Baldur's Gate 3: How to Throw Characters

Apart from magic spells and epic weapons, Baldur's Gate 3 offers various means to inflict damage. There are numerous tactics at your disposal to gain ...

Jennifer Jett

Sept 10, 2023

Baldur's Gate 3: How to Throw Characters

Apart from magic spells and epic weapons, Baldur's Gate 3 offers various means to inflict damage. There are numerous tactics at your disposal to gain an advantage and significantly enhance the enjoyment of combat.

Battles need not be mundane or sluggish affairs. Engaging in the act of hurling an entire individual can be both entertaining and advantageous. However, not everyone possesses the ability to lift and propel a person or creature across a room. We will delve into the process of unlocking this skill and explore its effects.

How To Throw Characters

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The key aspect of throwing lies in one's strength. Every character has the capability to employ throwing on objects such as a stone or their own weapon. Limitations arise when attempting to throw someone like the witch or a heavy travel chest.

Throwing something heavier necessitates a higher allocation of skill points in your strength attribute.

The absolute best classes for high strength are Barbarian and Paladin. Barbarians possess the highest strength statistic, making the companion Karlach an ideal choice for your primary combatant. While you can alter specializations, recruiting Karlach ensures you always have the advantage.

The amount of strength you require depends on your size and what you intend to carry. Naturally, a Halfling character cannot throw a Tiefling, but a Tiefling can effortlessly throw a Halfling.

Any race or character has the ability to throw creatures by either changing their class or utilizing items that enhance their strength.

How To Increase Your Strength Stat

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There are items in the world that can grant you the ability to increase at least one of your ability scores. By defeating Aunt Ethel and sparing her life, she bestows upon you the ability to permanently increase one of your scores. This is just one example of how you can raise a score without changing your class.

Item	Longevity	Points	How To Get
Auntie Ethel's Hair	Permanent	+1	Beat The Hag, but spare her for her reward.
Potion of Hill Giant Strength	Until Long Rest	21 Strength	From traders like Auntie Ethel or Derryth, or by looting.
Gauntlets of Hill Giant Strength	When equipped	23 Strength	Looted from House of Hope.
Potion of Everlasting Vigour	Permanent	+2	Convincing Astarion to bite Araj in Moonrise Towers.
Mirror of Loss	Permanent	+2 or +1	Luck and skill checks by interacting with the mirror inside the Inner Sanctum of House of Grief.

Should You Use Throw In Combat?

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You should definitely do it whenever you can. Throwing an entire character can bring them down and incapacitate them. It will not only inflict damage but also prevent them from taking any action for a round.

Throwing a character is superior to throwing your weapons, as you need your weapons and repeating their usage would waste movement points and actions.

The amount of damage caused by throwing a creature depends on the weight of that character. The damage inflicted is blunt in nature.

There are certain items you can acquire that will increase the damage inflicted by throwing.

Item	Points	How To Get
Gloves of Uninhibited Kushigo	Additional 1d4 damage	Quest reward from Find The Mushroom Picker.
Ring of Flinging	1d4 bonus damage	Purchased from Druid Grove trader Arron.