Baldur's Gate 3 Are Cheesing Raphael With A Necrotic Corpse

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Baldur's Gate 3 has a whole bunch of tough fights, but you'll struggle to find a more difficult opponent than Raphael, the charismatic cambion that you encounter part way into Act 1. Players have been finding a way to make a mockery out of every single tough fight since the game launched, taking down boss fights via reverse pickpocketing or turning them into cats. Now they've found an easy way to take down Raphael, and you don't have to move a muscle.

In Act 3, you'll more than likely visit Cazador's Palace and stumble across the dead body of Victoria, a small girl who was tragically killed by a vampire before the player character even meets her. When you find her, you'll notice that she's necrotic, which means that her body releases a damaging necoritc aura in a wide radius. You can probably see where this is going.

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Instead of respecting the dead and leaving her alone, Baldur's Gate 3 players have been taking poor Victoria and using her to cheese some of the game's hardest fights. Raphael is one such example, as u/Boo_And_Minsc_ recently shared their ridiculous method of taking down the cambion on the Baldur's Gate 3 subreddit earlier today.

For starters, you need to take Victoria and place her down in the House of Hope, close to where Raphael appears. Then you'll need to annoy him to start the fight, and pinching all of his stuff is a good way to do that. Try and escape and Raphael will appear ready for a showdown, but he won't be aware of the necrotic aura that he's standing in. The moment one of your characters is given their turn in combat, Raphael will gradually take damage every few seconds until he keels