Strange you didn't mention Blade Ward or Warding Bond with this as both will reduce 50% damage from slash/pierce/blunt damage and Warding Bond reduce all damage by 50%. This applies before any DR and so with 12 DR from arcane ward + 3 DR from heavy armour master + 2 DR from heavy armour = 17 DR. With Blade Ward on top that means an enemy needs to hit you for 36 damage to cause 1 damage, obviously reducing as you lose arcane wards
These thematic builds are the bread and butter and also why i watch you. It would be amazing if you did it for the whole party and do more of those on top. Love your vids, keep them up! ❤
@@TheSpudKing soo i tried putting Ring of elemental infusion, snowburst ring, and Ichorous gloves on this character cuz i thought it' would make sense but none of the work. were they suposed to and it is a bug or am i not thinking about it the right way?
You didn’t mention if you had the Snowburst staff which is crucial for any ice build also the snow brim hat I am not sure what you mean by none of it worked. Could you explain more??
Fighter - Champion, Warlock - The Great Old One (Mortal Reminder) and Rogue - Assasin. With proper gear you get crits with Eldritch Blast by rolling a 12.
I've seen a few builds from this channel so far, and they all look like real fun. Until you realise that the builds dont play out like he shows you, and he probably has a modded campaign where spells dont consume spell slots. You probably cant even do half the stuff he shows in his clips...
@@DarkStelios yeah its modded. even then, the gameplay showcases are usually either 1) level 4-5 fighting level 1-2 encounters or 2) level 12 and the game is over anyway and every character is super strong at this point. I agree very fun looking builds, but hard to trust
Try this with Spiked Garb armor and Swires Sledboard. You can get both of these early act 3. You'll get hit more (more damage with Agathys) and take less when you do get hit. My Abjuration Wiz/Sorc/Cleric/Warlock doesn't attack very often but all enemies get a chance to hit me. Also drop the heavy armor feat and get Alert. Equip the awarenesas bow and then Hell Rider Longbow. You an use the Sentinel Shield until you get the Swires. I get them wet, hit Boots of Speed, and run around them all.
@@Chris_the_Nerd Yes...but when you have a 15 AC you're going to get hit. I would say half the mobs hit you. You don't use the boots every turn. Only if you need the extra movement so everyone has an attempt to proc. You can use them after you have already moved and gotten opportunity attacks but have no movememnt. Just have to be smart.
Think that works well when you have more levels of Abjuration Wizard, but not on 6 levels. This build is more about not getting hit, but if you do then you have retaliation damage. With only 6 levels Abj Wizard, that's gonna vanish pretty quick if you get hit too often
don't forgett the funfac, that u can shapeshift into Gith, equip the Silversword, bind it and switch back, to get the save roll adv. + it brings u really much extra early game dmg.
Challenge: do your best making a melee wizard for sustained melee, only using a single class dip. Cleric: can give a wizard heavy armour and good spells like command, nature cleric also gives shalleighlah which would scale with wizards int stat. Barbarian: gives a wizard martial weapon proficiency, shields, medium armour and rage. Con proficiency is also nice for extra unarmoured defence instead of casting mage armour. Monk: let's wizard attack with dexterity on all non-twohanded weapons with a bonus action unarmed strike... Not much else. Rogue: Sneak attack and expertise and long and short swords. dual short swords and use main action in place of bonus action for creating advantage to proc sneak attack. Fighter: con proficiency, fighting style, all weapon and armour proficiency, bonus action heal... Not much else. Druid: better spells than cleric for moving about, shalleighlah ditto nature cleric, probably best precombat buff. Paladin: As starting class, has the best load out for early game ac. Niche case made for oath of ancients for 3 turn bless once per short rest with healing radiance + whispering promise? Slightly better than of fighters second wind. Bard: weak as piss... Rapiers? Yay? Maybe on a githyanki wizard with the heroism spell for 5 temp hp per round... If concentration is maintained, might be slightly more survival in melee depending on race options. Sorcerer: dragon sorcerer is the only one worth bothering with natural ac... Basically always on mage armour and con proficiency if first class. Shield as always prepared spell might offer slightly better survivability. Warlock: temp hp on kill, and agathys. It's... Meh? I mean warlock slot could power shield once per short rest. Hellish rebuke might have a niche?
You can't. If you are referring to when he "removes his armor, casts an armor spell, then re-equips his armor", he is casting "armor of shadows". Armor of shadows is an abjuration spell, and as a eldritch invocation, it is FREE to cast. And the arcane ward ability that blocks damage gets "charged" (in the video he says "stacks") by casting abjuration spells. So free casts of armor of shadows recharges your arcane ward ability. According the bg3wiki site, "Each time you cast an Abjuration spell, the intensity of the ward increases by the amount of the spell's Level, up to a maximum of 2x your Wizard level." So with 4 levels of wizard in this build, you should be able to charge/stack 8 charges of arcane ward. "Each time you take damage, the damage is reduced by the charge count and the charge count reduces by 1." I am guessing that when a battle is done, and you are healing up, that you unequip your armor and cast armor of shadows repeatedly to charge up your arcane ward, then continue on.
@SpudtheKing Spud- what spell from Warlock are you using to buff ur Arcane Ward? I don’t see any? This build rocks at lvl7. Which is where my Tactician run is. Thank you bro
It doesn't matter all that much though as barely anything will hit you in darkness and with con save from fighter and 16 con, you shouldn't lose con save. You also only need to make a con save when you take damage and with the DR on this build you shouldn't be getting damaged that often. Also, he's only really using spellslots for darkness and with Warlock spells refreshing on short rest you shouldn't be using up all that many spells and you have at least 2 turns to cast darkness pretty regularly
Question: Since you re only getting Fighter for the Heavy armor + Shield + All Weapons, why not get War Cleric that also gives 3 bonus action attacks/long rest and spell slot? Sounds more useful for just an 1 LV dip.
Problem with Fiend is that as soon as you kill an opponent, the Dark One's Blessing activates and turns off your Armor of Agathys. Any way around that? Wouldn't Great Old One be a better patron if you are using that spell?
Didn't even see fleshmelter cloak aaargh! I usally clear the necro knight from the Kuo Toa and ignore the door in the morgue. Great stuff thanks Spud! This is definitely a build to try All the best.
I like this one! How about using the pole master feat with like a Glaive to get extra reach from the Darkness? Half Elf has proficiency in those weapons as well from the start! Thanks for the videos man!
Alternative. Instead of Fighter, Tempest Cleric. Lightning reaction, and cast create water on enemies. It also gives you level 3 spell slots. But no constitution prof.
You wouldn't get Con prof or fighting style. However, if you did go with Cleric then take sanctuary and if you get beat down you just cast sanctuary to then build your arcane ward back up, using the remove armour method, and then get back in the fight. Would make for loooong fights but you are then actually indestructible
failed to mention that armor of shadows can only be used once per long rest, so once you lose the arcane ward stacks granted by those you won't be able to replace those until a long rest unless using some other abujuration spells so it sort of makes it useless and better to stick with wizard in my opinion, cool build though.
It literally so wild I fought Orin in a 1v1 with a dark urge origin with this build and she killed herself off the fire and arcane shield my only issue fight wise was in the murder tribunal if you fight the urge the guy (forgot his name) has sanctuary which negates your shield damage
Eventually, I’ll be able to break the game on my own by making a super powerful character. In the meantime I’ll just keep watching your videos great and powerful potato king.😀
cool build but my melee damage is really bad. I'm level 7 and my damage output is pretty lackluster. even my eldrich blasts do very little damage. anyone have any tips on how to improve?
It's fine, you trade damage from hand to be able to provoke opportunity attacks. Overall its very solid damage per round, but single numbers is not too high
Подскажите пожалуйста как Финдала воскресить ?? В роще изумрудной в тоннеле. Гоблинов убил а он умер уже. 5 вопросов задал ему как мертвецу, он сказал что гоблины тут в тоннеле оружие какое то ищут и все. А как его воскресить?? Заранее очень благодарна
Armor of Agathis does 5 cold damage per warlock level, plus the cold variation of fire shield, plus double damage of wet enemies. Armor of Agathis and fire shield do damage on getting hit and not by how much damage you receive. So the key is to negate the damage you receive but still make sure you get hit if you want to do the retaliation damage.
armour of shadows "DOESN'T" not remain active when re-equipping armour. just tried it today. spent 6 hr on this build guide for a HM game run.. help ??
i would like an option when playing multiplayer to have duplicated items so if both people wanna play a certain way they can. because its like 1 item is used in 9 builds and we are playing 4 player coop... so it sucks. dont allow them to have 2 of the same item on 1 for each player somehow.
You can level Gale as a pure cleric and let him cast Warding Bond on all your party members in camp. Then kick him out of your party and let him stay in camp. If your party members take damage, Gale automatically heals himself. So you can play the game with resistance against everything until your next long rest. Feels like a cheat so I don't like it, but it works fine :)
I mean we get it, Darkness is really good. But that's been the focus of like 7 of your last 10 videos. The rest of the build honestly doesn't even matter when you're doing that.
I suck at Baldur’s Gate 3, but I love Baldur’s Gate 3, so I don’t mind breaking Baldur’s Gate 3. :3
It’s so easy tho breaking it is a must tho
BG3 is a game that's easy to break the balance of, and the alternative is having your enemy take advantage of these strategies and suffering 😹
@@sinwhisper bruh I absolutely suck at this game and Ive needed heavy save scumming to make it through the game on explorer difficulty 😭
How are you thet bad? It is quite easy without all these videos
Strange you didn't mention Blade Ward or Warding Bond with this as both will reduce 50% damage from slash/pierce/blunt damage and Warding Bond reduce all damage by 50%. This applies before any DR and so with 12 DR from arcane ward + 3 DR from heavy armour master + 2 DR from heavy armour = 17 DR. With Blade Ward on top that means an enemy needs to hit you for 36 damage to cause 1 damage, obviously reducing as you lose arcane wards
These thematic builds are the bread and butter and also why i watch you. It would be amazing if you did it for the whole party and do more of those on top. Love your vids, keep them up! ❤
Will do 😄 thanks
@@TheSpudKing soo i tried putting Ring of elemental infusion, snowburst ring, and Ichorous gloves on this character cuz i thought it' would make sense but none of the work. were they suposed to and it is a bug or am i not thinking about it the right way?
You didn’t mention if you had the Snowburst staff which is crucial for any ice build also the snow brim hat I am not sure what you mean by none of it worked. Could you explain more??
Loved the look and build for your warlock! Plan to try both!
Fighter - Champion, Warlock - The Great Old One (Mortal Reminder) and Rogue - Assasin.
With proper gear you get crits with Eldritch Blast by rolling a 12.
this is the proper build.
at 10:42 how do you still have 2 spellslots left for armour of agathys even though you had it on start of the battle aswell?
This is such a funny build lmao. Reminds me of how I played a Levistus pacted Ice themed warlock!
Why don’t your spells remove spell slots when used?
I've seen a few builds from this channel so far, and they all look like real fun.
Until you realise that the builds dont play out like he shows you, and he probably has a modded campaign where spells dont consume spell slots. You probably cant even do half the stuff he shows in his clips...
@@DarkStelios yeah its modded. even then, the gameplay showcases are usually either 1) level 4-5 fighting level 1-2 encounters or 2) level 12 and the game is over anyway and every character is super strong at this point. I agree very fun looking builds, but hard to trust
@@DarkStelios thank you for stopping me from wasting my time on this build Im over here trying to get through honor mode and this shit isnt working
Try this with Spiked Garb armor and Swires Sledboard. You can get both of these early act 3. You'll get hit more (more damage with Agathys) and take less when you do get hit. My Abjuration Wiz/Sorc/Cleric/Warlock doesn't attack very often but all enemies get a chance to hit me. Also drop the heavy armor feat and get Alert. Equip the awarenesas bow and then Hell Rider Longbow. You an use the Sentinel Shield until you get the Swires. I get them wet, hit Boots of Speed, and run around them all.
Nice one 😃
Don’t the Boots of Speed give disadvantage on opportunity attacks against you?
@@Chris_the_NerdI believe so
@@Chris_the_Nerd Yes...but when you have a 15 AC you're going to get hit. I would say half the mobs hit you. You don't use the boots every turn. Only if you need the extra movement so everyone has an attempt to proc. You can use them after you have already moved and gotten opportunity attacks but have no movememnt. Just have to be smart.
Think that works well when you have more levels of Abjuration Wizard, but not on 6 levels. This build is more about not getting hit, but if you do then you have retaliation damage. With only 6 levels Abj Wizard, that's gonna vanish pretty quick if you get hit too often
don't forgett the funfac, that u can shapeshift into Gith, equip the Silversword, bind it and switch back, to get the save roll adv. + it brings u really much extra early game dmg.
As soon as patch 7 or whenever the mod tools are released, first thing I'm doing is modding in TCE and other source books.
Challenge: do your best making a melee wizard for sustained melee, only using a single class dip.
Cleric: can give a wizard heavy armour and good spells like command, nature cleric also gives shalleighlah which would scale with wizards int stat.
Barbarian: gives a wizard martial weapon proficiency, shields, medium armour and rage. Con proficiency is also nice for extra unarmoured defence instead of casting mage armour.
Monk: let's wizard attack with dexterity on all non-twohanded weapons with a bonus action unarmed strike... Not much else.
Rogue: Sneak attack and expertise and long and short swords. dual short swords and use main action in place of bonus action for creating advantage to proc sneak attack.
Fighter: con proficiency, fighting style, all weapon and armour proficiency, bonus action heal... Not much else.
Druid: better spells than cleric for moving about, shalleighlah ditto nature cleric, probably best precombat buff.
Paladin: As starting class, has the best load out for early game ac. Niche case made for oath of ancients for 3 turn bless once per short rest with healing radiance + whispering promise? Slightly better than of fighters second wind.
Bard: weak as piss... Rapiers? Yay? Maybe on a githyanki wizard with the heroism spell for 5 temp hp per round... If concentration is maintained, might be slightly more survival in melee depending on race options.
Sorcerer: dragon sorcerer is the only one worth bothering with natural ac... Basically always on mage armour and con proficiency if first class. Shield as always prepared spell might offer slightly better survivability.
Warlock: temp hp on kill, and agathys. It's... Meh? I mean warlock slot could power shield once per short rest. Hellish rebuke might have a niche?
I feel like this video is the closest you get to that my guy😂😂
I made a full crew of bard/locks. Walking around with 6 short rests makes warlocks seem like full casters
how do you cast armor of agathys without uusing a warlock spell slot?
i think an armour gives you can cast it then take off armour put on another it still stays with you
You can't. If you are referring to when he "removes his armor, casts an armor spell, then re-equips his armor", he is casting "armor of shadows". Armor of shadows is an abjuration spell, and as a eldritch invocation, it is FREE to cast. And the arcane ward ability that blocks damage gets "charged" (in the video he says "stacks") by casting abjuration spells. So free casts of armor of shadows recharges your arcane ward ability.
According the bg3wiki site, "Each time you cast an Abjuration spell, the intensity of the ward increases by the amount of the spell's Level, up to a maximum of 2x your Wizard level."
So with 4 levels of wizard in this build, you should be able to charge/stack 8 charges of arcane ward. "Each time you take damage, the damage is reduced by the charge count and the charge count reduces by 1."
I am guessing that when a battle is done, and you are healing up, that you unequip your armor and cast armor of shadows repeatedly to charge up your arcane ward, then continue on.
after he is casting "armor of shadow" at 10:04 he has "armor of agathys" and you can see that he didnt use a spell slot. how?
@SpudtheKing
Spud- what spell from Warlock are you using to buff ur Arcane Ward? I don’t see any?
This build rocks at lvl7. Which is where my Tactician run is.
Thank you bro
it's "mage armor" that you need to get by correct eldritch invocation
why you do not loss your warlock spell when you use Darkness?
He uses Mods and Cheat Engine to showcase the builds
Not sure how impressive it is to create "OP builds" if they require mods to showcase. Guessing anyone can do that.
It doesn't matter all that much though as barely anything will hit you in darkness and with con save from fighter and 16 con, you shouldn't lose con save. You also only need to make a con save when you take damage and with the DR on this build you shouldn't be getting damaged that often. Also, he's only really using spellslots for darkness and with Warlock spells refreshing on short rest you shouldn't be using up all that many spells and you have at least 2 turns to cast darkness pretty regularly
Question:
Since you re only getting Fighter for the Heavy armor + Shield + All Weapons, why not get War Cleric that also gives 3 bonus action attacks/long rest and spell slot?
Sounds more useful for just an 1 LV dip.
Additional option: Tempest Cleric for + 2d8 return dmg. Since our Armor of Agathis will not be 6th lv, this might be enough to cover the difference.
No CON proficiency, which is great for concentration
This build is one of the coolest I’ve seen. You just earned a sub
Problem with Fiend is that as soon as you kill an opponent, the Dark One's Blessing activates and turns off your Armor of Agathys. Any way around that? Wouldn't Great Old One be a better patron if you are using that spell?
Yeah, i just like fiend for early game and later abilities
How do you cast armour of agathys without spending spell slots?
Didn't even see fleshmelter cloak aaargh! I usally clear the necro knight from the Kuo Toa and ignore the door in the morgue. Great stuff thanks Spud! This is definitely a build to try All the best.
2nd video asking for a druid Spider form focused build ! Love your content man, keep going !
Will do ;)
If You choose wood elf, You don't need see in the dark, since they have dark vision. So what is better?
Abjuration, fire shield, agathis with duelist perogative to force fights?
I like this one! How about using the pole master feat with like a Glaive to get extra reach from the Darkness? Half Elf has proficiency in those weapons as well from the start! Thanks for the videos man!
Yeah, i was playing with polearm in first iteration, but sentinel roots enemies that try to run away in darkness :) so decided to stick withh it
@@TheSpudKing ohhh I see! Thanks man
Can make it even more broken with a cleric in the camp, can have warding bond stacked on top of all the juice. Nice vid
Alternative. Instead of Fighter, Tempest Cleric. Lightning reaction, and cast create water on enemies. It also gives you level 3 spell slots. But no constitution prof.
Yeah, but considering spellslots comes from warlock mostly, i like fighter more
You wouldn't get Con prof or fighting style. However, if you did go with Cleric then take sanctuary and if you get beat down you just cast sanctuary to then build your arcane ward back up, using the remove armour method, and then get back in the fight. Would make for loooong fights but you are then actually indestructible
The Morrowind ost made this video even better. You giving me nostalgia over here^^
does this build still work? there was a patch recently, and i havent played the game in a year.
Yeah, it's completely fine
@@TheSpudKing I can't cast magearmor again only ones per long rest. Does they nerfed this?
Is it possible to merge this with force conduit on the skin burster?
Dragon Age Origins OST brought back good memories , ty for the tutorial.
Does the race matter? Do I have to pick half elf??
Technically no, you can go with any
Please break Way of the Four Elements monk (I like the animations)
hello, I don't understand, at 4'28 you cast "agathys armor" but that doesn't cost you a warlock slot spell ?
He are cheating. Using no cost in spells uses.
Don’t the enemies ai look for the lower ac characters though? So they will never want to attack this character
Run a solo game maybe?
If you go with a race with dark sight will you still need dark sight from the evocations?
Yeah, its different dark sight, evocation gives ability to see in magical darkness
When I cast the magician's armor spell, it disappears when I put on the armor. What's wrong?
Do arrows of darkness work the same way as the darkness spell? Just shorter duration?
Yeah
Couldn’t you get the intelligent band in act one and use any of the spells from Wizard class
not in Honour Mode
failed to mention that armor of shadows can only be used once per long rest, so once you lose the arcane ward stacks granted by those you won't be able to replace those until a long rest unless using some other abujuration spells so it sort of makes it useless and better to stick with wizard in my opinion, cool build though.
it's not. unlimited casts
You can use armor of shadows as many times as you want
It literally so wild I fought Orin in a 1v1 with a dark urge origin with this build and she killed herself off the fire and arcane shield my only issue fight wise was in the murder tribunal if you fight the urge the guy (forgot his name) has sanctuary which negates your shield damage
Eventually, I’ll be able to break the game on my own by making a super powerful character. In the meantime I’ll just keep watching your videos great and powerful potato king.😀
Spud, wouldn’t the Headband of Intellect make Wiz spells viable?
I luv your imagination!
Yeah ! It could work very nicely!!!
How about something like a Darkness Team? Full team that can operate from the darkness spell?
Yeah, that's a powerful team!
So the final build is:
Warlock 5
Fighter 2
Wizard 5??
Nope. 1 fighter, 7 warlock, 4 wizard. Around the 15 minute mark you can see his character sheet.
cool build but my melee damage is really bad. I'm level 7 and my damage output is pretty lackluster. even my eldrich blasts do very little damage.
anyone have any tips on how to improve?
It's fine, you trade damage from hand to be able to provoke opportunity attacks. Overall its very solid damage per round, but single numbers is not too high
Подскажите пожалуйста как Финдала воскресить ?? В роще изумрудной в тоннеле. Гоблинов убил а он умер уже. 5 вопросов задал ему как мертвецу, он сказал что гоблины тут в тоннеле оружие какое то ищут и все. А как его воскресить?? Заранее очень благодарна
He can't be resurrected. But he's useless, lol and take hat very stylish
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I don't understand where the damage comes from when enemies hit you. Is it armour of agathis? Why does it do so much damage
Armor of Agathis does 5 cold damage per warlock level, plus the cold variation of fire shield, plus double damage of wet enemies. Armor of Agathis and fire shield do damage on getting hit and not by how much damage you receive. So the key is to negate the damage you receive but still make sure you get hit if you want to do the retaliation damage.
Agathys + Chill shield + wet enemies
This build its works for honor mode ?
I trying this build, but it keeps says missing 😥 whats wrong
Man, u cant show me a build when u dont spend spell slot, couse when im gonna try it ill find out i cant cast 678 darknes and misty step per fight xD
You don't need to.
i dont get it mobs still kill me in the darkness
Would it still be good if I pick warlock first tho?
You'll lose con proficiency, and heavy+medium armour+ fighting style
i mean this in the best way, but you are the Master of Shenanegans. ;)
armour of shadows "DOESN'T" not remain active when re-equipping armour. just tried it today. spent 6 hr on this build guide for a HM game run.. help ??
It shouldn't not stay, that's the point, you can cast it for free by equip-unequip armour and it will raise stacks of arcane ward
It would be great if spells did not take spell slots. You use armor of agathis and one darkness and u need a short rest...
I know I'm late to the video, but you're all over the place man. Great build but damn.
i would like an option when playing multiplayer to have duplicated items so if both people wanna play a certain way they can. because its like 1 item is used in 9 builds and we are playing 4 player coop... so it sucks. dont allow them to have 2 of the same item on 1 for each player somehow.
Oh yeah, itemizing whole party is a quest itself
ICCCCETARION
Am i the only one thats wondering why now of the spells are using up his spell slots
Does this work for Honor mode?
Yes
how do you cast armor of agathys without using a warlock spell slot? cheat mode maybe? LOL
For recording purposes, doesn't affect the build 😉
How did you level 7 in act 1? Did you attack everyone? Lol
Why the hell you using unlimited spell slots on such videos?
Idk man, mobs just one shot the armor of akatos at lvl 5 lol
I’m level 9 right now, I decided to take a level in barb for extra damage negation and it’s really nice
1 fighter
2 wizard
5 warlock
1 barb
You can level Gale as a pure cleric and let him cast Warding Bond on all your party members in camp. Then kick him out of your party and let him stay in camp. If your party members take damage, Gale automatically heals himself. So you can play the game with resistance against everything until your next long rest. Feels like a cheat so I don't like it, but it works fine :)
Heh-hehyeah boy!
I mean we get it, Darkness is really good. But that's been the focus of like 7 of your last 10 videos.
The rest of the build honestly doesn't even matter when you're doing that.
This build is fine without darkness
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WHO goes act2 with lvl 4? Im 7
Now you can explain how can you cast spells without spending spell slots. Mods? Cheating? Feels a bit misleading for the people who watch this video
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I'm showing build, and how it works. And i never told anything about spellsloots, it won't change how build works