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poignant challenge in this video today I want to go over some quick tips to help break down the
difficulty of on REM mode so that you can get your coveted golden D20 dice skin the prize for
beating an honor mode playthrough if you don't know how that mode w
orks basically it's an Iron
Man single save game mode you can't save scum and if your entire party dies then the game reverts to
a custom rule set and you have failed your honor mode playthrough you can keep playing but you
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honor or tactician mode is have a proper action economy meaning you line up your primary and
bonus actions to maximize the amount of damage each character can do do you have a monk that ca
n
knock things prone as their bonus action well if you do that first then every other character's
primary action that monk included will benefit towards the damage of the target you've just
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hello all right I can show you around now there's a few things you need to learn before we have a good time it's y you can
have a little fun with some friends you even pick up a new skill whatever you do be careful
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p your friends close and your
enemies closer names dght nice to meet you take cover switching over to the game let's talk
about the first thing and it's discounts at specific vendors so the way vendors work is that
you can get discounts from them based off of your charisma your persuasion and their attitude
towards you the big thing here is we want to kind of game this system because in honor mode it
can be kind of risky to just steal everything that you see in front of you to maximize your
profit
because you might accidentally cause a big fight that ends your playthrough so what we're going to
do here is we've gone to Withers and we've resped our character down to level one that's a crucial
part of this and we're taking our character with their highest Charisma and a character that is
proficient in Persuasion like I said so we're going to come over here now to Damon and this
works on vendors that are going to be present throughout the majority of the game or vendors
that yo
u have specific items that you need for maybe a build um Damon would be a good example if
you don't attack the Umble Grove Darth in the mut Colony would be another really good example of a
character that is just present throughout a lot of the game now you don't need to buy things from
them but really what they can do is be a character that you sell stuff to now you don't need to do
this with gold you can do this with um items but you basically just want to donate to them 400
gold worth of
items or actual gold and you'll see right now we have a 25% discount because of
persuasion plus 5 so I'm just going to do this as is it'll say hey do you want to donate this
and we'll press yes so this puts their attitude at 100 and a discount of 67% and it's not a
straight flat 67% off the the price of uh an item but basically it's off like the market value
so take for example this hand crossbow now with will it is valued at 98 Gold and I can swap to
other characters and it'll be valued at
the same amount but if I restart this conversation with
say my main character and we go ahead and press trade now you see that discount drops to zero and
this went from 98 Gold to 163 so you would just pretty much use that same character to initiate
these trades and everything but this is a really great way to get good discounts on items and have
your items sell for a little bit more when you're dealing with stuff in honor mode as a big point
of clarification this character that I'm using
is not an honor mode save but this will work on honor
mode uh because of the nature of content creation it's hard to do this on an honor mode character
where I cannot save scum and re-shoot if I mess up something so just want to be transparent
about that but this is a really good thing that you should be doing here with just all all the
uh ADV that you're initially going to come into in the game maybe you go into moonrise towers
and you see the same thing it's really really crucial little b
it of information sticking with
our theme of vendors we're going to talk about vendor inventory now in this exact example we
don't have a really cool vendor to show off because you killed the crap at an anti effel but
every time you long rest or every time you level up a vendor all the vendor inventories will rotate
they'll swap they'll put new items in stuff like that so why this is important it's going to get
to another item we're going to talk about it is doing all this stuff all these i
tems here that you
get for crafting potions is really crucial because you can basically game the system by resetting one
of your characters to level one or using a hling and just leveling them up so now you know what I'm
going I just need a bunch of potion materials the big thing here is looking for um fingers of cloud
giant or Hill giant strength uh because you can make those respective elixirs for say a throwing
Barbarian a uh Tavern brawling monk anyone that would use strength as their p
rimary damage you'd
be able to really pull a lot of benefit from this by getting those Elixir but since we won't be
able to get those fingers from this character let me just show you so we'll take balsom here
because that's going to give us um we'll just buy all this for the sake of the video and now
this character is out of all their materials this button shows ingredients and now we'll end this
we'll level up and I'm just going to skip right through this and press accept and we'll skip th
is
come back to the vendor need anything else and for cook ingredients again we can see that they've
now recycled all their ingredients so if you're looking for those uh fingers of cloud giant or
Hill giant strength this is just a really great way to do this you can do this with anti eel who
sells both the actual potions and occasionally fingers after level six Darth and the mut Colony
as well as the uh bug bear whatever the the the guy of of extreme the league of extreme Brilliance
and Ex
cellence whatever it's called the M Colony as well will all sell fingers that you can do this
for in act one so you can stock yourself up with plenty of those potions coming into the later
acts until you can actually buy them directly in act three but what do you do with all these
ingredients how do you make this work now that we know how to reset that inventory how can we
really gain that now I've gone through this before in its own video but using High Lings especially
ones that are dedic
ated herbalists is absolutely crucial so go ahead and come over to wither go
I would like to talk about hirelings and recruit one now for our herbalist is is going to be a
transmutation wizard that also has levels into Rogue that will help us with I'm sorry uh Bard
or Rogue doesn't matter uh with proficiency into herbalism so we're going to go with Bren bright
song because she is a Lightfoot halfling which will give us access to the halfling capability
to roll ones this is crucial because t
his ensures that you will get our Alchemy to kick off so
let me show you how this works we're going to press Venture forth and we're going to click on
this character mind we're going to go back to Withers and we're going to say can you help me
change my class and we're going to change this character to a wizard and their abilities we don't
care about any ability on this character we just want as much wisdom as possible because wisdom is
going to give us an increase to the skill that we need
which is medicine so basically whenever
we go to do a um Alchemy concoction creation on Elixir a potion anything like that it'll
do a medicine check it's dc15 medicine check and if we pass the medicine check then we don't
make one of the potions or whatever we make two we double it which is a really awesome feat and
it's crucial for this type of character so once we've done this I'm just going to put another
Point somewhere else it doesn't really matter and spells uh doesn't really matter
here either so
we'll confirm this we're going to level up again and we need to get to transmutation this is what
allows us to do the dc15 medicine check sorry I a little bit ago I made it sound like it's the
actual medicine skill it's experimental Alchemy from the transmutation subass of the wizard that's
the crucial part so we do this and again doesn't really matter on these spells just choose whatever
and press accept and now we're going to switch off of of wizard you could do rogue we'll
just
do rogue because it's probably pretty easy and we're going to get a skill proficiency um and
then we'll get a skill expertise so what we're going to do is press this little box now we have
a plus seven to our medicine checks um and you can after that click whatever you want it doesn't
really matter we just wanted that medicine and you can jump this over to uh b as well to further
increase a lot of this action but now if you kind of look over here we've got this experimental
Alchemy w
ith the dc15 medicine check and that halfling luck when you roll a one-on attack roll
ability check or saving throw you can roll the die and must use the new roll and with proficiency and
Medicine we're going to get our proficiency bonus remember that starts as starts at two then becomes
three then becomes plus four we're just going to I'm just going to press accept on some of these
to push our character level up which will thusly increase our um uh proficiency bonus so I'm just
going to do
this a couple more times all the way up to level time and again I know that there's
probably more minmax ways to do this but we're just going ahead and doing this for the sake of
the video to push you through to show you this really quick we're getting to level 9 which can
show you see right now our medicine's at a plus six and there we go now since we're at a character
level of nine our proficiency bonus will be um uh plus four let's go ahead and show that off go
ahead and press I and we
come over here and we can see that if we look at medicine it's A+ 11
because our proficiency bonus is a plus four but how do we game this further because we can and
what we're going to do here is we're going to go all the way over to Shadow heart our cleric and
we're going to have Shadow heart AF cast enhance ability now I if you have the guidance necklace
you would cast that as well but we're going to do enhance ability wisdom advantage on wisdom checks
which these are all wisdom checks we
're about to do and she has that we can't unfortunately cast
guidance cuz we've casted one we we've already casted an enhanced ability we come back to Bren
we press h on the PC to bring up our Alchemy tab we go to extract all ingredients go to Elixir
let's go ahead and choose Hill giant or Cloud giant that's that's a famous one right bring up
the dialogue box over here and we'll press craft item so we succeeded our Med medicine check and we
not only did we make one but we made two elixir of
cloud giant strength so that's why this is such
an important poor uh uh thing in the game because we can do this with the elixir of viciousness uh
the blood lust do I have it on here there it is elixir of blood lust and we're succeeding all
these medicine checks with not a whole ton of investment of Min maxing this character you can do
even more things to make sure they almost always kick off and with that we now have two for the
price of one set of ingredients elixir of cloud giant streng
th increasing your strength to 27
elixir of viciousness crit hits is reduced by one as far as the number that needs to be rolled
or blood lust gain temp five hit points and an additional action on honor mode you only get one
additional attack not a whole additional action when it comes to attacks so be careful on that
but this is a really crucial character you need to have in your camp that you leverage every
so often when you're playing honor mode with all that hling all that resp in all t
hose things
that we're going to be doing through Withers and how I've talked about vendoring in honor mode is
difficult right because there things are just so much more expensive things have increased uh
Rarity from maybe it was a green before to now being a blue or a purple whatever it is and you
don't really want to throw that money away so as long as you haven't done a long rest any money
that you spend at Withers you can just freely get back what you'll need to do is you come up behind
him go into Crouch and pickpocket so this is this is all the money that we've stolen from Withers
we can just go ahead and just keep doing it I'm going to do this infinitely he's not going to get
mad it's not going to matter even on honor mode Explorer mode it won't matter this is a this
is a trick that you can use forever now this is a huge stack of gold so this is going to be a
little tedious it's going to take me time to do it but you just have to Simply do this until you
actually get i
t now of course you could probably do it on a character that actually has slight of
hand and it would be way quicker but I don't have one in this little instance here so just to show
you that you don't even need side of hand and you can still get all of your gold back from Withers
with all the little tricks that we've talked about here today now when it comes to the actual combat
of the game one of the biggest things that you're going to deal with is the boss fights legendary
actions add a
whole level of difficulty into the game and what you should be doing is before
you jump into these larger boss fights taking time to prepare look into what Elixir you can
bring for your characters look into maybe what that legendary action is by looking online first
you can usually see what the legendary action is by um seeing the boss ahead of time or if if
it's a boss that needs a conversation before the boss fight starts you can inspect and see them
stuff like that but preparation is rea
lly big in honor mode the more time you spend prepping the
probably the easier the fight's going to be but the more guarantee that you are not going to end
up screwing yourself over and losing the the play through because you just ran into a boss fight so
um this is all from a stream obviously but uh and sped up but this boss fight took a good amount of
prep beforehand and and it's going to come down to just a handful of rounds of me throwing Spears
over at Grim skull here but honestly it r
eally came down to probably like a 30 minute segment
of me prepping every single Elixir make sure I had the right items making sure that I had the
right things lined up or doing the right type of damage to the character or the the boss to
ensure that I actually did damage and not just hitting into some resistance or immunity that's
the big thing with honoro is prepping and making sure that that action economy we talked about
at the beginning of the video really comes to fruition now with al
l that prep there does come
situations where you just maybe you're in a bad spot and you need to get out of it what matters in
an honor mode is a total party kill or a tpk as it is commonly known so what you need to do is have
some sort of Escape Plan have a character that can use Misty step have a character that can get out
of a hard bind or a series of them so that when things really start to not look good maybe your
main damage character here like Lazelle is in a hold person scenario and
your other two characters
are really beat up and you're like man one wrong turn and this is really not going to go well and
there's just the odds are stacked against me in this scenario the odds are not stacked against me
but what we've done here with my one character is that we've gotten them just about 90 ft away and
this is what you should really do you probably never used this in the previous difficulties cuz
you probably never encountered anything like this but using flea combat is a
huge way to get a lot
of value out of getting out of a bad situation because you don't want to end your honor mode
playthrough even further if you jump into like say a boss fight you could just straight up keep
one of your characters in the camp at all times breaking the party up like this and have one of
these characters in the camp and if the other three die that that one's there and just goes
to Withers and resurrects them all you're fine so what we would need to do with this character
is we need to move it four more feet away right so all we got to do is move over here and we
can press this so now this character is out of the fight it doesn't matter what happens now back
at the fight because one characters at home that they can go to Withers and resurrect them they
can go back to where the fight location was and resurrect them if it's safe whatever the scenario
is but having an Escape Plan again either by a character that has a bunch of cutting action here
we we'll do th
is we'll cutting action run we'll run all the way over here we get a really good
distance away and we'll do it again I think we can yeah we're still further away we'll do another
Dash and we're out of this boom so now we've got two characters that are safe Shadow heart I don't
think has any Shadow step movement right now but it completely pulls them out of combat you can
get this character now as far out as they can and again you know we don't have Shadow step but
my point uh Misty step I c
an't say shadow step like five times my point remains here though
that just getting out of fights in honor mode ones you're going to lose is the better play than
seeing if you can stick it out yeah sure maybe you be able to pull out a an Ace in the Hole but
you're better off not relying on it and just keeping your playthrough alive after a big fight
one of the important things is healing outside of combat of course you can rest you can use healing
spells but really it comes down to healing
potions and if you have got that herbalist in your camp
like we've talked about before you should have tons of healing potions available to you you can
see all the healing I have on this character I've got plenty of chances to go back and make even
more but what you can do to maximize this are a number of things for one in the mountain pass is
the parott of wound closure maximize the number of hit points restored so basically what I
would do is transfer this to any character that needs to r
estore a little bit of health so
let's look at my main one I'm going to go ahead and Swap this there we go and I'm just going to
qua a healing potions now healing says it does four to 10 well it's going to do 10 because we
have that up right from um 40 to Now 50 out of 59 Total Health and maybe you know you skipped
out on this and you don't have it or you didn't do the mountain pass yet whatever it is another
really good thing to do is get everyone nice and tight close together do a little
hug Circle over
over here get a character press throw and throw any number of the junk in your backpack this is
my actual honor save so I got be kind of careful here so we'll go ahead and do we'll throw H we'll
drink it on accident and ruing the whole video but we'll throw this and you can see that it's
going to hit pretty much everyone if I get it actually done right here pressing oh if you're
on PC can help out to really kind of make this really work you just got to kind of make everyone
get into a nice little tight Circle and we will go with right click throw that's going to hit just
about everyone maybe miss someone here or there but you get the point you throw it we SPL spread
as much healing as we can by throwing that that um healing potion at a group rather than simply
just saying hey one person's going to use healing potions into they're at Max this will allow you
to use that one healing potion to heal everyone a different amount but still nonetheless you'll be
able
to get more value out of one healing potion than just simply doing that um doing individuals
and that's a really big portion of this because one hit point might be the difference between
that character being out of the fight and not out of the fight and in honor mode I just don't
mess around everything needs to be at Max Health when I'm jumping into hard to fight fights another
big thing to have in mind when it comes to your build builds for Honor mode is trying to choose
builds that aren't
reliant on maybe specific items or are not reliant on specific things
occurring within the game take The Hags hair for example not making your build around that is
pretty crucial because you don't know if you're going to actually successfully go through that
situation or the mirror of loss in act three don't make a build relying upon it because you
don't know if it's actually going to occur I think minor item ification is that a word itemization
is okay to do right like the returning Pike
is a pretty reliable thing to get anything that jumps
off drops off of um vendors is a pretty reliable thing to do with your build but by and large these
characters I mean this is a Bard lock and yeah I happen to have the potent robe but this character
would also be very strong without the potent robe in fact it's very strong with it and without it
an open hand monk is super strong with all of the items that increase their damage with say the
wisdom modifier boots or unarmed attack items th
at are littered throughout the game but there isn't
one set item that really can uh that you need to have in this build there are some that are really
nice to have or right over here we have a Gloom stalker Rogue um or Gloom stalker assassin this is
a build that is really amazing on its own and you could just simply use two hand crossbows for the
entirety of it there are items that simply make it better and another one here is our throwing
Barbarian so these are examples of four builds that
are extremely strong items make them far
better of course but really the only Reliance I need out outside of those um uh about the build
itself is maybe like a potion for uh this open hand monk because that's taken a very specific
route with their stats right The Elixir Cloud giant strength sets my strength to 27 so Tavern
brother now does six plus 16 to my unarmed weapon attacks so keep these things in mind when it comes
to builds try to choose builds that make sense but also ones that ar
e not going to fall flat because
you didn't you weren't able to itemize them out a certain way because you took a very specific path
through the game forced upon you by the lack of ability to save scum certain roles just think of
your builds a little bit just like we talked about preparing for Boss Battles prepare for the actual
game mode by looking at builds that are going to be strong on their own not strong through a ton of
itemization one of my closing points here though is to try to ex
ploit as many little things as you
can try to kind of forsake the RP of the game if this is your first honor mode to try and break
it the game is really stacked against you and you cannot save scum so try to do every little
thing that you can so take aeran for example here I'm going to come up to a character that's
one of my hirelings in the camp this could even be my uh my herbalist I'm going to use his vampire
bite on this character okay so now he's happy he gets his plus one to all attac
k R saving throws
the most ability checks and this character has that uh penalty against them perfect works just
fine for me or take for example the potion that you can get in act two moonrise Towers permanently
increases your strength by two so I can now put this on one of my throwing characters in lie
of the elixir of uh Cloud giant strength and then that character can now use an elixir of blood
lust so think of these things as super effective exploited ways to to play the game because ma
ybe
aerion hates when you do this and I want to kind of build the character out like that or not like
that I want to do his storyline but at the same time I want to win honor mode so try these little
tiny things that kind of you overlap them and yeah maybe that that works there that doesn't work
there but you're trying to get the most out of every little single thing to maximize what you do
so now you know if I put this this PO this um this thing on carlac I don't have to use cloud giant
s
trength now I can use blood uh blood lust because I have 20 strength so all these little things are
going to kind of be the thing that helps you tip over over in honor mode the last thing I want to
bring up now is your action economy we've talked about it so many times but really it's making
sure that your primary actions and your bonus actions fall in a way that makes the most sense
for what you're doing so take for example now I've got all four of these characters that can go and
I should
really kind of think about what I've got going for me right um can I trip things okay well
I can right here and that knocks them prone right which we talked about and prone attacks against a
prone creature have an advantage if they're made within 10 ft of the creature or you know what
let's click on Shadow heart she's got blindness blind a creature what does blind do attack RS
against it have advantage and the foe attacks with disadvantage awesome or if I had hold person up
hold the humano
id enemy still they can't move or act attacks one within 10 ft are always crit hits
so getting these kind of status effects down first are really crucial ways to get most out of every
single action you're doing especially too if it's like a bonus action right so let's take carlac
for example carlac I respect over here to a monk and all the characters I talked about with all
their really great abilities are primary actions well you know what she has topple which knocks
things prone kill this
guy out right actually we're going to find out right now let's see if we
can knock this guy prone well we knocked him prone and just what happens we missed all of our attacks
which is kind of cool for the sake of this video and we did that with just our bonus action so now
with our primary action we can go ahead and go to go to town everything else has advantage against
this target boom that there we go got a big hit right there I can take my other character now and
swing his sword all rig
ht we got a really big hit it critted them but it's just really a matter of
layering these things and not looking at every single character you go at you use in sequence
of the sense that okay I've got Shadow heart I'm going to use her action and her bonus action
and then click the next character no just use an action at a time per character as it fits to line
up your other characters that is the crucial thing here right um let me see here that's the blast one
let me see if I can get anothe
r cool one off get a stun stun though just kind of prevents them from
doing anything but still all right we just punch the back of her head super hard right um but
maybe I go ahead and use carlac or I'm sorry Shadow heart here and we'll use blindness on
this character saved unfortunately right well well maybe switch to another one this character
can knock things prone by doing a lunging bite oh cool we knocked it prone now I can really leverage
anyone who's within 10 ft of this to do some f
un additional damage so right now you know we get
this guy over here have him go attack do damage to a creature that is prone so just have these little
things in mind don't think again sequentially it's got to go one character all their actions
bonus actions everything they can do no use your characters to line up your other characters for
the most damage possible the more survivability possible whatever it is another good example too
would have been hey you know what colock in a bind or I
know this character I don't want them
to get attacked I'm going to throw this summon haphazardly over here to force opportunity attacks
and lock that creature down use your characters your summons your whatever it is to keep other
things from going across the battlefield so you can maximize every single movement Point action
bonus action whatever ever the hell it is and honor mode because it is going to be crucial and
at that it brings our video here to a close so hopefully this helps you o
ut in cracking into
the difficulty of Honor mode I think honor mode is scary you know because you can't reave
resave you can't save scum and that's something that's kind of spooky if you're not really 100%
comfortable with balers Gate 3 its rule set of d and d and all that action but I think that it's an
extremely rewarding play style because everything is so intense even just general conversations
you're not sure how they're going to go because you maybe want a certain item from it or cert
ain
whatever from it I strongly encourage you to do it and I think too just like playing maybe a Dark
Souls game the journey is in losing is in dying is in failing where you kind of learn okay that's
how I'm really supposed to approach things this is what's GNA I'm going to do stuff I mean Dark
Souls is a very challenging game series right but it makes you a better gamer because you learn
how to economize what you're doing or how you approach certain stuff and that is the same thing
here o
f H our motor from balers Gate 3 Once you learn how to get the most out of everything you're
doing you start to trivialize a lot of the harder stuff because you spent so much time prepping for
it or you understand how those actions are going to play out or what a status effect that you
can throw onto something that is going to make the rest of your characters do all the damage
whatever it is if you have any other tips for Honor mode let it be known in the comment section
below there is some
other cheesier stuff I didn't go into like you know crashing the game if you
do mess up um I figure it's not honorable to go over that uh maybe may or may not have done it in
my stream once twice who knows I can't confirm NE here or there but as always guys thank you so much
for watching here today have a good one and take [Music] care
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