Baldur's Gate 3 BEST DAMAGE TYPES Tier List

Ranking the Best Damage Types in Baldur's Gate 3 on a tier list! Some damage tapes are just straight up better than the others, and I'll be breaking these down based upon how many enemies are resistant to it alongside gear options to enhance the damage types. Let me know your thoughts in the comments on what damage types you use the most in BG3. If you wash my build guides, you'll know that I'm a big fan of leaning and cold damage. But there's some other damage types that are also extremely useful and come with some nice benefits. Unfortunately, some damage types are resisted often, which makes them not as useful as some other damage types in Baldur's Gate 3. Let me know your favorite!
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[@marioserrafero4366]

Psychic should be S tier because of the Resonance Stone alone (AoE Psychic vuln for free). Builds abusing Resonance Stone, permanent Shadow Blades and anything that adds +WeaponDmg (which turns Psychic and is in turn doubled) can output absurd damage.

[@JasonDunna]

Oh yes I haven't tried that build yet but you make a really good point. In that case its totally S tier, but even A tier means its pretty great as is! Ill have to try a build like that sometime though, sounds similar to the aura of murder from the bhaalist armor

[@alessandrogarofalo9951]

Totally agree. Easy S, you can pratically 1 turn raphael with a psychic damage resonance stone build (and I'm talking about the regular build, not the one with the glitch for permanent shadow blade, that one is simply broken 😅). The only downside is that you can only use it in act 3 and steelwatchers exist, but with any other enemy, damage is completely broken.

[@Quantum_Bluntz]

Oh wow. This is a really good tier list. I really want to try out that Ne’er Misser! Thanks for the video man!

[@JasonDunna]

Yo you know me, always geeking over BG3! The ne’er misser is great on any martial class because the free level 3 magic missile can come in handy on someone who cant cast!

[@jacobevans6725]

Important thing to note regarding the Chain Lightning multi-class: If you use your 1 lvl in Wizard to scribe the spell, you'll be casting it as a Wizard (thus using INT rather than the Sorc's CHA). Make sure your build has a decent INT stat if you plan to use this spell.

[@JasonDunna]

Yes very true! The INT circlet gives you effectively a 16 in INT to cast them which isn’t great but isn’t terrible

[@rojacol4306]

So for radiant, I think a good reason why people think undead are weak to it is because of the shadows in act two. They are probably the most prominent undead enemies in the game and their whole design is focused around light and shadows, so they are weak to radiant.

[@JasonDunna]

Yeah that’s a good point, the shadows are vulnerable to radiant damage but not the regular ghouls and skeletons

[@blue__9281]

Force can be amplified if you freeze the enemy first

[@JasonDunna]

So true I love running a cold damage focused “Ranni the Witch” build Love the profile picture by the way, were you guided here by Kindly Miquella?

[@TheBlackLightMan]

For fire you can have archers have arsonist and combustion oils to set up fire weakness and also shreds resistances. The synergy of archer and fire sorcerer and light cleric is amazing. Even with the immunity you can have a level 1 warlock dip for command for non concentrating controlling. Raphael was groveling for me. Id say fire is A tier for that reason. Oil isnt as available as wet so i don't think its S. But fire comes online a bit sooner thanks to scorching ray imo.

[@jameshealan2881]

I'd rate Piercing lower tbh. A lot of your reasoning was based on just two late game items.

[@andrekperez]

Just a head's up that steel watchers aren't weak to lightning in tactician or above. Great list though 👍

[@JasonDunna]

Thank you! They’re only one “create water” away from being vulnerable again tho 😂

[@andrekperez]

@@JasonDunna Indeed they are. Or a well placed water bottle 😂

[@LJesse722]

Brooo your tier lists are incredible don’t ever stop being yourself homie 😎

[@JasonDunna]

Thanks bro!! Comments like these keep me going strong. Appreciate it!

[@cfa44acepilot]

I have never seen the AI cast silence except in the withers crypt. Im not sure I agree about slashing and bludgeoning being as low as they are. Oil of diluted sharpness overcomes resistances to those damage types. Im usually not in a situation where I wish i could have DOoS and another oil. Force damage is complicated. I only recently discovered that "frozen" makes targets vulnerable to bludge, thunder AND force damage. But they lose the frozen debuff when they take damage. So I cant just unload 84 beams worth of eldritch blasts in 1 turn like I hoped on my sorlock RIP. If I learned anything from this video is that I should try out cleric and storm sorcerer.

[@JasonDunna]

If we take magical versions of slashing and bludgeoning they are better, but there's so many normal resistances to slashing I had to put it lower to keep it balanced. Force is really nice since most fights won't resist it. I always have someone spamming Ice spells too Definitely try out storm sorcerer + tempest cleric! The damage potential is incredible and it feels satisfying. Dragonic Sorcerer gets fly at level 11 that uses movement speed and no action, where the storm sorcerer gets it at level 1 as a bonus action. Both are incredible but I slightly prefer lightning Dragon sorc. Create water is one of the most overpowered things you can do in BG3

[@OldManMoko]

I would have force and psychic at the top of s tier. Because they are the least resisted. Ice and lightning are S based on potential, but not in front of the others because you need to specifically build to get the most out of them

[@JasonDunna]

You can double lighting and cold damage on people who are resistant to it, making them easily the best damage type but I do see your point. Water elemental, water trident or create water are all very helpful because double damage is NICE 😎

[@OldManMoko]

@@JasonDunna Totally, My first ever playthrough was as a Storm Sorc with a couple points in Tempest, it wasn't perfect, being a day 1 build, but it was hella fun!

[@chitipatutrapiromsook9447]

It‘s really sad for poison. I really want to build Poison Ivy build

[@JasonDunna]

Any build can beat Baldur’s gate 3!! Make the poison ivy build! I may even do a build on it eventually

[@chitipatutrapiromsook9447]

Last time I requested an arrow tier list, you accidentally posted it next couple hours😂. Maybe this tie made an poison ivy build within an hour XD. Jk keep up the ood works, you channel is already way more active than average channel.

[@JasonDunna]

@@chitipatutrapiromsook9447 hahahaha I had the arrow tier list planned, but maybe poison ivy this week! Yeah I’m quite active on KZbin

[@thebomu]

Doesn't Diluted Oil of Sharpness make all physical damage strong?

[@JasonDunna]

Only removes any resistances (doesn’t apply vulnerability) and it only adds +1 to attack and damage rolls. From my understanding it only applies the +1 damage to non-magical weapons too

[@What_do_I_Think]

Just remember: To get the Bhaalist armor, you *must* go to the evil side (at least partly). You must kill an innocent NPC and become an unholy assasin of the evil god Bhaal.

[@JasonDunna]

Valeria is innocent yea but they were kinda annoying so I didn’t mind sacrificing for Bhaal hahaha. Although you can get Orin’s dagger being a good character and it applies the vulnerability to piercing!

[@What_do_I_Think]

@@JasonDunna Yes, Valeria is annoying and stupid at best, but when we just eliminate everybody that is that way, what have we become ourselves?