Magma Mephit

Magma Mephits are a type of Elemental creature in Baldur's Gate 3.

Involvement

Magma Mephits can be encountered near the ⁠Adamantine Forge in Grymforge at X: -556 Y: 277. Some of them ambush the party near a Mithral Vein which contains one piece of  Mithral Ore.

Combat

Attacks and abilities

 Burning Claws ()

Damage: 3~9

1d4 + 1⁠Slashing

+ 1d4⁠Fire

Lash out with burning claws, dealing 1d4Fire damage.

 Melee: 1.5 m / 5 ft

 Death Burst

Damage: 2~12

2d6⁠Fire

Explode in a burst of fire.

 DEX Save

 Range: Self

 Fire Breath ()

Damage: 2~12

2d6⁠Fire

Exhale a cone of fire.

 DEX Save

 Recharge: Per turn

 Fly ()

Fly to a target position

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 Heat Metal ()

Damage: 2~16

2d8⁠Fire

Cause a metal weapon or armour to glow red-hot and force the wearer to let go or receive  Disadvantage on  Attack rolls and Ability Checks.

If the creature is only wearing metal armour, it always receives Disadvantage.
If the creature is still touching the metal, you can use a bonus action on subsequent turns to deal another 2d8⁠⁠Fire and force the creature to let go or receive Disadvantage.

 CON Save

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

Tactics

Magma Mephits are quite weak individually, so they make up for it with their mobility with flight and attacking in large numbers. Considering their immunity to fire and ability to fly, they can use the environment to their advantage. Their fire breath attack can also created more hazardous terrain with  Fire Surfaces, likely setting anyone stuck aflame as well. Even killing a Mephit will have them causing harm as their Death Burst can quickly stack up damage.

The best counter is to prepare for ⁠Fire damage. Using an  Elixir of Fire Resistance will halve any fire damage and be immune to gaining  Burning until your next long rest. Also, simply using a Bottle of Water to gain the  Wet is a simple and cheaper method for protection, though its short duration limits its use. It can at least serve as a mundane means to put out a party member that is on fire.

As for combat, spells and attacks that deal ⁠Cold is extreme potent against them with the spells  Ray of Frost and  Ice Knife cheap yet effective means to kill them.  Arrows of Ice are a more physical method to dealing said damage. Relying ranged attacks and spells overall is the best way to avoid damage from their short ranged Death Burst as well. Overall though, Mephits aren't too hard to hit and kill thanks to their low AC and HP.

Another way to avoid their Death Bursts, especially with melee attacks, is to either shove them away before dealing the killing blow or enable non-lethal attacks to  knock them out, since knock-outs do not activate their death burst. However, ranged attacks, spells and critical hits bypass non-lethal attacks.

Loot

•  Heart-Shaped Rock
• Random Gemstone

External links

⁠Magma mephit on the Forgotten Realms Wiki