I really like how you're talking about "class fantasy" in these BG3 videos. Most guides just talk about what the classes do mechanically and overlook how they fit into the wider world of the game, which is a big deal in an roleplaying-heavy game like this one.
@JeannieLove damn what gave it away that its a video game? I would argue a majority of the players would care consider its an rpg. A larian studios rpg that takes role playing a lil mote seriously
I love that you pointed out the nuance of the class fantasy beyond "brute". I've always kind of imagined them as the "charisma caster" of melee classes. Instinct and emotion over training doesn't have to mean that you're a hulking dumb-dumb.
I ran an Eladrin wild magic barbarian/battlemaster fighter in a tabletop campaign recently, and I flavored his rage as merely an innate channeling of fey magic. He was of average intelligence, could hold a normal conversation, and didn't fly off the handle really ever.
Conan in his novels is quite intelligent and he's what a lot of people think of when you say Barbarian. Barbarians all being stupid is flanderization of an old trope.
Barbarians are awesome tanks and do some pretty epic damage, even at low levels! They are pretty fun to play in D&D. I like some of the homebrew stuff Larian has done too! Another thing they mention is that Barbarians can throw other members of the party - or enemies - so they can throw halflings, gnomes, goblins etc... which could make for some really fun hijinks! Especially if you are playing multiplayer, you can be proficient at throwing your friends into your enemies haha! There really are no bad classes!
Actually (at least in early access) the "throw" ability isnt class specific at all. Anyone can attempt to throw both objects and creatures, your capability at doing so depending on your strength. For example in an encounter i used lei'zel (fighter) to throw my halfling barbarian up on a cliff.
@@Bzk-- Berserkers get the enraged throw tho, wich knocks people prone without any checks, it's legit op, you can legit throw anything you got in your pocket at an enemy, knock him prone, and blast him with a melee attack after.
@@Jajalaatmaar shit that would be fun!! On a future play through, I am totally gonna have a gnome or halfling rogue and have a big half orc barbarian throw thrown around in battle! I would totally build around that just for the fun hahaha!
At least in early access the barbarian had some of the most amusing class specific dialog options to also make up for the fact that they're not built to be a very good face character. You can kinda just roar at people and intimidate them into backing down often with situational advantage.
Thank you for pointing out Barbarians have nuance! They're Sorcerers to the Fighter being a Wizard when it comes to how they typically gain their martial prowess. I'm curious about the Wild Magic subclass I typically avoid things that have that type of rng but I may make an exception depending on how its implemented.
Love the barbarian class, every time I start a new system (D&D 4e, D&D 5e, PF 1e, PF 2e) I start as a barbarian. So versatile and it gets you up and playing immediately. Loving the BG3 content so far
Barbarian was my favorite play through in EA. Only problem was the Barbarian specific intimidation dialogue was super fun to use, but it normally let you avoid combat. I’m a barbarian! I don’t want to avoid combat!
That depends. Are the enemies you have to fight little weak girly boys or something that's will pump you up;). May chose to intimidate the boring trash and go have a drink until a real challenge shows up.
After playing EA for a bit, one thing i really appreciate is that the devs managed to make even full martial classes A LOT more interesting and engaging than in many other titles (for example the pathfinder games) where often they can quite literally just use basic attacks all the time, thanks to all the extra stuff you have access to besides class specific features (combat maneuvers, weapon abilities etc)
Sadly the PF games went too by the book. The game becomes overwhelming. Without a mod to auto cast buffs or things like that, it's super boring. I started the game and kinda left it because of that. Things that work in PnP don't always translate well to video games. Also they didn't have a turn based mode, thats shit
@@Zorish373 i dont Remember kingmaker as it's been too many years since i played it but im still playing WotR to this day. If you cant be arsed to deal with buffs and optimized builds etc just tune down the difficulty. Infact i think the pathfinder games are a lot more enjoyable on lower difficulties
I just wanted to say, that this series of yours is a godsend, since I'm currently trying to decide if I should play a sorcerer or some two-handed wielder!
in early access this was the most fun for me. Going into Frenzy and throwing Goblins at each other or throwing large crates down on people lol. They don't need a ranged weapon, because everything is a ranged weapon for them !!! SOOOOO Fun. Larian made them very table top.
One comment I want to add to the Frenzy Barbarian is the implementation on the table top makes it extremely unappealing. You get that extra attack, yay! But after your rage ends, that exhaustion sets in. And the first level of exhaustion gives you disadvantage on all checks, which is to say all skills and actions that aren't attacks. So you use your rage ability once and you have sabotaged every (non-combat) dice roll you make until your next long rest. And exhaustion levels stack, so every time you rage, you stack up the penalties--level 2 your speed is cut in half (so good luck getting around the battlefield), level 3 adds disadvantage on all attacks and saves (now you're bad at fighting!), level 4 cuts your HP in half (not great for a tank class), and level 5 reduces your speed to 0 (now you can't move!) If you somehow end up at level 6, you just flat out die. A long rest only reduces your exhaustion level by 1, so rules as written you would need to use a long rest *every time you rage* in order to actually benefit from your class feature, and if you for some reason raged multiple times in a day (because, I don't know, you have multiple rages and the adventuring day is longer than one minute) then you need to just mash the rest button over and over to get back to normal. It's a simply massive, borderline unplayable penalty to "balance" out getting an extra attack. You want to know another way you can get use your bonus action to make a single melee attack? Dual wield. Which technically anyone can do (with the limitation that you can't add your ability modifier to damage) and is a fighting style that Rangers and Fighters can start with (removing that normal penalty). Larian made the right choice. PS: Compare Frenzy Barbarian to Bear totem barbarian, who gets to take half damage from *all* sources but psychic. What penalty do they pay to balance out becoming borderline unkillable with their massive health pool and damage reduction? They don't. They're just chads. These class specializations share page space and presumably designers, but they aren't in the same league design wise.
This is what I'll be using for my first coop playthrough. I've had a blast with my Berserker in early access, especially when throwing objects and enemies.
These have been a great series of videos so far, definitely some of the best that focus on BG3. I hope this content really works out for you Morti and you can cover BG3 for a long time in the future
One of the things that I like about BG3's design is that the environment really encourages you to interact with it. While this isn't a practical thing to do on tabletop, shoving people off of high places, leaping great distances and tossing furniture or PEOPLE across the room are all options made available to you by virtue of being a strength class. Aside from fighters, barbarians really epitomise that high-strength gameplay, and I look forward to putting that to use in my playthrough! Being a hulking mass of muscle has never been as fun as when I've been in BG3.
I haven't played a Barbarian in BG3 but it's worth noting that if it works like in tabletop, you can keep up with your rage by making a ranged attack even if the attack itself doesn't actually benefit from the rage. Useful to keep in mind especially with how spread-out some of the battles in this particular game can be
This is true for early access as well. Even with a bunch of buffs to make a barbarian super fast (longer movement per turn) there's gonna be times where they're just not fast enough to hit or get hit especially towards the end of a very spread out battle. Taking a pot shot with a crossbow at like 16% accuracy is better than nothing for keeping that rage up.
One thing I think you could have included in the 2-level dip into Fighter MC is how strong picking up fighting style could be for barbs, with Great Weapon Style and a Great Weapon Mastery feat being an absolute damage parade of maxed out extra attacks. Or if you're feeling spicy, a two-weapon style/mastery to get less bursty damage and extra attacks but potentially more proc effects and +1 AC.
Thanks for the video. I'm fairly confident I am terrible at DnD, but that's why your channel exists through, right. Onward to 200k (it's coming). All glory to the algorithm.
Super important note: Helmets, Gauntlets and Boots do NOT count as armor usually, apart from some specifically heavy armor outliners, thankfully they added this as them being counted as armor, not wearing anything was pretty much a fatal detrament.
Because the barb is more limited in it's party role than other classes, I think one rules question that is likely to come up is whether the berserker's Frenzy attack synergizes with most other abilities that allow you to take offensive bonus actions, e.g. an attack granted by the great weapon master feat. I think the answer is no, because you can only take 1 bonus action a turn, regardless of what you choose to do with it? But I'd love to get an answer from someone who knows the rules for sure.
First thing I want to try is make a halfling barbarian duo and because your strength is high, and your weight is low. You should be able to throw each other into combat. Pull a fastball special!
Barbarian/Rogue is potentially interesting too. Sneak attack works on attacks where you have advantage, rogues give some nice defensive options, reckless attacks give you advantage on your attacks... I dunno. I need to actually see how it goes in game but saw it mentioned in a forum post and thought it was funny xD Raging "sneak atacks" lol. But I'm waiting until the game drops before I do anything with it...
One of my full playthroughs in EA was a Shield Dwarf Berserker. A really strong build, which will be even better with 4 lvls of Battle Master Fighter starting @ lvl 6. If you can still have +2 to both Str & Con with a Shield Dwarf, it will a close between it, and the Half-Orc for Race. Another good overview.
@@0OncheLeBide0 Question remains unanswered whether the +2/+1 Tasha's rule is optional or not. If not optional, the Half-Orc will be clearly superior for melee builds.
Wild Magic Barbarian is a homebrew by Taliesin Jaffe and Matt Mercer for Critical Role and Taliesin's Barbarian character "Ashton". I'm sure it probably existed in different ways prior to that but afaik that's where it became popularized.
I think i'm gonna go for Karlach. I'll build her Barbarian Berserker 5 / Rogue 5 / Warrior 2 (or Rogue 3 / Warrior 4). A hell lot of mobility, action and bonus action !
This will be my first play through. I'd like to create a Guts inspired character. I'm not familiar with d&d and RPG games and the amount of information is overwhelming so I figured I'll play an easier character for my first run.
There's Barbarian + Warlock too, who can cast Armor of Agathys combined with barbarian's resistance to physical damage to extend the temp hit points further, making any enemies that hit you take a lot of damage for their trouble.
I'd never thought of that. If you went Wildheart and took Bear for the damage reduction, and maybe took barbarian to 5 for the extra movement and attack, then you could get up to 7 warlock which has level 4 spell slots. Armor of Agathys isn't a concentrate spell so you can cast it before you rage, and because you take half damage from everything but psychic, the HP you get from Agathys are effectively doubled while also hurting anything that attacks you in melee, which is where you're going to be anyway. There's definitely some potential there.
It's worth noting that Reckless Attack is also a way to increase your frequency of Critical Hits. This is important with Brutal Critical from level 9 since this is your way of getting extra damage. The problem is Brutal Critical sucks and if you want to deal lots of damage you're best off multiclassing to Fighter / Battlemaster from level 8 to get a better option for increasing your damage
Just recently discovered your channel! These videos are getting me hyped for Baldur's gate 3. I just got Pathfinder wrath of the righteous based on your as you where singing it's praises but now I can't decide weather to hold off until after BG3
As someone with around 300h played on pathfinder WOTR and quite a bit of bg3 early access experience, i suggest playing Pathfinder now if you have the time. Despite being the same genre it's a very different game, less polished in some ways, it's gonna be hard to adapt to some of the pathfinder WotR mechanics once you got used to bg3. Overall i think you'll enjoy it more if you play it before BG3 sets the bar too high 😂 It will also make you appreciate many bg3 features even more 😋
Fun Race combo. If you pick Duergar and hit level 4. You can do Enlarge for free as Duergar Racial, then do Rage and you pretty much become a huge Monster of the party. Enlarge needs no concentration.
That depends on an important detail. Are Duergar small or medium creatures? Enlarge bumps you up by one so going up to medium would just put you in the same boat as taller races with an extra turn spent to get there.
I was hoping for a Wizard this time, that maybe you'll start the series from the casters. I'm thinking Wizard/Fighter for the first playthrough, waiting patiently for overview for these. Great content as always!
Barb, everything is now a projectile. Seriously can pick up some heavy things and stuff them in inventory. Toss that 40kg barrel of liquid, toss that chest, toss those crates. Some of these maps you are like 2-3 stories high. Javelins hurt a ton from up high, but a chest can squish 3 goblins. Or throw an enemy and push another one.
For me it would be the biggest struggle to choose subclass. Berserker seems like the most damage but wildheart seems more interesting and I'm curious how wild magic is gonna turn out
I am gonna make Dragonborn Barbarian. I plan to multiclass sorc (as in BG3 Unarmored Defense may actually stack with Draconic Resilience ; in D&D it does not but in BG3 description of the passives is different than in D&D so it may stack). Alternatively I may try to multi class Druid as I have heard that we may get Dinosaurs wild shapes. Idk about you, but Dragonborn getting angry and then transforming into T-Rex sound awesome.
Going to try an Eagle Totem barbarian (potentially with a rogue mix) who will first sneak to high ground so that I can start each fight with a massive damage leap attack.
Want something where I can pass a lot of checks for story purposes... Maybe bard for cha/wis checks or a druid for wis and animal chats... Looking forward to more class overviews!
Exhaustion seems to be broadly missing from BG3 compared to 5e. Which is good, it's a bad mechanic anyways lol. I'm glad that martials and half casters seem better across the board.
when I play the beta and choice the Barbarian, I was doing alot damage even on low level so I already decide to when the game first come out my first playthrough going be a Barbarian and the only dislike I don't like it that we only get three subclass that about it so I hopeful the more subclass down the road and I want build my Barbarian to do alot damage and hopeful build it be a tank to
I wonder if they still have the Gnomish trait in this game where they get advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom AND Charisma saving throws from Magic. Gnomish Barbarian, sounds weak, until you consider the ignored aspects.
I've heard that barbarians have the most unique dialogue lines in the game (probably various forms of "smash x"). Definitely something I want to at least multiclass into at some point.
Barbarians dialogue options are actually really cool, there is in fact a lot of them too. My favorite being that as a Barbarian you can shout at the Ogre group and intimidate them into letting you go and then boss them around.
You said you shouldn't mix them with casters but I'll be making a Half-Orc Wild Magic Barb multiclasses with Wild Magic Sorcerer. Drop a spell or two and then rage melee it up! Pretty pumped
Melee is cool and all, but I prefer to throw my axes, hammers and chests at the enemy. So satisfying when you are not in melee range :D Also improvised weapons are so much fun. Got disarmed? Just attack with a chair next to you :D
Roleplay idea: Dark Urge Berserker 10/Fighter 2 called Kratos (coz why not move him to forgotten realms), ur more like in God of War 3, leting ur rage take over whenever u feel like it is time for some fatality :D Usually played berserker in BG2 coz he felt pretty OP and u cant get trapped by Kangaax imprisonment so i just smack him together with Korgan Torn between this and sorc/warlock or warlock/fighter (maybe if wyll new origin story turns out to be great)
I don't know if you are, I am guessing maybe(but not too in depth since the changes) I am thinking of doing the Monk but I know they did some changes so. Hope to see that guide❤
Not a ton of ranged options? What do you mean? Ive been carrying around a backpack of Javelins, Greataxes, Knifes, and explosives for when something is a little out of reach. Throwing a goblin or big rock works too.
I really like how you're talking about "class fantasy" in these BG3 videos. Most guides just talk about what the classes do mechanically and overlook how they fit into the wider world of the game, which is a big deal in an roleplaying-heavy game like this one.
100% it really helps in my decision making for my final Tav
Not everyone cares about that, especially since this is a video game.
@JeannieLove damn what gave it away that its a video game? I would argue a majority of the players would care consider its an rpg. A larian studios rpg that takes role playing a lil mote seriously
@@cristiannino1014Chill out, I was just saying why it might be less common to find videos on how classes fit into "the fantasy"
I only care about the fantasy so I don't pick batty classes like bards druids and paladins
Can't wait to be crushin' bones and tossin' gnomes
And finding various Tomes
@@MrKnightlorebarbs cant read man lol
@@mre_man haha good point :)
Eeeey
@@mre_manbut they can help others read by tossing books at them.
I love that you pointed out the nuance of the class fantasy beyond "brute". I've always kind of imagined them as the "charisma caster" of melee classes. Instinct and emotion over training doesn't have to mean that you're a hulking dumb-dumb.
That is a really good comparison that I never would have even considered.
I ran an Eladrin wild magic barbarian/battlemaster fighter in a tabletop campaign recently, and I flavored his rage as merely an innate channeling of fey magic. He was of average intelligence, could hold a normal conversation, and didn't fly off the handle really ever.
but then how come every barbarian has int 8 as their dump stat
Conan in his novels is quite intelligent and he's what a lot of people think of when you say Barbarian. Barbarians all being stupid is flanderization of an old trope.
yeah , like Conan, intelligence through instinct and cunning. Instead of foretought and tecnique. Pure primal force.
Keep these vids coming! Can't wait for the Paladin and the Druid
I wish we knew more about Circle of Spores druid - i'm excited to check them out
The barbarians are so cool as an rpg class. They fight with raw emotion.
Barbarians are awesome tanks and do some pretty epic damage, even at low levels! They are pretty fun to play in D&D. I like some of the homebrew stuff Larian has done too! Another thing they mention is that Barbarians can throw other members of the party - or enemies - so they can throw halflings, gnomes, goblins etc... which could make for some really fun hijinks! Especially if you are playing multiplayer, you can be proficient at throwing your friends into your enemies haha! There really are no bad classes!
Actually (at least in early access) the "throw" ability isnt class specific at all. Anyone can attempt to throw both objects and creatures, your capability at doing so depending on your strength. For example in an encounter i used lei'zel (fighter) to throw my halfling barbarian up on a cliff.
@@Bzk-- Berserkers get the enraged throw tho, wich knocks people prone without any checks, it's legit op, you can legit throw anything you got in your pocket at an enemy, knock him prone, and blast him with a melee attack after.
What would be a strong combo to make a coop throwing build? 2x barbarian halfling or something? And just throw eachother all over the map.
@@Jajalaatmaar I'm not sure it's something you should build around lol it's more of a situational option :P
@@Jajalaatmaar shit that would be fun!! On a future play through, I am totally gonna have a gnome or halfling rogue and have a big half orc barbarian throw thrown around in battle! I would totally build around that just for the fun hahaha!
At least in early access the barbarian had some of the most amusing class specific dialog options to also make up for the fact that they're not built to be a very good face character. You can kinda just roar at people and intimidate them into backing down often with situational advantage.
Thank you for pointing out Barbarians have nuance! They're Sorcerers to the Fighter being a Wizard when it comes to how they typically gain their martial prowess. I'm curious about the Wild Magic subclass I typically avoid things that have that type of rng but I may make an exception depending on how its implemented.
Love the barbarian class, every time I start a new system (D&D 4e, D&D 5e, PF 1e, PF 2e) I start as a barbarian. So versatile and it gets you up and playing immediately. Loving the BG3 content so far
Really appreciate this series. Saves me a lot of time learning all these details. Top channel
I really appreciate that you're approaching these videos from a roleplay and class fantasy angle instead of a numbers game.
The more I learn about all the classes, the more classes I want to play.
Barbarian was my favorite play through in EA. Only problem was the Barbarian specific intimidation dialogue was super fun to use, but it normally let you avoid combat. I’m a barbarian! I don’t want to avoid combat!
That depends. Are the enemies you have to fight little weak girly boys or something that's will pump you up;). May chose to intimidate the boring trash and go have a drink until a real challenge shows up.
Suffering from success.
Berserker was so fun in early game, I'm picking up so many items and just throwing them when I can't reach things during rage to keep it going.
After playing EA for a bit, one thing i really appreciate is that the devs managed to make even full martial classes A LOT more interesting and engaging than in many other titles (for example the pathfinder games) where often they can quite literally just use basic attacks all the time, thanks to all the extra stuff you have access to besides class specific features (combat maneuvers, weapon abilities etc)
Sadly the PF games went too by the book. The game becomes overwhelming. Without a mod to auto cast buffs or things like that, it's super boring. I started the game and kinda left it because of that.
Things that work in PnP don't always translate well to video games. Also they didn't have a turn based mode, thats shit
@@Zorish373 i dont Remember kingmaker as it's been too many years since i played it but im still playing WotR to this day. If you cant be arsed to deal with buffs and optimized builds etc just tune down the difficulty. Infact i think the pathfinder games are a lot more enjoyable on lower difficulties
Barbarian Berserker/ Rogue thief. Getting 2 bonus actions per turn from thief sounds gnarly
Perfect time to release BG3 content. So excited for this game, keep up the good work !
I just wanted to say, that this series of yours is a godsend, since I'm currently trying to decide if I should play a sorcerer or some two-handed wielder!
These class videos are great to figure out what class to play both for RP and mechanics
in early access this was the most fun for me. Going into Frenzy and throwing Goblins at each other or throwing large crates down on people lol. They don't need a ranged weapon, because everything is a ranged weapon for them !!! SOOOOO Fun. Larian made them very table top.
One comment I want to add to the Frenzy Barbarian is the implementation on the table top makes it extremely unappealing. You get that extra attack, yay! But after your rage ends, that exhaustion sets in. And the first level of exhaustion gives you disadvantage on all checks, which is to say all skills and actions that aren't attacks.
So you use your rage ability once and you have sabotaged every (non-combat) dice roll you make until your next long rest. And exhaustion levels stack, so every time you rage, you stack up the penalties--level 2 your speed is cut in half (so good luck getting around the battlefield), level 3 adds disadvantage on all attacks and saves (now you're bad at fighting!), level 4 cuts your HP in half (not great for a tank class), and level 5 reduces your speed to 0 (now you can't move!) If you somehow end up at level 6, you just flat out die.
A long rest only reduces your exhaustion level by 1, so rules as written you would need to use a long rest *every time you rage* in order to actually benefit from your class feature, and if you for some reason raged multiple times in a day (because, I don't know, you have multiple rages and the adventuring day is longer than one minute) then you need to just mash the rest button over and over to get back to normal. It's a simply massive, borderline unplayable penalty to "balance" out getting an extra attack.
You want to know another way you can get use your bonus action to make a single melee attack? Dual wield. Which technically anyone can do (with the limitation that you can't add your ability modifier to damage) and is a fighting style that Rangers and Fighters can start with (removing that normal penalty).
Larian made the right choice.
PS: Compare Frenzy Barbarian to Bear totem barbarian, who gets to take half damage from *all* sources but psychic. What penalty do they pay to balance out becoming borderline unkillable with their massive health pool and damage reduction? They don't. They're just chads. These class specializations share page space and presumably designers, but they aren't in the same league design wise.
Can’t wait to play this Mort, and be around for your uploads during the games release. Exciting times for you and the channel!
This is what I'll be using for my first coop playthrough. I've had a blast with my Berserker in early access, especially when throwing objects and enemies.
I really like taking a fighter dip, even 1 level just for the two weapon fighting style. The rage additional damage with each weapon begins to add up.
These have been a great series of videos so far, definitely some of the best that focus on BG3. I hope this content really works out for you Morti and you can cover BG3 for a long time in the future
patiently waiting for the fighter video :) nice one
One of the things that I like about BG3's design is that the environment really encourages you to interact with it. While this isn't a practical thing to do on tabletop, shoving people off of high places, leaping great distances and tossing furniture or PEOPLE across the room are all options made available to you by virtue of being a strength class.
Aside from fighters, barbarians really epitomise that high-strength gameplay, and I look forward to putting that to use in my playthrough! Being a hulking mass of muscle has never been as fun as when I've been in BG3.
Love how you explained this.
My buddy was going on how good the game was, decided to try.
And yes, im failing on my barbarian it seems haha
I haven't played a Barbarian in BG3 but it's worth noting that if it works like in tabletop, you can keep up with your rage by making a ranged attack even if the attack itself doesn't actually benefit from the rage. Useful to keep in mind especially with how spread-out some of the battles in this particular game can be
This is true for early access as well. Even with a bunch of buffs to make a barbarian super fast (longer movement per turn) there's gonna be times where they're just not fast enough to hit or get hit especially towards the end of a very spread out battle. Taking a pot shot with a crossbow at like 16% accuracy is better than nothing for keeping that rage up.
Your content is getting me even more hyped for this amazing game. My sincere gratitude.
May you wander in wisdom and have an amazing day as well, sir!
Never played a barbarian but ooft this introduction to them is tempting me
Looking forward for a Monk class overview! I'll start with this one when the game is available 🙂
Thanks for the overviews, they are great!
Never stop making videos. You’re amazing
I like to play my Barbarian as if he’s being possessed by something when he enters Rage, but is normally a level-headed instincts-focused guy
Nice video as always and congrats on reaching 200k subs.
One thing I think you could have included in the 2-level dip into Fighter MC is how strong picking up fighting style could be for barbs, with Great Weapon Style and a Great Weapon Mastery feat being an absolute damage parade of maxed out extra attacks.
Or if you're feeling spicy, a two-weapon style/mastery to get less bursty damage and extra attacks but potentially more proc effects and +1 AC.
Thanks for the video. I'm fairly confident I am terrible at DnD, but that's why your channel exists through, right. Onward to 200k (it's coming). All glory to the algorithm.
Loving this series, thanks for putting this together. You get a like and a new sub.
Super important note: Helmets, Gauntlets and Boots do NOT count as armor usually, apart from some specifically heavy armor outliners, thankfully they added this as them being counted as armor, not wearing anything was pretty much a fatal detrament.
Because the barb is more limited in it's party role than other classes, I think one rules question that is likely to come up is whether the berserker's Frenzy attack synergizes with most other abilities that allow you to take offensive bonus actions, e.g. an attack granted by the great weapon master feat.
I think the answer is no, because you can only take 1 bonus action a turn, regardless of what you choose to do with it? But I'd love to get an answer from someone who knows the rules for sure.
First thing I want to try is make a halfling barbarian duo and because your strength is high, and your weight is low. You should be able to throw each other into combat. Pull a fastball special!
Barbarian/Rogue is potentially interesting too. Sneak attack works on attacks where you have advantage, rogues give some nice defensive options, reckless attacks give you advantage on your attacks... I dunno. I need to actually see how it goes in game but saw it mentioned in a forum post and thought it was funny xD Raging "sneak atacks" lol. But I'm waiting until the game drops before I do anything with it...
One of my full playthroughs in EA was a Shield Dwarf Berserker. A really strong build, which will be even better with 4 lvls of Battle Master Fighter starting @ lvl 6. If you can still have +2 to both Str & Con with a Shield Dwarf, it will a close between it, and the Half-Orc for Race. Another good overview.
Apparently they removed race related attribute bonus to make it Class related.
@@0OncheLeBide0 Question remains unanswered whether the +2/+1 Tasha's rule is optional or not. If not optional, the Half-Orc will be clearly superior for melee builds.
Doing a Berserker with the Dark Urge origin and RPing as Logan Ninefingers looks mighty tempting
I'm planning to play Barb with a splash of Champion for the crit fishing :D should be fun.
Keep it up, brother!
I love these videos!
My favourite thing about playing as a berserker in early access was the dialogue options they get. Very entertaining
Wild Magic Barbarian is a homebrew by Taliesin Jaffe and Matt Mercer for Critical Role and Taliesin's Barbarian character "Ashton". I'm sure it probably existed in different ways prior to that but afaik that's where it became popularized.
Popularized sure, but it was officially published in the Tasha's Cauldron of Everything book which is the version they are using here.
I think i'm gonna go for Karlach. I'll build her Barbarian Berserker 5 / Rogue 5 / Warrior 2 (or Rogue 3 / Warrior 4). A hell lot of mobility, action and bonus action !
Thinking about this too but then I realised that if I play as her I won't be able to hear her talk to NPC's :(
@@ArtomixCraft I'm doing the campaign in coop with my Best friend as Wyll, we thought the combo might be fun RP wise 😆
@@0OncheLeBide0 Oh for sure! I had the same idea of playing as Karlach and having Wyll as companion, or vice versa.
I just always think of the example the devs gave and giggle; halfling barbarians tossing eachother at the enemy.
This will be my first play through. I'd like to create a Guts inspired character. I'm not familiar with d&d and RPG games and the amount of information is overwhelming so I figured I'll play an easier character for my first run.
I heard that Barbarians are all the rage these days ;)
Love the content! Please do a class overview on the wizard please!!
There's Barbarian + Warlock too, who can cast Armor of Agathys combined with barbarian's resistance to physical damage to extend the temp hit points further, making any enemies that hit you take a lot of damage for their trouble.
I'd never thought of that. If you went Wildheart and took Bear for the damage reduction, and maybe took barbarian to 5 for the extra movement and attack, then you could get up to 7 warlock which has level 4 spell slots. Armor of Agathys isn't a concentrate spell so you can cast it before you rage, and because you take half damage from everything but psychic, the HP you get from Agathys are effectively doubled while also hurting anything that attacks you in melee, which is where you're going to be anyway.
There's definitely some potential there.
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In baldurs gate 1 and 2, My character was a female half-orc (fighter)berserker that dual weilds long swords, is tha possible in BG3?
Magic-using Barbarians is another of those modern D&D things that rankles my grognard brain. I hate being so old sometimes.
They aren't magic using so much as magic happens around them while raging. They don't really control it.
It's worth noting that Reckless Attack is also a way to increase your frequency of Critical Hits. This is important with Brutal Critical from level 9 since this is your way of getting extra damage.
The problem is Brutal Critical sucks and if you want to deal lots of damage you're best off multiclassing to Fighter / Battlemaster from level 8 to get a better option for increasing your damage
Just recently discovered your channel! These videos are getting me hyped for Baldur's gate 3. I just got Pathfinder wrath of the righteous based on your as you where singing it's praises but now I can't decide weather to hold off until after BG3
As someone with around 300h played on pathfinder WOTR and quite a bit of bg3 early access experience, i suggest playing Pathfinder now if you have the time. Despite being the same genre it's a very different game, less polished in some ways, it's gonna be hard to adapt to some of the pathfinder WotR mechanics once you got used to bg3.
Overall i think you'll enjoy it more if you play it before BG3 sets the bar too high 😂
It will also make you appreciate many bg3 features even more 😋
@@Bzk-- Thanks for the sound advice! Just started Pathfinder (human cleric) :D
@@Mrplasticuppolitics enjoy! It's a fun game with a ton of stuff to discover along the way
Fun Race combo. If you pick Duergar and hit level 4. You can do Enlarge for free as Duergar Racial, then do Rage and you pretty much become a huge Monster of the party. Enlarge needs no concentration.
That depends on an important detail. Are Duergar small or medium creatures? Enlarge bumps you up by one so going up to medium would just put you in the same boat as taller races with an extra turn spent to get there.
@@Blasted2Oblivion Check Duergar fight in Underark in EA, it's gonna be the same.
I can’t wait to be an adorable halfling bard boi or druid I’m not sure yet can’t wait for your vid’s on those classes!
I was hoping for a Wizard this time, that maybe you'll start the series from the casters. I'm thinking Wizard/Fighter for the first playthrough, waiting patiently for overview for these.
Great content as always!
Pretty sure eldtrich knight is a fighter wizard if memory serves me right
Definitely looking forward to trying out a Barbarian 8 / Fighter 4 multiclass. Or maybe that's what I'll build Karlach as
Origin of the Dark Urge makes sense with the emotional nature of a barbarian.
Gonna be playing my actual dnd character in this game so hopefully monk/barb combo is good. In my campaign it works pretty well so we'll see
Barb, everything is now a projectile.
Seriously can pick up some heavy things and stuff them in inventory. Toss that 40kg barrel of liquid, toss that chest, toss those crates. Some of these maps you are like 2-3 stories high. Javelins hurt a ton from up high, but a chest can squish 3 goblins. Or throw an enemy and push another one.
For me it would be the biggest struggle to choose subclass. Berserker seems like the most damage but wildheart seems more interesting and I'm curious how wild magic is gonna turn out
if exhaustion is not being applied, berserker is a no brainer strongest subclass
I'm thinking of making a gith barbarian and using their jump ability and misty step 😁
Just about to finish up my run with barbarian and it was an absolute blast. Such a fun class and some or the dialogue gave me a good laugh
Think I've just figured out my first play through. Now to decide if I'm going to add dark urge on top 🤔
Reckless attack is good enough that you can ignore it's downsides entirely and use it 100% of the time and still comfortably complete the game
I am gonna make Dragonborn Barbarian. I plan to multiclass sorc (as in BG3 Unarmored Defense may actually stack with Draconic Resilience ; in D&D it does not but in BG3 description of the passives is different than in D&D so it may stack). Alternatively I may try to multi class Druid as I have heard that we may get Dinosaurs wild shapes. Idk about you, but Dragonborn getting angry and then transforming into T-Rex sound awesome.
Dragonborn draconic sorcerer for me
Going to try an Eagle Totem barbarian (potentially with a rogue mix) who will first sneak to high ground so that I can start each fight with a massive damage leap attack.
Barbarian with a Monk. Since rage isn't tied to Str the high Dex and mobility would work well.
Want something where I can pass a lot of checks for story purposes... Maybe bard for cha/wis checks or a druid for wis and animal chats... Looking forward to more class overviews!
A barbarian is everybody who is not from ancient Greece.
The "I would like to RAGE!" class is here.
Guess I will go Berserk/Thief in my first playthrough with Karlach. Having an extra bonus attack with frenzy will just be wild.
Can't wait to try and recreate my dnd charismatic barbarian Johnacus cenius
Going to play Karlach in my first play through... kind of want to try wild magic barb... but likely will go option 1 lol
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yup! Barbarian / Fighter is my spirit animal! :D
Berserker sounds like pretty straight forward murder god
Exhaustion seems to be broadly missing from BG3 compared to 5e. Which is good, it's a bad mechanic anyways lol. I'm glad that martials and half casters seem better across the board.
Can't wait to make my Half-Orc Wild Surge Barbarian.
One of classes I look forward to play sooner rather than later. Though first experience might be via a companion
when I play the beta and choice the Barbarian, I was doing alot damage even on low level so I already decide to when the game first come out my first playthrough going be a Barbarian and the only dislike I don't like it that we only get three subclass that about it so I hopeful the more subclass down the road and I want build my Barbarian to do alot damage and hopeful build it be a tank to
Imps with crossbows in the game? Nox flashbacks;). The low level imps in that game had blow guns but the higher level ones had crossbows as well.
Interesting build is berserker with 3 levels of thief. This way you have 2 bonus actions for smashing.
I wonder if they still have the Gnomish trait in this game where they get advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom AND Charisma saving throws from Magic.
Gnomish Barbarian, sounds weak, until you consider the ignored aspects.
I've heard that barbarians have the most unique dialogue lines in the game (probably various forms of "smash x"). Definitely something I want to at least multiclass into at some point.
Barbarians dialogue options are actually really cool, there is in fact a lot of them too. My favorite being that as a Barbarian you can shout at the Ogre group and intimidate them into letting you go and then boss them around.
You said you shouldn't mix them with casters but I'll be making a Half-Orc Wild Magic Barb multiclasses with Wild Magic Sorcerer. Drop a spell or two and then rage melee it up! Pretty pumped
You can't keep concentration in rage.
@@barcster2003 I'm aware
Karlach my beloved
Melee is cool and all, but I prefer to throw my axes, hammers and chests at the enemy. So satisfying when you are not in melee range :D
Also improvised weapons are so much fun. Got disarmed? Just attack with a chair next to you :D
Great class for Dark Urge that succumbs to their urges.
Roleplay idea: Dark Urge Berserker 10/Fighter 2 called Kratos (coz why not move him to forgotten realms), ur more like in God of War 3, leting ur rage take over whenever u feel like it is time for some fatality :D
Usually played berserker in BG2 coz he felt pretty OP and u cant get trapped by Kangaax imprisonment so i just smack him together with Korgan
Torn between this and sorc/warlock or warlock/fighter (maybe if wyll new origin story turns out to be great)
I don't know if you are, I am guessing maybe(but not too in depth since the changes) I am thinking of doing the Monk but I know they did some changes so. Hope to see that guide❤
I'd like to wait to actually see what they did with it
Not a ton of ranged options? What do you mean? Ive been carrying around a backpack of Javelins, Greataxes, Knifes, and explosives for when something is a little out of reach.
Throwing a goblin or big rock works too.
Can I have both frenzy and action surge?