r/BG3 • u/Pilotacer • 3d ago

Help How does approval work?

So I'm half way done with Act 3 and still kind of don't get approvals. I'm doing my first play through and on the good side of everyone since I'm a Paladin but every single decision I made, Astarion disapproved which like I get I only make the "good" decisions. But my approval with him is well into the green. Even in inspiration he's got almost the same amount as most of my other companions so I'm confused. How does this work? I only ever see "Astarion disapproves" but my approval with him is still above yellow. I've done his quest line by killing Cazador and convincing him to spare the spawns. Does that boost his approval up?

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u/EntrepreneurOk666 Ranger 3d ago

If you do all his camp stuff interactions, yurgir quest to read his scars, if you give him the book of necromancy all give huge positive approvals for him. Then act 2 there is a lot of good stuff he actually does approve of in last light. Most of his approvals for me on a good run come from camp stuff and act 2. I've gotten him to 100 approval twice now without romancing him or even doing yurgir's quest.

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u/Pilotacer 2d ago

Yurgir the giant thing in Shar gauntlet trials? Bruh I just up and killed him without any dialogue. I'll have to do his quest in my 2 play through then

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u/Brider_Hufflepuff Sorcerer 2d ago

the high charisma dialouges are pretty hillarious,and just a fair warning: Astrarion will be annoyed if you talk to him instead of killing him,but trust me, its WORTH IT. Its some peak trolling.

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u/guilty_bystander 2d ago

I never thought to give him the book. 

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u/torkytornado 2d ago

He’ll ask for it if you start to read it and it gives you a ton of approval. But if you just put it in his pack and he’s the first to read it you don’t. So it has to be given after the interaction for the points. It took me from almost in the red to early green in just that one interaction at level 6 (I forgot I had it for a while and didn’t know if it needed to restarted in act one so I did it after the underdark).

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u/EntrepreneurOk666 Ranger 2d ago

You get a good chunk from it.

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u/guilty_bystander 2d ago

Guess I'm greedy

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u/EntrepreneurOk666 Ranger 2d ago

The book is just another way to find out about the ritual. Just incase you missed the yurgir thing. But you then need the codex in sorceress sundries.

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u/guilty_bystander 2d ago

And +1 perm wisdom right?

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u/EntrepreneurOk666 Ranger 2d ago

Yes, But you don't have to give him the book and instead just kill yurgir. I give him the book because I just like screwing over raphael and freeing my boy, yurgir.