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Busker achievement in Baldur's Gate 3

Busker

Earn a hundred gold from playing sweet, sweet music in a single playthrough.

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  • HuntericaHunterica
    15 Dec 2023 09 Dec 2023 14 Dec 2023
    This achievement will take a bit of playtime to unlock, the life of a street performer isn't glamorous folks

    IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY STARTED YOUR PLAYTHROUGH I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU PICK A BARD
    While it is possible to unlock musical instrument proficiency on other characters, bards will start with it meaning as soon as you begin your adventure you can take to the streets to begin performing/begging

    To perform open your action menu and select your instrument of choice and song to begin playing, once the performance has started nearby NPCs will crowd around and (if your lucky) each crowd member may bless you with the ocasssional single gold piece. Single. As in one. Yeah.

    Your options are to either perform until your fingers bleed in the biggest population center you find until you get all 100 required, or if progressing through the game normally to avoid a bit of grind you can just perform for a while each time you encounter new groups of people. Below I'll list areas populated with NPCs ready and willing to throw pity change at you, Good Luck!

    Act I
    Tiefling Refuge at Emerald Grove (main location of Act 1, can't miss it)
    Druid's Grove (inside Emerald Grove past Tiefling Refuge Camp)
    Waukeen's Rest (northwest of Emerald Grove, help the people there get their friend out of the building on fire before playing some fire beats)
    Goblin Camp (western area of the map, south of Waukeen's Rest)
    Githyanki Creche (after entering the Mountain Pass area, they can be found inside the temple)
    Grymforge (area in the Underdark reached via boat ride at the Decrepit Village)

    Act II
    Last Light Inn (central area of Act 2, progress through the Shadowlands until scene where Harpers will lead you to the area for shelter, easier to find if entering from Underdark)
    Moonrise Towers (southern most point in the Shadowlands area, you will be going here eventually as the plot revolves heavily around this location)

    Act III
    Baldur's Gate

    If you have progressed to Act 3 and have still not accumulated your 100 gold from performing, you will be doing your remaining performances in the titular city Baldur's Gate, the largest and most populous city available to you

    Additional Tips
    Sometimes you get gold, sometimes you get no gold, sometimes you might get gold but it doesn't count toward your progress. If you keep an eye on your progress and get gold from performing and notice the progress from 0-100 has gone up I recommend you save to be safe. In the event you find you're obtaining lots of gold but getting no progress, try loading save files and keep an eye on progress until it starts going up again
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    SquiSquiSquidioYou get more than 1 gold depending on how many people are in the area you pull over to you. I've had a full crowd and made up to 4 gold so far.

    Been lucky enough that I haven't had any gold not count yet. I'm at the Goblin Camp in act 1 and already at 80%, just play when around groups, go to a different area, go back to previous groups.
    Posted by SquiSquiSquidio on 11 Dec at 22:01
    Huntericathat works great too! Like I said nothing stopping you from grinding them all out in the first population center you find, bit of a grind though. If you're in Act 3 farming is much easier in Baldurs Gate but note the bigger your crowd is the higher your performance check will be
    Posted by Hunterica on 12 Dec at 04:56
    ANCIENT WARRI0RI just waited until act 3. I hired a bard from Withers and played in the different populated areas. I received 10 gold for each successful performance checks. Although my character wasn’t a bard I also attempted to play with the bard and if I succeeded in the performance check, which was rare, we made 20 gold so it wasn’t a grind.
    Posted by ANCIENT WARRI0R on 13 Dec at 08:04
    ThanagarSeconding what Ancient said. I hired a bard hireling during act 3 levelled them up to 12 and picked the extra performance perks and then just ported to Rivington and played for larger groups and worked my way up to Baldur's gate and got my 100th coin after playing at the wine festival next to the inn. Pretty sure it took less than 45 minutes but was also just doing this while watching Netflix so prob could have been quicker if I moved between groups faster.
    Posted by Thanagar on 15 Dec at 23:36
    THRACE 462753I don’t know if this was mentioned but you can also perform in camp for your companions.
    Posted by THRACE 462753 on 27 Dec at 19:57
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