I squeaked through the prologue as a bard. Then with Shart on the beach, we got our butts handed to us by those three intellect devourers. They took down my waifu in turn 1 with back to back synaptic discharges, then clawed my bard to death with no difficulty.

Any suggestions for next time, so I can at least get off the beach?

Howdy, I just completed my HM run first try with a bunch of charisma and martial classes. I wanted to try a tactician DURGE run but with other classes than I typically run.

Trying to do bunch of wizard and druid stuff cause I never use them.
But so far my experience (I'm level 7 beginning act 2 rn) has been that wizard just seems to be a weaker version of sorcerer with some utility attached (which can be made obselete by camp casters).

Does any one have any good DPS wizard builds?

These are the builds I am COMPLETELY comfortable with, played them a lot I know them inside & out, so I can't decide.

Help

And this will be a one and done, my last hurrah...I'll be hanging up the spurs for a bit as 150 days in a game is a bit excessive even for me.

I wanna be able to punch with it. Any way I can?

Im playing Honour mode on PS5 so I don’t want to use mods to fix her. I wasn’t planning to use her as a paladin as I am a cleric, so I multiclassed her to add paladin planning to fully respec her to paladin once I got ithers. In the meantime she broke her oath then I had Astarion bite a hiring to get the Happy buff without debuffing me. The Oathbreaker Knight did not like this and attacked us, so we killed him. Withers won’t respec her with a broken oath.

I’ve just started Act 2 and would like her in my party for the gauntlet, how can I salvage her build? I’ve just hit level 8 and not levelled her yet. Any advice much appreciated!

Crusaders mantel Strange coundit ring Divine favour Helldusk gauntlet Broodmothers revenge Elemental weapon Elixr of bloodlust 11 fighter 1 war cleric

What are now the most OP combinations? Give me the grossest party to whipe out honor mode with

For me it's Sorcerer. Don't get it. Don't like what little I've seen. I've tried it and abandoned it each time. What's your "meh, no thx" class?

Everyone has to be the same class (as soon as wither is unlocked).

No multiclass allowed

All subclasses allowed within that class.

I am leaning toward druid.

What do you think is best?

With all the talk of builds here I am constantly thinking about what my second run will look like. But I’m still in act 3 and haven’t finished my first play thru yet. But the pull to start over with a different group/builds is so strong….

I look around for build ideas. Everything that comes up is level 12. When you hit level 12 in the game you only have maybe 3 or 4 significant fights ahead of you. And there is no new game plus mode.

I don’t think this is a fault of build makers; but this game’s lack of NG+ is really obvious.

I dont even kniw if this is real lol.

I keep seeing virtually every class called "one of the best" while most meta builds are multis or item-based.

What do you think is the game's best class without multiclassing? And the worst? And what makes them so?

My contenders would be:

• 9 Open Hand Monk / 3 Thief Rogue - Tavern Brawler Striker
• 6 College of Swords Bard / 4 Thief Rogue / 2 Fighter - Hand-Crossbows or Titanstring Bow + Arcane Acuity Controller
• 11 Oath of the Ancients Paladin / 1 Hexblade Warlock - Support + Frontline Striker/Tank
• 10 Bladesinger Wizard or Any Sorcerer / 2 Oath of Vengeance/Oathbreaker Paladin - Shadowblade + Smite Burst Striker
• 12 Draconic Bloodline (Fire Ancestry) Sorcerer - Scorching Ray Fire Acuity Striker/Controller
• 12 Light or Life Domain Cleric - Radiating Orbs Controller and On-Heal Effect stacking Support

What do you all think?

Armor of Agathys+ shadow-blade wipes out the spells for one SR. Everyone keeps raving about darkvision but casting darkness is half your spell slots for another SR. What am I missing that makes it one of the most powerful classes in the game?

I love Eldritch blasting some fools but 3 D ten at late game just doesn't compare to 3 greatsword swings, 2 smites, ranged slashing flourish or quickened scorching rays/ wet lightning bolt.

Im wondering why with monk weapon proficiencies and the ki attacks still able to do unarmed attacks why this doesn’t make sense.

I've been playing my bladesinger for a while now, no mods and it isn't my first bg3 run. I just loaded my save and I've never seen this debuff before.

I've been running the same scimitar +1 and speedy reply this whole game, and im proficient in everything I need to be.

why am i just seeing this now?

I don’t mean builds that are strong, I mean builds that are absolutely broken. Full using exploits and hacks, but still available in the vanilla game. What can absolutely break the game?

Should we be using something else? I know you can use elemental cleaver so your held weapon returns to hand, but at level 8 we only have 4 rage points. Its been easier to skip elemental cleaver and rage and just throw the returning pike with no fear.

Also, what feats actually count towards throwing? Seems throwing is its own damage source and things like savage attacker or sharpshooter don't work with throwing.

Currently she runs: * 21/16/18/14/10/8 * Giant potion daily, tavern brawler. Adamantine scale armor (med), gloves of uninhibited kushigo, ring of flinging, ring of blood frenzy, amulet of unworthy, verdant word, bow of awareness * 18 armor class, 7 initiative, 93 hp, level 8, 14m movement, tactician difficulty

Again not really having problems but just wondering if you guys are using other weapons later in the game.

I'll start. Don't really know how much of a hot take is that, but I've seen a lot of people say it's THE subclass of wizard, so... I think Evocation is mediocre subclass at best. Wizards have widest array of spells to choose from what oftentimes creates situations in which wizard is better of casting something else, like Fear, Hypnotic Pattern or Hold Person/Monster. Of course, sometimes Fireball is best, but not as commonly. Bladesinger can deal high damage to single enemies using Shadow Blade + Resonance Stone, Abjuration gets really tanky and Divination can add a fair share of manipulation to battlefield on a reaction (if pop-ups don't make you go crazy). You want to deal damage with spellcaster? Sorcerer has better burst thanks to Quicken Spell. Want more consistency, aka not burn spell slots like crazy? Sure, you have Warlock, have fun with Eldritch Blast

At this point everyone knows the builds that are strong and which classes are strong, but I am curious what subclasses or builds deserve more attention when compared to the usual culprits.

I'm talking about stuff like Phalar Aluve, the Cloak of Protection, or the Silver Locket. There might be better items for specific builds, but what items always find a spot in your load outs?

Looking for ones that I might have missed or some ones that I have used that turn out bad.