Baldur’s Gate 1 had so many magic arrows.
You appear confused. BG1 had fire and acid arrows that added 1d6 damage to the TARGET. They did not apply an AOE effect. Nor did it have arrows of AOE darkness, AOE thunder etc etc.
There is one arrow that does AOE damage (and it is not magical) called Arrow of Detonation and it does 1d6 damage in a radius. Guess what? only 1d6 and it is non magical.
The best magic arrows you could get in BG1 were Arrows +3. They added a "massive" 3 points of damage.
In BG3 you can get arrows that do 5x that (and in a radius) in the first 5 hours of playing the game.
