Divinity: Original Sin 2 Tips & Tricks
A beginner's guide to Divinity: Original Sin 2's hidden quirks. Covers inventory shortcuts, stealth and thievery, crafting combinations, and combat tricks the game never clearly explains.
27 Tips · 6 categories
6 tipsCombat
Use a Bedroll to Restore Full Party Health
Using a bedroll from your inventory fully restores your entire party's health without consuming the item. It also applies a short buff, replacing the slow ritual of casting Restoration on each character individually after every fight.
Undead Are Damaged by Heals, Healed by Poison
Healing spells and health potions deal damage to Undead characters instead of restoring them. Keep this in mind for your own party members. When fighting undead enemies, you can turn this against them by casting Restoration on them to deal significant damage.
Use Loremaster to Check Enemy Resistances
Any character with Loremaster can examine an enemy on anyone's turn to reveal their stats and elemental resistances. Identifying items does not work this way, those must be handed directly to the character with Loremaster.
Fill a Chest with Items to One-Shot Enemies
The heavier a chest is when thrown, the more damage it deals. Stack as many items inside as possible, then use a character with Telekinesis to carry or teleport the chest into position. A sufficiently heavy chest can one-shot most enemies.
Delay Your Turn to Let Enemies Move First
Passing your turn to the end of the initiative order lets you see where enemies reposition before committing your actions. This is useful for planning area spells or setting up flanks without wasting action points.
Pre-Cast Summons and Buffs Before Combat Starts
Incarnates and other summons can be placed before a fight begins, saving the action points you would otherwise spend in the first round. Buffs and high-AP skills work the same way, letting you enter combat already at full strength.
6 tipsInventory
Press Alt to Highlight Nearby Lootable Items
Holding Alt highlights every item in the area that can be picked up. Items shown in red are considered stolen goods, so you can decide whether the risk is worth it before committing.
Sort All Party Inventory by Weight or Value
The button in the upper right of the inventory screen sorts all items across every party member at once. Sorting by weight is useful when you cannot figure out why a character is encumbered.
Use Backpacks to Auto-Sort Crafting Ingredients
Filling a backpack with crafting ingredients causes any new copies of those ingredients you find to go directly into that bag instead of cluttering the main inventory. You can also place the bag in your hotbar so Mages and Rangers can quickly access arrows and scrolls.
Use a Second Hotbar to Keep Skills Organized
Switching to a second skill bar and placing your abilities there means grenades, arrows, and scrolls you pick up fill the first bar instead of displacing your carefully arranged skills. Note that this does not work cleanly with Polymorph abilities, which require returning to the first bar to cast the follow-up spell.
Send Items to Any Party Member Instantly
Items can be sent directly to any party member regardless of how far away they are. This includes key items like the Teleportation Gloves, which you can hand off immediately without needing characters to be near each other.
Shift-Click Items to Add to Wares Automatically
Holding Shift and clicking an item marks it as a ware, which lets you sell everything in that category to a trader in one action. This speeds up looting runs significantly when you are selling a large haul.
3 tipsStealth
Press Shift to See Enemy Sight Cones Anywhere
Holding Shift reveals enemy sight cones without your party needing to be in sneak mode. Dark red marks where an enemy is currently looking, and light red shows the area where they will notice stolen items left on the ground.
Use Thievery to Steal from Traders for Early Gold
Having one character distract a trader while another with high Thievery pickpockets them is a reliable way to acquire gold and gear early on, especially in Tactician mode where resources are scarce. Thievery level determines how much weight and value you can take per attempt, so higher levels let you target more valuable traders.
Cycle Thievery Gear to Rob the Same NPC Repeatedly
Each character can only steal from a given NPC once, but if you have an item that boosts Thievery, passing it around your whole party lets every member steal from that same NPC. Cycling through all four characters this way multiplies your haul significantly.
4 tipsExploration
Fast Travel Anywhere Using the Waypoint Anchor
The blue anchor button next to the map lets you teleport to any waypoint you have previously discovered, from anywhere in the world. If a party member dies in a fight and one character survives, you can use this to bring dead teammates' bodies to a safe location for resurrection.
Carry Locked Chests to a Waypoint to Open Later
If a chest requires a higher Thievery level than you currently have, pick the chest up and teleport to a waypoint. Leave it there and return once your Scoundrel has levelled up enough to crack it.
Use Teleportation to Reach Hidden Areas
Teleportation works outside of combat and can bring characters to locations that would otherwise be inaccessible, often revealing strong gear and secrets. If you don't have a character with the spell, complete Gawin's early quest to obtain the Gloves of Teleportation.
Complete Gawin's Quest for Teleportation Gloves
Talking to Gawin early in the game and completing his quest rewards you with the Gloves of Teleportation. These give any character access to the Teleportation skill without requiring a point investment in the relevant school.
4 tipsProgression
Give Thievery to Your Undead for Free Lockpicks
Undead characters have infinite lockpicks built in, so they are the natural fit for investing points in Thievery. Any lockpicks you find along the way can be sold for extra gold rather than saved.
Remove and Reuse Runes on Gear at Any Time
Runes can be removed from equipment freely without destroying them, so there is no reason to hoard them for better gear later. Socket them into whatever you are currently wearing and move them whenever you upgrade.
Get Migo's Ring Early for Free Restoration
Finding a Yarrow Flower and giving it to the NPC Migo earns you Migo's Ring, which grants the Restoration skill regardless of your Hydrosophist level. Approaching Migo without the flower first will likely lead to combat, so have the flower ready before starting the conversation.
Respec Your Character for Free After Act 1
After completing Act 1, you can respec any character as many times as you want at no cost. There is no need to stress over early build choices since everything can be corrected later.
4 tipsCrafting
Craft Lockpicks from Nails and a Repair Hammer
Combining nails with a repair hammer produces four lockpicks without consuming or damaging the hammer. Buying nails whenever you see them in shops is worth the small cost, especially if you do not have an Undead character for infinite picks.
Combine Boots with Nails for Slip Immunity
Adding nails to any pair of boots grants immunity to slipping on ice surfaces. This prevents your characters from being knocked down when a party Mage creates an ice surface during combat.
Store Barrels at Waypoints as Infinite Crafting Sources
Picking up a barrel of a new type and teleporting it to a waypoint gives you a permanent, infinite source of that material. Combine a physical weapon with a poison barrel to add poison damage, or use barrels with arrowheads to craft elemental arrows. Combining a fire arrowhead with an oil arrowhead creates an explosive arrowhead useful in the early game.
Combine Minor Potions to Upgrade Their Tier
Two minor potions combined in the crafting menu produce a medium potion, and the same logic applies up the chain. Rather than buying higher-tier potions, craft them from the smaller ones you accumulate naturally.
Verified: 2026-05-22 · All content is original with full credit to original creators.