Explosive Arrows

davfrahen · Post by **davfrahen** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:58 am

Is it possible to get explosive arrows without cheating?

roller1234 · Post by **roller1234** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 11:23 pm

Never seen explosive arrows in bg2. Mages will replicate the effect though, later in the game.

NocturneN · Post by **NocturneN** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:06 am

I have found 1 during my current playthrough, but I don't remember from where.

Think it's called "Arrow of Detonation"... Never found more of it though.

davfrahen · Post by **davfrahen** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 4:24 am

roller1234 wrote:Never seen explosive arrows in bg2. Mages will replicate the effect though, later in the game.

I know. But it's so much more fun to fire them. Anyway, I'm going round on my own, so no mage.

DrOctogonapus27 · Post by **DrOctogonapus27** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:30 pm

As far as I know you can only get 1 or 2 of these in the whole game. I think you find them somewhere very early in the game; I'm pretty sure it's in Chateau Irenicus, but it may be the Slaver House or Circus Tent where they are found. If you want more than that you'll need to use a mod or the CLUA Console.

Blomdor · Post by **Blomdor** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 2:55 am

I have indeed found a couple of arrows of detonation in BG2 before. According to the information on the BG2 section of this site, they are in a niche in a wall in the Underdark's beholder lair.

NocturneN · Post by **NocturneN** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 3:24 pm

roller1234 wrote:Never seen explosive arrows in bg2. Mages will replicate the effect though, later in the game.

How...? Never saw anything like this in ToB... I assume you mean some spell, but I can't for the life of me figure out what.

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 5:11 pm

Nope, he's correct, there are even explosive arrows in BG1.

NocturneN · Post by **NocturneN** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:51 am

galraen wrote:Nope, he's correct, there are even explosive arrows in BG1.

I'm wondering how "Mages will replicate the effect though, later in the game".

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:47 am

Misread due to being short of time. I can only assume he's referring to fireball etc., but that's not exactly late in the game!

NocturneN · Post by **NocturneN** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 8:08 am

galraen wrote:Misread due to being short of time. I can only assume he's referring to fireball etc., but that's not exactly late in the game!

Aye, I thought so too. Or maybe Melf's Minute Meteors...ohwell.

Lark · Post by **Lark** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:26 pm

davfrahen wrote:Is it possible to get explosive arrows without cheating?

Yes, it is possible to get Arrows of Detonation without cheating in BG2. They sometimes appear as random loot of the highest category but are so rare that you will most likely not get more than a handful in the entire game.

You can get more if you use cheese and are very patient by pickpocketing Melchior Harpell over and over for an unlimited amount of random loot of the highest category.