Summary
Combat inBaldur’s Gate 3can be very engaging and satisfying, but sometimes, you might want to skip an encounter altogether. Be it because a specific fight is too difficult or you’re too under-leveled to tackle it, there are some encounters you’d just wish could go away.
Remember, however, plenty of fights are mandatory, so these tricks won’t work for every encounter in the game, but they are great tools to keep in mind. Besides, many of these methods even award the same amount of experience as if you would’ve fought the enemy normally.
8Have Minions Scout Ahead
There are plenty of ambushes to be aware of in Baldur’s Gate 3, with enemies waiting in the shadows to jump on unsuspecting prey. While there is a level of fun in turning the hunter into the hunted, if you simply want to avoid them, you first need to know where they are.
One of the best ways to find them is to send one of your minions as a scout. You can even trigger ambushes, making fights easier if you wish to face them later. The best minions for this are flying ones, like the Raven Familiar or the Imp.
7Run
While not the most elegant solution, you’re able to always run away if a fight is not mandatory. Not everyone knows of this system, but if you’re far enough away from your enemy, you can press the camp button, which will end combat and spawn you safely in camp.
Once you’ve done this, leaving camp will drop you where you last were, with your enemy back at their initial position. If any of your allies are killed, you can just ask Withers to revive them. It can be an expensive way to go about it, but some fights are just not worth it.
6Cast Enhance Leap With Feather Fall
If you’ve ever watched a speed run of Baldur’s Gate 3, you know how overpowered these two spells are. Since they can be cast like a Ritual, they don’t cost any spell slots outside of combat, so you can jump past all encounters and cover huge distances with no trouble at all.
This combination of spells is good for avoiding not only combat but all sorts of puzzles as well. Remember that it’s best used outside of dungeons, where you have ample space to jump and land. Your best targets with these spells are your high-strength members since they already jump the farthest.
5Rush To The Next Waypoint
Waypoints are incredible time savers, letting you get from one place to the other in the blink of an eye. All you have to do to unlock them is stand close by; if a single party member finds one, everyone can use it. That’s the key part when using Waypoints to skip fights.
If you use theFeather Falltechnique, send your fighter alone to a Waypoint and teleport everyone else there. Do keep in mind that minions can’t unlock Waypoints, so in that case, a Moon Druid in Raven Form is your best kind of scout. They can get anywhere and unlock teleportation for the rest of your party.
4Set Up Traps With Barrels
A good way to solve a mandatory fight is to finish it in a single strike. While this requires a lot of preparation, it will win you fights that seem impossible. The key here is knowing the different maps of Baldur’s Gate 3 and taking every explosive or wine barrel you may find.
There’s not an infinite supply of them, so choose your targets wisely. If it’s a fight where your enemies are already aggressive, set the trap away from the start of the encounter. Surround them with barrels and light them up with a fire spell. Plenty of bosses can be defeated this way with enough ammunition.
3Save Often
What tends to happen with optional encounters is that you simply weren’t prepared. Maybe you just did an important quest, and you’re just pushing a little bit further before resting in camp. Then you’re ambushed by goblins, you have no spell slots, and the last time you saved was before beating the last boss.
Nowadays, we’re spoiled with autosaves. Even Baldur’s Gate 3 has them, just not everywhere. Therefore, it’s a good idea to save often so you can easily retrace your steps and avoid being caught with your pants down. Besides, you can quick save from the pause menu or with F5 on PC, so it couldn’t get any easier.
2Use Stealth
As stated before, many fights are mandatory. But there are fewer of them than you might think. Sometimes, you just need something your enemy is holding. In those cases, just stealth behind them and pickpocket; you get your important item, and no fight is needed.
Even rushing to the next Waypoint is simple enough with stealth, particularly at the later stages of the game when you have access to invisibility spells. Very few creatures have a way to detect invisible things, so you’re able to actually get almost anywhere like this. Just don’t use it to avoid ambushes; those tend to trigger anyway, no matter how well-hidden you are.
1Have High Charisma
Dialogue options are among the most lethal options in the game, letting you defeat an unusual amount of enemies by just talking your way out. This limits what classes you can pick, although some of the most powerful are Charisma users. Bard is still the go-to choice if you want a conversation-focused playthrough.
This allows you to just advance naturally through the game without being in constant fear of combat. You will need to draw your weapon eventually, but since solving encounters through conversation gives full experience, you’ll always be at the appropriate level to tackle anything.
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