How to get the Potent Robe in BG3

Baldur’s Gate 3 tends to give all the love to armor wearers when it comes to special loot (looking right at you, Adamantine Forge), but that is not the case for the Potent Robe.

This piece of Act Two equipment is a Charisma caster’s best friend and might be the last upgrade your Warlock or Sorcerer ever needs. Getting your hands on the Potent Robe isn’t terribly difficult, but you do need to ensure certain events happen at different moments throughout your playthrough before this item is available. Read on to learn how to get the Potent Robe in BG3 and a full breakdown of the item’s stats and strengths.

Baldur’s Gate 3: Where to get the Potent Robe

The Potent Robe is given as a quest reward from Alfira in the Last Light Inn after players complete Rescue the Tieflings in Act Two. Sounds simple enough, right? Sort of.

If the name Alfira doesn’t ring a bell, that’s probably a good thing—you don’t need to have met or interacted with her at any point until you speak to her to receive the reward. So long as you sided with the Tieflings against the army of the Absolute, she should be present at the Act One party and at the Last Light Inn during Act Two.

If you’re playing as a Dark Urge, however, it’s unlikely you’ll have forgotten this poor Bard. During Act One, Alfira shows up at the camp of Dark Urge players, requesting to join the adventuring party. You can either accept or reject her, but the outcome is the same no matter what: either the Dark Urge or Sceleritas Fel will murder her at the end of the night, locking you out of getting the Potent Robe later on.

Before Patch 7, Dark Urge players needed to use loopholes and workarounds to ensure that Alfira survived to Act Two, including but not limited to knocking her out with nonlethal damage or killing the Dark Urge for the night. With official mod support, you should have access to the Save Alfira mod by tlg53787 on any platform. The mod forces Quil to show up on the night of the murder regardless of Alfira’s status and allows Dark Urge players to get the Potent Robe in Act Two.

Alfira isn’t the only one who needs to be kept alive to get the Potent Robe in BG3—it is also crucial Lakrissa survives the Tiefling rescue from Moonrise Tower. This shouldn’t be too hard, but you might want to keep an eye on her if the last dash to the escape boat starts to go south.

Follow this checklist to make sure you’ve done everything needed to get the Potent Robe:

• Make sure Alfira doesn’t die in Act One.
• Save Isobel at Last Light Inn so its residents survive.
• Rescue the Tieflings from Moonrise Tower, making sure that Lakrissa survives the rescue.
• Speak with Alfira in Last Light Inn after the rescue and receive the Potent Robe as a reward.

Baldur’s Gate 3: Potent Robe stats and usage

It’s technically subjective, but we believe the Potent Robe is the absolute best robe option for Warlocks and Sorcerers. Here’s what the item does:

• Sets your base AC to 11 before any modifiers or bonuses.
• Gregarious Caster: Cantrips deal bonus damage equal to your Charisma Modifier.
• Well-Liked and Well-Fortified: At the start of each of the wearer’s turns, gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma Modifier.

The protection and bonus hit points are both nice, but the extra Modifier damage is what makes this phenomenal. Usually, cantrips don’t have any attribute modifier applied to their damage and are weaker in exchange for being free. Gregarious Caster automatically adds three to five damage (depending on your Charisma score) to every cantrip you cast, turning them into a more viable replacement for a weapon attack.

Gregarious Caster also stacks with other effects that add Modifiers to cantrips. If you’re a Warlock who has buffed up their Eldritch Blast, your Charisma Modifier will be added twice because of this robe. This also applies to Draconic Bloodline Sorcerers using a cantrip of their chosen element.

The Potent Robe stacks with other items, too. Most importantly, the Necklace of Elemental Augmentation adds your spellcasting Modifier onto all elemental cantrips that you cast. A Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer with 20 Charisma wearing the Potent Robe and the Elemental Augmentation Necklace will have 15 automatic bonus damage applied to all of their cantrips of their associated element. Paired with the Elemental Adept feat to ignore resistances, all these bonuses to cantrips help casters stay useful in a fight even after exhausting all their spell slots.