One of the toughest battles in Baldur’s Gate 3 becomes quite easy if you don’t play the way the developers intended.
In Baldur’s Gate 3, there are numerous battles. Some are quite simple, while others require a bit of brainpower, a good strategy, or just overpowered equipment. Particularly in the first act, most battles are still relatively easy – with a few exceptions.
One of these exceptions is the optional battle against Grym in the Grymforge. You can defeat this metal colossus quite easily – even more so if you don’t apply the intended tactic at all.
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What do you actually do in the battle? The fight in the Grymforge is necessary to unlock the forge and to be able to craft up to two very powerful equipment items in the forge. The fight actually involves soaking the boss in lava first, then pulling him to the forge hammer and letting the hammer drop on him. This causes him to take high damage. Normally, you do this two or three times, and then the battle is over.
This is the obvious approach that the developers presumably consider “normal”.
Can you do it differently? In the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit, a player shares that he simply didn’t understand the boss and just started hitting him at the beginning until he added up the various clues in his head and came to the “real” solution.
Others, however, commented that the “wrong” method of playing the boss is actually much more efficient. Because if you simply beat Grym with blunt weapons (and have corresponding melee fighters) and also speed up your characters with haste, you can defeat the boss within 1-3 rounds without needing the hammer at all. For example, Signal-Woodpecker691 says:
I decided to use Lae’zel and Karlach against him and used Oils of Accuracy. Karlach threw things at the beginning before running up, and Lae’zel just beat him in close combat. He didn’t even lose his initial “Superheated” status – they just destroyed him in 2 rounds.
In fact, the developers always intended for players to be able to defeat this boss without the big forge hammer – because there is even an achievement if you beat Grym without this help.
How did you defeat Grym the first time? Did you use the standard strategy with the hammer? Or did you trick the boss in a different way?
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