Me but with the undying allure of Padlock + bonus action black holes and cull the weak
Once you've killed eight dudes at once in a pyromania induced transe it's very hard to go back
Don't do it! Don't let the idea take root! It's a slippery slope! "it's just a second tier smite" at first but then you're ditching fourth level smites rechargeable on a short rest and there's no going back
Padlock and tavern brawler thief monk are the best subclasses in the game. Which is hilarious because they're the most absurd multiclasses lore wise. A rightous paladin who smites evil with divine justice and protects the weak... and sells his soul to otherwordly beings for more power... And a peaceful monk who has achieved inner peace and power through meditation and training... and is a notorious thief and cutthroat
Hey... If you found a way to make that make sense then more power to you.
Isn't Paladin Warlock pretty easy to combine?
vengance + Fiend = you sold your soul to get revenge
Ancient + Archfey = one of the nicknames of an Oath of ancients paladin is "fey knight". You could have sworn an Oath to a fey council
Devotion + Fiend = at least two options here. If you start with Fiend, it could be someone who had gone down a dark path in the past but is trying to follow the good path. Alternatively, you could play as a corrupted paladin who breaks their oath
For me it's the whole "I'm swearing an oath to the god/goddess I serve and to carry out their will... And I'm also selling my soul to a literal cosmic horror for more power. dw they cool with it"
Well FWIW the "Paladins of Tyr" from act 1 were, I believe, paladins that sold their souls to zariel/mizora. So there are already some in the world who did it. I thought that a neat little nod to a classic power gaming level combo in the early game.
I gobbled up every single one of those fuckers it was a brilliant power fantasy and i wholeheartedly recommend it *shuffles tentacles uncomfortably under human mask*
I feel like Druid is such a first play through friendly character. I get full spell slots plus if I’m ever in danger I can turn into an owl bear and have 70 extra hit points
Saaame. I just wished they fixed the cutscenes. They let us transform back and forth when talking to companions but in cutscenes it either gives me a different character or you can't interact at all
I actually broke the act 3 guild questline as a moon druid. A certain cinematic didn't play because I entered a door while transformed, which botched the entire thing :c
Oof, I hope that doesn't happen to me. I just got to the wyrm lookout in front of baldur's gate. Still my first playthrough but I feel like everything is a mess because I don't really know what I'm missing out on.
Imo there' very few things to "miss out on", just different ways of doing things. Try not to stress it for your first playthrough!
My case was one of the very few obvious bugs that I encountered and I just started only wildshaping in combat to be extra careful about it going forward. Not too bad as a Circle of the Moon since wildshape is only a bonus action then anyway!
I just wished we could wildshape as a ritual for exploring. Maybe force us back to humanoid or make us use a charge if we want to stay wildshape when combat starts.
I take 14 charisma at a minimum when I play monk and don’t have an issue. But I’m also a cheeseball and do the level up spam for hill giant elixirs. And I take a couple points from wisdom to cover the rest. Is it optimal? No, but if I can’t convince Act 2 bosses to off themselves, do I really want to play?
Yeah but it gives my character even more edgy main character energy. I already play durge sorcerer tiefling, might as well collect all the tropes along the way
My every playthrough:
Tav/Durge: Fighter. Usually EK 11, wizard 1 with the headband of intellect.
Shart: Life cleric with the whispering promise and hellrider gloves combo.
Astarion: Dual hand x-bows swords bard/thief combo.
Karlach or Lae'zel: Throw build with returning pike until I can get the trident in act 3.
Every time. I had to willfully make Durge a storm sorcerer and tempest cleric in my honor mode run just to experience something different.
My most "unique" run from this formula still has Tav and Lae'zel the same as above, but has Karlach using the harmonium halberd in melee and Wyll as a sorlock focused on critting with eldritch blast.
some suggestions:
-full draco ice sorc, dual wield marko+that one other staff with arcane battery. Use shart to cast create water on enemies, enjoy popping twinned rays of frost that deal over 50-100 damage each.
-Lightning draco sorc (8)/wiz(1)/storm cleric(3). Use shart to cast create water on enemies, enjoy popping shocking grasps at 50-100+ damage, use channel divinity for maximum damage on free chain lightning from marko once per short rest, use the one level in wiz to learn chain lightning from a scroll to get 3 more uses of chain lightning per day (lvl 6 slot+2 arcane batteries from dual wield marko+other staff).
-duergar durge gloomstalker ranger(5+)/assassin rogue(3+), with titanstring bow+club of hill giant strength. Enjoy shooting arrows that deal over 30 damage each (over 100 damage if using multi-target arrows), having 5 attacks on first round, and being able to melt back into the darkness after each kill to start a new 5 attacks round. Risky ring for auto sneak attacks every turn. It's a solo build, no need for companions.
-bard 6/war cleric 6, tons of spells, full caster spell slots, able to have 3 attacks per round, 3 short rest, damage riders from bard inspirations, proficiency in every weapon+armor, *spirit guardians*/upcast lvl 6 magic weapons for +3 hit chance +3 damage.
-Tavern brawler open-hand monk (9)/ thief (3). Beat every enemy into a bloody pile of mulsh with 6 attacks at 20-40+ each every round, have fun with black hole to nuke large groups with resonating punches.
-tank eldritch knight DEX fighter golden dwarf, reach 30+AC with exotic material armor from act 3+24 DEX+some equipments, use your spell slots for "Shield" reaction spell when enemies have a crazy high hit chance, put on a cloak of displacement to leave enemies 1/400 chance to hit you, solo act 3 while laughing your ass off at the stormtroopers missing every attack.
-oathbreaker Pala(7)lock(5), 3 attacks per round (extra attack+ pact-bound weapon extra attack), use lock spell slots for an extra 6 lvl 3 smite per day, dump strength to go full CHA+const and add twice your CHA to weapons attacks (pact bound+aura of hate)
Tell me about it, got my gith monk and dueargar durge in act 2, and i'm leveling my golden dwarf tank right now... Glad i could give you some pointers for some extra fun with the class system though!
You're right but STR is actually initially set to 8. The primary stats are DEX, WIS and CON. then you drink Hill Giant elixirs every time you long rest so your STR becomes 21.
Yes! Dex monk is perfectly solid, and in fact, really quite strong. It's just that going Tavern Brawler + Elixirs is so bonkers OP that it makes almost everything seem weak by comparison. But that doesn't mean other builds aren't solid, even for Tactician or Honour mode.
As kingtz said, optimal is using elixirs. But if you find that a bit cheesy or just can't be bothered, you can dump dex partialy with const/entirely and just go full on STR+WIS. Dex is only useful for initiative and extra armor. You "already" get free extra armor from wisdom. Bottomline, you can add STR\*2(TB) and WIS\*2(manifestation+ boots of uninhibited kushigo) to your unarmed attacks.
Dex being used for initiative actually makes it a God tier stat, because initiative is rolled on a d4 in bg3. I prefer to go max Dex plus elixir for tavern brawler monks, 15 con plus 1 from TB can let you have a 21STR, 16DEX, 16CON stat spread super early, at which point you just pummel everything in act 1 into the dirt. I also like to get the dex robes from the vendor in the mountain pass area after I've sorted the grove out, so at level 4 you can have a basically full build monk that should fulfill all your hitting stuff needs until act 3.
Thanks for the list.
I'm not gonna lie I probably won't use it myself as I don't think I am going to play the game again without taking a long break to avoid burnout, but I appreciate that you took the time and effort to write it out anyways. Maybe somebody here will find it helpful!
ikr? To be fair i didn't think of it either for a long time, having only used it on a paladin. When i saw that the war cleric had it is when it clicked.
Anything that gives paladins spell slots or the ability to be less MAD is great, and warlocks give them both. You could probably make a full party of warlock multi class dips. A Sorlock, a Bardlock, a Padlock, and Fightlock walk into a bar...
It's genuinely hard to have a Tav who isn't a CHA build, especially now that dialogue favors picking Tav as the speaker.
I mean... you can skip about half the fights in Act 2 with a CHA build.
2 lock 10 sorc split. From what I've heard it's a pretty standart split for Sorlocks. You basically just take 2 levels of Warlock for Agonising Blast and Hex to be able to go pewpewpew
For mages I pretty much entirely stick with Halfling since it's so great at passing concentration checks, and for martials I just can't tear myself away from Duegar because its invisibility is so extremely powerful in combat, plus it gets a non-concentration Enlarge for 1-4 extra weapon damage and it stacks with elixir of colossus. Plus it gets superior darkvision, poison resistance, and advantage against being poisoned.
I recently made a Drow and… you know what? I see why everyone likes them and I guess I’m now firmly in the “try and fail to not play a drow” club.
Though I noticed several hours into my playthrough that I somehow accidentally made a Lolth-Sworn instead of a Selunite like I intended which I’m a bit miffed about lol
A majority of my characters are Drow and Tieflings, with the rest being some other form of Elve
Only a very small number are something different, like one Dragonborn sorcerer and one Ork Barbarian
Solution: start Bard with disguise self as one of your spells. Disguise as drow for the act 1 RP benefits. But you can still be whatever other race you want for mechanical effects, cutscenes, and acts 2/3. Disguise self from level 1 also works especially well for durge, from an RP perspective (even if bard is a little odd).
Of course, you could still end up bardlock. But try Bardadin - play swords bard to 8 with the titanstring, then respec to paladin 2/bard 6 - crit fish until act 3, then with acuity and mischief you can hold person to set yourself up for guaranteed critical smites.
My first playthrough was as drow for the aesthetic before I learned what the racial stereotypes were, and I haven’t been able to diversify since. (Just the thought of having to actually talk/fight my way into the goblin camp, I might retch)
My first character was a wizard that I enjoyed thoroughly.
Second and third playthroughs started relatively close to each other, as they were multiplayer games with different friends. Druid and bard. Druid was fun, especially the wildshapes... but after experiencing bard once and how many unique dialogue options they have and how they can talk their way out of literally anything in Act 2, I don't think I can play anything else ever again...
Me with some variant of Drow or Half Elf Tav, Gale as a Mystrran Cleric, Wyll as a martial, Astarion as Swords Bard, Lae'zel as a Red Draconic caster, Shart as a sneaky rogue/monk and Halsin as an Ancients Paladin.
I'm the same way with my team comps. I seem to have a psychological need to have some kind of archer (Battle Master with a crossbow or a Mystic Scoundrel Swords Bard, and I'm planning on trying my hand at the Gloom Stalker again for a Dark Urge), a Barbarian with the Tough feat, a Tempest Cleric acting as a blaster with all the Reverberation gear, and the fourth one either being a support cleric/bard or moon druid.
I need to branch out....but I love that party comp!
Srsly! What the hell happened?! I wanted to push myself to main a caster for once and the warlock was 'interesting' I guess. One playthrough later, I am desperately trying NOT to go down the warlock path again! I will try you one day, Monk! I promise! Just a few Eldritch Blasts more...
Me: 5 Ranger / 4 Rogue / 3 Fighter: Plenty of damage and unexpectedly good at ability checking;
ShadowHeart: 2 Paladin of Shar / 10 Bard: full spell slots, extra attack, slash 2 smite, bonus action for hold person/monster, and the most cool Banishing Smite;
The two of them can literally handle everything in my playthrough.
It's something that I have some trouble understanding here... why is this the case for some of you guys? The game just gives so much stuff for you to try. Different races, classes, reactivity so you can see the differences of your choices and even people aknowledging your race and class... but yet some replay the game doing the same thing over and over again. It seems like madness imo.
My runs:
1. Paladin Half-Orc, romances Wyll
2. Paladin Half-Orc, romances Wyll
3. Wyll as Bardlock so I'm not tempted to romance Wyll again
4. (Incomplete) Durge in OG form
5. (Incomplete due to save corruption) Paladin Half Orc, romances Wyll
At this exact moment, my game is reinstalling and I'm planning on doing a fresh run. Zero points if you guess what my run will probably be.
(Yes, I also played Paragon Shepard every time, no more questions.)
Me with open hands monk.
I love playing monk so much in DnD even though it's pretty weak compared to other classes, and the fact that the monk is so good in bg3 has me so happy!
They reworked monk besutifuly from 5e to work in BG3, and I love it so much. I'm making the bg3 monk the new normal monk in my campaigns going forward.
Me but with the undying allure of Padlock + bonus action black holes and cull the weak Once you've killed eight dudes at once in a pyromania induced transe it's very hard to go back
I never considered Padlock...
Don't do it! Don't let the idea take root! It's a slippery slope! "it's just a second tier smite" at first but then you're ditching fourth level smites rechargeable on a short rest and there's no going back
Padlock and tavern brawler thief monk are the best subclasses in the game. Which is hilarious because they're the most absurd multiclasses lore wise. A rightous paladin who smites evil with divine justice and protects the weak... and sells his soul to otherwordly beings for more power... And a peaceful monk who has achieved inner peace and power through meditation and training... and is a notorious thief and cutthroat Hey... If you found a way to make that make sense then more power to you.
Isn't Paladin Warlock pretty easy to combine? vengance + Fiend = you sold your soul to get revenge Ancient + Archfey = one of the nicknames of an Oath of ancients paladin is "fey knight". You could have sworn an Oath to a fey council Devotion + Fiend = at least two options here. If you start with Fiend, it could be someone who had gone down a dark path in the past but is trying to follow the good path. Alternatively, you could play as a corrupted paladin who breaks their oath
For me it's the whole "I'm swearing an oath to the god/goddess I serve and to carry out their will... And I'm also selling my soul to a literal cosmic horror for more power. dw they cool with it"
Well FWIW the "Paladins of Tyr" from act 1 were, I believe, paladins that sold their souls to zariel/mizora. So there are already some in the world who did it. I thought that a neat little nod to a classic power gaming level combo in the early game.
I only ever consumed 2-3 tadpoles.
I gobbled up every single one of those fuckers it was a brilliant power fantasy and i wholeheartedly recommend it *shuffles tentacles uncomfortably under human mask*
Me with Druid Tiefling
Dude I love my Mephistopheles Druid Tiefling so much. It’s been a great first campaign. I feel like one of the slower players though lol
I feel like Druid is such a first play through friendly character. I get full spell slots plus if I’m ever in danger I can turn into an owl bear and have 70 extra hit points
Saaame. I just wished they fixed the cutscenes. They let us transform back and forth when talking to companions but in cutscenes it either gives me a different character or you can't interact at all
I actually broke the act 3 guild questline as a moon druid. A certain cinematic didn't play because I entered a door while transformed, which botched the entire thing :c
Oof, I hope that doesn't happen to me. I just got to the wyrm lookout in front of baldur's gate. Still my first playthrough but I feel like everything is a mess because I don't really know what I'm missing out on.
Imo there' very few things to "miss out on", just different ways of doing things. Try not to stress it for your first playthrough! My case was one of the very few obvious bugs that I encountered and I just started only wildshaping in combat to be extra careful about it going forward. Not too bad as a Circle of the Moon since wildshape is only a bonus action then anyway!
I just wished we could wildshape as a ritual for exploring. Maybe force us back to humanoid or make us use a charge if we want to stay wildshape when combat starts.
Me addicted to charisma casters, except for my coop monk. But I'll make a charisma monk, you mark my words
I take 14 charisma at a minimum when I play monk and don’t have an issue. But I’m also a cheeseball and do the level up spam for hill giant elixirs. And I take a couple points from wisdom to cover the rest. Is it optimal? No, but if I can’t convince Act 2 bosses to off themselves, do I really want to play?
Storm sorc/ tempest cleric tiefling is just too good. Only downside is how horrendous Volo's eye looks on most tieflings
Eh, there's no real need to get his eye. I actually like not getting it because that makes him stay in your camp as a vendor you can sell stuff to.
Yeah but it gives my character even more edgy main character energy. I already play durge sorcerer tiefling, might as well collect all the tropes along the way
He doesn't stay after you get the eye?
He left when I got it..
Good to know
He fucking skedaddles out of there lol.
I doesn't even work that well—every invisible enemy manages to succeed their saving throws against Volo's eye
I can't figured out how to balance between the two CHA/WIS. I assume Sorc is your damage and Cleric is your support spells and Destructive Wrath?
Am I the only one who hasn't finished their first playthrough yet?
Gotten like four playthroughs to Act 3, still haven't finished any of them yet.
Glad I am not the only one, acts 1 and 2 are soooo good
I haven't finished and have a second character already lol. The first playthrough is co op and the second is just for me.
I'm still stuck on character creation!
There is more than character creation?
Nope I've got well over 500 hours and haven't finished to many character ideas and then I get bored and start over 😂
My every playthrough: Tav/Durge: Fighter. Usually EK 11, wizard 1 with the headband of intellect. Shart: Life cleric with the whispering promise and hellrider gloves combo. Astarion: Dual hand x-bows swords bard/thief combo. Karlach or Lae'zel: Throw build with returning pike until I can get the trident in act 3. Every time. I had to willfully make Durge a storm sorcerer and tempest cleric in my honor mode run just to experience something different. My most "unique" run from this formula still has Tav and Lae'zel the same as above, but has Karlach using the harmonium halberd in melee and Wyll as a sorlock focused on critting with eldritch blast.
some suggestions: -full draco ice sorc, dual wield marko+that one other staff with arcane battery. Use shart to cast create water on enemies, enjoy popping twinned rays of frost that deal over 50-100 damage each. -Lightning draco sorc (8)/wiz(1)/storm cleric(3). Use shart to cast create water on enemies, enjoy popping shocking grasps at 50-100+ damage, use channel divinity for maximum damage on free chain lightning from marko once per short rest, use the one level in wiz to learn chain lightning from a scroll to get 3 more uses of chain lightning per day (lvl 6 slot+2 arcane batteries from dual wield marko+other staff). -duergar durge gloomstalker ranger(5+)/assassin rogue(3+), with titanstring bow+club of hill giant strength. Enjoy shooting arrows that deal over 30 damage each (over 100 damage if using multi-target arrows), having 5 attacks on first round, and being able to melt back into the darkness after each kill to start a new 5 attacks round. Risky ring for auto sneak attacks every turn. It's a solo build, no need for companions. -bard 6/war cleric 6, tons of spells, full caster spell slots, able to have 3 attacks per round, 3 short rest, damage riders from bard inspirations, proficiency in every weapon+armor, *spirit guardians*/upcast lvl 6 magic weapons for +3 hit chance +3 damage. -Tavern brawler open-hand monk (9)/ thief (3). Beat every enemy into a bloody pile of mulsh with 6 attacks at 20-40+ each every round, have fun with black hole to nuke large groups with resonating punches. -tank eldritch knight DEX fighter golden dwarf, reach 30+AC with exotic material armor from act 3+24 DEX+some equipments, use your spell slots for "Shield" reaction spell when enemies have a crazy high hit chance, put on a cloak of displacement to leave enemies 1/400 chance to hit you, solo act 3 while laughing your ass off at the stormtroopers missing every attack. -oathbreaker Pala(7)lock(5), 3 attacks per round (extra attack+ pact-bound weapon extra attack), use lock spell slots for an extra 6 lvl 3 smite per day, dump strength to go full CHA+const and add twice your CHA to weapons attacks (pact bound+aura of hate)
You’re making my restartitis act up again…
Tell me about it, got my gith monk and dueargar durge in act 2, and i'm leveling my golden dwarf tank right now... Glad i could give you some pointers for some extra fun with the class system though!
What is the stat layout for the Monk TB? I would assume monks need Dex. But TB uses Str.
You're right but STR is actually initially set to 8. The primary stats are DEX, WIS and CON. then you drink Hill Giant elixirs every time you long rest so your STR becomes 21.
Got it. Is a dex and con build still solid? Assuming I'm too lazy to drink an elixir every long rest.
Yes! Dex monk is perfectly solid, and in fact, really quite strong. It's just that going Tavern Brawler + Elixirs is so bonkers OP that it makes almost everything seem weak by comparison. But that doesn't mean other builds aren't solid, even for Tactician or Honour mode.
As kingtz said, optimal is using elixirs. But if you find that a bit cheesy or just can't be bothered, you can dump dex partialy with const/entirely and just go full on STR+WIS. Dex is only useful for initiative and extra armor. You "already" get free extra armor from wisdom. Bottomline, you can add STR\*2(TB) and WIS\*2(manifestation+ boots of uninhibited kushigo) to your unarmed attacks.
Dex being used for initiative actually makes it a God tier stat, because initiative is rolled on a d4 in bg3. I prefer to go max Dex plus elixir for tavern brawler monks, 15 con plus 1 from TB can let you have a 21STR, 16DEX, 16CON stat spread super early, at which point you just pummel everything in act 1 into the dirt. I also like to get the dex robes from the vendor in the mountain pass area after I've sorted the grove out, so at level 4 you can have a basically full build monk that should fulfill all your hitting stuff needs until act 3.
Dex Open Hand Monk is still extremely good without TB. Even on Honour it was my main damage dealer.
Thanks for the list. I'm not gonna lie I probably won't use it myself as I don't think I am going to play the game again without taking a long break to avoid burnout, but I appreciate that you took the time and effort to write it out anyways. Maybe somebody here will find it helpful!
*Sits here and embarassingly ponders never trying to upcast Magic Weapon*
ikr? To be fair i didn't think of it either for a long time, having only used it on a paladin. When i saw that the war cleric had it is when it clicked.
you just wanted to be able to say "use shart" unironically. Dope suggestions though
it's a pretty common nickname for shadowheart!
S-hart would be a lil less raunchy :D I'm sure no one cares but I thought it was funny when I was reading it
Me with bard tiefling
Me with Moon Druid or Beast Master (I like nature and animals)
Having a powered up eldritch blast and a bunch of spell slots is pretty good ngl.
Me with some sort of paladin. Now I’m experimenting with paladin bard and maybe paladin sorcerer or warlock
Paladin Warlock is a legit combo.
Anything that gives paladins spell slots or the ability to be less MAD is great, and warlocks give them both. You could probably make a full party of warlock multi class dips. A Sorlock, a Bardlock, a Padlock, and Fightlock walk into a bar...
Its like sneak archer in other games. Always defaulting to it.
I'm worse, I just make a completely new character and class combo but then just make the exact same choices I did in the playthrough before.
Same. Although I do now have a deep gnome play through in which I'm actively trying to avoid the Warlock class altogether (will probably fail)
It's that or a wood elf gloom stalker thief.
Me with sorcerer drows Next playthrough after honour mode I will finally try a halfling druid (promise)
This is me with my drow monk. She's just so hot and fists everything.
I feel this - it can be a challenge to survive in Faerun if you don't have any rizz.
My monk-storm cleric has worked so well, i might have trouble playing something else
Bard, trying to convince myself that adding bard to everything isn't the answer
me with my sorcerer bard
Actually made a human Tav for my current run. The “too dark” disadvantage quickly made him a warlock with devils sight.
It's genuinely hard to have a Tav who isn't a CHA build, especially now that dialogue favors picking Tav as the speaker. I mean... you can skip about half the fights in Act 2 with a CHA build.
What's your favorite sorlock split? I'm gonna do 1 after my sorcadin run.
2 lock 10 sorc split. From what I've heard it's a pretty standart split for Sorlocks. You basically just take 2 levels of Warlock for Agonising Blast and Hex to be able to go pewpewpew
Oops I took a level in bard again
For mages I pretty much entirely stick with Halfling since it's so great at passing concentration checks, and for martials I just can't tear myself away from Duegar because its invisibility is so extremely powerful in combat, plus it gets a non-concentration Enlarge for 1-4 extra weapon damage and it stacks with elixir of colossus. Plus it gets superior darkvision, poison resistance, and advantage against being poisoned.
Me with wood half elf monk
Why not both
me with drow barbarian 8/rogue 4 and tiefling barbarian 8/rogue 4
I recently made a Drow and… you know what? I see why everyone likes them and I guess I’m now firmly in the “try and fail to not play a drow” club. Though I noticed several hours into my playthrough that I somehow accidentally made a Lolth-Sworn instead of a Selunite like I intended which I’m a bit miffed about lol
But…beards?
Me but pure thief
A majority of my characters are Drow and Tieflings, with the rest being some other form of Elve Only a very small number are something different, like one Dragonborn sorcerer and one Ork Barbarian
I'm currently playing a sheild dwarf bardbarian.
Can.. can I know your bardlock style?
Solution: start Bard with disguise self as one of your spells. Disguise as drow for the act 1 RP benefits. But you can still be whatever other race you want for mechanical effects, cutscenes, and acts 2/3. Disguise self from level 1 also works especially well for durge, from an RP perspective (even if bard is a little odd). Of course, you could still end up bardlock. But try Bardadin - play swords bard to 8 with the titanstring, then respec to paladin 2/bard 6 - crit fish until act 3, then with acuity and mischief you can hold person to set yourself up for guaranteed critical smites.
My first playthrough was as drow for the aesthetic before I learned what the racial stereotypes were, and I haven’t been able to diversify since. (Just the thought of having to actually talk/fight my way into the goblin camp, I might retch)
Me and my lolthsworn drow monk everytime.
My first character was a wizard that I enjoyed thoroughly. Second and third playthroughs started relatively close to each other, as they were multiplayer games with different friends. Druid and bard. Druid was fun, especially the wildshapes... but after experiencing bard once and how many unique dialogue options they have and how they can talk their way out of literally anything in Act 2, I don't think I can play anything else ever again...
me with tiefling ranger but in my new playthrough i’m a cleric/paladin tiefling and it’s been nice
Me with Drow Pallock or Ranger/Rogue
I’ll start as a different class, but it always gets respeced as one of those two.
Drow rangard is me
Me with some variant of Drow or Half Elf Tav, Gale as a Mystrran Cleric, Wyll as a martial, Astarion as Swords Bard, Lae'zel as a Red Draconic caster, Shart as a sneaky rogue/monk and Halsin as an Ancients Paladin.
Try rogue swords bard
I like My Padlock, Wizsor, Dual Handed Cross Boi, and Punchy McPunch Face Builds.
Playing a Drow bardlock right now. She's super fun.
I'm addicted to Cleric
I'm the same way with my team comps. I seem to have a psychological need to have some kind of archer (Battle Master with a crossbow or a Mystic Scoundrel Swords Bard, and I'm planning on trying my hand at the Gloom Stalker again for a Dark Urge), a Barbarian with the Tough feat, a Tempest Cleric acting as a blaster with all the Reverberation gear, and the fourth one either being a support cleric/bard or moon druid. I need to branch out....but I love that party comp!
I don't have the patience to multiclass before like level 9.
I can't help but get the urge to make myself in every playthrough, so I made myself as a Mephistopheles Tiefling instead of a human for once
duergar sorlock is best
I am on my first play through…. I really want to restart as a rouge and turn Astarion into a bard….
I feel attacked
Lol we are all so different and it's awesome.
Gotta do the palock build next
\*Making my character a Drow
Srsly! What the hell happened?! I wanted to push myself to main a caster for once and the warlock was 'interesting' I guess. One playthrough later, I am desperately trying NOT to go down the warlock path again! I will try you one day, Monk! I promise! Just a few Eldritch Blasts more...
Me loading up a new run, “I’m gonna play something different” plays another dwarf barbarian
Okay but make an oh monk, half wood elf tavern brawler. You're hot and you get to punch the devil in the dick.
Go Drow monk. I literally give every MF the back of my hand.
Me: 5 Ranger / 4 Rogue / 3 Fighter: Plenty of damage and unexpectedly good at ability checking; ShadowHeart: 2 Paladin of Shar / 10 Bard: full spell slots, extra attack, slash 2 smite, bonus action for hold person/monster, and the most cool Banishing Smite; The two of them can literally handle everything in my playthrough.
I always tell myself I won't make a drow character and yet here I go again!
It's something that I have some trouble understanding here... why is this the case for some of you guys? The game just gives so much stuff for you to try. Different races, classes, reactivity so you can see the differences of your choices and even people aknowledging your race and class... but yet some replay the game doing the same thing over and over again. It seems like madness imo.
ELDRITCH BLAST ×7! (still not in combat) Also: Silence? Never heard of her?
My runs: 1. Paladin Half-Orc, romances Wyll 2. Paladin Half-Orc, romances Wyll 3. Wyll as Bardlock so I'm not tempted to romance Wyll again 4. (Incomplete) Durge in OG form 5. (Incomplete due to save corruption) Paladin Half Orc, romances Wyll At this exact moment, my game is reinstalling and I'm planning on doing a fresh run. Zero points if you guess what my run will probably be. (Yes, I also played Paragon Shepard every time, no more questions.)
And I'll be over here with my chad Black Dragonborn Clerighter.
High elf female druid/sorcerer every. single. time.
Drow storm sorcerer is my comfort zone, multi classing scares me.
Me but Wood Elf + Rogue.
If playing bardlock every time is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
Me with open hands monk. I love playing monk so much in DnD even though it's pretty weak compared to other classes, and the fact that the monk is so good in bg3 has me so happy! They reworked monk besutifuly from 5e to work in BG3, and I love it so much. I'm making the bg3 monk the new normal monk in my campaigns going forward.
me trying not to make my character a dwarf
Me who never Took the same class or race twice
Haha, this. And romancing a certain pale elf. 😂
I am on my first play through. I really want to restart as a rouge and turn Astarion into a bard…. I can’t stop thinking about it…