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One of the best things you do is tell people to first have fun.

I was expecting you to say "choose a charisma base class as your Tav". I'm rly impressed. well done

I like your approach of how to think this through rather than telling me exactly what to pick. That's the kind of advice I always look for, but seems hard to find.

Got my golden dice with a Pure abjuration wizard Tav, Barb/rogue (throw barb), Assassin/Gloomstalker, and Lore Bard/Life Cleric. 1st comp I went without a fighter (my favorite class) and they still put in crazy work. Very pleased.

The great thing about BG3 is while not everything is optimal, almost everything is viable! Personally my only rule for the best party comp is to try always bring my lover

The first two minutes are what I needed to hear. Thank you so much for making such a great intro and helping me get over my concern! I'll be watching the rest though later!

You made shouting at people sound appealing! 🤣 but seriously, thank you for sharing info without it sounding condescending. At the end of the day it IS just about having fun and I so appreciate that message. I also appreciate the great information you provide. I definitely can get caught up in analysis paralysis.

Leaving the comment for the algorithm ❤️ Thanks for the streams, братан 👊🏻

A couple of tips come to mind. First just because you can have only four party members with you doesn't mean you can't play around with other followers. For example, I am in the midst of a tactician run. My current party is Tav (dual crossbow bard) Karlach (Throw barb), Baezel (open monk) Shart (light cleric/radiant orb build). However, if I need more range magic I have Gale in camp (Lightning build cleric/wizard/soc) or Wyll (Eldritch blaster sorlock build) I can switch in. You can play around with comps for different encounters. Also, it is cheap to respect, only 100 gold that you can steal back. Play around with different builds! Doing this, and watching videos, will teach you good break points (where power spikes happen), these break points are generally when you want to multi class

Always enjoy your content. I hope one day you will have reference sheets that I could print out as I play and refer to as I level.

Good video for beginners, wish it came out 4+ months ago :D I've basically stumbled my way to the exact same thoughts on my own over several playthroughs. One thing I would suggest is planning if you want to go good or bad with your character, and choose party members that go with that. e.g. Astarion and Shadowheart have no problem with you curb stomping folks, but Karlach, Wyll, Jaheira, Minsc all expect you to be good.

Perfect timing on this one, thank you!

really solid perspective IS! starting my 4th run and trying to decide what I wanted to play. have spent a few hours thinking about things that i keep meaning to try >.< such a fun game to experiment different play styles. take care

Love the video, incredible work! Was hoping if you could do more warlock build guides, maybe multiclassed with rogue, sorcerer or any other classes. Would to see it. Keep up the good work!

32 hours in my first playthrough. my favorite comp now are: - Naked Monk Tav - Laezel Fighter with Two Hands - Classic Cleric Support Shadowheart - High Damaging Gale Super fun building and looking for another build here. Thanks for the great content as always!

I originally had a lot of trouble understanding the game's mechanics. But once you read how abilities work you start to naturally work out how they can fit together. I had a Barbarian as my party face with only 10 charisma, it wasn't optimal but it made the moment i talked Yurgir into self deletion without save scumming all the more rewarding. There's very few blatantly "wrong" ways to build your character.

laughing at the lae'zel "eating ass" flub

Commenting for support, keep it up homie

best party comp is 4 bards you can do anything lol

Very helpful guide thanks

Dude, a lot of us needed to hear this 😂

Thanks for the advice!

Don't forget the Hirelings option from Withers . When your Partys spellcasters are exhausted prior to an important encounter ( and cannot rest beforehand ) , you can quickly level up a Heal Bot Cleric or arcane caster for thier handy AoE spells and swap them into the Party.

Awesome video!

I just beat the game the other day and now moved on to a Tactician run prepping for the Honor Run. My tav is a Bardadin. 2 Pal, 10 Swords Bard. Absolutely unbelievably powerful build while also being a literal silver tongue devil. So excellent party face. I made Wyll a Sorlock. 2 Warlock/4 Rouge Thief/ X Sorcerer. Karlach was a Battle Master fighter. I ran her as a throwing barbarian for quite a long time but ended up enjoying Battle Master more in the end. Shadowheart was a Light Domain Cleric. Ran her as Life domain through a lot of Act 1 and switched to Light around the Creche for better spells and more damage. Fireball baby. All in all it worked out quite well. But I do admit, having a dedicated Wizard on the team would have been nice. Especially at high levels.

Dope video! I go for aesthetics haha somehow looking good and roleplaying always makes me feel stronger... rn my all evil elf team (me a drow, minthara, shadowheart, astarion） all using shadow magic/classes is fun n strong... it's like Larian thought of this

Hey Spartacus I’ve been watching your videos for about two months now and I adore your content! I was wondering if you’ve ever done a vampire build or if you COULD do one as I love your build crafting process and have yet to ever see it done on BG3! It would be twice as cool if you were able to showcase the thrall abilities you get from being bitten by Astarion! You’re the best! Keep up the great work!!

My only healer in my only full run was lazel as a battle master throwing out bonus action temp hp and commanding strikes. Polearm master and sentinel made it awesome to have her delay a bunch of enemies while the other party members delt with bigger threats

Thanks man! This was getting intimidating to pick my team. Haha

Great videos. Thank you for explaining the stats

Best party comp is thicc duergar lady dark urge with the other three party members as a mixture of wizards, clerics, bard, and barbarian casting until long rest damage mitigation and armor class buffs while you ninja around the battlefield turning invisible every round and ending careers.

Very helpful

My advice is don't sleep on druids. Halsin at level 10 is terrifying, and since he can split between a caster with a ton of CC versatility and giant f- off murder bear, he fits a number of roles freeing up your other two spots for a rotational approach, depending on what you're going for.

i really love your videos, i’m new to all of this and it’s genuinely helping so much. thank you :)

Great video! My advice for party comp in BG3 for a new player (which seems to be who you are targeting), is to play through Chapter 1 with a full recruitment list with their generic classes and learn how the story builds. So I have 3 different master saves halfway through Chapter 1, where in one I have everyone in the party still and influence has been fairly limited. I have one with LZ and Astarion prepped for picking up Minthara later. And I have one absent Astarion for doing the whole "path of valor." You can have 10 master saves with whatever race/gender you want you PMC, or 100 for whoever gives a shit. It's just like a good book. You read it once to entirety for plot. And then you pick it apart.

Hi Spartacus. Just found your channel. Really enjoy your content. Just subbed and binge watching lol. Well said. Above all, have fun. Have you done anything regarding the Illithid Colony in BG3? I would really appreciate it. Been stuck forever. Take care.

Wanted to say how much I enjoy your takes. My default face right now is Tempest 2 - Storm Sorcerer 8 - Wizard 2. Only has Persuasion, Insight, and sometimes Intimidation (if playing Dark Urge), but he can always handle dialogues fine if needed. I did a Bard run that had great dialogue options, and I recommend that, but I agree that there’s room for all sorts of builds. I kind of want to try a Githzerai Monk Run, and he won’t be much of a talker, but that could be a fun run as well.

for me the best/most optimized party comp is one character is a bard/warlock or a bard/sorceror(so in 1 character you get lockpicking/trap disarming, healing, and spellcasting(so your other 3 could all be front line martials if you want/etc(also best used on a human/half elf(as i go swords bard 3/9 for warlock or sorc(as sords bard will get you the better uses of bardic inspiration, all ull get light and medium armor prof(and a human or half elf gets the shielf prof(so while you technically miss out on a feat its not as bad as etc

I'm using/building a variance of the classic F, W, C, B. Lv 11 EK Fighter / Lv 1 GOO Warlock, Lv 10 Evo Wizard, Lv 10 Life Cleric, and Lv 10 Valour Bard each with Lv 2 Goo Warlock. Everyone has Eldritch Blast, Magic Missile, Darkvision, a chance of causing fear, and except the EK, Cha boosted Eldritch Blast and Devils Sight to make Darkness the bane of my enemies.

Thanks for the video

Fun little main character build I've been using, currently has 6 lore bard with 2 divination wizard plan to go 10 bard. Wizard spells can be cast with bard slots so i can learn anything, plus I get so much control over the dice with cutting words and portent die for those moments you really need something to work. The only downside so far is that the helm has to be Lumps intellect helm but small price to pay, IMO.

Thanks for the video! This came at the perfect time. I get so confused with the amount of options that I end up utilizing characters that essentially do the same thing. Also the "best build" for 1 character guides aren't as useful for a new player, since we don't even how to work the "best build" with three other party members.

I really wished they had a party of 5 instead of 4 to create the ultimate party. You really want to have a Str, Dex, Wis, Int, and Chr based character in the party to cover all events that can happen.

My most important take away from this: “Lae’zel eats ass.” 32:29

i always enjoy italian's how to videos

I have the most fun with a dex party of rogue/monk, barb/rogue/monk, abjuration wizard and bardadin. Used to use shields a lot but I prefer dual wielding everyone now even the barb. I used to like the hirelings but I prefer to have more inspiration on Honour mode.

0:38 I did a play through with all barbarians, I called it “All my Homies Rage” With different multi class on some of them (monk, fighter, etc)

I have almost finished the game (balanced) now with a fighter as my main, he has 9 charisma and still handles all the dialogue. Other party has been 9Rougue/ 3cleric, 9Barb/3 fighter and 12 wizard. Still it has been an awesome playthrough!

6:38 man I finally got really into this game as Barbarian and the first time I got the (Barbarian)(Intimidation) SHOUTING INSULTS AND ASSERTING DOMINANCE I was dying lol. The Bloody Nine needs no honeyed words.

Pretty early into act 3 and current comp is: Tav halfling Swords bard 6/assassin 3/ gloomstalker 3. Using Titanstrike bow and strength elixirs. Amazing party face, rerolls 1s, and does a ridiculous amount of damage. Can use bonus action on illithid powers or casting spells with band of the mystic scoundrel and risky ring for free sneak attacks. Using 18 dex gloves from the crèche, stacks charisma, dump strength and dex to 8 since cheesing both of them. Diadem of arcane synergy gives a bunch of extra damage. Karlach throwing barbarian 9 Barb/3 thief split. Uses disguise self hat to activate Dwarven thrower, nyrulna when it’s safe to aoe. Shadowheart 2 tempest cleric/ rest storm sorc Crazy aoe damage, using markoheshkir and some other staff. Twin casts chain lightning on wet enemies for absurd damage. Gale 1 white dragon (agathys) sorc/1 tempest cleric/10 Abjuration wizard. Build from d4, upcasts armor of agathys, gets a ton of arcane ward stacks, casts create water for himself and shadowheart, then runs through enemies triggering opportunity attacks to deal 60+ damage each time. Also can ward the party to stop a ton of damage. Uses legendary rapier to taunt enemies and ward allies twice per turn. I almost never need to use inspiration points in conversations and everything dies on turn 1 on honor mode. Usually everything is dead after tav goes first and he could probably solo without trouble. Gale has a bunch of utility and defensive power for the party. Karlach and shadowheart are damage monsters if tav doesn’t murder everything first.

I like to play a melee-er, I add a Bless character, a backup melee-er for aggro, and then some sort of ranged attacker

I use Karlach barb, gale evocation and whatever summons I can get and some cc, shadow heart for a few mone summons and support magic, my main character is beastmaster warden for speak with animals movement party buffs and extra summons and ranged dmg

I'll admit my brow furrowed a bit as you were combining three Wisdom-based characters (Cleric, Ranger, and Monk) on the same team lol. There isn't anything fundamentally wrong with that from a question about combat roles; it's more about the gear problems you alluded to. There's not enough gear to go around for a team heavy on one stat, just like you can't focus on one particular kind of weapon. Not to mention all of the Intelligence or Charisma checks you might want to pass but won't be able to, because nobody can accomplish it. You can always wing it as-is and proceed through the game, of course, but my efficiency-minded brain goes "AHH what are you doing?!" 😆

I love your content

Another consideration is making sure not all your party are looking to get the same gear.. only so many good weapons/armour or caster gear. if every one is dex based then all the good hvy armour goes to waste and you wont find enough good light armour/robes. m rule for party comp in D&D (in general) - 1 'tinkerer' minimum - someone that can handle traps and locks in some manner... probably a rogue but this could well be a wizard by class or any smart person. 1 'healer' minimum - and the healer could be anything from a cleric to a herbalist to a merchant that can get good prices on potions and wands. 1 'warrior' minimum - and this warrior can be a fighter or paladin but it could also be some ones animal companion, or even a summon. 1 'voice' minimum - master of bullshiting, negotiation and generally organizing all the things. 1 'quartermaster' - a person who is willing and able to handle and organize the movement of loot *do not let the thief play this role, it always ends in tears. For BG3 specifically 1 person with high strength to carry loot 1 person that can cast long strider 1 person that can cast aid 1 person that can do traps and locks so the most SIMPLE and easy to with origin characters is in my opinion: have astarion as a rogue or rogue multi. have shadow heart as a cleric with 1 lvl of rogue. *it suits her shar stuff this way you can always have a rogue without forcing you to ALWAYS bring astarion. .

Man I love these videos! Didn’t get BG3 until this Xmas but can’t stop playing and am about to embark on my first DND campaign with some friends. Question; is using terms like “action and spell economy” part of the DND vernacular as I (in no offence) felt it seemed kind of an odd choice and kind of unnecessary?

I was an Oathbreaker Paladin so all Charisma Checks were easy peasy ngl, I then had Gale, Shadowheart and Lae'zel. Gale wore the cat's grace armor for dex advantage rolls on lockpick and disarms lol he was 12 lvl of wizard btw and it worked just fine.

I personally turned Shadowheart into a Gloomstalker Ranger. She is my shadow thief and my Astarion is a Sorcerer after giving him a certain grimoire. I’ve turned Wyll into a Paladin. He is an Oathbreaker because of his pact with Mizora, and Gale as a Bard/Wizard cross class because he is naturally charismatic and always has a tale to tell. Even with the class changed my head canon Still fits their persona without compromising their in game story background. So I agree you can change them to whatever.

I'm getting some "The Devil went down to Georgia" vibes for Wyll on your bard comment. 😉 Unrelated, I'm playing around with a Sith Lord themed character using shocking grasp cantrips as primary damage. Maybe multiclass fighter and thief for extra action and bonus actions? War caster, elemental adept lightning... hmm... Any ideas, shoot them my way!

Michelob ULTRA's Orb!!!! omfg. yes yes a fan favorite spell. 🤣

I'd say the main thing of party composition is gear overlaps... Which you don't know during blind playthrough. The rest does not matter in terms of synergy or whatnot, because the game is easy enough. I tried to care a lot of synergies and combos, and now I ended up with the idea that you should have at least three people who can deal damage or control or both, and each of them should be able to take a devastating turn on enemies. And they should have minimum gear overlaps. Fourth can have mass healing word + volo ring + dammon gloves + phalar aluve + alert. That's the way to try any build in the game. Oh, and you need guidance and enhance ability on different characters. That's it.

You didn´t finished the game yet? Wow didn´t expect that comment, given alll the content you have. BTW thanks for your approach on all things BG3, albeit I understand party comps, coming from tabletop, I´m consuming bg3 content like my characters would eat adpoles.. Currently on late Act 2 of my honor run.

A charisma based main character is best if you wanna dominate dialogue. This means you either gotta pick Bard, Paladin, Sorc or Warlock. Astarion fits the rogue, lockpicking slot very well. you can build him as a ranger/rogue/fighter and have amazing fun with him. Shadowheart fits the radiant orb build perfectly which is very powerful So the 4th slot can be of any flavour. Either Karlach as a throwing barbarian is very strong or Lae'zel as a fighter with polearm mastery and sentinel this way you can have a tank, healer, ranged dps and charisma main char. i personally preffer sorc or a warlock due to the magic spell dmg being OP

Quick low down...have fun and experiment its fun and worth it....for instance my current Tav is at lvl 10 at the end of act 2 and is a lvl 5 way of the open hand monk lvl 1 wizard lvl 2 fighter and 2 of 4 lvls into collahe of the sword bard and he absolutely destroys most common fights first round with a verity of skills for ever situation my stats are through the roof lowest stat is base 10 but before I leave camp at each new day is buffed to 16 and my highest skill is 21 always buffed to 27 before leaving camp....completely by accident as I went into the run with the goal of selecting what felt like would be the best improvement I could make each lvl based off my own in game experiences so far on my second run. All of my party members are multiclassed as well in interesting ways that seemed cool to me all though with the origin characters ive not gone past 2 classes each to not loose out on their origin benefits.

32:33 "eats ass" 😂

12:26 same man, same 😂

Hey buddy! I have a question. Its kinda confusing to me. See, i play bg3 the very first time and i want to use your bardadin build for the first playthrough. I want to make am honor way. I really like shadowheart and lae'zel, also both have a good story. I really want to suck thaz content maximised in. What do you recommend to skill them to? Im fine with (bla/bla/bla) i whould make them to my likings of who gets the classes you recommend. :) i really thank you for your bg3 content!

I just got this game because it looks pretty dope! But is there any like good classes that would be good for a new player to this genre of games. I have no knowledge of D&D 😂

So what is the top 4 build for tactician. I really enjoy the build video. But i get enjoyment by just using broken build can you tell me the top 4. Right now i have throwing barbarian Haste sorcer Bard for control And open hand monk.

Best Party Comp in my opinion is 2 front liners, somebody for defensive utility like light cleric or lore bard, and somebody who is there purely for the offensive capability like any of the full casters with good offensive spell options, take your pick there. On my current honor mode playthrough I have Astarion as Monk/Thief (Ascended Astarion gets +1d10 necrotic to every punch.), my Tav is a Padlock, Wyll is my Lore Bard but I am thinking about making him a Sorc instead and Sheart is my light cleric.

How do you keep pumping these videos out so fast, while also steaming!

I tend to keep the OG classes of the companions but tweak their stats because, boy, they are not well optimized at first.

my druid main character has 8 in charisma If I need a boost in dialogues I can use the charm spell you can also use guidance and bardic inspiration too If I picked a high elf/half high-elf I could have picked the friendship cantrip instead my point is even with low charisma you can work around it

I feel people put too much importance on conversational ability points. I beat the game with only str, dex, con, and no conversational abilities and i did all the conversations. Just choose the background and skills you want. It is a game of chance (turn karmic dice off), you can save in the middle of conversations before before you role dice, and you can reload till you pass. I know a lot of people prefer pure conversations, but if you do not, this is the easiest way to get the best possible outcome you want for your character.

I found out myself that as I got to level 5, 6, and 7, I did not need healing much anymore. So I swapped Shadowheart over to a Tempest Cleric. My party is my Sorc, Asterion Rogue, Shadowheart Tempest Cleric, Gale Wizard. We usually kill stuff before it can get to us.

Why does the game say it made a survival check when finding those treasure chests?

Barbarian im hitting chest and throwing chest no time to unlock them. Sometimes i kill two birds 1 stone and throw chest at enemies or vice versa. Im sure you can imagine how i pick door locks

Ifk if you do; but it would've been cool if u got to have a companion of every class to shoe them off and see what each 1 can do

12:58 "I'll multiclass gale off of warlock into something else" (guessing you meant wyll or wizard)

I really suck at this game, no one should listen to anything I say about this game, but I did build a really good party. I used a (Paladin) Me, then the Warlock guy (Beast Mode) The vampire guy and the Barbarian girl. They clean house. I can't imagine what they could do with someone who knew how to play them.

My biggest paralysis is I want my main to be three different classes and can’t decide. Constantly starting over

Rly struggling with healing seems like my characters are barely getting through each fight

Barbarian shouting at things. This is the best advice for anything playing roleplaying games. Make a character you like, something you think is great or funny. I once had a hobbit rogue/fighter who was into castrating big enemies like trolls and giants work a pickaxe, maxim critical damage rolling between stupid big peoples legs. It's great checking out best builds but sometimes failure is the best option for fun game.

The most important thing is to have fun if that comes from playing a halfing bard who gets thrown at people by Karlach and calls them ugly go for it

I started Valor bard archer then shifted to lore bard with Karlach and Wyll being my main front liners and will probably switch to swords/battlemaster in act 3 because conversations seem too easy and combat hasn’t been as satisfying. Respec respec respec to get your best combo! It’s never too late my friends.

As long as you have 10 charisma, you can use the mask that gives you disguise self and the Shifter’s Boon/Favorable Beginnings and be fine. My Druid is proof of that.

Thanks Italian Stallion

Bard is just nuts

22:30 I know you’re just giving examples, but the Monk hardly uses Wisdom for Ki abilities

I've only really done one run, with a bard/cleric main on tactician. It worked pretty well for combat and the dialogue man those options were great lol

For most cases you can just swap to the charismatic and do the cutscene and talking. So i always tank my charisma

What sucks about this is how so well the characters are written to fit in with their classes it feels so weird to change them, even I'm about to start my 3rd playthrough.

I love your videos and your laid back unscripted style and fun approach ti the gane. But… this video was a bit loopy tbh. But hey its your channel so that’s cool.

Whats a decent Party Comp with a Tav Sorcerer/Wizard? Im stuck at Moonrise 😅.

Melee fighter: 8 Barbarian 4 rogue can do it; sneaky lockpick: Barbarian-rogue can do it; ranged attacker: likewise; healing? We don't need no stinking healing! Conversations? What are those? We are Barbarians!!

My kind of fun = optimize any challenge from the game

my fav comp = all fighters (champion tree) 😂

I can never get stealth to work on PS5. Once combat starts everyone is involved. Esoecially in Moonrise Keep/Tower. I fucking hate that place. Yes im stuck there

Your main character doesn't need a high charisma. Just have the person with the highest charisma in the party do the talking when dealing with npcs.