Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

After you get through with a party try solo honor on dark urge. In some ways it's harder, easier in others. You don't have to worry about killing someone that is a potentential party member or taking care of their story. Plus early on you kill them and take the gear they are wearing. Lvl 7 dark urge gloomstalker solo honor mode currently. Starting to slow down. Made it to 5 with almost no combat and now going back and picking up stuff now that I am over leveled. Once I figured out how to skip the grove fight at the very start making a new run got easier and faster if I died.

I did not look info the math but it's funny when you steal stuff and the DC is -3. All low value like arrows but still funny. Also for some reason Aaaron in the grove wound up with 4k gold and I would need like a 30 to steal it. Not sure how that happened. So back to Volo.

TJT said:

Playing on Honor mode for the first time. It is actually really refreshing having to just roll with it and there is new stuff I didn't see coming. I have never finished a Dark Urge run so trying that out and it's more lol this way. I did not expect the double owlbear encounter and survived by the skin of my teeth.

Its a bit more forgiving than I expected tbh. You can use res scrolls all you want, and Withers. I will definitely avoid some of the major fights if I can though. Nearing the end of Act 1. Running Dark Urge Sorcerer, Thief Astarion, Arcane Archer Lae'Zel, and Life Cleric Shadowheart.

I've had to figure out how to use stuff I never bothered with before. It's been great.

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I see a lot of different choices for shadowheart. I played with her on some other duo runs and did nature and tempest. Never did life. Interesting.

I am about as far as I can go now. Merkul now and I'm not sure I'm up to that solo. I held the "cheese" I used to a minimum. I didn't barrelmancy any other than shooting a barrel that was in the hideout after I put down a cat and pushed, then shot it with a fire arrow. So I could get the titanstring bow for free. I had the gold but did it anyway. Possibly could have got it another way. Did not have pass without trace yet.

I learned a lot about what conversation type rolls to prepare for, which is a lot considering rangers get no proficency in any of them.

Grym I just threw stuff. I had failed to pick up much stuff but I went to the few vendors and just stole a lot of stuff since the DC was negative. Took a few rest to reset them. Next time I'll pick up most junk along the way.

Being solo and dumb strikes again. I was going to have karniss take me to moonrise. I sided with the karniss against the harpers because I knew I couldn't take him down at lvl 5 solo. I made it to moonrise and got moonlantern from Balthazar room. It sucks. The only way I can get places is enhanced leap and stay out of the deep shadows. I haven't been able to make it to last light. You play and learn I guess. Half tempted to revive shadowheart and make her go from moonrise to last light and maybe grab another waypoint.

It was nice throwing everyone in grymforge into the bay/abyss so it was just me and Nere, and finished him in one round. Grym went easy so onward I went lol to be stuck.

When I group and use shadowheart I go with tempest or nature, nature using spike growth and letting me pick stuff off. Tempest works nice being able to move your dps each turn.

TJT said:

I am being way more lax with my completionist tendencies. I try to do everything then get bored and not move on. So I will be skipping various extra bosses like the Grymforge Golem, Spider Matriarch, and so on. I need to knockout my queen Minthara then help the tieflings.

I did some stuff I never tried before though. I found a way to sneak into the Zhent treasure room behind Roah via the rafters. As much as I love pickpocketing I have to be really careful about doing it. Even with Astarion pimped out to be a pickpocketing machine. Once I go down to the Underdark and get the invisibility ring/hat it might be easier. I don't want to do that Duergar fight with the undead he raises until I get counterspell.

It's a totally different game playing on honor. I dig it. Even if it is all in my head.

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I like to get use misty step either from a spell or amulet to get into the trasure/chest room behind Dror Ragzlin after first getting to the goblin camp. The cash is nice early on and especially if you don't use Volo as an ATM. Misty step in, loot, teleport out to where ever.

Yeah but when I'm solo on honor I'm tryingt to not use any inspiration because that is the most valuable thing in a lot of spots. Also my thieving skills aren't really that high then. I take that money and go to the hideout and buy thieving gloves and kill them to get the titan bow without having to use a lot of gold. I go there right off. Disguised self as a drow, walk there to get in past a couple of checks. Sneak past the left side. Step in and get the stuff, go get thieving gloves and titan sring, then come back and walk in and free Volo.

That's the nice thing about BG3 tons of ways to go about anything. By lvl 5 I can take out Drror solo in one round and then the rest of the stuff is easy plinking with insta invis each kill while on the rafters.

EDIT - abondonded my honor mode gloomstalker that got trapped in moonrise. I may go with an arcane archer after someone mentioned it. Trying to decide if go solo or duo/group. Went Laezel since I've never done her/origin. This may suck.