Best early legendary items, weapons, and armor in Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3)

Baldur’s Gate 3 is different than other RPGs because the legendary items you find usually give you a unique mechanic or spell. Your AC usually doesn’t increase too much with legendary armor and items and your direct damage dealt doesn’t increase too much with legendary weapons either.

Nonetheless, legendary weapons are really powerful in Baldur’s Gate 3 and you’ll want to know where to find the best legendary items early. Here are the best legendary items in Baldur’s Gate 3 and where to find them.

Note: In this guide, I’ll direct you to where you can get some amazing blue and pink rarity items, weapons, and armor in Baldur’s Gate 3. However, you’re going to have to pick whether you should continue through the Underdark or the Mountain Pass. Our guide can help with that.

Top 8 early legendary items, weapons, and armor in Baldur’s Gate 3

There are a lot of great armor, weapons, and items to be found early in Baldur’s Gate 3, but I’m going to help you find eight that I truly think are worth getting.

They are all blue or pink rarity and can become even better with other green rarity armor bonuses or class bonuses. Also, none of them are found in the Mountain Pass; the Underdark is more dangerous but more rewarding.

The Speedy Lightfeet

The Speedy Lightfeet are rare medium armor boots that give a plus one to Athletics and give you the Speedy Sparks buff. Speedy Sparks makes it so when the wearer takes a Dash or similar action, they gain three Lightning Charges. Lightning Charges give you plus one to your Attack Rolls and you deal an additional point of Lightning damage. When you have five Lightning Charges, you consume them all and deal one to eight points of Lightning damage.

You can find The Speedy Lightfeet in a chest found in the basement of the windmill in Blighted Village. I recommend using the Trolls nearby to help you defeat all the goblins, sneak around the back to avoid combat altogether, or convince the goblins to go away.

Sorrow

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Sorrow is a two-handed rare glaive that is one of my favorite weapons in the game — it’s still the weapon I have Wyll use. Sorrow deals five to 14 Slashing damage, has a plus one to Weapon Enchantment, and comes with the Sorrowful Lash cantrip. Sorrowful Lash is an amazing cantrip that deals damage, pulls enemies, and uses bonus action. There are so many use cases for Sorrowful Lash, but I always use it to deal extra damage and usually secure kills by pulling people off ledges.

Note: Learn all about the different weapon types to determine what weapons you have proficiency in.

To get Sorrow, you need to enter the secret vault under the Druid Grove. You need to acquire the fourth rune that opens the vault. I did this easily by freeing Halsin and eliminating all the Goblin leaders. I suppose you can acquire the rune by pickpocketing it from the Druid leaders, but that would be evil.

Mourning Frost

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From here on out, the best weapons, armor, and items in Baldur’s Gate 3 are found in the Underdark. Mourning Frost is a two-handed rare quarterstaff that is tough to get but is very powerful. It deals two to 14 Bludgeoning damage and has the Heart of Ice buff which inflicts one Frostbite on an enemy when you cast a spell or cantrip on an enemy. Frostbite deals one Cold damage every turn, and adds another point of Cold damage when you deal Cold damage.

If you want to get Mourning Frost, I highly recommend you check out our step-by-step guide. You have to combine three Icy pieces found throughout the Underdark, so good luck!

Fetish of Callarduran Smoothhands

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Fetish of Callarduran Smoothhands is a rare ring that grants the wearer the ability to cast Invisibility. Invisibility is an extremely strong spell in Baldur’s Gate 3, especially for Rogues. It does need to be recharged on a Long Rest.

You can easily find Fetish of Callarduran Smoothhands on a dead gnome on the other side of the Grymdark fast travel point, near the Underdark exit. You can try to loot the gnomes with the dwarves looking over your shoulder or wait for all the dwarves to leave after a certain period of time and loot the ring then.

Disintegrating Night Walkers

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Disintegrating Night Walkers are orange very rare light armor boots that grant the wearer the ability to use Misty Step which goes in very handy, especially when trying to get past Shadow Curse without a Moonlantern. You also get the Night Walker buff which makes you immune to Entangle, Enwebbed, Ensnared, and slipping on grease and ice. They’re really, really good.

Disintegrating Night Walkers is found on Nere in Grymdark. I got them by exploring Grymdark and then coming back to the main area to find Nere dead. I took the boots, said thanks, and have been happy ever since.

Grymskull Helm

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Grymskull Helm is a very rare heavy armor helmet that makes the wearer immune to Critical Hits, resistant to Fire, and they get Hunter’s Mark. Hunter’s Mark is a spell that allows you to mark an enemy and then deal more damage to them. I know Grymskull Helm is really good, but you need to have someone in your party that can wear heavy armor to make use of it.

Grymskull Helm is found on Grym, the Forge boss’ dead body. Use our guide to help you defeat Grym, who is found guarding the Adamantine Forge. Then, take the Grymskull Helm for yourself.

Adamantine Splint/Scale Armor

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Some of the best armor and weapons in the game are crafted at the Adamantine Forge in Grymdark, including Adamantine Splint/Scale Armor. The Splint armor is very rare heavy chest armor and the Scale armor is very rare medium chest armor.

Adamantine Splint Armor grants you 18 AC, reduction of all incoming damage by two, immune to all Critical Hits, and you get disadvantage on Stealth checks. You also send an enemy Reeling for three turns when they hit you with a melee attack. You need to get Adamantine Splint Armor because it’s just too good.

Adamantine Scale Armor has everything the Splint armor has, but you get one damage reduction instead of two and you send enemies Reeling for two turns, not three. But, this armor is medium armor which more classes can use and apply their Dexterity modifiers to to make even better.

The only way to get these armors is to find their Moulding, get a Mithral for each piece, and use the Adamantine Forge. Use our Grym boss guide to also learn how to use the Forge. The Scale and Splint Mouldings can be found out in the open when exploring the southern side of Grymdark, so just keep your eye out. Mithral is found in big, blue rocks. I found two of them on the southern side of Grymdark.

Sword of Life Stealing

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Lastly, Sword of Life Stealing is a very rare shortsword that deals six to 11 Piercing damage, has plus two Weapon Enchantment, and has Life Steal Critical. Life Steal Critical allows you to deal an extra one to 10 Necrotic damage on Critical Hits and gain 10 temporary HP. This is an extremely good weapon for any class, but Rogues benefit from it because they deal Critical Hits often.

I got Sword of Life Stealing in Last Light Inn which is found at the beginning of Act 2. You can buy it from the young tiefling in the Inn, and it’s not that expensive. In fact, you should always check with vendors to see if they have good weapons, armor, or items because they usually do. Once you’re at this point and have a bunch of great legendary gear, you can learn where to get a Moonlantern.