Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Where is Fireball?

I was never much of a PNP player but from the memes I understood that as a wizard a good fireball is the answer to every dilemma.

So where is may fireball?

And why is magic missiles red instead of blue/purple. That is the real outrage.

Well, 3rd level spell, so wizard level 5. Too bad.

This is an outrage.

Fireball is a level 3 spell unlocked at level 5, currently the level cap is 4.

However, you can still fireball things:

Lo and Behold, Feast Yer Eyes on the Mini-Fireball (available from level 3 in EA)!

No their not
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Our Warlock in PnP fireballs everything. Even when the rest of the party are in melee with it.

His time will come....

Fireball was always tough for me to use in the BG series because it could damage your own party. One way to safely use it was through first using stealth/invisibility to scout the area, then put the mage just outside the view of the enemies, then blast them. But then you really don't get to see the full visual effect of the enemy's hair smouldering on fire. So except for the skeleton crew which I knew was always just outside High Hedge, I almost never memorized fireball.

Magic Missiles in NWN were blue/white. It might be cool to have them be random colors .. fireworks to entertain the townsfolk.

Well in this edition your mage can specialise in evocation and you wont damage your own party anymore.

So "It won't hurt me, it's friendly fire", Cole, in Dragon Age Inquisition.

Fireball is going to need a damage buff unless Larian tones down the HP increase they decided to give enemies, but the extra 2d4 burning and 2d4 surface effects they also decided to put in could compensate.

Pfft, fireball. You silly magelets.
When are we getting Evard's Black Tentacles

Ah, "Sculpt Spells"! I never noticed that before, and it changes everything. Huh, I was really looking forward to getting my Ttransmuter Stone one day, but now that I see what the Sculpt Spell ability does, there is really no other choice but Evoker.

Yes, the inclusion of 'don't kill your party members with fireball' began in 3e and has continued. It is very useful. I don't know if I'm favour overall, because fire-balling the party accidentally was a fun feature of playing a wizard, but it makes things tidier.

I want wail of the banshee, finger of death, phantasamal killer and wierd.

I feel like the ''no friendly fire'' is just an easy mode, casual thing. Its like, doesn't matter what you throw or how you play, you can't make mistake . Remove some strategy of the game IMHO.

Agreed, and it removes not just strategy but also hilarity, if you're playing MP co-op. My wife and I played through the BG games and DOS 1 and 2 together. Some of the most fun we had in those games was when we'd accidentally set each other's characters on fire, or some other AOE effect.

That can still happen with surface effects here, but fireball and similar ranged spells were the best for accidental mayhem.

Easy mode for me had always been Monster Summoning, because there was little chance of friendly fire and you got the added benefits of aggro distraction. But now it looks like there is a way to do the classic evocation stuff without killing everybody on the battle field ... smart bombs away!

You can still do that - Just pick Abjuration instead. Im not sure what the perk for it and other schools will be though, it doesnt say in game.