Highest Damage Per Round - top 4

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Before we begin, no tempest cleric/sorc is not as high as the top 3.no wizard with 20 summons do not have as high dpr also it extends round times considerably. no warlocks with 18 eldrich blasts do not quite make it though they are super fun and offer more utility in some cases.
All on tactician only.
Mind sanctuary as well as haste and various tadpole powers are taken into account included elixirs, buffs, and itemization.
Tested this across act 3 boss fights, as well, as gortash before ceremony, and on baldurs gate locations like sundries, and in the town area with the all the guards.

1. Paladin/Warlock (7/5 or 2/10) - Vengeance/Fiend or Oathbreaker/Fiend
2. Fighter/Rogue (9/3) - BM/Thief
3. Monk/Rogue (9/3) or Monk/Rogue/Fighter/Barb (6/3/2/1) - Open Hand/Thief
4. Cleric/Sorc (2/10) - Tempest/Storm

I should mention everyone knows you can stack 50 boxes or lob and owlbear and abuse javelins or boxes or chests or whatever to hit like 3k damage, or but 50k gold in an enemy and hit it with twist of fortunes blood money for 5k damage or whatever.. no thats not what htis is about. This is about damage per turn in linear combat.
Or put sanctuary on your character whilst one sits in stealth sneak attacking and they just stand there doing nothing....yes we know.

[banetrapperdev]

lvl 3 frenzy barb with strength potion can throw two times, large enemies off cliff per turn doing infinite damage twice. Check mate

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Originally posted by banetrapperdev:

lvl 3 frenzy barb with strength potion can throw two times, large enemies off cliff per turn doing infinite damage twice. Check mate

did u know any class can reach 27 str with a str potion and do this...

[victorvnv]

How does the oathbreaker / fiend work ? I have yet to find a way to make warlock build do any decent damage especially in mele? I’m interested to know how that build looks and what items you need ?

[Seswatha]

Wrong as always.

[Vexillarius]

Wouldn't fighter/rogue 9/3 be out performed by just a straight fighter? Your losing fighters third attack at 11 and trading it for a bonus action. This seems absurdly sub optimal.

[Abisha]

I can't deny Storm is good the AOE is only bit small
other spell i find very useful is Scorching Ray

but overall most spells are useless

[Zoid13]

Giant Owl bear Body slam 3000+ damage in 1 hit :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LzM_KxBnVo&ab_channel=BazingaGamingVideos

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Originally posted by victorvnv:

How does the vengeance / fiend work ? I have yet to find a way to make warlock build do any decent damage especially in mele? I’m interested to know how that build looks and what items you need ?

So to do the TLDR

Pact of blade has you base your divine smites of charisma. We can recover them on short rest with warlock, and if you go 10 warlock you will have level 5 divine smites.
But lets go further. If you use the giantslayer, and the helm of arcane acuity, you can double dip both into strength and into charisma for your divine smites. And on top of all this we have risky ring for always advantage
Then on top of this, you can use surgeon amulet or killers sweet heart to guarentee your crits. even further taking devils sight and darkness allow you to dump your party in darkness,
your paladin will have advantage all the time, and force everything inside the darkness into range of your paladin. with the gloves for str and the +2 char from mirror and +1 from hag we can achieve 22 charisma (no we dont need 24 charisma hat we want arcane acuity hat.
We can also combine this with ascended astarion forhis 1d10 on top.

This allows us to hit level 5 divine smites that quite frankly break the game. ive seen crits in excess of 390 damage. Not forgetting we can hit 9-12 times with mind sanctuary and haste, and refresh our smites on short rests. When we are not smiting we are still able to double dip strength and get extra damage die from astarion etc.

There are a few item requirements for this build but once you have it its broken.
Now HUGE TIP. prior to getting giantslayer, you are going to buy the warhammer from dammon in act 2, its imperative to do this because it is the best weapon until we have giantslayer and streng gloves. Alternatively, you can just dumped all stats but str and charisma and swap the gloves to add damage die if you like or + to attack rolls. though i prefer 23 str gloves and 22 char.

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Originally posted by Vexillarius:

Wouldn't fighter/rogue 9/3 be out performed by just a straight fighter? Your losing fighters third attack at 11 and trading it for a bonus action. This seems absurdly sub optimal.

Without Mind sanctuary...yes. With mind sanctuary no.

[Vexillarius]

You get the exact same amount of attacks as a straight fighter on the first round assuming action surge and haste(10). So there is nothing really gained from doing this. You are also required to spend an action to make it perform on par and you get limited to a nine metre radius. That sounds like a downgrade with all the conditionals. My fighter runs all over the place murdering people. Mind sanctuary is just impractical.

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Originally posted by Vexillarius:

You get the exact same amount of attacks as a straight fighter on the first round assuming action surge and haste(10). So there is nothing really gained from doing this. You are also required to spend an action to make it perform on par and you get limited to a nine metre radius. That sounds like a downgrade with all the conditionals. My fighter runs all over the place murdering people. Mind sanctuary is just impractical.

Dex fighter benefits most, but on a boss, or single target.....usually you have another party member cast mind sanctuary...

[Edstyles]

Didnt they fix the extra attack stacking with warlock and martials?

[TunaSamich]

Originally posted by banetrapperdev:

lvl 3 frenzy barb with strength potion can throw two times, large enemies off cliff per turn doing infinite damage twice. Check mate

lvl6 zerk barb throw 3 enemies a turn. grab 2 levels of fighter and throw FIVE add 3 levels of rogue to get thief and throw SIX

[TunaSamich]

Originally posted by Edstyles:

Didnt they fix the extra attack stacking with warlock and martials?

"fix"? it's not broken.

[Baldurs_Gate_2]

Paladin with Perilous Stake, Hasted and Smite Crits pretty much kills bosses in a single turn.