Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Fextralife - Dark Urge/Monk Deep Dive Video - *Spoilers*

Like yesterday I can't currently see the video but based on his other videos it will be very detailed, contain lots of new information and be full of spoilers.

At 5:59, you can see that the monk has 3 KI points.
He is level 2, which can be confirmed by the hitpoints he, and the companions have (17).

So that is more than he would have in tabletop. I think they doubled the amount of KI points to two times the monk level per short rest, which would be quite a big power boost.

With three short rests (Bard), that would give you 96 KI points per long rest at level 12.
So 96 attempts at stunning strike etc.
Quite strong!

Monk weapons are now everything you have proficiency in, so you can use Greatswords with monks (and GWM?), so a lot more magic item options for them too

I like monks now, they will have a big niche as "boss killers", with high movement speed, and a good chance that you will stun the boss with one of your attacks, so that your other companions can get a couple "free" rounds which should be enough to kill most bosses

This item is only available through the DU playthrough apparently. It's a kind of quest item tied to that origin.

Blackheifer and broken Youtube tags. Name a more iconic duo.

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What I am getting from this video is the idea that evil can be heroic and can even make the world a better place. This makes sense if you consider the motivations behind Bhaal at this point and the Dark Urge.

If you are an Avatar of the Lord of Murder then it's in your best interest to stop The Absolute and wipe them from the face of Faerun. Will that process be bloodier than it otherwise might have been? Hell...yes!

Will it markedly make the world a better place? Also yes. Furthermore, the desire for vengeance on those that hurt and enslaved you will be such that you likely will never stop hunting and killing them, including Mind Flayers. This will result in a net improvement in the world. Murder, like greed, is good.

That you can turn the DU's instincts on your enemies is awesome.

Wait, how is it broken? What needs fixed?

There you go, fixed it for you When the correct link is popped in the tags it appears smaller in preview rather than taking up a massive amount of screen, and you don't actually see the "video" tags appear on your post. I think you were missing the "watch?v=" bit of the hyperlink that the tags seem to need to process correctly. At least, that was the change I made to get it displaying properly.

Druonk Build viable???

Ah, I probably don't need to use the full editor yahoo video pre-tag thing. Just put the link in.

Thank you for that.

More very interesting stuff.

Of course, despite all the very exciting Durge (I think that was Zerubabbel's coinage - I like it!) stuff and monk stuff, my main takeaway was "ooh, look at that expanded toobar"

I stole Durge from someone else on here but I can’t remember who…
Come and get your credit Durge-coiner!

One more thing, at about 12:12, Halsin as bear dashes and I don't think there's a big build up to it. The fact dash animations took so long was an, admittedly relatively minor, bugbear of mine in EA. Dare I hope that might have been changed?

There is allready topic for this video:

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=862199&nt=3&page=1

And im quite sure i have seen one more, that starts with spoiler.

//Edit:
Oh yes ... here:

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=862204#Post862204

Can we merge them together?

Cheers, Ragnarok. I've merged the two just talking about the vid generally (even though they now read a bit oddly, but oh well!). The other seems specifically talking about the merits of Tav vs Durge rather than the vid generally, which I think is a substantial topic in its own right, so I'll leave that separate for now.

I think "Durge" came from someone whose name starts with an F an also has a y in it, but that's as good as I am with names. They said they got from somewhere off-forum

Fylimar get over here!

So ...

Any proficient weapon counts as Monk weapon ...
That seems a bit weird, doesnt it?

It gives a human monk a bit of a lift with their proficiency in pole arms.
It gives a multi-classed monks a huge lift if the other classes can wield Great Weapons.