Baldur's Gate 3: How To Increase Wisdom

While it might not seem like Wisdom is that important of a stat overall in Baldur's Gate 3, it's actually an extremely important stat to buff. Among many other things, Wisdom buffs your Perception stat, which is invaluable for avoiding traps and avoiding obstacles that will otherwise slow you down to an extreme degree. 

Can You Increase Your Wisdom Stat In Baldur's Gate 3?

There are a few different ways to increase your Wisdom stat, with certain classes actually requiring that you buff the stat as much as possible or inherently have a higher Wisdom stat, but if you're not one of those classes then you can try the following methods. 

Wisdom Increasing Feats

Feats are abilities that you can choose at level four, level eight, and level twelve in Baldur's Gate 3 that give you extra abilities and increase your stats overall. A few of these feats can increase your Wisdom score.

• Ability Improvements: Increase one ability by 2, or two abilities by 1, to a maximum score of 20
• Resilient: Wisdom: Increase an ability by 1 and gain Proficiency in that saving throw

Wisdom Increasing Spells

There are not many spells in Baldur's Gate 3 that increase your Wisdom, but there is one.

• Enhance Ability Level 2 Spell: Owl's Wisdom. Gain advantage on Ability Checks.

Permanent Bonuses

The following are abilities that make your Wisdom score increase without costing you any feat or any spells and only come up extremely occasionally, but when they do they can shift the game in your favor.

• Auntie Ethel's Hair: Gain +1 to an Ability Score Improvement of your choice
• Forbidden Knowledge: Gain +1 to Wisdom Checks and Saving Throws
• Mirror of Loss: Gain +1 to an ability score of your choice

That's all you need to know about increasing your Wisdom score in Baldur's Gate 3! By following these steps, you'll be able to make it so that your character is the wisest person around.