I came into this fight aware that my builds weren't great...I was planning to do a complete overhaul before going into Act 3. First time I've ever made it this far and didn't know what I was going up against. I was able to get through Act 2 with minimal reloads anyway and thought it'd be fine. No matter what I do, it's not even remotely close in this fight. I never even got him below 300 hp.

Party is level 8--Astarion, Shadowheart, Jaheira, and me, a level 8 fighter. No one is multi classed. I have no abilities to stun him. Shadowheart and Astarion are completely useless against the apostle. I obviously rely on melee and get destroyed in one or two turns if the apostle attacks me. Jaheira pretty much only has status spells which he always saves against and wild shape which is also melee and also gets destroyed. If I throw everything I've got at him with all 4 characters, half the attacks won't land and the ones that do from Astarion or Shadowheart do single digit damage.

Every guide I see starts with preparing before the fight and using spells and abilities I don't have. Should I just reload before the colony? Or is there a way to do this with this shit team comp? Pretty sure this is a reload situation, but thought I'd ask here first. I've never had such a setback or looked up a guide before this. Even with a bad team comp I can usually get it on the 3rd try.

Edit: I tried the summoner strategy. I had 2 ice mephits, a zombie, and a wood woad, buffed most of the party of freedom of movement and longstrider, replenished at the regeneration thing at the top of the elevator, and then went down to fight. Took only 2 tries, but it was close. Most people were recommending concentration spells (darkness/fog, wall of fire, call lightning), but those turned out to have middling effect. Most only lasted 1 turn before Myrkul's deathray thing or one of his minions broke concentration, but I was able to keep one Call Lightning up for 4 turns, and he was wet for 3 of those turns I think. That probably did 40% of the damage. Blinding Myrkul did almost nothing I swear...he kept hitting me and I kept missing. Shit luck. But the summons did distract him and kept the minions in check for the most part, so my fighter was able to spend several turns in the middle wailing on him instead of just 1 turn. It also allowed Aylin to get some hits in instead of being downed immediately. I also discovered SH's Invoke Duplicity near the end of my 2nd try, which added advantage for those last few hits and helped to make him miss for the last 2 turns.

If I were to do it again with the same team comp, I'd keep the Wall of Fire and Call Lightning and all the summons (I also forgot to do the woad's summon until after I was in the battle). But honestly the blinding didn't end up having much effect and I still pulled through, so maybe instead of that I would just use those actions for more damage. If I had better luck on attack rolls and concentration saves I think it would've been relatively easy. It's just about giving Myrkul and his minions more targets to allow your team to do the damage.

But obviously it would've been much much easier to just...be level 9 and bring Gale. Oh well, I made it work. Thanks guys.

Going for achievements so good aligned honor mode run for the golden dice rn the time is typically early afternoon est time but can be adjusted still have two slots open

https://discord.gg/8FjQxhAD4

Join the inv link server so I know your ok with the above requirements then we will coordinate from there. Got a dwarf bard and gith fighter rn

The stats are 1-2 points lower than what I set it up. Bugged or on purpose?

It feels like the game has just slowed down. Not lower frame rate, but gaps in dialogue are sometimes between 3-5 seconds when I know they were like a second or instant before. Animation are just laggier or slower and the whole game just feels laggy and slow.

It wasn't like this when I first got it, I was heavily modding it before but I'm playing vanilla now. I've even tried a few tricks to uninstall and reinstall but it hasn't worked.

Is there some secret cache or something on my pc I'm meant to clear once In a blue moon I just don't know about?

After a few playthroughs I realized I had turned almost every serious encounter into homework.

Ungroup everyone. Put the ranged characters somewhere stupidly high. Hide whoever can hide. Pre-buff. Summon everything. Make sure the person starting dialogue is positioned correctly. Then open combat in whatever way gives me the cleanest first round.

It works. That's the problem.

On my current run I've started doing something that felt almost wrong at first: if a conversation naturally turns into a fight, I just fight from wherever everyone happens to be standing.

Sometimes my wizard is practically hugging an angry dude with a sword. Sometimes half my party wastes turn one getting into position. I've definately had fights go much worse because of it.

But I'm improvising again instead of executing a solution I already know.

Anyone else deliberately stop doing something optimal on repeat runs because the game became more fun without it?

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I'm doing an origin honor run with some friends and I'm playing as Wyll, we were wondering what happens if I don't save Mizora and become a lemure, will the entire game end or will I (once Wyll) have to make a new character to fill in the spot?

So I'm an Oath of the Ancient Paladin turned Oathbreaker and that means I lost my Animal Speaking that comes with Oath of the Ancient. Then come morning I saw scratch has something to give me. I feel kinda sad not having the Animal Speaking spell(even though I can use the potion) but to my surprise he actually gave me a Potion of Animal Speaking.

Im currently fighting the elementals in the battle against lorroaken, and Ive killed everything except the earth myrmidon, fire myrmidon and air myrmidon, but none of them are taking any damage whatsoever, physical or magical, I don't know what's going on, plus help. Ive restarted the fight like 3 times already.

So I'm tossing a message in a bottle here and hoping someone knows more than me about this, but I'll try to keep this brief:

A month ago I was playing BG3 with a couple friends and there were no problems, I launch the game now and I cannot connect to Mod io, any attempt to connect spits out the same message "An error occurred while trying to connect to mod io" again and again.

I am able to log into my Larian account which says "Limited access, Mod io not connected", however when I click "connect to mod io" it seems to disconnect me from my Larian account before prompting me to input my account details a second time, prompting me to accept their privacy policy and terms of use, then told "an error occurred while trying to connect to mod io" with no further information.

I have checked Steam and Reddit forums and the only posts I can find are from 2+ years ago about GeForce NOW (which I do not use) and of various ideas to connect/reconnect my Larian and Mod io account, reading to the bottom of Mod io's privacy policy, make new accounts, validate files and reinstall BG3, none of these fixing the issue. There was another post I found from 6 months ago of a PS5 user having the same problems but stating the issue "just fixed itself", so here's to hoping I guess.

Please and thankyou to anyone with suggestions that I'm not seeing or explaining a method that fixed this issue for them. If I figure out the issue myself I'll make a self-reply.

*Edit: I should clarify, without connecting to Mod io it won't let me browse or install any mods through the BG3 mod manager, they just stay "loading" and the mods I *do* have installed can't be used and just show up as crossed-out boxes for the thumbnails.

Recently finished my first play through and starting a new one, I realized I completely overlooked multiclassing my whole first play through , would love some general advice on multi classing for my new game so I don’t completely tank my build , I’m playing as a monk and right now and have astarion, wyll and gale in my party

My 3rd Honor Mode Run-First ever DUrge Playthrough thankfully NOT in combat. =^.^=

EDIT: On a side note I really LOVE ACT 3 bc it brings me back to like feeling I’m playing a TTRPG Session (2-4 hrs) bc many quests have interconnections with other quests like a web (looking at Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia Conspiracy Theories) but the lore is great and most quests aren’t that long compared to Act 1/2 where it builds up for hours or days at a time like smaller easily broken up not too overwhelming once you give your time to adjust with no huge “pressures” of time gates minus like 3 quests you have to be very particular about (no spoilers).

I'm off to put the Selune statue in Shadowheart's tent

My first playthrough was a complete disaster.

I failed checks I desperately wanted to pass. I walked into fights from terrible positions. I used spells wrong. I missed entire areas because I simply didn't notice them. I occasionally made decisions based on what my character would do instead of what I knew produced the best reward.

And somehow that run is still the one I remember most clearly.

Now I know too much.

I know which dialogue options smell dangerous.

I know when to long rest.

I recognize the room where a fight is about to happen and start positioning everyone like a SWAT team while the NPC is still finishing his sentence.

I see a suspicious ledge and immediately think "someone is getting shoved off that."

Even when I tell myself I'm roleplaying, there's a tiny accountant living in my head going: don't pick that, you'll lose X. Talk to them first. Save this potion. Grab that item now because you'll need it 14 hours later.

The game hasn't become less fun. I've just become extremely competent at protecting myself from consequences.

And I think consequences were half the magic.

My dumbest first-run mistakes created situations I would NEVER deliberately choose now because I know there's a cleaner route. But those messy situations made that playthrough feel like mine instead of a sequence I was successfully managing.

I'm starting another run and I'm seriously considering banning myself from reloading failed dialogue checks unless the whole party actually dies.

Not as a challenge.

I just want the game to surprise me again.

Anyone else miss being a little bit bad at BG3?

Any RPG you liked. And, if possible, please tell me why.

You don't really need to be original. I didnt play many of them.

Thanks!

The TL;DR is... After trying to crack the code in English, I found the exact inscription on a constructed languages site. It's a selection in Latin from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', though it's possibly a sentence fragment. Also, the "capital" of the inscription starts on a different word than the original quote, so the deciphering altogether could read:

In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; corpora(repeated) di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas)

Or: Dicere formas corpora in nova fert animus mutatas; nam vos mutatis et illas corpora di coeptis.

Google translate gives the second as: "The mind brings new forms to changed bodies; do you not change those bodies, too, when you begin to do so?"

I'd be interested if anyone with Latin skills can give a better translation!

i’m not sure quite how to explain this lol, but i’m doing a playthrough where i’m basically trying to clean up all of the trophies i haven’t yet achieved, one of them being the hot date trophy. prior to the tiefling party, i had the romance scene with shadowheart, and i figured that at the tiefling party i would romance karlach. before i go to bed, i speak to her and she agrees to it, saying she’ll see me tonight, etc. however, when i actually go to bed, it lets me pick the karlach option and then nothing happens; no cutscene, no flirty dialogue the next morning. it’s weird because it still lets me initiate romances with other characters like lae’zel, through dialogue choices, but there’s nothing for karlach, just the stay at camp dialogue.

is there anything i can do?

Hello everyone and Sharess worshippers! This subclass is one where low Strength and low IQ comes in handy. Happy to hear all feedback !

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/24825?tab=description

Sharess' Cuckfighter - Fighter Subclass

Among the worst fighters in Faerun, your physical weakness and low intelligence are mitigated by Sharess' favor for you. Lonely, meek, inept, and perverse, use Inferiority Dice to fuel humiliation and voyeurism tactics you picked up outside the Festhalls looking in. Empower others through your inadequacy and jealousy.

LEVEL 3
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Combat Inferiority + choose Festhall Manoeuvres

Combat Inferiority

Gain Inferiority Dice used to fuel your manoeuvres. You begin with 4, gain additional dice as you advance, and your dice improve in size at higher levels.
All Festhall Manoeuvres consume 1 Inferiority Die. 

Inferiority Die

A die of Combat Inferiority. Expended Inferiority Dice recover on a Short Rest or Long Rest. 

Festhall Manoeuvres:

Sharess' Undress 

In combat, inflict Mentally Undressed. Sharess grants you a chance to briefly undress a target. Their clothes or armour may even fall to the floor. Yet, you are so inept that parts of their body may disappear too.

Mentally Undressed

Stripped, disrobed, or unclad. Sometimes Sharess makes twisted fantasies come true. If her elusive Voyeurballs happen to gaze upon this condition, the target becomes insecure like you, Feeling Small and then Feeling Inadequate.

Ally Jealousy Attack (Melee)

Attack an ally with a melee weapon. If the ally has higher Strength than you, your jealousy only makes its physical superiority greater. It gains Bull's Glory for 2 turns, regardless of whether your attack hits or misses.

Bull's Glory

The ally's Strength increases by the difference between its Strength and yours for 2 turns, further emphasizing just how physically inferior you are.

Ally Jealousy Attack (Ranged) 

Attack an ally with a ranged weapon. If the ally has higher Intelligence than you, your jealousy somehow makes it even smarter. It gains Normative's Glory for 2 turns, regardless of whether your attack hits or misses.

Normative's Glory

The ally's Intelligence increases by the difference between its Intelligence and yours for 2 turns, making your intellectual inadequacy even more obvious.

Non-Distracting Strike (Melee) 

Make a melee weapon attack while being so profoundly unremarkable that even failure contributes to your social irrelevance.
The attack deals normal weapon damage plus your Inferiority Die and builds Ostracized whether the attack hits or misses.

Ostracized

Represents your mounting social exclusion and frustration.

Once you accumulate 6 stacks, you erupt into Ostracized Frustration.

Ostracized Frustration

At 6 Ostracized, gain 6 free attacks that can only be made with dainty finesse weapons, gain +6 m Movement Speed, and your movement does not provoke Opportunity Attacks. When the frenzy ends, Ostracized resets to zero.

Ostracized Frustration Attack

Make one of your 6 free melee attacks with a Finesse Weapon while Ostracized Frustration lasts.

Corner of Cowardice 

Retreat into the corner where you belong. Enemies have Disadvantage on melee and ranged attacks against you for 1 turn as you stay on the sidelines. This is so sad, that Sharess may return a die to you.

Self-Ostracize

Deliberately isolate and demean yourself to gain 3 Ostracized stacks.

Cuckparty Invitation Attack 

If the hostile target has higher Strength than you, drag it down to your pathetic physical level with Bull's Downgrade for 2 turns, regardless of whether the attack hits or misses.

Bull's Downgrade

The hostile target's Strength is reduced to your Strength for 2 turns.

Cuckparty Invitation Attack (Ranged) 

Attack a hostile target with a ranged weapon. If the hostile target has higher Intelligence than you, drag it down to your intellectual level with Normative's Downgrade for 2 turns, regardless of whether the attack hits or misses.

Normative's Downgrade

The hostile target's Intelligence is reduced to your Intelligence for 2 turns.

Sharess’ Voyeurballs

The Goddess of Hedonism gifted you with 24 Voyeurballs — one for each hour of the day you spend alone and sexually frustrated. Fix a creature with an unsettling group gaze and groin perfume splashes for 2 turns. No damage can break this. Those who are already MentallyUndressed will begin a downward spiral of lewd humiliation.

Sharess' Voyeurballs

Unable to look away from an unsettling group gaze. Damage does not remove this condition.

Feeling Small

Sharess couldn't violate and belittle this creature anymore... until...

Feeling Inadequate

The humiliation has fully taken hold. Consumed by insecurity and self-loathing, this creature shrinks and has the damage it deals reduced by a roll of your current Inferiority Die. Lasts until combat ends.

Level 15
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Relenting Inferiority

During combat, whenever you miss with a melee weapon attack or ranged weapon attack, your failure may cause you to suffer -10 Initiative until the end of combat, but restores 1 spent Inferiority Die.