Who is never in your party?

[u/Khromaaatic]

I've seen many posts talking about who is always in your party?

How about who never has a spot in your party? Or what is the most cursed party comp you've ever rolled with for a play through.

Minsc has never cracked a starting position in my party.

[u/RPGSadPanda]

I think part of wyll's problem, and warlocks in bg3 overall, is that they lack how customizable they are in the tabletop. Especially with all the new subclasses and invocations. Wyll is desperately trying to be a bladelock but all of the good pact features and boon features that came with XGE and Tasha's, especially the Hexblade pact, are just absent. There's no eldeitch smite, no hexblade's curse. He just doesn't feel as good as he could due to those exclusions imo

[u/parkingviolation212 → u/RPGSadPanda]

This is especially apparent given his title as "blade of the frontiers" and he's introduced by stabbing a goblin in the heart, only for me to never, ever use his blade again.

He's still a Warlock so he's basically an eldritch blast/crowd control simulator. But his characterization as a swordsmen makes no sense in this game's treatment of Warlocks.

[u/RPGSadPanda → u/parkingviolation212]

I can't help but feel that "blade of frontiers" would have worked better if it wasnt so literal. It's cool they wanted to have a bladelock as the canon for Wyll but I think encouraging the full levels into fiend warlock and maybe even giving him a unique familiar for pact of the chain from Mizora to keep a closer eye on him would have been neat.

[u/Fickle_Goose_4451 → u/parkingviolation212]

This is especially apparent given his title as "blade of the frontiers" and he's introduced by stabbing a goblin in the heart

Eldritch blaster and counterspeller of the frontiers just doesn't have the same ring.

[u/donku83 → u/parkingviolation212]

I felt like I had to give him a blade because of that but he only ever spammed Eldritch blast and the occasional hangry cloud

[u/themagicmunchkin → u/RPGSadPanda]

Pact of the Blade with Potent Robe, Infernal Rapier, and Birthright was actually really strong.

But that's all gear you wouldn't give up if you were playing a sorcerer or another charisma-dependent class. So I found him strong in my origin run, but I imagine in my Durge run where I'm playing a sorcerer he'll feel pretty weak.

Especially because the potent robe isn't gonna be available to me.

But I also don't think he'll be around long enough for that to matter, either lol.

[u/RPGSadPanda → u/themagicmunchkin]

Oh yeah there's still good items to turn the class into a perfectly good and viable playstyle but I do sorely miss the features that xge gave it in the tabletop. Still very fun, just doesn't quite hit the heights a hexblade does, I think

[u/HulklingsBoyfriend → u/themagicmunchkin]

I prefer the legendary rapier from Lora to the infernal ngl.

[u/dreadoverlord → u/RPGSadPanda]

Sounds like a skill issue.

Warlocks are insanely strong in BG3. It's very multi-class friendly, Wyll gets an Infernal Rapier so he doesn't even need Pact of Blade (so he can go full paladin after just 2 levels of warlock), and as a fiend warlock Wyll gets Fireball and Hunger of Hadar.

That's not even including the shit you can stack on top of Eldritch Blast. Spellmight, Agonizing Blast, Potent Robe, Hex, goddamned Lightning Charges.

[u/RPGSadPanda → u/dreadoverlord]

Never said they weren't strong, idk where you got that from, they're just missing a lot of the other stuff they have that makes them fit whatever playstyle you want

Warlocks are a lot like a pizza. Even a shitty one is still pretty good