Baldur's Gate 3 - My Five Favorite Builds

By far my favorite YouTuber. No “most op build of all time” no screaming, no clickbait. Keep up the great work Morti! Cheers mate 🇧🇷

I absolutely love the storm sorcerer/tempest build with my blue dragonborn. A true storm lord😊

Some really cool builds! One of my favorites that i used was 3 levels Thief Rogue and 9 levels Way Of Shadow Monk for Astarion. With the extra Bonus Action and Flurry of Blows, plus the Monk crazy movement speed and Shadow magic, it makes for a perfect way to play a vampire. Super fast, teleporting through shadows, stunning enemies with his bare hands, attacking up to 6 times per turn, and adding extra 2d6 sneak attack once using a dagger that deals more base damage thanks to the Martial Arts feature.

I used the ride the lightning build minus the fighter levels and the assassin/gloomstalker build for my honour mode run. Very effective builds that made many fights quite easy.

Two of my favorite zany builds: smoke bomb ninja: 4 thief 8 champion, cloak of cunning brume - bonus action disengage to blind with fog, then attack with advantage and make use of the items with bonuses for being obscured. Five elements sage: 5 four elements monk, 5 spore druid, 2 fighter. Use arcane synergy items with shillelagh to double dip into wisdom for attack damage. Fang of the fire snake allows arcane synergy to be always up.

Radiating Orb Cleric build is another fun one. With the Luminous Armor, Luminous Gloves, Coruscation Ring, and Callous Glow Ring you basically just run around with Spirit Guardians active and apply huge debuffs to everything you come into contact with. And you can get the build started while still in Act 1 which is nice. I'm convinced the Luminous Armor is the BEST armor in the game. Even on Honor Mode where the enemies can remove their debuff quicker its still totally OP.

I love the emphasis on theme/class-fantasy you put to your builds, i would love to do that but i can't help go full min-max

The Paladin/Warlock build was the only way I could really rotate all of my characters in without losing any roles as Gale becomes an auto-include pretty early and my Tav was a Bardlock. So Wyll ended up being my 3rd tank. I found it very thematic. The Gloom Assassin is pretty much identical to how I built Astarion.

I've been using the tempest cleric with Phalar Aluve, Boots of thunderous Clamour, and the ring of absolute force for my cleric and it works wonders.

One for you to try out since I think you might like it: 5 Eldritch Knight / 7 Abjuration Wizard. Key equipment (I forgot the names, so will list their effects): Adamantine Splint Mail, Adamantine Shield, Hammer that does lightning damage when boud, boots that set reverberation on lightning/thunder damage, gloves that set reverberation when you apply a status effect on an enemy. Build plays out like a VERY LOUD unmoveable tank. With the eldritch knight + wizard combo you will stack up the damage reduction shield, making yo almost impossible to damage. The adamantine armor/shield will apply realing (no save) on every melee hit or miss, which applies reverberation. You can also cast status effect spells or use thunderwave to stack reverberation on a huge area. When reverberation hits 5 stacks, it triggers and does damage then knocks enemies prone. It's one of my favorite builds. I usually give it to Gale or Wyll (works with Warlock, tho not as OP). It works great on honor mode too.

Big fan here Mort! Your work ethic is really impressive. I’m curious, if there were to be DLC for BG3, where would you like it to go? Would you like a separate, shorter story similar to some pathfinder DLCs, or would you like more of a continuation of the plot, (Witcher 3 blood and wine, etc.) thanks!

Keep up the awesome content and don’t ever forget who you are.

In my 1 and only current play-thru, I hired Maddala Deadeye the Rogue. Basically I use her to scout ahead, disarm or set traps, find or unlock gates/doors or simply find a higher vantage point for sneak attacks/range support.

I agree with you, Battlemaster and Evocation wizard are really effective in BG3. My honour run party was those two paired with Gloomstalker\Assassin and Paladin\Lore Bard. I went full offense 😊

Thanks for the video. Rarely do you see such a refined sampling of murder hobos. Onward to 300k. All glory to the algorithm.

I like getting the acuity items, 1 level fighter for the 2 weapon fighting style, 3 rogue for the extra bonus action, and the rest into the mage/caster class of choice. You can auto attack and cast a spell in the same turn. Spell DC also goes through the roof. Love the Gish play style.

Gloomstarlker Assassin = The Skyrim Fun builds all. I need to try that terror of Tiamat for Shadowheart. I’m pretty addicted to Tempest Cleric 2 / Sorcerer 9 / Wizard 1. I have tried variations, but no other caster seems able to pump out so much damage in one turn. Particularly if you use one of the infinite sorcery point tricks.

One of my favourites was an Open Hand Monk 9/Rogue 3 character, it was fantastic at just annihilating and disabling single targets. Wholeness Of Body and Thief subclass gives you 3 bonus actions, which is 3 uses of Flurry Of Blows. High dex means you're near guaranteed to get the first turn. Add on Haste and you're attacking 10 times in a round. In the unlikely event that they survive the first round, your party can follow up easily because they'll be stunned from up to 4 stunning fists or prone from 3 topples. And if somehow they survive all of that and aren't stunned, luminous gloves gives enemies -2 to attack rolls everytime you hit them with radiant damage. So if all your attacks land, that enemy has -20 attack. You can also swap them out for other gloves if you want other effects, like extra damage. Struggles against groups but that's what party members are for, the monk can just dismantle whoever the most dangerous enemy is. As for roleplay, it's pretty fun IMO. Start out as a monk until eventually you have to turn to more underhanded practices to get ahead of your enemies. Or go the opposite way, start as a rogue trying to reform themselves. It's not a fancy or complicated build, but it's a lot of fun.

I played as an arcane trickster but now I'm considering doing another run because of this vid.

I played the exact same build on Astarion on my Astarion run, but another fun item I used there was the shapeshifter ring that you get by killing the strange ox. It gives a free guidance on every check as long as you are disguised and that made for a super fun run where as a face party I tried to get a lot of cool dialogues by shapeshifting into another race for different encounters. Also in line with that concept I could use Orin's robe to take advantage of that gimmick in the lategame, and by having only clothing items equipped (no armor) I also casted mage armor on Astarion mostly all the game (before getting Orin's robe I used The graceful cloth mostly all game long).