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All right I beat this last night. About 153 hours in-game. My PS5 adds another 20ish hours. 5-10 of those extra hours were due to the Ravengard glitch, where he stays in the Wyrmhold throne room unless you physically walk into Lower City (can't fast travel).

Only quest that I didn't complete (according to my log) was the Dribbles the Clown body part collection. I do see I missed some tangential content (I just killed Mystic Carrion on site because killing stuff is fun, but it looks like there is a quest to do it or something, for instance).

I played a bronze dragonborn bard named Goji and made him look reasonably like Legendary Godzilla.

I tried to be a typical bard early on.... lie and joke and persuade my way through stuff. It didn't really seem to suit the game. I'd say for the first 15 hours my guy was just insensitive and squishy. I also didn't like early combat because I missed Lae'zel so my bard was the tankiest character. Fights were basically fire bolt cantrips with my bard tanking and using fire breath. Once I replaced Gale and Astarion with Wyll and Karlach, I never really looked back.

I did use Gale for his personal quests in act 3. And spent some time with Jaheira and Minsc. Jaheira was terrific - you can pick the joking dialog options and she rolls with it. The other characters are super sensitive and it was a bit of a drag playing a bard, killing dragons and defeating gods and your party can't engage in a little friendly back and forth.

Minsc is a legend and one of my all-time faves. I was genuinely happy when I recruited him and figured we would ride off into the sunset together... but after a few quests, I wanted Karlach back in the group.

Went with Shadowheart. After the ending I kinda feel like maybe I shoulda picked Karlach