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

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Lockadin has become one of the most popular multi-classes in BG3. In this video, I'm going to go over THE BEST Death Knight Build (Warlock/Paladin) for Baldur's Gate 3 while talking about Death Knight Gear, Death Knight Weapons, Death Knight Feats, and how all of it comes together!
0:00 Intro & TL;DW
1:39 Character Creation
5:22 Oathbreaker vs. Necromancy
7:04 Death Knight Leveling Build
14:03 Best Death Knight Feats
19:51 End Game Death Knight Build
23:14 Paladin or Warlock?
24:50 Oathbreaker
27:26 Death Knight Weapons
31:24 Death Knight Armor & Gear
41:49 Gamepaly Showcase
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[@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!

[@sabinsx]

one thing you miss was that each level of Warlock, they get the ability to REPLACE a spell they already know with any spell they can cast in their current level. this allows you to replace a lower level spell with a 3rd level spell when you first get access to them... which allows you to take Hunger of Hadar AND Counterspell at Warlock level 5!

[@arkuspendragon]

Ita really a nice feature but I don’t like to have reaction spells depending on warlock spell slot, or else you won’t be Able to do much

[@GodleyBeast]

@@arkuspendragoni felt the same during my current playthrough originally. But having 2-3 counterspells every short rest is nice if you are going for longevity and not spamming long rests. It's especially good if you are doing pact of the blade since you aren't as much of a blaster and more melee oriented

[@arkuspendragon]

@@GodleyBeast as a mix paladin and warlock I prefer to use for hadar and smites. I leave the counter spell for my wizard, sorc or bard companion

[@arkuspendragon]

@@GodleyBeast forgot to say that when I use paladin with sorcer I use counterspell because we have more spells slots

[@sabinsx]

@@arkuspendragon funny, that's what I do too! I think counterspell is just too powerful not to have as an option. I'm passing on the reaction a lot, but if I get something like hold person incoming on a character with poor saves, I'm countering it every time.

[@Natetries0420]

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

[@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 👌

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@kjohnson2396]

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

[@italianspartacus]

My pleasure brother!!

[@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

[@drunemeton]

Love that you “up front” your info!

[@PrimetimeD]

Very cool stuff. I'd been sleeping on the lockadin since it seemed so ubiquitous, but listening to this has me interested for sure.

[@joonyah8904]

I really like how you're straight to the point immediately in the video

[@Josh-mh7op]

Straight to the point after a minute and 40 seconds...

[@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!

[@dthaysjr]

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

[@justonschmidtke1921]

Excellent content. I really appreciate the front-loaded information.

[@ericquaranta4836]

Was just looking for a build like this, thanks!

[@daniellugo6706]

you put alot of time into this. I enjoy your passion ty

[@ivanemax]

I did darkness with devils sight on my build that was similar to this, and it complimented the Astarian in the group really well

[@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.

[@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 🤣🤣

[@oneupkev]

Great video as usual! really like your presentation style. Hoping one day you'll do a shadow monk, be interested to see your take on it

[@alispeed5095]

I did not know that you could multi class. Ty! This changes everything!

[@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

[@simple3316]

I learned so much watching this video.

[@Jamie_Pritchard]

Devil's Sight and Darkness are a phenomenal combo.

[@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

[@terrancestanford2446]

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).

[@alexandrospapadopoulos4297]

Completely unrelated to the video itself, I saw your thumbnail in deviantart years ago and still looked as epic as it does today. Whoever designed this must be really proud of how it's been used for so many different death knight depictions.

[@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.

[@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.

[@michaelwilson8352]

Love your content, man.

[@italianspartacus]

I appreciate that!

[@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.

[@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.

[@hurlerage]

Subscribed. I enjoyed all your bg3 content and i'm excited to see what's next!

[@italianspartacus]

Awesome, thank you!!

[@littleadventures1108]

I would like to see a melee summoning version !!! Great build btw :)

[@eleingang]

Love this build. The ring of arcane synergy works very well with sorrow. It allows you to use your bonus action to cast a cantrip, keeping your actions free for attacks. With magic mirror, the hag's hair, and the pimp hat, you can easily get charisma to 24. 7+7+7+ 10 from great weapon Master is +31 to your base damage.

[@69belhaven]

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

[@mattgiove]

great content brother! im gonna have to subscribe

[@Dino9474]

I’m excited to see what you come with for Paladin/Sorcerer. That’s what my main currently is and it’s a lot of fun to mess around with Meta Magic 😁

[@Im18AndBalding]

I’m thinking of doing this with Wyll for my playthrough. Seems it could fit him really well

[@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.

[@gregoryshinn9805]

Thanks for the video

[@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

[@drunemeton]

That’s some SWEET armor!

[@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

[@ryanjay707]

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

[@brucemartin1420]

I love that your tldw is in the beginning lol

[@Reikyel]

Nice build, needed it ! Good work dude !

[@HaleTheFreeVoice]

yeeessss A DK BUILD THANK YOU!! its so good and the fact I don't NEED wizard at all is great. I miss learning spells But I just made Gale uber wizard

[@OriginalMicycle]

7:12 Yes that's absolutely a bug, either with the spell's effect or as a typo because typos are bugs. If the tooltip says "any nearby fiends (or undead)" but it's very obviously not "any" then you can be confident that it's not as intended.

[@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

[@CajunCoyote88]

Subscribed, thanks!

[@user-og9tm7zj1p]

Devas mace and the codex or book that adds the spell undead army, would be nice additions to this build

[@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.

[@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

[@trolltroll5931]

This game is SO complicated. I feel like i need to take a freaking course at my local community College just to have BASIC proficiency in choosing stats, spells, abilities, and gear. That is just to start.

[@joetomp]

It’s tough, it’s a pretty slow paced game if you haven’t played D&D before because it’s just a lot of information at once

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@demonsean]

Yes I want to see melee summon build too

[@christiancordova6264]

Written guide would be lovely 😊

[@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

[@FlyingBrick900]

Would love to see your melee summer hybrid build

[@jeantechnoir7702]

Aura of Hate>2 lvl 4 Warlock Spell slots because that dmg remains there even when you're not using Divine Smite because you're out of slots. BTW, funny you mention the Charge/Bound Warhammer because I accidently just found out the 1d6 Electric damage is still applying even when the weapon is not bound or pacted and in anyone's hands so I guess it's either a bug or you're supposed to deal ANOTHER 1d6 if it is your weapon of the pact or your bonded weapon, I will test.

[@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

[@jeremiegartner464]

you had me at everquest

[@sakarakit5835]

excellent

[@adriendr]

Nice one

[@kingvince7328]

Divine smite doesn’t use charisma. Love your videos man, you’ve been helping me a lot

[@thatguy9088]

I am planning something a little different, sort of a "dark commander" sort. Biggest differences are 7 Oathbreaker/5 Warlock, taking Devils Sight + Darkness, with Alert for the bonus to initiative, but also instead of Pact of the Blade, I intend on taking Pact of the Chain, in order to get the imp with 2 attacks. I will also favor higher DEX than STR and use Phalar, which is a finesse weapon despite being a longsword. Then Gale will be a necromancer with shovel, then Shadowheart can also get summon undead, etc. Now I 100% admit that pact of the blade would be stronger 1 on 1, but I think capitalizing on Aura of Hate with as many fiends and undead summons/pets as possible might make for a stronger team. Because not only can you use darkness to help them survive when they are traditionally squishy, but all of them will get your charisma as bonus damage. When it's that many attacks from minions, I think that might be far better overall than another attack on one team member. Really depends on how many pets you get I suppose. Tempted to add a Spore Druid into the mix just for extra giggles just to see how ridiculous it can get. I haven't got to do it yet, but that's my general idea for my Dark Urge Tactician playthrough.

[@FutureOverYou]

Does Gale care if you respec him to be a necro guy? I'm thinking about a Dark Urge playthrough and had heard he would leave if you do any evil stuff...

[@thatguy9088]

@@FutureOverYou the game doesnt really care if you respec your companions, it acts like they were their orginial classes. As far as if companions leave or not, it depends on choices I think. Some companions don't care or even approve if you do dark things, others won't, it depends on the companion. I've never had a companion just up and leave suddenly though.

[@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.

[@KitetsuDesigns]

Hate doesn't increase the summoned damage because it scales of the user's charisma. The summons don't have an increase to charisma which means no increase in damage.

[@blazediron8317]

Sweet channel!

[@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

[@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!

[@bobnewkirk7003]

Fantastic guide, very through and detailed. Like you shared in the video I believe the level 7 paladin is the better split in this case. Going 7 warlock you do get level 4 for your 2 slots, however from an action economy standpoint Aura of Hate always being on will add up to more damage unless you are planning on taking a rest after every encounter. For a more Caster-biased warlock I'm more inclined to do a Fiend (Tome) lock split with either Necromancer, Lore or Wild Magic depending on your flavor/need; especially with Potent Robe. also using Disguise Self and some Disarm Shenanigans you can get the Silver Sword of the Astral Plane almost right away in A1. Really takes this build (or any other frontliner really) to the stupid-broken level.

[@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.

[@fiveforbiting]

Letting the Hag go free, broke my Vengeance Paladin oath. It also bugged the game and didn't give me the item. Unsure if other two oaths would also break.

[@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..

[@connorjohnston35]

Im using this for my new dark urge oathbreaker

[@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

[@doublea106]

There’s also a death knight class mod on nexus mods, but this is also cool

[@KyleHead]

Aura of Hate only applies extra damage to “weapon attacks” and most of the undead summons are using unarmed attacks. If you were standing next to the skeleton archer, the aura works, but as a melee character, you aren’t probably going to be next to your undead ranged summons very often.

[@PxGRez]

Doesn’t work on archer attacks either fyi. Ranged and melee are two different things. Myself and a few others commented this on one of his vids a while ago, guess he didn’t see. Edit: we also commented that because of level cap, you’ll never get necromancy high enough to use its passive with AoH.

[@IamTheaveragegamer]

Thematically, I made the storyline for my paladin, that he sort of has become overwhelmed by the weight of the tasks on his shoulders. And tries to find ways to get more power to defeat the evil before him. He started as Oathbreaker because taking the bonus from the hag makes you lose your oath, and it would make sense he seeks that power. He is reading the Necromancy of Thay because he felt he was the only one that can control that evil. So on, so forth, he corrupts. Into the Death Knight.

[@lucanthefuccinelf5032]

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

[@xTwist_]

Worth pointing out it costs 1k to restore your oath which you have to do before respeccing as an oathbreaker. I’d probably just set your strength to 14 and not worry about respeccing.

[@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?

[@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.

[@zombiehippo9477]

Id love a summoning build period.

[@RogueOstriches7]

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

[@MrBrainoid]

Would love to see a Melee Necromancer.

[@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

[@naut7845]

This build is honestly one of the strongest builds in the game. Especially if you lean into spreading conditions like frightened with the diadem of arcane synergy for even beefier melee damage.

[@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!

[@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.

[@KogetaJ]

What perfect timing because ICC is releasing this week in wotlk classic lol

[@user-zl5bf9lu1m]

Wuddup Jeritza

[@ragnarokhd8775]

Another weapon if your going the more sword and board is Knife of the Undermountain King The holder of this item gains: Organ Rearranger: Reduce the number you need to roll a Critical Hit while attacking by 1. When they roll 2 damage or less, reroll the dice, taking the highest result. Shadow Blade: You have Advantage on Attack rolls against Lightly or Heavily Obscured targets when using this blade. So if you go devil sight and darkness it makes you a absolute destroyer and if that wasnt cool enough its in ACT 1

[@alandubois159]

This is the dilemma I'm in. Just reached Act 3 and I'm trying to decide how I should respec Tav in terms of stats and equipment. Sword and board is what I want to lean towards and I like the idea of casting darkness in conjunction with the Sharran Helmet that reduces Crit die and the knife. Maybe add the ring that adds 1d4 while obscured.

[@ragnarokhd8775]

@@alandubois159 yea I'm going full tank for mine heavy armor and Sarevoks Helm it gives dark vision minus one to crit, and you cant be effected by emotion effects so im thinking dual wield with the flail you get from the gnolls would be duuuuuumb since it heals 1d6 every hit attack you land with it