Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s best low-level spell doesn\u2019t do what you think it does Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 has some amazing low-level spells, but one of them has an inaccurate description of its effects, making it sound better than it is. The Command spell might be the best level one spell in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3. While it has five different effects baked into a single spell, one stands out\u2014Command: Drop. Command: Drop forces an enemy to make a Wisdom Saving Throw. If they fail, they drop the weapon they\u2019re using onto the ground. This is practically an essential spell if you want to get the Everburn Blade in the tutorial, which would otherwise involve an incredibly difficult boss fight. The problem, as pointed out by fans online, is that Command: Drop\u2019s in-game description text in the Spellbook doesn\u2019t actually match its effect. The in-game text states, \u201cCommand a creature to drop its weapon on its turn and do nothing else.\u201d What actually happens is that Command: Drop forces the enemy to let go of their weapon on your turn, not theirs. It also doesn\u2019t prevent them from taking Actions on their turn. As such, the enemy will spend an Action picking up their weapon on their turn, but that doesn\u2019t prevent them from switching to a different weapon or just running up to you and hitting you with an Unarmed Attack. Still, Command: Drop is an amazing spell when used against armed opponents. While spells like Tasha\u2019s Hideous Laughter can also stop enemies from taking actions, it gives them more saving throws whenever they take damage. Meanwhile, Command: Drop will force the enemy to either waste their turn picking up and equipping the weapon or will ensure they use a much weaker attack, as unarmed combat is really weak in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 for any humanoid without levels in the Monk class. It\u2019s surprising that the Command: Drop text hasn\u2019t been updated in the near year since Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 launched, but it will hopefully be amended before Larian Studios is finished with the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s best low-level spell doesn\u2019t do what you think it does Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 has some amazing low-level spells, but one of them has an inaccurate description of its effects, making it sound better than it is. The Command spell might be the best level one spell in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3. While […]<\/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-20875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875","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=20875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}