At Baldur’s Gate 3, a YouTuber now shows what’s possible with Min/Maxing: A lone fighter, without companions, has defeated the most powerful boss in the role-playing game, the “Fiend” Raphael with 666 HP, and his demonic minions. And that in 2 moves. The key to the strategy was a specific poison, a magic bow and arrows, lots of arrows.
Warning: There are spoilers for an Act 3 dungeon in the text. The video shows the final battle.
Why is the kill particularly impressive?
Archer misses 9 shots in round 1
How did the player do it? The player says that the key to the fight was a special poison called Crawler Mucus Poison. He found a lot of this poison in Act 2 and otherwise never used it.
The poison causes targets to become paralyzed, unable to take any actions themselves, and taking critical damage whenever they are hit while the attacker is within 3 meters.
The YouTuber Thorusin says: The poison is ideal for this fight because the boss Raphael has a lot of life points and a high armor value.
Additionally, the player uses the legendary bow, Gontr Mael, which allows the player to cast Haste on himself and grants 3 bonus attacks.
An amulet makes the target vulnerable to physical damage.
In addition, the fighter uses a special arrow against enemies and a ring that guarantees more critical hits.
With all the bonuses and the fighter’s ability “Action Surge”, which grants her further bonus attacks, she has 9 attacks in the first round:
This is how the fight goes: After the first round, the boss’s life points drop from 666 to 80, and he is also paralyzed.
In the second round, the fighter uses her six attacks (Action Surge is gone) to eliminate the boss’ minions with the “Arrow of Many Targets” and the fight is over. With these arrows, she directs her shots at multiple opponents.
The fighter’s example shows what happens when you use “all those super important” potions, arrows and special items that you hoard but never use effectively.
This was an example of a plan that works wonderfully. But the plans that fail with a bang are also beautiful:
Baldur’s Gate 3: Noble Paladin only wants to do good, thereby breaking his oath – Laughed at by thousands