Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Has Anyone Else Taken Full Advantage of the 18 Int Circlet Yet?

My "problem" with this item (which, in the grand scheme of things that are currently wrong with the game, is immensely minor), is not so much that it's cheesy or metagamey. I can easily abstain from making a build around it. I just find that, from a reward design perspective, it's very uneven.

If you have made a smart build at character creation (or are using Gale as Mage), and plan for your wizard to have 20 INT by the end of the game, this circlet is meh. You're level 3 when you find it and by level 4 you have 18 INT on your own. But for your clueless friend whose Mage has 14 INT, it's the best thing in the world. It's very useless or supremely good. And it feels like it's rewarding suboptimal play.

One thing I was happy to discover in the 5E rules, compared to the 2E-based rules of BG1-2, is that you don't need to specialise your Fighter one type of weapon. No longer will your axe specialist be disappointed when you find, yet again, a magical long sword. You are not made to regret your early choices.

I would have preferred the Intelligence-boost to be +1 or +2. It still allows you to roleplay a Dwarf or Half-orc Mage, it makes the item somewhat interesting for every party, it makes the item less obsolete in late game, and it allows you to try out a cool Feat instead of taking Ability Score Increase at both levels 4 and 8.

I didn't even encounter the ogres so far. I have to explore a bit more.
Where are those ogres? And the owlbear?

Don't personally like items like this in game... are they going to have one for every stat?... making build specific items that prop up or boost certain builds over others usually take more away from a game than add to it imo...

Thats how i would have preferred things also... incremental...

Or as someone who will most likely bring 20 different builds through the content, ill be looking for my +10 str or wis item for my melee cleric build... etc...

Its not that they are giving another persons character something mine wont have... more they are giving one build i plan on playing a huge boost compared to others i will be playing...

A simple +1 to start or to even +3 or +4 "enchantment" bonus any build could use seems the better way to go... not to mention they seem(imo) to in various ways use smaller/more manageable numbers in 5e... but in this world, heres your +10 stat item at level 2... like i said though not the end of that world but huh?... ;D