Baldur’s Gate 3: 9 Best Amulets for Casters

Highlights

• Amulets are crucial for fine-tuning a character’s build, offering unique buffs for different playstyles.
• Amulets like Spell Savant are game-changers for spellcasters, enabling new strategies and power-ups.
• Each amulet, like Moondrop Pendant or Spineshudder, provides specialized benefits that can impact gameplay greatly.

Amulets and necklaces in Baldur’s Gate 3 are vital components of a character’s gear, occupying a crucial equipment slot. Equipping the ideal Amulet is essential for perfecting a character’s build.

Unlike weapons and armor, which provide straightforward buffs, amulets are often more esoteric in nature, buffing certain playstyles in small ways that can be incredibly impactful with the right build. For spellcasters, amulets can be even more critical than armor, enabling unique playstyles that would otherwise be unattainable.

9 Spell Savant Amulet

+1 Level 2 Spell Slot

While the effect of the Spell Savant Amulet is excellent for casters, the reason it’s not higher on the list is because of the fact that it can only be obtained extremely late in the game, practically right at the end. By the time players get this Amulet, they’ll likely have graduated all the way up to level 5 spells, maybe even level 6 ones.

Having one extra level 2 spell slot won’t make a world of difference, but it’s better than many of the alternatives. That is also not to say that level 2 spells become obsolete late-game—far from it. However, as levels increase, the spell slots for lower-level spells increase with them, rendering getting more options to cast low-level spells not very desirable. Despite that, the Spell Savant Amulet is tailor-made for casters, and they’ll only benefit from wearing it.

8 Moondrop Pendant

Defensive Option Against Melee Attacks

The Moondrop Pendant is one of the few items in Baldur’s Gate 3 that can be worn by absolutely anybody and still show its value at any turn. While it works wonders for melee fighters, as they’re the ones most likely to get by Attacks of Opportunity, these classes often have high defenses to begin with and can often afford to take the hit on the chin.

Not so for spellcasters. Unless they’re a Paladin or a particularly tanky War Domain Cleric, casters mostly wear simple clothing, making them naturally low on AC. If an enemy Rogue or Druid were to get in melee range of a squishy caster, the Moondrop Pendant could offer a safe passage out, even from within a sea of fighters.

7 Spineshudder Amulet

Excellent For Late-Game Warlocks

Reverberation in Baldur’s Gate 3 is an extremely powerful effect. When stacked for 5 turns, the target afflicted by the effect is knocked prone, rendering them completely helpless. With this in mind, the Spineshudder Amulet might seem absolutely broken at first glance. The tooltip text suggests that any ranged spell will trigger the Amulet’s special effect. That is not so. Only Attack Roll spells work to activate the Amulet’s special effect (Scorching Ray, Guiding Bolt, and Eldrich Blast); spamming Magic Missile to knock over everyone in sight is unfortunately not on the table.

While other caster classes will find the Spineshudder Amulet’s gimmick only mildly useful, Warlocks will get the most out of this Amulet as with the correct Eldritch Invocations they can customize the Eldritch Blast to not only deal massive damage but hit targets multiple times, knocking them on their back when their Reverberation stacks get to 5.

6 Amulet of Greater Health

Increases Tankiness And Survivability

In BG3, Any item that lets your character increase one of their stats past 20 is an incredible find, especially if it helps survivability. Perhaps a bit counterintuitive, even though the Amulet of Greater Health increases Constitutions, wearing it benefits spellcasters more than dedicated tanks.

Why? Because tanks typically already have plenty of CON to go around and the extra health won’t do them much good. Even more so if they’re already above 23 CON. It’d be a downgrade! Giving the Amulet of Greater Health to a spellcaster ensures that their CON is right up there with the best of them. The boost can be especially drastic if they chose CON as a dump stat during character creation.

5 Pearl of Power Amulet

More Level 3 Spells

A spellcaster’s biggest weakness is the lack of spell slots available to them. Even if players remember to long rest regularly to restore spent slots, it’s easy for players to find themselves in awkward situations where they have the perfect counter to any enemy in the form of a spell, but the spell cannot be used because of poor planning. The Pearl of Power Amulet gives players the safety net of one more spell they can cast in a pinch. And since it resets per short rest, it can technically be used to restore three level 3 spell slots per long rest.

Having said that, the Pearl of Power Amulet is only good if players get it very early in the game. Since it is being sold by Omeluum, who can be found in the first section of the Underdark, it can be obtained early if players complete his Parasite quest right away.

4 Necklace of Elemental Augmentation

Cantrips Hit Harder

Despite being essentially novice spells, Cantrips in Baldur’s Gate 3 remain relevant for combat right up until the very end of the game. Spell slots are extremely limited, and players will find themselves relying on the inexhaustible well of magic that is Cantrips much more often than they might initially think, especially against non-boss enemies.

The Necklace of Elemental Augmentation buffs damage dealing cantrips directly, allowing casters to add a plus modifier based on their primary stat. Charisma for Sorcerers, Warlocks, Paladins, and Bards; Intelligence for Wizards and Rogues (Arcane Trickster); and Wisdom for Druids, Clerics, and Monks. The damage increase is not insane but it’s consistent damage that can be relied upon.

3 Spellcrux Amulet

Restore Spell Slots Mid-Combat

Similar to the Pearl of Power Amulet, the Spellcrux Amulet allows players to restore a spell slot, allowing them to sling just one more spell before needing to fall back on cantrips. Unlike the Pearl of Power, this Amulet doesn’t have a limit on what the level of the spell slot is; even a level 6 spell slot can be restored.

And, since this effect is a bonus action instead of an Action, players will have a much easier time using it mid-combat. However, to balance everything out, this ability requires a long rest to recharge, making it much less spammable than Pearl of Power. Despite that, having the ability to restore a spell slot is always useful to have, especially in the late game.

2 Fey Semblance Amulet

Good Defensive Option Against Spell Effects

Advantage in Baldur’s Gate 3 means that each time the player has to roll for something, they roll two dice instead of one and take the higher roll. Having Advantage dramatically boosts the chance that a roll will be successful because the odds are essentially doubled that the result will be a positive one.

Since most casters like to stay in the back, protected by their tanks, they’re much more likely to be targeted by ranged spells and attacks. And since a good majority of spells require either an INT, CHA, or WIS save, having Advantage any time such a roll happens by equipping the Fey Semblance Amulet is an incredible boon to have. The only thing casters will have to worry about from other casters is AoE spells like Fireball that require a DEX save.

1 Amulet of the Devout

Increases Spell Hit Chance

Spell Save DC is one of, if not the most important stat all casters want to improve in Baldur’s Gate 3. It is one of the only ways casters can increase their spells’ hit chance directly, allowing them to miss less of their precious spell slots, making them that much more effective in combat. Difficulty Check means that when a save spell is cast at a target, the roll they have to make to protect themselves is defined by the DC of the caster’s spells. If, say, the caster has the Amulet of the Devout equipped, a spell save that would have otherwise required the enemy to roll a 15, now requires them to roll a 17 because of the +2 bonus.

For casters, especially dedicated ones like Wizards and Sorcerers, end-game gear revolves around making sure the level 6 spells have as high of a difficulty check as possible. Offense-wise, the staff or wand they use are much less important than their ability to use what spells they have effectively.