Baldur’s Gate 3 player endlessly spams worst spell to conquer Honor Mode

An intrepid Baldur’s Gate 3 player has overcome the game’s biggest challenge by casting its worst spell thousands of times.

Baldur’s Gate 3’s Honor Mode is a later addition to the game that ups its challenge rather significantly. Functioning similar to a Hardcore mode in other games, if the player’s party is wiped, the run is over.

There have been countless instances of hilarious ends to Honor Mode runs retold by Baldur’s Gate 3 players. Whether it’s Scratch being too good a boy for his own good or giving into base desire and becoming a sex slave, a lot can go wrong.

Just getting to the end of Honor Mode in Baldur’s Gate 3 is a legendary feat which is what makes YouTuber Fracture’s latest challenge run so impressive. First picked up by GamesRadar+, Fracture overcame the game’s most difficult undertaking by only using its worst spell.

In a video titled ‘I Beat Honour Mode by Casting True Strike 2,468 times’, Fracture details how they… well… beat Honor mode by casting True Strike 2,468 times. It’s pretty much exactly what it says on the box.

They explain it best. “In this run, I didn’t use explosives. There were no necrotic corpse shenanigans. I didn’t attack my enemies or use weapon special abilities that deal damage,” Fracture elaborates in the video’s intro.

True Strike is almost universally agreed to be not only the worst spell in D&D but also Baldur’s Gate 3. The spell gives you Advantage on your next action which sounds appealing until you realize it costs an action to cast and a lost opportunity for damage in Honor mode is incredibly punishing.

Fortunately, Fracture had a solution. They acquire an item that gives True Strike Reverberate. That means that every fifth cast of the skill deals 1-4 lightning damage. Truly a devastating upgrade.

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Outfitting True Strike with Reverberate requires a trip to the Underdark.

The short of it is that for every combat encounter that Fracture finds themself in, they have to spam True Strike hundreds of times. To mitigate this massive hassle, they spend most of their run outright avoiding combat through dialogue or sneaking.

It’s tedious and arduous work, but also incredibly entertaining. Fracture manages to clinch the Honor Mode run without any other exploits, including opting for a quick finish via Gale explosion which many players do to seal the win. We won’t spoil it further.