Twisting Branch - The Overpowered Magic Club - Baldur's Gate 3 (BG3)

Magic Club is a passive feature of Twisting Branch - a bugged weapon which you can obtain with some exploits. It absolutely can break the damage you deal and the more effects you add on top of it - the crazier it gets. In this guide you'll learn how to obtain it, how it works, and what to use. I heavily urge to read until the end.

All necessary things 

To obtain the Twisting Branch you'll need the Conjure Woodland Being spell, good reflex or some type expendable weapon.

• Level 7 of Druid, any subclass and the spell Conjure Woodland Being.
• The Dryad from Conjure Woodland Being and Wood Woad from Fallen Lover spell (Dryad's spell).
• Any "useless" magic weapon that you can spare.

Step by step instruction

PC

1. Summon the Dryad from Conjure Woodland Being.
2. Take control of the Dryad and summon the Wood Woad from Fallen Lover.
3. Take control of the Wood Woad and enter it's inventory.
4. Press the "Preview" or the "Eye" icon of the Wood Woad, it should show it's inventory and items for a split second.
5.  You have to press the Preview/Eye and take control the item from the Wood Woad's inventory slot. If you fail, repeat step 4.
6. If you successfully gained control of the item, hold and drag it to your or your companion's equipment slot. 
7. You can obtain a second Twisting Branch by repeating this process or using the duplication glitch

Console

1. Summon the Dryad from Conjure Woodland Being.
2. Take control of the Dryad and summon the Wood Woad from Fallen Lover.
3. Take control of the Wood Woad.
4. Drop and weapon you won't use. This weapon has to be "magical" and have the same properties as to feeding Gale and sedating his Arcane Hunger. If it's a weapon outside this "property list", this exploit won't work.
5. If you did the step 4 correctly, you should have an option to "Consume" the weapon, make the Wood Woad consume it.
6. If you did both step 4 and 5 correctly the weapon should disappear; use Hide and pickpocket the Wood Woad.
7. You can obtain a second Twisting Branch by repeating this process or using the duplication glitch

What does it do ?

The weapon's passive - Magic Club adds a 3d4 Bludgeoning Damage to your melee attacks/spell attack using attack rolls - that means your Ki Resonation: Punch, Divine Smite, Booming Blade, Shocking Grasp, normal attacks or even some ranged spells like Scorching Ray, Eldritch Blast, Fire Bolt; Those ranged spells need an anchor which are Daredevil Gloves because of their Daredevil Proximity passive. You can find that pair of gloves by talking to A'jak'nir Jeera and purchase them.

The 3d4 Bludgeoning Damage is like a separate instance of damage - meaning many damage riders/damage riders as source like Callous Glow Ring, Horns of the Berserker, Psionic Overload, Agonising Blast will add their damage on top of the baseline 3d4 damage of the club. For example:

Melee/unarmed strikes

In this image I used an Action attack and Bonus Action attack with:

• a pair of Twisting Branch dealing a passive 17 damage
• The Speedy Lightfeet adding Lightning Charges dealing passive 2 damage
• Psionic Overload adding 1d4 psychic damage to attacks dealing 7 damage
• a pair of Callous Glow Ring thanks to duplication glitch adding 4 Radiant damage for a total of 8; yes, they stack. 

As mentioned before you can use unarmed strikes - be it Flurry of Blows, Fangs of the Fire Snake, Ki Resonation: Punch, normal attacks like Main Hand Attack, Off-Hand Attack (Melee), unique class attacks like Whirlwind Attack from Hunter Ranger, Shadow Strike from Shadow Monk and many more.

Spells

For your majority of spells a MUST HAVE is the pair of Daredevil Gloves, important note is that you must be Threatened and you must have the Daredevil Proximity passive on. 

Things used:

• a pair of Twisting Branch
• The Speedy Lightfeet 
• a pair of Callous Glow Ring thanks to duplication glitch 
• Daredevil Gloves
• Upcasted Scorching Ray
• Hexblade's Curse from level 2 Hexblade Warlock
• 10 Evocation Wizard feature - Empowered Evocation

Magic Club does NOT work on spells that use a saving throw or that have a guaranteed hit like Fireball or Magic Missile

Difficulty Difference

The screens you can see are all made on the Honor Mode difficulty. The difference between Honor Mode and difficulties below it, is that Honor Mode uses a different system compared to other game modes. This means that some skills, passives and abilities will work a lot more often on Tactician/Balanced/Explorer than Honor.

For example; Phalar Aluve's ability Phalar Aluve: Shriek is a damage rider on lower difficulties whereas on the hardest difficulty it's just a damage jockey. What does it mean ? It means that the Phalar Aluve: Shriek will have a lot more stacking damage on top of it's baseline 1d4 Thunder damage while on Honor it will just add a base 1d4 Thunder damage.

Tactician

Honor

Conclusions

The Twisting Branch is a really overpowered weapon and the list of effects that will stack on top of it's damage is really long. For any questions of what will work, what won't work and any issues I heavily urge to ask in the comments. I thank you if you stayed until the very end.