Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Best armor and wear to get it (Warning, Spoilers)

Nicely explained, a good guide. It's EA and in the release there may be more to be seen, hopefully.

I don't feel under-equipped however, as most fights are relatively easy, except the Gith fight (with lvl 4 I lose almost ever, except being very lucky; with lvl 5 it's a guaranteed win, thankfully) and the first time Auntie Ethel fight. Your Gnolls I don't see as a big problem. As they are shown as hostile I'm allowed (house rules) to start the fight from stealth, that makes it easier. The mean 3-shot-attack can kill chars indeed, but I never lost a whole fight against them (in my formalized level path the Gnolls are at lvl 3, after the Blighted Village and before Anders).

My biggest complaint about armor is about the visuals, except Gith armor all look boring, but that's perhaps a DnD problem. I'm using Basket Full of Equipment mod (the only mod I use) to have more armor and clothing variants, especially because I don't like pants. My Barbarian for example is wearing a loincloth-like "armor" (showing a lot of skin, hehe) as the ingame barbarian stuff is (ugh), especially for males. All armors from the mod are robes with 13 AC and a squad heal spell attached, that's bad but in itself moddable. I removed the attached spell and changed all the armors I use to the normal ingame stats, so my loincloith has 10 AC.

Concerning the general armor stats, for me the DnD system is partly a big failure, heavy armor is too weak compared to medium armor, armor has not enough disadvantages and shields are much too weak, there is such a bias pro twohanded in the game, sad.

BTW a remark to Lae'zel and her armor, from the lore. For me it is impossible to take the armor from her and give it to others, especially not Shadowheart (both hate each other, I think). I think Lae'zel would not allow it, so you had to kill her. People who kill possible companions because of armor ...? I would not want to be near such persons and I don't think most companions would. So Shadowheart get's Gith armor after the Gith fight, she looks good in it.