Ever since its release, Baldur’s Gate 3 has captivated players with its immersive narrative which can be influenced by their choices. The game not only boasts engaging combat, requiring various spells but also has various characters to choose from.
All these characters have their unique abilities and can learn various spells. However, not all the spells in the game are useful as sometimes they are better alternatives or just no need for it. Players are confused as to why it even exists.
Players of Baldur’s Gate 3 Want to Know Why ‘Detect Thoughts’ Exists
Baldur’s Gate 3 is all about choices, even at the start of the game, players will be offered multiple choices that will not only affect the whole narrative or play a role in companion connections. In most games, choices don’t have many consequences but here, every decision carries weight, as it can directly affect the other characters.
One of the most important things players will learn is going to be the spells. Even though everyone focuses on the game’s immersive narrative, it has an interactive and engaging combat system. There are many spells players can learn that can be useful for the current situation or in the future.
However, Detect Thoughts is one of the spells which is useless. The spell allows players to read other’s minds, but they can already do that with an illithid tadpole. Also, reading other characters’ minds makes them angry, affecting the relationship.
Because of the fear of not being able to make connections with characters, players don’t even try to read other’s minds, making this spell useless. Recently, Reddit user MistressAerie, asked why the spell even exists, which started a discussion in the community.
“Potions of Mind-Reading”
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Players explain why the spell is not worth learning.
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While others don’t want to ruin their connection with characters.
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Reading others’ minds seems like one really unique spell to learn, but due to the intricate interaction system built among characters in Baldur’s Gate 3, reading minds loses all its value in most parts.
Player Perspectives and Experiences with the Spell
Despite looking like a promising and interesting spell, Detect Thoughts remains mostly a useless spell (other things help in mind reading).
Even after a year of the game’s release, players are still trying to find the use for the spell and continue to experiment with it, hoping to uncover hidden dialogues or something useful.
As Baldur’s Gate 3 continues to make players with its seemingly never-ending choices and expands with updates, the usefulness of interesting spells like Detect Thoughts hangs in the balance. Players are waiting to see if any of the updates will bring a change to the use of the spell.
In the end, players are still lost in the beautiful yet intricate world of Larian Studios‘ RPG, looking to find all the possible choices and endings.
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