Bro this video was so clumsy💀

Big lol. Play Act 3. If you say it's good, you're gaslighting, disingenuous or just a straight-up Larian fanboy.

Nature 6th? Come on sheep take

if we're talking pure classes oathbreaker is not the best but if we're talking padlock oathbreaker is one of the best Paladins weird like that haha great vid

5 is a bit too low for the battlemaster multiclass score, its usually the class people go for when they multiclass with fighter unless they go throwing or crit heavy. You get most of the power of it at level 3

oh man, no save after two trials. been there as well

Glad your oath didn't break during the Moonrise towers clean up operation! I would have felt somewhat bad for talking nonsense had it done so! 😆

Bro could you just tell us what you think we should take at lv2 lv3...

make a deugar then can enlarge self. Also dwarf thrower :D

My first ever playtrough was Rogue. Pure rogue. And it was fun in Act 1. In Act 2 I started having problems and having to reload quite a bit. Act 3 was the place where I stopped. My rogue just kept getting pomeled over and over again. And it wasn't fun. My advice would be to avoid rogue for first playtrough. If you don't multiclass (I didin't, mainly because I didin't knew how to) it becomes so booring after a while. You attack, move away, hide, end your turn. That's pretty much most of the rogues turns. I still haven't finished that playtrough just because I missed to many side quests and my rogue is just so weak. On the other hand for my second playtrough I'm playing as sorc. And it's just so amazing compared to rogue! Ofc now I know what I'm doing to begin with so that plays a big part on the fun factor, but still it is way more fun then rogue IMO.

Thank you so much for these videos, they are honestly the most useful out all that i've seen! They helped me so much in a lot of these fights.

Best Multiclass class.

thief feels like the most consistent of the subclasses, but assassin is the most powerful in the earlier levels. if i insist on monoclassing rogue (which i only do for challenge purposes) i start out as an assassin and switch to thief as soon as I can get hold of the gloves of balanced hands so i can have up to three decent attacks per turn

The only thing that really stands out about way of the four elements is the spells * CAN * be cast while raging as a barbarian. Still though finding the right split and time to cast spells vs initiate a rage is a difficult task as well

Arcane Trickster is an S-tier subclass for pickpocketing.

With all my many play throughs, I almost always multiclass Astarion (except for my very first full run of the game - kept everyone with their default classes and subclasses where applicable). However, on my newest run, I have decided to mono-class Astarion again (Thief Rogue), and take advantage of the extra feat. Setting him up for duel wielder and medium armor. This run isn't about using the best build, but more just doing something I haven't done in a long while. As always, thank you for the content! :)

If you wanna be a gish rogue it will be better to just mix it with swords bard, you get a lot more spells and the extra attack/flourishes will really bump up your damage. And you get an extra expertise and dialogue as well

ahh yes the red headed step child of classes

After I was able to potent dice my fireball to one shot a group of Minthara's ogre and goblin at the grove, Divination is the only school I pick for a wizard in any playthrough.

Totally agree with your assessment. I love to take 3 (or 4 for the feat) levels in Thief for the additional bonus action especially for Barbarian Bezerker and Monk who can effectively use the bonus action in combat.

Arcane trickster has always bugged me in both 5e and in BG3 for the same two reasons really, though 5e a bit less so. For one, although spells can also be very defensive or highly damaging, the the Arcane Trickster restrictions forcing them to be focused on low level, utility spells prevent them from taking advantage of this really. Then on top of that, giving the highest utility martial class access to a few spells only for utility is...well, redundant. The one thing Arcane Trickster gets in 5e that it doesn't in bg3 is the ability to use certain magical items and magical scrolls that they otherwise wouldn't be able to use. Is that worth a whole subclass though?

heavy armor on a ranger? yuck

I love your rating system overall, but I feel like maybe it does land Druids a bit dirty! Their big drawcard is the extra circle spells and unfortunately that’s only contributing to one criteria. The other abilities are really just intended to be supplementary to those spells. Contrast that with moon Druids, who have their various wild shapes contributing to several criteria. Druid subclasses I think are really tough to rate because their features are geared towards different playstyles. It makes for a very subjective ranking! I would personally go moon>land>spores because I’m not as interested in a summoning class (and that knee slapping animation is so lame 😂) but that’s purely preference

1 detail you missed about beastmaster is that you can feed elixirs to your pets...strength, colossus, you name it (dire raven scale of dex tho) and that early game (even late game I guess) is HUGE.

Feels like Hunter is only good for Minsc since you get him later on in act 3 where you can use the volley. For a tav there are better archery builds like the swords bard, the gloomstalker or even straight fighter

I might have missed it, but I don’t think you mentioned that Gloom Stalker gets the misty step and fear spells for free. While might not change the rankings they are both great spells

Tiger Heart on a run where you gained BOOALS benediction can be insane, spreading bleeding heavily and gaining advantage on all those affected

Eldritch knight will always be better than battlemaster to me for one reason. Movement. If battlemaster has even one turn of not hitting then a EK will out damage it massively. EK will never have to waste turns not attacking because of all its movement spells let alone the defensive kit. Even if you account for items the EK or gish items are so strong yes you can put misty step on a BM with the boots but there are much better boots that a EK can use. Both are still hyper strong classes tho

besides 11 lvl any hunter or beastmaster is useless, but you can't pick action surge which is necessary for any attacker, in the end there are no options other than 3/5 gloomstalker, sad but true

With the Beast Master, you can make a good face character with high charisma and even a few useful skills. You could be something like a gnome, but since you are kind of tiny and maybe not so good in combat, nature has sent you some protectors. It is possible to get decent charisma, constitution, and dexterity, along with a bit of wisdom. The Gloves of Dexterity exist, along with other stat items. Plus, you can make the animal companions drink potions, which is, frankly, in my opinion, overpowered. Bearoids.

That spin to win plus a weapon that heals on hit is so very good though :)

I have always enjoyed the beast master. All of the utilty you get is so useful.

Loved hunter ranger since I did a playthrough as one, but it definitely doesn't get great until level 11 which is the downside, as you said. The other 2 subclasses are good too, but hunter really grew on me. Great vid! Love hearing your opinion on these things.

I never level the hunter; I just respec into it at 11. The Volley attack does not affect friendlies so it's like an Evocation Wizard and it is amazing with items like the Snow Burst Ring and other Condition provoking items. Lol I had no idea that you could stack your Beastmaster summons!! Wow, with Hero's Feast and Aid and . . . amazing! Also, Beastmaster with the Eversight Ring and huge fields of Raven darkness is awesome!

Great video, as always. One thing I'd like clarified, though. Are we rating all these classes, subclasses and specific abilities based on how they perform in a blind first playthrough, or in an optimized playthrough where you pretty much already know what to expect? Because there's a huge difference.

Hunter ranger is not bad with one level of a war cleric, because of war priest charges, but it'll be such a late multi class

1 advantage of Vengeance is that it's easy to keep and less restrictive compared to Ancients/Devotion that require you to be a mostly good character. As for oathbreaker it has the very annoying thing where you need to retake your oath before you respec then go and break it again

You always make this game look really easy lol. I just started a new game after a few months away. You give me new ideas for different scenarios. Keep up the good work.

*Note* This seems to be a bug or exploit and might be fixed later on. Gale is the perfect camp caster, making him a life cleric and using that spell list (including warding bond) makes your party extremely difficult to kill. You can even give him the ritual caster feat and take longstrider/enhance leap if you want. And you don't even have to rest to restore his spell slots here's how: Step 1: Select Gale, and cast all of your desired buffs on your party members (at least one needs warding bond cast on them). Then remove Gale from your party. Step 2: Punch (or otherwise damage) the party member who you cast warding bond on - This will cause Gale, while out of your party, to take damage BUT he heals back to full AND restores all spell slots (up to level 5) Repeat as many times as needed to super buff your entire party.

In the fight against Oran, in many videos I see that the victim is Yenna, in my first game, second in strategist and now in honor mode recently, he always captures Lae'zel How does that happen?

I see your video and your characters have many characteristics next to the image Hopefully in my game you only see the ritual of talking to animals how do you do that? How do you get so many features? potions, or choices that give you a buff in the game? and that you take half the life of a demon with an arrow, my god

One problem with oath breaker that justifies its lower ranking is that no undead you summon have MELEE weapons, and aura of hate only works on fiends and undead MELEE weapon attacks. Pretty much means the only summon that benefits from this is the Cambion…

Rating fire bolt as good as eldritch blast and guidance is absolutely diabolical ray of frost and bone chill both have amazing secondary effects and you’re sacrificing 3 average damage at level 10 which is… just who cares? Also they apply conditions meaning they work with items like the boots of stormy clamour, ironically making them better for damage.

I know people are a bit concerned with how paladins have rules to how they behave, but they are fair less severe in BG3 than in 5e and they really aren't that difficult to follow unless you are trying to min/max your way through the game. Devotion=Help people, show mercy Ancients=Help animals, show mercy Vengence=Help people, show no mercy Oathbreaker=laugh in future BBEGs voice

I tend to not play Powerdin, because I'm limited in my in-world choices. I can't play as I want, without breaking my oath.

wizard next plz

One day I'm going to play a paladin to level 12, but smite is SOOoo powerful I can't ever resist multiclassing to gain more spell slots. Maybe a 4 paladin party would be interesting challenge.

I completely agree. Ancients and Vengeance are both S tier, amazing for multiclass and so diferent they just can't compete against each other. My favorite healer in the game is a heal itemized, ancients pally 6/ life cleric 6 multiclass. It's actually overkill, so most often I don't even use life cleric but other subclass with more offensive capabilities like light or tempest Disciple of light, blessed healer, preserve life, healing radiance, all in a DEX based pally to use the very good ranged Ensnaring Strike and ke able to always be in the middle of your party for those sweet AoE heals that also give resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing and Slashing damage dealt by weapon attacks while equiping the very early acquired Hellrider's Pride.

I love to put it on karlack, and cast haste on her pretty much ensuring 4d6 healing per turn and never going mad

What happen after we kill him did he still show to the camp of you break the paladins again?