Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Concentration for "fun" spells

Hello there.
First i wish to point out that i absolutely love what you did ...
But even so, there is some small ... hassle ... for example concentration requirement by so many spells ... i totally get that you need concentration for combat focused spells, no doubt here, no problem from me ...

But how about spells that dont have combat usage?
Like talk to animals?
(Not sure, if there is any else. :-/)

For example speak with dead takes only action ... and whenever you cast it, you gain recast (also... why there even is recharge per long rest, when you get recast imediatly? O_o ) ... but speak with animals, is concentration req. so it usualy dont even last per combat, or jumping, you dont get recast, and it even cost you spellslot. :-/

Concentration is a bit weird right now to be honest.

I sometimes lose concentration on spells like hunter's mark upon recasting them, without having taken any attack or suffered any damage at all, while other spells will last indefinitely.

I disagree with you that "talk to animals" is only a "fun" spell. It very much allows you to unlock new content and sometimes clues to quest you already have. It's a powerful spell, and an integral part of investigating the world in D&D. It also forces devs to create lines of DUBBED dialog for almost every single creature that the player is bound to come across, which must be a pain in the neck to implement, when you think about it.

So, yeah. I don't think removing the concentration aspect of such spells is the thing to do, but concentration certainly needs some work still.

Maybe "fun" was poor choice of word ... but my point was this spell have no use (that i know about) in combat.

I dont think that is in any way different thank talk to dead ...
Maybe there is something that i just dont see yet, but i would prefer them to cost simmilar, when they work simmilar.

Also ... when you drink potion of talk to animals, you have it active until long rest with no way to interupt. :-/