One thing that you might experience very differently every time is combat.

Knowing how to use your environment to your advantage can lead you to entertaining and creative victories.

Using elemental reactions is a great way to target multiple enemies at once.

Baldur’s Gate 3 Elf Player Character and Philomeen

Jugs of water can be thrown on the ground to make surfaces wet.

Candles can be thrown on greasy floors to set them ablaze.

Oftentimes, youll be able to move around an area before things erupt into battle in it.

Split image of a Wood Elf Rogue and a Duergar Rogue in Baldur’s Gate 3

During that period, you might drop aSmokepowder Barrel, aFirewine Barrel, and the like, around enemies.

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3Pit Enemies Against Each Other

An enemy of an enemy can be your friend in certain battles.

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Have an enemy chase you towards another enemy, then hide to let them scuffle with each other.

you might even push enemies off ledges to have them end up in another mobs clutches.

4Just Look Up

Sometimes, the answer can be found just by looking up.

Baldur’s Gate 3: 9 Creative Ways To Use The Environment To Win Battles

Some things may even be used to cause elemental reactions.

If you see candle-lit chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, throw alcohol or smoke powder on the ground.

Then, shoot down the chandelier to ignite your trap.

Baldur’s Gate 3 Gale Casting Flame Sphere.

you’re free to attack with advantage when using ranged attacks from a spot higher than your enemies.

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you might also use items such as explosive arrows and grenades to blast them away.

Baldur’s Gate 3 a screenshot of explosive barrels on fire with damage numbers covering most of the screen.

You lose the loot of an enemy thrown into the chasm.

Consider throwing them from a great height instead, to have access to their corpses afterwards.

A good strategy is actually to cast it where youre standing to hide from the enemys line of sight.

Gremishka and kobold fighting against each other in Baldur’s Gate 3.

That way, ranged units will be unable to target you at all.

9Divide And Conquer

Sometimes, enemies may be standing in an area with multiple entrances and exits.

In these instances, a great way to approach the battle is to pincer them from different ends.

Astarion aiming for a chandelier in Baldur’s Gate 3.

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Karlach, Gale, Astarion, and Wyll preparing an attack by the door in Baldur’s Gate 3.

Gale and Astarion on beams in Baldur’s Gate 3.

Karlach throwing a goblin off the ledge in Baldur’s Gate 3.

Wyll, Karlach, and a kobold blinded in the dark in Baldur’s Gate 3.

Wyll and Karlach launching a sneak attack on a kobold in Baldur’s Gate 3.

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