I'm literally playing Wyll in Act 3 right now and have been wanting to respec him. This was the perfect guide for me! I think I'm going to do it a bit differently (hell, I might not even split with Sorcerer!), but what is great about your build guides is how you give us the theory behind the builds and that empowers us be creative, as opposed to just cookie cuttering. I've said it before and I will keep saying it: these are the best build guides out there.

Wyll OR Half drow, Halfling, Wood(half)Elf, Duergar, Githyanki 8 14 16 8 12(10) 16(17) - brackets = *Ethel's hair route Deception Intimidation /AND/ *Stealth (Wyll) if human racial skill increase isn't bugged Lvl 1 sorcerer - your subclass choice; Wild magic recommended cantrips; Ray of frost, minor illusion, mage hand, 4th *optional* -> blade ward, friends, light or true strike for the comment section 👌 spells; Shield, magic missile Lvl 2 warlock - great old one subclass cantrips; Eldritch blast, blade ward or friends spells; Hex, armor of agathyst Lvl 3 warlock - agonizing blast, devilsight(recommended) or repelling blast spells; Expeditious retreat Lvl 4 warlock - pact of the chain spells; Darkness(recommended) or another utility spell swap out Expeditious retreat for Misty step Lvl 5 sorcerer - Distant spell, twin spell spells; enhanced leap, disguise self, chromatic orb or fog cloud(if you didn't pick Darkness) Lvl 6 sorcerer - Quickened spell spells; Hold person(recommended), cloud of daggers, invisibility or web Lvl 7 sorcerer - feat ASI +2CHA cantrips; light (utility based choice) spells; invisible or gust of wind (utility based choice) Lvl 8 sorcerer spells; Haste (bonkers bulk billed booms) Lvl 9 sorcerer spells; Hypnotic pattern(recommended) Lvl 10 sorcerer spells; Confusion(recommended), greater invisibility or wall of fire swap Hypnotic pattern for sleet storm or ice storm Lvl 11 sorcerer - feat ASI +2CHA /OR/ alert

Thanks! Really appreciate your build breakdowns.

Just the guide I was waiting on! Merry Christmas!

Leveling up Warlock to get Hunger of Hadar allows you to do some downright mean stuff as a Sorcerer.

Your guides are amazing. I'm just catching up now with your videos. Your knowledge is on point and correct about many obscure mechanics. Big props not just for having a multiclass with Wild Magic Sorc, but also for Half-Drow recommendation, very astute.

Merry xmas thanks for the guides!

Great vid. Watched till the end.

I'm planning on Evil-Wyll run right now (Killing Karlach, Banging Mizora, betraing father, etc.), so this guide is highly welcome

Merry crimma ty for all the builds !

Great build video. I subscribed for more! Also, just want to say "Wallifier" sounds like it would be an interesting spell xP

Nice guide, just a note at 29:30 you say that you can use Hex to increase the damage of each of your attacks (and you were just talking about using haste on yourself), if you hex after casting haste on yourself you'll break haste concentration and just lethargic yourself... I know by experience lol (you most likely know this but some people might not and it's worth pointing it out imo). I lethargic'd myself and shadowheart the other day on turn 1 of a fight trying to haste and hex

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This is one of the random builds I could see two of them making sense. Basically one doing darkness, one doing haste on the darkness one (who would be the blaster with the potent robes/hag hair/ect. And the other one would haste the Darkness one and either themselves or someone else. It seems interesting

Great great video.

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I love the dichotomy between these two classes. The sorcerer is born with magic surging in their veins, and the warlock, who got their powers from a sugar mommy/daddy.

Was looking for a good Wyll build, nice to find one. You mention there being an elemental interaction that can be used through Draconic Bloodline. That being my favourite Sorc subclass I was curious how that works?

you can still abuse shield of devotion as of the latest patch to fully turn your lvl 1 spell slots in sorcery points then equip said shield to get 1 lvl 1 spell slot turn it into sorcery points unequip the shield and reequip it rinse and repeat ad nauseum making you have endless sorcery points/lvl 2 and upwards spell slots

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very nice

Here's a strategy i tried myself that I have dubbed the sleepy time orchestra. Basically, have most if not all of your characters take 2 levels of bard (including hirelings and maybe even yourself) and then whenever you run out of short rests, you can just use song of rest, and when the song of rests in uour party have been used, swap out the person who need the short rest the least for ankther companion with sing of rest. With this method, you can get 15-16 short rests per long rest. This is also a good method if you're playing tactician or higher and just choose to not grab any food (you should also grab durable to get even more mileage out of this)

One of the big factors in decision-making for a Sorlock build in this game is "Which slot level do I need least?" One way you can remove this issue is by using a level split where you always have two more levels in Warlock than Sorc, so you can *always* convert your pact slots immediately. I like 5 Sorc 7 Lock, so I have access to important third level spells from Sorc, as well as the deepened pact boon and fourth invocation. Since the pact slots will be fourth level, I won't have to chew through any pesky spell slots to get to them, and I get tons of points to use for metamagic and making more third level slots. Of course, this cuts off your access to strong high level spells, so this is more of a min-maxed Eldritch Blast build. Also, I think Scorching Ray is a great example of what Eldritch Blast would be as a leveled spell. Maybe it doesn't compete at second level, but when upcasted it gets *way* more mileage out of Hex and any other damage riders that benefit both spells. I feel like Eldritch Blast is used for general-purpose combat, while Scorching Ray is used to kill one thing expeditiously.

All I’m saying is there’s a shield that gives you an extra level 1 spell slot and you can use it to get unlimited sorcery points 👀 works in honour mode too

This is the first time ive felt seen regarding disliking darkness in a party. Sure, my warlock can see in it but what about everyone else? Also, enemies never stay in it. They just walk away after I wasted a turn casting it, it ends up with just me standing there.

nice 1 mate We need a force based dragon heritage

I have a level 4 duergar dark urge that's having trouble settling into his solo class. Started with Druid but it didn't feel quite right. May try this one

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Quick Question, between this build and The Best Blaster build from 3 months ago, which on would be better of a companion Wyll.??

Nice build. Do you have any hint of early gear?

Thx for the Guide As i am very New to this Game and DD Overall...could anyone explain me the Mechanic of and why creating Sorcerypoints?

I was working on this build and just realized i can't get the potent robe as my sorlock is a dark urge and alfira is no longer around. I'm sure I'll still be okay without it but that's a major bummer

One thing I dont really understand with devil sight builds; do you need to always pre cast darkness? Skipping first turn to set it up in combat isn't great, but neither is having to fiddle around with pre casting every time

I chose false life simply bc it’s a free way to proc tempestuous magic … saved my ass so many times before fly becomes more easily available from other sources. Plus with 8 str, it’s a nice bonus to have so you don’t have to swap characters every time there is a chest out of reach

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I still love pact of the blade cause I can use charisma instead of strength, and can use any weapon

I was thinking about doing 2 Warlock (instead of 3) and put a little dip of 1 wizard

Can you do a Spore druid/wizard build? I’m playing through with a spore Druid and am loving the circle of spores and I’m thinking of taking 1 or 2 levels of wizard for some level scaling goodness

i still think the ideal thematic way to do it would be with warlock 2 / sorc 8 / and then top it off with 2 levels in fighter for action surge. just to stack up on all the things replenishing on short rests. and then pair that up with a party member with some levels in bard and you get 3 short rests per day, each of them replenishing your warlock spell slots and your action surge. since youll just be machine gunning blasts with most of your actions, you can still make the most of simply stacking extra actions like that (and potentially with elixirs of bloodlust) even in honor mode. youll forgo the pact of the chain, but you can get the cheeky quasit, and you wont get the 5th level sorc spellslot. but youll get action surge 3 times a day. worth pointing out with regards to itemization is that all of the above also still makes this class combo the ideal user of the callous glow ring or whatsitcalled. to put out stacks of radiant orb as an additional way to control/neuter high priority targets.

I haven't tested officially, but I see no reason you cant respec your unused companions to bards to get a free extra short rest from each. Meaning you just put 3 of them plus the coffeelock in the party and consume your Warlock Spells, use Song of Rest on one, consume, Song of Rest, etc til you run out of companions. Then swap back to your main party. You now have your two daily short rests still, plus a bunch of Sorc points and go about your merry way. If you caught all the pokemon, in act 3 that is 7 free short rests as a custom origin. So 42+9 Sorc points before leaving camp. That's pretty caffeinated.

8:34 I would argue the Astral Tadpole's Psionic Dominance is the best defensive reaction in the game, but I see your point.

Wouldn't it be better to get another feat at 12 from going back to Warlock rather than picking up Wall of Stone?

I'm planning on respeccing my Tav to this but I already have Shovel on them, is pact of the Chain still worth it or would Tome be better at that point?

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Why wouldn't you just stick with Warlock for the first four levels and then respec? 100g that you can just steal back costs nothing. You won't have anything that cares about concentration checks other than Hex early on, but even that isn't a huge deal. Haste is what you need the Con proficiency for anyway. Plus, Sorcerer struggles more against the commander fight. Ray of Frost is pretty much all they have going for them, and he's resistant to Fire, Thunder, Cold and Poison. But not Arcane... Picking Sorcerer first delays your invocations and it delays being able to start fights with surprise with your Imp. Enemies also don't really have their turn skipped with prone unless you have at least two stacks of it on them. A ranged character can still shoot you, then move, then fall prone, but still get their turn at the start of the next round.

What about Fighter., 4 G. O. O. chain, Fighter, 2 Lock, 4 Storm Sorc

So, didn't rescue the tieflings in act II. if there's no other way to get the potent robe, what's your next best recommendation for the chest piece? Additionally, I was wondering if you could post the level up guide for a sorlock that wants to use hunger of hadar? I really like that warlock spell.

For starting cantrips, not sure what the point of grabbing True Strike on a solo build is, you can't target yourself with it.

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Haven't they fixed eldritch blast progression ? Does it still progress from total level, not warlock level ?

I ran this, storm cleric/wiz, monk/thief, and barb/thief and turned the last half if the game into a joke lol. Nobody got a turn unless I let them. Had to mess around to keep the game from getting boring..i.e. make raph lay on his back and watch hope hit him turn after turn 😂😂

When is the appropriate time to cast Armor of Agathas? Prior to combat or after combat begins?

That is almost my sorcerer build. The difference is that I took 1 level of Wizard to learn more utility spells. Anyway, there is another thing to help to acumulate Sorcerer Points: make the three hirelings (and any other companion that usually stays in camp - in my case, I only use this in Minsk) with 6 levels in Wild Magic Barbarian. That way, you can recovery at least three 1st and 2nd levels spells. And you can also throw some levels in Bard on the hirelings to gain some free short rests with Song of Rest.

I'm at lvl 8. Why can I only cast 2 beams of eldritch blast and not 3 as in the video?

Which variety of hex do you use?

Would it hurt to dip 2 Bard for song of rest?

"Wyll please get a hobby" LOL

Meanwhile i prefer 10/2 Sorlock with Repelling Blast , Simulating Darkness via Invisiblepotions

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I would never play wild magic in honour mode...In my last tactician playthrough, during the act 2 ambush, a wild magic surge turned my whole party into dogs/sheeps/cats...never again XD

Day 4 of asking for a paladin build😢. Still a good build tho

How to get shield proficiency as a Drow?

Dont use wild magic for Honor mode. Accidentally spawned thorns in moonrise tower and all the harpers and Jaheria became temp hostile, had to book it out to save the run

Why nobody takes Bone Chill? The enemy cannot heal. Anda that's its amazing

You can no longer twin Haste I believe.

Clicking this video is a spoiler 😅

why is call coffeelock is because he is black coffee? :v

Merci !

I thought u use wyll because hes ..... well coffee

You talk too much jeez..

Just tell me what to pick. Stop explaining everything.

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