Not really a specific tip, but for the love of god don't play a Wild Magic Sorcerer in Honor Mode unless your idea of a fun time is Russian Roulette.
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More like russian Bulette. Amirite?
At the Last Light Inn in Act II, before you speak to Isobel and trigger her attempted kidnapping, make sure to use Arcane Lock on all the doors you can (usually all but one of them) to prevent more enemies from flooding her room.
I don't even trigger her at all. That fight can be fucking cancer at higher difficulties. What I do is make sure I enter the shadow cursed lands from the mountain pass. that puts me near the drider's group and I just slaughter them and free the pixie. Then I never have to talk to Isobel and that fight never gets triggered. They even made a specific scene for this scenario if you go back to the Last Light after freeing nightsong and never having met Isobel.
I am continuously floored by the sheer amount of options they put in for how you could handle quests. After decades of games that just spit a Game Over at you when you do a quest wrong, having a game that's just like "lol game isn't over, it's just harder now" is so refreshing.
It's so great. For every problem they have put in at least three ways of solving it and two or more they didn't even think of themselves.
When you are at the brain stem leading to the final fight if you have Gale in your party you can skip the entire final fight. Just send Gale up alone and he will confront the brain by himself leaving everyone else alive. This kills Gale so if he is your husbando you have a tough decision to make.
Tough decisions are for after you've gotten the golden d20. My current run though I'm mercenary as hell. I ate all the worms even the astral worm with gusto. I'll be a mind flayer, murder Isobel, whatever. I might let the hag eat Vanya to have her as an ally in the final fight.
The only things I haven't done are the ones that relied on dice rolls that I failed. I gave up the hag bonus the first time in favor of keeping Marina alive, but I also couldn't think of a stat that could really benefit. I almost took it so that my charisma could stay 8 with the smuggler's ring but ultimately decided that wasn't worth letting Ethel have her.
I lucked out with the zathisk and book of Thay. Misclicks are the worst. "Hey bro, what's up? Whoa! I didn't mean to touch the carrot! [Deception] Oh I already had that on me. [Critical Failure]." A short combat later. "Fuck!"
Wow I struggled a lot on normal, definitely using some of these tips! Have you beaten honor mode?
I have not. I'm currently in the middle of act 3 in honor mode on one playthrough and middle of act 2 in another on tactician because I want to try something in tactician before I try it in honor so I don't bork my honor mode save. But I've beaten the game multiple times on tactician now and have about 620 hours in game.
Would sacrificing gale count as a win and grant the golden dice in honor mode?
I'm going to assume yes only because it worked for my tactician trophy. I will update you by the end of the week as I plan on having my run done by then.
Well I finished up Honor mode a few days later than I thought. But I did find out that sending Gale up the stem at the end does skip the final fight and still rewards the golden dice. Good luck!
Thanks for reporting back!