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  1. Black Elk

    Games you're looking forward to

    ps. somehow this makes it even sadder for me.... Like how long have the Ghosts been haunting my queue? lol I legit told myself I would buy the PS5 and get it for that on a disc, but I never did! I am also having a similar issue mentioned by others of awkwardly trying to get the most out of...
  2. Black Elk

    Games you're looking forward to

    Yeah this is definitely a bizarro and uncannily recent development for me. It's a very knee jerk reaction, which is why I find it kinda strange. Usually I am more generous and less reflexive about it, but I think it might have been related to just the way it's presented in trailer form. Of...
  3. Black Elk

    Games you're looking forward to

    Random rambles, to sorta fit the thread. I think I will call this idea 'the Uncanny Ditches' hehe So I didn't buy anything yet for the Steam sale, I keep going back poking around, window shopping, and then bailing on it at the last second lol. Last night again, I was mulling over whether to...
  4. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    "The honourable adventurer fights with more mettle than most, but they die like any other" Of course it would be the Dragon to burst our bubble! lol We fought hard for recovery, and almost got back to our feet and the safety of a globe scroll, but the Dragon was too fast and did a big stomp to...
  5. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    This was pretty interesting, during the Dragon trials everyone back at camp decided to join the combat somehow? I think Us got caught in the vines left over from the Woodland being while we were transitioning from camp back to the Dragon's den, and so remained stuck back at camp. But then when...
  6. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    Our Fiery Friend The Ballad of Harvard Willoughby ended much like it began, with a bang lol The Black Hand of Bane nearly knocked us out of the running TPK, when Gortash's specter of Tyranny managed to Dominate Glaive. Dark Glaive dropped the Dome and then drew the most deadly Opportunity...
  7. Black Elk

    I bought an Icewind Dale Big Box

    ps. at like 24:30 or thereabouts, that's such an excellent thought, like what if IWD had been the game to showcase all the new engine stuff that dropped in BG2 a few months later? I just imagine how much more interested I'd probably have been in playing as Sorcerer or Barbarian or any of those...
  8. Black Elk

    I bought an Icewind Dale Big Box

    Ah the joys of painting! Loved the video! Well, everything except for having to look at Manley's face again, but that's only for 'never meet your heroes' type reasons. I think it's safe to say something like 'disgraced concept artist' at this point, or maybe lead headhunter and CEO of massive...
  9. Black Elk

    I bought an Icewind Dale Big Box

    Watching now :) I'm instantly all transfixed by the Partha Balrog! Such a standout silhouette, even at the tactical high angle. The dude with the serrated sword and the whip! That guy was totally my fav! Alas the sword on mine snapped off and he was lost at some point, probably right around...
  10. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    So this guy has to be the most powerful summon in the game right? Just for being able to cast the 6th level spell Wall of Thorns. It's one of those awkward higher level Wall spells that just doesn't seem to be super useful when compared with Wall of Fire or an upcasted Wall of Fire. I mean Wall...
  11. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    The Ballad of Harvard Willoughby! So after getting the recklessness and a few honorable deaths out of my system, I returned to the bards. We left off just after the Busker. I felt like this would be tough to top and that we'd probably need all the help we could get to bring sound vs Gortash...
  12. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    With each new honorable death, a new Nautiloid meta! hehe This time the Chest Stall... So here the plan was to use one of the cartilaginous treasure chests as a barricade to delay the Cambions. Idea is that the one Cambion gets angry and stops to stab the chest, so they're both grouped...
  13. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    She aimed just a bit too high... Trying to get a Githyanki greatsword early was probably ill advised. We failed deception vs Voss and then got just nailed. I summoned the Ogres and drank an invisibility potion, but the Ogres got killed and then Sarth Baretha spotted us. About as quickly as...
  14. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    Good plan! lol Took a smokepowder grenade straight to the grill. Not quite sure how I managed it, but somehow we intimidated the Windmill Gobs into pretending to leave but then instantly restarting the combat again. Got nailed pretty hard by surprise. Astarion's bite night was super ill timed...
  15. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    A couple screens, showing the bows I mean... You can see comparing those Longbows that Lae'zel and Astarion are sporting vs the Shortbows that Shadowheart and Brigandine have equipped. Astarion's is doing the shoulder/head clip here, which I think would be harder to see if the drawstring...
  16. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    I actually ended up giving the Electro bow to Astarion as well. I don't like the glow effect they put on all these Magical bows, and how they all seem to clip into my shoulder. It's just another instance of like 'why highlight and call attention to the things that look janky like that?' I...
  17. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    Arcane Archer has actually been pretty entertaining thus far! I went with Exploding Arrow which does a pretty wide AoE radius similar to fireball, Piercing Arrow which also does an AoE but in a line like lightning, then seeking arrow in case the target is hiding around a corner. Not sure if...
  18. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    One of the things that's particularly frustrating about BG3 not receiving a sequel or expansion, is that I think they missed a real chance to do more party vs party antics. I don't mean like a pvp for a Multiplayer mode, although that would have been a cool option, but more like when the Party...
  19. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    So it's not particular to BG3 or Honour Mode, so much as it is D&D 5th edition, but I find the whole choice between ASI (+1/+2 to ability scores) or an extra feat vs Multi-Class to be pretty underwhelming. In my view there just aren't enough levels in D&D to justify making us wait 4 lvls for...
  20. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    I figured out how to hit 24 in CHA using the pointy Birthright cap! I had been reluctant to respec my main again, because it's such a chore to re-pick all the Bard spells, but I think this is optimal itemization for the Bard with a Wizard dip. Just so that we're not over reliant on the Circlet...
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