9 Hidden Spell Interactions in Baldur's Gate 3

[@Toyhouze]

Check out these 7 insanely cool tricks in baldurs gate 3! kzbin.info/www/bejne/amSWkJ6Znpd3ras

[@VivalaDeadpool]

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

[@LeoNinja1]

Combining disguise self with the speak with dead spell will let you talk to corpses if youve killed them. Very helpful 🎉

[@SirAlric82]

Now that is nice to know.

[@darkmatter32x]

I am enlightened. Thank you

[@ATozz-1337]

Amazing! Thanks

[@SwedePotato314]

This, this is a good one.

[@ismount]

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.

[@alexanderflack566]

It's a dexterity save, not strength.

[@bludwurm]

Boom! Educated! ​@@alexanderflack566

[@BubbleShield570]

Funny enough, to add to the water exposing invisible ennemies thing, I found that fireball also exposes ennemies

[@cbdrawer9527]

I'm pretty sure Fireball once exposed someone's tax fraud. It does everything

[@Neoduem]

True, i can certainly see a burning corpse everytime i hit something!

[@jonathanpickles2946]

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.

[@syrenet]

i found firewall works even better, can cover up more ground.

[@TheEmolano]

A successful invisibility roll also expose them, that's how I killed the witch lol (dagger cloud).

[@renaldoawesomesauce1654]

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.

[@DoffyDogg]

Also, start convo with being blessed by sanctury, if they start first, they dont deal dmg

[@aubydauby]

I slept on Sanctuary for most of the game, but after I learned how easy it was to abuse, I never left it behind

[@djking44151]

I love how straight to the point this video is, not even a second wasted. Top quality content.

[@ziff_1]

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..."

[@djking44151]

It's the comedy skit intros for me

[@davidkozin]

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.

[@windubitably]

First tip is use a level 3 spell in place of feather fall. Wouldn’t exactly call it top quality content. 😂

[@judjudersawn2596]

I actually miss intros with gaudy spinning ornate renderings of someone’s gamertag with linkin park blasting in the background.

[@KingMaraxus]

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.

[@scaramouche7759]

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.

[@ElidanVideos]

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.

[@DrDarkheart]

I barricaded all the doors with the boxes from the corners of the buildings

[@Jack-he8jv]

resiluke resilient sphere is a better option if you got lvl 4 spells.(complete negation of dmg, both in and out)

[@heliasthehelias3058]

@@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.

[@AwesomeJedi182]

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

[@fabianazembrzuski8221]

NICE

[@MegaParrotMan]

Great call-out I didn’t think of that.

[@AwesomeJedi182]

@@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.

[@lr1924]

Create water can also be used to give your party a bath. Washing away all the dirt and blood.

[@rumls4drinkin]

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.

[@lr1924]

@@rumls4drinkin You can cast a spell and then remove it from your prepared spells. Just add it back in when you need it.

[@KaitouKaiju]

I use the staff that creates water for daily group showers

[@rumls4drinkin]

@@KaitouKaiju brilliant.

[@michaelrowave]

I dont recall the gore in EA but after one particular encounter Laezel looked like Carrie. I thought it was the armor at first.

[@flatfacepuggo1779]

Grease helps you move mechanisms that are stuck and require a high strenght check

[@ramahuy]

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.

[@TheOmegau]

You can also just slap it.

[@f.faucon6681]

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.

[@jonathanpickles2946]

You cannot however use jars of grease. Hmm maybe you can if you chuck them rather than trying to combine or "use" them.

[@sike3000]

@@jonathanpickles2946 yeah i had to throw a bottle of grease on them because all 4 characters in my party failed the skill check

[@avoidant560]

As a rule of thumb, if it's a mechanism, bonk them. Works for every levers, wheels and statues that supposed to move.

[@Berry_Goosey]

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!

[@AurioDK]

..... I am surprised so few ever talk about Spirit Guardian, fantastic spell, I use it all the time. It´s like a moveable aoe.

[@Insertnamesz]

Just don't do this in the wrong order, casting Spirit Guardians while Sanctuary'd will cancel sanctuary lol

[@mrjones2721]

Spirit Guardians is amazing. My Shadowheart has won so many battles by taking a stroll across the battlefield.

[@genericusername546]

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

[@blaynegreiner9365]

@@AurioDKI don't know about KZbin 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.

[@michaelchang6963]

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!

[@hokayson6518]

Wow that's an excellent little hack!

[@nithianathan7962]

I don't really understand how this works. Could you elaborate a little more?

[@shakyrob6512]

​@@nithianathan7962 I think they mean it's similar to when you throw a healing potion at an ally and it breaks and creates the puddle that heals everyone even partially in the area. But instead of wasting the action to throw. You go into your inventory while standing within an area of fire (maybe you just got hit with a fireball or potion). You drop it instead and the fires heat will break it. Which will heal whoever is within the puddle effect.

[@zero11010]

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?

[@pihwht]

Enemies will often hesitate to enter a grease spot so that it can sometimes block progress towards youl

[@sambojinbojin-sam6550]

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.

[@zoltanszaszi2264]

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.

[@Kpt.]

I use spike growth and watch enemies kill themselves by constantly stepping on lego

[@AstroPsych_]

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.

[@darcraven01]

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

[@dylanbohannon8796]

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.

[@blaynegreiner9365]

Two Words: Spirit Guardian

[@gharn2594]

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.

[@ActivelyVacant]

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.

[@OmkaraHellcore]

Never realized it did that. I always used create water first 😅

[@red2977]

oh nice I didn't know that thought I had to put down water first.

[@Scyle92]

Using a fire orb on top of a lightning orb's puddle creates an electrified steam cloud as well

[@AHDBification]

​@@Scyle92what, really?! I hope it looks as cool as it does in my head.

[@Scyle92]

@@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.

[@Fizz-Pop]

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.

[@Sdogofdoom]

Did this to yurgir. Went "what's this very large area I for some reason can't pass through"

[@FacetiousEnigma]

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.

[@ainzooalgown9952]

or you can just knock them out and loot everything they have to sell much quicker than picking every item one by one

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

​@@ainzooalgown9952aye. Use the shapeshift mask and get off scott free too. "These arent the gith you are looking for"

[@LadyViolet1]

@@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.

[@ainzooalgown9952]

@@LadyViolet1 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

[@LadyViolet1]

@@ainzooalgown9952 Ah I see I'll try that next time; thanks!

[@JulixLabs]

Casting grease will also close open doors during combat, you can split groups of enemies from a distance. Especially useful on act 3.

[@Epiclesis]

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.

[@scaramouche7759]

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.

[@daninjapenguin1019]

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.

[@ThePsiclone]

isnt that considered rude? :D

[@Neonmirrorblack]

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.

[@scaramouche7759]

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.

[@jasonkobylak5009]

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

[@Neonmirrorblack]

@@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.

[@albertnonymous9759]

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.

[@PointManify]

If you multi class with Tempest Cleric, you can make it max damage. Then, you get a one-round room clearing.

[@HDCrespi89]

Commenting to try this

[@albertnonymous9759]

​@@PointManify chain lightning is a 6th level spell, meaning you don't get it until lvl 11. With the max level being 12, that leaves 1 level for cleric - not enough to get Destructive Wrath, the feature you need. While you certainly can use tempest cleric 2 in a sorcerer build, I'd rather not, as you'd only be able to apply it to lightning bolt and clear a line. It also can't be twinned, as it's not a single target spell

[@blackatree]

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

[@bestedd804]

My jaw droped when i had this moment

[@seekerofthemutablebalance5228]

That's fun that they included that option 😄

[@SkinkChief]

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.

[@cyprianmaciej1605]

this is the way - every content creator on youtube should learn from you

[@franciscoimperial8513]

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.

[@xcenic]

You use myrmidons for heal aoe, i use myrmidon to setup lighting damage increase, were no the same.

[@MaSeshield]

Water myrmidons have healing?

[@Wisper200]

I appreciate the lack of intro, getting right into video is rare and appreciated

[@itsFlycatcher]

my favorite use of Sanctuary is by boosting Gale's initiative with the Alert feat so he and my war cleric (wearing the Gloves of Dexterity) typically go first or very early in the initiative order, and then, since they share initiative, I can do all the big, flashy spells that I want to to kick off a round, and end my turn on both of them by casting Sanctuary on Gale so the next bout of attacks that are bound to happen don't knock him down or break his concentration. ...... I'm very protective of my wizard. I employ a very "kill the mage; save the mage" kind of tactic in all my games.

[@Okami.Carnage]

@Toyhouze FYI, sanctuary doesn't make you invulnerable. It makes you untargetable. There's a difference. AOE attacks can still hit units with sanctuary.

[@lionpaladin]

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. ♥

[@zarektheinsane6656]

What i love is keeping water bottles on me while using the sparky set on a monk.

[@Midori_Seabreeze]

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.

[@drunemeton]

WOOO! Thank you for the tip, as I’d missed that rock at least twice…

[@dharpoon]

Sanctuary does not make you immune to AoE damage. There will be instances where your enemies have sanctuary. Use AoE attack to damage them.

[@GrassPokeKing]

😂 Makes them immune to "Dear -Name"- Does nothing for anything labelled "To whom it may concern"

[@finnishperson6401]

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.

[@shinronvaynex5900]

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.

[@KaitouKaiju]

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

[@booleanillogical4757]

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

[@Leandra001]

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.

[@shakyrob6512]

I always have a few bottles of water on every character to put out fires like that. In my first playthrough I kept lengths of rope on everyone too because I wasn't sure if I would ever need to do some second story work... Sadly I never did but the water has been used in every run even outside the hag fight.

[@nekomiaou]

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.

[@dracuhl8342]

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!

[@Qwerty95ish]

Grease has been called underated for 20 years

[@mosmes02]

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.

[@gaaraofthesand40]

Yeah he used Cure Wounds in the video.

[@Bossnificent]

No long intro, just straight into the video. Great content!

[@vanitas8271]

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

[@buckeye998]

I never expected it to feel like such a breath of fresh air when someone just starts their video right away

[@saladinbob]

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.

[@IlaMedlin]

When I bring my spider familiar places, townspeople get real upset. In Last Light, Harpers will literally follow me outside of town to yell at my spider and get injured and let themselves die just to keep yelling at my spider. Also the case for summoned zombies.

[@DanteEhome]

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.

[@RevolverBosselot]

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

[@ConnorSinclairCavin]

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

[@SpacedOwls]

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.

[@black_nodius8177]

As a Pathfinder wotr player, I was using grease from day one. I've met my end way to much in that game to not know how good it would be in this game.

[@MegaParrotMan]

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.

[@IndependantMind168]

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.

[@ziff_1]

BG3 continues to amaze me with its flexability.

[@emrysmyridden]

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

[@red2977]

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.

[@ShadowMaster885]

so refreshing to see a video with no chunky intro thank you sm

[@SharonArbiv-o7c]

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.

[@williamoskerson1218]

Another absolute BANGER of a video! Thanks dude, for everything you do

[@Toyhouze]

Thank you! I appreciate that!

[@PorkFork]

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.

[@financeorelse]

Love the straight to the point videos

[@djsvrlaivwfofj]

Sanctuary also works with Moonbeam despite it hurting other enemies, however it's bugged with spirit guardian, because that will remove sanctuary and then automatically break your concentration on spirit guardians.

[@eloryosnak4100]

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.

[@syrenet]

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.

[@valk13yrie]

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!

[@drunemeton]

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. 🥰

[@AHDBification]

I love item combos more than anything. I gave Astarion the Cloak of Cunning Brume, a ring that makes him immune to blindness, and the Dark Justicars Scimitar. So, he runs up to a target, disengages, which creates a smoke cloud, attacks with advantage in the smoke, and possibly blinds the target for 2 turns.

[@lamMeTV]

The thing that makes grease bonkers is that its not concentration. Imagine having darkess or god forbid Hunger of Hadar just kinda exist there.

[@riotguards]

Web exists Players: "Aim for the bushes"

[@Foehammer098]

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!

[@OmkaraHellcore]

So for funzies: Void Orb (optional) > Grease > Fire > Ice > Lightning Just to maximize all sorts of elements reacting to each other.

[@frecherfrechdachs]

is mud for anything useful?

[@KilledByThatTrain]

@@frecherfrechdachsit’s good for wrestling, and making pies

[@TheShad0wW3av3r]

I literally LOLed at the mention of dwarf tossing in the Enlarge/Reduce tip 😂

[@benevolentworldexploder5395]

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.

[@Firespark81]

Im sure this has probably been mentioned a ton but I don't feel like reading the comments to see. But sanctuary will not be broken if you cast any concentration spell. You have to cast the spell first for example cast fire wall then sanctuary. Enemies can walk through it and be damaged all day and sanctuary will no break. It's the act of casting a harmful spell that breaks it, NOT maintaining the spell. Also do not throw anything, even health pots at companions. This will break sanctuary.

[@thundercookie3214]

Don't know whether that is a bug or a feature but during my fight with Ethel, I cast Witchbolt early and kept recasting it, which meant I basically had her on a magical leash and didn't have to try to figure out where the real hag was, even when she was invisible. Dead useful for me.

[@ivanbssouza]

For create water, wet characters takes double dmg to lightining spells, very usefull

[@y2kboy]

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.

[@Chronal-Rend]

You can get fast hands from Thief

[@atlast7928]

A fun build is to be a oathbreaker 9 and 3 warlock pact of boom, you control undead, revive them, summon imp, then you buff them with aura of hate,

[@kroanosm617]

Damn, already blown away by the first 2. I searched for how to pickpocket in crowded areas and no one ever mentioned using fog.

[@jonjamesminer]

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.

[@ggEmolicious]

I'm a fan of any tips that help me do crime.

[@Eddison33]

Those are good, and I can add something to it. I'm a big fan of Grease, since D&D! Its cool features are being non-hostile and not requiring concentration (unlike Web, Entangle, Darkness). So, a nice way to use it might be casting Grease at doorways and choke-points before the fight. You can even create a terrain of continuous grease, and then incinerate it in the middle of the figh. Melee attacks against prone enemies are with advantage, Works especially great with reach weapons (halberds, pikes). Apart from Darkness, there's also Silence. You can stealthily lockpick doors and chests and even smash them to pieces without alerting any guards. Not being seen and heard simultaneously is also perfect for murder. In locations like Goblin Camp or Moonrise Towers, you might want to kill some particularly troublesome potential enemies before you go against the entire camp. Cast Darkness, cast Silence, go into turn-based... Kill someone with a strong melee character, pick up their corpse , then fast travel or run. A perfect crime)

[@Arkham1010]

I found this last night.I cast created water on an enemy, and then used ray of frost on that enemy to also make the surface slippary. What I didn't expect though was that because the enemy was soaking wet, he suddenly got the frozen debuff and could not move for a few turns. Pretty neat!

[@grexion2633]

Love how concise and straight to the point the video is

[@flutterbree]

The unholy laughter i let out when i saw the second hint.. my thieving playthrough w astation just got much more lucrative

[@ivanberdichevsky5679]

Yo, this was really useful. Liked and subscribed because I'm also a huge fan of BG3.

[@TerrorTerros]

No dumb/annoying intro, i love it ❤

[@Firstgenamerican21]

Holy crap! Why have I never thought of shielding my healer with Sanctuary?! Thank you.

[@Sir-Reborn]

Solid tips I'm doing my first playthrough "normally", so if there's some mechanic that seems exploitable I typically avoid it as a rule. Which I kinda base around "if this was real DnD, would the DM let this slide?" Personally I encourage that way of playing especially on a first go with games like this. Divinity also had similar minor exploits that just broke the game difficulty by act 2

[@Masteroftheweb]

I learn yesterday that people will follow zombies... I don't know why, but instead of running away, they chase them. you can pull guards to dark corners and merc them without anyone being aware by having a zombie lure them away.

[@vinyldash3633]

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

[@chinyong8166]

I gave up on grease quite early on. Maybe I'm bad luck but no enemies tripped whenever i used it. Next turn they just jump or walk through it fine

[@AndrewJohnson-oy8oj]

Wow, start right off number one with something that will change gameplay completely!

[@DarkRavedgeHollow]

funny thing is, i knew about Web preventing fall damage cus of an ingame loading tip but it appeared only once. also Water + a tempest cleric is a dummy stupid way to win combat especially when you get lightning charge gear and the either the ring that prevents you from getting electrocuted or the boots. simply walk into combat, create water, electrify it and cast sanctuary and you cannot be stopped. the early act 1 encounters and early act 2 encounters were stupid easy with this combo

[@FlyingFox86]

Quick correction, you can't use healing word followed up with sanctuary. At least not with the same character. They are both bonus actions.

[@Law01YT]

You probably can if you take 3 levels and put them into thief rouge for the extra bonus action

[@Toyhouze]

You're right, you'd have to use Cure Wounds followed up by Sanctuary instead.

[@jeffdietz630]

Throw a heal potion followup with sanctuary. If you need heal at range

[@eltsoldier]

Using create water to reveal invisible enemies is a thing in real D&D. Even if it doesn't outright dispel it, now those creatures are standing in water, and cannot avoid splish-splashing and revealing their position, not to mention that even if they hold perfectly still, no one can miss the two leg-shaped holes in the water! This is also a REALLY good way to counter Displacer Beasts.

[@jan6470]

#4 is actually Conjure Familiar (a level 1 Ritual spell). Conjure Minor Elemental is a level 4 spell, and NOT a ritual spell. So even if you swap it out, you will not be able to save a spellslot after casting it. Only ritual spells don't consume spellslots when cast out of combat.

[@AirLancer]

I'd assume he meant a prepared spell. As in you can summon whatever you're summoning, and then just replace the spell with something else.

[@jan6470]

@@AirLancerMaybe. But in bg3 you can switch prepared spell at any time anyway, as long as you are not in combat. So, any spell that doesn't require concentration can be swapped out after casting. It's not only summoning spells.

[@seoghdha4389]

​@@jan6470the idea is you cast the summon and use a spell slot, then swap the summon spell to something else in your spell book. The summon remains even tho the spell isn't memorized anymore. This lets you both have a summon and a useful spell on effectively the same "slot" in your spellbook

[@jan6470]

@@seoghdha4389 A memorized spell is not a spellslot though. There is a very important difference between spellslots and memorized spells.

[@seoghdha4389]

@@jan6470 agreed, being able to have a summon out without the associated spell memorized is still helpful tho.

[@liamflynn1120]

With a good initiative order, you can really "chain" terrain types. Ray of Frost (points if you have the amulet of elemental augmentation) -> some fire spell/arrow -> lightning It's free damage, and it's so so tasty