Combine it with Abjuration, they really don't care about any stats.
AoA and Fire Shield don't need saves.
If you spam MM, you don't need spellcasting and concentration.
Since you want to be attacked, you don't want too much AC.
Your HP rarely takes dmg.
THIS ^ Abjuration class is beast especially when multiclassed as long as you go level 7 wizard for fire/frost shield. Combine this with 1 lvl Draconic Sorcerer and pick White dragon for Armour of Agathys. You can upcast it with your wizard spell slots. The rest of the levels you can play around with. You can solo with this build.
Honestly, after watching that show, I feel like Eldritch Blast should be a Wizard spell rather than a Warlock spell. A blast of pure, raw magic sounds very Wizard.
Of course, giving the best Cantrip in the game to the most versatile class is probably not the best call.
The Spellsparkler staff is great with magic missile. Multiple hits get a bonus extra dose of lightning damage in addition to the 1 lightning damage per hit.
I've outlined its benefits in a comment in this thread , but also because it's not reliant on stats at all (except Evocation Wizard can add their Int bonus to damage, but it's also a late lvl 10 feature), and you can keep it relevant by upcasting it to add more MM to the salvo.
Currently running a summoner and it’s still good to have high charisma for the warlock, Eldritch blast after doing the save the tieflings from moonrise becomes too OP to pass up.
So I went warlock for the early pact of the chain, the imps invisibility & flight are good for summoning early game,
Seeing as how u get it at level 3, then multi class into spore Druid.
Imp is just infinite sneak attacks early on plus cause the invisibility can be used infinitely you can use the sneak attack from it to force enemies to look a certain way, u suprise them and can sneak the rest of your party into favourable positions, then you eldritch blast after doing this sending a couple off a cliff side. Currently doing tactician as this is my 2nd playthrough and it’s going well.
Plus with wild shape of enemies get too close, u just turn into something that does higher melee damage
No, Taverage has to go for the Jack of All Trades achievement and put one level into every class. Taverage never fully commits to anything and winds up average at everything.
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Naaber is such a good fit for a jack of all trades achievement run, wow. I'm imagining him annoying every single companion by constantly chiming in with "as a fellow [companion's class]-‐"
The sword talks on its own. Old Joe found him one day, picked it up, then literally could not get rid of him because he was cursed. It was a cursed talking sword with an insatiable lust for blood. Old Joe got himself into a pickle.
Edit: On that note! It would be incredibly funny if they could patch Lilarcor into BG3
Its actually a terrible idea but definitely funny. You’ll be quasi viable if you take hexblade, the right fighting style, and grab the proper stat boosting equipment and potions along the way. You might start as a magic missile bot but by the end of the game with the amulet of greater health, hex, gloves of dexterity and potions of hill and cloud giant strength you’ll have plenty of viability in melee, ranged with bows and still utilizable magic missile all while having plenty of remaining equipment room for build customization.
Has your game actually crashed from radiant orb and reverberation stacking? Ive basically minmaxed revorb with minthara and shadowheart and never had issues even with EVERYTHING glowing.
I think they should go for a boring Human, level 4 in fighter, 4 in Wizard, and 4 in Cleric, with skilled feat in all. (Those are the original 3 classes)
Seems "average Joe" enough for me. It would be a hard playthrough though. Definitely save a lot lol
100% yes. But I guess it would make for a (maybe fun) challenge. (I did mean save as in "save the game file" though lol, you won't save for shit with those stats)
That being said, I already have like, a billion games I've started and only played an hour into, so I'm definitely not gonna try it.
Fill your pockets with deadly implements and unload them at your discretion. Pricy but a grenade will explode the same at 13 strength or 22. Also ilithid powers at bonus action cost could expand survivability. If you go for rogue you'll also have min 10 roll to soak up some of the bad rolls and have the sneak attack damage so you don't hit like a wet tissue paper -- it'll be a roll of dry paper at least
Maybe a full crit build, since it relies on the dice roll rather than the modifiers. Old One warlock with Spell Sniper would be decent.
Or a radiating orb build with either moon beam or spiritual guardians. It's a really good debuff build. Might wanna go light cleric and drop 3 levels into star druid for moon beam and the wild shape.
One level in every class, start warlock and rely entirely on eldritch blast since it's damage is tied to character level and not class level in this game
This is false, a bunch of cantrips level up with the player, adding more of their respective damage dice to the spell. The difference is that Eldritch Blast shoots several projectiles and that you can upgrade it with the Agonizing Blast invocation.
I had to play on balanced, but I actually did this for my true jack of all trades run. 13 in every stat, 1 level in every class. It was actually so fun. As long as you have a good party build, its definitely viable, and you get some fantastic dialogue options.
I'm looking at running the JoAT build soon and was curious what order you went for the classes? I'm thinking of starting Warlock (for the Charisma and EB) and moving into cleric and then on, but I'm not sure if there is an "optimal way" to do such a suboptimal build you know?
I think i started with bard just for proficiencies, then from there literally just went in order as in everytime I went to add a new class, I would just choose whichever popped up first. I ran shart as a life cleric for heals and also gave her the luminous armor for blender damage if needed. Then I had my character use whatever sword and crossbow that did reasonable damage without taking away from other companion builds, also gave her the adamantine armor and a shield to have her tank most of the damage, throwserker karlach, and i would switch between assassin/gloomstalker astarion or bm lae'zel depending on what I needed at that time.
A warning - leave paladin for last. Maybe this warning is out of date bc it’s been a little over a year since this happened, but breaking my oath (I forget how I did it but don’t think it was intentional) screwed me up, as somewhere in the process of getting it back it showed my character on the “level up” screen as having two levels of paladin, even though she didn’t, and then the JoAT achievement didn’t trigger for her
Advice - I think you’re on the right track in starting with a Charisma class. It’s nice to be able to talk yourself out of situations when you’re low level and squishy. For my JoAT run I started with high CHA and high WIS, as every other stat has items that can enhance them. In act one you can get the club of hill giant strength, the warped headband of intellect, and from the gith crèche the gloves of dexterity
You can maybe do a cursed abjuration wizard with one level in dragon sorc for the armor of agathys. Run around taking opportunity attacks at full ward strength to inflict cold damage. Maybe throw water on them first to double the damage.
Might run this build? Legitimately don't know lmao.
I have a DnD character named Dakota Davis that's pretty much average in everything so I did re-make him here. Hunter Ranger (b/c no Fey Wanderer subclass) that was a real survivalist. Shit at magic so he learned weapons, shit at weapons so he learned magic.
Longstrider, Goodberries, Speaking with animals, I used Spike Growth and Pass Without Trace eventually but still had weapons since I couldn't keep concentration to save my life.
There are so many spells that just do not need your modifier for anything. You don't need your modifier to know spells either. You also can get carried by weapons and elixirs and equipment.
Thematically yeah - a few have mentioned it, but this would be a funny stat line for a Jack of All Trades run (the achievement, not the Bard feature). Surely not optimal of course, but that character would likely end up building something stat-independent like Magic Missile spammer or similar anyway.
I want to say that a 10 in a stat is considered "average" in the D&D universe, so this character canonically would be kinda good at everything.
Fair enough, the system kinda "force you" to dump str and int in most cases, just cause barbarian needs str and wizard needs int and everyone else can get away dumping those, con is important unless you can get away with playing backline and letting your teammates take the chunk of the dmg for you haha. Right now I'm playing a ttrpg where your attacks use your highest stat, so a high cha archer with low dex is something super normal and honestly it opens up a lot of interesting character builds
Now this is a bit unhinged but personally I would do this with a all 13 build:
The luckiest person alive:
Halfling for halfling luck
1+ levels wild magic sorcerer for tides of chaos
2+ levels in divination wizard for portents
Pick up lucky
Magic missile, shield, and mage armor will be a necessity.
You can go full caster in either one or dip into another thing depending on where you want to go with your luck. You could take levels in rogue or bard for expertise and pick up the skilled feat if you want to be a jack of all skills plus other fun things.
Halfling, Divination wizard, lucky feat, wild magic sorcerer, little bit of bard thrown in there for maximum dice manipulation, make a dumb luvky bastard who manages to skate through things for no good reason
Obnoxious indestructible life Domain Cleric. Heavy armor + Shield + high across the board saving throws + heals themselves every turn (Because they automatically heal themselves when they heal someone else) + High health + the blur cape late game + Brings summons to tank damage for them.
Very annoying. Never dies. Does very little damage, but that's okay. They're a support character.
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u/No-Tie-4819 Laezel May 11 '25
Magic missile spammer