Please read this before asking questions: www.reddit.com/r/BG3Builds/comments/18pxoy9/honor_mode_102_smite_swords_bard_ssb_complete/ Hey I neatly organized the video into chapters check the description Discussions Banishing Smite: It has bought to my attention that this adds 5d10 force damage on top of your normal damage... Pick this for a magical secrets spell it seems cracked Alert VS GWM: I prefer alert over using elixirs of vigilance just because I'm lazy. GWM is objectively better sure and using the hell rider longbow will bump your initiative up in the bow slot Savage attacker? I'm not mathematically inclined but I played a lot of hours with this feat to notice it makes a large difference to smite damage. Here is a discussion thread www.reddit.com/r/BG3Builds/comments/16iep9v/evaluating_savage_attacker_and_other_mechanics/ Going full DEX paladin with piercing: Good move, probably a little complex for the video Cloud Giant Elixirs: I know you can dump STR and use the hag hair/everlasting potion on someone else. It's just a suggestion to make it elixir-less and approachable ya'know? Good playthrough? No Bhaalist? Awesome that's why we want the Balduran's Giantslayer + Armor of Agility/Hell Dusk/Luminous Got variations on the build? Awesome let me know A lot of love and production goes into these videos so any support would be appreciated if you found value in my content ❤ ko-fi.com/morganaevelyn
Started watching you for the memes and still watching for the hilarious devastating builds! 🖤🖤🖤 edit: Holy crap you got a shit ton of info into 16 mins.
Can use Alertilixers as needed for w/e fights and skip Alert, but SA + GWM = not a lot, I take SA but go with Defence as a fighting style. Also are you carrying Shadowheart around for feet smell or is she the Greater Invisibility bot? It took me way to long to figure out how to have Pass Through and Greater Invis up at the same time. This is probably answered in other comments but you are damned lucky I read this one tbh. Well put together video that trapped me into watching a stream VOD so thanks.
That's an interesting build. I usually prefer to go straight for the Titanstring bow, which you can purchase from Brem in the Zhent hideout. I use the hag hair for charisma and dump Strength like Dexterity, instead relying on Giant Strength Elixirs.
I'd imagine it must have caused you significant physical and emotional pain to have to equip MM with footwear for this run, so I appreciate the sacrifices you made to bring us this video
For any players who are uninformed or new: each character can only use one concentration spell at a time. Both pass without trace AND greater invisibility are concentration spells, thus requiring a minimum of 2 on the team. Also, the more stealth you have, the better the greater invisibility works. Greater Invisibility works for 1 minute in real time OR 10 turns in turn based mode OR until you are “seen.” Pass without trace works until you take a long rest, cancel it, or cast another concentration spell. ALSO, a sorcerer can extend Greater Invisibility to make it last even longer.
I've been casually researching builds for honor mode for a week. This is the first one that looks really fun to play. Absolutely going to play it if I fail my current run.
Yeah it's fun at all points of the game. It's a good face character and has a lot of utility. My only complaint is you get a little jealous of other martial classes at level 5 and you have to wait another level to blossom with an extra attack but flourishes should hold you over. Also there are a lot of variations available for swords bard so you're kinda spoiled for build direction
I'm glad that this guide exists, I finished a run with this build a few days before it was uploaded anyways, and used the Reddit source, but I think there's a lot of different/interesting tips here that'll be useful for a lot of people. Plus, it's funnier/has significantly more memes, which helps gamer attention span a lot. A few notes that are worth mentioning about it that involve some spoilers, read at your own risk etc; SPOILERS AFTER THIS POINT FINAL WARNING; -If you go for the gloves of Dex early as suggested in the run before stopping the Rite of Thorn, the Druids complete it and then that kicks out all the tieflings/they die on the road. It'll change a few itemization suggestions/if you plan to Romance Karlach it'll mess somethings up. - Races *usually* don't matter, but if you're Human/Half Elf you can get Unseen Menace at the same time as Gloves of Dex, which work as a good Dollar General Risky Ring. This works after the Paladin levels, but beforehand for the above races since you have proficiency with Pikes. If you're going a super stealthy build for it, Deep Gnomes *also* are nice as they give you Advantage on Stealth checks, which with Pass Without Trace is insane. Half Orcs basically add extra beef to the build, adding an extra damage die to the crit (which HURTS with the Balduran Giantslayer). - If you let the Tieflings live, Dammon sells the Harmonium Halberd at Last Light Inn, which with the Hags Hair/Potion of Everlasting Vigour gives you a whopping 22 STR with 0 Elixirs, it's pretty based. It sadly only lasts a little depending on how you're doing things, but still. - Punch-Drunk Bastard is *also* an option if you're going for STR related things, as with the above STR stuff, Punch-Drunk Bastard you'll get Advantage on Attack Rolls and an AoE blast of Thunder Damage on your attacks. It does fuck up your Charisma/Dexterity Checks but if you're in the thick of a fight it's not as important imo. If you aren't proficient with Spears/someone else really needs the Risky Ring, it's there if you need it. - Bloodlust Elixirs are dope, especially if you can get someone to Haste you in the party. They give you a bonus action/5 temp HP if you kill someone, which can lead to more attacks/smites. It's not unrealistic to get 5 two handed attacks in a turn if you A: Kill Someone and are B: Hasted, and that does a MASSIVE amount of damage, 50 just from Great Weapon Master before any crits/smites/damage dice are rolled. - For the Evil Run where you're doing the Shar's Spear of Evening, you'll want to have someone with the Eversight Ring (if you have another melee char give that to them) and if you can afford it, other party members should have Devil Sight (so they can see into the Darkness you'll be spewing out). All of your physical damage gets converted to piercing when you use Slashing Flourish/Edge of Darkness so that translates to disgusting damage with Bhaalist Armor/someone using Bloodthirst.
Thank you so much for the wonderful and insightful write up. I only went for the dex gloves because I wanted to make the video as simple as possible and have it respec-less. I actually did end up using the spear of evening and I think some of the clips had it. I definitely prefer the nyrulna. Maybe I'm just too smooth brain to get it to do as much damage
@@MorganaEvelyn yeah as much as I liked the big numbers with Shar's Spear of Night, it really wants you to base your whole team composition and play style around it since it cares about obscured lighting and the unique weapon skill is a lot of the damage on it since it's all piercing damage which bhaalist doubles compared to Nyrulna which is wayyy more plug and play but the weapon skill isn't as good because it's all thunder damage. It's mostly just a stepping stone until you get Balduran's Giantslayer which slaps, but I really prefer to let a Throw character have Nyrulna since it gives them a good AoE option, but it feels bad not giving the MC the shiny new stuff for some reason.
If going good aligned, Bloodthirst works to exploit Piercing damage. Harder to get compared to the bhaalist armor, and takes an attack to apply, but still lets you nuke bosses. Also works on everything, but I've heard the "Doesn't apply to resistant or immune" part of Bhaalist doesn't always apply on enemies.
Bow the Banshee pure swords bard carried my Honor mode run. In Act 3, Band of the Mystic Scoundrel + Helm of Arcane Acuity + Arrow of Many Targets was typically my opening move followed by Confusion or Hypnotic Pattern. Seeing a lot of overlap here which is neat. I've considered the piercing damage build stuff, but I think that's probably going to end up in a future evil run with the bhaalist armor. For synergizing with swords bard though without that armor, I think Orin's dagger does grant pierce vulnerability on hit as does a certain amulet that you can cast on a target. I found that was very necessary for the Steel watcher fights in particular where my bard struggled.
I've been using confusion but I might try hypnotic pattern seeing your comment. Yeah I want to explore the piercing damage a bit more I might try the Crimson Mischief next run, aha yeah the steel watchers only chunk with my smites. The enjoyment of flushing them into the water was immense when I used mobile flourish
I am using this build currently and it smacks and slaps. If you can get in and attack without being stunned, it’s unstoppable and the big bad dies in a turn or two
I'm currently playing through with your Storm Cleric / Sorcerer build on tactician. Top notch videos, and I appreciate the effort it must take to keep it succinct.
Shar's Spear of the Evening is actually a FANTASTIC weapon for this build as well since Edge of Darkness can hit an unlimited amount of enemies that you then get to smite! And grouping them up is simple with either black hole or your 100% Command!
Wow thank u for putting in the effort to timestamp everything, makes it way way easier to come back to this vid when my characters level up. Good build.
at the end of the vid my favorite thing surprisingly isn't the new build I'm about to go try. It's actually how funny and entertaining the entire video was. Boring build video? nah. i appreciate that so much. im already sitting down to look up builds for a game; why every other build video gotta have no spice whatsoever. this video fuggin rawks. much love. praise shadow cutie
Oh my god dear you don't know how much this comment means to me. I try to make my educational videos as fun as possible and it sometimes rubs people the wrong way but for you to completely understand my intentions it made me so happy Shadowcutie really is the best ❤️
I find it hilarious that my first playthrough a launch I stumbled through stealth bardadin on my own. Your gear choices and synergies are fantastic, thanks for the ideas.
As evidenced by your recent stream, in Honour Mode the greatest challenge for this build is the unrelenting battle against hunger (in HM, long rests take 80, not 40, supplies). Too bad you can't task your hirelings to scrounge up food, or farm it. P.S. Even if you stay ranged and mix in Champion Fighter instead of Paladin, Reverberation and Arcane Acuity stacks are OP, especially if paired with gear that reduces your minimum crit roll (like Blade of the Undermountain King). Plus Bard's unique interactions and suitability for the party face.
If you really wanted to do this just spec all your followers as land druids and have them all use every spell slot on goodberry at the begining of the day. You can get some spell slots back with circle of the land recover feature to make even more berries. I wouldn't use the amulets and free cast staffs for this though. Once you get access to the rest pool in a certain house in Act 3 you can infinitely refresh spell slots to amass an infinite source of food items using heroes feast.
If you’re not Mommy Milkers you can be a light foot halfling or a deep gnome for advantage on stealth checks. Otherwise, use the armor from the counting house vault, or cats grace armor from the weirdo in the mountain pass can also give advantage on the stealth checks :)
I decided to use this build for my current honor mode run and it is genuinely so good. I was having so much trouble with honor mode before this (I was being a fool😢) and thought why not try a build someone else has come up with and this build is perfect. It also works perfectly with my oc's backstory! Thank you!!!
Enjoy it. I only do the builds I genuinely play myself. I've had several bardadin runs now and my favorites have been the duo runs with Shadowheart. It's honestly really comfy
holy crap this is an amazing video. I'm excited to try this in my honor run since I was burn out of it rn midway through but looking forward to it again!
Just wanted to update but I wanted to thank you again! My single honor run has been so much more fun now and able to get through the run a lot more easily and also just opened my eyes to multiclassing more often. There were fights that I was super scared about but the boss would die within the first or second round of combat. Much love for the build! Thank you again and hope you have a lovely rest of your day Morgana!
We're making to the epilogue with this one 🗣 ( I'm delusional and unlucky with rolls), but this is an interesting concept for a build. I will definitely try it out.
Bless. Congratulations. This is my go to build for my face character in honour mode so I can vouch for it's success. Thank you for leaving such an awesome comment 😊
Good to see others enjoying the most busted armour in the game. Another beastly build, is dual wield Orin weapon + under mountain dagger, go 5 fighter / hunter for TWF, 2 barb for guaranteed adv and 5 thief. 4 total attacks per round, abuse typical +2 flat dmg rings, drake glaive buffs with twinned spell, helldusk gloves and str elixirs. More flat dmg than gwm builds, more hit chance, better spread
Another neat part is, this build benefits from sneak attacks. GWM builds don't use finesse weapons and they can't use it. So this build does not only rival GWM in terms of flat added damag, it also has another layer of damage in the form of sneak attack. It might just be the most consistently hard hitting build in the game (paladins hit hard for sure, but smites are dependent on spell slots and GWM means you won't hit every attack)
I can't thank you enough for providing detailed build guides like this! I was wondering what allowed her to jump so far - was it an item/ potion/ spell? I hope this build still works even if I'm running a good playthrough 😂
An alternate option for the Unholy Assassin quest: you can find Dolor standing next to Cora, kill him, loot his bag of hands and take that to the Tribunal. I'm definitely gonna try this build, stealth is so stronk in BG3.
Finding your streams brought me life! The humor, the amazing skills, and the elite kills! Only downside is I can't watch your streams when I'm tired lol. The content isn't boring. It's your voice! Haha you should be a narrator! #JustTypin #StayAwesome
Oooo, definitely need to try this I have a durge college of swords bard, but i didnt think about that paladin dip. And that ring you find in the jungle? Had no idea about it. Looks fun af
I swear to god, everyone's sleeping on Giantbreaker, my favorite pair with the Boots of Stormy Clamour on my Sword-Bard-Thief. You can buy it from the Zhentarim as long as you earned their trust by saving their shipment and/or Rugan, or successfully lying about it. Giantbreaker inflicts Reeling *every time*, and while Reeling isn't as awesome as Frightened, it's a Condition -- which means Reverberation is triggered 100% of the time as well. Then for great team synergy, put the bracers that cause Reverberation on a damage caster (Gale or Shadowheart as Tempest Cleric) and you can basically have enemies falling over prone every turn from arrow hits combined with thunder AOE spells as simple as Thunderwave or Shatter. This combo takes my main Tav all the way to near end of Act 3 where I replace the Giantbreaker with Gontr Mael -- and even then I'm not totally settled on that decision. :)
So i'm currently trying your stealth archer build for my tactician and in fact you're doing a build of my normal run build... but with stealth.... nice... Now I'll have more fun in the next honor run combining the two... also... I kept the recommendation from comments: I choose a Lightfoot Halfling (adv stealth checks + reroll 1)... not the most pretty char but.... what a nice stealth combinaison... in addition I got the titanstring at level 3... +2 char and a bit of bonus from Shadowheart to get into the Zentharim hideout and "buy it" via Sleight of hands + as I said i'm testing your thief so... all in dex => I fetched the "Club of Hill giant" in the arcana tower top => got 19 STR & 18 DEX (17 + hag) at level 4 ranger \o/ => level 5 it does 60 per normal round (32 with caustic) and that's without the ambush bonus from in and out invisibility (Cause I'm also took the durge.... poor bard) :3
Now that is a cool build, thank you for sharing and explaining. I do have a off the subject question: I see that you always use the "Basket of..." Mods. Have you had any diffaculty due to Updates and/or Hotfixes with the Mods installed? Thank you ahead of time. Peace
I had the basket mod installed but didn't use any of the clothing for the video. Depends on the hot fix or update. My mods are cosmetic so it doesn't take long for it to get updated but after a large patch I usually play vanilla for a week or so it doesn't bother me
Awesome build and video in general, but you clearly got the "Stealth" part wrong. As the stealth paladin youre supposed barge in and smite the shit out of every living being, because they cant spot you if they are dead
I'm currently trying out this build, at level 7 in act 2 but I replace the Yuan Ti armour by the Helldusk and used a wheel to randomize my race which gave me half orc and well, I didn't expect an half orc to be able to dish out this much dmg
@@aless2906 from the video, it seems like you're only dipping into paladin for the smiting up to you if you really want the passive features of the non-oathbreaker oaths, i wouldn't sweat it
I think shar spear of evening is better than nyrulna for piercing/bhaalist build because the extra 1d6 damage from creatures being obscured applies to piercing damage and is doubled, but you need to exploit the darkness. Given you were using fog clouds in act 3, you could instead use shar's darkness, and you would be immune to the blindness. You can give shadowheart helldusk helmet or eversight ring to avoid being hampered by it.
Since watching this you had my head spinning calculating what class would do the most damage with pass without trace + greater invis and I think the simple answer is 11 rogue (any subclass really, but probably assassin) and 1 fighter. With orin's dagger (crimson mischief) and dolor amarus both daggers get +7 damage (or you can go crit route with undermountain dagger) and bhaalist armor for vulnerable you can do a silly amount of damage. Just main hand only you can do 1d6+2 +7 + 6 (22 dex mod) + 6d6 (sneak attack) all piercing x2 damage for vuln and then 1d6 from gloves, 1d6 from amulet, 2 from ring, and 1d4 from concentrating ring. Then double dice damage on crit. You could easily do 200 damage in a single sneak attack and spammable from stealth with greater invis and not entering combat. It is quite silly. I tested it briefly and didn't even have all the items and I did 184 damage in one sneak attack. This would be a pretty hilarious meme build for you to showcase potentially :). It doesn't fully come online until act 3, but you can start doing it as early as level 7 act 2 with greater invis / pass without trace ring and you are already getting 4d6 sneak attack dice before multipliers. The 1 level in fighter is just to get two weapon fighting and proficiencies in weapons / armor. You could also stack silly amounts of crit on items for quite a high crit chance (x2 daggers, helm, cloak, bow thats 15-20 crit + advantage). I hope you read this :) and I really hope you meme with this in a video lol. For what it's worth I haven't seen a single video of anyone doing this with the rogue build I outlined above.
This sounds really fun and roleplay wise it'll be awesome. I've never considered rogue more than a level 4 dip but the damage with my obsession with greater invis is really tugging on my curiosity. Shame you miss out on extra attacks during combat but what if you never enter combat 😈
Exactly, you can't miss out on extra attacks if you never enter combat :D. But if you do enter combat you can get a 51% crit chance to still do 200 damage in a turn (without haste) and even without critting 49% of the time, your expected value for damage per turn is still around 140. Also, if you do eventually enter combat and have a surprise round and go the assassin route obviously you get another free round of guaranteed crit with 200 damage lol. The other beauty is this costs no spell slots or bardic inspirations so you don't even need to rest so long as you have spell slots for greater invis. Sorry I'll stop spamming bg3 nerd math. :D
If your giving Titanstring to your Stealth Bardadin, what do you equip on your Stealth Archer? or both being initiators is the duplicate playstyle redundant? I could see a nice party comp with 2 swords bards (Pally and Gloom), OH monk, and Sorlock (for Twin GI). As usual this build is great, very well done.
so my brother didnt want to kill the elephant, so I found a way to fix my build without the bhaalist armor, just grab the bonespike gloves from strangler luke, if you kill him out of greater invis it doesnt agro the trial on the undercity, letting you do the same and it doesnt even have the "if the enemy is immune it doesnt work" part of the bhaalist armor.
Bonespike gloves just bypasses damage resistance (not super common honestly) the bhaalist armor is different, it makes things vulnerable = x2 piercing damage specifically. Ideally you pair them both if you run into piercing resistant enemies but this build uses dexterity gloves anyways
all of that doing 200 damage a turn is cool and all but i prefer my method of sacrificing 3 party members and finding a corner out of reach and use ranged spells of a few hours
Please read this before asking questions:
www.reddit.com/r/BG3Builds/comments/18pxoy9/honor_mode_102_smite_swords_bard_ssb_complete/
Hey I neatly organized the video into chapters check the description
Discussions
Banishing Smite: It has bought to my attention that this adds 5d10 force damage on top of your normal damage... Pick this for a magical secrets spell it seems cracked
Alert VS GWM: I prefer alert over using elixirs of vigilance just because I'm lazy. GWM is objectively better sure and using the hell rider longbow will bump your initiative up in the bow slot
Savage attacker? I'm not mathematically inclined but I played a lot of hours with this feat to notice it makes a large difference to smite damage. Here is a discussion thread www.reddit.com/r/BG3Builds/comments/16iep9v/evaluating_savage_attacker_and_other_mechanics/
Going full DEX paladin with piercing: Good move, probably a little complex for the video
Cloud Giant Elixirs: I know you can dump STR and use the hag hair/everlasting potion on someone else. It's just a suggestion to make it elixir-less and approachable ya'know?
Good playthrough? No Bhaalist? Awesome that's why we want the Balduran's Giantslayer + Armor of Agility/Hell Dusk/Luminous
Got variations on the build? Awesome let me know
A lot of love and production goes into these videos so any support would be appreciated if you found value in my content ❤
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Started watching you for the memes and still watching for the hilarious devastating builds! 🖤🖤🖤
edit: Holy crap you got a shit ton of info into 16 mins.
OMG I'm running the bard version already and wanted a paladin build to play with had no idea bc I just started a week ago
Can use Alertilixers as needed for w/e fights and skip Alert, but SA + GWM = not a lot, I take SA but go with Defence as a fighting style. Also are you carrying Shadowheart around for feet smell or is she the Greater Invisibility bot? It took me way to long to figure out how to have Pass Through and Greater Invis up at the same time. This is probably answered in other comments but you are damned lucky I read this one tbh. Well put together video that trapped me into watching a stream VOD so thanks.
That's an interesting build. I usually prefer to go straight for the Titanstring bow, which you can purchase from Brem in the Zhent hideout. I use the hag hair for charisma and dump Strength like Dexterity, instead relying on Giant Strength Elixirs.
I'd imagine it must have caused you significant physical and emotional pain to have to equip MM with footwear for this run, so I appreciate the sacrifices you made to bring us this video
It did... It's ok I toggled camp clothing and became barefoot until I got the bhaalist armor so that was comforting
For any players who are uninformed or new: each character can only use one concentration spell at a time. Both pass without trace AND greater invisibility are concentration spells, thus requiring a minimum of 2 on the team. Also, the more stealth you have, the better the greater invisibility works. Greater Invisibility works for 1 minute in real time OR 10 turns in turn based mode OR until you are “seen.” Pass without trace works until you take a long rest, cancel it, or cast another concentration spell. ALSO, a sorcerer can extend Greater Invisibility to make it last even longer.
4:35 you can disguise yourself as a githyanki to avoid doing the skill checks inside the crech like u do with drow on the goblin camp
This is my favorite BG3 content channel because you understand how beautiful shadowheart is
I've been casually researching builds for honor mode for a week. This is the first one that looks really fun to play. Absolutely going to play it if I fail my current run.
Yeah it's fun at all points of the game. It's a good face character and has a lot of utility. My only complaint is you get a little jealous of other martial classes at level 5 and you have to wait another level to blossom with an extra attack but flourishes should hold you over. Also there are a lot of variations available for swords bard so you're kinda spoiled for build direction
I'm glad that this guide exists, I finished a run with this build a few days before it was uploaded anyways, and used the Reddit source, but I think there's a lot of different/interesting tips here that'll be useful for a lot of people. Plus, it's funnier/has significantly more memes, which helps gamer attention span a lot. A few notes that are worth mentioning about it that involve some spoilers, read at your own risk etc;
SPOILERS AFTER THIS POINT FINAL WARNING;
-If you go for the gloves of Dex early as suggested in the run before stopping the Rite of Thorn, the Druids complete it and then that kicks out all the tieflings/they die on the road. It'll change a few itemization suggestions/if you plan to Romance Karlach it'll mess somethings up.
- Races *usually* don't matter, but if you're Human/Half Elf you can get Unseen Menace at the same time as Gloves of Dex, which work as a good Dollar General Risky Ring. This works after the Paladin levels, but beforehand for the above races since you have proficiency with Pikes. If you're going a super stealthy build for it, Deep Gnomes *also* are nice as they give you Advantage on Stealth checks, which with Pass Without Trace is insane. Half Orcs basically add extra beef to the build, adding an extra damage die to the crit (which HURTS with the Balduran Giantslayer).
- If you let the Tieflings live, Dammon sells the Harmonium Halberd at Last Light Inn, which with the Hags Hair/Potion of Everlasting Vigour gives you a whopping 22 STR with 0 Elixirs, it's pretty based. It sadly only lasts a little depending on how you're doing things, but still.
- Punch-Drunk Bastard is *also* an option if you're going for STR related things, as with the above STR stuff, Punch-Drunk Bastard you'll get Advantage on Attack Rolls and an AoE blast of Thunder Damage on your attacks. It does fuck up your Charisma/Dexterity Checks but if you're in the thick of a fight it's not as important imo. If you aren't proficient with Spears/someone else really needs the Risky Ring, it's there if you need it.
- Bloodlust Elixirs are dope, especially if you can get someone to Haste you in the party. They give you a bonus action/5 temp HP if you kill someone, which can lead to more attacks/smites. It's not unrealistic to get 5 two handed attacks in a turn if you A: Kill Someone and are B: Hasted, and that does a MASSIVE amount of damage, 50 just from Great Weapon Master before any crits/smites/damage dice are rolled.
- For the Evil Run where you're doing the Shar's Spear of Evening, you'll want to have someone with the Eversight Ring (if you have another melee char give that to them) and if you can afford it, other party members should have Devil Sight (so they can see into the Darkness you'll be spewing out). All of your physical damage gets converted to piercing when you use Slashing Flourish/Edge of Darkness so that translates to disgusting damage with Bhaalist Armor/someone using Bloodthirst.
Thank you so much for the wonderful and insightful write up. I only went for the dex gloves because I wanted to make the video as simple as possible and have it respec-less. I actually did end up using the spear of evening and I think some of the clips had it. I definitely prefer the nyrulna. Maybe I'm just too smooth brain to get it to do as much damage
@@MorganaEvelyn yeah as much as I liked the big numbers with Shar's Spear of Night, it really wants you to base your whole team composition and play style around it since it cares about obscured lighting and the unique weapon skill is a lot of the damage on it since it's all piercing damage which bhaalist doubles compared to Nyrulna which is wayyy more plug and play but the weapon skill isn't as good because it's all thunder damage. It's mostly just a stepping stone until you get Balduran's Giantslayer which slaps, but I really prefer to let a Throw character have Nyrulna since it gives them a good AoE option, but it feels bad not giving the MC the shiny new stuff for some reason.
Best BG3 channel, I love how you always create the same character, it’s so you ❤ and your style of voiceover is lovely, thank you!
Thank you so much for your kind words. I've grown attached to my BG3 character she's really fun to play ❤️
I beat honor mode today! Your videos really helped. Thank you ❤
I'm always amazed about how much content and dope gear I've missed after 700 hours. Thank you for this educational video.
My time counter broke at 234 hours (GOG). LOL. Well over 600 by now and every time I play it seems I discover something new.
I'm a bit of a Shadowheart enjoyer myself. Your editing is always dope.
If going good aligned, Bloodthirst works to exploit Piercing damage. Harder to get compared to the bhaalist armor, and takes an attack to apply, but still lets you nuke bosses. Also works on everything, but I've heard the "Doesn't apply to resistant or immune" part of Bhaalist doesn't always apply on enemies.
Magnificent and utterly ridiculous. Looking forward to seeing this breaking the game on stream.
♥ as always. I adore the Bhaalist armor + nyruina + drakethroat glave buff + bonespike gloves turns everyone into meat piles.
Bow the Banshee pure swords bard carried my Honor mode run. In Act 3, Band of the Mystic Scoundrel + Helm of Arcane Acuity + Arrow of Many Targets was typically my opening move followed by Confusion or Hypnotic Pattern. Seeing a lot of overlap here which is neat.
I've considered the piercing damage build stuff, but I think that's probably going to end up in a future evil run with the bhaalist armor. For synergizing with swords bard though without that armor, I think Orin's dagger does grant pierce vulnerability on hit as does a certain amulet that you can cast on a target. I found that was very necessary for the Steel watcher fights in particular where my bard struggled.
I've been using confusion but I might try hypnotic pattern seeing your comment. Yeah I want to explore the piercing damage a bit more I might try the Crimson Mischief next run, aha yeah the steel watchers only chunk with my smites. The enjoyment of flushing them into the water was immense when I used mobile flourish
I am using this build currently and it smacks and slaps. If you can get in and attack without being stunned, it’s unstoppable and the big bad dies in a turn or two
I'm currently playing through with your Storm Cleric / Sorcerer build on tactician.
Top notch videos, and I appreciate the effort it must take to keep it succinct.
Goated build. Really making those enemies regret not social distancing.
Shar's Spear of the Evening is actually a FANTASTIC weapon for this build as well since Edge of Darkness can hit an unlimited amount of enemies that you then get to smite! And grouping them up is simple with either black hole or your 100% Command!
Wow thank u for putting in the effort to timestamp everything, makes it way way easier to come back to this vid when my characters level up. Good build.
Your builds are all so good and so much fun! Gotta try this one out next
at the end of the vid my favorite thing surprisingly isn't the new build I'm about to go try. It's actually how funny and entertaining the entire video was. Boring build video? nah. i appreciate that so much. im already sitting down to look up builds for a game; why every other build video gotta have no spice whatsoever. this video fuggin rawks. much love. praise shadow cutie
Oh my god dear you don't know how much this comment means to me. I try to make my educational videos as fun as possible and it sometimes rubs people the wrong way but for you to completely understand my intentions it made me so happy
Shadowcutie really is the best ❤️
I find it hilarious that my first playthrough a launch I stumbled through stealth bardadin on my own. Your gear choices and synergies are fantastic, thanks for the ideas.
As evidenced by your recent stream, in Honour Mode the greatest challenge for this build is the unrelenting battle against hunger (in HM, long rests take 80, not 40, supplies). Too bad you can't task your hirelings to scrounge up food, or farm it. P.S. Even if you stay ranged and mix in Champion Fighter instead of Paladin, Reverberation and Arcane Acuity stacks are OP, especially if paired with gear that reduces your minimum crit roll (like Blade of the Undermountain King). Plus Bard's unique interactions and suitability for the party face.
If you really wanted to do this just spec all your followers as land druids and have them all use every spell slot on goodberry at the begining of the day. You can get some spell slots back with circle of the land recover feature to make even more berries. I wouldn't use the amulets and free cast staffs for this though. Once you get access to the rest pool in a certain house in Act 3 you can infinitely refresh spell slots to amass an infinite source of food items using heroes feast.
If you really want to min max, deep gnomes passively get advantage on stealth checks. That can make greater invisibility last even longer
I dont think she’ll ever play a gnome or a halfling lol
Dude she is Mommy Milkers, not Dwarf Milkers
your content just gets better and better!
If you’re not Mommy Milkers you can be a light foot halfling or a deep gnome for advantage on stealth checks. Otherwise, use the armor from the counting house vault, or cats grace armor from the weirdo in the mountain pass can also give advantage on the stealth checks :)
LMAOO Thank you for this!! I don't normally enjoy build guides (usually fall asleep) but you made it so entertaining! Thanks again fam!
After losing my current honour mode Tav I felt defeated now I see MM’s breaking BG3 once again Happiness 100% 😎 great video Miss Evelyn 👏
Not surprising; Stealth Tanks absolutely dominated 4th ed, it was only a matter of time before people figured out how to do it in BG3
I decided to use this build for my current honor mode run and it is genuinely so good. I was having so much trouble with honor mode before this (I was being a fool😢) and thought why not try a build someone else has come up with and this build is perfect. It also works perfectly with my oc's backstory! Thank you!!!
Enjoy it. I only do the builds I genuinely play myself. I've had several bardadin runs now and my favorites have been the duo runs with Shadowheart. It's honestly really comfy
this is the most entertaining build video of all time... also a great build and an even better voice :) instant fan and sub
Can't wait to try this! Thank you!
This looks like so much fun, I'm so trying it today. Thanks for another awesome video!!
I too, like to smite secretly
This looks awesome. Definitely trying it on my next run.
This build is WILD!! Great video!!!!!!!
Thank you for covering all items/strategies/concepts in such detail. Really neat play style ◡̈
Also how do I have like 800 hours and never knew there was a Bhaalist merchant LOL, even my durges are too good I guess
This is awesome! For my next run I think I’ll play this as a halfling for automatic advantage for stealth
YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHH THATS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THATS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
holy crap this is an amazing video. I'm excited to try this in my honor run since I was burn out of it rn midway through but looking forward to it again!
Just wanted to update but I wanted to thank you again! My single honor run has been so much more fun now and able to get through the run a lot more easily and also just opened my eyes to multiclassing more often. There were fights that I was super scared about but the boss would die within the first or second round of combat. Much love for the build! Thank you again and hope you have a lovely rest of your day Morgana!
Thanks for the builds MM
I've already got all achievements for the game but damn, this is fun to watch!
Rolled a nat 20 coming across this channel, barrelmancy for a video that blew up. Keep up the good work your vids are hilarious
You're too kind thank you so much. The videos are a lot of work but they're fun and silly I'm glad you enjoy them
We're making to the epilogue with this one 🗣 ( I'm delusional and unlucky with rolls), but this is an interesting concept for a build. I will definitely try it out.
9:54 "must've been the wind"
One hell of the wind
I always get the Titanstring Bow from the Zhentarim in Act 1 didn't even know the Bugbear in Moonrise would sell it as well.... the more you know!
@MorganaEvelyn I just wanted to say thank you after failing honour mode a few times I finally beat it with this build so again thanks so much ^^
Bless. Congratulations. This is my go to build for my face character in honour mode so I can vouch for it's success. Thank you for leaving such an awesome comment 😊
Good to see others enjoying the most busted armour in the game. Another beastly build, is dual wield Orin weapon + under mountain dagger, go 5 fighter / hunter for TWF, 2 barb for guaranteed adv and 5 thief. 4 total attacks per round, abuse typical +2 flat dmg rings, drake glaive buffs with twinned spell, helldusk gloves and str elixirs. More flat dmg than gwm builds, more hit chance, better spread
Wow didn't even think of the barb dip that's very creative. I've been sleeping on hunter's colossal slayer for sure
Another neat part is, this build benefits from sneak attacks. GWM builds don't use finesse weapons and they can't use it. So this build does not only rival GWM in terms of flat added damag, it also has another layer of damage in the form of sneak attack.
It might just be the most consistently hard hitting build in the game (paladins hit hard for sure, but smites are dependent on spell slots and GWM means you won't hit every attack)
Went for my Gold dice because of this channel and got it my first try :D!! many thanks to Mommy Milkers for all the cheese strats!
This is an absolute W. Congrats on your gold dice. You're welcome I'm so glad you commented 😊
ive never upcasted hold person before and it took a moment to understand how you casted that so many times 💀
Friends is soooooo powerful. I had been sleeping on that.
The run has been completes but the cost was wearing shoes. Not worth.
Your builds are an inspiration. I have yet to try honor mode though
I love this video so much!
Great vid, I can't believe I laughed so much at a gnome joke, 3:58
Another Incredible viddy 😼Thanks Miss Ev you and MM slayy like always 💅
Awesome content!!!!
I can't thank you enough for providing detailed build guides like this! I was wondering what allowed her to jump so far - was it an item/ potion/ spell?
I hope this build still works even if I'm running a good playthrough 😂
Love it!
Damn, you broke this game beyond any recognition
5:32 just inspect all of them, only the real one will have a condition called 'fey life'
I didn't know this thanks
Ma'am those are not Shadowcutes natural milkers
An alternate option for the Unholy Assassin quest: you can find Dolor standing next to Cora, kill him, loot his bag of hands and take that to the Tribunal. I'm definitely gonna try this build, stealth is so stronk in BG3.
Why keep shart? Surely BEAZEL?
iam joking ofc
Finding your streams brought me life! The humor, the amazing skills, and the elite kills! Only downside is I can't watch your streams when I'm tired lol. The content isn't boring. It's your voice! Haha you should be a narrator! #JustTypin #StayAwesome
How did I only just find you?! Great guide AND sense of humour XD
Thanks!
The John Cena build. You can't see em but they hit you like a truck.
Mommy Milkers once again showing me a way to improve. Never even considered Stealth on my Bardadin. Silly Silly Warden.
Great build! I might give it a try this week. 🎉
I know i say this a lot, but this is very powerful
Watching at night, trying to comprehend what the aussie ladie saying. Glad you understood how that armor works. Gold tutorial tho💯
this is so pogchamp
Oooo, definitely need to try this
I have a durge college of swords bard, but i didnt think about that paladin dip. And that ring you find in the jungle? Had no idea about it. Looks fun af
I think I just discovered the perfect honor mode run.
This is an amazing guide
Make everybody come 😂 maaan ur da best content creator of all time for that one, noice
I swear to god, everyone's sleeping on Giantbreaker, my favorite pair with the Boots of Stormy Clamour on my Sword-Bard-Thief. You can buy it from the Zhentarim as long as you earned their trust by saving their shipment and/or Rugan, or successfully lying about it.
Giantbreaker inflicts Reeling *every time*, and while Reeling isn't as awesome as Frightened, it's a Condition -- which means Reverberation is triggered 100% of the time as well. Then for great team synergy, put the bracers that cause Reverberation on a damage caster (Gale or Shadowheart as Tempest Cleric) and you can basically have enemies falling over prone every turn from arrow hits combined with thunder AOE spells as simple as Thunderwave or Shatter.
This combo takes my main Tav all the way to near end of Act 3 where I replace the Giantbreaker with Gontr Mael -- and even then I'm not totally settled on that decision. :)
9:26 "My farting style preference is great weapon farting" Hmmm, that sounds a bit funky :D
So i'm currently trying your stealth archer build for my tactician and in fact you're doing a build of my normal run build... but with stealth.... nice... Now I'll have more fun in the next honor run combining the two... also... I kept the recommendation from comments: I choose a Lightfoot Halfling (adv stealth checks + reroll 1)... not the most pretty char but.... what a nice stealth combinaison... in addition I got the titanstring at level 3... +2 char and a bit of bonus from Shadowheart to get into the Zentharim hideout and "buy it" via Sleight of hands + as I said i'm testing your thief so... all in dex => I fetched the "Club of Hill giant" in the arcana tower top => got 19 STR & 18 DEX (17 + hag) at level 4 ranger \o/ => level 5 it does 60 per normal round (32 with caustic) and that's without the ambush bonus from in and out invisibility (Cause I'm also took the durge.... poor bard) :3
Now that is a cool build, thank you for sharing and explaining. I do have a off the subject question: I see that you always use the "Basket of..." Mods. Have you had any diffaculty due to Updates and/or Hotfixes with the Mods installed? Thank you ahead of time. Peace
I had the basket mod installed but didn't use any of the clothing for the video. Depends on the hot fix or update. My mods are cosmetic so it doesn't take long for it to get updated but after a large patch I usually play vanilla for a week or so it doesn't bother me
OK, after my current honor run, this will be my main, lol
Morgana and Titanstring is the love story of our generation.
Very good tutorial Thanks
I thought I cooked with a 60 Damage Ray of Frost…Make way for Gordon Ramsay
My only complaint is that you didn't talk Yurgir into some Sudoku as a Bard :D
Other than that, GREAT vid!
You are the best :)
Awesome build and video in general, but you clearly got the "Stealth" part wrong. As the stealth paladin youre supposed barge in and smite the shit out of every living being, because they cant spot you if they are dead
She’s a pro, I love her voice!
let's gooo!
This is absolutely disgusting. I love it.
Mum doin mum things 😮
Can't stop surprising me ❤
P.s i love bonk ppl 😊
Am I the only one that noticed Shadowheart has some extra proportions 👀
I'm currently trying out this build, at level 7 in act 2 but I replace the Yuan Ti armour by the Helldusk and used a wheel to randomize my race which gave me half orc and well, I didn't expect an half orc to be able to dish out this much dmg
Uh oh I somehow broke my Oath, but it shouldn't cause any issue, right?
@@aless2906 from the video, it seems like you're only dipping into paladin for the smiting
up to you if you really want the passive features of the non-oathbreaker oaths, i wouldn't sweat it
@@Stereo-hb2lo Yeah but at the time I said that it was during the coronation of Gortash and not during the unholy assassin quest
Stealthbonk installed
I think shar spear of evening is better than nyrulna for piercing/bhaalist build because the extra 1d6 damage from creatures being obscured applies to piercing damage and is doubled, but you need to exploit the darkness. Given you were using fog clouds in act 3, you could instead use shar's darkness, and you would be immune to the blindness. You can give shadowheart helldusk helmet or eversight ring to avoid being hampered by it.
Since watching this you had my head spinning calculating what class would do the most damage with pass without trace + greater invis and I think the simple answer is 11 rogue (any subclass really, but probably assassin) and 1 fighter. With orin's dagger (crimson mischief) and dolor amarus both daggers get +7 damage (or you can go crit route with undermountain dagger) and bhaalist armor for vulnerable you can do a silly amount of damage. Just main hand only you can do 1d6+2 +7 + 6 (22 dex mod) + 6d6 (sneak attack) all piercing x2 damage for vuln and then 1d6 from gloves, 1d6 from amulet, 2 from ring, and 1d4 from concentrating ring. Then double dice damage on crit. You could easily do 200 damage in a single sneak attack and spammable from stealth with greater invis and not entering combat. It is quite silly. I tested it briefly and didn't even have all the items and I did 184 damage in one sneak attack. This would be a pretty hilarious meme build for you to showcase potentially :). It doesn't fully come online until act 3, but you can start doing it as early as level 7 act 2 with greater invis / pass without trace ring and you are already getting 4d6 sneak attack dice before multipliers. The 1 level in fighter is just to get two weapon fighting and proficiencies in weapons / armor. You could also stack silly amounts of crit on items for quite a high crit chance (x2 daggers, helm, cloak, bow thats 15-20 crit + advantage).
I hope you read this :) and I really hope you meme with this in a video lol. For what it's worth I haven't seen a single video of anyone doing this with the rogue build I outlined above.
This sounds really fun and roleplay wise it'll be awesome. I've never considered rogue more than a level 4 dip but the damage with my obsession with greater invis is really tugging on my curiosity. Shame you miss out on extra attacks during combat but what if you never enter combat 😈
Exactly, you can't miss out on extra attacks if you never enter combat :D. But if you do enter combat you can get a 51% crit chance to still do 200 damage in a turn (without haste) and even without critting 49% of the time, your expected value for damage per turn is still around 140. Also, if you do eventually enter combat and have a surprise round and go the assassin route obviously you get another free round of guaranteed crit with 200 damage lol. The other beauty is this costs no spell slots or bardic inspirations so you don't even need to rest so long as you have spell slots for greater invis.
Sorry I'll stop spamming bg3 nerd math. :D
If your giving Titanstring to your Stealth Bardadin, what do you equip on your Stealth Archer? or both being initiators is the duplicate playstyle redundant? I could see a nice party comp with 2 swords bards (Pally and Gloom), OH monk, and Sorlock (for Twin GI). As usual this build is great, very well done.
Act 1 banshee bow, act 2 would be hellfire + na'er misser and act 3 maybe Deadshot or Gontr Mael. Titan String is honestly best for me
so my brother didnt want to kill the elephant, so I found a way to fix my build without the bhaalist armor, just grab the bonespike gloves from strangler luke, if you kill him out of greater invis it doesnt agro the trial on the undercity, letting you do the same and it doesnt even have the "if the enemy is immune it doesnt work" part of the bhaalist armor.
Bonespike gloves just bypasses damage resistance (not super common honestly) the bhaalist armor is different, it makes things vulnerable = x2 piercing damage specifically. Ideally you pair them both if you run into piercing resistant enemies but this build uses dexterity gloves anyways
all of that doing 200 damage a turn is cool and all but i prefer my method of sacrificing 3 party members and finding a corner out of reach and use ranged spells of a few hours
Ah yes the solo honour mode experience 🙃
hi hi frog here i wish to become silly and sneaky
Making everyone come…I’ve just spilt my coffee 🤣😂