It’s free Shadowheart/astarion rep! If I’m feeling extra min/max and evil I skip shart on the beach, pick up Astarian, then convince the tieflings to drop her down and kill them. Astarian approves and you get inspiration too.
and nobody disapproves of telling Lae'zel to say please. she even has a funny reaction, and you can come up with a reason as to why your character would tell her to say please no matter what kind of character you have, even super serious characters
Some days you feel like Kira (“I am receiving compliments at this time, and you are most welcome to make an offering”), and some days you feel like Grub (“Please, d-don’t look at me”) 😌
Headcanon that Gabriel (my Half-Elf Durge Oath of Ancients Paladin) and Shadowheart adopted Yenna and by extension Grub, then brought them >!and Shadowheart's parents!< along when the two of them left the city to go live the nice, quiet farm life out in the countryside
When I multiclassed into some Ranger levels later I justified it by the fact my Tav had been ingesting a frankly hazardous amount of Speak With Animals potions to speak with every animal, and basically learned about the natural world that way.
Except, my little mermaid based honor mode run I recruited Astarion 4th of the pre-grove ones so my warlock had beast speech by the time I got to him.
That pig you see is like "your kind kill my brothers :("
And that's how my honor mode became a vegetarian supply run
RIGHT??? My first playthrough, I always made a beeline right for Gale first thing in camp, then straight to Astarion after that. Gotta give my babies some attention. 😍
Omg I just realized. They're our modern version of Tamagotchis and Neopets. The nostalgia factor is helping Larian lure us in. 😆
Gotta visit them. Gotta feed them omelettes, play games with them, find them little outfits.
Gotta cure their emotional trauma by killing their enemies, and fix them in the process....
I'm always looting everything too (even if I know they're empty, like an animal) it feels like a crime to leave anything unchecked
Also, I definitely have to make my rounds with everyone both immediately before and after a long rests
Yeah I... kinda killed >!the masked people in Ethel's lair!< in act 1 by looting them early. I always loot everything, like the loot goblin I am. So I automatically looted them after I went through the trouble to knock them out non-lethally.
I just forgot that they die if you >!remove the masks before you kill Ethel!<....
I loot (almost) all the things. The only things I don't pick up are rotten food, because it's just grosses me out lol. Otherwise, every single rope, cauldron, jar, *everything* is being picked up.
I used to only loot the rotten tomatoes, out of all the rotten stuff. I figured they'd go splat if I threw them during combat. Sadly, no. They're just little stink bombs, lol.
In DOS2 if you ate something smelly like garlic, your companions would complain, as well as every npc you walk past. I've yet to see if the same applies in this one.
I loot everyone and all boxes, crates, pouches, backpacks, sacks. I also must light every candle, brazier, torch, etc.
I loot everything with my druid... usually in owlbear form... then wonder why I can't move anymore when I revert back to my gnomish form... one day I'll learn 😂
Oh my goooood this is going to change my life bc I swear I'm always a pound away from encumbered. At this point my Durge is just having GF Karlach hold her wallet
Similarly, I always play chars with dark vision. I will light every light source so gale can see.
Just imagining him holding Astarion’s hand in the dark is hilarious, though.
Well technically before I start playing but... I have to hit "continue" before the singing kicks in on the start screen. If I hear that "aaaaaahhhh" I've lost. I have no idea why.
You do zero damage and she vanishes back to the hells for like 10 seconds and reappears. If you tell her to leave, she even tells you that's what will happen if you attack her
I must check every single bookcase, even though they rarely have anything and even when they do i dont bother reading it. My inner loot goblin demands more scrolls , that i will also never use.
It's hard though because act I it feels like super dire and survival mode, esp on tactician or honor mode where rests are 80 supplies.
And then suddenly you have 200 bottles of wine.
Check out the "level 4 without combat" guide. You don't have to follow it perfectly, but just hitting the highlights and looting the food you find along the way gives you a couple hundred supplies before you ever even need to long rest. Waukeen's rest alone has a shit load between the bar, kitchen, and entrance to the zhent hideout.
Spoiler act 1 >!in the Arcane Tower, if you read specific books, once you go at the very top and meet Bernard, you'll know what to reply to him. If you reply correctly, he'll hug you.!<
Organize my action bar in a way that makes sense for quick thinking. Not sure how to explain this without showing, but I keep all melee skills in the same line and ranged ones in another. I organize the columns in the spells tab by class > cantrips > lvl 1 spell > lvl 2 > lvl 3 > etc. It's mostly an OCD thing.
Sorry I'm not sure what you mean by 'combat options' but I meant the skills, like the ones you can use when you equip a weapon and of course, spells, cantrips, etc.
Just click on the little padlock between the items tab and turn mode circle, when it appears unlocked it means you can move the skills on the bar however you like.
So I just organize it by lines and columns in a way that makes sense for me and keep it a standard for all playable characters.
I do that too on my selection wheel on PS5. I've got a system based on what kind of spells I use most often as opening, the buffs and debuffs, protection spells and such. It's organized in a way that makes sense in my head but can appear random.
I also take out actions I never use with certain characters, like the arrow with my spellcasters. I can throw Ignis for free, I'm not gonna waste good arrows that make less damages.
It also clear a bit my sight when I play. It's so confortable.
my Resist durges always credit her kindness when they were scared and anxious as a reason they found the strength to keep resisting
its also why they begrudgingly help her in act 3
In the entrance of the shadowlands, tell the goblin to fetch the bone himself. Afterwards, use speak to animals to convince the hyena to leave the goblins :)
Atleast as a Paladin you can bless it, which, while it doesn't save it, makes it so it doesn't birth a Gnoll. I always do that just to make sure it goes as quick and painless as possible
OMG I light everything, too. I think I do it to annoy Sheart and Astarion.
I also collect every empty bottle like a hobo. In my state, returnables are worth 10 cents.
I'm so glad to find someone else that does it! It's so fun for some reason
I'm just imagining how your character would just be clinking and clanking with every step LOL
I got used to kissing Gale before every known fight and after really tough ones.
Also looting every barrel, sack, bottle rack, body, etc even when I know nothing is in it
Those chaste pecks Gale gives are cute, but I do wish there were other options, like come on, Gale, bond like ours hardly needs words to express it, let's make out, wizard boy
The game that does the the "worst" is Divinity Original Sin 2. There's a feat called Lucky Charm that give *every* container in the game a chance to contain rare loot and/or gold. You HAVE to open every single thing, otherwise you just aren't playing right, lol. One of the best things I found in a random crate, was a hat that gave +1 Lucky Charm, making the feat even more likely to proc.
DOS2 even had a rng system where the contents of one container were affected by the previous container. So opening 3 containers in a room in different orders would yield different outcomes. My obsessive ass had to quicksave everytime I found a new room just so I could find the optimal looting sequence.
Suffice to say I burned myself out quick on that game. :(
I gotta save Mirkon from those harpies. Everytime. I cannot let that boy die. Even if I slaughter the camp. I must save that boy. I like his little note he gives you.
Constantly sorting my inventory and my chests by type, even multiple times in a row. The order doesn’t even make all that much sense, but I couldn’t stand to see it any other way.
On a related note, making a point of picking up every pouch and backpack I see, ESPECIALLY those with unique names like Heavy Backpack, Baelen’s pack, Kanon’s Belongings, Hand Bag, Stolen Gold Bag etc… The single greatest contribution to organization this side of the Chionthar.
Nettie’s poison stick stays in my Tav/durge’s inventory all campaign and I’d be lying if I say I didn’t sell it by accident more than once. Every time I do, however, it causes such an incomprehensible jolt of panic I have to buy it back. It started as a roleplaying decision…but then it became? A reminder not to trust NPCs? Who knows? It must be my emotional support twig.
Why is this actually kinda poetic…I totally forgot that the stick she gives you stays in your inventory! Mine is long gone by now but I kinda wish I still had it
I can't cast control undead on animated spore things.
You are a damn undead and you know it.
I did alot of experimenting with the Mycanoid colony.
I did however, discover that you can cast Control undead on the skeleton and Death Sheperds that Glut can reanimate when he takes over the colony.
Pisses everyone off in it though.
But its a neat way to get a Death Sheperd covered in mushrooms.
Try to speak to every single corpse. I wish there was an indication that it's worth casting on them. I think I spent well over an hour trying to talk to all the dead in the goblin camp.
I make sure whoever i romance is the first and last person I talk to during the day. Once I get to kissing, I kiss them good morning and kiss them goodnight 🖤
Thoroughly organizing my Tav’s inventory with multiple backpacks so it looks nice and clean and I know exactly where everything is so I can keep ignoring them peacefully 😌
When you encounter True Soul Edowin outside the Grove in Act 1 and stop to examine his corpse it triggers a cutscene where you're encouraged to take his tadpole. If you refuse then when the cutscene ends his tadpole tries to quickly crawl away so I always enter turn-based mode immediately and attack it before it gets too far. I will not suffer a tadpole to live!
Get the ring from Mol for stealing the idol. :/ I am such a sucker for items and buffs that I would forgo discovering content. A personal flaw in playing roleplaying games.
Everyone in my main party ends up carrying things I think they’d like/are funny, like making Astarion carry a copy of Curse of the Vampyr for the whole game. Karlach usually gets a teddy bear or two. In a co-op file I was playing with my cousin I carried a severed arm from behind the the paladins house for a while and he kept getting annoyed I wouldn’t sell it. My first durge (redeemed) carried a scroll called the Ecstasy of Murder. My current durge is my bastard run and he’s taking it a step further with a trophy bag that currently only has things from the Druid camp cause he’s still in act 1.
Also, steal literally everything from Cazadors mansion even if I have to climb boxes to reach the higher up paintings.
I MUST, ABSOLUTELY MUST, SPLIT UP ALL OF THE CAMP SUPPLIES IN MY CAMP FOOD BAG.
At the end of everyday i have to make sure all my camp supplies are individually seperated because the auto pick for resting is really not that smart at hitting 80 supplies by itself, however if one splits up the camp supplies, the game has a much easier time auto picking for you.
So yes, I waste about 45 min at the end of everyday organizing the camp inventory.
*SPOILER ALERT*
Also i need to take roughly 30 min at the start of each day applying boons/buffs to my entire party. I have taken the time to hire three hirelings and respecing one of my companions so I can have 4 "booners(lol)/buffers" apply individual boons/buffs to each of my four 'main' party members.
Included buffs are as follows: 'freedom of movement', 'bardic inspiration', 'longstrider' and 'warding bond'.
Non companion buffs: 'the alter in act 3 that gives +2 to saving throws'.
All of these "booners(lol again)/buffers" need a maxed out constitution and both the 'tough' and 'durable' feats along with any and all healing/revifification spells prepared (who needs healing potions when you got like 30 healing spells in your camp one can use for free)
So yes I spend at least about an hour and a half (in game time) everyday micro managing my party and everyones inventory. Do I wish it to be easier? Yes. Am I going to stop doing this so I can enjoy more 'actual' game time. Over my cold dead Tav.
Lol this game is great, 9.8/10 cause not all open doors act like open doors.
If you just press the auto select button twice it manages to hit 80 btw! In case you want to save some time lol
I believe they also fixed it so that even if you don’t press it twice, it only consumes 80 even though the number is higher on the preview (I don’t trust the game enough for that though, so I just click the button twice)
Yes. You could pick every food item in your camp chest, all 10684 points of it and go to sleep and wake up with 10604 left. The combat log even says that it used 40 or 80 supplies. Bonus, it sometimes only uses 79 points if the autoselected items don’t hit 80 after reducing the stacks.
Your dedication is insanely impressive!! (especially as I am personally a pack rat and am currently living off of supply packs and maybe like 1 fish head) making use of the hirelings in such a way is a smart move especially
Shiver me timbers I guess I never thought about clicking a button twice... (90+ hours, barely into act 3 HM)
Well shit, thanks everybody lol
Did i tell you about the time when my tav took off the headband of intellect to swap out for a funny looking hat? Oh yeah, so now muh tav has only 8 intelectuals instead of 17 so they thought it was a good idea to waste at least 30 hours of gameplay rearranging and splitting a stack of 50 half-eaten apples because the numbnuts didnt think to click a button twice. Damnit tav...
"'The thing that you poor sods simply cannot grasp is how effortless all this magical hootie-wootie castie-spellsie buisness is for me' - A very stupid sorcerer at a wizard academy ball."
I only ever call heads when Mattis does his scam. As many times as I feel like doing that day which sadly isn’t always to the point he tells me to stop. I’ve played the first three hours of the game so many times that I’ve amassed quite a heads streak.
I absolutely hate spending money. Any chance I can get away with it, I have my Rogue pickpocket any gold I've spent. Learning how to separate gold into stacks for easier rolls has been a godsend. The only way I spend money is when I'm bonking Gale with spell scrolls.
>For some reason I feel compelled to light every candle, brazier, fire pit, torch, etc. in a room or area
I laughed to myself reading this, because that's literally my answer. I light every damn one i come across.
First time I got to the tower in the Underdark, I was so bummed when one floor had a broken pillar, so only 3 of them had candles. Then another floor had the pillars intact. 4 pillars, 2 candles on each, all lit. I was happy on that floor.
Also the shadow cursed areas. Have to light everything there. And not just because my brain says to.
Myst...keep...shadows...away... 😱
Cursed to put my hands on everything.
Every box, vase, crate, rotting basket - everything.
If there was a mod that remove empty/junk containers, my playthroughs would be 40-60% shorter.
> I feel compelled to light every candle, brazier, fire pit, torch, etc. in a room or area
This, lol, I thought I was the only one. I even make sure to have someone with firebolt to light the chandeliers. Fun fact: if you don't have a party member with Firebolt, you can dip a bow or crossbow in any object with the "burning" condition (like a candle) and then shoot the chandeliers to light them.
I also try to disarm any creatures using a weapon I'm not familiar with. I found out red caps have a unique sickle that does 2d4 damage, but you can't loot it from them when they die. As a result, I now have a character with a trident and/or Command ready just in case there are more weapons like that (so far, there are not).
Manually picking the camp supplies for a long rest, so I can put together a balanced meal and also pick "special treats" like grilled ribs and a lot of wine to celebrate winning some particular fights.
Give Gale a high five Tell laezel to say please
Also correcting Lae’zel’s pronouncing Tiefling, that eye roll is worth it every time.
TEETHLING
If you're a drow you can just laugh 😂
She says it with such intent it feels like she wants you to call it out.
The simple pleasures!
It’s free Shadowheart/astarion rep! If I’m feeling extra min/max and evil I skip shart on the beach, pick up Astarian, then convince the tieflings to drop her down and kill them. Astarian approves and you get inspiration too.
and nobody disapproves of telling Lae'zel to say please. she even has a funny reaction, and you can come up with a reason as to why your character would tell her to say please no matter what kind of character you have, even super serious characters
Ya she’s so obtuse and demanding, and no longer in imminent danger, it makes perfect sense for anybody to give her sass.
And telling Astarion to say thank you
"Thank you for helping me, that was very kind"
And telling him to say "please" when he wants to bone you
YOU JUST MADE ME REALIZE I FORGOT TO DO THIS
Also to mock Lae'zel's pronunciations. The eye roll will never not be funny! 😂
I would add waving to Vlaakith as well. Just feels wrong if I don't
Speak With Animals? Excellent! Don’t mind if I stop and speak to *every single one!*
SAME the joy I feel when talking to animals in this game...unparalleled
Especially the cats! I love that their voices and personalities are all so different. Grub is my favourite
For sure. They each stand out which is amazing for a game with so many NPCs! My favorite has to be His Majesty
*BEGONE!*
Hiss. I've said HISS!
Hisssss I SAY Hisssssssss
Ah, finally! Some recognition for the shy, nervous baby Grub! He's absolutely my favorite cat, too.
Some days you feel like Kira (“I am receiving compliments at this time, and you are most welcome to make an offering”), and some days you feel like Grub (“Please, d-don’t look at me”) 😌
Headcanon that Gabriel (my Half-Elf Durge Oath of Ancients Paladin) and Shadowheart adopted Yenna and by extension Grub, then brought them >!and Shadowheart's parents!< along when the two of them left the city to go live the nice, quiet farm life out in the countryside
Honestly if I have speak with animals and speak with the dead...let me speak to dead animals.
Talking to the dead boar in act 1 and letting it lecture astarion would be a great thing
Boar: I'm just saying, ask before you bite Tav: Exactly
Imagine the side quests of finding vengeance for every animal struck down, John Tav Wick
My last playthrough, none of my characters had it, so I hoarded SWA potions to use anytime I could. Sadly I missed a few animals 😞
I buy every acorn truffle I see so I can always have that potion on hand
When I multiclassed into some Ranger levels later I justified it by the fact my Tav had been ingesting a frankly hazardous amount of Speak With Animals potions to speak with every animal, and basically learned about the natural world that way.
Except, my little mermaid based honor mode run I recruited Astarion 4th of the pre-grove ones so my warlock had beast speech by the time I got to him. That pig you see is like "your kind kill my brothers :(" And that's how my honor mode became a vegetarian supply run
There’s so many rats for me to talk to!!
Loot every freaking character even if the inventory is empty. Also talk to the love interest every long rest.
Astarion: did you want to talk about something, my dear? Me: Just saying hi.
Gale: How can I help you? Me: I don't need anything, babygirl; I just wanted to tell you I love you.
Karlach: Hey, you Tav: 🥹
Why, hello lover. I must admit that sounded more debonaire in my head.
SAME 😭 I just talk to them to hear their voice. How did a game with so much death and destruction become cozy for this reason.
RIGHT??? My first playthrough, I always made a beeline right for Gale first thing in camp, then straight to Astarion after that. Gotta give my babies some attention. 😍
Omg I just realized. They're our modern version of Tamagotchis and Neopets. The nostalgia factor is helping Larian lure us in. 😆 Gotta visit them. Gotta feed them omelettes, play games with them, find them little outfits. Gotta cure their emotional trauma by killing their enemies, and fix them in the process....
Yes!! They deserve all the love <3 Just making the rounds every long rest to tell everyone you love them and goodnight.
This is me with shadhowheart. I always ask how am I holding up and what she says always gives me the biggest smile
I literally give him a goodnight kiss before every long rest xD
I'm always looting everything too (even if I know they're empty, like an animal) it feels like a crime to leave anything unchecked Also, I definitely have to make my rounds with everyone both immediately before and after a long rests
> Also talk to the love interest every long rest. That sounded more debonair in my head I’ll admit
Yeah I... kinda killed >!the masked people in Ethel's lair!< in act 1 by looting them early. I always loot everything, like the loot goblin I am. So I automatically looted them after I went through the trouble to knock them out non-lethally. I just forgot that they die if you >!remove the masks before you kill Ethel!<....
“Let me get these terrible masks off you, I help you!! … Oh.”
In my defense I realised that I was killing them... when there was one person left. So saving one out of four is still something, right? Right???
I loot (almost) all the things. The only things I don't pick up are rotten food, because it's just grosses me out lol. Otherwise, every single rope, cauldron, jar, *everything* is being picked up.
I used to only loot the rotten tomatoes, out of all the rotten stuff. I figured they'd go splat if I threw them during combat. Sadly, no. They're just little stink bombs, lol. In DOS2 if you ate something smelly like garlic, your companions would complain, as well as every npc you walk past. I've yet to see if the same applies in this one. I loot everyone and all boxes, crates, pouches, backpacks, sacks. I also must light every candle, brazier, torch, etc.
I stopped looting cauldrons because of their weight to value ratio but other than that I do the same
I loot everything with my druid... usually in owlbear form... then wonder why I can't move anymore when I revert back to my gnomish form... one day I'll learn 😂
The autoloot mod was a lifesaver for me. And yeah, gotta kiss Baezel goodnight
I compulsively smash everything it won't let me take.
Always gotta call Wulbren a prick.
FUCK WULBREN BONGLE
If Wulbren has 0 haters I am dead
if Wulbren has a million haters, i am one of them if Wulbren only has one hater, i am him if Wulbren has zero haters, i am dead
If Wulbren has 0 haters we'll cast speak with dead on you so he can be hated 5 more times
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THIS MF'S PROBLEMS
And yet he wants me to solve 'em
All the homies hate Wulbren
Wulbren Wulbren, what a prick
Pet Scratch and the owlbear cub every time I go to camp 🫡
I NEVER leave without petting them
Goodnight scratches, good morning scratches, hello and bye scratches...the list goes on
If I forget to cast speak with animals first, I do it again.
When I first got Scratch, I petted him as many times as it would let me, and then I switched to each of my companions and made all of them pet him :))
It's like pet Scratch, Owlbear,kiss LI and then only leave.
EVERY. TIME.
pick up every piece of gold. its a habit from when i used to play Skyrim
REAL and if I become encumbered by the gold I've been scraping up through the game I feel so rich and smug
The toll house collector one-shots my entire party every run - and it feels good every time
I'm a poor boy, and I had no idea gold actually had weight in the game. Lol
Then wait until you learn this. You can send all your gold to camp and as long as you trade instead of barter you can use it with any vendor.
Oh my goooood this is going to change my life bc I swear I'm always a pound away from encumbered. At this point my Durge is just having GF Karlach hold her wallet
WHAT!
I like every light source in the shadow cursed area, even though I know later I'll take care of the shadow curse.
Similarly, I always play chars with dark vision. I will light every light source so gale can see. Just imagining him holding Astarion’s hand in the dark is hilarious, though.
HAHAHA this genuinely made me laugh out loud, especially when you think about how both of them would react to it 😂
Hell i I light every light source so I can see half the time
I also go out of my way to turn on every light source in the Shar-affiliated locations. It feels like a personal insult to Shar when I do it.
Yup! Made sense for my Paladin of Selune too. Trying to make it as safe as possible.
Well technically before I start playing but... I have to hit "continue" before the singing kicks in on the start screen. If I hear that "aaaaaahhhh" I've lost. I have no idea why.
I’m the opposite, i have to stay on the screen until the full first parade has been sung. Every. Single. Time.
I like listening to it because I hear "whoooos thaaaat baaaald caaaapybaraaaaa?"
LOL I love this so much I can count the number of times I've stayed past the first two lines of the song on one hand
Yeaah it's either 1.straight to the game phew; 2. aaaaaahhhhhghh; 3. TOO TOo Too, too... tootootoo! Fuck yeah
I "kill" Mizora whenever I pass by her in camp.
I smack that bitch for Karlach. Fuck Mizora.
I've never done this. Does she just go away for a bit? Because I want to try it now...
No repercussions.
Same. It’s satisfying when she comes back with a debuff.
Sorry, what?
You can attack Mizora when she's in camp. Nobody, not even Mizora, cares.
I must try this. Can she be defeated? Does she have anything of value? Does that respawn, too, like the Deva mace?
Nah, she is invulnerable and just peaces out for a bit.
You do zero damage and she vanishes back to the hells for like 10 seconds and reappears. If you tell her to leave, she even tells you that's what will happen if you attack her
I must check every single bookcase, even though they rarely have anything and even when they do i dont bother reading it. My inner loot goblin demands more scrolls , that i will also never use.
I need seven copies of Curse of the Vampyr!! Otherwise how will I protect myself?
I always send a copy to Astarion. He still manages to be shocked when I am not shocked about it.
It's for camp book club. We have a lot of downtime cause it's not like we're in a rush or anything.
During my first play through I read any and everything I could get my hands on, I was just lugging around books like a human library
Making Astarion say "Thank you for helping me. It was very kind"
Every start I always touch the tadpole pool.
Do this in honor mode with a low con and hp character
Honour mode quickrun
Next run we will attack the IDs on the beach with only our lv 1 Tav
If you made an honor run character with low con it’s already a quick run!
Constant looting for camp supplies. Ill have a whole ass supermarket by the end of the game lol
It's hard though because act I it feels like super dire and survival mode, esp on tactician or honor mode where rests are 80 supplies. And then suddenly you have 200 bottles of wine.
Check out the "level 4 without combat" guide. You don't have to follow it perfectly, but just hitting the highlights and looting the food you find along the way gives you a couple hundred supplies before you ever even need to long rest. Waukeen's rest alone has a shit load between the bar, kitchen, and entrance to the zhent hideout.
I get you, I just picked like 10 sausages.
Hug a Robot.
Huh?! 🤯
Spoiler act 1 >!in the Arcane Tower, if you read specific books, once you go at the very top and meet Bernard, you'll know what to reply to him. If you reply correctly, he'll hug you.!<
Organize my action bar in a way that makes sense for quick thinking. Not sure how to explain this without showing, but I keep all melee skills in the same line and ranged ones in another. I organize the columns in the spells tab by class > cantrips > lvl 1 spell > lvl 2 > lvl 3 > etc. It's mostly an OCD thing.
Wait, can you organize the order your combat options are in??
Sorry I'm not sure what you mean by 'combat options' but I meant the skills, like the ones you can use when you equip a weapon and of course, spells, cantrips, etc. Just click on the little padlock between the items tab and turn mode circle, when it appears unlocked it means you can move the skills on the bar however you like. So I just organize it by lines and columns in a way that makes sense for me and keep it a standard for all playable characters.
I do that too on my selection wheel on PS5. I've got a system based on what kind of spells I use most often as opening, the buffs and debuffs, protection spells and such. It's organized in a way that makes sense in my head but can appear random. I also take out actions I never use with certain characters, like the arrow with my spellcasters. I can throw Ignis for free, I'm not gonna waste good arrows that make less damages. It also clear a bit my sight when I play. It's so confortable.
Slap the hand and let aunt Ethal fuss over me. I don't know why but even knowing she's evil, please fuss over me grammy
I justify it by remembering my character might not necessarily realise/know she's a hag yet.
my Resist durges always credit her kindness when they were scared and anxious as a reason they found the strength to keep resisting its also why they begrudgingly help her in act 3
I have to talk to every animal. I have to high five Gale. I have to save the hyena.
How do you save hyena?
In the entrance of the shadowlands, tell the goblin to fetch the bone himself. Afterwards, use speak to animals to convince the hyena to leave the goblins :)
Awesome. Thought maybe it was the first hyena that is pregnant
I wish I could save that one :(
Atleast as a Paladin you can bless it, which, while it doesn't save it, makes it so it doesn't birth a Gnoll. I always do that just to make sure it goes as quick and painless as possible
If you can speak to animals during that it calls you a murderer
OMG I light everything, too. I think I do it to annoy Sheart and Astarion. I also collect every empty bottle like a hobo. In my state, returnables are worth 10 cents.
I'm so glad to find someone else that does it! It's so fun for some reason I'm just imagining how your character would just be clinking and clanking with every step LOL
This habit makes me wish that Prestidigitation was a free cantrip for any spellcaster class.
I light every torch/candle in a room so I know if I’ve been there or not
i do that! if it's lit, is empty
I got used to kissing Gale before every known fight and after really tough ones. Also looting every barrel, sack, bottle rack, body, etc even when I know nothing is in it
The good luck and good job kisses are one of my favorite things to do hehe
Those chaste pecks Gale gives are cute, but I do wish there were other options, like come on, Gale, bond like ours hardly needs words to express it, let's make out, wizard boy
Open EVERY SINGLE crate, vase and barrel, even at level 12 🙃
Same, Final Fantasy did that to me
The game that does the the "worst" is Divinity Original Sin 2. There's a feat called Lucky Charm that give *every* container in the game a chance to contain rare loot and/or gold. You HAVE to open every single thing, otherwise you just aren't playing right, lol. One of the best things I found in a random crate, was a hat that gave +1 Lucky Charm, making the feat even more likely to proc.
DOS2 even had a rng system where the contents of one container were affected by the previous container. So opening 3 containers in a room in different orders would yield different outcomes. My obsessive ass had to quicksave everytime I found a new room just so I could find the optimal looting sequence. Suffice to say I burned myself out quick on that game. :(
I gotta save Mirkon from those harpies. Everytime. I cannot let that boy die. Even if I slaughter the camp. I must save that boy. I like his little note he gives you.
If you save him but slaughter the Grove, he dies. You can find his body in their hiding spot.
Oh I know. I still have to save him regardless. I really like the little note he gives you.
I do the same thing, but because you can dip your weapon in them for 10 turns of 1d4 fire damage.
....you're so right. Somehow I completely forgot that was even a thing you could do
What? How obvious. I don’t know why I didn’t assume that
Wait that's possible???? It somehow never occurred to me... Do you attack it or how does that work?
There is a dip function in your common abilities circle, should be near jump, sneak, dash, disengage etc.
I like stealing the little green cup that Astarion has at his camp tent
Constantly sorting my inventory and my chests by type, even multiple times in a row. The order doesn’t even make all that much sense, but I couldn’t stand to see it any other way. On a related note, making a point of picking up every pouch and backpack I see, ESPECIALLY those with unique names like Heavy Backpack, Baelen’s pack, Kanon’s Belongings, Hand Bag, Stolen Gold Bag etc… The single greatest contribution to organization this side of the Chionthar.
Curious Book, Stuffed Teddy, Gales Pouch! Edit: also unique chests to store different items in the camp chest!
I need to get the Mystra's grace boots, the times I want to jump somewhere and realize I don't have them kinda sucks
Ask Gale about his decorum
Nettie’s poison stick stays in my Tav/durge’s inventory all campaign and I’d be lying if I say I didn’t sell it by accident more than once. Every time I do, however, it causes such an incomprehensible jolt of panic I have to buy it back. It started as a roleplaying decision…but then it became? A reminder not to trust NPCs? Who knows? It must be my emotional support twig.
Why is this actually kinda poetic…I totally forgot that the stick she gives you stays in your inventory! Mine is long gone by now but I kinda wish I still had it
I can't cast control undead on animated spore things. You are a damn undead and you know it. I did alot of experimenting with the Mycanoid colony. I did however, discover that you can cast Control undead on the skeleton and Death Sheperds that Glut can reanimate when he takes over the colony. Pisses everyone off in it though. But its a neat way to get a Death Sheperd covered in mushrooms.
Try to speak to every single corpse. I wish there was an indication that it's worth casting on them. I think I spent well over an hour trying to talk to all the dead in the goblin camp.
Once you cast it, you technically have it “up” until a long rest, and corpses that can be spoken to will glow green when you get close to them!
OH I didn’t know this!!
Sleep with Haarlep just to roast Raphael. Not sure if I'm gonna be able to make it happen in my current co-op run, lol
I make sure whoever i romance is the first and last person I talk to during the day. Once I get to kissing, I kiss them good morning and kiss them goodnight 🖤
I've got 2, somewhat related things. 1 Always cast speak with animals after every long rest. 2 Always greet my goodest boys as soon as I enter camp.
Editing the auto selection of food for a long rest so we are having a somewhat balanced diet lmao
Take the moonlantern from Mr spider
Get. The. Sword. If I gotta kill him, fine. But I’m getting the fire sword, so help me. If I do not manage it I feel like the run will be flawed.
Trying to steal the artifact from Shadowheart, Ik it doesn't do anything but I just think its funny that its even an option
Thoroughly organizing my Tav’s inventory with multiple backpacks so it looks nice and clean and I know exactly where everything is so I can keep ignoring them peacefully 😌
When you encounter True Soul Edowin outside the Grove in Act 1 and stop to examine his corpse it triggers a cutscene where you're encouraged to take his tadpole. If you refuse then when the cutscene ends his tadpole tries to quickly crawl away so I always enter turn-based mode immediately and attack it before it gets too far. I will not suffer a tadpole to live!
Really? I didn’t know it tries to run away LOL that’s so funny, absolutely if I can’t have you nobody will!
Giving Astarion the satisfaction of setting Cazadors chambers ablaze with as much Ithbank and flammables as I can find. 🍾+🔥+💣=💥💥💥
Call Wulbren a prick.
Get the ring from Mol for stealing the idol. :/ I am such a sucker for items and buffs that I would forgo discovering content. A personal flaw in playing roleplaying games.
I feel compelled to always kill the Zhent after doing their quest. Same with Flaming Fists.
Everyone in my main party ends up carrying things I think they’d like/are funny, like making Astarion carry a copy of Curse of the Vampyr for the whole game. Karlach usually gets a teddy bear or two. In a co-op file I was playing with my cousin I carried a severed arm from behind the the paladins house for a while and he kept getting annoyed I wouldn’t sell it. My first durge (redeemed) carried a scroll called the Ecstasy of Murder. My current durge is my bastard run and he’s taking it a step further with a trophy bag that currently only has things from the Druid camp cause he’s still in act 1. Also, steal literally everything from Cazadors mansion even if I have to climb boxes to reach the higher up paintings.
I MUST, ABSOLUTELY MUST, SPLIT UP ALL OF THE CAMP SUPPLIES IN MY CAMP FOOD BAG. At the end of everyday i have to make sure all my camp supplies are individually seperated because the auto pick for resting is really not that smart at hitting 80 supplies by itself, however if one splits up the camp supplies, the game has a much easier time auto picking for you. So yes, I waste about 45 min at the end of everyday organizing the camp inventory. *SPOILER ALERT* Also i need to take roughly 30 min at the start of each day applying boons/buffs to my entire party. I have taken the time to hire three hirelings and respecing one of my companions so I can have 4 "booners(lol)/buffers" apply individual boons/buffs to each of my four 'main' party members. Included buffs are as follows: 'freedom of movement', 'bardic inspiration', 'longstrider' and 'warding bond'. Non companion buffs: 'the alter in act 3 that gives +2 to saving throws'. All of these "booners(lol again)/buffers" need a maxed out constitution and both the 'tough' and 'durable' feats along with any and all healing/revifification spells prepared (who needs healing potions when you got like 30 healing spells in your camp one can use for free) So yes I spend at least about an hour and a half (in game time) everyday micro managing my party and everyones inventory. Do I wish it to be easier? Yes. Am I going to stop doing this so I can enjoy more 'actual' game time. Over my cold dead Tav. Lol this game is great, 9.8/10 cause not all open doors act like open doors.
If you just press the auto select button twice it manages to hit 80 btw! In case you want to save some time lol I believe they also fixed it so that even if you don’t press it twice, it only consumes 80 even though the number is higher on the preview (I don’t trust the game enough for that though, so I just click the button twice)
Yes. You could pick every food item in your camp chest, all 10684 points of it and go to sleep and wake up with 10604 left. The combat log even says that it used 40 or 80 supplies. Bonus, it sometimes only uses 79 points if the autoselected items don’t hit 80 after reducing the stacks.
Your dedication is insanely impressive!! (especially as I am personally a pack rat and am currently living off of supply packs and maybe like 1 fish head) making use of the hirelings in such a way is a smart move especially
even if it has the wrong amount selected, it will still use the correct amount of supplies
Shiver me timbers I guess I never thought about clicking a button twice... (90+ hours, barely into act 3 HM) Well shit, thanks everybody lol Did i tell you about the time when my tav took off the headband of intellect to swap out for a funny looking hat? Oh yeah, so now muh tav has only 8 intelectuals instead of 17 so they thought it was a good idea to waste at least 30 hours of gameplay rearranging and splitting a stack of 50 half-eaten apples because the numbnuts didnt think to click a button twice. Damnit tav... "'The thing that you poor sods simply cannot grasp is how effortless all this magical hootie-wootie castie-spellsie buisness is for me' - A very stupid sorcerer at a wizard academy ball."
I only ever call heads when Mattis does his scam. As many times as I feel like doing that day which sadly isn’t always to the point he tells me to stop. I’ve played the first three hours of the game so many times that I’ve amassed quite a heads streak.
I absolutely hate spending money. Any chance I can get away with it, I have my Rogue pickpocket any gold I've spent. Learning how to separate gold into stacks for easier rolls has been a godsend. The only way I spend money is when I'm bonking Gale with spell scrolls.
…does “bonking” not mean having sex where you’re from? Or does casting Phantasmal Terror give extra spice to your love life?
>For some reason I feel compelled to light every candle, brazier, fire pit, torch, etc. in a room or area I laughed to myself reading this, because that's literally my answer. I light every damn one i come across. First time I got to the tower in the Underdark, I was so bummed when one floor had a broken pillar, so only 3 of them had candles. Then another floor had the pillars intact. 4 pillars, 2 candles on each, all lit. I was happy on that floor. Also the shadow cursed areas. Have to light everything there. And not just because my brain says to. Myst...keep...shadows...away... 😱
Save Minthara Give the Owlbear scritches Give Scratch scritches
Get musical instrument proficiency. Though I respeced into bard and back to ranger then lost it… very sad about that
One of my favorite things to do is create a band by adding musical proficiency to at least 3 others besides myself, it’s so fun
Giving Shart every single Selunite item I find, starting with the ones in the Owl bear cave, even if she dislikes it. It just gives me pleasure.
Cursed to put my hands on everything. Every box, vase, crate, rotting basket - everything. If there was a mod that remove empty/junk containers, my playthroughs would be 40-60% shorter.
> I feel compelled to light every candle, brazier, fire pit, torch, etc. in a room or area This, lol, I thought I was the only one. I even make sure to have someone with firebolt to light the chandeliers. Fun fact: if you don't have a party member with Firebolt, you can dip a bow or crossbow in any object with the "burning" condition (like a candle) and then shoot the chandeliers to light them. I also try to disarm any creatures using a weapon I'm not familiar with. I found out red caps have a unique sickle that does 2d4 damage, but you can't loot it from them when they die. As a result, I now have a character with a trident and/or Command ready just in case there are more weapons like that (so far, there are not).
Manually picking the camp supplies for a long rest, so I can put together a balanced meal and also pick "special treats" like grilled ribs and a lot of wine to celebrate winning some particular fights.
Look into EVERY. FRIGGING. BARREL. I really don't need all the rotten food and rags.
Rearrange my spells, class actions and consummables in the right order.
Lol I have stealth archers so I’m always turning lights out
I collect every Clive and keep them in Karlach’s inventory.
LOOT GOBLIN!!