[Spell] How to use Blink?

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Hello,

I'm trying to understand how to use Blink :
https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/Blink

From what I understand, the caster becomes invincible when he rolls a 11+, and until he acts again.
Problem is, correct me if I'm wrong : the caster doesn't become invincible after his turn, but when everybody's turn is finished.
So, if he plays first during each turn, he'll never be invincible when it's the enemies' turn, as long as he attacks each turn.

What did I miss?
Thanks for your help.

[Ironwu]

The phrase "your turn" is ambiguous in this case. Apparently it refers to the end of the full turn of combat when the turn counter cycles over and initiative order resets. But the way it is written makes it sound like is at the end of the character turn. Oh well.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

You have a 50% chance to become ethereal at the end of your turn. If you do, you materialize again at the beginning of your next turn.

For practical purposes, it basically makes you untargetable (although non-corporeal undead such as ghosts and specters should be able yo hit you) half the time, but it's random so you never really know when.

If you want to cheese with it, you ought to be able to save before you end your turn and just reload if you don't Blink out for invulnerability 100% of the time.

[talemore]

Maybe only for the first round. After that nobody knows what's the first or the last and there's a dice roll 1d4 made for whose turn will be next.

of course if you are bleeding the stone there is only one turn and then it's over. By then you wasted your turn casting blink.

[talemore]

If they mean full turn of combat sorry to tell Larian but there are no full turn of combat.

[Cthulhu]

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Blink
at the end of your turn means when you click end turn

[Ironwu]

Originally posted by talemore:

If they mean full turn of combat sorry to tell Larian but there are no full turn of combat.

That is simply incorrect. You can see it roll over whenever in Turn Mode when the "Environment" gets its turn. And for an even clearer indication, there are combats when the actual 'Turn Counter' is on the screen.

[Quacksalber]

I've just been ignoring this spell because it sounds pretty useless.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Originally posted by EH!:

I've just been ignoring this spell because it sounds pretty useless.

It is hands down one of the best defensive spells in the entire game.

What's not to love about 50% invulnerability that still lets you attack every turn and the only downside is it requires concentration?

[victorvnv]

You don’t. It’s a waste of space I usually slaughter all the enemies before it can even activate.

[Quacksalber]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Originally posted by EH!:

I've just been ignoring this spell because it sounds pretty useless.

It is hands down one of the best defensive spells in the entire game.

What's not to love about 50% invulnerability that still lets you attack every turn and the only downside is it requires concentration?

Like I said, the description makes it sound useless, so I ignored it. I still do not understand it, but if you say it's great I'll give it a go.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Originally posted by EH!:

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

It is hands down one of the best defensive spells in the entire game.

What's not to love about 50% invulnerability that still lets you attack every turn and the only downside is it requires concentration?

Like I said, the description makes it sound useless, so I ignored it. I still do not understand it, but if you say it's great I'll give it a go.

Here's how it works: when you press 'end turn' there's a 50% chance you become ethereal. If you do, you are untargetable. At the beginning of your next turn you rematerialize (so you can take your action) and then the whole process repeats again for the duration of the spell (10 turns).

Statistically, you should get 5 rounds of invulnerability out of it, but it's randomized, so coulf happen more or less.

[Quacksalber]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Originally posted by EH!:

Like I said, the description makes it sound useless, so I ignored it. I still do not understand it, but if you say it's great I'll give it a go.

Here's how it works: when you press 'end turn' there's a 50% chance you become ethereal. If you do, you are untargetable. At the beginning of your next turn you rematerialize (so you can take your action) and then the whole process repeats again for the duration of the spell (10 turns).

Statistically, you should get 5 rounds of invulnerability out of it, but it's randomized, so coulf happen more or less.

Thanks. Worth trying since wizards are squishy.