Multiclassing for Shadowheart

[Keagian]

So I'm planning on Multiclassing Shadowheart into a Shadow Monk to keep her in line with her theme of trying to be sneaky as well as me needing a character with good wisdom and can be a scout for traps and sneaking. This is due to me planning to play a Padlock to deal with out of combat dialogue and be a front liner.

She starts off with good wisdom and decent Dex so I figured I'd dip her into Shadow Monk 6 and maybe dip into 3 Rogue Thief and increase her Dex and just make her a full on Ninja.

That leaves 2 levels left over, 1 Trickery Cleric, 6 Shadow Monk, 3 Rogue Thief. Thoughts on where I could use the two extra levels?

[Dionysos]

I had the same idea. I am going to play light cleric of selune Tav and wanted to combine him with warrior. shadow heart i was thinking about monk, because i really want to have a monk in my group ... but maybe i am missing something good on higher cleric lvls ... that fore i am not sure what i shall do at the end. Need to think about it in the next weeks.

Btw. Is multiclassing working like this in BG3? I thought multiclassing meants combine 2 classes, but you are talking about 3 classes for 1 character. Is it going to be like this?

[Arcthunder]

Could go rogue 4 for the asi and cleric 2 for the higher level spells?

[WeenerTuck813]

Just an FYI you’re missing out on 2 ASI with this strategy unless you put those 3 levels into what you’ve already leveled her as

Full disclaimer a straight cleric will have level 6 spell slots, divine intervention, better channel divinities…

You’d end with a much stronger class if you just did 12 levels of trickery cleric and used 1 ASI you’re missing out on by multiclassing to take a feat to make her better at roguish skills

[Wolfgang421]

Originally posted by Dionysos:

I had the same idea. I am going to play light cleric of selune Tav and wanted to combine him with warrior. shadow heart i was thinking about monk, because i really want to have a monk in my group ... but maybe i am missing something good on higher cleric lvls ... that fore i am not sure what i shall do at the end. Need to think about it in the next weeks.

Btw. Is multiclassing working like this in BG3? I thought multiclassing meants combine 2 classes, but you are talking about 3 classes for 1 character. Is it going to be like this?

Multiclassing in modern D&D means taking different classes at different levels. Each class unlocks certain abilities/bonuses at certain levels, so with the 12 level cap in the game, while you could put one level into each of the classes, that would likely turn out terrible. Also, some class combos just don't really help each other.

[Keagian]

Originally posted by Dionysos:

I had the same idea. I am going to play light cleric of selune Tav and wanted to combine him with warrior. shadow heart i was thinking about monk, because i really want to have a monk in my group ... but maybe i am missing something good on higher cleric lvls ... that fore i am not sure what i shall do at the end. Need to think about it in the next weeks.

Btw. Is multiclassing working like this in BG3? I thought multiclassing meants combine 2 classes, but you are talking about 3 classes for 1 character. Is it going to be like this?

Your player level will increase as usual as you level up but you can choose to level up 1 class along with your player character.

So every level up you can also choose a class to level up, however with the level cap being 12, you'll need to decide how far into a class you actually want to level up.

[WeenerTuck813]

I think too many people expect this to play like Pathfinder. D&D 5e isn’t as forgiving or beneficial with multiclassing. There’s some but in most situations going into 3-4 classes severely gimps how your character turns out. Trickery clerics are kinda roguish already I’d recommend not going thief at all and either committing to cleric or staying monk.

You’ll likely be better off 12 trickery cleric, but if you like the idea of shadow monk and want to do it for RP reasons then just take cleric to 4 and monk rest of the way. Or cleric 1 monk 11.

Cleric 1 / Monk 6 / Rogue 3 / XXX 2 is going to end with almost the same stats you started with. It’ll feel bad end game unless Larian implements non-5e things to buff this type of strat

[Sporic]

I was also thinking of multiclassing shadowheart into a monk... A Monk8/Cleric4 or Monk11/Cleric1 ?!?!? What do you guys think?