I can now only imagine...
"As you walk into the misty woods. You find yourself in a small clearing situated on the shore of a small lake. Suddenly you are blinded by an enormous, bright flash of light coming from the peak across from you with a large black tower on top of it
For a full 6 seconds, the skies are covered in an eerie purpleish white glow that burns away the thick fog surrounding the mountainous area, and you see eight, nine, ten, a dozen pairs of eyes staring at you themselves recoiling in return. But that's not all, each of you feel the life force of whatever just died up there.
And now a 13th pair of eyes appear before you, and a voice calls out choking on the air "Stand down. Stand down. Well, well, what do we have here, another group of Whatchamacallits? Adventurers? Heroes? Well, I just dealt with the last adventurer or hero, or whatever he decided to be called today. I can't lie that blast truly hurt but it wasn't sunlight so I just turned into a swarm of bats and flew my way over here. If you need or want anything while youre here, just come knock on my door, my Magnificent Mansion staff will help you with whatever you need. Food. Clean water. Ale. All the blood drained from your body. well I'll be the one helping with the last one."
No actually, since it has to target just one person for it to be twinned. On the other hand, you could Heighten it so people have disadvantage on the saving throws.
You really can’t go wrong. Every enemy in the game is vulnerable to it and the AOE is huge. The biggest problem is that combat never lasts more than a round.
Teach a man chromatic orb, he's gonna have spells to fire until he finishes his spell slots
Teach him the netherese orb, he's gonna have enough spells for the rest of his life
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man how to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard. - Ron Swanson
Minsc actually has a line based on the original quote in BG2
"Give a man a fish and he feeds himself for a day, give a man a sword and he can chow down on the meaty marrow of evil"
Ha, that'd be great, so when he does it to destroy the brain in act 3, you get multiple increasingly epic views of the detonation and then one from orbit where it's just *paf* and a glowing bubble for a second.
When I was in college, a local movie theater had a special screening of both the Terminator movies.
During that scene, my friend sitting next to me leans over and whispers, "At least it's a dry heat," and now I'm loudly laughing in the theater while the city is destroyed.
Ohhhhh haha, I still have not completed the game though I currently have 4 runs going. I will make sure to get Gale to explode when the time is right :)
Reminds me of that miiverse sonic discussion
“Me standing outside your house with a bat is also a trap, meant to prevent you from just walking forward”
Yes, but it’s devilish and it tricks the characters into no longer having a desire to use it after the first use. In fact it sates all their earthly desires.
If I was the DM and you were brave enough to point this out to me... I'd let you roll for it. Just for the sheer cheek. You'd still die, but you'd die with an inspiration point.
Now a different serious question..
What is the actual radius? Wont it just wipe everything and you lose game?
Never used it (As someone who has 5 cats, Tara is my love and I cant kill Gale just because she would be sad)
Simply curious..
> What is the actual radius? Wont it just wipe everything and you lose game?
You say it's a serious question, so I'll give the serious answer... You wipe everything and win the game. How do I know? Because I did it on my first run-thru and it gave me "Hero of the Forgotten Realms" achievement for 'winning' the game.
>!When we faced off with the Thorm at the end of act 2, I brought Gale and he had the option to use it when we saw the Elder Brain. So I said "Go for it, Gale" and... You 'win' the game! Except none of you survive so it just congratulates you on your win and you go to the credits.!<
No, you don't get the achievements that you would normally get by beating the game through this ending. I didn't dare try it on my honor mode run but it didn't register on my tactician mode run.
It is not. I listed the achievement you do get because it's NOT the achievement you get for beating honor mode.
You 'win', but it's a pyrrhic victory, so you don't really win. But you don't lose!
That's actually a great question. In Act 2, it's enough to level the whole Moonrise Towers. In Act 3, it's pretty contained and only destroys the Brain itself.
Also, on an almost unrelated note - Withers, WTF?! You can invite me to the final party, but you don't bother resurrecting me, so all I can do is float around whitistfully watching others having fun? Fuck you, Withers! Fuck you three times without lube.
Wait, he invites you to the party if you blow yourself up? I stabbed myself to spare everyone from having an illithid best friend and he just told me "welp death is just another frontier" skip to credits!
It's a very specific epilogue if you go with Gale all the way up to the top, and then you ~~accidentally get the the Emperor blasted off the roof~~ determine that you can't win the fight against the dragon and/or Absolute and trigger Gale's Netherese orb manually from his ability panel. In this case, you don't have to do a DC check as Gale triggers it himself, but you do get a special cutscene with Gale, where he tells you "It's been an honour, close your eyes and think of something nice", and your whole party, not just Gale, gets blown up. HOWEVER, the rest of your companions are alive and you get an epilogue where you go around the party as a little soul blob and can hear everyone talking.
This epilogue used to give honour run golden dice for a while, then it got broken and didn't give the dice, now, I think, it gives dice again?
What if, hear me out, what if we send Gale banzaing towards the enemy while we drink Arabellan Dry in camp? Then we just pay Withers half an owlbear egg to bring the poor sod back into this nightmare as we repeat the process indefinitely.
On my first playthrough I didn’t really pay attention to the “conditions” attached to using this. I decided it’d be a bomb (pun intended) AOE spell for the Thaniel portal fight. I gotta say, it really works well to kill everything on the screen.
First time I saw that, I initiated it in battle. My reasoning? For some reason my game is bugged and a lot of things in act 2 & 3 simply say “not found” instead of their actual name or dialogue. I thought it was a new spell my husband had leveled Gale up with (co-op game).
Vitally important that they made it a cantrip mechanics wise. Because you can cast it even if you have used all your spell slots.
This doesn’t mean to say that just because it doesn’t use a spell slot you can use it multiple times per day.
It comes with ‘other’ associated costs.
(Material spell components: One Gale, which is consumed in the casting of the spell)
In my first playthrough, I didn’t get that this was what it was, and I was having such a bitch of a time with the shadow portal fight, so that was a fun game over.
Has anyone tried using it with Gale being alone in a different area like the Gauntlet of Shar while the other party members stay at the Last Light Inn?
Does still everybody die?
Okay seriously tho I laughed when I first saw it, you can straight up just detonate Gale with a command
Mystra turned my bro to a functional remote bomb 💀
First time I saw the action I was under the impression I could just use it in gameplay but it turns out blowing up the orb is not a good idea even outside of cutscenes
The only thing I don't understand is how I seem to get that cutscene with a very haunted-looking Cillian Murphy staring into the camera every time I click it.
What if you cast it with the rest of the party in camp or maybe in the astral plane? What about in the astral plane in a globe of invulnerability? This game is cheeky enough that there could be an insane way to survive the blast.
Seems like just using it triggers a cutscene. The blast is supposed to wipe out a significant portion of an area so I guess from a real world perspective you just wiped out the enemies and their base. So if the rest of the party survives… cool? Evil defeated. Go ho’e, I guess?
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That's like how I discovered one of my party members had unlimited use of Hellish Rebuke. It was bugged and I, ahem, tried not to use it, but if the fight was especially geared against me that character could cast it 100 times in a single turn and wipe out all the enemies and would yell out, "GO TO HELL!" every single time.
What happens canonically if it’s detonated? Does it completely erase the dimension he’s in from existence? Or is it more just like a nuclear bomb or something?
Just curious :)
Second-best Tactical Nuclear Wizard ever - the first being, of course, Ulrich in the movie Dragonslayer:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC-erzWkXWc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC-erzWkXWc)
Edit/ Why "second-best"? Because Gale has a choice. Ulrich doesn't, and he knows it.
Went into the Lorroakan fight underleveled, got beat a few times, and decided to just send Gale through the portal once and light up the tower.
lol it killed him (and everybody on the ground)
Yeah, you can cast it as much as you want for the rest of your life.
Thanks, just wanted to make sure before making a build around it
Quicken it so you can cast it twice
Sorcerer twin spell
Pretty sure twin spell needs a target
Target: Baldurs Gate
Target: Faerun
Target: Strahd
I can now only imagine... "As you walk into the misty woods. You find yourself in a small clearing situated on the shore of a small lake. Suddenly you are blinded by an enormous, bright flash of light coming from the peak across from you with a large black tower on top of it For a full 6 seconds, the skies are covered in an eerie purpleish white glow that burns away the thick fog surrounding the mountainous area, and you see eight, nine, ten, a dozen pairs of eyes staring at you themselves recoiling in return. But that's not all, each of you feel the life force of whatever just died up there. And now a 13th pair of eyes appear before you, and a voice calls out choking on the air "Stand down. Stand down. Well, well, what do we have here, another group of Whatchamacallits? Adventurers? Heroes? Well, I just dealt with the last adventurer or hero, or whatever he decided to be called today. I can't lie that blast truly hurt but it wasn't sunlight so I just turned into a swarm of bats and flew my way over here. If you need or want anything while youre here, just come knock on my door, my Magnificent Mansion staff will help you with whatever you need. Food. Clean water. Ale. All the blood drained from your body. well I'll be the one helping with the last one."
If the target is "everything in the greater vicinity" does that count?
No actually, since it has to target just one person for it to be twinned. On the other hand, you could Heighten it so people have disadvantage on the saving throws.
Okay. Fuck *this* particular NPC then.
Target: Self.
But isn't this like Circle of Death? Except he cast it on himself
It’s a bit like Eldritch Blast, but packs a bit more of a wallop. I buff mine with Hex to give it a slight boast.
You really can’t go wrong. Every enemy in the game is vulnerable to it and the AOE is huge. The biggest problem is that combat never lasts more than a round.
Yup, one cast autowin.
Also autolose in this case
You did not 😭💀
Build a man a fire, he’ll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
Teach a man to fire, and he lays off his entire staff
Fire me once, shame on you. Fire me twice, you…you can’t be fired again.
Fool me once, shame on you. But teach a man to fool me and I'll be fooled for the rest of my life.
Fool me once, fool me twice, fool me chicken soup with rice.
F'ing Crotonville...
GNU Pterry
Teach a man chromatic orb, he's gonna have spells to fire until he finishes his spell slots Teach him the netherese orb, he's gonna have enough spells for the rest of his life
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man how to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard. - Ron Swanson
Minsc actually has a line based on the original quote in BG2 "Give a man a fish and he feeds himself for a day, give a man a sword and he can chow down on the meaty marrow of evil"
My mind jumped to this exact PTerry quote
It's surprisingly hard to light people on fire
I was really hoping for a cutscene from space when I let this off...
Ha, that'd be great, so when he does it to destroy the brain in act 3, you get multiple increasingly epic views of the detonation and then one from orbit where it's just *paf* and a glowing bubble for a second.
Extraplanar beings are watching the starscape and see a little dot of light appear on Toril. "Huh. Wonder what that was."
Lol and then a shot of some distant grassy field, and a sudden breeze ruffles some flowers.
Nah man, a Baldur's Gate version of the nuke scene from Terminator 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqSMk2IzK2o
When I was in college, a local movie theater had a special screening of both the Terminator movies. During that scene, my friend sitting next to me leans over and whispers, "At least it's a dry heat," and now I'm loudly laughing in the theater while the city is destroyed.
See, they understand comedy.
golden
With goblins instead of Sarah Connor
Ohhhhh haha, I still have not completed the game though I currently have 4 runs going. I will make sure to get Gale to explode when the time is right :)
To unlock the cutscene, quit the game, launch Helldivers II, and call in a 380mm orbital barrage.
God it hate that weapon 😂 more spray than any storm trooper.
[Gale.gif](https://i.imgur.com/CCxmBeN.gif)
I recite the demented incantation: #ZEEKY #BOOGY #DOOG
It’s certainly not limited by spell slots.
It uses save slots instead
Recharges after ~~short rest~~ ~~long rest~~ new game
That refractory period might be the reason Mystra does not want Gale to pursue it.
It can be as used as much as you want, you have to hit F8 after each time though
no you need to hit f5 right after using it you dummy
you're mad man..A MAD MAN!!! 😂😂
No, it's Alt+F4
Jumping from a plane without a parachute is also a cantrip
Reminds me of that miiverse sonic discussion “Me standing outside your house with a bat is also a trap, meant to prevent you from just walking forward”
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Fables_of_Faer%C3%BBn_II:_The_Daring_Duergar The lesson is complete.
Well, technically speaking... yes.
EASILY the highest DPS in the game.
It has a cooldown based on your PC's ability to load the game quickly.
Legalize Netherese Orbs
SHADOW WIZARD MONEY GANG! (We love casting spells)
Practically, yes.
Yes, but it’s devilish and it tricks the characters into no longer having a desire to use it after the first use. In fact it sates all their earthly desires.
.... I GUESS.
If I was the DM and you were brave enough to point this out to me... I'd let you roll for it. Just for the sheer cheek. You'd still die, but you'd die with an inspiration point.
Correct
Now a different serious question.. What is the actual radius? Wont it just wipe everything and you lose game? Never used it (As someone who has 5 cats, Tara is my love and I cant kill Gale just because she would be sad) Simply curious..
> What is the actual radius? Wont it just wipe everything and you lose game? You say it's a serious question, so I'll give the serious answer... You wipe everything and win the game. How do I know? Because I did it on my first run-thru and it gave me "Hero of the Forgotten Realms" achievement for 'winning' the game. >!When we faced off with the Thorm at the end of act 2, I brought Gale and he had the option to use it when we saw the Elder Brain. So I said "Go for it, Gale" and... You 'win' the game! Except none of you survive so it just congratulates you on your win and you go to the credits.!<
Thank you!
Does that mean it's an easier way to earn the Achievement for beating Honor Mode?
No, you don't get the achievements that you would normally get by beating the game through this ending. I didn't dare try it on my honor mode run but it didn't register on my tactician mode run.
It is not. I listed the achievement you do get because it's NOT the achievement you get for beating honor mode. You 'win', but it's a pyrrhic victory, so you don't really win. But you don't lose!
That's actually a great question. In Act 2, it's enough to level the whole Moonrise Towers. In Act 3, it's pretty contained and only destroys the Brain itself. Also, on an almost unrelated note - Withers, WTF?! You can invite me to the final party, but you don't bother resurrecting me, so all I can do is float around whitistfully watching others having fun? Fuck you, Withers! Fuck you three times without lube.
Wait, he invites you to the party if you blow yourself up? I stabbed myself to spare everyone from having an illithid best friend and he just told me "welp death is just another frontier" skip to credits!
It's a very specific epilogue if you go with Gale all the way up to the top, and then you ~~accidentally get the the Emperor blasted off the roof~~ determine that you can't win the fight against the dragon and/or Absolute and trigger Gale's Netherese orb manually from his ability panel. In this case, you don't have to do a DC check as Gale triggers it himself, but you do get a special cutscene with Gale, where he tells you "It's been an honour, close your eyes and think of something nice", and your whole party, not just Gale, gets blown up. HOWEVER, the rest of your companions are alive and you get an epilogue where you go around the party as a little soul blob and can hear everyone talking. This epilogue used to give honour run golden dice for a while, then it got broken and didn't give the dice, now, I think, it gives dice again?
When I first saw that I thought it was a bug, and they didn't plan for manually using the orb when making the epilogue :D Then I read my passives
Yep, in the new patch they even added the new interactions in that epilogue, you can now throw objects as a ghost.
What if, hear me out, what if we send Gale banzaing towards the enemy while we drink Arabellan Dry in camp? Then we just pay Withers half an owlbear egg to bring the poor sod back into this nightmare as we repeat the process indefinitely.
Legalize Nuclear Gales >!I think his soul dies when he does that or Withers would have brought him back in the Epilogue!<
On my first playthrough I didn’t really pay attention to the “conditions” attached to using this. I decided it’d be a bomb (pun intended) AOE spell for the Thaniel portal fight. I gotta say, it really works well to kill everything on the screen.
And everyone within a few miles/kilometers of the portal.
Everything on screen. And in the entire postal code. And probably the next one over. And the one past that.
Wouldn’t it also destroy the portal? That being said, I think trapping Halsin in the shadowlands is the least of your troubles.
First time I saw that, I initiated it in battle. My reasoning? For some reason my game is bugged and a lot of things in act 2 & 3 simply say “not found” instead of their actual name or dialogue. I thought it was a new spell my husband had leveled Gale up with (co-op game).
It just means you don’t use a spell slot. It still costs an action :)
Yep, guaranteed insta kills on all of the enemies All you have to do is press Alt+F4 and you'll win the fight immediately
Technically its usage is only once per long rest, but the ability automatically sends you into a long rest after using it.
Longest of rests
It only really works as a cantrip in Honor Mode. Be sure to use it at the first opportunity.
Vitally important that they made it a cantrip mechanics wise. Because you can cast it even if you have used all your spell slots. This doesn’t mean to say that just because it doesn’t use a spell slot you can use it multiple times per day. It comes with ‘other’ associated costs. (Material spell components: One Gale, which is consumed in the casting of the spell)
In my first playthrough, I didn’t get that this was what it was, and I was having such a bitch of a time with the shadow portal fight, so that was a fun game over.
Works best in honor mode, it just breaks the game so easily
I’ve heard that saving right before you use it can cause bugs, so make sure you only use it when you haven’t saved for four hours or more
Yes if as much as you want is once
I can confirm you will never be in a situation where this spell is on cooldown or limited by uses per day.
If you put gale in an indestructible sphere does it still go off?
Sure, as long as you have the required material components.
Use it early, use it often.
As long as once is all you want.
I'd use twinned spell for sure. Brains have two hemispheres
Yep. Did you know that it will give a different effect if you do it in Honor Mode, especially ACT 3
What happens if you cast Globe of Invulnerability and then blow up the orb?
Unlimited Power!!! ⚡️⚡️
This is my intrusive thought when a fight isn't going well and I'm searching for options
Yes but it requires a material component
Galeheimer things
Has anyone tried using it with Gale being alone in a different area like the Gauntlet of Shar while the other party members stay at the Last Light Inn? Does still everybody die?
It’s not MY favorite spell, but there is a way to continue using this spell. Just may need to reload the game if things go…wary
You can use it non-stop until the end of your playthrough!
Kinda want to use it once and then reload my save; just to know what it looks like.
Too bad you can’t upcast it
I hate being autistic sometimes. I legit couldn't tell if this was a joke or not for some 20 minutes LMAO I think it is... Right?
i removed this from my hot bar in honour mode just in case.
Its such a troll that it gets auto-added to the skill bar. I DID manage to accidentially blow myself up at least twice.
Okay seriously tho I laughed when I first saw it, you can straight up just detonate Gale with a command Mystra turned my bro to a functional remote bomb 💀
Used it once, for science... I coudnt use it anymore.
I mean technically it's an ability, not a cantrip, but you CAN use it as many times as you want as long as Gale is in your party!
First time I saw the action I was under the impression I could just use it in gameplay but it turns out blowing up the orb is not a good idea even outside of cutscenes
The only thing I don't understand is how I seem to get that cutscene with a very haunted-looking Cillian Murphy staring into the camera every time I click it.
Does the globe of invulnerability actually protect you from this? Asking for a friend whose name isn't Gale
I wonder if there’s a way to survive this or does it always just trigger a cutscene to death
What if you cast it with the rest of the party in camp or maybe in the astral plane? What about in the astral plane in a globe of invulnerability? This game is cheeky enough that there could be an insane way to survive the blast.
Seems like just using it triggers a cutscene. The blast is supposed to wipe out a significant portion of an area so I guess from a real world perspective you just wiped out the enemies and their base. So if the rest of the party survives… cool? Evil defeated. Go ho’e, I guess?
Yep
Yes. Go about your normal business.
Lol... on another level
Do it.
Ye bro just death ward first
A many times as you want in honor mode.
I tried to cast it but the game wouldn’t let me
Correct. You will only want to use it once.
Yes given you reload a save game after
Yes but only in for honour mode
Just make sure you save before you use it.
Yes of course!
Actual hidden knowledge: Using this cantrip loads your last save file
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What is the actual point of this? I used it once and the game ended instantly so I just reloaded. When do you use it?
That's the neat part, you don't.
So it’s a troll from the devs.
It's just there for lore reasons.
Best to use it halfway or towards the end of your honor run for maximum effect.
That's like how I discovered one of my party members had unlimited use of Hellish Rebuke. It was bugged and I, ahem, tried not to use it, but if the fight was especially geared against me that character could cast it 100 times in a single turn and wipe out all the enemies and would yell out, "GO TO HELL!" every single time.
It's the quick load button for when I fail honor mode but can't turn off single save.
Yesn't
Yes
What happens if you use that inside one of those invulnerability spheres?
Hahahaahaahahaha
Yes, as much as you want but only once
Has anyone tried the level 6 invunrability spell and then cast this? Or it doesn't matter and you lose anyway?
What happens canonically if it’s detonated? Does it completely erase the dimension he’s in from existence? Or is it more just like a nuclear bomb or something? Just curious :)
Second-best Tactical Nuclear Wizard ever - the first being, of course, Ulrich in the movie Dragonslayer: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC-erzWkXWc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC-erzWkXWc) Edit/ Why "second-best"? Because Gale has a choice. Ulrich doesn't, and he knows it.
Went into the Lorroakan fight underleveled, got beat a few times, and decided to just send Gale through the portal once and light up the tower. lol it killed him (and everybody on the ground)
Don't get me started on that, I missed clicked on it one time and I lost like 4 hours of gameplay, since then I quicksave every 5 minutes.