Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Mage Hand OP

Ya'll you can beat the whole game with one small bottle and a githyanki mage hand. Really, it's infinite xp. And the damage is kinda small, but it's consistent and doesn't cost anything.

Yes, I too spent 90 minutes killing the phase spiders with Lae'zel's mage hand alone, just to see if it was possible. But it took 90 minutes. I only really find cheese objectionable when it both makes the game easier and saves time. If there's a big enough time to cheese tradeoff a player has to make a choice to make the game more boring in order to make it easier.

If you really want OP, Mirkon with the Minotaur greatclub is OP. If anyone was keeping track of such things, I could easily have a world record speedrun, murderhoboing every NPC in the game with him.
But once they fix the Glut above ground glitch, I'll have to manually throw his body to Underdark in order to raise him from the dead. Quite tedious, and a difficult task without taking care of the phase spiders first.

I didn't encounter Mirkon during my playthrough. Where's this minotaur weapon? I coulda used that!

Mirkon is on

Sounds complicated. I'll wait for them to release enough of the game for me to make my preferred character.

FOr me Mage Hand is broken in the other direction, it lacks most all of what it is supposed to have and gained push which is an eh addition.

What makes that boy special? I mean 2d12 club is nice, but why the boy and not one of Minotaurs for instance?

Allow me to demonstrate, Mirkon soloing the Goblin Camp courtyard in 6 minutes:


Tiefling kids can't enter combat. So if there is combat going on(preventing NPC auto-heal) they can run around in real time and make unlimited attacks.

Add the club to that, and even though he misses a lot more than a minotaur, they can do damage fast enough to kill a large fraction of NPCs in the game, even if there's no combat nearby and NPCs auto-heal.

Arabella works too, but Mirkon auto-resurrects under certain conditions, so it's harder for him to get killed accidentally.

Ya he passes his stealth checks with no problem. Your characters can actually do this, not entering combat while passing stealth checks. Easiest example would be killing imps in the intro stealthed.

It's true that he passes a lot of stealth checks, but it's more than that(he fails 3 while surrounded by goblins). Turn-based mode is not even available to him. If I hit the enter turn-based mode button, it breaks him. He can't exit it and he can no longer move or take any actions.

I see what you're saying here. Even though the mage hand is OP, I still can't use it for RP purposes, like really pickpocketing people with it, or interacting with machines.