Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Build Discussion Shattered Flail "situational use" all the time

Have a mod where I can play a skeleton. For fun rp reasons I chose to run as the stereotypical skeleton sword-and-board, and not the usual big 2-hander. So my equipment game instead revolves around the best 1-handers I can find.

I also run pseudo-solo, where Shadowheart (shield of faith) and mage/Gale (haste) buff me then hide away well from the fight.

But that design allows me to use the shattered flail from the kobold Flynn. It heals a d6 whenever you hit, but you can go mad and start attacking anyone nearby.

...which is only the bad guys. It's too bad I can't make that a toggle switch between random and always, and be the true skeleton of innumerable myths. I suppose I could let "me" go on autopilot in fights.

I'm Ray Harryhausening the mofo out of this!


Wait! Better mod -- Make him (or her) run around as if such an animation.

Perhaps something like the Spells Enhanced - Crown of Madness mod might be worth looking into?

Making Crown of Madness have no concentration or save means you can just cast it on yourself and go auto-pilot for 10 turns (Also, opens up more weapon options than just flail)

Honestly, could make for a funny Zerker build. Enrage, go mad, then start swinging and hope everyone else falls before you do.

I found an autoplay mod, a spell-like icon toggle. It's pretty cool, but also illuminating as to the AI.

It will carefully line up any aoe or cone, barely missing any colleagues. But it stops using that most of the time when the number it can catch is small, for some definition of small.

It also starts a modified round robin type thing. The one thing it does not do is focus down one at a time, unless it's almost dead.

Lucky you, as human I cannot even beat rudimentary AI. This is also why taunt exists, which is about as damning an indictment as to the ability of humans to win fights fair up.






It will win fights, but tougher fights it's pottering around way too much. I sometimes sigh and