Baldur's Gate 3: Sorcadin solo Raphael | Tactician Mode

★ My PC had some technical issues: malfunction parts and a dead hard drive, took sometime to get it back running proper and with playable FPS to continue playing.
✶ As for the builds: i'm editing one for Sorcadin, it will be ready later.
✎ Key breakdown for Raphael battle below:
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★ Devotion Paladin 6 / Draconic Sorcerer 6
17 / 8 / 14 / 8 / 10 / 16
Feats: GWM , ASI (+2 Cha)
Stat Boosts: Hag Hair (+1 Str) , Potion of Everlasting Vigour (+2 Str) , Mirror of Loss (+2 Cha)
• Spell DC stacking (from equipments/consumable) + Stepped in Bliss (Disadvantage on Mental Saves) + Phalar Aluve (-1d4 Saves) = Guaranteed Perilous Stake
┖ Resonance Stone provide Stepped in Bliss Aura, you can get it during Mindflayer Colony section in Act II
┖ Stepped in Bliss also apply Psychic Vulnerability which boosts Strange Conduit Ring dmg
┖ Phalar Aluve = -1d4 for Enemy saves and attack rolls , +1d4 Thunder on attacks for you
• Callous Glow Ring +2 Radiant on hit stripped Cambion's Fleeting Protection dmg reflect without hurting you.
┖ x2 Radiant reflect back as Fire dmg = 4 Fire - 2 (Fire Resistance) -2 (Magical Plate) = 0 dmg
┖ This allow Paladin to Divine Smite the Cambions without dying.
• Perma Bless: buy the 5000 gold Statue from Stoney in the Circus (applies after every Long Rest)
• Awakened status is obtained in Gith Creche Infirmary by passing 3 checks.
• Mirror of Image grants +3 AC each Image for total +9 against first 3 misses
• Shield grants +5 AC on reaction and persists until it's your character turn
• Battlemage Power , Cloud Giant and Bloodlust Elixirs don't stack and replace eachother, so i use them in different phases of the fight:
┖ use Battlemage to hover the +3 Arcane Acuity buff
┖ use Elixir Cloud Giant (STR increase to 27) before initiating combat to nova Raphael + Yurgir with Balduran GS which double STR modifier to dmg
┖ use Bloodlust to get +1 Action point on kill to deal with the remaining cambions
• Extra Attack + Haste + Bloodlust + GWM BA = 7 attacks per turn
• Initiating combat out of Stealth/Invis = Surprised , enemies can't act in the first round
┖ Yurgir has Alert feat which is why he didn't get Surprised
┖ Use See Invisibility to reveal Yurgir, i used Assassin of Bhaal Cowl for it
Rest of the buffs you can make out by looking at the equipments / spells / noteable features in the video.
00:00 - Equipments & Buffs
01:49 - Battle Begins
05:26 - Noteable Features & Outro

[@barkie_swag]

Killing Raphael before he even gets to sing his part is insane...

[@cabbage_cat]

Paladin in a nutshell

[@garycannon4644]

@@cabbage_cat more like stacking your character with the best shit in a nutshell lol

[@dravious]

My thought exactly

[@ramsaybolton9151]

@@garycannon4644 I hate stuff like this in games lol.

[@georgedanielsbiz]

@@ramsaybolton9151why ?

[@beoweasel]

You have to admire the optimism of Raphael's Cambion minions. They just watched their leader, the strongest among them, who was empowered by four soul pillars boosting his already prodigious strength even further...getting pasted in less than six seconds (as a turn in D&D is only six seconds long), but they're thinking, "Nah, we can take him. We got this."

[@Bussy-Hunter]

They probably haven't even processed what just happened.

[@ince55ant]

i think of it as a combination of hubris and "this is my chance to take control!"

[@konstantinriumin2657]

"AMONG THEM"

[@kitaisuru]

IIRC the maximum attacks you can do per round in the game is 15. Imagine seeing someone swing a giant ass zweihander with smites 15 times in 6 seconds lol literally vergil moment

[@oddbychoice6105]

Typical grunt behavior😂

[@plaguealex]

Bro just went full on Overlord buffing sequence

[@Alys_Landale]

Eagerly awaiting your build of my favorite multiclass. Always a joy to watch these.

[@Sarin031]

I feel like after you instantly killed Raphael the cambion should run away in terror.

[@thineubaut]

I thought the dwarf might surrender at least.

[@GenSphinx]

That should be a condition, if Raphael dies before he even gets to attack his minions should say "fuck this" and run like hell.

[@beoweasel]

I wish there was a moment after the battle where we could taunt a dying Raphael. Like leaning close to his ear as he lay bleeding and gasping on the floor to whisper, "Then down came the claw. And that, love, was that."

[@geraldfabrot9961]

As you Shapeshift into a panther, or your whole team as cats, and let a summon deal the killing blow

[@jonsong4592]

"You lasted in battle as long as you do in bed"

[@beoweasel]

@@jonsong4592 Ooooof.

[@girf4233]

marvel line

[@kitaisuru]

"Dying Raphael"? My man I think that guy has been atomized there is nothing left for you to talk to.

[@nopleasestopdont]

that was awesome. watching you pre-buff was really something lol

[@samboha5583]

As always, this is a masterclass in utilizing every tool available. Can't stress enough how interesting it is watching some of these techniques like the gear swaps for the various pre-fight buffs. I mean, come on.. dropping your weapon, equipping another, and using the new weapon's unique action to buff the weapon on the ground is so smart and elegant.

[@xReifox]

Oh boy, I was waiting for more videos, thought they would never come.

[@Dumpstermuffin1]

LOL the beginning of this video reminds of that anime Overlord where he cast every single buff on himself

[@Mineral4r7s]

I learned so much from watching this in slow motion. Handy ui tricks, perks i missed. I was more impressed with the smoothness of the ececution than any of the numbers. This was like watching a well studied ritual. Good job

[@RhymeOrRiven]

i love your videos been here since dos2 seeing you play my favorite class (paladin) makes me laugh and take notes keep up the good work cant wait for a build/buff guide

[@albertguillem3182]

Happy to see you are back at it!

[@ShenMerrick]

Boy, I understand the PC woes. My PC is so horribly out of date at this point that I really just need to make a new build entirely...but can't afford it. Glad you got yours worked out. Also, I can't wait for that build guide. I am currently level 5 on my Devotion Paladin in Act 1. Making slow progress. LOL

[@carodar34]

my old system lagged out on that game so i was in need to change it. hope you can afford yours soon

[@D00RYA]

Well, there is a good news for people like you. AMD confirmed giving their version of DLSS to every card. So you can play your resolution WHILE its processed as much lower resolution, so your GPU will do wonders like never before. For zero cost...

[@Pikeno008]

@@D00RYA Where can i download or get that? When?

[@saltyexxer8253]

If you watch his videos closely starting with paladin gith patrol, all the information is there to duplicate the build.

[@carodar34]

@@Pikeno008 will come soon maybe arround end of the year i guess, DLSS 3 wonder of every amd gpu

[@OneEepyTiger]

Glad to see your uploading again, cant wait for the build guide.

[@ant1887]

Welcome back Sin!!!! Glad you got your PC fixed. looking forward to your guides

[@Tauriz_]

Holy shit mate, I would've been dead at the pre-buff phase. GJ.

[@IKolpikov]

They need to add some cinematic version for battles like that if raphael get's THAT humiliated.

[@NeoSpira]

The whole prebuffing part reminded me of that one elden ring video lol

[@qandmargo]

Or that one scene in overlord where Ainz activates his buffs before the battle lmao

[@ares8580]

@@qandmargoi mean ainz is based off dnd too so 🤣

[@Devilsnightforlife]

@@ares8580 That is true. In Overlord/Yggdrasil though it doesn't seem like mages uses spell slots but instead can cast as many spells as they want, as long as they have the mana for it and the spells aren't on cooldown. Thankfully for the guy in the video here he only used 1 spell that cost a spell slot (mirror image) before the fight, everything else either cost bonus actions or cantrip actions.

[@zacharymartin2997]

Glad to see you back at it, Sin! Sick as always

[@marukiddo1416]

wait, you can surprise a scripted fight by turning invisible before triggering the dialogue??? omg that changes everything

[@Alys_Landale]

Yeah. If you want to play assassin go duergar and it will actually work easy

[@TheExai]

which is obvsly a bug

[@KnightArt708]

Lol the first minute made me think about the mc in Overlord buffing scene before fighting

[@alexandrebernhard7015]

man your build is just INSANE!

[@Zogun_85]

Incredible! The amount of pre-buffing is mad 😂 I was happy to land hold monster and just whack him in one turn with a full party but this, holy sh1!

[@ATGaming-bq3vq]

Sending this to my co-worker who told me "You can't one man Raphael!" He said the same thing about Auntie Ethel, The Gym-forge, and Cazador. I soloed all of them to prove him wrong, and Raphael is next on the hit list. I've been looking up solo runs at Raph all day, and yours is my favorite. The whole aesthetic of a Paladin just smiting demons like they're nothing is 👌👌👌

[@janggz7620]

Jeez, those standard attacks hit like trucks. That's insane.

[@CodeKujo]

Could someone break down how the sword damage is over 100? I can only account for (2d6+36)*2, which doesn't quite get to 100: enchantment (3) + 2 (callous) + 10 (all in) + 8 (27 str elixir) + 8 (giantslayer) +5 (arcane synergy)

[@edwardsantos193]

@@CodeKujo Let's see its: base Sword of Balduran damage, 20 Charisma Modifier, 23 Strength also being applied per hit (SoB passive) + (Cloud Giant Elixir), and I get fuzzy on the weapon buffs.

[@T3leW3ll]

I saved the bomb meant for the Steel Watch foundry and threw it at Raphaels face from inside a globe of invulnerability, almost killed all the weaker mobs instantly then mopped up the rest while Raphael was stuck with hold monster spell

[@hiroakihanyu]

after showing the gear i optimistically thought i could grasp it, but then came the storm of stacking the drugs @_@

[@AcBaLkX]

I very much liked that you showed of your character at the start rather than the end of the video. Showing every item and especially every buff while you apply it makes this 100% better than most of these kinds of videos since you enable us to see how the build works way better that way. At 1:41 you can see the „form of artifice“ buff where does this one come from?

[@th0rne_999]

Liiiives -oh- immortal liiiiives, expiiiire

[@OnlineKenji]

Impressive as always!

[@lemuria7853]

I always fantasise paladin to be a lawful good religious dumb stubborn person whose got the entire house of priests to buff him/her, has fully enchanted gear from head to toe, and just blow away enemies with sneeze, this is the closest depiction I’ve seen lol.

[@meredocu]

so raphael is singing while drowning in his own blood, the big guy Yurgir is sliding very slowly, maybe trying to hide under the couch as a last effort in surviving this ordeal. all the other are just confused and clueless about what just happened, the hero doesn't even bother doing the animation toward the end to kill the midget. this is just as it was intended.

[@tobiaspascual272]

God damn it, first i see the Lockadin being fun and OP and go an make one up to test it and feel dirty and now i see this with a Sorcadin, while i have one paladin to test this with a friend... Awesome video btw!

[@trantuan9651]

This is so satisfying

[@rickool07]

raphael still giving his vocals from beyond the 9 circles of hell 😂

[@Thanosdidnothingwrong.]

Applying all your buffs should have its separate video lol. Looking forward to the builds.

[@stevobz]

The showdown we’ve been waiting for

[@iurilourenco]

What buffs do you want? Yes

[@135Fenrir]

Ahhh paladins. The bane of any boss monster and DM.

[@miragaming9628]

my jaw just dropped that it's now in house of hope, maybe you can find it there x) great build.

[@millerwoodward1198]

awesome vid, def going play a half orc in my next playthrough

[@nestor6914]

wait you surprised them by using invisibility before starting the dialogue? lol

[@joshuamiller8533]

I think the thing I like most about sin tee videos is the lack of narration. The video is only as long as it needs to be, without unnecessary filler.

[@alexgermack197]

I really like how you used perilous stakes as a damage buff, I never even thought to use it on enemies

[@zeroonezero6270]

Lithis powers are primarily INT based saves (debuffs) on the enemy - it makes sense when you see their brain pulsate when they speak to signify intelligence. Most enemies have weak mental stats (int, wis, charisma). The phalar aluv he uses debuffs all 3 by lowering their rolls by two. So, the damage skyrockets. Mental inhibition does it too. Hold monster and the like are all wisdom saves.

[@onlyashadow1121]

Multiple leveled spells per turn, absolutely bonkers

[@madestro]

I don't even understand all that you did BEFORE the fight even started lol. Very very nice indeed.

[@BahamutEx]

On the playthrough with a friend of mien we had the inside joke that my paladin misses atleast one of her two attacks. :3 You hitting almost everything(if not all attacks) is making me feel kinda bad for my pally. x(

[@nenn2868]

An other typical day of Raphael got smited on to the ground

[@disk3001]

I like the idea, instead of just taking a bunch of drugs, the Sorcadin rubs him/herself on multiple swords to get juiced up for the fight Truly a Paladin of justice

[@W.A.-Linux]

Nice work.

[@kirkgriff5117]

the 99 percent hit on advantage miss.... pure

[@kajitherapie9723]

Ouh yes... i habe wait for this

[@Farron6]

You would be a very dangerous Dungeons & Dragons player. I could see a lot of DMs getting fustrated with you 🤣

[@Rystefn]

An actual DM wouldn't let him stand around and pre-buff for a dozen rounds before the boss fight.

[@willdrivesu7914]

@@Rystefn Technically you wouldn't know there was going to be a fight right there, so there'd be no point in super buffing yourself, xD

[@castingdefects]

this feels like im looking at pathfinder wotr gameplay lmao. those buffs

[@cheesepotato5753]

hope you have no more issue with pc i love your videos !!!!!!!!!

[@harkenlyn]

I hope they add an easter egg for Raphael's vocals in the song to cut out if you kill him early

[@f.jideament]

The real CLAW.

[@deandoubek3075]

I didn't realize how powerful perilous stakes was

[@junghwanbaik2385]

you buffing before the fight reminded me of that one scene from overlord

[@t3nryu31]

Raphael kept singing after death like tupac

[@SolStarSS]

bro is the boss

[@Djinni_P]

jesus christ, you are playing a totally different game than i am XD

[@stillbaomatsuo]

You are back! Please do more vids! We need more Sin Tee, mediocrity won't suffice!

[@primesuspect1102]

Lost my respect for playing a gith, but gained my respect for soloing raph. So we're even.

[@Cheerwine091]

If you look close, he’s actually playing a half orc!

[@Olivaar]

Perfect amount of likes!

[@James-kv3ll]

Do you have a solo tactician Monk build that doesn’t require Astarion? I love my son but I don’t want to play as him.

[@bradley6377]

Sweet baby jesus

[@teinmeizeshi5209]

I still think it's funnier that Raphael becomes a sitting duck if you just put a lvl1 spell silence on him. Just use sentinel or something to restrict his movement.

[@dbaxter604]

sentinel currently bugged after last patch

[@Harinjo916]

On my first playthrough I used the darkness of hadar or how is it called and oiled up the place where he was, dude literally was holding and quivering in fear lmao

[@PenguinsAreColdish]

sentinel doesn’t even function

[@BahamutEx]

Isn't silence lvl2?

[@janggz7620]

@5:00 you smacked Yorgrim so hard he's ascending.

[@AtreyusNinja]

was that in-game music? or was added? damn that was cool

[@wraithalcon]

Raphael has his own special track. I was not prepared when I heard it the first time.

[@BroanderRentner]

It is ingame Music Yes. He has his own Bossfight Track :)

[@thangacea.nguyen1359]

overlord ep12 flashback

[@Ilkanar]

1:33 suddendly i feel like using soulshots for my every attack, buff bar gets that big

[@jelloshot]

its so cool that you can minmax so much in this game and see the true limits of 5e rules(ish) bc i feel like any reasonable dm would be so mad if u one turned their big bad lmao

[@4nto418]

Honestly dude "just" brought the level of minmaxing you see in high level play (17+). As a DM the first mistake would have been to give access to the "perfect build" to a character, and yeah, calculating the bonuses and damages would have taken a long while lol

[@TheExai]

it won't work because you can't just stop time while you pre-buff, you won't be able to know in advance when and where the fight actually triggers and of course speaking should break invisibility and not grant surprised effect

[@GodammitNappa]

Tip for mect video. Take a minute or two more to show the gear slowly. It's nice to be able to read it without having to hyper pause :)

[@janbertguerrero6988]

my biggest issue with paladin builds tho is how you easily run out of spells slots SO FAST

[@oceanwavedvd]

Hey buddy this is baulders gate elden ring was back that way

[@jlee545]

using the draconic glaive to buff another weapon. omg like why did i never think of that!??

[@RecoveringLoLAddict]

I cast smite *WITH MY SWORD*

[@lyowin]

Yurgir body drifting away lol

[@lightninggaming016]

At this point Raphael be getting bullied by everyone 😂😂

[@wesleyw.terpstra1902]

I did something similar, but as 7/5 oathbreaker/pact-of-blade ... gets you 3 attacks per action instead of 2. I also opened with hypnotic pattern which shutdown almost all the enemies, so I just knocked them down one by one. I did not know about using perilous strikes on _enemies_. That's a nice trick.

[@wesleyw.terpstra1902]

Oh, also, Yurgir was on my side, so did not need to worry about invisibility.

[@23rdMc]

Missed oppertunity to save hopes sister :(

[@arkahique]

the nb of boosts remind me of that overlord video lmao

[@domokun845]

Oh shit, I didn't realize multiclasssing a sorc and paly gives you full sorc spell progression and spell slots for smites. Damn Larians homebrew bs. I thought lockadin was the pinnicle and I was like how the hell are you getting lvl6 smites...

[@Cheerwine091]

That’s not Homebrew. It used the 5e multiclass spell slot chart. Paladin counts has half a level in a spell caster, sorcerer counts as a full level, so according to the chart, he’s a 9th level spell caster. Thus, 6th level slots.

[@domokun845]

@Cheerwine091 I was referring to how he was doing over 5d8 smite dmg, I should have been more clear. Depending on your split at one point Larian was also rounding up what spell slots you got vs rounding down. Sadly, they patched that and doing more than 5d8 smites in the latest update...oh well. Lockadin extra attack from potb at 5/5 seems to be stronger generally, maybe not nova, which is def something they just left in as a homebrew when they found out it wasn't working as intended. Potb shouldn't give you an extra attack at all or one on top of the extra atk from paly 5 but they tried to make it a pseudo hexblade

[@traNee]

finally the dlc for elden ring came out

[@pablogonzalez9724]

Crazy

[@rtihs6033]

I knew it was gonna be crazy but ONE TURN???

[@TheExai]

props for your maths, but honestly you can only do this by pre-loading before a known fight with known scripts, so it's kinda of same as putting 9000 gunpowder boxes in advance

[@shaihuludthemaker]

Disagree...it takes a lot of game knowledge and planning to solo bosses like this, and sin did this without the benefit of going off someone else's guide.

[@senorgusta3300]

Incredible, as always. How does the Arcane Acuity play in before the Cloud Giant Strength?

[@sintee106]

Arcane Acuity gives +3 Spell Save DC, it is utilized only to guarantee Perilous Stake land. While it doesn't stack with Cloud Giant, Arcane Acuity as a buff, take turns to tick down. By drinking Battlemage Power first then Cloud Giant Str right before combat, the character get to have 27 STR and still keep 3 Arcane Acuity.

[@kamen42]

Impressive, but one confusion. I thought the Shriek effect from Phalar Aluve is lost if the weapon is unequipped.

[@sythanh14]

Yes I think so too, just tried and it doesn’t. Maybe they will change in a patch, or maybe they won’t

[@voyagersmarch8776]

the sword is singing thats why

[@saltyexxer8253]

Right on time, my sorcadin just hit level 10 this afternoon and I'm entering Baldur's Gate.

[@pepesad4474]

30 parasites is wild

[@mord1q198]

3 удара на Рафа... Очень мило. Налицо максимальное знание и понимание всех механик:)

[@JohnSmith-vm6hd]

why "Circuitry Interface" (gloves) before all other buffs ?

[@SergeyLohmachev-vt2nc]

Corilla could have been simply stunned, she's only 3 lvl

[@MattDoesLife539]

How are you dealing 80 damage per hit from the physical hit???

[@rynroderic649]

Am I the only one that think that DOS2 > BG3 combat wise?

[@garretshadowleap5203]

man i love your builds since divinity. can this work with an oathbraker?

[@zeroonezero6270]

Yeah because oddly, the aura of hate is obtained by level 7. Since he is a 6/6 paladin sorcerer. The pally aura at 7 that gets replaced; he wasn’t using it anyways. Then you get to swap the 45 heal laying on hands for 3 spells at 7 for some reason. You can oathbreak this build and it just doesn’t matter. Only matters if you play full pally.

[@666lupine666]

so... Raphael has the power to drag your soul into the danny elfman dimension? fiendish indeed. seriously though. what the hell am I looking at and how did we get here?

[@invictus7736]

why are you watching this video if you have no clue about the context?

[@666lupine666]

@@invictus7736 I have played BG3, but to it's credit, BG3 shows quite a different face to everyone who plays it. I had zero intention of being rude. Fascinating how defensive you guys are. I am a subscriber to sin tee. I am a gamer and a role-player too, I am not here to hurt you. Please take it down a notch.

[@invictus7736]

@@666lupine666 jesus christ, who pissed in your cereal? it's a completely reasonable question to ask why on earth you would be watching videos containing story spoilers for a game you play but didn't finish yet, and then leave a comment asking to get spoiled even further