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When you’re facing a challenging fight or encounter inBaldur’s Gate 3, one thing that can help turn the tides in your favour is granting your characters different buffs. Each member of your party can enjoy the effects of multiple buffs at a time, provided the conditions don’t cancel out or override each other.
These buffs can be obtained via spells cast by members of your party, or from different magical sources in Faerun. You can enjoy buffs for a certain period of time. Some conditions last for a few turns, while others can last until your next Long Rest.
Recastable Daily Buffs From Spells
There areseveral spellsin the gamethat can grant conditionsthatimprove the different stats of the buff’s target. These spells can be cast by different classes.
Can be granted by githyanki
Mage Armour
Increase the target’s armour class to 13 + its Dexterity modifier.
Protection from Evil and Good
Darkvision
Can see in the dark out to the range of 12m.
Detect Thoughts
Spellcaster can read the thoughts of certain creatures while talking to them.
Daylight
Enchant an item to shine like the sun or summon a sphere of sunlight that dispels all darkness around it.
Protection from Energy
Touch a creature to grant it resistance to Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Thunder damage.
Death Ward
If a target takes damage that would reduce its hit points to 0, it remains conscious with 1 hit point left.
Stoneskin
Take only half the damage of all non-magical Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage.
Draconic Elemental Weapon
Target weapon receives a +1 bonus to Attack rolls, and deals an additional 1d4 damage of your choice.
Can be granted by: Drakethroat Glaive
Elemental Weapon: Acid, Fire, Cold, Thunder, or Lightning
Target weapon receives a +1 bonus to Attack rolls, and deals an additional 1d4 of a specific type of damage.
Can be granted by level 9 paladin
Glacial Age
Target weapon gains a +1 bonus to attack rolls, and deals an additional 1d4 Cold damage.
Can be granted by: Flail of Ages
Blessing of the Trickster
Advantage on Stealth checks
Can be granted by level 1 trickery domain cleric
Gain 27 temporary hit points
Can be granted by Balduran’s Giantslayer
Magic Weapon
Weapon becomes magical and receives a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls.
Pass Without Trace
Give yourself and all nearby companions a +10 bonus to Stealth checks.
Recastable Daily Buffs From Special Sources
Helpful daily buffs can alsobe obtained from special sources apart from spells. Some sources can be unlockedby completing quests and succeeding encounters.
Anointed in Splendour
+2 bonus to all Saving Throws
Make a donation and pray to your deity at the Stormshore Tabernaclein Baldur’s Gate.
Happy
Astarion receives a +1 to all attack rolls, saving throws, and skill checks.
Tell Astarion he can feed on you at night.
Mark of the Shifter
While shapeshifting or disguising yourself, gain a +1d4 bonus to all checks.
Use the Shapeshifter’s Boon looted from the Strange Ox or obtained as a reward from theHelp the Devilish Ox quest.
Renewable Daily Buffs From Elixirs
you’re able to alsoenjoy daily buffsfromelixirs you can purchase, loot, or craft.
Be careful not to erase the effects of an elixir you drank by drinking another.
Increase armour class to 16.
Elixir of Battlemage’s Power
Gain Arcane Acuity which grants a +1 bonus to spell attack rolls and spell save DC per turn remaining.
Elixir of Bloodlust
Once per turn when you kill a foe, you gain 5 temporary hit points and an additional action.
Gain 10 temporary hit points and become Blessed.
Increase your Strength to 21.
Elixir of Peerless Focus
Gain advantage on Concentration saves, and against being Charmed. Magic can’t put you to sleep.
Elixir of The Colossus
Increase your size. Weapons deal an additional 1d4 damage. You gain advantage on Strength checks and saves.
Elixir of Viciousness
The number you need to roll to land a critical hit is reduced by 1.
Elixir of Vigilance
Gain a +5 bonus to initiative. In addition, you can’t be Surprised.
Elixir of Fire Resistance
You gain resistance to Fire damage, and can no longer burn.
You gain resistance to Force damage.
Elixir of Lightning Resistance
You gain resistance to Lightning damage, and can no longer be Shocked, Electrocuted, Jolted, or otherwise affected by lightning.
You gain resistance to Radiant damage.
How To Use Hirelings For Casting Daily Buffs
Casting spells to get buffs may use up a spell slot. This will limit the number of buffs a spellcaster can grant a character. One workaround is touse the hirelingsyou can get from Withersto cast the spells for you.
You’ll first need to have Withers in your camp to have the option to recruit hirelings. Decide on what kind of buffsyou want to cast on your traveling party daily,then build a hireling that can learn those spells.
After every long rest, have that hireling join your party. Use the hireling to go around camp and cast spells on your chosen party members. The targets don’t have to be in your party to gain the buff.
Once everyone is all buffed up,you can dismiss the hirelingandgo on your quest.
