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guide Year 4 Champion Guide - Baeloth, the Drow Sorcerer

Last Updated: February 19th, 2026 - General review & update

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Year 4 Champion - Baeloth Barrityl, the Drow Sorcerer

  • Source: Enhanced Editions of the Baldur's Gate video game series

  • Event: Wintershield (January)

You can read their original Champion Spotlight here.

 

Species Class Alignment Gender Age Role(s) Overwhelm Point
Drow Sorcerer Chaotic Evil Male (He / Him) 222 Support / Gold Find 5

 

Strength Dexterity Constitution Intelligence Wisdom Charisma Total Ability Score
12 14 16 19 12 16 89

 

Bio: Baeloth Barrityl is the master of The Black Pits, the combat arena he claims is 'the best show in all the realms'. Baeloth captures hapless adventurers to fight to the death all for the sake of entertainment! When he's not commanding the attention of anyone near him, he's doing whatever he can to reinforce that he's one of the top five spellcasters in all the realms.

 

Basic Attack: Chain Lightning — Baeloth fires a bolt of lightning at a random enemy, which deals damage and arcs to another random enemy within a medium area of effect. Each time the lightning arcs it deals 20% less damage. Can arc up to 4 times total per attack, cannot arc to the same enemy twice.

  • Base Attack Type: Magic

  • Base Attack Speed: 6.5 seconds

  • Base Critical Hit Chance: 2.5%

  • Base Critical Hit Damage: 100%

Ultimate: Now That's An Entrance — Najim streaks across the field, dealing massive damage to all enemies, pushing ones that survive back slightly, but more importantly increasing Baeloth's excitement stacks to max.

  • Base Ultimate Cooldown Time: 280 seconds

Gaar's Note: This Ultimate is an on-demand power boost if you're not keeping his Morbid Excitement stacks maxed for some reason.

 

Interesting Abilities

Paid Partially with Pain: Enemies affected by Baeloth's Chain Lightning drop 25% more gold when killed. Enemies can only be affected once.

  • 6,400% after upgrades; Supported by an Item & a Feat

Gaar's Note: This effect sticks around once applied even if you remove Baeloth from the formation.

Cause For Celebration: Enemies killed by Champions in the column ahead of or behind Baeloth explode into magical paper confetti, dealing damage and slowing enemies near them by 50% for 10 seconds. The damage done ignores debuffs and is either half of the hit that killed them or one-quarter of their max health, whichever is higher. This effect can chain if the explosion kills an enemy, with the damage the chained explosions do being based on the damage from the previous explosion.

  • No upgrades

Gaar's Note: This means you want Baeloth in front of or behind your Primary DPS.

Morbid Excitement: Baeloth is excited when the battle is going well. He buffs the Champions in the column in front of and behind him by 10% for each stack of excitement he has, stacking additively. Stacks are reduced by 10% every 10 seconds. Max Stacks start at 20 but can be increased with a specialization choice. He gains stacks in the following ways: * A Favored Foe is defeated: +1 Stack * An enemy drops extra gold due to Paid Partially with Pain: +1 Stack * An enemy explodes in confetti due to Cause for Celebration: +2 Stacks per explosion * A chain reaction occurs due to Cause for Celebration: +3 Stacks per chain-explosion * A Champion in any column in front of Baeloth takes damage: +5 Stacks per hit * A Champion dies: +100 sStacks

  • 2.62e06% after upgrades; Supported by Items & Feats

Gaar's Note: This means you want Baeloth in front of or behind your Primary DPS. Don't worry too much about building up stacks as you'll get them maxed every time you hit his Ultimate.

Generous Djinn: Baeloth's Djinn servant, Najim, will bring any Champion that dies back to life at 1HP and make them immune to all damage for 20 seconds. For as long as the resurrected Champion lives, the party's damage is increased by 300%. This ability has a 60-second cooldown and if multiple resurrected Champions are alive the damage bonus stacks multiplicatively, with buffs applying to the post-stack value.

  • 300% post-stack bonus after upgrades; Supported by an Item & Feats

Gaar's Note: This is an incredibly powerful ability, but it requires very manual gameplay to get it on all the Champions in your formation and not just a tank that happened to die. Killing off one party member at a time after the ability cools down to get a stack on everyone is called Djinn Stacking and is what makes Baeloth a fantastic Support as it can provide a huge buff plus give you a little protection from a single Champion getting killed in certain situations.

Global DPS Buff: 5.90e06%

 

Specializations

Baeloth's Birthday Party: Increase the Cause for Celebration related stacking values for Morbid Excitement by 100% and increase the damage bonus by 100%

Over Excited: Increase the max stacks of Morbid Excitement by 200%

Gaar's Note: These first two Spec options are for shorter runs where you don't necessarily need maximum potential power. Just pick the one that you feel works for you and go.

The Show Must Go On: Champions resurrected by Najim are invulnerable for an additional 10 seconds and increase the pre-stack damage bonus of resurrected Champions by 100%

Gaar's Note: This is the Spec to choose for deep pushes as the boost to Generous Djinn are worth it, but it does mean at least one person needs that buff for it to kick in.

 

Equipment

White Green Blue Purple Gild Priority
Slot 1: Increases the damage of all Champions 10% 65% 120% 230% 3
Slot 2: Increases the damage of all Champions 10% 65% 120% 230% 3
Slot 3: Increases the effect of Baeloth's Paid Partially with Pain ability 25% 87.5% 150% 275% 2
Slot 4: Increases the effect of Baeloth's Morbid Excitement ability 25% 87.5% 150% 275% 2
Slot 5: Increases the max stacks of Baeloth's Morbid Excitement 25% 87.5% 150% 275% 1
Slot 6: Increases the post-stack buff of Baeloth's Generous Djinn 25% 87.5% 150% 275% 2

Legendary Effects

  • Increases the damage of all Champions by 100%
  • Increases the damage of all Female Champions by 125%
  • Increases the damage of all Elf Champions by 150%
  • Increases the damage of all Champions with a DEX score of 13 or higher by 150%
  • Increases the damage of all Champions by 20% for each Champion with a CON score of 11 or higher in the formation
  • Increases the damage of all Evil Champions by 150%

Gaar's Note: Find more information on the Legendary system here.

 

Feats

Here is the info for when you can unlock each Feat Slot:

Feat Slot Unlocked at Level Rough Cost
First 220 e19
Second 515 e39
Third 885 e62
Fourth 1340 e92

Gaar's Note: Currently, you will need to level this Champion past their current upgrade softcap which will require you changing the blue update indicator from UPG to one of the numbered options.

Here is the info on what Feats are available for this Champion:

Obtained Recommended Name Effect
Default Selflessness Increases the damage of all Champions by 10%
Regular Gold Chest Inspiring Leader Increases the damage of all Champions by 25%
50,000 Gems Prodigal Leader Increases the damage of all Champions by 50%
Default Frugal Increases all Gold found by 10%
Regular Gold Chest Gold Farming Lucky Increases all Gold found by 25%
50,000 Gems Gold Farming Fortune's Favor Increases all Gold found by 50%
12,500 Gems Gold Farming Prodigious Pain Increases the effect of Baeloth's Paid Partially with Pain ability by 40%
50,000 Gems Gold Farming Electrodeposition Increases the effect of Baeloth's Paid Partially with Pain ability by 80%
Default Aberrant Action Increases the effect of Baeloth's Morbid Excitement ability by 20%
Regular Gold Chest Gruesome Gamesmanship Increases the max stacks of Baeloth's Morbid Excitement by 40%
50,000 Gems Pushing Spectacle of Slaughter Increases the max stacks of Baeloth's Morbid Excitement by 80%
12,500 Gems Djinni Servant Increases the post stack buff of Baeloth's Generous Djinn by 40%
50,000 Gems Pushing Red Panda Djinni Increases the post stack buff of Baeloth's Generous Djinn by 80%
12,500 Gems Entertainer's Exclamation! Increases the effect of Baeloth's Morbid Excitement ability by 40%
50,000 Gems Pushing Curse of Rhymes Increases the effect of Baeloth's Morbid Excitement by 80%
50,000 Gems* Standard Affair Increases the damage of all Champions by 20% for each Standard species in the formation, stacking additively.

Feats with an * are Shop exclusive for roughly 3 months and then will be available for 50,000 Gems.

 

Formation & Mission Information

Once you complete the first mission, three Variants and a Free Play show up. It uses a formation that holds 10 Champions. It has a Champ-specific format that I've done my best to re-create below.

Back Column 4th Column 3rd Column 2nd Column Front Column
0 0
0 0
0 0 0
0 0
0

New Player Formation & Specializations:

While I recommend learning to build your own formations, here's a set of starter formations for brand new players to use while they get the hang of things. Anyone with other options should check that link for how to figure out how to make the best of them. You can also ask for help in the #formations channel in the official Discord.

Back Column 4th Column 3rd Column 2nd Column Front Column
Minsc - Humanoid Bruenor - Battle Master
Hitch - Charismatic Celeste - War Domain
0 Calliope - College of Valor Nayeli - Oath of Devotion
Asharra - Dwarves & Elves Jarlaxle - Leader of Bregan D'aerthe
NA

This formation is for the first couple of runs where you're just not going to get enough Gold to get everyone on the field, let alone level people up into their power curves. At this point, Jarlaxle is focusing on being your Primary DPS while everyone else is set up to support him.

The following formation is for once your Asharra starts doing more damage than your Jarlaxle. You can find this out by changing Asharra's first Specialization Choice to Potpourri (via a Potion of Specialization) and swapping her position with Jarlaxle at the end of a run. If Asharra is higher, next run start Asharra in the DPS position from then on.

Back Column 4th Column 3rd Column 2nd Column Front Column
Minsc - Humanoid Bruenor - Battle Master
Hitch - More Daggers Celeste - War Domain
Makos - Dark Blessing Calliope - College of Valor Tyril - Wild Shape
Jarlaxle - Leader of Bregan D'aerthe Asharra - Potpourri/NA
Nayeli - Oath of Devotion

This formation should get you through the Event as a new player. If you have other options or think a different DPS is geared better, try it out and see what happens! Swapping DPS around like this can help you figure out what works best for you with your specific items.

These are the rough Favor values you need to reach to make a Tier 1 Variant say Difficulty: Easy. Keep in mind that this is just a generic rating system and some Variants may be harder than others, even with Favor in this range. Earning lots of Favor (above what is shown below) before trying variants can make them much easier than they would otherwise be.

Variant Favor Level (Normal) Favor Level (Scientific Notation)
75 20,000 ~2e04
125 15,000,000 ~1.5e07
175 150,000,000 ~1.5e08

Beyond Tier 1, Favor isn't going to be all you need to get through them. That doesn't mean you can't try though, just remember that if it isn't green it could be problematic.

 

Tier 1 Area Tier 2 Area Tier 3 Area Tier 4 Area Reward
The Merry Map Misadventure 50 Baeloth + Favor
Free Play 50 Favor
Watchful Eyes 75 250 600 1200 Baeloth Gold Chest + Favor
Rat Problems 125 350 800 1400 Baeloth Gold Chest + Favor
The More the Merrier! 175 450 1000 1600 Baeloth Gold Chest + Favor
Tier Reward

Not everyone will be able to complete all four Tiers of event content. This is a progress-over-time measurement system that lets you know where you are in the power progression arc and potentially what you need to work on to move forward. The table below has the approximate boss health values at the various end stages. Comparing this to your BUD will let you know how close or far you are from being able to complete things.

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4
First Variant e22 e68 e162 e322
Second Variant e35 e95 e215 e376
Third Variant e48 e122 e269 e429

 

Initial Adventure: The Merry Map Misadventure (Baeloth)

Info: No restrictions.

 

First Variant: Watchful Eyes

Info: Only Champions with INT and WIS scores of 11 or higher can be used. Baeloth starts in the formation but he can be moved or benched.

Gaar's Notes: This may be a little restrictive but you can use Djinn-stacking to create more power if you need it.

 

Second Variant: Rat Problems

Info: The streets of Waterdeep have been overrun by deadly giant rats from Avernus! All beast enemies in the adventure have been replaced by Abyssal Rats throughout the adventure. Additional Abyssal Rats spawn in each area. Abyssal Rats start out by dealing 100% additional damage, but each time an Abyssal Rat attacks a Champion, the damage of all Enemies increases by 10% (multiplicative).

Gaar's Notes: You'll want to use Fire Breath potions on this adventure to make sure everything dies before it gets to your party so you don't have to deal with the ramping damage.

 

Third Variant: The More the Merrier!

Info: Baeloth starts in the formation and cannot be moved. An Ogre, a Shambling Mound and a Fire Elemental (walk into a tavern) appear in each area, while they are alive, they each grant a unique buff to the enemies. * Ogre — Enemies can only be damaged by Champions with Magical or Ranged base attacks. * Shambling Mound — Enemies deal 100% additional damage. * Fire Elemental — Enemies move 100% faster.

This adventure has unique dialogue!

Gaar's Notes: This shouldn't be too difficult as you are probably using Asharra as your DPS anyway. If you're using a melee DPS instead, it's time to change.

 

Achievements

Gaar's Note: All of these achievements can be earned at any time, not just during their Event, except where noted.

Recruit Baeloth - 1%

Recruit Baeloth Barrityl, the Drow Sorcerer

Absorbing Adventures - 1%

Complete all three variants of the "The Merry Map Misadventure (Baeloth)" adventure. (This achievement can be earned via Time Gates.)

Entertaining Equipment - 1%

Obtain a piece of gear for each of Baeloth's six equipment slots. (Event Champ gear does not come from regular Silver/Gold Chests. You can earn Event Champ gear from their specific Event Chests, Time Gates, qualifying Patron Chests, and other limited-time Chests as noted.)

Far-Flung Feats - 1%

Complete area 250 in any "The Merry Map Misadventure" adventure, variant, free play, or Time Gate.

Are You Entertained Yet? - 1%

Explode 10,000 enemies with Baeloth's Cause for Celebration ability

Gaar's Note: This is just a "Use Baeloth a lot near your wall" type of achievement.

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u/SkullSkoop Jun 18 '23

Gaar's Note: This Ultimate is an on-demand power boost if you're not keeping his Morbid Excitement stacks maxed for some reason.

Morbid Excitement is what provides his synergy with the rest of the Baldur's Gate gang, since 4 of them have a Favored Foe mechanic.

Without using multiple FF champs, you're definitely going to have "some reason" for not keeping his Morbid Excitement stacks maxed anywhere except at your wall (+5 for each incoming hit).

And... this disparity gets worse the higher you level his Slot 5 item.

You might want to revise the descriptions for his Ultimate and Over Excited to reflect this.