100+ hours in, Baldur's Gate 3 players are discovering how to make Wizards OP

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One Baldur's Gate 3 player has shared a Wizard-empowering button that they only discovered after more than 100 hours with the game. And it turns out they're not the only ones.

In D&D, certain classes can 'transcribe' spells into their spellbook, giving them permanent access to the magic after a little bit of practice. It's a mechanic that Baldur's Gate 3 limits to the Wizard class, and charges a little bit of extra gold for - in the tabletop game, you'd spend a few hours learning a new spell, but time doesn't pass in quite the same way in Larian's CRPG setting as in the tabletop game, so there has to be a different payoff.

In Baldur's Gate 3, transcription lets you pay a certain amount of gold to consume a scroll but add it to your Wizard's spellbook, after which they can use it at their leisure. It's a valuable tool - Wizards are seriously squishy, but the more magical tricks they have up their sleeves, the more ways they can bring their powers to bear on the world around them, and the less likely they are to suffer as a result of their paper-thin HP bars.

Unfortunately, while some veteran players seem to have been making good use of the Wizard class' already-busy spellbook, they've entirely missed the transcription feature. In a post on Reddit, user montague68 said they'd finally spotted the feature - which is a single, small button on an already somewhat hidden part of the UI - after more than 100 hours with the game.

The background of their post confirms that they've made it to Baldur's Gate itself, so they've definitely spent a serious amount of time with the game already. Worse, they seem to have one of the shorter playtimes for those who are also just finding out about transcription.

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