The Deadliest Foe in the Game. Baldur's Gate 3, Nine Hells Challenge Episode 71

[@kaimuu]

I've never seen that secret room under the tollhouse before, crazy just how many things you miss even when you think you've gone through everything

[@Melth]

@@kaimuu the game is quite amazing that way! I'm still learning about new things too

[@hi117117]

You actually stabbed him 6 times and he stopped complaining!

[@Melth]

Yep! Turns out he wanted 6 stabbings all along

[@VERY_TALL_MAN]

Great stuff, I can’t wait to see how you tackle Moonrise Towers and the Oubliette! The oubliette and the subsequent mind flayer colony after Ketheric pt.1 are some of my favorite parts of the game. The whole level - design, art, atmosphere, etc… is fleshed out to a degree that I haven’t seen anywhere else. Such detail for mind flayers and their colonies makes them that much more creepy, and that much cooler as enemies! I also love that they give you that whole level to go all out and really play with all the tools they’ve given you. Good luck! …also I hope you dont die on the moving platform. I HATE that bug!

[@Melth]

@@VERY_TALL_MAN moving platforms are almost as dangerous as Gerringothe! I definitely enjoy the moonrise towers battles quite a lot. I just uploaded the mindflayer colony video a week or so ago. It's definitely great part of act 2! Though for me, there were a couple of teasing hints of how it COULD have been even better. The resonance stone you find for example is a lore thing from the 3.x era when mindflayer society and culture was much more fleshed out and interesting. I'd have loved to be sneaking into a mindflayer colony from that era even more! Likewise the one secret githzerai you can talk to is cool, but reminds me how I've been saying it would have been great to have Githzerai in other parts of the game.

[@semioriginalguy]

It’s been an absolute treat following the series. I haven’t had the chance to play BG3 but this has been a treat to watch the game through this gameplay.

[@Rontti_]

Can't wait for Moonrise Towers battles and Myrkul fight especially. I wonder if he's even possible to defeat without taking damage with his legendary action retaliation

[@Melth]

I can only think of 2 ways to avoid damage from Myrkul's legendary action (blinding him doesn't work for some reason, even though it does work on most other legendary actions): 1) Trigger it by having the summoned Shadow from the shadow lantern attack him first. That shadow is your one and only available ally that is 100% immune to necrotic damage 2) Be in a globe of invulnerability at the time Unfortunately I can't do either of those things. I just recorded the video of beating Myrkul a couple of days ago, and the only damage I took was one poke from that legendary action. Per my challenge rules, I'm not allowed to use scrolls of invulnerability yet. And I didn't have the shadow available because I unsummoned it for being useless many videos ago.

[@ttmcoffee6806]

18:24 you don't really need to expend limited resources on the vault strength check, since you can retry that check any number of times with no downside

[@Melth]

Good to know. I could have had a more suitable character do it too, but I mostly wanted to just get it done quickly to move on with the video

[@petewilcock]

For the second shatterable floorboards, you can just attack and destroy the gold statue. It falls forward and crashes through them. A fun interaction I found.

[@Melth]

That's really neat!

[@martinmalic5411]

This boss is quite vulnerable to banishment due to her low charisma

[@Melth]

@@martinmalic5411 just like Balthazar!

[@Deerber]

Mmmmh, interesting. In my first blind honor run I also remember having a hard fight here, as I didnt know about the gold scaling (duh). I was lucky enough to have spread my party around though, and I guess that's what saved me. She downed one but I managed to take her down before she could do the same to the others. As a matter of fact, I didn't even realise the attack had an AoE until now, lol. The fact that it's also AoE is WILD XD

[@Melth]

Nicely done! As I recall, I'd just come down a ladder so I was badly clustered up and got annihilated as a result.

[@maelstrrom2824]

It's hard to gain approval with Minthara during most of Act 2 but certain dialogue options after the Myrkul fight give you a lot of approval all at once. I guess I got lucky with initiative rolls whenever I fought Gerringothe...side note: I like using the initiative stat stick bows but the trade off is that I don't always have dual hand crossbows on my characters

[@Melth]

The stat stick +3 initiative bow is certainly one of the best items in the game! And I do sometimes get out the Act 1 +1 initiative bow when things are desperate and I need every little advantage I can get.

[@lnsatiabie4364]

In my first playthrough (full blind of course, as intended), there were many many things that I missed in act 2 because of how hidden they were or because some random seemingly unconnected NPC died in act 1. However the toll house is one area I voluntarily passed up on, after getting full wiped before my first action on balanced difficulty.

[@Melth]

@@lnsatiabie4364 understandable! Although there are a ton of secret areas in here, it turns out you didn't miss much in terms of useful gear or setting info

[@danny234555]

Yeah, Tollhouse caused a few deaths in my party's first run. I 100% thought that throwing 1 gold at a time would cause SOMETHING to happen. I did that for about 5 minutes straight (mostly to annoy my friends), but it's just a loop. At the end of the day when we saw the ability that was causing her damage, we just dropped all the gold we were carrying onto the floor and she was useless.

[@man_apologist]

the battlemage gloves would be fantastic with the hat or cap or whatever of arcane acuity, but theyre bugged and dont work at all and i think its been that way since release lol

[@Melth]

@@man_apologist a sad waste of a very fun item idea!

[@harmennl21]

Hey. Just curious. Where are the latest age of mythology retold videos? It's become a bit of a Sunday ritual for me to watch those before I go to sleep. Really missed the one last week.

[@Melth]

I've been frustrated about that series because just after I finished the Greek campaign on Titan, they released a harder difficulty. I don't want to redo it all, but it also feels like the series isn't perfect anymore because now a harder mode exists.

[@harmennl21]

​@@Melth yeah i read about that difficulty. Haven't played it yet myself. I still find titan hard (and I don't even dare to attempt a deathless run). I do hope you continue with the series in one way or another. I really enjoy watching someone play the game and beating it with such skill plus I'm a Greek mythology nerd myself and enjoy your comments about the mythology of it all. Either way I can always rewatch your original series in which you did the original game deahtless. (for the fourth time)

[@Rafalord100]

@@Melthi think you should just keep playing from where you are, but on the harder setting from now on

[@nepereta3]

Curious: do you use the draconic glaive that can enchant other weapons?

[@Melth]

@@nepereta3 yes, that's currently active on one of Astarion's crossbows

[@SaturnAT839]

Not to be nitpicky, but you can fight He Who Was when he has full HP I'm pretty sure.

[@Melth]

@@SaturnAT839 I suppose that's true, though he'd die effortlessly either way

[@heisenberg9236]

Do you stream live or only post videos?

[@hobbyhobbyhobbyhobby]

bro how do you have spell slots without ever long resting lmao

[@Melth]

@@hobbyhobbyhobbyhobby I use them very carefully! I make every single spell count. A few other things also help restore level 1 spells in particular, like using the spelldrinker bow every short rest for every character