The BEST FIGHTER in Baldur's Gate 3 - [Updated] Lae'zel Honour Build Guide

[@Martdogg3000]

You know, I quit playing BG3 after about 500 hours a couple months ago. I still find these build videos to be very compelling.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks very much! That's high praise :D

[@Tubester-17]

Mart will be making another play through soon. No doubt 😅

[@RagnarBlox]

Here is a usable breakdown of all of the Level options, perhaps Cephalopocalypse can pin this: Pure Fighter (Race: Githyanki) Abilities - 17 Str(+2), 14 Dex, 16 Con(+1), 8 Int, 10 Wis, 8 Cha Skills: Athletics +5, Perception +2, Survival +2 Level 1 - Fighter (F1) Fighting Style - Great Weapon Fighting Level 2 - Fighter (F2) Level 3 - Fighter (F3) Subclass - Battle Master Maneuvers - Riposte, Precision Attack, Trip Attack Level 4 - Fighter (F4) Feat - Great Weapon Master Level 5 - Fighter (F5) Extra Attack gained Level 6 - Fighter (F6) Feat - Athlete (+1 Str) Level 7 - Fighter (F7) Maneuvers - Disarming Attack & Pushing Attack Level 8 - Fighter (F8) Feat - Alert Level 9 - Fighter (F9) Indomitable on Saving throws Level 10 - Fighter (F10) Maneuvers - Menacing Attack & Rally Level 11 - Fighter (F11) Improved Extra Attack Level 12 - Fighter (F12) Feat - Ability Improvement (+2 Str) Gear: Boots: Disintegrating Night Walkers Armor: Adamantine Splint/Reaper’s Embrace Cloak: Cloak of Protection or Death Stalker Cloak (Dark Urge Only) Weapon: Soulbreaker or Astra Sword if you can get Voss to drop it. Hand-wear: Flawed Helldusk Gloves later Gauntlets of Warmasters Multi-class options: Cleric - Light Domain or War Domain Sorcerer - Storm Sorcery Barbarian - For Rage

[@nadirbaitsaleem7270]

Thank you for this summary!

[@e-duh3529]

Time to see how bad I messed up my Baezel build

[@tmage23]

You can build her as a straight single class battlemaster and she's consistently great on any difficulty

[@jfkst1]

I think battle master is about the most straightforward build in the game. Very hard to mess up.

[@ДмитрийБотух]

@@jfkst1 Champion is more straightforward.

[@dangergaming7173]

@@jfkst1battle master’s maneuvers are confusing to new players. Trying to figure out which ones are good is tough to someone with no dnd or bg3 experience

[@jmr90000]

@@dangergaming7173 but they all do something good and they all do extra damage, the character will do its job perfectly fine

[@PhantomSteveAV]

When I first started looking for builds your channel came up and even after 760 hours in game, I still find myself enthralled with your build guides and ideology behind character creation. Thank you Sir.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the kind words :D

[@GonzaloMenaFuenzalidacl]

You create a builld for people who game after an exhausting day at work! God bless you man!

[@mateuspreussler1405]

Really cool tutorial for fighter I also love heavy armor mastery because it gives you a +1 STR and also decrease damage by 3 That combined with any heavy armor make you such a tank and puts your STR to 18

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Also an excellent option!

[@ribar4040]

I know it's out of contest for the character, but I made Laezel into a Eldritch Knight 7/ Abjuration Wizard 5 polearm master using Halberd of Vigilance. Enchanted from Drakethtoat with frost, Snowburst ring and boots of striding it was such a reliable build for an ice themed party. Learned most of what I know from your videos, it really helps people to learn different ways of enjoying the game! Keep up the good work.

[@Hazo656]

Why exactly this halbert? If you have a dedicated ice team, it's 1d4 force damage will break ice status.

[@ribar4040]

@@Hazo656 Mostly for the free (almost) sentinel feat, made sense to me as arrow damage... Not sure about that breaking you mention, target usually died by the time fighter is done attacking.

[@Hazo656]

@ribar4040 when you wrote about frost team I thought about "encrusted with frost" (it boosts blunt and force damage, but it breaks after one hit)

[@Hazo656]

I just was thinking there's better options for that status than the one, which breaks the status with 1d4)

[@ribar4040]

@@Hazo656 Yeah but in a full party based on frost I had astarion as assas/gloomstalker applying wet and bleeding at start on the group as everyone had booal blessing. Then an ice enchanted arrow of many targets + frightened from 1 lvl of warlock on crits. Gale was summoning ice elemental/myrmidon wielding ice variant of Markoheshkir and between all ice effects you wont have much time to think about stacking everything.

[@MichaelCampbell01]

Early on I'd take disarming attack over precision; early game it doesn't seem like the hard-to-hit mobs are very numerous, but disarming is so so good. YMMV

[@Mattykips]

Just wanted to say your builds got me to a near victory in HM. I only failed due to making a dumb mistake and am now back at it again with these same builds. Super appreciate how detailed you go into things and how you don't require a lot of items to get the best results :)

[@antigone.]

just curious - what was the dumb mistake? im currently on my first honor mode run and im really trying not to make any dumb mistakes 😂

[@user-bb2uo9gg4p]

​@antigone. Make sure to keep your party separated in battles. I failed my first attempt by a stupid mistake in Act 1. In the underground trading post, I bought gloves then just as I was leaving, I grouped up my party. Before heading out I decided I was going to use Astarian to try to steal a crossbow. Didn't separate the party. Astarian failed, initiated a combat. A fireball thrown from upper cliff, killed my entire party instantly lol😂

[@jonathanhood5514]

In my view, 16 Dex/14 Con is better than 14/16. Having a better chance of attacking before enemies is better than a little more HP. Enemies can’t do damage if they’re dead.

[@eduardoserpa1682]

Agreed. You don't make many constitution checks outside of concentrating on spells.

[@audreyrewinded]

Also agree with this, first action is a huge boon especially since you can use any scrolls you may want for control or starter damage if need be

[@peterhansen6853]

For some reason in all of my playthroughs ive only ever used the fighter as a multiclass option, but never as a monoclass. This motivates me to try that. Thanks for the video and the pleasent presentation.

[@Rapunzel879]

Nice build. I would however take Disarming Attack and Menacing Attack first because putting out greater damage pales in comprisson to what these two bring to the table. Gear can help out with damage, Bless can help out with accuracy, but the ability to frighten/disarm your enemy cannot be obtained as easily.

[@ericcraycraft]

Athlete is so amazing for mobility, glad to see you giving it some love. Makes her an absolute UNIT.

[@PommesPeterZK]

Just started my first honor mode run and decided I would be wanting to bring Lae'zel and resorted to one of your more recent "perfect honor party" videos' fighter builds as the OG guide was a bit older. So perfect time for an update! :) I would love to see a full Sword Bard guide unless I've missed it somewhere! (I went with the Bardlock build you showed off some time ago as that seemed closest to it)

[@brandonbutler334]

My last run I spent a long time trying to tune up more gimmicky builds and meanwhile my monoclass great weapon fighter Laezel just killed everything

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Genuinely I think guidemakers sleep on how good monoclass fighter/barbarian/paladin are because they're simple to build so you feel like you aren't adding anything

[@ДмитрийБотух]

Yeah, GWM fighter just kills stuff dead.

[@bentrieschmann]

Yeah, those 3 classes are simple, but really effective at their jobs, killing stuff. Other classes can be good as mono classes, but those are generally full casters, access to 9th level spell in the ttRPGs or 6th in BG3.

[@skywares]

LETS GO!!! I've hurt my shoulder and can't play rn your build guides help me so much 🥰

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Ah dang sorry to hear that! Hope you recover quickly and well!

[@skywares]

@@Cephalopocalypse thank you!! It's half from starting a desk job half from gaming for hours 💀 office shoulder syndrome sucks

[@kevin8499]

Funnily enough Rally specifically gives you a singular hit point if you are making death saving throws, effectively making it a healing word which could make it worth it as an earlier maneuvre

[@viktorfalk1988]

Very underrated

[@sonofdeleniel007]

Special mention to Martial Adept if you go Battle Master. The extra maneuvers and the bonus die help a ton for consistency and longevity.

[@dust7001]

I initially was in pretty hard agreement about how high you value alert, but there are enough items that increase initiative that I have begun valuing it less and less. I usually only use it on my designated CC caster, usually an enchanter or caster druid these days. Because getting a guaranteed Hypnotic Circle, upcasted Holdperson/Tasha's laughter or Sleep Glyph can essentially be the same as getting Alert on the entire party for the cost of 1 feat on a caster. I also value medium armor and high dex a lot more than I think most of the build guide youtubers do, but I think that is more personal preference. Also I refuse to ever give Lae'zel Alert before level 12 simply because she always ends up with Soulbreaker until then any time I play her.

[@TybrosionMojito]

Agreed. I’ve found that running dex-based characters pretty much removes the need for Alert

[@vladimirk7686]

Also don't forget about coatings and poisons. Some poisons out there have ridiculously strong effects, like drow poison and you can get it early.

[@adrianmarkstrom6692]

I'm surprised you didn't mention Lucky when discussing Feats, I always found it to be very powerful. Also, Rally can be used to bring fallen allies back up on their feet (unless they actually died of course), which makes it really good

[@fledgling9097]

Currently rocking a fun fighter build that's a bit different but still a lot of fun. Eldritch knight, but with the equipment that I have I apply 4 turns of reverberation and 4 turns of radiant orb onto each enemy I attack. Then deal an additional 4 damage from arcane synergy adding my int to the damage. Good equipment, lots of fun, and crazy strong after GWM is applied.

[@manolispiperias7608]

Glad to see you recommending precision attack over feinting attack.

[@KudzuHaiku]

I tried Commander's Strike once. Just once was all it needed to convince me that it should always be taken. The ability to turn a reaction into damage tilts the action economy in your favour. For a Paladin, this is an extra smite. For Rogues this can mean an extra sneak attack.

[@Theonetruefinalboss]

Athlete is a great feat and all, but i tend to throw the misty step amulet on mine and find that to be enough. I do take that ability spread and feat set, but instead I like Heavy Armor Master for more staying power.

[@zsa1yo]

I loved the "You get to have your cake and eat it too!" line, great video! Unstoppable Baezel incoming

[@Cephalopocalypse]

So a fun fact about that idiom, I think most languages have an equivalent but it's very different in each language! I've heard that in French it's roughly "Have the butter and the money for the butter" and in Czech it's "Have a full wolf and a whole sheep" which I love

[@sbattepac]

In Italian it's the cask full and the wife drunk 🍷 👠

[@Cephalopocalypse]

@@sbattepac Haha, awesome

[@sev1120]

One advantage to Githyanki for fighters, outside of their Misty Step, is their Githyanki Psionics: Jump, combined with athlete (if the percentage bonuses are addative) gives a jump distance of 91 feet. If they're multiplicative, then it's instead 121 feet. You're like a cracked up grasshopper

[@Dervraka]

The most fun character I have ever played was a Dwarf Fighter. Along with his innate resistance to poison, I equipped him with the Armour of Persistence with permanent Resistance and Blade Ward, Boots of Persistance with permanent Longstrider and Freedom of Movement, Dark Fire Shortbow for resistance to Fire and Cold and the Sparkswall ring for Resistance to Electricity, Ring of Free Action for Immunity to paralysis and restrained, Helm of Balduran with immunity to stun, Viconia's Walking Fortress Shield for all magic attacks made at disadvantage. In other words I was immune to pretty much every status effect and took only half damage from the vast majority of physical or magical attacks. Not to mention my Armor Class was 26 so not much could hit me anyway. It was hillarious, I went into that "tough" battle with Orin and all the Bhallists, just stood there doing nothing for several rounds and let them all attack me, by then I had only lost less than 10% of my health and the vast majority of attacks just missed entirely.

[@theraf]

For the 1 lvl cleric/sorc builds mentioned, they strongly benefit from Strength Elixir. So you can pump Wisdom (cleric) or Charisma (sorc) + Diadem of Arcane Synergy for even more damage and either higher wisdom save or be a party face

[@vladimirk7686]

In early game specifically, heavy armor master is probably the strongest. With adamantine armor you mitigate 5 damage per enemy hit of physical damage. And it is also a half feat so it's almost free.

[@Kuru-VN]

this is now the 3rd video i'm watching here since last night, as i still wanna know to do lae here and then i also wanna watch a warlock video here, as my mc is a warlock, i hope, i'll find that here too xD

[@amyt9563]

I’m going to be using this build for my first Honour Mode attempt so thank you so much for updating it! One question - I love the idea of the Cleric dip, what level would you recommend taking it?

[@zombieoverlord5173]

One thing I want to mention that no one really talks about is the Elixer of bloodlust. They are relatively common and are very good for martial characters. An extra action for fighters as long as they kill 1 enemy is amazing, especially late game.

[@eetuantola2519]

Only problem with bloodlust is that in honor mode you don't get the extra attacks from the additional action

[@AC-iq4gb]

​@@eetuantola2519It's _still_ amazing in conjunction with Haste and Great Weapon Master in Honor Mode, because you're still getting up to three extra attacks with those, in conjunction with Bloodlust, as long as you kill one a turn, making for up to nine attacks with Action Surge, at Level 11+. A Fighter using the mobility granted by Astral Tadpole Fly/Fly potion can utterly shred the House of Grief solo, with Honor economy rules, with that in mind.

[@eetuantola2519]

@@AC-iq4gb sure its great but you could also take a cloud giant strength pot to free up feats, vigilance for free alert or a defensive pot. Going from 8 to 9 attacks is a 12.5% increase in damage output but a hasting wizard or warlock can throw a third spell or a paladin can get another smite in its opener. It's not that it's bad by any means but I think there are better options and other classes tend to put the bloodlust to better use.

[@AC-iq4gb]

@@eetuantola2519 Bloodlust is in a sense a defensive pot, in that it gives 5 Temp HP a kill, and you can use the action to Dash to gain distance, if you so wished. It is admittedly more powerful on spellcasters, having another straight action from Haste and Bloodlust that they can get AOE off on, but it's still really powerful to average a 66% increase in attacks for Level 11 Fighters (Paladins and Barbarians are straight up 100% increased off combined Haste and Bloodlust), for the cases where they're fighting more than one enemy, are not burning Action Surge that particular turn, and gaining +5 Temporary HP on every turn is, I would argue, still a good bit of added defense. Lae'zel's initiative can have the Hellrider Longbow largely compensate for the hypothetical lack of an Alert/Vigilance Elixir, as I've done it for Act 3 (just talk to the guy or pickpocket sans Shadowheart).

[@AC-iq4gb]

@@eetuantola2519 The thing is, regarding that percentage, nine attacks is just the _maximum_ number if they needed to fully commit to a burst; going from 3-4 to 6 attacks without Action Surge is still a great boon on a Fighter, even better for a Paladin (who might be going from 2-3 attacks to 4-5), for something you can do every turn if they can end at least one enemy that go, if combat isn't ending for a few turns. Having more to work with on a turn reduces pressure for you to actually use Action Surge unless you need it, with up to 50% more to work with as a default, for fighters, 66% to 100% for Paladins (assuming no Action Surge dipping). Yes, spellcasters do get a leg up on what benefits they get from Haste and Bloodlust, but you can also use the extra action(s) for mobility or some such, and I'd argue getting 5 Temp Hitpoints is still some measure of value for defense, albeit it can depend how much 5 temp hitpoints matters (HoG, it procs on a kill regardless of Bone Chilled status). Regarding Alert, that initiative boosting bow you can get from Ferg (as long as Shadowheart isn't in proximity, or you used a Rogue), for example, at least partially compensates for Lae'zel potentially not having Alert, and having 22 Strength off Araj's Strength elixir makes having a potential extra action and a source of temporary hitpoints seem more appealing than a Cloud Giant Elixir, or improved crit chance.

[@RagnarBlox]

I love Gith, but going Dwarf/Duergar adds the Invisibility Cantrip at Level 5. In Honor mode this is a HUGE advantage because a party of Duergar Dwarves can basically position themselves to start every battle with a sneak attack and surprise.

[@stagmckale]

This is the first KZbin video I watched a) on my new headphones and b) since I turned 24. It was a good pick.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Awesome - happy birthday!

[@mrzoonix6368]

I disagree with some of the choices you made. Disarming attack should be first priority and alert your fist feat. This way you can disarm 1 or 2 (at lvl 5) enemies before they got their turn.

[@Deadknight67]

The second feat I prefer Heavy Armor Master for a strength build. It gives damage mitigation and +1 strength and a strength build already has great jump distance.

[@eduardoserpa1682]

Cool build. Martials are rarely cool in 5E imo, but managing Superiority Dice and toggling GWM on and off does feel pretty good.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

That and Larian's addition of the bonus action jump and shove and the short rest weapon actions really go a long way towards making martial characters more interesting I think! Those are great designs and I hope they integrate them into the upcoming D&D update

[@ДмитрийБотух]

@@Cephalopocalypse Just play Pathfinder 2e. Or something more obscure, like Mythras Imperatve.

[@RoryCombs-jy8qb]

Unless you have a different character who really needs it you can use the potion the drow lady gives you to get to 20 str and put your 2 ability improvement points into Con which mixes well with the Dwarven splintmail and the grymskull helm so you can basically make Lae'zel a all round juggernaut.

[@John-Sama]

I get rally relatively early to pick up downed teamates while being able to strike still. Its got a fairly large range too

[@iinfrunamii.]

2:44 great to know laezel isnt immune to the 9-5 trudgery

[@86BEAMS]

''fighters will be jumping most turns'' ''fighters will rarely have a use for their bonus action''

[@Cephalopocalypse]

WOW! It's truly amazing how those statements go together - great catch! It's almost like one of those things leads to the other

[@mikedickens848]

I like the idea. But I prefer your original La’zel build with one lv monk for versatility.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

That build is great! It's not the one I'm updating here though :D

[@PhastosEnioyer]

Maneuvering attack is worth a mention, especially if you have a monk

[@robertboss2581]

I like using rally to bring up a downed ally. Gives them good temporary hitpoints and I can still heal them with a potion after.

[@Michael-Mepoke]

Any chance you can do a build guide for a storm cleric/monk. Could be a lot of fun with Boulders gate wet mechanic. I know open hand is more raw power but I wonder if 4 elements and lightning/ cold synergy could be powerful with a few pieces of gear. For races dragon born with resistance to lightning and just stand in electrically charged water 😂.

[@CMiY0]

You could and I’m not against for fun/flavor builds but this one would be very suboptimal. Whats the goal of the multiclass in mind? Do you wanna punch stuff and also do spells? I think 4 elements monk would be one of the worst multiclasses because you need those ki points desperately and multiclassing will just limit the ki points massively, stopping you from being the avatar. While this isn’t an optimal multiclass and I know people dunk on trickery domain but if you wanna do a monk/cleric multiclass a way of the shadows with trickery might be fun for flavor and at 6/6 split it’d get you two free uses of limitless invisibility (if you’re struggling finding shadows for the shadow monk invisibility).

[@ДмитрийБотух]

Monk is considered the worst DnD class by most tabletop players, and there are really good reasons for it.

[@Michael-Mepoke]

I feel this mix would not come online till the start of act 2 so level 5/6. So it would be a respec mid campaign. I feel as if you would have to lean into a 17 wisdom/16 con, with elixirs of strength. Also at level 6 it would be a 5monk/1 storm cleric. This will give self bless wisdom to ac, more movement and access to create water.

[@plainscrafter]

Now I want to see the four reliable builds to sail through honour mode party guide.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

That's pretty much the premise of my very first party guide ("the best party in bg3")! Reliability is the most important consideration there

[@lolifred8289]

As a Githyanki, couldnt you dump Wisdom as a whole, and use Astral knowledge to get proficiency in wisdom, then put the extra point into dex?

[@chi7818]

Still watching the video but I’m assuming it’s because you don’t want a -1 to hold person or other crippling wisdom effects. I mean act 1 alone has multiple things that will hold person you and ruin your day.

[@Triad2474]

As someone who is new to BG3 and the DnD system all together, this is somewhat helpful. The reason I say somewhat instead of just helpful is because the gear sections seems very short and lackluster compared to the leveling sections. I was hoping you'd go into what gear to use per acts instead of just saying use whatever you want. It would be very helpful to someone new if we could get recommendations for gear per act rather than just saying try and look for gear with these general things in them.

[@Lucifer-sn9ir]

Making me want to do a durge run as the fire sorcerer or some sort of magic caster to go with a gloomstalker astarion, this laezel, and shadowheart as a cleric probably light to fill the gaps and provide things like bless

[@Tentacl]

I like to make Lae other class frankly. I feel the ability to use medium armor and swords makes for such a great bonus I don't want to waste them into a fighter - so I either make her a Rogue or Sorc in most of my runs, both are great with medium armor and Phalar Aluve early :)

[@ДмитрийБотух]

Gith equipment is just too good for fighter.

[@Tentacl]

@@ДмитрийБотух Yeah, but any character can use if you use disguise person ;)

[@ДмитрийБотух]

@@Tentacl Not that many ways to disguise for a warrior. Need p2w helmet for that.

[@Tentacl]

@@ДмитрийБотух I never played without it tbh, you have a point, but anyway I much prefermy casters in armor and with more weapon choices than a few items (other than the silver sword of course, that thing is amazing, but when you get it without cheesing act 1 Lae can already have multiclass to use it anyway.

[@ДмитрийБотух]

@@Tentacl Still, try gith warrior some day. They're so good.

[@skullkrusher-dx4kg]

I like going eldritch knight just for longstrider and shield then you eventually get misty step so its a pretty round about good character.

[@brasuras1236]

wow, i was a about to look from some of your videos a laezel builds thanks

[@R3dPhant0m_]

I feel like adding at least four levels into Rogue Thief subclass for that extra bonus action is pretty good it's especially helpful out later levels where it's almost guaranteed that you'll at least kill something during your turn and nothing feels greater than jumping across the entire Battlefield to one specific enemy to hit them with that last attack before ending your turn hopefully killing them

[@Cephalopocalypse]

That can be a solid option for sure! I think the 3rd fighter attack is just too powerful to give up if you're looking for the strongest combat option, but that has a lot of added utility and is still an excellent build

[@euroking1337]

Thank for everything you do

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks! Glad you enjoy it

[@binolombardi]

1 level in fiend warlock could be good. Hex and replenishing temporary hitpoints on kill seems pretty synergistic.

[@elperrobarbaro]

Hey, when would be the best time to take the 1 level DIP into Cleric or Sorcerer? at level 12 or way earlier? thanks in advance

[@WinRARx86]

You can do it at level 6, since getting extra attack at level 5 is probably the biggest powerspike for any martial class. After that once you hit level 11 you should respec back to pure fighter and wait until level 12 to multiclass again.

[@thenameiswater2921]

Could this go into the lore friendly builds playlist please? I keep losing the lae’zel build when I go to respec her in my honour mode attempts!

[@henriquealves5740]

You can use the +2 str potion that Araj Oblodra gives you if make Astarion drink her blood.. So you can follow this guide and have 20 str early

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Yep, exactly!

[@olicatthethird741]

Trying a modded playthrough right now with a few difficulty mods, and I was wondering if Risky Ring was good for this build? I don't have another purpose for it (Radiant orb cleric, divination wizard, lore bard) and I don't particularly have another source of advantage, but it might mess up ripostes. What do you think? Thanks for the build!

[@Douglas-nt7jd]

Where are yall getting 10+ hill giant potions?

[@timothynavratil437]

Aunt Ethel

[@eduardoserpa1682]

Merchant stocks typically refresh when you level up and when you long rest IIRC, so you can get a bunch from Auntie Ethel for relatively cheap.

[@Douglas-nt7jd]

Thanks guys!

[@nickyates4375]

The others beat me to it, but a small optimization if you really want to maximize how many you get. Vendor inventories refresh with every *individual* level. So instead of taking them all at once, take them one at a time on every character and she'll usually restock with 3 at a time. Also, don't go to the swamp until you have all the pots you want!

[@Turin_Inquisitor]

Always glad to see frogmonke

[@CrocanteOK]

Try eldritch knight 8 abjuration wizard 4 medium armor Master gith, very fun to play after having gloves of dex and hill giant pots

[@gregoberski5897]

you mean with the Medium Armor Master feat? why is that? To make use of Greater Invisibility stealth checks?

[@raspvidy]

I love your videos dude.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks very much!

[@RandomTuber782]

Taking precision attack and disarm early on can help you cheese the best gith sword in the game. Just sayin. Cast precision, and bless on Lazy and then use a disarming bow attack from the top of the gate.

[@SteelWolf89]

Well, time to reset the build for Lae Zel again :)

[@aoiwaffle6438]

I find that ranged fighter is better. I recorded some boss battles that show case that.

[@shayhearn4250]

Can you do one of these for bard please

[@alexanderball9080]

I know they’re not as good as Gloomstalker Assassins but do you have a pure fighter Archery build or is just not worth it.

[@eetuantola2519]

I suppose a more supportive archer could be fun with the different manoeuvres if a swords bard archer isn't your cup of cc archer

[@leochongsh]

misty step is free in githyanki. You dont need boots for it

[@oliverolson6578]

So guys, I’m starting an Honor mode playthrough and my current party plan is Assassin Doomstalker Astarion, Sorceror/Bard Durge, Light Cleric Shadowheart. Should I go 2h fighter Laezel or Thrown Weapon Laezel VOTE NOW

[@RoverCaptain]

Lae’zel tends to miss quite often with Great Weapon Master

[@Lancelotmetallover]

What exactly is the interaction between Savage Attacker and Great Weapon Master? How does it play out is it multiple rerolls or does the lowest dice get rerolled twice

[@Cephalopocalypse]

tldr: in BG3 it mostly doesn't work long answer: if you roll a 1 or a 2 on your first roll, GWF rerolls it, and then Savage Attacker doesn't trigger at all (SA is coded as a reroll, not rolling two dice simultaneously for some reason). If you roll over that, Savage Attacker Rerolls it. If *that* roll is a 1 or 2, then GWF rerolls it, BUT only for a single die per attack (even though normally it should work for as many dice as you roll). So you end up just not getting the benefits very often. Combined with the fact that Savage Attacker *even if it worked properly* would conflict somewhat with GWF (taking the higher die means fewer 1s or 2s to reroll), the upshot is that builds that get Savage Attacker should usually just choose a different fighting style.

[@shaunperron7080]

​@Cephalopocalypse Do you have a source for this? Because every source I've read says the exact opposite of this. To my knowledge, when you have both and use a greatsword, the game rolls 4d6, rerolls any 1s and 2s and then takes the two highest in combination for your damage roll. This is how it's still described on the wiki and the subreddit, and backed up by the combat log when I use them in tandem. It gives a substantially higher, and consistent, average damage.

[@robbtc6419]

Thank you!

[@MarekFischer854]

when will you finally do another party synnergy build? :(

[@Cephalopocalypse]

whenever I want

[@MarekFischer854]

@@Cephalopocalypse i respect that ofc :)

[@elgenkommer1]

I've had a bad case of restartitis in this game. Now I'm trying to get proper into the game once more under the dogma of only single class builds allowed. I'm hoping this will limit the possibilities to the point, where I can just play... BG3 feels analogous to those books, where you have to get at least 150 pages in, before you feel ... in... I'm running a half drow rogue, this build for Lae'zel, I accidentally turned Shadowheart into a Light Cleric (and felt dirty for it), and Gale is now a Lore Bard (also making me feel dirty).

[@jeremytan739]

Why not respec instead of restarting?

[@ratso8193]

Only thing I'd argue is not taking Menance, Disarm, and Precision as your first manuevers if you're using GWM since precision is the best use of your +10 damage and those other two can be used to take advantage of someone's weaker wis/str stat respectively.

[@BouillaBased]

You say on the option to dump Strength and use Elixirs of Hill Giant Strength that you would forego choosing Athletics. Why would you not take Athletics when you plan to have 21 Strength every day?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

You'd skip the Athlete feat, not the Athletics skill - sorry if that was unclear!

[@MatthewClark-r8w]

Think you can make a Human Fighter build?

[@AtypicalWarrior]

If my fighter is my face, what would you say i should make my stat array?

[@joshhobbs4862]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jesbydesign]

I'm curious, has anyone found a good build for a melee-focused party? I know ranged is generally stronger, but I'm curious if some kind of abjuration wizard, rogue/fighter, barbarian, paladin party could be viable on higher difficulties. maybe not honour mode, but tactician?

[@stinkymuffin]

Just have a wolf heart barb to give allies near him advantage in melee and ur good to go. Yes melee party can beat honor mode. 4 champion fighters with no multiclassing will beat honor mode.

[@ecbrown6151]

Swords Bard with 2 wiz splash gives you a bit of everything, shield and mirror image plus haste is really really strong

[@jesbydesign]

@@ecbrown6151that sounds really cool, would you do abjuration as the school?

[@ecbrown6151]

@@jesbydesignyou can, divination is strong also for the dice rerolls, evocation is probably the most popular as it lets you chuck fireballs etc near your party members with our damaging them. Gives you options. I will note that I run the headband of intellect for the 17 INT, this gives you 4 flexible wiz spell slots, 5 at level 2, that can be swapped out between combat. You get a ton of flexibility. I recently respec’d at 12 to bard 8 Wizard 4 for more flexibility on the wiz spell slots (7) and an extra feat. Ability +2 CHA, Sharpshooter, Two weapon fighting.

[@eduardoserpa1682]

My favorite core is a Paladin Bard with Moon Druid for the guaranteed crits from Wolf Shape. Throw in a Wolf Heart Barbarian for advantage and/or a single support spellcaster (Light Cleric or a GOO Warlock that also benefits from crit), and you have a really strong offensive party.

[@Danielsworlds]

Thrower Eldridge night is still probably the strongest build a fighter can use. But throw bills have a completely different play style than any other martial class.

[@TacticalStrudel]

Why is action surge so great? You can only use once per short rest.

[@DesaMii]

I dont get it, too. What is fun about this? I mean, last time I played a full Switzerland Knife Wizard Gale, a Walking Walkyrie-Godess Shadowheart herself, an Eldritch Blast Warlock and a very well coinfeeded hellfire Karlach Barbarian! Now I want to try other cool Chars and classes, like Laezel , but... This looks kinda ... dull? I dont feel this Fighter subclass, I suppose 🤷‍♀️

[@megatron97tf28]

Hi! Love your build videos they have been a tremendous help with my first play through. I do have a question for you or your viewers: Does anyone have a recommendation build/party build for a Dark Urge evil play through?

[@zombieoverlord5173]

I usually go as a barbarian fighter for myself, have Astarian as a Ranger/Rouge, Shadowheart as a Storm Cleric with at least 1 dip in Wizard, and Minthara as full Palidin. It's not really the most optimal party, but it does fine on honor mode.

[@aoiwaffle6438]

My Durge is Warlock

[@grittywaffle]

hell yeah

[@neltymind]

What's the pointof putting points in dex? I mean I see how it's useful very early on when you only have medium armour but as soon as you have heavy armour it seems to be rather pointless.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Initiative is very important!

[@cyborgtemplar1989]

Esp before level 6/8. I take alert on everything I can as early as I can.

[@BookDancing]

Neglecting to pick the Alert feat at level four feels wrong.

[@zombieoverlord5173]

Great Weapon Master is that good

[@Cephalopocalypse]

I tend to agree normally, but this build has even higher priorities! In the early game you'll likely place any initiative gear you get on this character for that reason

[@BookDancing]

@@Cephalopocalypse the best way to improve initiative is with the elixir, but I like to have fighters drink the str elixir, which is why I don’t like leaving alert behind.

[@BookDancing]

@@Cephalopocalypse just checked online. Only plus initiative item I see available early game, around level four, is a plus one from a bow. If you go hard into 16 Dex, maybe, but I am still inclined to pick Alert at level four. High Dex feels so bad when you’re wearing heavy armor.

[@DHSPITROCKS]

14-16 dex works just fine for most of act 1. act 2 has plenty of initiative gear and you can go grab it early if you want to. alert is powerful but not a necessity right of the bat

[@CptInstaRamen]

Why is your critical hit paladin video hidden?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

None of my videos should be hidden as far as I know! Do you mean this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHiZqqmZd9KshbM ? It's set to public and still getting views, so if it's showing as hidden for you there might be a bug or it might be regional - youtube can be weird like that sometimes. If it's not that video, definitely let me know, I'll try to figure out what's going on!

[@khairulbasirrudin732]

First like & comment!

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Nice!

[@tigrescuzz]

Just the hits that I see my fighter miss with GWM and a bard + cleric in the party, makes me not want to use it as a feast in the early game, its dogshit

[@nicholasmilitarescu9616]

You can get the legendary gythyanki greatsword in act 1 if you have a hireling ranged fighter that can disarm the prick that jumps on the dragon & it's the best great sword for Lae'zel in the game. +3 with psionic damage. You're not supposed to get it till act 3 but you can get it in act 1

[@xXUnKowNDeiTyXx]

The Hillgiant route just seems like such a hassle to hoard just to complete a build. If I had a bit more patience, I'd be a bit more inclined.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

I tend to agree - it's an important option to mention because of how powerful it is, but definitely not necessary and personally I much prefer not using them

[@johnbarry5036]

Not taking disarming attack early is a ridiculous mistake. Making nearly every single boss drop their weapon and become completely useless is a total game changer. With STR potion u get 5 attacks in opening round (7 later on) and 3 each after, its %99 even on Tact. You also mention bonus actions are not often used. I like to use volos ring and drink a healing potion to get free Blessed every fight. Finally, taking Precision strike is a trap. You gain no extra damage unlike Feinting, also a 1d8 roll is average +4, while Feinting is avg +5.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Disarming is a reasonable pick (that's why we get it later on), but you should know that your math is pretty off here - precision is average +4.5 (5.5 after the superiority die size increase) and feinting is roughly +4 against most common ACs, though it depends on what you're targeting (and of course doesn't do anything if you have other sources of advantage). Also you will have better luck with suggestions if you try making them politely!

[@stanislavp1739]

I don’t understand why you don’t recommend combining Potion of giant strength and Athlete feat? Am I missing something?

[@Dinakol]

Because Elixir of Giants Strength SETS your Strength stat to 21, after all the other bonuses. So say you had 17 STR and took Athlete feat (+1 STR) you would have 18 STR. Then you drank the Elixir which would SET your STR stat to 21. So theres no point in having STR stat. You can instead put points and feats into other stuff.

[@Hidan94]

Am I stupid, or u just dont say which background?...One of us have to be stupid. I hope it's me.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Good news! If you posted this rude comment, it's you

[@xModerax]

Half orc with champion is also bs

[@ahhhyessir2780]

Hiw do I add charisma to this character sir???

[@ToxicallyMasculinelol]

what about savage attacker? also, you could respec once you get to creche y'llek, and divest from dexterity completely for the dexterity gloves. then you don't need to chug potions all the time. I don't like being dependent on a finite resource, even if I stockpile plenty of it, it kinda makes me cringe for some reason. I guess it's cool for roleplaying a drug addict, but githyanki would look down upon that as a sign of weakness (though maybe you find the cognitive dissonance intriguing, idk). anyway, setting your strength to 21 does save you a lot of ability points, but setting your dex to 18 is almost as good, and those gloves add +1 attack anyway.

[@Minerva_Sparkle]

Imagine playing battle master when you can just bonk