I'm not very good at using spell scrolls in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur's Gate 3. I'm a warlock myself, so I always have access to my trusty Eldritch Blast, and there's also Vampiric Touch for when I'm at close quarters - I'm no slouch with a rapier either if I'm dragged into battle, and have Counterspell and Hellish Rebuke lined up to use against other spellcasters. I always have at least one of Gale or Shadowheart with me too for huge AoE spells, and I have boots that grant Feather Fall and use Beast Speech for Speak With Animals, so I'm well covered.
But up against Act 2's final boss, I found myself in a bit of a jam, with Karlach too far from the action. Thankfully, Karlach is also my packhorse, so she had a load of spell scrolls. They weren't all gems, but a Guiding Bolt here, an Acid Arrow there, and Karlach could rescue the prisoner while still dealing big damage until she got close enough to hit the boss over and over again with her shiny metal axe. It made me realise that spell scrolls have more value than I gave them credit for, and that's how I ended up digging through cow shit for one.
At the start of Act 3 - no spoilers, aside from a minor meeting with a cow - you can have a minor meeting with a cow. Go into a barn by the side of the road, and it's just standing there. However, with my Speak With Animals ability, I can discover it is no ordinary cow, with no ordinary cow thoughts. I agree to help it, and then my successful Survival roll (actually Karlach's, but we're all friends here) reveals that there's a pile of dirt in the corner. Sure. 'Dirt'.
Finding mounds of mud is pretty common in Faerun. I always have my shovel to dig whatever we find up, and think of the big pile of soil as being representative of spotting something underground, or noticing something is off with the terrain. It can't really be a massive lump of dirt as the game shows it, otherwise we wouldn't be rolling for it. It needs to be something only a master tracker would spot, right? Spot or, apparently, smell.
The rest of the barn is completely flat. It is sealed off, as the not-cow is hiding from the world. There is one, discreetly hidden, mound in the corner. I think we all know what's happening here. However, disgusting as it is, digging in this cow shit is worth it. These hidden chests are randomised to an extent (fellow save scummers may have already learned this), and thanks to wanting to see the scene after the cow play out in multiple ways, that meant I had to dig through cow shit again and again.
At this point you might be thinking 'are you some kinda weirdo who likes to dig through cow shit?', and first part yes, second part no. The spell in question is Disintegrate, which does a minimum of 50 damage and a maximum of 100. It's a table turner of a spell. First time around, I dug out Disintegrate. Go off to chat somewhere else, get a funny scenario and want to play the other options out, reload. Chat to cow, dig through shit... no Disintegrate.
Instead, it's Cloudkill. Also a 'Very Rare' spell, Cloudkill does between 5-40 damage, but it does it each turn, does AoE so can hit multiple targets, and the cloud it produces can be moved. All things considered, it's probably an even better spell. But I just feel like it's sneaky little oddballs with dandruff who use poison attacks, and sexy warlocks do force damage. So I reloaded. I dug through shit. Cloudkill. I reloaded. I dug through shit. Cloudkill. I reloaded. I dug through shit - pure shit! Cloudkill. At that point I gave up on Disintegrate and accepted Cloudkill into my stinking, bleeding hands. The universe was telling me that Cloudkill was the spell to use.
Safely transferred to Karlach, I left the barn and hoped the cow - who I still agreed to assist each time - wasn't going to bring up that I kept clawing through its faeces until I found something suitably stinky. Baldur's Gate 3 rewards you for searching far and wide (even punishing you if you stay on the straight and narrow), but finding a game changing spell inside a heap of dung was maybe a little too encouraging of this sort of depravity.