• EmotionalSupportLancet [undecided]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    If you have astarion it shouldn’t be too hard to pickpocket merchants. This should help with equipment and money issues. Once you have 400 gold to spare you can respec your entire main party into whatever stat line and class you want. If you don’t know how to respec try exploring the underground temple near the crash site.

    For Karlach, great weapon fighting is one of best perks in 5E and she already has the proficiency.

    Increasing the main attribute to 18 is also a “must” for basically every build that’s trying to be meta. 20 is better, but there are items that can help you avoid spending a feat for the +5.

    Your rogue is going to be a menace if you can get dual hand bows and consistently position for sneak attack. If you take karlach into wolf heart as the subclass she grants advantage against enemies she is in melee range of which makes it very easy to consistently proc sneak attacks regardless of ability to hide.

    It might have a bit of dissonance, but shadow heart really does benefit from a respec to life cleric (there are a lot of act 1 items that provide buffs when a character uses a heal).

    Once Gale gets fireball that’s all you need to make him work lol.

    Did you kill zhalk in the prologue? Everburn blade is amazing. If you don’t have it taking laezals sword for Karlach should help until you can another magical great weapon.

    Hope this helps a bit.

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      1 year ago

      This helps. Thanks a lot. Do you know of a place which has information on good builds that I can just follow? I don’t know DnD5e so that would help. Once I get a better handle on the game I am gonna start a new game with a custom character.

      • EmotionalSupportLancet [undecided]@hexbear.net
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        Not really. I’ve tried finding stuff and gaming advice websites are probably the shittiest SEO ai written part of the internet. Forums and dedicated rpg sites are probably the best bet. Avoid fextralife and other “prolific” wikis I’ve seen straight up bad advice on them.

        The subreddit and the BG3 builds subreddit have a lot of answered questions on how build x or multi class x and y.

        If you have a solid idea on what you want to build that’s a good option and if not can help you find ideas.

        5E itself has a lot written about it and most of the classes are very accurately translated into the game (monks and rogue subclass thief are both way stronger in BG3).

        Here’s an articlethat’s rather good that covers how to optimize a build.

        neoseeker has some quick build skeletons that provide a solid start to build on. They were from EA so they stop at 4, but by level 5 most builds are going to be “online” anyways.

        this site is genuinely really good, no notes.

        If you want help with a specific build I can try to find some options or send you a cliff notes version.