The BEST BLASTER PARTY In BG3 - Honor Mode Full Lightning/Cold Party Build Guide

[@broadsidedarth7801]

I'd like to see your take on a full party that abuses the ability to see in magical darkness. Been toying with the idea of everyone having at least 2 warlock levels but might need one or two members to rely on items.

[@gonetomars3697]

12 BM ranger for raven, 2 warlocks, and a 12 fighter w/ shar spear is absolutely insane strong.

[@butterflyvision3084]

I'm doing this right now with 1 Lockadin, 1 Bardlock , Dark Justitiar Shadowheart and Astarion archer wearing the blind immunity ring. It's absurdly strong and makes almost every fight in the game trivial, including some fights where it doesn't make sense like the god of death fight etc. I think they should make a lot more enemies immune to magical darkness especially undead bosses, it just feels ridiculous that they can't do anything at all from 1 level 2 spell. It's also extremely good for trying to long rest as little as possible. You'll easily have 30+ casts of darkness with just the short rests and bard song of rest, and since you barely take damage or have to use other spell slots that's 30+ fights. It's not fun or challenging though.

[@guaranteedtopwn]

I'd watch it but I'm in the camp of "it's literally so OP and simple that it doesn't need a video" camp since all you need is dark justiciar shadowheart, one ring, and then 2+ levels of warlock on the 2 other characters. I'd watch it cuz I'm confident he'd mention a thing or two that I wouldn't consider like maybe an early respec which I typically avoid

[@Caillouteletub123]

Shadow monk is also good since the darkness makes you hard to it and you can teleport in it.

[@cosmorahn]

Yeah, I’m running a shadow group right now and while it’s hilarious it’s not challenging. I’m doing it more for the laughs watching the enemies try to figure out where the hell all the arrows and eldritch blasts are coming from as I pick them off one at a time. I’m doing the bardlock, lockadin, archer Astarion with a few levels of warlock at the end for dark vision, and the 1W/11C with the blind immunity ring on.

[@MXF-sy9hy]

I really hope that your day job is researching cures for cancer or fusion power. The level of analysis you put into this is amazing. Great presentation skills too.

[@kimashitawa8113]

For real

[@cannyvalley8522]

Between our party being thoroughly stuffed and our enemies being wet we do not need to be mature about it, the game is doing it for us ^_^

[@flibbernodgets7018]

Idk if it would be honour-worthy but I've always liked the idea of a monoclass party: all rogues for a heist-themed campaign, all bards to go on tour as a rock band, all fighters to form a firing squad or a staunch line of spears, all wizards because the antics of the Unseen University faculty in the Discworld books are hilarious, and all clerics to never stop arguing ever.

[@manisandjr8435]

If you do all rogues. Multi class. Gloomstalker ranger after level 4 is absolutely devastating same with fighter.

[@szinga]

my husband and his friend are running 4 druids for shits and giggles, all of them with different multiclasses

[@TheTeccala]

"A staunch line of spears", you'd make Australia proud :D

[@comebackqing8452]

4 Druids would work

[@jameshopkinsipg]

All clerics,bards,druids would definitely be doable.

[@Goodpsychiatry]

Using the last guide and can't wait to try this one too. Love these videos! Especially because you keep in mind items for us and not duplicating their use on multiple party members. Such great work :)

[@sabakugetsu]

I really love the non-item-intensive concept you use, because a build that depends on dual wielding the two absolute last staffs in the game for a wizard, for example, may be strong as it may, I don't care about a build for fighting the last one or two bosses, I want builds for the game, builds that start working from lvl 4 and that are more concepts than precision builds in which you miss a ring and the build is moot. Great content, dude!🎉

[@clarkside4493]

"Houserule". THANK YOU. Noting that this is a houserule is important.

[@jaake6091]

I did not expect u would value moon druid this highly in terms of "blasting". Honestly i am surprised that there is no sorlock or bard thats suposed to be S+ tier or Orc Paladin However i respect that u make builds not around items, gimmicks or interactions or even bugs but rather on levels and classes themselves which realy gives out to your knowledge. Some could might think that direct in game knowledge is obviously better for min max value but im praising seeing beyond the min max and optimizing before even min max.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks! To be honest, the title here is a little misleading - this party is only sort of focused on blasting. It's really a party centered around "wet" but unless you know the game mechanic already that's not a useful title (calling it "the wettest party in BG3" might also trigger youtube's content filters :P). I didn't really want to call it a lightning focused party either because I think that's too narrow a description for a very well-rounded group, so after a while thinking about it I gave up and decided it could just have a slightly misleading title.

[@LG-jn5fx]

I am using your previous HM party set up and it has been a walk in the park. Just have the final few fights to go and with the incredible power of the party I do not see there being a problem.

[@XxThe_ExiledxX]

I used two of the builds and then had two swords bards and had a very good time. Especially with how easy it is to steal stuff in act 3 to stock up on stuff for free.

[@borrow4654]

Have you noticed that enemies just avoid hitting Gale completely ?

[@LG-jn5fx]

@@borrow4654 Yes they do seem to avoid hitting my adj wizard even though he has the lowest AC. It doesn't really matter because the dmg output is extreme and they cannot hurt the party due to CC and 25AC with extra defensive abilities. Astarion is a swords bard with arcane acuity helm. Hold person on 4 enemies with 95% chance to hit breaks the game.

[@borrow4654]

@@LG-jn5fx lol I know. I've been running this set up in my current honour mode and it's crazy how safe you are at all times. And hell, gale with advantage on constitution + people avoiding him means you can always concentrate on something. Did you equip your cleric with full luminous gear ? Gloves, armor + holy lance helm? It's gonna take a miracle for enemies to hit you with 10 Radianting orbs on them

[@LG-jn5fx]

@@borrow4654 Yeah Shadowheart is walking around with that helm. 25AC and the cloak to give them disadvantage , when they miss they get 1-4 dmg and 4 stacks of radiating orbs from ring and gloves iirc. I think she could cast spirit guardians and just fly around to solo the rest of the game.

[@enyajungle]

Consistently the best bg3 content out there. Thank you!

[@timriley4643]

Totally agree!

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks very much!

[@Feythful]

I know I already left a comment, but I gotta say that this party is fucking powerful if you'll excuse my language. My main char is the lightning lord and she's joined by Karlach, Shadowheart, and Moon druid Wyll. Thanks to you, we killed W'Wargaz whole room before they got a single attack. I'm in Act 2 now

[@zero11010]

Your knowledge about the game is encyclopedic! Very impressive. I can't imagine you don't know this. But, when you speak about the halfling race you doin't mention it (as far as I've seen, I've not seen every video you've made). The lucky reroll sure is great to reroll attacks (also boosts the odds of rolling a natural 20 from 5% to 5.25% which technically makes it better on crit focused builds). It's also great to reroll saving throws. It also works for every single dialog option in the game where there's a die roll (you only see the final result on screen, so you don't actually see the lucky roll take place ... but you'll notice you just don't see 1s land ... pretty much ever). This makes halfling, by leaps and bounds, the strongest character to take for the party face. Especially on a build that is charisma heavy and not trying to use heavy weapons. Every initiative roll (it's a dexterity based ability check), every dialog roll .... plus every attack roll, and saving throw roll, and even death save. Technically, this also includes the survival checks to find chests on the map, and also your perception checks while walking around to find traps or notice secrets. Basically, any time you roll a D20 if it lands on 1 you reroll, because almost every D20 roll in the game is an ability check of one kind or another, and the stuff that isn't includes attack rolls and saving throws. Halfling ... it's the gift that keeps giving!

[@Ireniicus]

I cannot thank you enough for these party videos.

[@valery898]

This is awesome! Your videos are always so thoroughly explained, which is fantastic and makes the build very accessible. And I love that it's not tied to certain items! Having to hunt down specific items feels tedious and totally breaks the natural gameplay feeling of just wandering around to find out. If I can make one suggestion, you could consider inserting clips of gameplay footage that show how the party members work together in combat as examples. Sometimes I have trouble visualizing how everything comes together with party builds. Either way, this was great, thank you so much!

[@sjw7345]

I’m playing 4 warlock rogue and they are crazy. Darkness+hide makes them unkillable and i have 8 darknesses to play with each short rest Melting everything with no chance of losing

[@hrolnir]

I just came for the True Strike meme and I'm glad we're sticking with the bit

[@Dagothdaleet]

Wanted to say thanks for all of the guides you put out! You make some creative builds for inspiration.

[@swcole3]

Oh yay this was exactly along the lines of what I was hoping to do next. Thanks so much for sharing your ideas with us!

[@SpyroX.I]

Super important thing for Moon druid if you decide to play myridons with weapons. You are not automatically proficient in the weapons they have, reducing your chance to hit. Best solution to start fighter lvl 1, it gives all weapon proficiencies you can need, con save proficiency and heavy armour as a bonus

[@Cephalopocalypse]

It's true! Though most of the time for this party if you want to be attacking in myrmidon form you'll go earth myrmidon, which both doesn't have the proficiency issue and works with tavern brawler. The other forms are generally used for utility rather than melee damage

[@ItsASleepySheepy]

This sounds like a lot of fun! I'd personally love to see a full mono-class party guide - having to manage several multi-classed characters is a bit overwhelming for me, honestly

[@joeracer302]

With how versatile Bards are I think an all Bard party would be fun to see. Now that I think about it, a few of the classes you could probably build successful mono-class parties around, so anything like that would be interesting just because it’s not typical combo lots of other videos already cover.

[@agora5230]

I just did the lightning lord one. So much fun!!! Thank you!!!

[@quattroUnodos]

Omg I hit for 320 with a witch bolt on a wet gortash. I upped it to level 6 with the tempest cleric boost, regardless that is an impressive one shot.

[@MarekFischer854]

cant wait for the next honor mode party build bro, ur amazing.

[@jaxsonfanta5420]

I didn’t even read the title. Saw the artwork on the thumbnail and clicked that fast

[@theta1672]

Just as a point of note, you can also rush the rogue 3 for thief and have access to two enraged throws when you get berzerker. It might not be as damage efficient, but it is really nice with the double knock prone every turn :)

[@thejurassicman]

You are the reason I could finally finish Honour mode! Thank you thank you

[@envy5468]

Just lost my first honor mode run trying to climb the brain stem it was bugged and wouldn’t let me climb up. 60+ hours down the drain gonna try this party setup

[@123kidxpac123pac]

Alternative on the Thrower build, put your last levels into Fighter and get aldrich night with Weapon Bond on the Trident of the waves. Even more water everywhere and it now returns.

[@Rekhryt]

These team-build videos are a curse - I'm in my 4th playthrough atm and because of you I already got 2 more in my head

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks so much for the support yet again! I really appreciate it. I do my best! At this point I've spent literally hundreds of hours in the character creator so I figure I gotta spread that around a little :P

[@maximillianjayphoenix]

Divine Strike is not just for melee it’s for ranged attacks as well

[@Theonetruefinalboss]

I'm kinda mixed on this one. The druid is the only real melee fighter. The Barbarian _can_ melee, but it's built for range like the other 2. I see a lot of disengaging, or misty steps unless good planning happens. For a future build, a short rest party: Warlock, Monk, Battlemaster Fighter, and Bard.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

You definitely won't have a problem with enemies closing to melee - they'll just be dead before that can happen, or so locked down by sleet storm/spike growth etc that they can never reach you. The real issue is that by turn 2 it will be hard for your druid to find anything to attack in most fights.

[@thrillhouse4151]

I had to look up that “Warped Headband of Intellect”. I’ve never fought OR summoned that guy. What a game.

[@joezimmerman9289]

I love the concept of this video: a whole party working together to take advantage of a single mechanic. I'm looking forward to future iterations on this idea! In keeping with that theme, the moon druid feels a little out of place. The myrmidon forms are fantastic, but come very late and cut your total number of wildshapes per long rest in half. The summons are also great, but are also available to Land and Spores druids who are more able to utilize syergistic spells like Call Lightning. I think the class would fit a lot better if it had some way to stay on-theme even in the very early levels, and even when you don't want to spend 2 wildshapes on a single encounter. What if you started with a one level dip in White Dragon Sorcerer? You'd lose out on reaching 20 WIS (or the Alert feat) and some HP on your wildshape forms, but in exchange you'd gain access to Armor of Agathys, allowing you to do consistent, action-economy free damage of a relevant type from level 1. You'd also get the additional benefits of proficiency in Con saves and access to useful spells like Shield (for when you aren't wildshaped). You could even do a 2 level dip for metamagic (for a Careful Entangle, maybe?) without sacrificing any of your wildshape forms, but having access to Wall of Thorns is probably better. What do you think?

[@quangpham2031]

This is it! Saving this for my next run. Will be swapping lightning sorc with lightning arrow ranger and make my cleric a half-wizard to suit my taste, but general idea stays.

[@fzaoo]

That's awesome! Great video! Thanks for your work! Godly as usual!

[@DragoonKain3]

Interesting setup. I'll probably do a 5 sorc/6 temp-clr/1 wiz on the one-shot lightning, so I have 2 maximized witch bolts per short rest, or if needed 2 maximized CRIT witch bolts per long rest using illlthid auto-crit + auto-crit ring. Opportunity cost of this setup is that 6 sorcery points is the magic number (so you can quicken spells 2 turns in a row OR twin a lvl 6 witch bolt) and portent allowing you to turn misses into hits, but considering you can just sac 1 lvl spell ahead of time to gain that magic sorcery point number and you have luck as a halfling, I'd say the opp cost is low. On the upside, you can zap two high priority targets per short rest with only spell slots used as a resource, and your nova damage went from 460 to 608. Which is just shy of one-shotting a certain daemon in conjunction with elemental adept...

[@zorlix130]

Thanks for the video! With these full HM party build I might actually try to get the golden dice again. I abandoned the my first and only HM attempt after I failed to save Isobel from Marcus and got everyone at Last Light killed 😅

[@cannyvalley8522]

Stories like this is what keeps players alert

[@fantaman99]

I really love these, thank you for doing another one

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks very much - glad you like them!

[@tightoa]

Thank you so very much for the guide! It might be against your intention, but I woud certainly like to see some gameplay. I fumble stuff so much and an optimiized play is as important as an optimized build.

[@jakeparkinson8929]

honestly, assassin/fighter/tempest cleric makes sense for a wet and wild build. I.E shovel surprise round, conjure water outside of combat into combat, action surge + haste pot, get call lightning off 3 times in a row and all should be autocrits from assassin alacrity/initiate. And double damage from wet.

[@KirDmA]

Call lightning cannon crit - it is a save based aoe spell. For crits use witch bolt.

[@The_Breaded92]

We algo boostin with this one

[@Contra_87]

Definitely the most valuable materials about this game. I have one question. Can I take a bard (College of Swords Bard / Fighter) from your previous guide instead of a druid?

[@briangood7876]

I love your vids. Your insights are usefull and your presentation is superb

[@bleakeclipse]

My take on the Tempest build: 8 STR 8 DEX 16 CON 17 INT 15 WIS 8 CHA + 1 Sorcerer (1) + 1 Cleric (2) + 1 Wizard (3) + 1 Cleric (4) + 2 Sorcerer (6) + 6 Cleric (12) Sorc 3 / Cleric 8 / Wizard 1 By focusing on Cleric you get 1 extra charge of max damage per short rest Like to have a Bard on the party for the extra short rest With an item from act 3 that gives another charge, you can do max damage 9 times per long rest Also get to be an decent healer for the party by focusing Cleric Will have less sorcery points as the only negative I really dislike having to long rest a lot (usually Warlock is the only caster I use because of that), so this works better for me

[@anthraxbruce2307]

I love the videos and the breakdowns keep up the great work

[@gNetkamiko]

btw, little note on throwing any spears that return to the owner's hands: they will NOT return to you if the spear lands in a chasm. Learned this the hard way in the sewers with Nyrulna. ;.;

[@GRIFFIN1238]

I'm planning on using 2 Moon Druids, not as permanent party members, just to swap in to save spell slots on my other casters. They dont really even require equipment. Need to give Halsin and Jaheira some time to shine!

[@skywares]

Yesssss I'm so here, lost my ball python last night and this is the first thing that made me really excited since ❤

[@katsamajoto]

*pat pat* sorry about your noodle!

[@skywares]

@@katsamajoto ty 🥺

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Ah no, I'm really sorry to hear that! That's always really hard. I'm glad you enjoyed the video though!

[@daltonjenkins1651]

Love your content, keep it up! Could you tell me what armors you’re using in this video and if any of them are from mods?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks so much for the support! None of the armors are from mods, though they're also not all best in slot for those characters, just equipped because I liked the look ;) I think it's: Lightning sorc: Robe of the Weave Thrower: Elven Chain Tempest Cleric: Dwarven Splint w/ a gold dye Moon Druid: Yuan-ti Scale Though I could be mixing some of those up because I'm just going off the appearance :P

[@quaffie]

can you do a party around your face of fear build? :D

[@jamminkeys]

so anyway we started blasting

[@PaisleyTheBeachRat]

Great guide! Thank you!

[@JustARandomFio]

Dang. Why didn't you post this a tad earlier... sigh. Missed these amazing gloves of dexterity since I went to the vendor's spot on my way back after all Gyth wanted me dead. For the ones who don't want to miss these: they are sold by A'jak'nir Jeera in the Southeastern rocks part of the Crèche Y'llek and are NOT among the loot if you (have to) kill her. So make sure you buy these right at the beginning while you're still in "good" standing with the Gyth, before you work on the quests. Edit: great build, btw. Will definitely stick with it in my next/Honor run.

[@alexmashkin863]

Mature, sensible and informative comment about making Auntie Ethel wet

[@PenguinWithInternetAccess]

Me and the boys making the enemies wet (it's to blast them harder)

[@nicholaskersey3771]

I think it would be interesting to see a reverse role team. Like your abjuration tank wizard but with other classes maybe like full caster monk or ranged only fighter full healer Druid? Idk 🤷‍♂️

[@yng_h0ll0w]

Absolutely love the video. Is there any build you might recommend other than the Druid or is that an essential part of the squad?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

I don't think it's essential - there's a lot of options that could work here. A bard for more short rests will let your lightning character do the combo more times per day, or a warlock to give you a darkness bubble to play out of are some options that come to mind - a monk for locking down any enemies you haven't blasted with lightning could also work!

[@chandlerhildebrandt-gp1kz]

Just did the first party build and cleared honor. The game bugged and didn't give me credit so I guess I have to try this one!

[@theSpectralLynx]

Any plans to make an Illithid power tier list? Would really like to get your take on those!

[@d.b.hemlock]

Lol team Moist...

[@GRIFFIN1238]

Moist Critical

[@d.b.hemlock]

Moist Criticals lol ​@@GRIFFIN1238

[@ozai7725]

@@GRIFFIN1238hed be proud

[@edwardflores6604]

Can we see lore friendly HM builds that start with the initial class, Rouge, barb, Trickery, fiend

[@Feythful]

This is awesome! Is there any chance you could make a party for hm based around a paladin mc? I like paladins, but I am so bad at synergy.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks so much for the support! Yes, paladin strategies are on the way - paladins and monks are the two honor mode classes you most need to build the party around imo, so I definitely plan to give setups for those!

[@Feythful]

​@Cephalopocalypse yay!! Thank you! I've used so many of your builds. The only thing I have trouble with us early game item picking. There are just so many choices.

[@ThanhLai5]

Will you make a guide about a party that's built around Death Ward? I think a lot of people deserve an OP party comp once in a while.

[@KirDmA]

You can easily find it on KZbin. Some xx time attack per round (86?, i don't remember) build.

[@Noobgamer0325]

I thought I read somewhere that you can't twin witchbolt anymore

[@Cephalopocalypse]

You're not supposed to be able to, but they messed up the patch and you can still twin it if you upcast it. If that feels bad to you, you can twin chromatic orb instead, it's more damage with level 1-3 spell slots and nearly as much with higher level. (Similarly, they nerfed twinned chain lightning, but not if you cast it from markoheshkir which is how you'll be using it most of the time).

[@Swizz12]

On your cleric you want Inflict Wounds as a spell to be cast without disadvantage, when you are in melee. Guiding bolt for distance, Inflict wounds for melee. Also, guiding bolt is radiant damage which along with items like Luminous Armour and Luminous Gloves, is powerful and a good way to use up low level spell slots. This ties in well with wearing the Holy Lance helm. One alternative 'thrower' build is having some levels of Eldritch Knight, which allows you to make any weapon into a bound weapon (which means if you throw it, it returns to hand).

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Inflict Wounds is an okay choice for this character, but this party never really has to operate in melee so unless you're finding that happening frequently you usually won't need it. Remember you also have thunderwave as a tempest cleric for a melee spell option

[@diskuslars7527]

I Love These Buildcomps Would it be possibble To-Do a Comp with my Favourite Tav...the 2-10 Bardadin?

[@talesfromapartment8497]

I love Karlach as a TB thrower, but I found that BG3 would not return the weapon (yes, including Nyrulna, Returning Pike, and any 'lock-bound weapon) about one out of six fights making it unreliable--for me--for an Honor Run. I can't suddenly have one of my heaviest hitters be without her main weapon. (And, yes, I know I can just throw bombs a javelin or something else in my inventory.)

[@truthseeker4291]

If you throw the weapon to initiate combat it doesn’t return. You have to already be in combat before you start throwing. Once I realized that, it worked 100%

[@ChongFrisbee]

I was thinking about a LotR themed party. Either Legolas, Gimly, Aragorn and Gandalf, or the 4 Hob.., uhum, halflings. I really want to do the halfling one, but I'm unsure about how I would build anyone but Frodo

[@KirDmA]

They are all is throwing barbarians

[@cb77153]

If Gale isn't my main as lightning lord, do I still need the skill proficiencies in Deception and Intimidation and the dialogue charisma stats? My main is gloom stalker, party is cleric and barbarian. Chromatic Orb doesn't show up in list of spell options at Level 3 for Wizard.

[@lucasbarros822]

Am I doing something wrong? or when you upcast a witchbolt with quickned spell from sorc, the reaplication it's back to a level 1 withbolt instead of an upcasted one

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Yup, it's bugged. Luckily by then most things should be dead - we use witch bolt just for the initial damage here most of the time, not the channel. I should definitely have mentioned that though!

[@lucasbarros822]

@@Cephalopocalypse Oh, no worries at all. I play one party almost identical to the one in this video, that came to light just by playing/wacthing your previous content. Though, faced this issue beforehand. Wierd that it works perfectly with Call Lightning. But twin casting the Withbolt is a good call to circumvent this, true.

[@GeneralDingo]

Why not just ditch Wizard and take 2 Warlock on Lightning Lord? 2 short rest spell slots to cash in for Sorcery points or use for Shield. EB blasting spam for when you want to conserve spell slots or just knock opponents off cliffs. And you can just max out CHA instead of worrying about INT, so get full use if the Storm Sorc spells. You've got Witch Bolt to nuke bosses. You can take Fiend to improve survivability and get Command for free. Maybe not strictly as powerful but overall simpler and probably more fun.

[@ssj002]

I love the general concept behind this guide, but wouldn't having all these low carry capacity Strength 8 characters over a long playthrough be very annoying quality-of-life wise? Other than the throwing barbarian, wouldn't you have to sink inordinate time in inventory management b/c everyone else will constantly be getting encumbered? I get it from a min/max perspective, but playing an entire ~100 hour campaign with a party that barely carry any more gear than what they presently equip has got to be a pain!

[@KirDmA]

Simple - send anything you don't use/need to camp. Before you even pick items. And for trading go to camp, pick all junk, and sell. No problem at all.

[@ssj002]

@@KirDmA that's what I mean - over the course of a long game, that's incredibly annoying to keep having to do that. Definitely a problem for me, but to each his own!

[@Valscorn01]

As of patch 6 you cant Twin Witch bolt or chain lightning.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

That's not quite true - that was the intention, but they did the patch poorly. You can twin witch bolt if you upcast it to any level but 1, and you can twin chain lightning if you cast it from markoheshkir. If that feels bad to you, you can just twin chromatic orb like I suggest in the video

[@Valscorn01]

@@Cephalopocalypse Well things I learned!

[@shrike_3588]

I tried telling my friend a few months ago you could alpha strike with witch bolt, but the prevailing sentiment was that spell sucks.

[@joncay4904]

Is race/sub race relevant to anything here or your other honor guide? You recommended gith and few others for the TAV in your prior but I don’t think I caught any here. Dope video

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Generally what race and background you pick won't have a ton of impact on your build, but overall the strongest are usually wood elf/half wood elf, duergar, halfling, gnome, and githyanki. For this party build I don't think there's anything extremely relevant you need though, so you can just play whatever you want for flavor!

[@joncay4904]

Always amusing lighting builds don’t rely or need any of the lightning charge gear

[@dla458]

Is this party good in patch7?

[@timriley4643]

Love your videos! I never see any life clerics as mono class builds on YT. Is there a reason why? I feel like their channel divinity plus those extra heal items is sooo OP. Bless and blade ward for a short rest replenishable channel divinity. It is item dependent but I feel it makes healers viable in bg3 but I’ve never seen a build for it. No healer love on YT :(

[@KirDmA]

It is simple - you don't really need a guide to build mono class life cleric. It is really simple, even more than battle master.

[@timriley4643]

@@KirDmA good point, still love to see some healer recognition in the team builds though at least. They’ve completely changed some bad fights for me

[@Cephalopocalypse]

It's not a monoclass life cleric but check out my build "the best healer in bg3"

[@timriley4643]

@@Cephalopocalypse will do!

[@trentonthomas3127]

I dont understand why start at rogue level 1 on the barbarian when u dont lose anything for picking it up later and get more health for barbarian level 1

[@Aurora_Veill]

Could you try making a team around using the bard’s song of rest ability?

[@TactiSielu]

Which stats would you suggest if you don't have the Gloves of Dexterity? I have them in other files, but sadly not in the lightning themed party one

[@mikedickens848]

Why aren’t there more videos for a part designed to get a target wet….

[@ksac42]

I would like to try this setup but without the throwing barb because I’ve used that already on another run. Can you think of another build that would fit the theme?

[@marimold]

Thanks!

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks so much for the support! I really appreciate it :D

[@webdove123]

Sorry if this is a silly question. How would I start a party with Jaheira as suggested here?

[@TheLukeskywalker2]

Why would oyu want the barbarian to wear light armor? Don't they want no armor because of unarmored defense?

[@mistermilitary]

If you’ve explained I’m sorry I’m tired but I’m confused on the place of the moon Druid is it the “tank” and could you also play out of shape shifter

[@Qrow022]

Your voice is very cute

[@Cephalopocalypse]

haha, thanks!

[@Phoenixstryke]

I just had my honor mode run fail because the lift in the gauntlet of Shar started moving, and my characters didn't until they fell to their deaths, so thining of trying this one. I'm not sure about how to really use druids though, would a 10 Bard/2 Fighter work as well, or would I be missing the added wet from the myrmidons?

[@warintronsaetun629]

if i want to add a bard to be my main char and the face of the party, what position should I replace with bard

[@borrow4654]

The moon druid perhaps. The water/ice summons druid brings are awesome to apply and utilise the wet effect but you can most likely like without them

[@tylerbuckley6155]

early game it feels like i gotta long rest after every single fight :()

[@joshhobbs4862]

6:08 😂 me at work

[@Cephalopocalypse]

I was definitely drawing on my office experience for that one :P

[@MercyBlack137]

Could you make a full melee beast Owlbear Druid build? One that could own in HM

[@Caillouteletub123]

It's one of his first builds he created , the flying owlbear. Check it out

[@stitchedfreedom]

Great video, and guide. However, the video on this one seems very choppy. Is it just me?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

I clicked around and haven't seen any issues, but if there's a part that's particularly bad please timestamp it!

[@Longshot-qv8is]

Challenge: a viable spider team for honor mode

[@nlgarmdevil4411]

Making this team... I dub thus channel the Moist Maker

[@ShinSeKyung-og5hy]

I have a very important question: where are you going to get all the water bottles for throwing? Won't you run out if you're throwing like 4 bottles a fight?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

You usually won't need more than 0-1 water bottle per fight - that's just one way to apply wet, but you can use create water, melted ice surfaces, and in the later game the water elemental/myrmidon abilities. You can also if you start running out sometimes buy them from merchants, though finding them in the world should give you way more than enough

[@mitchlacasse361]

so, if you get Antie Ethel's hair, which do you go with with this party?

[@derekgunnels4856]

I thought sorcerer metamagic can only be used on sorcerer spells i.e. the only useful thing here would be haste

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Nope, you can use it on any spells you know or have access to, including from items and scrolls.

[@jimjasutis5046]

Just curious as to how this party actually fits into the game mechanic. The character you use for your Druid, isn't available right away. Unless you play the Druid yourself, you can't really get one until you get Withers so your comments on a level one and two Druid with spider shape and the early level use of a torch don't seem to apply. I have been looking for the perfect group to use with an abjuration wizard, but that one takes a while to get to the point where its gimmick comes online.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

For an abjuration wizard centered build, check out my previous party guide "the best party in bg3" :D

[@jimjasutis5046]

@@Cephalopocalypse Thanks.