Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Hill Giant Strength Potions

You start playing around with the hill stuff and before you know it, you're into the clouds. There ain't no coming back from that. Do you even lift, bro? Did you beat the Absolute, or was it the juice?

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It was always my position that the strength potions were too much, but I recall another poster continually commenting that they weren't overpowered or too abundant, and besides, even if they were, they were too prohibitively expensive for anyone to use repeatedly.

Cut to: it's the source of the most popular broken builds in the game.

Dumb as bricks.

Did you ever figure out how much they cost, by the way?

What do you mean? I never had problems "figuring it out".
It's just that the price changes according to the cahracter's stats, difficutly level AND patch version.

What never changes is the whole thing being a fake issue.

Weird. Having played through all the patches, difficulty levels and stat spreads, I never noticed the price climbing anywhere near as high, but yeah, must've been one of those old patches we can't verify anymore. I see.

As for a fake issue, maybe that word's being lost in translation. As an idiomatic speaker of the English language, I'm not sure it means the same thing to me. I would call this a *real* issue. The potions are so prevalent that, again, it's literally the source of many of the most popular broken builds in the game. In fact, there are videos all over the place with builds based on drinking daily doses of strength elixirs.

As a matter of fact, I was just watching a Luality build guide where she outlined three builds. Two of which were entirely reliant on drinking strength elixirs.

Ah yes, the "now conveniently unverifiable" patches that you refused to check back then, when I pointed the fact multiple times and it was STILL verifiable.

And about Luality I guess being fundamentally clueless about metagaming is not your exclusive, apparently.
Otherwise they'd be aware than there's far better uses for elixir slots that getting a semi-permanent +1 at a bunch of gold per-pop.

I use my STR elixirs as throway crap on clerics and similar (when I do use them at all) because if I'm really invested into min maxing, any dedicated melee is FAR better off with Bloodlust or similar.
Stuff that gives you unique advantages on the action economy, rather than a bonus I can get in several other ways (itemization included).