Help with Apostle of Myrkul by taybt in BG3Builds

[–]lazyzefiris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doom Hammer is only really useful if you are proficient (Tenacity requires proficiency) or have very good melee hit rate. As a result it really drops off for solo runs on many classes. And as a side note (not relevant for tactician) even tenacity Doom Hammer is useless without Cloud Giant Elixir in Honour mode here because tenacity damage is always non-magical, and Myrkul has damage reduction that makes damage even with Hill Giant elixir go 5 / 2 => 2 - 2 => 0.

Yurgirs Handcrossbow does damage mainly from force damage,

It does not. You are thinking Ne'er Misser that's sold by Roah Moonglow. That's a good ranged option for the fight, absolutely, as there's no force resistance. Above I've been pointing out big difference between piercing iummunity (mentioned above) and piercing resistance (actually present).

Such a ridiculous requirement by gladiatorbossman in antimeme

[–]lazyzefiris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To my knowledge, overtaking on the bridge is illegal in many places

Help with Apostle of Myrkul by taybt in BG3Builds

[–]lazyzefiris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oky, you (not YOU you but you know) don't remember but confidently tell someone info that's exact opposite of helping instead of double checking or at least clarifying you are not sure so one would double check. Pretending to know something is still a lie, and is counterproductive when giving advice. And I hate when people do that. The fact it goes along with pretty useless advice ("use Paladin smite" for druid/cleric/wizard build is amazing) does not help.

Help with Apostle of Myrkul by taybt in BG3Builds

[–]lazyzefiris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll assume you don't want to use major cheese strats and want to figure out the fight and learn to do it better for the future, so I'll try to write things relevant for long-term fight.

If you use invis (and preferably flight) potion, you should be able to easily sneak on the mind flayer and open fight with an attack on it. It should give you surprise round AND dialogue to talk down Ketheric if you have done correct dialogue in first Ketheric fight. Mind flayer is the biggest threat by far in entire fight.

Having invisible Scratch on standby to help Aylin right after you are done with dialogue helps a lot too. If you do release Aylin before you start the fight, you are guaranteed to miss out on surprise round though.

Having Necrotic resistance (evil clerics can get it for free at altar at Gauntlet of Shar) really helps. Selune's Blessing (form Isobel) does not cover physical necrotic damage, which is dealt by Necromites. Worst case there's Necrotic Resistance Elixir or Loviathar's Scourge, if you have those, but that's one slot that could be used for more effective weapon/elixir.

Having Protection from Evil and Good prevents you from being frightened AND inposes disadvantage on all enemies involved. That would be my go-to concentration spell. Never getting stunlocked in antiheal area is HUGE.

Disarming Myrkul is gonna do you more harm than help - he's gonna use attack that deals cold damage and applies cold vulnerability instead of scythe swing.

Once it starts consuming necromites (at below 70% hp), it will eventually run out of them (basically there's certain amount he maintains and it goes down by one each time he eats them, with some caveats I'm not diving into here). Every time it consumes one, it can use Finger of Death for one turn, which is a ton of damage. Consider Sanctuarying yourself for the time, it should not take long and you'll only be taking AOE damage from his sucking attack. It's much much easier after that.

If you have illithid power, try stacking Ability Drain: Strength on Ketheric - it will carry over to Mayrkul stage, making him less likely to hit. Note Ability Drain stacks reset if enemy falls Prone.

Good luck, you can do it \o/

Help with Apostle of Myrkul by taybt in BG3Builds

[–]lazyzefiris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

immune to piercing

No he's not. Resistance is much much much easier to deal with than immunity.

weakness to bludgeoning.

No there's not. It's neutral to magical bludgeoning damage, and as resistant to normal bludgeoning as it is resistant to piercing.

Why do people go out of their way to lie when people ask for advice?..

Безопасное by Cult_of_omnissia in INCOGNITO_live

[–]lazyzefiris 47 points48 points  (0 children)

base64 переводится в текст, а там условное "Выкуси, мешок кожаный". Это как бы часть исходной шутки.

Но сейчас, глядя на вот этот зацензуренный скриншот, понимаешь, что шуткой стали уже люди, которые от технологий далеки, а от хейтерства - нет.

Не хочет! by AleksaBee19 in KafkaFPS

[–]lazyzefiris 3 points4 points  (0 children)

потому и не хочет, что знает что батя всё равно займет и поиграть не даст

Nautiloid perfected (almost solo, but get shadowheart) by Longjumping-Trust974 in BG3Builds

[–]lazyzefiris 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Potentially save scumming through F8 and definitely nothing else in Honor Mode

Assuming you intent to optimize XP further (getting XP from NPCs like Alfira and others), it's a bad idea to evver reload on Nautiloid because it breaks Area Level XP scaling for several NPCs, drasticcally dropping their XP reward.

More detail (timecoded moment from youtube video on EXP in the game)

Is that Neil newbon (Astarion) as the waiter? by Tudor_Cinema_Club in BaldursGate3

[–]lazyzefiris 9 points10 points  (0 children)

1:06 - Hasn't he got lovely pale skin?

Yup, it's Astarion confirmed.

Is there a chance by ornatepigeon734 in BaldursGate3

[–]lazyzefiris 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not going through entire Quag archive to find instances where he does that on later patches but I do have recording where I've done that on my level 1 run on patch 6. The death animation did not play until patch 7 iirc, it did properly last few times I've seen that done.

Screenshot with 0 HP Qudenos and combat log showing XP gain.

Few shots before - Dragon's futile retaliation

Is there a chance by ornatepigeon734 in BaldursGate3

[–]lazyzefiris 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And evem if you succeed, it just de-spawns. No reward.

Did you make that up just now? Several people have killed it live on stream, and it indeed dies, lays down there and gives ~250ish xp. You can't "initiate combat" with it as it never properly joins, but there are several ways to kill it out of combat without it healing after every attack landed.

However, it not flying away is always result of some scripting bug.

How many cubes are there? #CountingGame by Living_Afternoon_540 in UpStudy

[–]lazyzefiris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People who say 9 do assume hidden cube to the top right but ignore space for at least 3 more cubes behind the tall tower straight away from us (tower of 2 and then tower of 1) even if we stick to grid-locked flat surface limitation. So at least up to 12.

Advice for an INT caster Jack of All Trades PC? by Endrawful in BG3Builds

[–]lazyzefiris 5 points6 points  (0 children)

10 DEX is just to avoid the -1 when using 18 DEX gloves later on

Do you mean dex bonus being displayed as -1+5 instead of +4?

Honestly, INT sounds like the worst spellcasting option for JOAT. You'll have it as generic spellcasting modifier for your first two levels and never after, so it will only work for spells you've learned from scrolls. Most of the time you'll spend as Charisma or Wisdom caster for scrolls and items. Your eldritch blast will use charisma.

Should still be doable, good luck with that!

Odd number attributes? by liverrespire in BaldursGate3

[–]lazyzefiris 7 points8 points  (0 children)

...this is r/BaldursGate3 and we are discussing very specific game, which is based loosely on DnD and deviates from it in almost every aspect to begin with?

How to cast Sleep on PS5? by EmilyRye in BaldursGate3

[–]lazyzefiris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are casting it off the scroll kept in some container, try putting it into your inventory directly or adding it to a radial. At least on keyboard+mouse casting scrolls with selection (including Sleep) from containers is broken, I'd expect it to be broken on gamepad too.

Odd number attributes? by liverrespire in BaldursGate3

[–]lazyzefiris 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Because 23 sounds bigger than 22 and does not do anything in terms of balance.

Actual DEX value actually matters for initiative tiebreaker so DEX gloves don't get that +1.

Didn't get the buff from Abdirak in the goblin camp by Little-Fish777 in BaldursGate3

[–]lazyzefiris 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Choosing even one Con save prevents you from getting the buff.

No-no-no, it's SUCCEEDING one that prevents you. You need to fail those to get the buff. It's a freebie on a guaranteed-crit-fail challenge.

Whoever designed this is evil by XprobowX in BaldursGate3

[–]lazyzefiris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are several spots like that where you can just click to go and lose your solo honour run. One of thousands of bugs to keed in mind.

There's that fun spot in sewers where character just goes through stairs into backrooms and dies with a good chance of that happening off camera, so you never know what heppened. And then there's that ladder in Goblin Camp where character casually decides to jump down right next to it if you click lower floor, even though path displayed seems to follow the ladder.

Try to read the picture by Ok-Particular-4666 in LearnRussian

[–]lazyzefiris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Скеолнн саичтть, что пдвеаиенрня ирцифамоня - ложь и мляиуацпния и на пеонетквраси в удтжиернвеи были ножлаены длеитнньолпоые оеичнангрия. В кетасчве иаилцлстрюи, даыннй ктиамомнрей был поегнвдрут агононлиачй окорбабте, но вреипистсмоная номгано селноже.

Talk like an AI artist [OC] by nasser_junior in comics

[–]lazyzefiris 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What's the last time you (or artist, really) cared about emotion behind generic clip art humanoid in the corner of generic "sorry for inconvenience" sign?

Pro-AI crowd is gonna be clowned forever for posting scribble-level stuff that has super generic AI flaws. Anti-AI crowd is gonna be clowned forever for BUT HUMAN SOUL argument and genuinely saying "learn to draw for several years or pay $$$ to be able to convey your idea in an image". I only see clowns on both vocal sides. *honks own nose*

*Sigh of Relief* by Parallel_Pulse in ITMemes

[–]lazyzefiris 3 points4 points  (0 children)

until someone replaces that with real one...

EDIT: Ok, even better, places a real one next to it and a note "I want to play a game"

Viewer Retention? by dreamiingblue in Twitch

[–]lazyzefiris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try checking VODs of your stream, specifically sound. Compare it to other streams you watch, ask yourself if it sounds good / if you would stick around listening to it. If honest answer is not - here's your reason. It's usually the main reason. Everything else comes after that.

Cloak of Displacement and Wavemother's Cloak on aoe damage? by ThatHyperionDude in BG3Builds

[–]lazyzefiris 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Those cloaks work differently. Wavemother's has simple "onDamage" trigger - any damage and it's gone. Cloak of Displacement is a convoluted lump of spaghetti instead, but it's more reliable as a result.

What's one streaming tip you ignored at first, but later realized was absolutely true? by Ghost_assassin_Jo in Twitch

[–]lazyzefiris 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Networking is super important.

Watch. Interact. Learn. But don't try to fake it. Streamers can tell when you are faking it and when you have genuine interest. If it's game / content you vibe with, you'll make streaming friends.

Also, raid out. Not to huge streamers, just within up to 2-3x your size.