Where to Find Effect Descriptions?

[Ichbin]

Is there anywhere, in game, that tell you what certain effects do? IE: Arcane Acuity, or Heat? Later on, you get so many magic items with mystery effects. Would be nice to know wtf they do.

[Fortigan]

Some stuff will give you additional information if you hit "T" while hovering over them, but yeah, the tooltips are rather lackluster. As is the omission of the future subclass benefits. Would be nice to know what they are BEFORE picking the subclass.

TLDR, the wiki is your friend.

[Swimfan]

Originally posted by Ichbin:

Is there anywhere, in game, that tell you what certain effects do? IE: Arcane Acuity, or Heat? Later on, you get so many magic items with mystery effects. Would be nice to know wtf they do.

Yeah, that's actually a problem.
I think the game could benefit from more explanation that show up when you mouse over a spell description. Additional afflictions are never really explained until you try the items/spells or use a wiki which is an oversight.

[Iconoclast]

Like in many other cases, this wouldn't have been a problem if Larian had stuck to 'boring' 5e by the book instead of homebrewing a lot of DOS2-tier trash mechanics that don't work.

[Ichbin]

Originally posted by Fortigan:

TLDR, the wiki is your friend.

Problem is, half the time, even online wiki's don't have the info. Coz the game is so new. So trust me, I already checked. lol

[Swimfan]

Originally posted by Iconoclast:

Like in many other cases, this wouldn't have been a problem if Larian had stuck to 'boring' 5e by the book instead of homebrewing a lot of DOS2-tier trash mechanics that don't work.

Which I'm happy they didn't or Monks would still be unplayable.
If they stuck to 5e it'd still be a problem because even DnD players wouldn't always know what every effects does. The advanced description is needed in any case.

[Hobocop]

Inspect and mousing over the effect on items and abilities basically always tells you what it does.

[Fortigan]

Originally posted by Hobocop:

Inspect and mousing over the effect on items and abilities basically always tells you what it does.

many instances of this are lacking vital details though, such as AOE of certain effects, etc

[Swimfan]

Originally posted by Hobocop:

Inspect and mousing over the effect on items and abilities basically always tells you what it does.

No, sadly that's not true.
If an item involves a status condition, that status condition is not explained and can't be clarified by pressing any button or expanding the description.

[Fortigan]

https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/Status+Effects
That page on the wiki has been the most helpful to me so far.