@histamiini: Death Fog might only be able to fit into a Spell Trigger, but Spell Sequencer and Minor Sequencer should also be able to throw out Stinking Clouds and such. I don't see why it wouldn't work with the other triggers, since they're all coded the same as far as I can tell in Near Infinity.
If a new patch comes out that removes the trick, I'll just move it to the list of tricks that only work in previous patches.
It only works with Trigger because the other 2 have already been fixed to grant the "p" suffixed activation spell when all selected spells target a location. Trigger still grants the "d" suffixed activation spell regardless of spells selected. It's rather easy to fix, just alter the ability targeting on "SPWI809P.SPL" from "Living Actor(1)" to "Any Point in Range(4)"
@Skatan's trick can probably be useful also for mages using a sling and switching to a dart to get the good damage of the first and 2 more dart attacks. a mage with enchanted sling and bullets and good STR from spell or items can easily reach 20 dmg for each sling attack, add a couple of stunning or poisoning darts on top and he becomes really effective even if he is not casting.
don't know if it is a trick but is the way to infinite experience as soon as you have a mage able to cast pi. go to wk and get the 2 wish scrolls from there, then equip them, a limited wish scroll and the cursed scroll that drops wisdom to 3. then begin to spam pi, sending the pi and a cleric in some room and close the door. then the pi casts the wishes hoping for the rest option and then uses the cursed scroll and the limited wish, choosing to be protected from undeads. some vampires pop out, the pi vanishes and the cleric makes the vampires explode. more than 60k free experience for the party. cast an other pi and repeat. with 3 or 4 lev 7 castings and a good starting wis you have a good chance to find the rest option. you can also pack the wish scrolls and other lev 7 ones that recharge via spell trap and use the sotm, so you have 7pi, or 14 wishes, to find the rest option, this way you have to sleep very seldom. the more you use the trick the more you gain levels so pi memorized, at high levels the wish becomes redundant as is more reliable to use the spell trap to replenish the pi casting.
i know that is possible and easier to cluaconsole the xp, but in the trick you use only legal spells, without abusing of some engine exploits, like it happens with blocking the tanner and talking to him many times.
when i want more experience for my parties i usually do it without the cleric part, i have to fight with the vampires to "earn" the experience. more fun, more rp sense, as is logic that the more you fight the more you gain experience. for the same reason i often turn to stone and back to flash multiple times the dragons, and is really easy if you have them under the feeblemind spell, the fun is without it....
the killing the clone trick by @squiros not only works very well with darts from the cloak and bullets from erinne sling, it works very well with the wands and potions you get as you are spamming wishes to get the rest option and also with the money the party loose if the clone has to chose that option instead of others more annoying. kill the clone and you will loot darts, bullets+4, some useful potions and best of all plenty of wands, including the WK types, as side effects of having a free rest. and you will loot back also the money you were supposed to loose as result of the wish choice. perfect for sorcerers that want to abuse the wish rest. is important that you kill the clone or that he suicides himself with damaging spells, if DM is used to get rid of him all the loot vanishes with him. in the original he can also use the scribe scroll and alchemy hla and you can also loot the summoned scrolls and potions, in EE those hla are removed for mage so only a MT can do it, if he is so fool to waste hla on that stuff.
The vampire's revenge long sword is from the original BG game - something of an easter egg, but cursed. In BGEE it heals an opponent 7 HPs per successful hit and inflicts 7 HPs per hit on the user (killing you if there are fewer HPs than that left). It can't heal above maximum HPs though, so it doesn't give a great advantage. Potentially it could be used to help keep a tank going in a long fight, but I think such tactics are unlikely to be optimal use of a party. Other than having fun I think the described use of speeding up healing prior to resting / travelling to trigger constitution regeneration is the only real benefit in the unmodded game. If you introduced the sword into BG2 or introduced regeneration spells or items into BG1 the equation could well be different, however.
I can think of one usage: A party member gets held by a Ghast, and his HP are draining rapidly from attacks. You're out of 'remove paralylis', 'invisibility' and healing spells. What do you do? Equip the Vampire's revenge and start whacking the helpless person. Meanwhile, your spell casters can deal damage spells upon the enemy.
The vampire's revenge long sword is from the original BG game - something of an easter egg, but cursed. In BGEE it heals an opponent 7 HPs per successful hit and inflicts 7 HPs per hit on the user (killing you if there are fewer HPs than that left). It can't heal above maximum HPs though, so it doesn't give a great advantage. Potentially it could be used to help keep a tank going in a long fight, but I think such tactics are unlikely to be optimal use of a party. Other than having fun I think the described use of speeding up healing prior to resting / travelling to trigger constitution regeneration is the only real benefit in the unmodded game. If you introduced the sword into BG2 or introduced regeneration spells or items into BG1 the equation could well be different, however.
I can think of one usage: A party member gets held by a Ghast, and his HP are draining rapidly from attacks. You're out of 'remove paralylis', 'invisibility' and healing spells. What do you do? Equip the Vampire's revenge and start whacking the helpless person. Meanwhile, your spell casters can deal damage spells upon the enemy.
Too bad you can't reverse pickpocket the vampire's revenge into enemies weapon slots. Would be hilarious to be able to do that and then let them whack themselves to death while healing CHARNAME.
recently tested and works in EE. Hell trials, every tear causes a different effect. You can activate a tear and as soon as the sound starts you can pause and drop the tear to the ground, is not immediately destroyed. You can pick it up later and use it again. the game checks only how many times the tears are activated, at the fifth time opens the door and Irenicus appears, but does not check which tear is used.
So you can collect the tears and use only one or few of them, but multiple times, stacking the bonuses. i did it with the good choices activating 2 times the one that gives +2 at ST and 3 times the one that gives +10MR (with a character that can use the pally sword). having +4 to all ST, so with the right gear and levels all the ST in the negative range, and 95% MR is much better than being immune to +1 or less weapons, as in TOB most of the minor foe uses +2 or more, or having +1 charisma and similar stuff. for evil choices is even better i suppose,wanna +6 STR... yep, but i always play good.
Not sure if this trick was reported before, but in BG2EE 1.3 it's still possible to get 2 rings of the ram from Tolgerias. I doubt this was fixed in later versions because it takes rather specific circumstances to do so, but correct me if I'm wrong. If you go into the government house with Valygar in the party, and you haven't accepted Tolgerias' quest to catch the guy, T gets all angry and scared and teleports away. If you pickpocket him before he disappears, you'll have the ring, and he'll drop it again when you kill him in the planar sphere.
the Spell Trap (power version) endless spell strategy is still possible in EE, but only using a PI and a simulacrum. you can find the complete description here https://www.sorcerers.net/Games/BG2/SpellsReference/EndlessSpells.htm and obviously i am not the author of this little masterpiece, i only post to tell that using a simulacrum it works in EE, while in original it works with 2 PI, so is more powerful.
short description: a mage or sorcerer casts a spell trap and then, with the game paused, a CC with a PI and a simulacrum inside, in EE he has to waste also a low level spell, condition enemy sight. then the PI and a blink after the simulacrum cast time stop (you have to equip 2 TS scrolls in a quick slot as the sim probably does not have the level to do it from spellbook). as soon as the TS is active the clone cast a lev9 and a lev7 or 8 spell to the mage and then cast the 2nd TS. almost immediately after the TS expires the one of the 2nd clone start, he does the same. at this point the spells of the mage are replenished, only the 3rd spell of the cc is lost. as soon as the ts expires the 2nd one of the 1rst clone starts and then he cast IA and have 2 rounds to unleash his spellbook (wearing RoV and AoP). as soon as the ts expires the 2nd one of the simulacrum start, then he have 3 rounds to use a shapechange scroll and go mlee in mind flyer or werewolf form. as the simmy can not cast IA an alternative can be using it only to replenish the mage spell book and use a 3rd TS with the PI. or maybe use the simmy to cast 3 high damaging spells, or cast mmm and attack.
this was a masterpiece of timing as it does not need a preparation before you meet the enemy, costs only 1 low level spell and as long as the mage is not disrupted while he cast the trap and the clones are not dispelled before they cast the 1rst TS there is nothing that an enemy not immune to TS can do to counter it. so potentially the combo can be used for free all day long.
the only credits i can have are on the checking that in EE is still possible and in the possible uses of the simmi, the original recipe with 2 PI is no more possible in EE.
The vampire's revenge long sword is from the original BG game - something of an easter egg, but cursed. In BGEE it heals an opponent 7 HPs per successful hit and inflicts 7 HPs per hit on the user (killing you if there are fewer HPs than that left). It can't heal above maximum HPs though, so it doesn't give a great advantage. Potentially it could be used to help keep a tank going in a long fight, but I think such tactics are unlikely to be optimal use of a party. Other than having fun I think the described use of speeding up healing prior to resting / travelling to trigger constitution regeneration is the only real benefit in the unmodded game. If you introduced the sword into BG2 or introduced regeneration spells or items into BG1 the equation could well be different, however.
I can think of one usage: A party member gets held by a Ghast, and his HP are draining rapidly from attacks. You're out of 'remove paralylis', 'invisibility' and healing spells. What do you do? Equip the Vampire's revenge and start whacking the helpless person. Meanwhile, your spell casters can deal damage spells upon the enemy.
Too bad you can't reverse pickpocket the vampire's revenge into enemies weapon slots. Would be hilarious to be able to do that and then let them whack themselves to death while healing CHARNAME.
I wonder if that tactic would work with Seducer kit Seduce-recruit an enemy, give him the sword, release from a group and enjoy (there is always Ctrl-Q there too, of course).
The Seducer's Recruit Follower ability could indeed do that, but it's already an instant kill if you want it to be. Once a critter is in your party, you can attack it and kill it without it turning hostile, just like any other party member. There are some limitations, though. Recruit Follower only works on critters who are half the Seducer's level or lower.
At any rate, we're reserving this thread for non-mod-related exploits, because mod exploits tend to get removed in updates especially quickly and are not applicable for most people's installs, since most people play the unmodded game.
A character who is weighed down so much that they cannot move is able to speak with other characters at a distance. Keeping heavy items in a Bag of Holding, unequipping a STR-boosting item like the Gauntlets of Ogre Power, or simply moving items from one party member to another can let you toggle this on and off.
This can be used to save a slight amount of time, or even bail the player out of dangerous situations. For example, in Lord Pyros' lair in Icewind Dale 2, you can use the trick to speak with the Archon even when enemies are blocking the way.
When a character polymorphs into a critter with a larger circle in an area that's too small for it, the game will teleport that character to the nearest available spot. By putting several party members or summoned critters around the caster and boxing them in before having them shapeshift, you can teleport them past walls and barriers. Hide in Shadows can be used to force a collision check.
Releasing a familiar from your inventory will displace your main character slightly, teleporting them slightly to the northeast. This can be used to bypass obstacles such as thin walls. A very precise clip can let you teleport past the Bridgefort gate in SoD as well as the subsequent wall of barrels, allowing you to skip the entire Bridgefort questline.
Dang. I'm at the point where I don't even notice a lot of exploits until somebody lists them and I say to myself, "Oh yeah, I remember that..." Guess I'll list a couple I know that are more engine quirks than exploits.
-Haste causes certain effects that occur over time to proc at double speed (regeneration, poison, disease damage) or sometimes even faster (like opcode 272 "use EFF file on condition" with the condition set to "once per Value seconds.") Likewise, Slow causes these effects to happen at a slower speed.
-Haste speeds up spellcasting via scroll by a considerable amount and allows quickslot items to activate slightly faster.
-Slow causes spells to take longer to cast (despite its description denying this) and causes quickslot items that aren't potions to activate slower.
-Spellcasting from scrolls cannot be interrupted by damage or casting failure.
Was recently reminded about how the "guard" functionality is super broken with ranged attackers.
For those who don't know: any fighter-type with no caster or thief levels has a guard icon on their quickbar, (looks like a shield). Upon clicking this icon, you can either click on a different character to guard that person, or you can click and drag on the ground to guard an area.
When guarding a person, normal targeting rules cease to apply. Archers are suddenly capable of firing through walls and well beyond their visual range. (Range isn't unlimited and it's hard to say exactly how far it extends, but I just tested with Minsc and a shortbow in Irenicus' dungeon and he was able to kill goblins at more than three times visual range.)
The ability to fire through walls also lets you "assist" in many "one-on-one" battles such as Mazzy's fight against Gorf, a Druid PC's grove challenge, and the arena battles in the drow tavern.
The only reason I suspect this has survived this long is that nobody actually uses the guard function.
I use it a ton in BG1 in lieu of the "follow-the-leader" party formation. Get one tank geared for melee, guard him with three ranged fighters, (Kivan, Khalid, Shar-Teel, Minsc, Dorn, Ajantis, Mod NPCs if they're your thing), and then wander the map. Unfortunately, Coran is not eligible for guard duty. Kagain theoretically would be, but if he's in your party, he's almost certainly your tank.
Probably the easiest / most-minimal-effort playthrough possible.
I have never even once used the guard function. It's kinda spectacular considering the hours I've played this game. I wonder what else is in there that I have never used.
I haven't seen it posted before, if it has, please ignore.
Sanctuary + Offensive Potions exploit:
It is common knowledge that being under the effects of invisibility or sanctuary then taking an offensive action will instantly break said invisibility or sanctuary.
Until now.
I was minding my own bussiness with my mage/cleric exploding, disabling and overall magicking my way through BGEE solo run when I realised:
Casting sanctuary + using a scroll/wand of fireball = breaks sanctuary. Casting sanctuary + using a 'Potion of explosions' (fireball in a bottle) = keeps sanctuary intact and enemies continue to ignore you while you can safely keep blasting them until dead.
Has this been adressed? Since there are beneficial self buff potions that are clearly not considered hostile actions and therefore sanctuary see no reason to break, is the game coded in such a way that considers ALL potions harmless regardless of function?
Since 60% of all BG1 enemies are majorly critters and low level bosses, you can waltz your way through the game untouched as long as you have gold and vendors keep restocking offensive potions and have enough sanctuaries prepared.
Of course this exploit diminishes its use the higher level you are since the 'Potions of explosions' can do so much damage until they'll barely scratch enemies who have so much HP it becomes irrelevant and tedious to continue, also magic potion vendors don't have unlimited stock (unless you play with mods that add aditional magic item vendors).
I haven't seen it posted before, if it has, please ignore.
Sanctuary + Offensive Potions exploit:
It is common knowledge that being under the effects of invisibility or sanctuary then taking an offensive action will instantly break said invisibility or sanctuary.
The Sword of Chaos and similar weapons will heal the wielder when battling inanimate unkillable neutral objects. For instance, if you have Minsc wield it and hit the jailer golems in the starting dungeon you get him back to full health while the golem stays neutral.
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If a new patch comes out that removes the trick, I'll just move it to the list of tricks that only work in previous patches.
It's rather easy to fix, just alter the ability targeting on "SPWI809P.SPL" from
"Living Actor(1)"
to
"Any Point in Range(4)"
a mage with enchanted sling and bullets and good STR from spell or items can easily reach 20 dmg for each sling attack, add a couple of stunning or poisoning darts on top and he becomes really effective even if he is not casting.
go to wk and get the 2 wish scrolls from there, then equip them, a limited wish scroll and the cursed scroll that drops wisdom to 3. then begin to spam pi, sending the pi and a cleric in some room and close the door. then the pi casts the wishes hoping for the rest option and then uses the cursed scroll and the limited wish, choosing to be protected from undeads. some vampires pop out, the pi vanishes and the cleric makes the vampires explode. more than 60k free experience for the party. cast an other pi and repeat. with 3 or 4 lev 7 castings and a good starting wis you have a good chance to find the rest option. you can also pack the wish scrolls and other lev 7 ones that recharge via spell trap and use the sotm, so you have 7pi, or 14 wishes, to find the rest option, this way you have to sleep very seldom. the more you use the trick the more you gain levels so pi memorized, at high levels the wish becomes redundant as is more reliable to use the spell trap to replenish the pi casting.
i know that is possible and easier to cluaconsole the xp, but in the trick you use only legal spells, without abusing of some engine exploits, like it happens with blocking the tanner and talking to him many times.
when i want more experience for my parties i usually do it without the cleric part, i have to fight with the vampires to "earn" the experience. more fun, more rp sense, as is logic that the more you fight the more you gain experience.
for the same reason i often turn to stone and back to flash multiple times the dragons, and is really easy if you have them under the feeblemind spell, the fun is without it....
is important that you kill the clone or that he suicides himself with damaging spells, if DM is used to get rid of him all the loot vanishes with him.
in the original he can also use the scribe scroll and alchemy hla and you can also loot the summoned scrolls and potions, in EE those hla are removed for mage so only a MT can do it, if he is so fool to waste hla on that stuff.
A party member gets held by a Ghast, and his HP are draining rapidly from attacks. You're out of 'remove paralylis', 'invisibility' and healing spells. What do you do? Equip the Vampire's revenge and start whacking the helpless person. Meanwhile, your spell casters can deal damage spells upon the enemy.
Hell trials, every tear causes a different effect. You can activate a tear and as soon as the sound starts you can pause and drop the tear to the ground, is not immediately destroyed. You can pick it up later and use it again.
the game checks only how many times the tears are activated, at the fifth time opens the door and Irenicus appears, but does not check which tear is used.
So you can collect the tears and use only one or few of them, but multiple times, stacking the bonuses.
i did it with the good choices activating 2 times the one that gives +2 at ST and 3 times the one that gives +10MR (with a character that can use the pally sword).
having +4 to all ST, so with the right gear and levels all the ST in the negative range, and 95% MR is much better than being immune to +1 or less weapons, as in TOB most of the minor foe uses +2 or more, or having +1 charisma and similar stuff.
for evil choices is even better i suppose,wanna +6 STR... yep, but i always play good.
you can find the complete description here
https://www.sorcerers.net/Games/BG2/SpellsReference/EndlessSpells.htm
and obviously i am not the author of this little masterpiece, i only post to tell that using a simulacrum it works in EE, while in original it works with 2 PI, so is more powerful.
short description:
a mage or sorcerer casts a spell trap and then, with the game paused, a CC with a PI and a simulacrum inside, in EE he has to waste also a low level spell, condition enemy sight.
then the PI and a blink after the simulacrum cast time stop (you have to equip 2 TS scrolls in a quick slot as the sim probably does not have the level to do it from spellbook).
as soon as the TS is active the clone cast a lev9 and a lev7 or 8 spell to the mage and then cast the 2nd TS.
almost immediately after the TS expires the one of the 2nd clone start, he does the same. at this point the spells of the mage are replenished, only the 3rd spell of the cc is lost.
as soon as the ts expires the 2nd one of the 1rst clone starts and then he cast IA and have 2 rounds to unleash his spellbook (wearing RoV and AoP).
as soon as the ts expires the 2nd one of the simulacrum start, then he have 3 rounds to use a shapechange scroll and go mlee in mind flyer or werewolf form. as the simmy can not cast IA an alternative can be using it only to replenish the mage spell book and use a 3rd TS with the PI. or maybe use the simmy to cast 3 high damaging spells, or cast mmm and attack.
this was a masterpiece of timing as it does not need a preparation before you meet the enemy, costs only 1 low level spell and as long as the mage is not disrupted while he cast the trap and the clones are not dispelled before they cast the 1rst TS there is nothing that an enemy not immune to TS can do to counter it.
so potentially the combo can be used for free all day long.
the only credits i can have are on the checking that in EE is still possible and in the possible uses of the simmi, the original recipe with 2 PI is no more possible in EE.
At any rate, we're reserving this thread for non-mod-related exploits, because mod exploits tend to get removed in updates especially quickly and are not applicable for most people's installs, since most people play the unmodded game.
These are more tricks that are possible in the most recent versions of the game (that is, the latest updates to the Enhanced Edition).
Encumbrance Trick
Author: Unknown
Brief Description:
A character who is weighed down so much that they cannot move is able to speak with other characters at a distance. Keeping heavy items in a Bag of Holding, unequipping a STR-boosting item like the Gauntlets of Ogre Power, or simply moving items from one party member to another can let you toggle this on and off.
This can be used to save a slight amount of time, or even bail the player out of dangerous situations. For example, in Lord Pyros' lair in Icewind Dale 2, you can use the trick to speak with the Archon even when enemies are blocking the way.
Polymorph Self Teleportation
Author: Unknown
Brief Description:
When a character polymorphs into a critter with a larger circle in an area that's too small for it, the game will teleport that character to the nearest available spot. By putting several party members or summoned critters around the caster and boxing them in before having them shapeshift, you can teleport them past walls and barriers. Hide in Shadows can be used to force a collision check.
Familiar Teleportation
Author: Unknown
Brief Description:
Releasing a familiar from your inventory will displace your main character slightly, teleporting them slightly to the northeast. This can be used to bypass obstacles such as thin walls. A very precise clip can let you teleport past the Bridgefort gate in SoD as well as the subsequent wall of barrels, allowing you to skip the entire Bridgefort questline.
-Haste causes certain effects that occur over time to proc at double speed (regeneration, poison, disease damage) or sometimes even faster (like opcode 272 "use EFF file on condition" with the condition set to "once per Value seconds.") Likewise, Slow causes these effects to happen at a slower speed.
-Haste speeds up spellcasting via scroll by a considerable amount and allows quickslot items to activate slightly faster.
-Slow causes spells to take longer to cast (despite its description denying this) and causes quickslot items that aren't potions to activate slower.
-Spellcasting from scrolls cannot be interrupted by damage or casting failure.
For those who don't know: any fighter-type with no caster or thief levels has a guard icon on their quickbar, (looks like a shield). Upon clicking this icon, you can either click on a different character to guard that person, or you can click and drag on the ground to guard an area.
When guarding a person, normal targeting rules cease to apply. Archers are suddenly capable of firing through walls and well beyond their visual range. (Range isn't unlimited and it's hard to say exactly how far it extends, but I just tested with Minsc and a shortbow in Irenicus' dungeon and he was able to kill goblins at more than three times visual range.)
The ability to fire through walls also lets you "assist" in many "one-on-one" battles such as Mazzy's fight against Gorf, a Druid PC's grove challenge, and the arena battles in the drow tavern.
The only reason I suspect this has survived this long is that nobody actually uses the guard function.
Probably the easiest / most-minimal-effort playthrough possible.
Sanctuary + Offensive Potions exploit:
It is common knowledge that being under the effects of invisibility or sanctuary then taking an offensive action will instantly break said invisibility or sanctuary.
Until now.
I was minding my own bussiness with my mage/cleric exploding, disabling and overall magicking my way through BGEE solo run when I realised:
Casting sanctuary + using a scroll/wand of fireball = breaks sanctuary.
Casting sanctuary + using a 'Potion of explosions' (fireball in a bottle) = keeps sanctuary intact and enemies continue to ignore you while you can safely keep blasting them until dead.
Has this been adressed? Since there are beneficial self buff potions that are clearly not considered hostile actions and therefore sanctuary see no reason to break, is the game coded in such a way that considers ALL potions harmless regardless of function?
Since 60% of all BG1 enemies are majorly critters and low level bosses, you can waltz your way through the game untouched as long as you have gold and vendors keep restocking offensive potions and have enough sanctuaries prepared.
Of course this exploit diminishes its use the higher level you are since the 'Potions of explosions' can do so much damage until they'll barely scratch enemies who have so much HP it becomes irrelevant and tedious to continue, also magic potion vendors don't have unlimited stock (unless you play with mods that add aditional magic item vendors).
Evidence:
Thoughts?
"Drinking" explosion potions (while invisible) worked that way in the original game too, at least in BGT.
THAT'S AWESOME!
The Sword of Chaos and similar weapons will heal the wielder when battling inanimate unkillable neutral objects.
For instance, if you have Minsc wield it and hit the jailer golems in the starting dungeon you get him back to full health while the golem stays neutral.
Slow but steady.