You Might Have A New Way To Kill Orin In Baldur’s Gate 3!
As you explore Baldur’s Gate 3, you’ll inevitably encounter Orin the Red, one of the most formidable foes in the game, even more difficult to defeat than Netherbrain in Honour Mode. This is because of its combination of unstoppable stacks, powerful boons, and abilities like Power Word: Kill and Bhaal’s Edict, which makes her difficult to defeat unless you’re in the strongest possible party.
But now, there’s an easier way to defeat Orin the Red without having to see her terrifying Slayer form, by disguising yourself as Orin’s clone and then killing her. If you face this encounter, follow this guide to defeat this powerful enemy and claim the final loot.
Steps
First, you’ll need to defeat Orin in Rivington by casting a high-damage ability on her while she’s disguised as Lens the Journalist and using non-lethal attacks. Make sure you hit it for a few hundred times, so that you don’t trigger the dialogue with Orin. Then Orin’s undisguised form will appear, and after the previous operation, even if you hit this enemy’s health to 1, it will not trigger the dialogue response.
Afterwards, Orin will appear in the party camp disguised as an orphan named Yenna, but this also requires some triggering conditions: first, the entire camp is infiltrated by Orin, and Lae’zel, Halsin, Minthara and Gale are all away from the camp. This mechanism theoretically works for all replaced characters, but you need to lock the target in advance, otherwise you may accidentally hurt your teammates.
When you use an Illithid Power called Ability Drain, the character replaced by Orin will appear with a red mist effect, which can be used to identify the disguised person. If you want to kill this disguised Orin with one blow, you may need to set up some explosives or use some very powerful attacks, which will at least ensure that you deal with many damage to it.
Once you defeat the pretender, you will receive a notification that Orin has been defeated, but oddly, you won’t find her body in the camp. This requires you to go to Bhaal’s Temple, where you’ll see a pile of blood clots where Orin usually stands, including one of her Netherstones, which will require you to defeat some of her followers, but this will be much easier than fighting Orin.
Although Orin’s shapeshifting ability is threatening, you can use some strategies to resolve it cleverly. For example, you can completely avoid defeating Yenna, the disguise of Orin, before entering Bhaal’s Temple, and instead knock her unconscious but not fatally, so that you and Orin will be forced to fight you as Yenna in the final battle, which will put the entire battle under your control.
In addition, you can also release area skills such as fireballs or acid sprays to cause splash damage to the positions of your bound teammates, which will bypass the invincibility mechanism that Orin has when she becomes Yenna and directly causes more damage to her. When you use this kind of operation repeatedly, you will find that the entire battle has not entered a very difficult stage.
The above are some strategies and specific methods for you to defeat the very powerful Orin in Baldur’s Gate 3 at this stage successfully. In general, you can rely on these strategies and skills to help you complete the combat tasks in the game, but you must first enhance the character’s damage ability and defense ability, which is the most important. I wish you a happy game!
