I just wish you didn't have to kill the Nightsong to be a true Shar follower! I think I'm just incapable of going full evil playthroughs... Somehow I'm able to kill everyone in the Grove, but kill Aylin? Nope 😅
Light cleric is the big one for me, the huge aoe they can pull off consistantly that doesnt hurt allies is insane and the flare reaction protection is a huge damage mitigator.
When you get toward the end game you can also use the Headband of Intellect and take a single level of Wizard to give you the ability to scribe any Wizard spell you want to fill out your spell list
@@jarrodbright5231you can. But it it is not known if it is a bug ir intended. (Could be patched). Also your wizard prepared spells will be limited to your 1st lvl + int modifier
@@jarrodbright5231 I dont find it needed on cleric cause their spell list is already solid, but loved the one level wiz dip on my moon druid. One level Old one dip for melee char is also great due to the fear on crit, was insane on my sword bard.
I made Asterion an Assassin for his subclass and he’s so good at starting off fights. With his initiative he basically gets 2 free sneak attacks, one of which is a guaranteed crit.
I like to treat multiclassing as a symbol of character development. Started as a ranger and as the hunter became the hunted (due to the artefact), he played the uno reverse card on his chasers and went gloom stalker in order to remain the first to strike in his encounters. After the party traversed the underdark, he dipped into the rogue class to further hone his abilities to using the shadows to his advantage and so on. 😊
Well now I know what build I'm using on my next playthrough lol. Seriously awesome concept, and a powerful build too! Should start coming online at the right time as well depending on when you explore areas, I'm almost always around level 6 going into the underdark, so that would line up quite nicely!
Felt like my 7 Oathbreaker/5 Great Old One that embraces illithid powers was just the perfect main character for the game that fit the story and setting so much. I've yet to play as anything more satisfying, 9 swords bard/ 3 thief rogue comes close tho.
@@wickeddrac7489 the reason why people do 7/5 is because, currently in BG3, the extra attack from Pact bound weapon and the extra attack from paladin level 5 stacks. People assumed it was a bug, but it is a bug that was never fixed. Call it a feature at this point.
I love the Gloomstalker Ranger. Bonus initiative, extra initial attack with bonus damage, improved darkvision, stealth as a bonus action, invisibility power, and that's just what you start with. Add some Rogue levels in there, and you can be a stealth-kill monster.
Playing a swords bard on my first playthrough and loving the class/subclass. Aside from hilarious moments like singing to a Necromancer’s Tome, you have an answer for everything. Need crowd control? Take your pick of spells and abilities. Damage; weapon or magic? Heals and buffs? They got some of that too. The hardest part is deciding what to take at character creation and level up.
I'm still on my first playthrough of the full game and went for Wild Magic Sorcerer. I don't generally like Sorcerers, but I went with the whole hero without a past idea. So, Dark Urge Wild Magic Sorcerer. Unfamiliar about his magic, unfamiliar about is past, let the madness happen! There is a lot of madness involved in the Wild Magic subclass. It's hilarious.
@@fanbotbob64I actually have saved that one for when I do a Shadowheart play through, but the videos I’ve seen and re-specking her into a Tempest cleric on my second run makes me think of how the two would work amazingly! Twin spelling haste is also a great way to use your concentration over spirt guardians, depending on the situation…
My first play through was a Tempest Cleric + Storm Sorcery multiclass and she was such a good face character because she could either talk her way out of fights or wreck them with lighting + heavy armor
Making your player character a Charisma class is definitely beneficial, but one thing BG3 does that I like is the many opportunities to use class-specific interactions in conversation, which often comes with either using an ability that you're more likely to be proficient in (Monks get a lot of insight checks which are wisdom based) or will give advantage (Barbarians got a lot of opportunities to use intimidation with advantage) So the game is more flexible around your choice than at least I expected it to be.
I turned Minsc into monk/barbarian, and I love this so much. He destroyed Sarevok with his bare hands, it was truly in character. Monk class is fire For MC my first choice is a lore bard with two point in warlock, this way I can play without a long rest for long time. Just blasting through the game
I did a Beast Master Ranger and Beserker build for Minsc (I believe it was 7 / 5 each,) and I can confirm it was a whole lot of fun. That to me feels the most "in-game" representation of Minsc based on his Beserker-Ranger subclass from BG1 and 2. (I also gave him the Gauntlets of Strength to be more like the Minsc we see in his first cutscene.) Having an added bear tank to go alongside his hamster feels just right. I'd also recommend playing a Great Old One Warlock (Pact of Tomb) / Assassin Rogue build as there is a lot of fun synergy to be had with the way the assassin subclass can apply to things like Eldritch Blast, especially on a Dark Urge run.
@@SpartanWolf222 I went with a full party of ranged archers in PF:WotR, just for shits n giggles. Most mobs didn't even get to move before they bit the dust, much less get close to me! :D
I love Great Old One Warlock. In Act 2, there is a certain interaction where it says my patron is excited about what's behind a certain wall. Knowing I was a Great Old One Warlock, that statement alone scared the shit out of me. It encouraged me to do something unusual, and that revealed large plot elements pivotal to the entire game. It also dislocated my shoulder until the next long rest, but frankly that's a small price to pay considering the sheer scale of what I learned and how it impacts the plot.
@@yamabshi So in the first room of Moonrise towers when you enter through the front gate, on your left you have a ladder going up into the rafters above the rooms. There are some wooden beams on the left you can jump towards. Follow those beams and you'll find a cracked wall you can interact with. I'll spoil the rest after a couple of enters if you really can't find it, it's a good thing to find on your own and there is something of a reward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . So you notice flesh behind the wall, wriggling through the tower. If you're a normal class, your companions will comment on how gross it is. If you're a Great Old One Warlock, you get a message that "your patron is excited about what's behind this wall". So if you reach into the wall, and use the new option to not fight back against it, you'll get a special cutscene with the Absolute herself, telling you she is held against her will by the chosen. You will also be pulled into a giant fleshy area beneath Moonrise, with a Tadpole on a corpse and a glimpse of what you encounter later after the first fight with Ketheric. You can get that cutscene as well on normal classes if you choose not to wriggle your hand free from the wall, but the Great Old One Warlocks are the only one who get a message encouraging them not to break free.
College of Swords is one of my favorite subclasses both in BG3 and in tabletop just because it is by far the subclass with the most options to approach any situation with.
My brother swears on respeccing Shadowheart from Trickery to Tempest. I can testify that respeccing her to Light is awesome. Favorite subspec though? Necromancer Wizard. Just insane. 4 flying ghouls from Animate Dead. 5 walking ghouls from Danse Macabre. 1 Mummy from Create Undead (vastly underrated summon BTW). 1 Elemental Myrmidon from Summon Elemental upcasted to rank 6. 1 Deva from the scroll Bestial Communion (obviously this was created for Wizards to learn, not for other classes to use once -- gives Wizards access to Planar Ally without learning Planar Ally, and it happens to be the best one of the bunch for ghouls/mummy thanks to fear.) This is on top of everything else Wizards have to offer. Your small army is enough to solo just about anything with barely any input from the actual Wizard. Oh, and throw in the Staff of Cherished Necromancy for unlimited Necromancy spells (just equip, destroy 10 boxes or so, and spam upcasted Blight/Circle of Death/Eyebite to your heart's content. Don't forget about Dethrone for the execute, either! [P.S. If you're rather, you can unequip Staff of Cherished Necromancy and replace with another staff. The free Necromancy spell charges stay; you do, however, lose the advantage effect for necro spells. Dual Wield staves like a boss, imo.]
I did play a college of swords bard, and it was very powerful. Using dual crossbows along with illithid powers made her play like a fantasy John Wick, way more damage than i expected. The accuracy bonus battle masters get is very nice too!
Morty, how is it that you knock it out of the ballpark with every single dang video you do? They're always fun and informative. I truly love watching your stuff man. Thanks a million! 🤩🤩🤩
4 rogue (thief) / 5 Ranger (Gloomstalker) / 3 fighter (battlemaster) is one of the scariest characters I've built in this game so far. The damage it can output with 2 hand crossbows is just insane.
Great old one warlock was my first 5e character I brought all the way to level 20. Was extremely fun from an RP side going hard into illusion. I understand why certain spells would be difficult to implement into a video game, but I miss being able to kill a BBEG by making a fissure seem like solid ground and luring them over it.
Lol I changed Asterion to a college of swords bard/ rogue and Shadowheart to a tempest cleric and mained a monk/sorc way of the elements weirdo (that doesn’t really do reliable dmg but is super fun to play) and have been having a blast with that play through. BG3 really does offer so much versatility. I’ve never played D&D, I just sort of fumbled my way to some fun things that ended up similar to a lot of what was mentioned here
Enjoyed the video and that you talked about the phenomenal RP aspect of Warlock. I have 2 extra favs... Throwzerker on Karlach, returning pike early and then the power spike later when acquiring Nyrulna is chef's kiss. And the other is a very specific Drow Circle of Spores druid. Dex-based build, super efficient dmg per turn with hand crossbows and halo of spores, create chokes with spike growth or moonbeam. Ice Storm later for aoe control. It's a jack of all trades alternative to Swords Bard. Main downside is no Counterspell compared to Bard. But probably the most fun early-mid game subclass for me.
For my first playthrough I played as a Dwarf monk (way of the open fist). There is something that activates deep in my monkey brain when I see a character stroll up and say "I'm going to go punch god." Add to that I'm playing a Dwarf and drunk half the time and it quickly turns into a south park skit with my party throwing my monk a healing potion after he is downed and as he gets up "I didn't hear no bell."
Throwing Berserker is incredibly strong too and hilarious. It's carried by gear and Tavern Brawler but you can effectively kill 2 enemies in 1 bonus action by frenzy throwing enemy A at enemy B.
Throwing beserker + fling ring + returning pike is too OP too early on ...makes me actively leave karlach at camp just get a tiny bit of tactician difficulty back up.
I love my pact of the blade warlock and i love how the gears support it. Pact of the blade with duelist's prerogative, ring of arcane synergy, the hat that raise your charisma up to 22, potent robe, strange conduit ring. She can deal up to 100 damage per turn with potion of speed.
I have a blade pact warlock multiclassed with oathbreaker paladin (because aothbreaker adds your charisma modifier to damage) with hellbeard halberd diadem of arcane synergy Great weapon master and elixir of hill giant str, helldusk gloves hits for like 45 dmg per attack WITHOUT adding smite. I did 350 dmg to raphael with my lock with just him in one turn. Raphael didn't last very long.
its kinda funny how cleric sounded like the lamest class to me back when i started and it became my absolute favourite class of them all... you could literally do multiple playtroughs as an cleric alone and even without multiclassing (but why would you do that) have an different gameplay experience everytime. best class ever.
Totally agree with this list. Warlock is my favorite class hands down and it fits my playstyle in most situations; dungeon-crawl minimal rests. BG3 taking Pact of the Blade to the next level with some of the Hexblade bonuses and then doubling down on Deepened Pact stacking with other forms of Extra Attack just takes it over the top. In 5E Paladin is probably the strongest class, but with the changes in BG3 It may well be dethroned. Honorable mention needs to go to the Bard though. They have all the utility of a Rogue, numerous ways to support the party in general, and is all wrapped up with a pretty high degree of variability in how they play. Song of Rest is hugely powerful in BG3 and I feel like any party is at a disadvantage without it. To that end my Tav is a GOO/Swords atm and its a blast to run.
I chose the College of Swords bard for my tiefling Tav purely because I wanted to play a charismatic piratey fencing type who could trick and intimidate their way through the game, and honestly I'm really glad to see that subclass listee here because it is does indeed rock. Even as someone who doesn't have a lot of videogame experience, it's such a blast to play !
Gloomstalker Ranger is absolutely insane. Sneaking up on an enemy and dual-wield attacking them out of combat allows me to attack them at least 7-8 times (with dread ambusher) before they can even do anything. I change Astarion from Rogue to Ranger every time just to finally make him useful. I then gave him Sharpshooter at Lvl 12 so now he is good at both melee and ranged. I love Ranger so much, such an underrated class, along with the Monk.
Light cleric also is one of my favorites, because it gets a couple very good spells even at early levels, it's basically between light or tempest for me depending on if I want fireball at lv3 or call lightning. (Edit: light v tempest also boils down to whether you like having warding flare for disadvantage on attack rolls against you and allies(at later levels) or max damage on lightning spells.
As someone whos been addicted to online multiplayer shooters for the better part of 10 years, i cant put this fucking game down. Im 120 hrs in on my first character, and i just hit the city the game is named after. Just an incredible gaming experience
Fiend is easily my favourite choice on a warlock, but I'm yet to try a crit build for great old one. Made Wyll into a paladin/bladelock multiclass during my first run (I've played a lot of 5e and figured it'd be good here too), and the amount of times that extra temp hp saved my life was more than you'd think. Often he'd get a kill, take a couple hits and end up on
I've had a few clear favorites from playing, I really love both Light and Tempest domain cleric, the two I've spec'd Shadowheart into in my good and evil playthroughs respectively, I have to say I never play Clerics normally in DnD and was caught off guard by how powerful they become. I am also a huge fan of Paladin's in general but especially Vengence Paladin. The flavour of being a punsiher-type character coupled with how satisfying smashing enemies with Divine Smite is is a lot of fun. Finally I have had a great time with Circle of the Land Druids. I just love the spell list the land druids get plus in BG3 the wild shape forms that all druids have access to are so strong you don't loose much by going land over moon unlike in 5e.
Chaotic Neutral/Evil Tempest Cleric of Talos is my ideal nutcase build. Religious zealot that's quick to anger, takes every opportunity to destroy inanimate objects and offers morally questionable blessings to those in need.
I absolutely love War domain cleric, feels very satisfying to play - but totally agree about Tempest domain too. I've also been loving running Gale as an Enchantment wizard since crowd control has been a major gap in my playthrough, and the ability to have him lock down enemies with things like Otto's Irresistable Dance or Hold Monster has won fights for me.
I’ve had a good amount of fun with way of 4 elements monk, especially if you push to crank out damage with a multiclass with barbarian or such. But my favorite multiclass fodder to pop on characters has been 3 levels for thief rogue since the additional bonus action combined with the already versatile rogue kit has enabled a very mobile and item-heavy playstyle since you are afforded many more options and resources to use those options.
I totally agree about the Battlemaster sub class and just going full Battlemaster. It's fun and has multiple good options to pick from in combat, while still being incredibly simple and very powerful. My favourite martial class. Just got Lae'zel up to level 12 and took 2 ASI increases, great weapon master and martial adept. It's awesome.
I've been enjoying Way of the four elements Monk way more than I thought I would. It's definetely weaker than Way of the open hand, but it's so versatile and fun. I can cast spells, use bows and still use my fists effectively (thanks to Tavern Brawler + elixir).
Lore bard was probably my favourite to play so far. Cutting words sees a lot of use, as does extra proficiencies. And you definitely can't say no to more magical secrets.
Ehhh, they are still good but Larian kinda butchered Cutting Words. In 5e you can use it AFTER an enemy succeeds the attack roll or saving throw. Having to use it preemptively takes away pretty much half of its power just like precision attack. Meanwhile swords bards in this game get to use slashing flourish on the same enemy with ranged attacks, suddenly turning them into the best subclass for ranged builds.
@@evrimenustun9548 pretty sure you cast it qfter the enemy has rolled in bg3 too. It shows what the enemy rolled at the top of the pop up reaction window.
@@saltytattie833 It might have been bugged on my game then because I never got the notification during combat. Oh well, guess it's time to get started on my 30th run to test it out :D.
You do have to update the settings to ask you if you want to use cutting words. It only asks when the enemy succeeds a roll (either while attacking or when saving against you or a party member). I just love lore bard: more skills than you know what to do with, pick up counterspell and you’re a reaction master - makes it feel like you dictate who hits and who misses, and of course the other magical secrets options let’s you branch out to whatever you want.
I’m on Act 3 with my Circle of the Moon Druid and having a blast with it. You can Wild Shape as a bonus action (as opposed to other druids who need to use their main action) meaning you can take swipes as an Owlbear or spit acid on someone as a freaking dilophosaur on the same turn.
I personally prefer the Valor Bard (with 2 levels of FIghter for Action Surge) over the Swords Bard. I like having a full spellcaster who is also a tank when I already have a Barbarian/Battlemaster and Warlock/Paladin to deal ridiculous amounts of damage, especially when said spellcaster/tank can also heal and buff said damage dealers (it seems a lot of people forget you can use Bardic Inspiration before combat) or disable key opponents at the start of a combat. It's also great fun from a roleplaying perspective for a "good guys" playthrough since you can be such an over-the-top good guy with some of the dialogue options the class gives you, and then go and sing about how great a good guy you are on the street corner. My other favourite is a Light domain Cleric with 1 level of Wizard and a Headband of Intellect as a Cleric of Mystra (a very flavourful multi-class option for Gale or someone romancing Gale). You get most of the best Wizard spells as part of the Cleric spell list and can fill in the few missing spells you really want from the Wizard spell list by using some scrolls.
Playing Dark Urge, using a College of the Swords Bard was pretty cool. I can't imagine not playing the game with all the benefits that bards five to skill checks.
I'm currently running a Tiefling bardlock on my second play-through. I made Lae'zel just like your showing here but I went with move attack, disarm attack, and counter attack. I managed to miss her the first time and Karlack too! So I'm makin up for lost time runnng both with SH and sometimes Gale. Karlack is also the only character I have immediately liked. Didn't like Gale, ,Will , even Shadowheart to begin with but, they grew on me. Gale I found was an excellent problem solver tho. Really good at chess too.
My favorite multi class is great old one assassin. So much utility in combat and RP flavor. It’s definitely a character I would love to bring to tabletop one day.
Monk/College of Swords has been really fun to play this game with, as a melee/ranged hybrid. I had first intended to make it an elements monk, which visually is amazing with their fire fangs strike that can use weapon animations - bonus fact, it applies to ranged weapons after, so that's a nifty little thing that's just cool. Anyway, in these late levels I've tried Swords bard10/monk2 instead and it is amazing with the banishing smite, along with the mystic scoundrel ring.. a certain trident visually fits this so well too, although i had to go Weapon master to make it work, but really several weapons look so cool with the monk flavour. Stats difficult (12 con :P), unusual combination, but it really evoked the dancing pole weapon master. Anyway... Swords bard ftw!
Here is a fun build idea: Wizard 2, Bard 3, sorcerer 6, Cleric 1 The idea: Wizard 2 - You go for divination so you can reroll 2 dice every long rest. Bard 3 - You get bardic inspiration as well as cutting words so you can just interrupt anyone you want anytime. Sorcerer 6 - You take at level 4 the "Lucky" feat so you can reroll any dice you want. and at level 6 wild mage sorcerer you get "Bend Luck" Which you can use to add 1d4 to attack rolls, saving throw, etc. Cleric 1 - You take the light domain so you can impose disadvantage on any attack about to hit you. Welcome to the "Bender of reality" build. If you want to top this, have either halfling as a race so you cannot practically roll crit fails, OR take gomes for their ability to have advantage on saving throws regarding wis, int and char. An alternative is going for githyanki for custom proficiency bonuses based on need or be astarion for the +1 vampire bonus from bites. Welcome!
College of swords is battlemaster with full caster. It's INSANE. Oooh I hadn't realised I can use the flourish on the same target twice. It's better than INSANE
Storm Sorcerer is a blast, but for role-play very much like oath of vengeance Paladin, and I also had lots of as Durge Necromancer- though once I got to Act 2 started thinking Assassin would have been closer fit. But raising army of undead is super cool. Also having Shadowheart as Tempest Cleric is lots of fun.
all of these (except warlock which I haven't played) are ones I picked in my first few run throughs. The ability of the warrior to knock even bosses prone trivialized a lot of encounters.
Good call on all of these. The Bard in particular gives me that F/M/T power fantasy from old school D&D CRPGs. In BG3, if not multiclassing, I keep coming back to the draconic bloodline sorcerer. You can do more burst damage, particularly in the late game, with a multi class build. But as early as level two or three, with the right spell selection Twin or Quicken spell can just clear away half of your opponents on round one. And it’s still a powerhouse in the last act.
I made my main character an enchantment wizard, thinking I didn't want to powergame it too hard and play a 'weaker' spec... then found out it's totally broken being able to twin cast enchantment spells... 2 dominate persons for 1 spell slot? I basically made every fight a 4 or more vs 0 with the amount of CC I could put out
oathbreaker/ancients and great old one warlock + an extra level of cleric (usually war for me, your god of choosing, can give extra nice dialogue options. Also gives guidance, turgy, and resistance so you can even better play face of the party being a cha caster) is a great setup I've been messing with recently, great rp potential and warlock paladin gameplay is just really fun and malleable
5 levels into battle master, take dual wielder, 3 levels into thief rogue for extra bonus action. 4 attacks at level 8 with dual weapons plus action surge for an extra 2. Take trip attack and evasive footwork = dual wielder fighter build with rogues sneak and skill profs.
Disarming a Kithrak from their Soulbreaker Greatsword turns a perilous encounter on its heel so fast you'll roundhouse kick their head off before the blade hits the ground.
I think, genuinely, one of my favorite subclasses is Wild Magic Barbarian for Karlach, i dont even notice the class unless its on Her. It just.. makes me happy when she gets wonderful little bonuses and has an affinity for keeping her and her friends safe from other magic effects
I'm playing a sword bard right now and at level four with a medium armor, shield, 16 dex, and the defensive flourish I'm up to a 21 AC. I'm basically the tank with Gale and/or Wyll hurling spells from the back line.
I prefer Archfey Warlock, for the starting spells it grants. Tempest Cleric is what I use for Shadowheart as well, I really like the Thunderwave, blasting people off cliffs. my third class is the Berserker barbarian, more specifically, the enraged thrower build, which I use on Karlach, it's so much fun and does massive damage and the last one? the Gloomstalker Ranger. I don't know why, but I've always loved the ranged physical damage dealers in the games I play. the archer rogue in Dragon Age origins, the hunter in World of Warcraft, the Sniper or the Mercenary in SWTOR. it also really seals it for me that the gloomstalker, the archer rogue and the WoW hunter get an animal companion that helps them do damage too. in my current playthrough, I have 4 of these 5. My character players the gloomstalker ranger, Karlach is the enraged thrower, Shadowheart the tempest cleric, and Wyll is the warlock, although, I kept him as the fiend because it's lore friendly.
I really enjoy my rogue thief\archfey lock 😁 1. rogue with charisma 2. pact of weapon 3. greather invisibility 4. you can use bonus action to get a distance from you pr enemy (if it’s near) to fill him with eldrich blasts 😁 especially with the gear. off hand dagger with silence, main dagger with bane (only with pact of weapon)… two bonus action and silence on off hand 😁
Any paladin is always a fun time, especially if I have them go into a fight with invisibility. Or just jump/fly there if I must. Lets me single out the biggest threat, then hit them. Really hard. With the right setup, they either die in one turn or get close to it.
I really enjoyed my GOOlock. Even the small patron interactions that were present. If you’d like to tap into the tadpole powers, the Great Old One patron is perfect.
7:50 Man the character portrait glitches are getting funky. Never seen that glitch be that extreme. How do you even fix glitches like this? My entire squad just got black background.
Bard's and their subclasses are my favourite substitute class for Astarion, easily. His viscous mockery is hilarious, he's got a focus on CHA, and slapping two-handed fighting w/ dual weapons or hand crossbows slots right into Rogue Astarion anyway.
Hahaha. That 2:32 mistake of blasting the crap out of a chandelier instead of the enemy cracked me up. The Light Cleric is also really good. So weird that Shadowheart is, by default, shoehorned into the relatively useless subclass.
Tempest Cleric's one weak spot is not having all the lightning spells. Luckily Call Lightning is efficient. Add the equipment that adds reverberation on lightning hits and other gear that adds debuffs whenever you afflicted a debuff and you can really debilitate survivors of your AoE.
I agree on the Warlock. Very flexible and tons of fun. My current setup is lvl 2 fighter, lvl 10 Warlock (Pact of the blade obviously) Heavy armor + shield. Tanky, extremely mobile and deadly at any range.
3 attacks with advantage from reckless attack with level 3 divine strikes available if you want. With great weapon master the damage output is completely ridiculous
Ive been playing durge as a great old one warlock and its alot of fun for me to imagine my patron is you know who giving me the powers. Im doing good durge tho so after i beat the boss i might respec to a draconic sorcerer
No Barbarian, sadge. I like having a tempest cleric just as you which is Shadowheart. I also like playing my Wizard the same as you so I make Gale and Evo Wizard. So that is two spell casters. Then I usually run Astarion as a Thief/Ranger or Thief/Fighter hybrid as well. So having a Wild Magic Barbarian I really enjoy. It keeps the gameplay fresh as everytime you Rage it's different and having 2 potentially 3 casters depending if I go Ranger or not being able to restore spell slots is also nice and fun. Plus Raging in general is just really cool to me and Barbs combined with some other things like Wilf Magic 9th Barb with 3rd level champion fighter can while not the most damage still do a ton and crit super often. I jus find it really fun and it also fits in with the kind of party I like to play really well.
Your top four are my actual party! 😂 I did also try the other schools of barding (my tav), but they just weren’t satisfying. Sword bard tav, tempest shadowheart, battle master laezel, evoker gale
Lore Bard with a quick 2 dip into Life Cleric has let me totally dominate in tactician, replacing Shadowheart with Karlach so I can have Lae'zel and Karlach as a tanky wall.
Yeah, my latest run was with a pure single class College of Swords bard and it was ridiculously overpowered by the late game. Especially after I got the ring that let her cast illusion and enchantment spells as a bonus action, essentially doubling her power.
Battlemaster is amazing. I was disappointed by the rally temp hp duration changed in comparison to the tabletop and how they implemented precision but overal it's crazy good.
My favorites are in no particular order, Vengeance Paladin, Divination Wizard, Gloomstalker Ranger, Light Cleric. For a sorcerer I'm using mod so the subclass is not on my official list, its Divine Soul. Its a sorcerer with cleric spell list, if you combine it with a paladin it turns you into a powerhouse.
Changing Shadowheart subclass Trickery to Tempest made her my most powerfull character and making her a full Shar follower made her so awesomee
I just wish you didn't have to kill the Nightsong to be a true Shar follower!
I think I'm just incapable of going full evil playthroughs... Somehow I'm able to kill everyone in the Grove, but kill Aylin? Nope 😅
its easier than you think you just gotta click once
Yeah, tempest or life cleric are nuts
Ayo this dude is a heartless murderer
@@themristry light. You flash bang everyone
Light cleric is the big one for me, the huge aoe they can pull off consistantly that doesnt hurt allies is insane and the flare reaction protection is a huge damage mitigator.
Yeah that aoe is so strong, similar vein to why Evocation wiz is so good
What I'm running through with my main character in my current game. I've been very happy with the spell list and play of this cleric.
When you get toward the end game you can also use the Headband of Intellect and take a single level of Wizard to give you the ability to scribe any Wizard spell you want to fill out your spell list
@@jarrodbright5231you can. But it it is not known if it is a bug ir intended. (Could be patched).
Also your wizard prepared spells will be limited to your 1st lvl + int modifier
@@jarrodbright5231 I dont find it needed on cleric cause their spell list is already solid, but loved the one level wiz dip on my moon druid. One level Old one dip for melee char is also great due to the fear on crit, was insane on my sword bard.
I made Asterion an Assassin for his subclass and he’s so good at starting off fights. With his initiative he basically gets 2 free sneak attacks, one of which is a guaranteed crit.
I like to treat multiclassing as a symbol of character development.
Started as a ranger and as the hunter became the hunted (due to the artefact), he played the uno reverse card on his chasers and went gloom stalker in order to remain the first to strike in his encounters. After the party traversed the underdark, he dipped into the rogue class to further hone his abilities to using the shadows to his advantage and so on. 😊
Same. I changed shadowheart when she abandoned Shar. To light (of selune) cleric
Well now I know what build I'm using on my next playthrough lol. Seriously awesome concept, and a powerful build too! Should start coming online at the right time as well depending on when you explore areas, I'm almost always around level 6 going into the underdark, so that would line up quite nicely!
Felt like my 7 Oathbreaker/5 Great Old One that embraces illithid powers was just the perfect main character for the game that fit the story and setting so much. I've yet to play as anything more satisfying, 9 swords bard/ 3 thief rogue comes close tho.
Went 9/3 same
Ratio OathBreaker Goo lock and agree what a cool play thru it was and powerful
@@wickeddrac7489 the reason why people do 7/5 is because, currently in BG3, the extra attack from Pact bound weapon and the extra attack from paladin level 5 stacks. People assumed it was a bug, but it is a bug that was never fixed. Call it a feature at this point.
@@Ryan-sn3uoit’s intended, and only doesn’t work on honor mode, due to their action restrictions
I love the Gloomstalker Ranger. Bonus initiative, extra initial attack with bonus damage, improved darkvision, stealth as a bonus action, invisibility power, and that's just what you start with. Add some Rogue levels in there, and you can be a stealth-kill monster.
Playing a swords bard on my first playthrough and loving the class/subclass. Aside from hilarious moments like singing to a Necromancer’s Tome, you have an answer for everything. Need crowd control? Take your pick of spells and abilities. Damage; weapon or magic? Heals and buffs? They got some of that too. The hardest part is deciding what to take at character creation and level up.
I'm still on my first playthrough of the full game and went for Wild Magic Sorcerer. I don't generally like Sorcerers, but I went with the whole hero without a past idea. So, Dark Urge Wild Magic Sorcerer. Unfamiliar about his magic, unfamiliar about is past, let the madness happen!
There is a lot of madness involved in the Wild Magic subclass. It's hilarious.
Storm Sorcery is surprisingly fun… running in dropping a fireball flying to a ledge above never gets old
Storm Sorcery+ Cleric was so fun. You basically double your movement, combined with Spirit Guardians...
@@fanbotbob64I actually have saved that one for when I do a Shadowheart play through, but the videos I’ve seen and re-specking her into a Tempest cleric on my second run makes me think of how the two would work amazingly! Twin spelling haste is also a great way to use your concentration over spirt guardians, depending on the situation…
My first play through was a Tempest Cleric + Storm Sorcery multiclass and she was such a good face character because she could either talk her way out of fights or wreck them with lighting + heavy armor
250K! Your channel is growing so fast! Happy to see as I think you are one of the best review channels.
For BG3 fiend warlock has been my favorite, it fits the story really well and the high charisma of warlock helps with all of the dialogue checks.
Making your player character a Charisma class is definitely beneficial, but one thing BG3 does that I like is the many opportunities to use class-specific interactions in conversation, which often comes with either using an ability that you're more likely to be proficient in (Monks get a lot of insight checks which are wisdom based) or will give advantage (Barbarians got a lot of opportunities to use intimidation with advantage) So the game is more flexible around your choice than at least I expected it to be.
Its just a lil booty that Wyll comes out the gate a fiendlock tho.
i don't do deals with devils.
@@cosanostra3530 why?
I turned Minsc into monk/barbarian, and I love this so much. He destroyed Sarevok with his bare hands, it was truly in character. Monk class is fire
For MC my first choice is a lore bard with two point in warlock, this way I can play without a long rest for long time. Just blasting through the game
I did a Beast Master Ranger and Beserker build for Minsc (I believe it was 7 / 5 each,) and I can confirm it was a whole lot of fun. That to me feels the most "in-game" representation of Minsc based on his Beserker-Ranger subclass from BG1 and 2. (I also gave him the Gauntlets of Strength to be more like the Minsc we see in his first cutscene.) Having an added bear tank to go alongside his hamster feels just right.
I'd also recommend playing a Great Old One Warlock (Pact of Tomb) / Assassin Rogue build as there is a lot of fun synergy to be had with the way the assassin subclass can apply to things like Eldritch Blast, especially on a Dark Urge run.
@@SpartanWolf222 I went with a full party of ranged archers in PF:WotR, just for shits n giggles. Most mobs didn't even get to move before they bit the dust, much less get close to me! :D
I made Karlach a monk barbarian, and it was incredible. She ran at the speed of light and could stun half the world before anyone else got a turn.
I love Great Old One Warlock. In Act 2, there is a certain interaction where it says my patron is excited about what's behind a certain wall. Knowing I was a Great Old One Warlock, that statement alone scared the shit out of me. It encouraged me to do something unusual, and that revealed large plot elements pivotal to the entire game. It also dislocated my shoulder until the next long rest, but frankly that's a small price to pay considering the sheer scale of what I learned and how it impacts the plot.
Friend - could you spoil this for me? I'm doing playthru #4 as a warlock but I have no idea where this wall is in Act 2 🥲
@@yamabshi So in the first room of Moonrise towers when you enter through the front gate, on your left you have a ladder going up into the rafters above the rooms. There are some wooden beams on the left you can jump towards. Follow those beams and you'll find a cracked wall you can interact with.
I'll spoil the rest after a couple of enters if you really can't find it, it's a good thing to find on your own and there is something of a reward.
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So you notice flesh behind the wall, wriggling through the tower. If you're a normal class, your companions will comment on how gross it is. If you're a Great Old One Warlock, you get a message that "your patron is excited about what's behind this wall". So if you reach into the wall, and use the new option to not fight back against it, you'll get a special cutscene with the Absolute herself, telling you she is held against her will by the chosen. You will also be pulled into a giant fleshy area beneath Moonrise, with a Tadpole on a corpse and a glimpse of what you encounter later after the first fight with Ketheric.
You can get that cutscene as well on normal classes if you choose not to wriggle your hand free from the wall, but the Great Old One Warlocks are the only one who get a message encouraging them not to break free.
College of Swords is one of my favorite subclasses both in BG3 and in tabletop just because it is by far the subclass with the most options to approach any situation with.
Rogue/Thief is fun for multiclassing. Lots of other classes do things with bonus actions and it's always nice to get more of them.
My brother swears on respeccing Shadowheart from Trickery to Tempest. I can testify that respeccing her to Light is awesome.
Favorite subspec though? Necromancer Wizard. Just insane.
4 flying ghouls from Animate Dead. 5 walking ghouls from Danse Macabre. 1 Mummy from Create Undead (vastly underrated summon BTW). 1 Elemental Myrmidon from Summon Elemental upcasted to rank 6. 1 Deva from the scroll Bestial Communion (obviously this was created for Wizards to learn, not for other classes to use once -- gives Wizards access to Planar Ally without learning Planar Ally, and it happens to be the best one of the bunch for ghouls/mummy thanks to fear.)
This is on top of everything else Wizards have to offer. Your small army is enough to solo just about anything with barely any input from the actual Wizard.
Oh, and throw in the Staff of Cherished Necromancy for unlimited Necromancy spells (just equip, destroy 10 boxes or so, and spam upcasted Blight/Circle of Death/Eyebite to your heart's content. Don't forget about Dethrone for the execute, either!
[P.S. If you're rather, you can unequip Staff of Cherished Necromancy and replace with another staff. The free Necromancy spell charges stay; you do, however, lose the advantage effect for necro spells. Dual Wield staves like a boss, imo.]
I did play a college of swords bard, and it was very powerful. Using dual crossbows along with illithid powers made her play like a fantasy John Wick, way more damage than i expected. The accuracy bonus battle masters get is very nice too!
Morty, how is it that you knock it out of the ballpark with every single dang video you do? They're always fun and informative. I truly love watching your stuff man. Thanks a million! 🤩🤩🤩
4 rogue (thief) / 5 Ranger (Gloomstalker) / 3 fighter (battlemaster) is one of the scariest characters I've built in this game so far. The damage it can output with 2 hand crossbows is just insane.
Great old one warlock was my first 5e character I brought all the way to level 20. Was extremely fun from an RP side going hard into illusion. I understand why certain spells would be difficult to implement into a video game, but I miss being able to kill a BBEG by making a fissure seem like solid ground and luring them over it.
Lol I changed Asterion to a college of swords bard/ rogue and Shadowheart to a tempest cleric and mained a monk/sorc way of the elements weirdo (that doesn’t really do reliable dmg but is super fun to play) and have been having a blast with that play through. BG3 really does offer so much versatility. I’ve never played D&D, I just sort of fumbled my way to some fun things that ended up similar to a lot of what was mentioned here
I liked the circle of the spores druid, a concept relevant to the Underdark with interesting mechanics.
Enjoyed the video and that you talked about the phenomenal RP aspect of Warlock. I have 2 extra favs... Throwzerker on Karlach, returning pike early and then the power spike later when acquiring Nyrulna is chef's kiss.
And the other is a very specific Drow Circle of Spores druid. Dex-based build, super efficient dmg per turn with hand crossbows and halo of spores, create chokes with spike growth or moonbeam. Ice Storm later for aoe control. It's a jack of all trades alternative to Swords Bard. Main downside is no Counterspell compared to Bard. But probably the most fun early-mid game subclass for me.
For my first playthrough I played as a Dwarf monk (way of the open fist). There is something that activates deep in my monkey brain when I see a character stroll up and say "I'm going to go punch god." Add to that I'm playing a Dwarf and drunk half the time and it quickly turns into a south park skit with my party throwing my monk a healing potion after he is downed and as he gets up "I didn't hear no bell."
Throwing Berserker is incredibly strong too and hilarious. It's carried by gear and Tavern Brawler but you can effectively kill 2 enemies in 1 bonus action by frenzy throwing enemy A at enemy B.
Throwing beserker + fling ring + returning pike is too OP too early on ...makes me actively leave karlach at camp just get a tiny bit of tactician difficulty back up.
I love my pact of the blade warlock and i love how the gears support it. Pact of the blade with duelist's prerogative, ring of arcane synergy, the hat that raise your charisma up to 22, potent robe, strange conduit ring. She can deal up to 100 damage per turn with potion of speed.
I have a blade pact warlock multiclassed with oathbreaker paladin (because aothbreaker adds your charisma modifier to damage) with hellbeard halberd diadem of arcane synergy Great weapon master and elixir of hill giant str, helldusk gloves hits for like 45 dmg per attack WITHOUT adding smite. I did 350 dmg to raphael with my lock with just him in one turn. Raphael didn't last very long.
its kinda funny how cleric sounded like the lamest class to me back when i started and it became my absolute favourite class of them all... you could literally do multiple playtroughs as an cleric alone and even without multiclassing (but why would you do that) have an different gameplay experience everytime. best class ever.
This was like foreplay. Warlock and Bard hands down best. Now just waiting for that Bard build video. Great content you are on your way to 500k
When I dive into my second playthrough, these videos will be incredibly helpful! Thank you 🙏
Totally agree with this list. Warlock is my favorite class hands down and it fits my playstyle in most situations; dungeon-crawl minimal rests. BG3 taking Pact of the Blade to the next level with some of the Hexblade bonuses and then doubling down on Deepened Pact stacking with other forms of Extra Attack just takes it over the top. In 5E Paladin is probably the strongest class, but with the changes in BG3 It may well be dethroned.
Honorable mention needs to go to the Bard though. They have all the utility of a Rogue, numerous ways to support the party in general, and is all wrapped up with a pretty high degree of variability in how they play. Song of Rest is hugely powerful in BG3 and I feel like any party is at a disadvantage without it. To that end my Tav is a GOO/Swords atm and its a blast to run.
Having bg3 be the most exposure to dnd I’ve gotten. I am absolutely obsessed with warlocks and eldritch blast.
I chose the College of Swords bard for my tiefling Tav purely because I wanted to play a charismatic piratey fencing type who could trick and intimidate their way through the game, and honestly I'm really glad to see that subclass listee here because it is does indeed rock. Even as someone who doesn't have a lot of videogame experience, it's such a blast to play !
Gloomstalker Ranger is absolutely insane. Sneaking up on an enemy and dual-wield attacking them out of combat allows me to attack them at least 7-8 times (with dread ambusher) before they can even do anything. I change Astarion from Rogue to Ranger every time just to finally make him useful. I then gave him Sharpshooter at Lvl 12 so now he is good at both melee and ranged. I love Ranger so much, such an underrated class, along with the Monk.
I should've known you'd have this one ready! You're the GOAT
Light cleric also is one of my favorites, because it gets a couple very good spells even at early levels, it's basically between light or tempest for me depending on if I want fireball at lv3 or call lightning.
(Edit: light v tempest also boils down to whether you like having warding flare for disadvantage on attack rolls against you and allies(at later levels) or max damage on lightning spells.
As someone whos been addicted to online multiplayer shooters for the better part of 10 years, i cant put this fucking game down. Im 120 hrs in on my first character, and i just hit the city the game is named after. Just an incredible gaming experience
Fiend is easily my favourite choice on a warlock, but I'm yet to try a crit build for great old one. Made Wyll into a paladin/bladelock multiclass during my first run (I've played a lot of 5e and figured it'd be good here too), and the amount of times that extra temp hp saved my life was more than you'd think. Often he'd get a kill, take a couple hits and end up on
I've had a few clear favorites from playing, I really love both Light and Tempest domain cleric, the two I've spec'd Shadowheart into in my good and evil playthroughs respectively, I have to say I never play Clerics normally in DnD and was caught off guard by how powerful they become. I am also a huge fan of Paladin's in general but especially Vengence Paladin. The flavour of being a punsiher-type character coupled with how satisfying smashing enemies with Divine Smite is is a lot of fun. Finally I have had a great time with Circle of the Land Druids. I just love the spell list the land druids get plus in BG3 the wild shape forms that all druids have access to are so strong you don't loose much by going land over moon unlike in 5e.
Chaotic Neutral/Evil Tempest Cleric of Talos is my ideal nutcase build. Religious zealot that's quick to anger, takes every opportunity to destroy inanimate objects and offers morally questionable blessings to those in need.
I absolutely love War domain cleric, feels very satisfying to play - but totally agree about Tempest domain too. I've also been loving running Gale as an Enchantment wizard since crowd control has been a major gap in my playthrough, and the ability to have him lock down enemies with things like Otto's Irresistable Dance or Hold Monster has won fights for me.
Thanks for the tip on the college of swords Bard, will try that next playthrough
I’ve had a good amount of fun with way of 4 elements monk, especially if you push to crank out damage with a multiclass with barbarian or such. But my favorite multiclass fodder to pop on characters has been 3 levels for thief rogue since the additional bonus action combined with the already versatile rogue kit has enabled a very mobile and item-heavy playstyle since you are afforded many more options and resources to use those options.
I totally agree about the Battlemaster sub class and just going full Battlemaster. It's fun and has multiple good options to pick from in combat, while still being incredibly simple and very powerful. My favourite martial class. Just got Lae'zel up to level 12 and took 2 ASI increases, great weapon master and martial adept. It's awesome.
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What you see is pure pain, embarrassement, suffering, torture and acceptance in 3 seconds.
I've been enjoying Way of the four elements Monk way more than I thought I would. It's definetely weaker than Way of the open hand, but it's so versatile and fun. I can cast spells, use bows and still use my fists effectively (thanks to Tavern Brawler + elixir).
Lore bard was probably my favourite to play so far. Cutting words sees a lot of use, as does extra proficiencies. And you definitely can't say no to more magical secrets.
Ehhh, they are still good but Larian kinda butchered Cutting Words. In 5e you can use it AFTER an enemy succeeds the attack roll or saving throw. Having to use it preemptively takes away pretty much half of its power just like precision attack. Meanwhile swords bards in this game get to use slashing flourish on the same enemy with ranged attacks, suddenly turning them into the best subclass for ranged builds.
I just started a game with one =D
@@evrimenustun9548 pretty sure you cast it qfter the enemy has rolled in bg3 too. It shows what the enemy rolled at the top of the pop up reaction window.
@@saltytattie833 It might have been bugged on my game then because I never got the notification during combat. Oh well, guess it's time to get started on my 30th run to test it out :D.
You do have to update the settings to ask you if you want to use cutting words. It only asks when the enemy succeeds a roll (either while attacking or when saving against you or a party member).
I just love lore bard: more skills than you know what to do with, pick up counterspell and you’re a reaction master - makes it feel like you dictate who hits and who misses, and of course the other magical secrets options let’s you branch out to whatever you want.
I’m on Act 3 with my Circle of the Moon Druid and having a blast with it. You can Wild Shape as a bonus action (as opposed to other druids who need to use their main action) meaning you can take swipes as an Owlbear or spit acid on someone as a freaking dilophosaur on the same turn.
I personally prefer the Valor Bard (with 2 levels of FIghter for Action Surge) over the Swords Bard. I like having a full spellcaster who is also a tank when I already have a Barbarian/Battlemaster and Warlock/Paladin to deal ridiculous amounts of damage, especially when said spellcaster/tank can also heal and buff said damage dealers (it seems a lot of people forget you can use Bardic Inspiration before combat) or disable key opponents at the start of a combat. It's also great fun from a roleplaying perspective for a "good guys" playthrough since you can be such an over-the-top good guy with some of the dialogue options the class gives you, and then go and sing about how great a good guy you are on the street corner.
My other favourite is a Light domain Cleric with 1 level of Wizard and a Headband of Intellect as a Cleric of Mystra (a very flavourful multi-class option for Gale or someone romancing Gale). You get most of the best Wizard spells as part of the Cleric spell list and can fill in the few missing spells you really want from the Wizard spell list by using some scrolls.
Playing Dark Urge, using a College of the Swords Bard was pretty cool. I can't imagine not playing the game with all the benefits that bards five to skill checks.
I'm currently running a Tiefling bardlock on my second play-through.
I made Lae'zel just like your showing here but I went with move attack, disarm attack, and counter attack.
I managed to miss her the first time and Karlack too!
So I'm makin up for lost time runnng both with SH and sometimes Gale.
Karlack is also the only character I have immediately liked.
Didn't like Gale, ,Will , even Shadowheart to begin with but,
they grew on me.
Gale I found was an excellent problem solver tho.
Really good at chess too.
Battlemaster Fighter + Swords Bard is my favorite combo to make a Devil May Cry character.
Dante, Nero or Vergil ?
pick your hottie 🥵
2:32 ultra relatable moment in the background gameplay
I'm still in my first playthrough as a college of lore bard which has been great fun!
never see anyone talk about Wild Magic Sorc, probably cause it's hard to build around but it's by far most fun i've had with a character.
My favorite multi class is great old one assassin. So much utility in combat and RP flavor. It’s definitely a character I would love to bring to tabletop one day.
Made a collage of swords bard simply for roleplaying reasons and i'm pleased to see that i apparently didn't make the wworst decision buildwise
Monk/College of Swords has been really fun to play this game with, as a melee/ranged hybrid. I had first intended to make it an elements monk, which visually is amazing with their fire fangs strike that can use weapon animations - bonus fact, it applies to ranged weapons after, so that's a nifty little thing that's just cool. Anyway, in these late levels I've tried Swords bard10/monk2 instead and it is amazing with the banishing smite, along with the mystic scoundrel ring.. a certain trident visually fits this so well too, although i had to go Weapon master to make it work, but really several weapons look so cool with the monk flavour.
Stats difficult (12 con :P), unusual combination, but it really evoked the dancing pole weapon master. Anyway... Swords bard ftw!
I fell in love with 1 lvl knowledge cleric, 1 lvl tempest sorcerer, and enchantment wizard rest. You have so many options to play with this "build".
Oh hell yeah old one warlock was my first ever dnd character like 8 years ago. Never changed warlock being my favorite
Here is a fun build idea:
Wizard 2, Bard 3, sorcerer 6, Cleric 1
The idea:
Wizard 2 - You go for divination so you can reroll 2 dice every long rest.
Bard 3 - You get bardic inspiration as well as cutting words so you can just interrupt anyone you want anytime.
Sorcerer 6 - You take at level 4 the "Lucky" feat so you can reroll any dice you want. and at level 6 wild mage sorcerer you get "Bend Luck" Which you can use to add 1d4 to attack rolls, saving throw, etc.
Cleric 1 - You take the light domain so you can impose disadvantage on any attack about to hit you.
Welcome to the "Bender of reality" build.
If you want to top this, have either halfling as a race so you cannot practically roll crit fails, OR take gomes for their ability to have advantage on saving throws regarding wis, int and char. An alternative is going for githyanki for custom proficiency bonuses based on need or be astarion for the +1 vampire bonus from bites. Welcome!
College of swords is battlemaster with full caster. It's INSANE. Oooh I hadn't realised I can use the flourish on the same target twice. It's better than INSANE
Storm Sorcerer is a blast, but for role-play very much like oath of vengeance Paladin, and I also had lots of as Durge Necromancer- though once I got to Act 2 started thinking Assassin would have been closer fit. But raising army of undead is super cool. Also having Shadowheart as Tempest Cleric is lots of fun.
Agreed on your 5e thoughts at the start of the warlock section. Totally.
all of these (except warlock which I haven't played) are ones I picked in my first few run throughs. The ability of the warrior to knock even bosses prone trivialized a lot of encounters.
My first run was a college of swords bard, loved it so much!
Good call on all of these.
The Bard in particular gives me that F/M/T power fantasy from old school D&D CRPGs.
In BG3, if not multiclassing, I keep coming back to the draconic bloodline sorcerer. You can do more burst damage, particularly in the late game, with a multi class build. But as early as level two or three, with the right spell selection Twin or Quicken spell can just clear away half of your opponents on round one. And it’s still a powerhouse in the last act.
I made my main character an enchantment wizard, thinking I didn't want to powergame it too hard and play a 'weaker' spec... then found out it's totally broken being able to twin cast enchantment spells... 2 dominate persons for 1 spell slot? I basically made every fight a 4 or more vs 0 with the amount of CC I could put out
I'm a storm sorc and I changed shadowheart to tempest cleric. I'm still early (just started act 2) but together we're zapping everything to death lol
oathbreaker/ancients and great old one warlock + an extra level of cleric (usually war for me, your god of choosing, can give extra nice dialogue options. Also gives guidance, turgy, and resistance so you can even better play face of the party being a cha caster) is a great setup I've been messing with recently, great rp potential and warlock paladin gameplay is just really fun and malleable
Super solid choices in each.
5 levels into battle master, take dual wielder, 3 levels into thief rogue for extra bonus action. 4 attacks at level 8 with dual weapons plus action surge for an extra 2. Take trip attack and evasive footwork = dual wielder fighter build with rogues sneak and skill profs.
Disarming the strongest opponent in any given battle is amazing, and can make a hard battle fairly trivial.
Disarming a Kithrak from their Soulbreaker Greatsword turns a perilous encounter on its heel so fast you'll roundhouse kick their head off before the blade hits the ground.
I think the great old one knows about you. As warlock there is a peice of writing where it says your patron doesn't trust someone that is around you
I think, genuinely, one of my favorite subclasses is Wild Magic Barbarian for Karlach, i dont even notice the class unless its on Her. It just.. makes me happy when she gets wonderful little bonuses and has an affinity for keeping her and her friends safe from other magic effects
I'm playing a sword bard right now and at level four with a medium armor, shield, 16 dex, and the defensive flourish I'm up to a 21 AC. I'm basically the tank with Gale and/or Wyll hurling spells from the back line.
Thank you for this video so much!
I prefer Archfey Warlock, for the starting spells it grants. Tempest Cleric is what I use for Shadowheart as well, I really like the Thunderwave, blasting people off cliffs. my third class is the Berserker barbarian, more specifically, the enraged thrower build, which I use on Karlach, it's so much fun and does massive damage and the last one? the Gloomstalker Ranger. I don't know why, but I've always loved the ranged physical damage dealers in the games I play. the archer rogue in Dragon Age origins, the hunter in World of Warcraft, the Sniper or the Mercenary in SWTOR. it also really seals it for me that the gloomstalker, the archer rogue and the WoW hunter get an animal companion that helps them do damage too. in my current playthrough, I have 4 of these 5. My character players the gloomstalker ranger, Karlach is the enraged thrower, Shadowheart the tempest cleric, and Wyll is the warlock, although, I kept him as the fiend because it's lore friendly.
I really enjoy my rogue thief\archfey lock 😁 1. rogue with charisma 2. pact of weapon 3. greather invisibility 4. you can use bonus action to get a distance from you pr enemy (if it’s near) to fill him with eldrich blasts 😁
especially with the gear. off hand dagger with silence, main dagger with bane (only with pact of weapon)… two bonus action and silence on off hand 😁
Any paladin is always a fun time, especially if I have them go into a fight with invisibility. Or just jump/fly there if I must. Lets me single out the biggest threat, then hit them. Really hard. With the right setup, they either die in one turn or get close to it.
I really enjoyed my GOOlock. Even the small patron interactions that were present. If you’d like to tap into the tadpole powers, the Great Old One patron is perfect.
It’s also good if you don’t, due to the fact you have to go against mindflayers.
Having a lot of fun with Way of Shadow Monk, honestly.
7:50 Man the character portrait glitches are getting funky. Never seen that glitch be that extreme.
How do you even fix glitches like this? My entire squad just got black background.
My favorite sub class is collage of swords. Good ranged dmg/support and great RP/off combat interactions.
Bard's and their subclasses are my favourite substitute class for Astarion, easily. His viscous mockery is hilarious, he's got a focus on CHA, and slapping two-handed fighting w/ dual weapons or hand crossbows slots right into Rogue Astarion anyway.
Like when you send him to pick a lock, "Quite simple really."
Hahaha. That 2:32 mistake of blasting the crap out of a chandelier instead of the enemy cracked me up. The Light Cleric is also really good. So weird that Shadowheart is, by default, shoehorned into the relatively useless subclass.
Tempest Cleric's one weak spot is not having all the lightning spells. Luckily Call Lightning is efficient. Add the equipment that adds reverberation on lightning hits and other gear that adds debuffs whenever you afflicted a debuff and you can really debilitate survivors of your AoE.
Dragonic sorcerer is my favorite it gives alot of strength right off the bat and becomes more versatile the more you level up
Subclasses I can't play without: gloomstalker, light cleric. Subclasses I simply love: wildheart (tiger, elk, eagle, wolf favorites), assassin, draconic sorc, divinity wiz).
I agree on the Warlock.
Very flexible and tons of fun.
My current setup is lvl 2 fighter, lvl 10 Warlock (Pact of the blade obviously)
Heavy armor + shield. Tanky, extremely mobile and deadly at any range.
Pact of the blade extra attack stacks with regular extra attack. 5 warlock, 5 paladin, 2 barbarian is obscenely broken and I love it
3 attacks with advantage from reckless attack with level 3 divine strikes available if you want. With great weapon master the damage output is completely ridiculous
@@oli6108 this is why i consider going 7 Warlock, 5 Fighter
Ive been playing durge as a great old one warlock and its alot of fun for me to imagine my patron is you know who giving me the powers. Im doing good durge tho so after i beat the boss i might respec to a draconic sorcerer
No Barbarian, sadge. I like having a tempest cleric just as you which is Shadowheart. I also like playing my Wizard the same as you so I make Gale and Evo Wizard. So that is two spell casters. Then I usually run Astarion as a Thief/Ranger or Thief/Fighter hybrid as well. So having a Wild Magic Barbarian I really enjoy. It keeps the gameplay fresh as everytime you Rage it's different and having 2 potentially 3 casters depending if I go Ranger or not being able to restore spell slots is also nice and fun. Plus Raging in general is just really cool to me and Barbs combined with some other things like Wilf Magic 9th Barb with 3rd level champion fighter can while not the most damage still do a ton and crit super often. I jus find it really fun and it also fits in with the kind of party I like to play really well.
Your top four are my actual party! 😂 I did also try the other schools of barding (my tav), but they just weren’t satisfying. Sword bard tav, tempest shadowheart, battle master laezel, evoker gale
Im a dork, ive always enjoyed knowledge clerics because they just know things
I’ve been having a blast with Oathbreaker. I’m a 6/6 Oathbreaker Necromancer.
Any class with short rest mechanics (aka all warlocks) really go off in bg3 because of how much control you have over your short rests.
Lore Bard with a quick 2 dip into Life Cleric has let me totally dominate in tactician, replacing Shadowheart with Karlach so I can have Lae'zel and Karlach as a tanky wall.
Yeah, my latest run was with a pure single class College of Swords bard and it was ridiculously overpowered by the late game. Especially after I got the ring that let her cast illusion and enchantment spells as a bonus action, essentially doubling her power.
Battlemaster is amazing. I was disappointed by the rally temp hp duration changed in comparison to the tabletop and how they implemented precision but overal it's crazy good.
My favorites are in no particular order, Vengeance Paladin, Divination Wizard, Gloomstalker Ranger, Light Cleric. For a sorcerer I'm using mod so the subclass is not on my official list, its Divine Soul. Its a sorcerer with cleric spell list, if you combine it with a paladin it turns you into a powerhouse.
I called all of these except for the College of Swords Bard. I expected Oathbreaker Paladin to show up on the list.