Vetran dnd players know how powerful most of these spells are i thought this would be like how sapping sting is a low key suck or save as a cantrip cause on a fail it knocks the target prone
If you are a medium character you can use Disguise Self to turn into a small race, then use the Reduce spell to shrink them to tiny and they can then enter burrows that even small creatures are too large for.
My favourite is by far Command: Flee. when you have your two ( or three ) frontline characters surrounding a strong enemy + pets, command them to flee and watch with glee as they kill themselves on the attacks of opportunity. So much free dmg and a turn of CC for a lvl 1 spellslot.
Aunti Ethel always teleport to the same location and if you want easy kill position Laezel in the middle of her 3 illusion one of them is her and you can knock them to the hole
A few additions for Minor illusion. - Can trigger traps, mines, wires etc.. - Can block "holes" like the ones that spread poison gas or oil. - Turrets aim this illusion but they dont look back, they keep watching at that direction even after destroying that illusion.
It's not supposed to do most of those things, but I can understand if the game simplifies things by not differentiating between interactions based on perception vs. physical presence. Illusions aren't supposed to have any physical interaction and shouldn't set off traps, tripwires, mines, etc. People, animals, and to some extent non-living things like turrets that are enchanted to detect things magically can be tricked into reacting by an illusion, but a physical trigger shouldn't be tripped by an illusion. But if the game engine can be tricked, abuse it.
Best part about Create Water: Even on Tactician difficulty, placing water in a chokepoint might cause enemies without ranged attacks to take a MAJOR detour just to avoid standing in it! Which can save you alot of pressure in a huge fight. 😊
@@MultiheadedD Yeah if a cleric suddenly put a bunch of water out, and their wizard friend was standing nearby prepping to cast a spell, I wouldn't take the risk either. You're either gonna get blasted by lightning and take a bajillion damage or blasted by cold damage and get the whole surface frozen over and slip down for the fighter to bash your skull in
I used create water in the hag fight on Mayrina, it both extinguished the fire and allowed me to tell which one of them was real when the hag tried to disguise as her, since the real Mayrina was wet
You could also examine both and one will have fey and darkvision bonus while the other does not ( human). That was a creative way though. One reason this game is astonishing is the countless possibilities and out of the box thinking.
Another note on Sanctuary, if you have a character that uses a Concentration spell purely for support (i.e. Bless, Hold Person, etc), using Sanctuary on that character will essentially make them unable to have their concentration broken. Super useful in the right scenarios.
This is good, but statistically mirror image does that better. It’s non-concentration and in BG3 it ads 3 duplicates, each of which grants you +3 AC for a +9 to AC. Disadvantage, on average, means they have to roll above the targets AC twice, but mirror image means they have to roll 45% higher than the base targets AC once
i do this on my sorcerer. dipping 2 cleric on a sorcerer with 10 starting wisdom nets you 2 spells as a cleric that you can grab with both create water and sanctuary, neither of which care about how high your wisdom is. you can on turn one, twin a haste on you or your teammates, then bonus action sanctuary on yourself to protect yourself for a minimum of 1 turn. next turn if you hasted yourself, you can create water + chromatic orb or lightning bolt or ice storm for max damage with a tempest cleric subspec. if you didnt haste yourself, you can still do the combo so long as you're willing to quicken one of those two spells. its a pretty nasty combo of what you can do with that multiclass. another multi that can also pull this off is a devotion paladin/sorcerer as well.
@@jrpgplayer except that in most instances all that does is make the enemies fire more concentrated on the three remaining targets. Unless you have an excellent bear totem tank, that usually means everyone in the party is taking roughly 33% more damage than they would usually. This is suboptimal as you need to expand healing and potions much earlier than you would if you could share the damage more evenly and recover it using short resting. You are talking about damage avoidance, this conversation is about damage mitigation. The difference is that one uses enemy resources, and one uses yours.
It always was a ritual. The key difference is in BG3 it lasts all day and rituals don't take 10 minutes to cast without using a slot like they do in 5e where it also only lasts for 1 hour. If you cast this in 5e rules it would take 40 minutes to cast on everyone and then the first guy you cast it on only has 20 mins of duration left by the time you are done the last person.
Downside is that its range got nerfed and so did its damage. All of the damage types except Thunder were reduced to 2d8 instead of 3d8, in addition to those damage types also creating a small surface of their element underneath whoever was hit.
@@fofolacosa123 Is it AOE? I knew it created its terrain type but I had some enchanted rings that did that whenever I dealt a certain damage type already so it wasn't nearly as useful.
Movespeed can make you solo this game on tactician. It's the most OP stat, easily. It's a little boring to win solo tho, just running away all the time.
You forgot something about magic missile... eventually you gain the ability to add your int modifier to your spells (Evo wiz etc), making magic missile deal additional damage based on your int modifier. at 20 int, You can deal 7-10 damage per missile eventually, and with 6 or 7 missiles when you up cast it, it makes for one of THE best spells in the game damage wise.. easily
Not only that, but if you have a buff that adds 1-4 dmg to your spells, like lightning charges, all projectiles of magic missile will gain the 1-4 dmg increase. This means your 3-12dmg first level magic missile will be 6-24 + 3 times your int modifier.
And in Act 1 there is a Amulet with a extra Magic Missile. And a Ring with a Radiant Orb with each impact. So, it's very usefull against a Strong Bosses to debuff a -4 attack rolls in a single round, that's a +4 AC for all members.
@@회멸 A really gross build for this is a single level dip in hexblade warlock, and then wizard. Hex curse the target, which adds your proficiency as damage, then your race trait as the new one allows you to add damage to a spell equal to your proficiency. At level 11 you can cast a level 5 MM that does 7 darts, with each one doing 1d4+1+5+4. For a MINIMUM of 77 damage. Then you can do it again a second time on the next turn.
Incredibly useful tips! Here's a little bonus tip from us! My girlfriend found out that, as a druid in Cat form, she could just jump through every kind of fencing. This was kinda useful for escaping prisons and in the late game, where you find vaults behind bars that the cat can simply jump through without consequences.
this yes, but is the cat able to steal or pick up the items and store in the inventory - after leafe the place and join your army again? If so it is incredible useful. - I have to try it....thanks for the tip.
Also useful for putting out burning party members! Just throw it at their feet! (Caveat: careful when throwing water bottles down from a height. It can do an AOE of bludgeoning dmg, so you might end up hurting the person you're trying to help)
I've got a bunch of bottles but haven't found the option to fill them. Can I do so at any water source? I know there's a pump in the blighted village. This feels like an obvious question, so I apologize if so. I'm brand new and can only play at a friend's house
I really wish create or destroy water was a ritual spell. Would really make it worth preparing. But otherwise, it's hard to take when not only does it eat a spot, but also eats into your number cast.
The set up value for it vastly outweighs the cons. You’ll do incredible damage with cold and lightning and more down the like as you get to the stronger cold and lightning spells. Especially if you use a potion of speed/sorcerer points to fire off multiple spells in one turn. Water boom, lightning/cold spell big aoe boom. Big bongo destruction. It’s a lot better than fire damage, with the exception of fire wall, that thing is still great to have.
Just want to point out that Transmutation wizards get create water as a bonus cantrip which they do not have to prepare and costs nothing to cast, in or out of combat. Also, there is a staff for sale in the wizard grove that allows the caster to cast this spell.
It's literally a mimic spell damage wise. Doubling damage means if you spent a level 1 slot to double your level 3 slot damage, you effectively casted 2 level 3 spell for only a 1 level spell slot and a 3 level spell slot. Worth it imo!
Ritual spells (if they are even capable of being cast in combat at all) will still use a spell slot if you are in combat. So I don’t really see why you would want it to be a ritual
The best use for Minor Illision: You can use it on any trader to lure him away from the other people. When the trader moves away, start talking to him so that he won't return. Then you can steal everything from him.
Even better, you can cast silence on the trader, knock them out (silence will make it so you don't trigger everyone else to attack you), and then take all the special goods off of them. Their inventory will have anything you sold to them, unique weapons and armors, and some of their money. Buy the +1 and +2 armors that you want as they won't be in their inventory, then clear out their gold stock by selling to them, knock them out, and you'll have everything you can want from them plus a good chunk of change. After a long rest the merchant will be back up and fine.
@@gemsstr7933you can toggle it on your action bar. It looks like a dude being hit over the head - basically if you toggle it enemies are left with 1hp and unconscious :)
@@gemsstr7933 you have to activate it on your skill menu at the bottom. It should be in the most far right tab. It's called something like "toggle non-lethal" and only works on melee attacks. When they get to 0 HP they just get knocked out instead of dying. You can probably get through the game without killing anyone although some enemies might still die in cutscenes.
Darkness may be a Warlocks bread and butter during the early game, but that doesn’t mean it can’t benefit those without Devils Sight. I like to use it as cover for my ranged characters by having them poke out of it when attacking, then jumping back in before ending their turn. This forces enemies to either jump in after them (potentially missing their attack) or stand just outside it’s effect, skipping their turn.
Just keep in mind that creatures have advantage on attacking blinded creatures but also disadvantage by being blinded. So if both the enemy and your character are blinded by the spell the disadvantege and advantage cancel eachother out, resulting in normal hit chances.
IMHO, Darkness (the spell) is a waste. In most cases the radius is too large so it provides a bunch of added negatives - and does so for about one round because that's when the enemies will run out. Using that same action, or better yet one attack of a character with multiple to pop an arrow of darkness provides the same benefits more often than not. In a more confined radius meaning you're not blocking off a bunch of extra terrain causing potential issues. Ironically, the primary instance where Darkness' radius is of better use than the smaller radius arrow of darkness are the instances where a well placed fog cloud will do the job just the same. Which is to block line of sight from afar (think - the Zentarim hideout - blocking their looking from seeing and get your entire party past if you stole the flask and now they're mad). Unless you can lock down someone in darkness they rarely stay inside of it. So typically you get one maybe two rounds of real use if you intend to use it on anyone *inside* and not to block ranged attackers/anti-stealth LOS.
@@danjal87nl not when you hide your entire part in the darkness cloud with devil sight, then it becomes broken. put disadvantage on all enemies that hit you inside the cloud (while you just hit normally)
As a drow necromancer, I have found the darkness spell essence in several battles where I needed protection from large groups. Like you, I have my characters move out of the cloud, attack, then duck back in. Many archers do nothing when they can't see your characters. It was a vital spell in one special battle that I won't give for spoiler reason, but I will hint you can protect an area from attack with this spell.
Ritual spells, like Longstrider, can be cast by hirelings. Use them to buff up your main party and then leave them in the camp. Non-ritual non-concentration spells can be cast as well, but they will use hireling's spell slot.
This would be true if the game didn't let you swap prepared spells out on the fly. Plenty of times I've just hotswapped one of those spells in if I needed them, cast the rituals, swap m out. One of the quirky side-effects of how they adapted the 5e mechanics to their game engine.
@@danjal87nl if you swap the spell out, you also lose the effect. if you buff yourself from a hireling and leave him at camp it stays until long rest for a while I had a cleric/wizard hireling to buff aid, mage armor and longstrider. it's annoying to manage and not really necessary so I stopped after a while. it's still a very strong tool to improve your party.
@@n-man87you don’t lose the effect if you swap the spell out. I start every new day casting longstrider and mage armor then immediately swap them out. I never lose the effect
@@suffocatetheskies2506 I don't know about longstrider, but I tried this the other day with mage armor on Gale and he immediately loses the buff after the spell is no longer in his prepared list.
I think it's important to differentiate between "advantage" and "bonus". Bless doesn't count as advantage. If it did, it would activate Sneak Attack and a couple other oddities. Bless just gives you a bonus. I don't mean to be nitpicky, but it might be clearer communication if you adapted this for your next videos' scripts!
that's not "nitpicky" advantage vs a 1d4 is a huge difference. bless is one of the best spells in the game more so as a level 1 spell. but it's not advantage for better or for worst.
@@zzxp1 bless is situationality better giving 1d4. if your party already has advantage, from stuff like faerie fire or grate weapon master or etc, advantage will not stack but the 1d4 will. ofc if it was 3 people getting advantage that would really good but bless still extreamly strong level 1 spell to a point it's worth up scaling it to cover more party members.
I've seen this advice and tried so many times. Seeing 90% chance to hit, it never hits. Makes me wonder if its bugged or if there is a trick to it. But because I never see it hit anything, I remove it from all spell casters.
@@SinisterSlay1 if you're using at as an AOE spell don't it's single target you still need to be targeting 1 enemy to do 2d8 worth of damage or 3d8 if you cast thunder element which is no aoe puddle
A warning about sleep: always check the turn order before you try to use this spell. Enemies will go out of their freaking way to wake each other up and it only costs them a shove bonus action. if a nearby enemy gets his turn before the enemy who is asleep, sleep can end up doing absolutely nothing because the enemy will step over, wake up his friend, and still run over to attack you.
THIS. Sleep becomes noob trap because of this, and precisely why initiative+dexterity is important. Your Sleep is wasted if an enemy takes its turn right after you to wake up their snoozing ally.
Looking at the turn order is always a must, imo. I almost always try to kill them in order, if that means I can get more of my allies to their attack before the remaining enemies.
One thing I will argue is that Sleep loses its power alot by Act 3. Health Bars just become way too massive for even a highly upcast Sleep Spell to be super effective. Not to mention enemies can shove eachother awake.
10:58 "this spell can be used to remove acid and fire from the ground or a character that might be afflicted by it." Okay now i believe it is underrated if you can remove a character with it xD
Also: Fog Cloud is a 1st level saveless mass blind that allows you to rob or murder (if you one-shot them) people in public without getting into a fight.
Another extra perk of magic missile, every missile counts as a separate spell hit for The Spellsparkler quarterstaff. Which means that once you reach the maximum lightning charges (which is very easy when upcasting magic missiles, specially if doing it multiple times in the same turn), the next missile will deal massive damage. On higher levels it's easy to obliterate enemies just by using this interaction. The only issue is that, if you are targeting multiple enemies, you can't reliably choose which one will eat the blast, as the missiles don't usually follow the order in which you chose the targets.
You can use the initiative tracker to target that! You can click on the enemies at the top and it will select them. This also works for healing word, attack rolls, pretty much anything that had to target a creature
Another tip: many buff spells, like Bless, can be cast before combat. That way you can save an action for something else. Just start combat before the effect runs out!
Sometimes, I toggle turn-based mode on/off while I'm prepping before combat. It's basically like pausing and you can get your buffs set then turn it off and start the battle normally. It can easily save the spell durations while you're switching characters and figuring out exactly what buffs you want
@@yakobdou to this there is even more - sometimes you have a conversation ahead of the fight - with their leader or whatever - during the conversation you can see there are 3 'circles' in the left lower sceen - you can click on Party circle - then you are able to position your other caracters in strategic good positions (to be better prepared for the fight), as usual you are just all in one place - but if you use the 'party button' you can position your guys even on rooftops, prepare hate, bless,whatever ... - then you go back to you main character again and continue with the conversation - as soon as the fight is triggered you have a huge advantage because you are not just in one close formation.
"Aid" is incredibly powerful upcasted to max. Increases whole party HP by 20/25, including all summoned creatures! So at lvl11, my whole party has 100hp & Minthara (paladin) has 110. Shadowheart's Planar Ally has 156hp. My warlock's Air Elemental has 110hp. Conjure Us has 70hp. Imp has 30hp. Shadow Lantern's Wraith has 44hp. And 6 Ghouls from Danse Macabre each have 64hp. For a total of 10 minions for 1 character! Totaling 738hp worth for HP just for my warlock.
There's also a level 6 cleric spell (at least for life cleric) that also gives you food and buffs health with aid, both stacking. You can only cast one, but you can get a pearlescent restoration item, you buy in the underdark, that can restore that level 6 spellslot and cast both aid and this ability. To get a total of 45 extra max HP. Super strong
The problem with D&D 5e's action economy is that you really have to weigh whether it's worth using your action to buff/debuff an ally/enemy, cast a save or suck spell on an enemy, or just throw a big fireball to damage down the enemies instead. Usually, damage is the way to go because dead enemies means fewer enemy actions being used against your party. And I think BG3 makes this even more in the fireball's favor when you can see the enemy's health.
Utility spells and having a tactical position is better in this game than straight damage. Setting up a corridor of web or other difficult terrain leading to a door or high elevation will slow the enemy melee users approach by multiple turns. Darkness can be cast on your party so they can step out, attack from range, then step back in and be untargetable by ranged enemies. If you have a melee damage character on the same initiative as a cleric you can have the damage dealer go all out and then have the cleric cast sanctuary on them so they're safe to go again next turn. There are so many spells and abilities that are better than just damage dealing ones. You're not always going to be able to get all your enemies in one place to fireball them, and sometimes fireball just low rolls on damage anyways.
@@asturias0267 Pre-fight spells and bonus action spells like sanctuary and healing word are different (actually this game removes the D&D rule that says you can't cast two spells in one turn, so bonus action spells are even better in BG3 than tabletop D&D 5e). I'm talking about action economy after you're in initiative. Actions are like a currency. If the enemy has more actions per round than the player party, you're at a disadvantage. Removing actions from the enemy is the name of the game, and killing enemies is the most straightforward way to do that. Yes, there are other ways to do that like banishment, stun, paralyze effects, but typically if your ranged is hiding in darkness the enemy will just target someone else. Those enemy actions don't go to waste just because their preferred target is no longer available, maybe just waste one action to dash to another target.
Something useful to know about sanctuary. You can use sanctuary and place glyph of warding to inflict AOE damage without loosing your sanctuary. Very useful👌
Thanks for the tip about using Disguise Self to speak with the dead. I didn't think about that combo, and was a little irritated that the enemies I killed wouldn't answer my questions.
I usually use scroll/spell/potion on another party member and initiate conversation with them. Sometimes works. But this works much more often for npcs who doesnt want to talk to you anymore
@@Jimminus well its a magic spell, the "killer can't question his victim" rule is stupid imo... the spell doesn't bring back the person so it can't feel any resentment against me, the corpse should answer my questions when I cast the spell. When you question somebody you can see by the way the respond that there is nothing left of them anymore except a few memories, at this point they are just a magic puppet. Thats why I installed a mod where you can question ppl who you have killed, this makes more sense to me.
I love using Jump out of combat. It's a ritual, and only 10 turns, but you can cast it on each party member one at a time to get them to jump over an obstacle or chasm that would otherwise be impossible. Just make sure you're the last one jumping. And then swap the spell out of your prepared spells so it isn't taking up space that would be better suited for a combat-oriented spell.
Yes. But since it lasts only 10 turns, and you’re out of combat, that’s not a big deal to swap it for a combat-oriented spell after you’re done using it. Out of combat, you can swap your prepared spells as much as you like; just don’t remove something that’s being used until a long rest, like longstrider or speak with animals. You have to keep those prepared, or they stop being applied.
Another huge benefit of Disguise Self is there is a magical ring you can find on a Strange Ox that gives you a +1d4 to all Ability checks when you are disguised. It's possible, albeit tricky, to get this in Act 1. It's much easier to get it in Act 2. If you wait until Act 3, you can actually be given the ring by helping the Strange Ox out on a quest. It's basically like always having Guidance during skill rolls, and it even stacks with Guidance and the Bard's Jack of All Trades.
I had difficulties 1-shotting him, but managed a couple times in Act 1. If you play with multiple players, you can time your attack so it'll count as a 1-shot as well. Otherwise I get Astarion to put up some boxes to give him a high ground advantage and snipe shot the cow. This ring is soooo nice to have right from Act 1.
@@MeesterG Or you can use a familiar to attack the strange ox once while the caster is far away from combat (so they don't get drawn into combat- You can also send them to camp after combat starts & the pet will stay). Once your familiar attacks (or mage hand), and combat starts, move your familiar to proc the attacks of opportunity or simply dismiss it. Combat is now over. Now all you have to do is talk to the strange ox with the character who's pet it was, and simply trade with the ox to get the ring. This allows you to continue to receive items from this Strange Ox throughout the game. There's some fun items that come later that wouldn't be available to you if it's dead in Act 1.
Finding a magical item that has color spray on it is fantastic for tanks with no casting ability. Draw all the aggro, color spray them, then use a sweeping attack or similar on them.
Along with minor illusion, I also highly recommend silence, which lets you prevent your opponents from calling for guards after you have pulled them away from their main group.
@@Bubbabob145 That and Priestess Gut can't summon guards if you attack her when she takes you to her room. The drums themselves can be destroyed, though you might have to do a roll if you wanted to convince them it was an accident or something.
The hobgobblin merchant in the underdark sells an amulet that makes magic missiles shoot an extra missile. Combine that, the crossbow that gives you 1 level 3 cast of magic missile, and the electric staff to generate and expend absurd numbers of electric charges
@@garion046Probably doesn't "need" fixing - it's a single player game, not an online competitive one. If people wanna use a busted, cheesy combo then I don't really see a big issue with it. People are already save scumming and insta-throwing bosses to their deaths.
Sanctuary on cleric is really strong. Protects concentration spells like bless. Also glyph of warding and summon weapon/guardian doesn't count as an attack so shadowheart can still contribute offensively as well while staying safer.
Sanctuary into Spirit Guardians turns her into invulnerable beyblade. Throw around non-concentration spells as you need and you have fun little (and easy to abuse) gameplan.
@kinderdm from what I've seen, it does not break it. But you are correct that it should and generally does in 5e. Hopefully this gets patched, otherwise sanctuary is concentration free globe of invulnerability, which is nuts.
Magic Missile, has amulet in underdark from the hobgoblin to give it +1 missile, wizard can get +5 dmg per missile as an evocation specialist at level 10, and the lightning charges quarterstaff/+2 radiant dmg ring can both apply to it, making the missile actually do a "lot" of damage
Oh crap! I was one of those people who ignored Longstrider. This video just helped me realize Longstrider could help me be more successful in the Iron Throne!!
The most underrated spell class is barrelmancer. Me on my second playthrough collecting all explosive barrels i can to trivialize boss encounters in act 1. That spider queen never seen it coming))
Nice! I think the 40-lbs per barrel would be a problem, though. I beat the spider queen without taking any damage... just firebolt the webs she's standing on, she takes 30-40 damage each time she falls, and is prone for easy sniping. Then when she teleports/phases up to where my party is standing, thunderwave knocks her down again! Took me just two turns to eliminate her.
I highly recommend using the Water Spell in the Auntie Ethel fight. Use it to take out the fire on the cage where Mayrina is in, and it gives you less stress. This also helps you identify which one is the fake Mayrina as when you are close to killing the Hag she will duplicate herself as Mayrina, and you can tell which one is real by the Wet Status.
If you summon the ogres to that fight. Uh. Don't summon the ogres. They throw rocks. The gits. ... unless, what if one uses Sanctuary on Mayruna? [I didn't try Ogres + Sanctuary, but Sanctuary on its own does show up as a status effect]
For magic missile as well, evocation wizard can add int mod to every single missile and there is an amulet that will give you an extra missile, every cast, as well as 1 free cast per lr
in act 3 you get from a pretty long and convoluted quest a pair of gloves that add 1-8 damage to targeted spells with a hit roll. This includes magic missile and adds damage per missile. Wizards with evo school and these gloves are extremely strong late game.
In addition to the Spellmight Gloves in act 3, a legendary staff in act 3 can grant you Lightning charges, which allows for magic missiles to deal bonus lightning damage (dealing around 60 dmg with a level 1 Magic Missile). The spellsparkler staff also does this, but with a lower number of lightning charges.
There's a ring you can get that will cast bless on anyone you heal. Does NOT require concentration! Put it on your healer. There's another item that will heal you for a bit if you heal someone else. Constant bless on your healer, and everyone they heal.
gloves that cast blade ward on targets you heal, and boots that give temp HP to targets you heals. and finally a hat that gives healer a heal when healing others :D all in act 1. act 3 there's the crazy purple gloves that do something on a heal and a death ward on a revive.
Ah guidance, the main reason Shadowheart was a permanent member in my party until act 3. Fun video. Love hearing everyone's strategies. Game offers so many ways to be effective. Gonna have to try a tactician run next.
Another spell I found surprisingly useful on Eldritch Knight (and probably Paladins/Melee Rangers too) was Expeditious Retreat. I never gave this spell much thought on Tabletop, but the fact it lasts potentially all day for 1 cast seemed crazy good in BG3, and since I was a lower INT build I didn't want spells that relied on attack rolls or saving throws. My Barbarian, Fighter, Warlock, and Rogue all had insane speed due to their class features, magic items and bonus action dashes, but my fighter would have absolutely fallen short were it not for this spell. I used a throwing build with the Lightning Jabber with a ring that gives an extra 1d4 Psychic damage while concentrating, and at this point deal ridiculous ranged damage, move fast as hell, and all while I'm wearing a shield and full plate.
I too often get damage from it because I like to go in with at least one tank, sometimes teleporting them with Misty Step. Wyll has been performing less than my other guys. He does have Hunger of Hadar and I think Magic Missile (or just Eldritch Blast?) as well as Slow. Not the king of versatility though, Shadowheart and Gale have so many good spells to pick from. Slow was also extremely good against one of the big bosses. I love how this game gives you so many ways to experiment with your tactics and spell. This also means I hate how you have to commit to learned spells until you reach the next level. But you can keep it simple too. Most of my attacks are still simply ranged or melee.
#14 - Friends. This cantrip gives the caster advantage with every Charisma-based skill check. Every. Single. One. As a cantrip it can be cast at will, so anytime you are in a dialogue (or in some cases, combat) and it asks for a Deception, Intimidation, Performance or Persuasion check, it will give you the option to cast Friends (just like Guidance) and give yourself two die rolls, and it will apply the better of the two rolls. This spell is so useful it's not even funny. My bard chose it from the get-go, and makes use of it in almost every conversation, even with her 18 Charisma. My wizard uses it to bolster his feeble 10 Charisma and still get better odds on making my Charisma skill checks, which saves me SO MUCH TIME not having to reload previous quicksaves. I think we can all agree that sometimes in BG3 our plans will hinge completely on whether we succeed on a Persuasion or Intimidate check. Friends is not only useful, it's practically mandatory.
Unless you're playing Tactician or attempting to charm certain NPC's in Balanced. They will realize that you cast a spell on them, and they will not be happy. You could talk your way out of it, casting Friends again in the process, but there comes a certain point where you can no longer talk, and they will just attack you. I've had a few Friends that didn't know this, and ended up pissing off a few Grove NPC's, leading to the entire Grove being massacred.
Create water can remove invisibility from enemies. Last night I cast it on the invisible duregar in the underdark destroyed village and it didn't even seem to trigger a saving throw on them. If it's a free AOE remove invisibility spell then that's actually pretty decent.
Instead of casting water have a water elemental attack or frost elemental ice orb that melts into water. Casting prep spells gets expensive and bottles annoying to search for
It’s still nice to have as a level one spell usage, as those elementals require 4th or 5th levels slots. It’s all about options and situational stuff :P
Another thing that Guidance is amazing for is setting up Concentrated Blast. If you use it on a character with the buff that makes illithid powers bonus actions, you can use the attack every turn, which is pretty decent damage and healing for not costing a spell slot and automatically scaling with your class's spell modifier. Especially considering you can have the combo as soon as you get to the creche, which is very early for that kind of potential.
This does depend on the DC and your static bonus, if you can't beat the DC on less than a 20, the bonus to the roll may actually be better than your extra shot at a critical success Easy example being a dc30 with +10 to your roll, normally you'd need a 20 to succeed, advantage gives you two chances, or two die faces, a +3 from a guidance roll means you can pass on a 17, 18, 19, or 20, giving you 4 die faces that will pass
Friends is even better, as it gives advantage to all Charisma-checks; persuasion, deception, intimidation, and performance. Even though it's not on the cleric list, you can get a free cantrip by choosing elf or half-elf race.
By the end of my first playthrough my half illithid wizards magic missiles were doing 12 damage per hit and executing enemies below like 40 health so basically any low health enemies just stopped existing
Spirit Guardians is broken. A cleric having 20+ Armor Class and good Constitution saving bonus and under Haste buff can just run around the map and inflict 100+ damage to a group of enemies without breaking concentration, always disengaging. It actually can damage twice per round, though it should only damage once, so it's broken
For a laugh, I respecced two party members into Light Clerics. Mobile (no AoO)+ Warcaster (Adv on conc.) feats. Overlapping Spirit Guardians and just speed potioned them around a few fights.
For magic misslie builds: Get spellsparkler from saving counciler florrick which gives 2 lightning charges for each time you deal dmg with spell or cantrip, also get the necklace of PSYCHIC SPARK from Blurg in the underdark and get 1 extra missile per shot, each time you land 1 misslie you get lightning charges and at 5 charges you deal extra lightning dmg (ish 5-8) to targets. A lvl 1 magic misslie does with this build roughly 20-30 dmg and with 100% hit chance anywhere
My new favorite way to fight as a Wizard is Create Water and Ice Spells (Cold Damage), as ice is my favorite element. However, I didn't realize that Water is so OP until later in Act 3, so I've up until that point just used Fire Ball and sometimes used it with Grease. I decimated Sarevok with Cold+Water once I used the Potion of Speed!
Hunger of hadar, fire wall, and the physical/blade version of firewall all are insanely powerful especially together, if you can control a choke point you just win so many hard late game fights
I can't believe anyone looked at longstrider, correctly parsed the spell's description and then slept on it. Buttt, I am glad you added it to this list, because the thought of someone misreading the spell and then ignoring it just... breaks my heart.
The issue I had is that when you look at new spells to add when your character levels up, it doesn't tell you what spells are rituals and which aren't. I skipped over Longstrider for most of the game because I had no idea it was ritual cast :(
Oh my god, I can't believe you missed the most obviously broken use of Minor Illusion. You can locate invisible enemies by their floating Investigation checks.
bless in itself is really good, cause of what you explain, but if you manage to get the staff of arcane blessing, you double the effectiveness of it, making it 2d4, but now the bonus on attack also applies to spell casters, making it incredibly strong.
This is incorrect. All that staff does is give an additional 1d4 (2d4 total) on spell attack rolls. It does not double bless for everyone, that would be insane.
Mystra's Blessing: Bless grants an additional 1d4 to Saving Throws and Weapon Attack Rolls, and an additional 2d4 to Spell Attack Rolls. bless doesn't give die to spell caster if you don't have the staff.
Bless does not give advantage, advantage being two d20s and taking the higher value of the two. Bless adds a d4 to add on top of your d20, it is essentially a guidance for combat on multiple party members.
There's an amulet you can get VERY early in the game that gives the wearer the Guidance cantrip. Equipping it to your skill monkey (like a rogue, for any lockpicking/trap disarming) will mean that they ALWAYS get a +1d4 to any skill check they make, even if the rest of the party doesn't have the spell or if the wearer has scouted away from the party.
Idk if anyone has said this yet but you actually can get magic missile to miss. There has to be an invisible enemy creature standing in between you and your target. The first missile will hit the invisible enemy but the other two will swerve around the newly discovered obstacle. Pretty sure this is the only way to get magic missile to "miss" even though it technically hits the invisible enemy.
Here's a combo I found last night. I had sanctuary running on my cleric, who was keeping everyone healed. A caster hit her with eyebite: sleep. That made me start wondering. When you are sanctuaried, you can CAST sleep and it does not break the sanctuary.
@@TheKnuckleneck Yeah, that's prob the case. Pretty confusing/misleading tho, given the current game terms. There are other synonyms for advantage out there like a buff or a bonus.
Really cool, several things I didn't know. I use more than half of these spells and really enjoy them. A few not listed here I find very powerful and use constantly are Hold Person (10 turns immobile with auto crits!), Blind (like color spell, but no hp restriction), Chromatic Orb (love the flexibility, plus CC!) Enhance Ability (so great for conversations), Flaming Sphere (damage on cast, then every turn, AND it's a meatball shield?!?), Misty Step (for obvious reasons), Scorching Ray (Similar to Magic Missile but higher dps), Invisibility (anyone can benefit from it, but especially good for Rogues b/c of advantage), and Preserve Life (flat 12 hp to everyone in 9m!?)
6:55 you don't even have to use a spell to help up downed teammates from afar; you can throw a healing potion so that it splashes on them (make sure it lands next to them not on them, so you don't bludgeon them with the bottle) and it will heal them
Kinda of ashamed that you didn't add in Aid and Heros Feast. Heroes Feast gives +15 HP and gain immunity to common annoying afflictions, AND it stacks with Aid to double up your HP boosting
Command spell is even more useful than that and i would put it on #1. You can drink an invisibility potion on Shadowheart or any cleric with the spell, go to the githyanki patrol WITHOUT triggering the cutscene which freezes all action and cast it on the dragon rider. The chance to drop the weapon is small, but save scumming is a thing. You can get the legendary sword at lvl 3 or even less, since Withers can revive your companions. Enjoy your legendary weapon and ez gameplay after :3
What you might want to do is create a video or multiple videos explaining every spell and action in the entire game as well as what the advantages are. Those videos will guarantee you lots of views.
For you to put longstrider but not long jump is an atrocity. Long jump spells triple your jump distance, basically giving you the range of misty step to move every turn, using a bonus action, and you have extra movement to reposition. It's basically a toggleable misty step that you can cast as a ritual.
The problem with longstrider is the constant visual effect around the legs of everyone in your party. It's enough to stop me from using it. Magic missile is indeed fantastic. One fun application is if you have a lot of exploding stuff in a room with enemies, or a ton of droppable chandeliers. You can trigger all of them with a single action using magic missile and do amazing area damage.
@@korehaven8908you can only do that with a cantrip and a non-leveled spell, you actually can't cast cure wounds and healing word in the sams turn in 5e, except for edge cases.
There is ring you can find in act2 inn, Ring of the Shapeshifter, it gives you 1d4 advantage on every roll as long as you have an active disguise. It makes shapeshifting more powerful.
Longstrider: Think about adding this to a pure monk.. who already gets a bonus 6m at level, effectively doubling your speed. More, if you have a Barb with the animal aspect of the elk... Magic Missile: very effective at popping illusions... like in a certain place against a certain "person"... Guidance: is cantrip crack... use it even more than Eldritch Blast as a Warlock. Bless: if you have a certain magic item, you will cast bless on everyone you heal.... Mass healing word anyone? Minor Illusion: with Barrelmancy... hoo boy Shield: combined with Mirror Image takes a mediocre AC into temporary godlike levels Sanctuary: ... so... if you never attack, and focus on buffing allies, they have VERY little chance of ever hitting you. Or even wanting to. Buffs and heals are as useful, moreso in many ways as direct damage. Shocking Grasp: removes reactions... for those who hate the Gith parry, this can help a lot.
Magic missle is probably my favorite offensive spell on my wizard even at high level. Multi target multi shot. Syncs very well with on-hit effects if you can find them
I was thinking about re doing my rouge with withers to make myself a arcane trickster because magic missile would have been a absolute boon to have earlier
@@thatoneguy2288 I made my rogue an assassin. I also was given a cloak by the dark urge that makes him invisible for 2 rounds after scoring a kill..... So OP it's not funny.
I must say I'm a bit surprised. I LOVED the spell create or destroy water and always had it on my spell bar from day one. It had so many great uses, I guess I just took for granted that everyone seen what I seen in that spell.
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Vetran dnd players know how powerful most of these spells are i thought this would be like how sapping sting is a low key suck or save as a cantrip cause on a fail it knocks the target prone
If you are a medium character you can use Disguise Self to turn into a small race, then use the Reduce spell to shrink them to tiny and they can then enter burrows that even small creatures are too large for.
Great tip!
Or u can use gaseous form spell. Atleast that's what I use. Don't have reduce.
@@kunalsingh4418 Druids can also shape change into rats.
Mage hand also works for entering such small holes.
I’m not smart enough to play BG3 😂
My favourite is by far Command: Flee. when you have your two ( or three ) frontline characters surrounding a strong enemy + pets, command them to flee and watch with glee as they kill themselves on the attacks of opportunity. So much free dmg and a turn of CC for a lvl 1 spellslot.
Paladins can also use Compel Duel to make a mob run through allies to get to him.
@@Knight_Marshalthat's so clever! Trigger everyone's attack of opportunity as the enemies run through 😁
@@Knight_Marshal could be fun with a full mele team and 2 paladins 2 fighters, compell duel monsters back and forward
Sentinel, polearm master, command flee.
Trust me.
@@formdoggie5do not use this combo on the metal golem. Sentinel will not allow it to flee back to the anvil.
Magic Missile is especially useful against Auntie Ethel and her many high-AC illusions.
Cast a ritual silence on where she sits invisible before the fight and her entire first turn is burned getting out of it
@@stormtempterf8058 block her way out with 3 party members and that fight is the easiest
Damn... Players are ruthless in D&D
Aunti Ethel always teleport to the same location and if you want easy kill position Laezel in the middle of her 3 illusion one of them is her and you can knock them to the hole
@@GoldenBridgeVEVOAny loot on Auntie Ethel?
A few additions for Minor illusion.
- Can trigger traps, mines, wires etc..
- Can block "holes" like the ones that spread poison gas or oil.
- Turrets aim this illusion but they dont look back, they keep watching at that direction even after destroying that illusion.
Wow, I did not know. Thanks!
My dumbass thought the spell was awful because I was only using it in combat…
It's not supposed to do most of those things, but I can understand if the game simplifies things by not differentiating between interactions based on perception vs. physical presence. Illusions aren't supposed to have any physical interaction and shouldn't set off traps, tripwires, mines, etc. People, animals, and to some extent non-living things like turrets that are enchanted to detect things magically can be tricked into reacting by an illusion, but a physical trigger shouldn't be tripped by an illusion. But if the game engine can be tricked, abuse it.
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Best part about Create Water:
Even on Tactician difficulty, placing water in a chokepoint might cause enemies without ranged attacks to take a MAJOR detour just to avoid standing in it!
Which can save you alot of pressure in a huge fight. 😊
You're saying they avoid it simply because it's a surface? lolvideogames.
@@Trepanation21 given everything that a spellcaster can do with a puddle of water, they're just being cautious
The only thing I use Shadowheart for is create water and heals!!! If something gets near her she just does spiritual guardians and runs away! 🤣
@@CBGBBBsanctuary +,beacon of hope+ mass healing
@@MultiheadedD Yeah if a cleric suddenly put a bunch of water out, and their wizard friend was standing nearby prepping to cast a spell, I wouldn't take the risk either. You're either gonna get blasted by lightning and take a bajillion damage or blasted by cold damage and get the whole surface frozen over and slip down for the fighter to bash your skull in
I used create water in the hag fight on Mayrina, it both extinguished the fire and allowed me to tell which one of them was real when the hag tried to disguise as her, since the real Mayrina was wet
You could also examine both and one will have fey and darkvision bonus while the other does not ( human). That was a creative way though. One reason this game is astonishing is the countless possibilities and out of the box thinking.
I did this exact same thing, handy solution!
@@xxvenom49xx72also maryina is lvl1 while the hag is lvl5.
İi just trew a water bottle at the cage
I just aimed an ability at each and the hag will always have the lower chance to hit (not counting height or whatever).
Another note on Sanctuary, if you have a character that uses a Concentration spell purely for support (i.e. Bless, Hold Person, etc), using Sanctuary on that character will essentially make them unable to have their concentration broken. Super useful in the right scenarios.
This is good, but statistically mirror image does that better. It’s non-concentration and in BG3 it ads 3 duplicates, each of which grants you +3 AC for a +9 to AC. Disadvantage, on average, means they have to roll above the targets AC twice, but mirror image means they have to roll 45% higher than the base targets AC once
i do this on my sorcerer. dipping 2 cleric on a sorcerer with 10 starting wisdom nets you 2 spells as a cleric that you can grab with both create water and sanctuary, neither of which care about how high your wisdom is. you can on turn one, twin a haste on you or your teammates, then bonus action sanctuary on yourself to protect yourself for a minimum of 1 turn. next turn if you hasted yourself, you can create water + chromatic orb or lightning bolt or ice storm for max damage with a tempest cleric subspec. if you didnt haste yourself, you can still do the combo so long as you're willing to quicken one of those two spells. its a pretty nasty combo of what you can do with that multiclass. another multi that can also pull this off is a devotion paladin/sorcerer as well.
@@mystycomega6547how is 9ac vetter than immortal except aoe? Sanctuarys also non concentrate
@@botchedmandala5197 because sanctuary goes away when you attack or cast a spell
@@jrpgplayer except that in most instances all that does is make the enemies fire more concentrated on the three remaining targets. Unless you have an excellent bear totem tank, that usually means everyone in the party is taking roughly 33% more damage than they would usually. This is suboptimal as you need to expand healing and potions much earlier than you would if you could share the damage more evenly and recover it using short resting.
You are talking about damage avoidance, this conversation is about damage mitigation. The difference is that one uses enemy resources, and one uses yours.
Longstrider changed to a ritual is a HUGE buff. Chromatic Orb not requiring material costs is also a big change making it have no downside
It always was a ritual. The key difference is in BG3 it lasts all day and rituals don't take 10 minutes to cast without using a slot like they do in 5e where it also only lasts for 1 hour. If you cast this in 5e rules it would take 40 minutes to cast on everyone and then the first guy you cast it on only has 20 mins of duration left by the time you are done the last person.
Downside is that its range got nerfed and so did its damage. All of the damage types except Thunder were reduced to 2d8 instead of 3d8, in addition to those damage types also creating a small surface of their element underneath whoever was hit.
@@BonnieBoestar its not a nerf, it makes it much better since you can aoe with them and inflict status effects
@@fofolacosa123 Is it AOE? I knew it created its terrain type but I had some enchanted rings that did that whenever I dealt a certain damage type already so it wasn't nearly as useful.
Movespeed can make you solo this game on tactician. It's the most OP stat, easily. It's a little boring to win solo tho, just running away all the time.
You forgot something about magic missile... eventually you gain the ability to add your int modifier to your spells (Evo wiz etc), making magic missile deal additional damage based on your int modifier. at 20 int, You can deal 7-10 damage per missile eventually, and with 6 or 7 missiles when you up cast it, it makes for one of THE best spells in the game damage wise.. easily
Not only that, but if you have a buff that adds 1-4 dmg to your spells, like lightning charges, all projectiles of magic missile will gain the 1-4 dmg increase. This means your 3-12dmg first level magic missile will be 6-24 + 3 times your int modifier.
@@Streetboy12345 Fireball + ring that adds spell ability to spell dmg. = win.
And in Act 1 there is a Amulet with a extra Magic Missile. And a Ring with a Radiant Orb with each impact.
So, it's very usefull against a Strong Bosses to debuff a -4 attack rolls in a single round, that's a +4 AC for all members.
and ppl enjoy all those buffs with eldritch blast, and even minmaxed to be called, sorlock
@@회멸 A really gross build for this is a single level dip in hexblade warlock, and then wizard. Hex curse the target, which adds your proficiency as damage, then your race trait as the new one allows you to add damage to a spell equal to your proficiency. At level 11 you can cast a level 5 MM that does 7 darts, with each one doing 1d4+1+5+4. For a MINIMUM of 77 damage. Then you can do it again a second time on the next turn.
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My girlfriend found out that, as a druid in Cat form, she could just jump through every kind of fencing. This was kinda useful for escaping prisons and in the late game, where you find vaults behind bars that the cat can simply jump through without consequences.
this yes, but is the cat able to steal or pick up the items and store in the inventory - after leafe the place and join your army again? If so it is incredible useful. - I have to try it....thanks for the tip.
@@Syntax1963Adruid can shift into cat. I made my rogue into a cat burglar
Instead of "create water" you can carry water bottles and use your action to trow them, it creates smaller area but its useful.
Also useful for putting out burning party members! Just throw it at their feet! (Caveat: careful when throwing water bottles down from a height. It can do an AOE of bludgeoning dmg, so you might end up hurting the person you're trying to help)
I always have water bottles. They are very handy.
yeah, a shame you can fill up the empty bottles you find, and merchants charge almost as much as a healing potion for a bottle of FREAKIN WATER.
I've got a bunch of bottles but haven't found the option to fill them. Can I do so at any water source? I know there's a pump in the blighted village.
This feels like an obvious question, so I apologize if so. I'm brand new and can only play at a friend's house
@@jeepersmcgee3466 i have no idea, i use that pump to clean my characters 😅
I really wish create or destroy water was a ritual spell. Would really make it worth preparing. But otherwise, it's hard to take when not only does it eat a spot, but also eats into your number cast.
The set up value for it vastly outweighs the cons. You’ll do incredible damage with cold and lightning and more down the like as you get to the stronger cold and lightning spells.
Especially if you use a potion of speed/sorcerer points to fire off multiple spells in one turn.
Water boom, lightning/cold spell big aoe boom. Big bongo destruction.
It’s a lot better than fire damage, with the exception of fire wall, that thing is still great to have.
Just want to point out that Transmutation wizards get create water as a bonus cantrip which they do not have to prepare and costs nothing to cast, in or out of combat. Also, there is a staff for sale in the wizard grove that allows the caster to cast this spell.
It's literally a mimic spell damage wise. Doubling damage means if you spent a level 1 slot to double your level 3 slot damage, you effectively casted 2 level 3 spell for only a 1 level spell slot and a 3 level spell slot. Worth it imo!
Carry water bottles with you. You can throw them.
Ritual spells (if they are even capable of being cast in combat at all) will still use a spell slot if you are in combat. So I don’t really see why you would want it to be a ritual
The best use for Minor Illision: You can use it on any trader to lure him away from the other people. When the trader moves away, start talking to him so that he won't return. Then you can steal everything from him.
Even better, you can cast silence on the trader, knock them out (silence will make it so you don't trigger everyone else to attack you), and then take all the special goods off of them. Their inventory will have anything you sold to them, unique weapons and armors, and some of their money. Buy the +1 and +2 armors that you want as they won't be in their inventory, then clear out their gold stock by selling to them, knock them out, and you'll have everything you can want from them plus a good chunk of change. After a long rest the merchant will be back up and fine.
@@asturias0267 oh that's cool! Is knockout an option if you right click on the trader?
@@gemsstr7933you can toggle it on your action bar. It looks like a dude being hit over the head - basically if you toggle it enemies are left with 1hp and unconscious :)
@@gemsstr7933 you have to activate it on your skill menu at the bottom. It should be in the most far right tab. It's called something like "toggle non-lethal" and only works on melee attacks. When they get to 0 HP they just get knocked out instead of dying. You can probably get through the game without killing anyone although some enemies might still die in cutscenes.
@@gemsstr7933toggleable passive ability that only works in melee
Darkness may be a Warlocks bread and butter during the early game, but that doesn’t mean it can’t benefit those without Devils Sight. I like to use it as cover for my ranged characters by having them poke out of it when attacking, then jumping back in before ending their turn. This forces enemies to either jump in after them (potentially missing their attack) or stand just outside it’s effect, skipping their turn.
Just keep in mind that creatures have advantage on attacking blinded creatures but also disadvantage by being blinded.
So if both the enemy and your character are blinded by the spell the disadvantege and advantage cancel eachother out, resulting in normal hit chances.
I have my whole team warlock 2 for devil sight. becomes gamebreaking for enemies without devil sight. they dont act when they cant see anyone
IMHO, Darkness (the spell) is a waste. In most cases the radius is too large so it provides a bunch of added negatives - and does so for about one round because that's when the enemies will run out. Using that same action, or better yet one attack of a character with multiple to pop an arrow of darkness provides the same benefits more often than not. In a more confined radius meaning you're not blocking off a bunch of extra terrain causing potential issues.
Ironically, the primary instance where Darkness' radius is of better use than the smaller radius arrow of darkness are the instances where a well placed fog cloud will do the job just the same. Which is to block line of sight from afar (think - the Zentarim hideout - blocking their looking from seeing and get your entire party past if you stole the flask and now they're mad).
Unless you can lock down someone in darkness they rarely stay inside of it. So typically you get one maybe two rounds of real use if you intend to use it on anyone *inside* and not to block ranged attackers/anti-stealth LOS.
@@danjal87nl not when you hide your entire part in the darkness cloud with devil sight, then it becomes broken. put disadvantage on all enemies that hit you inside the cloud (while you just hit normally)
As a drow necromancer, I have found the darkness spell essence in several battles where I needed protection from large groups. Like you, I have my characters move out of the cloud, attack, then duck back in. Many archers do nothing when they can't see your characters. It was a vital spell in one special battle that I won't give for spoiler reason, but I will hint you can protect an area from attack with this spell.
Ritual spells, like Longstrider, can be cast by hirelings. Use them to buff up your main party and then leave them in the camp.
Non-ritual non-concentration spells can be cast as well, but they will use hireling's spell slot.
This would be true if the game didn't let you swap prepared spells out on the fly.
Plenty of times I've just hotswapped one of those spells in if I needed them, cast the rituals, swap m out.
One of the quirky side-effects of how they adapted the 5e mechanics to their game engine.
@@danjal87nl if you swap the spell out, you also lose the effect. if you buff yourself from a hireling and leave him at camp it stays until long rest
for a while I had a cleric/wizard hireling to buff aid, mage armor and longstrider. it's annoying to manage and not really necessary so I stopped after a while. it's still a very strong tool to improve your party.
@@n-man87you don’t lose the effect if you swap the spell out. I start every new day casting longstrider and mage armor then immediately swap them out. I never lose the effect
@@suffocatetheskies2506 I don't know about longstrider, but I tried this the other day with mage armor on Gale and he immediately loses the buff after the spell is no longer in his prepared list.
@@danjal87nlits kinda the same in 5e, it just takes an hour of in-game time which isn't an issue since most dms do not track time
I think it's important to differentiate between "advantage" and "bonus". Bless doesn't count as advantage. If it did, it would activate Sneak Attack and a couple other oddities. Bless just gives you a bonus. I don't mean to be nitpicky, but it might be clearer communication if you adapted this for your next videos' scripts!
that's not "nitpicky" advantage vs a 1d4 is a huge difference.
bless is one of the best spells in the game more so as a level 1 spell.
but it's not advantage for better or for worst.
Imagine bless giving advantage dear lord that would break the game lol
@@zzxp1 bless is situationality better giving 1d4.
if your party already has advantage, from stuff like faerie fire or grate weapon master or etc, advantage will not stack but the 1d4 will.
ofc if it was 3 people getting advantage that would really good but bless still extreamly strong level 1 spell to a point it's worth up scaling it to cover more party members.
Agreed, it's a huge difference@@2iq371
@@2iq371didn't he write the same thing?
Magic missle became very useful when enemies had the "unstoppable" condition in act 3.
Made orin painfully easy.
Another hidden gem spell people don’t talk about is Chromatic orb. It allows you to damage enemies and you can change the elect associated with it
It even creates or changes surfaces. Chromatic orb is a must have along with magic missile.
Elect?
element @@BrianHallmond
I've seen this advice and tried so many times. Seeing 90% chance to hit, it never hits. Makes me wonder if its bugged or if there is a trick to it. But because I never see it hit anything, I remove it from all spell casters.
@@SinisterSlay1 if you're using at as an AOE spell don't it's single target you still need to be targeting 1 enemy to do 2d8 worth of damage or 3d8 if you cast thunder element which is no aoe puddle
A warning about sleep:
always check the turn order before you try to use this spell.
Enemies will go out of their freaking way to wake each other up and it only costs them a shove bonus action. if a nearby enemy gets his turn before the enemy who is asleep, sleep can end up doing absolutely nothing because the enemy will step over, wake up his friend, and still run over to attack you.
THIS. Sleep becomes noob trap because of this, and precisely why initiative+dexterity is important. Your Sleep is wasted if an enemy takes its turn right after you to wake up their snoozing ally.
Sleep is secretly OP, though.
Very true. Sleep is good, but not as good as in 5e.
Exactly this. Sleep is a great spell -- no argument there -- but you also can't just cast it willy-nilly and expect optimal results.
Looking at the turn order is always a must, imo. I almost always try to kill them in order, if that means I can get more of my allies to their attack before the remaining enemies.
Create water can also be used to spot invis mobs
One thing I will argue is that Sleep loses its power alot by Act 3. Health Bars just become way too massive for even a highly upcast Sleep Spell to be super effective. Not to mention enemies can shove eachother awake.
Yeah saddening. It doesn't scale on higher difficulties
10:58 "this spell can be used to remove acid and fire from the ground or a character that might be afflicted by it." Okay now i believe it is underrated if you can remove a character with it xD
Also: Fog Cloud is a 1st level saveless mass blind that allows you to rob or murder (if you one-shot them) people in public without getting into a fight.
I used fog to rob Sundras Sorceries (Lorroakans place)
I've spent way too much game time robbing people inside of a fog cloud.
Another extra perk of magic missile, every missile counts as a separate spell hit for The Spellsparkler quarterstaff. Which means that once you reach the maximum lightning charges (which is very easy when upcasting magic missiles, specially if doing it multiple times in the same turn), the next missile will deal massive damage. On higher levels it's easy to obliterate enemies just by using this interaction. The only issue is that, if you are targeting multiple enemies, you can't reliably choose which one will eat the blast, as the missiles don't usually follow the order in which you chose the targets.
You can use the initiative tracker to target that! You can click on the enemies at the top and it will select them. This also works for healing word, attack rolls, pretty much anything that had to target a creature
WOW I didn't know that one! That's amazing Extra damage! Thanks
Another tip: many buff spells, like Bless, can be cast before combat. That way you can save an action for something else. Just start combat before the effect runs out!
Sometimes, I toggle turn-based mode on/off while I'm prepping before combat. It's basically like pausing and you can get your buffs set then turn it off and start the battle normally. It can easily save the spell durations while you're switching characters and figuring out exactly what buffs you want
@@yakobdouThis is useful, thx!!!
@@yakobdou to this there is even more - sometimes you have a conversation ahead of the fight - with their leader or whatever - during the conversation you can see there are 3 'circles' in the left lower sceen - you can click on Party circle - then you are able to position your other caracters in strategic good positions (to be better prepared for the fight), as usual you are just all in one place - but if you use the 'party button' you can position your guys even on rooftops, prepare hate, bless,whatever ... - then you go back to you main character again and continue with the conversation - as soon as the fight is triggered you have a huge advantage because you are not just in one close formation.
"Aid" is incredibly powerful upcasted to max.
Increases whole party HP by 20/25, including all summoned creatures!
So at lvl11, my whole party has 100hp & Minthara (paladin) has 110.
Shadowheart's Planar Ally has 156hp.
My warlock's Air Elemental has 110hp. Conjure Us has 70hp. Imp has 30hp. Shadow Lantern's Wraith has 44hp. And 6 Ghouls from Danse Macabre each have 64hp. For a total of 10 minions for 1 character! Totaling 738hp worth for HP just for my warlock.
There's also a level 6 cleric spell (at least for life cleric) that also gives you food and buffs health with aid, both stacking. You can only cast one, but you can get a pearlescent restoration item, you buy in the underdark, that can restore that level 6 spellslot and cast both aid and this ability. To get a total of 45 extra max HP. Super strong
The problem with D&D 5e's action economy is that you really have to weigh whether it's worth using your action to buff/debuff an ally/enemy, cast a save or suck spell on an enemy, or just throw a big fireball to damage down the enemies instead. Usually, damage is the way to go because dead enemies means fewer enemy actions being used against your party. And I think BG3 makes this even more in the fireball's favor when you can see the enemy's health.
Hp, passive abilities and resistance 😮
I've thought the same, a lot of these kinds of games favour initiative and damage.
Utility spells and having a tactical position is better in this game than straight damage. Setting up a corridor of web or other difficult terrain leading to a door or high elevation will slow the enemy melee users approach by multiple turns. Darkness can be cast on your party so they can step out, attack from range, then step back in and be untargetable by ranged enemies. If you have a melee damage character on the same initiative as a cleric you can have the damage dealer go all out and then have the cleric cast sanctuary on them so they're safe to go again next turn. There are so many spells and abilities that are better than just damage dealing ones. You're not always going to be able to get all your enemies in one place to fireball them, and sometimes fireball just low rolls on damage anyways.
@@asturias0267 Pre-fight spells and bonus action spells like sanctuary and healing word are different (actually this game removes the D&D rule that says you can't cast two spells in one turn, so bonus action spells are even better in BG3 than tabletop D&D 5e). I'm talking about action economy after you're in initiative. Actions are like a currency. If the enemy has more actions per round than the player party, you're at a disadvantage. Removing actions from the enemy is the name of the game, and killing enemies is the most straightforward way to do that. Yes, there are other ways to do that like banishment, stun, paralyze effects, but typically if your ranged is hiding in darkness the enemy will just target someone else. Those enemy actions don't go to waste just because their preferred target is no longer available, maybe just waste one action to dash to another target.
@@asturias0267 That Darkness strat is crazy, stealing that
Something useful to know about sanctuary. You can use sanctuary and place glyph of warding to inflict AOE damage without loosing your sanctuary.
Very useful👌
Thanks for the tip about using Disguise Self to speak with the dead. I didn't think about that combo, and was a little irritated that the enemies I killed wouldn't answer my questions.
Well would you answer someone? What are they gonna do to you? Kill you again?
i could have sworn i tried this and it didnt work.
@@The-Domsame
I usually use scroll/spell/potion on another party member and initiate conversation with them. Sometimes works. But this works much more often for npcs who doesnt want to talk to you anymore
@@Jimminus well its a magic spell, the "killer can't question his victim" rule is stupid imo... the spell doesn't bring back the person so it can't feel any resentment against me, the corpse should answer my questions when I cast the spell. When you question somebody you can see by the way the respond that there is nothing left of them anymore except a few memories, at this point they are just a magic puppet.
Thats why I installed a mod where you can question ppl who you have killed, this makes more sense to me.
I love using Jump out of combat. It's a ritual, and only 10 turns, but you can cast it on each party member one at a time to get them to jump over an obstacle or chasm that would otherwise be impossible. Just make sure you're the last one jumping. And then swap the spell out of your prepared spells so it isn't taking up space that would be better suited for a combat-oriented spell.
If you take it out of your prepared spells, doesn't that mean you can no longer cast it wether as a ritual or not?
Yes. But since it lasts only 10 turns, and you’re out of combat, that’s not a big deal to swap it for a combat-oriented spell after you’re done using it. Out of combat, you can swap your prepared spells as much as you like; just don’t remove something that’s being used until a long rest, like longstrider or speak with animals. You have to keep those prepared, or they stop being applied.
Minor Illusion + Fireball is a powerful combo. The fireball sound effects are so satisfying
You can use minor illusion to see approximately where invisible enemies are, then fireball them. 😉
Another huge benefit of Disguise Self is there is a magical ring you can find on a Strange Ox that gives you a +1d4 to all Ability checks when you are disguised. It's possible, albeit tricky, to get this in Act 1. It's much easier to get it in Act 2. If you wait until Act 3, you can actually be given the ring by helping the Strange Ox out on a quest. It's basically like always having Guidance during skill rolls, and it even stacks with Guidance and the Bard's Jack of All Trades.
I had difficulties 1-shotting him, but managed a couple times in Act 1. If you play with multiple players, you can time your attack so it'll count as a 1-shot as well. Otherwise I get Astarion to put up some boxes to give him a high ground advantage and snipe shot the cow. This ring is soooo nice to have right from Act 1.
@@MeesterG Or you can use a familiar to attack the strange ox once while the caster is far away from combat (so they don't get drawn into combat- You can also send them to camp after combat starts & the pet will stay). Once your familiar attacks (or mage hand), and combat starts, move your familiar to proc the attacks of opportunity or simply dismiss it. Combat is now over.
Now all you have to do is talk to the strange ox with the character who's pet it was, and simply trade with the ox to get the ring. This allows you to continue to receive items from this Strange Ox throughout the game. There's some fun items that come later that wouldn't be available to you if it's dead in Act 1.
@@shadowfox9490 oh, I didn't know he'd give more items :)
I actually didnt understand that sleeps cap was the current HP rather than max HP.
Finding a magical item that has color spray on it is fantastic for tanks with no casting ability. Draw all the aggro, color spray them, then use a sweeping attack or similar on them.
The only downside is that colour spray items tend to be hp based, meaning you can't cast it on anything that you can't already easily kill.
@@NerthosTrue, but useful on hordes of lowbies trying to eat your face all at once :)
@@cannibalholiday Fair, it's a good save for a low AC character.
That ring was my absolute favorite item in act 1, I called out 'pocket sand' every time I used it
Getting Longstrider and Crusher's Ring makes for a devastatingly brutal and frightening Karlach.
Along with minor illusion, I also highly recommend silence, which lets you prevent your opponents from calling for guards after you have pulled them away from their main group.
I used this in the Goblin Camp to silence the drums
@@Bubbabob145 That and Priestess Gut can't summon guards if you attack her when she takes you to her room. The drums themselves can be destroyed, though you might have to do a roll if you wanted to convince them it was an accident or something.
I started carrying around the rainwater staff after the spider cave under the blighed village.
The hobgobblin merchant in the underdark sells an amulet that makes magic missiles shoot an extra missile. Combine that, the crossbow that gives you 1 level 3 cast of magic missile, and the electric staff to generate and expend absurd numbers of electric charges
You can maintain concentration on a damage spell such as Firewall or Insect Plague without breaking Sanctuary
I have heard this also works with spirit guardians, which if true is totally broken and needs fixing.
@@garion046Probably doesn't "need" fixing - it's a single player game, not an online competitive one. If people wanna use a busted, cheesy combo then I don't really see a big issue with it. People are already save scumming and insta-throwing bosses to their deaths.
Sanctuary on cleric is really strong. Protects concentration spells like bless. Also glyph of warding and summon weapon/guardian doesn't count as an attack so shadowheart can still contribute offensively as well while staying safer.
Nice
She Has 25 AC in 2nd act for me so i dont bother with protecting her xd
Sanctuary into Spirit Guardians turns her into invulnerable beyblade. Throw around non-concentration spells as you need and you have fun little (and easy to abuse) gameplan.
@@FaelivriWouldn't Sprit Guardians break Sanctuary though as soon as you hit anyone? The spell says or harm a creature, does the game not count this?
@kinderdm from what I've seen, it does not break it. But you are correct that it should and generally does in 5e. Hopefully this gets patched, otherwise sanctuary is concentration free globe of invulnerability, which is nuts.
Magic Missile, has amulet in underdark from the hobgoblin to give it +1 missile, wizard can get +5 dmg per missile as an evocation specialist at level 10, and the lightning charges quarterstaff/+2 radiant dmg ring can both apply to it, making the missile actually do a "lot" of damage
Oh crap! I was one of those people who ignored Longstrider. This video just helped me realize Longstrider could help me be more successful in the Iron Throne!!
The most underrated spell class is barrelmancer. Me on my second playthrough collecting all explosive barrels i can to trivialize boss encounters in act 1. That spider queen never seen it coming))
Nice! I think the 40-lbs per barrel would be a problem, though.
I beat the spider queen without taking any damage... just firebolt the webs she's standing on, she takes 30-40 damage each time she falls, and is prone for easy sniping. Then when she teleports/phases up to where my party is standing, thunderwave knocks her down again! Took me just two turns to eliminate her.
Magic Missile is 100% OP... It always hits, turns corners and there is an early item for an extra missile.... I love it!!!
I highly recommend using the Water Spell in the Auntie Ethel fight.
Use it to take out the fire on the cage where Mayrina is in, and it gives you less stress.
This also helps you identify which one is the fake Mayrina as when you are close to killing the Hag she will duplicate herself as Mayrina, and you can tell which one is real by the Wet Status.
Ray of Frost puts it out too
If you summon the ogres to that fight. Uh. Don't summon the ogres. They throw rocks. The gits.
... unless, what if one uses Sanctuary on Mayruna?
[I didn't try Ogres + Sanctuary, but Sanctuary on its own does show up as a status effect]
you don't need anything to identify hag's illusion, just examine both and the one with the smaller belly is the hag.
For magic missile as well, evocation wizard can add int mod to every single missile and there is an amulet that will give you an extra missile, every cast, as well as 1 free cast per lr
Amazing!
in act 3 you get from a pretty long and convoluted quest a pair of gloves that add 1-8 damage to targeted spells with a hit roll. This includes magic missile and adds damage per missile. Wizards with evo school and these gloves are extremely strong late game.
A thing to note on the magic missile necklace is that it stops adding benefits when you upcast past level 3.
Magic Missile is also the least resist spell in the game. Esp in act3 almost everything have fire resist, you don't want to use Fireball.
In addition to the Spellmight Gloves in act 3, a legendary staff in act 3 can grant you Lightning charges, which allows for magic missiles to deal bonus lightning damage (dealing around 60 dmg with a level 1 Magic Missile). The spellsparkler staff also does this, but with a lower number of lightning charges.
There's a ring you can get that will cast bless on anyone you heal. Does NOT require concentration! Put it on your healer. There's another item that will heal you for a bit if you heal someone else. Constant bless on your healer, and everyone they heal.
gloves that cast blade ward on targets you heal, and boots that give temp HP to targets you heals. and finally a hat that gives healer a heal when healing others :D all in act 1. act 3 there's the crazy purple gloves that do something on a heal and a death ward on a revive.
@@Viktoria_Thaelinthe hat is only available if you kill all the druids.
Ah guidance, the main reason Shadowheart was a permanent member in my party until act 3. Fun video. Love hearing everyone's strategies. Game offers so many ways to be effective. Gonna have to try a tactician run next.
I found an amulet that lets you use guidance in act 1 somewhere
Guidance is the real reason to have a cleric. But I think a warlock subclass gets it, too.
@@DamnDaimen
As do Druids by default(if picked)
Another spell I found surprisingly useful on Eldritch Knight (and probably Paladins/Melee Rangers too) was Expeditious Retreat. I never gave this spell much thought on Tabletop, but the fact it lasts potentially all day for 1 cast seemed crazy good in BG3, and since I was a lower INT build I didn't want spells that relied on attack rolls or saving throws. My Barbarian, Fighter, Warlock, and Rogue all had insane speed due to their class features, magic items and bonus action dashes, but my fighter would have absolutely fallen short were it not for this spell. I used a throwing build with the Lightning Jabber with a ring that gives an extra 1d4 Psychic damage while concentrating, and at this point deal ridiculous ranged damage, move fast as hell, and all while I'm wearing a shield and full plate.
hunger of hadar has been the most useful spell to me by far. its made every fight with a ton of enemies completely trivial.
Well, this is all good to hear. I just picked it up at the end of my last play session.
Lol yeah started it using it after that fight in that shaded tower. Rekt me
Hunger + spikes underneath wipes whole act 2
I too often get damage from it because I like to go in with at least one tank, sometimes teleporting them with Misty Step.
Wyll has been performing less than my other guys. He does have Hunger of Hadar and I think Magic Missile (or just Eldritch Blast?) as well as Slow. Not the king of versatility though, Shadowheart and Gale have so many good spells to pick from. Slow was also extremely good against one of the big bosses.
I love how this game gives you so many ways to experiment with your tactics and spell. This also means I hate how you have to commit to learned spells until you reach the next level. But you can keep it simple too. Most of my attacks are still simply ranged or melee.
200 hours in and I had no idea Healing Word could pick up a downed party member.... I'm so pissed at myself right now.
#14 - Friends. This cantrip gives the caster advantage with every Charisma-based skill check. Every. Single. One. As a cantrip it can be cast at will, so anytime you are in a dialogue (or in some cases, combat) and it asks for a Deception, Intimidation, Performance or Persuasion check, it will give you the option to cast Friends (just like Guidance) and give yourself two die rolls, and it will apply the better of the two rolls.
This spell is so useful it's not even funny. My bard chose it from the get-go, and makes use of it in almost every conversation, even with her 18 Charisma. My wizard uses it to bolster his feeble 10 Charisma and still get better odds on making my Charisma skill checks, which saves me SO MUCH TIME not having to reload previous quicksaves. I think we can all agree that sometimes in BG3 our plans will hinge completely on whether we succeed on a Persuasion or Intimidate check. Friends is not only useful, it's practically mandatory.
Unless you're playing Tactician or attempting to charm certain NPC's in Balanced. They will realize that you cast a spell on them, and they will not be happy. You could talk your way out of it, casting Friends again in the process, but there comes a certain point where you can no longer talk, and they will just attack you. I've had a few Friends that didn't know this, and ended up pissing off a few Grove NPC's, leading to the entire Grove being massacred.
Create water can remove invisibility from enemies. Last night I cast it on the invisible duregar in the underdark destroyed village and it didn't even seem to trigger a saving throw on them. If it's a free AOE remove invisibility spell then that's actually pretty decent.
...I am *embarrassed* to admit that I was today-years-old when I realized that you can use Command to make Zhalk drop his coveted great sword.
Instead of casting water have a water elemental attack or frost elemental ice orb that melts into water. Casting prep spells gets expensive and bottles annoying to search for
It’s still nice to have as a level one spell usage, as those elementals require 4th or 5th levels slots.
It’s all about options and situational stuff :P
Another thing that Guidance is amazing for is setting up Concentrated Blast. If you use it on a character with the buff that makes illithid powers bonus actions, you can use the attack every turn, which is pretty decent damage and healing for not costing a spell slot and automatically scaling with your class's spell modifier. Especially considering you can have the combo as soon as you get to the creche, which is very early for that kind of potential.
If you have to choose between guidance and thaumaturgy in a dialocgue option, thaumaturgy is a statistical +5 so its way better for intimidation
This does depend on the DC and your static bonus, if you can't beat the DC on less than a 20, the bonus to the roll may actually be better than your extra shot at a critical success
Easy example being a dc30 with +10 to your roll, normally you'd need a 20 to succeed, advantage gives you two chances, or two die faces, a +3 from a guidance roll means you can pass on a 17, 18, 19, or 20, giving you 4 die faces that will pass
Friends is even better, as it gives advantage to all Charisma-checks; persuasion, deception, intimidation, and performance. Even though it's not on the cleric list, you can get a free cantrip by choosing elf or half-elf race.
disguise self doesn't stop the zentarim from knowing you were the one who plotted to steal the caravan box
By the end of my first playthrough my half illithid wizards magic missiles were doing 12 damage per hit and executing enemies below like 40 health so basically any low health enemies just stopped existing
In 52 seconds you already had helpful information! Nicely done.
Spirit Guardians is broken. A cleric having 20+ Armor Class and good Constitution saving bonus and under Haste buff can just run around the map and inflict 100+ damage to a group of enemies without breaking concentration, always disengaging. It actually can damage twice per round, though it should only damage once, so it's broken
For a laugh, I respecced two party members into Light Clerics. Mobile (no AoO)+ Warcaster (Adv on conc.) feats. Overlapping Spirit Guardians and just speed potioned them around a few fights.
Yeah it really shouldn't trigger if you move the area over a mob, only if they get pushed into it or move in themselves.
For magic misslie builds: Get spellsparkler from saving counciler florrick which gives 2 lightning charges for each time you deal dmg with spell or cantrip, also get the necklace of PSYCHIC SPARK from Blurg in the underdark and get 1 extra missile per shot, each time you land 1 misslie you get lightning charges and at 5 charges you deal extra lightning dmg (ish 5-8) to targets. A lvl 1 magic misslie does with this build roughly 20-30 dmg and with 100% hit chance anywhere
You can use one transmutation wizard at camp to give everyone permanent con sav proficiency and long strider.
oh! Nice idea. Respec your least favorite character into a the camp buff bitch...I love it, lol.
@@LittleMacscorneror if you love everyone, just hire some hirelings and respec them into your buff sluts
Con save proficiency? What spell is that?
@@dangr123 constitution save proficency, it´s not a spell, it´s a game mechanic
Yea I totally did not have a hireling specced into max medicine and transmute wizard for buffs and double potions... >_>
My new favorite way to fight as a Wizard is Create Water and Ice Spells (Cold Damage), as ice is my favorite element. However, I didn't realize that Water is so OP until later in Act 3, so I've up until that point just used Fire Ball and sometimes used it with Grease.
I decimated Sarevok with Cold+Water once I used the Potion of Speed!
Hunger of hadar, fire wall, and the physical/blade version of firewall all are insanely powerful especially together, if you can control a choke point you just win so many hard late game fights
Hunger if hadar is opaf. Cant believe its only like lvl3 spell
I can't believe anyone looked at longstrider, correctly parsed the spell's description and then slept on it.
Buttt, I am glad you added it to this list, because the thought of someone misreading the spell and then ignoring it just... breaks my heart.
The issue I had is that when you look at new spells to add when your character levels up, it doesn't tell you what spells are rituals and which aren't. I skipped over Longstrider for most of the game because I had no idea it was ritual cast :(
@@mwcrane13 when hovering over an ability, press 'T' and it should expand and 'lock in' the info panel and say at the bottom if it's a ritual
Oh my god, I can't believe you missed the most obviously broken use of Minor Illusion. You can locate invisible enemies by their floating Investigation checks.
I have two items, each giving me Misty Step spell which is renoved after a short rest. It gives my character HUGE advantage in most battles!
bless in itself is really good, cause of what you explain, but if you manage to get the staff of arcane blessing, you double the effectiveness of it, making it 2d4, but now the bonus on attack also applies to spell casters, making it incredibly strong.
But regular bless already applies to spellcasters.
This is incorrect. All that staff does is give an additional 1d4 (2d4 total) on spell attack rolls. It does not double bless for everyone, that would be insane.
Mystra's Blessing: Bless grants an additional 1d4 to Saving Throws and Weapon Attack Rolls, and an additional 2d4 to Spell Attack Rolls.
bless doesn't give die to spell caster if you don't have the staff.
@@galahad695 But it does, bless applies to attack rolls, any attack roll. That includes spells that require an attack roll to hit.
@@zzxp1 so that would mean the spell caster gains 3d4 bonus of attack ? sounds a bit OP.
Bless does not give advantage, advantage being two d20s and taking the higher value of the two.
Bless adds a d4 to add on top of your d20, it is essentially a guidance for combat on multiple party members.
There's an amulet you can get VERY early in the game that gives the wearer the Guidance cantrip. Equipping it to your skill monkey (like a rogue, for any lockpicking/trap disarming) will mean that they ALWAYS get a +1d4 to any skill check they make, even if the rest of the party doesn't have the spell or if the wearer has scouted away from the party.
longstrider is undefeated
6:00 Nobody who played DnD would ever say "Bless is bad". It's an amazing spell both offensively and defensively.
Idk if anyone has said this yet but you actually can get magic missile to miss. There has to be an invisible enemy creature standing in between you and your target. The first missile will hit the invisible enemy but the other two will swerve around the newly discovered obstacle. Pretty sure this is the only way to get magic missile to "miss" even though it technically hits the invisible enemy.
Here's a combo I found last night. I had sanctuary running on my cleric, who was keeping everyone healed. A caster hit her with eyebite: sleep. That made me start wondering. When you are sanctuaried, you can CAST sleep and it does not break the sanctuary.
5:36 I dom't think Bless gives Advantage. It's only the d4.
Ive noticed this in a few of these types of videos, some people confuse the lingo a bit, calling flat bonuses advantage.
It's AN advantage, sure, but not capital-A Advantage.
@@TheKnuckleneck Yeah, that's prob the case. Pretty confusing/misleading tho, given the current game terms. There are other synonyms for advantage out there like a buff or a bonus.
Really cool, several things I didn't know. I use more than half of these spells and really enjoy them. A few not listed here I find very powerful and use constantly are Hold Person (10 turns immobile with auto crits!), Blind (like color spell, but no hp restriction), Chromatic Orb (love the flexibility, plus CC!) Enhance Ability (so great for conversations), Flaming Sphere (damage on cast, then every turn, AND it's a meatball shield?!?), Misty Step (for obvious reasons), Scorching Ray (Similar to Magic Missile but higher dps), Invisibility (anyone can benefit from it, but especially good for Rogues b/c of advantage), and Preserve Life (flat 12 hp to everyone in 9m!?)
Got an OP gear with Color Spray on it, which is recharged per battle rather than a short/long rest or costing spell slot.
Sorry, Color Spray is not particularly exciting. Not sure what makes it overpowered.
6:55 you don't even have to use a spell to help up downed teammates from afar; you can throw a healing potion so that it splashes on them (make sure it lands next to them not on them, so you don't bludgeon them with the bottle) and it will heal them
Kinda of ashamed that you didn't add in Aid and Heros Feast.
Heroes Feast gives +15 HP and gain immunity to common annoying afflictions, AND it stacks with Aid to double up your HP boosting
Heroes Feast is 6 lvl spell, so it's kinda late game
Command spell is even more useful than that and i would put it on #1. You can drink an invisibility potion on Shadowheart or any cleric with the spell, go to the githyanki patrol WITHOUT triggering the cutscene which freezes all action and cast it on the dragon rider. The chance to drop the weapon is small, but save scumming is a thing. You can get the legendary sword at lvl 3 or even less, since Withers can revive your companions. Enjoy your legendary weapon and ez gameplay after :3
I'm considering being a bit silly/cheesy in my second playthrough. Out of curiosity, what is the name of the sword?
Wow where can I find a video of this
A silly little thing called: Silver Sword of the Astral Plane.
Idk if there is any video, but follow my instructions and and you are good to go.
What you might want to do is create a video or multiple videos explaining every spell and action in the entire game as well as what the advantages are. Those videos will guarantee you lots of views.
The Dr. Octogonapus Reference made me feel old, but it pretty much amused me at the same time. Oh holy xD
Magic Missile is never underrated.
For you to put longstrider but not long jump is an atrocity. Long jump spells triple your jump distance, basically giving you the range of misty step to move every turn, using a bonus action, and you have extra movement to reposition. It's basically a toggleable misty step that you can cast as a ritual.
Great video! I have totally been sleeping on sleep!
Haha thank you!
Magic Missile recently carried me through my solo tact run. Nobody runs from the predator missile
The problem with longstrider is the constant visual effect around the legs of everyone in your party. It's enough to stop me from using it.
Magic missile is indeed fantastic. One fun application is if you have a lot of exploding stuff in a room with enemies, or a ton of droppable chandeliers. You can trigger all of them with a single action using magic missile and do amazing area damage.
It's also amazing for the hag fights. Just tag all her illusions with an upcast magic missile and you solve the most annoying problem in the fight ^^
@@JonathanFlexx Oh yes, that is a great application!
I use the mod to remove the longstrider effect.
Magic missle. 5th: It's a force spell so no elemental resists. 6th: at like 9th level you add your proficiency bonus to each missile damage.
There are creatures resistant to force damage.
Also something to note, bg3 doesnt have the rule of only one spell per turn, so you can healing word AND cure wounds in the same turn
You're able to to that in regular D&D as well, there's a section in the PHB about the criteria for casting multiple spells a turn
@@korehaven8908you can only do that with a cantrip and a non-leveled spell, you actually can't cast cure wounds and healing word in the sams turn in 5e, except for edge cases.
@@korehaven8908 in RAW you can only cast a lvled spell in a turn in 5e
Holy crap, did not know that about Longstrider and Disguise Self. Ritual spells are so good, wish they made them more obvious. Thanks for this.
man said underated spells - then showed the most basic spells. bruh
There is ring you can find in act2 inn, Ring of the Shapeshifter, it gives you 1d4 advantage on every roll as long as you have an active disguise. It makes shapeshifting more powerful.
to get up dead party members during a fight, I use Scratch or Magic Weapon so I don't lose a turn to attack
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Longstrider: Think about adding this to a pure monk.. who already gets a bonus 6m at level, effectively doubling your speed. More, if you have a Barb with the animal aspect of the elk...
Magic Missile: very effective at popping illusions... like in a certain place against a certain "person"...
Guidance: is cantrip crack... use it even more than Eldritch Blast as a Warlock.
Bless: if you have a certain magic item, you will cast bless on everyone you heal.... Mass healing word anyone?
Minor Illusion: with Barrelmancy... hoo boy
Shield: combined with Mirror Image takes a mediocre AC into temporary godlike levels
Sanctuary: ... so... if you never attack, and focus on buffing allies, they have VERY little chance of ever hitting you. Or even wanting to. Buffs and heals are as useful, moreso in many ways as direct damage.
Shocking Grasp: removes reactions... for those who hate the Gith parry, this can help a lot.
None of these are overpowered, and all you did was read out the descriptions
I thought I was the only one to notice this xD granted command, sanctuary, and shield are good. They're not overpowered.
It's a word used to complain about things and imo needs to always be responded to with a slap
its just the usual low effort 'journalism' to try to make money off of bg3
Except I never picked longstrider because when you level up it never stated that it was until long rest and it was a ritual...
Magic missle is probably my favorite offensive spell on my wizard even at high level. Multi target multi shot. Syncs very well with on-hit effects if you can find them
MM is so good that they made the shield spell specifically to counter it and prevent it from dominating every encounter
I was thinking about re doing my rouge with withers to make myself a arcane trickster because magic missile would have been a absolute boon to have earlier
@@thatoneguy2288 I made my rogue an assassin. I also was given a cloak by the dark urge that makes him invisible for 2 rounds after scoring a kill..... So OP it's not funny.
I must say I'm a bit surprised. I LOVED the spell create or destroy water and always had it on my spell bar from day one. It had so many great uses, I guess I just took for granted that everyone seen what I seen in that spell.