Baldur's Gate 3: How To Beat Grym (Adamantine Forge Boss) Combat Tips 

Thank you so much for this detailed guide, I was getting so confused as to why the second hammer was doing zero damage, and no other guide besides yours that I could find would explain that you need to wait another turn for him to get back up in order to be able to damage him again with the hammer! I also didn't know that you could just shoot the lever, I was just running up to it and pulling it!

this fight is so frustrating and the golems reactions vary wildly between difficulties.

Dude that's sick the second I saw you move your character to the pounder station I immediately became enlightened

THE TUTORIAL THAT I NEEDED!!!! I've been stuck with the fact that after the first hit I had an invincible guardian

Thank you...I just spent 6 hours hating life till i finally broke down and youtubed it.

horrible boss design. Its very bugged for me. Even when boss is in lava after getting crushed he is ALWAYS immune.

I used hide on astarion behind the wheel to turn lava on and off, he stayed out of the combat turns allowing me to turn the lava on and off at any moment :) thank you for the vid!

I completely forgot you can shoot levers. I failed so many times trying to get him to stay in the middle hit him with it like 3 times and still didn't kill him cause I couldn't always get him in the center. This was way easier than whatever pepega stuff I was doing

Found out how to beat him while I was fighting him. Same strategy with the crucible piston and it was such a cool fun little mechanic. Nice video too!

Your video was so helpful. Your method of dispatching this boss worked very well and was easily accomplished. I beat the boss many times before until there seemed to be an update or a patch and I had difficulties beating the grym again for unknown reasons. After your video, the grym and my headaches are a thing of the past. Thank you.

I beat him, I found that I am way underlevel while encounter this boss, my highest HP was 42. It's has a very fun mechanics and stage design. the ground slam is so evil. Thanks for the tips!

The easiest fight in the game, you don't even have to go near him, fill the mould and materials, and hop back on the stairs with a whole party, and operate the levers with a bow! You can slowly chip away his health from above, cause he can't do anything to you, or if you want to speed things up, send a summons to the middle for bait

Thank you very much this was incredibly helpful !

What level are you in this jesus, and how to you get so high? I am almost lvl 6 just getting to the fight and feel like i have done pretty much everything there is to do in act 1

I never thought of jumping on the mold this is why I watch tutorials

this is such a fun and comedic way to defeat a boss, I watched this and thought 'this is so smart, why didn't I think of doing that?' Which is what I love about this game so much. One game but countless variations of getting through the game.

Man this fight is so scuffed, he either walks directly on lava and doesn't get supercharged or he focuses on my party members that aren't the prime target...

I quit this game after this frustration

I don't know why the hammer never came to mind, I ended up giving Karlach a 2-handed hammer and a Hill Giant's Strength elixir, and she went to town

I spent over an hour on this guy. He couldn't do anything because i kept knocking him prone with my barbarian throwing lightning arrow things. With bless and the singing sword my barb had a 90% attack. But he quit talking damage at 39. Every now and then he would take a few points from a thrown axe or dagger. But after soany rounds and i couldn't knock him prone, he wiped me out. Well him and the flying things when they exploded on me. I got him to 21 hp. I never turned the lava back on. But there was fire on the ground from those flying things exploding. I wonder if thatade him vulnerable enough. Because he took 4 damage each time. May be from my strength modifier. Idk. Was just 0s and occasionally a 4.

This helped SO much!

The problem with him falling where he does in this video is sometimes that can block being able to use the forge a second time.

I just threw books at him and he kept falling prone. Then the party rouge armed with salami used the sneak attack bonus while the rest of us PUNCHED HIM TO DEATH.

How did you get to Level 7? I did everything in Act 1 except the boss you are showing so far and am at Level 6 and still far away from Level 7.

This is my fourth attemt at trying this it is sooo frustrating he keeps not getting hurt despite beeing on the thingy

Got him down to 10hp & died. I only came to make the Mourning Frost staff

First of all you have like double the hp I have. FAR more easy. Second it depends how far he walks. Sometimes further sometimes not. Sometimes he stands directly in front of the hammer. Then what....no dmg and then next round he walks away again. Gotta find the right balance the right distance to lure him on that hammer....its a horribly dogshit bossfight I hate it so much. Its sooo dumb. Trying to find the right distance all the fucking time. Cant dmg him otherwise ofc (unless you are lvl 10000) and he mostly one hits ofc. Edit: Ah yes. The newest patch has this: "Grym suddenly got eerily smart and was avoiding the Crucible in the Adamantine Forge. With a nervous laugh, we dumbed him back down a little."

no matter what I tried he was still immune to whatever attack I did. Stuck here for another hour or so…

Thanks dude!

yeah in honour mode he has 460 hp, temp hp to boot, nast6y kickback legendary ability AND hits for like 80 dmg :D oh and he summons 6 magma mephits that are disarming your party and messing up the intitiative order.. so.. yeah :D

You can’t get the achievement for defeating him if you use the forge hammer

My game is bugged the lever for the lava is not working

What a trash encounter. The lava doesn't drain away and the giant won't take damage from the second hit no matter what, he just gets up invincible. Can't believe they got so much praise for such a janky game. Edit: they bumped him to level 10 too, just to make it more trash.

I can’t interact with the wheel more than once now idk what happened!!!! 😤

after Patch 1 & 2, he now has 450 HP on Balanced.

the boss was still alive after i landed two direct hits with the hammer….. cannot win this 😂

my charectars all have between 39-55 hp and every other guide im watching they are always high level, my guys were are like level 5

I think the Heat Metal spell also works for removing the invulnerability

I'm the worst tactician ever, i beat him by using 2 groups (all characters ungrouped on either side of the arena) ,and aggro switch sides the quake messed me up. Totally ran out of hp pots got it down to 56 hp with ranged attacks that did 0-5 damage and then jumped on him to mele stomp to burst. My beefiest Char had 50 HP . What a fight! (this video kinda pissed me off ,. ghge:)

I fought him the hard way got him down to 130 and could not for the life of me figure out why he became immune to all damage lol

How do you even get it to descend? This isn't explained so I can't even get past the first seconds of the video.

Is this still working? I can't seem to get Grym superheated a second time.

And why does the boss have 200 health? Mine had 300.

I quit the game during this boss fight. Never coming back to play this.

I'm on Tactician, at level 5, Grym is Level 8 with 450 HP, 1 smack with the anvil only takes of 130-ish . i still can't get him to superheat and smack him 2 more times :(

PS5 v4.1.1 here and the hammer doesn’t even dent him even if he’s superheated, did they patched this or what ?

It took me 4 tries to do it, only because he wasn't doing what I wanted. But after trying again and again, I finally killed his ass lol

He never gets close enough to get hit by the piston :(( I'm standing in the same position too

Why do your players have such high HP? I got there almost at the end of act 1 and I was Lvl 5 when fighting him.

thumbs up ty

What makes it hard is that the lava texture

Can anyone explain why the forge doesn’t drop down when I hit the forge hammer??

In my playthrogh I cant use the lever. It says that its stuck no matter if there is lava or not.

I finally got that mf jesus took me over 25 times to beat him

Bad game design moments

20+ times now still cant beat. The Golem has been upraded with a stomp attack he uses every turn that does massive damage and nocks characters off feet. Stupid, Ridiculous and Not DND this game SUCKS, its a Stupid Rock Paper Scissors puzzle game, Not a DND roleplaying adventure game, which is what I wanted from it.

Still not that easy but very informative 👌

misty steps and reactivate the lava. pretty easy at level 5.

This doesn’t work for me. I get him once, then he remains immune even if I hit the lever again, and sometimes he takes an extra turn to move and then the lava will go off and dick me over

Does not work. boss too powerfull. tried many times

Why it doesnt take any damage even when I'm hammering it?

It's bugged for me

Wait??? How do ur characters have so much hp and Grym has so little?

skip, skip, skip. Why can't we just see the whole scene?

Do you drink coffee? Like waaaaaaaaaaay too much?

Naw man, even then this fight just... The AI is so fucky due to the threat detection. If you can't grab his attention you just get fucked.

dang i spend 30min slash and bolt it to death

This fight is dumb

obviously not tactician

Can't understand a word you're saying. Nice vid, though.

My god. Combat system sucks so bad. I will finish this game maybe next year. 🤣🤣