Infinite spells in Baldur’s Gate 3 – and all without cheating? This is possible with a little trick.
In Baldur’s Gate 3, you can have a lot of fun – at least as a class that does not rely on spells. All spellcasters have a significant limitation on available spells per day and must often take a rest. However, with the Sorcerer class, you can bypass this limit and cast spells longer than any other class. The player “average_argie” demonstrates in the game’s subreddit how he has more than 120 spell slots – which is a lot of spells.
Here’s how the trick works: To make this work, the Sorcerer must proceed as follows:
- All spell slots must be converted into sorcery points.
- Then, all sorcery points are converted into 2nd-level spell slots.
- Next, all 2nd-level spell slots are converted back into sorcery points.
- This process is repeated until all spell slots and sorcery points are exhausted.
- Now you drink a “Potion of Angelic Reprieve” and wait for the effect.
- Now you have a large number of 2nd-level spell slots.
You repeat this entire process as often as you like. Since the number of available spell slots increases exponentially with each potion, you can very quickly reach absurd amounts of available spells.
You can convert some of your 2nd-level spell slots into sorcery points at any time, allowing you to create higher-level spell slots and thus cast more powerful spells.
Or briefly put: You basically have an almost infinite supply of spell slots, which only expires at your next long rest.
Why does this work? It works because the mechanics of sorcery points function a bit unusually. Sorcery points can be used to create spell slots. However, when you convert sorcery points into a spell slot, it doesn’t just refill a spell slot – you actually create a whole new spell slot. This means the maximum number of spell slots continues to increase and remains until the start of the next day.
This, in turn, leads to you receiving an extreme number of spell slots by using the “Potion of Angelic Reprieve”. Because upon consuming the potion, you gain all the benefits of a short rest, regenerating all spell slots of levels 1 and 2.
If you have previously increased the maximum number of 2nd-level spell slots, these will all be refilled after consuming the potion. And that leads to an insane number of available spells – which can be converted into sorcery points and then used for higher-level spell slots.
How do you obtain the potion? The “Potion of Angelic Reprieve” is a rather noble potion that can only be obtained a few times in the game. It is sold by the merchant Lann Tarv in the Towers of the Moonrise, for example. Normally, inventory is limited, but merchants refresh their inventory whenever a character in the party levels up. Those who want can level their character at camp (with Withers) and thus also refresh the merchants’ inventory.
Then you can simply buy (or steal) the new potions and build up a supply. This is seen by parts of the community as an exploit – but even through the “normal” level-ups during the second act, you can buy many potions.
The trick is likely to be worthwhile for anyone who might want to take a shot at completing the game in “Honour Mode”. Because having an almost inexhaustible amount of spells here makes it massively easier. However, one should then be careful not to ruin the save file after the final battle …
