Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General HOW SMITES WORKS IN THIS GAME?!!

Finally, tell me how smites work for a paladin, I don’t know if it’s even worth playing for this class since they can’t really explain the mechanics anywhere.

Here I have a radiant smite, you can select it and attack with your main weapon (I play with dual weapons), but this spell is also available in response actions, which are not clear at all how they work. Example: I’m fighting with the Duergars, I attack the first one with a regular paired attack and nothing happens, the next turn the paired attack triggers a crit and a smite is triggered that destroys all HP, then the next one I attack with the already selected smite and are 3 (!!!) triggered critical hits in a row and destroy his entire health bar. Do smites in retaliation only turn on during a crit? If so, how can you increase your crit ability? Multiclass a paladin into an assassin rogue?

Look at your reactions. Do you know where those are? You can click on the small icons on the top right of your bar across the bottom of the screen.

Or you can open your inventory and click on the spellbook option. You should notice a reactions tab. Click on that.

Now you'll see some reactions. There are two checkboxes for each of them. One is for turning the reaction off and the other is for whether or not you want them happen automatically, or if you'd prefer to be asked.

If you want to be asked about whether or not to smite with every hit, check the appropriate box. If you want to be asked about crit smites instead of getting them automatically, check the appropriate box.

Hope that helps.