Wizard

Wizards master the arcane by specialising in individual schools of magic, combining ancient spells with modern research.

Wizards master the arcane by specialising in individual schools of magic, combining ancient spells with modern research.

Wizard is a character Class in Baldur's Gate 3. Wizards channel magic through their extensive knowledge of the arcane to fight enemies and aid allies in combat. Wizards use Intelligence as their primary ability score.

The Wizard Subclasses, or Schools, are:
 Abjuration,  Conjuration,  Divination,  Enchantment,  Evocation,  Illusion,  Necromancy,  Transmutation

The Wizard Class Progression						Spell Slots per Spell Level
Level	Proficiency Bonus	Features	Arcane Recovery Charge	Spells Learned	Cantrips Known	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
1st	+2	Spellcasting,  Arcane Recovery	1	+6	3	2	-	-	-	-	-
2nd	+2	Choose a subclass	1	+2	3	3	-	-	-	-	-
3rd	+2	-	2	+2	3	4	2	-	-	-	-
4th	+2	Feat	2	+2	4	4	3	-	-	-	-
5th	+3	-	3	+2	4	4	3	2	-	-	-
6th	+3	Subclass feature	3	+2	4	4	3	3	-	-	-
7th	+3	-	4	+2	4	4	3	3	1	-	-
8th	+3	Feat	4	+2	4	4	3	3	2	-	-
9th	+4	-	5	+2	4	4	3	3	3	1	-
10th	+4	Subclass feature	5	+2	5	4	3	3	3	2	-
11th	+4	-	6	+2	5	4	3	3	3	2	1
12th	+4	Feat	6	+2	5	4	3	3	3	2	1

Class information

• Level 1 Maximum Hit Points: 6 + Constitution Modifier
  • Hit points at higher levels: 4 + Constitution Modifier
• Important Ability Scores: Intelligence for Spells, Constitution for Hit Points and Concentration checks, and Dexterity for Armour Class.
• Saving Throw Proficiencies: Intelligence, Wisdom
• Equipment Proficiencies:
  • Daggers, Quarterstaves, Light Crossbows
  • No armour proficiency
• Skills with Proficiency (Choose 2):
  • Arcana, History, Investigation, Insight, Medicine, Religion
    • You receive a bonus to every skill that you are proficient in. At Level 1 the Proficiency Bonus is +2.

Spellcasting

For a list of spells available to the Wizard, see: Wizard/Spells

• Spellcasting Ability: Intelligence
• Prepared Spells: You may swap your Prepared Spells at any time while out of combat, but can only have a certain number of Spells prepared at a time. The Spells must be of a level for which you have Spell Slots.
• Spell Scribing: A Wizard who finds a Scroll for a Spell they do not know may permanently copy that Spell to their Spellbook at the cost of the scroll and 50gp per level of the Spell (Picture example). The Spell must be one for which the Wizard has a spell slot, even if they got it by multiclassing (so a L4 Cleric / L1 Wizard can transcribe Level 3 spells).
  • In the event of a class change, if the character is no longer a wizard but later becomes one again, spells learned with scrolls will still be memorized. At least one wizard level is required to access it.

Level progression

Through experience, you acquire new power. You gain the following traits.

Level 1

 Arcane Recovery

• Once per day out of combat, you can recover expended Spell Slots.
• Arcane Recovery Charges: 1 (The combined number and level of Spell Slots the Arcane Recovery action can restore.)

Spellcasting

• Level 1 Spell Slots Unlocked: 2 (You gain two Level 1 Spell Slots.)

• Cantrips (Choose 3):

•  Acid Splash
•  Blade Ward
•  Bone Chill
•  Dancing Lights
•  Fire Bolt
•  Friends
•  Light
•  Mage Hand
•  Minor Illusion
•  Poison Spray
•  Ray of Frost
•  Shocking Grasp
•  True Strike

• Choose a number of Prepared Spells = 1 (Wizard Level) + Intelligence Modifier (Minimum of 1 spell.)
• New 1st Level Spells available (Choose 6):

•  Burning Hands
•  Charm Person
•  Chromatic Orb
•  Colour Spray
•  Disguise Self
•  Enhance Leap
•  Expeditious Retreat
•  False Life
•  Feather Fall
•  Find Familiar
•  Fog Cloud
•  Grease
•  Ice Knife
•  Longstrider
•  Mage Armour
•  Magic Missile
•  Protection from Evil and Good
•  Ray of Sickness
•  Shield
•  Sleep
•  Tasha's Hideous Laughter
•  Thunderwave
•  Witch Bolt

Level 2

• Level 1 Spell Slots Unlocked: 3 (You gain an additional Level 1 Spell Slot.)

• Choose a number of Prepared Spells = 2 (Wizard Level) + Intelligence Modifier (Minimum of 1 spell.)
• Learn 2 additional 1st Level Spells from the Wizard Spell List.

Select a Subclass (School)

Abjuration School	Conjuration School	Divination School	Enchantment School
Abjuration Savant  Arcane Ward	Conjuration Savant  Minor Conjuration: Create Water	Divination Savant  Portent	Enchantment Savant  Hypnotic Gaze

Evocation School	Illusion School	Necromancy School	Transmutation School
Evocation Savant  Sculpt Spells	Illusion Savant  Improved Minor Illusion	Necromancy Savant  Grim Harvest	Transmutation Savant  Experimental Alchemy

Level 3

• Arcane Recovery Charges strength: 2 (The combined number and level of Spell Slots the Arcane Recovery action can restore.)

• Level 1 Spell Slots Unlocked: 4 (You gain an additional Level 1 Spell Slots.)
• Level 2 Spell Slots Unlocked: 2 (You gain two Level 2 Spell Slots.)

• Choose a number of Prepared Spells = 3 (Wizard Level) + Intelligence Modifier (Minimum of 1 spell.)
• Learn 2 additional 1st or 2nd Level Spells from the Wizard Spell List.
• New 2nd Level Spells available:

•  Arcane Lock
•  Blindness
•  Blur
•  Cloud of Daggers
•  Crown of Madness
•  Darkness
•  Darkvision
•  Detect Thoughts
•  Enlarge/Reduce
•  Flaming Sphere
•  Gust of Wind
•  Hold Person
•  Invisibility
•  Knock
•  Magic Weapon
•  Melf's Acid Arrow
•  Mirror Image
•  Misty Step
•  Phantasmal Force
•  Ray of Enfeeblement
•  Scorching Ray
•  See Invisibility
•  Shatter
•  Web

Level 4

• Choose a Feat.
• Level 2 Spell Slots Unlocked: 3 (You gain an additional Level 2 Spell Slot.)

• Cantrips (Choose 1):

•  Acid Splash
•  Blade Ward
•  Bone Chill
•  Dancing Lights
•  Fire Bolt
•  Friends
•  Light
•  Mage Hand
•  Minor Illusion
•  Poison Spray
•  Ray of Frost
•  Shocking Grasp
•  True Strike

• Choose a number of Prepared Spells = 4 (Wizard Level) + Intelligence Modifier (Minimum of 1 spell.)
• Learn 2 additional 1st or 2nd Level Spells from the Wizard Spell List.

Level 5

• Proficiency Bonus: +3 (You gain +1 to your Proficiency Bonus.)
• Arcane Recovery Charges: 3 (The combined number and level of Spell Slots the Arcane Recovery action can restore.)
• Scaling Cantrips: Your damaging cantrips gain an additional damage die.
  • For example,  Bone Chill now deals 2d8Necrotic damage.
• Level 3 Spell Slots Unlocked: 2 (You gain two Level 3 Spell Slots.)

• Choose a number of Prepared Spells = 5 (Wizard Level) + Intelligence Modifier (Minimum of 1 spell)
• Learn 2 additional Spells up to 3rd Level from the Wizard Spell List.
• New 3rd Level Spells available:

•  Animate Dead
•  Bestow Curse
•  Blink
•  Counterspell
•  Fear
•  Feign Death
•  Fireball
•  Gaseous Form
•  Glyph of Warding
•  Grant Flight
•  Haste
•  Hypnotic Pattern
•  Lightning Bolt
•  Protection from Energy
•  Remove Curse
•  Sleet Storm
•  Slow
•  Stinking Cloud
•  Vampiric Touch

Level 6

• Level 3 Spell Slots Unlocked: 3 (You gain one Level 3 Spell Slot.)

• Choose a number of Prepared Spells = 6 (Wizard Level) + Intelligence Modifier (Minimum of 1 spell)
• Learn 2 additional Spells up to 3rd Level from the Wizard Spell List.

• Subclass Features:

Abjuration School	Conjuration School	Divination School	Enchantment School
Projected Ward	Benign Transposition	Expert Divination	Instinctive Charm

Evocation School	Illusion School	Necromancy School	Transmutation School
Potent Cantrip	See Invisibility	Undead Thralls: Animate Dead  Undead Thralls: Additional Undead  Undead Thralls: Better Summons	Transmuter's Stone

Level 7

• Arcane Recovery Charges: 4 (The combined number and level of Spell Slots the Arcane Recovery action can restore.)
• Level 4 Spell Slots Unlocked: 1 (You gain one Level 4 Spell Slot.)

• Choose a number of Prepared Spells = 7 (Wizard Level) + Intelligence Modifier (Minimum of 1 spell)
• Learn 2 additional Spells up to 4th Level from the Wizard Spell List.
• New 4th Level Spells available:

•  Banishment
•  Blight
•  Confusion
•  Conjure Minor Elemental
•  Dimension Door
•  Evard's Black Tentacles
•  Fire Shield
•  Greater Invisibility
•  Ice Storm
•  Otiluke's Resilient Sphere
•  Phantasmal Killer
•  Polymorph
•  Stoneskin
•  Wall of Fire

Level 8

• Choose a Feat.

• Level 4 Spell Slots Unlocked: 2 (You gain one Level 4 Spell Slot.)

• Choose a number of Prepared Spells = 8 (Wizard Level) + Intelligence Modifier (Minimum of 1 spell)
• Learn 2 additional Spells up to 4th Level from the Wizard Spell List.

Level 9

• Proficiency Bonus: +4 (You gain +1 to your Proficiency Bonus.)
• Arcane Recovery Charges: 5 (The combined number and level of Spell Slots the Arcane Recovery action can restore.)
• Level 4 Spell Slots Unlocked: 3 (You gain one Level 4 Spell Slot.)
• Level 5 Spell Slots Unlocked: 1 (You gain one Level 5 Spell Slot.)

• Choose a number of Prepared Spells = 9 (Wizard Level) + Intelligence Modifier (Minimum of 1 spell)
• Learn 2 additional Spells up to 5th Level from the Wizard Spell List.
• New 5th Level Spells available:

•  Cloudkill
•  Cone of Cold
•  Conjure Elemental
•  Dominate Person
•  Hold Monster
•  Planar Binding
•  Seeming
•  Telekinesis
•  Wall of Stone

Level 10

• Level 5 Spell Slots Unlocked: 2 (You gain one Level 5 Spell Slot.)

• Cantrips (Choose 1):

•  Acid Splash
•  Blade Ward
•  Bone Chill
•  Dancing Lights
•  Fire Bolt
•  Friends
•  Light
•  Mage Hand
•  Minor Illusion
•  Poison Spray
•  Ray of Frost
•  Shocking Grasp
•  True Strike

• Choose a number of Prepared Spells = 10 (Wizard Level) + Intelligence Modifier (Minimum of 1 spell)
• Learn 2 additional Spells up to 5th Level from the Wizard Spell List.
• Scaling Cantrips: Your damaging cantrips gain an additional damage die.
  • For example, Bone Chill now deals 3d8Necrotic damage.

• Subclass Features:

Abjuration School	Conjuration School	Divination School	Enchantment School
Improved Abjuration	Focused Conjuration	Third Eye: Darkvision  Third Eye: See Invisibility	Split Enchantment

Evocation School	Illusion School	Necromancy School	Transmutation School
Empowered Evocation	Illusory Self	Inured to Undeath	Shapechanger

Level 11

• Arcane Recovery Charges: 6 (The combined number and level of Spell Slots the Arcane Recovery action can restore.)
• Level 6 Spell Slots Unlocked: 1 (You gain one Level 6 Spell Slot.)

• Choose a number of Prepared Spells = 11 (Wizard Level) + Intelligence Modifier (Minimum of 1 spell)
• Learn 2 additional Spells up to 6th Level from the Wizard Spell List.
• New 6th Level Spells available:

•  Arcane Gate
•  Chain Lightning
•  Circle of Death
•  Create Undead
•  Disintegrate
•  Eyebite
•  Flesh to Stone
•  Globe of Invulnerability
•  Otiluke's Freezing Sphere
•  Otto's Irresistible Dance
•  Sunbeam
•  Wall of Ice

Level 12

• Choose a Feat.

• Choose a number of Prepared Spells = 12 (Wizard Level) + Intelligence Modifier (Minimum of 1 spell)
• Learn 2 additional Spells up to 6th Level from the Wizard Spell List.

External links

• Wizard on the Forgotten Realms Wiki