Dungeons and Dragons followers might argue ceaselessly about which spell is the worst within the recreation, however it’s typically agreed that True Strike is a contender. The cantrip grants the caster a bonus on their subsequent assault roll, that means you sacrifice your present flip for a greater likelihood of hitting your goal within the following spherical.
In concept, it poses an fascinating tactical quandary. In follow, there are simply too many various makes use of for a flip to make casting True Strike worthwhile. You could possibly forged it with a bonus motion by way of one thing just like the Sorcerer’s quickened spell, however even you then’d be higher off casting virtually anything.In different phrases, True Strike is virtually ineffective, which made it inevitable that some intelligent clogs would attempt to full Baldur’s Gate 3 with it.
Enter Fracture, a gaming YouTuber who has tried to finish Baldur’s Gate 3 with many ridiculous self-imposed restrictions, like taking part in by the sport at stage one or with out taking an extended relaxation. His newest run is by far probably the most excessive, nonetheless, as not solely does he restrict himself to solely utilizing True Strike, he additionally units the sport to Honour Mode. So if he dies, it is recreation over.
As reported by GamesRadar, Fracture makes clear he is not utilizing any intelligent workarounds to cope with enemies and different issues posed by the sport. “I did not use explosives. There have been no necrotic corpse shenanigans. I did not assault my enemies or use weapon particular skills that deal harm. There have been no offensive spells of any sort, aside from the omnipotent, unstoppable True Strike.”
With solely True Strike handy, Fracture cannot beat enemies by fight (at the least, not initially) so to progress by the early a part of the sport, he makes use of stealth and the Disguise Self spell to entry dialogue choices from different races.
This allows him to sneak and bluff his option to the mage’s tower within the Underdark, the place he picks up the Boots of Stormy Clamour, which add Reverberation to an enemy when he inflicts a situation on them (reminiscent of True Strike). When Reverberation stacks 4 occasions, it offers 1-4 harm, permitting the worst spell within the recreation to deal a piddly quantity of injury, equal to a single casting of the Vicious Mockery cantrip. Little doubt Gortash is quaking in his boots.
That is such a meagre quantity of injury that it will take Fracture far longer to kill most enemies earlier than they killed him. His answer is to implement a wide range of methods to minimise harm taken, reminiscent of Arcane Ward—which decreases harm dealt to the character primarily based on the variety of stacks you might have equal to his Wizard stage. Utilizing these methods, he makes his character just about indestructible.
This does not do something to make fight any much less grindy, nonetheless. Certainly, Fracture casts True Strike over 2,000 occasions all through the run, spending dozens of turns beating bosses like Myrkul and Orin utilizing simply this cantrip (although he decides towards preventing Raphael).
Remarkably, Fracture does handle to finish the sport. He does not draw any conclusions in regards to the high quality of his expertise—although given what number of fight eventualities he fast-forwards by within the video, I do not assume he’d advocate it. He does have one thing to say about DnD’s much-maligned spell on the finish, although: “It is official, True Strike is the perfect cantrip within the recreation.”
That is removed from the one weird approach gamers have managed to finish Baldur’s Gate 3. Lower than a fortnight in the past, YouTuber Proxy Gate Tactician accomplished the sport whereas taking part in completely as a celebration of cats. The subsequent problem, clearly, is to finish the sport as a celebration of cats whereas solely casting True Strike. I might say I am fairly certain that is inconceivable, however these are harmful phrases to utter once you’re speaking about Baldur’s Gate 3.