One of the hardest fights in Baldur’s Gate 3 becomes easy if you don’t play the way the developers planned.
There are numerous battles in Baldur’s Gate 3. Some of them are quite simple, others require a little brainpower, a good strategy or simply overpowering equipment. Especially in the first act, most of the fights are comparatively easy – with a few exceptions.
One of these exceptions is the optional fight against Grym in the Grym Forge. This metal colossus can be defeated quite easily – and even easier if you don’t use the foreseen tactics at all.
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What do you actually do in the fight? The fight in the Grymforge is necessary to unlock the forge and to be able to craft up to two very powerful equipment items in the forge. The fight actually involves first soaking the boss in lava, then dragging him into the middle to the blacksmith’s hammer and then letting the hammer rush down on him. This causes him to suffer high damage. As a rule, you do this two or three times and then the fight is over.
This is the obvious procedure that is probably considered “normal” by the developers.
Is there another way? In the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit, a player says that he simply didn’t understand the boss and just beat him up at the beginning until he added up the various clues in his head and came up with the “actual” solution.
However, others commented that the “wrong” way of playing the boss is actually much more efficient. Because if you simply beat up Grym with blunt weapons (and have appropriate melee fighters) and also speed up your characters with haste, then you can defeat the boss within 1-3 rounds without even needing the hammer. Signal-Woodpecker691 says:
I decided to use Lae’zel and Karlach against him and used Oils of Accuracy. Karlach initially threw things before running and Lae’zel just beat him up in close combat. He didn’t even lose his initial Superheated status – they just destroyed him in 2 rounds.”
In fact, the developers always intended that you can defeat this boss without the big blacksmith’s hammer – because you can even succeed if you use Grym without this help.
How did you defeat Grym the first time? Did you use the standard strategy with the hammer? Or did you trick the boss in another way?
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