Would really love to see more of your builds! Your knowledge and insight really has helped me improve a ton at this game

Duuuuude I love your build videos, from the honour mode video to this and the ice knight, such great content. I finished the game once on tactician and once on honour, so these videos on different builds are great for me.

Nice. Always great to see new videos from you.

I think an 8-4 barbarian monk split may be more tanky in the long run. The extra feat could give you 24 extra hp by taking the Tough feat and you gain evasion at monk level 7 which massively reduces spell damage

I've been playing a Monk/Barb for a few weeks now, awesome time to drop this! Such a fun multiclass.

Yes Aestus, always good to see BG3 content from you

The idea of beating the absolute in 4 days is funny to me, but at the same time not more unrealistic than taking a month to do so on a world scale this small lol. Love your build and tier vids and hope to see more often. The most fun i have with this game is finding underutilized synergy in thematic characters.

An actual unique build video, nice. Anxiously waiting for the next one

Always good to see another vid from you

I love the Bonk build

love this channel!!

As always, amazing work! TIme for another run I guess!

Great breakdown! I've been using a similar build for the last few months on my honour mode playthrough, except with the Aspect of the Wolf on Karlach instead of Stallion. It's been fun starting fights with the enemies weakened, positioned right in the thick of things in a squad of bruised up enemies. Being able to come at engagements from the middle or far side instead of the typical angle of attack feels neat. I think I'll try your build out with the Garb of the Land and Sky though, since it doubles up on the step of the wind dash synergy. The only thing I'd add is I gave Karlach the Corellon's grace staff in her off hand for bonus punch damage by 1) giving her the dual wielder feat, 2) equipping the staff in her off hand with something else in her main hand, 3) having a companion with empty hands take her mainhand weapon from the tab menu, and then 4) respec'ing Karlach to drop the dual wielder feat while still keeping the offhand quarterstaff. It's gamey, but satisfying and I was oddly happy to have an excuse to never touch the Returning Pike.

jesus i love this concept

I like the idea of this, solid tanky monk! I really wish the Tiger stuff worked unarmed, or the eagle leap - it doesn't add any damage to it. My favourite monk multiclass is 6 oh/3thief/3 spores druid (or 7oh/3thief/2spore, 6oh/4thief/2spore) but I play dex monk, tavern brawler is too much for me. I bring it up because like in the video it synergizes incredibly well with light cleric warding flare to keep the spore stack, but also i just love the theme of the build being a big Drow enjoyer and it just seems to fit them. As a bonus, using the hand crossbow proficiency you can open as safely as you want with the extra necrotic shots + arrows, can even make a case for sharpshooter (it's my rogue 4 if i go that). I also like that you can play this as a stabby Shadow monk if you want with a similiar split, probably the way to go for solo honestly. I guess I like the challenge of attempting to keep the stack, too.

It's cliche but I'd have to go barb 3 / thief 3 here. You can match Stallion's hp bonus by swigging a potion and still have a bonus action left, or just make 2x flurry of blows. Bearheart is always great, this also goes really well with berserker since you are equally adept at melee or throwing weapons. If played with Karlach, soul coins are golden with this build; she's be making a ton of individual hits and the coins add 1-4 fire damage to each hit!

Note: Not sure if this a new bug. But in recent testing I found 'Helmit of Grit' is currently bugged with Unarmored Defense from Barbarian and the helm disables the AC you should get from Unarmored Defense. Since the helm counts as Light Armor, this would be working correctly for Monks, but we should still be getting our Barbarian's Unarmored. However, I tested again just now using your 6 / 6 Barbarian / Monk split and got the bug, causing AC to drop to 12 despite having much higher DEX + CON that should have led to a 16 AC. Sadly, this means we won't currently be able to use the cloth armors you list along with Helmet of Grit. But I don't think this is a problem for your build anyway, it just warrants a slight change. You probably didn't want to do this because you wanted the Monk's Unarmored movement bonus from Martial Art's, but you're already losing that from Helmit of Grit being Light armor, so switching to Armor+Shield should make this build both tankier and do more damage anyway. It will be tankier because we can drop DEX to 14 and use Medium Armors like Adamantine Split that block damage and have other Defensive features like Reeling, while still having a high AC. Plus since we have shield proficiency from another source, BG3 is letting Monk's wear a Shield and still make Bonus Action Unarmed Strikes, use Flurry of Blows etc. Shield is another +2 AC putting our Armored AC well ahead of what we can easily get from Unarmored Defense. We'll also do more damage this way because only needing DEX of 14 will let us put more points into WIS and Manifestation of Body does 1d4+WIS modifier damage, so by only having WIS of 14 your build was missing out on damage from higher WIS. And with the Boots of Uninhibited Kushigo we get to double dip and add our WIS modifier a 2nd time like Tavern Brawler does for STR. That makes it tempting to dump (or lower) CON, and use the CON Amulet in the late game, letting us instead boost WIS to 20 (or higher from Hags + Mirror...) Getting WIS to 20 means adding a flat +10 (2x WIS Modifier) to each Unarmed Strike Attack and because that can be Psychic damage, then it will actually be more damage from the Resonance Stone your build is using.

Thanks for the video.

I completely agree with your helldusk gauntlet analysis for act 2. I used sparklehands which you can get in act 1 and they reliably did great and am still using them in early act 3. I don't know if this is intentional or a bug but with the spineshudder amulet it combines to add reverberation on the second attack and most subsequent attacks which can be absolutely debilitating to enemies. I'll have to check my gear to make sure I'm not forgetting something but my monk is definitely inflicting reverberation almost every attack.

Greater Kushigo Counter can be used on your turn when attacking, I would wear the harpers amulet (+5 AC shield when attacked) and bait a reaction attack from them and it would give me an entire action half being used up on the forced reaction attack against that target. Not sure if it counts as a true full action in honour mode this was done in tactician. So with multiclass thief I would get while hasted and with wholeness of body active 3 actions and 3 bonus reactions resulting in 12 attacks with enough mobility to traverse the entire battle area 2 times over.

Gonna try this, 100%

This is a cool idea durability is surprisingly easy to generate in BG3 and unlike 5e you can really have a tank Build I’ve always opted for Open Hand Monk 6 / Thief Rogue 3 / with 3 other levels being either Cleric for heavy armor proficiency and spells or Fighter 2/ Rogue 4 Those two builds are really powerful but I tend to not use Monk because when I play with friends Monk tends to overshadow other damage dealers, D&D is a team based game and it’s not fun when you’re overshadowing other players and making them irrelevant.

I did 1 barb 10 monk 1 cleric and it was BUSTED. Cleric is really nice because this character is going to be the last one standing 99% of the time if a fight goes south and having sanctuary/healing word is a run saver, but trading that and a monk level for some fighter wouldn’t have been too bad either. Soul rejuvenation lets you heal 10hp/turn, combined with the periapt of wound closure and the ring of regeneration you’re healing for 14 automatically without having to dash. With rage you’re out healing almost every late game enemy for no action economy cost.

I haven't been able to play Baldur's gate these last few months so I've been coming up with a bunch of builds lately and this build here is very similar to one of my latest I came up with lol. It's a 6 druid 3 barbarian and 3 monk. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun to play with, I've always thought druid really fits Karlach because she's like a mama bear lol. And I can imagine her loving animals and nature. So anyways the build combines wildheart bear, wildshape and open hand monk because I'd like her to be good outside of wildshape as well.

I would very much like to see a warlock build which doesnt focus on eldritch blast. But keep the nice work up, xour videos are very enjoyable

Something I'd like you to cover in future build videos I wish more people would talk about; Having googoo damage and the best gear in Act 3 is cool. However, it's the final third of the game. How do these builds play throughout the majority of the game? What makes them unique, interesting, or powerful? How long does it take them to come online? This is what I've always found weird about Monk/thief. Do you delay extra attack? Or more ki points? When do you take the first level of Rogue which gives you very little? Do you not go 4 Rogue and just.... miss out on an ASI?

Nice! Now done with my mba hoping to have time to finish my honor mode run! Orin destroyed me last time!

Heey nice to see you still in active with your YT Channel, i came back to BG3 after a couple of months and having beated it once (i have around 200h), and i was doing a Karlach run when i saw your video, currently i'm level 4 and was respecing accordingly to your build and i realised that since we still don't have monk features our damage just drop, given that we still use STR mod, am i missing something or before level 7 if you go 6 Barb with 8 STR it is really bad? I tested both with a weapon and unarmed.

Hey I always love seeing your videos. I'm new to bg3 and I have a question: If you use tavern brawler with 8 strength, does that mean it adds your -1 strength mod to your unarmed attacks? Or does it replace it with dex or con or something?

Thanks for the build guide. A few comments/questions: 1. Both barbarian and monk are bonus action starved. They both like to multiclass with thief like you said. The barbarian also has to spend a bonus action in the first round to rage, trading off a flurry of blows for rage damage reduction. Does the damage reduction from rage not hinder the m typical monk loop of punching most enemies to death in a couple of rounds? The helmet of grit synergy is best but it comes online so late. Feels like the standard monk thief combo would be more powerful till then. 2. You mentioned limited long rests. I’ve found limited rage charges to be a huge hindrance to such a style. Feels like you have to heavily compromise the build fantasy by not raging every fight with your limitations. How did you manage limited rage charges with the gameplay fantasy of a tanky monk?

Great vid, would you prefer this build over the Barb/Cleric shown in the Golden Dice team comp?

Just came back after re-watching wanted to say if you do the BOOOAL's benediction without sacrificing a companion method if your playthrough allows things like that you'll get advantage on every hit with the bleed damage on unarmed gloves, soul catching still better but if you wanted to the synergy is there the barb monk basically making every single member of the party gain advantage, pair with an Assassin who also has the buff everything just melts

Would you ever consider the tactician plus mods with 300% health scale and stat base scale 7, Ive really enjoyed the added challenge on my honor mode it really changed how I approached fights.

Your description says its an Eldritch Knight Video ;). Did you upload the playthrough? Im still watching your golden dice run with your Barbarian/Cleric Multiclass.

I'm curious: what do you do about Potion of Angelic Reprieve in your personal ruleset? Buggy interactions aside, they're a cheap and easily available to keep going without resting. Also, with only 4 long rests this build is only raging in ~12 combats a playthrough, right? Is it mostly in Act 3 where you find you need the rests and durability?

14:17 is this like an 8 con build for gale considering he is at 39 hp with aid? Will there be a video for whatever that build is or at least an explanation?

Question is attacking unarmed viable early game for this build?

Is stallion aspect impressive enough to justify not running a 6 3 3 split and picking up fast hands and skill expertise? I’ve fallen in love with warding bond tanks supporting the party so I feel like monk has a lot of durability under those circumstances already (especially if you steal the helldusk armour in act 1). Using a ki point for every shield refresh could also be a bit resource intensive. This combo could be amazing if the rage and unarmed soul coin bonuses stacked though Edit: on second thought you’d be missing a feat with this path but it still seems like a steep investment into durability when the player will be below 50% health often utilising the helmet of grit

What race would anyone recommend for this build? I would like to Tav this since Monk is my favorite class but I don’t know if going with something other than Wood Elf would be beneficial

The Helmet of Grit is Light Armour, which means it takes away the AC bonus from Constitution. Is this intended? Am I missing something?

My comment have nothing to do with the video, but it's engagement all the same.. Do you think that the poison ability from Markoheshkir is underrated? It aplies the poisoned condition that grant 2 turns of disadvantage for the enemy attack rolls.. That, plus the Coruscation ring and Marko.. You'll be dealing damage and debuffs at the same time (Radiant orb + disadvantage) .. This in a Eldritch Blast build for example, what do you guys think?

Bow down to the Tulk

whats the point of taking tavern brawler if you only have 8 strength?

Taking only 4 long rests is insane, how do you do it?

Have you considered using mods to make the game more challenging? It seems preferable to me over having to restrict yourself with so many self-imposed rules.

Imo, 6monk/4thief/2fighter outperforms this build. But I'll try it regardless.

If you grab the Boots of Speed you can just cast Click Heels and Dash as a Bonus Action. No burning Ki Points necessary.

Do you have videos of your S-Tier builds?

How the fuck are you beating the whole game in four long rest??? Im usually like 8-10 long rests an act.