Best race for every class is sylvan elf?

[Mike]

This seemed to be true in BG3 and Solasta.

18 dex, longbow, highest move speed.

Obviously this is amazing for Rangers and Rogues since they gain AC, Att, Dam from dex. And really need move speed to get flanks or high ground etc.

But I find the dex fighter with high move speed is also better than the str fighter. Especially since there is no +2 str race. Same for paladin. I tried a dwarf paladin but he is so slow compared to sylvan elf.

Dex weapons means you can wield a scimitar and short sword, or Rapier and shield. Depending if you want more DPS or more AC. (Elf gives proficiency in short sword and longbow which is huge for some classes).

My Wizard was using cantrips that deal 1d10+0, but it turn out with 18 dex a longbow does 1d8+4 which is a lot better. I also have 2 short swords on my wizard as a weapon swap and that means he can off hand attack as a free action after casting burning hands or something. And if he is out of spells, 2 short swords far out damages cantrips before level 5. At level 5 it is less clear.

Cleric, obviously 18 dex is best, use short sword and shield, swap to longbow for ranged. Much better than cantrips. Use spells to bless, buff, heal. More movement is great for positioning and tanking and healing.

As far as I can tell only warlocks don't want to be Sylvan elves.
Oh and if you want to play some other race for fun/roleplay that works also. I may have a strength guy so I can use magic heavy armor/str weapons that I find. But with crafting I can just avoid those.

Thoughts? What am I missing?

[The Silver Santana]

Originally posted by Silverquick:

Originally posted by The Silver Santana:

You don't need WIS on a paladin-no class feature or skill triggers off of it.

Remember Paladins get Clerical Spells.

Cleric spells that don't work off of WIS. They use CHA for their attack roll and save DCs.

[Frederik]

Originally posted by The Silver Santana:

Originally posted by Silverquick:

Remember Paladins get Clerical Spells.

Cleric spells that don't work off of WIS. They use CHA for their attack roll and save DCs.

yeah, paladins are charisma casters.

[ecla]

Originally posted by Mike D:

Thoughts? What am I missing?

Nothing; elves have been "ezmode" since the red book days (although arguably since 3.5 racial, ahem, ancestry balance has been improving)

For this particular game, I haven't seen trance implemented and nor "Fey Ancestry" so perhaps Solasta elves aren't quite as cool as Faerunian ;) At least their darkvision is as a bad as a dwarfs; I don't think dwarfs would forgive the devs otherwise ...

[Silverquick]

Either way, Sylvan Elf is not the answer for Paladin.

That would be a Human due to the wide range of Stats you need for it. Half Elf also qualifies nicely. Much like with Spellsword where I find myself needing a lot of stat variety to make it work well.

There's actually a lot of classes Sylvan isn't that great for. Honestly I'd prefer a High Elf for a Wizard,

+2 to Dex is good in some ways... but not so good in others.

Ranger is a good one, Rogue is another good one for Sylvan, and they can be good Clerics. Technically if Druid wasn't listed under Wizard in this game they'd probably be excellent choice for it. I built one as a Cleric type druid using the Lightning Spec which turned out really well.

[The Silver Santana]

Half-Elf is obviously the best Paladin, human grants next to nothing. DEX and INT do next to nothing, WIS is secondary.

[Mike]

Well you can build your paladin as a dex/cha paladin instead of a str/cha paladin. It means switching to longbow when you can't reach the enemy is a lot stronger of an option. The free weapon swap in this game means you want to be good with a bow if possible.

Assuming your attack stat is very important then 20 dex at level 1 is nice (less with point buy of course).

You do end up with lower cha if you take wood elf though.

Paladin spells are mostly heals and buffs so having lower cha doesn't hurt them that much.

Still, I think Paladin is a class that you could argue for dwarf, half-elf or sylvan elf depending if you want HP, Attack and damage, or Cha.