Baldur’s Gate 3 can be a challenging game to get through. After all, there are a lot of tough bosses in the game that you need to take out if you’re going to make it to the end. Plus, the game’s honor mode is punishingly difficult, even for Baldur’s Gate 3 veterans.
So, it’s sometimes nice to make use of a clever exploit or two. Since the title’s original release, many of them have been patched by the developers. The following ones are currently still around, though. Hopefully, they never go away.
Get Helldusk Armor From Raphael In Act One
Free Powerful Armor
The Helldusk armor is among the best in Baldur’s Gate 3, and you can get it as early as Act One, but only if you use an exploit. Start by talking to Nettie in Emerald Grove, as this will make Raphael spawn near the bridge, just outside Blighted Village. When you’re near the spot he spawns, separate your party to keep a character back. Then, when the conversation with him begins, switch to the other companion and attack him from range. This makes him disappear, setting up the next interaction.
When you try to move to the Mountain Pass, the devil will be in your camp. Hit him with the Silence power to stop him from talking, then attack him viciously with non-lethal blows. When he’s down, quickly loot him before he disappears. This gets you the armor.
Granting Yourself Unlimited Movement Speed With The Aspect Of The Elk Ability
Never Stop Moving
Aspect of the Elk is a Wildheart Barbarian ability that grants them and nearby allies an extra five feet of movement speed. If you’re one of those allies, you can exploit this.
If you enter the ability’s effective range, leave, then enter again, that would be two boosts to your movement speed. Therefore, you can keep going in and out to stack up your speed. All you have to do is make sure you don’t venture too far before re-entering, or else, you’ll burn through some of that movement speed.
Huddle Around A Potion And Break It To Boost The Whole Party
Give The Entire Party A Treat
Potions don’t have to be drunk to impact your companions. Simply breaking a potion around your characters can give them the effect of the potion. So, for example, if multiple characters need healing and you don’t have many healing items, you can place one on the floor, have everyone huddle around it, and then break the bottle. Everyone close enough will be affected by it.
This can be done with any breakable potions. Of course, it’s better to do it outside of battle, as a bunch of you clumped together would make you a big target in a fight.
Use Smokepowder Bombs Without Using An Action
All You Need Is Fire
Typically, throwing a Smokepowder bomb at an enemy uses up an action. There’s a way around this, though. If there is an area covered in flames near the enemy, you can drop a bomb into the fire to make it explode.
Naturally, you don’t want to be too near when that happens, so you can drop the bomb, then move it into the fire to make it blow up. This doesn’t cost any action points. Therefore, if you have a bunch of bombs, you can keep dealing damage with them without actually taking any actions.
Acquire A Permanent Shadow Blade With The Help Of A Hireling
A Powerful Blade For Early In The Game
The Shadow Blade spell allows the caster to create and equip a powerful purple blade that deals psychic damage. It’s usually only a temporary thing that goes away when you long rest. There is a way around that, though, by using one of the game’s brilliant hirelings.
Hire a sorcerer, wizard, or warlock from Withers, then get them up to level three to acquire and use the Shadow Blade spell. Then, once they’ve got the purple blade, return to Withers and tell him to dismiss your hireling. After that, hire the same hireling as before, and they will return with a permanent Shadow Blade for some reason. It’s better than the normal one because your other characters can equip it, and it stays after a long rest.
Get What You Want From Merchants Using A Warlock
Free Money And Items
The Warlock power named Bind Pact Weapon allows you to bind your weapon to your hand. If you do this with an expensive one, you can use it to your advantage. Simply trade with a merchant, and place any weapon into your side of the barter menu. Then drag that same weapon into your hand to swap it with your bound weapon.
This places your bound weapon into the barter menu, ready to sell. You can’t physically sell it, though, but that doesn’t stop the trader from trying to buy it. So, you can have them put money or some of their items into trade with your bound weapon. This results in you getting their stuff and the weapon staying where it is.
Steal A Weapon From A Summon
Obtain Unobtainable Weapons
This doesn’t work on consoles.
Some summons in the game carry special weapons, such as the Deva and the different Elemental Myrmidons. When they’ve been summoned and you check their inventory, their weapons won’t be there.
Yet, with their inventory open, you can click a little preview button that is just beneath them. After you do this, their weapon appears for a millisecond. If you’re fast enough, you can grab it, open your inventory while you’re still holding it, and place it in there. This gives you a unique weapon.
Leave One Party Member At Camp To Keep Your Team From Getting Wiped
One Companion Left Behind
In honor mode, if your entire active party is eliminated, your campaign ends instantly. One little trick to stop this from happening is to ungroup your party and have one of them stay at camp while the others progress forward. The person in question still has to be an active member of the party, but they can do so from a safe distance.
While this means you can now only fight with three party members instead of four, if the three of them get killed, your run isn’t over. It doesn’t work in every situation, as they sometimes get forced to your location. But it works most of the time, and may help you beat honor mode.
- Released
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August 3, 2023
- ESRB
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Violence
- Engine
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Divinity 4.0
- Multiplayer
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Online Co-Op, Local Co-Op
- Cross-Platform Play
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Full cross-platform play.
