This build does in fact work with the spell Artistry of War for anyone wondering, it can one shot Raphael with enough prep.

Gearlist - - Act: 1 Smuggler's Ring (optional) The Risen Road, X: 58 Y: 513, under the bridge, a skeleton hidden in a bush The Spellsparkler at Waukeen's Rest, Reward of Rescue the Grand Duke Gloves of Thievery (optional) Zhentarim Hideout, Quest "Find the Missing Shipment", Merchant: "Brem" Absolute's Brand (You find the Ring of Absolute Force later, but its effect can only be used, when you let yourself get a brand by Priestess Gut in the Goblin Camp) Amulet of Misty Step (optional) Goblin Camp, Priestess Guts Quarters Ring of Protection (optional) Druid Grove, Reward by Mol (Tip, do this after you saved the Tieflings, with only one character and an invisibility potion and run away to Mol before you celebrate the victory.) Gloves of Dexterity (optional) Creche Y'llek, Merchant A'jak'nir Jeera Gloves of Belligerent Skies Creche Y'llek, Inquisitor's Chamber inside an elegant chest Phalar Aluve Underdark X:116 Y:-192 Psychic Spark Myconid Colony, Merchant Blurg Boots of Stormy Clamour, Pearl of Power Myconid Colony , Quest "Help Omeluum investigate the parasite, Merchant Omeluum Ring of Absolute Force Grymforge, Sergeant Thrinn Notes: You have save the Tieflings, for Dammon - - Act: 2 Darkfire Shortbow Last Light Inn, Merchant Dammon Shifting Corpus Ring (optional) Last Light Inn, Flaming Fist Marcus Ne'er Misser Moonrise Tower, Merchant Roah Moonglow Spellcrux Amulet Moonrise Towers Prison, looted from "The Warden" Callous Glow Ring Gauntlet of Shar, near Balthazar in an Opulent Chest Edit: Handfire Hand Crossbow Gauntlet of Shar, dropped by Yurgir The bows could be held by any other chars, so this would be a great addition to Ne'er Misser Notes: You have to save Isobel and the Nightsong for Dammon - - Act: 3 Cloak of Displacement Wyrm's Crossing Danthelon's Dancing Axe, Merchant Enthari Danthelon Armour of Persistence Forge of the Nine (west from the Elfsong), Merchant Dammon Edit: Helldusk Armour (if Dammon died) Dropped by Raphael, House of Hope, Devils Fee Gontr Mael Baldurs Gate, X: -291 Y: -163 Steel Watch Titan, Quest: "Disable the Steel Watch" Helm of Balduran The Dragon's Sanctum, next to Ansur

wow i've watched many "op" bg3 builds but this one actually lives up to it's name. totally broken really appreciate you showing the build in action at the end rather than just explaining it like some youtubers do. my brain needs visuals to understand lol

Imagine this build in a PnP game. You'd need a shit ton of dice, a calculator, and a half an hour to calculate the damage from one magic missle attack.

Fantastic! I'm amazed at all the synergy in your build. Thanks for the thorough explanation. And especially seeing the shrieking sword in action was interesting.

I ran the similar build but I swapped out absolute force ring for coruscation band every once in a while for tougher fights as it basically makes you uber un-hittable. Every magic missile gives 2 radiant orbs debuff on the target ( - 1 to attack roll per orb) , so you can easily get a lot of targets to - 6 or - 8 to their attack rolls each turn. You need to be illuminated to meet the criteria in applying the radiant orbs but it’s as simple as just casting light on your weapon after every long rest.

An amazing build that is absolutely insane, I think one thing I would change is instead of having 1 level in cleric by the end of the game I would go fighter , and instead of 11 levels in wizard go 10 levels and 2 fighter due to actions surge, the 1 extra magic missile and 2 extra spells you get between 10th and 11th level wizard are generally beaten by being able to get that extra cast of magic missile when you really need it. Also second wind can come in clutch sometimes.

So, my Storm Sorcerer had a similar loadout that was built to optimize Magic Missile, except that I opted for some slightly different equipment from Act 2 & 3 which emphasize this even more. • The Lifebringer helm - From Act 1 and through most of the game, this will make other sources of Temporary HP regenerate 3 whenever you gain Lightning Charges, and by the time you have 10-20 Temporary HP, so long as you don't take over 20 damage in a round, you will never take any direct damage (can be swapped for Balduran's later but it's too strong for this build not to mention). • The trident Nyrulna as your offhand weapon - In Act 3, it cannot be disarmed, makes you immune to falling damage, +3m to movement speed, and permanently illuminated, so you can use a bonus action to fly with Tempestuous Magic and relocate yourself farther out of reach up high easily with no risk. Also deals 3-12 Thunder damage when thrown and instantly returns to your hand. • The Coruscation Ring - In Act 2, and when you're illuminated, which is always with Nyrulna without costing a cast, it stacks 2 turns of Radiating Orb (-1 to attack rolls per turn inflicted) with every hit of Magic Missile and utterly incapacitates enemies from being able to effectively fight you, AND ensures all enemies are constantly illuminated for Callous Glow's additional Radiant damage on each hit. • Thunderskin Cloak - In Act 2, and pairs with the Boots of Storm Clamour, so that each Reverberation-afflicted enemy that doesn't fall prone and manages to attack you has to make a Con save against being Dazed (disadvantage on Wisdom saves, no Dex bonus to AC, and no Reactions), allowing you to move out of melee basically whenever you want risk free. • Markoheshkir - In Act 3, it replaces your staff because Kereska's Favour can give you the same Lightning Charge effect as Spellsparkler along with a +1 Spell Save DC, and also Arcane Battery. With a level or two of Tempest Cleric, you're an absolute monster with Lightning Magic, have all sorts of armor proficiencies and it's just overwhelmingly powerful where this superpowered Magic Missile is just your staple. Having the ability to Extend Spell means that you can snipe targets from across the map with ease, and barely anything will ever get close to you, and you can move faster and more freely than anything that might.

Love this so much lol. Looking through your equipment, it looks like I accidentally snagged a lot of the same gear you did for my Oath of Ancients Paladin. I love using Divine Smite with her with a greathammer that had Thunder damage automatically attached ... every Smite would just lay out enemies one after another. Add the Great Weapon Master feat & Haste to it and she's an absolute monster destroying 3-5 enemies in one turn. Love you, Larceny.

3:00 Useful little detail: you can use a ritual spell to trigger flight outside combat for free. Meaning if you ever run into a jump you cant quite make due to your low strength, you can just cast something like disguise self to trigger it, fly over, and then undo the disguise.

This is an absolutely amazing build! Please keep making build guides!! I adore your content and cannot wait for more goofy stuff like this 😂

One slight recommendation I'd make at char-gen is: drop your charisma to a 14 (+2 from the class bump for 16 total). It'd have the same modifier as the 15+2, but let you get your Dex to 14 for more AC & Initiative (or your wisdom to 12 while keeping the 15+1 Con).

I like to play games long after their release, and BG3 is coming up for me soon, especially since its on xbox. This reminds me of why I liked bg 1 and 2. There seems to be a LOT to this game. Looks great, and I cant wait to dive in

The illithid power perilous stakes also can work with this, and from the late game gear the stuff you get from the vampire which gives scarlet something stacks also works with mm.

If you don’t want to use magic missile only, you can replace the spellsparkler with markoheshkir and activate bolts of doom. It still gives you lighting charges in the same way, but with the added resistance to lighting damage and A FREE CHAIN LIGHTING ONCE PER SHORT REST. (which triggers the build’s abilities with its multi-hit feature)

Pretty sure that callous glow ring doubling itself is just damage rider stacking which doesn't exist in honour mode but does in lower difficulties.

Really solid, I would suggest Coruscation Ring ya get in act 2 over the thunder damage, helps make it so it’s even harder to get hit

If you wear the helldusk armor, when you respec to wizard you don't need to do the 1 lvl dip into cleric, allowing you to go lvl 12 in wizard and get another feat like spell sniper. It's late enough though where I get that your build can just be considered "set" and you don't want to change it yet again.

I just finished my honor mode run using the scorching ray equivalent to this build. You definitely min maxed further than I did but the builds are very similar in setup. Using some of the buffs you figured out a level 6 scorching ray should be able to one shot every encounter in the game

I always saw the equipment with reverberation the lightning charges and thought there had to be a way to make them op... then you put it all together at last!! Thank you, figuring out how to use these has been haunting me for weeks lol

This is as interesting as it is insane! Thank you for this build!

Resilent: constitution > War caster. That extra +1 to con attribute is better than using shocking grasp as a reaction, espically when you reactions are more importantly used for shield and counter spell.

BTW, Thank you for giving me something to DO in the underdark. Other than getting to the boat, I usually skip it. It was fun to have a reason to explore (:

The only thing i hate about this build is that i didn’t think of it first, Bravo!

Thank you Thank you Thank you. Using knowledge I gained from this video I was indeed able to get the rare Jack of All Trades achievement! 61hrs (not including any save/loads... O_o ) I plan on making at least a rough overview video on how I did it. And possibly more detailed video(s) if/when I get some interest.

Amazing build tysm for sharing it

Magic missile is my absolutely most fav spell ever in the whole dnd

So if you replace the spellsparkler with Markoheshkir in act 3, you can use the lightning version of Kereska's Favour for the same lightning charges effect, or the acid one for 1d4 aoe acid damage on each missile!

Your build reminds me of the spell "Isaac's Magic Missile Storm".... So, Isaac you be a fitting name for a PC when doing this build.

Looks so fun! Can't wait to try this out.

I’ve found that choosing res and grabbing CON+1 for a feat seems to be a better option then war caster for your CON saves. Same math as taking the gloves with +1 on slight of hand instead of gloves of thieving.

As a githyanki you'll get medium armour proficiency. With luminous armour you'll be debuffing lots of enemies.

You hit them so hard in that last clip, my phone froze. This is not a joke.

Markoheshkir is a straight upgrade over Spellsparkler. It has same effect, but also provides u with arcane battery (free cast of 1 spell with any spell slot). Also Rhapsody may or may not be an upgrade over Spellsparkler/Markoheshkir. It gives u flat 3 dmg, while staff gives u ~1,5 electric dmg + ~0,8 thunder dmg from reverberation per missile, need some testing. Very sad that u didn't mentioned these items.

Pretty wild that you can do even more damage with artistry of war from sorcerous sundries in the lower city

Not sure if the effect from the sword would be still up once activated if you swapped it out. So maybe the staff swap might be better. But it should be noted that there's the legendary staff from the mage tower/shop and the hidden purple quality one in the House of Hope. Both let you cast a spell without using a slot. With them the limited 1 6th level spell cast becomes 3. The purple quality necklace restores a spell slot of all levels. The green one is only up to level 3 spell slots. But that's 4 casts of the best spell level. Then of course mages can restore a spell slot out of combat. So 5 casts of a 6th level Magic Missile before needing to long rest. There's also the gloves that allow cantrips to be cast as a bonus action. You would need the spell slot of course. These items would hamper the buffs gained by the other armor pieces AND swapping items in combat costs an action but it is worth noting for speed potion junkies or folks multiclassed into fighter for the extra action slot... Which also has gloves that give a second use of the one skill that lets you rest your actions once.... I'm forgetting the name.

Why not max illithid powers just to raise the threshold for Cull the Weak?

When I first started playing wizard on my first play through, Even without any buffs or any effort. When I saw that magic missle “always hit their target” that instantly made it my go to spell for pretty much the whole game.

You might as well get every illithid power, because then anything taking ANY damage with 25hp or less is automatically killed.

I would love to give this a go but accidentally missed out on the spell sparkler wand - is there anything that that would at least partially as well - or do I need to wait for my next run? I’ve always loved MM Gratz on making it so OP!

Great build. Any idea if the corruscation ring works with it? I.e. would it apply 2 stacks of radiating orbs per hit of MM, if so that would be pretty insane. Also it’s worth noting that once you finish House of Hope in act 3 you get the helldusk armour which you’re always proficient with regardless of class meaning you can go straight 12 levels in wizard and get another feat (ability improvement for +2 INT would probs be best for extra damage). Then you would need a new helm too since Baldurans is medium armour, I reckon that storm hat that gives you arcane acuity whenever you deal Thunder damage could be nice as you’re dealing thunder damage through Shriek and Reverb (not sure if they will proc the hats effect but worth a try)

Lmao, i ran a campaign where one player wanted to play a mage that only cast magic missile. I homebrewed and/or tweaked a few spells to use magic missle as the base spell. The best spell was based on meteor swarm, but was called magic missle swarm. Basically it was a blast of magic missles that balled up and spilt in four directions. Those balls exploded into 5d6 magic missiles each. Each magic missile hit for max damage. Yes, that was basically 20d6 max damage magic missiles. Imagine getting the full 120 magic missiles... One of the class features was that the missiles could not be reflected and could not be shielded. That was to reflect the fact he was a master of the magic missle and his castings were far better than a surface understanding of the spell.

Amazing... I knew I was getting good damage from MM + the staff & gloves combo for a reason

Thats magic nuclear missile DUDE THANK U for the build I love it

If possible i would hand off the phalar Aluve (and boits) to another character. Let your caster hang back since we're pretty much purely doing ranged attacks. You can do wand and shield or dual wield wands and also can focus more on caster gear as i think you have a lot of gear thats contested by melee users.

Still loving this (: I made it to L4 SORC so now have dual wield REALLY NICE. Almost done clearing out the Gith Creche. Thanks again!

Why the odd numbered stats? your bonuses only increase on the even numbers. Instead of 15 con and 13 dex you could have 14 in each and have a higher armour and the same amount of hit points.

I definitely love this build, used it with Gale but all 12 levels on wizard so no heavy armor, but it was still crazy. If you also use the illithid power Perilous Stakes, you can easily oneshot some bosses from Act III. Mind Sanctuary can also be a good thing, since you could cast 3 magic missiles per turn! Edit: Don't forget about Artistry of War, it deals hella damage, and you can learn it as a wizard

In act 3 the staff markonsher, when you set it to lightning, also gives you the lightning charges same as the spell sparkler, but also gives you a free chain lightning per short rest, and +1 spell save dc, so no downside, straight upgrade

The beginning bit of this build I actually have part of on my sorcerer, except I have a lightning charges/reverberation build. Same hands, but cloak of thunder with reverberation, the lightning necklace to use lightning blast for call lightning or lightning bolt depending on the situation (I had to go far into Druid multi class to get call lightning and it sucks because I wanted chain lightning but wild sorcerers must not get it at level 7 or less so I keep scrolls of it). Then once I’ve used my lightning blast I switch my necklace to extra shot of magic missile. I also have a lightning charge shield with a lightning aura. Unfortunately I’m about to finish the game and I do not have boots to finish my build so I have the speedy lightfeet even though I rarely ever dash. By the time I had the money to buy everything I was in Act 3 and couldn’t go back so if there were better boots for my lightning build I could not find them. Why not just choose storm sorcerer, you ask? Role-play. It’s also why I dual -classed Druid, and it was just a nice bonus that call lightning came with it

2 levels paladin 10 levels sword bard is also pretty stupid. You can run the crit helmet and bow to get smite crits. Bard magical secrets gives you banishing smite. Criting with this build is a consistent 100plus damage. Two handed weapons. Use the ring that gives you advantage on attacks but disadvantage on saving throws. That will help you hit and get crits. Other ring is the plus 1 ac and saving throw ring. Run the plus 1 ac and saving throw cloak. Use the chest piece you use in the video. Use the necklace that gives advantage on wisdom charisma and intelligence saving throws. All of this will help counter the disadvantage on saving throws. Run whatever boots and gloves you want. Feats are savage attacker cause it works on smites, 2nd feat is personal preference but great weapon mastery is just more damage. You can use strength elixirs for more damage. Also again this is optional but if you go as an orc the extra damage they get on crits also applies to smites so that's even more damage when you crit. You can also get a guaranteed crit from the illithid powers and if any of your part have hold person and or hold monster you can use those to guarantee crits. I think sleep does as well

Impressive build. Thanks for sharing.

"magic missile! Magic missile! SHIT ON BADLY IM JUST BETTER!"

Honour mode or it's not much of a challenge tbh. No save scumming (I'm sure you didn't, but still) and legendary actions from bosses. But this build seems OP enough to make any difficulty seem easy. Nice build!

This build is capable of doing honor mod solo, it has damage from the point u get phalar aluve and enough survivability. Just take cleric level 3 (preferably light domain for reaction, spend all attribute points from intelligence to dexterity and take a helmet from ogres, u need those saving throws from aoe spells and additional AC+Initiative). Tested on honor mode. Absolute tempest ring does not work with phalar aluve shriek ability.

AWW YEA i was hyped to watch this

This build is extra insane as a dark urge. Ending every turn invisible is A+

Regarding War Caster, and before I forget. I think War Caster + Resilient: Constitution + high Constitution on its own is crazy in terms of keeping concentration up. My spell casters with these two pretty much only fail concentration when tripped or whatever, which probably could be remedied if I cared to check every last piece of gear and try to synergize them. Edit: ok that's crazy. I'd really love to see some boss fights with it 😂

So might have missed/added some additional number but from what I saw in the combat feed he did 7+2+8+2+7+2+8+2+8+1+2+8+1+2+7+1+2+8+1+2+3+1+2+4+1+2++3+2+5+1+2+1+1+2+5+1+2+1+1+2+5+1+2+1+1+2+5+1+2 which is 304 damage with a 1st level spell

Is this possible on Honour Mode with the changes to the damage rider triggers? I suspect at least two of these magic items won't be triggering multiple times for the same effect, but others like Spellsparkler and the reverb gloves should still work? Either way it looks like fun and a good use of the spell. It looks like it "feels" better than the OHKO Witch Bolt build I'm using now since MM can't miss unless shielded/CSed and it is flexible with where the missiles can go. Missing on Witch Bolt is very disheartening...

To think that I just made a mod focused around force/abjuration magic for sorcerer. This knowledge will be very useful to me in my playthrough

If you are Sorcerer, you can use your arcane ressources to improve your spells. Do they stack with the amulet for magic missile? Maybe a Sorcerer could be better with these arcare ressource or at least as good as the wizardso it doesn't matter that much.

THANK YOU, i was really looking for a way to do this, I'll try it and see if we can get even more damage just for the min max. Even if i have to take advantage of a glitch ( maybe cast draconic weapon on phallar aluve)

i gave you a thumbs up just because you said "and such" i love that. but it was also a helpful video, thanks.

I dont have all the items, but Im going to try and hunt down the ones Im missing. I really want to try this build. Thanks.

Beating the game with attacks that cant miss feels like it would ruin the experience but its a single player game so everyone should be able to enjoy it as they seem fit

Also during the early game before you switch to wizard, on your opening turn you can use the illithid power that give you extra psychic on hit damage and then use quickspell to cast a magic missle. At the end of act one when fighting Nere, I was able to get up to 80 damage with a level 3 mm at only level 6.

Hilarious build…but awesome. Love it.

If your using the spell sparkler staff it's best to go draconic sorcerer lightning because you will add CHA modifier to your lightning damage spells and this counts for the lightning charges from spell sparkler

I was using a similar strategy with eb but this seen so much better simce you litterally can't miss with this.

hey brother nice video, just fyi though odd number abilities dont actually give you any bonus. 12 dex gives you the exact same bonuses as 13 dex, if only gives you a +1 to ac and initiative. obviously its not a big deal but if you really want to min max I suggest making all abilities end on an even score.

What an awesome build

Markoheshkir is a solid upgrade from spell sparkler. once in act 3. guess for Magic missile only build all it gives is arcane battery. and needing to remember to go lightning.

I dont have the patience or brainpower to come up with an OP build myself, I just look at damage numbers

Jfc man. That's insanity.

As a DM, i would throw some Spellcaster Monsters with the Shield spell (makes immun to magic missiles) into his way, only to make him sweat a lot 😂😂

Im gonna use this on my honor run. Great guide. MOst recommend markoheshier but I dont really see the benefit. I didn't know about the evocation bonus from wizard.

Well damn! I have been trying to figure a build for a wizard Shadowheart. I think I want to copy this.

Nice. In my game enemies are much stronger than in Honour mode and are difficult to hit but hit more often and with more damage, so many of the so called "Honour mode builds" don't work that well. But this build might because MM always hit if not shielded. The only problem is that I have randomized loot, so items are not reliably available but I got lucky and achieved already the MM amulet.

Thank you!

Gonna try this with an Honor Mode Gale run.

Imagine this build with the tavern Brawler thrower build in the same party. Not even fair at that point.

Im wanting to use this in a solo honour playthrough but holy crap im worried about being in melee of enemies! I used this in my normal honour mode run and this was insane

This is sick!

Macross Magic Missile Massacre!

Could go for Holy Lance Helm instead since they miss alot. Free dmg 😊

Ketheric was the only fight where I have real problem due to his 2points dmg reduction for each magic missle hit

Amazing 😀

You should have put on the boots that dealt 1 d4 psychic damage when you were concentrating on a spell

Dang, I need to try this on my next playthrough. ~instantly abandons current playthrough~

Wow... impressed

Cleric is needed not only for heavy armour but for sanctuary aswell, broken ass spell .

Doing the Gith crech to get ilithid powers as bonus actions and then using psionic overload to add an additional 1d4 for each of your character’s attack to make the damage even crazier 😂

Phalar (fal-ar) Aluve (alu-vay) is drow for "Grave Farewell"

ability drain is a condition that can be triggered with a spell its just 1 extra reverberation stack per turn but could be useful ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I would highlight a small piece of misinformation. Lightning charges grant +1 lightning damage only when you already have a ligtning charge buff, so first missile won't do any additional damage. However the game works in an extremely fucked up way. For some unknown reason effect starts to appear only on third missile in the barrage. Even stranger, when you have psychic spark lvl 1 MM (4 missiles) still triggers 1d8 damage despite the previous pattern. P.S.: A lot of DRS mechanics don't work in honor mode, so expect less damage and more straightforward calculations

I attack....the darkness

Him: "Only Magic Missile" *Uses shield.* Me: Hmm...

Why Dual Weilder Feat (Besides the AC). Your not attacking with the weapons so you should be able to hold two weapons?

MAGIC MISSILE!!! mmmmMAGIC MAGIC MISSILE!! I’m only a minute into this video, but when is the “Max Difficulty, Guiding Bolt Only Build” video coming out? 🤓