Baldur's Gate 3

My take away is that my 2H fighter with high and resistance thanks to Shadowheart has made Honor mode very easy. I'm halfway through act 3. Haven't come close to TPK. Also stealing everything with my vampire bro helps considerably to gear up.

My 1st successful honor mode playthrough i did it as a vengeance paladin with shadowheart as a life cleric, astarion as a gloomstalker assassin, and wyll as a sorlock. I used invis potions and barrelmancy for all sorts of shenanigans. You can steal lots of stuff using an arrow of darkness or darkness the spell. Lots of great gear is just lying out in the open. You have to be really mercenary in honor mode. Feelings are for those who don't have the golden dice. So kill anyone for good gear if you can get away with it. A good example is the lady near the gith creche. She gets murdered for her gear. Usually after a failed pickpocket attempt. Same with the creche trader. Try to do as many combats as you can because you won't be overleveled like in normal playthroughs so you'll need the xp.

Edit: Also I was playing dark urge because the fight against Orin is simple af when you play as dark urge who has slayer form.

I struggled with it a bit at first, probably because I hadn't spent a ton of time in Tactician, so I was learning multiple layers of things in some encounters. With my current run, I've got all of the Act 2 map open but I haven't started delving other than the Meenlock fight. Came very, very close to ending my run in the Owlbear Cave and with Grym.

At this point I'm running into the same issue I always have on hardcore/ironman/nuzlocke-style runs; I've passed the initial touch-and-go stage and reached the point where I'm confident in taking on fights, but I feel compelled to grind on lesser stuff before I proceed in order to give myself the best chance for the bigger stuff. I haven't even done all of the Creche yet. I haven't touched the run in weeks because it feels like work at this point.

I have yet to finish one. I got damn close and was about to sacrifice Gale for the win but forgot the hammer and that was that. I've gotten a bunch to act 2 or 3 but I really don't like A3 all that much - so many tedious quest lines - and I tend to just start over as soon as I get sick of it.

I recently tried taking Ansur at level 10 as soon as I got to A3 and that was hilarious. I've only done the fight once and when I got there everyone was positioned right under him. At the end of turn 1 I had three people down and one at about 25% from basically a single attack. I didn't even get to his big attack. I think I escaped and my game is technically on hold.

I cripple myself because I hate casters and paladins. My party every single game is Lae'zel as BM fighter, Karlach as throw barb, Shart as light cleric (usually in camp except during A2), Astarion usually as Monk or hand xbow ranger. Durge varies wildly, but obviously generally has to be a Cha character. I only use the other characters during their storylines.

Anyway it's going shit. I'm taking a break from honor mode. I wish I could do the legendary effects on other game modes for practice. Some of them are particularly brutal if you aren't prepared for them.

I honestly think that honor mode is dumb. I ain't playing through several hours only to wipe out because everything is done by the roll of dice and critical failures are a thing. I could save scum; but then why would I play honor mode if I was going to do that? It seems like a thing for a very specific type of player, and I am not in that group.

My first attempt was with a Githyanki monk. Easy Peasy. Most mess-ups I had were due to misclicks. Like when I killed half of the guests at the Tiefling party.