DRUNKEN MASTER Subclass Monk Guide | Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 Stress Test

[@SereTheDoggoUwU]

Imma make an evil drunken master durge named “step father”

[@Aeolusdallas]

Mine will be named sho nuff

[@athernandez666]

@SereTheDoggoUwU that's so evil

[@totengunso4047]

Better? Possibly. Funnier. Most Definitely.

[@wayfaringnomad]

lol I like the way you think.

[@Thunderstrike10]

they went all out on these new custom animations lol, love it! I hope the elemental cleaves from giant barbarian look cool too.

[@wayfaringnomad]

Should be covering it tomorrow!

[@chasegreaser1166]

The point of intoxicating strike and life of the party is to hit multiple people to build stacks first to build up a high armor class. With everyone failing dexterity checks and not being able to hit you. You become a great frontliner. As well as being able to hit and run. You actually don't want to use the sober move too much. If anything needs a buff is that

[@wayfaringnomad]

It should be stacking right?

[@chasegreaser1166]

@wayfaringnomad correct.

[@DaCookyooker]

@@wayfaringnomad when you did that Sobering Realisation attack on Manip Cragbender, the Life of the Party was +2, so I guess it does stack

[@xaviermurillon7269]

I'm so happy that I cam across your channel through these videos! I started playing BG3 (first DnD game for me) like a month ago and I've fallen so deep so fast! I'm really into the role playing aspects of the game rather than trying to be the most busted character ever. I'm happy to see someone also focusing on sharing those aspects, without completely putting aside viability. Can't wait to see more of what you'll do !

[@wayfaringnomad]

Thank you brother! We like the fun RP around here.

[@Gangerworld]

The animations for Drunken Master are better than I could have imagined. I can't believe we're getting it for free, not to mention the 11 other subclasses and their new animations. Larian is so generous they might be insane.

[@TheRetifox]

I am really excited about this subclass. Thanks for all the videos covering the new subclasses!

[@wayfaringnomad]

More to come!

[@allycard]

causing disadvantage on dex checks seems really solid for supporting your fireball happy wizard. i think if sober realization would get stronger the more stacks of life of the party you gained it would feel better.

[@wayfaringnomad]

I'm keeping my eye on updates to see if those stacks will actually matter. I feel like they should and that's sort of what the tool tip suggests. But I got it to 3 and nothing changed.

[@anergyboy2192]

Disadvantage on dexterity checks is not disadvantage on dexterity saving throws.

[@allycard]

@@anergyboy2192 oops yeah. i mixed up checks and saves.

[@sulemanmalik8228]

I feel like male human is a must for a drunken master character, because whenever I think of a drunken boxer i think about the old Jackie Chan movies lol.

[@Quetzelkoa]

Whoa, they made redirect attack actually awesome.

[@skyrole455]

My most exciting one I can’t wait to watch this

[@johncombs2798]

I guess the monk is already OP so they just added really cool animations.

[@mark11tz]

I remember there is an accessory which can give you Hp regen when you get drunk.

[@wayfaringnomad]

Lol yeah it's a must for this subclass to hunt down all the drunk gear.

[@pawefurtak6391]

Intoxicating strike stacks, but it loses one stack a turn. Still, if you hit with it more than once, you can scale it pretty well.

[@wayfaringnomad]

I think it must be bugged then because I got it to 3 stacks and didn't see a different in the log.

[@Junorimo]

I can't wait to do my honor mode solo run with my naked drunken master lol

[@wayfaringnomad]

That sounds hilarious, I can't wait to see people do this.

[@hadliellehawkins1964]

i need to see swarmkeeper, it's the one i'm most excited about and noone has used it yet 😢

[@joepzomerveld]

about your comment on a benefit when you're drunk. I think it would be most fun if drinking alcohol in general had both a debuff and a buff. For example, you lose some of your decision making and your poise is worse, but you gain some temp hp from the numbing and are slightly more courageous. All other classes would take this as a side-grade buff potion, but the drunken monk would ignore the negative effects only.

[@wayfaringnomad]

There's drunk gear in bg3, which is a must for this subclass.

[@adamwallace8416]

Can't wait until the release

[@cacherow]

Would be funny to use the weapon that gives you an extra reaction and make enemies hit each other multiple times every turn.

[@wayfaringnomad]

Lol I'm going to try this

[@tobak952]

is it better than openhand? nope, not at all. Is it good enough to contribute meaningfully to a honour mode party? yes. is it super fun to play? it sure looks that way. Im stoked for this one, thanks for showing it off :D

[@wayfaringnomad]

That's my feelings on it too. Might throw back a few beers myself to really get immersed!

[@Reignmaker1]

Drunken Master looks to be suffering from Open Hand being overtuned. In addition, the drunk-synergizing equipment are too few in number while all being in Act 3, and they dropped the ball on having the option to add a subclass feature that actually gave a benefit to having the actual drunk condition, but not doing it. It looks like a perfectly fine subclass by itself, but Open Hand is just stronger at every level :s The animations are absolutely peak though

[@RazielTheUnborn]

They may end up shuffling that gear to earlier parts of the game. Wouldn't be the first time they've done something like that. The Necklace Hope has used to be in Act 1 then they warped it to Act 3 when it becomes more useless compared to earlier Acts, and fights considering if you're fightin Raphael, the junk you could do with said necklace is chump change compared to what you do at that point.

[@gipsymelody1268]

Maybe we will get also some new items? I mean we get new spells and cantrips also!

[@gipsymelody1268]

Indeed open hands just got too much! Way of elements just fine and way of shadow actually bad…

[@marquisepixley684]

​@@gipsymelody1268I disagree with you way of shadows is far from being bad it is actually pretty good

[@gipsymelody1268]

@ nah it's bad... everything after medium difficulty it does not let you to play with way of shadow... yeah you can find some video on yt but in all case tha shadow monk is higher with 2 levels! -_-

[@l_l_140]

God, this subclass is the best, when should I expect an update, in what month?

[@wayfaringnomad]

I'm actually not sure, this is the first time I've done a stress test for bg3.

[@Simon-fi6tl]

Love the animations tho i’m not so sure about the subclass. The damage from the drunken technique was good but all monk subclasses have high damage so that’s not really new. The synergy with intoxicating strike and sobering realization seems quite weak.

[@wayfaringnomad]

They may tweak it, I think life of the party should stack values, like adding +1AC etc. Not sure if it's working as intended.

[@PattheMan876-qf8ro]

Ngl, I kinda wish we got the Kensai subclass instead. A brawler with more weapon variety could have been nice.

[@vypyrplays]

I'll second this.

[@MavMaestro]

I'm pretty sure Life of the Party supposed to stack, but they still might change it

[@wayfaringnomad]

I got it to 3 stacks and didn't see a difference, I wonder if that is a bug.

[@determinationfreak1656]

I was hoping the stumble would be there. The reason being is because I plan to go a duel class of Swashbuckling Rouge and this. Yeah, I plan to make Jack Sparrow as a BG3 Tav.

[@wayfaringnomad]

Lol that sounds amazing actually.

[@determinationfreak1656]

@@wayfaringnomad Would it be more accurate to play as Tav or Durge tho?

[@blairbrook1336]

final fantasy tactics !!!! it calls to me!!!!

[@wayfaringnomad]

waiting for that remake/remaster...

[@blairbrook1336]

@@wayfaringnomad please please please this i would love it. I would love for them to add all the jobs from the other FFTA games into it.

[@PeredMagra]

Theres 3 or 4 items that you get benefits from being drunk.

[@wayfaringnomad]

Yeah I was hoping the subclass would provide more benefits.

[@Skar38rus]

it's defentely way worse then Way of Open Hands. Just because of free Psyonic damage ON EACH Attack there and it's can be doubled with item from ACT2. And u losing ur prone attacks and +1 or even +2 armor not worth the lost damage. And on lvl 9 Open hands got AOE damage.. well. Trash. I'm so dissapoint about that. U still can get Drunker amulet to get some +6 temp HP per turn, but it's bugged and don't give HP EVERY turn, one once, so trash spec anyway only for Roleplay or fun.