13 Things That are Actually Overpowered in Baldur’s Gate 3

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One run while playing as a moon druid, I was shifted into owlbear form and was using a colossus potion. I weighed 5,005kg. Friend grabbed me with telekinesis and chucked me at monster and it missed the saving throw. I hit it for 213 damage. Since then many things have died to a flying owlbear. Many people would also be surprised at how few creatures in the game are concerned about a cat running around placing explosives everywhere. Currently doing a Dark Urge run as a Half Drow druid mad bomber cat.

For Light, take your armor off, drop it on the ground, illuminate it, and put the armor back on. Boom, you’re a light source, and you don’t have to worry about putting your weapon away and dispelling your light

Longstrider is the most OP spell in the game. Its a ritual so it costs nothing, does not require concentration and last until long rest. So its essentially free buff.

40 years after my first D&D game and I'm just finding out about hurling backpacks and firebombs?

If you cast light on a bottle and throw it, when it breaks, the area of light is much larger than an object of the same size.

Some more specifics on mage hand: They can punch enemies to break concentration, and I believe shove also can break it. They can use Fly, Shove AND attack all in the same turn. Additionally, enemies have a habit of attacking the mage hand when it's nearby, which is a wasted Action for them (or even wasting a spell). Now they just need to buff it so we can pickpocket people with it

Forget game of the year. BG3 is game of our life...

A list that's actually useful and actually listing sleeper picks.... nice

if you jump onto a web surface it negates all falling damage, and create water will reveal invisible enemies when they become wet :) oh and dancing lights can be put over a trap vent/gas pit to block the substance while you concentrate

I only recently discovered that familiars can use potions. I dropped a Hill Giant Strength potion and then clicked on it as my raven. Thus my 21 strength raven was able to move around explosive barrels without anyone caring whether I was in a restricted area.

Shoving enemies off high places has definitely changed combat outcomes in my favor a number of times.

I used the cat shapeshift to rob the treasure from underneath the temple of Umberlee. Normally the priestesses would throw me out or detect my invisibility, but they don't mind the cat.

I love how a lot of these are applicable to tabletop D&D play, especially the silence spell one. Thanks a bunch!

Sussur Bloom. If you plan a fight with powerful spell caster like Lorroakan, you can sneek and place sussur bloom in his inventory. I bet trading works as well 😁

you can pick up the small phase spiders from the phase spider matriarch, you can use them as a dip to add poison to your weapons

Re: #5 discussed at 5:00 --> If you're not in a combat situation and can prepare you should AVOID THROWING the potion in favor of placing it on the ground, gathering your party around it, and then attacking it since this results in a LARGER AOE/SPLASH radius. Additionally, when throwing a potion it's possible to aim poorly, hit your ally resulting in dealing throw damage prior to the potion's effect. I found this hint out the other day while watching another video.

With Light you can just cast it on a melee person and it puts it on the weapon they are holding, which would work pretty much the same for a ranged character to see in the dark. Find Familiar is a ritual spell, so it should not be using a spell slot to cast in the first place. You can also use "Dip" on Flaming Sphere, and I think that's hilarious. For Featherfall, there are boots in Act 1 that let you cast AoE Featherfall as well and it doesnt have a long/short rest limitation so you can always swap to the boots and then use the spell and swap back. One of the best items in the game lol.

Here's my tip: Feather Fall and Enhance Leap especially, but any other low level rituals like that, have them on Astarion as an Arcane Trickster rogue. Because you'll be primarily casting them outside of combat and they won't take up a spell slot. - That way you can keep your dedicated spellcasters damage oriented or give them the higher level utility spells. - Alternatively use Astarion for setups, like casting Grease before you throw a fire spell with a different character. Also remember you can have Aid and Longstrider cast on your party by hirelings that you leave at camp, and the benefits will persist. - Keep some buff bots in camp like that to keep those spells on your crowd. - And cycle your party members, folks. - If Karlach took a beating and is down to 3 HP, don't rest for just her sake, send her to camp and bring Lae'Zel for a fight, use her superiority dice. - Gale used up his spell slots? Swap him out for Shadowheart or Wyll. Lastly, "Retreat" is OP AF. Devil you can fight in act 2 for example? Sneak up to him, lay down some barrels of smoke powder and some explosive bombs, send ALL your party members to camp. - ungroup, bring only Astarion back with Haste to shoot a fire arrow to ignite the thing, then using the surprise round have him cunning action dash, normal action dash, run away to be way out of enemy range and retreat to camp. - That will reset the aggro and you can sneak back in to plant more barrels to deal with more enemies. - Also know what will and will not ignite, and try out some combos. - If you hit a smoke powder barrel in the middle of some firewine barrels, the force damage won't ignite the firewine barrel, but throwing a fire bolt on the firewine barrel in-between smoke powder barrels will, and it will deal more damage. - And exploding a firewine or oil barrel deals a portion of force damage when it explodes, too, but smashing it and setting the contents on fire won't, so remember that as well when stacking explosions like that.

you can put a torch in a smokepowder barrel and throw the barrel. it'll explode instead of scatter.