Highest Damage Per Round - top 4

[Fast]

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.

[Seswatha]

If all you care about is nova Swords Bard 6/Thief 4/Fighter 2 is even better than Fighter 11 tho, with up to 24 attacks in a round.

[victorvnv]

Originally posted by Fast:

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.

So I just tried that build , so far lvl 10 so 2 pal 8 warlock but I only seem to have 2 lvl 4 slots , the other issue is that I don’t have multi atack or haste spell.

So unless someone hastes me first I only get one big hit before run out of action.

Feels that my 6 Pal/ 6 sorcerer is a lot better as even though he doesn’t crit as much , he has 2 atacks and alot more slots .

Am I missing something here ?