Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur's Gate 3

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WereElf Aug 16, 2023 @ 4:48am
Primal Strike doesn't work?
Primal Strike (level 6 Circle of the Moon Druid feature): While in beast form your attacks count as magical for the purpose of overcoming Resistance and Immunity to non-magical damage.

However, I attacked an enemy resistant to all physical damage, in owlbear form, and they took 5 damage (10/2) due to their resistance to slashing damage.
Is Primal Strike not working, or am I misunderstanding how it works?
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WereElf Aug 17, 2023 @ 9:48am 
Related: what's the point of Wizard's level 6 Potent Cantrip?
"Your cantrips become harder to evade entirely.
When a creature succeeds its Saving Throw against one of your cantrips, it still takes half the cantrip's damage, but suffers no additional effects."
From what I've observed, most, if not all of the damaging cantrips don't require the enemy to do a saving troll. Instead you do an attack roll and its compared to their armor class. So this Potent Cantrip doesn't do ANYTHING. I tried it with cantrips that apply an effect, like Bone Chill, but still didn't work.
Mike Aug 23, 2023 @ 7:35am 
Originally posted by WereElf:
Related: what's the point of Wizard's level 6 Potent Cantrip?
"Your cantrips become harder to evade entirely.
When a creature succeeds its Saving Throw against one of your cantrips, it still takes half the cantrip's damage, but suffers no additional effects."
From what I've observed, most, if not all of the damaging cantrips don't require the enemy to do a saving troll. Instead you do an attack roll and its compared to their armor class. So this Potent Cantrip doesn't do ANYTHING. I tried it with cantrips that apply an effect, like Bone Chill, but still didn't work.
Yup there are only a few saving-throw cantrips like acid splash. It's not very useful but Potent Cantrip does guarantee at least some damage while firebolt or bone chill have chances to miss and do 0 damage.
Mike Aug 23, 2023 @ 7:36am 
Correct Primal Strike is still bugged and doesn't actually work, which is a shame since it's one of the few ways Moon Druid stands out from Land in this gamem
Recjawjind Aug 23, 2023 @ 7:37am 
Was the enemy resistant to just mundane physical damage or also magical physical damage?
Just mundane resistances are prettty rare.
Phoenix Aug 25, 2023 @ 12:52pm 
I was able to solve the problem of the lack of "primal strike" and rage in owlbear. I don't know which of these points helped because I did it at the same time.
1) Completely undress the character, including jewelry and weapons.
2) Changed class, reusing the "Circle of the Moon" for selection. After taking each level, I closed the window for getting a level. And repeated this process until the levels were over.
Last edited by Phoenix; Aug 25, 2023 @ 1:33pm
WereElf Jan 4, 2024 @ 2:12pm 
Larian should really fix this already x_x
Big Moustache Jan 4, 2024 @ 2:59pm 
Gust of wind is also waste of spellslots for me. It can not even blow a squirrel away
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Date Posted: Aug 16, 2023 @ 4:48am
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