Just a random internet opinion, but I think you've surpassed Spud the King and many others, and you're right up there with Italian Spartacus as the best BG3 build channel. Thumbs up.
Ceph is much better than Spud imo. He just knows way more about the game and takes a lot more into consideration. I honestly find his videos very complete. The videos are not clickbaity in the least bit and he refuses to make cheeky statements like “THIS WILL ABSOLUTELY CHANGE HOW YOU PLAY!!!” Instead he opts for giving the players many ways to play the same thing while discussing the strengths and weaknesses.
Even better than spartacus imo, since ceph is capable of mentioning githyanki without making the same stupid joke about them being crackheads every time
@@J.Tarrou Sparticus wrote that Act 3 guide though... man, I've sent that to so many newbies who ask me how to handle BG... total lifesaver of my time. ;)
Personally, Ceph and Aestus RPG are hands down the best and most well informed content creators for this game. Sparticus is a vibe but he's evidently very casual about his guides and not very prescriptive, Spud is way too clickbaity. Nizar is decent, but it's evident that his thing is learning stuff from the reddit buildmakers or content creators like Ceph and Aestus and then making interesting clickbaity videos "inspired" from there.
Thanks for posting the build. I may the only bg3 fan who hadn't played this multi-class build so I really appreciate it since I am finally doing a playthrough with it.
Thanks for the Vid, as always very inspiring to start a new run :D Regarding your new Mic: It sounds like it has always some kind of noise as soon as you talk + your voice reverbs like in an empty meeting room Always looking forward to your BG3 guides :)
I built an aspect of Alduin from Skyrim for my evil non-durge run, and went with a similar combo. The differences being that I started the game as a vengeance paladin to represent his might and divine mission as a world ending dragon that was once worshiped by an ancient dragon cult as a god. And upon my first level up I took a level of draconic bloodline sorcerer to take up spells that I felt best represented the shouts. He later became an oathbreaker when he killed Kahga in order to avenge Arabella's death.
A couple of things regarding items: 1. Arcane synergy circlet is best in slot for any gish, this is no exception. With mirror bonuses it will end up being something like +5 dmg on a helmet slot, can't beat that with anything else. 2. Bhaalist armor + Duelist sword is your highest damage output setup. 3. Most important item for this build is the Potion of angelic reprieve (make sure you stack 100+ of them before going for Nishtsong because otherwise you will hear the phrase "savage little warrior" waaaaay too much to keep your sanity). You can dump all of your lvl 1-2 slots into metamagic, drink potion, repeat multiple times, then turn sorcery points back into arbitrarily many lvl 4 slots and have an upcasted smite for every single one of your attacks in every single fight. It's beyond stupid, and the main reason why you would want to build this instead of swords bard.
For 1., I do really like Mask of Soul Perception late game if I know that missing would be really bad. Though I admit this is with not using Storm giant pots as a 'house rule', so if I always had the increased hit anyway then that circlet would never leave. :D Although the helm in the video is also good if you just want CC.
But how to hit with a smite? What does it depend on? The paladin doesn't have the strength to deal damage. This build is based on dexterity and charisma? Dex to hit and charisma to damage?
@@mariuszcerta1927 Smite is tied to your attack (you can even set it up as a popup in your reactions menu). If you have a finesse weapon, you use dex (or str if it's higher). Hitting is not a problem if you start out as vengeance subclass, just use the channel divinity ability on yourself (not on the enemy!) when the fight starts and you get free advantage. Attack bonuses are easy to find after the middle of act2 or so. You don't need str to deal damage, that's what smite is for. Besides, with a finesse weapon, your dex bonus is also added to your damage (it's different from 3.5E or Pathfinder). You also get the flat damage from charisma bonus if you have the oathbreaker subclass and you re-roll damage dice, including crits, with savage attacker (ends up as >45% extra damage on dice). You could use the rapier you get for rescuing Mizora (need to have Wyll in party when entering mindflayer colony), that way all of your bonuses come from charisma, which is the easiest stat to boost. +2DC and a good summon are nice as well, it's not a terrible weapon even if it does slightly less damage than Duelist's or Shar spear.
@@joehendricks3580 In some fights, yea, they work correctly to produce vulenrability on resistant targets. Not that many pierce res enemies in act3, most of the time you will be using the +2/+2 att/dmg one.
Was precisely looking for another party face after I tried your excellent Bard/Warlock build ! I'd love to see a build focusing around Illithd Powers (would fit well after the tierlist), so a very "late-game" build.
My second playthrough was a sorcadin, based on a tabletop character idea. It was a very fun experience, love having the bigger spell slots for BIG smites or more sorcery points to quicken more spells or generate more smite slots.
Ok. One thing that very few builds that have sorcerer dips don’t mention is that sorcerers can create almost unlimited number of spell slots up to level 5 per long rest if one of your party members (or camp followers) is a transmutation wizard that can double craft elixirs of arcane cultivation. A sorcadin with a four level sorcerer dip can create 20-25 level 4 slots and have a level 4 smite in every attack. It does make the character overpowered, however, and make the game less challenging.
I always heard about Sorcadin but haven’t really ever considered it’s impact much. Looking through the video and holy heck this thing is unreal. It’s so so strong, it has virtually no real weaknesses and can spam burst damage very easily. 2/10 bardadin might be the “meta” option for pally but this build is much harder to kill. I feel like this build is a relatively easy honor mode solo once you explore your way past level 6.
Okay, now that I've heard about heightened spell, I REALLY want to see a crowd control build. Preferably one that trivializes most encounters. Because the best fights are one sided.
I saw an article recently I think you'd find interesting, where the devs for the new D&D ruleset set to come out in September mentioned some of the changes they were planning, and how those changes were inspired by Baldur's Gate 3. One of them was that they were going to make Cloud of Daggers more like Moonbeam in that you can move it on your turn if you want, which will make it just so much better than it already is.
Hey man i love your videos. They always inspire me to try new things. Ive recently got into modding and wonder if you will ever do any videos on mods yourself. Thanks for the quality and passion you put into your content!
Not BG3, but I really look forward to how the charisma classes will come together in the new dnd release later this year. Seems like it'll be even easier to mix and match.
*_Cephalopocalypse - Sorcadin_* *Viewer Note* Cephalopocalypse spends a great deal of time creating these videos for his channel and our enjoyment. Please Like, Subscribe and Comment to help him out, boost his RUclips metrics, and encourage him to continue making this awesome content! The text below is by me, for an easy-to-return-to build reference, but it can _never replace_ watching the entire video as a great deal of his How & Why choices aren’t explained, nor are the Tips he’s sprinkled in throughout the video. *Build* _Level 1_ Sorcerer 1: Storm Sorcery Stats: STR 8, DEX 16, CON 14, INT 8, WIS 12, CHA 16 Skills: CHA-based “dialog skills” + Sleight of Hand if you want to lock pick as well. Cantrips: Blade Ward, Friends, Minor Illusion, Ray of Frost Spells: Magic Missile, Shield _Level 2_ Paladin 1: Oath of Ancients _Level 3_ Paladin 2 Fighting Style: Protection Spells: Bless, Command, Protection from Evil and Good, Shield of Faith, Thunderous Smite _Level 4_ Paladin 3 Spells: Searing Smite _Level 5_ Paladin 4 Feat: ASI +2 DEX _Level 6_ Paladin 5 Spells: Lesser Restoration, Protection from Poison _Level 7_ Paladin 6 With Paladin Aura of Protection respec to: STR 8, DEX 17, CON 15, INT 8, WIS 8, CHA 16 Same build as before but the ASI feat is now DEX +1, CON +1 _Level 8_ Paladin 7 _Level 9_ Sorcerer 2 Metamagic: Extended, Twinned Spell: Fog Cloud _Level 10_ Sorcerer 3 Spell: Hold Person Metamagic: Heightened Replace Spell: Fog Cloud > Cloud of Daggers _Level 11_ Sorcerer 4 Cantrips: True Strike Spell: Enhance Ability Feat: ASI DEX +2 _Level 12_ Sorcerer 5 Spell: Haste Replace: Cloud of Daggers > Hypnotic Pattern *Recommended Gear* Helmet of Arcane Acuity Yuan-ti Scale Mail / Armor of Agility Knife of the Undermountain King / Phalar Aluve Sentinel Shield Killer’s Sweeheart Band of the Mystic Scoundrel
I love doing this with one less either sorc/pal level for monk 1 instead. Just for dex pole weapons. I fully agree that dex Ancients is cool and also feels right, especially if you're an elf or half-elf, but I really like that motif of a spear wielder or quarterstaff GWF paladin, so I take the sacrifice. :D I also like having that kick bonus action, but like i said it's 100% flavour as well as dialogue. It's definitely not going to be as manysided at being this swiss army knife you've laid out.
monk 1 on dex based paladins/fighters is honestly really fun and very good, it can make your fights much smoother especially for characters without natural bonus action attacks!
im going to point out that divine smite maxes out at 4th lv. At level 11 Paladins get 1d8 radiant damage on every melee attack. This makes a full Paladin smite as hard with a 3rd level spell slot as a Paladin multiclass would with a 4th level slot. So you only get 3 extra smites a day vs a full paladin build.
Dang I didn't think about it. Although I think that after level 6 (maybe 7), another caster class gives you more than staying single paladin. It also depends on what you want to do
Personally: Smites are super overrated anyway. Paladins are much more useful for their auras and what not compared to just being used as 2 pump chumps. So then the question that matters is do you value consistent DPR + more passive support abilities, or more varied spellcasting and active CC support abilities through those spells. If it's the former, stick pure paladin. If it's the latter, go paladin/sorc.
You can increase the quality of materials by adding clips of actual gameplay with use of a spell or mechanic youre describing. Its some added work for sure, but it would increase the quality drastically. Viewers retention as well
I have 2 full playthroughs with a Lockadin with 7 Oathbreaker Paladin + 5 Great old one Warlock, and have also tried a Sorcadin 7/5 split 7 sorc 5 pal, Lockadin is much stronger in melee if you combine Half orc with Great old one Warlock for improved critical hit chance. Sorcadin has more spell variety/ damage. Both builds takes a long time to come online around level 7-8.
13:00 sure protection is really good, but you don't want to bunch up together in a fight either way. The collateral dmg from aoe effects outweigh the benefits of protection.
Only if there's dangerous aoe in the encounter - many don't have any, and many of the ones that do you mitigate almost completely with your auras. You do of course have to be careful against some enemies though!
I'm curious why you never seem to recommend half orc as a race, even on builds focused around critical hits like your blender rouge vid. Is the extra die just generally not worth it?
Half orc is pretty good for paladins thanks to a bug where the half orc feature adds an extra smite die in addition to the extra weapon die that it's supposed to add - for rogues it's less powerful because it only adds 1d4 (or 1d6) damage per crit, which is fine but not very exciting. Mostly I find it a bit annoying how relentless endurance doesn't work in BG3 because damage is all applied in seperate instances, so rather than saving you from one attack it saves you from one *part* of one attack, then you die to any rider damage. Tbh that probably biases me against them unfairly :P
Could you make a website or archive of written versions of your builds? I tend to pick some builds at the start of a playthrough and having to check back every level up or so gets to be really tedious especially when usually 4+, 20+ minute videos are relevant to the playthrough. As a side benefit of written guides you could change things more easily if the game gets updated or something like that. I know you have a lot of builds though so it would be a lot of work so I get it if you would rather just focus on making new content. Maybe you could make written guides for stuff going forward though?
Quick question? Why not go for Paladin 2, Sword Bard 10, you get a lot of smie slots, get social stuff from Bard/utlity, and by giving Mintahra also 2 hand crossbows together with soul mark you have very decent range damage with the Bardic attacks and for big bosses you still have a ton of smites. At lvl 10 you take Haste from Magical secrets etc.
Day 5 of pitching my favorite BG3 creator a new series idea: building a viable honor mode party where all characters have the same Base Class You can do a lot with not only restricting yourself by you trying to use every subclass at least once (except for wizards and clerics lol), but also maybe even having an interesting thematic element for example your four bars could be fitting into the Beatles archetype, and you have to challenge yourself by using a Valor bard when either of the subclasses would probably do better This would also give you an awesome opportunity to talk about what strengths and weaknesses each class brings and how for example some subclasses might be great do better / worse whenever surrounded by other similar team members, finally at the end maybe at the end of each video or after you finish a series you could do a tier list ranking which of them would be the most viable in which of them would be the least viable Thanks for taking the time put of your day to read this, you're a wonderful resource to a lot of people, and I hope you consider this idea as it's one id be super interested in seeing you tackle
My assumption is that it's better to respec at level 5 to full paladin for extra attack on time. Then go into Sorcerer the next 5 levels to get twinned haste at a reasonable time and then cap off the last two levels with Paladin stuff? Or are the protection auras worth postponing twinned haste to the very end of the game?
This build is very flexible so you can definitely build that way if you prefer! My recommendation is the order in the video, but it will of course depend on your party and playstyle
Why take level 5 Sorc and not level 8 Paladin? All you got was Haste.. you could've gotten that from the two bows that let you cast it.. and instead gotten another feat.. which seems much more powerful and difficult to replicate.
Question about Band of Mystic Scoundrel: you say it "allows" you to cast illusion and enchantment spells as a bonus action but doesn't it effectively "force" you to cast them as a bonus action? If the item is in effect and you don't have bonus action you can't use one of your actions to cast the spell normally anymore. Or is it a bug and only I have ever encountered that problem?
If you're hasted, you can. Thing is, by attacking, you're exhausting an action. The band kinda works like quickened spell but only for illusion/enhancement. If you wanted to use an action for a spell/cantrip, it's gotta be at the start of your turn or, if you're hasted, by using either your first or second action.
@@e-duh3529 That's exactly why I'm asking. I can't use a haste action or a bloodlust action to cast the spell normally, it requires a bonus action instead. Is it a bug in my game or does it work this way?
@@alexmashkin863 oh prolly because since you made a weapon attack, the bonus action spell takes priority I suppose. Wonder if something like that happens with war priest charges too
@@e-duh3529 Yes, it does happen with war priest charges :-) A bit differently, if you had two actions at the start of the turn, you can expend normal attacks first, but if you used normal attacks and then got hasted for example, it will force you to use bonus action attack before you can use normal attack from additional action. At least that's how it goes in my game.
I've heard both, and both make sense if you think about it. Hard K makes sense if you read the word as written, but taking into consideration how "sorcerer" is pronounced, you could say it anyhow
3:00 Holy crap, BG3 lets you cast ritual spells in combat without expending a spell slot? I thought it was like regular D&D where you could only cast for free outside combat but this is crazy 🤪
This build should be strong right from level 1 - make sure you're using a weapon with the finesse property, so you can attack using your dexterity. If you're using a strength weapon you'll be missing frequently!
This character will use finesse weapons (daggers, shortswords, rapiers, or the magic longsword Phalar Aluve) to attack with its dexterity rather than strength
Not sure if you have already but if not you could do a fun "mystery tier list", spoiler tag it, and rank the all the different allies for the last fight!
Hello. I have a folder with a lot of builds for BG3 and honor mode. I would love to share it with you so you can do videos on them if you find some interesting. Good work! Edit: and if someone is interested i make good builds for the game depending on what you want as i have 1300H already and years playing DnD ^^ Greettings to all
I also did not enjoy his pronunciation but still enjoyed the remainder of the video nonetheless. He is a great source of knowledge and he is easily a very underrated content creator for Baldurs Gate 3. Happy to comment for the algorithm. Sorry for my bad English. - Gyatsu from Berkeley
Wow! Dont tell me this is because I asked a few hours ago on another video of yours where this guide is since you mentioned it there and it wasn't to be found! 😅😅
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I definitely watched the whole video already and this comment has nothing to do with the algorithm.
Just a random internet opinion, but I think you've surpassed Spud the King and many others, and you're right up there with Italian Spartacus as the best BG3 build channel. Thumbs up.
Ceph is much better than Spud imo. He just knows way more about the game and takes a lot more into consideration. I honestly find his videos very complete. The videos are not clickbaity in the least bit and he refuses to make cheeky statements like “THIS WILL ABSOLUTELY CHANGE HOW YOU PLAY!!!” Instead he opts for giving the players many ways to play the same thing while discussing the strengths and weaknesses.
@@CMiY0 Of course. But Spud is fun for beginners. I will always subscribe to that channel, just for the hilarity!
Even better than spartacus imo, since ceph is capable of mentioning githyanki without making the same stupid joke about them being crackheads every time
@@J.Tarrou Sparticus wrote that Act 3 guide though... man, I've sent that to so many newbies who ask me how to handle BG... total lifesaver of my time. ;)
Personally, Ceph and Aestus RPG are hands down the best and most well informed content creators for this game. Sparticus is a vibe but he's evidently very casual about his guides and not very prescriptive, Spud is way too clickbaity. Nizar is decent, but it's evident that his thing is learning stuff from the reddit buildmakers or content creators like Ceph and Aestus and then making interesting clickbaity videos "inspired" from there.
mic sounds real good this video in my opinion you nailed the settings
Just messaged a buddy "hey, wanna run a duo"?
Then opened YT and I see "uploaded 1 minute ago".
Guess what build I'm gonna run now. Lol
Mic this video is better than previous ones, thanks as always for the guide!
Sweet mother of beautiful audio balance ❤️ it sounds fabulous!
absolutely loving the honour mode builds! only downside is the amount of time i'm now spending in the respec screen instead of playing 😆
I was just thinking of making a sorcadin and having no idea how, this is perfect timing
Another reason the mystic scoundrel band is the goat. Thanks for the video, your videos have been a go to while I mow the yard this summer. 🍻
Watched. Learned. Going to play a campaign with my son. He hasn't played much, good chance I suggest this for him. Thank you.
I've never tried sorcerer but love paladins. Ill definitely try this. Many thanks
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Thanks for posting the build. I may the only bg3 fan who hadn't played this multi-class build so I really appreciate it since I am finally doing a playthrough with it.
Your builds always come in clutch!
mic sounds much better here than in the last video, whatever changes you made definitely worked
Love your build an party guides! Hoping for a Durge build coming soon.
I finished my first run. I will use your guides for sure, whenever I get to start the next one. Thank you for the awesome builds and guides!
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Found your channel lately and I love it
Thanks for the Vid, as always very inspiring to start a new run :D
Regarding your new Mic: It sounds like it has always some kind of noise as soon as you talk + your voice reverbs like in an empty meeting room
Always looking forward to your BG3 guides :)
Great video as always from the man who makes the best builds on the internet
I had no idea that ritual spells still triggered Tempestuous Magic...that sealed it, I'm starting a Halfling Durge Sorcadin run using this guide!
I built an aspect of Alduin from Skyrim for my evil non-durge run, and went with a similar combo. The differences being that I started the game as a vengeance paladin to represent his might and divine mission as a world ending dragon that was once worshiped by an ancient dragon cult as a god. And upon my first level up I took a level of draconic bloodline sorcerer to take up spells that I felt best represented the shouts. He later became an oathbreaker when he killed Kahga in order to avenge Arabella's death.
A couple of things regarding items:
1. Arcane synergy circlet is best in slot for any gish, this is no exception. With mirror bonuses it will end up being something like +5 dmg on a helmet slot, can't beat that with anything else.
2. Bhaalist armor + Duelist sword is your highest damage output setup.
3. Most important item for this build is the Potion of angelic reprieve (make sure you stack 100+ of them before going for Nishtsong because otherwise you will hear the phrase "savage little warrior" waaaaay too much to keep your sanity). You can dump all of your lvl 1-2 slots into metamagic, drink potion, repeat multiple times, then turn sorcery points back into arbitrarily many lvl 4 slots and have an upcasted smite for every single one of your attacks in every single fight. It's beyond stupid, and the main reason why you would want to build this instead of swords bard.
For 1., I do really like Mask of Soul Perception late game if I know that missing would be really bad. Though I admit this is with not using Storm giant pots as a 'house rule', so if I always had the increased hit anyway then that circlet would never leave. :D Although the helm in the video is also good if you just want CC.
But how to hit with a smite? What does it depend on? The paladin doesn't have the strength to deal damage. This build is based on dexterity and charisma? Dex to hit and charisma to damage?
@@mariuszcerta1927 Smite is tied to your attack (you can even set it up as a popup in your reactions menu). If you have a finesse weapon, you use dex (or str if it's higher). Hitting is not a problem if you start out as vengeance subclass, just use the channel divinity ability on yourself (not on the enemy!) when the fight starts and you get free advantage. Attack bonuses are easy to find after the middle of act2 or so.
You don't need str to deal damage, that's what smite is for. Besides, with a finesse weapon, your dex bonus is also added to your damage (it's different from 3.5E or Pathfinder). You also get the flat damage from charisma bonus if you have the oathbreaker subclass and you re-roll damage dice, including crits, with savage attacker (ends up as >45% extra damage on dice).
You could use the rapier you get for rescuing Mizora (need to have Wyll in party when entering mindflayer colony), that way all of your bonuses come from charisma, which is the easiest stat to boost. +2DC and a good summon are nice as well, it's not a terrible weapon even if it does slightly less damage than Duelist's or Shar spear.
doesnt bone spike gloves help with the bhaalist armor aswell?
@@joehendricks3580 In some fights, yea, they work correctly to produce vulenrability on resistant targets. Not that many pierce res enemies in act3, most of the time you will be using the +2/+2 att/dmg one.
Was precisely looking for another party face after I tried your excellent Bard/Warlock build !
I'd love to see a build focusing around Illithd Powers (would fit well after the tierlist), so a very "late-game" build.
Larethian’s wrath, dancing breeze and belm can give you AOE smites!
And Shar’s spear of night! 😀
OOooh smooth mic, love the settings you have for this one!
My second playthrough was a sorcadin, based on a tabletop character idea. It was a very fun experience, love having the bigger spell slots for BIG smites or more sorcery points to quicken more spells or generate more smite slots.
Definitely better and distinctly better when you start discussing skill selection
This character basically got me through honor mode, though I did a slightly different split and with two handed weapons
Nice build. I am in love with 4paladin/8 swords bard. I may try this later and see how I like it.
Ok. One thing that very few builds that have sorcerer dips don’t mention is that sorcerers can create almost unlimited number of spell slots up to level 5 per long rest if one of your party members (or camp followers) is a transmutation wizard that can double craft elixirs of arcane cultivation. A sorcadin with a four level sorcerer dip can create 20-25 level 4 slots and have a level 4 smite in every attack. It does make the character overpowered, however, and make the game less challenging.
Just wanna note that using a ritual spell to reposition yourself still uses a spell slot in combat, might as well do some damage or cc.
Very good build, might use this with Minthara in my next playthrough.
I always heard about Sorcadin but haven’t really ever considered it’s impact much. Looking through the video and holy heck this thing is unreal. It’s so so strong, it has virtually no real weaknesses and can spam burst damage very easily. 2/10 bardadin might be the “meta” option for pally but this build is much harder to kill. I feel like this build is a relatively easy honor mode solo once you explore your way past level 6.
Okay, now that I've heard about heightened spell, I REALLY want to see a crowd control build. Preferably one that trivializes most encounters.
Because the best fights are one sided.
I saw an article recently I think you'd find interesting, where the devs for the new D&D ruleset set to come out in September mentioned some of the changes they were planning, and how those changes were inspired by Baldur's Gate 3. One of them was that they were going to make Cloud of Daggers more like Moonbeam in that you can move it on your turn if you want, which will make it just so much better than it already is.
always a good vid when true strike is involved
He did it 🎉 I had built my Minthara sorcadin way differently and I wasn’t too happy with how she was performing but I’ll give this a tru
Hey man i love your videos. They always inspire me to try new things. Ive recently got into modding and wonder if you will ever do any videos on mods yourself. Thanks for the quality and passion you put into your content!
Not BG3, but I really look forward to how the charisma classes will come together in the new dnd release later this year. Seems like it'll be even easier to mix and match.
Sound is really good this time and was a little hollow last video so I think you're dialing it in pretty well.
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*Build*
_Level 1_
Sorcerer 1: Storm Sorcery
Stats: STR 8, DEX 16, CON 14, INT 8, WIS 12, CHA 16
Skills: CHA-based “dialog skills” + Sleight of Hand if you want to lock pick as well.
Cantrips: Blade Ward, Friends, Minor Illusion, Ray of Frost
Spells: Magic Missile, Shield
_Level 2_
Paladin 1: Oath of Ancients
_Level 3_
Paladin 2
Fighting Style: Protection
Spells: Bless, Command, Protection from Evil and Good, Shield of Faith, Thunderous Smite
_Level 4_
Paladin 3
Spells: Searing Smite
_Level 5_
Paladin 4
Feat: ASI +2 DEX
_Level 6_
Paladin 5
Spells: Lesser Restoration, Protection from Poison
_Level 7_
Paladin 6
With Paladin Aura of Protection respec to: STR 8, DEX 17, CON 15, INT 8, WIS 8, CHA 16
Same build as before but the ASI feat is now DEX +1, CON +1
_Level 8_
Paladin 7
_Level 9_
Sorcerer 2
Metamagic: Extended, Twinned
Spell: Fog Cloud
_Level 10_
Sorcerer 3
Spell: Hold Person
Metamagic: Heightened
Replace Spell: Fog Cloud > Cloud of Daggers
_Level 11_
Sorcerer 4
Cantrips: True Strike
Spell: Enhance Ability
Feat: ASI DEX +2
_Level 12_
Sorcerer 5
Spell: Haste
Replace: Cloud of Daggers > Hypnotic Pattern
*Recommended Gear*
Helmet of Arcane Acuity
Yuan-ti Scale Mail / Armor of Agility
Knife of the Undermountain King / Phalar Aluve
Sentinel Shield
Killer’s Sweeheart
Band of the Mystic Scoundrel
I love doing this with one less either sorc/pal level for monk 1 instead. Just for dex pole weapons. I fully agree that dex Ancients is cool and also feels right, especially if you're an elf or half-elf, but I really like that motif of a spear wielder or quarterstaff GWF paladin, so I take the sacrifice. :D I also like having that kick bonus action, but like i said it's 100% flavour as well as dialogue. It's definitely not going to be as manysided at being this swiss army knife you've laid out.
monk 1 on dex based paladins/fighters is honestly really fun and very good, it can make your fights much smoother especially for characters without natural bonus action attacks!
im going to point out that divine smite maxes out at 4th lv. At level 11 Paladins get 1d8 radiant damage on every melee attack. This makes a full Paladin smite as hard with a 3rd level spell slot as a Paladin multiclass would with a 4th level slot. So you only get 3 extra smites a day vs a full paladin build.
Dang I didn't think about it. Although I think that after level 6 (maybe 7), another caster class gives you more than staying single paladin. It also depends on what you want to do
Personally: Smites are super overrated anyway. Paladins are much more useful for their auras and what not compared to just being used as 2 pump chumps.
So then the question that matters is do you value consistent DPR + more passive support abilities, or more varied spellcasting and active CC support abilities through those spells. If it's the former, stick pure paladin. If it's the latter, go paladin/sorc.
As a great party face and MC how does it compare to Swordbard ?
Thanks for the content !
hi cephalo! the microphone is sounding way better. the video itself does seem to have low framerate
Great with the new mic..
You can increase the quality of materials by adding clips of actual gameplay with use of a spell or mechanic youre describing.
Its some added work for sure, but it would increase the quality drastically. Viewers retention as well
thank you for your effort!
I like Pali 2, swords bard 5, blade pact 5.
Would you change anything significant if I wanted to play Lae'zel as Vengeance?
Time too try this out!
oh yay my favorite multiclass ever ^_^
Late reply, but wanted to ask what do you think is superior Lockadin or Sorcadin as a melee smiting machine with extra spell possibilities?
I have 2 full playthroughs with a Lockadin with 7 Oathbreaker Paladin + 5 Great old one Warlock, and have also tried a Sorcadin 7/5 split 7 sorc 5 pal, Lockadin is much stronger in melee if you combine Half orc with Great old one Warlock for improved critical hit chance. Sorcadin has more spell variety/ damage. Both builds takes a long time to come online around level 7-8.
Do you think you could do a build based on using the dark urge?
13:00 sure protection is really good, but you don't want to bunch up together in a fight either way.
The collateral dmg from aoe effects outweigh the benefits of protection.
Only if there's dangerous aoe in the encounter - many don't have any, and many of the ones that do you mitigate almost completely with your auras. You do of course have to be careful against some enemies though!
Hey, how about a playable race/subrace tierlist sometime. If you want to. Thanks.
I enjoy your videos ❤
Thanks very much!
new ceph vid dropped and it wasn't that weird 2d game go go go
My main problem with pala auras is how small their range is. You have to stay in horrible 3m bauble in melee range for it to work on your party.
I'm curious why you never seem to recommend half orc as a race, even on builds focused around critical hits like your blender rouge vid. Is the extra die just generally not worth it?
Half orc is pretty good for paladins thanks to a bug where the half orc feature adds an extra smite die in addition to the extra weapon die that it's supposed to add - for rogues it's less powerful because it only adds 1d4 (or 1d6) damage per crit, which is fine but not very exciting.
Mostly I find it a bit annoying how relentless endurance doesn't work in BG3 because damage is all applied in seperate instances, so rather than saving you from one attack it saves you from one *part* of one attack, then you die to any rider damage. Tbh that probably biases me against them unfairly :P
Isn't Protection bugged? It only triggers when both the character and the ally getting attacked has a shield equipped.
Could you make a website or archive of written versions of your builds? I tend to pick some builds at the start of a playthrough and having to check back every level up or so gets to be really tedious especially when usually 4+, 20+ minute videos are relevant to the playthrough. As a side benefit of written guides you could change things more easily if the game gets updated or something like that. I know you have a lot of builds though so it would be a lot of work so I get it if you would rather just focus on making new content. Maybe you could make written guides for stuff going forward though?
Quick question? Why not go for Paladin 2, Sword Bard 10, you get a lot of smie slots, get social stuff from Bard/utlity, and by giving Mintahra also 2 hand crossbows together with soul mark you have very decent range damage with the Bardic attacks and for big bosses you still have a ton of smites. At lvl 10 you take Haste from Magical secrets etc.
Great vid.
Sound is much improved since the ilithid video.
Weird question, but would you ever do a Durge themed build?
magic missile is the best in removing unstoppable or what's the effect that turns any dmg into 1
Sound quality is better today
Day 5 of pitching my favorite BG3 creator a new series idea: building a viable honor mode party where all characters have the same Base Class
You can do a lot with not only restricting yourself by you trying to use every subclass at least once (except for wizards and clerics lol), but also maybe even having an interesting thematic element for example your four bars could be fitting into the Beatles archetype, and you have to challenge yourself by using a Valor bard when either of the subclasses would probably do better
This would also give you an awesome opportunity to talk about what strengths and weaknesses each class brings and how for example some subclasses might be great do better / worse whenever surrounded by other similar team members, finally at the end maybe at the end of each video or after you finish a series you could do a tier list ranking which of them would be the most viable in which of them would be the least viable
Thanks for taking the time put of your day to read this, you're a wonderful resource to a lot of people, and I hope you consider this idea as it's one id be super interested in seeing you tackle
I'm just about to make this build. I would like to ask why not going for 8-4 so be able to take 3 feats and have the same amount off spell slots
My assumption is that it's better to respec at level 5 to full paladin for extra attack on time. Then go into Sorcerer the next 5 levels to get twinned haste at a reasonable time and then cap off the last two levels with Paladin stuff? Or are the protection auras worth postponing twinned haste to the very end of the game?
This build is very flexible so you can definitely build that way if you prefer! My recommendation is the order in the video, but it will of course depend on your party and playstyle
Why take level 5 Sorc and not level 8 Paladin? All you got was Haste.. you could've gotten that from the two bows that let you cast it.. and instead gotten another feat.. which seems much more powerful and difficult to replicate.
U can add a background music in your videos. it will add atmosphere.
Question about Band of Mystic Scoundrel: you say it "allows" you to cast illusion and enchantment spells as a bonus action but doesn't it effectively "force" you to cast them as a bonus action? If the item is in effect and you don't have bonus action you can't use one of your actions to cast the spell normally anymore. Or is it a bug and only I have ever encountered that problem?
If you're hasted, you can. Thing is, by attacking, you're exhausting an action. The band kinda works like quickened spell but only for illusion/enhancement. If you wanted to use an action for a spell/cantrip, it's gotta be at the start of your turn or, if you're hasted, by using either your first or second action.
@@e-duh3529 That's exactly why I'm asking. I can't use a haste action or a bloodlust action to cast the spell normally, it requires a bonus action instead. Is it a bug in my game or does it work this way?
@@alexmashkin863 oh prolly because since you made a weapon attack, the bonus action spell takes priority I suppose. Wonder if something like that happens with war priest charges too
@@e-duh3529 Yes, it does happen with war priest charges :-) A bit differently, if you had two actions at the start of the turn, you can expend normal attacks first, but if you used normal attacks and then got hasted for example, it will force you to use bonus action attack before you can use normal attack from additional action. At least that's how it goes in my game.
Great build! What do you think of a pure ancients dex paladin? The support abilities I have are awesome, but any tips on maximizing damage?
Savage attacker feat
Personally I think the mic makes you sound further away than normal
I thought sorcadin is pronounced with hard k, I heard someone say it like that, surely it's not my inner voice, right?
I've heard both, and both make sense if you think about it. Hard K makes sense if you read the word as written, but taking into consideration how "sorcerer" is pronounced, you could say it anyhow
3:00 Holy crap, BG3 lets you cast ritual spells in combat without expending a spell slot? I thought it was like regular D&D where you could only cast for free outside combat but this is crazy 🤪
No, you were right. Casting a ritual spell during turn-based mode consumes a spell slot. You can't cast a ritual spell for free during combat.
Is there a way to play this build with strength and two handed sword ? I don’t really like the shield sword idea
And I would put sorcerer levels after 5 level paladin because I want to see the sorcerer sooner and wait more for auras
I'm trying this build and so far the majority of my attacks miss or do little damage. I'm only level 3. At what level does this build get strong?
This build should be strong right from level 1 - make sure you're using a weapon with the finesse property, so you can attack using your dexterity. If you're using a strength weapon you'll be missing frequently!
if you have multiple paladins in your party does aura of protection stack up?
Nope
not quite sure why isn't lvl 12 wiz1? haste scroll? headband of boogers?
That's an option!
With such low strength, wont the hit chance be really low?
This character will use finesse weapons (daggers, shortswords, rapiers, or the magic longsword Phalar Aluve) to attack with its dexterity rather than strength
@@Cephalopocalypse ah ok....i didnt know different weapons used different stats...
I accidentally broke my oath, is this still valid?
Not sure if you have already but if not you could do a fun "mystery tier list", spoiler tag it, and rank the all the different allies for the last fight!
Cool
Weird, other people are saying the audio is good - I'm hearing noise, I would describe it as white-noise.
Hello. I have a folder with a lot of builds for BG3 and honor mode. I would love to share it with you so you can do videos on them if you find some interesting. Good work!
Edit: and if someone is interested i make good builds for the game depending on what you want as i have 1300H already and years playing DnD ^^ Greettings to all
Could you do a swords bard paladin?
I'm new too the game
He did ruclips.net/video/4O_KrBfWsrk/видео.htmlsi=JxtEdzDGEYeubK0x
New video let's go!
MIGHT AND MAGIC MENTIONED!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS GOOD IP MANAGEMENT????
W la sorca amici miei ❤
Idk if you've done this yet or not but Swarlockadin?
How now brown cow
great video, hated that u pronounced it "source"-adin and not "sork"-adin,
Love ❤
I also did not enjoy his pronunciation but still enjoyed the remainder of the video nonetheless. He is a great source of knowledge and he is easily a very underrated content creator for Baldurs Gate 3. Happy to comment for the algorithm.
Sorry for my bad English.
- Gyatsu from Berkeley
Enjoy your sorkerer playthroughs!
Wow!
Dont tell me this is because I asked a few hours ago on another video of yours where this guide is since you mentioned it there and it wasn't to be found! 😅😅
Hi, these build videos are missing a showcase part.
Agreed
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Algoooo boost
cheers!