Honour Mode Thoughts and (Mostly) Tips For Baldur's Gate 3

[@matteopoerio5632]

If you want have the easiest time possible: play as dark urge / carisma character / drow. Have Gale in your party, befriend him and agree on using the orb. Play act 1 normally. Charisma your way trough act 2. Once you get to Balthazar persuade him to get the bell. Leave , use the bell, kill the summon. Back to Balthazar, kill him while he's in the room you first meet him. Save the Nightsong, once everyone is at moonrise go back to Last Light and kill Isabel ( this will make Orins fight easier because you will have the transformation and she won't and killing Isabel now is a lot easier given she is on her own). Finish act 2. At this point you have practically won. Start Act 3, ally with Gortash. Get to the murder tribunal (being dark urge will allow you to skip the fight with savrock). 1v1 Orin (given you killed Isabel, she won't trasform and the fight is a joke.) This is the only required fight in ACT 3. Finish the game, once you get close to the brain, you will be able to ask gale to use the orb, completely skipping the final fight.

[@ashleyvandyk4981]

This is the perfect comment for my playthrough, just got to act 3 as Durge & I did kill Isobel. Thank you brother

[@BenjaminHB]

Take the Orin duel seriously. If you’re just depending on hacking away as Slayer form then you’re probably going to die. In order to avoid any risk of getting nuked by Orin’s mega attack, you need to be a bit more clever than that, either with a ton of pre-buffing or with a strategic exit and re-entry of the Slayer form to quickly regain all that health.

[@bierrafeu7519]

@@BenjaminHB Or, be a Way of the palm monk with tavern brawler, 3 levels in thief rogue and a cloud giant potion. Should Orin stab you out of slayer form, you reappear as the TRUE murder incarnate, then proceed to punch her 10 times a round. Pretty unlikely she manages to kill you out of slayer form tho, since tavern brawler, Monk's martial arts and thief's additional bonus action are active during slayer form Also for Act 2 you can kill Z'rell, the necromancer next door and the necromites on the roof before the final battle (just make sure you get rid of the scrying eye), this along with killing the warden makes the fight on the first floor much easier

[@maxifernandez1760]

A quick tip for Balthazar: if you cast Knock on his door in the Gauntlet of Shar during the fight against the Dark Justiciars, he'll be forced to join the battle and will be Neutral (Aka, he will only attack the DJs). After this, you can pull an Uno Reverse on his necromantic ass and hide in the room while all the enemies kill him and his minions. The only downside is that now you'll have to fight a good amount of DJs, but at least you won't have to deal with Balthazar, his army of spooky bois and his annoying Cloudkill casts.

[@oneverymadlad1124]

Kinda think Orin is harder when she isn’t a slayer since she gets the same ability as Sarveok which lets her attack 5-7 times in a single turn and as a reaction with 20-30 damage daggers as well as a crap ton of stats that buff her resistances that she doesn’t get as a slayer

[@yohanes2034]

My tip for honour mode is to use shovel the quasit to start the battle. Shovel has unlimited invisibility, so you can start battles with enemies surprised most of the time

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Basket is great! I like his battle cries also.

[@Nsta1]

@@CasualVeteranGamer I agree, I really love using Fork.

[@blackhat4206]

"Don't care" is what it said it prefers. Not sure why this isn't a more widely acknowledged option. /s

[@CAiNiAC]

Because I believe changing his name blocks out unlocking him as a permanent familiar that doesn't cost a spell slot.

[@thisishowitallends9321]

It shows on my wheel as a lvl 1 spell but it actually never takes a slot for me when cast

[@Nathanorwhatever]

My biggest recommendation having completed it: I found that the majority of the bosses were not immune to being blinded. The Inquisitor, could be blinded, couldn't summon as many blades. Myrkul, could be blinded, couldn't use his legendary action. So on and so on. Hunger of Hadar was a clutch spell as a result because it blinded like fog cloud and darkness but also added difficult terrain making it hard to get out of. Blinding bosses is your best friend.

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

I might take another look at the blindness spell as well then since it lasts 10 turns and doesn't require concentration so it pretty much remains for the whole time.

[@Nathanorwhatever]

@@CasualVeteranGamer It does, but it requires a save to blind them. Hunger of Hadar blinds them regardless of if they make a save as the save is for the damage

[@thomashightower7881]

@@Nathanorwhatever true that, but blindness is available earlier and for more classes. Hunger of Hadar is still amazing. I just destroyed Raphael by comboing Hunger with Insect plague, slow, and a berserker throwing Nyrulna. Didn't even need to destroy the pillars, I had summoned a djinni to repo him back into the cloud if he managed to get out too.

[@SirCharles12357]

The "Bleeding condition" makes constitution saves at a disadvantage, so the Illithid Spike Ball, or Tiger Barbarian, or Sword special attacks can be used to set up the Blind Spell.

[@Nathanorwhatever]

@@thomashightower7881 I get it entirely. The only issue with blindness is it is a save or suck spell, and those are rough in honor mode. You could use a second level spell and get nothing at all, and those loss of resources in honor mode can be the difference of life or death. I’d rather Darkness even for the same reason, the blind. I know it costs concentration, but I’d rather have to concentrate than waste a spell slot

[@jaime8013]

I think the hardest part of honour mode is act 1 when you’re only level 1-3. Those first few levels you don’t have many abilities or HP so it’s really easy to die. Best to avoid any fighting until at least level 4-5

[@vulture27fm]

Straight up 100% correct. Almost all of my scary moments happened in act one. By the time I was in act 3 I just casually went to stomp the house of hope and after having the broken AF gear there was no question if the run was complete.

[@DEVil-po5xz]

either that or you could be an idiot like me, miss most of the important things that give you EXP, and try to fight Raphael at the start of Act 3 at level 8

[@ThanhLai5]

You don't need to fight anything to reach level 4 in act 1.

[@B1gLupu]

All the deadliest fights are in Act 1 - Anders - Gith patrol - those shove dwarfs at the boat Anders can barrelmancied tho, and the Gith can be managed easily with high ground if you destroy the ladders or block their entrances. Only need to do that as level 4 tho. Really the properly tough fight is the boat dwarfs since you cant prep the battlefield.

[@ThanhLai5]

@@B1gLupuI never fought the duergars on the boat unless I had to. The reward is meh but the risk of losing an honour mode run is too high.

[@exodus8202]

I enforced myself to do every single boss possible on my honour run. The only sketchy fights for me are the harpies, Anders, the goblins at the windmill, and the creche inquisitor. Act 3 bosses can sound scary but at that point you have all the tools in the world to beat them.

[@schwany6703]

orin ruined my run after one turning my groups warlock, two turning our bard, and then the others died to the ridiculous death condition. what an awful fight

[@vulture27fm]

The closest I got to wiping was fighting the zhentarim in act 1 (I wanted all of those delicious smokepowder barrels). One of them accidently blew up the entire room killing most of themselves and two of my party instantly. I knew the harpies would be a sh** show so I just left one party member back at camp to rez and picked them off one by one. Everything in the creche is easily solved with barrelmancy. Tav was a 10 paladin/2 fighter, 2x 8 monk/4 rogue, and a 11 cleric/1 sorc to heal.

[@regillias8546]

House of Hope. Globe of Invulnerability + 4 Clerics + Hope + Divine Intervention. NUKE THE ROOM

[@johntatman7477]

Several people mention having trouble with the Harpies just beyond the Druid's Glade. I throw down a Silence spell before the fight starts, then go stand in it. After that it's a Turkey Shoot, doesn't that still work in Honor Mode?

[@jacksonholder2987]

For the harpies, a single cast of Calm Emotions makes the fight a breeze

[@MorganaEvelyn]

Honour mode is really fun. Congrats CVG

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Thanks!

[@seb2750]

omg its Mommy M.E.

[@sesimie]

Always useful, helpful and appreciated. Your guides are must watch for me!

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Glad to be of help!

[@awholemewworld4799]

Thank you for the tips! Not close to doing honour mode yet. Only part way through my first tactician run, but definitely will get to it eventually.

[@alvarovasconcelos2533]

I also tried to avoid the Thorm family fights and ended up only fighting Gerringothe. But there's no need to play a charisma class for that, you can just start the conversation with a charisma companion specifically build for persuasion/deception etc

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

That's true. I should have been more clear in that it could be any character with charisma.

[@bretthughes27]

While my current playthrough is on Tactician, and I doubt I'll ever try Honor mode, I found this really interesting. Our youngest son got his gold die by sacrificing Gale at the end, after also skipping a few of the Act 3 fights, and talking his way through much of Act 2. I plan on a Lore Bard at some point, so interested in your build recommendation. This is a great overview.

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

I didn't know bg3 ran in your family, congratulations to your son! I've finished honour mode a second time and took on all the bosses in all the acts. From my experience they weren't really much more difficult compared to tactician, but I did have a swords bard 10/fighter 2, which did loads and damage and control. There's little to get wrong with a lore bard since cutting words is useful for any party. I'd pick control spells where possible. Hold person and the level 4 and 5 control spells did a lot of heavy lifting in my second playthrough. I even took command for one of my magical secrets at level 10, but that's because I had the ring of mystic scoundrel so I could use it as a bonus action. Perhaps one of the races that gives you medium armour proficiency would be good to help make up for the generally lower AC of lore bards. You can get that from a feat too, but having either resilient: constitution or warcaster, plus charisma at 20 eats up the feats already.

[@jaime8013]

I didn’t think I’d try honour mode either until I beat tactician. But once I did it gave me the confidence to try! It’s definitely a fun challenge and I just completed act 2 in honour mode

[@bretthughes27]

@@jaime8013 Still in Act 1, which hasn't been that difficult so far. I don't save scum, so perhaps I'll try.

[@dreadknight0]

Honor mode isn't that hard really, just get sure to check for those broken builds that have multiple attacks in one turn. When I killed Sarevok in one turn using just using 2 heros I knew I just was to broken to lose.

[@TRPLD]

This video is a godsend for my honor play through I just recently started! Thought of stopping it since I was sure I bit off more than I can chew. But I might give it a try now

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

If you can handle tactician then the step up isn't much more for Honour mode apart from the bosses and potentially traps killing you off.

[@TRPLD]

@@CasualVeteranGamer that’s the thing. I never played tactician further than the Last light Inn… then patch 5 came out. But I think I’ll give it a try with honor mode.

[@Sussurbark]

Thank you for this video! I am doing a tactician run currently and plan on doing honor mode next. I really love how clear and concise your videos are. As someone who isn’t mechanically gifted/more of a casual gamer, your tier list videos and these ones have really helped me understand how to maximize my builds. I didn’t do a play through with a charisma character in my first run but am now doing a lore bard on tactician and I’ve only realized how amazing charisma characters are! Hoping to look at a sorcadin, gloomstalker ranger/rogue, battlemaster fighter and life cleric with a small dip into wizard on my honor run. Would love to see any recommendations or tier lists for multi classes or even equipment if you were ever inclined!

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Thanks, and I'm glad to have been of help to you. Your plan looks solid and as long as you play smartly you shouldn't have many problems.

[@marcrainbow1714]

Very impressive. I appreciate your tips. As per my habit, I am in the midst of multiple playthroughs, unable to commit to a single strategy. I have been enjoying a solo honor mode running using an open hand monk that is not utilizing the tavern brawler feat. I envy your discipline. Cheers

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Thanks! What's the furthest you have managed to get in an honour mode run then? You say you envy my discipline yet there you are playing solo!

[@marcrainbow1714]

I have advanced to nearly the end of act 2, I have yet to attempt the Kedric fight solo (I am not certain if my delay is due to crafting a strategy or abject terror)@@CasualVeteranGamer

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Yeah, I would be rather concerned about that fight in solo, although maybe you can let Dame Aylin tank (if that's within the rules of a solo ketheric fight??)

[@josephdmsimeon]

I think the hardest part of honour mode for me as when it was released on xbox, I had not played the game at all, so my first run being honour mode is near the end of act 3 having made all these mistakes because I just didn’t have meta gaming knowledge, I have restarted a new honour mode which is me going through trying to achieve the outcomes I wanted because I wasn’t prepared for certain types of rolls. While I want to gold dice which can be achieved easily on my first run since everyone has their kit, a part of me wants to complete the game with a run that I am more-so proud of. Each run has no save scumming but definitely the meta-gaming knowledge is powerful to when you have a dire roll coming up so you make sure you have all your inspiration. The biggest help being a sorcerer my favourite build is 1 tempest cleric / 11 sorc with white dragon bloodline, love ice spells in this game. I would use ‘shovel’ summon so much to engage fights so the enemies are surprised.

[@JosieJOK]

Congrats on your achievement! My friend and I haven’t had a chance to play much-we’re still in Act 1 on our run. No problems so far, but it’s still early. On both my single-player runs, I’m flailing around in Act 3. Since I’m still technically a new player and haven’t completed the game, I think an Act 3 guide would be so helpful for players on their first run. The first two acts are so much more straightforward; even tips on quest order would be helpful!

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Hi, it's good to know that things are going well for you. I've been preparing videos for the bosses of the game but hadn't thought about more general guides for the acts yet. Aside from getting to Orin I don't think the order of the quests actually matters aside perhaps from which ones get you better rewards or are easier.

[@ThorVeras]

You need to combo itens on chars also combo chars. Min Maxing is a must. Also is good to let 1 party member at camp if u feeling insecure about a fight.

[@liberalideas8224]

Great vid boss. I am working my way through my first attempt now, up to Act 2. I find myself milking every drop of xp so that I can skip alot in act 3, as well as, keeping Gale at a good distance from everyone else for easy fleeing if ever needed.

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Good luck on your first attempt. I found that once I was in Act 3 I had no problems at all really, even in my second honour mode run where I did fight all the bosses.

[@InvaderTroy]

my tip is to bring a monk. I made laezel go open hand 9 thief 3 and she trivialized 90% of the end game fights. flurry of blows topple into stunning strike and it’s just over. Raphael didn’t even get a turn

[@andyl7677]

My party was very much the same but I recommend a Tempest cleric. That + Markoheshkir for chain lightning + channel divinity amulet + chain lightning scrolls killed the final boss in one turn after i got it wet with my sorcerer.

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

I've done something similar in past runs, getting max damage on lightning spells while an enemy is vulnerable. It's great to see the brain melt to all that damage.

[@snipexkilla3469]

Im almost through my honor mode run but i have some solid advice from my game so far and previous runs. In act 1 wait on any big fights until you are level 4-5 and have things like elixirs, and potions, it never hurts to over prepare for a fight you are unsure about Sabotage where you can, in moonrise you can easily kill off people like zrell and many more when they split up, like when zrell leaves to her room you can easily get a surprise on her (and her ogre if shes there) and take out a tough opponent early on, this can also work in the creeche in the secluded rooms If you really want extra safety and buffs use hireling clerics to get things like prot from poison, death ward, warding bond, aid, these buffs help BIG at any part of the game Then the rest is just other common things like use your potions and elixirs, use your spells, USE YOUR ARROWS, and how surprised is insanely amazing. Edit: summons can also be amazing for soaking damage, croud control, and having juuust a bit more dps, Elementals can help a bunch with enemies with weaknesses and the create undead spell is underrated.

[@shinkamui]

i one shot so many bosses as a githyanki blade warlock in the early game. Just cast darkness on top of an unsuspecting field enemy like ethel, or the goblin camp true souls, instantly go turn based mode after casting darkness. The enemy will try to run away, but you trap it with turn based, you get full action back, pummel it, flicker turn based off and on, pummel it again and repeat until dead.

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Darkness is very powerful, especially with the Devil's sight invocation.

[@aruaerian]

picking up rotten tomatoes just to get by is rough :D great video!!

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Haha, I will admit that by the end of my second honour mode run I had a lot more money than my first. Perhaps picking up all the rotten food isn't quite necessary!

[@geoffreysherman609]

Gods those haste spores in the last fight were so good!

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

I can't think of a better time to use them, aside from maybe one of them at Ansur since I have often found him to deal the most damage to my party.

[@geoffreysherman609]

Still working on that Ansur fight for tactician in my head. I think it's actually the toughest fight in the game.@@CasualVeteranGamer

[@hanzdekker1]

I believe in the Terrorist mode Satchel bomb for some bosses in Honor Mode like the inquisitor. Stuff explosives into satchel, box, or barrel. Calculate damage based on Boss HP using minimum value and apply P for Plenty. Get one person to throw the bag, box, or barrel which will hopefully break. Then apply fire liberally and watch boss melt first round as the explosives detonate.

[@MrZanvine]

I am in Act 3 on my 50 or so hour Honour mode play through. I will attempt all the bosses. I've not done most of Act 3 prior so I am excited yet nervous to see what I'll encounter. I have a lot of the same escape contingencies as you do. Every character has a misty step scroll, potion of invis, fly etc only to be used if stuff goes horrendously wrong. I use Shadow heart much like how you do, she spams debuffs but also goes into the thick of it with spirit guardians rather than bless. My Wyll is a Pally/Cleric healer who gives bless using the ring when he heals. My tav is a Gloomstalker/bard/thief focuses on ranged DPS but is a potential spell caster if disarmed. Last but not least is Karlach, a WH-Bear Barb/OpenHand Monk/Thief. Bear WH for all the resistances, Thief for extra BA which goes well with OpenHand Monk. - I sacrifice the cleanse of fear/frighten/charm in exchange for 1 extra BA. In the long-run, it is worth it.

[@seb2750]

Grats on golden dice, my guy

[@noctoi]

The alert feat was SO useful in HM. I'm probably going to finish Act 3 over the weekend and so far respeccing Astarion into a rogue/bard hybrid and giving everyone Alert were the most obvious lifesaving tweaks I made for the run. Having a maxed transmute wizard hireling in camp to roll bonus pots for all my alchemy was also brilliant. Haste spore grenades are gold. I have no idea why everyone is so incredibly obsessed with haste pots and spells when you can use the grenade and NOT GET FATIGUE!! They are SO good for the biggest fights. They even hang around for a few turns and the whole party can just run back through them to reapply haste! SH as a life cleric was also game changing, especially in early game and the end of Act 3. I found the leaving one in camp worked well until about mid Act 2, and then I definitely found I felt more and more gimped without the 4th person, and there are a few fights from end Act 2 onward that physically won't let you begin combat without the full party present. To be honest, because I was concentration more on survival than the story for the first time ever, I found myself getting bored in prolonged fights, so having a full part kept me engaged.

[@VultureSausage]

You mentioned the Haste Spores but you didn't mention that they (and the Illithid haste zone) give "old" style haste, i.e. martial classes get to benefit from extra attack! Raphael really isn't that much of a deal when your Paladin gets to put five smites into him with a 2-hander (or if you just want to win, the Deva Mace).

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Paladins are great at doing burst/nova damage!

[@Griffex394]

I'm about 50 hours in for my first honor mode playthrough. I'm doing all bosses and I'm not doing any fancy build. Archfey Warlock Tav (I know it's the worst Warlock, I really don't care), Thief Astarion, Wild Magic Karlach and Trickery Shadowhart. I really feel like you don't need any fancy build to make the game easy. Generally, good strategy, good items and Tadpole powers is enough to make the game a breeze. I've managed to talked to death most of Act 2 and I used all 3 Runepowder barrels on fights I was scared of (Inquisitor and Sharrans so far, saving the last). No camp buff. Not summoning a thousand summons. Not any party member at camp, but I almost never started fights with my four characters. Astarion with Alert would try to kill at least one character, then my stealthed party would enter combat one by one.

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

I think one of the most powerful things was passing all the checks on the Zaith'isk since some of the powers are very good as a bonus action. It doesn't matter what class or race you are, being able to use black hole followed up by some AoE solves many fights I feel. In my second run I killed all the bosses like you and didn't leave anyone in camp. I did have summons but that was mostly to give a circle of the spores druid a proper go for once!

[@Griffex394]

@CasualVeteranGamer I totally agree that the Zaith'isk is the most powerful thing in the game and will carry any party on any difficulty. The only reason not to use the tadpole powers is roleplay and theme. I kinda miss the consequences from using them in Early Access, but I understand that it made people miss most of the story is they didn't use them.

[@I-Broke-Your-Mailbox]

I think I agree, like you said, the difficulty isn't really that much worse, I think what kills most runs is when someone hits a game breaking bug (I did when I accidently aggro'd the Oathbreaker Knight, almost ended my run because he can hard lock your character level). There is a lot of discussion around party comp, but I think it's more flexible than you expect, if youre having troubles, stick to using builds created around sharpshooter / GWM / tavern brawler. Just try to include Bless and Haste at all times, ensure that if you're playing a spell caster, you're not trying to unironically be a damage dealer and that you're bringing at least 4 swords bards if you don't want to clear moonrise towers slower than a single round. Also the early game is much harder than any other part of the game, try to delay fighting stuff like the harpies or paladins or Tyr until after you get just 1 more level. Like you wouldn't expect it, but those Intellect Devourers on the beach can seriously mess you up if you stumble in there without all finding all your party members.

[@charlottearanea7507]

Something extremely cheesy that I found useful in my Honor Mode run is that if you turn invisible in turn-based mode then walk as far as you can, then flicker turn-based mode off and on again quickly, you'll get your action, bonus action, and movement speed back without spending a "turn" of invisibility. Useful if you want to stealth past a large section to avoid any fights with worrying about invisibility's time limit. Used this to bypass the fight with Z'rell in Moonrise before Kethric Thorm and skip most of Gortash's guards after destroying the Steel Watch.

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Hah! I never knew that. I used invisibility to skip passed the whole upper city fight right before the brain on my second honour mode run, but just in regular turn based mode and a flying half-illithid.

[@drno87]

Overall, I found HM doable without resorting to cheesing my way through. I rotated characters in and out of the party for specific encounters. Act 3 in general seemed easier, since you have more tools and can pick up a lot of good gear before tackling the bosses (except for the bugged Cazador in Hotfix 16). Bhaalist Armour was fun with a group stacking piercing damage. Also, you still get HM credit for blowing up Gale in the final battle (NOT in Act 2).

[@MrZanvine]

Oh, a tip for people playing. If you are like me and want to maxmize the use of elixirs and buffs that reset on Long rest (i e. Dont want to lose them). One thing I am doing is respecing my benched companions into DoLife Clerics / bards and using their spell slots/ songs of rest for intermittent healing and cleansing of unwanted conditions. This means I was able to make most of A1 and A2 on just a couple of long rests and then the mandatory long rests. Death ward is also good. I've not had need of it just yet, but wouldn't dare leave camp in A3 without it haha.

[@nickeel8401]

My tip? Invest in hirelings, change their classes to things like cleric, druid, bard, wizard etc. Buff your actual party up with all the heroes feasts, death wards, upcasted aids and other useful long rest buffs u want. Steal back the gold from withers

[@BSEntertainment2319]

When you said "I completed Honor mode on my first try" my gut reaction was fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. I am here after 3 failed attempts. Good Video Thanks for the Tips! Maybe I will beat it and update this comment at some point.

[@contramundi5873]

I just finished my first Honor Mode run as a storm sorcerer. One tip I would add: Take full advantage of the hireling system. It costs 100 gold to buy a hireling and 100 to respec them. You can pickpocket the money you pay to Withers and get it back every time. He doesn't care and never aggros. I only had one hireling, but here's how I built her: I hired the halfling girl for the Halfling Luck passive. I started her as a life cleric with 16 con and 16 wis, made sure to take proficiency in Medicine. Then one level of rogue. Put expertise in Medicine. Then 2 levels of wizard (transmutation) for the Experimental Alchemy passive, which lets you get 2 potions every time you craft one if you pass a DC 15 wisdom check. As I leveled up, I put the rest of her levels into cleric and put ability score improvements into Constitution. She was my alchemist and buffer. Any time I wanted potions crafted, I'd have her cast Enhance Ability: Wisdom on herself to get advantage on the Medicine checks, and I'd either give her Guidance with the amulet or have Shadowheart cast it on her. She never failed the medicine check a single time, so I always got doubles whenever I had her craft potions and elixirs for me. I ended up with more health potions than I could use, and enough elixirs of giant strength (hill and cloud) to last my TB monk Lae'zel the entire game. Well, once the vendors started selling giant fingers anyway. I also used her to cast the following buffs in camp: - Mage armor on me - Longstrider on everyone in camp - Warding Bond on me - Protection from Poison on me - Aid (at the highest possible spell slot) on me and as many other companions as I could get in range - Aid (at the next highest spell sot) on as many other companions as she could get in range Then I'd leave her in camp. None of these buffs are concentration and they all last until your next long rest, so they stayed up even with her in camp. With Warding Bond up all the time I constantly had resistance to all damage types and with her high constitution my halfling girl could withstand the punishment of taking half of any damage I did receive. Another thing you can do with a hireling: Hire any of them and spec them into Eldrich Knight. Have your front linger give them your favorite weapon and let them use Bound Weapon on it, then it give back to your tank/melee damage dealer. The Bound property sticks. Now your main melee character has cannot be disarmed and has a weapon that will return to them when they throw it. This is probably a bug that will be patched out of the game later, but for now it works and is awesome. I really hate when my paladin gets disarmed by an enemy fighter, and this little bit of cheese lets you avoid that. Finally, if you're using a returning throwing weapon (returning pike, dwarven thrower, nyrulna), and for some reason it doesn't return, don't worry. You can run to where it is and pick it up, but DON'T equip it again. That wastes your turn. Instead, just throw it. It will automatically get equipped by your throwing character again when it returns to them.

[@vctr8832]

I haven’t actually beat the game once, even in balanced. But I am now trying honour mode to get the dice (and achievements). It was quite hard at times and had some people die, and eventually after a few hours (quite many) I’ve now turned up on the doorstep of Ketheric Thorm. So I’m also really scared for those fights, but I’ll see how that goes😅.

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Good luck! Make sure to take your time during each turn and you will definitely have a chance to do it.

[@vctr8832]

@@CasualVeteranGamer well by some miracle I got through the fight in one piece (sort of, just Astarion got a bit beat up), your videos definitely helped!

[@hythunza1811]

My personal tips is this: Run Assassin Rogue + Fighter with Sharpshooter. If you're playing a non-Durge character, make sure you swap out characters often just to ween off Inspiration from them, as the Durge Background practically ensures you have main character rolls unless you want to do something stupid. Otherwise, you could take out a lot of people and still be viable in late game beyond support if you play things right. Stealth and initiative will always be your strongest aspects regardless of the situation. Always protect the tieflings, particularly Rolan. He can be a massive help in taking out key targets like Mindflayers, along with Voss' dragon, if you do his entire side-quest. They are the most powerful summons you can get in the final battle. Haste and the Dash exploit are your best friends. Dash several times before starting turn-based mode on the character you need at their fastest, then proceed to have everyone else dash. Pre-cast Haste if you can before heading into any major battle; that one extra attack can be vital towards winning. Don't go light armor. Instead, go medium/heavy so you can nullify crits without having to mess with your damage output. You can get your entire team immune to crits if you do both Grym and Ansur for the adamantite and Balduran's Helmet in particular. Don't worry about AC; the game adds the enemy's proficiency modifier twice to their attack rolls, so taking out your enemy and being crit immune is the way to go. Have the healing caster of the group have at least one level in Wizard, and kill the Ogres in act 1. They stop being useful once outside of the Underdark or at the Creche, so it is far better to kill them during battle, or get them killed. Personally, I throw them at the mephits. You free up an extra slot for martial power by having the healing caster use Headband of Intellect where needed to increase the spell variety. And finally: Learn Act 3 well. Act 3 is single-handedly the most dangerous part of the game. It's better to overprepare and play as cheaply as possible in order to win any major encounter, even if it might kill PCs or NPCs. A whole guide could easily be made on how to dominate Act 3, but that'd ruin the fun of learning how to win in Honor Mode.

[@AndyLeeJordan]

I am surprised you weren't using a camp transmutation hireling for the stone that gives you essentially the resilient constitution feat, casts longstrider/dark-vision etc. and then just remains behind without wasting any spellbook slots on Gale.

[@JPG.01]

I'm in act 2 of my honor mode playthrough. And I've been abusing everything at my disposal. A dedicated hireling for alchemy, 4 life clerics in camp to warding bond my party, and after level 7 freedom of movement is a nice bonus. One of them is Gale, since he just outright heals when outside of the party, making a lot of damage just disappear. My frontline is a Githyanki Paladin/Fighter/Warlock and Astarion as a Monk(TB, with elixir). My Backline is Wyll as a Lore Bard and Shart as a Light Cleric. My strategy is to kill stuff before it gets dangerous and using reactions when necessary. Like cutting words and improved warding flare. Inquisitor W'war'gaz got taken out in one round. I usually just long rest when the warding bond disappears because somebody is dead. 2k+ worth of supplies are going to last me the entire game at this point. And I've also been abusing stuff like selling a backpack to a vendor that I know I am going to kill. So when they die, I get all the money they had on them. I've not been short of coin at any point after level 3. But Ethel for some reason screwed me over. While I was rolling to get her hair, the animation canceled and the fight resumed so I had to kill her. No hair means I will have to get lucky with the mirror, giving me +1 charisma and another +2, so I can have my 22 charisma by the end. I don't want to restart the run. I don't like playing through act 1. Everything before the Underdark feels like a slog and the underdark and Grymforge are over to soon.

[@StateBlaze1989]

Been getting some real mileage out of my camp clerics in act 1 so far. Currently level 4 and finally defeated the goblins, and am now inching my way through the Underdark. I'm pretty sure I would have tpk'd several fights if I didn't have Warding Bond on all of my main party members thanks to the camp clerics. Also, Honor Mode has forced me to learn and take advantage of utility and debuff spells. Spider Matriarch was way easier to handle once I hit her with Blindess and Bane (also helped that I re-initiated that battle from the pathway from the blacksmith basement).

[@dyxxgaming9334]

Congratulations on beating honour mode ! Good advices tho. Im trying honour mode atm. Couldnt play more then a few hours on tactician, didnt even get to do any fight after helping the grove 😂 Started honour mode and its awesome. The feeling of losing the run on a wipe makes it quite immersive and intense. I somehow avoided any spoiler on fights, story twists, most secrets, best quest routes etc. So i dont know whats lying ahead. Its great, im having a blast. But the hardest is restartitis ! Cant decide between fighter or paladin as tav 😂😅 But i guess both work. Have a good day !

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

I must say that you're very brave for attempting honour mode blind to what's coming! You can always do one level as a fighter, then respec to a paladin and switch back and forth?? Best of luck!

[@dyxxgaming9334]

Tried Paladin and everything looked fine. Died to the intellect devouerer right after the crash. This has never happened before. Started from new with fighter, and had to kill 'em solo. So I guess it's fate !

[@bnzalias901]

10 swords bard, 2 pal is working out really well so far for me

[@Enchantaire]

That is funny. I just finished the Creche in my Honour Mode run. My Tav is a Sorcadin, Shadowheart is a Life Cleric, and Gale is a Divination wizard. So, pretty much identical to your setup. The only difference is Astarion, who is a Gloomstalker assassin.

[@drhouse6165]

Disintegrate is a good spell because it's a rarely resisted damage type that does crazy high damage

[@cien7091]

In act 3 there is an item i highly recommend and that is Helm of Balduran. You can sneak past Ansur and get that helmet for free. And it gives you stun immunity and attackers can't land crit on you.

[@ThorVeras]

Im all about druid, and i must say. Summons in this game, make a key role in Honour Mode. They tank damage and dish damage. They are crucial in making enemies that would one shot you, lose a turn to kill a 9hp summon, or when u push back an enemy and he agro you, they need to pass to a horde of summons with atack of oportunity. Hell even the weakest summon can reach near 50hp with aid + heroes rest. A Spore Druid can summon natural, 4 9hp undead, 3 undead from spell, 1 mymidon, 1 minor elemental duo or the ent and dryad. That is 10 summons who with a cleric can became stronger. Algo crusader mantle works with the undead archers for more damage. But the best undead is the flying ghouls who work perfectly with water mymidon atacks that prone enemies on ice, and druid atacks that also prone enemies. You can also go necromancer who will make stronger summons. The 3 partie member and 1 at camp can be done easy with this setup as you will have many summons. Mostly i have 5 chars i really like. My main druid lvl 12. Karlach 5 berserk 3 champion 4 thief throw, with two itens that summons a mummy and an undead archer for more summons Astarion 4 thief 5 gloom stalker 3 champion dual hand crossbows, tons of damage. Shadowheart 12 cleric with all orb combos, as light cleric and summoning herself some undead and an deva*important cause he can help and revive party members* ac 21 and tons of health, also she mostly wield the falar aluve to battle making every single summon deals more damage. Gale Ice 12 wizard abjuration He can protect himself and others for plenty damage, as well debuff greatly people with ice spells. He will do good damage, but not as great as an eletric wizard. But the deal is he will debuff greatly and frooze most of enemies. Other builds i did for the sake of having all companions was jahera 7 spore druid 5 gloom stalker dual wield scimitars, she would dish 40 damage per scimitar hit, was very good with lots of spell options minsc 8 hunter 4 berserk pole arm master with item combo about healing and tanking. He had fenomenal health and was the one who would tank all damage because the item setup. Wyll 8 warlock 4 fighter Mostly focused on the eldrich blast with the correct itens was 40+ damage per hit laezel the one i could not build correct still trying and testing something that feat her character as well combo well in the game with itens/history. I mostly equip her with balduran sword because is better than the silver legendary Helsin was a moon druid, tryed to grab every item to he became strong but moon druids only can be strong if u supp a lot with stuff like bond skills. They can became good, also dont forget he is almost a full druid, so, tons of summons and lots of good spells.

[@tomerapplebaum]

casting jump and featherfall on party pre combat is great

[@ZoldZsolt]

I just completed my honour run yesterday (good durge, 7 oathbreaker/5 drac. sorcerer for armor of agathys shenanigans, Astarion as 8 gloomstalker/4 thief, Gale 10 abj. wiz./2 storm sorc., and Shadowheart as 10 life cleric/2 bard). The hardest boss for me was Mirror of Loss, as i couldn't get the ability improvement for any of my characters, not even Gale LUL. But for real, the most scary fight was the giths in act1 on the road leading to the next act, and Myrkul. Low initiative rolls put the mind flayer first, he came down and stunned EVERYONE in the party, killed my ice mephits, which damaged my party even further. Then Myrkul pulled everyone in, and downed Astarion, who was by that time my biggest dmg dealer with the double xbow action and bloodlust elixir on him. So that was a debby downer to say the least, i was about to kiss good bye to my honour run, but powered thru eventually by just playing out of my mind and to my strengths. Killed every boss in act2 and act3 as well, 1 char downed twice, zero deaths, had a lot of fun by upping the stakes. This was my 4th overall run, so i definitely learned a lot from my previous experiences. Was rocking the reverberation/radiating orb combo gear sets with ability drain mind flayer powers unlocked, which really helped on landing cc effects even on bosses. Really good video btw. i'd recommend it to anyone doin honour mode for the first time!

[@andreygovorov3830]

I did honour in like 15-20 hours fairly easy, just know your class powerspike(5-6 generally). You can up to level 4 with no fights. Convince bandits, clear goblins near grove(fight but with allies), mask as drow and go to goblin village, goblins will share a ton of exp, mask as gith and convince gith patrol to spare you, discover underdark and convince duergars, go to mage tower in underdark and convince bernard u're friend. Should give you about 4.5 level, so rest should be manageable relatively easy

[@dcmoutinho]

Helpful tips

[@callmezeldaonemoartime]

I also beat it first try, I uh also skipped everything in Act 3 and blew Gale up, barely won the Durge Orin 1v1 thanks to Monstrosity Slaying Arrows on my Ranger. Also completely cheesed Grym by sniping him constantly while Lae’zel crouched near the lava valve. Also glad I used Wyll for the first time, Act 2 was a breeze with his CHA and bonus 1d10 to rolls

[@grigorpeykov2557]

Something important for Act 1 is to run out of enemy range and shoot them with bows. Even martial classes cant do too much damage at melee and avoiding a couple of attacks by using a bow and running back 9m is key. This is especially important before level 5 where a few attacks down you

[@gareth7574]

Orin just ended my Honour Mode run 80+ hours in. Brutal. Absolutely right about being overconfident. I was getting used to killing the bosses in 1 round. Hit the slayer got slowed. frightened etc and was so so doomed

[@whoseuncle3702]

With the Steel Watch. If you keep the runepowder bomb you can use it in the final fight. I placed it down & got in a globe of invulnerability. Almost fulled killed the Elder Brain

[@jakron]

my tips: Most bosses (raphael, Gortash, etc) can be stunlocked via Monk or summoned/druid Air mymydon Darkness builds cheese everything (hide your party in darkness with devil sight/darkness/blind equipment) CPU goes braindead and sometimes doesn't even act. The elder brain will kill itself via a well place Danse Macabre ghoul spawn right on them (i think this did something like 150 damage for me when they died/exploded) if all else fails and you really wanna cheese it and are on PC. open task manager and force quit the game. itll load back to your last save location. (quitting game or any other method will cause auto save to overwrite it) It is defeating the purpose of honor mode and you probably will risk corrupting your save by doing it but i guess its all or nothing anyway.

[@spellandshield]

I hear you on the invisibility; also can you brew potions of angelic reprieve? where did you get multiple ones?

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

I bought and hoarded any and all potions of angelic reprieve/slumber until the last fight of the game. According to the wiki they can be brewed, although I'm not sure I made very many of them: bg3.wiki/wiki/Potion_of_Angelic_Reprieve bg3.wiki/wiki/Potion_of_Angelic_Slumber

[@markopusic8258]

At this point, there are only a few variables that really scare me in honour mode. Doing the spider boss below lvl5 which is why I don't, somehow getting cucked by Ragzlin's repulsion, Nere's goons who almost got me once even though I was cheesing them from a ledge. Myrkul in act 2, unless you blind him which I didn't know until recently... he's so goddamn rng. Even with barrelmancy and heat metal to remove his scythe attacks, sometimes you will just miss attacks, get screwed by Call of the Dead and all of a sudden you're struggling for hp. I've never actually lost to Myrkul in the 4 HM fights I've had with him but I got awfully close twice. Act 3 is mostly a breeze, rush lvl12, beat the crap out of Raphael, steal his stuff and you're good to go... except Cazador. I don't understand that boss, and it's oh so fun to take 200 necrotic damage and then some turn 1 before getting to act because he outsped my entire squad, 3 of which had the vigilant feat. I must be missing something because in my 2 fights with him, I had to reset the first time after killing his goons, and I just lost the Astarion the second time because he RAISED HIM FROM DEATH to force his last stack of ritual while I was again, trying to reset because I got assblasted. I was so salty when that happened I just moved on from Cazador. Funnily enough, I've never completed a HM run without losing someone somewhere, I always fuck up a quest at some point.

[@akaslowmoney]

Only real trouble I had was early game Gnolls, Ethel in Act 1 and Ansur. 4 Rage Barbs till 4 for double attack, temp 4 wizards and cloud daggers to deal with gnolls, at 5 cleric/druid cheese on Ethel, rest of game was 4 monks. Ansur, 1 life cleric and 3 wizards. Actually almost died to ansur tbh, had to use resist all elixirs and big heal pots and standing next to each other to aoe heal mid fight, but got it. Back to 4 monks for rest of game. Reason I did 4 monks for the vast majority of the game was simply because I got so bored of constantly long resting as wizards and having to rebuff. I didn't long rest even once during all of shadowlands.

[@kristalliankka]

I hope they will add honour mode enemies into custom mode settings, that you could have the challenge without the save restrictions. I finished honour mode, but as I am really into roleplaying (more than the combat), I didn't really enjoy it as much as I felt like I couldn't get as attached to my character. But the increased difficulty is a welcome addition.

[@yumahz3488]

People already created a mod which let you save in honour mode. It's in nexus mods.

[@scubasteve5326]

Starting to watch now but i almost lost my current run on the forge boss. Outside of that I'm using a gloomstalker sniper and he is pretty much carrying the random encounters for me. The surprise opening shots or shooting from way out of range is great lol

[@leguan278]

So i might be cheesing a bit, using a potential glitch item and a 100% glitch item on my fighter. Deva mace main weapon and Air Myrmidon Flail in the off hand, because the Air Myrmidon Flail is glitched, its attack that stuns on hit for some reason works from the off hand as if its the main hand weapon. This means that the deva mace deals 1d8+str blud+4d8 radiant+1d10 lightning and stuns for each of the fighters attacks (except off hand, which deals 1d8 blud)

[@palazard95]

My tip is to have Astarion pickpocket scrolls often. They have super low DCs, and jail is typically not hard to escape, especially in Act 1 and 2. If you do it while he's alone, he can be revived at camp easily

[@Unknownafkk]

I just finished my first full playthrough on normal and Decided fuck it, honour mode next, Im going for a temp sorc/cleric for that juicy water lightning full game cheese combo wish me luck

[@Mystra]

TLDR: good builds and going first Moon Druid mc, Open hand Monk (Karlach), 11 life cleric 1 wizard Shadowheart, Divination Wizard and everyone having alert feat and 12 dex minimum has been a massive help for me.

[@pirate135246]

Making Astarian a gloomstalker straight to 5 for the early game is incredibly powerful. I used Titanstring with elixers and sharpshooter aswell as giving him the deathstalkers mantle. His happy buff combined with archery fighting style and the ability to hide for the first shot into a kill into advantage on the next shot from invis is an easy way to steamroll act 1, which is imo the hardest part of the game

[@grigorpeykov2557]

There is bug where the Titanstring bow applies to sneak attack damage as well, so you can go 3 assassin 9 Gloomstalker and just crit out 2 enemies out the fight on turn 1, then continue pumping 2 strong attacks that deal around 35 damage every turn, with a free bonus action for other stuff

[@marjase9172]

I made him a gloom stalker but I took thief instead of assassin because I was using hand cross bows and that astarian was hell of powerful for whole honor mode run give it a try

[@kiemugen9830]

I dont understand why people say something is powerful on some specific character? there is no difference between origin characters, tav and even mercs, maybe only durge gets some unique stuff

[@TenkanRL]

Does anyone have advice for Myrkul? Literally had no issues up until the final act 2 fight but Myrkul has ended my run twice now😭

[@emeraldarrow8634]

managed to clear 1st go killing all the bosses, the biggest thing that I noticed was that the frenzied throw prone is super convinient against bosses since they can't react if they are proned. same goes for hunger of hadar and blinding, you can microwave most fights if you group enemies and then double cc with hadar and a ground difficult terrain

[@emeraldarrow8634]

also you can just kinda infinitly pickpocket characters lol, they'll hate you but that doesn't matter when you ran their pockets

[@artemas9336]

my honor mode run ended with "my level 3 party can totally take on the ONE Owl bear..." :D Honestly with how much trouble I had with the Kethirc/Myrkul fight on my tactician run I just don't think I have the steam to try it again. Huge props to anyone who does it regardless of cheese.

[@hah-vj7hc]

I completed honour mode with a dozen difficulty mods to make it more challenging. If any one's interested, I can post the list. But I'm a seasoned RPG player and played most DnD RPGs since BG1. So this is surely not for every one

[@briang7030]

The tip i never see is, have your remaining camp party members spec'ed same as your active casters. Gal out of spells? Throw all his gear on wyll who is sitting out at base. Saves you some rests. Just because your party is limited to 4 does not mean you are limited to only playing with 4.

[@Zwackelmann173]

When playing honor mode please use Karmic dice. Pure randomness is too scary ^^

[@RobertBarry1969]

Gold was definitely a noticeable difference in my Honor mode run. I had never worried about gold in tactician. In honor mode I found my self doing three cheeses that I had never done before: respect to 1 before donating to a vendor to get 100% attitude for less money; stealing my donations back from Withers; and pickpocketing Volo every long rest. Cloak of Cunning Brume is worth having to help pickpocket Withers and Volo in camps with 0 risk. Edit: I also had two camp buffers - a wizard for transmuted stones and a cleric for aid and feast etc. It was probably overkill since my optimized party at act 3 just walked all over the bosses.

[@must-debater2960]

A good tip is when you are exploring and looting leave your charisma character by the trader you have a good relationship to and swaps characters whenever you are encumbered to sell everything

[@swe1337swe]

Easily the best thing you can do in honor mode is to pickpocket volo on Every long rest. Dont finish his quest and you Will have scrolls, long rest Mats and gold to buy everything. He only leaves you after act 2 is done

[@dreadknight0]

After beat honor mode. You only need Darkness spell, hunger of Hadar and later just globe of invulnerability. All fights easy. I even managed to kill some bosses blind since I never encountered them in my first playthrough. Globe of invulnerability is just too OP.

[@strontium9041]

My friends and I just beat honor mode myrkul yesterday. We one turned that boss fight because I just kept dropping explosive barrels near it and we set off a huge explosion

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

Barrelmancy at its finest!

[@germanbrandeburgo5925]

8:35 Can someone explain why the Sahuagin didn't die there? I thought you could push enemies off anywhere to their death, but I tried doing it to the mind flayers in the final fight and on a newer save on the KuoToa in act 1 and they both teleported back to solid ground after falling. I don't remember it ever happening before. Was this changed in some patch, or am I missing something else?

[@figuures6098]

I was a bit stressed about Raphael on honor mode. His legendary action lets him charm anyone who hits him, 4 times per round. I found though, if you knock him prone, he can’t utilize it. So, started the fight with a throw barb’s frenzied throw, and immediately knocked him prone. Proceeded to attack with my hasted/bloodlust elixered 2fighter/10 swords bard archer. Oil of combustion+hellfire gauntlets for fire dmg + many targets arrow, and I decimated most of his mobs. If you’re lucky you can proc a low chance planar binding on him too, and have him deal with his own minions lmao You’re right about taking alert, it really gives you that edge in the opening rounds, especially if you have high dps ranged or condition proccing team. I had my 2/10 fighter bard, minthara as a light cleric/paladin rocking all the radiant gear to give aoe -10 to attack and ability rolls for enemies, then astarion as a typical hand crossbow ranger/rogue, and lae’zel as a EK/zerker/thief

[@Aedgaia]

You get an aoe ability on swords bard that makes everyone inside it unable to be charmed or frightened. I out it down first and kept my characters inside and never had to worry about his legendary action

[@Spura83]

I've defeated all the bosses the same way, Extended Bestow Curse: Dread. My lore bard had DC 29, and if they have Magic Resistance feat (advantage on rolls vs spells) they only get advantage versus the first cast, the roll each turn to skip turn they don't get advantage. And it is not affected by Legendary Resistance. And if they save, the effect doesn't end (unlike hold monster), they just get one turn. Each turn skip is a one turn effect, so Raphaels ability to shake off CC after 1 turn does nothing. Raphael did nothing for 30 turns (I let Yurgir hit him to death, could have won that fight without dealing any damage).

[@spellandshield]

I am currently making my 2nd attempt. I am still going to take on all the extra hard stuff, including Ansur who killed me the first time.

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

I finished my second honour mode attempt recently and took on all the bosses this time round! Ansur had previously been the hardest fight in the game for me, but this time I happened to have an overpowered swords bard who made a mockery of him. I'm sure you'll be able to do it next time.

[@dogetaxes8893]

I am the only one who found abusing summons made a lot of the fights easier, if you have Wyll summon elements, Cambion, Mummy, etc. a druid who would summon a bunch of stuff, then wild shape (owl bear with tavern brawler is so broken especially levels 6-9) it made fights quite easy). Essentially, you have a party of like a 10+ characters, Plus, you can hero feast everything later too when your Druid is level 11.

[@TheJayman760]

My tips for Honour Mode: Become an Unholy Assassin to help counter Orin's unstoppable. Kill her then take the deal with Gortash. Sneak through the Watcher Foundry to get the bow but don't destroy the factory. Gortash won't aggro and you can let the Netherbrain take him out.

[@whiteowl5024]

A very cheesy strategy that worked for me to acquire the golden die: - Reach level 3 with Fletriss at your camp. - Respec all your unused companion into life clerics. - Every new day, dismantle your group and group the clerics so that you can buff your party with poison protection, death protection, a binding buff that splits the damage taken between the target and the cleric, and finally the help buff (+5 to 25HP on every character). - You can buff 3/4th of your party this way and it becomes really difficult to lose any encounter. You may finish a day and discover one or two dead or agonizing cleric at your camp (I spent most of my reviving scrolls on them, I'd say about a dozen, so you should always buy some until you have a comfortable amount (i.e. 6+)).

[@jbutler8585]

No need to use scrolls, you can always pickpocket Withers and he doesn't get mad when you fail.

[@chuckchan4127]

Im pretry sure you can always have one character be chilling way outside of the range of everyone else: if you get a party wipe, that 4th character can go back to Witherd to being everyone back to life.

[@bradenmickan4789]

gotta admit was wanting to watch the honour mode grym fight

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

If you can put up with a livestream you can watch the following (starting from where I go down to fight Grym): kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZLQgWqCpsdorZY

[@rhodan74]

Greater Invis still exists, so it shouldn't be any problem in the later acts :)

[@mrzoonix6368]

Orin was hard on honour mode. I used to breeze through her without even having to rest. But now she oneshotted my fighter on round 1. I had to use a scroll of globe of invulnerability and chain lightning on the sanctuaried adds.

[@guntguardian3771]

Took me four goes in total I believe. The first I died to the injured mindflayer as I got a bad roll and it ate my brain. Second, I died to Bernard. Third, the Minotaurs. However, after act one the game was easy. All i did was collect as much exp with minimal danger as possible. My builds werent super optimised, BM fighter, Light Cleric, Evocation Wizard and a Thief to 11 with 1 in GOO. Ended up killing a lot of act 3 bosses but not all. I clicked the wrong Gortash option after killing Orin without a long rest between, and ended up killing him in one turn. At that point the team was far too powerful for that nonsense. Just Galed it at the end. I think the difficulty of the game drops off, IF you know what you are doing as the equipment available is just too good.

[@posthumous_me]

I hope they had the legendary actions as an option for custom campaigns

[@Combotful]

Honour mode was my first playthrough ever, and I managed to beat the game with it. It was absolutely great experience, because I actually tried to live the actions, since every fatal move or even dialogue option could've meant that ~100h playthrough just flushes down the toilet with one simple choice. That being said, even though it was great experience, I feel like Act1 was hardest, act2 not so much and act3 not at all - it's not great design that way :/

[@Tiroo]

If you save the teethlings in the grove and invite them over to the camp, AVOID AT ALL COSTS using Friends to roll for ANYTHING. One dude realized I was using MAGIKS, opened combat with no dialogue options and the ENTIRE CAMPMENT went ballistic on my party, including Halsin. With nowhere to flee and no rest in my skills I was left to a bitter taste on my first honour run.

[@Chestyfriend]

I decided to minimise RNG, so I ran 2 divination wizards. Guaranteed CC, hit every vital attack, didn't even need a healer in my party.

[@CasualVeteranGamer]

What's better than 2 divination wizards? 4! Jokes aside, minimising randomness is a very good thing for honour mode.

[@RobertBarry1969]

I had a frustrating death against Orin (not loss, just death). This was after Karlach got pushed off a cliff and I had to revivify and heal her - that was just me being careless where I was standing. No, the frustrating death was when Laezel got the Bhaal’s Edict effect where she had to kill someone or die that turn. I had used a few black holes and had all the bhalists with sanctuary grouped up and AoE’ed them so that only 2 were left. I waited for Laezel’s turn and had her cast cloud of daggers from a scroll… which did kill a cultist. So I was happy. Then I hit space and Laezel died to the edict anyway. Anybody know why? It didn’t matter as I revivified her and Orin was toast once the unstoppables were down, but it was still frustrating.

[@proximal9017]

The only two hard fights for act three were shars justiciars and steel watch. You can beat the others easily and if you hit 12 before ending the game your guaranteed a win because there's no way you lose doing maximum damage assuming you played through the game once and know what to expect the legendary actions only hit early on and can end badly but at act 3 they don't mean anything they just prolong a fight rather than trying to end it in a loss

[@LukenotLuc]

Whats the thinking behind the Wiz 6 / Lore Bard 6 build for Gale?

[@blackhat4206]

Portent die that can be refreshed and magical secrets from lore bard is a good combo. Reduces RNG, provides access to cutting words to make enemies fail important saves, and an amazing spell list.

[@TerribleTom113]

I've had 4 Honour Mode attempts die before ever getting out of Act 1. (Gnolls, Gnolls, Spiders, Gnolls) Apparently, I'm not nearly as good at D&D as I thought I was, and I absolutely f*cking despise those damn Gnolls! 😂

[@coletrainhetrick]

Something to add trying it on console, of the game crashes the run is over. Even when it appears to be okay, it treats hard resetting as if you are trying to cheese and will ruin the run.

[@jasper_the_ghost]

I’m terrified. I want to 100% Baulder’s Gate but even Balanced is giving me some trouble 😭

[@hiroshima19]

I got my golden dice using scrolls, lots and lots of scrolls

[@RE-jb2ke]

Can you use mods in honor mode and still get the achievement and dice?