When Baldur's Gate 3's long awaited final batch of content launched last week, I had grand plans for Patch 8. Namely, to test out all 12 of the new subclasses in a single playthrough. But when I sat down to finally boot the game up, my cursor drifted from the New Game button to find solace somewhere familiar yet distant. I ended up loading into an earlier save point in my first ever adventure, dated August 17 2023.
Countless Baldur's Gate 3 playthroughs and myriad Tavs later, monk-gone-wild Sweetling remains my favorite little menace. As the captain of my maiden voyage, a 65-hour test drive of the then-new Baldur's Gate 3 Dark Urge archetype and Monk class that had been added to the RPG at launch, she is also woefully mis-specced. Two years later, I'm righting the wrongs of my naive past with the homebrewed chaos of Patch 8, turning my Dark Urge into a grog-swilling Drunken Master on a date with a wannabe archdevil.
