BG3 Any% tac (no gale) v.5

Any% (no Gale / all acts) tactician
Thanks to MrOgam & imTayl and the CRPG Speedrun Discord for the video references and tech!

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCu9ZXvOadY


Character Creation:
Custom origin
Deep Gnome or Lightfoot Halfling Wizard
Cantrips: Ray of Frost, and whatever
Spells: Witch Bolt, Fog, Leap, Featherfall, Chrome Orb, whatever
Soldier background
Stats: 17 Str, 16 Dex, 10 Con, 14 Int, 8 Wis, 8 Cha
Prepare: Leap, Orb, Featherfall

Nautiloid:
https://youtu.be/cCu9ZXvOadY?si=41ai2CovquswmPub&t=77

Fast Nautiloid https://www.speedrun.com/baldurs_gate_3/guides/tab7v
With triple dash(dash, enter turn based, dash, jump, second jump to the platform and cs skip with RMB, dash in combat, jump at the end to transponder). Make sure you’re standing on the small “hill” when you start your first jump as gnome/halfling.

Act 1:
https://youtu.be/cCu9ZXvOadY?si=4OBx_YOZp0NvOAXZ&t=138

Setup node for Fling to High Road
Buff jump
To Shadowheart pick up barrel on the way, recruit and kill her
Loot and pick up Shadowheart
To camp, pick up water at Shadowheart’s camp
Pick up box and Shadowbox (Cast Chrom Orb: Fire, drop box in fire puddle, enter turn based, open box and move it while opening)
Long rest/Leave camp as Shadowheart
Go to High Road
Talk to Raph, Withers and grab water
Undead encounter skip with fog
To act 2

Act 2:
https://youtu.be/cCu9ZXvOadY?si=NRd1iOyznzwpKmMn&t=370

Setup Infinite Status on Tav(Kill Tav, turn based on, pick up Tav, turn based off, drop and revive) and rebuff both characters
Jump down towards Absolute camp with Shadowheart
Talk to Orc and spam 1 to summon Drider
Quicksave!
Cast Command:Drop with Shadowheart(prepare it first) on Drider(45% and 2 tries, if it fails reload)
Grab Moonlantern and release pixie
Send Shadowheart to camp
Towards Road to BG WP, dodge the fountain encounter!
North around House of Healing, sneak jump over Raphael and enter mausoleum
Painting puzzle: left, right, back

Temple of Shar:
https://youtu.be/cCu9ZXvOadY?si=ZjKuBvEo3gbfp3lS&t=685

Brute force orb puzzle with jump
Gauntlet skip to Edge of Shadows WP
As Tav sneak jump over skeleton trigger and jump down to library
Library with fog and barrel clip
Descend to Shadowfell, switch to Tav and WP to Road to BG
Trigger Road to Baldur’s Gate cutscene and switch to Shadowheart
Move all items to Shadowheart and descend into the Shadowfell
Trigger Tav scene and “continue forward”
Jump to Oubliette, level up Tav (Spells,whatever, prepare Witchbolt + jump/feather)
Rebuff Featherfall
Oubliette sequence break
East towards Ketheric trigger door cutscene
Switch to Shadowheart,
Level up: Multiclass wizard and use fog to bait Balthazar to the edge then steal haste pot from him, quicksave and push him down
Trigger Nightsong cutscene, skip till Nightsong death and back to Tav to enter boss room
Ketheric with infinite witch bolts
Avatar of Myrkul with water + witch bolts
Loot ketheric + exit oubliette

Act2 ending:
https://youtu.be/cCu9ZXvOadY?si=t5mw4epONv1yskZU&t=1478

Talk to Wulbren and finish quest for reskill money
Exit moonrise north and WP to Road
Walk towards exit , switch to Shadowheart
Leave Shadowfell sneaking, WP to Road to BG, kill Tav then proceed
Recruit Jaheira and switch to her, jump to Withers to reskill

Fighter
Str 17, Dex 16, Const 15, dump rest
Level 3 Eldritch Knight + ray of frost cantrip, leap
Level 4 19 Str, switch spell for jump
Level 6 Alert
Level 7 whatever
Level 8 Athlete 1Str + Invisibility

Level up Tav (Misty Step, Invis and Alert feat)
Equip boots on Jaheira, spear on Tav
Long rest, as Jaheira dash, jump and enter portal
Kidnap Tav as Jaheira then go south around the Gith, loot void bulb
Buff dash on both Tav and Jaheira and drink haste pot on Jaheira before triggering cutscene(can use turn based)
Gith Fight 1 turn:
As Tav jump around to grab the void bulb and bulb the upper Gith down.
As Jaheira bulb 3 Gith towards the chasm, throw them down(can use improvised melee cancel to reposition them without using actions), jump up towards the last Gith and throw them into the chasm.
Talk to emperor
Leave + long rest


Act 3:
https://youtu.be/cCu9ZXvOadY?si=fFWd759xa10CPmb6&t=2078

Jump with Jaheira towards South Span Checkpoint
Rebuff before Steel Watcher with Invis + Feather/Jump
Over the roofs towards Wyrm Rock balcony, open doors then enter coronation ceremony
Gortash coronation cutscene
Kidnap Gortash!
Loot stone and to lower city


Lower City:
https://youtu.be/cCu9ZXvOadY?si=B_qEyFQjp-FLy1i5&t=2295

Switch to Tav
Jump west over the rooftops to firework shop
Sell Ketheric’s stuff buy all fireworks
use Darkness to loot around 55 fireworks from ground floor and cellar if necessary,
Jump west and north to sewer entrance
Jump northwest through the door towards Temple of Baal, grab a box on the way
Use artefact when Jenna runs towards you to skip her trigger
Shoot the hanging body with ray of frost, go towards baal temple
Skip gauntlet with invis
Go to temple WP
Switch to Jaheira,go to Temple of Baal WP and continue towards morphic pools
Misty Step through the big door to enter the ritual room and jump rowards Jenna(Quicksave!), turn on non lethal attacks and hit her
Activate turn based and hit her again if first one fails
Continue towards morphic pools with Jaheira: Use shadow teleport + jumps and grab barrel on the way
Turn base through rats and hit the skiff trigger


Morphic Pools:
https://youtu.be/cCu9ZXvOadY?si=dJWRwTisibeCFyyH&t=3054

Kill and put Shadowheart in the barrel
Morphic pools skip:  jumps towards northwest
Jump towards brain
Morphic cutscene skip with Shadowheart barrel(fling barrel in trigger area, destroy barrel, trigger cutscene)
Go to Orpheus in prism
Get turned into a mind flayer, stab emperor and leave the astral plane

Endgame:
https://youtu.be/cCu9ZXvOadY?si=oCiANOmjZLxl7R4O&t=3054

Jump with Jaheira in chasm
Jump northeast towards trader
((Buy smoke bombs for safety))
Buff invis,fly through the courtyard
Buff dash before nautiloid trigger and fly up
Rebuff invis and dash then enter final fight
Fly to crown and dominate it
Jump down drop all fireworks(~55 fireworks seem to work fine), fly back up and throw alchemist fire for boom
GG