Baldur's Gate 3 - The Cryomancer (Build Request)
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Hi all! I've got another build request for you today, this one being one of my most requested, the Cryomancer. I've been asked a few times to do an Ice build, and I'm happy to say that this was surprisingly fun to build and use! It wasn't expecting the sheer amount of status effect you could inflict and how much control you have over the battlefield.
Cryomancer
Draconic Sorcerer 1 (White)/Tempest Cleric 1/Evocation Wizard 10
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Another thing you can do with this build is put one more level into Sorcerer for the Twinned Spell Metamagic, letting you cast both an ice spell and Create Water on the same turn for situations where you get ambushed or just can't get that sneaky swet off first.
You are thinking of Quickened Spell that allows you to cast a spell as a bonus action. You have to get to Sorcerer lvl 3 for that metamagic feat. The Twinned Spell feat allows you to target 2 creatures with the *same* spell if it normally only targets 1 creature.
Man I love your videos- I'm using your Dancer of Eilistraee build in my current playthrough! But I find your videos are really good for people like me who aren't great at making builds 🙏🙏
Funny, last night, I was just scheming over a cryomancer build and party setup aimed at making the most out of the frozen status effect. I hadn't settled on the plan, so this vid is very timely. J
Another cool way to build this character is 10 Mage (Evocation)/2 Cleric (Tempest). The aim is to take advantage of the "Frozen" condition which grants vulnerability to Thunder damage and which is acquired by combining the "Wet" and "Chilled" conditions.
Race: Any
-Evocation School: Excellent as described in the video, it will increase the damage of most of your ice spells and protect your allies.
-Tempest Domain: Allows you to maximise the Thunder damage roll, which is doubled due to the enemy's vulnerability. You can use this combo 2 times p/long rest with the "Amulet of The Devout" which grants +2 Spell Save DC + 1 Channel Divinity Charge
I decided to throw my own spin on this build, and when you enter Wyrm Crossing, I respec into 2 sorc & 10 wiz. Drop the cleric and pick up the Elven mail from the blacksmith in Wyrms crossing, you still keep the medium armor prof, but gain metamagic which can be very potent in some battles. You could also grab Wiz 11 instead and gain you level 6 spells from that instead. I also see use in taking the genial striding boots to ignore the effects of Difficult terrain, and grabbing another ring. Great build man, I love these unique builds thats different from your generic wizard or sorc.
I did a similar kind of build for my Durge run, although it was more sorcerer and a little bit wizard and cleric. I really enjoyed the utility of metamagic for twin spell or quickened spell for create/destroy water - being able to either cover the immediate map in water for someone else with lightning or ice, or to use water as a bonus action then enhancing my damage and being able to fly away. It was really useful in the house of grief especially, but I love how early an ice mage can come online for crowd control
Thanks for the video ! If I may, I would just have added to that build -when reaching act 3 (you can go collect it as soon as you enter it)- the dual wield Mourning Frost with Markoheshkir. Its added bonuses are great to pass the encrusted in frost tests but mostly for Kereska's favor which will boost further more you ice damages, it really makes the cryomancer go a whole other level, and dual staff wielding is cool
I've been playing full storm sorc and lean heavily into ice, it's great plus you can throw lighting at em when the ice melts for extra damage, plus flying any turn after casting is so fun
Great video and I been enjoying your take on the builds you create. I am currently playing a Svirfneblin (Deep Gnome) Cryomancer. I went full Evocation Wizard utilizing Coldbrim Hat and Icebite Robe, for Armour of Agathys.
Damn, thanks for this! Been mulling over trying to build Anri from Shining Force for a run who's very ice-centric, and this suits her perfectly. Wee suggestion too - the Hoarfrost Boots in the Githyanki creche just prevent slipping on ice, and that frees up the Night Walkers for someone else if desired.
Currently in act 3 with your phantom trickster and it’s been really fun. Looks like I’m gonna have to respec and try this now lol. Love these builds 👍
I'm comparing this to my current cryomancer build.
I made gale pure ice, wyll is pure thunder and lightning and they compliment eachother so well.
Gale freezes up the battlefield and wyll lights them up.
My gale is 1 level in Cleric, 3 levels in wizard and the rest in scorcery.
I went with war Cleric (mystra) for the heavy armor.
3 levels in wizard for the evocation spell safety. (Abiltiy to learn spells like ice wall)
The the rest in scorcery for the scorcery points, and the ability to twin spells. Evocation is important because alot of ice spells like ice storm has a massave aoe but now leaves your allies untouched. Same with lightning.
The only thing you have to worry about is the icy floor or the electrified water, and that's not even a big deal.
Wyll is almost the opposite.
3 levels in wizard evocation for spell safety, 3 levels in warlock (for the bind pack weapon) and the rest in tempest Cleric (lathander).
Tempest Cleric gives him the necessary spells and wizard will garentee I get all the lightning spells I need.
I also have equipped a Warhammer that does extra lightning damage if it's bound as a pack weapon. (Thus the 3 in warlock)
My main is a light Cleric (selune) mixed with paliden (devotion) split 6 and 6
A in your face holy knight with the blood of lathander.
(Also stocked up on cloud giant elixir. I got naturally a 8 for strength but that boosts it to 27 untill I get the hill giant gloves) *this is my 3rd playthrough*
And changed shadowheart to a life cleric (was shar now selune) and ranger 6 and 6
Maximum healing and sharpshooter from a distance.
Another thing very useful is every character has sanctuary so I have alot of control over who gets hit.
(Especially useful for protecting low hp npcs)
A great starting race for this build would also be the Dragonborn, either Silver or White for the freezing breath weapon and resistance to cold damage right out of the gate.
Very nice build. I was tentatively thinking about an ice mage last night after I assembled that 3 pc staff in the underdark. Now I have something to work on
Thank you for this build, i was one of the guys requesting it, and im glad u went with wizard, as summons, fire shield and lvl 6 spells is smth i also wanna use if im gonna play an ice mage🙃
I would also swap out elemental affinity for dual wield - wet enemies take double (normal if resistant) damage anyway, and dual wield gives you the option of going frost/ensnaring staff untill you get to act 3 (ensnaring staff works with ice cc ☺️)
Anywho...very nice and ty
I've been waiting for a build in this style. Great video
Thank you this build looks great. I just started a run wanting to use Gale as a companion since I never really use him and was going to do some type of ice mage so i think this build will be perfect!
Bone Chill is nice to prevent targets from healing, but only gives disadvantage to undead. I find the poison or acid cantrips to be useful more frequently.
the extra damage from evocation is nice but if you don't want to take the cleric dip you can take conjuration wizard instead. gives you create water right out the gate and you don't have to rely on scrolls to give you access to the sixth level ice spells. and while the other subclass features aren't particularly flavorful, they're also fairly useful.
I did consider this, but you only get to cast Create Water once per short rest if you go this route, and you’ll find your allies will get in the way of your attacks a lot of the time without Sculpt Spell.
@@HoboZone fair points. it's just on my main playthrough i've been doing a similar build that relies on create water to buff lightning bolt and i haven't been super impressed so far. i think for create water combos it's really important to be able to do it all in one turn, otherwise it loses some efficacy. maybe you give up the high level evoker's damage bonus to get three levels of sorcerer and quickened spell? actually, level 6 sorcerer gets you that damage bonus back, just on the charisma side. and you only need one level in wizard to scribe spells, so doing less wizard levels isn't the end of the world. hmm. the stats might look weird in a mostly sorcerer version but i could see it having some merit. something like tempest cleric 1/evocation wizard 2/draconic sorcerer 9. heavy armor means you can dump dex and you could already dump str and wis is only marginally important so you can afford to invest more or less equally in int and cha. this way you have enough sorcery points to bonus action create water several times, but you still have sculpt spells and can still scribe whatever spells that you might have missed out on
Not even a Minute in, but cheering xD I wanted to do excactly such a build because i found that staff for more ice Power xD So ...i got my Popcorn and prepare xD
Elemental builds are a lot of fun, and this can easily be tweaked towards fire or lightning etc
My only concern is how many Let It Go, refferences you are going to get in the comments. ;)
The theory crafting for builds in this game is so much fun.
I was thinking of trying to replicate Jarlaxle but nah he needs his magic toys.
Maybe a Musketeer style character?
I did a similar thing as a druid! They get a good chuck of the ice spells as well, but definitely not as good as wizard.
My own cryomancery type is Sorcerer (white dragon)/wizard 11/1. Adding cha to damage of all cold spells is nice. It has 6th level spells and wizard allows you to learn from scrolls. Guess it is missing out on Cleric, but druids or other cleric can supply create water.
I’ve had this same idea, but I am not sure how many spells learned from scrolls I would be able to prepare since it’s only 1 wizard level, how did you work around this?
@@yusefmarini5759 You can prepate 1+int modifier. And you can just change spells as long as it is not in combat. So with 14 int, you can have 3 easily switched spells, for fly, gaseous form, find familiar, etc.
@@dianabialaskahansen2972 is it worth going 14 int for that and losing higher dex and con?
@@yusefmarini5759 I don't know, I mean I only had a few spells that I cycled through, all of them for versatility and usage outside combat. So 10 int might be enough, where you get only 1.spell.
I’d be down if you did characters from mortal kombat. Subzero, Rain and reptile would be super hype!
Respecced into cold build after starting a/reading up on/ shock stuff in game and realizing shock items were limited to lightning charges. Much happier now haha
Personally id rather grab shield and magic missile from sorceror, as you can learn feather fall as a wizard and not prepare it unless you need to, where was magic missile and shield can be used all through the game
4 tempest cleric 8 "ab" wiz, dual wieldin feat, heavy master armor feat, and asi for more int, and lastly, find a scroll of armor of agus* and learn it and cast it at level 6 and take no dmg and due either 30 frost dmg per getting smacked or even 60 if you create water with the cleric subclass, use frostmorne and a battery staff, hoarfrost boots snowburst ring, and heavy adamantine armor with whatever hat or gloves u want to improve this
Ur welcome and enjoy
Cytokinesis - The Psionic power that creates Ice. Would love to see your take on a Storm Lord. I am playing now a Tempest Cleric 2, Wizard 1, Storm Sorcerer 4 in act 2 (Just started)
My Fallen Thunder God or Fist of Talos might fit the theme you're looking for.
This has me thinking could you go 2 wizard for sculpt spells and then soccer (ice) for the chilled condition. Being able to twin spells and quicken while totally avoiding hitting ally’s?
Awesome build, I only wish that the video had chapters for each level so it would be easier to skip ahead to different levels.
Was trying a Halfling frost eldritch knight but so disappointing, may swap over to this instead.
nice vid man
May i ask how can u do these vids and showcase them at L12 with the tutorial/start of game?
With mods. I use the 1XP to Level and All Items in Tutorial chest mods
cheers @@HoboZone
I like this build, but I'll do it with a silver dragonborn if I decide to give it a run.
Dragonborn came to mind, but you'd be surprised how many people don't like playing as them
I was genuinely surprised when I made one last night at the creation options, Larian did not go half-assed with them as a race.@@HoboZone
Would love a build with a Monk - Way of the Four Elements. :) :)
Done that. Check my Nero build.
I'm for sure stealing this build lol.
Good video one problem though there wasn't really an effective showcase to the build and synergy between the effect status
Killer Frost!
If possible, I'd like to see a shadowmancy build.
Interesting idea. I'll look into it
@@HoboZone Thank you!
I just thought about something 🤔
Is there a way to stack a lot of abilities to make eldrich blast really really powerfull? I might start looking into that, see what classes have overlapping bonuses for evocation cantrips
I've got a build for that in the future, but the big piece of equipment that helps the most is the Potent Robe.
I'd probably have gone dragonborn (for the icy breath attack xD) and gone further into Draconic Sorcerer rather than Wizard to get the Cold Damage Boost at level 6, as you can learn the level 6 scrolls as a wizard even with only 1 level in wizard - at least until Larian fix that =p
Feel that you still get access to the spells you need, but can tweak everything with meta magic for more effect.
Yeah, I did consider this. My only issue with relying so heavily on scrolls for your spells is that if you don't find the correct scrolls, it can be frustrating. With this build, you only need to find two scrolls all together.
@@HoboZone I'm playing a Sorlock Currently, with draconic ancestry and compared to this I don't think I've missed any of the main ice spells listed to the level I am, (4th level spells), so might still only be those two 6th level spells that are the issue?
Interesting! Definitely an cool alternative since you get Hunger of Hadar too.
@@HoboZone My main issue has been that there was a bit of a "power dip" going full cold, so I actually went fire build until I hit those 4th level spells and could swap out fireball for Ice Storm as my main AoE (Which you can quicken to cast twice a turn!), and just checked - still get Cone of Cold with 5th level spells. But don't get the conjur elemental spells as standard - so would need to keep an eye out for scrolls of those too.
I have a build idea but I don’t know what type of gear would be good for it, Basically I called it the Dice master because I wanted to see how many dice/ Rng type affects I can get on a single character.
This build is basically six levels of Battle master and six levels of Divination wizard with the lucky feat( It basically gives you extra dice) and martial adept feat. The best race for this build is probably halfling if I had to guess but other then that, I really have no clue if there any gear that fits this theme to finish the build.
I've already done a build like this. The video is Tymora's Luck-bender.
@@HoboZone thx, look at the video and while the idea is similar but it not the same. I am more focused on getting as many extra dice rolling effects as possible, while luck bender build is more focus on the rng side of things but honestly I don’t think it possible to really get more dice rolling effects in game through weapons and gear other then extra damage rolls or getting advantage.
Could you make a reverberation thunder bard build?
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How are you getting level 6 spell slots with this build?
Because we only use full casters as mutliclass options. As long as you only level in full casters, you get the same amount of slots as a single class.
Right on!! Thank you for the reply and I was not aware of that!!!!
How do you have lvl 6 spell slots? Wouldnt you need to be lvl 11 wiz or sorc for that? Thanks
Spell Slots stack with multiclassing. As long as you only use full casters until level 11, you'll still get lvl 6 spells.
@@HoboZone oh really ? I'm cleric 2/sorc 7 now, so I should be good?
@@joshlivingstone3778 yup. You can even take a 1 level dip of fighter and you'll be fine.
Thanks so much! Cheers
@@HoboZone if I dip into one lvl of wiz (2 cleric, 2 wiz, 8 sorc) I can learn any wiz spell and cast it right? For example learn a lvl5 wizard spell and cast it? Also do you know if it uses my sorc ability mod or my wizard one. tIA
you lost lvl 6 sorc damage boost
Can you do a fire monk build?
Like a Four Elements Monk choosing the Fire options?
Or maybe a Monk-Spellcaster mix?
Four elements monk choosing fire option. Maybe taking light cleric?
To be honest, I don't see a reason to multiclass at all. You'd only be losing out on unarmed damage, and you wouldn't gain anything since Elements Monk gives you all the main fire spells (scorching ray, fireball).
There could be some equipment that could make it interesting and perhaps there's and interesting character there as well.
I'll add it to the list and see what I can come up with!
Definitely an idea I was thinking. Thanks for considering it. Keep up the great videos!
Instead of the yuanti scale male id do the armor of agility it's literally the same armor with 2 more ac
Yes but you get that in act 3, whereas you get the Yuan-ti armour a lot sooner