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For anyone trying this build out: Its important to know that while in combat, if you are unable to shadow step or go invisible despite being in an obscured position, you can hit the group or ungroup key to refresh the game's hot bar. Doing this re-checks your positioning without blowing actions or bonus actions. Great build btw. Monk is my favorite class and I've been racking my brain on how to get this sub-par sub-class to do decent damage. Also, if you join a certain murder cult, The Bhaalist armor does what the gloves do but way better and if you are already using the covert cowl, then might as well.
Dude... I'm watching this whole video but I just had to pause to say I REALLY appreciate the fact that you just did a TL;DW. Such a great idea and so well done.
Man I just played a duergar and having perm invis outside of combat is insane, doubt I’ll ever go back, with momentum the drawbacks of a dwarf are fixed
My current honor mode playthrough is a Paladin of Selune (5 Paladin 7 cleric knowledge selune). Duagar. The dialog options are different as a Paladin of selune specifically and as a Duagar. My attributes are spread way to thin and surviving the first 4 levels without abusing Withers is rough. I also have a wood half-elf sun soul monk build going... monk/cleric. The AD&D class...
My main playthrough was a Duergar Shadow Monk to 8 and Rogue Assassin to 4, my main weapon being the "Knife of the Undermountain King." It really fit the whole theme of an assassin that's a deep dwarf.
Since Patch 6 made all dialogue center your Tav/Durge if they are visible to the NPC and anywhere nearby, getting the Hag Hair is now pretty challenging for a low CHA build, especially on Honor Mode. My kids solved it right away with their monk Tav: After getting the Hag to low HP, they used the insane monk speed to bolt into the Hag's "Office" area, and then closed the door behind them. Then, as usual, parked their Bard closest to the Hag. It actually worked, and the Bard got picked to to the talking... and they got the Hair!
I just did it with a low charisma rogue, I don't think you need to roll if you allow ethel to take the blond girl. Since I'm doing a pure evil durge it made sense to take her deal. No rolls needed, ez +1 dex.
@@Yrian96for some reason, after the hag ran away into her lair, Mayrina caught me stealing and ran away yelling for help. Then she didnt appear again in the final fight. So i didnt need to save her at all. She showed up after the fight at her husbands coffin as usual
I appreciate that you cover builds that introduce unique flavor rather than just the strontest meta builds. I wouldn't mind seeing you cover a battle alchemist. My personal pick has been opening with 3 levels of transmutation wizard for transmutation and circle of daggers for popping potions, level 4 rogue for expertise in medicine and slight of hand, then either 4-6 rogue to grab arcane trickster or round off with wizard. Grabbing arcane trickster sounds unusual, but the hand can drink potions from your inventory netting you a companion that can, without breaking its stealth, haste itself, set its stength to 21, force surprise rounds, and double chuck potions for team mates all with the traditional mage hand benefits and it actually benefits from things like aid after long rests since it lasts forever, all while boosting your ESL and relying on intelligence like wizard, but I prefer taking utility spells here. These two classes benefit eachother in this way, wizard benefiting from the slight of hand for materials and scrolls and the medicine expertise + prof for the alchemy checks, and your hand benefits from your potions. Surprisingly fun if you're into that gameplay, and all your potions end up benefiting from the act 1 healing gear for blade wards (paired with transmutation stone lets you grant resistence to 4 types in one turn alongside your rogues bonus actions) and blesses mainly. I usually open either with halfling for the alchemy and slight of hand 1 rerolls, or as gale for the act 1 telekinesis as early as berore the grove fight
This was my first multiplayer build days after release. My little brother (sorcerer) got so mad every time I filled the screen with darkness, making him unable to target anything. Great fun :D
Solid build. I like the mobility, the Shadow-Ninja flavor, the deadlyness of your first surprise hit.. Knife of the undermountain King for dbl crit range.😉.Durge gets that sweet cloak( forgot name ?!) that turns you invisible for 2 rds after a kill - & activates automatically 🤗. Ninja- assassin time..🏴☠️
@@aaronhumphrey2009 thats pretty bad ass concept. I played storm cleric and fire sorcerer in my previous playthroughs. Might give an assassin try once I brain wash my friend to purchase the game for co-op campaign!
I feel, lore wise, this would be a good solo build, at the very least in Balanced. I'm going to try this build. For my lore, I'm thinking of rolling a Svirfneblin, aka Deep Gnome, that was an urchin, and taken in by a wise master to learn how to strike, subtly, at their Drow overlords, by perhaps sabotaging items, stealing food, etc.
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I would recommend this build on dark urge play through because you get access to a cloak that when you kill enimies you turn invisible for two turns but his is better for role play options
You talk about Savage Attacker, but don’t go into why it is good for this particular build. savage attacker works on all dice, so it would re-roll sneak attack and extra dice rolled due to Crits. At level 5 you get 3 SA dice, plus the weapon die which will average approx 4 points of extra damage in a single attack doubling to 8 on a critical. The problem with Dual wielder in this build is it requires your bonus action and in this build you are doing shadow stuff with your bonus action. TLDR; Your item choices are designed to increase crits, which doubles the dice and gets more value out of Savage Attacker.
Go orc get double SA, use damage riders like dolor amarus, vicious shortbow, crimson mischief and craterflesh glove for the ultimate crit fisher. Have a ssb bardadin cc for you
I am trying this build but with some changes. Im a dark urge with the bhaalist armour, and I doubt between monk6, rogue 4, warrior 2. For the savage attacker feat, or going for rogue 3 warrior3 to take the -1crit. Whats better?
Last Epoch seems good but I'm still fairly new and haven't got it so I haven't checked out your content for that but damn if I'm happy you got content for both. This channel has done wonders for my start to ARPG's and I love it.
I was just talking to my bro about making a Ninja/ Monk based off Final Fantasy Tactics strongest build. This is almost exactly what I envisioned! Thank you for the awesome and detailed build guide.
Coming in kinda late to this post, but I am currently on my favorite BG3 playthrough yet as a shadow monk/ rogue Duergar. So much fun! I was looking for methods for maximizing use of the shadow monk features and found them with your video. Thanks!
Please do more baldur's gate builds, even if it's a common one on the internet, would love to hear your take on them. Oh! Or if you did something like reviews of popular builds, i just want to have more bg3 content from you, lol.
@@italianspartacus sweet! Side note, this build came at a great time for me. I'm starting a new campaign trying to recreate my old WoW main (a monk) and this gave a lot of helpful advice.
@@italianspartacus on the note of reviews, I did a 5 gloomstalker, 4 sword bard, 3 theif as a character that can do range and dual weilding, with some supporting skills. Thoughts?
I think having the feat Resilient Dexterity is underrated, especially if you put 7 levels into monk. It allows you to get to 18dex and have an advantage on monk's evasion.
Since you're going rogue assassin, once you manage to get surprise rounds on any enemy down to a T, the bhaalist armor, gloves and weapons are really the best in slot for this build. 100% crits means you don't need crit rducing. You don't need the dagger since your armor will automatically make enemies vulnerable to piercing. The dolor amarus set and the gloves together give AN INCREDIBLE boost to ALL your crits which make the set far better suited to a ranged character. I not only one shot all the ilithids in the back line during the final fight with this, I also killed the brain in a single turn with my initial attack doing a whopping 390 damage in a SINGLE HIT (not a turn). I got the screenshots to prove it.
I want you to know, I just subscribed solely because you summarize your videos in the first couple of minutes. I understand there is a meta to running a TH-cam channel (getting people to watch past the 10 minute mark, etc.), and I don't even mind watching sponsor spots of reasonable length. But most channels take it way too far, and I usually click off if there's too much filler in the first few minutes.
In my latest co-op I respected shadowheart into a shadow monk for funsies. It's still early on in the campaign, but I'm definitely taking some pointers from this vid for the eventual build :)
Awesome build! I changed it up to do 1 Ability Improvement: Dex, and then (as odd as it sounds) I did Actor to make it feel like an actual Ninja from history. The only thing that would illicit a chef's kiss would be Disguise Self, but eh, okay. Love your build videos!
Just want to point out a glaring mistake: Monks will make any weapon they are proficient in a monk weapon, meaning they can use their dexterity for the attacks, as long as the weapon is not a heavy weapon (martial dedicated two-handed weapon, essentially). So even if the weapon doesn't have finesse they can use longswords efficiently. That said, there is a lack of good longswords
Thanks for pointing that out :) I did say all of that but I forgot to mention about heavy/two handed. I'd say a partial mistake more than anything hahahah
Just throwing this out there. There are more finesse weapons. In the gith creche their trader sells another longsword that is finesse. It's got a once per short rest 4m AOE attack on it and it's a +1 sword. Act 3 also has the finesse pike or whatever it is. It's a polearm with reach that is also a finesse weapon (only one of those in the game that I know of).
I feel like this is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone actually talking about shadow monk idk why (I’ve also never touched the class so I don’t know how good it is) and I’ll definitely be looking forward to the dragons dogma 2 vids :D
for me monk is the best class in bg3. there are 3 ways of monk and these ways are super cool. im playing with open hand monk rn cause fighting with hand is such a cool but i wanna try elemental and shadow monk too. good video btw.
I have a 128 hours and haven't gotten to act 2 lol. I am that one guy the makes and designs new characters restarts but never gets them past their initial phase before thinking of something else cool and trying it lol. I have deleted like 20 odd saves lol.
Take orc (free savage attacker), 8 monk, 4 rogue (for third feat, which I find much more important then the 5th lvl in rogue. Alert, asi, res DEX or dice or duel wield or another asi for WIS.
Looks really cool. I'd also consider Dwarf Duergar for a stealth build, since they can cast invisibility on themselves for free outside of combat (and once pr battle), and it lasts until you use an action. Makes it so much easier to sneak around or get in position where regular stealth might not be enough. The -1,5m movement speed penalty is annoying, but with your build you're going to be super mobile anyway. I used Duergar for a ranger/rogue build and I could do sneak attack>dread ambusher outside of combat, which would usually kill any regular enemies, and then invis to leave combat. Rinse and repeat while picking off enemies one by one
Nice guide, I just want to point out that your weapon doesn't have to be finesse. The monk weapon trait makes it so that any weapon you are proficient with becomes a finesse weapon when wielded by a monk.
6 4 2- shadow monk, assassin, old one.. true bhalspawn run. Assasin give you guaranteed crit, warlock lvl up to you, can also just take 1 warlock lvl but I like to have devil sight., boots of stormy clamour combine with mental inhibition ring, you put penalty on every saving throw of enemy. Bhaalist armor is the last piece. This was the strongest 1v1 boss build I have ever run..drow fits well but half orc adds the crit flavor. Since commitment to armor is req, you can take mobile as your 2nd feat, but most of the time shadowsteps covers for it.
@@Sedaisan man I just realized their is a better version of this if you go 6 fighter bm, 4 assasin, 2 old ones... my problem with this shadow monk build was, it comes online at lvl 7,( 1 point in rogue, 5 in SM ). since you are not going TB feat, dmg will be from weapon. So take 17 dex, and rest whatever you prefer. Hag hair in dex, get graceful cloth from ester. I chose wisdom as secondary stat to get 2 more Ac. Your first feat is race dependent. If you go drow, you get prof in hand crossbow and rapier, so either take savage attack or duel wielder, depending on what kind of control you want. Act 2 will be difficult though, shadow monk work with obscured or lightly obscured areas, and most enemies get resistances in dark areas in act 2 so dmg suffers a lot. Repec class if you see fit, I ran cruel sting and phalar aluve in act 2 to build psychic dmg with mental fatigue ring and boots of stormy clamour for dex penalty.. Don't forget to kill Kagha in act 1, she gives you 1d6 poison dmg necklace, you can kill her without raiding emerald grove.. Act 3 will be a breeze from early on, all you need to get is duellist prerogative and any dagger you like..beeline for bhallist armor. Fighter bm variation removes the early penalty in lvls..if you are looking for inspiration of this build, you might done the vault fight in act3, where bhallist do hit and run tactics, hit 2 times shadowblend away very annoying without see invisibility source.
Playing Elden Ring right now, but it feels like ill be doing different builds for BG3 and Elden Ring for my next couple years of gaming with how much content is in both games haha
Yo I love your builds dude. This one in particular seems right up my alley :D I've been thinking about running a fun wild magic build with barb or sorc but I haven't really seen any items that synergise with that mechanic too well. Would you explore that concept? I think it would be pretty fun.
Try a Gold- Dwarf Barbarian, Wildheart, Tiger/ Wolverine. Dual wield Shattered Flail and Rital Dagger. Use Periapt of Wound Closure. Tough feat, Primary Constitution. Would love to hear what you think about that. 🙂 Aims to be a CC Tank for the team.
I think it's quite fun to do 4 rogue/6 shadow monk to unlock their most important abilities (4 rogue for the feat so you can have 2) and the two last levels into warlock for devil's sight, so you can cast darkness on enemies and teleport to them at will and get advantage against them while they have disadvantage against you. I don't really see a big reason to go rogue 5 or monk 7
start with rogue for immediate stealth and probably start with ranged attacks mostly until level 4 for the feat which is a huge power spike early game and depending on your preference pick a feat or just asi and of course pick assassin for the subclass. then just start levelling up monk and lean into melee. you can deal really good damage from melee especially if you know how to efficiently use invisibility potions/scrolls and/or have a team member shoot arrows of darkness or just cast darkness in the right spots so you can easily be stealthy even in melee. at 3 monk you of course get the subclass which gives you useful stuff like pass without trace and silence but most importantly darkness which will only become truly useful at level 12. 6 monk gives you shadow step which is insanely good. last 2 levels go into warlock just so you can get devil's sight which is I think the only way to see in magical darkness. from here you cast darkness or your other team member casts it. (I like to have another rogue-ish character that's ranged and shoot darkness arrows at enemies to pump damage while creating darkness in one action.) then you proceed to teleport into the darkness and destroy everything inside. (for the record I haven't actually tried this and yet and it's something I'm building into in my current build so sorry if some of this is wrong lol I haven't tested it yet)
@@Kiony.The Eversight Ring in Act 2 lets you see in Darkness but honestly I like the Warlock dip not just for Devil Sight but for Mortal Reminder which synergizes really well with the guaranteed Criticals of the Assassin subclass and with Bow of the Banshee plus Cerebral Citadel Gloves (both give increased attack rolls when you Frighten enemies.)
Me and my buddy were messing with a batman and robin style monk run. I wanted to go shadow cause it went with the theme. And when i saw shadow step i immediately thought of the fun i could have with rogue. By act 2 it was online. Only problem, it didnt work. Shadow step gave me advantage, but i couldnt use sneak attack. It just. Didnt. Work. I was so disappointed, that i stopped playing for years until recently when my same buddy wanted to do an evil run. Might give this build a try if they fixed it.
"A monk weapon is any weapon you're proficient in." I'm pretty certain when I made my Kenshin Himura build, I had proficiency with all weapons via my Fighter levels, but no matter what I did I would never have the follow up monk attack options because scimitars were not monk weapons.
If you're willing to play at half health or less*, you can play Assassin, wear the Helmet of Grit and have it both ways: all the insane first-round damage of Assassin with the extra bonus Action of Thief. * heck, if you're playing Shadow Monk Rogue properly, you should never be taking hits anyway.
Larethian's Wrath is the only other finesse longsword. Though, it's easier to get Aluve since it's free. Unlike Lare, which needs to be bought from a vendor in Act 1.
For anyone watching this now, never do what he did opening up with sneak attack. Keep your reactions for sneak attack turned on along with dual wield, this way you get 2 hits while recovering both your action and bonus action with assassin's alacrity
@italianspartacus I love your buid-videos, they give me a lot of inspirations, could you try a combo sorcerer/monk? thinking of draconic bloodline fire and monk with way of the 4 elements... just trying this (drow elf)
My build is the exact same but I took one off monk and put it into fighter instead so I can wear heavy armor like the armor of persistence just so I can tank more. Also I went into thief instead of assassin because my co-op party aren’t constantly stopping combat so you can surprise again so the bonus action is more helpful
It would even be a lot better with pure monk if you used shadow blade + shadow strike + the resonance stone = over 100 dmg for the cost of three ki points Of course maintaining concentration on shadow blade can be a real hassle, but with transmutation stone + some gear to give advantage on con saves you rarely fail (just don't get knocked prone)
Transmutation stone doesn't work if you don't have the character in your party anymore :( also carrying that resonance stone is a lot of disadvantage added into the party
Fun fact: You can use everything Monk-related with Raphael's Helldusk Armor which you can get as early as Act 1. My Shadow Monk currently has that + the Bracers of Defense + 14 WIS which gives him a whopping 25 AC, making him near impossible to hit 😆 I love Shadow Monk so much. I didn't want to play the traditional Open Hand Monk so now I'm playing as a Shadow Monk Durge who is resisting the Urge. Aka, if I can't go invisible with Shadow Monk, I'll go invisible with the unique Durge cloak 😈. Another fun fact: With an elixir of Cloud Giant strength, your unarmed strikes (7 levels in Monk) can hit around 40 damage... per punch. This, plus the rest of my party in Honor Mode made the fight with Myrkul a walk in the park (THANKFULLY).
Went for 6 monk 3 rouge and another 3 in fighter for action surge and better critical chance as for gear I went with items that increased my crits and increased stealth mostly played as a archer but I did get a melee skill via the fighter levels
Looks cool as hell ! I'll run a Gith resist durge with this build in my next run to get a change of pace from CHA classes. I've been thinking, how about using a versatile finesse weapon like Phalar Aluve without anything in left hand, and GWM as a feat ? And later switch for the Dancing Breeze ? I think that could be potent and quite fun to sneak attack with both hands + you get advantage from Shadow step to counteract the penalty of GWM
Did you end up trying this yet? I was kinda thinking the same, you could use flurry of blows any time you didn't shadow step so bonus isn't wasted either
Perhaps sub out some levels for 2 levels of warlock for that juicy devilsight? Shadow step in and out of safety, or stunlock your opponent in your darkness spell.
I've got one that is similar to this that I made on tabletop first and I will condense it down for BG3 but he is a Lightfoot Halfling with Folk Hero and 11 Trickster Rogue, 3 Gloom Stalker Ranger and 6 Shadow Monk At this level, the minimum he rolls on Stealth is a 27 But for BG3 its the same but 3 Arcane Trickster instead of 11 Sad but being able to not be seen is a core part of this
I am trying 6 shadow monk, 4 rogue (for the feat) and 2 warlock for devil sight and repelling blast as control option/to push into hazards/knock people off stuff.
Been having a blast with a Gith Shadow Monk Thief, I don't even bother using the rest of the party, soloing every fight with her is such a fun tactical experience.
stillness of mind in BG3 is like Countercharm in 5e, but worse. because even a minor frighten forces you to use your whole action, and cannot be toggled 😭
So im trying to follow this build, but my skills are greyed out and limited Wood half elf, monk, charlatan, 8, 16, 14, 8, 16, 12 (2 dex/ 1 wis) My skills i can add insight but stealth shows grey with +7 already on it. Skills not greyed out Athletic, acrobatics, history, religion, insight (already added 1 to insight) Is this a glitch or is it patched from last update? Did i pick something wrong?
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I love that you emphasize roleplaying over minmaxing unlike most other build guide channels.
its always better.
I always roleplay in my playthroughs
Makes the game far more enjoyable
Baldur's Gate 3.
Roleplay.
LMFAO
@@pr0xyman287all words are made up. So are all games.
My first blind playthrough was a forest gnome lore bard, played him as a leprechaun. 10/10 would recommend.
For anyone trying this build out: Its important to know that while in combat, if you are unable to shadow step or go invisible despite being in an obscured position, you can hit the group or ungroup key to refresh the game's hot bar. Doing this re-checks your positioning without blowing actions or bonus actions. Great build btw. Monk is my favorite class and I've been racking my brain on how to get this sub-par sub-class to do decent damage. Also, if you join a certain murder cult, The Bhaalist armor does what the gloves do but way better and if you are already using the covert cowl, then might as well.
if you're solo, you can just drag and drop the spell back into its slot and it will update :)
Dude... I'm watching this whole video but I just had to pause to say I REALLY appreciate the fact that you just did a TL;DW. Such a great idea and so well done.
Thank you so much dude! Hope you enjoy the rest of the vid :D
Agreed, the tl;dr is super useful.
I really feel like Duergar are slept on in general a free enlarge per long rest with no concentration, and free invisibility EVERY BATTLE.
I actually mention them in nearly every build but... FUCK I FORGOT TO DO IT HERE hahahaha
And resist paralysis against those nasty mindflayers the perfect durge race
Man I just played a duergar and having perm invis outside of combat is insane, doubt I’ll ever go back, with momentum the drawbacks of a dwarf are fixed
My current honor mode playthrough is a Paladin of Selune (5 Paladin 7 cleric knowledge selune). Duagar. The dialog options are different as a Paladin of selune specifically and as a Duagar. My attributes are spread way to thin and surviving the first 4 levels without abusing Withers is rough.
I also have a wood half-elf sun soul monk build going... monk/cleric. The AD&D class...
Monk- path of Shadows 6- and Thief or Assasin Rogue would work very well with Duergar dwarves..The 2 Bonus Actions of Thief are more versatile..
My main playthrough was a Duergar Shadow Monk to 8 and Rogue Assassin to 4, my main weapon being the "Knife of the Undermountain King." It really fit the whole theme of an assassin that's a deep dwarf.
Since Patch 6 made all dialogue center your Tav/Durge if they are visible to the NPC and anywhere nearby, getting the Hag Hair is now pretty challenging for a low CHA build, especially on Honor Mode. My kids solved it right away with their monk Tav: After getting the Hag to low HP, they used the insane monk speed to bolt into the Hag's "Office" area, and then closed the door behind them. Then, as usual, parked their Bard closest to the Hag. It actually worked, and the Bard got picked to to the talking... and they got the Hair!
I just did it with a low charisma rogue, I don't think you need to roll if you allow ethel to take the blond girl. Since I'm doing a pure evil durge it made sense to take her deal. No rolls needed, ez +1 dex.
You can also just accept the hag's offer to avoid the check.
@@Yrian96for some reason, after the hag ran away into her lair, Mayrina caught me stealing and ran away yelling for help. Then she didnt appear again in the final fight. So i didnt need to save her at all. She showed up after the fight at her husbands coffin as usual
no it's not, it's hard to get it AND save mayrina lol. y'all act like you need to save her to get the hair, fuck mayrina
Let's gooooo keep pushing out the BG3 content
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I literally just started playing a week ago lol. I've watched all your videos for help understanding and learning this game. Appreciate you bro
Of course! Thanks so much for watching dude!
I appreciate that you cover builds that introduce unique flavor rather than just the strontest meta builds. I wouldn't mind seeing you cover a battle alchemist. My personal pick has been opening with 3 levels of transmutation wizard for transmutation and circle of daggers for popping potions, level 4 rogue for expertise in medicine and slight of hand, then either 4-6 rogue to grab arcane trickster or round off with wizard. Grabbing arcane trickster sounds unusual, but the hand can drink potions from your inventory netting you a companion that can, without breaking its stealth, haste itself, set its stength to 21, force surprise rounds, and double chuck potions for team mates all with the traditional mage hand benefits and it actually benefits from things like aid after long rests since it lasts forever, all while boosting your ESL and relying on intelligence like wizard, but I prefer taking utility spells here. These two classes benefit eachother in this way, wizard benefiting from the slight of hand for materials and scrolls and the medicine expertise + prof for the alchemy checks, and your hand benefits from your potions. Surprisingly fun if you're into that gameplay, and all your potions end up benefiting from the act 1 healing gear for blade wards (paired with transmutation stone lets you grant resistence to 4 types in one turn alongside your rogues bonus actions) and blesses mainly. I usually open either with halfling for the alchemy and slight of hand 1 rerolls, or as gale for the act 1 telekinesis as early as berore the grove fight
The gith in the creche also sells a finesse longsword that also has a cool ability, Larethian's Wrath love the vids!
Great shout! I couldn't remember if it was finesse or not!
This was my first multiplayer build days after release.
My little brother (sorcerer) got so mad every time I filled the screen with darkness, making him unable to target anything. Great fun :D
6 shadow monk, 3 fighter champion, 3 rogue assassin
Solid build. I like the mobility, the Shadow-Ninja flavor, the deadlyness of your first surprise hit..
Knife of the undermountain King for dbl crit range.😉.Durge gets that sweet cloak( forgot name ?!) that turns you invisible for 2 rds after a kill - & activates automatically 🤗.
Ninja- assassin time..🏴☠️
@@aaronhumphrey2009 thats pretty bad ass concept. I played storm cleric and fire sorcerer in my previous playthroughs. Might give an assassin try once I brain wash my friend to purchase the game for co-op campaign!
Interesting that its champion fighter I would've gloomstalker ranger it myself
@@moarblood5120 you need 6 shadow monk for shadow step, which is the whole purpose of the build.
Gonna run this build as Bane from DKR
I really appreciate you giving the basics of the build in the first 10 minutes.
Another great build excited to try it out. Love that you highlight things that aren't just the usual op picks that people already know about.
I feel, lore wise, this would be a good solo build, at the very least in Balanced. I'm going to try this build. For my lore, I'm thinking of rolling a Svirfneblin, aka Deep Gnome, that was an urchin, and taken in by a wise master to learn how to strike, subtly, at their Drow overlords, by perhaps sabotaging items, stealing food, etc.
This is pretty much exactly how I play Astarion in my current run and it's an absolute blast. :)
You rule man, this is such an enjoyable video of this type. PS. Bro I love that Haircut! shout out to the colonial fantasy ponytail.
Found your channel just recently, as I was looking into some random stuff. Love the content! Earned the sub because you put having fun and playing the game ahead of minmax builds. Quality stuff, keep it up
You're guides in general are really fun to watch, they give me ideas to work off of when i get sucked back into this game.
I would recommend this build on dark urge play through because you get access to a cloak that when you kill enimies you turn invisible for two turns but his is better for role play options
You talk about Savage Attacker, but don’t go into why it is good for this particular build. savage attacker works on all dice, so it would re-roll sneak attack and extra dice rolled due to Crits. At level 5 you get 3 SA dice, plus the weapon die which will average approx 4 points of extra damage in a single attack doubling to 8 on a critical. The problem with Dual wielder in this build is it requires your bonus action and in this build you are doing shadow stuff with your bonus action. TLDR; Your item choices are designed to increase crits, which doubles the dice and gets more value out of Savage Attacker.
Thank you dude! Appreciate you keeping me honest and writing such a detailed response on it!
Go orc get double SA, use damage riders like dolor amarus, vicious shortbow, crimson mischief and craterflesh glove for the ultimate crit fisher. Have a ssb bardadin cc for you
I am trying this build but with some changes.
Im a dark urge with the bhaalist armour, and I doubt between monk6, rogue 4, warrior 2. For the savage attacker feat, or going for rogue 3 warrior3 to take the -1crit.
Whats better?
Last Epoch seems good but I'm still fairly new and haven't got it so I haven't checked out your content for that but damn if I'm happy you got content for both. This channel has done wonders for my start to ARPG's and I love it.
subscribed as soon as i watched the TLDW, really appreciate it, also cool build for flavour
I was just talking to my bro about making a Ninja/ Monk based off Final Fantasy Tactics strongest build. This is almost exactly what I envisioned! Thank you for the awesome and detailed build guide.
Next up, MATHEMATICIAN! THE REAL OP CLASS
@@italianspartacus 1 shot holy every enemy in 1 turn regardless of distance 😩
Moar builds with item synergy....MOAR!
Hahahaha most of my builds have been!
Coming in kinda late to this post, but I am currently on my favorite BG3 playthrough yet as a shadow monk/ rogue Duergar. So much fun! I was looking for methods for maximizing use of the shadow monk features and found them with your video. Thanks!
Please do more baldur's gate builds, even if it's a common one on the internet, would love to hear your take on them. Oh! Or if you did something like reviews of popular builds, i just want to have more bg3 content from you, lol.
Hahahaha I'll see what I can do brother. I have a wild barbarian build coming too :)
@@italianspartacus sweet! Side note, this build came at a great time for me. I'm starting a new campaign trying to recreate my old WoW main (a monk) and this gave a lot of helpful advice.
@@italianspartacus on the note of reviews, I did a 5 gloomstalker, 4 sword bard, 3 theif as a character that can do range and dual weilding, with some supporting skills. Thoughts?
dude this is great, kind of what i'd been looking for. thx so much! love ur ck3 content as well
I think having the feat Resilient Dexterity is underrated, especially if you put 7 levels into monk. It allows you to get to 18dex and have an advantage on monk's evasion.
Since you're going rogue assassin, once you manage to get surprise rounds on any enemy down to a T, the bhaalist armor, gloves and weapons are really the best in slot for this build. 100% crits means you don't need crit rducing. You don't need the dagger since your armor will automatically make enemies vulnerable to piercing. The dolor amarus set and the gloves together give AN INCREDIBLE boost to ALL your crits which make the set far better suited to a ranged character. I not only one shot all the ilithids in the back line during the final fight with this, I also killed the brain in a single turn with my initial attack doing a whopping 390 damage in a SINGLE HIT (not a turn). I got the screenshots to prove it.
I want you to know, I just subscribed solely because you summarize your videos in the first couple of minutes. I understand there is a meta to running a TH-cam channel (getting people to watch past the 10 minute mark, etc.), and I don't even mind watching sponsor spots of reasonable length.
But most channels take it way too far, and I usually click off if there's too much filler in the first few minutes.
Great video and explanation of shadow monk!
Thanks brother!
In my latest co-op I respected shadowheart into a shadow monk for funsies. It's still early on in the campaign, but I'm definitely taking some pointers from this vid for the eventual build :)
Awesome build! I changed it up to do 1 Ability Improvement: Dex, and then (as odd as it sounds) I did Actor to make it feel like an actual Ninja from history. The only thing that would illicit a chef's kiss would be Disguise Self, but eh, okay. Love your build videos!
Just want to point out a glaring mistake: Monks will make any weapon they are proficient in a monk weapon, meaning they can use their dexterity for the attacks, as long as the weapon is not a heavy weapon (martial dedicated two-handed weapon, essentially). So even if the weapon doesn't have finesse they can use longswords efficiently. That said, there is a lack of good longswords
Thanks for pointing that out :) I did say all of that but I forgot to mention about heavy/two handed. I'd say a partial mistake more than anything hahahah
@@italianspartacuswe are sending you to the dungeon for your mistakes
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FUCK YES! FINALLY!
You tell people not to listen to people on the internet but you are on the internet! "Don't listen to other people only me" is what it sounds like.
I'm actually saying to disregard anything I say if it doesn't fit how you want to play :)
Just throwing this out there. There are more finesse weapons.
In the gith creche their trader sells another longsword that is finesse. It's got a once per short rest 4m AOE attack on it and it's a +1 sword.
Act 3 also has the finesse pike or whatever it is. It's a polearm with reach that is also a finesse weapon (only one of those in the game that I know of).
I feel like this is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone actually talking about shadow monk idk why (I’ve also never touched the class so I don’t know how good it is) and I’ll definitely be looking forward to the dragons dogma 2 vids :D
Me too. I only saw video guides on Open Hand subclass.
Less damage than open hand, but the mobility and utility is peerless.
Me personally I will do 9 monk 3 rogue for the brutal critical that stacks with the half-orc passive and stack crit roll reduction effects
Another heavy hitter of a video - very interesting looking build bro. - Machinegaming
I've been lurking in the shadows for this! _Baldur Gear Solid can finally begin!_ Or BG3's version of Batman, take your fancy.
Baldur Gear Solid..
Baldur Gear?!? It can't be...
I would like to see that!
for me monk is the best class in bg3. there are 3 ways of monk and these ways are super cool. im playing with open hand monk rn cause fighting with hand is such a cool but i wanna try elemental and shadow monk too. good video btw.
I have a 128 hours and haven't gotten to act 2 lol. I am that one guy the makes and designs new characters restarts but never gets them past their initial phase before thinking of something else cool and trying it lol. I have deleted like 20 odd saves lol.
Take orc (free savage attacker), 8 monk, 4 rogue (for third feat, which I find much more important then the 5th lvl in rogue. Alert, asi, res DEX or dice or duel wield or another asi for WIS.
Yep, I'm playing Monk next. Looks like a fun build!
Looks really cool. I'd also consider Dwarf Duergar for a stealth build, since they can cast invisibility on themselves for free outside of combat (and once pr battle), and it lasts until you use an action. Makes it so much easier to sneak around or get in position where regular stealth might not be enough. The -1,5m movement speed penalty is annoying, but with your build you're going to be super mobile anyway. I used Duergar for a ranger/rogue build and I could do sneak attack>dread ambusher outside of combat, which would usually kill any regular enemies, and then invis to leave combat. Rinse and repeat while picking off enemies one by one
The Mario theme “bonus bonus bonus” got me bro 🤣🤣
Nice guide, I just want to point out that your weapon doesn't have to be finesse. The monk weapon trait makes it so that any weapon you are proficient with becomes a finesse weapon when wielded by a monk.
6 4 2- shadow monk, assassin, old one.. true bhalspawn run. Assasin give you guaranteed crit, warlock lvl up to you, can also just take 1 warlock lvl but I like to have devil sight., boots of stormy clamour combine with mental inhibition ring, you put penalty on every saving throw of enemy. Bhaalist armor is the last piece. This was the strongest 1v1 boss build I have ever run..drow fits well but half orc adds the crit flavor. Since commitment to armor is req, you can take mobile as your 2nd feat, but most of the time shadowsteps covers for it.
This sounds amazing! What would be your recommendation for starting ability point allocation?
@@Sedaisan man I just realized their is a better version of this if you go 6 fighter bm, 4 assasin, 2 old ones... my problem with this shadow monk build was, it comes online at lvl 7,( 1 point in rogue, 5 in SM ). since you are not going TB feat, dmg will be from weapon. So take 17 dex, and rest whatever you prefer. Hag hair in dex, get graceful cloth from ester. I chose wisdom as secondary stat to get 2 more Ac. Your first feat is race dependent. If you go drow, you get prof in hand crossbow and rapier, so either take savage attack or duel wielder, depending on what kind of control you want.
Act 2 will be difficult though, shadow monk work with obscured or lightly obscured areas, and most enemies get resistances in dark areas in act 2 so dmg suffers a lot. Repec class if you see fit,
I ran cruel sting and phalar aluve in act 2 to build psychic dmg with mental fatigue ring and boots of stormy clamour for dex penalty..
Don't forget to kill Kagha in act 1, she gives you 1d6 poison dmg necklace, you can kill her without raiding emerald grove..
Act 3 will be a breeze from early on, all you need to get is duellist prerogative and any dagger you like..beeline for bhallist armor.
Fighter bm variation removes the early penalty in lvls..if you are looking for inspiration of this build, you might done the vault fight in act3, where bhallist do hit and run tactics, hit 2 times shadowblend away very annoying without see invisibility source.
@@doyoubleed.yes3475 Awesome! Thank you so much for taking the time to write that up!
I like the phalar aluve with this build, because nothing says sneaky like a screeching sword
The Zhent's also sell a Dex longsword called Larethian's something or other.
Playing Elden Ring right now, but it feels like ill be doing different builds for BG3 and Elden Ring for my next couple years of gaming with how much content is in both games haha
Yo I love your builds dude. This one in particular seems right up my alley :D
I've been thinking about running a fun wild magic build with barb or sorc but I haven't really seen any items that synergise with that mechanic too well. Would you explore that concept? I think it would be pretty fun.
It's a TON of fun, I think you'll enjoy it :)
This build is also perfect for Ascended Astarion since you gain necrotic damage or Karlach since she has fire damage added to her attacks
Great, great video again! ❤
Try a Gold- Dwarf Barbarian, Wildheart, Tiger/ Wolverine. Dual wield Shattered Flail and Rital Dagger. Use Periapt of Wound Closure. Tough feat, Primary Constitution.
Would love to hear what you think about that. 🙂
Aims to be a CC Tank for the team.
I did a similar play style just thief instead, now I want to do 11 shadow to try out the shadow strike with the invis cloak
I think it's quite fun to do 4 rogue/6 shadow monk to unlock their most important abilities (4 rogue for the feat so you can have 2) and the two last levels into warlock for devil's sight, so you can cast darkness on enemies and teleport to them at will and get advantage against them while they have disadvantage against you. I don't really see a big reason to go rogue 5 or monk 7
start with rogue for immediate stealth and probably start with ranged attacks mostly until level 4 for the feat which is a huge power spike early game and depending on your preference pick a feat or just asi and of course pick assassin for the subclass. then just start levelling up monk and lean into melee. you can deal really good damage from melee especially if you know how to efficiently use invisibility potions/scrolls and/or have a team member shoot arrows of darkness or just cast darkness in the right spots so you can easily be stealthy even in melee. at 3 monk you of course get the subclass which gives you useful stuff like pass without trace and silence but most importantly darkness which will only become truly useful at level 12. 6 monk gives you shadow step which is insanely good. last 2 levels go into warlock just so you can get devil's sight which is I think the only way to see in magical darkness. from here you cast darkness or your other team member casts it. (I like to have another rogue-ish character that's ranged and shoot darkness arrows at enemies to pump damage while creating darkness in one action.) then you proceed to teleport into the darkness and destroy everything inside. (for the record I haven't actually tried this and yet and it's something I'm building into in my current build so sorry if some of this is wrong lol I haven't tested it yet)
@@Kiony.The Eversight Ring in Act 2 lets you see in Darkness but honestly I like the Warlock dip not just for Devil Sight but for Mortal Reminder which synergizes really well with the guaranteed Criticals of the Assassin subclass and with Bow of the Banshee plus Cerebral Citadel Gloves (both give increased attack rolls when you Frighten enemies.)
Me and my buddy were messing with a batman and robin style monk run. I wanted to go shadow cause it went with the theme. And when i saw shadow step i immediately thought of the fun i could have with rogue.
By act 2 it was online. Only problem, it didnt work.
Shadow step gave me advantage, but i couldnt use sneak attack. It just. Didnt. Work. I was so disappointed, that i stopped playing for years until recently when my same buddy wanted to do an evil run. Might give this build a try if they fixed it.
Definitely gonna do this for a durge campaign!
"A monk weapon is any weapon you're proficient in."
I'm pretty certain when I made my Kenshin Himura build, I had proficiency with all weapons via my Fighter levels, but no matter what I did I would never have the follow up monk attack options because scimitars were not monk weapons.
Only change I would make is Thief for the extra bonus action.
If you're willing to play at half health or less*, you can play Assassin, wear the Helmet of Grit and have it both ways: all the insane first-round damage of Assassin with the extra bonus Action of Thief.
* heck, if you're playing Shadow Monk Rogue properly, you should never be taking hits anyway.
Larethian's Wrath is the only other finesse longsword. Though, it's easier to get Aluve since it's free. Unlike Lare, which needs to be bought from a vendor in Act 1.
You essentially made a badass Nightcrawler build.....sweet!
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I was just looking for this exact build you spying on me???
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@@italianspartacus in that case I’m sorry for the other stuff you have to see
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@@italianspartacus I still revisit that 4 seconds to laugh. Something about the way you said it cracks me up. HAHAHA
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Thank you so much for watching!
Good video, thanks for the info
For anyone watching this now, never do what he did opening up with sneak attack. Keep your reactions for sneak attack turned on along with dual wield, this way you get 2 hits while recovering both your action and bonus action with assassin's alacrity
will start a multi player soon ! think Ill try that! awesome build!
@italianspartacus I love your buid-videos, they give me a lot of inspirations, could you try a combo sorcerer/monk? thinking of draconic bloodline fire and monk with way of the 4 elements... just trying this (drow elf)
Im tryin out somethin similar to this as a monk-lock. Using devils sight and darkness to really become one with the shadows.
My build is the exact same but I took one off monk and put it into fighter instead so I can wear heavy armor like the armor of persistence just so I can tank more. Also I went into thief instead of assassin because my co-op party aren’t constantly stopping combat so you can surprise again so the bonus action is more helpful
Any reason not to use a feat to get heavy amour? Kinda a newb here
To be honest this build should be default pure rogue, this is how imagine a rogues strength late game should be.
very nice... why not go full shadow monk solo build then? looks like a strong class by itself without the use of rogue
It's just too ki starved and I'd rather get the benefits of Rogue :)
It would even be a lot better with pure monk if you used shadow blade + shadow strike + the resonance stone = over 100 dmg for the cost of three ki points
Of course maintaining concentration on shadow blade can be a real hassle, but with transmutation stone + some gear to give advantage on con saves you rarely fail (just don't get knocked prone)
Transmutation stone doesn't work if you don't have the character in your party anymore :( also carrying that resonance stone is a lot of disadvantage added into the party
This builds gunna be so sexy for my good durge play through especially as a drow
Also im pretty sure if you use a longsword with nothing in off hand you can use great weapon master with this too
Fun fact: You can use everything Monk-related with Raphael's Helldusk Armor which you can get as early as Act 1. My Shadow Monk currently has that + the Bracers of Defense + 14 WIS which gives him a whopping 25 AC, making him near impossible to hit 😆 I love Shadow Monk so much. I didn't want to play the traditional Open Hand Monk so now I'm playing as a Shadow Monk Durge who is resisting the Urge. Aka, if I can't go invisible with Shadow Monk, I'll go invisible with the unique Durge cloak 😈.
Another fun fact: With an elixir of Cloud Giant strength, your unarmed strikes (7 levels in Monk) can hit around 40 damage... per punch. This, plus the rest of my party in Honor Mode made the fight with Myrkul a walk in the park (THANKFULLY).
Went for 6 monk 3 rouge and another 3 in fighter for action surge and better critical chance as for gear I went with items that increased my crits and increased stealth mostly played as a archer but I did get a melee skill via the fighter levels
Looks cool as hell ! I'll run a Gith resist durge with this build in my next run to get a change of pace from CHA classes.
I've been thinking, how about using a versatile finesse weapon like Phalar Aluve without anything in left hand, and GWM as a feat ? And later switch for the Dancing Breeze ?
I think that could be potent and quite fun to sneak attack with both hands + you get advantage from Shadow step to counteract the penalty of GWM
Did you end up trying this yet? I was kinda thinking the same, you could use flurry of blows any time you didn't shadow step so bonus isn't wasted either
Perhaps sub out some levels for 2 levels of warlock for that juicy devilsight? Shadow step in and out of safety, or stunlock your opponent in your darkness spell.
I've got one that is similar to this that I made on tabletop first and I will condense it down for BG3 but he is a Lightfoot Halfling with Folk Hero and 11 Trickster Rogue, 3 Gloom Stalker Ranger and 6 Shadow Monk
At this level, the minimum he rolls on Stealth is a 27
But for BG3 its the same but 3 Arcane Trickster instead of 11
Sad but being able to not be seen is a core part of this
where can i find this outfit????
I am trying 6 shadow monk, 4 rogue (for the feat) and 2 warlock for devil sight and repelling blast as control option/to push into hazards/knock people off stuff.
Pretty sure monk dextrous attacks can be used on any thing they are proficent in
As long as they aren't two handed or heavy weapons :)
@@italianspartacus yep, thats how i made a gotrek themed build with a battle axe.
Do I HAVE to scream, “believe it!” Every battle?
If you don't, your character will die!!!
No, you have to say it every other sentence, as it's a verbal tic. Or just say "-ttebayo" instead.
definitely going to try out a Gith Monk soon
Been having a blast with a Gith Shadow Monk Thief, I don't even bother using the rest of the party, soloing every fight with her is such a fun tactical experience.
stillness of mind in BG3 is like Countercharm in 5e, but worse. because even a minor frighten forces you to use your whole action, and cannot be toggled 😭
When do you toggle dual wield on or off? Great video, going to try this out, thanks!
So im trying to follow this build, but my skills are greyed out and limited
Wood half elf, monk, charlatan, 8, 16, 14, 8, 16, 12 (2 dex/ 1 wis)
My skills i can add insight but stealth shows grey with +7 already on it.
Skills not greyed out
Athletic, acrobatics, history, religion, insight (already added 1 to insight)
Is this a glitch or is it patched from last update? Did i pick something wrong?
I like the way you think bro I'm currently building Astarion like this 😂😂😂 I guess great minds think alot.
Hell yeah man! Let me know how it goes!
If you go Monk 9 your base weapon damage with monk weapons goes to 1d8. So daggers do 1d8 which is great. Then go Assassin 3.
Perfect for my slav- Astarion, uh I mean companion. 😊
Drinking a Elixir of Viciousnes would bring the change to crit up even further.
I think I’m going to put one level into warlock for the great old one for the crit fear thing instead of 7th level monk.
If you're gonna do that, might as well take two and get Devil Sight which saves a ring slot since you won't need the Eversight Ring.
Gith are honestly extremely underrated
They look rough though, honestly. Especially the males.
@@barberman2737 Lae Lae looks the best. The beauty standard for her race lol
@@barberman2737 Two of the female Gith faces (first row left 2 and the one under it) are kind of cute. The male ones on the other hand are hopeless.
@@barberman2737 yeah I have a monk gith male he looks insane but the female one I have doesn’t look that bad lol
I'm undecided between a combination of 6 shadow monk, 3 thief or assassin rogue, 3 champion fighter, or 3 gloomstalker ranger
looks like a fun melee build