Divine Caster Class Rankings in Baldur's Gate EE
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- Опубліковано 14 вер 2023
- For this video, I rank the Divine Caster characters in Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition based on how much fun I have in playing them, their particular abilities, and their usefulness with or without a party.
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I like the Avenger Druid for their versatility. While they are not the strongest, the shapeshifter abilities and extra spells are great. Shape change with Imp. Haste and DUHM makes them pretty powerful (though what classes doesn't benefit from this combo🤣). If Shamans had bonus spell slots from Wisdom and the ability to move while dancing, they would catapult up towards the top for sure!
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incoming wall of text, btw.
TL; DR: Yes, I am *that* guy
I get the impression that general consensus regarding Legacy of Bhaal mode is that it's ... not very fun, to say the least. Considering I could spend well over an hour making a party, getting their portraits just right, thinking up silly puns for their names, rolling their stats until i get a decent score, buying their gear, and then getting wiped by the rats in Candlekeep, yeah, ok, I can see why.
What we can learn from this is that the tanks need time to level up and get some more hit points before they start tanking. Alrighty, but what if we had a way to get disposable meat shields? Oh, you mean Shamans can just dance spirit beasts into existence, and they take 50% less physical damage (which is comparable to a Dwarven Defender in Defensive Stance, and actually better than the Hardiness fighter HLA? ).
"But the Shaman spirits do horrendously low DPS."
This is true. Is there anything we can do to increase their DPS? Yes, yes we can. A skald can sing skald song, which grants +2 to damage. The skald song bonus also stacks with Bless. Blindness
grants a 4 point penalty to Armor Class. Doom, Chant and Haste are also really nice.
I understand that not everybody wants to play on LoB difficulty, but if you're looking for a change of pace or just want to get the achievement, I'd say Shamans and Totem Druids are pretty good for this mode.
Ha! I suppose that the summons from Shamans and Totem Druids do get a bit of a boost with Legacy of Bhaal mode, but I'm VERY much in the original sentiment that Legacy of Bhaal mode is silly. Even IF you create a kickass character who rocks in combat, doesn't get hit, and doesn't get too hurt from each hit, you still have a slog through just to take out a hobgoblin or a kobold.
I actually like the idea of creating a four member custom party but it does slow down the game a bit to deal with the lag in XP. With this in mind, if you have two tanks, a skald, and either a Shaman or a Totemic Druid (my preference would be the Totemic Druid) then you'd be in a pretty good place for Legacy of Bhaal.
something that's nice about shapeshifter and shaman, vs some other classes and kits that aren't, is that there are NPCs with those kits so you can actually test them out in one of your regular runs to see how they play and if they'd be worth using for your main character, or one of your created characters in a custom party run. Bounty hunter is another one where you have a NPC with the class so you can see some of how it performs, but yoshimo is kind of screwed since he's likely to be killed off before he gets to where the bounty hunter kit truly gets crazy with ranged maze traps and thief HLAs
I love the Bounty Hunter kit and, with SCS, the Shapeshifter was pretty good (just stay away from Ogres that hit with +1 weapons!).
I know it's a nitpick, but I'd argue that the regular cleric kit ranking should still be split based on alignment, since it has direct effects on their Turn Undead and certain other spells in their kit.
That's a good point, I would say that Good and Neutral Turn Undead is better than Evil Turn Undead. If we know that the undead monsters are gonna get killed regardless, why delay the process by turning them to your side? While Turn Undead doesn't work on everything, at least with Good/Neutral Turn Undead, we can scare off many minions. With that in mind, I'd put the Evil Clerics slightly below the Good and Neutral Clerics (if looking at the specific kits).
I played a half orc helmite... OP
Sounds like a pretty good counter to Mulahey in the Nashkel Mines, also seems like a good combo in general!
@@Redjoy123 it made most of the humanoid fights pretty easy.
Tie shaman to ch, make it so you can move and dance, fixed.
Agreed, 100%, the huge limits on Shaman Dances REALLY Cripple the class
Totems need spellcasting during totem
Yeah, that could work nicely. Kit abilities should be somewhat additive, not always a tradeoff.