Which brings out an interesting question :
Could you go through the game with using JUST potions, barrels, food and scrolls? (if these were unlimited...). Ignore all class abilities. If yes...WTF Larian.
If you recall, I conducted a playthrough of act 1 a little while back (including the harder encounters), using nothing but shove and throw. It was very doable and uncomfortably more effective than previous plays I'd done with various classes. No class abilities or traits were ever needed... I literally removed all class abilities and spells entirely from my hot bars for the run... why, if I could use throwing potions as well, the entire *concept* of character classes just up and vanishes.
I had no idea you did that. Reminds me of my barbarian run where I did the same thing. No weapons at all. Just shove and throw using potions and resting - SOLO. No companions. I used rage, though. Can't believe you didn't even use class abilities. I got to the harpies and decided I'd had enough.
BTW, I still had like 10 healing potions by the harpies fight and I'd only long rested like once, maybe twice. I didn't die either, so it wasn't like I reloaded to keep going. If I had a full party of all shoving/throwing and potion throwing, I would have slaughtered the harpies. As it was, I almost beat them. The last one had like 5 HP before she killed me. The only reason she did was because the harpies AI has them constantly fly away and throw stones. So shove/throw doesn't work. Oh... Right... I ONLY picked up and threw enemies. Weapons were off limits.
