Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players are not impressed by Astarion\u2019s final form Larian StudiosPlayers reaching the final stages of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 have given their verdict on Astarion\u2019s ascension, and it\u2019s not kind at all. The Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 fanbase may be obsessed with Astarion, but that doesn\u2019t mean they can\u2019t laugh at him. Astarion\u2019s popularity has always straddled the line between \u201chot vampire rogue\u201d and \u201che\u2019s so broken and pathetic, I have to fix him\u201d, and his story is all about exploring that vulnerability. If you follow it through to the point where you face down Cazador, his former master, Astarion gets the opportunity to escape his status as a vampire spawn and ascend- but players can\u2019t seem to take him seriously, and his offer to turn you into his spawn doesn\u2019t help. It\u2019s not the first time players have thrown shade at him, and it won\u2019t be the last. When it was discovered that mindflayers like to describe Astarion\u2019s brain as \u201csmooth\u201d, the community decided to brand him as canonically stupid. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players can\u2019t take Ascended Astarion seriously In a post on the Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 subreddit, one player described how they couldn\u2019t stop laughing at Astarion\u2019s supposed moment of triumph, especially when he gave his speech. They said: \u201cHis entire speech at the party about him being so much better and stronger than Cazador, and achieving what he only dreamt of left me on the floor, crying with laughter. \u201cAstarion is the single weakest, most pathetic spawn in the entire Cazador\u2019s court. He spent three centuries feeding on rats, terrified of even a thought of rebellion. \u201cI swear, without Tav, he will be gone in like a year once the first adventuring party will come to clear his palace for loot. He won\u2019t even be an epic vampire lord, just some mini-boss for a level 5 party.\u201d Several other players agreed, with one comment reading: \u201d I think that\u2019s the whole point of Ascendant Astarion. It\u2019s a bad ending for him, he becomes as arrogant and as ignorant as his old master. He is still a slave even with his old master dead. \u201cHe is never able to live without fear. He thought having power could fill the void inside him and so he brag about being so powerful, but it doesn\u2019t work that way.\u201d For more news and updates on Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, check out Xbox\u2019s response to player backlash about suspensions from the console version of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players are not impressed by Astarion\u2019s final form Larian StudiosPlayers reaching the final stages of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 have given their verdict on Astarion\u2019s ascension, and it\u2019s not kind at all. The Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 fanbase may be obsessed with Astarion, but that doesn\u2019t mean they can\u2019t laugh at him. Astarion\u2019s popularity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}