Arrr, It's the Swashbuckling Blade of Frontiers! A Duellist's Prerogative Build

Inspired by this reddit post: / duelist_prerrogative_b...
Building around the legendary Duellist's Prerogative Rapier (bg3.wiki/wiki/Duellist%27s_Pr...) can be a key part of any piercing damage focused composition.
0:00 Introduction and Leveling
6:40 Items and Theory
15:48 Combat demonstration and My Failures as a Person

[@SirCharles12357]

I love reposte! Getting double reposte with a sentinel build sound most enticing. Very creative build. Thanks for posting this!

[@samus259]

U can add elemental weapon from the Drakethroat Glaive to the Duellist's Perogative and take savage attacker as a feat... watch ur dmg jump to new heights... if u combine caustic band and gloves that add dmg to ur weapon attacks... big big dmg

[@hoodedalpha4880]

would this be viable in honour mode? its a playstyle/build that comes online very late but thats also where some of the hardest content is. id assume you'd build differently getting to 12 before respeccing

[@friederichh6543]

It would absolutely be viable in honour mode. I'm currently playing around with it in one of my own runs. For leveling I think, however, going warlock 5 -> fighter 3 -> rogue 4 would be a better leveling path, with potentially a respec involved to get 2 feats while level 9-11. Eldritch blast is a good alternative turn use in act 1 until you can pick up a +2 rapier, and infernal rapier can be a filler until you can fully exploit Duellist's Prerogative and multiple bonus actions at level 12/early Act 3, which is when piercing damage becomes king anyway.

[@hoodedalpha4880]

@@friederichh6543 If you don't mind switching the helmet out I think the DIADEM OF ARCANE SYNERGY could work incredibly well, lower crit chance but adds your spellcasting modifier as damage which I believe is defaulted to the weapon damage, piercing, and Bhaalist armour inflicts a condition. I have not tested this but could theoretically double your charisma bonus to damage?

[@friederichh6543]

@@hoodedalpha4880 Absolutely, but I think you would abandon crit fishing entirely as a strategy if you go that route, drop risky ring, get one of the haste bows instead of deadshot, etc. Core of the build is piercing vulnerability/DP/riposte/sentinel/Pact of the Blade Warlock for added utility. Crit (synergizes with GOO warlock) v. Arcane Synergy (less GOO synergy, so open to other warlock subclasses) are both good variants.