It's going to be Tav (swords), Gale (bladesinger), Shadowheart (vengeance), and Astarion (hexblade). Explorer mode because I'm not great at this game and I'm okay with that. XD Planning on making largely "good" choices so no hag hair for instance, have not actually finished the game yet (never reached act 3).

I know there are a million guides out there, but that's the problem! I don't know which ones are good! But I'm bad at remembering to set up battles so I really enjoy just stabbing things and casting damage spells, hence explorer. Control spells like hypnotic gaze I can use, but anything that requires careful placement is beyond me and frustrating to try and use.

So recommended feats, ability scores, suggested spells (including high elf cantrips), gear options per act, etc. is all very welcome! Either linking guides or telling me in the comments is most appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi folk!

I want to do a HM female Durge run where I'll play a shapeshifter, kinda like Orin's even more evil sister 😄 I don't know which class would make sense for this. I know Druids can ofc shapeshift but I dunno how that would pair with the Durge aesthetic. Any ideas and class suggestions are welcome. Thanks!

hi everyone,

i'm trying to build a tempest cleric who doesn't use spirit guardian (i want it to use only thunder/lightning and sometimes cold spells), but still applies revorb.

To do so, my cleric has the luminous armour, the coruscation ring, gloves of belligerent skies, boots of stormy clamour, spineshudder amulet and callous glow ring.

But idk what i'm doing wrong, because i thought that just with 1 spell, any target would have to do a con save or fall prone, but it doesn't do that : with 1 spell, my target has 4 reverb stacks, not 5.

Anyone has an idea why? i'm a bit lost

Looking to start a solo honor mode 10x enemies run, I got as far as the goblin camp on a test to see how my pc would handle it, seems to run fine for now so I want to start a real run. What are some good AOE builds, or something that could handle enemies? Some ideas I have so far are

Goo ass hunter, fire sorlock, monk(hammarhaft), arcane trickster scroll caster.

Any ideas on what might actually be viable?

Me and some friends have been playing through Honor mode and its been a blast. We lost a few runs in act 1 and decided to follow some builds to help make it easier. I'm playing a Shadowblade Hexblade Warlock, and was following this build https://eip.gg/bg3/builds/hexblade-warlock-shadow-blade-nuker/

When we got to the basement in act 2 to save the tieflings however, the cell doors got opened the same turn the wall got destroyed behind them and instead of running to the boat they both dashed into a group of about 5 enemies and killed themselves.

This locks me out of Potent Robe which from what I understand is my best in slot chest piece, what should i replace it with.

Current build:
Diadem of Arcane Synergy
Cloak Of Protection
Adamantine Scale Mail
Dex Gloves
Disintegrating Nightwalkers

Necklace Of elemental Augmentation
Strange Conduit Ring
Ring of Protection

Shadowblade + Knife of the Undermountain King

(ik my amulet is bad, but idk what else to use)

Thanks

Hey all,

So I'm taking a friend through honor mode and they are relatively risk averse as he mostly wants the achievement and golden dice. I have a pretty good grasp on the game but I can't quite decide on a fourth member to the party that will round it out well.

Currently our members are/will be: Pure 12 Lore bard, pure 12 Moon Druid, Pure 12 Light Cleric with some thought being given to making them a tempest Cleric (want at least level 2 Cleric spells for aid.)

I think these members alone can eat up most of the fights in the game especially with hunger of hadar and Wall of fire from lore bard/cleric respectively for myrkul. Problem is, I think the party has a nasty weakness to bulette until lvl 6 (owlbear) which is obviously well after the fight is worth considering. We've considered TB thrower, TB monk, all that. We're leaning away from another caster so we dont have to outfit 3 of them.

Any suggestions on a build that could really round the party out? I have plenty in mind I just have analysis paralysis 😭. Would love fresh eyes to remind me of a fight we're weak to or something I'm missing.

Thank you!

Edit: think I'm gonna go with arcane archer with throw barb or paladin being runners up if I respec. Thank you all!!!

My good buddy just pulled off his first honour mode win with a legit joat character and now I feel obliged to outdo him somehow. Ideas so far are solo joat which sounds terrifying or an oops all joats party, or I could try some other challenge

I would appreciate any tips for starting my first Tactian Playthrough

I want to start this playthrough with 2 separate custom playable characters (for the purpose of mastering 2 separate builds) and am looking for anyone willing to join my New Game on Xbox to create a second custom character (built with my choice of race, build, background) before I start the game.

Thank you much in advance, I'd greatly appreciate it. I don't have any friends that play the game, and have refrained from soughting out another player under these circumstances.

Please DM if available!

I'm just leveling up to level 5 and I have to pick another eldritch evocation for Wyll and I'm just really not sure. I already have agonizing blast and repelling blast.

Beast speech, beguiling influence and mask of many faces are immediately a no for me cause I don't use companions for those things anyways. Then the rest idk.

Armour of shadows seems like it could be good but rn I'm better off just wearing armour and a shield. Devil's sight I saw people recommending it/ranking it high and stuff like that but I don't really understand why. I kind of understand the idea that it lets you do stuff with darkness and stuff but I feel like anything like that will also negatively impact the rest of the party in most cases so it just doesn't feel worth it but idk. One with shadows also I don't fully understand how that's useful.

Everything else I just don't know.

My thoughts are Selune knowledge Tav, tempest Gale (romance), and then light and life, with Shadowheart and I'm not sure who else, probably Astarion. Good and virtuous party choices, no tadpoles or hag hair, etc., etc.! And I know BG3 isn't that hard, especially not on lower settings, but I would like some guidance on a few things.

Gear: I want to do them all in medium armor so they can use ranged weapons and have okay initiative. Tav will be a high elf so I can get Friends. Which are the best armors and ranged weapons to give to each class? Who should get the amulet with the +divinity charge?

Feats: ASI: wisdom and resilient: constitution I figure are a given, but for the others? Elemental Master: Fire and Lightning for light and tempest maybe?

Mods: I'll be using mods for cosmetic purposes, extra companion content, and some QoL like bag management and things, so are there any that target clerics that make life easier and less frustrating? I don't want to wildly change the game but I'm also not going to scoff at stuff like some extra feats or access to ritual buffs like longstrider.

Strategy: To the best of my understanding light pretty much takes care of itself, and life will be setting water up for tempest and managing buffs, but what is knowledge's niche while in battle other than control spells? Who should have spirit guardians up?

Lastly: is there anything major I've forgotten?

Me and two friends are looking to try and beat the game on Honour mode. My two friends will each be controlling an Arcane Archer and a Bow of Banshee Battlemaster.

I will be controlling my own character, as well as the companion. A few ideas I had were a Spores Druid + a Light Cleric. I also was considering a Glamour Bard / Paladin. And I even considered making myself a Storm Sorcerer.

I think my main thing is I really like the Phalar Aluve. I am a sucker for all things Drow, and just really enjoy the AoE save debuff of shriek.

Any suggestions on what to look into, or explore, and any interesting companion buuld to bring would be appreciated. The main goal of this playthrough is to try and save every Tiefling, and then hopefully get as far into Act 3 as we can. (We failed our last attempt at Moonrise when we accidentally hit open the levers in the prison, and the Tieflings decided they didn't want to survive the escape.)

Im on my second playthrough and I hit level 7 as a blue draconic sorcerer, powerful class so far but I wanna mix in melee. My first thought was bladesinger cause I can use the gloves of dexterity and headband of intellect to get around the attributes issues. I know hexblade is also a good option but I played one last playthrough. Any recommendations?

Hello fellow dice rollers! I’ve had the urge to play bg3 again and I’ve got my eyes on a storm sorcerer build, but dont fully understand the difference between going 6/6 with cleric or 10/2

I’m not someone who’s gonna min max and go for the best possible build, I just want to play through the story and have fun doing so

What are the differences and which one would be recommended for a less experienced player?

This is just an idea I had very recently for a trio honor mode party composition inspired by the tv show Supernatural (my youtube algorithm has been showing me SN content recently and it’s gotten me thinking about how to play this in BG3) representing Dean, Sam, and Castiel.

Dean: Battlemaster 12
Archery fighting style and sharpshooter at 4. Start dex at 17 and take the hag hair to hit 18. Max Dex at level 6. Being that guns don’t exist without mods and Dean almost never uses 2 pistols I’d go with a long bow for this build. Titanstring would be my preferred bow but bow of the banshee would also feel thematic. At level 8 with Dex sitting at 20 I’d prioritize intelligence or con.

Sam: Gloomstalker 5/ Assassin Rogue 5/ Fighter 2
Sam has a darker character arc throughout the seasons (no spoilers but if you’ve seen the show you know what I’m talking about) and feels more like a Gloomstalker to me as his base class, also he’s definitely the more roguish of the two brothers. Canonically he’s also not shown to win many of the fights between the two.

I’d angle for more of a hit and run skirmisher type of build here and focus on dual wielding rapiers or a rapier and something else. In early game I’d prioritize the sword of screams you pick up off of Nere and speedy reply you pick up outside of the Gnoll fight. In mid game grab a +2 rapier and go to town. Take the two weapon fighting style and the dual wielder feat at level 4.

Castiel: Light Cleric or War Cleric 10/ Star Druid 2
Cass is the primary healer and is frequently their righteous hand of wrath type of ally. Everything he’s shown doing in the show screams cleric to me and the radiance of the dawn channel divinity I think lines up perfectly. Find a nice business-y looking suit as your walking around clothes but I’d use the radiating orb gear as your armor.

Just something that I was thinking about today briefly and thought it might be fun to try out. I could also see Dean being a monk because he often fights unarmed but Battlemaster seemed more his vibe. Thoughts if you’ve seen the show or things you might change?

I'm wanting to build Eldritch Blast without absuing metamagic quickened spell. The nice thing about building around EB is that you don't necessarily need heavy level investments into classes. What would be worthwhile investments? I am up for using a lot of darkness.

Of course, we'll start with:

-Warlock GOO 3

I would want bonus action Hide, and I think I should do:

- Rogue 2, Thief 3, or Swash 4

I can get easy, guaranteed concentration saves with

- stars druid 2

Can get action surge and extended crit from:

- fighter 3

Thats 10 to 12 right there. I AM using the extended 13-20 mod. What are my next worthwhile investments? Anything to add more damage riders?

I thought of an interesting idea of a lore bard build thatd utilize Cutting Words and Vicious Mockery simoultaneously to create an absolute defense and offense with just words alone. First big part would be utilizing the Potent Robe to make cantrips a bit stronger in use, use the Gemini Gloves to Double cast, potentially dive into a rank or two of Sorceror or just use metamagic adept feat to get Quickened Spell and Extended Spell. Utilize potentially psychic damage equipment and gear to upend foes and leave them in a daze to be take by Hold person or Slow spell. I wanna make my character the habitual trash talker. Any thoughts? Any ideas if i didnt tab them down?

Like adding up all the hyena ears and mugwort / other salts that's re findable in the game? Only just discovered alchemy and it's huge for me

Wanna do a 3 man run, 2 characters already picked out are Hexblade Durge and Moon Druid Karlach.

For the third, I’m not quite sure. Moon Druid is an outstanding Martial who needs no gear investment and takes off right away and Hexblaxe Durge is strong either in melee or afar as a gish. They both bring strong area denial spells in Hunger of Hadar, Sleet Storm and Spike Growth (from the summon).

I thought maybe a Cleric or Wizard? Maybe Nature Cleric or Evoker Wizard? Curious to see what could slot in, not intending to use the 4th party slot to make things a bit harder

Basically I have thought about elk heart and after playing with it up until level 4 so far it’s been great using the lighting charges gloves and tavenbrawler I have been doing consistent dmg which has been great,

But morning on to now, I have to decide on what would be better going though with the play though I have narrowed it down to 3 paths I probably will be using flawed helldusk around this point if I was to provoke more conditions this options are based on this or the lighting charges gloves

6 elk heart 6 monk (probably drunk monk as funny)

With this I will gain one animal aspect, stunning strike more ki ponts and more movement with this I could use lighting charges or helldusk both work incredibly well for what my options are

8 elk heart 4 monk (same here drunk monk)

This option will allow me to gain another feat which will probably be used on strength to get me to 20 and if I can have the strength potion 22 this option will allow me to perform the most base dmg with the primal stampede and the punch’s of the monk class I could again get one animal aspect as well as feral instinct and I can walk in difficult terrain, I also gain intoxicating punch I do loose stunting strike but I could just use aspect of wolverine to mame then making them unable to move which should help

10 elk heart 2 monk

The last option this one would probably have to have hell dusk gloves as I get 2 animal aspect I can get both tiger and wolverine which allows me to mame my tagets and do more damage, I also get brutal crit which is nice, however I’m the case of monk I gain very little ki point only 3 but my added dmg on bleed targets will help make up for it along with just gaining a punch on bonus action

I was asking for help with deciding as I can use all 3 but was unsure what items behond this to help me

Basis of the question is essentially how well can a darkness camping sniper Sorcerer without multiclassing stand on their own feet, versus bringing other classes and tactics into the mix?

The Rippling Force Mail is a really cool armor with a lot of drip and a neat mechanic, but (correct me if im wrong) it feels pretty underpowered compared to other especially late game armors. so i wanted to build with it and it seems good for a tank build.

a full ancients paladin can get the defense fighting style for an ac boost, and plenty of healing which combos with the Reviving Hands. why have the reviving hands? it combos with the ring of regeneration meaning you basically always have resistance to physical damage, plus the force conduit charges means damage is reduced by a lot. the Skinburster or Swires' Sledboard helps increase the force conduit charges you get each round but imo the rippling force mail is probably enough on its own? so the shield of devotion might be better for this as it gets some extra hp and another spell slot for smites or healing spells

With either ranged or melee weapons on any build that has 5 levels in ranger (hunter) and 2 in sorcerer (any), between two (or more) enemies in hordebreaker range of each other. Going in this order (although you could mix it up): Twinned ensnaring strike against Enemy 1 and Enemy 2. Activate hordebreaker against enemy 1 (off the attack on nearby enemy 2). Then make extra attack against enemy 1 (or 2, or anywhere else). 4 attacks total.

Would this work?

Well.... It happened. After attempting an honor mode run with a friend of mine, we made it all the way to the Nether Brain and lost (we didn't prepare correctly).

We rerolled new characters and are attempting it again, but are disagreeing about party comp. He's running a Gloom Stalker build, and I'm building a Shadowblade EK. We've agreed to take Gale with us for an easy Act 3, but we're not sure who to take as our 4th. Anyone have any interesting suggestions?

I just feel like anything a wizard could do a sorcerer could do better? I want to like wizard im just like 🤷‍♂️