Baldur’s Gate 3: “You said the fight would be easy!”

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Grym is one of the first bosses you’ll encounter in Baldur’s Gate 3, and he has real boss mechanics like you’d find in an MMO. The boss can be pretty tough, but is easy to defeat with various techniques – if you know them.

What kind of boss is that?

  • Grym is a giant living suit of armor that you can find in the Grym Forge, where you can craft some of the most powerful items in Act 1.
  • The boss has some pretty nasty mechanics: As living armor, he is immune to most spells and effects. He also has strong resistances to most types of damage.
  • The plan is for you to melt his armor with lava – which will also kill you – and then hit him with a blacksmith’s hammer – which will also kill you. You need good timing and perfect positioning for the fight.

    • That’s why Grym is considered an “easy” boss: Hardly any player will have understood or used the actual mechanics on their first attempt. In fact, some even say that the fight is much easier if you play it wrong.

    Grym caused a lot of creativity in the community because people had to think about how the hell they were going to get past this boss. This gave rise to some crazy ideas and builds, as well as the meme of fat owlbears one-shotting the boss.

    Because the boss appears so early in the game and tips were circulated so quickly, Grym is considered a free loot boss who can’t do anything, especially among veterans. This has been a disaster for a new player.

    Reddit user Infinite_jess complains: “You said the boss was easy peasy, what the hell!” The player writes that he brought spells with him, Gale and his main character, to deal with the Mephits.

    In the end, however, that wasn’t enough: Grym simply rolled over him and in the end only Shadowheart was left standing, high up on the stairs and with a potion of Hill Giant Strength inside him, to throw objects at the boss until he died. Ultimately, however, he had to retreat, revive the group and start again.

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    “It’s easy to cheese – you don’t cheese”

    In the comments, Infinite_jess is made aware of the error. Grym is easy if you exploit mechanics – but that’s exactly what didn’t happen here. User 13Urdt35 explains:

    Tip: You can shoot the lava lever. For those who want to know the exact cheese: You can drive down the platform and do anything EXCEPT pull the lava lever. Then fast travel back. Hold someone up at the top of the stairs, then fire at the lever. Grym will spawn, but will have no way of getting to you.

    You can use things like Eldritch Beam or Returning Spike to take him out completely risk-free. If you want to be 110% safe, hide when the Mephites spawn until Grym takes them out for you.

    13Urdt35 on Reddit

    It seems that even many players were unaware of this exact procedure. One user replied: “Why am I only finding this out now?!” […] I spent 5 hours fighting until I won…”

    There are other tips that were probably not very well known, such as that “heating metal” works in the same way as lava. But the easiest way is still to give Lae’zel and Karlach a big hammer and just beat Grym to pieces. In general, it helps to think a little during combat: Player in Baldur’s Gate 3: “I hated combat until I stopped acting like a caveman”

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