What classes are your favorites? Which arent? True class or Multiclass?

[Mirror]

I have been playing for quite a long time now and have tried almost all the classes except some of the spell chuckers. With so many hours into the game, I had a few thoughts. What classes do you like the most and why? Do you prefer a true class or a multi class? What classes are your least favorite and why?

Since I ask this of others its only fair I start. My favorite class at the moment is Rogue/Ranger, I enjoy sniping enemies before the fight even begins. I am not very fond of true classes, while I understand they gain access to more powerful spells...it doesnt translate well in BG3. I have found true classes, especially casters to be very weak in BG3. My least favorite class right now is Cleric, it is just horrible at everything. Not a good healer and not a good fighter. By the way, why does a cleric have necromancer skills? Even one dedicated to Life?

[TyranntX]

Barbarian, because throwing your enemies at each other is funny

[Fluff]

Sorcerer.

Metamagic for days. In every single game that has them. They almost always are viable and balanced good enough to play with. While different melee - range characters can have very different experience and not always the most smooth, but still interesting.

Cleric.

Or rather spirit guardians. A pity it's a level 3 spell so you need 5 levels in Cleric. I would like to have an Owlbear druid running with spirit guardians around it. Such a good spell.

Barbarian.

I liked in BG3 running a lot, jumping very far and throwing people very far as well. It's just fun. Not mentioning tons of hp, dmg reduction and strikes for just being a pure barbarian without any multiclassing.

[Airatome]

My favorite is a Hunter Ranger / Assassin Rogue Multiclass specialized in Two Weapon Fighting as a Dual Wielder dishing out insane damage across three sometimes 5 attacks after opening with Assassinate.

My second favorite is a War Cleric / Vengeance Paladin Multiclass. Or full War Cleric. And here's why.

We all know Paladin have absolutely horrible spell slot progression and way too many concentration based spells to handle. They have one button, sometimes two. Divine Smite and Lay on Hands. And that's it until they Long Rest at which point they just become an objectively worse Fighter.

A Cleric is a full caster and so they get a considerably larger amount of spell slots to cast all the spells they have access to. They also have Channel Divinity options which are insanely good and come back on a Short Rest.
A War Cleric? Can use heavy armor and all weapons, just like a Paladin, except with better slots and spells. A War Cleric can also take an extra bonus action attack (limited uses based on Charisma).
More importantly? They have access to things like being able to grant themselves (or later an ally) +10 to hit enemies once (and later twice and then three times) between short rests. Which combos well with Great Weapon Master.

And then there's the spells. Like Spiritual Weapon. Spirit Guardians. Warding Bond (which grants someone a +1 bonus to armor and saves AND resistance to all damage for the whole duration). Guiding Bolt. The list continues.... but when you have this much offense and armor class? You only need healing spells to pick up a 0 hp ally and get them back into fighting shape.

So there IS hope for clerics, when they're used appropriately.

Finally, my last favorite build is a Two Weapon Fighting Battlemaster Fighter that can empty manuevers into their enemies accross several attacks per round.

[Sephiroth]

Most of my tries (no full playthrough yet) so far have been with some combination of bard, they just have so many good/fun dialogue options (the silly rhyme with Alfina, the joke you tell the Flind, "♥♥♥♥-Soul" Nere). I'm currently playing a Sword Bardadin of Vengeance (paladin lines are also good and I like the smites) and I think I found what I was looking for so this may be the one I will finally finish with.
Another playthrough will be with druid and/or monk. Most other classes are there for the companions, not something my party face will be. Maybe also a barbarian just for a totally chaotic evil playthrough with no survivors anywhere. And if I want a bit more challenge in tactician mode, something with wild magic sorcerer mixed in. Damn, so many interesting classes...

[Fluff]

Originally posted by Judy:

My least favorite class right now is Cleric, it is just horrible at everything. Not a good healer and not a good fighter. By the way, why does a cleric have necromancer skills? Even one dedicated to Life?

Oh also. Respec Shadowheart - if you mean her - into a Light cleric or War cleric. One gets fireball and your cleric becomes a wizard. Spirit guardians also kick ass.

And on top of that there is a gear or a couple that give allies that you heal - Bless and Resistance to physical dmg - so just 1 low level aoe heal gives whole party an insane boost for several turns.

[twerk]

I'm playing a warlock with 2 levels of fighter right now, and between him and Laezel as a pure fighter, I'm not sure who gets more kills. Add in evocation wizard for fireball, shatter, and magic missile to mop up. And Shadowheart for heals, and every single fight has been easy - I only have a little bit of Act 3 left. Except 1 (stupid act 2 orthon with his invisibility and mines).

In early access I also liked playing druid. My next run through is gonna be with a barbarian/paladin multiclass. I like playing the face character and melee mostly.

I tried playing cleric for a little bit, but I didn't enjoy it as much.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

Thematically I love the idea of a dual wielding paladin.
Mechanically I'll never use a dual wielding paladin.

[Sima Marlin]

My favorite is anything that can mix divine caster with arcane caster, it's something I always end up doing in some form.

I like the idea of someone being so hungry for arcane knowledge they are willing to pray gods for it while reading everything they can on the subject.

For bg 3 it's easy to do as well : level 1 cleric rest wizard
Can anyone say full plate armor caster with shield and 25-26 ac + insanely high spell dc ? ^^

[Ancient Toaster]

Originally posted by Judy:

I have been playing for quite a long time now and have tried almost all the classes except some of the spell chuckers. With so many hours into the game, I had a few thoughts. What classes do you like the most and why? Do you prefer a true class or a multi class? What classes are your least favorite and why?

Since I ask this of others its only fair I start. My favorite class at the moment is Rogue/Ranger, I enjoy sniping enemies before the fight even begins. I am not very fond of true classes, while I understand they gain access to more powerful spells...it doesnt translate well in BG3. I have found true classes, especially casters to be very weak in BG3. My least favorite class right now is Cleric, it is just horrible at everything. Not a good healer and not a good fighter. By the way, why does a cleric have necromancer skills? Even one dedicated to Life?

Cleric...horrible at everything? LMAO.

Pure Cleric is S Tier in Tabletop AND BG3.

[Carynara]

Wizard above all else, for role playing reasons (so you think YOU are the greatest spellcaster, Mr Gale?).

Tbh it was quite a struggle for a first run, my party was super squishy. But I stuck to it and it's perfectly fine at higher level with so many spell options (and with more knowledge of the game).

Paladin next, super capable and I really like Lay on Hands - so much better to bring up a dying mate to half HP then waste a turn on a Help, which will just get them killed next turn anyway.

Next time I'll try a fighter/rogue, bc I envy Astarion's effectiveness. Honestly, he's the single most useful char in the party, with those one-shot crits from stealth, but also holds his ground in melee... Let alone the constant 30+ rolls on his skill checks. So yeah, I'm gonna go dual wield dexterity melee next.

Warlocks and Druids are kind of a mystery to me, I haven't really had a chance to take a deep dive in their abilities. I also don't get what they are supposed to do, e.g. should Warlock be melee (bc of Wyll's Blade lore) or not? I didn't have time to look into them yet - doesn't mean they are bad classes of course! I had Halsin in my party for a bit but again, couldn't decide if he's supposed to be tanky or stay back or heal/cc or what. He dies too fast in animal form so meh... I ended up tossing him in the camp and just go with my favourite paladin-rogue-mage comp.

Bard - no clue.

[Ancient Toaster]

Cleric - S Tier. Has a toolbox of excellent spells and buffs. Depending on sub class, Medium or Heavy Armor. They are tanks with healing, debuffs, buffs and amazing spells. Probably the best class in the game and in 5th edition period.

Bard - Another toolbox class that has excellent skills and crowd control. A master of support and a full spellcaster.

Sorceror - Metamagic in this game is beyond busted and Sorceror is the best Mage class in this game because it's Charisma based. Charisma is the most OP stat in BG3 because it's useful in every situation of Dialogue. Any pure Charisma class like Sorc, Warlock and Bard, Charisma is easy to stack and benefits their spell DC, Attack and Dialogue.

[jayman760]

My current favorite is a wood elf (for extra movement) Monk with Open Hand + Tavern Brawler. 6 levels of Monk + 4 of Rogue + 2 of Fighter. No weapon required but you can equip Boots of Uninhibited Kushigo for wisdom damage modifier and a shield and are almost unstoppable.

[sick duck]

I like the magic monk I'm using now. It's just a monoclass but it's doing good. It stuns with it's attacks, it can do some crowd control with water whip, it just learned to shoot ki-powered fireballs.

[Mirror]

lot of people consider clerics S class but i dont see it. they have access too a lot of tools but they cant do anything well. dmg? healing? I have remade Shadowheart so many times to make her relevant...if she wasnt so good looking, i would have killed her already. At this point in time, act 3, i have given up on the cleric class as a whole, since it added nothing to my party, and made her a paladin/warlock. Feels better all around.

[6h0$t942]

ranger thief is very fun. Crossbows go pew pew.

Warpriest was amazing for act 1, but i sense its going to fall off hard because the limited extra attacks.

Berserker javelin barrelmancer is hysterically broken.