Can you Beat Baldur's Gate 3 with THE WORST ITEM IN THE GAME??

I thought a hardlock was when a game physically can't be played in it's current state, as in loading a save just makes the game crash.
A softlock is where you can keep playing but can't make progress, like doing a skip prevents a necessary boss from spawning.

I almost ended my honor mode playthrough because I accidentally equipped these on astarion then went to fight the harpies

Abyss Beckoners gloves, are pretty useless and harmful to your own teammates too.

“Winter’s clutches “ is op as f. And this item since it gives lightning charges it still have some uses with synergy other items. If you truly want a worst item run go and make the locket Arabella gives you, where everyone’ first choice to feed fake locket

It’s funny I recently got the helldusk armor, excited for it to be good, and it immediately got sent to camp. FED’s class gear mod is just too good.

I almost soloed Gortash in my first playthrough with Tempest Shart in these with the Sparkswall ring. She just kinda stood there in the water, and the enemies around Gortash all had their AI break for some reason, making them waste their turns and take damage repeatedly. All while Shart was casting max damage AOE lighting spells, tacking on more damage to the broken AI enemies

Oh, I actually used those boots extensively on my first playthrough as a storm sorcerer. I thought they were quite useful, actually. There are many ways to make the ground wet outside of castling spells. But yeah, I probably wouldn't use the boots as my main form of damage lol just as I wouldn't use.. any... non-weapons as my main source of damage

One time I was dumb enough to equip them to one of my companions, and I'm pretty sure it dealt mote damage to me and my allies than the enemies. Nevermind all the times it could hurt NPCs and aggro them (thankfully Larian changed that interaction to not agro NPCs anymore)
AND YOU CAN'T EVEN TURN OFF THIS PASSIVE

I think you could use atrophy from shadow on Myrkul by putting him in globe of invulnerability

Worst item? This boots? Someone never heard about tempest cleric

there's a ring in Lenore's tower that gives you immunity to beeing electrified, those two items with a tempest build cleric sorcerer are huge. But I get it, it's your opinion.

Haha I love the monk bonus action attack loophole. Very nice.

I tried to turn Gale into a lightning wizard, incorporating everything that mentions lightning charges. I think I got to the Moonrise jailbreak before changing my mind on that idea.

I really admire the work you did for this video and the amount of time it took. You really love bg 3, no doubt. I definitely subscribe and wait for a new one. Also, you definitely need to get a better mic 😀 thank you

I like the Waterspark boots :(

I actually used these boots on a tempest cleric with lightning invulnerability. It ended up making them decent at least.

Why is it the rune powder bomb never leaves your inventory when you barter?

I definitely thought this was going the way of the poop knife

Hell yeah dude

Glad to see Bouch’s successor at work, great video!

…I’ve used these on almost every playthrough with the weapon you get from counselor florrick in act 1 for a lightning build with massive success. There really are a million ways to play this game

This is the most masochistic community I have seen.

Love it.

"Lae'zel decides to go to Lae'Hell" That caught me way more off-guard than it had any business doing

putting winters clutches as an option for worst item is crazy you must know something i dont

Nightsong easily solos Myrkul if you just give her ALL the buffs.

Liked, commented and subscribed for the algorithm and the ballsyness

I've always used watersparklers in the early game to get lightning charges for a magic missile build

I only used these boots once in my 6 playthroughs and that was in the early and middle game on Gale (he was a lightning charges sorcerer) who was my "fifth" party member (as in I had him accompany me from time to time instead of Will). My main party had way better boots... Normally Gale just gets to munch on them.

I would argue the artefact is the weakest Item.
Also heavy stone.

good video. i noticed your mic sounds a little off, it sounds better in your other videos. did you add a thick pop filter or buy a new one?

Ooooop… Nope actually I used the watersparkers on a lightning dragon sorcerer build combined with the wavemother’s robes
It got useful a ton of times

Remember: Standing still protects you from electricity. It's science.

Winter's Clutches i use for my whole ass Frost damage build in Act 1 until Act 2 where you get the ColdBrim Hat from the chest behind Balthazar's bookcase...If thats where you find it if i remembering it correctly.

Your boots had seen everything. It's quite iconic that they were inadvertently lost in the end of your adventure.

The Winter's Clutches are actually quite useful, especially when combined with the Coldbrim Hat (for additional Encrusted With Frost) and other condition-based gear and the Snowburst Ring (ice surfaces are overpowered). Anything that can deal cold damage becomes ridiculously good with the right set of equipment, even a Path of the Giants barbarian using the cold-damage Elemental Cleaver ability.

That'd still be a soft lock. A soft lock is due to game logic, a hard lock is due to software logic (eg., a non terminating loop, a deadlock)

I actually use those boots unironically in my only playthrough that got to the end. 8 levels of draconic sorcerer (lightning), 2 levels of tempest cleric, and 2 levels of evocation wizard. I would have never thought people believe these boots to be the worst in the game.😅

you are TRULY a legend, dude. i love all of these challenge runs. you, Morgana Evelyn, and Bouch are incredible. I want to try out some of these challenges to see if I can beat them too. thanks for the amazing content and all your hard work! also, I felt the unadulterated glee when you FINALLY defeated Myrkul after 190 combat rounds. that was the cry of a man who has been through too much BS with that boss lol.

I had no idea people hated those boots, throwing a bottle of water next to Karlach after changed into battle with far too many foes was excellent fun.

This feels like an item that was designed expecting this game to have more of Divinity's level of terrain-based damage. These could be useful in that game, possibly. Maybe. You can create a shitton of water surfaces in that game, for one thing... Blood can also be electrified in Divinity, stopping the blood surface problems... Etc, etc, etc. But in DnD's context they're worthless. These are in the wrong game. That's all it is.
Also you're a lunatic.

Wrong, you didn’t choose rope

how are you stealing like that

I never considered these boots bad, just abused the knockback from tempest cleric.

Idk that ring of color spray is pretty darn bad

I always liked these boots. I'd use it with a storm sorcerer or tempest cleric in combination with the ring that grants lightning resistance. I didn't use a bunch of spell slots, I used water bottles or water barrels. It was fun.