Honour Mode can make into a complete nightmare, but there's one method that can surprisingly circumvent its most challenging limitation. Originally implemented as a feature in the games from developer Larian Studios, Honour Mode ramps up the difficulty of a campaign by turning it into an Ironman run, where a total party kill means game over. It also tweaks the challenge in a variety of subtler ways, like giving bosses Legendary Actions inspired by tabletop that let them interrupt the turn order for extra maneuvers.
Baldur's Gate 3 Player Finds Way To Cheese Honour Mode
07.01.2024 - 15:55 / thegamer.com / Honour Mode
Baldur's Gate 3 recently added a new difficulty called Honour Mode, which is basically an amped-up Tacticain that makes death permanent. You can't roll back saves, so you have to go with the punches. Only 0.1 percent of people have managed to conquer it so far, but one player has found a cheesy strategy to make it a bit easier.
"Is everyone else cheating at Honour Mode?" jcarney231 asked on the game's subreddit. "I've seen a few threads with the wild ways people died in Honour Mode and was wondering if I'm the only one cheating? I've been adventuring with three party members and leaving the fourth in a safe location. If the other three wipe, you just rez them back at camp. I keep going back and forth between a max persuasion character who just stands next to a shop NPC and a druid who only knows Goodberry."
It's deceptively simple. If you have a fourth party member far away, out of danger, then you can't die. If everyone kicks the bucket, you can just bring them back, avoiding the permanent nature Honour Mode brings to death. The only downside is that it means fighting battles with only three people, which on Tactician and higher is a much, much more difficult task. But if you throw barrelmancy into the mix and blow everything up, it evens out a bit.
Another option that's a little easier than barrelmancy is SquireRazma's Hirelings tactic.
"Hire three Hirelings and turn them and Gale into life clerics with as much constitution as possible. Take Heavy Armour Master at level four and give them heavy armour (with Tough at level eight, and +2 Con at level 12). Then after every long rest take them one at a time and have them cast Warding Bond on the rest of the party, as well as Freedom of Movement, Death Ward, Aid, and Heroes Feast when they become available. For extra silliness, respec someone else you don't use to wizard and have them cast Longstrider every day on your main party."
The end result is four unbelievably tanky adventurers taking hit after hit like it's nothing. Keep one away from the punches and you've got yourself an easy way to handle Honour Mode, even if - as some people in the comments point out - it defeats the spirit of the difficulty.
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