Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Killer's sweetheart bug in honor mode?

Short:
I can't get the killers sweetheart ring to trigger the executioner as I used to do.


Longer:
Hello, I have been playing Baldur's gate a few hundred hours and used the killer's sweetheart on melee and ranged characters on tactical difficulty. It works great.

Now I am playing a lightning sorcerer/wizzard on honor mode and can not get the killer's sweetheart to trigger. I wear it as usual, I set up the reactions tab properly, I kill an enemy and get the executioner. I seem to do everything as I have done the last few hundred hours but the ring won't trigger. I have saved the game, restarted my computer, checked the game filed, tried again the next day. No success. My lvl 5 and 6 cold spells get wasted because I can't predict wether I will hit or not :-(

I tried google but there is almost no info about the ring other than the ingame description wich doesnt help.

Is it honor mode that nerfs the ring? Is it my combo of multiclass that nerfs the ring? I am confused.

Is this the ring that gives you an automatic critical once per long rest?

It's been a few patches since I used this ring, but I recall the prompt showing up even after it had been used. Have you tried using it on a different character?

Looking up the description, it doesn't look like you should have a toggle for if it's used, are you sure it didn't trigger without you noticing?

Yes it is that ring. After a long rest, when you kill an enemy you will get the condition 'executioner'. That condition shows up in the reaction tab and can be set up like all other reactions (ask for smite, ask for destructive wrath, ask for deflect missile, ask for opportunity attack, ask for sentinel attack and so on).

So the 'executioner' condition gets stored until it cancels during next long rest and an be activated at your will. It also cancels if you unequip the ring.

The ingame description is bad for this item as it states that the next hit will be a crit. That is not true for the condition shows up in the reactions tab and can be used as any other reaction. I am 100% sure I set up the reaction tab correctly (I check that several times during a game). I think you may have shifted the ring around in your party when you used it? I usually dont shift gear around but I read that it is possible for one character to use the ring once and that every other charaacter also could use it once before next long rest.

What I havent tried during this playthrough is to put it on another caster.

I am experiencing this problem in patch 7 on a duergar wizard/cleric/sorcerer.