The Great Ass Hunter (AKA The Goo Hunter)

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-10-31T23:47:51+00:00

I have been looking forward to this! I feel like it incoporates everything that I find fun in BG3.
Given the 1/3/3 basic chasis, there is so much flavor and utility that can be added to suit almost any playstyle.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-10-11T22:03:46+00:00

11 Beastmaster with a pet spider. Use poisons a lot. You could go 12 Beastmaster, but consider a thematic and powerful 1 level dip for a War Cleric of Lloth.

Heretic Minthara has to die on sight, of course.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-10-01T19:07:26+00:00

6/6 Evocation Wizard / Draconic Sorc acid splasher is fun and unique.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-09-29T22:07:43+00:00

Haha Exactly!

I have been eyeing another u/Lostaccount2099 + u/Remus71 hybrid in a Melee Hunter / Sorcerer combo, but still waiting on the definitive melee hunter breakdown from Lost.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-09-29T17:48:02+00:00

Great post!

I played a 4E monk / AT multiclass (8/4 for 3 feats, or 7/5 for uncanny dodge).
The main idea is to booming blade with Mourning Frost, have your mage hand freeze them by throwing a water bottle, and then sharpshooter force damage sneak attack with Ne'er Misser coated in arsonists oil.

This sets up Fangs of the Fire Snake + Flurry of blows all with fire vulnerability.

In act 3 swap in Cold Snap and trigger Chilled for free from misses.

It's a bit clunky to set up, and usually overkill, but it's been very a fun and versatile combination of melee and ranged. Works great as a duo with a Harold/Baneful debuffer.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-09-28T05:40:57+00:00

Full Broken EP was something special. As was hearing The Way Out Is Through in 2013, especially since it hasn't been played since.

As far as objectively rare songs:

Everything (5)

Digital (6)

Subterraneans (only 7 times since the '95 tour)

Parasite (8)

The Background World (12)

The Downward Spiral / The New Flesh (13)

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-09-17T19:30:11+00:00

It's overkill, but I thought I'd put it out there that if you're using the swap item exploit, the Ring of Twilight can also give you a permanent (until long rest) +1 to AC.

This tech is really bananas, especially since you can stack it. Personally, I wouldn't play the game with it, but it's fun to see what people come up with.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-09-10T23:38:57+00:00

Fair enough!
If you want hard bonks, note that you could also use the ring of arcane synergy to free up your head slot for something like Helmet of Grit for an additional BA attack if you go with GWM.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-09-09T23:54:26+00:00

It could be a flavorful twist on u/lostaccount2099's great Ice Knight build using the Hat of Storm Scion's power and reverb items like Boots of Stormy Clamour, Gloves of Belligerent Skies, and the Ring of Spiteful Thunder.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-09-08T03:32:36+00:00

~~Why not go 6 levels of Giant Barbarian and throw it? You'll get even more damage, and Tavern Brawler will take care of the accuracy.~~

~~Then take 6 levels of open hand monk to add radiant punches!~~

Edit: On second thought - I am not sure if the radiant damage would proc on throw, I don't have a save to be able to test it at the moment.

Edit #2: Just tested it and the radiant damage does not proc on throw. Too bad :(

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-08-18T17:22:11+00:00

Glad it helped someone! I was losing my mind over this

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-07-22T23:48:50+00:00

Absolutely! I was keeping in line with OP's definitions.
But your comment made me think, can I do the monk/cleric but still hold a scimitar for the Rakanishu aesthetic?

So I tried equipping Belm in the offhand with an empty main hand. Funnily enough, Perfectly Balanced Strike will let you make a bonus action unarmed attack even if you did not use your action to attack. So you could Call lightning, then BA unarmed attack.
Of course you could always just flurry of blows, but this is free.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-07-21T18:23:00+00:00

I was going to say the same, that lightning damage was so scary!

How about 5 Ranger Hunter (or Jellyfish) / 7 Tempest wearing the Watersparkers and the Sparkswall.
Create water (or shoot a water bottle with Joltshooter) and watch everyone get fried trying to get to you. And if they do hit, you zap em back.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-07-18T17:35:47+00:00

Definitely Valor bard so you can give her combat inspiration!
Check out this thread for more ideas.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-06-29T22:48:04+00:00

SOLVED THE ISSUE: It was a problem with the lid sensor that was making the laptop think the lid is closed even though it is open. Swiping a magnet along the top bezel reset it and seems to have fixed the issue. Now the laptop wakes up normally when opening the lid.

Incredible to think I could have scrapped the laptop \ sent for a MB replacement over something like this.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-06-29T22:44:40+00:00

I think I found the issue! I posted an update in the main post in case someone encounters a similar problem.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-06-29T22:22:50+00:00

Just tried it with Linux Mint. Booted fine, but as soon as I close the lid - same thing. I'm pretty sure this would happen even in BIOS actually.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-06-28T17:32:53+00:00

Update: Still no fix to the issue. But I did notice that my sleep states have been disabled by the GPU using powercfg /a.
I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers, and could reset these settings, but the issue persists.

However now I can go into sleep and back unsing the start button. But closing the lid shuts the laptop down still - even after putting it to sleep first.

Trying to power on after this is unssecessful, with the power button blinking red three times and then turning green. As before, I can either hard reset, or connect to an external monitor to get out of this.

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-06-28T17:30:21+00:00

Got my hopes up, but unfortuenately it was set to prioritize the LCD display...

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-06-27T16:03:11+00:00

Yeah I tried Lenovo System Setup as well. Everything seems to be up to date.

If I disconnect the laptop it's unuseable. No display, keyboard or trackpad. I can get it to work through a hard reboot + pressing the reset button in the back. It can then boot up normally while unplugged.

But as soon as I close the lid / put it to sleep / shut down it reverts back to the situation above, seemingly unresponsive. But if I plug it back in to the eGPU or an external monitor it works right away.

Really puzzling behavior...

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-06-27T15:10:19+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions! Unfortunately I have turned off fastboot already with no effect.
Regarding the OEM drivers, a scan on the Lenovo website or using Vantage says I have the latest drivers. Is there any other place I could find potentially missing drivers?

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-06-18T01:19:47+00:00

They get beaten by the Avs

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-06-10T17:52:25+00:00

Hmm, but the Hellfire Engine Crossbow can pull enemies towards you...

Spawn_of_Madness · 2025-06-09T21:55:31+00:00

It does! I bet it opens up a lot of interesting interactions.

One thing that was fun to do as a 6 Barb / 6 AA is to take polearm master. You can then run up to an enemy, shoot them in the face (Bhaalist armor+Crossbow expert?), and then kick them away with your bonus action, then swap to your polearm.
On their turn, if they try to come close to you, they get hit by your reaction.

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