TLDR The karmic dice setting in Baldur’s Gate 3 significantly increases the damage players receive, making tanky characters effectively useless and potentially leading to instant wipes, but the option to turn it off in battle can give players more control over their gameplay experience.
Key insights
🎲The karmic dice setting in Baldur’s Gate 3 increases the damage you receive by up to 400 percent, making enemies much stronger.
🛡️With a normal armor class of 23, you take four times as much damage than you should, making any tank build effectively useless.
🎮Going through the game solo can make it significantly more difficult, even with a well-researched setup and high armor class.
📊The character used a level four halfling with at least 100 attacks for different armor classes, showing the meticulousness of the analysis.
🛡️The higher your AC is, the more critical hits enemies will land, with crits doing double damage and enemies hitting three times as much as they should.
😱Karmic dice impose a massive penalty on the player, making tanky characters take four times as much damage than they should, leading to potential instant wipes.
🎮The option to turn off karmic dice in battle can give players more control over their gameplay experience in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Highlights
🎮00:00 Baldur’s Gate 3 has a default setting that makes enemies 400% stronger, leading to quick destruction of powerful characters.
🎲01:21 Enemies in Baldur’s Gate 3 are 400% stronger with the karmic setting, hitting and critting more often and causing increased damage.
🎮02:53 Enemies in Baldur’s Gate 3 become 400% stronger when playing solo, even with a high armor class.
🎮03:53 Enemies in Baldur’s Gate 3 become 400% stronger when using karmic dice, based on data collection and analysis of dice rolls.
🎮04:36 Enemies in Baldur’s Gate 3 are 400% stronger due to high dice rolls, resulting in more critical hits and double damage, reducing the player’s armor class by 4.
🎮05:59 Enemies in Baldur’s Gate 3 become 400% stronger with karmic dice, causing high AC characters to take four times as much damage and potentially get wiped out in a single round.
🎲07:32 Turn off karmic dice in battle for easier fights, turn it back on for social situations or persuasion rolls.
🎮08:49 Enemies in Baldur’s Gate 3 become 400% stronger in a certain setting.