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The Cloak of Mirroring grants immunity to all spells, abilities and weapon on-hit effects of the Offensive damage type, unless they come from the wearer.

In the Enhanced Edition, it also grants immunity to extra spells selected explicitly by Beamdog independently from their type. For this curated list displayed in the infobox to the right, immunity works even with the wearer's own spells.

Note: In the original edition of Shadows of Amn, if the Throne of Bhaal expansion is not installed, this cloak even reflects single target "Offensive damage" spells back to the attacker, like a mirror, instead of just granting immunity. Hence its name. This isn't true in any other version of the game.

Description[]

Though it feels much like normal cloth, this shimmering cloak has on occasion been described as "woven water". Its true enchantment becomes apparent when the wearer is attacked directly by magic, and all the damage caused by spell effects is deflected harmlessly away.

List of offensive damage attacks[]

Despite the name, not all attacks that deal damage have this secondary type, and some attacks have it that deal no damage. The list below is quite thorough:


Some of those attacks have both a physical and a magical part - in this case only the magical part of the attack is blocked. For example, the Cloak blocks the electrical damage from Energy Blade, but not their slasing damage. It blocks the fire damage from Melf's Minute Meteors, but not their piercing damage.

Location[]

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn[]

Gallery[]

Mod Content[]

Installation of the Sword Coast Stratagems Mod and the "Gameplay Tweaks" component moves the Cloak of Mirroring to Throne of Bhaal. It is now worn by Vongoethe, who gains all of the Cloak's passive power. In version 32 of SCS, the Cloak was worn by the Watcher's Keep Demilich instead.

SCS's "Smarter Beholders" component changes how beholders react to the Cloak of Mirroring. The beholders can now use their telekinesis power to steal the Cloak of Mirroring and the Shield of Balduran. They don't do it in the first couple of rounds, then they have a 1/3 chance per round (per beholder). The idea isn't to make the items useless but to block the move of just giving them to one person and sending them in. If it annoys you, you can turn it off at the console: set DMWWDisableBeholderTheft to 1.

SCS and Spell Revisions mod make changes to Dragon Breath weapon attacks and ensure the breath spell school is "Generalist Mage" and "Secondary Type" is "None". This means that the cloak will no longer protect against dragon breath attacks.

References

  1. Baldur's Gate Wiki:Game source files/BCS/SHARKAMB.bcs
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