BECOME THE ULTIMATE THIEF IN BG3 WITH ONE OVERLOOKED ITEM!

welcome to another episode of stealing and looting absolutely everything in today's episode I wanted to go over a few things that I mentioned in my previous video about being the best thief in Baldur's Gate 3 including a few things I think I kind of missed or really kind of skipped over but more importantly there was one item that I didn't get a chance to Showcase and I think that it is very important for the thief play style or if you just want to basically be the best thief in Baldur's Gate 3. so what am I talking about first let's go over a few items that I may have mentioned in the last video but I wanted to bring them up again just to show you what is available in case you want to increase your sleigh of hand and pickpocket people first we have the gloves of power which I've mentioned in my previous video they give a plus one to sleigh of hand uh besides the gloves of power the Nimble finger gloves if you are a gnome these gloves are very good and probably the best gloves you can get for stealing stuff and finally the gloves that I use in my video and the ones that I think are the best gloves generally are the Unlucky these gloves which give slav hand plus two some other items that are kind of cool to have gloves of thievery advantage of Slayer hand checks this is good early on not so much later on because you can basically get an advantage easily with spells and whatnot but early on in the game this is definitely an item I use myself which allows you to get an advantage but it does not prevent crit failure so if you roll two natural ones you will crit fail and ironically enough I've done this more often than I think is statistically possible and finally another item I think is pretty cool is the graceful cloth the graceful cloth allows you to essentially get plus two dexterity if you don't have 20. it's a good item to have for a lot of characters but for a thief in case you want to increase your dexterity a little bit more is very good the maximum is still 20 so you cannot break the 20 limit with just this but again it is a good item and something you may want to consider the gloss of power the gloves of thievery and the graceful cloth are all available in act 1 while the Nimble finger gloves and the Unlucky thieves gloves are only available in act 3. quick note about the Unlucky thieves gloves is that they do have a small disadvantage that whenever you steal anything you get a piece of coal added to your inventory and there appears to be a very small chance I'm not sure how much it is what the chance is but maybe like five percent ten percent to wear a burning pile of coals is added to your inventory which actually sets you on fire for like a round and breaks stealth so if you were pickpocketing somebody it kicks you out for that round it's kind of inconvenient but it is not too bad and you kind of learn to deal with it that's everything for all of the items that I think are kind of useful for thievery and let's get to the star of this video which is the cloak of cutting broom this seemingly mundane item is actually incredibly useful both in and out of combat what it does is that whenever you disengage with a character wearing his cape it creates a seven feet cloud of smoke or something which obscures vision and makes you pretty much invisible to whoever is looking in your direction and as you can probably tell this item is crazy crazy busted you can also pair it with the eversight ring which makes you immune to blindness because while you're in the cloud you get blinded because you can't see anything so if you pair it with the ring you can now see and if you're a rogue you can basically get automatic sneak attacks because you'll have advantage over your enemies because they won't be able to see you but you will be able to see them with the ring and while in the cloud so how how do you use this cloak to be the best thieves around very simple actually one thing you should learn is that if you hold down the shift button on PC I don't have a PS5 or an Xbox or whatever Butler's Gate 3 is on so I can't say what the console commands are but if you hold shift on on PC you will be able to see where people are looking there are Vision ranges without having to crouch and that gives you an idea of where you can go so you're not seen what the cloak of cunning broom does is that whenever you disengage you create this Cloud which breaks vision and that means that you can basically do whatever you want and nobody will react to it if you want to try and pickpocket somebody you can as long as you're inside the cloud because you're not going to be seen by anybody if you want to steal something off a shelf or pick a lock or do whatever you can basically use this cloud and stay in it and do that The Cloud of smoke lasts for approximately two turns the turn you use disengage plus the turn after and you can actually use the cloud to move NPCs around because as it turns out they don't like being blind in a cloud of smoke you can also abuse this by chaining clouds together with bonus action to create like a concealment path even as you move around it is nuts it almost feels like cheating that is one option you can use to basically automatically succeed in all of your Thief related Endeavors but I do have some other ideas for you and primarily they are two ideas first of all you can use Bard's performance to distract people now it isn't terribly useful because you can't tell or you can't pick who is going to be distracted and who is not going to be distracted but you can draw large crowds to where people will be sort of mulling around near your characters and not paying attention if you try to pickpocket them though they will pay attention that is one option another option is and what I prefer to use either invisibility or greater invisibility which is even better invisibility allows you to pickpocket somebody once or steal something once while being invisible and so whenever you do steal something or pickpocket somebody you'll become visible again this of course is even better with greater invisibility because it allows you to stay invisible as you're pickpocketing and stealing as long as you keep passing harder and harder slave hand checks if you are a thief a level 11 or rather a rogue Thief level Little Oven you'll be able to pass these checks no problem because your sleigh of hand is just going to be nuts it's going to be at least 29 if you followed the guide from my last video I have two more bonus tips for you and that is if you want to pickpocket somebody or you want to change where they're looking engage them in conversation and then switch to another character the NPC will be in dialogue and won't react to pickpocket attempts unless you fail or something but if you steal from them they'll just remain standing until the conversation is over and after the conversation is over then they will react to the pickpocket attempt they will however react to something that you try to steal or try to lock pick in their view range if you know they're actually looking at you but you can also talk to people to change where they are looking so that you can engage them in conversation have them sort of standing by not looking like at a treasure chest while another character lock picks a treasure chest and then takes the loot inside and the final tip I have for you is that NPCs will take note whenever you're trying to steal something around them even if they are not looking at you sometimes people wandering the street will see you stealing something from a nearby house through a window even though you don't think they're looking at you and that's because they turn in your direction whenever you steal something so to remedy that I would recommend I would highly recommend that you stay in sneaking mode as much as possible whenever you're trying to burgle a house pick a lock or take some treasure or do something like that if it doesn't belong to you just make sure you're sneaking sometimes NPCs will turn in your direction if they're close enough even if you are sneaking and that you took something from a shelf or something so just save yourself the headache of being discovered and sneak that is everything I have to teach you in this episode and I think with this knowledge and with the previous episode you are probably the most capable thief in balder's gate 3. now hit the street and steal loot and burgle to your heart's content that's it for me I'll see you in the next one bye

Channel: Distinguished Opinions

Views: 40,267

Keywords: Baldur's Gate 3, BG3, Larian Studios, Larian, Shadowheart, Astarion, Thief, Stealing, Pickpocket, Sneaking, Stealth, Money, Gold, Items, Guide, Tips

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Length: 8min 52sec (532 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 25 2023