Curing is permanent only insofar as the creature does not sustain further damage caused wounds will heal-or can be cured-just as any normal injury.Ĭomments: Disregard that bit about it not affecting extraplanar, incorporeal, or non-living creatures because it totally will. This healing cannot affect creatures without corporeal bodies, nor can it cure wounds of creatures not living or of extraplanar origin. Drop it from your spellbook once you hit either Dragonspear or BG2.Ĭure Light Wounds Schoolĭescription: By casting this spell and laying their hand upon a creature, the priest causes 8 points of wound or other injury damage to the creature's body to be healed. That means it will still be somewhat useful against fighters, clerics, and druids since they have bad saves vs. As with Sleep, it begins to lose its effectiveness after you breach the city walls of Baldur's Gate, but even if your target is 6 HD or higher, the spell still works as long as a save vs. Attacks against sleeping enemies automatically hit, so even characters with a mage's pathetic THAC0 can help beat them down. It only affects one target, but as long as it is under 6 HD, it gets no save and is disabled for 1 round. Elves and half-elves have a 90% and 30% resistance to this spell, respectively.Ĭomments: This is the cleric's version of Sleep. Creatures with 6 or more Hit Dice (or experience levels) are entitled to a Saving Throw vs. At the end of the round, the creature awakens and is unharmed. A Thief with Paws of the Cheetah probably gets the most use out of this since the damage roll bonus multiplies on a Backstab, so this can help reach those one-shot backstab thresholds.ĭescription: This spell enables the priest to command another creature to 'die' (sleep) for a single round. It would probably be better to just help yourself to another Cure Light Wounds instead. The short duration of this spell makes its use questionable even at low levels. radius centered on the point selected by the caster (thus, affected creatures leaving the area are still subject to the spell's effects those entering the area after the casting is completed are not).Ĭomments: Awfully long casting time for just +1 THAC0 and damage for 36 seconds, though just about every divine buff features a huge casting time. At the instant the spell is completed, it affects all creatures in a 30-ft. The caster determines at what range (up to 40 ft.) the spell will be cast. Furthermore, it raises their attack and damage rolls by +1. Fighter/Clerics, Fighter/Druids, and high level Paladins and Rangers should memorize this.ĭescription: Upon uttering the Bless spell, the caster raises the morale of friendly creatures by +1. Naturally it works best when combined with other sources of damage resistance, such as Hardiness and Protection from (element) spells. It gives resistance to all damage types except poison. At 1st level, the protection is 5%, and every 5 levels of the caster improves this by another 5%, up to 25% at level 20.Ĭomments: The only spell of level 1 that scales well with more levels, Armor of Faith needs lots of them to start making a recognizable difference in damage reduction. This magical armor is a force of energy that absorbs a portion of the damage intended for the caster. Rangers will not be able to cast these until they hit level 8, and Paladins until they hit level 9.Īrmor of Faith Schoolĭescription: The caster of the Armor of Faith receives significant protection against melee and magical attacks. As such, they tend not to be very powerful and the vast majority do not scale well later into the game. Finally, those castable by both sides will simply be white.Īvailable immediately upon rolling a cleric or druid, or dual-classing into one, level 1 spells are your most numerous casts. Spells castable only by Clerics/Paladins will be displayed in purple, while those castable only by Druids/Rangers/Shamans will be displayed in green. The Enhanced Edition-exclusive Shaman spells are available here. The Cleric/Ranger multiclass is notable here because it can cast from both the Cleric and Druid selections (but only up to 3rd level Druid spells in the Enhanced Editions unless 'Cleric Ranger Spells' is set to 0 in a).

Unlike arcane magic, Clerics and Druids gain extra spell slots from having high Wisdom, so get it as high as you can as those classes. Druids and Shamans lose out on many of the cleric's more useful buff and utility spells while gaining only a few truly good spells in exchange. Divine spells are heavily geared toward buffing, healing, and curing status effects, with an increasing focus on offensive magic as you go higher up in the spell circles. General Information ĭivine spells are those castable by clerics, paladins, rangers, druids, and shamans.

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