In Baldur’s Gate 3 you will encounter a particularly clumsy NPC early on. If you sacrifice your eye, you will receive one of the best buffs in the game. MeinMMO will tell you what you need to do.
Beware of Spoilers: This article contains story spoilers from Act 1 and about Volo.
Who is this NPC? Volo is an NPC in Baldur’s Gate 3, whom you first meet in the Emerald Grove. He is an author and bard who tends to be dramatic and spread lies.
Although you cannot take him as a companion in combat, he can give you one of the best buffs in the game through an eye operation, allowing you to see invisible units.
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Let Volo perform a lobotomy on you to get one of the best buffs
It’s actually worth considering having Volo gouge out one of your eyes. Although it sounds terrible, you gain a huge advantage.
You lose an eye, but you receive a stylish replacement eye that lets you see invisible units. You do not get any disadvantage, not like with the Ethel eye. For Volo’s eye, you just have to endure a gruesome scene.
This is what Volo’s replacement eye does:
- Ability to see invisible units, permanently
- Within a radius of 9 meters
- A tremendous advantage in many areas of Baldur’s Gate 3
- Tip: Give it to a melee fighter among you
What do I need to do to get the eye? You report to Volo in your camp about the parasite that has infested your brain. He promises to look for solutions to help you. You lie down to rest, and after a good break, you have another conversation with Volo. He comes up with the glorious idea to operate on your eye.
The moment has come. One of the strangest and most painful scenes is about to unfold. In his role as an amateur surgeon, Volo performs an eye operation on you that nearly ends in a lobotomy. While he stubbornly stabs into your eye, you must pass several tests to manage the situation.
During the horrific operation, you have the option to step back out of fear or let him continue the operation. Multiple times during the nerve-wracking scene, you get the chance to back out of the operation.
But hang in there bravely. Volo feels guilty for not being able to remove the parasite and having massacred your eye. He replaces it with a false eyeball called “Volo’s Replacement Eye”.
This is how you get Volo into your camp:
- Talk to him for the first time in the Emerald Grove
- Travel to the ruined village, run west to the goblin camp
- Search for Volo in the middle of the camp and talk to him
- Rescue him from the goblin camp
- Talk to him again and invite him to your camp
Without a doubt, for a small sacrifice, you gain an extraordinary ability that could compensate for the loss of your natural eye. So it’s definitely worth allowing Volo to perform an eye operation.
The ability to detect invisible enemies provides an incredible advantage and enhances the depth of the gaming experience – all without drawbacks. Plus, the replacement eye looks damn cool.
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