9 Hidden Spell Interactions in Baldur's Gate 3
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- We jump right into it with a secret use for Web!
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Timestamps
00:00 Web
01:07 Darkness & Fog Cloud
01:50 Ranger's Companion
02:48 Conjure Minor Elemental
03:23 Create or Destroy Water
03:55 Sanctuary
05:52 Enlarge/Reduce
06:48 Grease
08:15 Ray of Frost
The first hidden spell interaction is with Web:
Web covers an area in thick, flammable webbing that slows creatures within and possibly enwebs them. By creating a web it can actually act as a soft surface to jump from a high place from, negating all falling damage. Use it on a patch of ground, then jumping onto that patch will negate all fall damage. This is a good way to jump from high places when you don’t have featherfall available. These spells can be used by the Ranger Spider Companion or as a Shapeshifted Druid as a Spider, and both Sorcerers and Wizards have access to Web. The ranger, Sorcerer, and Wizard have the best ability to pull this off, either as a Ranger being able to summon their Spider at the bottom of a high cliff, then casting the web successfully or a wizard sorcerer casting web from above. But the Druid would have to shapeshift and won’t always be able to either jump down as a spider or cast it from above because of being lower to the ground as a spider and not being able to have vision. So next time you don’t have featherfall, use Web instead!
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Darkness & Fog Cloud
Both Fog Cloud and Darkness Blind and Heavily Obscure creatures within it.
But besides the obvious use to prevent ranged attacks from entering an area, you can also use darkness and fog to obscure an area you want to steal from and do other crimes within, without consequence. This is handy when you really want an item you can’t afford, or need to make some quick gold, but still want to be friendly with the town and able to trade and do quests later without causing a run in with the guards or a fight.
Ranger’s Companion
Allows you to gain a beast companion that will help you on your quest and fight alongside you. I’ve noticed that this beast can cause different interactions with goblins depending on the animal: Boar seems to slightly attract goblins, and they may attack it too, wolf is similar in that it might get attacked, but it doesn’t attract. And Spider surprisingly doesn’t cause as much fear as the familiar small spider, but it doesn’t seem to provoke attacks. The Bear seems nearly on the same level as the small spider in causing the goblins to run around in fear, but also will be attacked if it wanders too close. I thought it was interesting how each animal causes a different response, and you could use this when trying to avoid combat, or set up an ambush by scaring some goblins far away from the others to get really good positioning.
Conjure Minor Elemental
This spell conjures a minor elemental to fight alongside you. Other summoning spells like Find Familiar, Animate Dead, and so on can all be used and then swapped out for another one as long as you're outside of combat. Do this and the summons will persist, and you have a freed up spell slot for something else. A neat little trick allowing you to get more spells usable than you might have thought at first glance.
Create or Destroy Water
Calls forth rain extinguishing exposed flames and forms a water surface. While this water surface has a ton of uses we talked about it our previous video, the actual spell cast has an additional use:
It can be used to reveal characters that are invisible! (Of course you’ll still need to know the general area they are in to cast successfully on them, but if you do, use create water on them and their invisibility is removed!)
Sanctuary makes you or an ally unable to be targeted until you attack or harm a creature. This spell can actually be incredibly powerful in a number of different situations. You can use it on your healer because it doesn’t break sanctuary when healing, and after reviving or healing a downed teammate in battle since it’s a bonus action, so the newly revived teammate doesn't immediately get downed again, which is really a perfect synergy since a character than comes back from being downed will probably just drink a potion and end turn, so that protection is perfect.
Also, 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, which can be super useful in the right scenarios. You can even use sanctuary and place glyph of warding to inflict AOE damage and that won’t cause you to lose sanctuary. Because it wasn’t you, it was the glyph! This also works great for if you’re going to be a summoner. Creating a Mage Hand doesn’t break Sanctuary.
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Hey one thing u didn't mention about web that's really cool it's the same as grese when it come to fire they both spread it and can catch fire
Combining disguise self with the speak with dead spell will let you talk to corpses if youve killed them. Very helpful 🎉
Now that is nice to know.
I am enlightened. Thank you
Amazing! Thanks
Funny enough, to add to the water exposing invisible ennemies thing, I found that fireball also exposes ennemies
I'm pretty sure Fireball once exposed someone's tax fraud. It does everything
True, i can certainly see a burning corpse everytime i hit something!
Taking any damage breaks invisibility so spike growth etc or thrown bombs /alchemist fire.
You can cheese where the invisible target is as you are not allowed to move into their space so it will block, or bend the movement indicator.
i found firewall works even better, can cover up more ground.
A successful invisibility roll also expose them, that's how I killed the witch lol (dagger cloud).
Grease is great for breaking caster concentration as grease is a strength check and casters usually have very poor strength. Not a hidden interaction but one that may not be super apparent at first.
It's a dexterity save, not strength.
Boom! Educated! @@alexanderflack566
Sanctuary is a must have for a solo playthrough, because it allows you to waltz through places you shouldn't be able to go, loot everything inside, and then leave LOL.
Also, start convo with being blessed by sanctury, if they start first, they dont deal dmg
I slept on Sanctuary for most of the game, but after I learned how easy it was to abuse, I never left it behind
I love how straight to the point this video is, not even a second wasted. Top quality content.
My jaw dropped. First time on this channel. I instinctively reach for the right-arrow key to FFwd since 98% of yt channels start with 30 to 60 secs of mindless drivel and intro splashes and such. This one started with "the first one in the list is..."
It's the comedy skit intros for me
@@djking44151yep and loosely related, I also hate when I click on a video about some game or show and instead of it being proper content they just dryly describe scene after scene from that media. Noticed that most reviews or analysis are just that, no original thoughts, just retelling of the media.
This is the best video of its kind, and I have watched a good number. Provides what is advertised and without any unnecessarily words and with visual examples (watching grease make an entire battlefield like it got hit with napalm reminded me to use grease on existing fires. The web suggestion. 🤯. 10/10 video.
First tip is use a level 3 spell in place of feather fall. Wouldn’t exactly call it top quality content. 😂
I love this game. I recently learned Silence can also prevent people from calling guards or calling for help. Which makes it perfect for isolated assassinations
NICE
Great call-out I didn’t think of that.
@@MegaParrotMan I also found it out after exhausting all options trying to assassinate priestess gut, then I saw the text appear on her head when I fought her, and noticed that the guards come running AFTER she calls, not when the fight starts, so I tried silence and then pushed and forced her in.
Create water can also be used to give your party a bath. Washing away all the dirt and blood.
that's nice I'm always covered in blood and it's yucky. might be the only thing to tempt me with that spell....but a carafe of water should do the trick too.
@@rumls4drinkin You can cast a spell and then remove it from your prepared spells. Just add it back in when you need it.
I use the staff that creates water for daily group showers
@@KaitouKaiju brilliant.
I dont recall the gore in EA but after one particular encounter Laezel looked like Carrie. I thought it was the armor at first.
Grease helps you move mechanisms that are stuck and require a high strenght check
I used sanctuary alongside hold person on isobel while the kidnap attempt was taking place. She wasn't happy about it, but holding her still while sanctuary was on her made sure she wouldn't break it by attacking. Actually ended up saving her and winning the encounter.
I made her invisible and the enemies switched targets, I'm not sure if they would have switched back since I focused them down. But that is a neat solution too. There's also a spell that puts creatures in a bubble, but I don't know if we get access to that yet.
Enemies sort of doing that for you since all of their attack paralyze. And since it's an ambush, you just cast Sanctuary first chance you get. She will spend 2-3 turns paralyzed. Then heal herself. Then buff herself. Then break sanctuary. Making it like 5-7 turns where you can fininsh off the fight, which is more than plenty, considering it's just 5 enemies and a boss and a TONE of helpers. How people manage to fail that fight is beyond me.
I barricaded all the doors with the boxes from the corners of the buildings
resiluke resilient sphere is a better option if you got lvl 4 spells.(complete negation of dmg, both in and out)
@@ElidanVideos On my first Tactician run the enemies took Isobel to 3 HP before anyone in my party could act (this is why you take Alert, folks) so I can very easily see a situation where Isobel juet gets ganked and you lose immediately.
Additional tip for the water is that if someone is wet and then creates mirror images/decoys of themselves, those decoys are dry so you can find the real one easily. Not sure if that's a bug that will get fixed but it accidentally came in super handy during a fight where I had to put out a fire and then they made 3 more images of themselves.
When I have done fights against mirrored enemies I'm able to identify the real one by examining them all. In my experience the real one has buffs or spells up that the mirrored copies don't.
I use that tactic against Ethel, because I'll use Create Water on Mayrina's cage when she sets it on fire, thus making both the cage AND Mayrina wet so when she pulls Mayrina out to try to do the psych out... easy to tell which one just got a water balloon to the face and which one is a swamp witch cruisin' for a stabbin'.
in the monastry section, there is this rusty statue that you need to turn by successing accrobat check. If you use greese to this statue you wont need dice check anymore to turn it.
You can also just slap it.
There's also a non magical scroll somewhere (near the big top ballista I believe) that gives the instruction to the monks of the monastery to not over grease the mechanism of the ballista, and that's what hinted me about using grease on the statue.
You cannot however use jars of grease. Hmm maybe you can if you chuck them rather than trying to combine or "use" them.
@@jonathanpickles2946 yeah i had to throw a bottle of grease on them because all 4 characters in my party failed the skill check
As a rule of thumb, if it's a mechanism, bonk them. Works for every levers, wheels and statues that supposed to move.
With a fire surface you can drop a potion and it will break and you can step into the pool to heal. This is quite exploitative because dropping or moving objects in battle costs no action… which means you can heal an infinite number of times in battle as long as there is any fire or damaging surface near you!
Wow that's an excellent little hack!
I don't really understand how this works. Could you elaborate a little more?
A bit later on at higher levels, Clerics can learn Spirit Guardians, which is an AoE spell that follows the cleric and does radiant or necrotic damage and slows movement. Combo this with a cast of Sanctuary from a fellow Cleric or Paladin, and you can just walk into groups of enemies and deal consistent damage to them while they can't harm the Cleric!
..... I am surprised so few ever talk about Spirit Guardian, fantastic spell, I use it all the time. It´s like a moveable aoe.
Just don't do this in the wrong order, casting Spirit Guardians while Sanctuary'd will cancel sanctuary lol
Spirit Guardians is amazing. My Shadowheart has won so many battles by taking a stroll across the battlefield.
I used to do this in tabletop 5e until they made a specific ruling that any harmful effect coming from the PC would cancel sanctuary
@@AurioDKI don't know about TH-cam videos, but Spirit Guardian is very frequently discussed as one of the most powerful spells on forums and such. I think one reason it doesn't feel like many talk about it is because Cleric is the least used class, for some really weird reason.
When it comes to invisible enemies, you may not know where they are but the game does and you can use this to get an idea where they are. Press the arrow/long range attack and hover over the invisble creature on the bar at the top that shows all the characters move order..and watch your character aim in their direction. If you are in a building and close you can just shoot at a point on the ground in that direction and sometimes hit them. Or just chuck a fireball over there.
Did this to yurgir. Went "what's this very large area I for some reason can't pass through"
The 1st level spell Chromatic Orb can also be used to create several different types of surfaces. The lightning option deserves special attention, because it creates its lightning surface by producing its own water along with it.
Never realized it did that. I always used create water first 😅
oh nice I didn't know that thought I had to put down water first.
Using a fire orb on top of a lightning orb's puddle creates an electrified steam cloud as well
@@Scyle92what, really?! I hope it looks as cool as it does in my head.
@@AHDBification Yup. The effect works in reverse too (lightning orb into a fire patch)
If you like playing with field effect interactions the electrified cloud is good for shocking enemies that float/hover just off the ground that normally are immune to puddles.
Never seen your channel before, but I just wanted to say thank you *so* much for just starting the god damn video. No runtime-padding preamble, no completely unnecessary monologue introducing the game, just... you know why I'm here, I read the title, and you got straight to the point. It's a breath of fresh air.
8:45 chromatic orb is awesone for this. use one cast as ice, then second cast as fire and last as lightning. you get the full range from a single prepaired spell
Something else that's great about sanctuary is that some offensive spells, such as moonbeam, can actually be used and not negate the effects of sanctuary. Struggled quite a bit with the fight in the emperor's lair, used moonbeam and then casted sanctuary on myself to have my healer stay alive, and when next turn rolled around, I could move the moonbeam directly on top of enemies and still have my sanctuary active. Made the fight way easier.
Two Words: Spirit Guardian
In that case I'm guessing that it also works with call lightning. That's pretty handy, especially if you used a level 5 or 6 spell slot on your original spell.
Unlike 5e, chain lightning can be Twinned, likely because YOU only target one creature while the SPELL targets 3 more.
As such you can Quicken create water (available to Storm Sorcerer and possibly some of the draconic bloodlines), cast Twinned Chain Lightning on two targets, and expect 40d8 single target damage or 10d8 at up to 8 targets before accounting for equipment. Enough to kill half to two thirds of many 3rd act boss encounters on Tactician, leaving only a few stragglers.
If you multi class with Tempest Cleric, you can make it max damage. Then, you get a one-round room clearing.
Still amazes me the fact that we have these kind of videos, hidden things that really are just things that we're not expecting hardcoded into a game, details and nuances that had no place on reason and expectation. My love for BG3 it's going to be up there with it's influence down the years.
More interactions will probably be added years down the road too. If not modders will definitely add them in lol. Imagine watering vines so they get super violent and do extra damage.
Grease -
Don’t light it on fire. It doesn’t do much damage. Just use alchemist fire and save the slot. Grease is better as grease!
Use it in an area where enemies are already funneled. Drop it to drain move speed. It may force a dash which ruins a turn. Position your party at the edge. With your strong characters always shove them back. This basically farms for trips. You get advantage on those targets.
This is huge! They lose an action to stand and you have advantage to hit them!
Or … you could do a couple points of damage. Grease still works at level 12 to do good battlefield manipulation with no concentration. How often do you think an alchemist fire is useful at level 12?
Enemies will often hesitate to enter a grease spot so that it can sometimes block progress towards youl
Yeah, use grease as grease. Use spider's webs as flaming grease, because they're unlimited (or as webs, alongside grease, which is a lot better). Lots of saves is good.
Yeah this is actually one of the changes BG3 makes in the system that I don't agree with. Falling prone basically ends your turn. Shove is a bonus action. In regular D&D 5e, falling prone would just make you (melee) attack with disadvantage while (melee) attacks against you have advantage (ranged attacks have disadvantage though), and getting up from prone uses half your movement, that's it. So if you're a ranged fighter shooting from a ledge or something, it actually makes sense to go prone and shoot lying on your belly. That's one thing I miss.
I use spike growth and watch enemies kill themselves by constantly stepping on lego
Combining fog cloud/darkness with silence also allows you to kill people in a crowded area without others who are outside of the area knowing you did it.
isnt that considered rude? :D
Casting grease will also close open doors during combat, you can split groups of enemies from a distance. Especially useful on act 3.
I appreciate the lack of intro, getting right into video is rare and appreciated
I subbed entirely because of how quickly you got into the content. Nobody needs 5 minutes of intro before the inevitable, "Let's jump right into it." Appreciate you dude.
this is the way - every content creator on youtube should learn from you
Fog isn't used to obscure ranged attacks. You can shoot just fine into Fog, which makes it one of the best early spells to use to gain advantage with. Darkness is the spell you cannot shoot into unless you have Devil's Sight.
I used that to kill hag at lvl 3. I hid in darkness with Wyll who had devils sight, and just eldritch blasted her. It took a while since at lvl 3 my charisma is low. I only hit every other time. Very useful if team is in a tough position. Sadly it doesn't work on Yugir, he has devils sight too lol.
I think he meant you could cast fog cloud on enemies to stop them from using ranged attacks as it blinds anyone inside the fog. Though people can just walk out of it to remove said blindness
@@jasonkobylak5009 He specifically says that fog and darkness are used to prevent ranged attacks from entering a specific area. Which implies the fogged area, not everything outside of it.
1:07 How to pickpocket an NPC without ever being seen: get 2-3 party members. 1 pickpocket/fog cloud caster and 1 to dialogue lock a trader NPC. The pickpocket can also be the fog cloud caster but the dialogue locker cannot.
step 1: dialogue lock a trader.
step 2: switch characters while in dialogue
step 3: cast fog cloud centered on the NPC (NPCs will automatically run out of fog cloud if they aren't in dialogue)
step 4: pickpocket them
Note 1: Doing this to the "unperson" vendor clerk at Sorcerous Sundries in act 3 makes it impossible to be caught even if you fail. You can get all the strongest spell scrolls in the game without consequences.
Note 2: If you have a summoned creature (create undead for example) that scares vendors away from their original location like around the corner or something and you catch them in dialogue while they're running it can sometimes break their reaction to pickpocketing, causing the same situation as Note 1. I've done this to weapon vendor Fitz and blacksmith Dammon in act 3.
or you can just knock them out and loot everything they have to sell
much quicker than picking every item one by one
@@ainzooalgown9952aye. Use the shapeshift mask and get off scott free too. "These arent the gith you are looking for"
@@ainzooalgown9952 Does non-lethal damage make it work differently when you loot them? I've taken out vendors before (lethally) but they seem to lack a lot of the items they had on sale.
@@Lady-V that's because they don't have them on hand, you should go to the trade menu and select every item they have in store (or every item you wish to steal) then cancel the transaction and knock them out
they will have everything you selected plus their default drop table of uniques
@@ainzooalgown9952 Ah I see I'll try that next time; thanks!
Grease can also be used in some instances outside of combat. I had a part where i had to rotate some statues, requiring an athletics check. My entire party failed their checks, so i threw a bottle of grease at it. Lo and behold, i could rotate the statue freely
My jaw droped when i had this moment
That's fun that they included that option 😄
The create water tip is so useful. I also found that the healing aura of water myrmidons does the same thing because it makes them wet, but it also heals enemies.
You use myrmidons for heal aoe, i use myrmidon to setup lighting damage increase, were no the same.
Water myrmidons have healing?
So cool interaction i found out so i got ambushed and everyone had almost no spell slots and we were getting bodied. My healer who had 2 more lvl 1 slots cast sanctuary on herself and than used potion of angelic slumber it was a very powerful interaction that allowed her to get everythjng back and turn the tide
Ooooo, clever! Good shout!
Falling unconscious should break concentration. If this works, cool, but seems like a bug. Although it would work fine if sanctuary was cast from a different party member.
Sanctuary is not a concentration spell
@Toyhouze FYI, sanctuary doesn't make you invulnerable. It makes you untargetable. There's a difference. AOE attacks can still hit units with sanctuary.
Sanctuary does not make you immune to AoE damage. There will be instances where your enemies have sanctuary. Use AoE attack to damage them.
😂 Makes them immune to "Dear -Name"-
Does nothing for anything labelled "To whom it may concern"
When fighting the Swamp Hag. She torches the Cage. First thing I've done in that Fight I Ray of Frost the cage. So the timer for that fight goes away basically. So she's safe while trying to take the Hag down. Surprised a lot of people when mention this to my friends about it. Guess my Old School D&D Wizard Class skills been paying off on rules set wise.
What i love is keeping water bottles on me while using the sparky set on a monk.
Holy! Never seen your vids before but I love how you just pop off with the info and no 5 minute long intro on what the rest of the video is going to be about. Good job!
Dunno if its just me. But apparently shadow heart is afraid of wolves. She is constantly rolling frightened check when near the wolf companion. Ironically the wolf was laezels.
Yes, she has a unique trait for that. She's afraid of wolves for reasons you will find out if you do her personal quest
No long intro, just straight into the video. Great content!
Love the straight to the point videos
Another absolute BANGER of a video! Thanks dude, for everything you do
Thank you! I appreciate that!
Someone told me yesterday about Bloodless being cured by lesser restoration and then how it pairs nicely with the Silvanus necklace. Like they were made for each other. So Astarion gets his happy and we don’t have a debuff. Which is especially nice in the areas where he can’t bite the undead.
WOOO! Thank you for the tip, as I’d missed that rock at least twice…
Your videos are Top Shelf mate! Right to the point, great delivery, awesome visuals that show what you’re referring to, and truly some great informational bits to QOL my BG3 time. 🥰
Love how concise and straight to the point the video is
Just a heads up, you cant do healing word+sanctuary on the same turn both are bonus actions, you would have to either help/cure wounds/throw a potion then use sanctuary.
Yeah he used Cure Wounds in the video.
Nice video. Well spoken, informative, and straight to the point.
I didn't know about most of these. I'm still learning and videos like this help bg dnd noobs like me.
I never expected it to feel like such a breath of fresh air when someone just starts their video right away
props on getting straight to the point, appreciated
so refreshing to see a video with no chunky intro thank you sm
Whoa! These are fantastic, thanks for the vid!
Instantly into the content, Subbed.
Ooooooh that web trick is brilliant!! Thank you!
Yo, this was really useful. Liked and subscribed because I'm also a huge fan of BG3.
The idea of having a healer or a support caster under a sanctary spell is actually very good, i will use that to avoid loosing concentration. Didn't notice it was a bonus action, with that in mind this spell is way better than I gave it credit for.
Very informative, thanks!
My wizard taking notes to use their 2nd lvl spell slots to recreate a 1st lvl ritual that they also have 10 scrools for in their backpack
Very helpful tips, thanks for sharing!
Wow ty so much. This is gonna be fun.
thank you ;)
A highly informative and useful video
I figured out the fog thing recently and was using it for when I want to pick a lock on a door and enter it in front of a guard. The web tip for soft landing I hadn't thought of.
healing word and sanctuary are both bonus actions gaseous form also lets you go in holes webs and grease can be ignited by placing a candle or torch from your inventory onto the ground which doesnt cost an action. finally freze ray can be used to put out conected fire with one shot
SO HELPFULL! i must add that i find grease very uselfull vs melee attackers, i cast it all the way between them and me and they r having HELL to get to me, plus they r almost 4 times prone which gives me an advantage. very usefull.
another really cool thing is the vast use for spells just like in a D&D game, you can use the disguise spell to get past guards or enemies that would attack your party
invisibility is a lot of fun too
like helping the goblin Suzza escape from Emerald Groove by casting invisibility on her
and many other things
i have never seen a game like this
great stuff!
No dumb/annoying intro, i love it ❤
Omg, I need to have this playing on a loop so that I don't forget about them when I'm actually playing the game.
Amazing, thank you
I literally LOLed at the mention of dwarf tossing in the Enlarge/Reduce tip 😂
great tips. thanks 😉
Since you ended on water (by way of freeze) the actual Spell "Water" is super useful for removing status effects like burning or acid, it can also be used in conjunction with lightning, to create an electrified surface which requires anyone standing in it to pass a check or be stunned as well as taking damage.
Straight to the point, nice
for Ray of Frost, I figured out the fire thing in a 'I need to put out this fire *now*' sort of situation for the Auntie Ethel fight! After she set the cage on fire, I was like ok, maybe ice magic works as well as water, let me try Ray of Frost. Then bam, the fire was put out. I was like huh. It worked. Neat. ♥
Sanctuary + spirit guardians = dang close to a win condition. If you have a teammate drop darkness as well as a zone for you to stand in the enemies are just flat out screwed by the slow and steady invisible blender
Fun combo I found in House of Hope, water myrmidom followed by ice myr attack freezes enemies, made the fight trivial when I tried that with my "legally acquired" scrolls.
Neat to learn about the water to expose invis enemies. I have been using AOE like Cloud of Daggers and Spirit Guardians.
Grease has been called underated for 20 years
I can’t believe just how good this game is, it just goes on forever and it’s so polished. Every sign is voiced and every outcome just happens according to your choices, I love how there’s no wrong way to finish a mission.
Damn, already blown away by the first 2.
I searched for how to pickpocket in crowded areas and no one ever mentioned using fog.
Another thing to add regarding turning fire into water via cold spells
standing in water gives you the Wet condition, which makes you (or somebody else) vulnerable to lightning and cold, but resistant to fire. in a defensive standpoint having on demand fire resistance is great!
I'm a fan of any tips that help me do crime.
BG3 continues to amaze me with its flexability.
Something worth mentioning with grease in both BG3 and in 5e is that it is a control AoE that does not use up your concentration. You can easily combine grease with spells that obscure areas to shut down spell casters and ranged combatants. Unless you are an evoker, magic missile falls off a lot and shield works best on a martial dip spellcasters. So in terms of level 1 spells grease is a level 1 spell that has justifiable use late game when combined with concentration spells without using an upcast on precious higher level spell slots. I'm not sure if this interaction exists in BG3, but difficult terrain is calculated differently than Spirit Guardians halving movement speed and so it stacks in 5e. You have a combined movement reduction where the creature's movement is halved by Spirit Guardians (usually to 15 or 20 feet) and then difficult terrain requires 2 feet of movement for every 1 foot moved, that's 7.5 feet of movement. If you play 5e on a locked grid then that is usually reduced to 5 feet or 1 square of movement without dashing.
Tip for dealing with invisible enemies without using action economy: The pathing line will move around invisible enemies. So, if you have a rough idea where an enemy is, just hover your mouse around the area and watch for an obstruction.
The water mimiron's heal ability also rains in the area, heal and wet all characters within the aoe, expose hidden objects and heal everyone.
Omg i never thought of that - thats why this game is great - the creativity of devs and probably 'mostly' the community who are trying everything. Only thing ive worked out on my own is that toad teapots stick to walls and doors when you throw it at them. As do a lot of other objects actually if they dont break first. Hope my breakthrough teaba...teapot discovery helps.
Disguise self/Seeming can get around "The corpse won't talk to its killer", when using speak with dead.
All ritual spells can be cast outside combat for free
Holy crap! Why have I never thought of shielding my healer with Sanctuary?! Thank you.
Hey great video. Thank You. Yesterday I realized Fog cancels out Cloud Kill for 10 turns. It may work on other similar effects, haven’t tried.
You can grease mechanical intractable that are rusted/bound up that have very high strength checks.
Another use case I've discovered for grease is if you run across a stick lever, rotating statue, any sort of hand crank that is "stuck" and you fail the strength or athletics check throw some grease on it and it'll allow you to turn it most of the time!
darknes and fog cloud are not only ones perfect for some theft, i found beast master animals make people panick and run around, it doesnt matter how many times you fail to pick pocket, you can empty their whole stock as long there is animal close that makes them panic.
The thing that makes grease bonkers is that its not concentration. Imagine having darkess or god forbid Hunger of Hadar just kinda exist there.
Nice list
Im glad more people are learning about how useful Create Water is. Esp. When you can get it for free with a certain staff, and the Wetness Effect means you dont have to re-cast to show invisibility again
In terms of fog / darkness, cloak of cunning brume (make smol fog when disengage) is a free infinite fog effect, and when combined with an Thief makes your life much easier when trespassing, stealing, or anything else.
to add to the ice cantrip, you can freeze all the blood thats been spilled to create a slippery surface, but if you introduce fire you now have a ton of water, instead of thawed "reliquidifed" blood
Healing word is a bonus action. As a pure cleric, you can't healing word and sanctuary as you describe, since both are bonus actions. The help action or cure wounds works.
You can get fast hands from Thief
thankfully i'm only at 30 hours in act 1.. bcoz watching these videos really made it almost impossible to continue... being complete newbie to the franchise/genre, these videos makes me feel about as intelligent as brick.
Wow, start right off number one with something that will change gameplay completely!
grease can also be used to lubricate gears that need an athletic check to use negating the need for an athletic check
For create water, wet characters takes double dmg to lightining spells, very usefull
Nice tips