Necromancer Solo Honour Mode - Raphael | Baldur's Gate 3

Build:
Necromancer: 8 STR, 16 DEX, 14 CON, 17 INT, 10 WIS, 8 CHA
1 Wizard: Cantrips: Bone Chill, Minor Illusion - Spells: Mage Armour, Shield, Ray of Sickness
2 Wizard: Necromancy School Subclass
3 Wizard: Spells: Mirror Image, Cloud of Daggers
4 Wizard: Dual Wielder Feat - Spells: Misty Step, Melf's Acid Arrow
5 Wizard: Spells: Animate Dead, Counterspell
6 Wizard: Spells: Haste - Necromancy School: Undead Thralls
7 Wizard: Spells: Blight
8 Wizard: Ability Improvement Feat (+2 INT) - Spells: Conjure Minor Illusion
9 Wizard: Spells: Cloudkill
10 Wizard: Necromancy School: Inured to Undeath - Learn Dethrone and Artistry of War from Scrolls
11 Wizard: Spells: Disintegrate, Circle of Death
12 Wizard: Alert Feat - Spells: Create Undead
Mirror of Loss: +2 INT, Hag Hair +1 INT
P.S. This is not necessarily the order how you need to take these spells, but rather a collection of the most important spells for this build.

[@SleepingDog.]

The Ghouls from the Danse Macabre spell explode on death, dealing necrotic damage. Who needs barrelmancy if you can summon your own walking bombs. :) Build Guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXzNnZ9sqZaZrMU

[@The_Siggo]

The hidden subclass of barrelmancy: necro-blaster

[@kaue11]

but how can you group them so tightly? because they are AI controlled, aren't they?

[@stjosh]

@@kaue11 summon them close to each other (you can choose the location of each ghoul when summoning using danse macabre) and then ungroup them when summoned so they dont automatically run around to follow you, then they make them invisible so they dont get pulled into combat and start automatically taking turns, thus allowing them to be exploded!

[@FirstLast-qg7xn]

I learned this in my second honor mode run. When the emperor saves you from the brain it forces a soft long rest and strips your party of buffs then kills all your summons... You regain control with a bunch of missing hp and your combat log shows all the necrotic damage...

[@owencaulfield8310]

I learnt it during the Ansur fight. His first breath attack took out the ghouls and the party got blasted for even more damage. Luckily, it wasn't an honour run! @@FirstLast-qg7xn

[@elg8071]

Sometimes I think im good at this game, then people like this exist, good shit dude

[@bimmer8602]

666 likes

[@im4mthedarkness]

can someone unlike ? its 668

[@thomasplouvier4523]

Some people like you might think they are good at the game, some people will tell you that with enough preparation even a lvl 1 can kill him in one turn .. playing with invisibility / surprising mobs / preparing the environement .. it's not that hard .. all the vidéos of people "soloting" Raphael are the same, full invi potions with full préparation and buff and then use cheese strats .. it's not being good at the game

[@elg8071]

@@thomasplouvier4523 I can smell you from over here, it's quite stinky over there

[@thomasplouvier4523]

@@elg8071 if its stinky its maybe because you spend too much time licking balls of people

[@TheStealthyPlatypus]

Player: "I throw the flask I got containing the evil creature 30 sessions ago next to Raphael..." DM: "You....WHAT!?!?!"

[@hydrasoulz959]

Every play through I get that item and tell myself I'm going to use it this time then forget the whole game

[@adamlocke2522]

*Furiously scribbles down notes for future wizard runs*

[@martinmilan6271]

Me with 90% chance: Miss This guy with 50% chance: Proceeds to hit absolutely everything...

[@kakka]

friend, there are cuts in this video, all these moments of 50% if you stop to look you will see that there is a cut in the video, it probably fails the attack and returns to the save (yes, it is honorable but you can close and open it again exactly in the same place it was if you unplug the PC, turn it off directly or close the game through the task manager. There is also a mod that leaves the strategist with honor mode mechanics without the single save part) anyway, the guy the video was very good

[@turoblaxos]

dude, in one boss fight I missed TWO 99% attacks!!!

[@FrostyFyre]

@@kakkathey patched the task manager bit, as soon as you close program via task manager or alt f4 it immediately saves before closing.

[@Joci445]

the spells hes using are based on saving throws rather than attack rolls. so the percentage you see is not the chance to hit, but rather the chance raphael will pass or fail the saving throw. if he saves, he still takes half damage from the spell. you can see he saves many times against the spells lol

[@uriniumintestor7302]

He saves most of the times and takes half damage. But the number of cuts is still suuuuper sus. Like, why was there this last cut right before he finished the Raphael?

[@ivazdranoel4609]

I LOVE that you slowdown for the “Twice as long” line 😂. Keep up the good gameplay!

[@Robert-nh4dt]

I *fucking* love this video. You clearly made it to be entertaining instead of a boring slaughter where Raphael doesn't get to do anything. Not just that, but I can see you edited out the parts where you were thinking of your next move to keep the action going, which means you also must've played with the music turned off, and edited it back in yourself. You're exactly the kind of boss fight youtuber that should be topping the lists of this website.

[@FirstLast-qg7xn]

Everyone one should give a like for the build and also cleanest inventory on youtube lol

[@SleepingDog.]

I need my clean inventory, can't play without it. :)

[@jeremygardner5987]

@@SleepingDog.legendary cleanliness. And everything else too. All the love

[@API-Beast]

A necromancer preparing by turning their minions invisible for an ambush is such a cool concept.

[@crackedopen5007]

HOW GOOD IS THE MUSIC IN THIS GAME THO

[@MemoryFreeze]

For anyone watching this video was made for the entertainment of the viewer. After all the original adds died all they had to do was cast bestow curse: dread and the fight literally would've already been over and the only thing we would be watching is a 3 minute beat down of raphael skipping his turns.

[@newt3763]

props to the spectator for living that long

[@TonyBee179]

Your character looks dope asf, fits the necro profile perfectly my guy! Smooth gameplay too👌

[@masterdna117]

really liked your video. No OP build to kill rafa in 1 turn with a crazy combo but an actual build utilizing the mechanics and good preparation at the start. This is how you ACTUALLY play the game

[@jefferygrandor7852]

All they did was fly around and save scum until they didn’t get one shotted by Raphael.. it’d honestly be more impressive to kill him in one turn then this

[@drog]

@@jefferygrandor7852 save scum? I thought you can't do that on Honour mode

[@jefferygrandor7852]

@@drog you can fail honor mode and continue on disonhor mode

[@dang5736]

@@drogyeah, I didn’t notice at first but right before he kills Rafael there’s a super obvious cut in the video. Still impressive but he definitely save scummed

[@Katalmach11b]

If that ain't the most aesthetically pleasing character, inventory and quickbar I've EVER seen, sheeeeeeeeeesh 10/10

[@umuzealot9044]

I'm sure the fight was hard and there were some very cool moves, but I just couldn't stop admiring the well organized hotbar for 15 minutes straight...

[@Karomix3]

Your character looks so beautiful.

[@Alfa-pv2xf]

One of the best game soundtracks I've ever heard.

[@ededandeddy2115]

1st campaign w my brother we got here and the vocals came in and we were enthralled. Such a good game and honestly this was my fav fight in the whole game

[@PapaTanduo]

The sound track is amazing ❤

[@ThomasHoward-ro4ri]

Awesome! Cant wait for part 3 of the series dude :)

[@azel7056]

Huh, Hahaha Gotta Admit that was impresive, and for a pure Wizard build, your strategy and Character was just solid.

[@JuyoNi]

When I saw that flask I was cackling, what an appropriate person to use it on!

[@alimant1119]

Hello, I'm currently around 40 hrs into my honor run at Moonrise and I'm really nervous about the big fights, but looking at your videos makes me feel better lmao. Gonna follow builds and strats from you 🙏

[@SleepingDog.]

Happy to help. :)

[@lukaszprotas]

Necromancer is never truly solo, we all may agree on that😉 xD

[@coolnamebro7363]

-Skips all dialogue except for shit talking Raphael. Perfection.

[@tanders4444]

Your character design is top tier. Gameplay too, don’t get me wrong, but I was immediately grabbed by it.

[@ericdavis4758]

I’m watching in the the perspective of yurgir. He spent like maybe 18 seconds canonically in combat before getting absolutely decimated by this literal mortal. This version of TAV is truly a god in mortal flesh.

[@openyourmeet.2958]

Omg I love how organized you hotbar and inventory is.

[@cl86241]

Throwing smoke powder bombs at Raphael is the epitome of "I may be out of spell slots, but I AIN'T out of options."

[@keeperkai999]

we're fighting an strong enemy that has the balls to barge into hell and fight us, now let's look at this cute kitteh that came outta nowhere...what's the worst that can happen?

[@DaBlackFrieza]

Raphael’s theme didn’t have to go that hard absolute banger 🙏😤

[@Arthur_url]

Solo runs in CRPGs in general are already super impressive, but damn, this is something else.

[@FrostyFyre]

The amount of times you landed a 50% hit chance spell in honour mode proves God does have favourites 😂😂😂

[@FrostyFyre]

Missed 3 attacks with advantage and 90% hit chance last time I played honour mode

[@fernandofor98]

@@FrostyFyre he cut the video multiple times if you notice

[@RhoFGC]

If the roll fails, which they did on some of them, the spell does half damage. You can tell by the "saved" prompt.

[@davidkillebbr1902]

I did not know that was possible such an OP character, omg, i thought my party was invincible until i've watched this video :P

[@hazardofmadness6750]

"when your dealing with necromancy, nobody is ever really gone..." -Sienna Fuegonasus

[@mrhappyjuice]

All I can think is that in DnD a round of combat is supposed to be around 6 seconds long. Imagine how cool this would look if it was a properly animated in real time, constantly flying and casting spells back and forth.

[@amber61pop]

WHY AM I ONLY NOW FINDING OUT YOU CAN HAVE TWO STAFFS AT ONCE OMG

[@Dev-fe7fk]

Dual Wielder Feat enables it. Surprisingly good on casters, despite being intended for martials.

[@RPCauldron]

need to invest a feat to get dual wielder for that!

[@NecroTokyo]

Honestly I had to star over bc of this

[@riffgroove]

​@STARWARSFan2614 Just go to Withera and respec your character. 200 gold is way better than starting over.

[@FrostyFyre]

@@riffgrooveand then just pickpocket your money back, bone daddy don’t give af

[@Purhiman1]

Damn son, everything is nicely done. Congrats to you on being awesome!! Love the character though, a real necro freak.

[@ravelucis4222]

Can wie please just say how absolutely angelic This Song is?

[@mmc2685]

your character looks fantastic

[@IseetheEmmett]

if this isn't the coolest bg3 video I don't know what is

[@PanduhZy]

Impressive Feat and Impressive rolls!

[@housepavus]

This is the most amazing thing I've seen in this game. Holy shit i was hypnotized 😮

[@FilipFunDlaLam]

My lord. Watching this I feel like I know nothing about this game. Amazing fight.

[@nickthompson4943]

Necromancers are never alone though 👀

[@dummyguy123]

Homedog (or should I say... SleepingDog ;) ;) ;) took one of the hardest fights in the game and made it look like child's play. And in HONOR MODE no less... Much respect to you, my friend.

[@kingcaesar1688]

Nicely done! I'd be happy to just beat honor mode normally lol.

[@madafaka3587]

I love your build and your character, wp!

[@gimmefooda7574]

I must try this build in my next solo

[@wulite4601]

The archdevil and his elite minions could be easily baited by a cat illusion occurs on the floor from nowhere.

[@sy1-0]

I wish I was this good at playing wizard lmao 600h into the game and I understood maybe half of what you did there

[@animathehallowed1380]

Yurgir: Hol’ up, lemme flail on the ground for a while!

[@andrewcalderwood2693]

I love that Raphael has his own song to kick ass to. 😂

[@frankmachado4142]

That bar... So organized!

[@Purhiman1]

Can you tell me how I can organize the bar? Do I have to do it custom? Because that takes time. Why can't I just click and drag? 🤷‍♂️

[@frankmachado4142]

@@Purhiman1 But you can just drag and drop. Make sure it's not locked and that you press on the + icon to make more slots

[@Purhiman1]

@frankmachado4142 hmm, I've tried drag and drop so many times. Nothing is happening. Gotta try again. Thanks. I was thinking that it never could be that hard, it surely must go with drag and drop.

[@saigebasil2285]

I’m not sure what’s going on but I like it.

[@sazeaz]

Pretty character ! And gg

[@Mrboomboompow]

that was just fantastic!

[@Mazaxaker94]

Why didn't drinking the speed potion while hasted make you lethargic though? At 6:18

[@SleepingDog.]

It does, but since my turn immediately ends after I turn lethargic, the condition is also immediately removed. So you essentially don't lose a turn by doing this at the end of your turn.

[@AlexisTheDragon]

Nice one babe!

[@Krylore]

Bonus points for the Harleep Dialogue!! 🎉

[@Cfbaccount]

Awesome! You should do the cazedor fight now👍

[@Sir_Sovereign]

barrel mancy plus 10 summons and a book of scrolls of over 100+

[@actondon6573]

the BGM is enfin epic!

[@jack-the-ripper13811]

I like how you did this without major cheese or gamebreaking Simple kiting, casting and danse macabre Like 90% of such videos are "throwing 546565674 barrels of smokepowder at raphael" or "jumping from 43654654 crates as an owlbear"

[@j.d.3890]

You have spent more resources and scrolls for this fight than i for the total playthrough :D

[@SuedDuke]

In my first playthrough this Mf took me nearly 2 hours of attempts on balanced even now I can only get it down to 2 turns on balanced

[@zeonmatrix3270]

Your character looks cool

[@RedSpidrLily]

damn their drip is on point too!

[@martingesteira2032]

There was a reload at 10:20 right?

[@SleepingDog.]

There are no reloads. I'm just cutting out dead time where I'm thinking about my next move.

[@jessi6633]

Stop lying hahaha ​@@SleepingDog.

[@cloudy978]

I have a sumilar build but with a shield dwarf with a heavy armoured feat. Gave him Dammon's armore from act 2 and replaced the amulet with the one you get under stormshore tabernacle to make up for the spell save. Removed spell might because most of my dmg comes from saving throw spells with Helldusk for again extra spell save and gave myself the AC boots. Base AC of 24 Spell save 27 with BMP elixir. It might not be a solo run but I did do all the act 3 bosses solo. I don't think I have ginished a fight under max hp because of necromancer passive. Especially with all the ghouls and flying Ghouls I use.

[@johnshepard-kr5rs]

The best!

[@luisarthurbertho520]

another level. for real

[@MaryThorensen]

Your Tav looks like Merrin in Star Wars Survivor ps5 game! 👍🏻

[@omedon666]

Welp, now I need to do another run, just for this necro build!

[@plamenyonkov9154]

Nice if a bit suboptimal, the boots and gloves could be replaced with the gloves of defense for a +2 AC and the bard gloves for another +1, you wont loose anything since those are just pieces of pretty OP sets that you dont use, id replase the bow with the darkfire shortbow (for fire resist) and drink potion of alertness (+5 innit) instead and finally replace the staff with rhapsody dagger from cazador you will get more DC and spell attack rolls than with Markoheshkir.

[@sergeypogorelov7059]

Well done 👍

[@Foretelling]

This is some real wizard shit

[@BeezOne84]

I swear I was expecting singer to do: "Snake eater!" at some point.

[@john0doesnt]

Playing as a necromancer without animating bodies is ballsy

[@berkaltuglu8140]

"Judas Priest, take notes"

[@Penguinman2.0]

Whats your mindset as far as spell slot economy? like i have trouble not just upcasting fireball or smth to the max slot i have available. us there any kind of secret strat for spell economy? And a similar question for counterspell. what lets you figure out if you should or shouldnt counter

[@SleepingDog.]

It's hard to explain in just a comment, but essentially for the spell economy you want to preplan everything, so before the fight you already know what spell slots you want to use for what spells. This of course doesn't mean you should blindly follow your plan. Always pay attention to the details before committing to an action, even if the next action seems obvious as the smallest mistake can cost you everything in a solo run when fighting though enemies. As for when to counterspell you need to know what kind of spells your enemy has and then look at what spell he is casting right now and determine if him casting this spell is dangerous for you or not. And if the answer is yes you need to think about if countering this spell would expose you to an even more dangerous spell or not. Taking this fight as an example; Raphael has 5 main spells he will cast in a fight where he doesn't ascend. He has 3 dmg spells: Diabolic Chains, Igniting Spark and Incinerate and 2 reaction spells Punish Divinity and Beguiling Rebuke. Now, all of these dmg spells aren't dangerous for us, since we have a lot of HP and even fire protection, so countering any of these spells would be a waste of a spell slot as they don't have any impact of the outcome of this fight whatsoever. Looking at his 2 reactions, Beguiling Rebuke also doesn't have a big impact in this fight. Sure it's annoying if he hits, but most of our spells are saving throw spells that are able to attack through his charm anyway, so most of the time it's not a big deal. Punish Divinity however is a real problem, since we deal radiant dmg from our Callous Glow Ring, Raphael can use this reaction to potentially Infernal Stun us, which obviously as it's already stated in the conditions name, will stun us. This is already pretty bad, though one thing you also need to keep in mind is that the Infernal Stun is not a normal stun and it will stun you for 2 turns instead of only 1. And as this is a solo run getting hit by a 2 turn stun would just be the end of us, so we have to avoid this by any means possible. And this is why you see me focus my counterspells on countering Punish Divinity while ignoring everything else.

[@livb4139]

your char looks sick

[@iKennethzki]

can you make another video using different build

[@b_96jlo4ko8]

Good job, how many tries?

[@im4mthedarkness]

hundred, hes prepearing at first for smooth content

[@DenizenOfPluto]

This is impressive.

[@АлексейБухарин-к2в]

Cool fighting

[@Silenthero66]

I have played the game twice now and I have no idea what the hell is happening in this video.

[@flamierize9537]

chad

[@eliavanderheyden]

What equipment are you using for this build?

[@SleepingDog.]

I show the equipment at the end of the video.

[@sollap2]

Bro savescummed at 9:50

[@JR41N3]

Yeah, I noticed multiple cuts throughout the video, a bit sus but whatevs.

[@SchuylerRougeau]

Was there a reason for switching from elixir of battlemage power to elixir of bloodlust in the beginning or did you just change your mind about which effect you wanted active?

[@SleepingDog.]

I didn't changed my mind, I simply used both at the same time. When you replace the Elixir of Battlemage's Power with a different elixir you do not lose your 3 Arcane Acuity charges. All you lose is the condition that prevents your Arcane Acuity charges to go below 3.

[@SchuylerRougeau]

@@SleepingDog. That's slick

[@iceymass1788]

Out of curiosity do you use any visual mods? Love ur tav ❤

[@SleepingDog.]

I used Vemperen's Other Heads or Faces of Faerun (can't remember which one) for her head preset, but that's it. Vemperen's Other Heads - www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/2226 Faces of Faerun - www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/429

[@DeadBoooooody]

very beautiful character. Are any appearance mods used? if yes, can you tell which ones?

[@SleepingDog.]

I used Vemperen's Other Heads or Faces of Faerun (can't remember which one) for her head preset, but that's it. Vemperen's Other Heads - www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/2226 Faces of Faerun - www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/429

[@isaacbillanfante5919]

What’s your essential gear for this run?

[@Meerzie]

Holy shit, your character is so cool. Is she a drow?

[@SleepingDog.]

Thanks :) Yes, she is a drow.

[@stacieislike120]

question how do you get around the Beguiling Rebuke? I saw you were able to attack Raphael a couple of times even though you were charmed was it cause you were using the life essence from the staff?

[@SleepingDog.]

It's because I'm using saving throw spells. If you want to know why this works, I explain it in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXzNnZ9sqZaZrMU

[@degv364]

Cool! I also like to use the ghouls as bombs hahaha

[@kane5443]

Is not necromancer in fact, it's just a simple wizard with a unique staffs. Where are the minions? Where is the mummy?

[@FinalOven_Mint]

He literally used them as a bomb

[@corporateturtle6005]

Clown5443 ladies and gentlemen.

[@kane5443]

@@corporateturtle6005 kid6005.

[@vasaradragonsbane5580]

@@kane5443Way to prove his point, 🤡. You literally see the person summon minions at the beginning of the video. I guess critical thinking and observation are lacking. Better luck next time I guess. Maybe next time you won't publicly embarrass yourself on this platform.

[@kane5443]

@@vasaradragonsbane5580 easy, but in a different language. Did I embarrass myself by expressing an opinion? Funny.

[@Mjolonir12]

Just here for the theme song