I Beat Honour Mode Solo while ONLY Using Underwear, Because I'm Bored | Baldur's Gate 3

I have beaten balers Gate 3 in a lot of ways but as of my last video I was kind of stumped for ideas so I decided to look through all the games items and find the one that would be the hardest to win with and I think I have done just that every single item you throw deals some sort of damage want to throw a shirt that's one damage minimum want to toss a helmet or boots same thing there but there is one item which literally does nothing when thrown and that item is underwear there are other items like keys or books that also deal no damage but these are common and can be found everywhere underwear however is exceedingly rare in the earlier parts of the game so can I beat honor mode solo while only using underwear let's find out dgar for the permanent invisibility feels like a no-brainer for this I still did not know how I was going to do any real damage but we'll figure that part out later as for my starter class bar just seemed like the best option as it gets access to so many proficiencies importantly I also go urchin as my background giving my slide of hand and stealth skills plus four all that's left now is just to pick an appropriate name we wake up on the nautiloid and straight away while we technically have a weapon available too in fact throwing it won't do us any good so it's time to just run past all of the tutorial fights down on the beach we find a couple of nice people that decide to donate their clothes to our cause the amount of underwear you can actually get in the earlier parts of the game is very limited so making sure to recruit as many companions as possible to borrow theirs will be necessary arriving at the Grove I attempt to sneak away as per usual though here I noticed that if you sneak away before Sor even gets his turn he will be stuck just sounding the horn every turn until you walk back in anyway with that solved seor easily disposes of the Goblins by himself with just a couple of casualties as I do want Will's deadly weapon I make sure to resurrect him we still have no way of doing anything to anyone but collecting the Mind flare parasite from these people here gave me the first clue to how I was going to do it using the sky self to enter the goblin camp we get level three for even more stealth God gladly donates our parasites to our cost and I make my way over to ethyl making sure to not provoke her she will be our one and only source of Hill giant strength potions which will be very important I head down into the under dark and make it all the way over to the Colony without any hiccups on the way whatsoever and after long resting get the ability to to consume our previously found parasites after scaring away some GI we get level four and I decide to put a level into wizard to go and collect shovel while I'm at it I also crossed the river from the blighted village where there's a hidden skeleton which has The Smuggler ring it gives another two to our stealth for the low cost of one Charisma after speaking to carlac and buying out Ethel's entire stock of strength potions we are now basically out of things we can do in act one there is still no way for us to hurt anyone we can m L annoy them but that's about it so it's time to head over to the Grim Forge and walk straight into act two I Ambush cares and since I'm a Bard easily convince him to give us his Lantern protection from the shadow curse lets us make it all the way over to the gold Goblin for an easy level five now getting our race trait of infinite permanent invisibility in Moonrise I walk straight past Krick without triggering any dialogue and head straight up to baltar's room turns out that one of our companions actually will get to be a bit useful here by interacting with this altar Gail can craft the so-called Shadow Lantern interestingly enough we now have everything we theoretically need to beat the game before leaving I make sure to grab the note from krick's wife in his bedroom as it will be mandatory later down in the bottom of moonrise is a vendor that sells the Marksmanship hat giving plus one to all of our Throne attack roles right outside the house of healing on another hidden skeleton is the Assassin's shortsword for Advantage on all stealth checks and just outside last light in this house here is the penumbral armor for plus three to all stealth checks as long as we are at least obscured with the shadow Lantern now acquired it is time to learn the one Elitha power which makes this run at all possible ability drain once per turn after making importantly any attack roll the target receives a minus one penalty to their corresponding ability score so if you were to for instance use an eldrid blast which uses Charisma the enemy would would in turn lose one Charisma since throwing uses your strength for the check this gives anyone we throw our underwear at minus one strength it may only work once per turn but using our underwear now actually does something and there is actually one positive thing about underwear not dealing any damage when thrown as long as we do not miss anyone that is not already hostile won't even get mad upon getting underwear thrown at them this lets us repeatedly drain their strength from however High it might be all all the way down to one without engaging combat at all apart from only being usable once per turn though ability drain has another buil-in restriction only letting it work until the target has one in any stat which of course is where our shadow Lantern comes in it lets us summon a wraith which can go invisible just by moving pretty useful but even better than that has the ability strength drain as the name implies it removes three strength from anyone attacked by it but the strength drain ability also comes with a restriction it can only be used on enemies thankfully as stated before even though hitting a target with the underwear doesn't bother them missing with it does and so after draining all the strength of anyone and engaging in combat we can now immediately use our wraith's strength drain to further reduce their strength to zero instantly proing atrophy atrophy Triggers on any enemy that reaches zero in any ability instantly killing it the poor ox that got to be my test subject here actually carries another item we really want the shape shifters Boon giving a 1 D4 bonus to every check before being able to progress any further we need level seven the first easy XP we can get are the Thorns but they are nowhere near enough so it's time to head back to act one for some unfinished business first up ethyl after purchasing as many portions as I will ever need this run I just started chucking my pants at her she does move around quite a bit so it did take a while to do so great throw me but after a while I got her strength all the way down time to Simply summon in my shadow and purposely miss her she uses her last remaining moments to hold person me instead of running away bad choice Ethel next up is grim with a massive 24 strength if I were to just enter combat I have nowhere near enough underwear to remove all of his strength and throwing a couple and then just running away is not an option either as all the stacks of ability drain is removed at the end of any combat so instead it is time to utilize our massive amount of stealth for the first time since shovel brought out Grim he has yet to notice us so by sneaking we can attack him from up on this cliff without triggering combat and after throwing all of our underwear we can them simply cast feather falling and jump down carefully sneaking past him to recollect them before teleporting back up repeating this process over and over until he has no strength left at this point I used shovel to trigger the encounter trick picking Grim to walk over to him and after entering combat with my shadow I noticed that for some reason Grim's strength stat had increased from 24 to 28 thankfully I still had one more turn myself letting me reduce it one more time to put it back down to three for an easy atrophy trigger hey if you're enjoying this video why not hit the Subscribe button I post these weekly yep definitely weekly it's free and you can always just unsubscribe later with grim dead that is most of the major bosses done in act one however since we have not done any small encounters at all we are still only halfway to level six and nowhere near level s so I guess it's time to head over to the crash and clear it out here is where the weakness of only using underwear really shows itself while we can destroy most enemies after entering combat immediately draining all their strength takes such a long time the least amount of strength any enemy has is 10 which means that I need to at a minimum throw seven times in order to just take out one person sometimes going as high as 17 or even higher in Grim's case and well in order to get level 7 we need a lot of XP I spent around an hour or so just throwing underwear at the gift it was about as fun as it sounds and after all was said and done it was not even enough for level six for some reason throwing underwear at any of the gifts inside the inquisitor's chamber immediately angers them to be fair that is probably the normal response so instead of fighting them I just blew the Crush shop to get the remaining XP for level six I just went into the gauntlet of sh and asked yuger for it level six gives us magical Secrets letting me pick spells from other classes here we can choose pass without Trace giving a massive plus 10 to stealth checks I also picked up haste here as it's always just nice to have while I'm already in the gauntlet of sh I let off basur and let the jusr take care of him just another 40 minutes of waiting I guess at the bottom of the well in the blighted village is an amethyst which can be slaughtered in into the necromancy of the for another plus one to all ability checks still needing well over half a level it's time to clear out all of Moonrise and I mean it I literally had to clear everyone out all the people up front and inside everyone in the cellar everyone outside everyone upstairs and even after all of that I was still a tiny bit short of level seven don't don't even ask how long this took I don't want to remember to get the final couple hundred XP points I went to the Grim Forge and took out my anger on some fellow dgar finally level seven is here it gives us just one thing but this thing is the most important part of anything we have gotten thus far greater invisibility this is the entire reason for why I have been stacking stealth like a madman it works just like normal invisibility however as long as we succeed a stealth check after doing something that would normally break invisibility we remain invisible this steal check starts at 15 the next check is 17 and after that that it increases by one per check finally I decide to walk into the main hall where Krick sits and since I did not touch Menara she's here getting dragged away to The Cellar however because the questionnaires are already dead she's just standing down here and I can just tell her to follow me and walk away without the guards even caring and since no one else is alive either walking straight out works just fine that is one more underwear we can use putting our total up to eight which is quite significant I free the trapped gnomes who are also free to just leave before heading over to free the Night song time for the incredibly tough moonrise fight one whole acolyte which I missed this is the first time where we actually sort of have to fight someone normally and it does not go well just to take out this random 35hp acolyte I need seven turns which means getting hit by her seven times finally it is time for Krick from some prior testing on another save I noticed that Krick actually cannot die to atrophy he is the only enemy in the game which after having atrophy proc just doesn't care I guess JK Simmons is just that cool so we are going to need to tackle this first rooftop fight in another way and it's actually pretty easy to do by Hasting alen we don't even need to do anything she just easily One turns Krick and after breaking combat it is time to follow him down and begin the real fight Krick is actually not hostile until you enter his field of vision and Trigger the dialogue so by sneaking at the edge of it we can toss our underwear at him without provoking him since we have eight underwear that is eight out of his 20 strength drained now we somehow need to retrieve them without being spotted at all and this is why we needed greater invisibility as we can just cast it and collect them all by succeeding a few stealth checks because Krick is immune to atrophy it will be very important to actually bring his strength all the way down to one so I make sure to also throw three underwear at him while invisible with nine strength remaining I return to right outside his vision cone and throw all of the underwear once more now it's time to actually start the fight but first I summon in scratch give him invisibility and walk him all the way over to the Night song to get around the fact that Krick cannot die from atrophy all we have to do is convince him using the letter we got a while back that what he is doing is wrong having him skip right to phase two and Merkel I free Night song with scratch and since Merkel right here technically still is Krick all the strength we removed from him is also removed from Merkel this is why it was so important to drain his strength all the way down to one I can now summon in my shadow and using a haste potion on myself in turn haste it and with two actions available all I have to do is strength drain Merkel twice removing his last remaining strength instantly proing atrophy first God defeated with underwear that's kind of embarrassing for Merkel really time to head over to act three first though is the ever so annoying astral plane fight I could skip past the first couple of GI but this next fight is mandatory if the emperor dies in this fight in in any way it's just straight up game over so I don't really have time to just sit and throw underwear at them for 30 turns again though we don't actually need to do anything if we just Haste The Emperor he can easily solo this fight the extra action lets him use extract brain after stunning any Target for some not okay damage with the gifts dead we can finally enter act three and upon approaching the first checkpoint we get help by the Gnomes we saved earlier and can follow them to purchase the Nimble finger glow they give plus two to any Norm that wears them but we're a dwarf so we will only get plus one there is a way of tricking the game to still giving us the plus two though all we have to do is transform into one using disguise self with this extra two to dexterity after getting level eight and using some Feats we can now get our decks all the way up to 22 for a plus six to all stealth checks I make a be line straight over to the lower City and here is the greatest vendor to ever exist ever this beautiful man right here he sells underwear unlimited underwear I bought just a couple 100 or so you know no need to overdo it time to retrieve the final nether Stones gash here won't stand a chance against our new found power he only has 14 strength which means that just throwing 11 underwear at him will be enough but just like the fight and the Crash if gorach gets underwear thrown at him he will immediately become hostile alongside his army of Steel watchers good thing we have greater invisibility after using up all of the turns I just had to hide away in this corner here to refresh it and then drain his remaining strength before engaging combat though positioning will be very important since our shadow does not have the best initiation after all to not get instantly destroyed by all the steel Watchers I decide to summon it in on the other side of this door here this makes gortz Dash perfectly over to it and after a few turns of Steel Watchers doing whatever this strategy is supposed to be our shadow gets his turn bye-bye Gort two out of three stones collected before going after Orin though I got the itch to take on Raphael for the first time in a long while and it just so happens that he is patiently waiting here on the second floor of shess caress currently rapael is considered friendly so he does not mind if we throw stuff at him even if we miss and so after throwing like 30 underwear at him and draining all his strength I of course accept his contract you know it would be rude to not do it after all that in the devil's fee I borrow some things from helli and open the portal into literal hell running straight over to destroy the contract we made with Raphael literally 5 minutes ago and after ignoring some annoying person that rudely locks us out of leaving it is time to face the master of the house before starting the encounter I give my shadow invisibility which lets it stay out of combat and get one free action in 666 health or not The Devil Is Dead killing Raphael though turns out to be the easy part the real Annoying part comes now we still need to eliminate all the remaining cambion you're urar and corilla in order to escape if we just do some quick math each cambion has 18 strength urar has 22 and corilla has 14 for atrophy to trigger they all need to be at three strength so that is a minimum of 120 turns approximately 40 turns can be gained for free from four grader invisibility thanks to this potion of angelic Slumber I found but since the restoration faucets don't work after Raphael comes back it is only enough to take Ure gear and the single cambion I guess it's time to kite the remaining five for 75 turns straight all in all it almost took 3 hours to escape the House of Hope but after a quick underwear collecting route I was finally free get me out of here to get to Orin and the final nether Stone we got to go through sahok since this encounter also has a dialogue check just like the kric fight did we are free to drain all the Echoes without them caring sok himself sits just a tiny a bit too far away so I just used greater invisibility to get the job done easy enough with the amuleta ball now in our possession it was time for Orin since this is honor mode Orin gets an ability called dread Pursuit it teleports her to any Target that attacks her letting her get one free attack in but since we are invisible she cannot attack us this makes it so we can move her gradually over the course of a few turns all the way out of the ball Temple over to the Waypoint here leaving her without any Al I all by herself with the third nether Stone now collected it is time to take on the brain but importantly before approaching it I grab a globe of invulnerability scroll as I will need it in order to beat the game but the use case won't be what you think it is as per usual we fail all the rols against the brain and since IDs simply are superior we of course become one time for the final encounter I start off the encounter with greater invisibility and make sure to say goodbye to the emperor won't need him anyways since we are invisible everyone just skips their turn apart from the crown of corsus which hits me for some quite unpleasant but not too high damage I got to discover here too that apparently you cannot use carsus compulsion while polymorphed on the next turn greater invisibility keeps me invisible after using carsus compulsion letting me open the portal without anyone noticing just the brain left now it has 16 strength which normally would make it impossible for us to get it low enough since we only have five turns to do so however since elth mind Sanctuary Works in a very dumb way whenever we throw in this form the brain gets two stacks of ability drain instead of just the one it's supposed to get I used the first three turns just throwing underwear at the brain bringing its ability score down from 16 to 10 on the second to last turn I throw one more time but instead of ending my turn make sure to fly down and summon in my shadow now we just have one more turn in order to kill the brain or we lose I use a haste potion which since again mind Sanctuary is dumb does not use up a bonus action and throw one last time bringing the brain down to six strength at this point you might think that it's just going to be as easy as with Merkel but this is not the case since strength drain deals a small amount of damage the brain's brain Quakes will trigger most definitely killing it but if it somehow were to survive it will still get slowed making it so we cannot haste it and therefore preventing it from using two strength drains regardless so I had to do a bit of thinking and I came up with a stupid but plausible workaround the brain crakes will only trigger if the brain actually takes damage so by intentionally placing a globe of invulnerability over the brain to Grant it immunity to all damage I can use strength Trin on it once without triggering them then using my final action I haste my shadow breaking the globe but giving it another action letting it strength drain the brain one more time this was this was way more effort than it was worth but hey at least we made it I guess why why did I do this thank you for watching regardless I'll uh I'll see you all in the next one bye-bye

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Length: 20min 39sec (1239 seconds)

Published: Sat May 04 2024