How short is a evil dark urge playthrough ?

[Buurt]

I wanted to do my second bg3 playthrough this winter and wasn't sure if I do redemption or evil dark urge.
My main problem is the act 1 grove situation, I normally would raid the grove even as a redemption dark urge because I am drow etc.
But seeing how much content is gone after that I am not 100% sure if I would do it, I saw people say they finished their evil playthrough in like 25-35 hours because of all the missing stuff.

On the other side all the stuff you miss isn't really anything a evil character would do anyway.

[hamilcar602]

I don't think it significantly shortens the playthrough time. All of the Act 2 and 3 quests are still there more or less.

I did find that I leveled a bit slower than on a good aligned run, mainly from not clearing the Goblin camp and how things play out at Last Light.

And of course, you lose a lot of good items, especially in Act 3.

[Mosey]

I wouldn't take what anyone says on 'game length' to be accurate.

In no playthrough, except possibly losing early on purpose, is it going to take just a few hours without major cheese or skipping everything you don't have to do for the plot.

Larian didn't put in a real short path to victory outside losing the game or major speedrun hijinks.

[Buurt]

Originally posted by hamilcar602:

I don't think it significantly shortens the playthrough time. All of the Act 2 and 3 quests are still there more or less.

I did find that I leveled a bit slower than on a good aligned run, mainly from not clearing the Goblin camp and how things play out at Last Light.

And of course, you lose a lot of good items, especially in Act 3.

Which good items you loose on ? I don't really remember what I used on my good character on first playthrough but ya of course it's missing the dammon stuff.

[hamilcar602]

Originally posted by Buurt:

Originally posted by hamilcar602:

I don't think it significantly shortens the playthrough time. All of the Act 2 and 3 quests are still there more or less.

I did find that I leveled a bit slower than on a good aligned run, mainly from not clearing the Goblin camp and how things play out at Last Light.

And of course, you lose a lot of good items, especially in Act 3.

Which good items you loose on ? I don't really remember what I used on my good character on first playthrough but ya of course it's missing the dammon stuff.

Dammon's items are the worst to lose. You also lose anything that would be given as a quest reward by the tieflings in Act 2, and any items/quest rewards related to Jaheira and Minsc.

On the plus side, you get the items for becoming an unholy assassin, which allows for one of the most degenerate items in the game to build a party composition around.

[Thorak]

An evil durge run can be just as long as a normal run. It all depends on your choices. I play as evil durge right now and I did not raid the druid grove or kill Isobel and I would say the run is more or less exactly as long as a "normal" run.

If you go the evil route, the length will be the same wether you play Dark urge or not.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Buurt:

How short is a evil dark urge playthrough ?
I wanted to do my second bg3 playthrough this winter and wasn't sure if I do redemption or evil dark urge.
My main problem is the act 1 grove situation, I normally would raid the grove even as a redemption dark urge because I am drow etc.
But seeing how much content is gone after that I am not 100% sure if I would do it, I saw people say they finished their evil playthrough in like 25-35 hours because of all the missing stuff.

On the other side all the stuff you miss isn't really anything a evil character would do anyway.

as mentioned before by others: a Dark Urge run is not shorter. By the end of the day it it always depends on your decisions and it always had been like that.

Taking for example your urge to raid the grove. You can do it right away, ignoring the quests around it, or you can do the quests first and raid the grove as last thing to do.

There is no difference in regards of time consumption to do that.

It is like the duergar fight in the Underdark where you can kill one right away before the battle or wait things to develope. That much of time difference is insignificatn and is not reliant on whether to play a maniacal sociopath or not.

[PyroMonk]

you can just largely skip most of act 3 -