Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Chromatic bug at lvl 3

Chromatic orb worked perfectly for me at lvl 1 and 2, but once I hit lvl 3 and was prompted to pick a lvl1 or lvl2 spell slot. Then damage was reduced to 2d8 and 3d8 respectively. I checked the combat log and it was not just the tool tips that were wrong the damage was rolled with a dice too few.

I suppose the easiest way to program this is 2d8 + 1d8 * slot lvl

in the rules it is stated as 3d8 + 1d8 pr spell slot lvl above 1, but that just seems more complicated to me.

Nope ...
That is effect of active Larianization ...
1d8 was removed from every Orb type (except for Thunder) and Orbs now create surface effect instead ...

Note that not all Orbs create even damaging surfaces ... as far as i know (didnt try, just read it here) Poison create poisonous surface, that cause disadvantage IF your oponent fail saving throw, and only for that long as long that oponent stand inside that poison pool (wich means until start of his turn) ... acid reportely create surface that is reducing AC of people standing inside ... and frost create icy surface that can potentialy knock your enemies prone.
Also note that all those surfaces can and probably will affect all your friendly players that are on meele range, unless you sacrifice your precious Sorcery points (and ability to cast Twined spell, since you can pick only one metamagic at once) and give them automatic saving throw.
And finaly note that none tooltip tells you litteraly anything about those surfaces, so you simply need to try and then either remember or write it somewhere ... bcs tooltips are not helpfull at all. :-/

If you wish to join our club of frustration ... we are gathering on Friday in 20pm CEST.

I would also like to use your topic, if you dont mind, to report that Chromatic Orb do not show spell levels on icons in popup menu, like other spells do ...

It makes its usage even more hectic. :-/

Thanks for the nice info RagnarokCzD.

I was certain that the tool tip had said 3d8 before lvl 3, but I just checked and you are quite right. thunder damage is 3d8 though? no surface for thunder I guess.

Where are we gathering?

And yes you are quite welcome to use the thread for whatever chromatic orb issues you are dealing with