Sacred Flame and Firebolt failing to land? Don't worry, you can blame it on Baldur's Gate 3's bugged spell tooltips! Well, not really. I myself rely mostly on percentages, but if you've been using BG3's tooltips to help inform your chances, you might've noticed a visual bug caught by not one but two Redditors.
"Today I learned that Sacred Flame doesn't suck, the game just lies," writes UncommonEra on the official Baldur's Gate 3 subreddit. The cleric cantrip is infamous for its slim chances of actually hitting, with the attacked party needing to succeed a dexterity saving throw in order to evade the spell. But in Baldur's Gate 3, it appears a UI bug or "coding issue", as UncommonEra suggests, gives inaccurate information in the spell tooltips as you hover over each spell. If you're someone with staunch D&D and tabletop roots, this could be the reason you're struggling to calculate the exact odds – and it could be why you keep expecting Shadowheart to have better chances with Sacred Flame.
