Clever Baldur's Gate 3 player discovers a patched-out Raphael exploit is back, and the loot is even better now
If you're struggling to get decent armor early on in Baldur's Gate 3, it turns out you can get one of the best pieces of kit as early as in Act 1 thanks to the return of a sneaky exploit.
Spoilers for Act 3 ahead.
"Today I found out you can knock out a certain character in the camp, and they will drop a very very OP late game item," Reddit user Hope_bringer writes in a thread. The character they're talking about is none other than Raphael, BG3's aspiring archdevil supreme, and the late-gate item in question is the incredible Helldusk Armour. "I remember that before there was an exploit to get 1400 EXP from knocking him out prior to patch 5, but all he dropped was his diary. Apparently, the Helldusk Armour drops instead now."
The Helldusk Armour set is normally not seen until you loot it off Raphael's corpse in the House of Hope. As your reward for completing a gruelling optional questline in Act 3, it's a beast of an item that boasts an armor class of 21, makes the wearer proficient with heavy armor, grants you immunity from fire damage, and gives you the Level 3 spell Fly among other perks. You need to break into Raphael's dwelling in Avernus to get it, something I wouldn't attempt until reaching Level 11 or above. It seems Hope_bringer has managed to get their hands on it way back in Act 1 with a little help from the non-lethal toggle.
Non-lethal attacks are great ways to avoid killing important characters if you want to loot them without taking them out of the story entirely. After being whittled down to 1HP, non-lethal melee attacks or unarmed strikes have NPCs simply pass out. This is also one way you can recruit Minthara in Baldur's Gate 3, if you don't fancy being a terrible person and raiding Emerald Grove
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