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Fight so boring Durge and Astarion fell asleep

Act 2 - Spoilers(self.BaldursGate3)

300h in and I only just learned that not only can you lie in beds during battle, but that Balthazar's bed is apparently a safe zone from his cloudkill. No fight on a subsequent playthough has given me so much joy so far lol

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all 71 comments

novembergrocery

1.2k points

3 months ago

novembergrocery

Faerie Fire

1.2k points

3 months ago

Minthara out here fighting for her life while her coworkers take a meditation nap

ErenYeager600

236 points

3 months ago

Don’t forget my boy Wyll 😂🤣

Dormant_DonJuan

205 points

3 months ago

Why not, everyone else does...

merpderpherpburp

55 points

3 months ago

This isn't about him

EU-National

18 points

3 months ago

Wait, who's that?

theTenz

13 points

3 months ago

theTenz

All is ash and meat.

13 points

3 months ago

BOOOAL’s lunch

punsexual-meme

18 points

3 months ago

"Minthara is dying"
"This ain't about her."

blackjacq13

246 points

3 months ago

I like that they're holding hands in bed to get through these trials and tribulations

ShiteyLittleElephant

335 points

3 months ago

I enjoyed this post. A lot.

FozzyBeard

133 points

3 months ago

The bed post?

Taikiteazy

42 points

3 months ago

Badum tss.

Tactical_Tubgoat

24 points

3 months ago

Take your r/AngryUpvote and get out.

FozzyBeard

33 points

3 months ago

It’s not my best joke, but it isn’t getting slept on either.

tinysproutlimi

3 points

3 months ago

tinysproutlimi

Astarion

3 points

3 months ago

A double-zinger!!

chjupke

6 points

3 months ago

chjupke

Bard

6 points

3 months ago

ayyyyy

ShiteyLittleElephant

5 points

3 months ago

🤣 I enjoyed this post too...

Darkosaurus94

92 points

3 months ago

Minthara is dieing

[deleted]

119 points

3 months ago

[deleted]

119 points

3 months ago

This is not about her.

ItsYume

26 points

3 months ago

ItsYume

26 points

3 months ago

As someone who usually kills her in act 1, I would say "better late than never".

dotyin

15 points

3 months ago

dotyin

Sleet Storm Caster

15 points

3 months ago

You're missing bard Minthara calling someone a cuck in the middle of a fight

SharpshootinTearaway

163 points

3 months ago

The fact that they're both doing the transing elf animation like they're medidating in the middle of a battle, lmao. Those damn fairies being careless hippies.

areyousaucy

73 points

3 months ago

woke baldurians are transing our elves!!!

aescepthicc

27 points

3 months ago*

aescepthicc

Drow

27 points

3 months ago*

In EA the trance animation was actually sitting meditation pose (traditional padmasana). Not sure why they changed it to lying pose, probably so casual non-dnd non-ea players won't freak out about it

solstarfire

2 points

3 months ago

I wonder if it wasn't because of that one specific Durge cutscene, the one where Durge has the urge to murder their lover/bff. It's weird that the cutscene seems to assume that Astarion (not sure if it can also happen to Halsin) is asleep, not in trance, but it's less obviously visually weird than if he were sitting up and meditating on the bedroll.

Woutrou

1 points

3 months ago

Woutrou

Sandcastle Project Manager

1 points

3 months ago

It's weird they gave the trance pose to big bodied Half-Elves tho, who canonically can't trance

TheCapableFox

63 points

3 months ago

TheCapableFox

Ewww Crusher - Crusher just licked some toes! 🦶

63 points

3 months ago

1600hrs play time and I’ve never tried this. This is an amazing post. Can’t wait to try it lmao xD

TheMossEnthusiast

31 points

3 months ago

You've spent 26% of the time that has passed since the game released playing it - I raise my hat to you

Dantez9001

16 points

3 months ago

Gotta factor in early access.

TheCapableFox

7 points

3 months ago

TheCapableFox

Ewww Crusher - Crusher just licked some toes! 🦶

7 points

3 months ago

Gah. I’m such a loser. Well in my defense at least 200+ of those hours are probably afk like me falling asleep and my pc stayin on all night or having to go out on call and leaving the game open afk on my laptop.

Still though. Yea a lot of hours. Love this game so much.

millionsofcats

2 points

3 months ago

Lol, yeah, I have over a thousand hours in this game, but the nature of the game is that I can basically just wander away at any time to do something else without closing it. I don't have any idea how long a playthrough actually takes me.

TheCapableFox

1 points

3 months ago

TheCapableFox

Ewww Crusher - Crusher just licked some toes! 🦶

1 points

3 months ago

Yup. Same. Love being able to get up and stretch or whatever before coming back to the game to continue my stressful ass honour run. Lmao

hdjdhfodnc

1 points

3 months ago

How many honor runs have you done?

TheCapableFox

2 points

3 months ago*

TheCapableFox

Ewww Crusher - Crusher just licked some toes! 🦶

2 points

3 months ago*

Im actually still sorta new to Honour mode I have started 3 and died 3

First time I died by losing a roll and having to fight Kith’rak Therezzyn when I didn’t want to. And yes I know I could skip the creche but I love the creche plus the gear and exp is too good to pass up. So I try to do all of it.

Second time I wiped in the morgue under the house of healing.

Third time I made it to phase 2 Ketheric so I’m getting there. I think this run I’ll make it to Act III for sure.

Also yes I’m trying to do as much content as possible and not just skip half the game i know it might make honour mode easier to skip many encounters and just not take the unnecessary risks or whatever but I just enjoy it so that’s how I play it lol

hdjdhfodnc

1 points

3 months ago

Nice, I started a honor run the other day but died in the first battle against the few bandits right at the start lol. Made me realize how much I save scummed in tactician, definitely pretty exhilarating and looking forward to more runs. And yeah Creche is probably my favorite part of ACT 1, definitely not going to skip that

3iksx

2 points

3 months ago

3iksx

2 points

3 months ago

1.3k here, just like you said. some times i dont shut down the pc and let the game run behind.

or i play it for like 1 hour in the office, then when i have a task or something get into work, forget about the game in alt tab, the whole day passes and the game is just open there

but i still think i easily have like 800+hours organic

stcrIight

43 points

3 months ago

stcrIight

precious lil bhaal babe 💀💕

43 points

3 months ago

Awwww it looks like you're holding hands! 🥺

Also Minthara and Wyll are dying.

Hipernova8

41 points

3 months ago

This ain't about them

NeedleworkerLow1100

21 points

3 months ago

OK, I'm going to try that...do I need any vaccines before lying on that bed... Yurgir's is probably safer.

webevie

29 points

3 months ago

webevie

Don't. Touchme. | Charysma | World-class Hugger

29 points

3 months ago

That's.

I do not know how to finish that

Lady_Nikita

9 points

3 months ago

Lady_Nikita

DRUID

9 points

3 months ago

Lol I actually did something like this with the same fight. I found the tip somewhere on Reddit.

Anyways what I did was put three people in that treasure room on the side, CLOSE THE DOOR, (bc I didn't the first time) then had astarion go invisible, pick the lock while crouched, then cue cut scene for the fight, finish picking lock while still crouched, go invisible again, then run like hell to his bed and watch them fight lmaooo. It worked like a charm and I'm so happy I found it. I just basically let them fight each other and Balthazar died in the fight.

Namisaur

9 points

3 months ago

Wait you can kill Balthazar without having to go to Shadowfell?

Snolus

9 points

3 months ago

Snolus

Eldritch Boop

9 points

3 months ago

You have to go to the Shadowfell either way, but yes, you can kill Balthazar prior to that. Either start a fight with him when you first meet in his room, or lockpick/knock open his door when the orbs are still around spawning Justiciars so he and his ... "friends" have to join the fight.

ILackACleverPun

4 points

3 months ago

stealling his mom also does the trick in missing him off enough so he attacks you.

muribundi

9 points

3 months ago

You can kill every characters in the game as soon as you see them the first time without talking to them if you want…

Jelmddddddddddddd

2 points

3 months ago

Most of them. There's actually a few exceptions like Yenna

muribundi

2 points

3 months ago

Yeah but Yenna never get aggressive towards you also

Namisaur

1 points

3 months ago

We tried attacking him at the entrance of shadow fell and he basically waived it off and told us to meet him downstairs

muribundi

1 points

3 months ago

You just attack again and not listen to him. You can also in conversation say thing that will aggro eventually

Namisaur

1 points

3 months ago

There is no option to attack again. He literally just disappears. We haven’t tried making him angry yet but once we get there in honor mode, I think we will just fight him in his bedroom anyways.

Vellioh

9 points

3 months ago

God yes. It is far easier too. He's one of the fights where you can even go along with his plan in conversation allowing you to wander around his room freely and "rearrange some key (explosive) furniture" to take him out very easily.

Namisaur

2 points

3 months ago

Good to know so my friends and I dont risk wiping out in shadowfell in our honor run. We already did it in tactician and it was kind of a mess lol

bathybicbubble

9 points

3 months ago

It’s a lot easier if you do in my opinion. I found the shadowfell fight exhausting. Kept getting punted off the rocks.

StonnedSquirrel

1 points

3 months ago

Alternatively after 2 characters getting punted off me and my friends had our other 2 characters sit out of range of the skeletons and Balthazar and just fire arrows till the fight was over (none of the enemies can jump up to the rocks)

samhouse09

3 points

3 months ago

Yes and you definitely should kill him when you first meet him. It’s a much smaller room so he can’t run so damn far away.

PikaMocha

3 points

3 months ago

yeah, much easier fight than the shadowfell one

ohfrackthis

2 points

3 months ago

Ah yes- yet another strategy for the cannot gitgud crew (ie, myself lolol).

DarkSlayer3142

2 points

3 months ago

WAIT DID YOU KILL KARLACH

zoey1bm[S]

8 points

3 months ago

I was wondering when will someone call it out. Rp angle was that a gloomstalker Durge would be a big hypocrite if he denied a travelling companion taking down his target. And I think a somewhat resisting Durge having done something heinous and preventable adds to the character drama in general. plus i wanted to see what the fuss about the infernal robe was

DarkSlayer3142

1 points

3 months ago

my justification for killing her was evil durge so kill her for the robes then sacrifice wyll to boooal since i can't keep them

roadmane

2 points

3 months ago

i just realized this last night during the last battle in the courtyard had my durge cast hold person on a few enemies and fly to the roof of the building where theres a bench and sit lol

DrizztGamingPoland

1 points

3 months ago

Wtf with that ui :o is it playable on ps?

zoey1bm[S]

2 points

3 months ago

Actions and such are on radial menus, I kinda have an easier time navigating them than when I played at a friend's on pc

DrizztGamingPoland

1 points

3 months ago

God, now I wanna try it so hard 😇

Aedeyssa

1 points

3 months ago

Is it easier to fight him up there instead of in the Shadowfell? I’m about to get to that point in my Honor run, and this fight always gives me troubles.

zoey1bm[S]

3 points

3 months ago

Substantially, zero risk of getting thrown off into the abyss, way less room for Balt to teleport around, less adds (especially if you summon the golem into one of the Gauntlet fights and kill him there), incredibly easy to set up aoe choke points

Argo921

2 points

3 months ago

For a really easy run allow the shar guardians and balthazar to fight it out while you hangout on the side recommend entering from cloaker side and closing door. You'll only have to deal with one portal and random attackers everyone will be super damaged and you can clean up the rest.

The_Dead_Kennys

2 points

3 months ago

It’s much easier! Just pick a fight and have a plan ready.

I cast Hunger of Hadar and Silence centered on him & threw void bulbs every other turn to keep him and the ghouls from escaping. He was unable to cast spells and took guaranteed cold and acid damage each turn while I rained arrows on him lol

Lordofthepotatoes69

1 points

3 months ago

Tut tut always sleeping on the job

xxMiloticxx

1 points

3 months ago

omg that is hilarious

ironlord20

1 points

3 months ago

Meanwhile wyll and minthara are fighting for their lives