Luck of the Far Realms Ability Guide – Baldur’s Gate 3

Baldur’s Gate 3 is chockful of spells and abilities that open up many build combinations for players to experiment with and tweak to perfection. One unique aspect of BG3 is its inclusion of Illithid powers. These powers allow players to roleplay more heavily into their mind-flayer transformations while gaining potent techniques such as Luck of the Far Realms along the way.

Here’s everything we know about the Luck of the Far Realms ability in Baldur’s Gate 3.

What does Luck of the Far Realms Ability Do?

Luck of the Far Realms is a reaction ability that triggers when players succeed on an attack roll. Once per long rest, players can choose to turn their attack into a critical hit instead and deal major damage. This can trigger automatically, but has more utility when the reaction is set to ask before triggering.

Due to its long rest cooldown, the best use for this ability is typically to stack it with other high-damage, maneuvers such as Smites. Spellcasters also benefit from this as long as the spell uses attack rolls to confirm a hit. Spells that use saves will not work with LotFR as it requires an attack roll to trigger.

With a few optimizations, this can give physical attack classes like Fighter or the fan favorite Paladin the ability to pump out some major damage during boss fights or end a battle quickly. Ready to get the ability and don’t know how? Here’s a bit on the process for obtaining it.

How to Unlock This Illithid Power

Luck of the Far Realms is only obtainable after unlocking the pre-requisite ranks in the Illithid skill tree. Luckily, pun intended, choking down two parasites is the price of entry for this admittedly very situational ability. The ability to obtain Illithid powers unlocks as the story progresses. If the option isn’t there yet, players must wait until a bit into Act 1.

Power does come at a cost; however, when the player consumes more parasites, related narrative choices become more challenging. Without spoiling too much, it’s essential to consider whether the consequences that come later in the adventure are worth the reward. What’s cool, though, is Luck of the Far Realms works on any kind of damage, including non-lethal attacks so it blends nicely with multiple playstyles.