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there is no time stamp for Cleric which is between warlock and ranger

These are very welcome!

Wouldn't you just need 2 haflings to equal 1 barbarian tho?

@@Karlach_ 😆

@@Karlach_ Only in height, so probably ~8 for width and depth. :3

Megazord halflings lol

The Good Ole 3 Halflings in a trenchcoat.

Well also because they're being treated well at their workplace and given the time they need to do their job.

@@dftp And that's because the head of their studio is Sven Vincke, who is also a massive RPG guy and seems to always be fully involved in the development of the games himself.

I wonder if they actually phukd a bear

This was my first thought. I watched like KSP2 and Overwatch devs talk this past year, feels like someone off camera is pointing a gun at them.

Wish a company like Larian and people devs like these would've made Diablo 4.

Never thought of that. These guys are like all of our DMs. Awesome!

I always play a ranger in CRPG's, but this is the first time I have ever wanted to play a Wild Magic Sorcerer for my first play-through.

I love that Sven embodies the joke, "I don't care who's in the room. I said, I cast fireball."

Reminds me of watching the Viva La Dirt League D&D campaign. Their Sorcerer, Baradun, wild surged while prepping for a fight and ended up dropping a fireball right at the party's feet. And that's how they started a major boss fight haha.

That's why I don't mind paying top dollar for their stuff and early in the EA cycle. I like their work and their ethos enough that I'm absolutely willing to subsidize it a bit extra to make sure they don't get bought out by a business degree thinktank that will ruin everything. As they say "If you want to ruin a good business idea, let the business professionals get a hold of it"

tbh for me personally baldurs gate 3 (except maybe for the dice roling) is everything what i hoped for would come after dragon age origins for the dragon age series. (i was a hugh fan of origins but this here is just mind-blowing amazing!)

@@WilliamHaist dude, BioWare developed the first and second Baldur’s Gate games. Along with Neverwinter Nights and Knights of The Old Republic. And yea, they made Dragon Age but BioWare got its start from making great CRPGs, hence the comparison.

@@WilliamHaist Not at all. WotC is a publisher, not a developer.

@@Caucasian60 Plus they said BioWare is more for "first-person RPG games" but which is weird because they have made literally zero first-person games off the top of my head.

Great comment, thank you! I'm watching the whole video anyway but it helps to keep things organized, especially if I want to come back later when the game launches to help me decide :D

where's necromancer, i thought that was a class

@@jeffm1064 Necromancy is a school of magic, you become a Necromancer by choosing that as your arcane tradition at 2nd-level as a Wizard.

@@Purifycaly necromancer is a subclass of the wizard. I know the comment above me already said this, but since they tagged another person, you would have never got a notification.

thank you!

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i loved that too! i think another good way of explaning what Warlocks are about is that instead of having a sword that you hit with most turns, you have eldric blast as a spell. I didnt like warlocks that much, but i tried them in Solasta (another good dnd game even if the graphics and animations arnt that good) and now i really like them! :D

​​​@@Rex1987 The eldrich blast animation in BG3 is chef's kiss. Feels like you are Iron Man lol

100% with repelling blast too lol

BG2 will be always the King of crpg nothing comes close, i play bg3 early access and is a good game but dont match the magic in bg2 even the enviroment are much more dark asthetic in bg2

So is it like diablo or is it more tactical view

@@miguelgomes6849 I'm 99.9% sure BG3 will take the crown. Just the amount of options and playstyles they offer just dwarfs every other crpg.

@@isiaac5715 Not really comparable to diablo, its an RPG first and foremost with tactical combat

​@@isiaac5715no long away . Tactical but on a good way

Tbf, BG3 will have only taken 6 years since DOS2, so DOS3 (or whatever new game they decide to make next) might not be quite 10 years away.

Was it cause of the gameplay? TBH, I was only compelled to try out the Divinity Original Sin games cause it seemed like they had X-Com like combat.

@@GuyLogen DOS2 is not like any other game, it's not quite XCom, it's like. XCom Plus. The entire game is about using your abilities as creatively as you can to create massive carnage, but your enemies can also do it as well.

@@nyahnyahson523 And, through the making of BG3, their staff size more than tripled, so they will probably be able to move at a quicker rate if they choose to.

@@damianmorris6700 Swen said elsewhere they want to refocus and concentrate, so I imagine they will be letting go of a lot of that staff.

same here.... looks like i will have to do enough playthroughts that I will see all 12 classes and maybe even more due to some subclasses....

I did my first early access playthrough with bard. Safe to say that I will be playing bard in august. Such an amazingly crafted class.

@@Kaspisify im curious, what did you like so much about the bard? I'm always curious about the bard but somehow I always prefer, warlocks, sorcerers, paladins, rogues and so on....

@@blackyraypatrick9041 it has a lot of nice dialogue options related to being a bard and performance. The spells to choose from are really good, but it can also hold it's own in ranged and melee combat. It's really immersive and you can really play as an entertainer.

@@blackyraypatrick9041 and to add to that. When opponents attack or do any kind of roll, you can insult them to lower their roll haha. So if they roll a 14 and need a 14 to hit you, you insult them and they miss. It's automatic by default when you get it. But you can also activate it on manual so you get to choose what rolls to react to or not.

Go halfling monk! :D 8:58

you were bullied at school

@@shannonjoyce578 no one dared. They knew i played monk.

​@@thousand_cutsgreat response lol

@@shannonjoyce578 You were the Stacy that bullied others at school

any recomendations about most powerful class?

@@Plovchik90 what kind of powerful? I'd generally say cleric (storm) or barbarian (bear totem), but there are other options and it depends on some of the changes they make

@@Plovchik90 It's a team game, so I don't think there is really a most powerful class. Every class has strengths and weaknesses and the compliment each other. Thus far though, I've liked my tiefling warlock. Eldritch blast is soooo fun.

@@mbdelorenzo Me in my DnD 5e campaign. Tiefling Warlock spamming Eldritch Blast with Eldritch Blast invocations. What I love about it: The range, the massive knockback or pull forwards, the multiple beams, the bonus damage from charisma modifier.

@@Plovchik90the most powerful thing in this kind of game is good party synergy and combos. :)

Don't forger the multiclassing!

I want to play as a monk on tabletop so will be giving it a try here firat

@@lukesdewhurst I play a Tortle Donatello style Ninja Tortle Monk in a homebrew 3.5 world, would reccomend

if in doubt, take a dice and roll it to determine your class :P

Good news: there is respeccing that you can unlock part way through act 1.

I was playing D&D before 5e came out, and I played Pathfinder, and I had always refused to play a bard because I thought they'd be lame. Decided to make my first 5e character a bard right after it came out.... now I'm known for a playing bards a lot.

I'm going to go with a mage class because I love raining down extremely powerful and badass looking spells upon my enemies. It always makes me feel so cool. lol I will have a bard in my team because like you said, bards are good for social situations which I know there a lot of in BG3. I'll also have a rogue because lockpicking, stealth, and thievery are always super important in these kinds of games. Not sure who my 4th party member will be. Probably a barbarian so I have a tank to aggro attacks away from me, the squishy mage.

@@Karlach_ I generally will have one or the other in my party. One of each is a bit redundant in my eyes, as the Bard has a wealth of skill options that include pickpocket and pick locks - the two essential Rogue skills. They also get many skills per level as the Rogue does, so they're not any better in that regard either. One thing that they do lack however is the Prestige Rogue classes, like Assassin. That isn't available, so if that's what you're looking to become - just use a Rogue and call it good because as I said they're as versatile as a Bard they just don't have the Perform fluency (UNLESS you choose a feat for that).

@@logankerlee That's really good to hear actually! Now I have a free space in my team for whatever. 🎉 What class would you say best compliments a team composed of a mage, rogue/bard, and barbarian?

Drow Swords Bard for me, perhaps with one level of Draconic Sorcerer (White Dragon Bloodline) for Armour of Agathys, Shield, and Magic Missile or Absorb Elements, plus some nice offensive cantrips.

Same. I wasn't allowed to play DnD as a kid because of the "Satanic Panic" of the late 80s, early 90s. I think it had a big impact, because I didn't know many people in school who played DnD. I've played twice as an adult.

I hope you enjoy it so much

I would highly recommend playing Dark Alliance 2 which is the best Baldur's Gate game. I love DnD as much as the next guy but man Baldur's Gate 3 was such a huge let down. Maybe future DLC will help it, but after playing the early access I was extremely disappointed with how it is. Way too many bugs, runs awful even on a 4090 and the gameplay is just stale and bland.

@@user-sn1hf6oi6x Bro it's early access, of course it's buggy, judge the full game when it's out

​@minibullusa Right, plus early access is only a quarter of the game

Typically they're pretty chill and mellow, and have tactical combat so everything is kind of like a puzzle. A lot of the fun is from coming up with creative ways to solve these combat puzzles. Usually have great stories to tell, too

probably chose spores because of it's relevance to certain parts of BG3. Lots of druids in Act 1, and without spoiling too much, there are some areas and quests that are appropriate for a Spores Druid. There's also a lot of Underdark in this game as well, which is another reason I think they chose spores druid and gloomstalke ranger in particular. They seem to have limited themselves to 3 subclasses per class, otherwise it would get messy pretty quick and balancing would be all over the place, and it seems like they chose subclasses that are appropriate for, or relate to, the setting. They did squeeze some subclasses together too, like pact of blade/hexblade warlock and some others.

I would guess 2 reasons: it's one of the most popular druid subclasses in 5e because it's interesting, and it may feel appropriate like GomulDart said.

My theory is that they're going to tie it into the underdark, like the gloomstalker ranger subclass

​@@GomulDartCleric and Wizard being the exceptions of course

@@The_Babe yes, exceptions. I would argue cleric and wizard are just that complex in the PHB while a lot of the cool subclasses for the other classes comes mainly from different supplemental material and homebrew stuff, so they picked and chose for some classes while cleric/wizard got the "full treatment" since almost everything there is "default" even if it is a lot

What do you think does 4 elements monk play fun?

@@salieri666 I've never tried playing a Four Elements Monk before, since the tabletop version is considered very weak, but that's another subclass Larian seems to have made significant changes to, so it will be interesting to see what that looks like!

@@rymcmanus Thanks, I am thinking between monks subclasses, but don't want to make wrong choose, open hand seems strong without doubt. Using melee attacks with magic is quite interesting though in 4 elements so this opportunity attract me.

Wow, I just pitched this exact build for a character idea to my discord group (we have a 4 player run planned at release) but I was actually having trouble figuring out how to do my build. Part of me wants to start Monk to lvl 6 for shadow step asap, then go gloomstalker but I haven't decided on how many levels given BG3's lvl 12 cap. This might sound crazy, but I'm considering 1 lvl Monk, then 1 lvl Ranger (for Hunter's Mark to use with Flurry of Blows for early damage boost), then back to Monk til lvl 6. The main reason for this is that I don't know how long it will take to get to lvls 7-8 in game, but it'll probably feel like forever since we're doing a completionist run. I don't want to lag behind the rest of my party too much but I figure I can stomach getting my 2nd attack one level later than everyone else. Care to share any tips?

@@theexpatriate Yeah, the level order issue is always one of the most challenging parts of multiclassing for me. I think it's basically impossible to say right now since we don't know the full extent of the changes Larian has made to the Monk. During the class showcase, they mentioned a new ability called "Shadow Strike", and it's not clear where that fits in (is it truly an additional ability, or a replacement for Shadow Step that folds in an attack a la Backstab from DOS2? if so, can it be used out of combat?).

Understandable, I enjoyed Diablo 4 from level 1 to maybe 55. Not a lot of variety, sure, but it was a steady trickle of progression constantly. It was a relaxing game for 95% of the time, without the exception being the last 30 seconds of most bosses. Leveling began to slow to a grind after level 50. So I never made it past the first paragon board, but I like the idea of it.

yeah I am only trying to push all the story in D4 till BG3 releases in a few weeks. Can't wait.

@@ex0stasis72 yeah after level 55 I pushed to level 75+ in the hopes it will help me in some interesting build, but the drop at level 75 is worse than drop at level 55-60. Only single player is ok but that does not justify the price

Would rather have them just focus on DOS3

mood

Gonna make a video of four Gnome Barbarians killing things by throwing each other at them?

Looking forward to playing my lore bard, grab one level of life cleric, aura of vitality with the healing boost at level 7

I'm sure they will, considering that is one of their main features, they didn't mention extra attacks for Swords and Valour bards either, but I'm sure they'll get them

trust me - its a very good way of getting into dungons and dragons and understanding several of the rules, even if someof them are changed a bit by larian.

Tried it on geforce now with my slightly better than a calculator pc and it works perfectly can't wait to play every class

Mmm, I tried the first game and realized it was severely overhyped. Good for its age, I suppose. For the record, I have no issue with older games in general.

@@fabianthecownip Yeah, the people who gush over how great the first two - especially the first one... - were, are in the thrall of nostalgia. They're decent games, and were excellent in their time, but severely dated now, and there are many better options these days. BG3 looks excellent, however :)

@@mduckernz And it wouldn't be an issue if a vocal minority of them weren't worshipping, elitist, condescending t*rds.

They basically made a comprehensive and faithful adaption of the 5th edition D&D rules. The original Baldur's Gate games were the first proper video game adaptions of the 2nd edition D&D ruleset, so this third entry is being done very much in the same spirit even though it's also a very different game.

Play a druid and become your own pet haha.

Agreed, the more cinematic presentation (like Bioware, CDProjekt, etc) makes that a valid comparison.

Looking like this might be the Witcher 3 of cRPGs

@@brilobox2 Witcher 3 is giga overrated. 🤷