Boulder's Gate 3 (there maybe Droobs ahead)

Shadowheart and Laezel at a guess.

I’m struggling to get into act 3 as much right now. Bit too much going on, so many quest markers. Plus I need to . Trying to do so without killing everyone and it’s a faff. I did the latter alone with out my party but haven’t managed to get what I need yet so need to go back.

Maybe I should just kill everyone. They are all annoying anyway.

I quite enjoyed the chance of pace. Act 3 kept the game fresh for me.


Question for you all. When I eventually do a 2nd run, I wanna play evil. My first run I played as paladin and kept to my oath which was pretty easy.

Is it best to do a dark urge playthrough, or just play as a normal character but choose evil options. I am worried that dark urge will lock me out of options I might of otherwise wanted to pick

That's good to hear. Think I'm like you in that I don't have much patience for repeating lengthy battles.

The combat is fine so far but I'm not really finding it hugely enjoyable either. It's often a bit of a relief when a battle is over rather than a sense of satisfaction. Medium has been fine for me up to this point, and presented the right level of challenge.

As I mentioned above one of the major reasons I abandoned D:OS2 was the time consuming and too hard battles. Problem there was easy mode was far too easy and rendered most of the RPG rewards (equipment and loot) pointless. Just not fun or satisfying.

Still think my favourite rpg combat system was the original Dragon Age. I just loved the hybrid of toggle able turn based with also being able to setup automations for the companions (if x then y) to speed things along. Was really satisfying to evolve my party into an efficient killing machine that I could mostly leave to run itself outside of 'boss' battles.

I'm right at the end now and, where act 2 got really good, I feel like act 3's been consistently good but only rarely reached the heights of act 1 and 2. Partly that's because combat is meaningless now as I've been level 12 for ageeeeeeeees and have my strategies down and character 'finished' so that push has disappeared. Also the relationships between characters don't seem as front and centre, which I guess is because it's end of days time so all the quiet little moments are less of a focus. The friendly characters introduced in act 3 haven't captured me at all.

Also it's pretty buggy.

Still incredible, but I am looking forward to wrapping up tonight.

Yeah that is annoying

I have a strict no clothes policy at base camp. Adds to the bonding experience and party vibes. Just leave the over armour on and the game auto dresses everyone when you go back to the game.

He stays fully clothed. He is the voyeur of the group.

Some classes of upgraded correctly can have two or three attacks (possibly more?). I’m playing on normal and can generally deal with being outnumbered. The trick I’ve found is to use spells to damage multiple opponents and obviously use choke points to your advantage.

So you are at the end of act 2 already? Didn’t you just start the other day? What level is your party?

My guess is that she mainlined the story to the extent that her party is severely underlevelled. If even your fighters don't have their extra attack, you wouldn't even be level 5, and if that's the case I'm frankly impressed that you've even made it to act 2.

Anyway... it's an RPG. You're supposed to do side quests and level up and change your equipment and such.

Yeah, I'm on Tactician in the middle of Act 3. And so far, not a single party member has died outside of Asterion getting shoved off a cliff one time.

I was level 9 by the end of act 2 so if that is where you are, good effort but no doubt you're finding it a challenge. Sounds like you're are massively under leveled.

Also, worth spending some time googling class builds. Lae'zel can have seven attacks round 1. Couple that with a hold monster or dance spell and enjoy the results.

Turns out I wasn't nearly as done as I thought. Hadn't even been to house of hope. That WAS fun.

Play it how you want but you’ll miss a ton of cool stuff and be masssively under levelled!

I suspect you’d still get to lvl 12 before the end but it’ll be much tougher and probably really annoying!

I haven't intentionally rushed things. Most side quests I came across I did. But yeah I didn't fully explore in opposite directions as early on everything seemed to kill my weak characters and it's off putting when it took ages to only die. Can I go back? Maybe I'll leave this tower and fully explore this map. I've found most side stuff has been near the main objective markers.