A Baldur’s Gate 3 participant has discovered the right way to one-shot the ultimate boss of Act 2 utilizing nothing extra complicated than a big pile of gold, a particular weapon, and a little bit of reverse-thievery.
Reddit’s u/GoldenThane shared their technique on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit yesterday. Their publish does include spoilers, so first we’ll offer you a spoiler-free clarification of what they did. Basically, GoldenThane used a weapon referred to as Twist of Fortune that is out there elsewhere in Act 2.
The morning star has, amongst different skills, a Weapon Action referred to as Blood Money that offers an additional 3 piercing harm per 300 gold that the goal possesses. So to one-shot the boss, they “reverse pickpocketed” them earlier than the combat to dump 15,000 gold into their pockets, then bapped them with Blood Money and referred to as it a day.
Warning: We go into much more element beneath the video, together with spoilers for the top of Act 2 of Baldur’s Gate 3. Read on at your personal threat!
Specifically, GoldenThane used this capacity on what seems to be the second section of the Ketheric Thorm combat on the finish of Act 2. Because the combat consists of a number of phases, they needed to reverse pickpocket Thorm earlier than it began, then used the Blood Money capacity on the second section, when Thorm turns into an Apostle of Myrkul. Fifteen-thousand gold divided by 300 is 50 ticks of Blood Money, which provides as much as 150 bonus harm on high of the bottom harm of the assault.
That alone would solely get GoldenThane as much as 167 of the boss’ 225 whole HP, however primarily based on feedback elsewhere within the thread it seems to be like GoldenThane had plenty of different results proc, together with a bunch of hits of an Illithid energy referred to as “Cull the Weak” and presumably different skills.
The mace in query, Twist of Fortune, is conveniently out there proper earlier than this part of the sport by way of Gerringothe Thorm, who you’ll be able to kill or pickpocket or in any other case creatively eliminate to gather this particular weapon.
Notably, this technique appears to be scalable as much as even larger well being swimming pools. Elsewhere within the thread, customers had been debating whether or not this may work on the primary combat in opposition to Thorm earlier within the chapter, when he is meant to be unkillable. A stack of 50k gold does the trick to get him to 0 well being on this state of affairs, in keeping with u/srsbsnsman, however the sport would not let him die – he simply sits round with 0 HP and continues to behave, successfully softlocking the sport. So…possibly do this particular battle as supposed.
GoldenThane additionally detailed one other reverse pickpocketing technique in one other thread (warning: spoilers for Act 3 when you click on by) that successfully entails dropping a cursed corpse into the stock of a significant Act 3 foe. This technique is a little more concerned, however fairly humorous when you can pull it off, and allows you to cheese your means by a particularly tough combat.
You can attempt both of those methods your self or, when you’re extra interested by working by the fights usually, we’ve a information to Baldur’s Gate 3’s Act 2 proper right here. We’ve additionally lined extra Baldur’s Gate 3 neighborhood shenanigans right here, together with somebody beating the sport with the worst potential ending for everybody, and a speedrunner ending the sport in ten minutes.
Rebekah Valentine is a Senior Reporter at IGN.
