Good news is the skeleton's accuracy will at least be very in-character!

Thanks very much! Glad you're enjoying them :D

Although one drawback is that you need to be within the range of the gloves for the effect, and flying ghouls due to their mobility are likely to be in the frontlines, away from your necromancer

Thanks so much! I really appreciate the support - glad you're enjoying the videos! More every day :D

If you want to play as the optimized build this makes sense for sure, but even on HM, I'm looking for a build I can immerse myself in for roleplay, so I'd still prefer to go with Create Undead personally.

The crypt lord ring gives you the Lv 6 Create Undead necromancy spell. So you can double dip in roleplay and optimizing through multiclassing

I agree! I went with 6 level of Tempest Domain instead of Sorcerer though.

A short section of combat clips at the start of the video would actually be a great idea imo

Probably shouldn't build around a bugged item that will likely get patched.

@Neonmirrorblack If it gets patched, just swap it out with Markoheshkir. It isn't like any other aspect of the build would change. They might even leave it in, considering they haven't nerfed tavern brawler, for example.

Yea, and you can go 6 Necro/6 Spores, not losing on Mummies and gaining mushroom zombies, being level 12 wizard essentially with shield, in medium armor and having 24 temp hit points from Druid

A paladin. Their Auras can buff nearby summons

Oath breaker paladin, spores druid, necromancy wizard, just about any cleric.

Yep agreed - that combined with the buggy and inconsistent movement system makes summon builds pretty janky to actually to play I find. Which is really too bad!

Early on you should be relatively safe dumping wisdom, though you'll definitely want to use silence/calm emotions for the harpy fight. Later you can respec to lower int and use the circlet of intelligence, and then finally dump dex and use the gloves instead once you reach levels where you need higher int to land spells.

@@Cephalopocalypse awesome thanks. I'm still pretty new to BG3 definitely giving you a follow!

I have a similar build coming up soon! :D

@Cephalopocalypse Nice ! I definitely look forward to that! I would recommend trying to work in the dual wielder feat so you can wield double staffs and get the extra AC. You would have to use the hags hair to get both warcaster and dual wielder feat, but I think it would be totally worth it!

Alert is always a great pick, especially for honour mode, so no argument here!

With my playthrough (that I gave up on), I just collected tons of corpses and stashed them in my camp chest. Problem is that for whatever reason you get accused of "theft" or performing a criminal act sometimes when removing them from the chest. Also, NPCs in town would always go insane and just start running all over the place to get away from my summons. This was a particularly bad problem in Act 2.

Great question - counterspell is one of the most confusing mechanics in the game and BG3 makes no effort to explain it at all. TLDR: If you REALLY want to counter something, use your highest level slot So the spell will counter any spell of the level you cast it at and below automatically. If you try to counter something higher level, you have to make a check (which in BG3 I think is bugged and you always fail, unless they've fixed that). Basically, you want to use a slot at least the level of the spell you're countering. Most of the time that will be easy if you know the spell. Fireball is level 3, so you can use a level 3 counterspell on it. However, enemies can sometimes outplay by casting using higher level spell slots, and you have no way of knowing if they're doing this other than experience and guesswork. It's a tricky balance to hit, but as you get a feel for the game you can usually guess what level slot you need to use.

Unfortunately not: as you can see in the video, you get access to 6th lvl spells at lvl11, and thats where you can learn 6th lvl spells (either from scrolls or from leveling). Furthermore, you don't need to be lvl4 oathbreaker, you get control undead at lvl3. I presume you going to take this 4/8 route to gain the 3rd feat? I myself took the 3/9 route mainly coz i wanted the 2nd 5th lvl spell slot for my smites, took Auntie Ethels hair with +1 to char, GWM and later +2 to INT, and fed all the hill giant/cloud giant elixirs to my Tav. I gotta say he is one of the most versatile builds i've ever seen (outside of a swords bard ofc.), he is the face of the party, hits single target like a truck, excels at aoe, crowd control, tanky as hell plus tons of summons. If you go with 4/8 i'd recommend you pick up dual wielding and then you can rock a Staff of Cherished Necromancy/Markoheshkir combo, as both of them were still bugged while i was doing my playtrough (basically the necro staff doesn't consume life essences and the Markoheshkir doesn't consume spell slots and its own effect if done right). If those bugs were fixed, you could still go for an ASI and bump your INT or Char whichever you prefer. I don't like to use Birtright on my Tav as i have much better options late game, so i'll just bump my Char to 20 with mirror and leave INT at 18. Good luck, and have fun!

I know this is late but what I did was wait until I got the Tharchiate codex before even attempting to put the book together. made it a lot easier.

You're in luck! I already did - you can find it under "The best support cleric in bg3" here on the channel :D

@@Cephalopocalypse WAIT REALLY!! wow I totally missed it bahaha, thank you!!!

That just sounds like a pretty different build - and not really one that focuses on what Necromancer Wizard does, which is all related to Animate Dead. I do think that would be a cool build to explore, but it's just a totally different character.

Appreciate the reply. Perhaps it is... However for anyone watching where you offer the chance to take levels in other classes, 2 levels in spore druid and 1 in any Cleric is a perfect partner, granting yourself (and the team depending on proximity) on demand haste. 10 in Wizard isn't essential. You still keep animate dead and danse macabre and summons the same amount as the featured build with the added bonus of a strong melee attack and greater team utility. As always good stuff, keep it up! peACE @@Cephalopocalypse

The shield spell is the only abjuration spell I know of that doesn’t give stacks of Ward.

It's a bug, unfortunately. The abjuration feature only triggers from "casting" a spell and reactions don't use the cast interface, so the game never checks anything related to that. It also means you can cast shield while raging, which shouldn't be possible

@@Cephalopocalypse Thanks for the clarity. I knew it didn't work right, but I didn't know why for certain. Figured it had to be because reactions weren't getting counted as spells even though they consume a spell slot.

@@Cephalopocalypse aw man, thats very unfortunate. i like the idea of abjuration wizard, but i feel like the spell list gives one so little to work with; personally i dislike the idea of 'wasting' spell slots outside of combat for the sake of getting the charges. I was hoping I could just go get hit on purpose and become self-sufficient using shield at least early on that is, my sorc wizard gale is level 4 at the minute so i didn't yet gain access to glyph of warding and what not

@@lilmisu3667 At low levels you can use Arcane Lock - an alternative if you're willing to put up with some busywork is to take two levels of warlock and take the mage armor invocation. Cast it for free, then equip armor (which will dispel it), remove armor, cast again - repeat until your ward is maxed out.

Intelligence, and you won't be able to prepare many spells. I'd use the Warped Headband of Intellect if that's your plan.

Intelligence, but you can make it work by taking haste, long strider etc from wizard and fire ball and the other spells that require good spellcasting modifier from sorcerer. You will be struggling with the amount of prepared wizard spells tho without some int and only one wizard level

spells scribed from scrolls will use Int, you're learning them as a wizard. Items that give you spells however (like Kareska's favor giving you chain lightning) will use Charisma, since it uses the spellcasting modifier of the last new class added.

Yeah - I know there'd be a lot to add, but more cleric domains would have been great - especially Twilight or Darkness for shadowheart of course, rather than the half-finished version of trickery we got

Sadly when you learn the spell from levelling up, you won't get to keep it after respeccing - it's only ones you learn from scrolls that can stick around (and as you say, there's no scroll of create undead for whatever reason)

Sadly Grim Harvest only works 1/turn, meaning you can only get the bonus once even if you kill lots of things.

@@Cephalopocalypse Ok thanks im suprised why larian did that cause they are acting like wizards can only kill 1 enemy at a time. When spells like fireball, Call lightning can kill multiple enemys with 1 cast.

Not for this built, you want the higher level necromancer subclass stuff.

@@jsgdk just to clarify I meant 11 necromancer and 1 cleric. You are right necro 6 and the extra hp are super important for the build.

Also a good call! Though Aid is level 2, so you need 3 cleric levels for it (unless the wizard can learn it from a scroll? If so that's a bug). I like Cleric 3 / Sorc 3 / Wiz 6 if you don't care about the mummy

@@Cephalopocalypse as Aid is an abjuration spell I'm not inclined to call learning it from a scroll a bug. Its not normally available to wizard correct, but this is part of the can of worms Lairon opened with Scribing. Most of the non-wizard spells are not scrolls (bless, lesser rest, moonbeam etc), so the devs must not have had issues with Aid.

Ya I am hoping someone makes a mod that gives them a basic AI to make it so you don't have to control each one of them

This whole game is taking me too long. I'm at last light inn, and I'm over 200 hours in lol Granted I do leave the game on when I do stuff often. Even fall asleep when I have it paused or something. Or whatever I have to do around the house. But often I'll sit for hours,3 or 4 at a time playing the game but feel like I've gotten nowhere story wise, but I've done a lot somehow. Just inventory management takes a lot of my time. Or swapping gear when I get new stuff and trying to find synergy between item effects

The ghouls from danse macrbe are ai controlled for some reason

Yep - especially because movement in this game is so buggy, you need to triple check every important move before making it. That's basically why I haven't actually played a summoner for more than a few hours. AI control wouldn't really solve the problem either - you'd lose so much power because of your summons doing dumb things.

Ya and I agree, but it be nice to at least have a toggle, you can just summon so many and controlling them each it the most time consuming class in the game, I mean the spore undead that rise are Ai controlled and the Dance zombies but that is about it and it's funny because if you do go full summoner, it is actully quite strong because you can have so many out at 1 time. I went 6 Wizard and 6 Druid for all the summons in the world and my god you can walk with a army.@@Cephalopocalypse

No, that is lvl10 caster because warlock levels do not count as regular caster levels. So you only gain 9 from wiz and 1 from cleric. This is why 6/6 wiz/druid works, cuz it's still full lvl 12 caster

Thanks for the reply. But level 6 spell slots are given at level 10 (minus the ability to use level 6 spells). Shouldn’t I have at least the ability to upcast other spells to level 6?

@@mightymanofvalour8691 no, lvl 6 spell slots are given at caster lvl 11 1: lvl 1 spell slots 3 lvl 2 spell slots 5: lvl 3 spell slots 7: lvl 4 spell slots 9: lvl 5 spell slots 11: lvl 6 spell slots So a 6 sorc, 6 druid would have lvl 3 sorc spells and lvl 3 druid spells with the ability to upcast them with lvl 4, 5 and 6 spell slots. Meanwhile 9 sorc, 1 cleric and 2 warlock has lvl 5 sorc spells, lvl 1 cleric spells, lvl 1 warlock spells and ability to upcast sorc and cleric spells as lvl 5 spells.

@@mightymanofvalour8691 Nope, lvl6 spell slots are gained at caster lvl 11. It's new spell slot tier every odd level. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11. caster lvl 10 just gives you a 2nd lvl5 spell slot. Make for example 10 wizard, 2 paladin and you have caster lvl 11 and a lvl 6 spell slot. 10 wizard and 2 fighter however is stuck with lvl 5 spell slots same as 2 level dip to warlock.

@@Decus86ok thanks

You can use Phalar Aluve (but its for every build with many attacks) but thats all comes to my mind for now. But playing necromancer just gives you free spells, damage, hp to your eam and stun possibility ant the end: Staff of Cherished necromancy basically says that you have necro summons for free (no spellslots used) and enables normally weak spells (Blight and circle of death, Eyebite[unlimited disadvantage on save! Better than hold person/beast, finnaly, for 6th level spell...]) for constant use (and heal your wizard, so you can tank with them and end fights with full health).

Definitely something you only play if you like microing units!

True! Good call