Thanks so much for watching my bros!! Here's a bevvy of links to help out! :) BG3 Wikipedia ► bg3.wiki/wiki/Classes Spell Slot Calculator ► fexlabs.com/5eslots/ Follow me on Twitch! ► www.twitch.tv/italianspartacus Complete Playlist ►th-cam.com/play/PLDLBnN-W_m2n6nk1Y5-snG4PpOuj9b-7g.html&si=j1T4BfjqOcSClZFS Spellcasting Guide ► th-cam.com/video/uRWdLeXUTY8/w-d-xo.html Sneaking Guide ► th-cam.com/video/T3ZQ0ajLG-o/w-d-xo.html Character Creation ► th-cam.com/video/EpZ33jsWjHk/w-d-xo.html Terms Guide ► th-cam.com/video/TQrJZPtnqBU/w-d-xo.html
I just want people to enjoy their game versus all the toxic, "IF YOU AREN'T DOING THIS THEN YOU AREN'T DOING SHIT!" gaming content that's pushed out to all of us!
💯...this is one of my biggest gripes about all the other youtube channels(there are a couple that share his take) is the idea that if you don't use the most broken overpowered stats, races, classes, gear, spells and so on than your not gonna have fun....I am older(36) and did play the original games when they were new and played them so much that I had to replace them when the disc's wore out because I enjoyed the level of options and wanted to try them all and feel I enjoyed them way more than I would have if being my first dip into dnd had been bombarded with youtube or form sites effectively giving step by step how too's from tge character creator all the way to the credits to always get the "best" results, being older I understand that there are absolutely people who will do that and have a good time but I feel like I'd already completed the game and was done with it if I watched/read someone else do it to "perfection" before ever turning it on...and would most likely shelf it into that "I'll play it later pile" that always seems to grow but never gets smaller.
@@PxNxWxGxW I hear you. Mikey Spillane had a take on adventure I liked. [paraphrased] "Adventure is when danger happens to competent people." In other words, it isn't entertaining when poorly prepared and unskilled people get steamrolled by events. I always make sure my characters have at least the core competencies to "apply beat stick to enemy." That's my fun. I've gamed with people who have for rp purposes not taken the most "op" choices. They were fun to play with. I've also played with people whose characters were the wrong guy for the situation and nothing but a drag. They were not fun to play with.
@STR8L8CED just need to know what you're doing and which stats and abilities are good for your character, then it's all about having fun. I had a similar experience never playing games like this but once I found a general guide it's pretty easy from there
I like your approach of how to think this through rather than telling me exactly what to pick. That's the kind of advice I always look for, but seems hard to find.
Don't forget the Hirelings option from Withers . When your Partys spellcasters are exhausted prior to an important encounter ( and cannot rest beforehand ) , you can quickly level up a Heal Bot Cleric or arcane caster for thier handy AoE spells and swap them into the Party.
The great thing about BG3 is while not everything is optimal, almost everything is viable! Personally my only rule for the best party comp is to try always bring my lover
I think that's what the best part about BG3 is everything is good enough I mean I played pathfinder wotr where you have hundreds of class to choose from...and not everything is good or satisfying to use :( I always have my lover in my party seems to make sense
Got my golden dice with a Pure abjuration wizard Tav, Barb/rogue (throw barb), Assassin/Gloomstalker, and Lore Bard/Life Cleric. 1st comp I went without a fighter (my favorite class) and they still put in crazy work. Very pleased.
A couple of tips come to mind. First just because you can have only four party members with you doesn't mean you can't play around with other followers. For example, I am in the midst of a tactician run. My current party is Tav (dual crossbow bard) Karlach (Throw barb), Baezel (open monk) Shart (light cleric/radiant orb build). However, if I need more range magic I have Gale in camp (Lightning build cleric/wizard/soc) or Wyll (Eldritch blaster sorlock build) I can switch in. You can play around with comps for different encounters. Also, it is cheap to respect, only 100 gold that you can steal back. Play around with different builds! Doing this, and watching videos, will teach you good break points (where power spikes happen), these break points are generally when you want to multi class
I just beat the game the other day and now moved on to a Tactician run prepping for the Honor Run. My tav is a Bardadin. 2 Pal, 10 Swords Bard. Absolutely unbelievably powerful build while also being a literal silver tongue devil. So excellent party face. I made Wyll a Sorlock. 2 Warlock/4 Rouge Thief/ X Sorcerer. Karlach was a Battle Master fighter. I ran her as a throwing barbarian for quite a long time but ended up enjoying Battle Master more in the end. Shadowheart was a Light Domain Cleric. Ran her as Life domain through a lot of Act 1 and switched to Light around the Creche for better spells and more damage. Fireball baby. All in all it worked out quite well. But I do admit, having a dedicated Wizard on the team would have been nice. Especially at high levels.
@@injaymusic792 the first run is always the hardest imo, regardless of the difficulty. My first completed run was on Tactician while trying to knock out some of the boss achievements (which I don't recommend unless you want to suffer like I did, lol). Currently working on an Honour mode run (final build for my face character will be 5 Veng-Pal/5 Swords-Bard/2 War Cleric) and I'd argue it's going better so far than that first full run I did. There are encounters that I know to expect and can prepare for now, there are better streamlines class combos I know, there are mechanics I'm more aware of, I understand the optimization you can make more (have a concentration for each person, finding ways to have better movement variety, bonus action utilization, etc).
My SH is a light domain Cleric as well and she is so damn good! Her Radiance of the Dawn divination spell is basically a nuke to just drop mid combat or to finish off an entire room of enemies at low health. I also put a couple levels into fighter for action surge and to make her more capable of being IN the fight with the rest of the party. Using her like this lets her warding flares put in a lot of work.
You made shouting at people sound appealing! 🤣 but seriously, thank you for sharing info without it sounding condescending. At the end of the day it IS just about having fun and I so appreciate that message. I also appreciate the great information you provide. I definitely can get caught up in analysis paralysis.
Good video for beginners, wish it came out 4+ months ago :D I've basically stumbled my way to the exact same thoughts on my own over several playthroughs. One thing I would suggest is planning if you want to go good or bad with your character, and choose party members that go with that. e.g. Astarion and Shadowheart have no problem with you curb stomping folks, but Karlach, Wyll, Jaheira, Minsc all expect you to be good.
32 hours in my first playthrough. my favorite comp now are: - Naked Monk Tav - Laezel Fighter with Two Hands - Classic Cleric Support Shadowheart - High Damaging Gale Super fun building and looking for another build here. Thanks for the great content as always!
I originally had a lot of trouble understanding the game's mechanics. But once you read how abilities work you start to naturally work out how they can fit together. I had a Barbarian as my party face with only 10 charisma, it wasn't optimal but it made the moment i talked Yurgir into self deletion without save scumming all the more rewarding. There's very few blatantly "wrong" ways to build your character.
Wanted to say how much I enjoy your takes. My default face right now is Tempest 2 - Storm Sorcerer 8 - Wizard 2. Only has Persuasion, Insight, and sometimes Intimidation (if playing Dark Urge), but he can always handle dialogues fine if needed. I did a Bard run that had great dialogue options, and I recommend that, but I agree that there’s room for all sorts of builds. I kind of want to try a Githzerai Monk Run, and he won’t be much of a talker, but that could be a fun run as well.
The first two minutes are what I needed to hear. Thank you so much for making such a great intro and helping me get over my concern! I'll be watching the rest though later!
I'd say the main thing of party composition is gear overlaps... Which you don't know during blind playthrough. The rest does not matter in terms of synergy or whatnot, because the game is easy enough. I tried to care a lot of synergies and combos, and now I ended up with the idea that you should have at least three people who can deal damage or control or both, and each of them should be able to take a devastating turn on enemies. And they should have minimum gear overlaps. Fourth can have mass healing word + volo ring + dammon gloves + phalar aluve + alert. That's the way to try any build in the game. Oh, and you need guidance and enhance ability on different characters. That's it.
My only healer in my only full run was lazel as a battle master throwing out bonus action temp hp and commanding strikes. Polearm master and sentinel made it awesome to have her delay a bunch of enemies while the other party members delt with bigger threats
Fun little main character build I've been using, currently has 6 lore bard with 2 divination wizard plan to go 10 bard. Wizard spells can be cast with bard slots so i can learn anything, plus I get so much control over the dice with cutting words and portent die for those moments you really need something to work. The only downside so far is that the helm has to be Lumps intellect helm but small price to pay, IMO.
really solid perspective IS! starting my 4th run and trying to decide what I wanted to play. have spent a few hours thinking about things that i keep meaning to try >.< such a fun game to experiment different play styles. take care
Pretty early into act 3 and current comp is: Tav halfling Swords bard 6/assassin 3/ gloomstalker 3. Using Titanstrike bow and strength elixirs. Amazing party face, rerolls 1s, and does a ridiculous amount of damage. Can use bonus action on illithid powers or casting spells with band of the mystic scoundrel and risky ring for free sneak attacks. Using 18 dex gloves from the crèche, stacks charisma, dump strength and dex to 8 since cheesing both of them. Diadem of arcane synergy gives a bunch of extra damage. Karlach throwing barbarian 9 Barb/3 thief split. Uses disguise self hat to activate Dwarven thrower, nyrulna when it’s safe to aoe. Shadowheart 2 tempest cleric/ rest storm sorc Crazy aoe damage, using markoheshkir and some other staff. Twin casts chain lightning on wet enemies for absurd damage. Gale 1 white dragon (agathys) sorc/1 tempest cleric/10 Abjuration wizard. Build from d4, upcasts armor of agathys, gets a ton of arcane ward stacks, casts create water for himself and shadowheart, then runs through enemies triggering opportunity attacks to deal 60+ damage each time. Also can ward the party to stop a ton of damage. Uses legendary rapier to taunt enemies and ward allies twice per turn. I almost never need to use inspiration points in conversations and everything dies on turn 1 on honor mode. Usually everything is dead after tav goes first and he could probably solo without trouble. Gale has a bunch of utility and defensive power for the party. Karlach and shadowheart are damage monsters if tav doesn’t murder everything first.
Best party comp is thicc duergar lady dark urge with the other three party members as a mixture of wizards, clerics, bard, and barbarian casting until long rest damage mitigation and armor class buffs while you ninja around the battlefield turning invisible every round and ending careers.
I think your suggestion to change the class of your followers is what a lot of new players need to hear. I found myself reluctant to change them because I would worry that it would negatively impact my playthrough. Thank you.
Love the video, incredible work! Was hoping if you could do more warlock build guides, maybe multiclassed with rogue, sorcerer or any other classes. Would to see it. Keep up the good work!
Great video! My advice for party comp in BG3 for a new player (which seems to be who you are targeting), is to play through Chapter 1 with a full recruitment list with their generic classes and learn how the story builds. So I have 3 different master saves halfway through Chapter 1, where in one I have everyone in the party still and influence has been fairly limited. I have one with LZ and Astarion prepped for picking up Minthara later. And I have one absent Astarion for doing the whole "path of valor." You can have 10 master saves with whatever race/gender you want you PMC, or 100 for whoever gives a shit. It's just like a good book. You read it once to entirety for plot. And then you pick it apart.
My advice is don't sleep on druids. Halsin at level 10 is terrifying, and since he can split between a caster with a ton of CC versatility and giant f- off murder bear, he fits a number of roles freeing up your other two spots for a rotational approach, depending on what you're going for.
Hey Spartacus I’ve been watching your videos for about two months now and I adore your content! I was wondering if you’ve ever done a vampire build or if you COULD do one as I love your build crafting process and have yet to ever see it done on BG3! It would be twice as cool if you were able to showcase the thrall abilities you get from being bitten by Astarion! You’re the best! Keep up the great work!!
th-cam.com/video/SZpZyjjOVG8/w-d-xo.html Consider it already done brother :) let me know if there's anything in the video I missed you'd like to know more about. Feel free to reply here or comment there!
for me the best/most optimized party comp is one character is a bard/warlock or a bard/sorceror(so in 1 character you get lockpicking/trap disarming, healing, and spellcasting(so your other 3 could all be front line martials if you want/etc(also best used on a human/half elf(as i go swords bard 3/9 for warlock or sorc(as sords bard will get you the better uses of bardic inspiration, all ull get light and medium armor prof(and a human or half elf gets the shielf prof(so while you technically miss out on a feat its not as bad as etc
I'm using/building a variance of the classic F, W, C, B. Lv 11 EK Fighter / Lv 1 GOO Warlock, Lv 10 Evo Wizard, Lv 10 Life Cleric, and Lv 10 Valour Bard each with Lv 2 Goo Warlock. Everyone has Eldritch Blast, Magic Missile, Darkvision, a chance of causing fear, and except the EK, Cha boosted Eldritch Blast and Devils Sight to make Darkness the bane of my enemies.
I really wished they had a party of 5 instead of 4 to create the ultimate party. You really want to have a Str, Dex, Wis, Int, and Chr based character in the party to cover all events that can happen.
Another consideration is making sure not all your party are looking to get the same gear.. only so many good weapons/armour or caster gear. if every one is dex based then all the good hvy armour goes to waste and you wont find enough good light armour/robes. m rule for party comp in D&D (in general) - 1 'tinkerer' minimum - someone that can handle traps and locks in some manner... probably a rogue but this could well be a wizard by class or any smart person. 1 'healer' minimum - and the healer could be anything from a cleric to a herbalist to a merchant that can get good prices on potions and wands. 1 'warrior' minimum - and this warrior can be a fighter or paladin but it could also be some ones animal companion, or even a summon. 1 'voice' minimum - master of bullshiting, negotiation and generally organizing all the things. 1 'quartermaster' - a person who is willing and able to handle and organize the movement of loot *do not let the thief play this role, it always ends in tears. For BG3 specifically 1 person with high strength to carry loot 1 person that can cast long strider 1 person that can cast aid 1 person that can do traps and locks so the most SIMPLE and easy to with origin characters is in my opinion: have astarion as a rogue or rogue multi. have shadow heart as a cleric with 1 lvl of rogue. *it suits her shar stuff this way you can always have a rogue without forcing you to ALWAYS bring astarion. .
Thanks for the video! This came at the perfect time. I get so confused with the amount of options that I end up utilizing characters that essentially do the same thing. Also the "best build" for 1 character guides aren't as useful for a new player, since we don't even how to work the "best build" with three other party members.
my druid main character has 8 in charisma If I need a boost in dialogues I can use the charm spell you can also use guidance and bardic inspiration too If I picked a high elf/half high-elf I could have picked the friendship cantrip instead my point is even with low charisma you can work around it
Dope video! I go for aesthetics haha somehow looking good and roleplaying always makes me feel stronger... rn my all evil elf team (me a drow, minthara, shadowheart, astarion） all using shadow magic/classes is fun n strong... it's like Larian thought of this
I have almost finished the game (balanced) now with a fighter as my main, he has 9 charisma and still handles all the dialogue. Other party has been 9Rougue/ 3cleric, 9Barb/3 fighter and 12 wizard. Still it has been an awesome playthrough!
Paralysis by analysis. Know the feeling. lol. Just pick one thIng and stick to it. If you're not happy with your decision you can always respec later rather than doing everything from the start. That goes for other choices in the game too. No minmaxing. Go with your instInct. Even when you ”fail” the game offers you a ton of flexibility.
I was an Oathbreaker Paladin so all Charisma Checks were easy peasy ngl, I then had Gale, Shadowheart and Lae'zel. Gale wore the cat's grace armor for dex advantage rolls on lockpick and disarms lol he was 12 lvl of wizard btw and it worked just fine.
A charisma based main character is best if you wanna dominate dialogue. This means you either gotta pick Bard, Paladin, Sorc or Warlock. Astarion fits the rogue, lockpicking slot very well. you can build him as a ranger/rogue/fighter and have amazing fun with him. Shadowheart fits the radiant orb build perfectly which is very powerful So the 4th slot can be of any flavour. Either Karlach as a throwing barbarian is very strong or Lae'zel as a fighter with polearm mastery and sentinel this way you can have a tank, healer, ranged dps and charisma main char. i personally preffer sorc or a warlock due to the magic spell dmg being OP
"6 in ranger and 6 in wizard, I never heard of that" me- *stares in Ranger gone necromancy after finding the book of Thay to summon animals and undead*
I'll admit my brow furrowed a bit as you were combining three Wisdom-based characters (Cleric, Ranger, and Monk) on the same team lol. There isn't anything fundamentally wrong with that from a question about combat roles; it's more about the gear problems you alluded to. There's not enough gear to go around for a team heavy on one stat, just like you can't focus on one particular kind of weapon. Not to mention all of the Intelligence or Charisma checks you might want to pass but won't be able to, because nobody can accomplish it. You can always wing it as-is and proceed through the game, of course, but my efficiency-minded brain goes "AHH what are you doing?!" 😆
My personal team comp is 2 martial characters, typically fighter laezel, throw barbarian karlach, replace laezel with minthara later. shadow heart of course or try to replace with jahiera, then one spellcaster/ ranged character, typically my tav in my play through
I feel people put too much importance on conversational ability points. I beat the game with only str, dex, con, and no conversational abilities and i did all the conversations. Just choose the background and skills you want. It is a game of chance (turn karmic dice off), you can save in the middle of conversations before before you role dice, and you can reload till you pass. I know a lot of people prefer pure conversations, but if you do not, this is the easiest way to get the best possible outcome you want for your character.
Okay. So, I am working on a Party Build. I love your Radiant Monk and the Eldritch Knight builds. The RM fills in the lockpicking side (gotta love a reformed Urchin TAV), and Lae'zel as the EK is the Tank. I quite like the idea of running Shart as a Healer/Supporter (am thinking Paladin of Ancients/Cleric of Life). So, the party is looking quite good. But, I am trying to think what the last character would be..... Some sort of Magic-User. Warlock Eblast spammer seems interesting. But I don't want to overlap too many items. ANy suggestions on how I might get this to be a competitive character that feels useful? (i'm aware I am missing out on a bow-user. But, I guess I cannot have everything!)
You didn´t finished the game yet? Wow didn´t expect that comment, given alll the content you have. BTW thanks for your approach on all things BG3, albeit I understand party comps, coming from tabletop, I´m consuming bg3 content like my characters would eat adpoles.. Currently on late Act 2 of my honor run.
Best Party Comp in my opinion is 2 front liners, somebody for defensive utility like light cleric or lore bard, and somebody who is there purely for the offensive capability like any of the full casters with good offensive spell options, take your pick there. On my current honor mode playthrough I have Astarion as Monk/Thief (Ascended Astarion gets +1d10 necrotic to every punch.), my Tav is a Padlock, Wyll is my Lore Bard but I am thinking about making him a Sorc instead and Sheart is my light cleric.
I always let my companions stay as they are but in time they evolve and multiclass or respec into something. For example, my Gale killed an innocent and he's been a retroactive ice wizard who only uses abjuration and freezes/neutralizes only the ones attacks us
6:38 man I finally got really into this game as Barbarian and the first time I got the (Barbarian)(Intimidation) SHOUTING INSULTS AND ASSERTING DOMINANCE I was dying lol. The Bloody Nine needs no honeyed words.
I started Valor bard archer then shifted to lore bard with Karlach and Wyll being my main front liners and will probably switch to swords/battlemaster in act 3 because conversations seem too easy and combat hasn’t been as satisfying. Respec respec respec to get your best combo! It’s never too late my friends.
Swords bard is way better for archery than the other two, slashing flourish (ranged) lets you shoot twice with your inspiration points (you can shoot the same enemy twice or split it.)
@@alexw4482the plan is to be flexible between archery and melee with duelists prerogative and I currently have the dead shot bow rn. Control and buff spells to start then go into martial combat from there.
@@roman11777 I ended up swapping between two comps that worked really well. I had Karlach thrower berserker9/3champion, shadowheart Light Cleric, lore bard 11/wizard 1 and Wyll Fiend lock4/vengeance paladin 8. I also swapped in a hunter 10/fighter 2 dual wielder. When I switched to swords bard, it was bard5/battlemaster7 only because I wanted 3rd lvl spells and switched wyll to a draconic sorlock 10/2 split. The swords/battlemaster killed everything super quick but it definitely lacked the diversity of options you get from the lore bard. With the lore bard I felt like no one could kill my party. I also mixed in a full land Druid but that felt redundant. I’ll likely include at least 6 lvls of lore bard in any and all of my future playthroughs as it brings so much to the table whether that’s with a paladin or cleric or even a rogue it could be interesting and fun to add in. The point being, so long as you have someone to take hit and to dish out damage you can really build anything around a lore bard.
I just got this game because it looks pretty dope! But is there any like good classes that would be good for a new player to this genre of games. I have no knowledge of D&D 😂
Hi Spartacus. Just found your channel. Really enjoy your content. Just subbed and binge watching lol. Well said. Above all, have fun. Have you done anything regarding the Illithid Colony in BG3? I would really appreciate it. Been stuck forever. Take care.
Thanks so much for watching!! :) hmm.. As far as a specific video? I have not unfortunately. Is there something specific you're looking for help with!?
I'm getting some "The Devil went down to Georgia" vibes for Wyll on your bard comment. 😉 Unrelated, I'm playing around with a Sith Lord themed character using shocking grasp cantrips as primary damage. Maybe multiclass fighter and thief for extra action and bonus actions? War caster, elemental adept lightning... hmm... Any ideas, shoot them my way!
Quick low down...have fun and experiment its fun and worth it....for instance my current Tav is at lvl 10 at the end of act 2 and is a lvl 5 way of the open hand monk lvl 1 wizard lvl 2 fighter and 2 of 4 lvls into collahe of the sword bard and he absolutely destroys most common fights first round with a verity of skills for ever situation my stats are through the roof lowest stat is base 10 but before I leave camp at each new day is buffed to 16 and my highest skill is 21 always buffed to 27 before leaving camp....completely by accident as I went into the run with the goal of selecting what felt like would be the best improvement I could make each lvl based off my own in game experiences so far on my second run. All of my party members are multiclassed as well in interesting ways that seemed cool to me all though with the origin characters ive not gone past 2 classes each to not loose out on their origin benefits.
I have the most fun with a dex party of rogue/monk, barb/rogue/monk, abjuration wizard and bardadin. Used to use shields a lot but I prefer dual wielding everyone now even the barb. I used to like the hirelings but I prefer to have more inspiration on Honour mode.
I found out myself that as I got to level 5, 6, and 7, I did not need healing much anymore. So I swapped Shadowheart over to a Tempest Cleric. My party is my Sorc, Asterion Rogue, Shadowheart Tempest Cleric, Gale Wizard. We usually kill stuff before it can get to us.
Man I love these videos! Didn’t get BG3 until this Xmas but can’t stop playing and am about to embark on my first DND campaign with some friends. Question; is using terms like “action and spell economy” part of the DND vernacular as I (in no offence) felt it seemed kind of an odd choice and kind of unnecessary?
You can concentrate one one spell at a time, and get 1 primary action and usually 1 bonus action per turn, barring features from specific classes (fighter gives you an extra action per short rest at level 2 with action surge, thief rogue gives you an extra bonus action at level 3). So you want something good to do with your action, bonus action, and concentration spells about as often as you can. Meaning when you're hunting for additional spells and abilities to add to your characters, you should have a roughly clear game plan for how to leverage those options each turn. Conversely, when looking over enemies, you aim to disrupt their ability to do this by either removing them from combat through damage or control abilities. Action economy, roughly, how much stuff each side is getting to do each turn, is the meat and potatoes of more tactical 5e DND combat. This mostly applies to higher difficulties of BG3, and less so in regular DND, unless your GM is particularly tactical with their combats.
Barbarian shouting at things. This is the best advice for anything playing roleplaying games. Make a character you like, something you think is great or funny. I once had a hobbit rogue/fighter who was into castrating big enemies like trolls and giants work a pickaxe, maxim critical damage rolling between stupid big peoples legs. It's great checking out best builds but sometimes failure is the best option for fun game.
I use Karlach barb, gale evocation and whatever summons I can get and some cc, shadow heart for a few mone summons and support magic, my main character is beastmaster warden for speak with animals movement party buffs and extra summons and ranged dmg
Hey buddy! I have a question. Its kinda confusing to me. See, i play bg3 the very first time and i want to use your bardadin build for the first playthrough. I want to make am honor way. I really like shadowheart and lae'zel, also both have a good story. I really want to suck thaz content maximised in. What do you recommend to skill them to? Im fine with (bla/bla/bla) i whould make them to my likings of who gets the classes you recommend. :) i really thank you for your bg3 content!
As long as you have 10 charisma, you can use the mask that gives you disguise self and the Shifter’s Boon/Favorable Beginnings and be fine. My Druid is proof of that.
What sucks about this is how so well the characters are written to fit in with their classes it feels so weird to change them, even I'm about to start my 3rd playthrough.
I really suck at this game, no one should listen to anything I say about this game, but I did build a really good party. I used a (Paladin) Me, then the Warlock guy (Beast Mode) The vampire guy and the Barbarian girl. They clean house. I can't imagine what they could do with someone who knew how to play them.
So what is the top 4 build for tactician. I really enjoy the build video. But i get enjoyment by just using broken build can you tell me the top 4. Right now i have throwing barbarian Haste sorcer Bard for control And open hand monk.
Melee fighter: 8 Barbarian 4 rogue can do it; sneaky lockpick: Barbarian-rogue can do it; ranged attacker: likewise; healing? We don't need no stinking healing! Conversations? What are those? We are Barbarians!!
One thing I don't get, is if you're making a character that's bow & arrow-based, why did you set it to only 8 Strength? In BG1 and 2, every ranged character that wasn't based on spells benefited from Strength greatly just to increase damage per shot, so what's different here?
I've only really done one run, with a bard/cleric main on tactician. It worked pretty well for combat and the dialogue man those options were great lol
Barbarian im hitting chest and throwing chest no time to unlock them. Sometimes i kill two birds 1 stone and throw chest at enemies or vice versa. Im sure you can imagine how i pick door locks
Everyone says healing is bad, and yet in all of my best runs, my life cleric shadowheart is the absolute anchor for the party. Put a life cleric multiclassed cleric on the team, and the other three can probably be anything.
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One of the best things you do is tell people to first have fun.
I just want people to enjoy their game versus all the toxic, "IF YOU AREN'T DOING THIS THEN YOU AREN'T DOING SHIT!" gaming content that's pushed out to all of us!
I tried having fun...got my ass kicked. Looked up a build guide and now I'm having fun. Progression is fun...dying is not.
💯...this is one of my biggest gripes about all the other youtube channels(there are a couple that share his take) is the idea that if you don't use the most broken overpowered stats, races, classes, gear, spells and so on than your not gonna have fun....I am older(36) and did play the original games when they were new and played them so much that I had to replace them when the disc's wore out because I enjoyed the level of options and wanted to try them all and feel I enjoyed them way more than I would have if being my first dip into dnd had been bombarded with youtube or form sites effectively giving step by step how too's from tge character creator all the way to the credits to always get the "best" results, being older I understand that there are absolutely people who will do that and have a good time but I feel like I'd already completed the game and was done with it if I watched/read someone else do it to "perfection" before ever turning it on...and would most likely shelf it into that "I'll play it later pile" that always seems to grow but never gets smaller.
@@PxNxWxGxW I hear you. Mikey Spillane had a take on adventure I liked. [paraphrased] "Adventure is when danger happens to competent people." In other words, it isn't entertaining when poorly prepared and unskilled people get steamrolled by events. I always make sure my characters have at least the core competencies to "apply beat stick to enemy." That's my fun. I've gamed with people who have for rp purposes not taken the most "op" choices. They were fun to play with. I've also played with people whose characters were the wrong guy for the situation and nothing but a drag. They were not fun to play with.
@STR8L8CED just need to know what you're doing and which stats and abilities are good for your character, then it's all about having fun. I had a similar experience never playing games like this but once I found a general guide it's pretty easy from there
I was expecting you to say "choose a charisma base class as your Tav". I'm rly impressed. well done
hahahah well it ISSS a fun time to have a charisma based one :D
I like your approach of how to think this through rather than telling me exactly what to pick. That's the kind of advice I always look for, but seems hard to find.
Don't forget the Hirelings option from Withers . When your Partys spellcasters are exhausted prior to an important encounter ( and cannot rest beforehand ) , you can quickly level up a Heal Bot Cleric or arcane caster for thier handy AoE spells and swap them into the Party.
The great thing about BG3 is while not everything is optimal, almost everything is viable! Personally my only rule for the best party comp is to try always bring my lover
I think that's what the best part about BG3 is
everything is good enough
I mean I played pathfinder wotr where you have hundreds of class to choose from...and not everything is good or satisfying to use :(
I always have my lover in my party
seems to make sense
Absolutely man - you can do it all with everything!
Got my golden dice with a Pure abjuration wizard Tav, Barb/rogue (throw barb), Assassin/Gloomstalker, and Lore Bard/Life Cleric. 1st comp I went without a fighter (my favorite class) and they still put in crazy work. Very pleased.
That's a glorious party brother!
A couple of tips come to mind. First just because you can have only four party members with you doesn't mean you can't play around with other followers. For example, I am in the midst of a tactician run. My current party is Tav (dual crossbow bard) Karlach (Throw barb), Baezel (open monk) Shart (light cleric/radiant orb build). However, if I need more range magic I have Gale in camp (Lightning build cleric/wizard/soc) or Wyll (Eldritch blaster sorlock build) I can switch in. You can play around with comps for different encounters. Also, it is cheap to respect, only 100 gold that you can steal back. Play around with different builds! Doing this, and watching videos, will teach you good break points (where power spikes happen), these break points are generally when you want to multi class
I just beat the game the other day and now moved on to a Tactician run prepping for the Honor Run.
My tav is a Bardadin. 2 Pal, 10 Swords Bard. Absolutely unbelievably powerful build while also being a literal silver tongue devil. So excellent party face.
I made Wyll a Sorlock. 2 Warlock/4 Rouge Thief/ X Sorcerer.
Karlach was a Battle Master fighter. I ran her as a throwing barbarian for quite a long time but ended up enjoying Battle Master more in the end.
Shadowheart was a Light Domain Cleric. Ran her as Life domain through a lot of Act 1 and switched to Light around the Creche for better spells and more damage. Fireball baby.
All in all it worked out quite well. But I do admit, having a dedicated Wizard on the team would have been nice. Especially at high levels.
I also moved onto tactician for my second playthrough. Do you ever feel like the fights are easier than expected?
@@injaymusic792 the first run is always the hardest imo, regardless of the difficulty. My first completed run was on Tactician while trying to knock out some of the boss achievements (which I don't recommend unless you want to suffer like I did, lol). Currently working on an Honour mode run (final build for my face character will be 5 Veng-Pal/5 Swords-Bard/2 War Cleric) and I'd argue it's going better so far than that first full run I did. There are encounters that I know to expect and can prepare for now, there are better streamlines class combos I know, there are mechanics I'm more aware of, I understand the optimization you can make more (have a concentration for each person, finding ways to have better movement variety, bonus action utilization, etc).
My SH is a light domain Cleric as well and she is so damn good! Her Radiance of the Dawn divination spell is basically a nuke to just drop mid combat or to finish off an entire room of enemies at low health. I also put a couple levels into fighter for action surge and to make her more capable of being IN the fight with the rest of the party. Using her like this lets her warding flares put in a lot of work.
You made shouting at people sound appealing! 🤣 but seriously, thank you for sharing info without it sounding condescending. At the end of the day it IS just about having fun and I so appreciate that message. I also appreciate the great information you provide. I definitely can get caught up in analysis paralysis.
best party comp is 4 bards you can do anything lol
Or 4 light clerics 😂
@@raydaveed with two level of bard on each for four extra short rests
I just finished my all 4 paladins playthrough , i'll definitely trying all bards playthrough at least multiclass
@@rubenimmanuel9339 I hate Paladins so 4 of them is just too much for me. But i guess it's an interesting party combination.
I’m strongly thinking about trying this. Will multiclass of course… maybe run 4 Bardadins.
Good video for beginners, wish it came out 4+ months ago :D I've basically stumbled my way to the exact same thoughts on my own over several playthroughs. One thing I would suggest is planning if you want to go good or bad with your character, and choose party members that go with that. e.g. Astarion and Shadowheart have no problem with you curb stomping folks, but Karlach, Wyll, Jaheira, Minsc all expect you to be good.
32 hours in my first playthrough. my favorite comp now are:
- Naked Monk Tav
- Laezel Fighter with Two Hands
- Classic Cleric Support Shadowheart
- High Damaging Gale
Super fun building and looking for another build here. Thanks for the great content as always!
I originally had a lot of trouble understanding the game's mechanics. But once you read how abilities work you start to naturally work out how they can fit together. I had a Barbarian as my party face with only 10 charisma, it wasn't optimal but it made the moment i talked Yurgir into self deletion without save scumming all the more rewarding. There's very few blatantly "wrong" ways to build your character.
Wanted to say how much I enjoy your takes. My default face right now is Tempest 2 - Storm Sorcerer 8 - Wizard 2. Only has Persuasion, Insight, and sometimes Intimidation (if playing Dark Urge), but he can always handle dialogues fine if needed.
I did a Bard run that had great dialogue options, and I recommend that, but I agree that there’s room for all sorts of builds.
I kind of want to try a Githzerai Monk Run, and he won’t be much of a talker, but that could be a fun run as well.
Thanks so much for watching brother!! DUDE GITH IS WHAT I'M DOING NEXT! I've heard there's a ton of special stuff for Gith, story wise!
The first two minutes are what I needed to hear. Thank you so much for making such a great intro and helping me get over my concern! I'll be watching the rest though later!
Leaving the comment for the algorithm ❤️ Thanks for the streams, братан 👊🏻
laughing at the lae'zel "eating ass" flub
I mean, she is probably the 2nd kinkiest character, so I'd believe it. 1st of course is Halsin... cause you know beastiality.
He said monk just really “eats ass!” Lmao I was like woah! That’s not really a good thing hahaha
I mean, it is a personal choice. Maybe it's pretty killer and we just don't realize it?
Always enjoy your content. I hope one day you will have reference sheets that I could print out as I play and refer to as I level.
I'd say the main thing of party composition is gear overlaps... Which you don't know during blind playthrough. The rest does not matter in terms of synergy or whatnot, because the game is easy enough.
I tried to care a lot of synergies and combos, and now I ended up with the idea that you should have at least three people who can deal damage or control or both, and each of them should be able to take a devastating turn on enemies. And they should have minimum gear overlaps. Fourth can have mass healing word + volo ring + dammon gloves + phalar aluve + alert.
That's the way to try any build in the game.
Oh, and you need guidance and enhance ability on different characters. That's it.
My only healer in my only full run was lazel as a battle master throwing out bonus action temp hp and commanding strikes.
Polearm master and sentinel made it awesome to have her delay a bunch of enemies while the other party members delt with bigger threats
Fun little main character build I've been using, currently has 6 lore bard with 2 divination wizard plan to go 10 bard. Wizard spells can be cast with bard slots so i can learn anything, plus I get so much control over the dice with cutting words and portent die for those moments you really need something to work. The only downside so far is that the helm has to be Lumps intellect helm but small price to pay, IMO.
That sounds spicy!!
really solid perspective IS! starting my 4th run and trying to decide what I wanted to play. have spent a few hours thinking about things that i keep meaning to try >.< such a fun game to experiment different play styles. take care
Pretty early into act 3 and current comp is:
Tav halfling Swords bard 6/assassin 3/ gloomstalker 3. Using Titanstrike bow and strength elixirs. Amazing party face, rerolls 1s, and does a ridiculous amount of damage. Can use bonus action on illithid powers or casting spells with band of the mystic scoundrel and risky ring for free sneak attacks. Using 18 dex gloves from the crèche, stacks charisma, dump strength and dex to 8 since cheesing both of them. Diadem of arcane synergy gives a bunch of extra damage.
Karlach throwing barbarian 9 Barb/3 thief split. Uses disguise self hat to activate Dwarven thrower, nyrulna when it’s safe to aoe.
Shadowheart 2 tempest cleric/ rest storm sorc
Crazy aoe damage, using markoheshkir and some other staff. Twin casts chain lightning on wet enemies for absurd damage.
Gale 1 white dragon (agathys) sorc/1 tempest cleric/10 Abjuration wizard. Build from d4, upcasts armor of agathys, gets a ton of arcane ward stacks, casts create water for himself and shadowheart, then runs through enemies triggering opportunity attacks to deal 60+ damage each time. Also can ward the party to stop a ton of damage. Uses legendary rapier to taunt enemies and ward allies twice per turn.
I almost never need to use inspiration points in conversations and everything dies on turn 1 on honor mode. Usually everything is dead after tav goes first and he could probably solo without trouble. Gale has a bunch of utility and defensive power for the party. Karlach and shadowheart are damage monsters if tav doesn’t murder everything first.
Best party comp is thicc duergar lady dark urge with the other three party members as a mixture of wizards, clerics, bard, and barbarian casting until long rest damage mitigation and armor class buffs while you ninja around the battlefield turning invisible every round and ending careers.
Homies are sending you spirit bomb energy from camp.
HAHAHHA
I think your suggestion to change the class of your followers is what a lot of new players need to hear. I found myself reluctant to change them because I would worry that it would negatively impact my playthrough. Thank you.
Love the video, incredible work!
Was hoping if you could do more warlock build guides, maybe multiclassed with rogue, sorcerer or any other classes. Would to see it. Keep up the good work!
Great video!
My advice for party comp in BG3 for a new player (which seems to be who you are targeting), is to play through Chapter 1 with a full recruitment list with their generic classes and learn how the story builds. So I have 3 different master saves halfway through Chapter 1, where in one I have everyone in the party still and influence has been fairly limited. I have one with LZ and Astarion prepped for picking up Minthara later. And I have one absent Astarion for doing the whole "path of valor." You can have 10 master saves with whatever race/gender you want you PMC, or 100 for whoever gives a shit. It's just like a good book. You read it once to entirety for plot. And then you pick it apart.
My advice is don't sleep on druids. Halsin at level 10 is terrifying, and since he can split between a caster with a ton of CC versatility and giant f- off murder bear, he fits a number of roles freeing up your other two spots for a rotational approach, depending on what you're going for.
Hey Spartacus I’ve been watching your videos for about two months now and I adore your content!
I was wondering if you’ve ever done a vampire build or if you COULD do one as I love your build crafting process and have yet to ever see it done on BG3!
It would be twice as cool if you were able to showcase the thrall abilities you get from being bitten by Astarion!
You’re the best! Keep up the great work!!
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Consider it already done brother :) let me know if there's anything in the video I missed you'd like to know more about. Feel free to reply here or comment there!
for me the best/most optimized party comp is one character is a bard/warlock or a bard/sorceror(so in 1 character you get lockpicking/trap disarming, healing, and spellcasting(so your other 3 could all be front line martials if you want/etc(also best used on a human/half elf(as i go swords bard 3/9 for warlock or sorc(as sords bard will get you the better uses of bardic inspiration, all ull get light and medium armor prof(and a human or half elf gets the shielf prof(so while you technically miss out on a feat its not as bad as etc
I'm using/building a variance of the classic F, W, C, B. Lv 11 EK Fighter / Lv 1 GOO Warlock, Lv 10 Evo Wizard, Lv 10 Life Cleric, and Lv 10 Valour Bard each with Lv 2 Goo Warlock. Everyone has Eldritch Blast, Magic Missile, Darkvision, a chance of causing fear, and except the EK, Cha boosted Eldritch Blast and Devils Sight to make Darkness the bane of my enemies.
I really wished they had a party of 5 instead of 4 to create the ultimate party. You really want to have a Str, Dex, Wis, Int, and Chr based character in the party to cover all events that can happen.
Another consideration is making sure not all your party are looking to get the same gear.. only so many good weapons/armour or caster gear.
if every one is dex based then all the good hvy armour goes to waste and you wont find enough good light armour/robes.
m rule for party comp in D&D (in general) -
1 'tinkerer' minimum - someone that can handle traps and locks in some manner... probably a rogue but this could well be a wizard by class or any smart person.
1 'healer' minimum - and the healer could be anything from a cleric to a herbalist to a merchant that can get good prices on potions and wands.
1 'warrior' minimum - and this warrior can be a fighter or paladin but it could also be some ones animal companion, or even a summon.
1 'voice' minimum - master of bullshiting, negotiation and generally organizing all the things.
1 'quartermaster' - a person who is willing and able to handle and organize the movement of loot *do not let the thief play this role, it always ends in tears.
For BG3 specifically
1 person with high strength to carry loot
1 person that can cast long strider
1 person that can cast aid
1 person that can do traps and locks
so the most SIMPLE and easy to with origin characters is in my opinion:
have astarion as a rogue or rogue multi.
have shadow heart as a cleric with 1 lvl of rogue. *it suits her shar stuff
this way you can always have a rogue without forcing you to ALWAYS bring astarion.
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Thanks for the video! This came at the perfect time. I get so confused with the amount of options that I end up utilizing characters that essentially do the same thing. Also the "best build" for 1 character guides aren't as useful for a new player, since we don't even how to work the "best build" with three other party members.
Happy to help my dude :D
my druid main character has 8 in charisma
If I need a boost in dialogues I can use the charm spell
you can also use guidance and bardic inspiration too
If I picked a high elf/half high-elf I could have picked the friendship cantrip instead
my point is even with low charisma you can work around it
In tactician, npcs can notice you using charm and get angry.
@@Infinitystar225 perks of playing on normal
it's enough for me x)
Dope video! I go for aesthetics haha somehow looking good and roleplaying always makes me feel stronger... rn my all evil elf team (me a drow, minthara, shadowheart, astarion） all using shadow magic/classes is fun n strong... it's like Larian thought of this
I have almost finished the game (balanced) now with a fighter as my main, he has 9 charisma and still handles all the dialogue. Other party has been 9Rougue/ 3cleric, 9Barb/3 fighter and 12 wizard. Still it has been an awesome playthrough!
My biggest paralysis is I want my main to be three different classes and can’t decide. Constantly starting over
Paralysis by analysis. Know the feeling. lol. Just pick one thIng and stick to it. If you're not happy with your decision you can always respec later rather than doing everything from the start. That goes for other choices in the game too. No minmaxing. Go with your instInct. Even when you ”fail” the game offers you a ton of flexibility.
I was an Oathbreaker Paladin so all Charisma Checks were easy peasy ngl, I then had Gale, Shadowheart and Lae'zel. Gale wore the cat's grace armor for dex advantage rolls on lockpick and disarms lol he was 12 lvl of wizard btw and it worked just fine.
you know there is a spell called Knock? :)
@@arnop87 I knew, it also cost spell slots whereas dice checks were essentially free
A charisma based main character is best if you wanna dominate dialogue. This means you either gotta pick Bard, Paladin, Sorc or Warlock.
Astarion fits the rogue, lockpicking slot very well. you can build him as a ranger/rogue/fighter and have amazing fun with him.
Shadowheart fits the radiant orb build perfectly which is very powerful
So the 4th slot can be of any flavour. Either Karlach as a throwing barbarian is very strong or Lae'zel as a fighter with polearm mastery and sentinel
this way you can have a tank, healer, ranged dps and charisma main char. i personally preffer sorc or a warlock due to the magic spell dmg being OP
"6 in ranger and 6 in wizard, I never heard of that" me- *stares in Ranger gone necromancy after finding the book of Thay to summon animals and undead*
I'll admit my brow furrowed a bit as you were combining three Wisdom-based characters (Cleric, Ranger, and Monk) on the same team lol. There isn't anything fundamentally wrong with that from a question about combat roles; it's more about the gear problems you alluded to.
There's not enough gear to go around for a team heavy on one stat, just like you can't focus on one particular kind of weapon. Not to mention all of the Intelligence or Charisma checks you might want to pass but won't be able to, because nobody can accomplish it. You can always wing it as-is and proceed through the game, of course, but my efficiency-minded brain goes "AHH what are you doing?!" 😆
My personal team comp is 2 martial characters, typically fighter laezel, throw barbarian karlach, replace laezel with minthara later. shadow heart of course or try to replace with jahiera, then one spellcaster/ ranged character, typically my tav in my play through
Thanks man! This was getting intimidating to pick my team. Haha
Glad I could help! :)
I tend to keep the OG classes of the companions but tweak their stats because, boy, they are not well optimized at first.
0:38 I did a play through with all barbarians, I called it “All my Homies Rage”
With different multi class on some of them (monk, fighter, etc)
I feel people put too much importance on conversational ability points. I beat the game with only str, dex, con, and no conversational abilities and i did all the conversations. Just choose the background and skills you want. It is a game of chance (turn karmic dice off), you can save in the middle of conversations before before you role dice, and you can reload till you pass. I know a lot of people prefer pure conversations, but if you do not, this is the easiest way to get the best possible outcome you want for your character.
Okay. So, I am working on a Party Build. I love your Radiant Monk and the Eldritch Knight builds. The RM fills in the lockpicking side (gotta love a reformed Urchin TAV), and Lae'zel as the EK is the Tank. I quite like the idea of running Shart as a Healer/Supporter (am thinking Paladin of Ancients/Cleric of Life). So, the party is looking quite good. But, I am trying to think what the last character would be..... Some sort of Magic-User. Warlock Eblast spammer seems interesting. But I don't want to overlap too many items. ANy suggestions on how I might get this to be a competitive character that feels useful? (i'm aware I am missing out on a bow-user. But, I guess I cannot have everything!)
You didn´t finished the game yet? Wow didn´t expect that comment, given alll the content you have. BTW thanks for your approach on all things BG3, albeit I understand party comps, coming from tabletop, I´m consuming bg3 content like my characters would eat adpoles.. Currently on late Act 2 of my honor run.
I'm on the last fight and I don't want it all to end!! 😩
Best Party Comp in my opinion is 2 front liners, somebody for defensive utility like light cleric or lore bard, and somebody who is there purely for the offensive capability like any of the full casters with good offensive spell options, take your pick there.
On my current honor mode playthrough I have Astarion as Monk/Thief (Ascended Astarion gets +1d10 necrotic to every punch.), my Tav is a Padlock, Wyll is my Lore Bard but I am thinking about making him a Sorc instead and Sheart is my light cleric.
Minor spoilers!
I always let my companions stay as they are but in time they evolve and multiclass or respec into something. For example, my Gale killed an innocent and he's been a retroactive ice wizard who only uses abjuration and freezes/neutralizes only the ones attacks us
6:38 man I finally got really into this game as Barbarian and the first time I got the (Barbarian)(Intimidation) SHOUTING INSULTS AND ASSERTING DOMINANCE I was dying lol. The Bloody Nine needs no honeyed words.
I started Valor bard archer then shifted to lore bard with Karlach and Wyll being my main front liners and will probably switch to swords/battlemaster in act 3 because conversations seem too easy and combat hasn’t been as satisfying. Respec respec respec to get your best combo! It’s never too late my friends.
Ohhh good point!I never brought up respeccing!
Swords bard is way better for archery than the other two, slashing flourish (ranged) lets you shoot twice with your inspiration points (you can shoot the same enemy twice or split it.)
@@alexw4482the plan is to be flexible between archery and melee with duelists prerogative and I currently have the dead shot bow rn. Control and buff spells to start then go into martial combat from there.
What build are you using for your Wyll? And what build for your fourth party member? Playing a Lore Bard and trying to make a good party comp
@@roman11777 I ended up swapping between two comps that worked really well. I had Karlach thrower berserker9/3champion, shadowheart Light Cleric, lore bard 11/wizard 1 and Wyll Fiend lock4/vengeance paladin 8. I also swapped in a hunter 10/fighter 2 dual wielder. When I switched to swords bard, it was bard5/battlemaster7 only because I wanted 3rd lvl spells and switched wyll to a draconic sorlock 10/2 split. The swords/battlemaster killed everything super quick but it definitely lacked the diversity of options you get from the lore bard. With the lore bard I felt like no one could kill my party. I also mixed in a full land Druid but that felt redundant. I’ll likely include at least 6 lvls of lore bard in any and all of my future playthroughs as it brings so much to the table whether that’s with a paladin or cleric or even a rogue it could be interesting and fun to add in. The point being, so long as you have someone to take hit and to dish out damage you can really build anything around a lore bard.
I just got this game because it looks pretty dope! But is there any like good classes that would be good for a new player to this genre of games. I have no knowledge of D&D 😂
Perfect timing on this one, thank you!
Hi Spartacus. Just found your channel. Really enjoy your content. Just subbed and binge watching lol. Well said. Above all, have fun. Have you done anything regarding the Illithid Colony in BG3? I would really appreciate it. Been stuck forever. Take care.
Thanks so much for watching!! :) hmm.. As far as a specific video? I have not unfortunately. Is there something specific you're looking for help with!?
I'm getting some "The Devil went down to Georgia" vibes for Wyll on your bard comment. 😉
Unrelated, I'm playing around with a Sith Lord themed character using shocking grasp cantrips as primary damage. Maybe multiclass fighter and thief for extra action and bonus actions? War caster, elemental adept lightning... hmm... Any ideas, shoot them my way!
I like to play a melee-er, I add a Bless character, a backup melee-er for aggro, and then some sort of ranged attacker
Very helpful guide thanks
Quick low down...have fun and experiment its fun and worth it....for instance my current Tav is at lvl 10 at the end of act 2 and is a lvl 5 way of the open hand monk lvl 1 wizard lvl 2 fighter and 2 of 4 lvls into collahe of the sword bard and he absolutely destroys most common fights first round with a verity of skills for ever situation my stats are through the roof lowest stat is base 10 but before I leave camp at each new day is buffed to 16 and my highest skill is 21 always buffed to 27 before leaving camp....completely by accident as I went into the run with the goal of selecting what felt like would be the best improvement I could make each lvl based off my own in game experiences so far on my second run. All of my party members are multiclassed as well in interesting ways that seemed cool to me all though with the origin characters ive not gone past 2 classes each to not loose out on their origin benefits.
i really love your videos, i’m new to all of this and it’s genuinely helping so much. thank you :)
You're so welcome!
Great videos.
Thank you for explaining the stats
My pleasure!
I have the most fun with a dex party of rogue/monk, barb/rogue/monk, abjuration wizard and bardadin. Used to use shields a lot but I prefer dual wielding everyone now even the barb. I used to like the hirelings but I prefer to have more inspiration on Honour mode.
Dude, a lot of us needed to hear this 😂
I found out myself that as I got to level 5, 6, and 7, I did not need healing much anymore. So I swapped Shadowheart over to a Tempest Cleric. My party is my Sorc, Asterion Rogue, Shadowheart Tempest Cleric, Gale Wizard. We usually kill stuff before it can get to us.
And this is my first run. I'm 2/3rds through Act 2.
Commenting for support, keep it up homie
Man I love these videos! Didn’t get BG3 until this Xmas but can’t stop playing and am about to embark on my first DND campaign with some friends. Question; is using terms like “action and spell economy” part of the DND vernacular as I (in no offence) felt it seemed kind of an odd choice and kind of unnecessary?
You can concentrate one one spell at a time, and get 1 primary action and usually 1 bonus action per turn, barring features from specific classes (fighter gives you an extra action per short rest at level 2 with action surge, thief rogue gives you an extra bonus action at level 3). So you want something good to do with your action, bonus action, and concentration spells about as often as you can. Meaning when you're hunting for additional spells and abilities to add to your characters, you should have a roughly clear game plan for how to leverage those options each turn. Conversely, when looking over enemies, you aim to disrupt their ability to do this by either removing them from combat through damage or control abilities. Action economy, roughly, how much stuff each side is getting to do each turn, is the meat and potatoes of more tactical 5e DND combat. This mostly applies to higher difficulties of BG3, and less so in regular DND, unless your GM is particularly tactical with their combats.
i always enjoy italian's how to videos
Barbarian shouting at things. This is the best advice for anything playing roleplaying games. Make a character you like, something you think is great or funny. I once had a hobbit rogue/fighter who was into castrating big enemies like trolls and giants work a pickaxe, maxim critical damage rolling between stupid big peoples legs.
It's great checking out best builds but sometimes failure is the best option for fun game.
I use Karlach barb, gale evocation and whatever summons I can get and some cc, shadow heart for a few mone summons and support magic, my main character is beastmaster warden for speak with animals movement party buffs and extra summons and ranged dmg
Hey buddy! I have a question. Its kinda confusing to me. See, i play bg3 the very first time and i want to use your bardadin build for the first playthrough. I want to make am honor way. I really like shadowheart and lae'zel, also both have a good story. I really want to suck thaz content maximised in. What do you recommend to skill them to? Im fine with (bla/bla/bla) i whould make them to my likings of who gets the classes you recommend. :) i really thank you for your bg3 content!
In my playthrough Lae’zel kicks ass AND eats ass.
How do you keep pumping these videos out so fast, while also steaming!
I'm too single
Michelob ULTRA's Orb!!!! omfg. yes yes a fan favorite spell. 🤣
Very helpful
32:33 "eats ass" 😂
Thanks for the advice!
As long as you have 10 charisma, you can use the mask that gives you disguise self and the Shifter’s Boon/Favorable Beginnings and be fine. My Druid is proof of that.
Thanks for the video
OF COURSE!
What sucks about this is how so well the characters are written to fit in with their classes it feels so weird to change them, even I'm about to start my 3rd playthrough.
Hahaha I know how you feel. And I always want to bring them in at specific spots
Ifk if you do; but it would've been cool if u got to have a companion of every class to shoe them off and see what each 1 can do
Awesome video!
My most important take away from this:
“Lae’zel eats ass.” 32:29
I really suck at this game, no one should listen to anything I say about this game, but I did build a really good party. I used a (Paladin) Me, then the Warlock guy (Beast Mode) The vampire guy and the Barbarian girl. They clean house. I can't imagine what they could do with someone who knew how to play them.
My kind of fun = optimize any challenge from the game
Go for it brother!
The most important thing is to have fun if that comes from playing a halfing bard who gets thrown at people by Karlach and calls them ugly go for it
So what is the top 4 build for tactician. I really enjoy the build video. But i get enjoyment by just using broken build can you tell me the top 4.
Right now i have throwing barbarian
Haste sorcer
Bard for control
And open hand monk.
Melee fighter: 8 Barbarian 4 rogue can do it;
sneaky lockpick: Barbarian-rogue can do it;
ranged attacker: likewise;
healing? We don't need no stinking healing!
Conversations? What are those? We are Barbarians!!
12:58 "I'll multiclass gale off of warlock into something else" (guessing you meant wyll or wizard)
great vid
I love your content
Thank you!!
One thing I don't get, is if you're making a character that's bow & arrow-based, why did you set it to only 8 Strength? In BG1 and 2, every ranged character that wasn't based on spells benefited from Strength greatly just to increase damage per shot, so what's different here?
Yup! It's dex based in 5e :)
I've only really done one run, with a bard/cleric main on tactician. It worked pretty well for combat and the dialogue man those options were great lol
22:30 I know you’re just giving examples, but the Monk hardly uses Wisdom for Ki abilities
For most cases you can just swap to the charismatic and do the cutscene and talking. So i always tank my charisma
Your main character doesn't need a high charisma. Just have the person with the highest charisma in the party do the talking when dealing with npcs.
Barbarian im hitting chest and throwing chest no time to unlock them. Sometimes i kill two birds 1 stone and throw chest at enemies or vice versa. Im sure you can imagine how i pick door locks
12:26 same man, same 😂
Everyone says healing is bad, and yet in all of my best runs, my life cleric shadowheart is the absolute anchor for the party. Put a life cleric multiclassed cleric on the team, and the other three can probably be anything.