Baldur's Gate 3 Player One-Shots Act 2's Final Boss With the Power of Economics
ign.comA Baldur's Gate 3 player has figured out how to one-shot the final boss of Act 2 using nothing more complex than a large pile of gold, a special weapon, and a bit of reverse-thievery.
Reddit's u/GoldenThane shared their strategy on the Baldur's Gate 3 subreddit yesterday. Their post does contain spoilers, so first we'll give you a spoiler-free explanation of what they did. Basically, GoldenThane used a weapon called Twist of Fortune that's available elsewhere in Act 2.
The morning star has, among other abilities, a Weapon Action called Blood Money that deals an extra 3 piercing damage per 300 gold that the target possesses. So to one-shot the boss, they "reverse pickpocketed" them before the fight to dump 15,000 gold into their pockets, then bapped them with Blood Money and called it a day.
Warning: We go into even more detail below the video, including spoilers for the end of Act 2 of Baldur's Gate 3. Read on at your own risk!
Specifically, GoldenThane used this ability on what appears to be the second phase of the Ketheric Thorm fight at the end of Act 2. Because the fight includes multiple phases, they had to reverse pickpocket Thorm before it started, then used the Blood Money ability on the second phase, when Thorm becomes an Apostle of Myrkul. Fifteen-thousand gold divided by 300 is 50 ticks of Blood Money, which adds up to 150 bonus damage on top of the base damage of the attack.
That alone would only get GoldenThane up to 167 of the boss' 225 total HP, but based on comments elsewhere in the thread it looks like GoldenThane had a number of other effects proc, including a bunch of hits of an Illithid power called "Cull the Weak" and possibly other abilities.
The mace in question, Twist of Fortune, is conveniently
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