Hit me with your best ideas for a lv 12 solo build

[BigFloof]

I always play CRPGs with solo builds on the highest difficulty, and so far played the EA of BG3 with various classes solo. Now that the cap is getting raised to 12 on August 3, I'm looking for some fresh ideas, so hit me up with your ideas. Looking forward to all!

The motto is minmaxing.

And for clarification, long rest abuse will be fair game, if they don't change it on full release.

[Ragnar]

Half Orc - 3 Assassin, 5 Gloom stalker, 2 Fighter. Great axe.

[larhtas]

Can you give me your current AC bonus to know if i'm gonna use my great weapon master feat first?

[BigFloof]

Originally posted by larhtas:

Can you give me your current AC bonus to know if i'm gonna use my great weapon master feat first?

I would assume in the mid 20s to 30, but all is fair game.
I'll be playing a solo run as always and just looking for some ideas for now. :)

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Most likely won't work in BG3 but in general....Lore bard...take find steed and haste on level 6 as magical secrets, Keep out of range of everything thanks to 300ft or so movement range and just pop in range for a moment, cast your cantrip and move out of range again...Death by a thousand needles...:P

[larhtas]

I'll go either for an eldritch knight or an abjurator wizard. Both high elf.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Sorcerer-7/Warlock-5.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Originally posted by Ragnar:

Half Orc - 3 Assassin, 5 Gloom stalker, 2 Fighter. Great axe.

That's only 10 levels.

[pahrias]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Sorcerer-7/Warlock-5.

Why not a level or two into cleric? Or would potions be enough for that? And what is the benefit of sorc/warlock?

[pahrias]

Originally posted by larhtas:

I'll go either for an eldritch knight or an abjurator wizard. Both high elf.

Is that just one class? And would that be enough damage output to fight multiple enemies?

[BigFloof]

Originally posted by pahrias:

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Sorcerer-7/Warlock-5.

Why not a level or two into cleric? Or would potions be enough for that? And what is the benefit of sorc/warlock?

Warlock spells restore upon short resting. Sorcerer gets Sorcery Points, and Sorcery Points can be exchanged into spell slots and vice versa.
In TT 5e, SorLock abuses this by doing 8 short rests instead of 1 long rest, each time exchanging the warlock spells into sorcery points, then after the 8th long rest, exchanging all sorcery points into spell slots, having 16 extra lv 1 slots or 10 extra 2nd lv slots (this is known as "coffeelock").
Typically you go Sorcerer 4 into Warlock 2, 3 or 5 and rest Sorcerer.

However, since BG3 lets us abuse unlimited long rests, and fights are typically over in 1-2 turns, we wouldn't really benefit from this cheese. BG3 also only lets us take 2 short rests in a row, which also limits its viability.

[pahrias]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Originally posted by Ragnar:

Half Orc - 3 Assassin, 5 Gloom stalker, 2 Fighter. Great axe.

That's only 10 levels.

Would 2 into cleric help that combo? Just for the heals?

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Originally posted by pahrias:

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Sorcerer-7/Warlock-5.

Why not a level or two into cleric? Or would potions be enough for that? And what is the benefit of sorc/warlock?

Just look up coffeelock. Walock spellslots are always on the highest level they can be and recharge on short rest. Convert your warlock spellslots to sorcery points and then boost your sorcery spellslots with these etc.
Yeah, quite a powerful build, still not a big fan. Higher level spells are almost always better than upcasting in 5e, and you loose quite a bit on the max spelllevel with that build, but to each their own. ;P

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

Originally posted by Dαятн Wαfflεmαncεя:

Originally posted by pahrias:

Why not a level or two into cleric? Or would potions be enough for that? And what is the benefit of sorc/warlock?

Just look up coffeelock. Walock spellslots are always on the highest level they can be and recharge on short rest. Convert your warlock spellslots to sorcery points and then boost your sorcery spellslots with these etc.
Yeah, quite a powerful build, still not a big fan. Higher level spells are almost always better than upcasting in 5e, and you loose quite a bit on the max spelllevel with that build, but to each their own. ;P

well interestingly enough, in table top, you'd be right because the higher level spells like Wish and some of the other reality warping abilities are just so absurd that nothing else comes close. but in bg3 not only are we not getting anything above ..6th level? We also wont be getting the ability to cheese with anything would warp reality in any way since theres no DM.

This is probably good tbh because it means multiclassing is more viable than it normally would be and having only a few points in certain classes is fine because you wont lose out that much power in the long run

OP asked for a solo build, but for most people, we'll be using 4 party members, and can customize them as much as we want for the most part, especially if you use the respec mod to change their class and spells. So when you think about creating your perfect character, keep in mind that you can create a character knowing full well that your other 3 party members can all be specced to support you and only you. being able to shape 4 characters instead of just 1 changes things quite a bit. also considering this is mostly a single player game, its balanced heavily in favor of the player (like every game ever) so you can afford to sacrifice here and there knowing full well you'll still succeed (and literally cannot die because reloading is a thing, which means glass cannon is basically the most useful build)

best build is anything with plate armor, a shield, and the shield spell. 25 AC. take a weapon (elf) and now you can swing for days and never get hit and that doesnt take into consideration any spells or class abilities. this game is really easy when you break it down to core basic concepts like "dont take damage"

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Originally posted by .Master Jiren, The Strongest:

Originally posted by Dαятн Wαfflεmαncεя:

Just look up coffeelock. Walock spellslots are always on the highest level they can be and recharge on short rest. Convert your warlock spellslots to sorcery points and then boost your sorcery spellslots with these etc.
Yeah, quite a powerful build, still not a big fan. Higher level spells are almost always better than upcasting in 5e, and you loose quite a bit on the max spelllevel with that build, but to each their own. ;P

well interestingly enough, in table top, you'd be right because the higher level spells like Wish and some of the other reality warping abilities are just so absurd that nothing else comes close. but in bg3 not only are we not getting anything above ..6th level? We also wont be getting the ability to cheese with anything would warp reality in any way since theres no DM.

This is probably good tbh because it means multiclassing is more viable than it normally would be and having only a few points in certain classes is fine because you wont lose out that much power in the long run

OP asked for a solo build, but for most people, we'll be using 4 party members, and can customize them as much as we want for the most part, especially if you use the respec mod to change their class and spells. So when you think about creating your perfect character, keep in mind that you can create a character knowing full well that your other 3 party members can all be specced to support you and only you. being able to shape 4 characters instead of just 1 changes things quite a bit. also considering this is mostly a single player game, its balanced heavily in favor of the player (like every game ever) so you can afford to sacrifice here and there knowing full well you'll still succeed (and literally cannot die because reloading is a thing, which means glass cannon is basically the most useful build)

best build is anything with plate armor, a shield, and the shield spell. 25 AC. take a weapon (elf) and now you can swing for days and never get hit and that doesnt take into consideration any spells or class abilities. this game is really easy when you break it down to core basic concepts like "dont take damage"

Yet on the tabletop you usually are quite limited in long resting, however in BG3 (judging by the ea at least) you can practically long rest all the time. Also fights in bg3 so far don't really last long enough you can effectively make use of all those extra spell slots. Unless this changes, I see even less use for coffeelock then on the tabletop, where you often have to manage your spellslots carefully.

[pahrias]

Originally posted by Dαятн Wαfflεmαncεя:

Originally posted by pahrias:

Why not a level or two into cleric? Or would potions be enough for that? And what is the benefit of sorc/warlock?

Just look up coffeelock. Walock spellslots are always on the highest level they can be and recharge on short rest. Convert your warlock spellslots to sorcery points and then boost your sorcery spellslots with these etc.
Yeah, quite a powerful build, still not a big fan. Higher level spells are almost always better than upcasting in 5e, and you loose quite a bit on the max spelllevel with that build, but to each their own. ;P

Do we know if that "combo" will be carried over though? Might they not just, say for sake of argument, make it so only the Warlocks spell recharge and you cannot do that swapping thing? That seems like an exploit that devs would normally try to take out... though, if I recall some one did mention that larian kind of like those types of thing as it lets you play how you want.