Baldur's Gate 3 Guide to Combat Mechanics - How to Miss Less, and Win More!

Baldur's Gate 3 Guide to Combat Mechanics - How to Miss Less, and Win More!
In this Baldur's Gate 3 video, We're going to talk about Combat Mechanics Guide. how to Succeed in Combat will be covering all the details that go into combat. Things like initiative, advantage and disadvantage, spell slots, attacks, armor, and more. If you've been having a tough time in combat then this video is for you!

Timestamps:
0:00 - Baldur's Gate 3 Combat Guide
0:36 - Initiative
1:35 - Action, Bonus Action, and Movement
2:35 - Ways to gain more Action and Bonus Actions
2:55 - Why you're missing your attack
4:44 - Proficiency & Proficiency Bonus
5:46 - The Dos and Don'ts in Combat
5:58 - Don't Wear Armor you're not proficient with
6:15 - Use Better weapons
6:32 - Use Bless (Buffs)
6:49 - Avoid disadvantage
7:25 - High Ground Bonus
7:55 - Hide
8:55 - Get Close a personal with Melee Units
9:45 - Weapon actions and Class Features
10:40 - How does Spells work
12:22 - Final Tips

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[Fextralife]

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[pjohns]

Positioning your party to set up devastating ambushes by ungrouping your party before initiating combat can be so helpful with encounters that allow you to do so. I practiced by reloading the temple encounter just outside the nautilus crash over and over again until I could beat that encounter in 3 turns and it helped me understand the systems so much better that encounters now feel like fun puzzles rather than a punishing slog.

[AmViR]

I killed every single goblin including all 3 leaders.
It took me 6 hours but after leaving that castle i was so freaking happy.
10/10 game.

[WolfHreda]

Side note during the "Why you're missing your attacks" section. You can absolutely make ranged attacks with a Strength-based character: Keep some lighter weapons with the Thrown property on them. Handaxes, Javelins, and Light Hammers are all Strength weapons that can be thrown. Daggers work, too, and are plentiful.

[Vengfoul]

One of the most powerful items in the game: Candle
Doesn't cost anything to drop it and then use a bonus action to dip your weapon for fire dmg. Or drop it on oil..etc. to set it aflame.

[Hermslice]

For sneak attack (rogue feature) set sneak attack in your reactions to ask.
And NEVER use the sneak attack button. Just attack and trigger sneak attack. This is because sneak attack can trigger on the first hit (even your offhand dagger). If you use "sneak attack" button in game and miss you loose the sneak attack.

[Santiago.Ag]

Another thing that helped me was, if you and any of your companions have their turns directly next to one another in the combat order, you can use them in any order that you want.

[Apac]

I'm 30 hours long in BG3 and I still benefit greatly from videos like these so tyvm for taking the time.
Being completely new to the D&D and turn based genre in general, this game has proven quite difficult to play well.

[SaturninePlaces]

This is actually a really good video for getting the basics ingrained in new players! Very important to make sure you have Advantage as much as possible, it makes you roll a crit twice as often, and makes your chance of a 16-20 nearly 44%. Disadvantage does the opposite, making you roll the bottom half of the dice 75% of the time!

[alainlipowicz]

Great video! Helped a lot. During the goblin castle encounter, when your main character is separated and alone with the goblin priest, I chose dialogue options which led to a fight. I lock picked the door with my outside characters and led them inside the room. I had my characters jump onto the upper platform and out of reach of the multitude of enemies. Then, I noticed I could see an adjacent room full of flammable barrels. So, I waited patiently until several enemies barged into that room in order to reach me and attack. I then used fireball and blew up the entire room killing most of them and using line of sight and character movements while having this high ground to avoid getting hit while maintaining advantage on my hits. I did this before I really understood combat but knew that in this game you should always seek to use your environment to your advantage. Really fun encounter and very rewarding game! Never played DnD myself.

[KarlRock]

I got to my first fight and had no idea what to do. So I opened up my YouTube feed, and here this video was. Incredible timing. I can't even find the button to register the bonus attacks 😂 Thanks for the tips!

[clublulu]

This is a must watch for any beginner like myself. I’m at the library finishing up some work while the game is downloading at home. I’m beyond stoked to jump in the world.

[xshyax]

I've never played D&D or Baldur's Gate before so this helped me understand a bunch of stuff. Thanks for making it.

[gk]

I appreciate all the guides, but ones like this are extremely helpful. I was starting to feel overwhelmed because of all the mechanics. Thank you.

[alecaquino]

Thank you for putting this together. Whenever I ask others for help online, a majority of the responses are just "Get Good" or "You might be too stupid for this game. Go back to playing Call of Duty or something more your speed". I have never felt this dumb while playing a video game in my whole life.

[AstonMartinStig]

I have spent as much time watching guides as I have spent playing in the past 2 days. Love it.

[noatiendoboludos]

The Blessing tip is quite literally a BLESSING. Shadowheart can give your entire party a 1-4 bonus to attack rolls, this usually negates a LOT of the miss bullshit you may encounter in the early game altogether.

[fortusvictus]

As far as gaining advantage, you can put your group into turn-based before combat to get in close as well and ungroup them to position them individually before combat. This is really important in some preset battles and you get some heads up when getting close because you can usually hear them talking or get a message like 'there seems to be some commotion ahead' or somesuch. That should be your cue to look ahead and see how the terrain is and make a rough plan on how to approach. If there is high ground, approach from that direction if possible, if you blunder in through a gully or valley chokepoint, don't cry when you find yourself surrounded.

[pranakhan]

0:14 I was feeling pretty good about how that encounter went for me, coming from the other door way. Then I see you effectively take out EVERYONE with that one shot; its fascinating the differences that can arise in the experience of play depending on the choices you make. That's something you don't get to see when playing D&D at the table

[lindseybianchi]

As a new person to DND upon purchase of baldurs gate 3, this has by far been the most helpful video explaining combat mechanics. Thank you so much!