[BUG][BARD] Combat Inspiration

[Kirioz]

It seems that Combat Inspiration (the Bardic Inspiration from the College of Valor) stops working correctly starting from level 5.

Up to level 4, Combat Inspiration disappears correctly after using the reaction. From level 5 onwards, Combat Inspiration remains permanently active on the character (but unusable), which prevents rebuffing it.

[althenawhm]

I agree, its bugged enough to make me want to respec off of valor.

[BowShatter]

I experienced the same issue. When I cast Combat Inspiration on a character, it will unable to use any of the combat inspiration reactions except Valiant Roll (the one to increase ability roll).

[Ovinnik]

Originally posted by Kirioz:

It seems that Combat Inspiration (the Bardic Inspiration from the College of Valor) stops working correctly starting from level 5.

Up to level 4, Combat Inspiration disappears correctly after using the reaction. From level 5 onwards, Combat Inspiration remains permanently active on the character (but unusable), which prevents rebuffing it.

Exactly the same problem here!
After one of the reactions happens (like valiant attack, valiant defence, etc.) that should remove it from the affected character, the "Combat Inspiration" condition instead remains on the character thus preventing reapplication of a new Combat inspiration by the bard.

I found however an ugly workaround... The "Valiant Roll" togglable passive feature seams to be blocking the condition from being removed. So, all you have to do is try to lockpick something with the affected character and add the "Valiant Roll" bonus to it. This will make the "Combat Inspiration" condition disappear.

Theoretically you could leave the togglable passive feature turned on, but ability checks are not as common.

Cheers

[Elich]

Same problem, very annoying

[nayabkhokhar]

I have also been experiencing this issue with my Half-Orc Valour Bard. It's frustrating because I love giving Karlach lots of Valiant Damage.

[Colin DV]

I'm so glad I found this thread. I thought I was losing my mind. I just couldn't reapply combat inspiration! And it worked great before, which was what was confusing - so learning about the level change makes sense since I'm level 6 now and the problem has been recent. Hope they do a hotfix soon, because it's such a critical part of my valour bard's team contribution!

[SeiriCerin]

This has been driving me crazy too! I thought I'd toggled the wrong thing since it worked recently. But I'm now level 5!

🤞 For a quick fix!

[Oh Perrence]

Respecced into collage of swords over this :(

[disco]

Hi all, having this bug as well. This mod has a fix for it:

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/866

[nayabkhokhar]

After Patch 1, this appears to not have been fixed yet? I had hoped "Fixed tooltips for Bardic Inspiration not updating their recharge time after Level 5" meant this was fixed ;-;

[skill issue]

found solution on reddit and wanna share

just give a shove to companion and consumed combat inspiration is gone

[DustianParker]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[Winu]

This is still bugged in january of 2024. WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥