Baldur's Gate 3 trickster deals potentially record-breaking damage to a late-game boss by giving them 87,000 gold and dealing at least 1160 damage in a single hit

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This Baldur's Gate 3 trick attack might be the strongest single attack we've seen in Larian's RPG to date, and it all revolves around gold and pickpocketing.

You might already know about the pickpocketing damage trick in Baldur's Gate 3. It goes something like this: sneak up on a boss, give them a load of your gold, then attack them with a weapon called Twist of Fortune, a Morningstar that deals its damage again for every 300 gold that the enemy is holding.

Now we've seen the trick taken to the next level. The player below managed to slip a boss a cool 87,000 gold, and wiped them out with a brutal strike because they deal +4 piercing damage for every 300 gold the target holds. That's at least 1,160 damage to the boss in one attack, 

Someone was able to instantly nuke a late game boss in Baldur’s Gate 3 by using a weapon that has an affix called “Blood Money” that deals weapon damage + 4 piercing damage for every 300 gold the target has. They reversed pickpocketed 87,000 gold into the boss’ pockets. pic.twitter.com/GCKVmzzWfoNovember 4, 2023

The player below delves into how the attack can actually deal even more damage than thought. It turns out Astarion's special 'Twist of Fortune' mace has a multiplier of 290 due to the amount of gold in the boss's pockets, which means the total damage is more like 1d8 + 1 + 1,160, which can become even greater considering any critical hits can double that damage. The point is, 1,160 is the lowest the total damage figure could be, which is mind-blowing.

The Twist of Fortune mace that Astarion is using for this is a +1 Morningstar. It does 1d8+1 damage. That much gold means it has a multiplier of 290. That means the damage (not accounting for any crits) is a minimum of: 1d8+1+1,160.The