No heavy armor proficiency

[Zymeth]

I picked Gale as my character. He is 1 mage + 1 warrior level, but is not proficient with heavy armors.
Same goes for Shadowheart companion, she has 1 warrior level and unproficient like him.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Zymeth:

No heavy armor proficiency
I picked Gale as my character. He is 1 mage + 1 warrior level, but is not proficient with heavy armors.
Same goes for Shadowheart companion, she has 1 warrior level and unproficient like him.

You have it reversed. Some proficiency have as requirement that you start the character with that class.

Ergo: for Gale and Shadowheart you need to respec via Withers

Gale first level fighter -> then he can use heavy armour, better if just one level: Tempest Cleric

for Shadowheart go Life or War Domain cleric, no need for fighter to get proficiency in heavy armour

[Zymeth]

Thank you. Where is this mentioned?
If nowhere, I consider this a bug.

[kannibal25]

It actually isn't a bug. It's part of the 5E ruleset if you can believe it.

I've run into this earlier in a live 5E game where I was attempting to upgrade my Hexblade Warlock / Rune Knight Fighter's armor from Half plate to Chainmail and found I didn't have Heavy Armor Proficiency. Even made the character in D&D Beyond and yeah, taking Fighter as your 2nd class does not grant Heavy Armor.

If that's what you're looking for, A class like Cleric (depending on the domain IIRC) do offer Heavy Armor Prof. I've only ever run a Life cleric and can 100% say they do get it as part of their Class Features.

[dot]

Here for next times

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Classes#Multiclass_Proficiencies

I`ve been sucking of this wiki all I can. Really should be developers job to clearly expose games rules but once again is the community too eager to have fun doing that work.

[Zymeth]

Originally posted by dot:

Here for next times

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Classes#Multiclass_Proficiencies

I`ve been sucking of this wiki all I can. Really should be developers job to clearly expose games rules but once again is the community too eager to have fun doing that work.

Exacktly - it is not in-game, so clearly a bug as there is no slightest way the game tells this. Game says "armor is for warriors second skin". When leveling-up during multi-class proficiency actually disappears, but for what reason ? From in-game user experience there is no reason for this.

Thank you for all the help, I was able to make builds in a desired way - wiki is everything. So good they added an option to re-spec, (not rly a thing in tabletop I guess?)
Pitty that like for DoS outside supplements are the main mechanical information sources.