THE BEST Death Knight Build (Warlock/Paladin) for Baldur's Gate 3

[@XHigHRiderX2]

Hex DOES NOT affect an enemies ability to hit you or cast spells. It is checks only. For example if you use hex on strength it’ll give them disadvantage on strength checks so you can more easily push them away. Hex also doesn’t affect the likely hood of you succeeding on a spell used against them if you use dexterity or wisdom hex for example. It’s good early/mid game for the extra damage. Sorry just didn’t want people being misinformed when picking that spell lol still a good choice though!

[@jrod7929]

Argh! Thanks for this. Been using it the whole time for exactly the reason you listed 😆

[@fishraposo7192]

I honestly didn't realize it didn't affect saves, thank you

[@thefitgm335]

The problem with BG3 RAW is that it only says ability on the tool tip, as opposed to 5e RAW that says ability checks.

[@jeantechnoir7702]

You're correct, The usual use of Hex in BG3 is for damage, it procs with both your main damage and the radiant damage from Divine Smite, you can also use Hex to affect Str on an enemy and lower their chances of resisting "Shove" for example as it affects Str Checks, same with any spell that requires the enemy to do a check of any specific stat.

[@fishraposo7192]

@@thefitgm335 yep, that's what confused me, I thought they buffed it in the game

[@misternyer]

Just to point it out, there's a girl in the lower city cemetery trying to raise her dead brother. You can be a noble oathbreaker and teach the child how to do it. Myrkul will seek revenge for your past misdeeds by raising a champion, but you can turn undead and gain the best bodyguard ever because he gets renewed temporary hit points per turn.

[@sygmarvexarion7891]

You must mean one of those Shepherd of the Dead that you encounter in A1 in the Mountain Pass as well as the Illithid Lair under Moonrise Towers. Those aren't champions, really, they don't even fight you with that greatsword, they just run away and summon trash undead.

[@misternyer]

@@sygmarvexarion7891 You're actually correct. I wrote that because, at the very least, when I played, this guy could renew his temporary hit points per turn. It's not like he's very useful, but most of the undead you can turn, besides at the Gauntlet of Shar, break and don’t use their abilities in any way, shape, or form, or use them in the most esoteric way. However, he did use his temp HP every turn and could be a useful tank.

[@darkest1assassin]

@@misternyerthe dryder (act 2 half sider, half man) can be turned into and undead then be controlled. He’s very powerful and has the highest health pool out of most undead. All you have to do is not attack him on the ambush then pass a very high skill check to convince him to give you his moon lantern, he will turn undead (after he leaves you will need to find him) and then he’s free for the taking!

[@geraltgrey-mane695]

@@darkest1assassin sweet

[@klotis92]

I got in to the habit of instantly giving you likes on all your videos i watch, simply for the reason of you respecting our time with your "TL:DW" sections, major thanks man!

[@xxomega702buzzalini8]

As a melee based attacker Devil's Sight is very good as no darkness can blind you without eating up a ring slot and you can use darkness spells to your advantage

[@xxomega702buzzalini8]

I also dropped the aura and went 5Paladin/5Warlock/2fighter action surge is strong if your just gonna focus on crit fishing

[@Orudaiken]

​@xxomega702buzzalini8 Plus you can go Vengeance with Fighter 2 to keep the Charisma modifier as damage!

[@XxTheDon786xX]

@@xxomega702buzzalini8 this is a bit of a late reply but at what level would you put points into fighter?

[@CorwinS-kd6yu]

​@XxTheDon786xX while I'm not the dude you asked, If I'm only going 2 fighter and 10 paladin I would do the 2 levels of fighter 1st, or after lvl5 when I've already got the second attack. I would probably just wanna go vengamce paladin 5 and warlock 5 with fighter 2 at the end for action surge. But you do lose some casting ability(big whoop you don't need to extra casts)

[@XxTheDon786xX]

@@CorwinS-kd6yu thanks 👌

[@Cervando]

I would suggest respeccing once you get the Warlock ability to use CHA for determining your melee attacks. You don't really need High STR, and its better to get your CHA to 20 and/or raise your CON for concentration checks. Finally, 2 levels of fighter at 11 and 12 gets you Action Surge.

[@bobnewkirk7003]

Starting fighter gives Cons Proficency so you have a better chance of holding onto your concentration. only downside is you miss out on Aura of Hate which gets to be a pretty juicy +4 or +5 on all melee strikes in range. If you plan on running any other melee in your group AOH is going to be more value for sure.

[@OBudful]

Aura of hate does only apply to you and nearby undead. It does not apply to other party member :(

[@OBudful]

AOH only good if you have a spore Druid summoner in your party

[@bobnewkirk7003]

@@OBudful AOH specifies that you need to take a "Melee weapon attack" in order to get the bonus. Most undead (Spore/Animate) make unarmed attacks so they don't get the bonus, even if its listed as an active buff in their sheet. I'd call this a bug given the stipulation, but AOH looks to be pretty trash atm. it really needs to be reworded to melee damage, and include party members.

[@plagueamer4877]

@@bobnewkirk7003+5, 6 or even 7 to all your melee attacks is worth powering up a fiend that is eligible and in an even rarer case undeads that are eligible imo

[@FiercyFrosty]

For those who want to follow along with their gameplay Paladin lv1: - Subclass: Oath of vengeance / oath of ancient (→ oath breaker) - Background: Guild artisan Ability Priorities: Charisma (17) > Strength (16) > Constitution (14) Paladin lv2: - Fighting style: Great weapon fighting / dueling Warlock lv1: - Cantrips: Eldrich blast / Blade wards - Subclass: Great old one - Spells: Amour of agathys / Arms of hadar Warlock lv2: - Spells: Hex - agonizing blast / Mask of many face / fiendish vigor / repelling blast Warlock lv3: - Spells: shatter / ray of enfeeblement - Pack of the blade Warlock lv4: - Feat: many good choices, choose as you see fit heavy amour master (if you start with 15 strength) / great weapon master (if you start with great weapon fighting style) / shield master / athlete (+1 strength & charisma) Warlock lv5: - Spells: hunger of hadar (CONCENTRATION!) / flight / counterspell / vampiric touch Paladin lv3: - Spells: Searing smite / bless / thunderous smite / protection from good and evil / shield of faith / command (if there's no other character that can use) Paladin lv4 (choose as you see fit) Paladin lv5: - Spells: magic weapon / branding smite / protection from poison --------------------------- If you want to have a more melee playstyle → Continue lvling paladin If you want to have a more spell-caster playstyle → Continue lvling warlock

[@illyrium129]

You're a beast dude, thanks for this

[@Bearyboo87]

This is how i built a Count Duku character the hardest part is getting oathbreaker unlocked quickly so you can start pouring levels into warlock

[@sancoribero]

Oath of Ancients = kill any non-hostile NPC Oath of Vengeance = Free the goblin in the Emerald Grove Oath of Devotion = Allow Arka to kill that same goblin

[@tonyjones2994]

I just attack the Tieflings that have captured La Zael. It breaks all oaths from all subclasses.

[@gun_slinger6664]

This build is good but could use some improvements for sure. I've been using a sword and shield oathbreaker paladin fiend warlock. 7/5 split respectively. Starting charisma at 17 + 1 using hag hair. I use one of my feats for ability score improve to bring it to 20 then I use the birthright hat to bring it to 22 and finally the mirror of loss upgrade to bring it to 24. My other feat I take savage attacker giving me the highest possible damage on my smites. I recommend using Voss' Silver Sword or Blackguards Sword and Viconia's shield or shield of undevout. Both swords have an extra +1d4 of either psychic or necrotic damage plus extra abilities that both work well for a paladin. Because of my shield and heavy armour AC is around 24-26. For eldritch invocations you NEED devils sight. Honestly take this invocation and use your first turn to cast darkness on top of yourself. This gives you advantage on attack rolls while inside and nothing can hit you back, it's insane. I didn't even take repelling blast because I wanted everything to come to me. It's ridiculous. Coupled with high AC nothing will hit you. And even if you do get hit, the Fiend warlock class lets you get temporary hit points for every enemy you kill. Busted build and super fun plus very fun to roleplay as. My race was Dragonborn because I felt like I didn't even need any racial bonuses for this class to excel. Breath weapon is sometimes useful early game for groups of enemies but honestly race doesn't matter for this class combo.

[@dungeontales8117]

This is da way lol I'm leaning to a 8/4 split to get the asi scores for resilient (con proficiency on saves) and warcaster feats. This will ensure your darkness/any other concentration spells never go down. The 7/5 split is probably better due to getting 3rd level spell slots from warlock for smites on short rest. I also think people splitting strength and dex is kinda incorrect. While the damage is currently bugged, it will get patched eventually and str will not add on top of the damage you do as it should only be cha. Dex is ideal as it lets you go first more often and set up the field with darkness. building this way also lets you have higher saves for spell effects on wis, con and dex which are very common (str not so much). the above isn't to discount str builds, just the way 5e works dex is more optimal.

[@dungeontales8117]

One other thing, Pact of the Fiend makes a lot of sense for the "Death Knight" as the temp hit points are another form of sustain.

[@crackball22]

This similar to my build of a way of the shadow monk/thief rogue teifling. I have the ring of dark vision on him so I can just pop darkness on me and obliterate everyone inside with all the flurry of blows/bonus actions. It's SO satasfying

[@dungeontales8117]

@@crackball22 do you get sneak attack with that?? Sounds fun.

[@crackball22]

@@dungeontales8117 i'm pretty sure it would work, I think all you need for sneak attacks are advantage iirc but since I was running monk it was better for me to just keep spending ki

[@VarthalabauHair]

Really interesting build, might run this on my Evil Dark Urge playthrough. Just a heads up, if you're fine with waiting until Act II, another way to increase your strength is to talk with Araj Oblodra, the Drow merchant in Moonrise Towers. If you have Astarion in your party, you can persuade him to bite her and in return she gives you a Potion of Everlasting Vigour which permanently gives you a +2 Strength boost. Also the Necromancy of Thay is really thematic and cool for this build since, once you complete the quest in Act III, you get Danse Macabre spell which allows you to summon 4 ghouls.

[@FyreGod]

Spectacular build my brotha!!!! I’ve been trying to really dial this kind of build in. Thank you so much! I’m off the next two days and you just assured that my girlfriend is going to hate me during them 🤣🤣

[@kmel3588]

would defiantly like to see a melee zombie controlling/summoning build

[@chipskylark5500]

Ez advantage

[@Goaheadandstaymad21332]

7/5 Paladin/Warlock with Aura of Hate and the animate dead crown that Balthazaar drops

[@FATAsWOLF]

I did 2 paladin 10 necromancer have someone haste you I also built my character to have both 20 str and int 14 con tho but doesnt really hinder me

[@codex458]

@@Goaheadandstaymad21332add Danse Macabre after finishing the thay, and you got yourself a real death knight.

[@KhorneDeth1]

I think a 6/6 EK Fighter and Necro Wizard would be the best summoner based Deathknight. You get the better necromancy from 6 Wiz (and nothing beyond that really matters as a necro wizard beyond spell progression) and you also get the 2 attacks, Con proficiency saves, heavy armor and action surge from EK. (Plus some help with spell slot progression as EK is a 1/3 caster.) You'd go max STR and wear the headband of INT. Melee and summons for damage, spells for utility/defense (like Longstrider, Shield or Blur).

[@Natetries0420]

imma be honest. having the level breakdown at the start of the video deserves my sub. Thank you. :D

[@connormcguire484]

Correction - hex is for **ability checks** only. So it won’t affect their saving throws or attack rolls - so targeting Dex would affect their stealth rolls. How this usually plays out is that targeting wisdom or strength is typically the most useful: wisdom so they have disadvantage on perception to notice your stealth characters, or strength to have disadvantage on athletics checks for various things like getting pushed. Also - polearm master is def a strong feat: opens up consistent ways to use an attack on your bonus action and constant attacks with your reaction.

[@ogredpowell]

Bro, need to go Grail Knight. Oath of Devotion 7/ Fey 5 and roleplay that the patron is the Lady of the Lake. FOR ZE LADY!

[@DrewTrox]

14:12 I had some fun with Polearm Master combined with Sentinel. There are a lot of cool weapons to go with it too.

[@FutureOverYou]

This is the way!

[@Lenoxygen]

Yeah my vengeance pally Minthara is a powerhouse with it

[@anthonyfrost1123]

This makes me miss dnd 3.5e where you got feats every 4 levels regardless how you multiclass because it was based off of your character level not class level.... only two feats by level 11 just.... feels bad. But I guess you don't get a free feat at level 1 anymore either... man they've changed so much about dnd it feels so weird sometimes

[@trock7542]

Dragonborn have no connection to dragons of faerun and the colors do not matter in terms of alignment.

[@italianspartacus]

Good correction! They're not the same as they're from a different alternate faerun! Or something like that

[@corey_massey]

HEX does not work the way you describe. HEX effects the skill checks for the ability, not the saving throw for the ability. Example....if you Hex an enemies Strength, it will make it more difficult for the enemy to shove you, or if you Hex the enemies Dexterity it will make it easier for you to shove them. Shove is a Athletics skill check. However HEX will not effect the enemies saving throw. Example you want to use Scorching ray, or Fireball which are Dexterity saves, if you use Hex Dexterity it will not impact the saving throw check for those skills. The best use and reason to use HEX is the guaranteed extra 1d6 of damage the skill inflicts. Also the skill is a bonus action and in effect you can use it and still attack in the same turn, that and the recast doesn't use a new spell slot so its possible to use Hex in one fight for 1 spell slot, do a quick rest recharging your spell slot and then recast Hex without using a new spell slot. Warlock and Paladin in general have alot of concentration spells so you have to balance the usefulness of Hex which is guaranteed extra damage vs using another spell which will rely on your attack roll/spell DC to land. I have found that for a melee focused Lock-adin HEX as guaranteed extra damage and the ability to cast it/recast it using a bonus action is just an all around best use of concentration, because it is always active. If you go with a more caster focused Lock-adin then its usefulness starts to drop off as you get access to higher level spells. Plus since both paladin and warlock are half casters you will never have as many spell slots as a full caster which makes Sor-lock (for offensive spells) and Bard-lock (for utility spells) a much better caster if you want to go the caster route. Lastly 10-12 Strength is more then enough for a Lock-adin since once you unlock Pact of the blade at level 3 warlock all your weapon attacks will use your charisma modifer on attack rolls and strength will only impact jumping ability and your ability to shove. Personally I find that Strength 10 Dexterity 12 Constitution 16 and Charisma 17 works best. Also if you are willing to give up a third attack (since deepen pack and extra attack stacking is likely a bug and may be patched) only 4 levels of Warlock are necessary to make a strong Lock-adin since Level 8 Paladin gives you some flexibility in your spell slots and access to higher level spells. Finally....there is a bug with warlock multiclasses where if your Warlock spell slots are higher level than your Paladin spell slots it will always use your warlock spell slots first, though this maybe a bug limited to console.

[@ShadowDaemon1]

Anyone going oathbreaker, a note: if you're planning on respecing, you need to restore your oath first(1000g) before withers will allow

[@scottholmes6080]

For anyone wondering, aura of hate only applies to melee weapon attacks made from from the applicable entities, that's why it doesn't buff necro summons, because none of them use melee weapons, only unarmed attacks and bow from skeleton. He made it seem like it was a bug but in reality its just bad design, from what I've read around the web apparently in 5e zombies and ghoul attacks in table top actually do count as weapon attacks, so not sure why they don't in bg3

[@frostkitsunelive7661]

Undead enemies in 5E can’t have “unarmed” attacks, so all of their attacks are considered weapon attacks. In 5E, you’re also allowed to arm your undead with weapons of your own in some cases, depending on your DM.

[@kjohnson2396]

I appreciate that you say when in the campaign an item drops! That's a huge help.

[@italianspartacus]

My pleasure brother!!

[@RogueOstriches7]

I like combining Devil's Sight with Darkness especially as a melee character

[@sideshowmo653]

Please note that respeccing oathbreakers is 1100g - 1000g to undo oathbreaker at the knight and then 100g with withers to respec - then you have to find a way in game to break your oath again. Its a ***ache Dunno if larian has any plans to allow the oathbreaker knight to help you respec within oathbreaker

[@jrod7929]

And thats just the first time. I respec'd a couple times and the 3rd woulda been 10k. That's a lot.

[@Fordragon]

There's a mod on Nexus to address that. Not sure how well it works.

[@the121smashchampion]

If you're like ah I just really don't have a good helmet.... Just pop on a sweet ass pimp hat

[@myromm]

89% Unsubscribed viewers is a mindbogling metric. Why do people hate clicking subscribe? Hope you turn this around mate

[@peterhospodar7876]

It might be seasonal, I followed IS while his prominent Bannerlord era, then unsubscribed as he covered something I was not interested in (Warhammer I think..). Now I am considering getting back, but maybe as we shift from builds into something else.. will definitely get back for Bannerlord as I have no time and patience discovering that game on my own. Currently Bannerlord is not on my SSD, so hopefully it will come together with future patches. Other side is that every half year I need to "cleanse" my followings so the subscription section remains somehow managable..

[@davidpavel5017]

Cuz i just want a build he made a video about and dont care for his other content?

[@figuresix]

Just started this build as a minotaur. only level 3 but so far wicked.

[@codex458]

Cool, cool… now let’s see the undead summoning melee hybrid build you talked about at the start. That’s the real death knight build.

[@nathanbudde9050]

I know it’s an old video but I feel like it’s important knowing the Oathbreaker aura of hate will only work with summons with a weapon (like a skeleton’s bow), zombies and ghouls attack with claws so they don’t get the bonus

[@Notthatguy23]

Use your greatsword from the forge in blight town to add silence to your melee. Been working extremely well for me. Also the plate mail from the grymforge is epic for this Frontline deathknight. Grymforge heavy armor not only looks absolutely amazing but it prevents crits and reduces damage and debuffs attackers. The necklace from the spectator in the underdark gives you 2 amazing spells for the theme btw. Also as a head piece there's a crown that gives scorching ray (3 targets take 1d6 fire dmg) these items are insane on this build.

[@Kmaitland89]

Um, Charisma doesn't affect your smites.... I'm pretty sure that Charisma only affects CASTED spells, smite not being one of those.

[@sideshowmo653]

iirc smites use strength (i dunno if the pact changes this)

[@italianspartacus]

You're correct!! Sorry about that man. Got a little carried away describing charisma. Strength does not benefit smite either

[@oli6108]

With pact of the blade all your melee attacks are charisma based anyway though so can dump strength

[@sideshowmo653]

@@oli6108 iirc str still affects leap distance and carry weight. You can fix it using a pot or the gloves ofc. I used to think smite was affected by strength but that seems to be incorrect

[@lovegermany4806]

This with Dark Urge is so Perfect

[@ZulZambrottosMartinez]

This build still valid after recent patch? Or can do better?

[@Foostini]

Honestly you could skip the last couple levels of Warlock or Paladin and go War Cleric and put out even more attacks.

[@redhotchikapepr8978]

So if I’m not mistaken the secondary attack with the Pact Weapon no longer stacks with Paladins secondary action. If that’s the case would you still recommend 5 levels in Warlock or go 3 levels to unlock Pact of the Blade and maybe go 2 levels of Fighter for action surge??

[@murphieslaw6932]

And it shouldn´t - that clearly was a bug. Additional attacks never stack in DnD, you only get the highest one of your classes provides (similar to temp HP). I would definitively drop to a 4/8 build to get all three feats and for me thats 8 Paladin/4 Warlock.

[@colecampbell1906]

If you plan on getting the helldusk armor in act 1 with that trick, you better not break that oath before you get it lol. If you do, the oathbreaker knight will be sitting there when you try it and he will attack you. You will not win that fight lol, not if you're still in act 1 anyways. But if you fk up and already broke your oath, you CAN pay him 1000 gold to restore your oath and he'll go away after a sleep.

[@osric729]

I really wish people would give alert more love. It's a rarely picked feat because it's not super great in DnD... Buuuuut, with the way BG3 calculates initiative, alert basically ensures you always go first, which is pretty massive, especially when your characters' builds start to come online.

[@bartnauwelaerts4283]

Why are you taking the darkness spell but are not taking devil's sight ? That combination is much more potent than anything you could gain from disguise self

[@wilsonaguiar4646]

Chromatic and metallic alignment doesn’t apply to dragonborn. The reason why is in the lore of the dragonborn. TL/DR is they are far apart from actual dragons.

[@mrcrab3652]

Yes exactly thank you

[@remortisgaming]

How dare you diss the fiend lock! I argue it’s the best in bg3! A constant temp hp shield that refreshes whenever you slay something! Especially stacking cha ! Will save you so much healing and potions throughout the game

[@italianspartacus]

NOT IN YOUR VIDEO YOU DIDN'T! We have too many temp hit point sources it seems!

[@remortisgaming]

@@italianspartacus ONLY BECAUSE ARMOR OF AGATHYS IS SO TASTY

[@italianspartacus]

YOU'RE TASTY

[@fiveforbiting]

This is like the spaghetti scene from Lady and the Tramp.

[@italianspartacus]

Slap that spaghetti on my ass. Wait what

[@stephenklien]

Not sure Repelling Blast is as good as Devil Sight for an invocation -- give to your Death Knight in addition to the Darkness spell and a Sentinel feat, and you are going to just obliterate your magically blinded enemies.

[@superape013]

replelling blast is one of the more powerful invocations due to how many parts of the map can maximize on fall damage pushing foes is one of the most optimal killing strats in the game

[@jamieeddolls5605]

@@superape013 no loot tho

[@superape013]

@@jamieeddolls5605only if you push them into a void you can kill easily just by sheer fall damage in the game in lots of areas

[@jonnymustardseedd]

Having THAT high of STR makes absolutely no sense, your damage comes from CHA and you need CON for your concentration spells, like what

[@sygmarvexarion7891]

Control Undead can be a bad spell because not all undead things that you can control have abilities like Jump, and very often you and your party will jump over a chasm, but your controlled undead will remain behind because it can't jump. This is only an issue with Oathbreaker, because the undead summoned by clerics, warlocks and wizards don't have this issue.

[@Gamer_Cafe]

Devil sight is solid if your running darkness

[@TheLukemcdaniel]

Other than it making the first couple of levels a little more difficult, other than carry capacity, why bother with strength on this build? Once you hit pact of blade, you're going to be using cha for attack and damage rolls anyway. Although, for just $100(if you haven't broken your oath yet) you can respec and dump str later once it's no longer needed...

[@TheTrueFeleas]

I'll forgive you for calling the Shadow Knight from Everquest a Death Knight. But seriously, thank you for this guide!!! 0_o

[@KhorneDeth1]

hell yeah EQ Shadowknight was so awesome!

[@VeXu666]

I'm completely clueless why people tend to make STR paladins. I like pure dex paladins. You just get the AC bonus, use shield's and you can use either the singing blade you find from underdark (which benefits from either dex or str build) or you can just go for rapier which is 1d8. 2-handed weapon's do nice dmg, but they're not that great compared to the bonuses you get from using an actual shield. Adamantine shield and yuan-ti scale armor with ac15 and uncapped dex bonus puts your AC to 22 at act 2, and that's without cloak of protection and boots which put you up to AC24. It's almost unpassable defense at Act 2. If you want to, add shield of fait for AC26 and your almost invulnerable. For passive pick either duelist (my favorite) or defensive for AC up to 27 buffed.

[@coryaronson2678]

Ok I gotta give you props ... You are 1 of the best KZbin channels in your genre... great speaker always well researched and gives the info upfront... if I wasn't poor af I would donate asap gl with your channel subscriptions

[@ToHonorKnowledge]

Fair warning, he gets a lot wrong. Often. For example in this video he displays he has no idea how the ability “Hex” actually works

[@ToHonorKnowledge]

He also says charisma is the modifier for your smites, it’s not, it’s based on your strength modifier. And aura of hate doesn’t effect everything you do, it only affects melee attacks. Just double check infor before thinking 1 video will be the only right way

[@emptimags]

@@ToHonorKnowledgeI bet you’re fun at parties.

[@Diceman82]

To add to this, Skin Burster is also really good. It's more for a solo run kinda deal, but heavy armor master+Admantite armor+7 stacks of force conduit is over 10 damage reduction per hit, with 7 of that being all sources.

[@n.a.nameless5435]

With Pact of the Blade, why are you still worried about your strength? Pact weapon deals damage based on Charisma, just push that to 20, and strength to 10 so no negative.

[@carlosguevara424]

If you want to hit 3 feats and go more of a summon Death Knight, do 6 Eldritch Knight and 6 Necro Mage.

[@FutureOverYou]

How does that give you a third feat? You talking about the Fighter level 6 feat?

[@tomcascaddan8319]

For a lore friendly D&D Death Knight build, The Fiend Warlock is more thematic as OG D&D Death Knights have the ability to cast Fireball.

[@joetomp]

Plus it’s a little more like hexblade which is a super big fan favorite paladin multiclass in D&D

[@31knots50]

I cry everytime a build tells me about the everburn sword now that I'm like 60-70hours in 😢

[@italianspartacus]

Hahahaha don't worry! There are so many other great swords in the horizon

[@richardclark7990]

just a heads up hex does not work how you explained it, the ability hex's really only effect things outside of combat like checks. the only good one to use is the strength hex because it will effect shove and throw chance

[@billdawson9471]

I would not bother with 'fly' when you have 'gaseous form'. With gas form you have unlimited amount of times you can fly and can go in places you normally would not fit.

[@PeskyBird01]

Maybe I missed it, but when do i go into oathbreaker??

[@tytryzgaming1395]

Been wondering as well but think it’s after you max out and do all 12 levels

[@common_undead]

The reason the oathbreaker aura of hate doesn't seem to work with the undead made using create undead is because it only effects melee weapon attacks, and your summoned zombies are unarmed.

[@mightbecursed]

dude doesn't understand how the game works, but he's recording THE BEST guides on it. It's so funny.

[@totallyenormous8859]

​@@mightbecurseddoes he really have good guides ?

[@N.C.S.W.I.C]

I found out by accident that you can Equip the Hellsblood Armor on the Bulette during the Underdark run

[@spyro361]

@@totallyenormous8859 this guy talk about the title of this(and other) videos.

[@Krishach]

Undead summoning minion hybrid = yes please.

[@ryanjay707]

Bro I love the fact you throw down what your whole videos about within the first few minutes

[@louhodo5761]

I found the Eldredge Knight level 6 and necromancer 6 works better as a "Death Knight "

[@KhorneDeth1]

100% correct, 6/6 EK-Necro is the perfect Deathknight imo

[@johnmiller8205]

Isn't a feat like resilient selecting CON just straight up better than war caster, unless you plan on actually using the shocking grasp reaction (dosent sound like you will with this build)

[@italianspartacus]

That's a GREAT shout man. Yes absolutely

[@fiveforbiting]

It depends on rng, but having advantage is always very impactful, where proficiency starts as a small buff, from +2 up to late game +4.

[@natural20crit]

I know the video is a month old but it is worth mentioning if you free Ethel, don't do it with a Vengeance paladin. You will be an Oathbreaker.

[@Hausi3279]

For my death knight, I don't bother with divine smite and any of those things, I'm using a battle master fighter and a necromancy wizard, so I am a frontliner with a horde of zombies with me and I got low dexterity, so I roll low in initiative, so I can attack and finish the enemies that already got hit by one of my zombies, so they transform into a new zombie

[@KhorneDeth1]

Hell yes, absolutely the way to go if you actually want summons in your deathknight build. I would go EK instead of Battlemaster for the little help with spell slot progression, but that's minor and the BM dice are incredibly handy too.

[@alexduraev]

If you want a more thematic death knight build, you can go with the same build but install a Dread Overlord mod that adds the Undead patron to the Warlock class 😉that way you can just go 5 Pal/7 Warlock

[@MrBrainoid]

Would love to see a Melee Necromancer.

[@69belhaven]

Ayyy former EQ bro nice to see someone in the space that has the old MMO experience.

[@puffingamer6480]

Could you do the same build but as the dark urge?

[@spynix0718]

Use the Spelltheif bow. On crit, it refreshes a spell slot. With all the crit fishing, you can guarantee a free spell slot.

[@brule1763]

I think if you're really strapped for spell slots with this build, you're better off using an arcane elixir to refresh a spell slot. Each turn you're looking for a crit with your bow is a turn you're not attacking with either a strong great sword or a good old Eldritch blast

[@DTDave44]

Just remember if you respect, make sure to steal your gold back from withers

[@DrChaos-jb3sp]

Yeaaah! Always nice to see people giving Dragonborn the love they deserve. What an absolute unit of a playable race. At least until Goblins get added into this series and then thats all I'll ever play.

[@arkuspendragon]

About the chromatic and metallic dragons you were right. But Dragonborns aren’t half dragons, their color doesn’t have anything to do with alignment. They are not even descendants of dragons.

[@dthaysjr]

Thank you for doing a TL/DW at the beginning and tagging - very helpful.

[@fuzzymuppet1990]

@italianspartacus OG Everquest players represent! I miss farming hill giants in Frontier mountains and camping the aquagoblin camp ! Lol.. also the feeling of flying around with my bard at 200 mph Aoe circle kiting entire zones! Ha!

[@thefitgm335]

Bard kiting, pulling, mezzing, and twisting songs was my favorite. I bought a Nostromo game pad just to twist efficiently.

[@fuzzymuppet1990]

@thefitgm335 ❤️, all the nostalgia feels, its crazy how many ppl i talk to that dont remember everquest, "Donating for KEI"

[@thefitgm335]

@@fuzzymuppet1990 SoW plz

[@BlackMutandas]

Plenty of incorrect information.. on top of everything, divine Smithe doesn't take anything from your charisma modifiers.. it's an increasing number of d8 based on your spell caster level

[@teedubs4904]

Just out of curiousity, why would you still need strength up to 15/16 if you are pact of the blade and your weapon attacks scale off of charisma now? Does heavy armor have a str requirement to wear?

[@italianspartacus]

You don't :) I say in one point of the video you can use it as a fall back if you don't wsnt to use pact of the blade. Helps with carrying stuff/damage potential UNTIL you get pact of the blade

[@remortisgaming]

Cause gear is heavy and be honest we’re all pack rats in this game!

[@fiveforbiting]

Jump range.

[@teedubs4904]

Ahh i see- thanks! @@italianspartacus

[@teedubs4904]

Thanks- that is a good point too @@fiveforbiting

[@PurplePplEatr52]

Is there a recommendation on when i should break my oath?

[@krys-mp]

Great video and a lot of nice stuff covered, thank you for your hard work. But, is this build still good? I know several skills get nerfed like control undead. Can anyone confirm please?

[@italianspartacus]

I have yet to go through the patch notes to confirm :(

[@FallenOverHere]

I know I'm a bit late to this video, but I wanted to include that if you're playing this build on tactician or honor mode, Deepened Pact's extra attack and Paladin's extra attack from Lvl 5 does NOT stack. I recommend on the higher difficulties going something like 7PAL, 3WAR, 2FTR or whatever combination you want, since the 5PAL, 5WAR doesn't stack as well. Of course, entirely up to how you want to play it! Happy Hunting!

[@inconspicuousboar3177]

Who would you better recommend for a frontline tank? The Death Knight or Eldritch Knight? My current BG3 party is Lae’zel, Wyll & Shadowheart. I’m trying to do a character lore accurate tactician run with Eldritch Knight, Death Knight, and a Trickery Domain Rogue. I wanna make Wyll and Lae’zel be either a tank character or a spell caster but trying to decide who better fits which role. TY for the great content.

[@italianspartacus]

Honestly, EK. You're just SO TANKY. this is more bursty than it is tanky

[@inconspicuousboar3177]

Ok cool! So maybe I should lean more into warlock for better ranged damage? Or do you suggest different roles for Wyll / Lae’zel that would make for a stronger comp?

[@battledrill]

I can't tell you how much I appreciate the Gameplay Showcase. As a person new to to BG, I have no idea what the rinse and repeat spells or bread and butter of combat is for each particular class or subclass. This is great!

[@lucanthefuccinelf5032]

Id love a necro knight build. Like using animate undead and melee

[@Cdot94]

This build is fun and tanky. I went with a half orc for rp, stuck to the code of vengeance his whole life but figured what harm is there in tricking Sazza to kill the whole horde? Oathbroken. Fast forward, I've hit lvl5 just wiped the creche at the monestary but I forgot the weapon at the bottom. Going on memory I get there past the puzzle and realize I'm stuck. So I go back to get the last ceremony item solo forgetting the eagle nest. I get jumped by 4 eagles, blown off the roof and still kill them all solo without extra attack. Thank God for eldritch blast and hording scrolls.

[@GezusJuice]

You get extra attack from paladin lvl 5 so it'd prolly be better to speed run lvl 5-6 paladin then everything else be Warlock

[@Dino55316]

I'm just now learning this and wishing I had done it earlier...

[@lowercasej]

I like this build guide. But I was wondering if you think it would work well with a friend playing a necromancer?

[@italianspartacus]

It'd be even stronger because you can buff their undead :)

[@skysoldier29]

Great video! I just want to note to the people arguing about which stats are pointless in the comments that Dex or Str are not worthless if you dual wield. The blade pact only works on your main hand and the dual wield fighting style lets you add your ability modifier and that is dex for finesse weapons and strength for regular weapons.

[@reignbird]

How come you have 89% unsubbed viewers? This vid has 425k views meaning only 45k out of those were views from subs? And since you have 245k subs it means 200k subs just ignore you? XD

[@Nimoot]

Misinformation .... 11:15 ... You hex a CHECK for the stat ... not their entire STAT... that would be broken ... You did similarly wrong information in another vid of yours... going to hard pass on your content if you're going to be lying through your teeth just to 'get more views' when someone doesn't know any better...

[@marshallwilver8831]

It’s not a bug about aura of hate not affecting the zombies you can summon. Aura of hate only applies to melee weapon attacks and the zombies only have unarmed strikes and you cannot equip them with items. The cambian(sp?) you can summon from the planar ally spell does benefit from it. I played a very similar build with a swords bard in the party that used the infernal rapier you get from the wyll quests and that summon got the benefit

[@gromnokriptide]

My Oath Breaker Paladin -Warlock I went to The Fiend. Partially sounded good with Dark Urge. Because I'm going Full Bale. Also GET SHOVEL!

[@senshinsou2886]

There is a mod called "Death Knight" for Baldur's Gate 3. It's very over powered and is very different from most mods that add classes to the game. I used it for my Honour mode run, and managed to beat it. I'm going to redo it though since it was basically easy mode.

[@Archronis]

You make it out like you only get one level 3 spell, when you can definitely use the Replace Spell option at level-up to swap out one of your low-level spells for a level 3. Also I'd recommend doing this at Warlock Level 3 to replace a level one spell for level 2. That way you end up with 2 L3 and 2 L2 spells by the time you hit Level 5.

[@alexandertan4808]

It's not as many attacks, but SwordBard10-Paladin2 is also really good. You can dual wield and stack critical range modifiers, along with the risky ring to get a crit chance of around 30%. Since SwordBard is a caster class that still gets extra attack, you have all the spell slots of a Wizard11 for your smites, but also have slashing flourish. If you're lucky, you can get a crit on both slashing flourish targets in one go, and since you have level 5 spell slots, that means you can deal a massive amount of doubled radiant damage with your smite. Bard 10 is also the only way to get Banishing Smite, which is really really fun on a melee class.

[@Talon--B29555]

Ive done a 6 paladin/6 necromancer. Was actually pretty fun. Did my 6 paladin first then went into wizard since act 2/3 you get good necromancy items. Got up to 1 lvl 5 spell slot with it

[@nitsua6820]

Someone please help me! For some reason Deepened pact (extra attack) is not working. I only get two normal attacks. Yes I know their was a patch that stopped the stacking BUT only for honor mode or am I mistaken?

[@ionized_salmon6417]

until you actualy get ethel's hair i recommend going 16/14 strength, 16/14 constitution and 16 charisma with the rest into wisdom for saving or dexterity for initiative

[@two1delta1]

Love this Death Knight melee/caster archetype. If build focuses on spirit of Eldritch Knight what about: Pal2+Bard6+Sorc3+Wiz1 gives level 6 spell slots (16 slots total), Divine Smite, and 2 base attacks/turn, heavy armor and all weapons. Can Twincast Haste before fight, turn 1 Twincast level 6 Disintegrate 🫥 (10d6 + 40 dmg), Twincast level 6 Dethrone 💀 (10d6 + 20), and then level 4 Divine Smite ☀️ (weapon +5 d8 dmg) which averages 300+ dmg turn 1. Turn 2 L3 Fireball 🔥 2x, and smite. Turns 3/4 full smites 3x each for continuous boosted damage output. Also have access to other powerful on theme level 6 spells Create Undead or Blight.

[@nikushim6665]

"there are so many way this class can be envisioned" Except in DnD its not a class, its a Undead monster template much like liche. Sadly larian mostly focused on the PHB which is leaves out alot of "evil" options. The classes that would have better fit the concept would be anti-paladin, blackguards etc. But with focus on the PHB that also leaves out other stuff like like the death/grave domain for clerics. This is why shadowheart is trickery instead of death and why she doesn't have Rebuke/command undead instead of turn like she should have (Shar is about creation of undead not destroying it, more specifically shadows)

[@DrewTrox]

27:54 I've got these two with my current playthrough. That Everburn Blade is Awesome. I just got the other one, so I haven't tried it much yet.

[@MrBushWookie]

honestly for this build i pick defense for pal because i two hand Voss' Silver Sword and it doesn't benefit from great weapon fighting and imo it can put out more dps against it's specified enemies than the balduran giantslayer or other 2 handed swords

[@Jackson-fm4ve]

Your videos are by far my favorite for character builds. You're doing an amazing job, and I'm thankful you share your knowledge with us all.

[@chrisgough06]

make al life steal build and poison build for me if u can... i have over 85 hours played and i cant get out of the gauntlet of shar the game is way to difficult and im finally giving up but i do enjoy watching how strong some charecters can be would be nice to see