Baldur's Gate 3 Player One Shots Act 2's Final Boss With Reverse Pickpocketing

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Baldur's Gate 3 is a game that rewards creativity, allowing you to solve problems in any manner of way you see fit. If you want a quick example, take a look at voice actor Matthew Mercer's super tall box tower. Just like the game it's based on, Baldur's Gate 3 has a very creative fanbase that is eager to exploit any loophole they can to find to come up with easy ways to take down the game's toughest foes. However, you'll struggle to find a way to take down Act 2's final boss more ridiculous than this. Beware of mid and late-game spoilers from this point on.

First shared to the Baldur's Gate 3 subreddit by u/GoldenThane, their method of one-shotting The Apostle of Myrkul involved dropping a whole bunch of gold into the pockets of Ketheric Thorm without his knowledge. This is a feature known as reverse-pickpocketing, or "putpocketing" as the community likes to call it. After planting 15,000 gold pieces onto Thorm's person, without him somehow noticing the dramatic shift in weight in his trousers, the player then starts the final boss fight and Thorm becomes The Apostle of Myrkul.

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In stage two of u/GoldenThane's plan, they then whip out a special mace called the Twist of Fortune. It's a fairly standard weapon, but it comes equipped with a Weapon Action called Bloody Money, which makes each hit deal an additional 3 piercing damage per 300 gold the enemy has on their person. You can probably see where this is going right now.

With a single bop, this weapon dishes out a whopping 150 piercing damage on top of its base damage to The Apostle of Myrkul, thanks to the pile of 15,000 gold still sat in its pockets. With a couple of other