What's the most broken build that you conceived?

[Toasty]

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[Hex]

5e is so limited in what you can and can't do, and due to the limitations of action economy, there really isn't any that pops out.

A Sorc twincasting haste to Karlach and Astarion is probably the simplest way to trivialize the game, if that's what you're after.

[Starwight/ttv]

Originally posted by Hex:

5e is so limited in what you can and can't do, and due to the limitations of action economy, there really isn't any that pops out.

A Sorc twincasting haste to Karlach and Astarion is probably the simplest way to trivialize the game, if that's what you're after.

Spoken like someone who doesn't understand either the 5e system or BG3 builds.

Use Youtube, Toasty. There's some great builds optimized and min/maxed for honor mode runs you can find.

[alanc9]

In BG3 itemization counts for a lot. A Swords Bard with a particular couple of magic items can throw control spells at an insane DC as a bonus action. Throw two paladin levels on that for extra cheese.

[Starwight/ttv]

Originally posted by alanc9:

In BG3 itemization counts for a lot. A Swords Bard with a particular couple of magic items can throw control spells at an insane DC as a bonus action. Throw two paladin levels on that for extra cheese.

yep and if OP is talking about 5e in general, well there are a LOT of ways to abuse the TTRPG system, I really have zero idea what Hex is on about. You can find COUNTLESS examples of broken builds for 5e online lmfao

[★REM★]

Way of the open hand monk, just faceroll everything.

[Wuorg]

Originally posted by ★REM★:

Way of the open hand monk, just faceroll everything.

I rolled a monk for my first playthrough. That was a mistake. Stun is even more broken here than it is on tabletop and I kinda ruined all the bosses with it (even on Honour difficulty).

[Hex]

Originally posted by Starwight/ttv:

Originally posted by Hex:

5e is so limited in what you can and can't do, and due to the limitations of action economy, there really isn't any that pops out.

A Sorc twincasting haste to Karlach and Astarion is probably the simplest way to trivialize the game, if that's what you're after.

Spoken like someone who doesn't understand either the 5e system or BG3 builds.

Use Youtube, Toasty. There's some great builds optimized and min/maxed for honor mode runs you can find.

This game is laughably easy.

[Wuorg]

I mean, yeah, if you are comparing it to earlier editions there aren't as many ways to break the balance over your knee. Abusing the action economy like you mentioned is a solid way to do that, but it's all relative, dig?

[Exarch_Alpha]

Originally posted by Wuorg:

Originally posted by ★REM★:

Way of the open hand monk, just faceroll everything.

I rolled a monk for my first playthrough. That was a mistake. Stun is even more broken here than it is on tabletop and I kinda ruined all the bosses with it (even on Honour difficulty).

Nah you are right, I saw a video of a guy beating Raphael alone.

[jonnin]

Tavern brawler stands out. It basically negates any chance to miss for throwing or monking even very difficult targets, and on top of that throwing gets a ton of excessive bonuses like gravity and unarmed item damage increases. A monk/rogue gets 4 offhand hits that can knock you prone or yeet using ki powers, and 2 mainhand attacks, and just to say it again, you almost can't miss barring 1's or spell effects.

Coming in second is a spore druid, who has all kinds of summons (elemental, mummy, woodland x2, lesser stuff), decent spells and powerful animal forms (which more than triple your HP when taking damage since animal form acts like temp hp). Weak in act 1, it brings a lot after that.

third place is a dual xbow archer (ranger/rogue) with 4 shots per turn doing heavy damage. The strength here isn't the dps (others are as good or better) but that you can kite via stealth and environment to avoid damage almost entirely while you do it.

[Deggo]

Abjuration Wizard is hilarious. You don't even have to attack, people just die attacking you (which you can force with opportunity attacks of course).

[Bumc]

Probably assassin-gloomstalker.

Its not a very good build in terms of damage or some cool mechanics, but you always win the initiative, kill couple soft targets and then decide whether you want to keep staying around or fight from 3 screens away.

[Raz]

Originally posted by Hex:

Originally posted by Starwight/ttv:

Spoken like someone who doesn't understand either the 5e system or BG3 builds.

Use Youtube, Toasty. There's some great builds optimized and min/maxed for honor mode runs you can find.

This game is laughably easy.

And? Doesn't stop your lack of understanding how to abuse action economy for busted builds. Both statements can be true.

[Raz]

Originally posted by Bumc:

Probably assassin-gloomstalker.

Its not a very good build in terms of damage or some cool mechanics, but you always win the initiative, kill couple soft targets and then decide whether you want to keep staying around or fight from 3 screens away.

What? Assassin/Gloom Stalker is broken because of Stealth mechanics. You can keep killing enemies with high Stealth save rolls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P46oZmb-RBo

[[TG] zac]

Originally posted by Starwight/ttv:

Originally posted by Hex:

5e is so limited in what you can and can't do, and due to the limitations of action economy, there really isn't any that pops out.

A Sorc twincasting haste to Karlach and Astarion is probably the simplest way to trivialize the game, if that's what you're after.

Spoken like someone who doesn't understand either the 5e system or BG3 builds.

Use Youtube, Toasty. There's some great builds optimized and min/maxed for honor mode runs you can find.

Compared to older D&D systems 5e is actually rather tame in just how broken you can be and is very shallow in build options.

Sure some multi class builds are obviously more powerful then others but its still very tame compared to some of the stuff you could do in 2nd and 3.x editions and has a fraction of the options for building & customizing a character.

As for the OP's question.

Mixing Sorcerer and warlock with possibly a little bit of bard or paladin is among the most broken things you can do.

Sorcerer nets you twin casting & bonus action casting of spells which gives you the highest burst potential in the game for AOE spells & allows you to break some buff spells.
That combined with warlock for getting spell slots back on a short rest and using charisma to attack means you can dump all your stats into charisma.

After that you can grab either paladin for smites or bard for even more utility and some heals.

Some of the more powerful builds end up having 2 paladin to start, then a 5/5 split between sorcerer and warlock
or 6 sorcerer + 6 swords bard.

It gets even more broken if you use the 2024PHB bard mod because valor bard in the 2024phb gets the ability to replace one of its attacks with a spell at level 6.