Some of the best skills in RPGs aren’t earned until you’re near max level and ascended to godhood, casting Ultima, Summon Meteor, and other fire and fury blasts. In some cases, the skill that starts at level 1 is the best skill. In Divinity: Original Sin 2, that skill was Chicken Claw, and I’m curious to know if Baldur’s Gate 3 has an equivalent skill.
I spent 104 hours playing Divinity: The Original Sin 2 as a polymorph warrior with a literal demon inside. My default role in combat was as an enhanced damage sponge. The Polymorph class is meant to mod your body in weird ways. I regularly used his Tentacle Lash and Bull Rush in starter skills to temporarily gain the power of octopuses and bulls to slap and ram enemies. However, they were set to match Polymorph’s best skills and were just as strong at level 20 as they were at level 1. Chicken Claw turns enemies with no physical armor into defenseless, unskilled chickens for the entire round. It’s just a bird.
Chicken Claw was a great equalizer, a way to take powerful enemies out of action while I held my breath, or let my team accumulate damage while weakened. It was also consistently funny. Archer, who pissed you off? chicken now. A giant, scary alligator? chickened. final boss? No immunity – chicken.
Chicken Claw is even better when you have a friendly rogue in your party. You can cast Ruptured Tendon that deals damage every time an enemy moves, and the chicken will run around uncontrollably. I was laughing the entire time until I won. This strategy was very popular in his 2017.
Divinity: Original Sin 2 was full of great writing and clever quests, but it was also ridiculously goofy, which I hope Larian can save with Baldur’s Gate 3. Literally, that game has a quest called Counting Your Chickens, featuring a chicken named Big Marge who can speak. It’s also a rare quest that culminates in a brutal battle against an entire army of demonic chicks that makes you laugh and laugh with you. and you. Original Sin 2 always loved to turn the tables.
Given the much-talked-about Druid Bear sex scenes in Baldur’s Gate 3 (such as the observing squirrel spitting), Larian’s writers clearly still have a sense of humor. But to what extent does that stupidity show up in combat? More specifically, can you turn your enemies into chickens? Rat? rock? I can handle any attack, and the results are enough to point at Nelson and laugh.
My experience with the Dungeons & Dragons podcast tells me that all sorts of silly deeds should always be possible, but Larian just doesn’t have the same flexibility as a few people sitting around a mic trying to make each other laugh. PC Gamer’s Baldur’s Gate avid Ted Litchfield says D&D is “a bit more solid” than his Divinity’s silly Rivellon, but there’s still the potential for hoaxes.
But there is hope. Polymorph skills existed in Dungeons & Dragons and in the original Baldur’s Gate game. At the time, BioWare decided to split this spell into Polymorph Other and Polymorph Self. This was a wise distinction. You don’t want to accidentally turn around. yourself Wouldn’t you turn into a chicken in the middle of a fight? At least one CRPG blogger I really appreciate the old Polymorph Self.
“Use Case: Cast a web, transition into a swordspider, burrow into a web, and tear immobile victims into new assholes. Rank: Highest.”
Polymorph Others, on the other hand, turned their enemies into squirrels, so they considered them “divine”.now that is what i am talking about. Still, somehow it’s a little less embarrassing than chickens.perhaps that explains why This 10 year old forum thread Regarding Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced Edition, several contributors agree that it should also be possible to turn enemies into chickens. It’s not just me!
Now, back on topic, is polymorph in Baldur’s Gate 3? If so, what animal can you turn yourself and others into? If it’s still a squirrel, it could add a whole new layer to the druid bear sex scene…
Polymorph isn’t among the spells available in Early Access, but Larian said Baldur’s Gate 3 has “over 600 spells and actions,” leaving plenty of room for little animal pranks.if no Optional, but I really don’t know how I can goof around properly.
From what we’ve seen, barbarians might have the most fun in combat thanks to their improvised weapon skills. With this skill, you can throw anything lying around at someone’s face, or use small enemies such as goblins as unwilling projectiles. If anyone mods the bowling pin sound effects, I’d be more than happy to. The bard has a skill called “word cutting” that causes real-life audio-recorded insults. This is certainly silly, but not the kind of silly I’m looking for. I don’t want to do stand-up comedy in the middle of a fight. I want poultry power.
Without this particular power fantasy, I’m looking forward to seeing the most broken builds and exploits to come out of Baldur’s Gate 3 once the full game is available.Arise, brave freaks, fearless barrel mancerAnd it proves that the all-limitless spirit of divinity is still at the heart of Larian’s most cinematic RPG yet.
