Why You Should Play a Wizard in Baldur's Gate 3 Baldur's Gate 3 By Paolo Josiel Arias Published Jul 24, 2023 Follow Followed Like Link copied to clipboard Baldur's Gate 3 Related Why Baldur's Gate 4's List of Subclasses Matters Even More Than It Did in BG3 Baldur's Gate 3: NPC Camp Guest Tier List 1:21 Why Baldur's Gate 4 is Already Primed to Play Very Differently From BG3 Sign in to your Game Rant account This article is part of a directory: Baldur's Gate 3 Guide Hub Table of contents Beginner Guides & Tips Beginner Guides & Tips Getting Started Getting Started How Long To Beat Baldur's Gate 3: 10 Things We Wish We Knew Before Playing Which Difficulty Should I Pick? Where To Go First How to Play with Friends Most Beginner-Friendly Classes In Baldur's Gate 3 10 Starting Character Builds For Beginners Should You Save Scum in Baldur's Gate 3? Custom Mode, Explained Unlockable Sex Scenes, Explained Honour Mode, Explained Lore And Game Information Lore And Game Information What is Avernus? Biggest Rules Changes From Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition The History of the Baldur’s Gate Series The Baldur's Gate Games Listed In Chronological Order (Including DLCs) What is Avernus? Harper Faction Explained What is the Shadowfell? Baldur's Gate 3's Absolute Plot Simplified and Explained Why Githyanki and Illithids Hate Each Other Who Is The Guardian? (Explained) Withers' True Identity Explained What is the Strange Ox in Baldur's Gate 3? What Is The Absolute? What Is The Absolute? What is an Elder Brain? The Gods of Baldur's Gate 3 Explained Should You Use Tadpoles and Illithid Powers? All Drow Houses In Baldur's Gate 3 Explained Things That Make No Sense In The Story Choices That Make No Sense In The Game Baldurs Gate 3 Controls Baldurs Gate 3 Controls How To Change Dice Appearance (All Dice Skins) How To Place Map Markers How To Change Clothes (& Hide Helmets) How To Change Hair How To Highlight Objects How Many Party Members Can You Have? How to Revive Characters How To Change Class (& Respec Guide) Most Important Hotkeys How To Heal Your Party How To Change Appearance, Voice, & Pronouns (Magic Mirror Location) How to Cancel Concentration Spells Tips and Tricks in BG3 Tips and Tricks in BG3 Best Ways To Use Mage Hand Healer Tips To Follow To Avoid Party TPK Tips All Tanks Should Use To Protect Their Party DPS Tips For Players Who Want To Max Their Damage Output Advanced Tips Players Can Apply From Divinity Original Sin 2 How to Change Your Name in Baldur's Gate 3 Tips From D&D To Use To Make Powerful Builds 10 Things That Can Ruin Your First Playthrough 10 Combat Pro Tips To Dominate Any Encounter How To Level Up Fast Baldur's Gate 3: 18 Best Classes To Multiclass How to Get Out of Jail in Baldur's Gate 3 Advanced Combat Tactics From Dungeons & Dragons Players Can Use 10 Best Gameplay Challenges To Try How to Use Ingots The Best Ways to Make Gold Fast The Best Quests Baldur's Gate 3: How To Get The Loviatar's Love Buff (& How It Works) The Nightsinger's Favour Buff (& How To Get It) Inventory Management Tips Jack-of-all-Trades Achievement Guide (Easy Method) Hardest Achievements The 14 Best Baldur's Gate 3 Mods (Best BG3 Mods) Best Clothing Mods Best Clothing Mods Settings, Hardware, & Bugs Settings, Hardware, & Bugs The Best PCs to Play Baldur’s Gate 3 How To Fix The 'Can't Save' Bug How to Find Missing Hotbar Spells in the Spellbook Best Easter Eggs How To Fix Crashing Issues On The Steam Deck The Best Settings For The Steam Deck Game Mechanics in Baldur's Gate 3 Game Mechanics in Baldur's Gate 3 Combat Mechanics Combat Mechanics Action Economy, Explained All Negative Combat Status Effects, Explained All Positive Conditions & Buffs, Explained All Elemental Surface Types (& What They Do) Ways To Use The Environment To Win Fights Guide to Advantage and Disadvantage How To Avoid Opportunity Attacks What Is Momentum? Explaining the Damage Types Guide to Proficiency How to Use Thrown Weapons The Unwritten Rules of Baldur's Gate 3 Explained What Is Momentum? How To Surprise Your Enemies Out-Of-Combat Mechanics Out-Of-Combat Mechanics How To Use The Traveller's Chest How to Get Inspiration Guide to Resting What's the Max Level Cap? Wares, Explained How To Save How To Leave Camp How To Manage Encumbrance Guide to Multiclassing How To Get Through Noxious Fumes How To Reduce Trade Prices How To Reduce Trade Prices All Creature Sizes (& How They Affect Skills) Ways To Cure Poison How to Improve Good Dice Roll Chances How to Improve Good Dice Roll Chances Complete Alchemy Guide Character Creation Tips Character Creation Tips Race & Class Race & Class Which Race Should You Pick? The Best Class For Every Race Which Class Should You Pick? The Best Race For Every Class Every Class In Baldur's Gate 3, Ranked Tips & Ideas For Naming Your Character Tips & Ideas For Naming Your Character Other Character Creation Tips Other Character Creation Tips Character Creation Guide - UI Explained Biggest Mistakes Players Make When Creating A Custom Character Feats To Absolutely Avoid Early Game Best Backgrounds In Baldur's Gate 3 Best Skills To Be Proficient At 10 Pro Tips For Character Creation 10 Starting Character Builds For Beginners Multiclass Mistakes That Ruin A Character Tips For Roleplaying Best Hirelings To Add To Your Party BG3 Party Tips BG3 Party Tips Strongest Companions, Ranked Each Species Ranked As The Best Party Leader Best Party Composition How To Change Party Members 15 Must-Try Party Setups For Unique Playthroughs Best Hirelings To Add To Your Party How to Split Your Party And When To Use It Major Enemies & Bosses Major Enemies & Bosses How To Beat Commander Zhalk What To Do With The Addled Frog How to Beat the Spider Matriarch in Baldur’s Gate 3 Auntie Ethel Boss Fight Guide The Adamantine Forge (Grym) Boss Guide How to Beat the Spectator How to Kill Balthazar How to Beat the Spectator How to Defeat the Thorm Family Without Combat Who Is The Guardian? (Explained) How To Beat Lorroakan Ketheric Thorm Boss Guide Lord Enver Gortash Boss Guide Ansur the Dragon Location & Boss Guide Netherbrain Boss Guide How to Defeat Sarevok Anchev How to Beat Cazador How to Defeat Steel Watch Titan Boss Class & Build Guides Class & Build Guides Base Weapon and Armor Proficiency for All Races & Classes 10 Most Beginner Friendly Classes In Baldur's Gate 3 Barbarian Class Guides Barbarian Class Guides Best Barbarian Class Build Why You Should Play a Barbarian in Baldur’s Gate 3 Bard Class Guides Bard Class Guides Best Bard Class Build Why You Should Play a Bard in Baldur's Gate 3 Best Bard Multiclass Build Best Bard Multiclass Build Cleric Class Guides Cleric Class Guides Baldur's Gate 3: Best Cleric Class Build All Cleric Subclasses, Ranked Why You Should Play a Cleric in Baldur's Gate 3 Druid Class Guides Druid Class Guides Baldur's Gate 3: Best Druid Class Build Every Druid Subclass, Ranked Why You Should Play a Druid in Baldur's Gate 3 Best Druid Wild Shape Forms, Ranked Fighter Class Guides Fighter Class Guides Baldur's Gate 3: Best Fighter Class Build All Fighter Subclasses, Ranked Why You Should Play a Fighter in Baldur's Gate 3 Best Battle Master Fighter Maneuvers, Ranked Monk Class Guides Monk Class Guides Baldur's Gate 3: Best Monk Class Build Why You Should Play a Monk in Baldur's Gate 3 Best Unarmed Weapons For Monks, Ranked Paladin Class Guides Paladin Class Guides Baldur's Gate 3: Best Paladin Class Build Every Paladin Subclass, Ranked Why You Should Play a Paladin in Baldur's Gate 3 How to Become an Oathbreaker Paladin How to Become an Oathbreaker Paladin Ranger Class Guides Ranger Class Guides Baldur's Gate 3: Best Ranger Class Build Why You Should Play a Ranger in Baldur's Gate 3 Best Beast Master Ranger Animal Companions, Ranked Rogue Class Guides Rogue Class Guides Baldur's Gate 3: Best Rogue Class Build Why You Should Play a Rogue in Baldur's Gate 3 Sorcerer Class Guides Sorcerer Class Guides Baldur's Gate 3: Best Sorcerer Class Build All Sorcerer Subclasses, Explained Why You Should Play a Sorcerer in Baldur's Gate 3 Warlock Class Guides Warlock Class Guides Baldur's Gate 3: Best Warlock Class Build All Warlock Subclasses, Ranked Why You Should Play a Warlock in Baldur's Gate 3 How Pact of the Blade Works Wizard Class Guides Wizard Class Guides Baldur's Gate 3: Best Wizard Class Build All Baldur's Gate 3 Wizard Subclasses, Ranked Why You Should Play a Wizard in Baldur's Gate 3 Quest Walkthroughs & Points of Interest Quest Walkthroughs & Points of Interest Act One Act One What to Do Before the End of Act One 5 Most Important Choices In Act 1 Points of Interest - Act One Points of Interest - Act One Underdark Locations – Act One Underdark Locations – Act One Baldur's Gate 3: How to Get to Underdark (& All Entrances) Baldur's Gate 3: How to Open Harper's Stash in Grymforge (Toy Chest Puzzle) Baldur's Gate 3: How to Get To Grymforge How To Get The Treasure In The Underground Passage Where To Find The Kuo-Toa (The Festering Cove) How to Get Through The Selunite Outpost Chest Of The Mundane Location (& What To Do With It) How to Get Sussur Bloom Overworld Locations – Act One Overworld Locations – Act One Baldurs Gate 3: How To Get To Auntie Ethel's Teahouse Goblin Camp Location & Walkthrough How to Get Out of the Goblin Camp Where To Find Miri How to Open Selune Gilded Chest in Owlbear Nest How To Move The Scuffed Rock How To Handle The Spiders In The Rocky Crevice How To Fix The Elevator At The Druid Grove How To Loot Topaz's Nest How To Reach The Shiny Chest In Druid Grove How to Become a Chicken Chaser Underdark or Mountain Pass Choice Guide How to Get to Risen Road Dank Crypt Guide Quests & Puzzle Solutions - Act One Quests & Puzzle Solutions - Act One Underdark Quests & Puzzles – Act One Underdark Quests & Puzzles – Act One Baldur's Gate 3: How to Save Mayrina Where To Find Mayrina (& How To Save Her) Defiled Temple Moon Puzzle Solution How To Help Edowin How To Save The Kuo-Toa From BOOOAL How to Free the Deep Gnomes in Grymforge How to Find and Save the Mushroom Picker How to Finish the Masterwork Weapon How to Use the Adamantine Forge Blind the Absolute Guide Overworld Quests & Puzzles – Act One Overworld Quests & Puzzles – Act One Baldur's Gate 3: How To Save The Owlbear Cub Search The Cellar Guide How To Disable The Guardian Statues How to Free Shadowheart (Woman in Pod) Find Your Belongings Walkthrough How To Save Arabella What Is The Book Of Dead Gods? Baldur's Gate 3: What To Do With The Necromancy of Thay Book How To Disable The Sarcophagus Trap (Overgrown Ruins/Dank Crypt) How To Help Alfira Finish Her Song How to Use The Rune of The Wolf How To Expose Kagha Where To Find The Dowry (& Should You Return It?) How To Save Everyone From The Burning Building How To Rescue Volo How To Save Findal How To Heal Padirna's Legs & Open The Pantry Chest How To Save Liam How To Save Thulla How to Save Barcus Wroot and Find His Pack (Rescue the Gnome Quest) Find a Cure Walkthrough Act Two Act Two How To Get To Act 2 10 Things To Do Before Going To Act 3 Points of Interest – Act Two Points of Interest – Act Two Baldur's Gate 3: Ceremonial Weapon Locations (Stained-Glass Window Puzzle) How To Get Into The Toll House Secret Room (Stone Chair Puzzle) How to Reach the Ancient Temple (The Chosen of Shar) How to Find the Sharran Sanctuary in Reithwin Where is Dammon the Infernal Mechanic (Act 1, 2, & 3) Hide and Seek with Oliver Guide How to Enter Ketheric Thorm's Private Rooms in Moonrise Towers Where to Find Noblestalk and What To Do With It Guide Where to Use the Tower-Shaped Key Where to Find the Last Light Inn in Baldur's Gate 3 Baldur's Gate 3: Moonrise Towers Location Quests & Puzzle Solutions – Act Two Quests & Puzzle Solutions – Act Two Baldur's Gate 3: Where to Find the Egg in the Githyanki Creche Baldur's Gate 3: How to Solve the Protruding Books Puzzle in Balthazar's Room in Moonrise Towers Where To Find Arabella's Parents In Act 2 How to Solve Rosymorn Monastery Puzzle How To Get Moonlantern (& How to Fix It) Find Zevlor Quest Walkthrough How to Find and Heal Thaniel How to Wake Up Art Cullagh Find Mol Quest Walkthrough How to Complete the Gauntlet of Shar Investigate the Selunite Resistance Walkthrough How to Make Yurgir Kill Himself (Kill Raphael's Old Enemy) How to Solve the Brain Puzzle Silent Library Riddle of the Night Puzzle Solution (What Can Silence the Nightsong) Faith-Leap Trial Guide Investigate The Suspicious Toys Quest How to Cross the Shadow-Cursed Lands with Kar'niss How to Solve Thorm Mausoleum Puzzle How to Complete the Soft-Step Trial How to Solve the Plaque Puzzle in the Shadow-Cursed Village Act Three Act Three How to Start the Epilogue How to Start the Epilogue How To Get To Act 3 Things To Do After Beating The Game Points of Interest – Act Three Points of Interest – Act Three How to Free Counsellor Florrick from Wyrm's Rock Prison How to Sneak into Wyrm's Rock Fortress How To Get Into The Main City How to Get a Room in Elfsong Tavern How to Enter the Temple of Bhaal (Rescue Orin's Victim) How to Open the Sinister Door in Cazador's Palace House of Hope Guide How to Get to Lower City Disable The Steel Watch Walkthrough & Foundry Location Sorcerous Sundries Guide Baldur's Gate 3: Where To Find Sharess' Caress Guide to the Circus of the Last Days Quests & Puzzle Solutions – Act Three Quests & Puzzle Solutions – Act Three Baldur's Gate 3: How to Find Other Vampire Spawn (The Pale Elf Quest) Baldur's Gate 3: Free The Artist Quest Guide Baldur's Gate 3: Where to Find Grand Duke Ravengard What is the Code for the Bank Vault in the Counting House? Investigate the Murders Quest Guide How to Find the Doppelganger in Your Camp How to Solve the Chamber of Insight Dribbles the Clown Quest Walkthrough Help the Hag Survivors Guide How to Solve the Wyrmway Puzzles How To Complete Avenge the Drowned Rolan Full Quest Walkthrough Abandoned Cistern: Sluice Gate Puzzle Guide How to Solve the Chamber of Justice Puzzle How to Solve the Chamber of Strategy Puzzle How to Solve the Chamber of Courage Puzzle Stop the Presses Quest Guide Avenge the Hag Survivors Quest Guide How to Find and Confront the Elder Brain How to Find and Confront the Elder Brain Romance Walkthroughs & Dialogue Choices Romance Walkthroughs & Dialogue Choices BG3 Romance Guides BG3 Romance Guides Baldur's Gate 3: All Romanceable Characters Can You Romance Your Guardian? Astarion Guides Astarion Guides How to Romance Astarion Why Astarion is One of the Best Companions Why You Should Romance Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 Should You Let Astarion Drink Your Blood? Should You Let Astarion Become Vampire Ascendant in Baldur's Gate 3? Gale Guides Gale Guides How to Revive/Resurrect Gale Every Possible Ending for Gale in Baldur's Gate 3 How To Romance Gale Karlach Guides Karlach Guides Why You Should Romance Karlach 10 Reasons To Romance Karlach Top 10 Karlach Quotes How To Romance Karlach Lae'Zel Guides Lae'Zel Guides How to Romance Lae'zel Guide Why You Should Romance Lae'zel Every Possible Ending for Lae'Zel in Baldur's Gate 3 Best Lae'zel Build Best Lae'zel Build Shadowheart Guides Shadowheart Guides 10 Reasons To Romance Shadowheart Every Possible Ending for Shadowheart in Baldur's Gate 3 How to Romance Shadowheart Shadowheart Guides Shadowheart Guides How to Romance Shadowheart 10 Reasons To Romance Shadowheart Top 10 Shadowheart Quotes Wyll Guides Wyll Guides How to Break Wyll's Pact with Mizora Baldur’s Gate 3: How to Romance Wyll Baldur’s Gate 3: How to Romance Wyll Other BG3 Companions Guides Other BG3 Companions Guides How to Romance Minthara How to Recruit Minthara Without Betraying the Grove How to Recruit Minthara Without Betraying the Grove 10 Reasons To Romance Minthara Why You Should Romance Halsin Baldur's Gate 3: Druid Halsin Location 10 Reasons To Romance Halsin How To Befriend Timber (The Squirrel) How to Recruit Minsc How to Recruit Withers How to Get Volo's Ersatz Eye (See Invisibility) How To Romance The Emperor RP & Dialogue Choice Outcomes – Act One RP & Dialogue Choice Outcomes – Act One Should You Side With Glut Or Spaw? What Happens if You Refuse to Party with Shadowheart? What Happens if You Speak With Giant Spiders? Should You Kill the Owlbear? What To Do With The Sacrificed Cultists Should You Wake Shadowheart Or Take The Artefact? What Is The Worth Of A Single Mortal Life? Answered Should You Feed Or Kill The Dying Mind Flayer? Should You Convince Rolan To Stay Or Leave? Should You Break Sazza (The Goblin) Out? Should You Help The Talking Brain? Should You Side With Karlach Or Anders? Should You Help Rugan Or Loot The Zhentarim Chest? Should You Buy Oskar Fevras (The Artist)? Should You Send Gandrel To Camp? Should You Drink From The Well? Should You Take Auntie Ethel's Cure? What Should You Tell The Mirror? Should You Resurrect Mayrina's Husband? Should You Steal The Druids' Sacred Idol? Should You Get The Mark Of The Absolute? Should You Let Volo Remove The Mind Flayer Parasite? Should You Trust Omeluum? (Society Of Brilliance Mind Flayer) Should You Open The Caravan Strongbox? RP & Dialogue Choice Outcomes – Act Two RP & Dialogue Choice Outcomes – Act Two Should You Give Lady Esther The Egg? Should You Spare Ketheric Thorm? Should You Let Lae'Zel Enter the Zaith'Isk Should You Draw A New Face On Vlaakith's Portrait? Should You Save or Kill Nightsong? Should You Take Shadowheart Into The Gauntlet Of Shar? Should You Release Dolly Dolly Dolly (The Pixie)? Should You Side With The Harpers Or The Guide? Should You Kill Isobel In Baldur’s Gate 3? (Dark Urge) RP & Dialogue Choice Outcomes – Act Three RP & Dialogue Choice Outcomes – Act Three Should You Free Orpheus?