Baldur's Gate 3 trickster deals potentially record-breaking damage to a late-game boss by giving them 87,000 gold and dealing at least 1160 damage in a single hit

This Baldur's Gate 3 trick attack might be the strongest single attack we've seen in Larian's RPG to date, and it all revolves around gold and pickpocketing.

You might already know about the pickpocketing damage trick in Baldur's Gate 3. It goes something like this: sneak up on a boss, give them a load of your gold, then attack them with a weapon called Twist of Fortune, a Morningstar that deals its damage again for every 300 gold that the enemy is holding.

Now we've seen the trick taken to the next level. The player below managed to slip a boss a cool 87,000 gold, and wiped them out with a brutal strike because they deal +4 piercing damage for every 300 gold the target holds. That's at least 1,160 damage to the boss in one attack, 

The player below delves into how the attack can actually deal even more damage than thought. It turns out Astarion's special 'Twist of Fortune' mace has a multiplier of 290 due to the amount of gold in the boss's pockets, which means the total damage is more like 1d8 + 1 + 1,160, which can become even greater considering any critical hits can double that damage. The point is, 1,160 is the lowest the total damage figure could be, which is mind-blowing.

That's potentially enough to break the record for the highest amount of damage on a single hit seen so far in Baldur's Gate 3. That record is held by none other than a huge Owlbear, which managed to obliterate Grym with 1,170 damage when it plummeted onto the boss from above, with a special ability that dealt more damage the bigger the player character weighed. At a lowest-possible roll just below that and with each of those 290 Blood Money strikes having the potential to critically strike, this might be the deadliest hit in the entire CRPG.

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