The Best Helmet in the Game. Baldur's Gate 3, Nine Hells Challenge

[@Rontti_]

Crazy dedication having a playthrough run for months upon months, I always get so sucked into stories I end up finishing them in a few weeks. I love how these are like spaced out so I’m always waiting for the next one. This series is too good!!

[@Melth]

@@Rontti_ thank you, I'm very happy to hear you enjoy the series so much! My usual problem with BG3 runs is that toward the end of act 1 I think of some additional challenge I could have been playing with all along to make it tougher, and then I restart to play it like that. Having a commitment to an ongoing series with rules defined at the beginning makes it easier to not just start over with something harder

[@posthumous_me]

my favorite bg3 series rn.

[@Melth]

@@posthumous_me thanks, I'm glad to hear you like it!

[@jayrobitaille2402]

2:55 Due to team size, story writing and production values, BG3 is overall a superior (5E-based) game to Solasta: Crown of the Magister, but one of the things Solasta handles better is Flight. It adds a Z axis cubic grid that basically only applies to flying creatures, creating more scenarios where melee is cheesed out by flying enemies/spells (making Sphere of Fire a very fun spell to use). The difficulty to implement may be the reason they did not apply a flight Z axis to this game. Just like how Larian devs said they deliberately chose to exclude Dispel Magic from the game because it basically doubled their workload (according to an article cannot confirm myself so take it with a grain of salt).

[@Melth]

I've definitely wanted to be able to just fly up sometimes, but the game already caters so much to ranged characters and punishes melee ones in so many ways that I'll admit it would probably be a bad idea to add to this game.

[@samgeller8201]

Love this series, keep it up!

[@Melth]

@@samgeller8201 thank you very much!

[@ChThuter]

We're back to the normal speed "hello again" :)

[@Melth]

@@ChThuter did I say it differently or something?

[@ChThuter]

@@Melth In the last few AoM videos it's slower, but in the one that came out today it's back to normal speed.

[@renoaugusto]

I know you have other things going on, on your channel and IRL, but me and a lot of people would appreciate if you could upload more often, or at least longer episodes. At this rate you going to finish the game in mid 2025 or later. sorry if i'm being annoying, its not my intention, its just because i like your min max approach and lore knowledge so much that i really enjoy seeing you play the game. Anyways, great video as always

[@Melth]

@@renoaugusto thank you, I really appreciate hearing from you and other people that love this series. Knowing that people want more of it is always very encouraging. I do need to maintain a healthy balance of work, time with friends and family, and my other creative projects too though. Doing 2 videos per week is already cutting into my other hobbies as it is

[@konferansjer]

2025 is quite optimistic, given how much content there is in act 3. I think we are still going to wait for more episodes well into 2026. But I am totally fine with that.

[@dinospfc]

Arcane Acuity also counts each bounce of many targets, so basically instantly 10 stacks on any class with extra attack

[@Melth]

@@dinospfc yes, it's extremely powerful that way!

[@maelstrrom2824]

That helmet is never leaving my control archer's head Korilla's reaction is so cute when you find her hiding

[@Melth]

@@maelstrrom2824 that a "control archer" is even a thing you can do shows how powerful this helmet is!

[@KudzuHaiku]

I was going to say something about Shar's evil, but I cannot recall what it was.

[@Laura-hl4tx]

I think in my casual playrthoughts, I always stopped using the helmet because the throwbarb with electrifying strikes kinda ends everything wayyyy too quickly for any sort of spellcasting.

[@Melth]

@@Laura-hl4tx this is definitely a game where high damage can win most fights with no need for control spells!

[@samuelpetrunyak4989]

I’ve had that exact same bug! (The one with the raven in the shadowfell) With my group we tried to get as many summons as possible and my raven got stuck in shadowfell so I left him there as a joke, I learned to never do that again cause it slowed our turn order a bit lol

[@Melth]

@@samuelpetrunyak4989 interesting that it happened to you too! That does seem like evidence for my theory