The main point of using Shocking Grasp is to apply the Shocked status, which prevents the enemy from taking reactions (which includes opportunity attacks) until the start of their turn. This would allow your character to move away safely without needing to blow a spell slot with Misty Step, for instance. Battle Mage wizard builds could consider using it to cancel other enemy reactions like Shield, assuming they don’t activate the shield against it to begin with. But BG3 doesn’t really have reaction skills at the moment, so that point is moot.
Granted, bonus action disengage means there’s pretty much no reason to use Shocking Grasp, unless you’re in the niche situation of really needing to use that bonus action to eat something or use a potion in the same turn instead. Or you have multiple ranged party members in opportunity attack range.
Last edited by Saito Hikari; 20/02/21 12:24 AM.
