Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Critical Hits Question *Minor Enemy Spoilers*

I decide to fight the boss spider to see how it goes, even though I scouted it before and saw it had 100+ health. For its opening attack it crits Lea'zel for 40(!) damage. A few rounds my fighter gets one of those sweet sweet crits. It, of course, zooms in and makes it impossible for me to see what happens. So I check the log to see what kind of damage it applied...5 damage. 5! Is that even possible? Oh it must have resistances like the Imps did. Nope.

OK help me understand how critical hits work in BG3? I think in BG2 it doubled the damage roll. But I didn't roll a 2.5. So likely the critical system has changed since 2e. That's fine just please explain.

BTW: BG2 is in my top 3 games of all time, and I am loving what's being done with BG3 (surfaces in almost every fight is annoying though). We did end up beating the spider with barely a scratch after 2 party wipes.

In 5e, a crit doubles the damage dice you roll. So if your weapon deals 1d8+stat, your crit will deal 2d8+stat. It's possible to roll two 1's on a crit and deal very little damage.

What weapon did you use? Slash or blunt damage? did you try other weapons with different damage effects? A weapon is tool and some enemys need different tools to be removed.





well here is also the problem you did not have a helmet that protects from crits!!!

Thanks, that explains it. So a 2d6 weapon will double to 4d6?




Wait, I know that's what helmets do in BG1/2 but do they still do that in BG3? The one single helmet I've found so far mentions a + to dex saves I think.

There are two heavy helmets that I have found so far and they both give crit protection.
One broken fancy one that cant be fixed so far I know.

Exactly.