MOST OP Tank Build in Baldur's Gate 3

This Barbarian build makes best build for bg3 honor mode
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[@darkrathwheito9818]

Classic tank: "I have lots of armor class, you'll never kill me!" This tank: "Try to kill me :)"

[@SirCharles12357]

Great build. Really like the acid theme with your item selection. Also, Bear Barbarians have Advantage on all Strength skill checks, which means all their push attacks are done with Advantage!

[@lydiasteinebendiksen4269]

I'm pretty sure that's all barbarians whenever they rage, not just bear barbarians. At least it is in tabletop.

[@gwyn.]

Stinky Hobo Tank

[@TheSpudKing]

Hahah

[@steelwind2334]

Best tank is Arcane Ward Wizzard ft Armour of Agathys. This is best clown build.

[@RealDragox]

I have completed around 8 Runs & over 1100 hours so far and NEVER knew there was even a CAVE with Boots in Act3 Pre-Lower City Docks area... WTH

[@TheSpudKing]

Yeah, it's well hidden :)

[@theatheistattitude]

No ring of regeneration? I guess its not a bad idea to dial back the health for some dps. Just knowing that you could get a garunteed 4hp every turn is wild from the ring. If you keep the flail and have the regen ring, thats at least 10hp per turn.

[@javelin1423]

the ring is 1d4 iirc, so its not a guaranteed 4hp per turn unless you use that amulet act 1 amulet that maximizes all healing received

[@jbbolden3104]

@@javelin1423that’s what they’re using in the vid….

[@nathanbarnhart7823]

Your going be attacking twice, so more like 16 go a turn. Make they assumed it was over kill?

[@theatheistattitude]

@@jbbolden3104 Must have missed that, didnt hear it mentioned.

[@Peter-dp2hw]

0:42 Lineage II music kicks in. Amazing

[@kinsan89]

That acid pit with the cloak can also be accessed via a cave past the undead fish guys near the temple of Shar!

[@messete1910]

very good and detailed video, please make more like this one! :D

[@sifayun6336]

Enjoyed the part where you took Thulla threw a portal just to throw her into the ground.

[@alfiearmadillo]

If instead of fighter you take rogue, you can get a bonus action dash every turn for stallion heart

[@TheSpudKing]

Hmmm 🤔 Yeah thats a nice one !!!

[@simoncaud7764]

You can also use aid with a cleric at camp to boost your health

[@TurboKnight865]

Love your videos Spuddy

[@marzipaws]

Thank you for the guide. I'm trying to do the honor mode by my way, but I always die at the gnols. I'll try this build.

[@TheSpudKing]

Gnols is strong, try to be at least level 4, and always convince Flind to be on your side, then run away for a turn, so she is engaged and not you :)

[@gregorshepherd3561]

Fantastic all round. Must try. Thanks, King.

[@TheSpudKing]

Enjoy :) I got some fun with this little boy in a party xD

[@colourbloo]

this is so funny, reminds of a character I played in a neverwinter nights campaign with all points in constitution

[@peb2899]

love ur vids man

[@horyukinen]

Great build! I think a Gold Dwarf Abjuration Wizzard / Barbarian has more potential to tank if you only play abjuration spells and have 3 or 4 as cantrips and get bonus actions. You would get the exact same hp bu you will also block magic spells

[@ilgiallo0]

My cleric , that was tanking on ze camp during honour mode , had 189 hp , minsc had 169 hp , with half dmg from electricity , ansur was able to kill the cleric and leave minsc with 10 hp with the legendary action😂 ( it's a cheesy tactic but hey first time honour mode ) sape happened with raphael , he was able to actualy downed minsc , so probabily raphael can del the most dmg in one turn

[@thebuffman5597]

Gonna be honest in me and my brothers honour mode run, ansur wrecked and almost did a TPK, meanwhile raphael was beaten up real fast. We went for summons, ended up the game with 30+ zombies at end lol. (i was a spore druid, kept popping long rest potions and carried around rats to make overall as many zombies as possible lol, my brother just asked "What are those 40 rats for??? can't you just drop it? No... you will see!) lmao.

[@madjackgamingandfitness498]

64hp 27ac shadowheart was in my tactician run. The hp scared me but she was usually the last to ever go down as life domain cleric

[@Sullivan-rz8dz]

Love that this video is spoiler free. Great build.

[@robertbuchanan7609]

I did a similar build. Use the defender flail in act 1 to reduce most melee damage. Even more tanky goodness early game.

[@rojczan1399]

I had an idea for a similiar build, but instead of going high constitution, it would be about Agility armor to get around 25 AC which kinda gives you a really big chance to dodge attacks already while also having ring of regen, sword of chaos and bear barbarian 7/Fiend warlock 5 with counterspell and Mirror image as important Warlock spells. I don't like the build in this video but it's still pretty cool lol

[@ertoni96]

The background music is from League 2?!? I love this soundtrack

[@TheSpudKing]

yep, few tracks

[@phatdog]

I feel like 4 levels in rogue would actually make a tankier build? You can go Thief allowing you to bonus action dash for temp health which is better then the fighter Second Wind, you can reckless attack for advantage on your offhand finesse weapon for sneak attack which would slowly add up more damage then action surge attacks. If your gonna wear the Bonespike Helmet then you definitely dont need to go fighter battlemaster as the helmet gives you unlimited uses of the Manoeuvre. Yes you get less health as a Rogue but since its only 4 levels your only losing about 4hp but gain the easiest temp health regen in the game :)

[@TheSpudKing]

Temp health is not a problem, manoeuvres is op here actually:) so we can control alot, but swapping with rogue will work

[@phatdog]

@@TheSpudKing More manoeuvres variety is always great :) End of the day your already incredibly tanky so it doesnt really matter that much haha. And this is without Illithid powers like Perilous Stakes or Absord intellect for more health regen or shield of thralls for more temp health. Very scary builds, love the content keep it up.

[@louquole]

Barb Rogue is a thing in DnD, though you need 5 levels in Rogue to get the Uncanny Dodge

[@Underwalker]

I mean this works too, but my tank build with 189 hp and 36 AC basically solo'ed the encounter with Viconia and her adds, the other 3 characters died on round 2, then it just solo'ed the rest of the fight without ever being hit, so high AC has its advantages when done right...

[@bloodgodalucard4769]

Very good video. :)

[@TheSpudKing]

Thank you very much!

[@ShadowFang1996]

It is absolutely worth noting that if you don't hit a target with the Shattered Flail, you'll risk having to pass a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or risk becoming Mad for 2 turns.

[@TheSpudKing]

Yeah, thats why we dual weild and reckless attack preemptively ;)

[@fretless05]

Looks like a super fun build. My only question is why you didn't start with fighter to get the two weapon fighting early as well as the proficiencies. Would that make a difference?

[@TheSpudKing]

We don't beed two weapons early, and its better to get barbarian benefits earlier to get powerspikes from level 3 + feat at level 4 and so on

[@jakeparkinson8929]

I usually build a war cleric/ thief in a 8/4 config. I usually use one asi for wisdom (20 stat total with hags hair) , druid initiate for extra cantrips (thorn whip and shillelagh), and pole arm master. Here is the thing, you are basically going to be able to attack 4 times in a single turn with bonus action warpriest attack, bonus action polearm master attack, and a main action attack and then spiritual weapon. You use just regular quaterstaffs for the first two acts, then in act 3 you use dancing breeze which then enables sneak attacks from rogue levels. Then in act 3 you swap out magic initiate for great weapon master and just wear dex gloves. Its a simple build thats effective and doesn't require classing into several different classes to achieve a single meme thing. Solo viable too!

[@phatdog]

You only get 3 Warpriest charges per long rest so thats 3 bonus actions whereas an action surge regens on short rest (So 3) but gives you an extra action which effectively gives you 2 attacks if you have the Extra attack skill. Thief gives you access to 2 bonus actions but you listed 3; warpriest, polearm and spiritual weapon. So I'm guessing you use warpriest 3 times then use polearm bonus action until you can long rest? Issue with that is your only dealing 1d4 damage and while the Dancing Breeze special attack is AWESOME, you would probably see more damage output if you pick the Dual Wielder feat instead of Pole arm then use the finesse weapon Phalar Aluve for bonus damage and can offhand attack with a rapier for example. Pole arm master is a feat that you ideally want to combine with the Sentinel feat which is a very scary combo :)

[@jakeparkinson8929]

@@phatdog buddy, you forgot that warpriest charges increase... and by act 3 you get great weapon master that lets you make a bonus action attack...

[@phatdog]

@@jakeparkinson8929 5 warpriest charges is still less then 6 action surge attacks but obviously you can use all warpriest charges in 1 combat so they are better for those who prefer long rests over short rests :) Great weapon Master bonus action only procs with kills or crits. This isnt a crit build and the bonus action only works if you have some remaining and are able to move to another target. So of your 4 potential bonus actions you can only use 2. Basically I'm assuming you use Cloud giant for 27str so attacking with Dancing Breeze 1d10+2+8 plus either another with warpriest or 1d4+8 via polearm master for a total of 20-40 damage before adding any other modifiers like sneak atk or gear. Whereas the Duel wield combo I listed with Phalar Aluve is 1d8+1+8+1d4 with any other 1 handed weapon from daggers to rapiers with special effects too for example we'll just use the easy to get Charge-bound warhammer which is 1d8+1+8+1d6+(1d4 from phalar again) for an average of 23-48 not only that but the Phalar Aluve 1d4 gets applied to any other additional attacks like Spiritual weapon or allied attacks. We could also use other legendary weapons like Duellist's Prerogative or Nyrulna for even more damage or special attacks. Or for clerics we could use the Harper Sacredstriker quarterstaff to have access to a tier 6 Spiritual Weapon which your cleric cant cast at level 8 for even more damage from that potential bonus action source :)

[@samminicksm]

I’m going to be playing a multiplayer game with a friend who really wants to be a wizard in tactician mode. I think I just found my build. 😂

[@krysuh6936]

Yoo the interaction with the amulet and items is new to me nice finding. But tbh this build is extremely weak to debuff specially hold person and there is plenty on the game. Heroic potion and the ring that bless you when you heal could solve that also a better distribution of stats to put in to wisdom.

[@arthurberr6047]

"Stallion" + 2d rogue level helped me out to beat Ketheric almost every time... except when he double spawned once. Most of failed "honour" runs where thrown because that broken swine

[@kerminator1225]

Got me through most of an honor run but after poor decisions on my end the run failed. I found using the blood of lathander mace to be a bit more effective in the off hand as if for some reason you do go down you will be healed back to 12 plus enemies will always be illuminated

[@TheSpudKing]

Oh, nice choice of weapon!

[@ItachiUchiha-dt9td]

hello there, do you ever use difficulty mods and if you do, which ones would oyu recommend? these insane builds need bigger challanges.)

[@TheSpudKing]

Hello, no.

[@MyUsernameIsGoofy]

There's a mod for extra encounters but I don't think it's really all that difficult, still worth considering.

[@SyckestBlah]

Another idea is to wear heavy armor (with proficiency), which will disable some of your rage benefits, but you still get the resistances from bear. Then you also Heavy Armor Master to reduce all incoming damage by 3. With the Admantine Splint Armor, which reduces all damage by two by itself, any damage instance needs to be at least 11 to even have the chance to scratch you (or 13, with Helldusk). Also, with your version, you don't get much from Fighter, to be honest, other than maybe the three maneuvers. So you could, instead, put those levels towards Rogue -> Thief, so that you can dash each turn with a bonus action, refreshing your stallion temp hp each turn, while still having the Bonespike Boots. Thief also has the benfit of you going to rage and still have a bonus action for the first turn.

[@TheSpudKing]

You can't rage in heavy

[@SyckestBlah]

@@TheSpudKing Oh damn, guess my game is bugged, then, seeing as my Minthara wearing Heavy Splint is raging every other battle? You can rage in heavy. You just lose the extra damage, I think the default resistances to physical damage (but you get it back from Bear Heart) and the advantage on Strength checks. So yeah, it's usually not advised to rage with heavy, but it is possible.

[@Deputydirtbag]

honestly you so tanky already better to just go for more damage

[@PrinsB]

My Immortal Tank-Healer: Use Finesse-Weapon or Hillgiant-Strength in the early game. Note: Gold Drawf have even more HP. Stats: 14Dex, 17Con, 10INT, 16Wis Starterclass: Cleric - LV1: Life-Domain - LV2: Divinity Charge - LV3: Aid & Bond - LV4: Resilient (+1Con) - LV5: Spirit Guardian & Mass Heal - LV6: Self-Heal on Casting Gear: 18Dex via Gith-Gloves Respec: 15Con, 10INT, 16 Wis, 16Cha - LV1: Life-Cleric - LV2-7: Oath of Ancient Paladin (+1Con) - LV8-12: Regain Life-Cleric (+2Con) Note: Consider Mobile Feat on Gold Drawfs or as alternative to 20Con. Honorable Mention for Feats based on Gear and preferences; Alert (Go in Position First), Savage Attacker (if you roll many dice), Tough (if you’re not a Drawf), Dualist (Finesse + Shield for more AC is what you basically did all along)

[@phatdog]

So your going 6 paladin and 6 Cleric? Your effectively combining a full caster who uses wisdom with a half caster melee class that uses charisma spells for more damage. By going 50/50 your not gaining the full power of either class and limiting your Spell DC and healing. What I mean by this is your Ancient Paladin for example is a front-line support class that buffs within melee range using Smites for damage but staying at Lv6 the only support you have is Healing Radiance which uses Charisma and Aura of protection which adds Charisma to saving throws but you'll be missing out on your stronger buffs like Aura Warding at 7th level which halves all incoming spell damage or your level 3 paladin healing spells and upgraded smites. By going 6 Cleric you miss out on 4th, 5th and 6th tier spells which is all the fun spells and great healing like Mass Cure Wounds, Heroes Feast or even strong damaging spells like Harm. By combining the 2 your missing out on their end game skills and locking yourself with 16 Wis and Charisma which isnt very good for full spell casters like Clerics, ideally you want to be aiming for 20 in the classes preferred stat which I assume your drinking Cloud giant strength for 27 str which is more for melee focused Paladins or Warpriest Clerics :)

[@patrickwinkelmann4002]

Where you find this poison ring in the underdark?? There is only a acid ring to buy for me!?

[@TheSpudKing]

Yeah, acid is right one

[@lydiasteinebendiksen4269]

So near the end you have more health than your enemies, but they still take more damage when they attack you than you do? Oh and then you heal with each attack on your turn? Bg3 is insane

[@ageofblight754]

You should make a busted life cleric to make the barb tankier

[@orital54]

can someone let me know what mod did he use do get like infinte actions and gear to test the build bc i want to do it to

[@imbalancEr]

lineage 2 ost is the best music

[@timbarthel5739]

Isnt Multiclass With Rogue amazing aswell ? Since the rogue passiv gives u 50% DMG reduction lvl 5

[@Lukashoffmann94]

Uncanny dodge is probably not worth the levels. It is a reaction, so it is limited to once per turn for most of the game.

[@TheSpudKing]

yeah, sadly it's reaction, and were taking beating here

[@Connorangel00]

I just got the game. This looks like a good build for me

[@percyal1]

Missed a few items for more health restore, ring if regeneration, buldarian helm, and if you were looking to maximize hp then amulet of greater health, I'm going to try a build like that and see if I can just outheal everything lol

[@phatdog]

Ring of regen would get more heals but he's so tanky already, he instead opted for the caustic ring and glow ring for more damage. Helm of Balduran is medium armor which will cancel out the Barbarians Unarmoured Defence sadly reducing your AC. The Amulet of Health will give you more health and an extra AC for Barbarians but it means you risk losing potential health regen every turn as Periapt of Wound Closure amulet gives max health regen. If you really wanted more health regen you can use the Illithid power Perilous Stakes or simply go Rogue instead of fighter so you can bonus action dash every turn giving yourself 16 temp health plus you use can reckless attack to proc sneak attack damage with finesse weapons :)

[@percyal1]

@phatdog oh no I won't deny he perfected this build I'm saying I'm going to fuck around with the stated items and see if I can't get one that will max regen all incoming damage without even attacking! The hard part is yeah the amulet will put you over 200 health easy but maybe having the helm with the ring can offset that and obviously yeah you'd have to pick a class that can just wear heavy armor for more ac, but I swear to go there are infinite ways to enjoy the game and I can't tell you how many times I restart now just coming up with new crazy builds, this game will definitely last a while even without dlc XD

[@phatdog]

@@percyal1 Sounds awesome :) Thats the great part of BG3 and DnD, there are SO many awesome and different builds. Good luck and honestly same, I struggle to complete most runs too because of wanting to try different things lol.

[@fauzannizar897]

Stupid question sorry, how do you get that much potion of invisibility early in the game?

[@TheSpudKing]

Steal -> refresh shop by leveling one party member -> steal -> respec at withers to lvl1 -> repeat

[@alexplayer8367]

I think you can improve this using disguise self into a githyanki and use the lae'zel quest reward as weapon.

[@winterpetersen5519]

Ok, here me out gold dwarf with Draco sorc multiclass into barbarian 😂

[@tonisirignano5280]

with Armor of Agathys from White Dragon :) tanky and retribution

[@TheSpudKing]

i like it ;)

[@cameronstill4033]

any alternatives to the shattered flail. he keeps going mad on my team

[@TheSpudKing]

In early game, technically no. But it would work just as nice with any weapon, if you have cleric for example to heal him

[@aripocki]

4:28 how did you rage without consuming a bonus action?

[@CrimsonReaper189]

Seeing this makes me wonder if the is anyway to make a "spike build" which is based completely around enemies taking damage from attacking you

[@TheSpudKing]

Hehe, 🤣 need to theorycraft! But retaliate abjuration wizard is probably strongest to do so

[@Re3Ns]

I prefer abjuration wizard tank but hey, the dwarf bearheart barb is a good tank too!

[@GZF4]

I hear you with your ac but what if your mainly a solo player

[@alphareaperking7018]

how on earth do you do those thumbnail faces? lmao

[@fledgling9097]

Tiger Heart with the shattered flail and periapt of wound closure can heal 36 HP in a single turn.

[@TheSpudKing]

Yeah, but you need to look for groups, if enemies spread its same heal, but without resistance to everything (ofc you can warding bond on tiger and he will be op, but this one is self sufficient)

[@soraite9775]

Isnt this tank extremely vulnerable to spells especially control spells? That is what worries me the most. Been thinking about a good tank build for a few days myself.

[@TheSpudKing]

It's fine ;) cant be protected from everything

[@Varthismal]

Keep a cleric party member to take care of him

[@cherrysoda4462]

I still feel like the Force Conduit tank build is better than this, because with enough damage negation, the stacks of Force Conduit never go away because you never take any damage. Though, this build does have lower AC, so it has that over it. Good video.

[@user-cd7qf3ed8r]

10:15 I’m pretty sure that door has a lever to open it

[@koreanbbq2376]

Also how the hell is caustic band only 40gp for you? its like 700 on my playthough with +6 persuasion

[@TheSpudKing]

I adjusted shops when recorded ;) its actually 3.5k on honour mode i guess

[@theusernameicoodfind]

Wow your English has gotten a lot better good job 👍

[@TheSpudKing]

Thanks 🙏 slowly working on it

[@theusernameicoodfind]

@@TheSpudKing I really enjoy how this build turned out too. I love the use of that necklace that fully heals you and there's so much health, when I think of tankiest character I think of like a light cleric/swords bard with all the AC items, but this character you've made is the other side of that spectrum he's just going to be able to take every hit there is.

[@CyberSkelly817]

how did he dupe hag's hair

[@gedox6523]

Abjuration wizards with a lvl 6 Armor of agathys and stoneskin would like to have a word with you ^^

[@thebuffman5597]

Actually you should've gone for DEX for max AC too, imagine a barbarian with 80hp + 16 AC at just level 3 lol.

[@mr.e822]

The reason he didn’t is because if you have too high AC, the enemies won’t target you. It’s fine if you are doing a run with no allies, because then you are the only thing that can be targeted. But if you have a full party, not getting targeted means your HP means nothing.

[@MacLachlan]

I'm at 4 or 5 playthroughs at this point and I can't believe I've never seen this Passageway at 14:25

[@TheSpudKing]

Oh yeah, its well hidden and wont be highlighted by ALT button

[@MichaelCampbell01]

How bad is "Going Mad"?

[@ItsJoeyNoodles]

I recently did a playthrough revolving around that mace and amulet. However I made a tanky eldritch knight. The only thing I would change about how I played is having less ac and some lvls into Barb for Bear. Still was fun especially with any of the items that grant not being able to be crit. The AC did come in handy for Raphael funny enough who when I was in his face would only try to melee me instead of nuking me

[@koreanbbq2376]

Go tough for 2 more hp per level xD

[@todhold2673]

6:28. Did he have 10x Ethel's hair???

[@wLB53A]

Yes

[@fartytowels8409]

Won't lie. It took me until about the 5:14 mark to realise that you were saying, "bonus action" instead of, "bomosection." Many apologies.

[@TheSpudKing]

Thats my vegetable English ;)

[@blargminton]

dwarf slayer build

[@jakeparkinson8929]

I still like using polearm master with shillelagh on a war cleric.

[@youmukonpaku916]

Ey-na-mes

[@deathorigin23]

I thought this was a video from Schlatt because of the thumbnail.....

[@TheSpudKing]

Don't know who is it, but will.check out

[@eduardo9a1]

Man where you from?

[@TheSpudKing]

Georgia

[@TheSpudKing]

Georgia

[@eduardo9a1]

Ok i understand you are from Georgia 🤣. Nice to see people whose main language isn't English having the courage to speak it online. I would be dead before starting to speak 😖

[@gnomekingclive]

Tonk

[@maximmad8511]

I don't have that much money on honor mode😂😂😂

[@TheSpudKing]

Steal some stuff 😜

[@sterben_deathsinger7483]

wouldnt it be smarter to while it is in act three to just bide your time with the game for the amulet that gives 23 CON ,and keep boosting strength

[@TheSpudKing]

You won't get full heal everytime, and thats what really broken, especially in act3 with potions. BUT. That's an option too!

[@ivantolstov6230]

Abjuration wizard laughs about this so called tank build.. Great build anyway, great early and late game, while abjuration wiz needs some levels and 1 feat to became tanky.

[@Wand422]

Also, abjuration seems to be way more resource dependent, the only real requirement for this build seems to health potions which I personally at least oversupply on when I'm stealing elixirs

[@awesomeobinradin]

Already it's not the tankiest, you're not a gith bear barbarian with the force conduit halberd, I take half damage from every element and psychic PLUS another reduced half bludgeoning piercing and slashing from the glaive and force conduit

[@TheSpudKing]

Hmmm. That's interesting idea too !

[@thiagokaneko727]

U can use Paladin lvls for divine smite and heal twice in one hit and using Adamntiun Shield enemies can't do critical attacks kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWSnaHV-fqmNnJo (video in portuguese BR)

[@thiagokaneko727]

I really wanna try this combo with: BONESPIKE GARB and FLESHMELTER CLOAK (rammus build >:D)

[@GrimHeaperThe]

DM cheating by looking at AC? classic

[@youngdonald4109]

i dont know how you people can play dwarves and little midgets and what not, thats cray cray