I'm currently on the start of my 4th playthrough (400 hours as of writing), playing a level 2 melee leaning Ranger with the intention of running Swarmkeeper (it's my comfort class). My stat spread currently is:

10 STR

17 DEX

14 CON

15 WIS

10 INT

8 CHA

At level 4, I'll take ASI to get DEX to 18 and WIS to 16, and at level 8 I'll take savage attacker. I've done this build before (https://www.reddit.com/r/BG3Builds/s/3PWSNb8aJH), and I'm running it again cuz I just love it so much, but the problem this time is that I'm playing with a friend (she went with hexblade warlock) who's new to BG3 so I wanna let her have Ethel's hair. This means that even with Shar's mirror, I can't reach 20 DEX unless I take another ASI at level 12.

However, when I play this build I usually take a 1 level dip into Wild Magic Sorc for booming blade, and it makes me hit like a truck. I can also do fun things like hitting a melee opponent with booming blade, teleporting away, and watching the opponent run themselves down. So my question is, do I wanna take booming blade or ASI to get my dex to 20?

This is a modded run but I'm not using any new content, just twerking in game things like party size and number of feats. It's also not supposed to be overly difficult, I mostly want to experience the story than fight to succeed, but I'll have the settings so if I don't pay attention I'll still get my butt kicked. XD I'm too ADHD to do well with keeping track of what's going on, analyzing fights, or setting stuff up ahead of time, so I like making it easier for me to not fail.

Anyway so I will have Wyll, Astarion, Shadowheart, Lae'zel, Gale, and Minthara (I'll be knocking her out) in my party eventually. I want to keep their classes on theme, but other than Wyll having warlock levels and Astarion being high dex they don't need to stay their canon option. As I said I am not good at setting up things, so nothing that relies heavily on ground or wet effects and stuff like that. That said, I like having a variety of actions to take!

When it comes to Wyll I would like to stay Fiend Patron, and no paladin vows. I think swords bard would be a good cross but I don't know the best level mix. Mostly I want thematic multi classes instead of min/max style ones. And I will be using tadpoles, focused on Wyll.

I think that's it! Thanks!

I decided to go for a Gith Paladin run on tactician difficulty and would like some recommendations from the community for builds. I can't really decide. On one hand I would like to focus on strength or to put it better, focus on dealing damage while roleplaying the classic Paladin tank. On the other hand I want him to be a party face so I don't miss out on the dialogues. I haven't played Paladin very much. I like the concept of big swords ( and I think people might know which one catched my eye in particular) while also bringing useful support abilities to the party. What is your pick for a Paladin build? I'm kinda drawn to going 1 level of Hexblade to completely drop strength to be a party face with good damage. Good Idea? 👀 I might be overthinking this a little too hard.

I do enjoy a challenge. I like when I have to reload a boss fight multiple times, but I've played this game too often and know it too well. So I'm looking for builds that are fun and unique, while not being too weak or too strong.

For example what currently running:

The average Tav, just a normal citizen. 1 level in each class, shitty stats, but boosted by gear. Mostly throwing stuff and using scrolls

Ensnaring strike build. Pinned them to the ground and leave the range (AoO won't trigger, even though it's shown). Paired with some poison damage.

Retaliation build. Run around and dmg enemies, whenever they hit you.

Vicious mockery build. Only allowed to cast vicious mockery. Tried to min max this with resonance stone and sorcery points. It's quite fun to have astarion running around and killing people by insulting them hard.

Any other ideas?

I'm looking for advice on what items, spells, stats, etc, for my current party. My party consists of:

Tav- College of Lore bard

Shadowheart- Light Domain cleric (with possible multi-class into paladin)

Lae'zel- Arcane Archer fighter (with titanstring bow)

Karlach- Open Hand monk

I'm currently in act 1 at level 4, and some mods I'm using are of importance:

Feats on even levels (speaks for itself)

Infinite elixers (for hill giant strength)

Infinite arrows (for Lae'zel)

I'm also doing the act 1 helldusk armour glitch.

Any and all help is appreciated!

I’m always looking for self-imposed challenges in games to keep things fresh. I’m thinking about doing a strictly canon RP build on Tactician where I’ll basically just utilize each character as they’re presented. No respeccing stats, default subclasses and I must make use of certain class features like Unarmoured Defence and Wyll’s rapier.

This is a weird question and a stab in the dark but has anyone ever used the default spells and cantrips Larian has picked out for each level up? Are they completely random or are they selected with some intent?

Hey all! Finally playing through the game all the way (I've played up to the third act, so no spoilers for that please) and I'm wondering what to do for my Dark Urge character. I've started her out as a hexblade but I'm tempted to multi class into Paladin. I would probably want to break my oath for the story (I'm trying to resist the urge and sometimes failing), but I also really like the witchy spell blade vibes of the Hexblade. So my main questions are:

How does pure 12 levels of Hexblade play? Can I use a giant sword some what optimally? My character likes giant swords.

How does it compare to a Hexadin? Probably 5/7 split although I'm not sure which class should be which. Honestly roleplay is more important to me than complete optimization but I really want to be a strong Frontline damager with spells, bonus points for a witchy creepy vibe (my character is a fucked up Tiefling with a heart of gold)

I'm playing on Tactician if that helps. I'll probably have Wyll do whatever build I'm not. I'm currently in Act 1 at Level 4 but can respec.

Has anyone found any interesting way to use Intoxicating Strike? Once you get Stunning Strike it just seems like a waste of a Ki point.

The only mechanical interaction I can see is that enemies get disadvantage on Acrobatics checks so shoving/throwing high DEX enemies is easier.

I'm playing a game with 4 Way of the Drunken Master monks and I'm having fun with the extra mobility from Drunken Technique and constant use of reactions with Redirect Attack but I wish I could get more out of the whole making enemies drunk mechanic.

Im playing honor mode consisting of a radorb wild heart barb and a life cleric. What would the last 2 be? Current considerations are a blade lock and a swords bard archer. Thinking if I should slot a mage instead since there will be excess mage gear.

Im playing a Sorlock build and god damn, the Chain Lightning granted by Markoheshkir is broken. Not sure if this is a bug or an oversight, but the normal chain lightning spell cannot be twinned cast to target multiple targets. This restriction somehow does not apply to the Markoheshkir version. So that a Twinned cast Chain Lightning, targeting up to 8 targets and even some enemies twice for 10d8 damage once per short rest. It absolutely trivialises any boss fight by clearing out all the mooks immediately up to and including the Raphael fight. Any fight thats meant to be a 1 boss + many mooks vs you is now just 1 boss vs you. And thats not even considering all the other bonuses Markoheshkir gives you. All in all, a very broken spell

So an interesting thing about Beastmaster class in general, is that the class seems to function best as some kind of hybrid dps / support / utility type of build.

Looking for itemization options Phalar Aluve and Harold stand out as excellent utility choices. Apply Bane with Harold, Shriek with Phalar Aluve for double debuff.

Now of course, I'm aware you don't actually need to swing Phalar Aluve to make use of it's Shriek ability. However, having Bonus Action attack from GWM , would be actually quite useful during turns where you don't need to cast Hunters Mark/ Ensnaring Strike.

What are your thoughts on this? Worth or nah.

People call this a goat game but i seriously started name calling it in the first hours.

Cant get through fights without needing to long rest unless i skip them and be underleveled for the next area..and thats boring. Long rest -->fight --> long rest ---> fight is that how the game is supposed to be played? . The tanks dont tank, they get crushed, shadowheart is useless after healing me for 4 points because she needs to rest to be useful again and replenish. Should i pick a damage dealer mage instead ? I need a straightforward fking path to follow to get through this game. build wise. I am a fighter BM archer Who do i bring along? and specialty do i give them? no special potion and consumables build BS. Should i just install mods or search for fkn OP weapons to make fights simpler? Clearly i am made for ARPG's and reaction based games but i wanted to give it a chance and here i am talking with chatgpt for an hour to give me a good build and what to do.

Hey all, playing with some new ideas. Bored of CHA casters and I've played an evo wiz recently, so I want to try something new.

I've never played a ranger, and beastmaster seems interesting. Given that its capstone ability hits at 11, could I take 1 wiz at the end, wear the headband, and scribe some spells for utility and/or variety? I guess a subsequent questions would be whether or not that's even worth it, since rangers don't get full spell slot progression like wizards do, so I'd be limited a bit.

Thanks in advance. Feel free to throw me some other ideas as well for ranger 11/something else 1 if you want. If it helps, I'm not wedded to beastmaster, but I would really like to try it.

I've been browsing some posts here and I think a lot of them focus mostly on max damage/performance but I'm asking for what you think the coolest and fun build of this multiclass is. I play mostly for the story with balanced difficulty and sometimes extended party so I don't really struggle with combat, I want it to be fun with some variety.

Just can't decide and was curious what you all thought

Mainly just asking this because I’m wanting to do a Star Druid and 10 seems like a solid endpoint for it, but most of the time when I see people talking about Star Druid it’s just as the 2 level dip to unlock it, so I’m curious as to why it’s preferred as the dip instead of the main class.

Me and my friends are going to be running an all Barb party and I want to try a fun new way to run Barb that isn’t just Throwzerker. Any ideas would be appreciated!