Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Help Tips & Tricks My cleric's spells always seem to be greyed out.

Hey everyone.

I'm new to the game, pretty much got to grips with most of it but one thing I'm struggling with is Shadowheart's spells. For some reason her spells and cleric abilities seem to randomly grey out and are "unavailable". I'm sure there's a reason for it, and its not that I haven't rested. I think it may be concentration. I had her cast web from a scroll then all her other spells were greyed out, and when I hover over them the concentration label is flashing. So if that's the case there must be a way to end concentrating on one thing so you can cast something else. Surely. In this particular battle the web had long since become redundant but she couldn't cast something actually useful.

So is there a way to cancel a spell, as it were? Or am I missing something?

Thanks everyone.

Just to eliminate a possibility - you did not give her Heavy Armour?

Good point! If she’s wearing any armor that she’s not proficient with, you won’t be able to cast spells. If she has full spell slots, then that’s a very likely culprit.

X3 Check things like boots and gloves - it not always clear if boots are clothes, medium or heavy armor until you right click on the icon.

Yep, sounds like armor. But as for the question: Spells your character is concentrating on are displayed at the bottom left next to the class icon, you can just click them away when they are no longer needed. Which might be useful especially for area effects.

My personal bane were helmets ...

Running spells which can be cancelled are shown on the left bottom side of the main bar below the portrait, very tiny round symbols (if you are on PC). But concentration on spells does not hinder you to cast other spells, also not other concentration spells (you just put the new spell in place of the old). So it must be something else.

If it is armor, it's shown in a yellow warning message that there is no proficiency with it if you hover over the armor piece. I do not know any boots or gloves who need heavy armor proficiency, and the only helmet that needs it to my knowledge is the helmet from Grym, so most probably it would be body armor that caused proficiency problems.

Thanks everyone. I should have mentioned I'm on Xbox.

I gave her a shield, helm and metallic boots and gloves. I don't think they said heavy armor on them, just a plus to athletics or saving throws or something. But I'll take them off her and see.

I may not be understanding spell slots. I thought if I had, let's say four slots I could have four spells at the ready to be used. Or does it mean I can use any spell four times before I need to rest?

Thanks again.

You have prepared spells and spell slots. Prepared spells are the ones you select in your spellbook out of combat, it's what ends up on your bar. Spell slots are how many spells of that level or lower you can cast between long rests (or short rests in case of warlocks). If you have four level 1 spell slots you can cast four level 1 spells before you need to rest. So the latter. If you have run out of spell slots, the spells will also be greyed out and usually the characters will comment that they need some rest.

Yep I think that was the problem. I wasn't understanding the spell slots.

cheers very much.