Surviving the fight against the Absolute in Baldur’s Gate 3 requires a mix of creative cunning and powerful abilities and decent amount of health. But nothing is more important to the party’s survival than their hit points. Put plainly, the more HP a character has, the more likely they are to stay conscious in combat.

No matter your character’s build in BG3 or fighting style, it behooves them to have as much health as possible. There are several items, spells, and character choices that can send one’s HP higher and higher. This begs the question: What is the maximum number of hit points a character can have in Baldur’s Gate 3, and how can one attain it?

How To Get The Highest Health Cap In BG3

Combining Class, Race, And Feats To Make An Unkillable Hero

One must make several choices in character creation before the game even begins to reach the health cap of Baldur’s Gate 3. First, you must become a barbarian, the class which gains the most hit points per level: twelve at first-level, and seven at each subsequent level. You must also choose a specific race: the gold dwarf, which gains one additional hit point at each level. At some point later on, this character must also pick up the tough feat, providing two extra points of health per level.

There are two spells that are also crucial to attaining maximum health: Heroes’ Feast , and a sixth-level casting of aid. Attaining the maximum constitution score possible is important, as well, since constitution directly impacts how much health one gains at each level. This can be done with ability score improvements to get up to 20, or even better, up to 23 with a specific piece of gear: the Amulet of Greater Health .

How To Get The Amulet Of Greater Health

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This amulet is located in the House of Hope, a devil’s manor within the Hells that can’t be reached until the BG3‘s Third Act. It is stored in the manor’s archives atop a trapped pedestal, but a character with good stealth and sleight of hand skills can easily disarm the trap and swipe the necklace. This amulet sets one’s constitution score to 23, the highest it can go in the game, giving you an extra six points of health per level. With all of that combined, a twelfth-level gold dwarf barbarian would have a grand total of 222 hit points.

This calculation assumes the characters in question are playing on balanced, tactician, or honour mode; however, playing the game in explorer mode doubles the base number of hit points a character has, which does technically make the highest HP cap closer to 400.

This does not even include sources of temporary HP like the Tharchiate Vigour enchantment or armour of agathys. That’s an immense amount of health, equivalent to some late-game bosses; however, it’s worth noting that even a character with this much health could be defeated by some of the strongest attacks in Baldur’s Gate 3.