Baldur's Gate 3

Guides, tips and tricks for BG3

BG3 Builds

Character Builds

• Palladian - YouTube - big critical hits

Beginner Guide

• character
  • Choose race
  • Class
    • Proficiencies - bonus added to roll
    • Pay attention to weapon and armor proficiencies (show in details of class)
    • Cantrips - infinite uses, can be useful to have good ones
    • Spells - finite number before rest
    • Choose specific cantrips, specials, and starting instruments
    • Types
      • Barbarian - difficult to kill
      • Bard - Jack of all trades, great at dialogue, talking through stuff
      • Cleric - versatile, good healing, pick up down members
      • Druid - spell caster, talk to animals, shape shift, off and main healer
      • Fighter - great fighting and armor, damage and Survivability, simple for beginners
      • Monk - ninja like, teleport from shadow to shadow, access to big damage early
      • Paladin - great ally, thank that won't die
      • Ranger - ranged, bow
      • Rogue - highest single target damage, sneak up, good at stealing, disarming traps, utility, at least one in your group
      • Sorcerer - charisma, cantrips, less spell slots, cannot heal, dialogue
      • Warlock - charisma, good scaling cantrips, hybrid melee spellcaster
      • Wizard - # spell caster, stand back and do damage, long rest often, fun powerful lots of options, mage
    • Abilities
      • Max out the main stat
      • Lots in Constitution - up HP
      • strength - power, jump, carry
        • Get someone in group good at jumping
      • Dexterity - agility, reflex, finesse (bows, armor)
      • intelligence - memory, mental power
      • wisdom
      • Charisma - dialogue options, checks for routes, win people over, prices
      • every even number above 10 dice roll is extra point, below is minus one for each even
  • Background - stealth is very helpful
  • Simple weapons - clubs, maces
  • Martial weapon - sword, axe
  • Advantage - roll 2 dice and take higher
  • Disadvantage - pick lower of dice

UI

• Adjustable, customizable, filter, add rows, move actions
• Each character has one
  • far left shows weapons and their actions, can choose default melee or range
  • Dual wielding will use action and bonus action simultaneously
  • Also show light source
• 1 action and bonus action per turn
• spell slot if available
• Cantripps - reusable
• Actions
  • Jump
    • over, higher, more strength better jump, jump out of stuff
  • Stealth
    • sneak up more damage, surprise - they miss a turn, easier to pass check in shaded or dark area (see sun icon)
    • Toggle group mode to move alone
    • Sneak attack, more damage, plus surprise
    • See bonuses when hovering enemy
  • Throw
    • character or item, ie throw healing potion at character, throw dwarfs
    • Certain weapons have throw trait
    • Higher you are, more impact damage
  • Dash
    • increase distance/speed you can travel
  • Flee
    • if you're far enough away you can flee
  • Disengage
    • Stop the free attack (ie if close to an opponent)
  • Dip (bonus)
    • Ie dip weapon in fire, add roll for extra damage
    • Could also carry candles to light candle and dip in that
    • Dip in poison that you throw
  • Shove (bonus)
    • Powerful!
    • Push off ledges, careful if you want their loot
    • Also push party members out of damage area, or wake the, up
  • Improvised weapon
    • Pick up nearby item, ie shovel
  • Help
    • Use when character goes down to get them up
    • If character succeeds 3 times they get up, if fail 3x they die
    • Or throw potion to help them up
  • Spells
    • Spell slots, high level and low level
  • Class and race dependent actions
• End Turn
• Map
  • Quests
    • Need to talk to people and a plus will show
    • Won't show on screen, but will on map
  • Ping area
  • Marker
• Log
• Party view
  • Shows all inventories for all characters
  • Inventory
    • Useful to swap items between characters to distribute weight
  • Spells
  • Character sheet
• Inventory
  • Summary
    • Approval rating of each character
    • Gear off and on, shows wein
    • Stats
    • Resistances
    • Features
    • Weapons
    • Armor, don't put on stuff you're not proficient, disadvantaged
    • Inventory
      • filter, sort, split stack
    • Camp supplies (for rest)
    • Inspiration
    • Gold
    • Weight (stay in white, if not you move slower)
  • Skills
    • Arcana - recognize magic
    • History - remember the past, dialogue options
    • Investigation - clues
    • PET ALL THE DOGS
    • Insight - see if someone lied to you
    • Perception for at least one character, see booby traps
    • Survival - stay alive in wild, track prey
    • Intimidation - hey let me in
  • Details
  • Alchemy pouch
    • Ingredients
  • Camping sack
    • Supply packs, food
  • Keychain
  • Level up
    • Accept or add class
    • Adding classes can total 12 levels, ie level 4 and 8
    • Pros cons, high level single class unlocks
      • Many classes have powerful early level actions
• use Waypoints on map to go to them

Gameplay

• exploring
  • loot, pick stuff up
• Camping
  • Swap party memebers
  • store Items in chests
  • Come to camp often, good for relationships, get quests
    • Put the person in their respective quest
  • look out to bring people back to camp
  • click bags with enough camp supplies to REST
  • Go to bed
    • Choose camp supplies to use, auto select
  • Don't camp too excessively
  • Rest
    - Can do two short rest for every long rest
    - Shirt
    - Reset abilities
    - Refill HP
    - long
    - Start next day
    - Refill health
    - Reset spells and slots

Dying

• Save often, balance out resetting when shit hits the fan or just let the dice land
• other options to revive companions as well
  • Trolls, avoid if you can
  • Other NPC

Party

• Have a healer! - cleric, shadowheart (or bards, druids)
• Have a tank! - fighter, barbarian, Palladan (armor profiency, taking hits)
  • Lazier, karlak
• Area of effect class! Hit more than one target at once (wizard) or sourcer/druid
  • Bring enemies to choke point
• Hard hitter! Take out enemies hard and fast, proficient with bows, height is best (rogues, hunters, if not you, then Astarion)

Another guy

1. Tank
   1. Barbarian, Palladian, fighter, ranger, monk, warlock (Eldridge blast), moon Druid
   2. Good armor class, shield
   3. Full tank barbarian
   4. Paladin good armor and support apells
   5. Fighter Great hit points
2. Dialogue specialist charisma
   1. Bard, warlock, paladin, sorcerer, rogue (but not much charisma, can give him some)
3. Utility - all around, pick locks, history, disarm traps, investigate, dexterity
   1. Bard, ranger, rogue
4. Support caster - nail checks, blessed, increase attack, healing, buff, debuff enemies
   1. Bard, cleric, Druid
   2. Cast distance heal!
   3. Healing word bonus action, spell slot
   4. Lots of spell slots
   5. Bard is more advanced, but offer a lot
   6. Cleric can be good subclass damage dealer
   7. Druid also can battle, unless moon Druid
5. AOE
   1. sorcerer, wizard, Druid (warlock)
   2. Fireball
   3. Wizard has most spells
   4. At least get a spellcaster

• Damage
  1. Ranged is best
  2. Rogue
  3. Ranger
  4. Warlock
  5. Wizards
  6. Sorcerer
  7. Barbarian

Example
Palladian. Combat and dialogue
Utility - asterion as rogue
Support - cleric shadowheart
Offensive - wizard gale

Wizard - Gale
Healer - Shadowheart
Tank -
Me -

Menu

• Quests
• Inspiration - spend to reroll and check, spend when you fail and have 4
• Dialogue - review dialogue
  • Hover over options to see odds
• Tutorials

Merchants

• Sell items, add to boxes and click the scales, and then barter
• Reset merchant inventory by long resting

Quests

• Main
• Side
  • Talk to NPC, read journals
• Companion

Dice

• 1d6+1
  • 1 6 die plus 1
  • Second roll is based on the first die roll
  • Armor is 13, need to roll 13 and above to land attack
  • Tie goes to person rolling
  • Advantage or disadvantage
    • Roll 2, pick better or worse

Settings

• Session - invite friends to your party
• Difficulty
• Options
  • Auto save
• Karmic dice - tick on

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