r/BG3 • u/Feeling-Classroom729 • 3d ago

Bg3 Hot Take Edition

I'm feeling spicy and I want to hear some of your hot takes about the game. Perhaps, I'll see the game from a fresh perspective and/or learn something new.

There's no limit to the hot takes you can share.

I'll go first.

Despite Araj's negative reputation, I think she's one of the best merchants in the game. In act 2, she carries the risky ring and the ring of free action, which is already amazing. But she also offers unique elixirs in act 2. In act 3, she sells sanguine explosives, which is basically a level 4 fireball that you can buy for less than 20 gold. Getting the unstable blood condition from her in act 3, can also be powerful if you build around it. The +2 to strength is super powerful if you're willing to torture Astarion, but even without that, she's still an amazing npc. She's a little pushy with Astarion, but she ultimately accepts his no. So, I don't stay mad at her.

I don't think completing a "good run" automatically makes your character good aligned. Basing your decisions around not making your favorite npcs sad is not a sound moral compass. I think there are more morally neutral people out there than people are willing to admit. It isn't a bad thing to be morally neutral. Jaheira is canonically true neutral in the older games, and people love her.

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u/tricky_toy 3d ago edited 3d ago

Wulbren not being able to redeem himself was a mistake. He seemed stronghearted and iron willed but Barcus removes and banishes him.

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u/QuQuarQan 3d ago

I’m Wulbren’s biggest defender on here, and you’re exactly right. He’s barely a villain at all, but he’s treated like the single worst person ever, while people simp over the truly despicable and/or disgusting.

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u/echoingpeach 2d ago

he wants to kill victims. when i enjoy a villain, its due to their design, their reasoning behind what theyre doing, etc. wulbren has none of that going for him. i understand where he’s coming from until he says all of the gondians have to die. the gondians were victims of gortash, not the perpetrators.

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u/GrassSloth 2d ago

Yeah, it’s similar to Killmonger. Dude comes in spitting facts about the oppressive nature of the existing power structures, but suddenly their solution is genocide.

It’s anti-revolutionary propaganda.