Some players in Baldur’s Gate 3 have strange hobbies. Turning everything into gold is one of them – but it looks really cool!
How to deal with the most pressing issues of the Sword Coast in Baldur’s Gate 3 is left up to each player. Some talk their way to victory, resort to brute force, and use other creative solutions. But some also do it like the legendary King Midas and simply turn everything in their path into gold. One player did this by turning all the bosses in Act 3 into gold.
What did the player do? The player NnmnsP claims to have spent over 2,500 hours in Baldur’s Gate 3 – almost 5 hours every day since release. That he is not yet bored shows in the different things he aims for in the game. His latest stunt: turning all possible bosses into gold and seeing if that is even possible. He proudly presents the results of this action with a lot of pictures:
A scroll turns all bosses to gold
How can you turn bosses into gold? The only way to turn characters in the game into gold is through the “Flesh to Gold” scroll, which you can obtain in the second act of the game. However, the spell can only be used once, so NnmnsP took a screenshot after turning each boss to gold and then loaded the last save state.
Turning bosses into gold essentially amounts to petrification.
Which bosses were immune? In total, NnmnsP was only able to find two bosses in Act 3 that were partially immune to the transformation into gold: Ansur and Raphael. Ansur only reaches the third of four phases of transformation and Raphael only the second – due to his passive ability to regenerate a status at the end of each round when incapacitated.
Does it do anything? No, there is no real benefit to turning all bosses into gold. While the enemies are defenseless and the individual fights become easier, apart from that, there is no advantage. In most cases, you still have to kill the boss to progress in the story – because a gold-turned boss still counts as “alive” and therefore not defeated.
But that is also part of what makes Baldur’s Gate 3 special. Everyone can set their own goals in the game, no matter how absurd they may be. The possibilities are virtually endless, and if someone wants to turn the whole world into gold, that is not crazier than using a corpse as a super weapon.
