Baldur's Gate Divine Spell Guide Level 1
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Hi this is the 1st of 7 videos going over every divine spell in the baldur's gate series. This includes spells added from IWD via SCS mod and includes both druid and cleric spells.
I play the enhanced edition with SCS on insane difficulty and no saves no reloads so this video is focused on that, but most of what I say applies to core rules unmodded as well.
If you are curious about a particular spell I have them ordered here by tier alphabetically.
S Tier spells
Armor of Faith 2:11
Command 6:20
Doom 9:29
Remove Fear 11:45
Sanctuary 13:33
A Tier Spells
Cure Light Wounds 15:55
Sunscorch 17:05
B Tier Spells
Bless 18:50
Cause Light Wounds 21:19
Curse 22:45
C tier Spells
Entangle 24:00
Magical Stone 25:50
Protection from Evil 26:52
Shillelagh 28:30
RP tier Spells
Detect Evil 30:06
If you would like to see me play live, my twitch stream can be found here / davaeorn I stream daily starting at 10 am EST.
Let me know what you think in the comments, God bless! - Ігри
Dude, I've gotta say, you have a STAGGERING amount of knowledge about this game. I'm really enjoying your videos about these spells.
Glad you're enjoying them friend!
the tism is a beautiful thing
I played through BG1 and partway through BG2 about 4 years ago, before I got horribly stuck in the Underdark. I was bored recently and restored my save to see whether I could finally get through it, and I finally did. Since then, I've gotten back into this game and discovered your videos. I am now completely obsessed.
You gotta love a game that you've devoted 40-50 hours into, only to discover that you've been playing it like an assclown the entire time. Your tips on spells and classes make me want to restart all over at the beginning. They just don't make games like this anymore. Big thanks to you for reigniting my love of this amazing game.
You can use Shillelagh to dual-wield with NO penalty..
Put your normal melee weapon in your off-hand then cast Shillelagh. You will then have your new attack plus your normal attack. No off-hand penalty. You just doubled your damage.
I run solo a lot. This is useful. You can cast some great buffs at other levels to increase damage or lower your thac0 but this gives you the extra attack you were always missing.
It also works with Flame Blade.
Now that is the spicy shit I was looking for, I didn't even consider that despite the fact it works for black blade, thanks for commenting friend!
@@Davaeornlol Thanks back. Its pronounced (sha-LAY-lay) btw.
It also strikes as a magical weapon but I'm not sure what it's actually considered or if level makes a difference in what it can hit. Still if your low level and don't have a +1 weapon yet maybe it's useful.
@@mikedeck8381 Cleric mages can use Enchanted Weapon to raise it to +3...😮
Looking forward to the SSS-tier GOODBERRY rating next episode
Goodberry is getting its own separate video ofc. Thanks for watching!
@@Davaeornlol You mean two videos I hope.
Godberry*
The most fun in BG1 I had was debuffing Sarevok with doom, greater malison and chant, then enfeebling him to 5 strength and further debuffing him to 3 strength with contagion. He was just unable to move, spitting his curses while I was killing his crew.
This debuff routine (doom, chant, greater mallison) was one of things that kept me playing bg1, tales and sod. One could easily spend like ten hours, just applying various status ailments to various difficult (or not) enemies.
Hell yeah, thanks for watching and commenting friend!
I just found this channel and have been absolutely blown away by the depth of your knowledge. Your voice and sensible lighthearted humor makes this feel like if Tom Segura was schooling me on a game I have been playing off and on for over 20 years. Damn well done, I can't overstate my appreciation.
20:36 Cool! Wow! This is so cool! I never knew you could use this with the Bless spell!
AMAZIN RIGHT?
I already saw all the arcane spells guides and they were awesome. Thank you for your work, it's amazing!
Thank you for watching and commenting buddy!
Have some more timestamps. Also bonus fact about how to pronounce the word Shillelagh at the bottom.
2:09 Armor of Faith S Tier
6:17 Command S Tier
9:27 Doom S Tier
11:45 Remove Fear S Tier
13:32 Sanctuary S Tier
15:56 Cure Light Wounds A Tier
17:03 Sunscorch A Tier - Mod, from Icewind Dale
18:50 Bless B Tier
21:16 Cause Light Wounds B Tier - Mod, from Icewind Dale
22:44 Curse B Tier - Mod, from Icewind Dale
23:55 Entangle C Tier - Awesome in the original Baldur's Gate where it only affects enemies. In EE it uses the BG2 behaviour and hits everyone.
25:50 Magical Stone C Tier
26:51 Protection from Evil C Tier - SCS makes summoned demons ignore this spell
28:29 Shillelagh C Tier
30:05 Detect Evil RP Tier
Fun fact I found out about the Shillelagh from a guy called Francis McCaffrey here on UA-cam. It can actually be pronounced "Shi-LAY-lee" or "Shi-LAY-lah". The first is based on the Irish word Sail-Éille, meaning 'thonged stick'. This is because you'd have a leather thong you'd put around your wrist to keep from losing your weapon while stick fighting. The second is based on the word for a type of oak wood they made Shillelagh's out of, which is pronounced as "Shi-LAY-lah".
Thanks for watching and commenting friend really appreciate it! God bless!
Just got back into Baldurs Gate after... 20 years or so. These videos are amazingly helpful. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you like them!
Fantastic video! Clear, precise, and a lot of examples/scenarios were given per spell. Thank you!
Glad you liked it friend thanks for watching and commenting!
I recently got into bg 1 and 2 and your videos are incredible
Ah yes, morale in the original. Different NPC's had rather different hidden things, and morale was one. Khalid had worse morale than most, and kept running away when the going got tough. That's why in BG2, you can tell Jaheira; ' He's probably hiding under a bed somewhere.'. Minsc had average morale, but when it failed, he'd go berserk and slaughter everyone; including you and every villager in Beregost. And having Xan in the party lowered it for all, but he was able to keep your party members from fighting each other. Also, back then, annoying states like 'charmed' and 'Scared' lasted *waaaay* longer than they do now, your party could explore entire maps whilst frightened.
Yeah in bg1 you would just go get your party drunk and it invalidated morale failure. Still a weird mechanic for sure.
Xan lowered morale but kept party members from fighting?
How did that work?
Like Xzar and Montaron wouldn't fight Jaheira and Khalid?
@@Merknilash Yes, like that. Or so I remember. Suddenly I am not so sure. This was almost thirty years ago, mind you. I do remember that he interjected, at least. So someone would make a snide comment to someone else- and he'd say something depressing after.
Love this series of yours! Can't wait for the next episode!
Soon friend, 2 has really nothing good going for it but hopefully 3 and the rest will be more fun. Thanks for watching friend!
30:07 There is exactly one singular use for Detect Evil: If you are a Paladin and doing the Paladin stronghold questline you need it to tell whether some guy is an impostor or not. In that one scenario it's necessary to complete a quest and Paladins get more uses of that spell than anything else. The only reason you'd ever need to have a Cleric prepare Detect Evil is if you were a Fallen Paladin trying to get your powers back and needed someone like Aerie or Anomen to basically solve that quest for you.
Yup it's great.
I mean it was also pretty cool for knowing what is in a zone that you've never been to
It would basically go zonewide and say stuff like "SAREVOK: Detect Evil" or whatever the text was so you knew you had a baddie in the zone
THANK YOU for posting this video at last.
i NEEDED IT.
I got u buddy, part 2 soon
Hope you are feeling better. I have enjoyed your spell guides and look forward to seeing you finish divine spells.
Thx buddy! Soon!
I really like to use Sanctuary for thieving purposes, because unlike conventional forms of invisibility, Sanctuary isn't broken when looting containers. Tiax rules!
Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
Thanks for the video, always a pleasure to watch and listen.
Thanks for watching buddy god bless
Woah!! You got a haircut!!
By the way, glad to see you taking on the Cleric/Druid spells. I'm still excitedly awaiting your Sorcer Spell Selection series.
Soon.tm Thanks for watching buddy!
Thank you for making this im playing through baldurs gate for the first time. it seems to be hard to find information on this game thank you !!!
Thanks for watching buddy part 2 soon!
It's finally here! Thanks so much, and God bless.
God bless you too buddy
Love it! Looking forward for Level 2 Spells onwards!
Soon I hope thx for watching buddy!
The wait is over.... Long live the King Dude.
God bless buddy
Awesome stuff! Going to run another bg game after my next dark sun shattered lands run through!
I literally was saying to myself the other day Davaeorn needs to come out with a Divine spell guide and then you come through! Nice! Looking forward to the rest of this series. Keep up the good work boss!
Sry for late reply buddy. God bless you friend hope you have a great new year!
Davaeorn same time you man! May your New Year be crit success!
@@bobbybandz2259 You too buddy God bless
This game is impossible to play without videos like this lol. You'd expect a spell like Dispell Magic to be strong with so many enemies casting buffs on themselves, but nope its shit. It's very hard to tell which spells are good and which are bad without extreme game knowledge, and the difference between a good spell and a bad spell is massive too.
Fighter/Cleric is my favorite class, and this has been very helpful. I've been casting sub optimally for hundreds of hours lol
I'm really looking forward to playing one myself after our archer and DD playthrough should be a lot of fun!
Awesome dude been looking forward to these for ages xD
If things go well we will be seeing part two tmr!
These guides are great and give a lot of insights into how to use spells to their best effect. The main use of shillelagh is that the damage is treated as a +1 weapon so if you need to hit creatures and do not have a magic weapon you can use this. This is most useful in Black pits where it takes a while to get your party enough magic weapons (I am not sure if this is true in all versions of the game).
Cool, thanks for watching and commenting friend!
I started binging those videos with the arcane spells. I was so happy to see they were 1 year old so I thought the entire series was over. Damnit. I'll be looking forward to the upcoming divine spells guides.
I'll be back in a couple weeks hopefully to go hard. Thanks for watching friend!
@@Davaeornlol still no divine spells?
@@groom84 I'm re recording it after our raid today. So it'll be recorded about 4 and hopefully uploaded around 6. UA-cam has been rejecting my videos after failing to process them lately. I wouldn't expect it until late tonight sorry friend :(
Hehe, loved how you worded some things. Also learned a few things, like I had no idea that protection from evil stacked in the base game. Good to know
It was a different world to be sure, thanks for watching and commenting friend!
A couple of things from someone who has had many a second edition (and first, third, fourth and fifth) campaign.
Spheres were a precursor to domains if you are familiar with third edition, 3.5 and/or Pathfinder. A cleric or druid had access to major and minor spheres depending on what deity they worshiped. A major sphere allowed access to all spells, while a minor sphere allowed access to only 1st-3rd level spells. Having access to the entire spell list was a first edition mechanic. Then, of course, in third edition onward clerics and druids pick domains which give access to bonus spells and abilities.
Shillelagh is pronounced "sha-lay-lee". Good old Shillelagh (a thick stick of Blackthorn or Oak used in Ireland) is still around in fifth edition as a druid cantrip. It is actually a pretty good spell nowadays. It is a bonus action to cast (so you can still move and attack afterwards) and as a cantrip can be cast as many times a day as desired. It buffs your current club/quarterstaff making it a magical weapon and allows you to use your spellcasting ability (e.g., wisdom) in place of strength for attack and damage rolls. In fifth edition most druids will have an 18 wisdom at first level thus giving them a +4 bonus to hit and damage. Not too shabby.
Of course there is the question of being in melee which can be dangerous for a lightly armored druid. However, there are times when I have seen the spell used to great effect. Finally, it is a great role-playing spell. Enchanting your staff with the power of divine energy is pretty cool!
Hope that helps and I enjoyed the video very much :)
Would explain a lot, there is a ton that got cut from the game and even more they couldn't add at all. Wisdom modifier would be very useful indeed. Thanks for the information friend and thanks for commenting God bless!
Finally, god-damnit
Hopefully part two tmr!
@@Davaeornlol Nice meme!
i was over here trying to combo detect evil and protection from evil thinking i was clever
love yr guide, ty friendo
Thanks for watching and commenting buddy!
As an Irish person it made me laugh watching you stumble on shillelagh, haha. Don’t feel bad though, Gaelic is insane. Love your videos dude.
I like entangle, especially in combination with spike growth. Scout ahead with thief, find clump of enemies. Cast entangle just outside their visual range, then cast aoe spells (my preference being spike growth). Out of a clump of perhaps 10 enemies, about 1-2 will get out of entangle but that's far more manageable and they usually come to you at half hp or less. If you use multiple AOE spells they likely all die. The fact that it's not party friendly does mean it's use is limited to engagements where you know where the enemy is, but the same can be said about a lot of spells.
Shilleagh is, as another commenter pointed out, pronounced something close to shi-lay-lee. It is an Irish Gaelic word for a club or blackjack. Awesome video, hopefully the rest come out soon. The one spell I disagree with here is Curse, I think giving everyone in an area a -1 penalty is pretty good, combined with malison it gives just a little extra oomph to almost anything you're trying to do, or stop them from doing. Combine that with Bless on your squad and it's a +2 swing in your favor on every roll, essentially the same as if you cast Doom on the entire enemy pack!
Yeah the issue is just the cast time and duration means you have a lot of prep to do, and with every wizard running with globe of invuln it's hard to get good use out of it aside from hitting a group of fighters before using hold. I don't think it's really bad just not amazing I think I had it B tier.
I think entangle is decent in solo runs especialy for rangers. It's also ok in combination with some other AoE spells. I've also played around with it doing druid solo runs: throw entangle, and then you can cast call lightning without that much trouble.
Shillelagh is useful for two thing: killing the jailkeep golem in Irenicus' dungeon and backstabbing with your half-orc cleric/thief before getting the staff mace.
That's fair I just found it to be so useful in bg 1 and was so shocked they changed it for the bg2 engine. Not only is there a +3 bonus to saves vs the spell but you can still attack, so it's just so much less consistent than spells of comparable level, and even when it lands, it's not as useful. Thanks for commenting friend!
Late to the party, but I just wanted to leave a comment for the holy algorithm.
Great videos
Just woke up to this. Very excited to watch. I'm an old-school gamer on medical leave (colorectal cancer) and I'm about to tackle the BG EET for the first time. I bought the original games of course; however, I never played them I am embarrassed to say.
I have played/DMed (been playing since nearly the start - late seventies) a lot of D&D over the years. I watched your prior series with much excitement and even told a PnP story on your level eight video about giving Bigby a chance! I come at the games and spells with a role player's eye obviously. Your series is great because it gives a tactical perspective that I honestly normally don't think about.
I'm looking forward to this series and hopefully you don't mind if I drop a few old gaming stories about some of the spells :D
By all means drop them friend, I wish you a speedy recovery buddy God bless!
@@Davaeornlol Thanks brother! I'll probably post a bunch on your channel now that I found it. I'm really looking forward to my BG EET game. I got it all set up today with the trilogy mod and some other stuff. I'm not heavily modding the game for my first playthrough obviously. I added a few of the top-rated npcs and the BG1 NPC pack that everyone loves. A couple of other quality of life improvements and unfinished business I think. Anyway, looking forward to it.
@@gygeson5888 hell yeah gl in your playthrough my dude
Great guides! Haven't played BG since high school and back then I didn't really think much about what was good and what sucked. Looking forward to the next ones! Hope that you do some class and kit guides in the future.
Soon hopefully I've been ill for some time now but i'm getting surgery in a week. God bless friend
Ah damn good that sucks. Good luck with your recovery!
@@bartek_ewertowski Thx buddy hopefully we can put this all behind us soon.
I got BG in November of 98 (that's when it came out, not the date on wikipedia saying before Christmas) back in highschool
I didn't understand almost anything of the combat system so I just used stuff like magic missile and fireball
I actually used the detect evil spell in IWD when I got to the "Eldath" enclave in Dragoneye. Of course, those guys were sketchy as hell from the get-go, but it was satisfying to use my paladin's ability for more than idle curiosity.
Yeah you get to once during the paladin quest and that's pretty much it in bg, the only time you would be kinda interested would be against a powerful npc you know nothing about, like amelyssan, and guess who has MR to resist such a thing XD
I can only imagine how many hours you have put into the whole Baldur's Gate series to know so much about the game.
Well done.
Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
Sanctuary is good to use to run through traps in a dugeon. Put santuary and run your cleric through the dungeon to disarm traps.
Real!?
I like watching these after looking through the spells myself on my first playthrough currently. Shows if I overlooked something or not.
(I thought command was just scuffed sleep from wizards, didn't realise it had NO SAVE)
Yeah it's crazy, a lot of spells were ripped straight from pnp back in the day but others got tweaked a bit to become crazy good.
"Don't touch me, I'm super important" - Keldath(?) I think his name is temple music in the background isn't it? Very fitting music for the video which is great btw. Loved your Arcane & HLAs videos. Can't wait for the rest of the divine series.
Soon I hope! Thanks for commenting and watching friend
wow this is detailed guide ....i wonder if I learn something even more to break the game (I love priests) beat the hardest stufff in the game on Normal difficulty and plan to go further :D lets so this wil be super useful :D
Something I'll point out about Detect Evil in the Original games, is that they didn't have such a limited range as they did in BG1 EE. Instead of the 30 ft radius it has in EE, it basically covered the map. (This was actually something I kind of felt sad about when I finally had gotten the EE back in like 2018) But basically, when you were playing a paladin, you could pop a detect evil and know literally everything that's evil on the map. Gibberlings, kobolds, bandits, you name it. Pop a detect evil, now you know it's there. I know that compared to the other spells, that isn't particularly great, and I never slotted it in any clerics, but I will note that it was far more useful in the original. (Especially if you wanted to 'avoid metagaming') For me though? I was, and still kind of am, a completionist freak. I absolutely loved either playing a pally or taking Ajantis just for detect evil. Why? I would pop it in a map, and then I'd write down what was there. I had a literal hit list LOL. I don't know why they felt the need to nerf it. It wasn't overpowered by any means as said. I'd always take better level 1 spells for sure. Command, CLW, Armor of faith, all too good to pass up for detect evil, but when you ran a pally? Free detect evil? Arrive at a map, pop a detect evil. Now I know there are 4 bandits, 8 gibberlings, and an ogre. Big woop. Not like that breaks the game, so as said, not sure why they nerfed it.
Thank you so much for this very insightful series. Just watching these really made me want to get at least close to mastering the games as you did.
Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
Somehow I missed this 4 months ago, so glad this series got started back up! Now, when is the next level coming?
Soon I hope thanks for watching and commenting friend!
Magic pebble always reminded me of the magic acorns from Willow. Anyways, I always take 1 and use it as a budget magic missile to interrupt spell casts.
finally playing the series. your videos teach me how. any place i can look for builds? for main and companions?
I remember in SoD, there is a part where you can duel an enemy 1v1 and I was very surprised when they cast sanctuary and healed to full.
Yeah sanct on enemies is much stronger sadly.
Take the opportunity to cast your own spells and drink potions, unless you're like me and your first run was a Dwarven Defender and the only thing you could do is unequip your weapons to free up your hands to make rude gestures.
@@howdoilogin I went in with my Kensai and just waited until the sanctuary dropped before beating then up again.
Armor of Faith: Watch your Cavalier do his best impression of a Dwarven Defender. Also known as "Dragon Breath Mints". Granted you can't actually use this spell until you are _really_ high in level but you can use this at level 33 combined with the Dragon Helm, Dragon Shield, Cloak of Reflection, Red Dragon Scale, and Frost's Embrace boots to absorb every element except Acid.
Thanks dude! Just started a cleric/fighter playthrough today(just on normal tho) so these videos are perfect for me. Are you planning on doing a class/kit guide in the future?
Yes it's the next video it's just taking a while to do
I like to add bless or curse into minor trigger with chant. They are all 9 cast time with a short but fixed duration, so they are far better in a minor trigger, which Aerie can do. Main problem is there are some nice level 4 mage spells competing with minor sequencer.
Shillelagh is pretty good for Jaheira, as it provides a melee weapon that's probably about as good as anything she'll find through much of BG1. Since Jaheira is specialized in Clubs, that makes it a serviceable cast whenever I play her (which is often because I tend to play the Canon party.) Not enough to get it out of C tier in general, I think, but I usually devote one of J's slots to it when I first pick her up.
Thanks buddy sorry I missed your comment and didn't respond, glad you found some use for it! Thanks for commenting and watching!
@@Davaeornlol All good. Enjoying the videos.
Yay! The wait is over! I look forward to seeing you play BG3.
Same! thanks for watching!
Me too, man! Playing DOS2 to get ready for BG3! Hoping to learn a lot from your channel & community..
@@khairulbasirrudin732 DOS2 or DOS3 have nothing on BG.
@@megamastah agreed. I still play BG1 & BG2 20 freakin years later! I already stopped playing DOS2 lol
@@khairulbasirrudin732 Glad to hear that!
I love it
hey man really love your channel, appreciate the arcane spell videos! Will you upload next levels for divine?
Soon my friend, God bless!
Yeah, I started playing these games not too long ago and noticed everyone was recommending entangle. Which I couldn't understand, because I'd cast it and then my entire party would be caught while half the enemies would resist it. Even if you space your party away from the area of effect, you can't move them in to attack at all without getting caught the next time it procs. You can barely even use ranged weapons.
Yeah if you see a video with a grey funky looking UI that's the og bg1 where entangle is actually stellar. Not sure why they nerfed it tbh it was such a solid spell but not op.
Excellent, excellent excellent video.
For someone who pays attention, you're discussing more than spells here. You're giving tips on builds, items, spell combos etc etc. And most importantly, what you are saying is 99.99999% right (no one is perfect 🤣)
Great video.
Like... even in 2020 I see clerics with nothing but heals and slow poison... in every game (neverwinter, WOW, basically any RPG)
Then they can't complete the game... well... Maybe that's because you're getting destroyed by buffed up enemeies and you got no buffs yourself my guy... only heals... lol
Its like...
MY DUDE, THERE ARE POTIONS FOR THAT OUT THERE. Clerics are buffers/debuffers, not healers... if you buff up, you won t need that many heals anyway...
Great video.
Thanks for watching and commenting friend I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Soooo, any chance for the next episode(s) any time soon? :)
I'm about to start a full trilogy run with SCS for the first time ever, could use all the help I can get :D
Soon I hope, I have to reformat every video, upload it, then find out where youtube is striking it, so i can edit out the songs that prevent it from being uploaded in the first place, then recode it, then upload it. It usually takes all day just to get one youtube up depending on which songs were played in game sadly. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
magical stone is very useful for heart of fury solo cleric classes early on.
Nice, my IWD experience is limited compared to BG so it would be tough for me to say what would be solid there. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
I remember, when i played for the first time and created a shaman as my first character,i took this Shillelagh spell, just because i couldn't believe, that there is a spell in the game, AND ALL IT DOES IS SUMMONING A CLUB.
I was sure that i just was dumb and there was more to it
YEAH BUDDY MAGICAL STICKS
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Guess I'm staying up another half hour
Thanks for watching!
Because of how overwhelmingly different the saves mechanically work out in this game compared to current iteration of D&D, the -2 saves seems bad.
It's amazing, with greater malison and doom giving a 6 penalty on saves that basically makes your target 30% more likely to fail their save.
I know people hate them but I like Cleric Mage for this reason, doom and G malison can be set into spell triggers or chain contingencies to dodge the casting time.
By themselves they're whatever really, but combined they stack up to be pretty damn impressive.
Omfg. We on bois!
AWW YISS
Hope you will consider doing the other Divine Spell levels
I've been quite ill for some time due for surgery in about a week. If things go well I'll be back in full force. Thx for commenting and watching friend.
@@Davaeornlol
Hey Davaeorn I wish you well in the weeks ahead. I will look forward to seeing your next video in my subscriptions.
0:46 im not a pro priest yet :D (1 is a must in every team) but here are my faw's (there are just to many spells not to check a guide :D)
so from a beginner piset player perspective Hotaru's build :D (equal in number for me) :Lv1Curem Doom, Armore, lv2:Chant,Draw,(hold for fun) lv3, dispel, detect, lv4 Cure, lv5 grater command for testing(2), mass cure(2), Righteous magic(my faw 3), True Seeing(2), lv6 Heal, Lv7 Mass Raise(3), Energy Bliad's(1), Elemental(1) , Deva(1) , Sunray(1 for role play Lauthander)
Hey, I am struggling to get Divine protection to show up on my SCS, i can get Shield of lathander, but it is not the same, when was this changed? and where would i need to look to correct this?
Greater Wyverns aren't immune to Command, in BGEE Core rules at least. they can resist it, but after doom + greater malison, Command succeed pretty easily on them.
If I said immune what I meant was they get a saving throw since they're level 7. They have good saves too, even with malison and doom they still have a 50% chance to save. Even then though they're a joke in that room since you have 5 statues that can easily kill all of them XD. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
Does nobody combo root/hold aoe cc with skull traps and fireball? This combo always helps me with difficult fights early to mid game. I know it's a little cheesy, but for new players this combo really helped me get a feel for placing skull traps just right
Entangle has a 2 bonus to saves, meaning your opponents will resist more often, in addition, unlike web and hold, they can still attack and cast spells. So not only is the spell not nearly as useful as the others, it also works less, these two things combined just make it a shitty spell. In the original game it only hit enemies so it had some nice utility in that regard, but turning it into a shitty web just makes the spell garbage. Thanks for commenting friend!
Is there any possibility of uploading the "George Michel" series? Cant find it anywhere, and i will gladly see the full playthrough.
Ive got a lot of editing to do for it still unfortunately the youtube algorithm has blocked it from being uploaded 5 times because i played some george michael songs during it
What's the music in the background? Sounds like total war i could be wrong though!
Sry for late reply, the background music for all spell guides is just the temple theme. God bless u friend.
How do you start your adventure w/o Shillelagh doing a Solo Poverty run? You'll cast it a lot!
What an excellent point! Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
I've never been able to get the elemental healing thing to work.
for anyone who thinks -2 penalty is not grate :D watch Citical role when they started using Bane spell with their monk :D I quot the DM "bane is the bane of me". I also love the wizard Greater Malison.. couple of my faw spells Finger of Death (wizard) Stun(monk), Polimorf (for lols), Fabele mind, blind, hold monster :D anything that helps land these is grate :D
Where are the rest man? These videos are clutch!
Soon I hope friend God bless
Many of the true Icewind Dale spells I love alot more than the Baldur's Gate variant and many are better. I should look into mods for BG
So... Im late... but if nobody has said it yet; Shillelagh is pronounced "shi-LAY-lee". Its an irish(gaelic) word for a walking cane which is also a club usually made out of knotty Blackthorn and with a large knob on the handle/whacking end.
It features heavily in Irish mythology which is (probably) why its in DnD.
Thanks for watching and commenting buddy
@@Davaeornlol my pleasure. Thanks for making these. I've been greatly enjoying them.
Have you considered doing something like this but for classes and kits?
In original game, Doom and Iron skin used to have casting time=1 and I don't know why in EE they made it worse =9?
I got the Nintendo Switch edition hoping they’d give druids the Icewind Dale spell list but I was wrong.
Yeah too bad :(
Sanctuary can apparently be used for looting things. I discovered this with Tiax in my current party (SCS/BGEE). Why is that good? Because looting things doesn't break the sanctuary. Looting things DOES break invisibility/stealth (aka guards summoned). This oddly enough makes Cleric/Thieves arguably the best Thieves for stealing things without getting caught. I used this to rob Entar's estate which is normally a tough area to case since it's crawling with guards and npcs who will summon more guards for you looting.
Nice, thanks for watching and commenting friend!
30:45 fun fact i actualy use this spell to decide who to help and who to not help as an info spelkl :D for rolaplay
Is it worth to be a half-orc fighter-cleric in core rules? Can i make it well in all the saga, from baldurs gate 1 to thrones of ball?
You absolutely can for sure half orc gives you very nice bonuses as well. I just never do because I think they look silly. It's the main reason I dont play elves they just look off to me. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
@@Davaeornlol thanks for answering, i also think that, but its that or a elfs or dwarfs, i wish i culd use a human for multi-class
@@caminantesdeplanos Theres a million mods that will let you do so, or you can EE keeper your character into a human. I've done both in the past for the looks.
I remember playing original Baldur's gate and Jaheira using entangle to get us through some of the early battles with enemies who weren't ranged. *sigh*
Yeah it was fairly useful, not as good as hold person or sleep but that's to be expected.
@@Davaeornlol It wasn't absurdly overpowered, so I don't see why they changed it, especially as druids lose the first level spells command, remove fear, and sanctuary, and only get entangle in return.
@@mistymouse6840 I think they thought it was better making it the way it is now.
Shillelagh: Shil-lay-lee.
Thanks buddy!
Armor of Faith is maths. 10% when you have 50HP, means it's useful when you leave the fight with 5HP or less. Compared to 8 HP Cure Light. It scales pretty well otherwise (but don't use it level 9 or 14 ^^)
Bless is really good IMO, +6/+6. + invocations. Quite powerful but very not sexy for sure; Half-Orc or Gnome Cleric/Thief is not popular =D
Entangle is not that bad, comparing to other level1 druid spells ...
It's not just physical damage tho, it works for elemental as well, and stacks with equipment. I've had numerous fights were companions didn't get get permad because they had armor of the faith and 20% elemental resistance from helm of glory etc. Bless isn't bad it just feels underwhelming because it's intangible. Entangle I just hate because there are SO many better spells available. Thanks for commenting friend!
Would you do the same type of guides for Pathfinder: kingmaker?
Probably not tbh I don't really play it as much as bg.
@@Davaeornlol I understand! There are like 350 spells in Pathfinder, would take forever. Plus many have been corrected since BG, so its less clear to know what's trash from what's good.
@@batmansmk Yeah it's fun though.
spell with casting time of 9 should go in the triggers. that makes multi class with mage is very powerful though it pays off in the late game. in ee barbarian dr is caped at 20% but i remember in original bg2 going over? i forgot ) black guard also get the blessed armor for tanking but i think blade is better. also you need golem armor forgot the name ) from tob so it widens the circle if you want to tank many hostiles via 1 character
Barb DR innate caps at 20 but it still stacks with defender of easthaven and hardiness just like dwarven defender. I actually can't stand the big metal unit not sure what its called in slav aleksandr just because it hinders movement in so many tight spaces but good point that it can be used to block and force tank. Blade is definitely better (if you're referring to bard kit not an actual weapon) just because arcane spells are so op. The best tank is a mage, but armor of the faith combined with DoA and preferably a healing mainhand like blackrazor or foebane makes them about as good as they can get. Thanks for watching and commenting my friend God bless!
@@Davaeornlol i think you need multi/dual class to cleric for dr tanking so you get blades and aura for riposte which is the point of it. i would also welcome movements issue fix any day in ee. characters get stuck, circles over cross, wrong path findings, range finding...
@@user-me6ns4gf9x Yeah pathing is painful for sure. Problem with cleric dual class/multi is you lose out on foebane and blackrazor which is a lot of healing. What I like to do for DR tanking is Foebane MH DoE offhand and have my cleric slap a regeneration on them. So regen is ticking, every hit they gain 4 hp via foebane, and they have 60 (fighter max) to 85(pally/ranger max) DR. Along with the mancoat or resist gear it makes them very tanky indeed. Thanks for commenting friend!
@@Davaeornlol welcome )
@Stannis Baratheon take a sorcerer he will tank like for half an hour for buddies )
Are the other divine videos back up?
If only, they're a work in progress sadly.
According to Wiki, shillelagh is pronounced shi-lay-lee
God bless!
@@Davaeornlol I'm glad I looked because I have alway pronounced it sha-lee-la
I didn't notice your post until after I posted mine! I think Wiki might be mistaken? My gaming groups and I have always pronounced it sha-lay-lee. I doubled check Merriam-Webster - www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shillelagh
Does this list hold true for Baldur's gate 3?
Shillelagh is a walking stick that doubles as a cudgel or club and is a word from Ireland. Pronounced.... SSH-LAY-LEE.
Your guides show you have an expert knowledge of the game.
I knew it had to be from the isles I guess welsh wasn't as close as I would have liked. Thx for commenting friend.
@@Davaeornlol
Yes your guess was very close :)
@@Davaeornlol it’s She-Lay-lee. Wtf is ssh?
So Magical Stone is basically worse than just picking up an actual stone and chucking it at someone?
It's magical though, extra sparkly glowy.
Why the name Davaeorn? Was the BG1 mage NPC a fav of yours? Apologies if you have been asked one million time already!
Shi- ley- leh