BG3 uses a d4 for initiative instead of a d20, so Alert is even stronger than in the tabletop. It's an auto-pick in every build I make.

since you didn't explain how to get the robe as dark urge (save alfira) you need to knock er down (toggle non lethal and hit her) then a poor random bard will show up to die in her stead x)

A tadpole or the elderbrain as your patron is pretty cool concept, but actually if you speak to the absolute in the crack of Moonrises wall it quite bluntly states that it senses another aberration and kind of freaks out for a little before going back to it's monologue

Interesting tip about the last class being taken determining caster attribute. Certainly good for every playthrough to know about.

Use cloak of cunning brume and choose thief for rogue class. You can disengage and also create a foggy cloud. Then hide with in a foggy cloud. Thief class gives you 2 bonus actions for disengage and hide.

Rogue 2 + warlock 5 - give you hunger and ability hide in you own darkness right in the end of act 1. For my experience its way better progression than +1 to crit chance from early levels of fighter. Yea better burst from fighter abilities is good, but who cares if you are invincible?

You did a great job explaining the build. Looks like a lot of fun. A little bit too item focused for me, but I can appreciate the creativity behind it. Thank you.

Craterflesh gloves are currently bugged with eldritch blast. Instead of adding 2d6 dmg on crit, they add an entire extra beam of eldritch blast with all dmg riders and effects that comes with. The extra beam is also itself a crit, so GOO feature is rolled again as well as adding more reverb stacks. The beam also procs PA shriek melody which, for whatever reason, adds potent robe, agonizing blast, and rhapsody dmg. A crit on a single EB beam with craterflesh = 4d10 force + 20 (potent robe + agonizing blast) + 6 (full stack rhapsody) + 2d4 thunder + 3 (rhapsody) + 10 (potent robe + agonizing blast) This can happen 3 times in a single cast of EB

First of all - great guide :) nothing that seasoned player wouldnt know, but well put together and explained so that it flows really well :) BUT GOD DARN IT! Leaving sound of notifications from your pc in video should be criminal!!! 20:32

Love Warlocks, love GOO and love glass cannons, so much so that my first ever playthrough I ended up with a similar build: pure Warlock critting on a 15, lol. Great video!

This is almost the exact build I used to get my golden dice, except I didnt take any levels in fighter. The items are almost the same as well except I took birthright, potent robe and the glow rings. Pretty cool to see someone had the same idea!

Justiciar's Greatshield is also a decent shout for this built as you can cast darkness cloak once per short rest which creates a cloud of darkness which your character immediately hides in. Obviously you lose +1 to crit chance without both knives but it frees one of them up for astarion

fun thing about daredevil gloves, you can also use them to get the auto crits from hold person

underrated channel. Amazíng video!

Two act 1 bow options for statsticks that you missed are Hunting Shortbow: sold by Dammon in the grove gives you advantage when attacking Monstrosities(and there is quite the few), the once per day cast of Hunter's Mark unfortunately works only with weapon attacks. Bow of the Banshee: sold by the Greymon(Duergar who captain's the ship that boards you in the underdark), while you can't use the effect that applies frightened on hit you can use the bonus 1d4 to hit and damage against frightened creatures which will serve you really well until act 3 for The Dead Shot. Also the Surgeon's Subjugation Amulet: Dropped by Malus Thorm(boss of the House of Healing) lets you once per long rest paralyze an enemy for two turns when you land a critical hit which basically gives you 2 turns of guaranteed critical hits if you're within 3 meters of them.

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I did this build with WL 2, Fighter 4, Sorc 6. I also neglected hide/darkness. Just plain old convert almost all spell slots to sourcery points and blast away on bonus actions. Statistically speaking a crit on 12+ or 13+ (i.e. neglect hid and slayer cloak) will change the crit chance from 69,75% to 64% per Blast (with advantage). I gladly took the 6% less crit chance because I could blast 3 more times every turn using sorcery. The damage output goes insanely high with this^^

you can ignore the last level on sorcerer and get a level 1 mage slot to learn chain lightning spell. It deals 160 damage with the feat, water and ignorance resistance.

I played this on a sorc fighter warlock split , no rogue so no bonus action hide which made using the shadeslayer cloak impractical. Other than that our gear selection were pretty much identical, except i kept alfira's robe for the whole playthrough since it lets me add charisma again and you can go 22 CHA with the mirror of loss (24 if you use the hat from sorcerous sundries). It is worth mentioning that during my playthrough I tried some experimental build with a party member using Phalar Aluve shriek and the Necklace of Elemental Augmentation and the necklace seemed to crit aswell resulting in a flat +10 per blast since I only had 20CHA at the time, not sure if this is a bug or not but it didn't always work for some reason.

It’s such a breath of fresh air to see people take assassin instead of thief and sorcerer, Nice build myotis👍

I did a variant of this build with 4 GOOlock, pact of blade, 4 assassin rogue, and 4 champion fighter. Allowed me to max charisma and pick up spell sniper for maximum eldritch blast crits. Dual wield to crit stack or use the legendary rapier and deadshot. Worked well with stuff like arcane synergy and gave me options for close range. Spineshudder amulet to cause reverberation on hit to proc arcane synergy. Dex gloves so you can dump dex and get more AC with clothing or light armor as well as initiative. Assassin rogue is great too cuz you can initiate combat, get extra action, and guarantee crits on surprised enemies which will cause frighten with mortal reminder. You miss extra attack but it's not a huge deal for this build.

Shadowheart with shar's spear of evening is the only support you need, cast the completely free shar's darkness and hide inside with you attacking enemies who get too close

I don't like spellcasters, but I'll probably try this build for a solo honor run next. Generally speaking I prefer sustain damage over rng crits, but in this game building for crits just feels right. Barbarian dice multiplication, paladin smites and warlock reminders are all great. I definitely don't jive with stealth though so I might just go for the more standard sorlock mix

The gear with the highest gold value is not necessarily better than the cheapest gear. I can vouch for that with my Act 3 Sorlock build, which knocks back Act 3 bosses prone using the Reverberation gear collected in Acts 1 and 2. What makes the Reverberation gear (boots, amulet, and gloves) so powerful, besides knocking foes prone, is that it creates thunder damage with lightning charges on the agonizing Eldritch Blast. Additionally, I have two rings that add extra charges of radiance damage. Potent robe (act 2) and that hat from sorcery shop in Act 3 is best for Eldritch blasting build as it adds a lot to attack modifier for cantrip. I highly recommend 10 levels of Lightning Dragon Sorcery and two levels of Warlock, as this combination provides 9 sorcery points and access to all spells up to level 5, allowing for effective crowd control with spells like Hold Monster or Confusion. My character makes Tactician mode too easy; I might have to switch to Honor mode for more difficulty. To put it in perspective, I knocked Orin's Slayer form prone for an entire round with my Eldritch Blast and my Eldritch quickened blast took a lot of her health! PS. I built my character researching best build for sorlock so its in many forum suggestions, its not of my own creation.

I had originally come up with a build pretty close to this as Fightlock 7F-5W, but it ended up being completely derailed by one item: *the Intransigent Warhammer.* It's a pretty mediocre +0 weapon that you can get from the Duegar pirates in the Underdark (careful, you must attack them while on water), except that it knocks everyone Prone in a similar AoE to Mortal Reminder when you crit or kill with it. I went with it on a whim since I was already a Half-Orc for the additional dice on melee crits, and it was so glorious that I made my entire build revolve around it. Lemme explain: Frightened + Prone is one of the best combos in the entire game, because Frightened prevents movement, which makes it impossible to get up and remove Prone, forcing a turn skip while still giving advantage to all your melee attackers. Obviously this also works with Reverberation, but this one can do it in 1 swing as opposed to 3 beams AND in AoE, not to mention splitting your attacks isn't a problem. You'll be losing 3 to your crit dice bonus due to not dual wielding nor using Spell Sniper, but the tradeoff you get is a 16+ (25% -> 44% with advantage from Prone or Darkness) AoE stun on melee attacks, multiplied by however many melee attacks you can make in a turn (Extra attack, Bladelock extra attack, Haste, Action Surge, etc). GW fighting style also technically helps rolling more crits and more consistent dmg, so that's nice. Finally, invest enough in Illithid powers to unlock Black Hole (even better as a bonus action), so that you can drag everyone around you and into the Darkness for massive CC procs, not to mention Slow gives disadvantage on Dex rolls, i.e against Prone rolls. Extremely hilarious and nasty stuff, I completely bullied Raphael and his minions out of existence with it. And that's the gist of it, the rest is up to you. I still went 7F-5W, I first took GWM for the obvious synergy with my warhammer, my crit rate and the insane dmg boost per attack (the debuff is easily negated with advantage as a Bladelock), then Sentinel so that enemies wouldn't be able to flee out of the Darkness (most even stop trying after you get it, which makes it even better lol). You could go for Dual Wielder in order to use a crit dice offhand and +1AC early on, but you'd lose out on a lot of dmg without GWM, and even more as a Half-Orc. You could also remove 1 to your crit dice to take the Helmet of Arcane Acuity and make your Prone and Frightened procs almost inescapable, but I felt I didn't really need it most of the time and preferred maxing my chances of getting the extra GWM attack instead. Besides, the Helldusk Gloves, Cloak of the Weave and Amulet of the Devout are plenty enough for spell DC in Act 3, however if you go Dual Wielder then it might be the better choice. A variant of this build involves using the Unseen Menace instead (sold at the Gith creche alongside the Knife of the Undermountain King) and make use of the extra attack range and the Invisible Weapon effect giving you +1 to your crit dice. You won't be knocking people down, but instead you can keep them Frightened inside your Darkness cloud while staying out of melee/spell range thanks to the pike attack range. This also means you can use Polearm Master as 3rd feat (you still get 3 feats as 7F-5W) and immobilize people that would try to rush through your Darkness to attack your backliners. This build obviously works better in Tactician due to the extra attack rules of Honour Mode, but it will do wonders regardless (since you can then go 8F-4W to get a 4th feat instead), tested and approved by yours truly. Give it a try if you'd like, I guarantee you won't regret it!

I'm using a lot of notes from this for my current Paladin run, since Paladins (at least Oath of Ancients; IDK if it's all Paladins) get bonus damage on Crits. Especially since I'm going for a Dex-based, Dual-Wielding build, so twice as many chances to crit. Coincidentally, this is also the run where I plan to romance Wyll.

Fantastic video, just a little feedback. There's an ounce of static audible while you're speaking. I only noticed it because I switched to headphones half-way through.

18:13 ... _Oh. Oh right, that...that counts as being equipped even when you're not using it, huh? I have a crit-focused build, too, and while the Deadshot is part of it, I hadn't even considered it still applies the crit range modifier even if you're not using it..._

Crit can be lowered past 12, down to 5. Plus it is easier to just create an auto crit situation.

for what specifically in this build we take warlock last? 2:15 what items it will influence? or something else?

Neat, I learned a few things I never would have guessed, like needing the right class to pick certain feats, and that your last class added to your build matters. I've been trying a warlock build that tries to spam conditions like lightning charges, reverberation, arcane synergy, and radiating orb, but it's not working as well as I was expecting. I know some of those conditions go on me and not the enemy, but still, the radiant damage especially seems to elude me. I'd love to hear your take on this sort of build, I've been going pure warlock, but I should probably multiclass sorcerer. I've also only got a few sources of extra crit range, I think my next build will be pretty much exactly this one, focusing entirely on crit range.

really liking this build, which illithid powers would you recommend taking except illithid expertise? i'm new so looking for all the advice I can get

You can pickpocket the spellmight gloves easily sir.

I did a similar build with 2 warlock levels and 10 lore bard. I only got down to crits on a 16 cuz the crit Sarevok helmet is medium armor and instead of bloodthirst and undermoutain king knife, i used the duelist's prerogative for the extra reaction

at 17 charisma you don't need hags hair to get even again. The mirror of loss can give a +1 to charisma in addition to its other ASI.

Hag's hair on a charisma main character just feels bad (unless it's your only one ofc) since you get patriar's memory practically guaranteed (with forbidden knowledge to actually guarantee the bard's one). If you start 17, memories alone will get you to 20. I suppose you could always put your initial +2 elsewhere, but typically that xtra point is often only usable by dumping another stat and you'd really much rather another character get their 20 or 22 main stat.

I'd say the radiant orb ring is better than mental fatigue ring by a fair margin as it still procs reverberation gear but you debuff the crap out of anything you hit. All you give up is +1 crit in act 2 to use the ring as you'll have light applied to yourself to guarantee radiant orb stacking. This also basically lets dame near solo myrkul as he's too debuffed to hit her in melee lol.

Just completed a durge run with this. Chose dueregar. Was like playing the game on easy mode. Orin duel was non-existent as she was too frightened to move.

3 levels in gloomstalker seem to be better. Same hide as bonus action, but also boost to initiative, extra free weapon attack, fighting style and resistance of your choice

The act 2 ring killer's sweetheart also lowers crit hit by 1 as well

I think Tasha's spell is better than hold person. Hold person only works on humanoid.

have you tested this one in honor mode?

what dye are you using?

Don’t want action surge from 2 levels in Fighter?

Just thinking. Would the Hat of the Sharp Caster be better than Sarevok’s helmet? You reroll spell attacks that are 1 or 2.

I'm glad people can get some usage outta the old one warlock, I just did a playthrough and got at most 8 crits in the entire campaign

Spell might gloves are super easy to get especially for the dark urge. Kill or pickpocket Lucretious at the start of act 3. The quest isn’t worth doing.

you said the last class to level up in should be warlock then finished on rogue?

Can you please list out the leveling (lvl 1 fighter, level 2 rogue, level 3 warlock etc) in written form please as a recap?

I started a character with wizard for 2 levels and then sorc for 4, so far. I learn spells from scrolls and it appears that my int is the spell casting ability from the wizard spell slots, based on the DC I can see. So I'm not sure that the last class you pick matters in this case.

Consider 5 Gloomstalker as an alternate to fighter/rogue, it provides hide, initiative, extra attack and excellent starting skills (8 for human). Combine with GOO Warlock for the pact blade extra attack. Excellent ranged and melee.

Yea I usually prefer Warlock 2 / Champion Fighter 3 / Draconic Bloodline 7 - this way you can use all your spell slots for quickened eldritch blasts and you get a small bump to AC so youre not as squishy (Even a little bit of extra AC helps. The AI will go out of their way to target this character since most of my other ACT 3 characters have AC of 19+).

Massive oversight in this build guide. Slap shadeclinger armor on and you will have permanent advantage on all saving throws. Or you can put it on, get the buff which persists and wear something else.

I tried respecing a char into sorc/lock, but i still couldn't quicken the eldritch blast. it just wasn't available to pick. same with some of the cleric cantrips.what am I doing wrong?

Getting rid of Hex = Jail!

Does this build use any tadpole abilities?

17:00 It's not that hard. You just have to knock Alfira unconscious every day until the dragonborn bard appears :D. And you can do that with partial rests.

How'd you get the black lightning on your Dragonborn's face?

Critical is mispelled in the thumbnail

how do you get the black veins on your face ?

can you surprise enemies with taking assasin subclass?

Can you do this as pure warlock

huh I calculated this before and I think you can get a bit lower with a melee build and get the build online a bit earlier with the Invisible Pike and Half-orc race for extra crit damage. Most of the real crit chance recucers come only act 3 that being Perilous Stakes. On a melee build the minimum is 13, but you hit tons of times per turn and there is things that trant you extra effects just on melee hit liek Half-orc brutal critical, weapons with lifesteal etc. I am running a crit based half-Orc so I might respect from melee to eldritch blasting in Act3 when I am no longer reliant on unseen weapon

Hey what is that armor you have when you hit level 2

That is almost any roll... So many crits 😂

It is sar e vok, not sav a roc

what mod is the mindflayer outfit?

this game doesn't have memes................ memes deal with culture, there;s nothing in waht youre doing that has to do with culture