The Knight Radiant: BG3 Episode #12

[@DnDDeepDive]

Errata: I'm seeing a lot of posts about this so wanted to clarify - turns out that the DC of your magic items is *not* based on the first class you took, but it's also not necessarily based on the *last* class you took. Here's a good explanation I found online: "If your first level is in Sorc then any abilities granted by items or Illithid powers will use Charisma. If you then level into Cleric, all items and Illithid powers will now use Wisdom. If you now level back into Sorc, all items and Illithid powers will still use Wisdom. Items and Illithid power use the spellcasting ability of the last new class you leveled into. So now if this character leveled into Wizard or example, items and Illithid powers will now use Intelligence. If they level back into Sorc and then level back into Cleric afterwards, items and Illithid powers will still use Intelligence since these were both existing classes on that character. But if they level into Monk then the ability used for items and Illithid powers will switch to Wisdom again, since Monk is a new class for this character." (source: www.reddit.com/r/BG3Builds/comments/185s5kl/determining_what_ability_modifier_casting_stat_is/) Hope that keeps things clear when we're respec'ing!

[@braxis9703]

that's a long way to say the last level 1 class you took :)

[@Mike-r4h]

Indeed. Last class added is the simple way.

[@depthchargex]

One thing to add: this is also how the game determines which ability to use for scrolls.

[@jasonm.6442]

interesting... so basically if you're multiclassing, just respec and make sure the last class you choose uses the right one. So sorc first for proficiency, then cleric, then bard to ensure Charisma. If you want to add 1 level of wizard, you have to respec again and fit it after sorc, but before bard. If you added 2 levels of fighter or barb last, would it make spells/scrolls use Strength instead, or stay charisma since those aren't caster classes?

[@depthchargex]

@@jasonm.6442 fighter, barb, rogue all use int as their spellcasting modifier

[@TheodoreMinick]

These words are accepted.

[@pederw4900]

Life before death Strength before weakness Journey before destination

[@quennedr1]

I want to like this but don't want to be the one to push you past the current number. Nice...

[@pederw4900]

@@quennedr1 your restraint is admirable

[@quennedr1]

@pederw4900 short lived unfortunately. 71 2 too high lol

[@joshuaroberts4604]

Journey before pancakes!

[@Ellamental21]

yes your pancakeness @@joshuaroberts4604

[@coffeeproblems5780]

One thing I really appreciate about bg3 builds, is that it forces you to build around the wheelhouse of levels in which D&D is predominantly played. Sure, the theoretical aspect of levels 13-20 are nice, and yes we've all had fun in a level 20 one-shot. But the value in fine tuning a character to levels 1-12 cannot be overstated. Thanks for the entertainment Colby, you made my workday a little easier 🎉

[@KyleHead]

As a quick tip for anyone speed running the gear - for the Boots of Stormy Clamor, you do need to get the mushrooms from the Arcane Tower and finish that quest for Omeluum before he will sell them to you.

[@LeoTheDarkAngel]

As an even quicker tip: If you're lucky, Derryth (or potentially Blurg/Omeluum) will sell you the ingredients Omeluum needs. I think I even bought them from Omeluum once.

[@ВалентинЛагутин-и2т]

As an even (more) quicker tip: Steal the boots from Omeluum

[@KyleHead]

@@ВалентинЛагутин-и2т best way to get the best advice online is to post bad advice lol

[@michaelgallery2978]

@@ВалентинЛагутин-и2тto be fair…hard to do in an HM run.

[@Bruno-lr9lm]

Just steal them… you don’t have to get the mushroom for him to trade with you.

[@barbellboa8421]

Should've known Colby would be the first to speak the 4th ideal

[@DariusSayers]

You can reach the Selunite Outpost in the Underdark before going through the Goblin camp. Get some invisibility, a potion/scroll of feather fall and go into the spider caves below the Blighted Village. Go to the cliffs where he Matriarch is at and you'll see the central, glowing green pit. Pop Feather Fall and jump into the pit, you'll float down into the Underdark right outside the outpost.

[@Ankz0r]

Be very careful if you are on Honor Mode. The big spider can see invis.

[@DariusSayers]

@@Ankz0r If you walk to the edge of the cliff from where the ettercaps were, it's range isn't that far. The invis is more to bypass the other spiders and ettercaps.

[@BraghDaMan]

Also be careful not to lose inviz there. You'll be about to get jumped by a pair of minotaur right nearby where you land, and if you're not level 5 yet it's a hard solo fight

[@DariusSayers]

@@BraghDaMan No you're not. The Minotaurs are farther up, and the one that attacks the outpost doesn't come until you're inside the outpost. I've done this like 5x with level 2 characters.

[@TheUncleJason]

I was certain that the ice breaker was the most fun build. I was blissfully surprised when I built this and absolutely wrecked the duergar hunters. I literally giggled the entire encounter. Fantasticly, *brilliant* build, Colby!

[@adlerofrowe9224]

KNIGHTS RADIANT MENTIONED RAHHHH

[@joshtownsend8807]

Didn't realize "apply a condition" was so generous in its definition - thanks!

[@Surge-kk6ew]

The most important Rolls a man can make

[@grey_wind]

I stumbled onto your channel not that long ago thanks to Baldurs Gate 3, and I also used to play a ton of DnD. Your content is awesome, and your delivery/style is top notch. So glad I found your channel. You have gotten me back into this endless labyrinth of theory crafting, and I am so glad to be re-immersed in it all. I am more of an RP-player, over min-maxxing and optimization, but you still put a lot of emphasis on seeking out "flavor" in these concoctions of yours. I may not follow things to a T all the time, but it always helps to know that I can find some way of getting the vibe of a character that I want to build, and still make it viable/effective mechanically. You do great works here.

[@KyleHead]

I absolutely love the luminous orb gear in BG3. In every playthrough I’ve had a pure Light Cleric using it, but it’s always been a companion character. Looking forward to seeing an optimized build!

[@fishzapper9338]

You cannot have my pain! But, you can have this sweet build.

[@DnDDeepDive]

Oh man, my favorite moment from Book 4... time to go re-read in preparation for Book 5!

[@vbdavis]

Thanks so much for putting out more BG3 builds, Colby! I know you mentioned not getting as many views on them, but as someone who just got access to BG3 recently, I’m loving it. I joined up to support!

[@texteel]

the markoheshkir staff also has destructive wave in its thunder setting, which is both htunder AND radiant. And friendly fire.

[@jgflowers88]

I accidentally put together a similar build with Shadowheart during my current play through. I was so confused why no one could hit her and why I kept hearing thunder and then would see people get knocked prone or just flat out dying 😂 Thanks for explaining it all and helping me tweak the people's princess even further.

[@leebarnett2610]

Great stuff as always! I would recommend making this a Gith character giving you proficiency in Medium armour without the Cleric Dip as well as a racial Misty Step.

[@KennethLines]

oooh, interesting thought

[@keithforrest1543]

Gith do not get shield proficiency though... I just hit Act 3 using this Radiant build, but I did it as a Gith. The big negative about being a Gith is that NPCs initially seem to not like you. Everyone hates the Gith, even the Gith seem to hate the Gith. But that extra +1 to any section of skills and extra Misty Step is pretty sweet.

[@tombom6643]

In favor for Light cleric, Radiance of the dawn is a very nice big aoe of radiant dmg to start things of.

[@sernorrec3892]

Little late to the party but I’ve been trying to decide which build to try/play for my very first honor run and I think I found it :) At first I was excited about cleric because I’ve wanted to play one and then you’re like “now we’re bard” and I was like awww. But bards are so strong I now see why. Keep up the amazing work, Colby! You and your channel are my #1 source of BG3 builds 🤙

[@Longshot-qv8is]

I am all for the box being opened! Finally, a chance to use the 300 plus magic items I've hoarded!

[@-tHeGaMe-]

Saw the first few seconds of the intro and my radiating orb sense immediately started tingling!

[@jansidoruk5082]

Haven’t watched yet but… *Inhales* LIFE BEFORE DEATH!!! STRENGTH BEFORE WEAKNESS!!! JOURNEY BEFORE DESTINATION!!! What is the most important step a man can ever take brothers?!

[@shadow-faye]

HIS NEXT 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@Mike-r4h]

The Infamous Radiator build. Nice! Some notes - -In Bg3, spiritual weapon does not require constant bonus action usage. It one bonus action to summon, it behaves as a summon after that. -Warden of Vitality is not available to Clerics. It's a lvl3 Paladin spell, meaning lvl 9 Paladin or lvl 6 Lore Bard is the earliest you can get it. -The Boots of Stormy Clamour i have not found to be bugged. It is probable that the reverberation stacks seem to apply more than they should because the thunder damage from the Gloves of Belligerent Skies/Phalar Aluve Shriek combo also applies reverberation indtantly. -For maximizing effectiveness in any Spirit Guardian based build, Crusher's ring provides 10 feet if extra movement, 20 on a dash. Stack this with Longstrider at the start of the day, and you'll be applying the effects all over the battlefield, if you're willing to move around a lot -Sprllshudder amulet applies reverberation on ranged spell damage. It should be considered, especially if using magic missile. -For solo potential, a dual wielding Paladin2/Light Cleric 10( or 1 Fgtr/2Pal/9Cleric for two weapon fighting style) build is probably the version most suited. I prefer Light cleric for the base build anyway, because of the huge radius of Radiance of Dawn.

[@bradleybarr7572]

Which subclass for Paladin would you recommend on this?

[@Mike-r4h]

​@@bradleybarr7572 If you're only taking 2 levels of Paladin, the subclass is not that impactful. Ancients is probably the best because of the healing aura, which can combine with the healing items in the game. Those items can apply buffs on heal, like blade ward and bless.

[@Swinhoegaming]

I was wondering about this as a Paladin build

[@michalberanek2783]

Completely unrelated, parasocial and nonsensical but maybe a little funny(?): I had a dream where I lived in an apartment next door to yours and I had discovered a secret passage into a labyrinth of sorts. One time I entered it and realized the door got stuck (made more sense back then) because you had entered yours at the same time (guess all nerd apartments come with a labyrinth these days) and we managed to dungeon crawl our way into each other's apartments Okay, now that I wrote it all down, it's more weird than funny but I already wrote it so I'm posting it

[@DnDDeepDive]

🤣

[@DamnSpiders666]

Not sure if better than Boots of Stormy Clamor, but Boots of Striding should at least be considered. Between constitution saving throw proficiency and war caster, being knocked prone is pretty much the only realistic way to lose concentration. These boots completely negates that if you have spirit guardians up

[@bretthughes27]

This is great, as I've been wanting a Lore Bard build that comes close to Sword, although would probably take Haste, along with Spirit Guardians @ Lvl 6. However, would switch to 10 Sword Bard, 2 Paladin @ Lvl 12. Well done, and fun, as usual.

[@labmouse42]

I really like how you are incorporating items into the builds.

[@Caolboy]

Hey Colby, thank you for these awesome builds as always. Just wanted to add one thing I found while attempting to recreate this build in-game. The Ilithid power, Stage Fright, targets a group of enemies in a circle and makes it so that enemies in that zone attack you with Disadvantage and if they miss they receive 2-12 psychic damage. Not sure if this counts as a condition yet but if it does WOO boy. Think this might be a candidate for a solo run in the future haha

[@brucemartin1420]

I mixed this build with the shadowheart build you made for tempest cleric and it is just so nice. The first time I used all of the abilities together was in grym forge against nere and all those duergar. The gloves of belligerent skies works for tempest cleric nova and for spirit guardians. Shatter and spirit guardians really just works

[@RobertBarry1969]

Crazy idea. Instead of warcaster for the last feat, take dual wielder and wield *both* Markoeheshkir AND Phalar Aluve.

[@jurybounackoff3025]

My dear D&D God! Every time I start my knew adventure, your outstanding new build is right on time!!

[@BryanReggie]

Love this build! Started playing it as soon as I saw this vid. One change I made is after getting bard to 6, I took sorcerer to 3. This allows me to get misty step with sorcerer levels freeing up the magical secrets slot for counterspell. More importantly it provides quickened spell to set up spirit guardians + shriek in 1 turn. Also by starting wood elf you get longsword proficiency (and extra movement!) so I took the Light cleric domain for warding flare to mitigate crits as that’s more useful than war cleric. Then bard to 8 for a second feat. This all works only if you plan to stay as a Lore bard rather than changing to swords at level 12. The downside of course is I won’t get level 5 spells, but there was nothing there I needed anyway. An bardic inspiration stays a d8, but I can live with that.

[@brentchristensen8625]

I've been using this on my 2-man honor run. Running Light Cleric/Paladin. Have a Sorlock compatriot. Gotta say, this hasted is death to any of the large combats we've come across so far. Thank you for all the videos!

[@Kailokel]

Love this! I actually made a less optimized version of this on my honour mode run with Shadowheart as a light cleric and same gear. I'll respec her to this version, though. For party composition, I actually play her with a sorlock, a TB thrower, and a ranger striker with the eversight ring. I hide everyone in darkness but keep Shadowheart out of it to ensure she's the only target, and she can always retreat to darkness if things get dicey.

[@MarkCsigs]

I'm loving this build so much! Currently playing it with a couple changes - not multiclassing my War Cleric (for RP purposes). Wyll is a Pact of the Blade Bardlock in this party so I have him using Phalar Aluve as his pact weapon. Tav instead uses the Shining Staver of Skulls for the radiant damage with every hit. It also lets Wyll launch Shriek and Tav set up Spirit Guardians in the same round meaning it comes online faster. Now that I have the Blood of Lathander too, seriously tempted to use two weapons with that and the Staver all through Act 2.

[@toddparker514]

The radiance of the dawn from light cleric is sick for the orbs using radiant armor and gloves is awsome

[@Merin512]

Amazing build. Never thought to go the bard route to do this combo, always been a light cleric which works great but I'm definitely switching it up tonight to test it out

[@ChocolateFishBrains]

This combination of items is exactly what I put onto my Light Cleric Shadowheart. She carries fights with ease.

[@kchgamer1788]

I already have Shadowhart working with both radiating orb and reverberation and it’s sooooo good! Can’t wait to see this build

[@chipsalom]

Been waiting for exactly this from someone like colby forever. This has been probably my fav "support" character build of all time. Even enough fun i pa play them as main, but mainly have the most fun with them as the most fun support character I've come up with lol

[@TheDivine1337]

Yessss, love when my two passions clash!!

[@DarkBishup]

This is a cool build and I really like that it comes online so early. I had used the reverberation gear on a Tiger/Wolverine Barbarian using the polearm that deals radian damage. You get the Tiger cleave to hit multiple targets and spread (deep breath) radiating orb, reverberation, bleed, maim, and bane (through weapon oil). It's a very devastating combo with great weapon master and reckless attack. The downside compared to the Knight Radiant is the pole arm isn't available until late in Act 2. But there are mods...

[@rafaelfonseca9271]

It's really cool to see this video on my feed, today I started playing my honor mode with the same idea of leaning heavily on radiant damage! Always love your content btw :D

[@gascan7333]

Just going to add my personal modification of this build if anyone else is interested and so I can come back and consult this in the future. I used this build on Shadowheart too so I didn’t need a lot of the party face options you get from Lore Bard. I like Tempest Cleric far more than War cleric both because of channel divinity options and always prepared spells. In addition to those you don’t have to give up martial weapon and heavy armor proficiency (even though we are using medium armor here). As such I tweaked this build to incorporate that (and nuking things with lightning+wet when applicable). So Tempest cleric to five to get Spirit guardians. Take the same equipment. Phalar Aluve being a finesse weapon really saves us here as it means we can dump our strength once we get it. Strength and Charisma go down to 8 set Int to 16, Wis to 16, Dex to 14, and Con to 12. Con is a little low in this setup but I prefer the increased combat versatility and it’s so hard for enemies to hit us anyway. The Gloves synergize really well with the thunder and lighting damage features of tempest cleric and with a few levels in Wizard we can pick up Lightning Bolt from a scroll without slowing down our spell slot progression. I personally went for a 4Wiz 8Cleric split to ensure I still get three feats as we are a little bit MAD in this build. Two ASI and war caster for advantage on concentration checks plus a nice opportunity attack option that synergizes with tempest cleric and glove features. Resilient Constitution is also viable here if you play around with the ability scores if you would rather have proficiency over advantage. Dealers choice here honestly. Took Create/Destroy Water and lighting bolt to max out damage with Tempest Cleric while also getting a lot of the value Colby illustrates in this vid. Obviously the downside is this setup sucks as a party face, but fits pretty nicely for Shadowheart. Even fits thematically for her imo as it shares a lot with the build he did for her in the optimizing companions series. Really happy with this setup tbh as it kind of allows you to have your cake and eat it too. Hope this helps anyone who isn’t jazzed on War cleric.

[@choleeron]

I use this Build in honour mode, it working as reliably because enemies are really good in doing bad stuff, but it´s working well enough to bring the group to the end of fight. And honestly, what more can you want. Thank you very much for all your great work here. 😀

[@saturnineyyy]

Love this video! One of my favorite tavs ever was an EB Sorock (also rogue and fighter) who used and abused the reverb/radiating orb synergy similarly.

[@ilivetokillzombies]

The cloak of displacement would be a perfect addition to this build. Found in act 3 before going into Baldur's gate, at Danthelon's Dancing Axe.

[@loganclark6534]

Rewatched this to write down the build the second time. Looking forward to trying this tomorrow!

[@alasdairhall5906]

My Sorlock has almost this exact set of items, the extra radiant damage and radiant explosions on eldritch blast, with repelling blast counting as a condition is pretty hilarious.

[@EggsZacLee]

This quickly became prob my favorite build. I feel it's so much easier to use and is fully online way quicker than arcane ward + armour of agathys shenanigans. A really cool thing to do is get the buff from the zaith'isk. Stuff like Force Tunnell, Stage Fright and Shield of Thralls on a bonus action synergize so well with what you're doing. And get the Cloak of Displacement also, it's nuts for this build. Didn't even know a couple of these items existed before this, thanks for the vid!

[@skylerdama]

I play a great old one Sorlock blaster that hunts crits. Using the same gear setup, Eldritch Blast is a potential 3 hits for an automatic reverb knockdown. A crit on top of this fears them, so they can’t move. Combines the Wolverine and bard builds into one while also dealing out great single target damage. Repelling blasts can add fall damage with displace and quickened spell lets us cast it again. Dip 3 levels fighter for action surge as well, plus champion for higher crit chance

[@KoriTheAnder]

Little hack I found with callous glow ring, since you are more than likely a bard at this point, cast the light cantrip on your instrument before going into battle so you can always rigger the extra damage.

[@rand0mguy948]

Love your builds Colby, I actually ran this and love it. I think I found a way to make it even more busted, in act 2 there are two rings, 1 applies radiating orb on spell hit, and the other applies 2 radiant damage on every spell hit. With your build plus these rings you can run a bard/warlock, bard for the hard CC, and warlock for agonizing eldritch blasts and hunger of hadar, hadar alone would melt a small army with procking reverb on the slow and blind, plus radiating orbs from radiant damage from the ring.

[@ElliottDent]

I basically ended up on this exact build on my latest run, going Storm Sorcerer 1 + Tempest Cleric 11 instead, just for a bit more of that Cleric-y support. Was great coming back to this video and comparing it to my notes and realising they were so similar.

[@Tokiomy]

I found your chanel a few days ago. Im so happy I did.

[@Legolasrocket]

These builds are so good but the day or so between the short teasing the build and the actual build is literally torture!! Why do you do this to us Mr. Critlander?

[@eragonrank5303]

Ooh a Merlin clip, haven’t seen that in like ages!

[@TheShepherdFilms]

I am pretty sure the boots apply reverberation to all conditions, even ones you can't see like being "threatened" which the game uses for sneak attacks and for giving disadvantage on ranged attacks in while being threatened....those are some sweet boots!

[@BlackJack-qg3ws]

Now, I know you've done modded content before, but have you considered using the level 20 mod and going all out? "But wait!" I hear you say, "That would make the game far too easy!" You'd be right, if you didn't also mod the enemies to make them tougher. "Player level scaling" levels up the monsters with you, or a couple levels ahead of you for bosses (Though when running through town you will hear the "level up" sound a lot as it levels npcs you get close to) but that doesn't QUITE add enough challenge, because the enemies don't get new skills, so I also add in "Tactician Plus health boost" (I did 30% last playthrough, thinking about bumping it to 50% next) which just simply boosts enemy health. Now you can theory craft all the way to level 20 and still have a challenging game! Also, you could boost the health even higher (up to 300%) if you wanted to mod in a fifth or sixth character to your party and still have it be a challenge.

[@inlovewithmymac]

Love this build!! Ive used it on several of my play throughs using Sorcadin, and Hunter Ranger with volley!! Will definitely try the addition of cleric!

[@daveyfunk]

Glyph of Warding is also super good with builds like this, especially if you're an elf character as you can just walk into groups of enemies with spirit guardians and then sleep them with your glyph of sleeping

[@PanaMethul]

Great guide Colby!, ive run this build many times but ive never tought of abusing Misty Step to get to the enemies, it was so obvious but also genius, i keep this build pretty much the same as your guide but i do a final respec at level 12, i go swords bard 10 like you sugggested but i put my other two levels in Paladin, smites are a match in heaven for this build since once you get your spirit guardians going you can keep applying debufs and great damage with your smites, if not using strenght elixirs you can keep using dex weapons. Another tip i have is that this build also pairs well with a warlock in your party, with the spine shudder amulet and the radiant gloves youll have two characters applying radiant orbs and reverberation, it gets pretty crazy.

[@RobThePrincess]

The way I understand multiclassing with Item scaling, the 1st level of the class that was Last taken will determine the DC. So if you go Level 1 Sorc at the beginning, but then go cleric for the rest of it. Because cleric was the most recent class added. Even if at level 10, you go back to Sorc, cleric was still the newest added class, so that will determine the DCs for your magic items.

[@ashamael]

Yes this!!

[@RobThePrincess]

And playing this as a Light Cleric who can blast TONS of enemies at once with their Channel Divinity sounds pretty insane.

[@ashamael]

@@RobThePrincess I actually did this with Shadowheart on my honor mode playthrough. She just makes stuff explode and be worthless while my Tav just cleans house.

[@yodaleiaheehoo9960]

"no one wants to hear me do that" just goes for it anyway! I love it, happy to be reminded of such a solid track.

[@rlcbofficial871]

That Merlin clip just made me so happy, oh my goodness!!!

[@WojcziKo]

Hello! Great guide. I realy enjoy your content :). I have same idea of building character around radiating orb and reverbereting conditions. Most of the time im playing solo on thactician difficulty thats why i want to share with you my min/max build: 6 STORM SORCERER / 6 TEMPEST CLERIC Race: tt's good to pick: wood elf(perception, stealth skills and extra movement) or wood half-elf(light armor, shield prof. and extra movement) or githianki medium armor prof., free misty step and jump spell. Stats: 8str(use pots), 14dex, 16con, 8int, 17wis (+Ethel hair and +2 ASI), 10cha. Later on when you will get Amulet of greater health you can dump con and respec to put 16 points in to charisma. In this setup your concentration is great with advantage to rolls thanks to amulet. So your final stats are 8str(use pot for 21 or 27 str), 14dex, 23con, 8int, 20wis, 16cha. Feats on final respec: Alert for extra initiative and 2ASI in wisdom. You can also take war caster if you dont want to use health amulet. What can you get from this build: *Spirit Guardians to build up radiating orbs, *2 destructive wrath channel divinity for extra maximum thunder and lightning dmg from spells like lightning bolt, chromatic orb, glyph of warding, call lightning, shatter, thunderwave. From Markoheskir destructive weave and chain lightning, *Sorcerry metamagic -> extra quickened and twined spell are rly good, *6lvls of tempest cleric push back THUNDERBOLT STRIKE - when you deal Lightning or Thunder damage to a creature that is Large or smaller, you can also push it up to 3m, *6lvls of storm sorrcerer HEART OF THE STORM which cause small local storm. All enemies withing 6m will take 3 lightning and thunder damage, *ofc you can use electrified water for extra status, lightning dmg and push back every time enemy will move to you, *all effects above have insane synergy with reverberation thanks to GLOVES OF BELLIGERENT SKIES and other equipment you mention in your guide, *im also using Hat of Fire Acuity. You can upcast 4rth lvl of Scorching ray on summoned creature or mage hand before the fight to build up Arcane Acuity which gives you insane 10 DC to you spells. Its good idea to use legendary staff Markoheskir and cast thunder version for destructive wave which is hudge radiant and thunder aoe spell. Electric version will give you chain lightning spell which you can twin spell on wet enemies for maximum dmg thanks to tempest cleric destructive wrath channel divinity. Im very happy about this build because it can handle with multiple enemies with insane AOE dmg and multiple debuffs which helps to land those mighty LIGHTNING AND THUNDER spells. Second idea is to create 6storm sorcerer and 6lore bard but still i need to do more tests ;). I would be greateful for your feedback and expertise about my 6SS/6TC build. Thank you in advance and best regards.

[@MrWaffel]

Reporting in that this build still works :) I used it for Shadowheart on my Honour Run. I also would like to add what I used for the remaining item slots (cloak and amulet): For Cloaks: Araj sells the *Thunderskin Cloak* in Moonrise Towers, which works similar to the ring by Roah, as it potentially dazes enemies who damage you if they have stacks of Reverberation. Entharl Danthelon in Wyrm's Crossing sells the *Displacement Cloak* which gives enemies disadvantage on attack roles against you, until you take damage (you get the effect back on your next turn). For Amulets: *Psychic Spark* is sold by Blurg in the Ebonlake Grotto; gives an extra cast of Magic Missile even if you don't have the spell in your list, and an extra projectile every time you cast Magic Missile (regardless of if you cast it through the item or from your spellbook). *Spineshudder Amulet* is looted off the Mimic in Isobel's bedroom in Moonrise; every time you hit an enemy with a ranged spell attack, you also inflict 2 stacks of Reverberation.

[@LuisGonzalez-hy6mz]

Two questions for Colby or anyone else kind enough to let me know what they think. Ring of Coruscation and Callous Glow Ring are great, but if you were playing support in a party of your friends, would you swap one out for Whispering Promise ( casts bless on any creature you heal for two turns, without needing concentration) and if so which ones. Then, this build leaves space for a cloak. Ive got 3 options and I can’t decide. 1. Thunderskin Cloak - has a chance to Daze creatures with the Reverberation condition when they damage the wearer. 2. Fleshmelter Cloak - does 1d4 of acid damage to anyone who damages the wearer 3. Cloak of Displacement - At the beginning of the wearer's turn, the cloak activates, granting enemies Disadvantage on Attack Rolls that target the wearer. This effects lasts until the wearer takes damage. ( would this stack with the other disadvantages?) Thanks in advance and thanks Colby found the channel a few months ago and absolutely love it all.

[@rebelkgf9628]

Thanks for the content! Just started a new honour mode run with a gythyanki paladin. Freeing Orpheus and saving the gith! This video is perfect timing love it!

[@curlylady75]

Great build! I can't wait to try it out. I always use radiant damage for Shadowheart but never thought to do it this way. Reverberation stacks have always been confusing to me. Thanks for trying all the hard things and sharing it with us all! I love that you're showing yourself playing! Makes it so much easier to be brave and believe that I can manage playing the build. Also, I wanted to let you know that I only discovered your channel because you played BG3, so I hope you continue to throw us a video once in a while :)

[@CivilWarMan]

One thing to note is that, from what I've read, Callous Glow doesn't technically deal radiant damage all the time, but only does it when dealing damage to enemies that are in areas of light. So in some cases you might want to swap out the weapon for something that generates light like Blood of Lathander, Moonlight Glaive (which also does Radiant damage), or even just swinging around a lit torch.

[@krysuh6936]

Or a ring that produces light or 2 options cantrips from cleric or another party member that uses those spells on you.

[@BraghDaMan]

The radiating orb condition lights enemies as well as part of its description. As long as you're radiating enemies, they're brightly lit, excepting maybe in the shadow-cursed lands. That place likes to extinguish lights.

[@ianwilkinson6949]

Awesome build! I used a similar build in my honor mode run with minor changes (turns out radiating orb is so strong it works with a variety of builds, go figure). One thing i found that made act 1 and 2 a breeze was using luminous armor and radiance of the dawn from light cleric. Since the shockwave comes from your character and not where the damage is dealt, if you stand next to the big bad and cast radiance of the dawn, every creature you hit adds another 2 stacks of radiating orb to whatever you are next to, getting them to max stacks right away. Makes fights like the boss of the githyanki creche super easy right from round 1 since radiance of the dawn has a massive 30 foot range.

[@PotofGlue]

Would it be possible to make a character that grapples an enemy and jumps really high to weaponize fall damage? As far as i can tell it works RAW, the only effect grappling has on jumping is indirectly by halving your movement speed

[@harrisv.stheworld4949]

Immediately restarted my Baldurs Gate honor mode run to try out this build. Incredibly excited!

[@andrestone8601]

Absolutely love these item incorporated builds!!

[@Apathy.Bread.n.Circuses]

I just arrived at the beginning of act three and happened upon a fantastic weapon for this build mere hours after watching this video, the Nyrulna! It can be found in the circus, after a bit of drama with the djinn Akabi. (On a side note, I'm loving these build videos. Keep it up!)

[@akacyclonus]

Can confirm this build is hella fun to play

[@keithlewis9621]

I was just thinking about making a Kaladin build for my next playthrough, as a new fan of yours, and an editor for the Coopermind, this video hits the perfect spot for me. Thanks!

[@craybe]

I just used this in my HR in the house of hope and it destroyed Raphael, he just couldn’t get a turn it was brilliant. Usually this wouldn’t work BUT I saw a tip that they have 1 turn Radiant reflect. You can use the Light of Lathander to hit a group and the mace will stop you from dying and give you a small heal. I preloaded the room with barrels and took elixirs for high initiative. I blew them up and they lost their reflect for some reason. Regardless challenge accepted im taking this build for a solo honor run with a bunch of “do not die” options to hopefully let me survive! Wish me luck 😅

[@keithforrest1543]

This is a great build to augment a party. Soloing in Tact+ difficulties, you have to keep enemies at range (and best stay stealthed) to succeed. This build to do the most damage, you have to get up close and personal with combat. Some fights solo, this can lead to probably death.

[@andyreid1132]

Thanks for the great build! I've soloed on Tactician up to the Ketheric (Apostle of Myrkul) but I just can't do enough damage. I might have to give up :(

[@andyreid1132]

Eventually got lucky! On to act 3

[@TrulyMarcy]

been using this build for a while it’s nuts

[@ManualdeSobrevivencia]

Another quick cheesy strat: you can have Gale stay in camp while being a cleric 5 barb X with everything in CON and use him to cast AID (at least until your group doesn't have a higher slot for aid than lvl 3) and warding bond on everyone. Then you switch him out and you should still have the two buffs. What's amazing about this is that your group will be taking half damage from everything all day and Gale will not die in your camp since Larian gave him a self heal he can use all the time while out of combat. And he does that automatically

[@a_tremereandsomeblood_just3642]

I watch your videos a lot. You are maybe the one with the best knowledge of the game bg3.

[@drizzledaddygaming994]

I think Tempest Cleric is worth considering for a radiating orb build. Reverb is inflicted on Lightning, Thunder, and Radiant damage. Our gear triggers Thunder and Radiant already, but Tempest cleric guves us access to lightning spells, which means more stacks of our incredibly powerful devuffs, and, more importantly, the ability to inflict said debuffs at great range. Bard is LIKELY the better option, but if you wanna go full cleric, I think Tempest is the way to go. Edit: Worth noting the boots you get from killing or koing minthara might be worth taking over Stormy Clamor boots, but then you get a bit less reverberation stacks but NEVER lose concentration Edit 2: I did a solo HM playthrough using a radiating orb build. The main thing the build needs is a way to deal with ranged characters, so I went High Elf and took Minor Illusion so I could start fights by first grouping everyone together. I also took Alert at level 4 as going first with this build was super important to ensure I could maximize my debuffs before my opponents got a chance to go. For the Gauntlet of Shar Fights that reflect radiant damage back at you 2x, I actually respecced completely to Swords bard 6, fighter 2, drank a strength elixir, and used titanstring and just kept kiting my enemies and if they got too close I used a bonus action to shove and would kite back some more. Made the gauntlet much easier and less punishing. Hags hair and Volos ersatz eye were likely the 2 most important act 1 buffs for the build as it allowed me with the Duargars super easily and when I got to yurgir, I took him and his merregons out without taking a single point of damage. Pretty much every fight is initiated by casting Minor Illusion from out of sight, or before they turn hostile, entering TB mode once enemies are all grouped up, and then running in with Spirit Guardians. I think the Lore Bard version of this is probably better than the straight classes Tempest Cleric I did, but even still, it was the easiest solo HM run I’ve done yet.

[@BarryKelly23]

Sounds great and in good time as i'm currently thinking about playing through it again.

[@storyspren]

This reference is accepted. Especially with the thunder damage as a cherry on top. I'm tempted to say for theming alone the Tempest domain would be best fit for those levels :D

[@BullittStang]

You know....given the amount of trick arrows that the game seems to want to throw at you, I'm surprised that I have not seen a Green Arrow/Arsenal build based on Gloomstalker Ranger/Assasin Rogue or Battlemaster Fighter/Open Hand Monk/Thief Rogue. All using the Archery fighting style and sharpshooter feat.

[@lastdefenderofxhotl]

Colby there's a slight misunderstanding your operating under. Your spellcasting ability score for items (unless it has a specific one coded for that item) is not based off the spellcasting ability score of the class you took at lvl 1, but off the spellcasting ability score of the last class you multiclassed into. So for example if you want wisdom as your spellcasting ability score the last class that you multi into has to be either Druid, Monk, Cleric, or Ranger. So respeccing for Sorc at level 1 works just fine as long as Cleric (or another Wisdom score class) is the last thing you multied into. The leveling order doesn’t matter only what was added to the mix last. So for example a Fighter 3/Druid 2/Barb 7 would use Charisma as its modifier for items because Larian decided Barbarian would have charisma as its casting ability.

[@krysuh6936]

Yo meant to say bard i supouse at the last sentence. This really need some testing, a quick one will be the shields that prone with a reaction now that r fixed.

[@williampounds5191]

No, they meant barbarian. @@krysuh6936

[@PeteCotton]

@@krysuh6936 Surprisingly, Barbarian also uses Charisma as their spellcasting ability for scrolls and items in BG3. I'm guessing they picked this because of the Wild Magic subclass.

[@krysuh6936]

@@PeteCotton Make sense since the class also use intimidation to rp so is not worthless to put some points there.

[@lastdefenderofxhotl]

@krysuh6936 Just grab Mourning Frost for the ray of frost cantrip. Use it to target one of your companions who's AC you will know, and respecc your stats a couple times to test which stat is being used for the attack roll modifier by doing the math. Also, Larian appointed every martial a dedicated spellcasting ability score as well. The half casters are kind of self-evident because they're explicitly being used for their saving throws. Rogue and Fighter are Intelligence because they have Intelligence 1/3rd caster subclasses. Monk is wisdom, which is also fairly self-evident. Barbarian is Charisma. It's less obvious, but it kinda makes sense.

[@chacepassmore6474]

I'm almost as in love with this build as I was with the ice breaker and arachniphobia

[@salamaneinglorion5956]

You have misunderstood how items and scrolls set their spell attack and save DC. It's the casting stat of the *last* casting class you took. So sorcerer at 1 then cleric at 2 will use WIS for items and scrolls. Other than that early game nitpick, loved the build!

[@charleshaines9715]

I love the singing at the end of your videos, and look forward to it at this point, lol.

[@danilche]

Blood of Lathander both blinds (condition + disadvantage) and illuminates (for coruscation ring). so it synergizes really well with the build, and it doesn't take either an action to activate the singing, or the per-rest limit to re-activate it. I've bene using this build on Shadowheart in my run with Blood of Lathander, and it works amazingly. Blinding half the characters around her is awesome. The only shortcoming is that they tend to get blinded before they get the stacks, so they save against blindness more often. The way around is is to use your lightning / thunder offensive spells (e.g. Glyph or Warding) to place some radiant orb stacks first.

[@danieldantas7553]

I've been thinking on a slightly different version of this build and am calling it the Radiant Avenger: 6 Lore Bard / 3 Light Cleric / 1 Wizard / 2 Vengeance Paladin 6 Lore Bard: Cutting Words, Magical Secrets (Spirit Guardians), etc 3 Light Cleric: mainly for Aid and Warding Bond, but also gets Radiance of the Dawn (Channel Divinity) 1 Wizard: Access to several spells, including lvl 6 ones like Globe of Invulnerability and Sunbeam 2 Vengeance Paladin: Martial Weapons (Phalar Aluve), Inquisitor's Might and Smites Downsides: - Only 1 Feat - No Constitution proficiency. I'd pick Resilient CON or War Caster with that 1 Feat. - No Extra Attack Notes: - This would be my main support character, so that's why I'm willing to invest 3 levels into Cleric to get Aid and Warding Bond - I'm also self-imposing a limitation to not use camp-casting on my run, so it is another reason to pick those spells up

[@victorthurse6027]

I'm playing as Astarion, romancing Shadowheart and we are currently fifth. I made him an assassin with one level in ranger. I think I will respec Shawheart to war domain and then back to trickery at 6th to keep the unique dialogue, at which point Astarion will go Bard for a while. I already have the armor. Thanks Colby.

[@King_of_Faerghus]

Now I just want to see if Colby can make a Heat build work in BG3 since he's started doing item builds.

[@DnDDeepDive]

Will have to put it on the to do list :)

[@bobbybee2975]

Thanks for yet another fun build idea.

[@Diamondd_Dude]

“I will protect even those I hate, so long as it is right.”

[@RangerErnsy]

Phalar Aluve is a shard blade. HEADCANON ENGAGED.