This article is hilarious because like the author I didn’t know what I was doing and chose bard as my first character (still don’t know what I’m doing but I’m trying) and would do a lot of the same tricks he did. Pushing people off a ledge was my go to.
Weird to claim larian never meant you to play in a manner they specifically gave you the ability to do.
It’s not a serious claim. It’s a funny article about how the author pushes people off cliffs instead of fighting enemies with swords and magic.
I learned from Dark Souls that the only thing nobody can defeat is gravity. Larian must be fans.
Playing it like a Russian FSB agent: windows are your friend.
Repelling eldritch blast, push, throw people, pushing unarmed attacks, pushing superiority attacks, pushing flourishes, repelling arrows… I love my toys.
This mirrors tabletop D&D, which amounts to how much bullshit can we get away with.
Telekinesis. There is even a necklace or ring that has this spell on it. Edit: It:s gloves
Yeah, I’ve been using it, it’s great.
Yeet
I was kinda sad that using Telekinesis to drop a >!Steel Watcher on top of a Gondian!< didn’t do more damage.
Launching Duergar into lava was weirdly satisfying.
And like this, you CAN loot the corpses :p
When I tried to huck them into the river (specifically the invisible fucker near the boat in the shoreline encounter) and it wouldn’t let me? You’re gawdamned right, I was ready to be pissed if I couldn’t do likewise into the lava. Instead? Karlach tossed every dwarf she should reach… and they actually recorded audio for lava-induced death. 🥹 (At least the actor did for the main dwarf dude, IIRC)
The way I approach every fight:
- Is a fight inevitable?
- If so, sneak attack with each character to win surprise advantage, exploit terrain and plant bombs around them
Only way to beat buddy in Shar’s temple actually
I beat him by cheese in a different way. If you follow the panther, it will lead you to the room where the fight starts. But, if you skip that room and go further down you’ll end up in another area with a structure that looks like a gazebo with a large spider corpse inside.
You can go all the way to the back of this room where there is a chest and wait for the panther to nibble on the spider. Kill it and then above you on the left is the boss with his little army. You can trigger the agro from below by shooting arrows, world, or throwing things up and getting the mobs to approach the ledge above you. Just stay back and target whatever you can on the edge and they’ll keep standing there until they’re all dead.
You can sometimes get the boss to stand there too or you can get him to come down and at fight him solo which is quite manageable.
I was happily able to kill him before he summoned anything by dropping him to 1hp and making him burn to death before he was able to
I literally could not beat Viconia. Literally. Could. Not. I tried like 15 times, all different spells, arrangements, tactics, strategies, preparations, party members. Whatever. So I talked to her with a split party and send karlach to dispatch her during conversation in 3 hits. So I cheated. Whatever. Sue me!! I beat all the other bosses fair and square!!!
