Bladesingers, Artificers, and Mods in Baldur's Gate 3

[@DnDDeepDive]

Errata: as some have pointed out - I forgot that, in BG3, Dual Wielding or two weapon fighting doesn't require you to take the attack action in order to attack with you "off hand" as a bonus action - you can always do it regardless of what you use your action for.

[@MrSeals1000]

Hands down one of my favorite changes. It's just freeing 😅

[@Damakos]

I just realized that you have never done an echo knight build. Was thinking of playing a mostly echo knight and would be interested to see what you do with it after watching the psy knight build.

[@TheRealGraylocke]

2 weapon fighting can be a pain in the backside if you don't have the fighting style or something else to back you up. 2 daggers, shortswords, scimitars or hand xbows and you're good. Try dual wielding a rapier and anything though, grrrr.

[@kvnbias5896]

Patch 4 broke most of the mods, so to anyone looking to try out these builds you might need to wait a week.

[@DnDDeepDive]

@@TheRealGraylocke I think you mean the Dual wielder feat? Two weapon fighting style lets you add damage to your off hand ;)

[@MisterTsumi]

Mr. Colby, you may be just a touch too young for this compliment, but you 100% are being the person Mr. Rodgers knew you could be. You are an absolute ray of sunshine, and please never change.

[@DnDDeepDive]

Ha ha Thanks! And nope, not too young - I grew up on Mr Rogers (and Sesame Street… and the Electric Company…)

[@loganmcgee18]

@@DnDDeepDive media.tenor.com/6zwJzgtAtz0AAAAC/don-cheadle.gif

[@SuddenlySham]

This. I wish every game community had someone like him

[@Dawsojtogata]

100% this man makes me feel so relaxed and is honestly such a gift to the community

[@justatest90]

@@Dawsojtogata @dnddeepdive he's the Ann Reardon of D&D

[@Sixfingeredmage]

Author of the Psi Warrior mod here to advertise it as the perfect subclass for lae'zel and gith characters! (Also have a fighter rework that really makes it fun to play)

[@DrunkenDonuts_96]

There’s a mod called immersive UI where the UI will disappear unless you hover your mouse over it. So the whole screen is clear and it is beautiful

[@fiveforbiting]

I wish the UI would pop up, only when you moused the bottom edge of the screen. Small complaint of a great mod. I just accidentally click the invisible hotbar too often.

[@hawkname1234]

You can hotkey the whole UI. It's built in.

[@BlackyRay_Patrick]

Lol... I often stumbled over this mod and never understood what it does... Thanks for clarification, what this mod does 😅

[@polyhedralcombatant]

"Help me Colby-Wan Kenobi, you're my only BG3 tech support!" 🤣 Thanks for making a modding video from a less tech-centric side of things. Excited to try these and a few others once I get through my first game!

[@DrinkingCarsandTalkingCoffee]

Colby-Wan-Kenobi!!!😂😂😂😂

[@DnDDeepDive]

Ha ha - my Dad actually used to call me this when I was little! 🥲

[@SoI_Badguy]

There's also the "cleric subclasses" mods which adds, like, 9 more subclasses. Yes including the broken ones like twilight cleric. Edit: The "5e Spells" mod is basically mandatory for me now. It adds SO much.

[@onihr1]

As soon as this was available I restarted my play through to play my current avatar, a Dorf death domain cleric!!! The two enemy Cantrips is now air, so that’s meh… but everything else is amazing

[@braindust7523]

@@onihr1dorf??

[@justincampbell5987]

Half orc half dwarf

[@onihr1]

@@braindust7523 how I lovingly call my favorite race. Dwarf. Specifically the goddesses that are lady dwarfs.

[@BlackyRay_Patrick]

Dorf means village in german🇩🇪 xD So yes i was confused.... Than i thought maybe dwarf with misstyping.... I would never have imagined orc dwarf...

[@20storiesunder]

Here we go, ere we go , eeeeerrreee we go! One thing to note, if you are running the game via the mod manager, go to options and make sure you enable the dx11 option if thats how you run it normally. Otherwise you'll be on Vulkan. I'm currently running Gale as an artillerist artificer. My headcanon is that his magic doesn't work as well since the incident so he makes do with all the stuff he has from his tower and some ingenuity.

[@pilkuu3128]

One notable thing about bladesingers is that early on there are two elvish longswords that are finesse weapons! I'm sure there are better rapiers in later acts, but I think it's worth noting that an elven bladesinger is very thematic with them! Phalar Aluve is even a 'singing sword.'

[@DnDDeepDive]

*frantically starts googling where to find them*

[@Keln02]

BG3 is the gift that keeps on giving. Bit of a shame there isn't much left to do once builds have reached their full potential.

[@andrewcarter9649]

You can hit Level 12 so early in Act 3 that there is lots left to do at max level.

[@gethriel]

I guess the "gift" stopped giving. Of course it didn't even START as it didn't even fulfill their promise of implementing the PHB - from which, the MOST IMPORTANT bits were left OUT of the game.

[@xalenthas]

@@gethriel So which important bits were left out?

[@enlil00]

​@@xalenthasThe entire Upper City of Bauldur's Gate was cut. Inevitable that content will be cut, but it's very likely to be reinstated after a year or so, Larian like to do that..

[@Exaltable]

You are level 12 for most of act 3… what?

[@fancycavegaming620]

I hope they come out with DM/mission creation tools for this game!

[@sharogengaming7716]

Larian did come out and say they weren't planning on releasing those tools unfortunately, but they said the same thing about DLC or a "Definitive Edition" and it kind of looks like they're walking that back.

[@deredware9442]

I very much prefer going 14 dex rather than wis. Its even more impactful in BG3 than DnD because for some reason larian decided initiative rolls should be a d4 rather than a d20, so essentially +initiative bonuses are 5x more powerful in game than tabletop. Its actually crazy. An 18 dex character will ALWAYS go before a 10 dex character without other initiative bonuses.

[@zabrac1566]

I was one of those comments that wished and prayed for you to try out mods for BG3 exactly for videos just like this! As someone new to D&D but with hundreds of hours in BG3, playing with these mods, hearing your takes on different multiclasses and classes, differences between D&D and BG3 and most importantly a good insight into spells to look out for, it feels so so sooo good! Like Spirit Shroud on the bladesinger is a spell I didn't even know existed and now I get to try it out on my own Bladesinger. And speaking of that Bladesinger, I found it so funny hearing you say how much you've always wanted to make a Bladesinger + Paladin combo as that is exactly what I did with my character in my most recent playthrough. It's heavily modded so the entire party was very different to vanilla, but I ended up with a 10 Bladesinger + 2 Conquest Paladin, 11 Divine Soul Sorcerer + 1 Order Domain Cleric, 5 War Domain Cleric + 2 Conquest Paladin + 5 Battlemaster Fighter, and lastly a 8 Path of Giants Barbarian + 4 Rune Knight Fighter. The amount of different combinations is incredible and I can't wait to see more of the different builds you can come up with if you tackle more BG3 content!

[@bigsmoke8816]

Heya Colby just a quick tip on if you ever want to build that Bladesinger/Paladin in 5e: Pick Tortle as your race, dump your dex/wisdom and be a strength based bladesinger wielding a longsword. That way you'll have a base unarmored AC of 17 without needing to invest into dex, which means you wont have to spread your ability scores as much.

[@ironman-mf8xx]

It's actually so sick that you're doing build guides for modded games. There's only a handful of channels dedicated enough to have thought about the group of people using these things, and it's awesome that you're one of them. Thanks for the amazingly detailed build guides, as always!

[@Jamdoop]

I have a bladesinger build that I’ve been dying to play in Baldurs Gate! Blood Hunter would be super fun too… Love this video.

[@InuzutoraArlas]

Idk if you have time to check out new builds in bg3 but I do suggest to check out blade singer + swords bard with duals. It's so much fun and the buffs to multiclassing (level-in-class for resources like inspiration or charges of war priest instead of ability scores) does incredible job on this combination. Plus another note about bg3 gameplay - 2 thorn blades (that dammon sells in act2) adds 1d4 of damage when you concentrate on a spell and they each do that so each attack gets additional 2d4. with another ring that does the same - it's 3d4 on each attack during concentration. so with upcasted spirit shroud BB attack basically a nuke strike

[@RealBadNewsWashington]

Can I just say how much I love your lamp in the background on the left side. So fricking cool. On another note, Love your BG3 videos, especially with the class info cause you get so creative with these and pull off ideas I never would've thought of trying so I appreciate you taking the time to deep dive into these.

[@nero7312]

Aah, I was so disappointed that I couldn’t play Bladesinger! This video gave me hope and joy!

[@beastslayer8729]

I'd love to see your review of other mods like 5e Spells. Even though you can't make a build around every single spell the mod adds, it would be cool to see you go through some of the options and highlight how they would be beneficial in the campaign.

[@wilmannator]

Yay! A mods vid! I've played from start to credits 5 times now and have 53/53 achievements. Definitely time to mod the game and I LOVE bladesingers. Thank you!

[@Chef42]

A Bladesinger in BGIII? Cool! It looks like I am about to start serious playthrough #4. And I like the editing. Very much your style, but with a nice twist here and there.

[@trevormunger7073]

If there are any modders out there, I'd like to recommend creating an immersive endless spire/battle tower that scales with your level and gives you random encounters and loot after you beat the game, this would allow the opportunity for so much more in the modding community, imagine if you could get a character to level 40? I know I would enjoy this much more rather than feeling like I need to start a new game every time I want to experience a different class in true combat scenarios, this would extend the life of your character in the roleplaying fashion so much

[@Swizz12]

At last !! A class besides wizard that uses Intelligence as a core ability. I love the class for that alone - maybe at some future time Larian can include this class, the game is definitely in need of another class that really uses Int. You have motivated me to mod this game (which I haven't done to date, despite nearly 1900 hrs spent on it). I have been avoiding mods so far, since so many of them are either gamebreaking (by being too powerful), or purely cosmetic (mostly Shadowheart or your PC in very skimpy clothing). I am one of those people who cannot finish a game, because by the time I get to about level 7-9 I'm thinking of tweaking my class / race / equipment loadout / party comp, whatever. This is definitely worth another run as soon as I get tired of my current team. My current group is this : PC is a Duergar Berserker* (Tavern Brawler) throwing build + S'heart as a Tempest Cleric + Astarion as a Thief/Monk (Tavern Brawler) + Gale (straight Evoker). My Duergar pays homage to Rhiannon's ''Tomato' character, when High Rollers played BG3 - love that red face and bright green hair). I haven't yet run the 'Giddyup Gale' version of Gale, as played in Arcane Arcade (where chat made all the choices), where Gale becomes a Barbarian, dressed all the time in Lae'zel's minimalist camp clothing............but never say never, because it WAS pretty funny (and Gale worked well as a berserker, due to being re-specced). I'll see if I can get at least to the end of Act 2 with my current party - maybe even further as I haven't explored Baldur's Gate itself - and then its mod-time and another playthrough as an Artificer tank with maybe two squishy spellcasters in tow, given how well the class you describe can focus enemies attacks on themselves....................

[@ASnakeintheGrass]

Artificers are my weakness. There is something really appealing about being in a world full of magic and overcoming through tech. I think I'll actually pick up BG3 now.

[@pr0ud2bap1n0y]

Completely unrelated to the builds (not to mention I'm a huge Artificer fan. Running one in a Strahd campaign right now!), but the outtake about your daughters watching the Taylor Swift movie touched me a bit. My wife and I are expecting a little girl in a couple months and idk, it was just a little thing that got me more excited for fatherhood 🙂 thanks for your vids and for just being a great guy!

[@slforMak]

44:45 just letting you know that off-hand attacks in bg3 do not rely on attack action. unlike in dnd, you can pair a bonus action off-hand attack with any action (or with no action).

[@nikkof5384]

I watched your video, immediately downloaded mod manager and spent my whole week on a new campaign. I don’t have really any DnD experience so the new classes and spells have had me reading the 5e guidebooks and I’ve had a blast! Thank you so much for making this video. My Mod order is: 5eSpells CompatibilityFramework ImprovedUI Artificer Artificer-5e-Addon Expansion-Bladesinger Hexblade HexbladeInvocations VladsGrimoire SpellListCombiner I made Lae’Zel a bladesinger and had her at 24AC in Act 1. Asterion was my Artificer using the lightning handcrossbow and the reverberation gloves, using the stealth variant allows him rock heavy armor with no downsides. And Durge is having fun as a hexblade, finding out Potent Robes works on Green Fire Blade and Booming Blade was wild.

[@Alys_Landale]

Awesome! Getting those paladin levels for bladesinger for sure! Also I'd try to sneak Savage Attacker in there for all those dice being rolled!

[@carteryost176]

Really enjoyed this video and these builds but I especially loved your brief comments about the meaningfulness of the Eras movie for your daughters; it was just so touching and wholesome!!

[@luckydragonaaaa]

Production is getting so much better each vid! Would love to see more shots of in game as you upgrade and level the characters builds.

[@intoodeep1672]

I dont even play this game, but I just love listening to you talk. Thanks for the content

[@TheRealGraylocke]

Downloaded the mods yesterday for Bladesinger & War Magic Wizards, Swashbuckler Rogue, and the Artificer. Took me a while to get everything all set up but... Now playing a version of my dwarven Bladesmith from my group's last campaign. Cool. And in yet another playthrough, starting to work on my SwashBlade (Rogue Swashbuckler/ Wizard Bladesinger). This one will take a long time to get the bare minimuns online - but worth it. And, and, the mods still work after Larian's big patch release today. Thanks, Colby!!!!

[@ShayedSays]

Yay! I’ve been hoping for this one for so long!

[@patrickb.8485]

I had the same experience with Artificers, took me awhile to warm up to them for a number of reasons. But once I finally played one in a great campaign my Halfling artificer became one of my favorite characters of all time. Was very sad the class was not included in BG3 so love this vid.

[@joedarkwolf]

Early comment because I know this video won't get as much traction but deserves it! You're awesome Colby, thanks for bringing so much chill to our household (you're often on the living room during the day)

[@shmooters5599]

I don’t know if you ever do vids like it but I would be so down to watch you go through a couple of fights with that comp you mentioned in the end. A sort of proof of concept type vid “this is what it looks like in action”

[@TheRamone89]

You are awesome dude, came for bg3 content when it came out and now I'm going through your whole catalog. Love it, love this channel and keep it up my man.

[@hawkname1234]

I laughed at the honesty of... "I wish I were home playing it right now."

[@phosphorneuntausend8868]

Awesome video, love the bladesinger gish too! Also love your shirt, fits the gigachad physique. Greetings from Germany!

[@LoveReacts]

I seen something about a new editor, that salami joke made me laugh out loud, so thank you for my serotonin for the day

[@D4-Blackthorn]

😂 glad to help!

[@Gatsuuga16]

THANK YOU! I have the artificer mod and did a run with it in my party but i was clearly missing the power that it really gives. she was mostly useless offensively but was pretty good for support. and holy baloney that bladesinger is my next Tav. You know its a good game when you cant wait to be done playing it so you can play it again a different way. Thanks Colby you make such great content. and bonus: I get to test the limits of my subwoofer via your voice!

[@northtreker1649]

You did you did you did! Thank you! This is my favorite subclass it’s so cool seeing it on bg3.

[@Reoh0z]

I appreciate the extra effort to show stuff in game.

[@TheSidetrackYT]

Colby plays Titan Quest?? My MAN, hell yes! Can't believe we're getting a sequel!

[@InuzutoraArlas]

Some note about 5e Spells Mode. They are bugged with booming blade and green flame blade - all classes with extra attack can use them as if they're blade singers, you just need to make first attack as usual physical attack and then you'd have BB and GFB highlighted as available in-1-action moves. That means that 5 paladin 5 warlock can do 2 BB + normal attack (and add smites atop at it) sooooo way to break the game even more than we usually do

[@20storiesunder]

That's incorrect I believe, they've added a check now. In addition there are other mods that add it which work with 5e spells.

[@sylvysforever4952]

This has been patched 😭

[@20storiesunder]

@@sylvysforever4952 Thankfully ;) I play a sorcorer who quickens booming blade at times so you can get it back if you want xD

[@ChoiceBandAzu]

To your point in the intro about modding having an effect on the integrity of the game (specifically regarding difficulty). I have found that, once you have an understanding of how difficult you would like the game to be, you can often mod the game in order to fit your specific preferences, and with regards to developer intentions, it is important to consider that the developer spent all the time they did on balancing to create an experience ranging from fun to challenging for the widest portion of their expected audience as possible. They did not balance the game for you specifically, which is why the impact of modding on difficulty can bring new challenges to a game that you find too easy, or provide more options in a game where you find the difficulty to be limiting. Also, love the BG3 vids :)

[@Bummer873]

Oh man! I swore I wasn't going to mod the game other than cosmetics for a while, but now, after that Bladesinger build.... I love my bladesinging monk that I got to use in a one shot....Super MAD though!

[@Shizekage_james]

Love the video. You've inspired me to start sticking to a story for my newest Tav, a Barbarian who starts to gain intelligence and becomes a battle commander. Going 6 into each with some fun actions. So far I've made it to act 3 and can get 6 extra moves I think. Maybe 5 or 7 max but its all pure damage and destruction or I can inspire my party well Karlach.

[@ThisIsAHandleOrSomething]

I’d so love to see some builds from the Cleric’s Subclasses domains. Seeing as you really know your stuff.

[@Galus999]

Making this one now! Also gotta say that the write ups of the builds you do are awesome!

[@seabassplayer9308]

That bladesinger sounds like so much fun, I think I might try to recreate an old war wizard character I have with this.

[@PaulKentSkates]

Bladsong was my favorite expansion class in 2nd edition (i haven't played D&D since those days but I plated 2nd ed. Pretty seriously back in those days. Im very tempted to try this class in bg3

[@Ysidoroh]

I've been looking for how to play bladesinger I'm SO excited to watch this one.

[@kcmedic]

I'm fairly new to this channel and I have 2 suggestions I would like to see implemented. Either 1) contact the developers of the Calm app and make them hire you as a voice actor. Or 2) create your own app/subscription channel/etc for bedtime stories, audiobooks, guided meditation, or maybe hostage negotiation. The tone and tempo of your voice is so incredibly peaceful and relaxing.

[@DrinkingCarsandTalkingCoffee]

That would be awesome! Falling sleep to his super calm voice telling a bloody, gory Elven Orc D&D battle story! 😅😅

[@nathano2778]

Ill give the help action on his hostage negotiation check

[@voice_number9-bw6zf]

As a side note, the artificer mod has an addon you can get to make it work with the 5e spells mod. Not important for the character build (I don't think) but it would still be good to pick up.

[@kevinjessop2945]

this is the most wholesome channel on the entire internet.

[@giulioj.8390]

Love your videos! As someone relatively new to DnD and BG3, I'd really find it helpful if you could add a gameplay section to your build videos. It's like here's the theory, and here's how it all comes back in a fight.

[@keithbos4506]

There is a mod that adds a Harlequin class. It's not part of official DnD but it is really well thought out and fun. The main reason I like it is because it has a subclass that actually works well with the heat items in game.

[@B.J.Camire]

At one point you switched from saying Infusions to Invocations 🤣 We've all been there... more than once! Also, @26:45, someone hit your camera with a Thunder Gauntlet. If you finish off your Bladesinger build with 2 more Fighter levels you could pick up Champion for the increased crit chance (since you have advantage with Shadow Blade) and still cap dexterity.

[@brucevogelsberg3452]

Finally modded BG3 and gotta say I love these 2 classes!!

[@romandidelet5945]

I just caught something that gave me a great idea for something potentially super strong inspired by my favourite build of yours : the hexbladesinger (eldritch blast in the middle of attacks just scratches the gish itch so well). What I noticed is this : pact of the blade's extra attack STACKS with other extra attacks features. Giving you 3 attacks for lvl6 Bladesinger + 5 Warlock. Now, I haven't tested this because my only high lvl campaign right now is a multiplayer one, so no mods. But depending on how that interacts with the bladesinger mod, it means you could potentially eldritch blast twice per turn. Combine that with spirit shroud and the only regret would be not having 13 levels to get action surge ! As I said I haven't been able to test this yet but I figured maybe you could and if it works that would be great news for us gish enthusiasts. Hoping you'll see this, love your vids keep it up and have a great day !

[@DnDDeepDive]

Will have to try it out :)

[@lukesandadordoceu4835]

Absolutely love bladesinger in bg3, only problem is trying to use different concentration spells from just haste all the time

[@tommihommi1]

there's a mod so you don't do it accidentally

[@_mosscat]

Colby records on a desk chair??? I don't know why but I always imagined him standing in front of the camera instead of sitting, but I don't think you can do that spin at 40:19 standing up. Either that, or Colby is a world class ballet dancer, which I'm also willing to believe.

[@Serena-m9p]

Yay, builds using mods! I hope you will continue to make them, thank you for your vids ❤

[@commanderroddi7742]

My party needed a good Utility character in D&D and I had played a Warlock for my first character, then a SOrcerer and (one of my favorites) a Land Druid.... Love druids.... I ended up playing artificer because we needed a boost to healing, and buffs to our party, and I Loved this class! I have played a bit of an artillerist in a campaign later, but the first thing I played was an Alchemist, and I do love that classs! Being able to make elixirs and infusions to help my aparty, does force you to be a bit in the background, but once you get to level 10, you can have the spell rataining item, where ou can cast up to 10 spells up to size 2 (like, upcasted Healing word as a healer, or Ray of Sicknes, or thunderwave, or one of my favorites, acid arrow (I know, acid = bad, but... I got extra +5 damage to acid). But I loved that class! I wish I woudl have had Vortex warp when I played that class, and as an artillerist, who oft usede scorching ray from teh level 2 spell to cast many times, sometimes vortex warp let us move our barbarian around the field, and still being able to cast fireballs, and blasty spells! Bladesinger is a class I want to play next. I am excited for this! (same for Blood hunter mod!).

[@DR-023-17]

I noticed that the artillerist arcane firearm doesn't specify the bonus to damage is just for artificer spells like it is in 5e. Would love to see this turned in to a blaster character on your channel! Thanks for all the work you do for these videos❤

[@albancharroin5547]

Great idea to talk about mods ! There are a lot of good ones

[@MoarPye]

I've been playing Karlach with your thrower build from the other video, and it's been hilarious fun, but it spun me off onto a tangent of trying to make a Gnomish Grenadier and I'm realising I just don't know enough about this game for that level of theory-crafting... My objective was to focus on alchemist's fire, grease bottles, acid vials, water bottles and later smokepowder bombs as the objects being thrown, so obviously a few levels of Berserker Barbarian and Tavern Brawler are a given, but I don't know where to go with it after that. I thought I'd seen an ability at some point that let you throw as a bonus action? But I can't find it back and I may have just imagined it... I'd also prefer to multiclass into a class that lets me acquire more grenades, or increase their areas of effect, but I'm not sure those exist either. I'd love some tips, from anyone who sees this really...

[@Codarius]

Looking forward to the Armorer/Bladesinger BG3 buils now.

[@20storiesunder]

Battle smith would be best, as you want to be able to use normal weapons.

[@Guardian24829]

@DnDDeepDive How would you build the bladesinger if you multiclassed with Warlock (Hexblade or otherwise)? I know you've got a build that's Hexblade and Bladesinger that's a ranged focused build, but how would you do a melee-focused build?

[@artexgrey6266]

Can't wait to see your take on the Mystic mod

[@Johnmorova]

I have done all the things~~! Also good choices on the mods. In my extensive use of mods, what I've found regarding game breaking stuff - sometimes you want a chill funky "I have made the most broken character EVER" and other times you want "A REAL CHALLENGE". Baldur's gate is such a perfect game for such flavors as it has a ridiculous game replay-ability factor. Anyway I recommend mods by Mharius for some new takes on race and class options. If someone would like to bring all the companions with them on their adventure, I recommend "Aether's No Party Limits", and for a more skilled, challenge seeking aficionado I recommend Maxichigo's "Additional Enemies - More encounters and fights" and PseudoV11's "Double enemies".

[@colinmorrison5119]

You had me at artificer. I have a half dozen pure artificer builds at least I want to try.

[@joshuaclendenon]

Came for the build. Stayed for the singing. You never fail to amuse me, Colby.

[@tarheel12325]

Just got the “Bladesong Armor” mod and is a perfect combination with the Bladesinger mod.

[@RonJon95]

Wow Homelander is super chill now great vid!

[@ericnewman4462]

There is an item (resonance stone) in chapter 2 that can go in your inventory (no equipment slot required) and makes an aura that gives vulnerability to psychic damage. That seems so amazing for the bladesinger.

[@ryoujiarisato7308]

i stop carrying that after getting fucked by it a couple of times LMAO

[@lostsoulman]

Those mods (and those mod authors) are the best!

[@Kelto28]

I see bladesinger, i like the video

[@lukesandadordoceu4835]

one of the best mods in the game is the one that allows higher than 12th level, allows for crazy multiclassing

[@jed70]

You are a hero! So many great builds.

[@davidblenner9082]

Thank you so much for this. Big fan of artificer

[@GhostWriter520]

I would love to see your take on using these two mods, plus the plethora of magic weapons in the game, to mix Bladesinger and Battle Smith Artificer to make a magitech Ranger, of sorts

[@danielhoffmann7138]

Does Multiclassing Bladesinger 6 / Draconic (fire dragon) Sorcerer 6 allows you to add CHA to your green flame blade damage? Does it add it on both targets? It is super MAD so it would require the gloves of dexterity, but you get to keep full spell casting, CON proficiency and add CHA to damage twice on your cantrip. Plus quickened green flame blade to do it again. Gloves of Dexterity + 17 INT, 16 CHA. Hags hair to INT, ASI to get INT to 20 and another ASI for CHA to 18. You get to use level 6 wizard spells with spell scribe too. Unfortunately there is no "thunder damage" draconic sorcerer so this wouldn't work with booming blade. But Bladesinger 6 / Tempest Cleric 6 gets you Thunderbolt Strike which allows you to push enemies for 3m when you deal thunder damage which is quite good too. In this multiclass you can dump wisdom or keep it at 12/14 and it would still work fine.

[@Alguem387]

Booming blade + bonus action shove is nutty

[@LastHero173]

I love these videos! Hope we can do some more pathfinder 2e. That game needs some great optimizers.

[@liggitylux7930]

Bladesinger for life

[@Beavor921]

OMG I was planning to use this exact build for bladesinger in my second playthrough - feeling to ridiculously validated right now!!! There is one addition I am considering - what if I take the elven accuracy feat (from mod) and replace the last two levels of wizard/fighter with barbarian to get reckless attack (as I understand it works with all melee attacks not just strength based ones in bg3). My character would be getting triple advantage on all attacks. With the endgame rapier that's a 27% chance to crit (38.6% with the dead shot bow equipped). Gonna get those juicy crit smites every round :))

[@matthewstooksbury]

As a twilight cleric fan i downloaded a cleric subclass mod. love it.

[@jonpalmg]

The way the game works with these mods allows you to booming blade as your extra attack anyway, which takes away the luster of bladesingers extra attack special feature. Because paladin and deepened pact extra attack stack, the strongest gish ive found is hexblade5/paladin5 then fighter2 for action surge. Also, in a game where you can have advantage on tap from risky ring, and you can improve your critical range dramatically with items, i always pick elven accuracy as a feat...its pretty glorious

[@Strmshadow73]

For Artificer, get 2 levels in sorcerer and get distant metamagic. Summons count as allies. Cast a summon, move away, use bag of holding spell twice on the summon....watch massive damage. Brokenly OP!

[@peternrdstrm]

There's an Oath Of Conquest mod that I suggest you try if you're into modding. Also, Fizban's Tresury of Dragons got ported too, to buff dragonborn

[@Johnmorova]

I just took my Lae'zel down this path.. It seemed to fit her demeanor really well.

[@tank_dempsey]

The WoW style death knight mod is super fun too. Pretty busted, but very, very enjoyable

[@ryoujiarisato7308]

for the bladesinger mod, since bg3 doesn't allow you to one hand a versatile weapon without having a shield, the mod removed the restriction to 2 handing longswords for bladesong. That means you get to use the phalar alluve longsword, which i think fits the bladesigner extremely well. My favorite for this character that i had a lot of fun with was going drow for rapiers and picking longsword as bladesinger for the phalar alluve and larenthian's wrath (that has the razor gale weapon skill for some great aoe with green-flame blade. Another fun idea for this is using something like the voss silver sword, while running some artificer levels with the subclass trait that lets you use your INT modifier instead of STR or DEX for magic weapons. :)

[@ryoujiarisato7308]

What i ended up using for this character was the infernal rapier, making my hits very consistent with 20 INT, from the Wyll questline, i definitely recommend it!

[@fancycavegaming620]

That Bladesinger build may be a fun retrofit for a high level Lae'zel.

[@20storiesunder]

Mmmm alas the most fitting armour for her is medium. I've made a Psionic Fighter and it's felt good.

[@JL-gm8gy]

This is the way i love your videos man

[@Shantaq]

I went for longsword proficiency with bladesinger in order to wield the singing longsword you get in the underdark.

[@rattleboned]

Adding another tip, when backing up your game files your game saves are located in a separate folder from where “Browse local files” takes you-they’re in your Local folder under AppData How to get there: Hold windows key and press R to open the “Run” window Type %appdata% Hit enter, go into Local folder Scroll down and go into Larian Studios folder Folder Baldur’s Gate 3->PlayerProfiles->Public->Savegames->Story All of these folders are your individual saves, feel free to backup wherever works best for you

[@n0pamine]

I'd still love to see some builds that focus on the illithid powers if possible, but I love the builds in this video

[@commanderroddi7742]

Technically, in D&D, Bladesong ends if you don't have a free hand or light armor/no armor, so you want to be a duelist. Also, Its usually A scimitar you get with it, and a scimitar to me, seems to be the type of blade you'd dance with. Expeditious rettreat is another bonus action spell you may want to consider early on, oft I replace it when I get haste. I want to play a Full bladesinger, but Pali is good. Ancients is great, and you get some cool spells.

[@Fizz-Pop]

Colby likes him some AS's...Action Surge's 🤣