Baldur’s Gate 3is filled with side quests and areas to explore for secrets and treasures. As a result, it’s easy to end up spending time on side quests and putting the main questline on hold. However, just because a side quest is time-consuming doesn’t mean that it’ll give you good rewards, and that happens to be the case for the hardest side quest inBG3. If you don’t use a guide or already know where to go, then you’ll spend a lot of time looking for pieces, only to receive a lackluster reward.
Overall,Baldur’s Gate 3isn’t necessarily a linear game, but Act 3 is even less linear than the two acts before it. While a lot of questlines that you start earlier in the game come to a conclusion in Act 3, you can also pick up quite a few side quests to start during your time in Act 3. If you spend some time at the circus and speak with the NPCs there, you’ll likely end up with one of the hardest quests: finding Dribbles the Clown.
Finding Dribbles The Clown In BG3 Takes So Much Work
His Pieces Are Too Easy To Miss
The Dribbles the Clown putting on a show at the circus is an impostor, and the real Dribbles is already dead by the time you arrive in Rivington. If you feel like helping out the owner of the circus, who happens to be a necromancer, then you’ll be asked tofind the seven pieces of Dribblesthat arescattered around Act 3’s areasand bring them all back to Ringmaster Lucretious. One piece is easy to find, since it’s on a table behind a merchant at the circus.
The remaining six pieces of Dribbles' remains are more difficult to find if you aren’t paying attention to your surroundings, looting everything you can, exploring every bit of Act 3, or already know where they’re located. When you first pick up the quest, you don’t get any information about where you might find pieces of Dribbles, which makes thisa side quest that’s both time-consuming and a bit difficult. It can also feel misleading, since you might assume that all the pieces will be in the circus or in Rivington, but they aren’t.
Luckily, some pieces of Dribbles are found while youcomplete other quests in Act 3. Specifically, if you explore the areas you visit while completing the Open Hand Temple Murders quest and the quest to find and defeat Orin, you’ll find more of Dribbles in the process. It’s like a scavenger hunt for body parts, which can be a fun task depending on the player. At the same time, it can feel like a tedious task for players who don’t care about that style of quest, but since it’s a side quest, it doesn’t have to be completed, at least.
The Dribbles Quest Reward Is Cool, But It’s Not Enough
Receiving The Spellmight Gloves
When you bring the pieces of Dribbles back to Ringmaster Lucretious, you’re rewarded with the Spellmight Gloves. When you use the Spellmight Gloves, you can take a penalty on your attack roll in exchange for additional damage, which is great for spells that areguaranteed to hit targets, like Magic Missiles, because you get the extra damage without worrying about the penalty. However, you might find gloves with a better effect on your build. Its value to you depends a lot on your party and builds.
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So, it can be a useful reward, but you might not find it worth the effect of tracking down six pieces of a clown that are scattered throughout the final act without hints about where you might find them. Plus, a few of them are out of the way enough that you can miss them when you don’t know where to look. Then, other pieces thatyou come across while doing different quests can be easily missedif you don’t check everything you can loot, as some of them are on corpses that aren’t related to clowns at all.
There’s also a drawback to completing the quest that you aren’t told about when you pick it up. When you talk to Lucretious and turn in the pieces of Dribbles to complete the quest,the circus disappears. As a result, you won’t be able to do any other quests or activities in the circus after you complete the Dribbles quest. If you don’t know this ahead of time and haven’t completed everything you want to in the circus area, you end up cutting yourself off from doing that content unless you return to a previous save or start over.
How BG3 Could Make Finding Dribbles’s Parts Pay Off
The Work And Reward Don’t Match
Right now, all the details about what we’ll seechanged in Patch 8aren’t available, since the patch is still in testing phases right now. However, none of the patches so far—big or small—have made changes to the Dribbles quest. It’s remained essentially the same, so there’s no reason to believe that Patch 8 will do anything different, meaning that this islikely how the quest will stay permanently. Considering that there’s nothing inherently wrong with the quest aside from the reward not feeling like a match for the required effort, it makes sense.
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It would at least be nice for the quest to include awarning that the circus disappears when you complete itwith Lucretious, similar to the way that main quests warn you when you’re about to pass a point of no return. Additionally, while the Spellmight Gloves can be nice, they might not be useful for every party combination inBaldur’s Gate 3,since you can get so creative with how you build your characters. Because of that, it would be nice to have at least two options for quest rewards, allowing you to pick the best option for you.
There are a ton of quests that help build the immersive world of the Sword Coast, but there are also quests that you might find tedious or not worth the time they take to complete. Even so, if you want to complete every bit of content in the game, you’ll need to put in some time for quests that have tasks like finding Dribbles, since you have multiple pieces to find throughout the act. However, the great part about these side quests is that you may easily skip them inBaldur’s Gate 3.
