25 Secret Features Baldur's Gate 3 Never Tells You About (Tips & Tricks) 

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one of the most overlooked secrets is that when you are in dialogue you can select your other party members in the bottom left to position them before starting the fight

Note on the throwable potions: Throw it at the ground, not the person. The bottle hitting the party member still does damage, especially if the person throwing the potion has high strength for throwing enemies. Last night our barbarian threw a potion directly at me when I was at low HP and it downed my character and then immediately got me back up 😅

I've been using "Sleep" a lot to cc enemies. One thing I noticed is that sometimes enemies companions will actually wake up the enemies you have slept so to counter that there are stuffed teddy bears in the game. If you sleep an enemy, you can on your next turn throw a teddy bear at that enemy which will make that enemy enter into a deep sleep at which point they start to suck their thumbs and become immune to being woken up until the sleep turns have ended. Very cool mechanic.

Just to clarify the high ground advantage (from the crate stacking trick) is just a +2 to attack rolls (10% increase), not advantage. Also, after sending chests to your camp, instead of lockpicking them all 1-by-1, you can put them around a smokepowder barrel and KABOOOM! AFAIK this doesn't damage the items in the chest!

Alt does NOT show all interactable items, just some . You will miss a lot of you rely on that. Look at desks, bookshelves, etc. There are LOTS of valuable items just laying there that you won't see with Alt.

Put one of the provision bags in your Traveler's Chest in camp. It should, at least some times, automatically pick up any food you send to the camp. Helps declutter the chest a lot.

How does this man simply start without a boring intro and provides top notch tips and tricks?! I thought it was impossible.

Just a word of caution about long resting. By entering certain areas, you can set off events related to that area, and if you long rest, those events can essentially proceed without you, killing off npc's that could have been saved amongst other things.

Some loot containers you can pick up and send to your camp. In the camp chest you can use them to sort things into them like files into folders. Makes navigating the camp chest a lot easier. And then you can pick up the container with loot from the camp and sell it to a vendor as single item, for the full price of everything inside.

Must note: Mage Hand is not invisible. There does exist an invisible version for Arcane Trickster Rogues and for Githyanki. The standard Mage Hand is visible and can be detected by enemies. The full release version of this game has improved Mage Hand - it can now remotely activate buttons and levers.

Just in case ! ⏲ - TimeStamps : 0:00 Throwable Items 0:38 Shared Inventories 1:03 Push 1:55 Mage Hand 2:02 Crates 3:04 Affiliate Code placement 3:13 Candle/Weapon Dip 3:42 Trade 4:09 Merchants 5:26 Turn Based Mode 5:58 Attack of Opportunity 6:27 Ranged Attack Debuff 6:37 Inventory Management 7:07 Weight 7:52 Long Rest 8:04 Locked Chest for Later 8:21 Dice Color 8:33 Wyll & Karlach 8:51 Hotckeys 10:17 Expand Quick Use Menu 10:27 Outro Easier to find one specific infos with that! Thanks for this amazing video, a lot of good infos pack in 10 minutes!

Another good beginner tip is to go to your "Reactions" tab and activate all of them for all your characters and, crucially, tick the "Ask" box on all of them. Now the game will ask you if you want to use a reaction whenever it is applicable and if you notice that you always click yes on some of them (like Sneak Attack) you can untick the "Ask" box on it while leaving it ticked on the ones that you want to be able to think about (like Divine Smite).

9:10 Particular note about Left Alt hotkey, is that while it will show you most lootables, there are still objects or containers it doesn't reveal so it's worth mousing around the ground manually to find things. Things like Skeletons often get ignored by the Alt hotkey.

On "T", it also works on enemies. If you hover over an enemy and press T you can see their character sheets.

There's typically a general goods vendor (in act 1 it's the gnome at the grove). They always stock a camp supply which will get you a long rest. For some reason, these are really easy to pickpocket so long as your sleight of hand is good. Almost impossible to fail. Since you get it for free and long rest triggers them to restock, it's pretty much impossible to run out of long rests.

Its crazy how much attention to detail and ingenuity this game has, I’m honestly blown away. It feels so awesome coming up with strategies outside the box and actually having them work, to win hard fights. I had one encounter that was especially hard, so what I ended up doing was stacking a bunch of explosive barrels and lighting them on fire with a fire arrow exploding in blazes of glory one-shotting the entirety of the enemies that had me stuck for over an hour. I love this game.

A piece of advice that nearly every guide and youtuber seems to miss. That ive been trying to post every where i can: Torches. They are broken early game. They arent just for sitting in your inventory and pressing the torch button on the ui to have light. They are in faft a club weapon. And basically one with a fire enchant. This has two implications. 1 - As a club, it works with a druid's Shillelagh cantrip. Which will increase the club damage from 1d4 to 1d8. As well as make your attack modifier wisdom. This means a druid or nature cleric has access to a one handed weapon that can do as much damage as a greatsword/axe. Due to it being 1d8+1d4(fire damage). This makes a level two dip into druid with shadowheart one of the best decisions you can make until you unlock respec and have the money to do so. Also of note, the cantrip makes it a magic weapon whilst active. Circumventing resistances to non-magical weapons by some monsters. So the torch has a LOT of miles on anyone with this cantrip. 2 - You can throw them and get the fire damage effect along with the crushing damage from an elevated position. Making them the best non-throwing weapon in the game to throw. As you'll pick up plenty and not need to buy multiples of them. I hope this helps people.

This is GOTY for me. Not only is it NOT a "stop-gap" before Starfield, I won't be playing Starfield until well after multiple play throughs of BG3. More videos like this please of tips/tricks. Great work love this!

Another hint: If you have no small party members, you can use the disguise self spell if you have it to make yourself into a small race. That way you can enter certain places medium races cannot.

I can say Baldur's Gate 3 has made its way to the top of my gaming tier list along with Divinity Original Sin 2 & The Witcher 3. Thanks for all the helpful tips on my next playthrough! :)

Thanks for the tips. I played 20+ hours and didn't know almost all of these tips! The amount of systems implemented in this game is quite amazing!

As the modding scene picks up, I'd love to see more content from you about it.

Another useful tip, if you're having trouble targeting someone, both an ally or an enemy, you can click on the portraits of either the turn order or your party order. It'll even say "Path interrupted" if you can't reach them.

Love reading tips from other viewers in the comments, so I would add that it's worthwhile to collect visually distinct containers to keep in the camp storage chest. There's A LOT of items in this game, so I separate out good armor and weapons, quest items, extra supplies, camp clothes, dye, etc. Also, enchanted amulets and rings are very light and it's worth it to keep the good ones in a pouch on your main character. A lot of the spells on those items can only be used once per long rest, so you can swap it out for something else.

I find G really useful too as a rogue. It means I can ungroup my party, then press C to crouch with my rogue to scout ahead. My party will stay behind. It's also useful for tactics, as you can position each party member in certain position before entering combat.

With reactions, you can toggle them to "ask" instead of do them automatically. You only get one per turn (unless there's some feat or class that gives you more) so you may want to save it for enemy "B" and not "A".

Along with inventories being shared, you can also have a character stay in camp and essentially use them as mobile infinite storage. Example: picking up every explosive barrel you can using the "add to camp" button to be set up for a later fight without having to go back and forth. Can also be used with crates to make structures of any height/width without having to worry about encumbrance. There's a ton of smokepowder and firewine barrels in the goblin castle :)

Also if you hold down shift whilst in your inventory, you can highlight every item. Meanwhile holding down ctrl and clicking items will let you select multiple items (both decent options to instantly sending a number of items to camp/another character instantly instead of one at a time).

I managed to get karlach immediately after wyll by complete accident. I unlocked misty step and then explored the druid enclave. Found a ladder next to some tieflings that led up to a high spot right along the border between the forest and risen road, and wondered if there was a way across the stream. One misty step later, I teleported directly next to karlach and was like "well that probably wasn't intended"

If you have a badass potion to use, group your party very close together, then throw the potion on the ground and it'll buff the entire party instead of buffing only yourself.

Note: You do not get Advantage from having high ground, Larian changed that around Patch 6 in early access. You do get a bonus for your attack to hit, however it is not nearly as strong as having Advantage.

As you mentioned mage hand: The hand also counts as an additional ally in order to allow a rogue to sneak attack an enemy. Essentially you can have the rest of the party stand back while the rogue dives in and still gets full damage.

Highground doesnt give advantage in the release version. It gives a +2 to attack rolls instead.

Fun tip for Storm Sorcerers, if you take the Ritual spells feat you can use the ritual spells to get free flying move as many times as you want as ritual spells dont use up spellslots outside of combat.

If you long rest in a dungeon you'll need to have camp supplies on you, not just in your camp. The Gobling Camp in the first area comes to mind.

On Tactical mode difficulty enemies has 30% more HP so they can survive a fall. But it always takes out a good chunk of there health. Warning for you loot hoarders out there... If you shove the enemy into the water or where it lands some where you can't go, you loose the loot that was on the corpse.

This game is an absolute masterpiece. I'm not even going to play Starfield or Phantom Liberty right now; I only have time in my life for one epic RPG, and I know the modding scene is going to go BANANAS with this game.

Little correction: The Mage Hand is NOT invisible for everyone. Only for Githyanki's who get a invisible Mage Hand as a race bonus (its supposed to emulate their telekinetic abilities rather then being a proper mage hand spell.)

For a rogue, if you get comfortable pressing C to crouch, make sure that you replace your action Hide with the Cunning Action on your hotbar. It will replace the old crouch icon and switch the hotkey. Super helpful, especially if you hide a lot in combat

As a Larian veteran, I can tell you that it isn't that they don't *tell* you about these things, it is that there are *so many features* that you *have* to figure them out for yourself. Larian has, in the past, admitted to players finding out tricks they didn't consider. Edit: Speaking of using some of these tips, just earlier, for the hobgoblin boss encounter, I stored smokepowder and firewine barrels at camp, set a few up next to him and his throne room, got to safety, and wiped all but the two drow out with a single firebolt. It was BEAUTIFUL~!

1:57, correction, mage hand is invisible for Lae'zel because she gains "Githyanki Psionics" from her racial. There's ways to make Mage Hand invisible for anyone if they pick the Telekinetic feat though.

During the goblin stronghold mission if you put the vampire on the beams above and then start combat with him stealthed he can assassinate all the enemies without entering combat as long as he one shots every single one up until he tries to pop that goblin chieftan. I found this out by accident and totally took advantage of it. Went from a hard fight against like 8 enemies with clerics to a goblin chief on his own getting pushed into the spider pit. Basically combat only starts if an enemy catches you in the act of assassinating enemies.

5:35 I take it even step further: First ungroup your party and leave others far behind crouched, start fight with one character, switch to another, sneak up to the enemy and get a free hit usually with an advantage. Keep adding the rest of your characters to the fight same way until you have a full party in combat. Enjoy! :)

You can also press T when mousing over a creature and it will bring up the examine screen. Great for checking out resistances, attribute scores and any active abilities/features it has

I actually did know about the throwing potions bit! Although the game never explicitly states it, one of the three human NPCs in an early game combat encounter uses it to great effect. I didn't pick up on it at first, but it was enough of a hint for me to figure it out!

As for traders rerolling their inventory. Be careful. Every time you level up the items go up in price. So the green +1 armour you wanted sold for 120 gold after the level up reroll will cost 150 gold for example. So check the prices and save often... or just get your Astarion to steal it for you. :D

Along with trading being in the dialog menu, you can also change character in the dialog menu. This lets you distract enemies while you sneak around. Eg start a dialog with someone while your rogue pickpockets them/robs their house or store. Or while a villain is having a big ego trip speech, sneak around behind them for an ambush. Dont pre jack turn based mode, doing so lets you get a sneak attack off before turn based mode starts automatically and then another sneak attack immediately after and then another sneak attack almost immediately after that since the enemy loses their entire first turn to "surprised" (you can get super cheesy with this so use or abuse at your own discretion) Also picking up chests isnt just useful for lockpicking later, keep a variety of chests in camp storage to use as organisation, important items and gold in a gilded chest, food in a wooden crate etc

I'm taking my time with this game. Doing everything, exploring everything 25h in and in stick in the first act. Loving it so far. Don't forget to use talk to to the dead spell on important characters that you kill, like bosses and main enemies. Most of time you get important information you might have missed , and many tims you can ask about treasure too

Camp and inventory Massive tip to speed up selling. Well first of all you should loot bags, backpacks, bucket of fish, pouch and store those in camp (keep some on rogue or other). The next tip is massive, you place very organized bags and buckets ect on top of the main big chest (at camp) you can rotate the cam to line this up well. These will be the trash collector bags, instead of selecting one item at a time you wanna press ctrl + left click on every trash item and highlight bad items. Because u have the bags on top of the main camp box you can click these to open windows and drag those windows to the side ready to dump trash in. Once you have highlighted all the trash you dump it right in the window of the bag or pouch or bucket. This is the organizing tip completed you can do it for weapons and such if you wish. Now to vendor things fast you wanna upgroup the party by dragging the toon icon away from the left side to untether them (act of own). Send the highest charisma toon to trader on his own, keep any other toon in camp to be the slave. Once at the trader you can click the camp slave toon to pick up bags or buckets on top of that camp box and press tab and send it to the toon at the trader. The trade is speeded up because you can dump that bag or bucket full of trash in the barter window and the trader will match the price for all of the junk as he wishes. This saves you clicking anything at trader just a simple drag and drop one bag/backpack/bucket limited by weight ofc. Repeat this for each trash dump back at camp. A further advanced tip is when out in world looting you wanna have a collection of container type on the looting toon (my rogue) and ctrl + left click the trash you loot and drag it to the container inside the inventory of the rogue then send to camp to speed up the process. By using pouch/bucket of fish/bag/backpack as you loot in the world this will save tons of time when back at camp. Further Tip for OCD, you can place book, weapon, armor infront of a backpack or box back at camp this acts as a label system to speed up storing stuff. GL

As far as clicking on inventory slots goes, it is also worth noting that it will include any containers you have in your possession. So you could put all your armor in one sack, weapons in another, etc. Then when you want to try out a different build go to camp, drag that container onto your character, click around to find the pieces you want, then put the containers back in the inventory. If you select the items that way, whatever you previously wore will be put into the container the other item came from. Can make it easier than taking all, and putting all the items back. Also -- and it took me a while to figure this one out -- you can use CTRL clicking to select multiple items, or shift clicking to select rows of items, and you can then ctrl click to deselect specific items. Makes it easier to move lots of stuff at once, especially if you order by type before hand. Heck, inventory management could almost be its own entire video in this game (for better or worse).

Thanks for all the tips and tricks. Much appreciated! Some things I'd like to add/clarify: Always entering turn-based mode so that you ensure you have the first round of actions is great but take note of positioning. If you can enter a battle with initiative first and have surprise actions, you'll have a larger benefit to your rolls than utilizing turn-based mode to initiate first. Ranged attacks always suffer at melee range, JUMP is one of the best options to utilize often as typically when an enemy closes the distance (such as using dash), you can jump out of melee range to utilize your proper ranged attacks. Many mage classes/subclasses use aoe attacks which can be great for groups, but not so much when your own party members are a part of that group. Positioning, positioning, positioning. Toggling group mode before entering a battle can be invaluable and allows you to position your characters in a much better way for you to utilize every party member's strength. This is even more so when you have someone with good stealth abilities (such as Astarion). If you can catch an enemy alone, you can separate and/or take them down without starting an area-wide battle. I recommend to never use auto-select for camp supplies because more often than not, you'll end up over-utilizing the /40 requirement and could be wasting 1 or 2 camp supplies that may need later on.

This man knows how to make content; straight to the point and packed with info

Another tip: you don't need to pick chests open, you can also get their contents by smashing them open. Just make sure to do that in an conteolled manner and environment. If you blast a chest open and set off a secondary explosion, that explosion can destroy the items that were just dropped from the chest

You can also mark items in your inventory like you can mark things on windows desktop by holding SHIFT, then clicking 2 different items, It will then also mark every item between those 2 items. You can also select individual items by holding CTRL instead and clicking items. Super handy for sending things over to the camp like Camp Supplies or move items over to your other characters or containers! Also want to add that you can pick up Backpacks and Pouches around the world and use them to sort your items, like Potions, Scrolls, Gems or whatever else you like, in their own storage.

3:01 using spells like darkness, cloud of daggers, hunger of hadar, etc works very well to force movement to another area / deal damage as they try to come in.

The red bars in the action bar work as sliders as well. Just left click, hold and drag to see

I'm 60 hours into the game and I didn't know a lot of this - particularly throwing potions. I've been underusing throwing as is. Thanks. Btw you can also throw creatures if your character is strong enough.

Someone said you can even heal temporary companions/party members/summons by opening the party menu (helmet above the team portraits on the left) and selecting a potion to use from the inventory. As long as you are controlling the character, whoever's inventory it is shouldn't matter. So even though characters like Hope do not have inventories, you can still heal them up with potions you have in another character's inventory. If you can't throw it at a character, this is a good alternative.

I liked how you talked about cheesing with crates/chests. The chests in the very first area where you can fight the demon are invulnerable. All you have to do is place one correctly, where you can't path through at the entrance to the fight. Jump over it and you can keep the extra demon dudes from ever getting in the fight. They just sit there attacking the chest the entire time.

Thank you so much for these! The candle to dip weapon is great, and clicking armor slots to see all available gear is AMAZING!! Starting to shoot at enemies before you walk up to them can be disadvantageous though, because you will lose the chance to have whatever dialogue you might have been able to have before. Sometimes not just outright killing your enemies is a good strategy.

Also a tip. If you take a feet like great weapon master you might not notice it reduces your accuracy for that damage increase. You can turn this passive ability off during combat for harder to hit foes. Passive button is at bottom of toolbar. It took me a while to figure out how to turn this off when needed

Wow that was incredibly helpful! I've played about 45hrs and only knew about a few of these tips. Thanks!

Thanks for all the work you're putting in between Starfield & BGIII. These are all super useful! I personally love making a custom spell list for casters and arranging spells in a semicircle layout in the middle, starting with cantrips and expanding outwards with each level. Super useful when there are so many actions a character can take

I havent seen this written anywhere else, but you can also pick up any pouches and backpacks from the ground. Helps managing potions, throwabls and scrolls. Also you can straight up attack potions to splatter them on anyone close enough. Sometimes less finicky than throwing them on the ground.

The box trick can be used to also block line of sight on npcs, especially useful for stationary guards

Mage hand is ONLY invisible if you have the rogue or Githyanki version (and the rogue one is only from a specific subclass) You mention increasing the size of the quick bar at the bottom, but you can also change the size of the individual sections by dragging the dividers Pretty cool that the game has so much I can learn several new things from this video and still have my own things to add to it :)

This game is actually wild. Weird mechanics and effects I've discovered actually come from the enemy using those tactics against me. Like throwing potions and it healing multiple enemies.

The TAB key treats the individual inventories as a common shared one. This is a really powerful feature. You never need to transfer potions from one character to another except for housekeeping reasons. Just press the TAB key and make sure the character you want drinking a potion is the frame that's highlighted. Then you can right-click on any potion in any other characters inventory to use it. Same with using scrolls, reading books, examining items, lockpicking a chest, etc.

I didn't know that dropping and attacking potions would make a larger AOE. Sometimes the thrown potions won't hit everyone if the floor is uneven. I hope this will make it easier to position my party members for our Poison Resistance Group Hug!

I would love to see more BG3 content! Also, thanks for all the game tips bc I'm pretty new to D&D games and BG3 is sooooo in depth it's easy to miss stuff like hotkeys and other game functions. Thanks!

Starts the video giving tips instead of wasting time to lengthen the video, gives valuable, not at all obvious tips, several of them, and explains them well. Kudos and thanks!

If you've played Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2 then a big majority of these were known or you picked up on them very quickly. Good to see people helping the newbies to these types of game because it it a lot of fun and I have been a Baldur's Gate fan since I was 13 (33 now) and a huge fan of Larian's other games so it's great seeing this game get the attention it deserves.

Thanks for sharing! I massively improved thanks to your vids, and actually found a few things/items I see you missed in your playthtough :D

If you leave a Chest in your camp, and then leave that area(eg: from Druid Grove to the Underdark in Act 1), that chest won't pop up again in camp. You'll need to go back to the Druid Grove, go to camp, and recover the chest.

The tilde key was the new thing I learned! The loading screens kep talking about the "grave" key, but I had no idea what that was. Thanks a lot!

one very helpful thing is, you can customize your attackbar / spellbar / whatever it´s called. Super helpful to design a custom skillrotation. Just click on "custom" at your bar, click on the lockicon to open it and drag and drop things out of your spellbook and inventory

One of the most frustrating things about this game is how many things it DOES NOT tell you about that make the game miles easier, more convenient, etc. You covered most of them, and taught me some new things after 40 hours of gameplay... Throwing potions is WILD!!

attack of opportunity costs a reaction, that u could spend casting shield/counterspell or using some of the illithid powers etc, always set attacks of opportunity to "ask" to decide in every particular round if u want to use it or not

Have like 25 hours into this game and this video taught me a bunch of things, freakin awesome man, thanks so much !

The "High Ground" bonus doesn't give advantage. It just adds an additional modifier to your hit roll, meaning it is indeed easier to hit things but cannot be used for attacks that require advantage, like sneak attack.

Hahaha! Frack me. I never would have thought about keeping crates on me for the high ground. Likewise, I never would have thought about taking locked chests and sending them to camp for later. Thanks a TON for these tips! Can't wait until I get to play the game.

Pro tip for anyone who wants to make the spider boss a tiny bit easier, you can attach the web paths in the boss room to destroy them. The fall may not look like much but because the spider matriarch is so large, the fall will do about 40 damage each time you drop her meaning 3-4 drops will kill her. I've found that you can reliably drop her twice if you have decent enough positioning, meaning you can get her incredibly low with very little risk. She still hits like a truck though.

another super usefull item is "bottle of water" if u dont want to waste 1lvl spell slot for "create water spell" or the raindancer staff. just throw a bottle of watter and extuinguish flame, or do that beffore u got burning and get 3 turns resist on fire and cant be burned. also ctrl and also shift for items / bagpack management is usefull

In inventory SHIFT and CTR work like normally on PC (for lack of better expression) , Click hold SHIFT click last item in line to select all , right click for context menu on everything selected -> if you first sort by type you can select like this all supplies and send to supplies or all junk weapons and send to camp in stacks instead of clicking individually. CTRL does same while you holding it you can multiselect individual items into group. Also thing that might get overlooked by some peeps, F5 quick save, F8 quick load and in options menu you can increase numbers of slots for quick saves from 25 to 50 I think so you don't loose some point if you do it a lot and wanna replay some parts idk, might be helpful . Thanks for Tilda tip, didn't know that , very useful 👍👍👍

I for one am ALL FOR a full run of Baldur's Gate 3! The game is so much fun with a crazy amount of things to do and options to choose from. Please do a full run of this game on here. :)

One tip you missed is the G key or dragging your party members frames out of the left side of the screen to split them from the party so you can move them independently. This is useful for pre-combat setup when you want to specifically place each character in a certain spot before the start of the fight without having them all follow each other to one spot.

You can actually swtich around your partys action order if they roll the same initiative, you'll see their blue portrait frame at the top as some nice intertwined texture if they are right next to each other. that means whenver its their turn, its their turn at the same time and you can pick and chose who does what and goes where if you click on their portait, for example the last person can buff the first person before first person attacks which you would want.

I appreciate these tips but to me Baldurs Gate 3 on the default setting is already pretty balanced leaning on the easy side, so I try my best to cheese as little as possible. Ultimately what I want to get from the game is a legit D&D experience, and no DM would allow for things like exploding potions and crate shenanigans.

There are some places where you can't long rest willy-nilly. For example, there is a quest in Act 3 that you have to do within a certain number of days to get the benefit of having done it. Also, you'll need to feed Gale artifacts in Act 1 on long rests. (I think he will take a total of 3, but I could be wrong.) Otherwise, camp supplies don't really inhibit camping unless you simply don't loot a lot.

One small correction, High Ground gives you a +2 to hit (and Low Ground a -2 to hit) and not Advantage (which is roll 2 dice, picking the highest result). I'd love more BG3 content from you, love your stuff for Cyberpunk and now that the game is fully out I expect the modding scene to take off.

fun fact the interconnected inventories is called "magic pockets" you will get a pop up for this if you open a lock needing a specific key but another party member has the key on them instead

Big tip I saw while watching a streamer was that during combat if your party’s turns are all grouped together you can pick what character to use so you don’t have to waste a spell slot or certain move that requires rest to do the last hit on a foe or to get an enemy’s attention in order to get a sneak attack with your rogue. I’ve never played a turn based game before this so I don’t know if this is common knowledge but it was a game changer for me.

High ground doesn't give advantage. I think it gives a +1 or +2 to your attack rolls. It also doesn't always deal more damage unless you are throwing something. Thunderwave also needs a CON save. Con saves are some of the worst saves to target as most enemies in the game will have mid to high con saves. Still a good spell but big things are very hard to push due to them usually having a ton of CON like an ogre

Yes, I'm glad you’re covering Baldur’s Gate 3. Should be lots of good content down the line!

Great video, very informative; but I couple clarifications and some other additions/suggestions: 1. Mage hand is not invisible unless you chose Arcane Trickster as your Rogue subclass. Then it is only through that class's cantrip. Any other mage hand is a blue spectral hand. Evidence: you can see the mage hands in the Githyanki Creche infirmary. Other evidence, The Arcane Trickster mage hand is not blue, but just a transparent outline. 2. Switching between melee and ranged on the PC you just press the "F" key if you use the defaults for the end of turn suggestion. During your turn if you click on the attack type (ranged or melee) it will bring up all of your options for that type of attack, including special arrows for ranged as well as the coatings in your inventory for both (unless you have certain weapons equipped) 3. For turn-based mode you can click on the hourglass icon where your combat's End Turn usually shows. 4. The "Alt" (also called "Grave") key does not show you EVERYTHING you can interact with. It will show you dead bodies, ingredients like mugwort, books/readables, backpacks and pouches, weapons and armor that are just on the ground, and camp supplies that are just on the ground/on tables. With the exception backpacks and pouches (and some burlap sacks, but not all of them), and chests you have to open the lootable items and hope there's actually loot in them. 5. If you right click a torch and send it to one of your party members it will automatically equip it in the light source which is pretty handy (and initially required) for a specific area in Act 2. Even with characters that have Darkvision, switching to a torch in a poorly lit area can be better. Personal suggestions: Unless your character is a Life Cleric take Shadowheart to Withers and drop the 100 gold to change her class. When in the menu to do so just change her domain from 1. Trickery to Life. You don't have to, but I highly recommend it as it makes her a better healer on top of her melee combat prowess. 2. If you want to do a mass trade you can store all of the items you are getting rid of in a backpack or pouch ahead of time and then you can move that over to the barter side. I do this to clean up my inventory since I pick up everything that isn't nailed to the ground. What I learned from this video: 1. Using T to examine an item so that I can learn about other things (like momentum) 2. How to change the dice skin/color. 3. Store camp supplies in the camp chest so they don't take up that precious carry weight. 4. Use the character with the highest Charisma to initiate trade and get better prices in general. 5. Creating barricades and your own high ground. 6. An actual use for those damned candles.

Pro tip! That mundane chest in the under dark tower which turns everything into spoons and cups changes the weight too. I’m carrying around like 40 crates and 20 barrels for the weight of the chest.

For transferring items, you can also drag items to their avatars

It's fascinating how everything in this game is incredibly well thought.

oh and jumping is usually faster than running on even ground/descending ground when you fight. In particular, if you play monk and you use step of the wind = dash and you have a long way to travel, spam jump and the distance covered will be insane.