Baldur's Gate 3: How To Equip Weapons In Off-Hand Without…

Baldur's Gate 3 offers unparalleled freedom in how you create and customize your character builds. Beyond the standard character classes and advanced multiclassing strategies, the game also allows players to come up with unorthodox methods to make their builds efficient.

One such strategy is equipping powerful weapons in the off-hand while leaving the main hand empty. Monks can especially use this strategy to enhance their builds while still continuing to deal massive amounts of unarmed damage. Here's how you can use a weapon off-hand while leaving your main arm unequipped.

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By Vincent Arogya

Steps To Equip Weapons In Off-Hand In Baldur's Gate 3

Begin by unequipping weapons from two characters, with one of them being the character you want to wield an off-hand weapon.
Next, open the party menu using the Tab key and dual-wield your desired character, ensuring that their off-hand is equipped with the weapon of your choice. For instance, equipping a monk with the Club Of Hill Giant Strength in their off-hand.
Now, drag the main hand weapon from your desired character to empty the weapon slot of the second character. This will unequip their main hand while keeping their off-hand weapon equipped.

Why Should Monks Utilize Off-Hand Weapons In Baldur's Gate 3?

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Since monks typically rely on unarmed attacks to deal damage, they tend to lose out on the passive buffs that many weapons offer in Baldur's Gate 3. However, the above-mentioned strategy provides monks with additional options to diversify and enhance their builds.

Leveraging passive abilities from off-hand weapons allows monks to allocate ability points more strategically. For instance, monks can spread out ability points in wisdom, constitution, and dexterity while leaving strength at the base score of 8. They can then use items like the Club of Hill Giant Strength to set their Strength to 19, enjoying a respectable +4 bonus to strength checks. This strategy also eliminates your dependency on two of the most powerful and rare elixirs for monks: Elixir of Hill Giant Strength and Elixir of Cloud Giant Strength.

Tavern Brawler Monks and strength-based throwers can optimize their builds by equipping powerful off-hand weapons to boost strength-based attacks. Meanwhile, investing in Dexterity enhances Armor Class and initiative, ensuring both offense and defense remain strong.

In essence, off-handing certain weapons provides you with valuable opportunities to optimize your builds. Whether you're seeking extra utility, better ability score distribution, or a way to maximize overall build efficiency, this technique can be a game-changer.

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Released: August 3, 2023
ESRB: M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Violence
Developer(s): Larian Studios
Publisher(s): Larian Studios
Engine: Divinity 4.0
Multiplayer: Online Co-Op, Local Co-Op
Cross-Platform Play: Full cross-platform play.