Best BG3 Jaheira Build Guide – Master Spellcaster Druid!

Welcome to the Ultimate BG3 Jaheira Build guide for Baldur’s Gate 3.

For this Jaheira build we’ll be using the Circle of the Land Druid subclass, which is themed around magical prowess and is one of the best spellcasting classes in the game – they can manipulate the powers of nature to hinder enemies with AOE damage, debuffs and crowd control, while buffing and healing your allies.

Please visit our Best BG3 Builds overview page for more builds, or check out our Best BG3 Druid Build with the Circle of the Moon subclass. We also have a BG3 Halsin Build Guide, which is another available companion.

The BG3 Jaheira Build works on both PC and Console (PS5 and Xbox Series X/S).

Table of Contents:

• Druid Class Guide
  • Circle of Land Subclass
• How to unlock Jaheira
• Character Creation (Level 1)
• Leveling Progression
  • Level 2
  • Level 3
  • Level 4
  • Level 5
  • Level 6
  • Level 7
  • Level 8
  • Level 9
  • Level 10
  • Level 11
  • Level 12
• Wild Shape Transformations
• Equipment
• How to play the Jaheira build

BG3 Druid Class Guide

Before we start with the build let’s explain how the Druid class works, to get a good sense of how you will play this class in Baldur’s Gate 3. First and foremost the Druid’s main class feature is the different Wild Shape forms you can transform into. You can also read our BG3 Druid Wild Shape Forms Guide to see all the different transformations and what they do. You will get new forms at level two, four, six, eight and ten. Of course, the higher-level transformations are more powerful. However, even the early game transformations are still widely used because of their mechanics outside of combat.

The neat thing about the Wild Shape is that you get a free second life. You can start combat as a bear (high Hit Points) and when his hit points are reduced to 0 your Druid will transform back into normal form and still has full hit points. This alone makes Druid super tanky and a good frontline combatant.

One of the early transformations you get is the Cat Wild Shape. The Cat isn’t used in combat, but it is extremely useful to get past NPCs and steal stuff as they won’t pay attention to you. You can also lure enemies into a location with the Meow action. Another great Wild Shape form that is widely used is the Owlbear Wild Shape that you get at level 6. The Owlbear has high Hit Points and because it is so heavy it can knock prone enemies around it with Rupture, one of our favorite transformations for our build.

To transform you will need so-called Wild Shape Charges, these can be replenished during a Short Rest. At level 5 you will gain the passive Wild Strike that allows you to make additional attacks when transformed.

Not only can use transform into creatures, but you can also summon creatures as a Druid! At level 7 you will be able to use Conjure Minor Elemental and Conjure Woodland Being. At level 9 you can use Conjure Elemental. This means that our build will be able to use three Summons and its Wild Shape at the same time, good luck fighting against this! In the image below you can see the Azer Minor Elemental (39HP), the Woodland Being (22HP), the Fire Myrmidon (123HP) and the Owlbear transformation, which has 122 HP and 22 THP (Temporary Hit Points) with Armour of Moonbasking, more about this in the Druid Build Gear section.

Circle of the Land Subclass

We are using the Circle of the Land subclass for this build. Druids are able to choose their subclass when they reach Level 2 – be careful not to miss it!

While all Druids are highly skilled spellcasters, Circle of the Land druids focus on this aspect even more than other subclasses. When leveling up they can choose spells associated with particular Lands – these spells are always prepared. They can also replenish Spell Slots once per Long Rest by using the Natural Recovery action. This can only be done outside of combat.

At higher levels, Circle of the Land Druids become immune to the slowing effects of Difficult Terrain, and also become immune to poison and disease.

How to unlock Jaheira in BG3

First, let’s take a look at how to unlock BG3 Jaheira Companion. You can only recruit Jaheira after you reach Act 2 of Baldur’s Gate 3. And from there it will still take almost to the end of Act 2 until you can recruit her to your party. Here are the steps it takes to recruit Jaheira in BG3:

1. Head to the Shadow-Cursed Lands (Act 2)
2. Talk to Jaheira at the Last Light Inn
3. Infiltrate the Moonrise Towers
4. Get Inside the Gauntlet of Shar
5. Free the Nightsong in Shadowfell
6. Attack the Moonrise Towers with Jaheira
7. Defeat Kethric Thorm and Recruit Jaheira

Once you have defeated Kethric Thorm and Jaheira is still alive she will join your party.

Starting Abilities for the BG3 Jaheira Build

In this section, we will explain the ideal starting attributes for Jaheira in BG3. You cannot recruit Jaheira until the end of Act II. After recruiting her, we strongly recommend visiting Withers in your camp with Jaheira selected and asking to change your class. We will not actually change her class, but we will respec her starting abilities, making them as optimal as possible for the build. This allows you to use the starting abilities recommended below, forming the best possible foundation for the rest of the build. You can then immediately complete the rest of the levels that have already been unlocked, using the Levelling Guide below as a reference.

Race

Jaheira is a High Half-Elf. This race gives the following benefits:

• Civil Militia – Proficiency with Spears, Pikes, Halberds, Glaives, Light Armour and Shields, regardless of class.
• Darkvision – Passively see in the dark up to a distance of 12 metres, negating any combat penalties that would otherwise apply.
• Fey Ancestry – You have Advantage on Saving Throws against being Charmed, and magic cannot put you to sleep.
• Extra Cantrip – High Elves can choose one Cantrip from the Wizard list to learn, regardless of class. We recommend using Fire Bolt, as this provides you with the strongest damage potential from your Cantrip.

Please note that the Fire Bolt Cantrip typically doesn’t work spectacularly well – this is because the extra High Elf Cantrip is cast using Intelligence regardless of your class, and Jaheira’s Druid spells rely on Wisdom. It’s not worth speccing into Intelligence just for one Cantrip, so this will have lower hit chance. You can change it to a supportive cantrip like Mage Hand if you’d rather avoid this problem entirely.

Abilities

For Jaheira, Wisdom is the most important ability, followed by Constitution and Dexterity. Wisdom is used to determine how effective your spells are. Dexterity adds a bonus to your Armour Class, and Constitution increases your HP and makes it easier to succeed Concentration Saving Throws (continuing the effects of an ongoing Concentration spell after you take damage).

Therefore, we recommend an ability distribution that looks like this:

• Strength: 10
• Dexterity: 14
• Constitution: 16
• Intelligence: 8
• Wisdom: 17
• Charisma: 8

Cantrips

You can choose two Cantrips to start the game with. We recommend the following options:

• Thorn Whip – Thorn whip does a modest amount of piercing damage, but its most useful application is its ability to control the position of enemies on the battlefield. If an enemy is entrenched in a strong position and giving you a hard time, you can use Thorn Whip to pull them towards you. This is especially useful on enemies who have an elevation advantage over you. Thorn Whip can pull them down to your level. Depending on how high they are, they may receive additional falling damage, possibly even killing them immediately.
• Shillelagh – Shillelagh imbues your staff or club with magical energy for the next 10 turns, causing it to deal extra bludgeoning damage. This spell might seem fairly mediocre at first glance, but it’s actually a huge blessing for us in the early game, as it also causes our melee attacks to use our Wisdom instead of our Strength, massively improving your attack rolls if you built Jaheira’s Abilities as recommended above. This is also a Bonus Action, meaning you can cast it and then perform an attack on the same turn.

Note that the number of Prepared Spells we can have depends on our Character Level and our Wisdom. Each character Level will give another slot, and increasing our Wisdom skill further will also add to this.

Concentration

The Concentration mechanic is important to understand for any spellcaster. Many spells that leave a lingering effect on an enemy or an area require Concentration to maintain. You can see if a spell requires Concentration on its tooltip.

What this means is that whenever the caster takes damage, they must go through a Concentration Check. Failing the check will break Concentration and put an end to any ongoing Concentration spells that they were maintaining. Having a higher Constitution score improves your chances of passing Concentration Checks.

You can only have one Concentration spell active at a time (per character). Casting another Concentration Spell will replace the ongoing effects of the previous one.

Levelling Guide for Jaheira in BG3

Now let us take a look at the levelling progression for Jaheira from level two to max level twelve in Baldur’s Gate 3. Subclass selection happens at level 2 – make sure to select the Circle of the Land subclass.

Level 2 – BG3 Jaheira Build

For this Jaheira build, we’ll be using the Circle of the Land subclass, which unlocks extra spells as you level up and allows you to use fungal spores to damage enemies or invigorate yourself.

From this level onwards, you will be able to use your Wild Shape charges to transform into a Badger, Cat, Spider or Wolf.

Meanwhile, your Circle of Land subclass will initially grant you the following benefits:

• Choose an additional Cantrip. If no one else in your party has Guidance, then that is a very important cantrip to have available, particularly for improving your chances in various out of combat checks. However, if Guidance is already covered, go with the Resistance cantrip instead.
• Natural Recovery – Activate once per Long Rest to recover a spell slot. The Spell Slot level that can be replenished with this action is equal to half of your Druid level, rounded up. Therefore, the list below shows the max spell slot level you can restore with Natural Recovery at each level:
  • Level 2: Level 1 Spell Slot
  • Level 3-4: Level 2 Spell Slot
  • Level 5-6: Level 3 Spell Slot
  • Level 7-8: Level 4 Spell Slot
  • Level 9-10: Level 5 Spell Slot
  • Level 11-12: Level 6 Spell Slot

Spells

You also need to select four Prepared Spells to begin the game with. Jaheira’s spells need to be Prepared in order to use them. We recommend choosing the following four spells:

• Speak with Animals – It’d seem silly for a Druid not to have this spell. The effect is self-explanatory – it allows you to speak with animals as if they were humans, which unlocks some otherwise hidden interactions.
• Thunderwave – Thunderwave produces a large directional wave originating from your character, knocking back all characters and objects in its path. It also deals some Thunder damage. Not only is this a decent AOE damage spell, it’s also great for creating space, and you can knock enemies off ledges or cliffs, subjecting them to additional fall damage or even an immediate demise.
• Faerie Fire – Faerie Fire is an AOE debuff spell, placing an effect on characters in the area that improves Attack Rolls against them. It requires Concentration to maintain the spell, but you’re generally going to have considerably better results from attack rolls as long as you can maintain this on your targets. Just be careful not to place it on your allies by accident. This also pulls targets out of any effects that make them invisible.
• Healing Word – Healing Word is a nice healing spell that can be used at long range. At first glance, you might think that Cure Wounds is better, due to its higher potential healing roll. However Cure Wounds can only be cast at Melee Range which gives it a major disadvantage versus Healing Word, and Healing Word is also a Bonus Action, meaning you can still attack or cast another cantrip or spell on the same turn.
• Ice Knife – Burst damage, with some modest AOE potential too.

Level 3 – BG3 Jaheira Build

At Level 3, you gain access to second level spells – more powerful forms of magic for Jaheira.

You can choose a Land type to derive some spells from. The strongest option here is Arctic, which gives you:

• Spike Growth – Create a large AOE of deadly spikes. The spikes slow down and deal Piercing damage to anyone trying to move through them. This is an excellent area denial spell and enemies often don’t know what to do about it. Sometimes they will find a long route around the spikes, or sometimes they will just try to walk through them, often dying in the process. This spell is ideal for creating chokepoints and can make otherwise difficult fights quite easy.
• Hold Person – A strong single-target stun that completely paralyses the target unless they perform a Saving Throw. Held targets cannot move, take any actions or do anything besides roll a new Saving Throw attempt each turn. All melee attacks against them are guaranteed crits. If you have a good melee hitter like a Barbarian in your group, then a successful Hold Person cast is often a death sentence for the target.

You can choose one other spell from the Druid spell list to prepare, too. I recommend getting Moonbeam, which is a small Radiant damage AOE that remains in place and damages anyone who touches it. As long as you maintain Concentration, you can move the beam each turn.

Level 4 – BG3 Jaheira Build

At Level 4 you can choose a Feat for Jaheira, enhancing her abilities. We recommend choosing Ability Improvement, which unlocks 2 additional Ability Points. Put both points into Wisdom to improve your Spellcasting.

You can choose another Cantrip at this level. If you didn’t already get the Resistance Cantrip, grab that one here. Otherwise, just get whatever you like the most from the remaining options.

Finally, you can select one additional spell from the Druid list to prepare. I recommend removing Faeri Fire and add both of the following Spells to your prepared slots:

• Enhance Ability – Grant yourself or an ally Advantage on all checks using the chosen Ability. Lasts until Long Rest or until Concentration is broken. When applicable, you can activate this in out-of-combat dice rolls in the same way as the Guidance cantrip. This is a really handy spell to have available.
• Heat Metal – Targets an enemy with a metal weapon or armour. Deals fire damage and forces the enemy to either drop the item or receive Disadvantage on Attack Rolls and Ability Checks. Heated armour cannot be dropped, so will always impose the Disadvantage. This is a strong dual-purpose spell that can debuff or disarm an opponent while also dealing damage. The spell requires Concentration, and you can trigger the damage again each turn as long as you retain Concentration.

Your prepared spells setup for the BG3 Jaheira build should look like this now:

• Speak with Animals
• Thunderwave
• Healing Word
• Ice Knife
• Moonbeam
• Enhance Ability
• Heat Metal

Level 5 – BG3 Jaheira Build

At Level 5 you gain the Wild Strike passive, which gives you an extra attack per Action when in a Wild Shape form. This only applies to your animal Wild Shapes, you will not get an extra attack when under the effects of Symbiotic Entity.

Your damaging Cantrips will gain an extra damage die at this level – they will now deal twice as much damage.

Circle of the Land Druids can choose another Land type to gain spells from. I recommend choosing Grassland this time, which gives you:

• Daylight – Infuse an object with (or create a static orb of) daylight, which can dispel most forms of darkness. This is very useful in the early parts of Act II when you may lack a proper method to deal with the Shadow Curse – however be warned that it is not sufficient to dispel the shadows in the darkest areas of Act II.
• Haste – Hasten yourself or an ally for up to 10 turns, improving their Armour Class, Movement Speed, granting an extra Action each turn and giving Advantage on Dexterity Saves. Requires Concentration. When the condition ends, the target becomes Lethargic for 1 turn, preventing them from moving or taking actions. This is the same buff that you get from a Potion of Speed, however it can last for much longer with the Haste spell. I recommend casting this on your most powerful melee damage dealer, someone like a Fighter or Barbarian. Just remember that you can only have one Concentration spell active at a time (per spellcaster).

In addition, you can choose two more Druid spells to prepare for Jaheira. You now have access to Third Level spells, too. We recommend getting Call Lightning, it deals considerable AOE damage, and you can recast it again each turn as long as you maintain Concentration. Additionally, get Sleet Storm, which is a great skill that disrupts the Concentration of spellcasters.

Level 6 – BG3 Jaheira Build

At Level 6, you gain access to Land’s Stride: Difficult Terrain, which prevents you from being slowed down by Difficult Terrain such as vines, grease or ice – however you can still fall victim to other effects associated with the terrain, such as slipping on ice or being entangled by vines.

You may choose one more spell at this level, too. We recommend Protection from Energy, which lets you give a creature you touch a 50% Resistance to an elemental damage type. This is quite situational, but keep it in mind when you encounter a fight that features heavy damage of a particular type.

You can also use your Wild Shape to transform into an Owlbear or a Panther.

Level 7 – BG3 Jaheira Build

At Level 7, your magic becomes quite a bit more powerful, as you gain access to fourth level spells at this level.

You can choose another type of Land to derive spells from. A strong option here is Desert, which grants:

• Blight – A strong single-target damage spell, it can deal up to 64 Necrotic damage, and even if the target performs a Constitution Saving Throw, they will still take half of the damage.
• Wall of Fire – Requires Concentration. Create a wall of flames that deal up to 40 Fire Damage to anyone who starts their turn in the wall or who tries to pass through. Good area denial effect, can also be used to create artificial chokepoints.

You can also choose one more spell from the Druid list to prepare. Conjure Woodland Being allows you to summon a dryad, who can in turn summon a tree spirit. These is essentially two summons in one, and they can last until your next Long Rest, so you might as well pre-summon them before combat. They can deal some extra damage to enemies, create difficult terrain and distract enemies from attacking you directly.

Level 8 – BG3 Jaheira Build

At Level 8, you must choose another Feat. Depending on your situation, there are one of two options I recommend:

• If your Wisdom is still at 19, pick the Resilient Feat and use it to increase your Wisdom to 20.
• If your Wisdom is already at 20 (having been increased by another source, such as Auntie Ethel) then get the War Caster feat. This gives you Advantage on Concentration Saving Throws. We are using a lot of Concentration Spells, so this is a great fit for the build.

Now that your Wisdom has been increased to 20, you can choose one more spell from the Druid spell list:

• Freedom of Movement – A situational spell, this can be used to immediately cure any stun and grant immunity to the slowing effects of difficult terrain. It also prevents the target from being magically paralysed or restrained.
• Confusion – Creatures in the target area who fail a Wisdom Saving Throw become confused, acting irrationally. They will be forced to spend their turn moving around randomly, attacking a random creature regardless of allegiance, or sometimes may just pass their turn entirely. Sometimes this can be better than a stun, as you can temporarily turn your enemies against each other.

Level 9 – BG3 Jaheira Build

At Level 9, you gain access to even more powerful magic for Jaheira.

For the final time, you can choose a Land type to inherit two extra spells from. This time we recommend Desert, which grants:

• Insect Plague – A large AOE is swarmed by locusts, dealing up to 40 Piercing damage per turn to anyone within the area, and reducing their Movement Speed. This spell is pretty much a direct upgrade of Spike Growth, and when placed in a chokepoint it can make your position almost impossible for the enemy to attack. They’ll be forced to take very high damage in the attempt, and the movement speed reduction often results in them bunching up, making them vulnerable to further AOE attacks. I’ve used this spell on numerous occasions to pretty much trivialise what were otherwise difficult fights.
• Wall of Stone – Create a wall of solid stone pillars. The pillars have 30 HP each. Another good spell for creating artificial chokepoints, it doesn’t damage enemies like Wall of Fire, but it forces them to either find a path around the wall, or waste their time attacking the stone pillars.

In addition, you may choose two more spells from the Druid spell list for Jaheira. Mass Cure Wounds and Conjure Elemental are what we want to pick here.

Level 10 – BG3 Jaheira Build

At this level you unlock the Dilophosaurus Wild Shape, allowing you to transform into a dinosaur.

You can now attack three times per action when in beast form.

Your cantrips gain another damage die, now having three dice each. You can also choose another Cantrip – we already picked out the best ones, so just get whichever one you like the most.

You gain Nature’s Ward, giving immunity to poison and disease, and preventing you from being Charmed or Frightened by fey and elementals.

Finally, you can choose one more Druid spell to prepare. I recommend picking Greater Restoration – a situational spell that allows you to cure a charm, petrification, stun or curse from a creature.

Level 11 – BG3 Jaheira Build

At Level 11 you gain access to Sixth level spells, the most powerful tier of magic in Baldur’s Gate 3.

Sunbeam is a very powerful spell that deals high Radiant damage in a long line-shaped AOE. You can recast it each turn, as long as you maintain Concentration. We recommend choosing this spell at Level 11.

Level 12 – BG3 Jaheira Build

This is the highest possible level for the Circle of Spores Build. You must choose one final Feat. The recommended Feat depends on your situation:

• If you did not already get the War Caster Feat at Level 8, get it now.
• If you already have War Caster, choose Spell Sniper, which reduces the base roll required to land a Critical Hit with a spell by 1. This Feat also lets you choose one more Cantrip. The best options are Fire Bolt and Eldritch Blast.

You can also choose one more spell to Prepare.

If nobody else in your party has Heroes Feast, then it’s a very good idea to grab this, as it gives your entire party 12 extra HP, Advantage on Wisdom Saving Throws and immunity to Diseased, Poisoned and Frightened. This is a very good buff and it lasts until your next Long Rest, so I highly recommend having someone in your party to cast it immediately after each Long Rest. If you have a Cleric in your party then they can do it instead of Jaheira, for example.

If Heroes’ Feast is already covered, then give Wall of Thorns a try. As the name suggests, this conjures a wall of thorny vines that deal 7d8 Piercing Damage to anyone trying to move through them. Moving through the vines reduces Movement Speed by 75% and can also cause them to become Entangled (immobilised) meaning they will be forced to stay there and take even more damage on their next turn. This is basically a massively juiced-up version of the Spike Growth spell from earlier, and it can cause serious problems for enemies. If you are taking a defensive position in a battle, then this spell is ideal for making sure anyone who wants to reach you has a horrible time. Just try to put in a location that cannot be bypassed – the AI will (usually) try to avoid nasty AOE effects like this and doesn’t mind spending 3 turns running the long way around, if there is such an alternative route available.

This will give us the following level 12 prepared spell setup for the BG3 Jaheira Build:

• Speak with Animals
• Thunderwave
• Healing Word
• Ice Knife
• Moonbeam
• Enhance Ability
• Heat Metal
• Call Lightning
• Sleet Storm
• Protection from Energy
• Conjure Woodland Being
• Confusion
• Mass Cure Wounds
• Conjure Elemental
• Greater Restoration
• Sunbeam
• Heros’ Feast

Wild Shape Druid Transformations for BG3

Jaheira is able to use the Wild Shape mechanic to transform into various animals, each with their own abilities, strengths and weaknesses. The table below shows the available animals, the requirements for unlocking them, their stats and their abilities.

You can find even more details about Wild Shape in the Wild Shape Druid Guide.

BG3 Jaheira Druid Build Equipment

In this section we will take a look at the best equipment for the Jaheira build. In most of our builds we include both an early-game and late-game version of the equipment. However, since Jaheira can’t be recruited until the end of Act II, we’ll be skipping the early-game gear this time.

Don’t worry if you don’t have exactly the same gear, and feel free to experiment with other combos too. The gear here is just a guideline.

Now let’s see what the endgame gear does for our BG3 Jaheira Build and where you can find it.

Shapeshifter Hat

The Shapeshifter Hat is perfect for Druids like Jaheira. It gives you +1 Nature and one additional Wild Shape Charge. The item is sold by Helsik at the Devil’s Fee. You need to unlock her “special stock” to be able to see the hat.

Cindermoth Cloak

The Cindermoth Cloak is dropped by Aelis Siryasius in the Lower City. The cloak adds Burning to enemies that damage you in melee.

Armour of Moonbasking

The Armour of Moonbasking applies extra 22 temporary Hit Points to you when you transform. While you have the THP active, you also take 1 less damage from all attacks. You also get +2 Armour Class and have Advantage on Saving Throws against spells.

Unwanted Masterwork Gauntlets

The Unwanted Masterwork Gauntlets give you +1 to Attack Rolls and Strength Saving Throws. They are located inside a Gilded Chest in the basement of the Forge of the Nine house where Dammon works in Act 3. You can break the wall to enter the basement.

Abyss Beckoners (Risky Alternative)

The Abyss Beckoners are more of a fun item to use than anything else. Because we have plenty of summons active the effects you get can be nice. The Summons gain resistance to all damage except Psychic. However, they must succeed a DC13 Wisdom Saving Throw or they go mad, becoming hostile to everyone in the vicinity. You have to activate the effect on the right-side panel of your skill bars.

The Abyss Beckoners are found inside a chest in the far right side corner of the Zhentarim Hideout in Act 1.

Amulet of Greater Health

The Amulet of Greater Health is another item that is immensely powerful. It will boost your Constitution score to 23, increasing your health tremendously. Like the Gauntlets of Hill Giant Strength and Orphic Hammer it can also be found inside the Archive in the House of Hope that you reach via Devil’s Fee.

You can also read our in-depth guide on How to get the Amulet of Greater Health in BG3.

Ring of Regeneration

The Ring of Regeneration lets you restore 1-4 Hit Points at the beginning of your turn. The ring synergizes well with The Reviving Hands, Hellrider’s Pride, The Whispering Promise and Boots of Aid and Comfort. You could sort of create a chain reaction with all these items if you want to.

Shapeshifter’s Boon Ring

The Shapeshifter’s Boon Ring adds 1d4 bonus to all checks you do. This item is dropped by the Strange Ox in the Last Light Inn at the start of Act 2. You can use another ring here too if you don’t want to hurt the Strange Ox for the quest later.

Speedy Lightfeet

Location: Can be found inside a heavy chest, under the mill, entrance through Wooden Hatch at the Blighted Village

Justiciar’s Scimitar

The Justiciar’s Scimitar is one of the more powerful Scimitars out there, if you attack with Advantage, you have a chance to Blind your target. It also has a +2 Enchantment on it and the Shadowsoaked Blow. This is dropped by Lythindor in the Gauntlet of Shar in Act 2. You have to attack the rats, they will then transform into Lythindor.

Flame Blade

This isn’t actually a weapon until you cast it. The Flame Blade Spell is learned at level 3, so you can already use this in early game if you want. The Flame Blade also uses your Wisdom modifier for attack rolls.

How to Play Jaheira in BG3

The main weakness of Druids like Jaheira in Baldur’s Gate 3 is that they lack a strong damage cantrip – the best option in this regard is Thorn Whip, which has a tendency to be quite inaccurate and doesn’t do much damage. The class somewhat makes up for this by giving you powerful melee attacks in some Wild Shape forms, such as the Owlbear. However the problem with this is that you cannot cast spells while in animal form – something that is especially relevant for Circle of the Land Druids, who are the most spellcasting focused type of Druid.

Here are some potential solutions to this problem:

• Use a ranged weapon such as a Longbow instead, if your race gives you Proficiency with such a weapon (i.e. Wood Elf)
• Stick to melee weapon attacks, however this can complicate spellcasting with ranged spells, which are less likely to hit when you are in melee range of an enemy.
• Find an item that grants you a stronger cantrip, such as the Incandescent Staff which gives the Fire Bolt Cantrip – You can purchase this staff from Quartermaster Talli at Last Light Inn.
• Use the Spell Sniper feat to unlock Fire Bolt and Eldritch Blast

It’s important to use at least one of these methods, as you cannot reasonably use Spells for all of your damage in BG3, due to the fact that Spell Slots are a very limited resource. Cantrips or basic weapon attacks are therefore needed for a damage source that doesn’t cost you a spell slot. This is especially true on Tactician difficulty, when camp supply costs are doubled, meaning you need 80 Camp Supplies to restore all spell slots, rather than the usual 40.

Once this problem is taken care of, the main concern is the positioning of your Druid. This class has many powerful Concentration spells that can totally turn the tide of battle when able to persist for several turns. But when using these spells, beware that every time you take damage you risk failing a Concentration Saving Throw and having the spell effects broken, which can undermine your plans. So sometimes you may want to keep your Druid further away from enemies than other party members, to minimise the chance that this will happen.

Finally, just because shapeshifting isn’t the main focus of the Circle of the Land Druid, don’t be afraid to make use of your Wild Shapes – they can still be very useful both in and out of combat.

Other BG3 Companion Builds:

• BG3 Shadowheart Build
• BG3 Astarion Build
• BG3 Gale Build
• BG3 Lae’zel Build
• BG3 Karlach Build
• BG3 Wyll Build
• BG3 Minthara Build
• BG3 Jaheira Build
• BG3 Minsc Build
• BG3 Halsin Build