Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 streamer blasts \u201cbroken\u201d dice rolls after dealing 9 damage with lightning bolt Larian StudiosA Twitch streamer playing her way through Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 became frustrated with the game\u2019s unpredictable magic system after dealing just 9 damage with Lightning Bolt, one of the most powerful spells in the game. Twitch streamer Stormfall33 was doing a playthrough with a custom wizard character when a combat encounter went south, with her character\u2019s Lightning Bolt dealing almost the lowest possible damage. Because the combat in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is based off of 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons, dice rolls are a core part of almost every interaction, including spell-casting. This means that despite being a level 3 spell, and one of the strongest AOE spells in the game, Lightning Bolt can deal less than 10 damage if you low roll. Streamer Stormfall33 rants about \u201cbroken\u201d Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 magic This mechanic clearly frustrated the streamer, who didn\u2019t even need a high roll to kill the enemy in question. To make matters worse, the enemy passed their save check, reducing the damage dealt by even more. Storm said: \u201cI want you to realize something really fast. This attack has a chance to do between 8 and 48 damage, and it just did 9! I\u2019m done. I\u2019m done. Oh my god, magic is so trash. They should have called it the \u2018only go melee character\u2019 game; because that is the game that this is. magic is so f*cking bad. \u201cDude, Karlach would have killed this guy, spit on his grave, done the yoinky-sploinky, dabbed, and killed everyone in this room by now, by the time I save scummed in order to do f*cking any damage with magic.\u201d While the dice rolling stays true to the DnD roots of the Baldur\u2019s Gate series, it\u2019s clearly not for everyone, and the game has also faced other criticisms, with other players calling out a final act that isn\u2019t as polished as the rest of the game. For a taste of what the magic in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is really capable of doing, check out this player\u2019s wizard build that puts out thousands of damage per turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 streamer blasts \u201cbroken\u201d dice rolls after dealing 9 damage with lightning bolt Larian StudiosA Twitch streamer playing her way through Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 became frustrated with the game\u2019s unpredictable magic system after dealing just 9 damage with Lightning Bolt, one of the most powerful spells in the game. Twitch streamer Stormfall33 was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}