r/BG3 • u/Feeling-Classroom729 • 2d 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/RobertoPaulson 2d ago
My hot take is that I didn’t like the constant sense of urgency to move along due to the ultra high stakes of the main story line from the very beginning. It made exploring, and doing side quests feel like I was wasting time. I left a lot of side stuff in act one undone because of that sense of urgency, and I didn’t know I couldn’t go back until it was too late. I also played it immediately after Cyberpunk 2077, which had the same kind of thing going on.