One Incredible Baldur’s Gate 3 Quest Item Shouldn’t Be Wasted On Its Intended Target (2024)

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Should you mutilate the brain in Baldur's Gate 3? ›

For that reason, we suggest freeing and not mutilating this new lifeform. Us is basically a small, temporary advantage in the earliest chapter of the game - a controllable, and pretty powerful (if limited) ally who has a lot of health and some good melee attacks that match many of the standard Baldur's Gate 3 weapons.

Larian Studios has released a new hotfix for Baldur's Gate 3, adding an excellent quality-of-life feature to the acclaimed RPG. You can now use quest items without carrying them, like Minthara's lute.

The Paladin is the strongest class and subclass in Baldur's Gate 3 due to its damage output, survivability, and versatility. The Paladins can access various weapons and armour types, allowing for diverse playstyles. Combining Extra Attack with Divine Smite results in exceptional raw damage potential.

To save Shadowheart in Baldur's Gate 3, you must find an Eldritch Rune that's hidden nearby. You can then insert this into the console by her mind flayer pod, which then allows you to use it to save Shadowheart.

The talking brain is an intellect devourer, something the character may find out with an automatic Arcana check when they engage with it. In this universe, they are evil entities. This specific one is named Us. A purely good Paladin or Cleric may wish to destroy the brain on the spot.

Can You Keep Us? Unfortunately for the player, US, the intellect devourer, is not a permanent companion. Indeed, it will only accompany the player from the moment they free him from the skull until the ship crashes. Us can also die at any moment during the prologue if the player is not careful with it.

1: Yes, going evil will have some companions leave you (specifically Karlach, Wyll, and Gale... though I think you can persuade Gale into staying.). In return you do get a couple evil companions. 2: While it is entirely possible to do an evil playthrough, doing so cuts out a massive portion of the game's content.

Basically, if you're not proficient with a certain kind of Armour and try to wear it, you will be unable to use Spells and will have a Disadvantage for all Ability Checks, Saving Throws, and Attack Rolls. Armour Proficiency can be gained with Classes, but some Races and even Feats also grant Armour Proficiency.

At one point, you will be offered an Astral-Touched Tadpole, but taking it will turn you into a half-Mind Flayer. This is not an irreversible process, but in the lead-up to the game's finale, you will then be offered a Supreme Tadpole which completes the transformation.

But let's talk romance: while Baldur's Gate 3 has a number of intriguing romance paths, Shadowheart's is easily the most popular, with 51.3% players completing her romance arc (which you can find a walkthrough of here). It turns out she really is God's favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world.

What is the best solo class in BG3? ›

The best overall classes for solo play are the Ranger, Barbarian, and Wizard. The Ranger has high initiative and can be multiclass with the Rogue for extra utility. Barbarians have high health and damage reduction, and with the Half-Orc race, a free revive per long rest.

Each subclass has its own strengths, with players likely picking them for different reasons, though the hardest to master has to be the Arcane Trickster due to a player struggling to balance their magic alongside their damage.

Upon another long rest, the ascended Astarion will give the player-controlled character the opportunity to turn into a vampire spawn by drinking a drop of his blood. While this will grant them access to the basic Vampiric Bite ability, they'll be much weaker than Astarion.

You'll later learn that Gale suffers from a unique condition, and showing empathy towards him is the way to go if you want a successful romance. Unlike most of the other Baldur's Gate 3 character romance options, Gale's romance trajectory progresses in stages.

Us is a completely independent type of summon. It can be used simultaneously with any other summon such as Find Familiar or Ranger's Companion.

If you choose the 'submit to the Elder Brain' option at any time, the game will end. This is technically one of the multiple ending options, and it's certainly not one of the best options, but it's worth doing if you're trying to see every possible outcome - and if you have a recent quick-save to go back to.

Since the talking brain can be used to aid you, you should help the talking brain unless you don't want to for roleplay purposes. Either way, you can continue the story by receiving the quest from someone else if you don't help the brain and receive the quest there.

If the Mind Flayer is fed, it will leave the windmill after a long rest. It will later re-appear in the Lower City, killing a couple of NPCs. The Mind Flayer can still be killed for its brain after giving it a corpse, but consuming it at this point will not grant an additional illithid skill point.

Unless you're doing an evil playthrough and don't care enough about the advantage on Intelligence saving throws that the Githzerai Mind Barrier provides, it is highly advisable that you purge the Waking Mind's consciousness rather than consume it.