Beloved Baldur's Gate 3 Goofball Is The Source Of An Easily-Missed & Powerful Healing Item

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has a plethora of fantastic magic items to find and purchase throughout the party’s journey that will aid them in their mission to save Faerûn. While some enhance damage dealing abilities or offer new spells, others are designed to buff the party and help in subtler ways, including one that's easily missed from a reoccuring, beloved NPC. This can be most useful at lower levels during Acts 1 and 2 to keep everyone on their feet during tougher moments.

[Warning: The following article contains spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3.]

Finding the right equipment for the party is crucial, especially at lower levels, so that every companion is able to perform to the best of their abilities. There are some brilliant and overpowered items all throughout , some obvious, while others are hidden and some are easier to get to than others. However, there is one item in particular that is very easy to acquire, provided its vendor is still around to sell it.

The comical and memorable bard Volothamp Geddarm, better known as Volo, can sell the party a magic ring as early as Act 1, which provides some amazing benefits. The Whispering Promise is perfect for healers and can serve the party well right through to the end of Act 2. The ring is certainly worth buying, provided Volo can be found, and the party has the funds required.

Volo is famous – or perhaps infamous – throughout the world of Faerûn and in as a whole. Known for his questionable guidebooks, Volo is prone to exaggerating events as well as outright lying to make things sound more exciting. Many of his books throughout lore have been edited by Elminster, who often provides humorous annotations to gently correct Volo's version.

Volo has traveled all over Faerûn as well as a few other areas of Toril, and will frequently pop up in adventure modules or books. He is also no stranger to the games, appearing in and the expansion, as well as the expansion. In keeping with his other cameos, Volo’s presence in is both comical and somewhat