Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 - tips, tricks & helpful information

[Jermu]

it got changed

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see invisibility

 

[Grunker]

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War Caster is an UBER MEME in this game.

 

[Barbarian]

Shadowheart multiclass dip 3 levels of rogue(thief) ya or nay? Fits thematically with her backstory.

For the extra bonus action mostly(though 2d sneak damage, cunning action and expertise are also good). I notice many cleric spells are bonus action casts and as we all know larian shat on the "one spell per round" rule.

Downside you lose some cleric spell slots. But since rests are somewhat trivialized here...

 

[Grunker]

Shadowheart multiclass dip 3 levels of rogue(thief) ya or nay? Fits thematically with her backstory.

For the extra bonus action mostly(though 2d sneak damage, cunning action and expertise are also good). I notice many cleric spells are bonus action casts and as we all know larian shat on the "one spell per round" rule.

Downside you lose some cleric spell slots. But since rests are somewhat trivialized here...

not worth it in a million years. pure casters are all about how high and many high level spell slots you can cast

clerics are except from very specific builds more casters than they've ever been - not fighters

 

[Jermu]

sneak dmg should be pretty useless too after early game + rather spend turns casting spells than doing weak phys attacks
guess if you respec into war domain it could be "fine" (war priest spell)

 

[Barbarian]

Got it, caster classes don't benefit much from multiclass here(5e) then.

Older dnd quite the opposite. Most munchkin options in the original bg trilogy had dual class or multi fighter/mages for instance. Ditto for clerics.

 

[Yosharian]

I have datamined the best armor and weapons in the game bros, ask me anything

 

[Yosharian]

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War Caster is an UBER MEME in this game.

Where did you get that from?

 

[Grunker]

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War Caster is an UBER MEME in this game.

Where did you get that from?

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Minthara

 

[Raghar]

Got it, caster classes don't benefit much from multiclass here(5e) then.

Older dnd quite the opposite. Most munchkin options in the original bg trilogy had dual class or multi fighter/mages for instance. Ditto for clerics.

3.5E wizards benefited from multiclass mostly at level 18. Delaying L9 spells, or losing summon monster IX would be drastically bad.

Of course, that assumes they didn't have evil DM, which required finding L9 spells, or developing them themselves. And... As a result some parties can use theirs first L9 spells when they are doing epic at character level 20+.

 

[Yosharian]

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War Caster is an UBER MEME in this game.

Where did you get that from?

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Minthara

You killed her to get it? Tell me you don't have to be friends with her

 

[Konjad]

I have datamined the best armor and weapons in the game bros, ask me anything

What is the most powerful underwear?

 

[polo]

Im making a 2 fighter 2 warlock X sorecer and now you tell me casters should not multiclass?
damn it

 

[Jermu]

thats pretty interesting combo should be fine for burst dmg + eldritch blast spam, probably should save fighter levels for last + spell progression might be slow if you start with 1 sorc (con save)-> 2 warlock -> sorc

 

[Grunker]

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War Caster is an UBER MEME in this game.

Where did you get that from?

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Minthara

You killed her to get it? Tell me you don't have to be friends with her

Yes I killed her

 

[Grunker]

Im making a 2 fighter 2 warlock X sorecer and now you tell me casters should not multiclass?
damn it

Sorcerer is built different. Especially sorlock

 

[vitellus]

Volos Eye?

i got this by just roleplaying the situation and the icepick being produced got a chuckle out of me and volos reaction was great

Yes I killed her

that fight was good, i was able to piecemeal all three of them if you can get the gobbo shammy to try to fix you she segregates herself from everyone and was able to blitz that one one turn before they were able to call out. the rolls went my way for the first two fights, not the dude speaking to the illithid though, but if you can get to that fight without lighting the place up destroy the war drums with ranged.

 

[Grunker]

Spirit Guardians still OP confirmed. It's a higher damaging Cloud of Daggers that only hurts enemies and applies to everyone your Cleric runs past. What's not to love

 

[Grunker]

Thinking about it, Reckless Attack being able to be used after seeing the die roll, while completely nuts, is perhaps still a smaller buff to the Barbarian compared to not being able to wear Helmets, Boots etc. of the light+ variety if wanting to use Unarmored Defense. Of course, you could just wear armor and have maybe a teeny bit less AC but ignore that nerf completely as a result.

 

[Grunker]

Some more durge:

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I never killed the squirrel. Never encountered it.

 

[Tao]

So should i clear the stats distribution?

The default stats for a wizard are 8-13-15-17-10-12. Isn't this terrible? 13 and 15 do nothing really. i'm missing something here?

Also isn't it better higher dex than con?

What stats are you guys running for your wizards?

 

[Grunker]

So should i clear the stats distribution?

The default stats for a wizard are 8-13-15-17-10-12. Isn't this terrible? 13 and 15 do nothing really. i'm missing something here?

Also isn't it better higher dex than con?

Dex is just AC and initiative, Con is a better save (and crucially helps with maintaining Concentration) and it's HP

The stats are pretty awful. Usually you go 17 main stat, as high con as possible and then dex for casters. Variations include wisdom since it nice to have for high saves. My caster has 16 wisdom (with Resilient feat) because she's a Durge so I'm expecting to have to make Wis saves. So I've specialized in a couple of Wis saves. Because Bards don't use Wisdom for anything else.

Odd stats can make sense or they can't. There are feats (and potentially collectibles) that add +1, so you should plan ahead for the former (and you can always respec if you find the latter).

 

[Fedora Master]

The uneven stats exist so you can later raise them with a feat.

 

[Grunker]

The uneven stats exist so you can later raise them with a feat.

Not just feats. But yes.

 

[Tao]

Do i left the default stats then in you opinion guys?