Baldur's Gate 3 - The Left-Handed Spellsword (Melee and Magic Build)
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Hi all! Today we have a slightly different video. I was asked to make a build that took advantage of the War Magic feature that Eldritch Knight gets, so I decided to do something completely different that achieves a similar goal. I'm really happy with how this turned out, and I think it's one of my favourite builds to date!
Also, I forgot to make it clear in the video. The hair, face, and clothes of Tav are modded. Check the description for the links.
Left Handed Spellsword:
Be sure to always start with Fighter (Two-Weapon Fighting), then go with a 1 level dip in your spellcaster of choice for the cantrips, then go to Thief Rogue 4 to get your extra attacks and first feat.
Each build uses Ethel's Boon and the Potion of Everlasting Vigour to get +3 STR. This will give you the highest possible damage on your weapon attacks in the offhand.
Main Build:
Fighter 2/Thief Rogue 4/Wizard 6 or Light Cleric
Any subclass will work for Wizard, but Evocation is recommended.
Weapons:
Any light weapon in the main hand
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Armour:
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Accessories:
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Eldritch Blast Variant:
Champion Fighter 6/Warlock 2/Thief Rogue 4
Grab the Dual Wielder feat since you get an extra feat from Fighter.
Equipment Changes:
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Or drink of whatever that is also good
bro
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Do you have alcohol poisoning build on the way?
Fun facts for the Druid version of this build: if you equip a shield and then cast Flame Blade, it replaces the shield and goes in your off-hand. It uses your casting stat to hit, so feel free to max that Wisdom. It doesn't get ability mod to damage, but any gear that adds to weapon damage will also add to the Flame Blade. Most hilariously, hitting with Flame Blade triggers the Pyroquickness Hat, so you get 3 swings with it. Be a spores druid with caustic band, strange conduit, and helldusk and that's 4d6+2d4+2 damage (+1d6 if you can upcast it at spell level 4) potentially three times, plus whatever regular actions you get! Hit 'em with a cantrip first for that sweet Arcane Synergy, if you replace one of those rings. Hell, find a way to cast Telekinesis to trigger Strange Conduit and do your best Jedi impression.
watching niche viable builds like these is my crack
Yeah I snort that shit right up. I cant get enough of exotic multi-class ideas.
Great vid! I've been looking for a single core build that I can run all four of my characters with... Something that has variations on a theme, like putting different caster types in. This is the most excited. I've been about a build vid and months. Great work
Hey thanks man. I asked for this build wanting a variation of my own build and this absolutely hits!
This has become my favorite way of making spellblades. Its very adaptable as well, if you want some more spell than blade its easy to go 1 fighter, 3 rogue, 8 caster. Doing it with trickery cleric rn and having a lot of fun.
Indeed. And if you absolutely want higher level spells + extra attack one can go College of Swords/Thief/Wizard, dumping charisma.
What difficulty?
This build looks just like mine! I even titled it similarly “Leftie Spellblades Have More Fun.” I didnt go 2 fighter, but that would be very strong especially considering this is actually just the best scroll user in the game. Sunbeam scrolls for days with two offhand attacks after it.
Hey I'm currently running your shadowheart build in honor mode! Having a ton of fun with it.
@@camk9242 I wish it was better on honour mode! Collosus slayer is bugged and doesnt add damage to ranged attacks on honour mode but works on melee hits. At least last i checked.
@CreativeExcusesGaming Ah damn, thanks for letting me know, I might switch to Gloomstalker then.
@@camk9242 Gloomstalker would be alright. I ended up just snagging a level of monk, 5 levels of ranger, and 6 cleric on my honour mode run to make her a dex scaling spear user with a nice bonus action thwack. It was really fun and still quite good!
Thought of your video immediately. I used your build in a multiplayer compaign I'm so helpful for the party. Lockpicking, utility spells, damage dealer, tank all in one 👍
Tbh one of your most interesting builds to date. A lot of the others I think they lacked the raw power this one has. Another cool thing is it barely could overlap in gear with any other party member
Hell yeah! This is awesome. I’m definitely using this for Lae’Zel!
Should call it the "Sinister Spellsword" for better alliteration. (Sinister literally just means "left handed," although it carries a malicious connotation in English.)
Yo man, fun builds! I love spellblade characters, and this is a great way to turn some classes who typically can't get there into it! As for EK with no int - you don't need int. Just pick Shield (op), Magic Missile, and other utility stuff like Longstrider & Feather Fall. The crit might still be better, but having Shield on top of the rest is so legit.
I personally like Tempest 8/Thief 3/Fighter 1. Put Phalar Aluve in main-hand and something good with lightning damage in the off-hand.
It's versatile, powerful and fun.
Yaiks! I thought you werent gona do this build when i asked for 😢❤❤❤
This is amazing, I've been playing a sorc/bard/adin as a 'red mage' (quicken spell and go ham, normally hold person) but this is the build I needed.
Why not just use the band of the mystic scoundrel then? When ever you land an attack you can use an illussion or enchantment spell as a bonus action. So you can hit cast hold person then critt hit because they are held.
If you pair it with the helm of arcane acuity you can stack up to +7 spell att/dc meaning your hold person will have 100% chance to hit. Seriously busted when you drop it on 4 people at once!
@jeromed.8804 one I'm in act 2. Two I originally thought I'd be able to peerage the abilities to get the elemental spellblade components working, I wasn't this build chassis
This the closest thing we got to a Bladesinger in BG3, i love it.
If you wanted to dump the 2 levels of fighter, you could use Belm. It's a Scimitar that has a bonus action attack that uses your main hand modifier (So pact weapon or infernal rapier will make it CHA, Sylvian Scimitar will make it use your primary spellcasting modifier, and even Shillelagh makes it use Wisdom). What's great about this is that is bypasses needing Two-Weapon Fighting. This makes Nature Cleric really strong for Shillelagh while getting Divine Strike: Elemental Fury to deal extra Fire, Ice, or Lightning damage on a hit (it's usually once per turn, but if you manually cast it with your action, then use bonus action with the auto reaction to proc it, it can make Divine Strike able to be triggered twice per turn)
Other easy combo is Club of Hill Giant's Strength + Belm. The Belm special bonus action attack will use your STR mod to hit from club, allowing you to totally dumb STR and Two Weapon fighting (Useful on characters who didn't get Ethel's boon, STR potion, or mirror for STR increase)
I haven't played as karlach or romanced gale yet and this build gives me an excuse to do both while also explaining why karlach is throwing fireballs all over the place.
Sick build man, been wanting to make a melee wizard but wasn't sure how.
I had the same idea but built it completely differently. I started off with Half-orc Warlock (great old one), 8/14/16/8/10/17, got 4 levels to pact of the blade and the dual wielder feat, 1 lvl in fighter for 2 weapon fighting, then 3 levels in rogue (theif) for the 2nd bonus action, and 2nd level in fighter for action surge. Everything past this is gravy but I went with a 4th level in rogue for the 2nd feat (spell sniper), then 3rd level in fighter (champ), and 5th level in rogue for 50% damage reduction. I use Duke Ravenguard's longsword in the mainhand and charge-bound hammer in the offhand (I do not attack with the mainhand sword, it is simply a stat stick). I also use the Birthright hat so with Ethel's boon and zero feat investment I can have 22 charisma. I start combat with Darkness then action surge, eltritch blast and 2 offhand attacks. This build is niche but it isn't just viable it's overpowered especially in honour mode where normal hexblade builds take a severe nerf.
*I just realized that after level 5 it makes more sense to start with fighter then get to lvl 4 warlock for the con save proficiency. Also an argument could be made for mainhanding the blade of the undermountain king for the crits on 17 but I prefer having 22 charisma and 50% damage reduction.
Second comment on this.
Going dex and having hand crossbows is a good backup to when you can't make it in melee. Downside is you have only a few good melee off hands as a tradeoff. A lot of evocation spells don't really put something on the enemies so sometimes getting the stacks to add your int to the dmg can be tricky at the beginning until you get the item from sorcerous sundries if you don't use a cantrip. Eldritch knight 4 and wizard 4 works very good as well and gets you full feat progression.
Did 17 dex 16 int and 15 con. ASI to do 18,16,16. Second one to get int up. And tbh I don't think you need to use the 3rd one to bring something to 20. You can go with something more on the utility side and get away with it, I'm thinking dual wielder could be a strong contender. I'm curious to see how this works with duelist prerogative when time comes in this run but if that doesn't work I will most likely do dual wielder and re evaluate on the best off hand finesse. This build got me super excited to finish the few achieves I'm missing
I was literally trying to build something like this last night. I'm only level 8. But I've got those rings and some other things that work well as a spell sword type. But I was having a problem trying to capitalize on it.
What I did was made astarian a level 3 thief and level 5 Eldridge knight. I have a helm of arcane acuity, and one of arcane synergy. And a ring of synergy. The synergy ones you have to use a spell then get your spell bonus on your melee. The acuity gives you melee bonus to spells.
I am using the 1d4 fire gloves and the thorn blade that gives 1d4 poison when concentrating. I ended up swapping the synergy ring for the ring that gives 1d4 psychic when concentrating.
I cast protection from good and evil on myself (astarian) which is a concentration spell that lasts till long rest.
The problem I have is only 2 spell slots left. So I can only use cantrips.
I was thinking about using a warlock instead, using hex to concentrate on. But the problem is always like you said in the beginning, I'm losing the extra attack by not attacking first.
Thanks for the build, funny I was literally trying to figure this out a few hours before you posted it lol
Gonna try something like this for Lae’zel in my current run! Currently 4Fighter/1Wizard, just a quick respec
These builds are so close to my first character it’s scary. It was a 6/3/3 Eldritch Knight GOOlock thief rouge. I took pact of the blade so I could focus on dex over str and not sacrifice on my to hit on eldritch blast. This allowed me to deal good damage either range or melee. I’d go over the specifics but I’m sure you could figure them out. If you care to, feel free to make a video on it. Who knows, you might find a melee or ranged combination stronger than I did.
With both weapons light and finesse, there's no reason to go Str over Dex except the vigour potion. If you go the Str route, it's better to go dual wielder along with an asi for your casting stay, so that you can use one of the act 3 staves alongside your left hand weapon of choice.
Yeah, that's a good point. My goal was to get both the spellcasting stat and the weapon stat at 20. Also, not all light weapons are finesse, so I wanted to give people more weapon options.
The only non finesse light weapon I have found worth using is the Shining staver of skulls, and that's only in radiant based builds. YMMV. Also consider the 1/3/8 spread for more spellcasting prowess, including access to the GrInvis/Stealth Expertise/PWTrace combo, access to summoning spells especially for druids etc.
In my math estimations, the best DPS version of the build has always been the Rogue 3/DB Dorcerer fire 9 with pyroquickness hat, gloves of the balanced hands and the helffire hand crossbow with sharpshooter.
Plus better initiative if you go dex. I think personally when I build this getting 18 in both of the important stats is still very good
@@user-wv8yk3xu4hif you hold crimson mischief on your off hand, you’ll get dual weapon fighting for free. Originally I thought it only works for the weapon itself but in fact it also works for your off hand dual crossbow. So you can use other gloves like helldusk to give more damage. Plus the crimson mischief is also quite strong in case you need to do melee.
Im totally doing this on my githyanki playthrough eventually
BTW, this is my go to build for a Shar Shadowheart. F1/ Thief3/ whatever cleric 8. No concentration spells, just Shar's darkness with the Spear of Evening in the off hand. You can pretty much use the entire Shar set she gets without tweaks except putting the spear in the left hand with dual wielder.
Thank you Hobo for being the sole reason why i have toxic relationship cyle of spending and stealing with Withers because i am not accepting any responsibility.
WOOOHOOOO RETURN OF THE DARKFIRE SHORTBOW YALL
If you want a longsword, you can use Phalar Aluve.
Son of a bitch.... using off hand for double bonus actions aka double swings. Absolutely brilliant! I literally started a spellblade yesterday but this guide is gonna drastically alter it for the better. Thanks for this!
idea.
Put one of the 8s into strenght, put the 10 into your mental stat of choice,, and put the 15+2 into dex. As a main hand weapon, equip club of hillgiant strenght (also an act 1 item). This would give you better initiative, and would open up other armor, be it exotic medium like the yuanti scale, or just go for max and get the armor of agility. However, it would also open up robes, like the potent robe, without a significant dip in AC, using mage armor or draconic scales. Doing so would limit the item selection a bit, locking you out of elemental momemtum boots, the grit helmet and the arcane acuity helmet.
But I think it should work.
I wish we had a toggle to hide the main hand weapon… I would finally be able to make my Dread Pirate Roberts build.
Gandalf build go crazy
In act 3 I did this build (int variant) but in order 1 fighter (dual wield style) 3 rouge thief and the 8 wiz evocation. 2 feats from wiz and I'm using short swords which are light. Then all the fire spells, minor elemental and I think 2 extra spells. Using the pyro head piece and heavy armour (persistence set) with dark fire bow it doesn't hurt you and you can use a single spell then 3 melee attacks
I typically have another character use haste on me whether it's a longer duration with sorcerer or just have a twin cast
Great build! Love Gish’s!
I was wondering if you’ve experimented combining 4 elements monk Ice Block with Sorcerer Telekinesis? You’re throwing around a 400 lbs block of death! Maybe build there?
Huh... I tried just throwing the block normally and it didn't work. I've not tried Telekinesis yet
I made the same build for Wyll but i ad the Pyroquickness Hat for an adicional left handed attack when cast a 4lvl fireball while being 8 lvl Warlock Pact of The Blade, 4 Rogue Thief. Can cast 4 melee attacks or one eldich blat and 2 attacks or 1 fireball and 3 melee attacks per turn, lots of fun, literally " we have arcane knight at home..."
Note: You can link your weapon of your pact (right hand) then move it to your left hand and still get the bonus attack and modiffiers, every dual wielder feat or fighting style is recomended/mandatory.
You want to dip into your spellcaster class last, so at lvl3.
It determines your item DCs.
Not the last class you leveled in.
The last new class you added.
You can do this build with a druid as well but much more melee focused with spore druid. You use your exact setup but instead to proc the pyro hat, you use flame blade. So you can go and abuse level 5 of any martial class and get 3 offhand attack on top. The best part? You are single attribute dependant as wisdom is used to hit and a sword like the sylvan blade and bhelm can be used for offhand. The beauty is the extra damage you get from spore druid temp HP feature. On top of that you get to have the OPiest armor in the game that can give you aoe haste, concentration free 1 time per day! You get also plenty of summon and other nice things from druid!
For the gear you can go all in into the light orb set since your flame blade is a light source. You can go any set really. You even can go savage attacker and reroll the damage dice to get better damage for the flame blade! The possibilities are infinite!
I might steal this
Would I use Ethel's hair on Dex or Wis for this build? Extremely interested after playing through using this Wizard variant and having a ton of fun!
@@vooligan9499 Use it for wis and pair it with Khalid's Gift for +2 total.
@@vooligan9499 Dex is pointless in that build as you use your wisdom to do damage from and chance to hit for the flame blade and off-hand if you use the weapon I mentioned.
Nice now show us that half orc assassin you have tucked away 🙏🏾🏆
I don't have one
yet
Could you put 7 in fighter for the bonus attack after cantrip, put the other 2 levels in sorcerer, use the spell/cantrip as a bonus action and still get the attack on your main hand and then bonus attack, and then 3 levels in thief? That gives you 3 attacks and a cantrip with no haste, right? It goes, use spell as bonus attack, melee attack, 2nd melee attack cause fighter, 3rd melee attack w/ second bonus action cause thief. Cantrip, melee, melee, melee.
You could do the club of hill giant strength in the main hand for 19 STR allowing you to put points in CON, and the other stats for saves.
Yeah, but it's an unwritten rule for this channel that I avoid using temporary buffs if I can help it.
in a related vein i've been thinking about making a caster build that takes dual wielder to gain the benefits of two different staffs at the same time. hard part is trying to decide which staffs to use
Grab Mourning Frost and The Spellsparker.
Make a Storm Sorcerer. Freezing and Shocking foes with high cold and lightning damage. Grab some equipment that uses Encrusted with Frost and Lightning Charges. You'll love it.
@@HoboZonethat one's good, yeah. i was also considering light cleric with the staff of arcane blessing + spellsparker. arcane bless makes spell attacks like scorching ray super accurate and spellsparker adds that nice extra damage.
You can also go Draconic (cold) sorcerer, keep the Mourning Frost and use the Legendary Markoheshkir, potent robe, amulet of elemental augmentation, birthright and your cantrips especially Ray of frost hits like a truck, like 35+.
The wizard variant in heavy armor could go for abjuration instead of evocation, focusing on single target damaging spells, and utility/defense spells with shield, counterspell, fire shield, misty step. The damage reduction and the arcane armor together would patch up the lower HP quite nicely.
I really like this more tanky variation. I love that people are coming up with so many different ideas with the original blueprint
@@HoboZone im not as good with 5e builds as I want to be, Im bad at coming up with original things that are powerful, but Im okay at tweaknig thigns that already exsist.
Great video bro!! But do you think this build could work with the abjuration wizard frost build? Just curious this a defensive style could be cool with it also.😊
Yeah. The wizard variant is very flexible
I was about to comment basically the same thing. Might have to give up that second level of fighter to dip into dragon sorcerer for armor of agathys.
I do this with my warlock but I use a 1h xbow with sharp shooter.
I think the helldusk armor would be a good option as well bc it makes you immune to burn while also giving you fly and setting enemy casters on fire
Yeah, but I didn't include it for the reason that you only get it after beating [redacted], at which point the game is already over.
I’ve been working a lot of Gish builds. Two I’ve been thinking about a lot is 8 Eldritch Knight/4 Abjuration Wizard. With the Gemini Gloves you can target two people per cantrip. I haven’t tested it with Shocking Grasp yet. My idea is to dual elemental cantrip for 2 attacks, plus the element necklace which adds your mod, plus the ring of arcane synergy and the ring of elemental infusion or whatever it’s called. Using the bonus action to swing with the infusion and synergy active after casting two cantrips. Full wizard spell list from scrolls for the correct spell levels you have to cast. I think you get up to 3 level 3 spells. Ritual casting is also nice here. Shield too. Wizard with a GWM essentially
The other one is Thief Rogue Bladelock, finding a way to grab the band of the mystic scoundrel and vicious mockery would allow you to make weapon attacks and spam the mockeries as bonus actions, not the strongest compared to other things but I think it’s kind of funny
Doesn't the Band of the Mystic Scoundrel only let you cast one spell as a bonus action per turn or am I mistaken?
@@HoboZone it might? I haven’t progressed enough in a different save to see if it can be trigger with thief rogue. My end game save all got rewritten from the last final push in the game so I can’t respeck and check gear and stuff. I haven’t tested the spamming vicious mockery but I thought it was just funny, but lemme see if I can figure it out
@@HoboZone it actually does not have a limit to how many times you can. So you can effectively pair the mystic scoundrel with the arcane synergy to attack, cast a cantrip (mockery), and attack again with synergy gained, and use another mockery or any other illusion or enchantment spell if you want
The best EK War Magic build I've made is EK7/Warlock3/Sorc2. You miss out on feats, but you get to cast EB and twinned cantrips, follow them up with a weapon attack, and dump Str completely. Sorcery points are not an issue with the amulets you get by mid-game. Gloves of Dex let's you put all points in Int and Cha, necklace of Elem Augmentation and potent robes for cantrip power.
I'm not sure if you've seen Solo Leveling before. But would the build be viable for Going Necro/Focusing on summons for the Wizards Levels? Was thinking of using the Ring of the Crypt Lord for higher level summons as well. Probably not the most optimal, but I was thinking it could be fun.
Absolutely! In fact, Spores Druid could be good for this. You'd get extra Necrotic damage on your attacks as well as create undead and its own unique undead summoning feature.
I can see Wizard being good as well, though, especially with the Necromancer s8bclass features.
@@HoboZone What should my initial stat spread look like? If I'm going with Wizard.
How did you get a max lvl char to play the 3rd fight of the game?
Surprised you didn't mention the club of hill giant strength (or i missed it). Using it as a stat stick your trade off 1 str for another entire dump stat. With armor of agility you gain more ac and saves making this more of a tank build.
I did consider it, but in the end, I decided that pushing strength to 20 was more valuable when it came to allocating stats.
Also I didn't like how the character looked just constantly holding a stick in their hand but that's me lol
This is actually similar to a way of for elements monk
Tempest cleric would be extremely fun with this concept, but thunderbolt strike unfortunately ruins the build. Really wish theyd make it togglable passive.
You should do a Enchantress build which uses the Wizard subclass enchanter and if you have already done so lmk / link me the vid lol. I was looking for something to optimize the CC mage style essentially and I heard starting with 1 level is sorc to get constitution proficiency and the rest in wizard is how ppl do it? Idk tho pls lmk
Yeah that would be a decent way
For the warlock one wouldn't it make more sense to go 3 Warlock/3Rougue/6 Fighter? You lose one feat but you can use charisma to hit and damage, no? Does it not work on the secondary hand?
Also, I forgot, if you have the talent it might make sense to put a staff in the main hand to power up the spells...
Thinking of a version with spore druid, who add 1d6 necro dmg each melee attack. With arcane synergy, each off-hand attack would deal 2d6+Dex+Wisdom. I did try to add shoking grasp as cantrip but can't find a way to have this cantrip with wisdom spellcaster
The only way to access WIS-based Shocking Grasp is through Spell Sniper and picking it. Spell Sniper uses your character's casting stat. Another way is with War Caster, but you will only be able to use its Shocking Grasp as a reaction-- it doesn't grant you the spell.
tl;dr - Spell Sniper is the only way.
This is true. Poison Spray might be a better close range cantrip for druid
Extended spell is fantastic with the Sorcerer version. 4 turns Blade Ward early and 6 turns Globe of Inv late( via scroll, don't remember if metamagic works with scrolls, hmmm...).
Metamagic works with spells gained from items like Draconic Elemental Weapon, so it should work with scrolls. Not 100% certain
Tested it. It does. 6 turns Globe of Invul is a game breaker, especially for the final battle and the Ansur fight.
Can you make a video on how to make this character in the video he looks good!
This video uses mods. They're linked in the description
Thinking of endgame selfish items for this build I'd run with
All the jewelry and cloak you already have, Markoheshkir/Crimson Mischief, Gibus of the Worshipful Servant, Robe of the Weave/Supreme Defenses/Potent, Gauntlets of Hill Giant Strength/Gloves of Dexterity, Boots of Elemental Momentum. This would work best as any form of sorcerer or warlock.
These choices allow you to hit 24 charisma. 16 base, 2 skill improvements, +1 from hair, +3 from mirror. You'll also have either 23 strength or 18 Dex as your attacking stat, Mischief is versatile so it works either way. Dex lets you be way more aggressive in dumping, since you won't need to stat any physical stat other than Con, Strength has more raw damage output but you still need to skill Dex. The main point behind Markoheshkir is that we can add our proficiency when we deal elemental damage, which we can spam. Mischief also adds our proficiency as physical damage, which is why we'd want the 23 strength from Hill Giant.
Yeah this obviously works. I don't allow myself to use end game gear most of the time as well as using temporary consumables if I can help it.
@@HoboZoneYeah, that's fair. I think a standout earlygame item would be Mourning Frost though. Kinda an offbrand Markoheshkir. Dex Gloves are also pretty noteworthy for being an early game way to actually make your statline make sense.
theres a lot of items you missed givving spell save dc while threatened and the arcane bolstering boots for example
Yeah those could also work. That's why I left the boot slot as an open ended thing
would u be able to do a draconic sorcerer druid? i have been thinking of making one, but i am not sure if i wanna lean more into druid or sorcerer. I feel like it would be a fun roleplay build
It would be a bit similar to my Feywild Channeler that I posted a few days ago, subbing out Nature Cleric for Druid (and Wild Magic for Draconic obviously). The equipment would mostly be the same just to make the stats work.
With Draconic, you want to hit the level 6 feature at least to get the damage buff. I think a 6/6 split makes sense. Circle of the Land seem like the obvious choice as it would be easier to focus on a single damage type by choosing the right circle spells. Lightning as your chosen damage type would make sense to me as you get mostly lightning spells from Druid and would be the easiest to work with, but any should work if you know what you're doing.
You might find success with Moon Druid for Wildshape mixed with Haste and such, but at that point, I'd just use the Darkfire Shortbow. Especially since Wildshape loses power the less levels you put into druid.
That's my initial thoughts anyway.
@@HoboZone yeah, the 6/6 split could work. Iwas thinking of either 2/10 split going either way working as well. 2 in druid would give u ur level 1 utility spells and then the rest of draconic sorc levels would boost your damage with whichever elemental type u decide to go with, and also able to get higher level spells too. Then the other way of 2 draconic for metamagic (or 3 if you want the 3rd metamagic) and the rest in druid. You could look at a more earthen dragon type that way for roleplay purposes!
@@KatoGod that sounds good. I went for more of an even split since when people want to do multiclassing like this they want many features from both classes
@@HoboZone thats fair lol it does give more variety in the playstyle when you do that so i understand it 😀
Could the caster be a warlock? How would that work? Would you do pact of the blade?
Alright, so here's what I got:
1: take the fiend, blade ward, true strike, hellish rebuke, and hex.
Some multiclassing later
2: fiendish Vigor, devils sight, armor of Agathys
3: pact of the blade, darkness
4: not sure for the cantrip, so I went with bone chill. Scorching Ray. ASI to charisma as video instructs.
5: I get extra attack, mire the mind, and fireball
6: At level 12 I wasn't sure again and just took hunger of Hadar.
Seems fun, my computer is broken, so I can't try this immediately.
Pact of the Blade only works with main-hand weapons, not off-hand.
This is interesting, can you use pact of the chain from a walock on you off hand?
If you mean Pact of the Blade, then no. It doesn't work with off-hand weapons.
You can pact and then unequip an re equip, the pact still stays active in off hand
@@cali4806 ... for real? Why didn't I think of that
Hmm, what about 7 Eldritch Knight Fighter / 2 Warlock / 3 Thief Rogue using Infernal Rapier in the off hand? All damage will be based on Charisma, making Str a dump stat. Plus you can do the darkness/devil sight combo using the 2nd level eldritch knight spells.
Yeah that could work.
I like that Tav outfit, where did you get it, a mod?
It's a mod yes, check the description.
Basket full of equipment mod i believe
I think that you can get two weapons fighting feat instead of increasing a spellcasting attribute, especially if you are using charisma based class(game is already can give you maximum charisma without putting even 1 point to it. You can even start at 16, and with hair, mirror and hat you will be sitting on 22 if you need). By simply holding staff in your main hand, your spells become more powerful, just think about it.
Yeah, it's 100% worth doing that to hold Markoheshkir in your main hand, since you can add your proficiency bonus to whatever damage type you're applying to your weapon for some big damage increases.
As a very early game alternative the Mourning Frost lets you buff up specifically the cryo damage of your infusion just a touch too, it also gives you some crazy CC by creating an ice surface under everything you attack.
You also shouldn't need duel wielder because staffs are versatile. As long as the weapon you're trying to offhand is one-handed like a dagger or a shortsword and not versatile like a staff or longsword you should be able to offhand it with the staff no trait needed.
You need dual wielder to use a quarterstaff this way. It's not a light weapon.
@@HoboZoneYeah, you're right. I thought versatile let you duel wield anything in off hand, but it's just shields.
@@HoboZone And it is why I told about taking the feat that allows you to wield it. Because you have enough feats for that at least with charisma based classes.
Here's an idea for a video; Make thematically appropriate companion builds that try to maximize the effectiveness of their unique abilities (Vampire bite (Gas Cloud with ascension), Soul Branding, Soul Coins, etc.)
Heck, make a Gale suicide bomber build :P
(Suicide bombing actually works great with Orcs due to their racial btw).
Sounds interesting. Might look into it when I've done the build for Halsin and the others.
Wait, you have finesse weapons shown and they are perfectly capable of being main damage options. Why not go with Dex over STR for better initiative, AC with medium armor, and damage?And for Charisma based casters, the Infernal Rapier lets you use your Charisma straight out so you don't need anything else.
Because with the way the stat spread works, you would lose out on your spellcasting ability score in the long run. And you'd lose put on weapon damage as well.
With only two feats, there's no way to get both DEX and INT to 20, and as such, you'd lose damage from both sources.
You could use the gloves of dex to have it set to 18, but that's still less overall effectiveness.
There's nothing wrong with using heavy armour with this build, especially when it works so well with the pyroquickness hat.
I don't understand why you can't go high dex instead of high strength, I was looking for a build like this that was still light armor and dex based.
You can, but you'll be a bit more limited in your options for weapons and other equipment. I'd use the Gloves of Dex and put your ASI into your spellcasting stat.
@@HoboZone Ok, I'm new to all of this, but you're using finesse weapons, and I thought they scaled with dex, but we're using strength here, I guess that's what confused me the most. EDIT: Oh nevermind it's whichever stat is higher that it scales with, my bad.
@@HoboZone Maybe I missed it, but what subclass for wizard did you go with on the first rogue build?
@@babayaga4320 Evocation. That way you can cast any big blaster spell without worrying about damaging yourself or your party.
Eldritch Blast is multi-attack
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Its a shame theres no real highlights for magical hand crossbows in this game. Could easily swap to dex and use a hand crossbow in the off hand as a cool ranged variant.
The Hellfire Hand Crossbow and the Ne'er Misser are actually a solid combo in my opinion.
@@HoboZone Isn't the Hellfire Engine Crossbow a heavy crossbow, not a hand crossbow?
@@Foliash Not the same weapon bg3.wiki/wiki/Hellfire_Hand_Crossbow
Ahh right@@HoboZone
Drop 1 level of rogue for a 7th level of fighter in the last one and you could use eldritch blast, ten make 2 attacks with any weapon in your offhand. Great weapon master greatsword bonus action attacks lol.
Annoying that you need 7 whole levels of fighter to make that work though.
Requesting a bladesinger build no mods
I mean, this is probably as close as you're gonna get.
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