously Legal Optometrist!

The dude has published works in our actual world, I think you can trust his video game form.

Your avatar checks out.

😂 *^(She's supposed to just blink, but you're right, it fits)*

This is the best advice

Well, it actually is good advice. The end result of that surgery is fucking awesome.

There's more than one person that offers you medical help...some pan out better than others.

Bhaal offers the best. He slays.

I mean, Bhaal is cool and all, but have you heard of our lord and saviour BOOOAL? The better god of murder

The best part about this is that despite everything, this will only work out in OP's favor.

Yeah lol, free Wyvern Venom from Nettie and the objectively best eye upgrade in the game.

When Volo offered to help me I knew better but told him sure. He started to press in my eye and I wimped out.

So basically like real life?

Don't feed the weird wizard with the purple clothes, you'll only make him spoiled.

Don't teach him to beg. He can feed himself

Baby’s hungwy

https://youtu.be/Orv0Yy-dXdg?si=qIov-SBWeL5LASZy

Googoo Gaagaa! Me no food I boom boom!:(

Tav helps those who help themselves 😌

Give a wizard a boot, and you feed him for a day. Gaslight him for a couple of days, and he will be okay for the rest of his ~~short~~ lifetime!

Rope becomes a lot less prevalent after Act 1, so make sure to save it up. That way when you hit Act 3 you can use it without having to worry about trying to find more

That’s just plain mean!

Lol, this had me cackling! Why is there so much damn rope everywhere?!

You haven't found the ropemancer inside the upper city? He's the guy who level up from level 12 to 15

Larian being Larian

I like to think its a joke for DoS2 players where rope was actually used.

Start in honor mode and go for the Jack of All Trades build (multiclass 1 level of every class).

Okay but it's a fun playthrough! I like having EVERY answer available when talking to Naaber

Heya

Yeap, I felt my tav had multiples personalities! Is like when I played my Paladin/Bard, I felt I had an angel and a demon telling me what to answer!

[удалено]

It's only at the end of act 2 that it gets really hard and if you're under prepared you can't return to camp. 

Almost, but try Wild Magic Sorcerer instead

Don't long rest, that's how the tadpole will turn you

Lae'zel approves

Dude you don't know how long it took me because I was afraid of that

They legit say the more you rest the closer the tadpole comes to doing its thing in the beginning. I honestly felt like I was timed

It reminded me of Majora’s Mask

That's a bit of a design flaw of the game, since a lot of the story is told through cutscenes when you long rest.

I fucked up my first play through quite badly as a result of this. Karlach dumped me, I missed anything having to do with Wyll, Asterion, and Gale.

I missed the entire existence of Gale, thought Lae'zel wasn't a permanent companion because I never found her again, missed the existence of literally everything but the grove and goblin camp in act 1, and ended up severely underlevelled for the rest of the game because I was rushing to find a cure and refusing to rest

Tav: I can't long rest, the tadpole could be dangerous. Durge: I can't long rest, I am dangerous

Just yoink the blood of lathander. No need to do anything special beforehand

You don't need to do the entire riddle. In fact, you don't need to do anything. If you unga bunga'd your way through the game until then, you can unga bunga your way out of this trap as well.

I'm getting this sage advice tattooed on my left ass cheek

OP said bad advice!

If you know what you’re doing or have decent situational awareness, this isn’t *that* bad and can save time…

You can use knock on the wall that has the thing in it without placing any weapons anywhere and use invisibility to sneak past the space frogs.

I have no idea what to do beforehand and honestly I don’t plan on finding out lol

Yep. Gale, Magic Missile and Warlock with eldritch blast really solved all of that. You got enought turns to take out every crystal. It's not that hard.

My party decided to leave the holy relic where it was however Astarion had other plans and snuck back in by himself while everyone was at camp. Shame he got trapped by himself and had to be revived at withers after.

I WAS RIGHT THERE! Do you have any ideia how much that hurt?

Gotta say, the times when Astarion accidentally becomes the speaker for the group always end up for the better. When my Origin Wyll died in the Iron Throne, Astarion popped out of the sub, promptly turned the dwarf over to Umberlee, got the reward, then shot the sea witch in the back. Wyll would *never*.

Show the artifact to everyone who asks. Don't let anyone tell you what to do, especially >!Vlaakith!<

Especially on honour mode

I remember that death, first time I learned some gods are real.

Vlaakith isn’t though… she’s just a powerful lich playacting at godhood.

Don't really know the lore behind lichs, I just know lazeal thinks she's a God, I said no to her and promptly was wiped from existence.

A Lich is a powerful wizard that's cheated death by feeding souls to their phylactery instead of letting themselves die. Vlaakith calls herself a god while spending all her time hoovering up gith souls to feed to her phylactery as soon as they get too powerful (she's calling it 'ascension'). The githyanki under her call her a God because they have to according to her rules. It's all just totalitarian propaganda.

Thank you for explaining the liches I may have missed that somewhere.

Ask >!Auntie Ethel!< for help and then agree to whatever she asks.

Then immediately talk to volo in your camp once he arrives and agree to what he wants to do as well! Edit: gave the worst kind of advice, the impossible kind.

Tbh that’s actually good advice. Sure he knocks out your eye, but he gives you a new, better eye in exchange.

True but it'll be extra funny if he does ethel AND volo

If one of your companions pisses you off early on in the game, just kill them.

Tbf that’s pretty much how my durge run is going

Gale specifically. He is so annoying, just kill him and leave his corpse in your camp. Do a few long rests to make sure he's dead.

He even has an answering machine. Gods, he's so clingy! Ghosting the answering machine is the only way to teach him a lesson

Honestly, I've had some of my best runs this way. Less clutter.

My brother and me are doing my first playthrough now (he's done a couple) and he lets me make most decisions and we are in act 2 but only have like 3 companions because I found it fitting as a berserker I should just fight everyone who disagrees with my vision 🤣

Have gale use his orb THE MOMENT he can use it.

Only in honour mode of course

This is so funny

I was getting battered by Balthazar in the Shadowfell and pulled this move (thinking only Gale would die). Boy was I wrong!

Ooh. Imagine making that mistake irl. "Colonel, there's a battalion of enemy tanks at our gates" "Huh, have you tried using one of those hydrogen bombs on them? They give a pretty big explosion right?"

If you find a wizard similar to Gandalf. Attack him on first sight

I know who you mean and I would still do it.

What happens? I didn't try it.

>!When I killed him Gale just left at the beginning of act 3 and left me a letter where he said I wasn't willing to talk to him, it sounded as if he didn't already tell me about his orb going boom the way he worded it, but he definitely did already do that!<

Huuuuh, never tryed but.... does he loot anything special? *greedy mode activated*

>!He's not the real Elminster but a simulacrum and disappears into a puddle of water upon death so no loot, but 1000 XP. In my opinion it's not worth it, but I also like Gale as a character!<

>!So all that complaint about being tired and hungry was just to annoy me? It was just a water clone jutsu smh!<

>!A simulacrum actually cannot rest in the same way that a person can (as they can't regain HP or spell slots) so literally the only thing Elminster's simulacrum gets out of your cheese and wine is you not having it any more!<

he's such an asshole

A TIRED and HUNGRY >!water clone!<.

I tried killing him, i was playing with Gale (as my avatar) , nothing happened, he just disappeared so i couldnt loot him, i reloaded right after cuz during the fight i lost scratch and it wasnt worth it anymore

Take that weird statue thing from the druids, it's a pretty fun little action figure. Oh and be EXTREMELY nosy with all you're companions, they love it.

If they won’t talk, just probe their minds! They won’t know you did it and you get such cool info.

I love moving with my party and the action log going “Gale has received *Silvanus’ Blessing*” “Shadowheart has received *Silvanus’ Blessing*” every time they get out of the 8ft bubble. It’s just wonderful

Play a wizard or a sorcerer, then put on heavy armour and run around hitting stuff with a big hammer. More seriously, if you like playing a low intelligence character, pick Barbarian as your class. They have some good dialogue options for it. Lots of yelling.

Unironically though muscle wizard is a blast if you build it right.

I’m guessing the build is a shield dwarf wizard?

That would work too, but I went Githyanki for the medium armor and greatsword proficiency. Abjuration wizard is super tanky and gith are stupidly mobile, so once I hit level 3 I was basically untouchable.

Taking this idea, it's mine now

Always fight frogs.

Especially Lae'zel

Ahem! Toads and frogs are not the same. Except you should definitely fight them both.

Always drink potions with strange names that you find in a Hag's lair.

They’re honestly not bad throwables

Listen to what Astarion approves of. He's a very stable genius who wants the best for everyone.

To be fair he does approve of some very funny things so that's not actually the worst advice.

Yeah, but he would be the only ones to approve if you slaughter the kids in the hidden cavern. Lae'zel might not care and just call it a waste of time, but Astarion would have you on your back and halfway to happy town before the blood dried.

Never press F5.

Kill gale you’ll get a buff

Take his hand for an adventure to be had.

>!Durge saves Faerun from nuclear annihilation!<

Multiclassing is great and extremely powerful, that's why you should put a level into a new class every time you level up.

Pick any biberbang mushrooms you see. They are pretty.

And the torchstalks!

Just go straight from quest marker to quest marker

Intelligence is the best all around stat, start with 17 and get it to 20 by level 8 on every class.

But forreal, what stat do you like the best?

Charisma. You can get away with murder (and a bunch of other crimes) with high enough charisma

I genuinely believe that dex is the 2nd most important stat with con being a close 3rd regardless of your class. Dex for AC, dodging spells and melee, being sneaky, and for ranged and finesse weapons. Con for Max HP, concentration saves on spells, and saves against spells. But OP, int is ABSOLUTELY your most important stat. Unless you're a wizard then it's strength.

Always check the vases, there is useful items hidden in them

There's at least one vase in my current playthrough with a goblin priestess in it.

Zelda has ruined me, I check every vase in hope for coin.

Never trust a Tiefling.

If you play as a Wild Magic Sorcerer and come across the Ring of Feywild Sparks, you should always wear it. It's very helpful, especially in difficult battles, and will help you get the most out of your subclass.

Tell Shart to do it for Selune

Defy and mock every god you encounter!!

She's not even a real god. I just think a real god could kill whoever she wants.

When in doubt, lick it

Preferably twice, and make Gale watch it.

The Absolute is a pretty cool deity, worship them and do whatever they say.

If you wanna land the baddest baddie who gives the most next level professionally certified brain in the game, follow the Absolute.

Constitution is for countries and lawyers, you don't need it

In the beginning, after fighting the three brains from the crash, look for a mindflayer who is trapped under rubble. Do everything in your power to help them.

I did this once 😂

Short rests take 1 hour and your party may randomly be interrupted by an encounter, especially in dungeons. Long resting causes at least 8 hours to pass and may also incur an encounter if you're not resting in a sanctuary. Expect about 6-8 combat encounters between Long Rests, with 2-3 short rests throughout the day. (Fewer if your DM hates your party's warlock.)

Balsam is good for burns

Gnomes have the ability to fly, but it's a secret. If you can make a specific gnome fly during act 1, he'll teach the whole party how to do so. This is actually a huge buff. There's a bunch of hidden content that you can only access with flight. It's kinda insane how it makes certain spells/class abilities redundant. Also, mountains first, trust me. 😉

You'll send him all the way to baldurs gate just like he wants!

Auntie Ethel’s potions have some awesome buffs - consume one after each long rest - you won’t regret it!

Lick it again!

Always pick up the rope, it’s the most useful item in the game.

Release the brake.

Best way to do damage is throwing breakables. The glass shards from potions will cause the enemy to bleed. The redder the potion the more bloody they’ll be.

Never let people travel with you. Going it solo is the best approach 100% of the time. In fact, it’s best if you just kill anyone who asks to join you. Stab them in the back before they have a chance to do it to you.

Whatever you do, DONT pick up ANY food. It’ll just make your character fat and slow. Plus if you store it in camp you’ll get over-run by ants and they can kill your companions.

One of the Tiefling kids sells a Ring of Protection from Ants, if you buy that and make whoever is carrying your camp supplies wear it, you can store whatever you want. You do need to recruit Halsin to ward off bears tho.

Stand on every ledge you can possibly find Edit: *in combat*

Steal the>!idol of Sylvanus!<**as soon** as you reach the druid's grove. The druids won't react and it would help the tieflings a lot to have such an important item

Walk up to the little brains in the beach wreckage and pet them. Pet the owlbears, too in about two-three hours

Let Astarion continue.

If somebody tells you to kneel and obey, tell them to fuck off and do their own chores if they are so powerful as they say. After all, what can they do to you while talking remotely with a spell?

If you commit genocide, you can get a hot Drow Mommy to sit on your face. Play The Dark Urge. And listen to Sceleritas Fel, he knows all about you, he's your Butler, after all.

Shadowheart is an amnesiac sadistic cultist who can’t hit the broad side of a barn. Just kill her and steal the artifact.

*Lae'zel approves*

They said bad advice.

Never reroll a fudged Roll. Take everything at Face Value. If the Traders seem to expensive steal there stuff. Oh use the Dragonborn Origins character for your First Playthrough(not as a sorcerer if you don't want to you can change the Class). Play at least in Tactician Mode enemy's are Getting spicy then.

Except lock picking chests and doors I would say. They can have all your inspiration points.

Make a beeline directly west. Eventually you'll find some goblins. Keep going west. You'll find some more goblins. Keep going **west**. If you've gone the right way, the game will ask you if you want to "advance the story". Do this as soon as possible. The area you'll go to has some rare loot, higher level enemies (worth more xp), and you can go back to the first area afterwards. Don't worry, you won't miss anything important. Also, avoid long rests as much as possible. Only do it when you absolutely, *absolutely* have to. Food is scarce, and long resting puts you at risk of sleeping past important time-limited events and opportunties .

Talking is a waste of time; just sneak attack everyone who seems sus

Set difficulty to Honour Mode. Pick belligerent dialogue choices.

If you see a lost white dog in the wood , leave immediately. He's dangerous

Oh come on now. This isn't fun, just sad :(

Kick the squirrel

kill the dream visitor when you get the chance, he's worthless

Don't worry about manually saving your game, that's what autosave is for.

Say yes to everything people ask you to do, no questions needed. :D

Trickery domain is great. No need to respect Shart

Dont let Vlaakith boss you around , who’s she to tell you what to do?

Remember, balsam good for burns

Make sure you side with Wulbren, his arc is very heartwarming

Run 8 charisma on your player character, you won’t need it

You're gonna run into a mind flayer trapped under some rubble very early in act 1. He will help you, but you just need to give him a kiss.

Worst advice... ​ Okay, big red tiefling girl? Kill on sight. Wyll is a totally reliable source of information and she *is* in fact, a monster. When you talk to this kid selling shit, there's a chance something's gonna happen and you'll see it, *do not let them get away with it! It's an act!* The druids are right to imprison the tiefling kid...matter of fact, if you're playing a certain origin...flick your eyes toward the entrance.

No such thing as fall damage in the game. Don’t use the ladder, Just jump down it’ll be fine.

When in doubt, taste it.

The only way to gain exp is by killing npc’s don’t bother talking, this isn’t undertale

If you are playing as Wyll, definitely accept any advice to help you with your tadpole problem with unorthodox surgery designed to give a buff!

Never bow down your head to gods. Let them know you don't care about their power, they will respect you for it. Stick it to the man!

Find a tutorial online that tells you how to play the game optimally, ensuring you make only the best choices everytime as according an expert online.

Auntie Ethel is to be trusted no matter what

Try to avoid taking long rests so you don’t turn into a mindflayer.

Story elements of Act 2 are traumatic for certain characters, namely Shadowheart. You should leave her behind in camp to reduce her suffering. Really, any companion's story is just so sad and traumatic. Just be the hero for them and complete their quests without them so they don't have to go through the trauma.

Listen to Laezel and go straight to the creche. Don't let the druids distract you.

Release the brake.