Immortal Ice Assassin Wizard Build In Baldur's Gate 3 (Honour Mode Full 1-12 Min-Maxed Guide)
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- Cold damage, immortality and insane utility. What could possibly go wrong when something so powerful is created? Wizards can be so fundamentally overpowered in Baldur's Gate 3 with the right setups and more importantly it's done in style. Just saying, definitely don't sleep on the ice spells in the game. They are very powerful due to their various synergies with modifiers like wetness. In addition, they combine extremely well with the Wizard's ability in particular to reach unprecedented levels of sustain and its capability to make great use of shields, counterspells and negations. In this video you'll see why and what I exactly mean with that. Wizards are a great class (with some dips) in just generally making life miserable for an enemy that has the brilliant idea of taking on an Immortal Sub-Zero Ice Assassin Wizard.
In this video we make use of various Wizard-specific mechanics and synergies to make the Wizard as powerful as possible . We accordingly go over abilities, skills, leveling, how to use your attacks, subclasses like Abjuration, races, oaths, honour mode best strategy, gear, itemizations, special combos and so forth.
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Hope you guys like this one! I definitely do, it's my favorite way to build a Wizard for sure. Insane damage + insane defenses and done so in style, sign me up.
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This is an impressive one - making me want to play a Gale solo playthru!
Did u gonna finish your last paladin build? I am really waiting for the finish build
Yo man, I'm sure you're busy with the next perfectly edited video, but could you answer this please: Is 10 charisma really enough to get through this game? Seems like such a vital attribute for the constant speech checks.
When I get to pick Cleric I can only pick one skill, do you know why? (using Gale and picking Cleric at level 4)
Are they going to patch the armor swapping arcane charges?
Warlock level 1:
Cantrip - Eldritch Blast, Blade Ward
Spells - Armor of Agathys, Hex
Subclass - Great Old One
Abilities : Intelligence - 17 (+1 from Auntie Ethel)
Dexterity - 14
Constitution - 14
Wisdom - 12
Race - Wood Elf/Wood Half Elf or Silver/White Dragonborn
Warlock level 2:
Spells - Hellish Rebuke
Invocations - Repelling Blast, Armor of Shadows
Cleric level 1:
Domain - Tempest Domain
Cantrip - Guidance, Thaumaturgy, produce flame
Spells - Create Water, Sanctuary
Wizard level 1:
Cantrip - Ray of Frost, Shocking Grasp, Bone Chill
Spells - Shield, Ice Knife, Chromatic Orb, Longstrider, Magic Missile, Find Familiar
Wizard level 2:
Subclass - Abjuration
Spells - Expeditious Retreat, Tasha's Hideous Laughter
Wizard level 3:
Spells - Misty Step, Cloud of Daggers
Wizard level 4:
Cantrip - Minor Illusion
Spells - Hold Person, Flaming Sphere
Feat - Dual Wielder
Wizard level 5:
Spells - Glyph of Warding, Counterspell
Wizard level 6:
Spells - Haste, Remove Curse
Wizard level 7:
Spells - Ice Storm, Fire Shield
Wizard level 8:
Spells - Stoneskin, Blight
Feat - Ability Improvement (+2 Intelligence)
Wizard level 9:
Spells - Cone of Cold, Conjure Elemental
Gear:
Mourning Frost, Spellsparker/Markoheshkir
Hellrider Longbow
Coldbrim Hat
Fleshmelter Cloak
Bonespike Garb
Winter's Clutches
Boots of Arcane Bolstering
Necklace of Elemental Augmentation
Callous Glow Ring
Snowburst Ring
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Doing the good works here TY
Hopefully doesn’t get patched
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You are awesome thank you!
Ice WIZARD - GALE/Wood Elf Half Elf/White or Silver Dragonborn
Level 1 - Warlock
Cantrips - Blade Ward, Eldritch Blast
Spells - Armour of Agathys, Hex
Subclass - The Great Old One
Abilities - 8 Str, 14 Dex, 14 Con (+1), 17 Int (+2), 12 Wis, 10 Cha
Level 2 - Warlock
Spell - Hellish Rebuke
Invocation - Repelling Blast, Armour of Shadows
Level 3 - Cleric Tempest Domain
Spells - Create or Destroy Water, Sanctuary
Cantrips - Guidance, Thaumaturgy, Light
Level 4 - Wizard - Abjuration
Cantrips - Ray of Frost, Shocking Grasp, Bone Chill
Spells - Shield, Ice Knife, Chromatic Orb, Longstrider, Magic Missile, Find Familiar
Level 5 - Wizard
Spells - Expeditious Retreat, Tasha's Hideous Laughter
Level 6 - Wizard
Spells - Misty Step, Cloud of Daggers
Level 7 - Wizard
Cantrip - Minor Illusion
Spells - Hold Person, Flaming Sphere
Feat - Dual Wielder
Level 8 - Wizard
Spells - Glyph of Warding, Counterspell
Level 9 - Wizard
Spells - Haste, Remove Curse
Level 10 - Wizard
Spells - Ice Storm, Fire Shield
Level 11 - Wizard
Spells - Stoneskin, Blight
Feat - Ability Improvement Intelligence
Level 12 - Wizard
Spells - Cone of Cold, Conjure Elemental
Gear:
Mourningfrost Staff - Underdark 3 pieces
Spellsparkler - Waukeen's Rest quest - Replace with Markoheshkir in act 3
Winter's Clutches - Act 1 Esther in Mountain Pass
Coldbrim Hat - Act 2 Balthazar's Chambers in Moonrise Towers - first floor, behind bookcase
Fleshmelter Cloak - Act 2 House of Healing Morgue Gilded Chest
Bonespike Garb - Act 3 Rivington Exxvikyap
Boots of Arcane Bolstering - Act 2 Moonrise Tower Araj Oblodra
Necklace of Elemental Augmentation - Act 1 Creche Inquisitor's Chamber Display Case
Callous Glow Ring - Act 2 Gauntlet of Shar Vault Room Opulent Chest near Balthazar
Snowburst Ring - Act 2 Last Light Inn Perception Check Loose Plank
Hellrider Longbow - Act 3 Rivington Ferg Drogher
OMG thanks you are a lifesaver thanks for putting the location for the gear amazing.
Can anyone tell me why a wizard would have 19 intelligence over 18, seeing the modifier doesn’t change?
Is. it possible to have the first level be wizard? I want to do this with gale and I'd sort of prefer him being base wizard
@@mightymanofvalour8691it won't be 19; this build assumes you use the +1 stat from the hag hair to bring it to a round 20
its 19 then you get the +1 from the Auntie ethel flesh@@mightymanofvalour8691
2:09 Level breakdown
8:31 Level 1 (Warlock)
9:51 Abilities
10:53 Level 2 (Warlock)
12:50 Level 3 (Cleric -Tempest domain)
15:08 Level 4 (Wizard 4-12)
24:34 Gear
24:34 Gear
You are a Saint 🙏
@@cannonneer832 thank you, hadn't realised I forgot that.
You dropped this 👑
Whats the point of doing this when multiple people have done it before you and 10x better
Bro, I lowkey can't believe how well edited these videos are. Your build videos are just very aesthetically pleasing, and they've helped me understand the combat in the game a lot more clearly,, along with being really powerful and fun. So thanks!
Gotta love any comment that starts with bro 😊
Came here to comment exactly the same thing!
i just watch them because theyre good quality. The build idea (which i probaly wont use for a long time) is only on top
Just got baldurs gate a couple days ago with the steam sale and ive been addicted to the game. Your guides are really fun and super useful. God bless you
Welcome to Bauldur's Crack lol. I've called in sick more than once cuz I stayed up too late playing the night before LOL
This video is so well-edited, props to you!! I'll add this to my list of builds I'd eventually like to try. :)
Jeezus this is an OP build. I just finished monk build on balanced, and started bard on tactician. This looks unreal for honour mode, love this content!
Thank's for the video Nizar! One of the best builds i´ve seen so far and definetely the best build video, very well made and with a fantastic flow, congrats!
Bro, it's always a pleasure to watch your videos. How well everything is edited and entertainingly commented. The build is also absolutely strong, will definitely check it out. Thanks for your work.
Love the build! For the boots, I would probably pick those who get you immune to ice surfaces, found in the Inquisitor room in the crèche
Disintegrating Nightwalker (Nere's boots) are better (same immunity to ice surfaces, on top of other surfaces too, and also a free cast of misty step per short rest).
I don't know if those boots are bugged or what, but they don't fully guarantee that you won't slip on ice
Thank you! I've been looking for a frost wizard build for so long! Originally I thought maybe 2 levels of fiend warlock and 10 levels of evocation wizard was gonna be the way to go but after seeing this I can't wait to try this build instead!
Well, I have been avidly reading all comments, posts on reddit, other builds... Al info I could get, to determine whether it goes better going Sorc + Wizard or Warlock + Wizard. I thought missing the 6th level slot was a huge miss, so I was looking for how to access it. I have tried not dipping into Cleric: I have a cleric and a bard in the party that can cast Create Water, and I want to keep my AC low, so better wear robes than armor. I would only be giving away the melee reaction and a couple of spells that my companions can cast.
Going 2 Warlock, 10 Wizard gives you the build NizarGG has developed, plus 20 charges in your Arcane Guard. Level 5 spells, but you recharge your guard freely in between fights.
Going 2 Sorcerer, 10 Wizard gives you level 6 spells, but you would need charge your guard with spells while fighting. The two spells that I find more useful are Summon Water Mirmidon (free healing every turn with huge area of effect that leaves wet enemies and allies alike for a turn - huge! - and a triple area of effect beam that inflicts cold damage), and Ice Wall (it deals a ton of damage and... well, is wall that prevents enemies from reaching you).
After playing for a while with both styles... I lean slightly on the Warlock side.
As some other people have pointed out, starting every fight with your guard maxed up allows you to do not feel any presure if you are being hit a lot, so you can use all your spells more flexibly. I have found sometimes having to cast a spell I would rather save for later because my guard was running low. The mirmidon can be cast by other member of the team.
Dipping into Cleric is not a big loss either. You don´t need the 20 charges really. I have been as low as 10 and most enemies were not able to go trhough my arcane ward. I have my cleric casting Wuarding Bond on me so all incoming damage is half as if using blade guard. And the level 10 Abjuration Wizard is no longer needed. You do loss a 5 spell slot though. So is up to you.
But all in all I thing the Warlock build works better.
Hope it helps!
Brilliant video as always! Stunning editing, and a detailed and fun build. I now have two playthroughs running your different builds and they are the most enjoyable out of all I tried. Thank you for your hard work, it’s appreciated.
Did this build get patched? Or is it still usabel
@@nickstoe2128 I am using it ok so far, and it works well, but on this character I have just hit lvl 5 and I haven’t got dual wielding yet, but the added D8 on ray of frost with wet condition I regularly hit with hex for 20 up to 40 damage. Great for a cantrip,and of course, other character can hit great frost damage also. Get a couple of good ranged weapons like Harold or giant breaker on other party members,and I give winters clutches gloves and spellsparkler, and the speedy light feet to Gale, so with dash and the staff it builds charges fast. I use magic missile if I want multiple charges to top up, and that works with psychic spark necklace for an extra boost. I gave the mournfrost staff to Wyll so he can proc ray of frost on the wet targets too, and they hit hard! I will see how it works as a dual wielded later, but it’s great fun right now and there’s still more gear to get in later acts. Wyll works brilliantly with the lightning charges, as per Nizars OP Warlock lvl 1 to 6 guide, I strongly recommend that build too!
@@nickstoe2128 if you are asking about the armour of shadows technique, it’s working fine as of today (March 1st 24), my char is lvl 5 and is doing great damage as per Nizar’s vid, with ray of frost hitting between 20-40, which is cool for a cantrip at my lvl, and armour of Ag obliterating enemies in Act 1. One thing I found, if you have a char using Phalar Aluve / shriek, it stopped many opportunity attacks hitting my Armour of Ag wizard, so I forgo the added thunder damage, and went for sing instead, I know this is not part of the build, but just an observation. Situationally, I also use my barbarian with tavern brawler, to sometimes throw the large blue bottles of water at enemies if I don’t want or can’t cast create water for whatever reason. The bottles do bludgeoning damage and 5 strength damage, and were hitting for about 15, plus making them wet, win,win!
@@nickstoe2128 i'm wondering the same thing. I can't get my arcane ward above 4 with level 2 warlock/level 2 wizard
Glad he made a video about this. I was just reading a post on Reddit about this exact thing and boom! He uploaded it an hour later.
And the cool ❄️ part is that some of the best gear comes early in Act 2.
THIS is the Wizrd Tank ive been looking for! Thank you so much!!
Abjuration is so underrated man. I played a fighter/abjuration wizard and was literally immortal. Most enemies couldnt touch me at all I think I only sustained actual damage on the fights against Ansur and Raphael, zero damage otherwise. And even if I took damage I also had an absurd health pool.
Yooo I been tryna do this gotta tell me your split and ur gear
That sounds pretty sick and I’ve been looking around for an excuse to make an Eldritch Knight that can actually compete with the Battle Master in terms of combat ability. Mind sharing what levels you took, feats, and maybe some items that work good for it?
That’s the exact build I was thinking about making would you mind sharing what you did?
Please share your build bud 👀
How did you get your abjuration shields up?
This video is very well made. The graphics are very well put together, and explain things in a very helpful way.
My favorite channel for bg3 content, love these videos man!
This build looks amazing. It's not just the sheer amount of synergies but how many of them just fall on your lap. Like oh yeah here's 3 more spells that proc everything you have every level
Very nice, i have been trying out Ice Wizard builds. Great timing on this video.
They patched create water. It has no longer a cantrip version
Sure did. I have been using this build to get through a tact run, but I'm tinkering with it. Going to drop cleric and sacrifice at least one level of Wizard in an attempt to find an extra attack instead. I am saving all water loot for Karlach's pally build, so she can wet fools up.
great video as always. I have seen variants of this build before and am playing it right now in my honor mode run on shadowheart. It is amazing. My other party members are ranged and shart just sets the wet conditon, ice everywhere, and dares them to hit her. I have Lazel' as a swords bard with a strength elixir and titan bow which does insane damage with ice arrows on wet targets. The strength adder gets added to the ice damage and the explosion aoe. Just these two together can clear most encounters.
To add to the synergies, my TAV is also a swords bard with Bow Banshee, and my 4th is Wyll GOO Sorlock blaster (with reverb gear). This gives my party multiple ways to inflict fear & prone enemies, so a lot of the time they are flat on their back on the ice and can not do anything. Even more deadly with Hunger of Hadar from Wyll.
This is the build I sorta accidentallied into on my first playthrough. The Warlock + Abj Wizard synergy is hilarious and takes being a caster from being stupid squishy to essentially untouchable. The fact Counterspell is an Abj spell is just icing on the cake
on your first playthrough? sure bro
@@wilaugh8688 you underestimate the exploit-seeking mindset of players that come from 3.5 😅
@@Avoncarstien:( till the DM tells you he's outlawing the interaction next session because he's not dealing with trying to balance fights lol. But still those moments of godlyness are fun
Ah the beauty of enemy phase builds. Always fun to see a unique take on them.
Damn this build looks crazy, thanks dude 🙏
EPIC video, thank you for making and sharing this with us.
If you opt to wear medium/heavy armor from cleric (of which there are plenty of solid options, but Armor of Persistence stands out immediately to me), you no longer need the Mage Armor invocation really, and can squeeze one more level of Wizard into the build. This further amps your Arcane Ward, and lets you scribe 6th level spells including Globe of Invuln, Freezing Sphere, and Wall of Ice.
You mean armor of agathys? instead of mage armor?
Where are you thinking of getting the one more level of wizard? Instead of the second level of warlock?
@@KeySnowYou cant use Mage Armor if you're wearing any armor at all, that's what he means
the point of the invocation is to have the ability to stack your ward on demand for no cost. but your idea turns it into more of a ice knight build so good shout
The point of mage armor is to have a permanent free full recharge of your arcane ward. That's the only reason you need it. I've been using Spidersilk armor from Minthara for Concentration, and my AC is only 1 less vs actual mage armor.
Also bear in mind you don't need a crazy AC for this build. The point is that you need to get hit for AoA to proc. Playing a more standard blasting wizard is fine, but the main idea of this build is to have effects like Haste and AoA stay on all the time due to your arcane ward
I rarely comment but I have to give respect to such high effort, well edited, well executed material
Another hit. Best BG3 content creator on YT!
Thanks for this guide. It was exactly what I was looking for.
A good and informative guide. Consider adding sections to your videos, it will make it easier to find the right spot.
This is a fun build and I'm using a slight variant of the equipment. Instead of +2 int I went with alertness because being able to go first can really make a difference in most fights. For boots, I'm wearing Disintegrating Night Walkers because slipping on your own ice, and losing your turn, really sucks. Everything still works just fine with the boots swap because this build really doesn't come together until Act3 and partial ceremorphosis, for those that do it, makes up for the freedom of movement and evens out the loss of longstrider.
Making this tonight. Great video!
Nice wizard for my honor mode party. Love your vids btw!😁✌️
Looks so good. A nice change from the other wiz waz options.
The first build video I've seen that is actually enjoyable and well presented. As always, I wish there was just a gear list I could copy and paste.
Gear:
Mourningfrost Staff - Underdark 3 pieces
Spellsparkler - Waukeen's Rest quest - Replace with Markoheshkir in act 3
Winter's Clutches - Act 1 Esther in Mountain Pass
Coldbrim Hat - Act 2 Balthazar's Chambers in Moonrise Towers - first floor, behind bookcase
Fleshmelter Cloak - Act 2 House of Healing Morgue Gilded Chest
Bonespike Garb - Act 3 Rivington Exxvikyap
Boots of Arcane Bolstering - Act 2 Moonrise Tower Araj Oblodra
Necklace of Elemental Augmentation - Act 1 Creche Inquisitor's Chamber Display Case
Callous Glow Ring - Act 2 Gauntlet of Shar Vault Room Opulent Chest near Balthazar
Snowburst Ring - Act 2 Last Light Inn Perception Check Loose Plank
Hellrider Longbow - Act 3 Rivington Ferg Drogher
if you go 2 sorc instead, you can get agathys from draconic bloodline, and you can get more than your total stacks of arcane ward quickly by doing extend metamagic for the lock spell on a chest/container, so you get like 8 arcane ward stacks for casting armor of agathys and then extend the lock spell and instantly get liek 28-34 stacks of arcane ward or whatever your potential is based on wizard levels
I'd go 4 lv sorc white draconic to get quickened spells & armor of agathys, 2 lv tempest domain, and 6lv wizard. The quickened spell feature is really strong for burst damage as you can quickened create water and use your action for whatever cold spells you want. the metamagic point easily can be traded from spell slot.
@@yohanes2034 That's definitely one way to play it. I just think getting 2 sorc as a bare minimum for stacking the hell out of arcane wards, and having as high wizard lvl as possible to have the highest arcane ward stack possible is super op. you reflect hella dmg and cannot be killed if you have a warding bond on you. then go warcaster/dual wielder for two saves and you're quite a powerful unkillable wizard. conjure elemental is so great to have by going deep into wizard, and the fire shield spell to intentionally provoke opportunity strikes and hit a lot dmg back at attackers, keeping your AC low by using robes
Starting out as Sorc also gives proficiency in Con saves, so you can go for War Caster instead to be virtually immune to breaking Concentration, without the need for Resilient.
@@yohanes2034won't that lower the ward? i read its 2x wiz lvl. so you get 12 instead of 18?
@@CyberBeep_kenshi yes max stack of arcane ward is based on 2x wizard level. So there’s a trade off. I’d say at minimum 3 Lv sorc, 1 Lv cleric, and 8 lv wizard
Wow! Cool video i love the effort you put into it
Just about to try this solo, but as a suggestion: because of the Cleric dip, you can use the luminous armour from Act 1. Combined with the Callous glow ring, it will put radiating orbs on everyone that hits you. This can cause issues earlier in the game with too many attacks missing you so you get no return damage from Armour of Agathys, but later on in the game with higher level enemies, you may not want every one of their attacks to hit you each round.
Even early game though, you can still use it and just blast attackers individually with ray of frost for as long as you want as its an cantrip .
What a great build, thanks!
great video I learned a lot , thanks bro!
dude, you're videos rock. keep it up.
My god what University is the course through? 😆Thats some high quality editing too! Definitely earned my like + follow! 👍
I loved the wise man advice. I totally cracked up. "Son, it's a great idea to make things wet before you blast them, hard." Keep it up 🙂!!
Absolutely love the build, I love seeing builds that are not just strong but also thematic as well! Would love to see a light domain build one day
light domain cleric makes a decent blaster option with some buffs if you don't want to bring a full caster in your party. it doesn't get the guaranteed max damage like tempest cleric, but it does get fireball. fireball is always a good idea.
Very nice build video and demonstration. Definitely very powerful.
I personally went Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer level 1 to allow Mage Armor, Armor of Agathys as well as Blade Ward in one singular level. You can then triple spec into Storm Cleric and Abjuration Wizard for heavy armor proficiency as well as the Storm Cleric's reaction for added lightning/thunder damage.
is it better to do this instead of going warlock?
@@nejiqqNizar basically said that Sorcerer is valid but isn't as optimal to build your arcane ward charges. The free armor of shadow is tedious but free to cast and can get to your max arcane wards without eating through your spell slots. Pretty valuable in a honor run where long rests are more expensive
@@malekal5315 hello, this is wrong the arcane ward charges either way come passively with the builds spells, not to mention spell slots aren’t really a problem if you just partial rest, use arcane slots to gather your spells back and use potions to gather your spells back,either way as you go more and more through the game you get infinite Money and buy supplies along with finding supplies
@@Gamfluent so basically this is not wrong, you just have a preferred way to do things lol. You use a lot more resources to get all your slots back, burn through potions and you're like " but anyway it's ok late game they're cheap anyway " ok ? Nizar's way bypass all that, so yeah there's an upside to the two levels in warlock. I don't wanna micro manage my potions and my rests especially in honor mode
@@malekal5315 it is, being a sorcerer adds way more than warlock, that was my initial point and response to your “gives more arcane ward stacks” after that I went to your “too much rest” which is mitigated by having a bard which directly links to the posters “Bg3 best honor mode team comp” idk why you made such a big deal and focused two paragraphs on the sleep part
damn your editing is really clean to watch
Love your guides
An early game clothing piece that’s really good is the infernal robe, which lets you cast fire shield for completely free once per long rest. It’s really good at that stage of the game, and arguably the best clothing piece in Act 1.
The problem is that it’s a reward given to you by Mizora that can only be obtained by killing Karlach, so it’s similar to the BOOOAL buff where it’s really good, but you need to sacrifice a companion to do it.
If you plan on doing an “evil” playthrough where you raid the grove, then it’s definitely worth picking up as Karlach leaves the party anyway if you side with Minthara. Wyll leaves too, so you can sacrifice him to BOOOAL for the buff if you want that too.
Saw a video where if you kill Karlach at range without triggering her cutscene, you can finish Wyll's quest to get that robe and then go back and revive her lol
I think this was fixed in the latest patch
Love your builds! They feel distinct and strong. Maybe you could add stats for the build in the description? Or make them more accessible somewhere. I, personally, do a lot of characters and respecs, but can't remember them and searching for that part in a video is a little pain)
Sounds like the written build guides on his Patreon could be just what you're looking for.
Man I needed this
The problem I have with this build (I've given it a try in a run-through) is that there are multiple steps in a fight to make this work. For example, first you have to get the ground wet which is a turn and there's no way to add another action with this build. There are little dips that if you take, dilute the wizard power by reducing levels. For example, you could take a second level in tempest cleric and max the damage but then you lose a wizard level. Also, early in the game I couldn't find "armor" that wasn't armor that I could swap with my standard robes - it appears you can only find that in Act 3. so this is definitely a late game power build, but early game it's hard to justify this as built because you just don't get anything powerful enough to be super helpful.
man i always look forward to your vids, just amazing to look at
Create Water has now been changed which makes this build a little harder to use early on, but I found that hording bottles of water works the same way :)
Very well made video. Have a like and a subscriber.
What a crazy build!
Those animations are hilarious. ❤
As a brother-in-arms in the "run around to kill stuff" archetype, monk/cleric with at least 2 monk and at least 5 cleric and maxed out strength gets you multiple very long jumps per turn while using spirit guardians, letting you aoe the entire battlefield in one turn. Pair with enhance leap from this here wizard to be truly everywhere.
Please follow up on that early game paladin build next, im really curious to see what you did with it
I'm using a similar build to this right now with sorc 1, cleric 1, wizard 10 as the ultimate goal. A great side benefit to this in a party is that your wizard can trigger all of the melee reactions early in the round and give your other members free rein to move around.
How is he getting his arcane ward up so high? I am currently level 5. I can cast mage armor once and that is it
@@dungeonbuilder1816 In the video, he takes 2 levels in warlock to access Eldritch Invocations, one of which lets you indefinitely free-cast mage armor. If you have that, equipping any armor piece will clear the mage armor, allowing you to recast it. Repeat to build ward stacks for free.
@@jagondal8378 Ok thank you missed part about equipping armor. For me it is maxing out at 4 doing this trick. must be my level
@@dungeonbuilder1816 You're welcome. And Arcane Ward caps at 2x your wizard levels, so it will get better as you go.
You burn through spellslots pretty quick going the Sorc route. Being able to build up your arcane ward out of combat using the mage armor glitch through Warlock saves your spellslots. You can then be much more offensive. With abjuration wizard I'd personally recommend sacrificing a further level to get 1 level of fighter for weapon wof and two weapon fighting. Build into dex and use the headband of intelligence for int. Use light finesse weapons to cause damage with weapons, That way you cause damage through weapon damage, spells, retal damage and you only lose 1 level Wizard. Wizard, Sorc and Cleric are all full spellcasters so you dont lose higher spellslots
I have always wanted to make frost work. Very cool!
On a side note, if you ever played BG 1 & 2 on SCS, you should know that wizard fights are won by casting "Protection against Abjuration spell" all the time
It's not really linked to anything in this video, and it's part of bigger weird puzzle mechanic, but I like the fact you do play Abjuration !
great video. Just need to find all those items now.
Great work thank you, to start as Gale you need to respec early in warlock, right ?
You don't need to worry about Blade Ward or Stoneskin when you get a party member to put Warding Bond on you. Its the best build to receive WB as the caster will rarely even take the shared dmg because of wards, but you get full resistances.
you can even cheese it to the point where all useless party members have 3 levels in cleric just so they can buff your active party members with warding bond. That way, your entire party has all resist for free ;d
@@cloud1homes usually I decide early on which members of the cast I will have in my party all game, and then turn all the other companions into useful npcs. Gale gives everyone longstrider, gives me mage armour and con saving throws with alchemist stone, gives lae'zel darkvision. Wyll is a bard who gives everyone bardic inspiration before we leave camp. And Astarion + 3 of my hirelings are life clerics so everyone can get buffs like warding bond, aid, heroes feast, freedom of movement, and death ward.
Is it overkill? Perhaps. But I'm not taking chances on Honour mode lol.
Nizar going sicko mode 🔥🔥🔥
Nice one still waiting for part 2 of paladin build :o
Killer editing
Love your bg3 builds! And with this one all my companions are op! Can you make a necromancer build?
I'm liking this video simply because you pronounced "Agathys" properly.
Aaaand, we are making a new character named Bi-Han for the next run, NizarGG delivering pure gold as per usual.
I tried a build like this but I got annoyed because the Shield spell which is abjuration didn't increase my Ward level, and I was using Sorcerer white dragon for the Armor of Agatha.
This works much better with the Armor of Shadows. 10/10
Holyshit, this was my solo build, the abju tank: i used white dragon sorc instead of warlock for agathys.
I used rippling force mail with heavy armor master since force conduit acts similarly to arcane ward.
Metamagic to extend bladeward, and completely fudged my honour mode run by forgetting necrores against myrkel.
I love the counter attack playstyle. I know I miss out on a lot of high level stuff but I have 1 lvl tempest cleric for reaction on hit, 2 lvl warlock for reaction on ranged hit, and 3 lvl fighter for reaction on miss. So at lvl 6 every person in my party counters every single attack against them lol.
Cant wait to try this with a way of the four elements monk
Finally, finally! FINALLY
I just soled serevok with this build. That was so fun seeing he hitting himself to bhaal
I've tried an ice wizard before and unfortunately a lot of the cold gear is not great. Winter's Clutches and Coldbrim Hat's only effect is adding Encrusted with Frost. if you're willing to forgo encrusted with frost which is a non-essential condition, you become less thematic, but you can swap those item slots for something more powerful. Hood of the weave for example, or spellmight gloves, there's lots of options. You still get a charge of encrusted with frost from markoheshkir's Frost of Dark Winter ability.
The nice thing is, this build synergizes really well with the Tempest Cleric/Sorcerer lightning build. So it means you don't have to have as much conflict with those super optimal item slots. The Coldbrim hat is suboptimal either way though, as it only applies the effect once per turn on one target, so there's a lot better you can do in slot.
I've been using infernal robe instead of the bonespike garb. You can get some crazy thorns damage by doubling down on the magical shields
I’m way to early to this another banger
I noticed enemies will not attack you in honor mode if you have Agathys up.
The steel watch, for example will not attack and sit around until they cast their flame exhaust attack so they can damage you without retaliation.
You MUST keep Ray of Frost around and itemize. When testing the build to see the survival side of it I left it out and did not have the items. Eventually pulled a couple extra Steel Watch at end of a combat, had no spell slots left and it eventually burned through arcane ward charges before I could down them with punny melee attacks.
This is the single best build I've heard of since reverb-locks.
I'm an enjoyer of making enemies skip their turn, but reverb-lock is too much RNG for me.
Immortal ice wizard will definitely accompany me in my next playthrough.
if you use sorc instead of warlock, you can choose extend spell/arcane lock and get double the arcane ward charges 2 sorc/2 cleric/8 wiz = 32 ward charges
Can you explain alittle further? Wouldn't ward charges still be capped at your 2x your wizard level so 16?
There is a heavy armor in act 3 called "Armor of Persistence" that permanently gives the effects of "blade ward" and "resistance". Seems like a no brainer for this build.
look like fun to play!
needs a little refinement - if you inspect the eldritch blast, you'll see a book icon with "CHA" next to it. It isn't getting set onto Wizard Int since they can't learn that. You'd have to either boost Cha up, or get EB via Spell Sniper feat to put it on int. So your to-hit chance is pretty low. I'd rather spend those levels on White/Cold Sorc to get AoA, and some metamagic.
Great build! I'm wondering however about the utility of Eldritch Blast after level 3. With a 10 CHA, you're rarely gonna hit with it, and you'll have plenty of solid wizard cantrips for damage, so maybe respect at level 4 and ditch EB for a utility cantrip from the Warlock list. Then you could use your 2nd invocation for something else, like Devil's Sight, which would allow you to still function inside your fog cloud? Just a thought. :)
Love you nizar
I just tried this at level 6 against shadow cursed needle/vine blights. They were clustered, and one died during it's opportunity strike, causing a chain reaction that killed 5 of them in one turn.
I like the disintegrating night walkers on this build better that the boots you had so that you don't slip on your own ice
Love your builds but I would like to point out a few things. I’m not a CZcamsr by any means just a guy that enjoys your content. (Doesn’t matter the game you’ve been putting out hits) I purchased the Patreon to say thank you for what you do and to also have access to the written version. The flashy-ness of the videos are great but hard to actually follow step by step when I’m looking for what items specifically or what to choose when character leveling. It may be a minor gripe or grievance but if you would maybe format it like the following:
Level 1: Warlock 1
“Blade Ward” (Maybe some fancy colors or picture text so it would be easily spotted)
(Insert you commentary here)
“Eldritch Blast”
“”
Level 2: Warlock 2
All this is just examples added to what you already do, just want you to know I’m not bashing. Just constructive criticism. Ty again bro keep up the good work.
Probably best to give your melee partymember Hoarfrost Boots so they don't slip when walking on those icy surfaces
This build results in the inability to cast 6th level spells. I'm sure the tradeoff for tempest cleric is worth it.. but i wanna cast 6 level spells dang it! super cool video, keep up the good work :)
just respec out of warlock later and go 1 White Draconic Sorc (AOA) - 1 Tempest Cleric - 10 Abjuration. This will let you up cast to level 6 & scribe level six scrolls like Globe of Invulnerability, Wall of Ice, Chain Lightning, Freezing Sphere, etc. You will just need to spend spell slots to stack your arcane ward I think, so that is the trade off. I am only level 4 right now, but will likely respec to the sorc version for act 3. Stacking arcane ward out of combat is really helpful until you hit level 10 Wizard for the short rest stacks (10). Then just a level 5 AOA & glyph for example will get you to your max of 20 stacks. Those are spells that are core to the build anyway, Level 6 is reserved for nuking stuff.
as mentioned above the Freecast illithid power later game should allow a level 6 AOA cast (6 stacks of arcane ward) without using a spell slot. That would get you to 16 before casting any glyphs, etc. Although, this power could also be used for damaging spells, so in essence it is still using a spell "slot" vs the armor of shadows trick. I am with you, I still want level 6 spells late game so will likely respec.
There you go, that sounds like the move :) . Sorry for the ignorance but what does AOA mean?@@jameskelsea6048
Amazing work, once again!
I have a playlist of BG3 God-tier builds and this went straight in there. In fact, most of the videos there are yours, Nizar 😂
Disintegrating Night Walkers is probably better for this build if you're going to want to walk through your own ice puddles. It's acquired in act 1 and you also get a free cast of misty step per short rest.
Easily one of the best all-rounder boot slot choices but is synergetic with this build in the party. Even if you're putting it on a martial it's good to walk them into the puddles so every melee enemy has to save or fall prone.
I little trick you can do to gain resistance to all dmg is to hire a companion from Mustio, turn him into cleric and cast warding bond on you. Then leave the companion at camp and enjoy your resistance to all dmg.
The level of hype you do for your own builds is probably the best part about them lol
whaaaaat the production quality of these vids has gone way up man
I recommend having charisma high at level 1 instead of intelligence, then when you start taking levels in wizard, go to withers and change it around to the stats you started off with.