THE BROKEN SUMMONER (Warlock/Spore Druid) Build for Baldur's Gate 3
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- Want to be the ultimate Summoner in BG3!? Well using the might of the Pact of the Chain and the Spore Druid, we get to make a BROKEN SUMMONER (Warlock/Spore Druid) Build for Baldur's Gate 3!
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1:47 Character Creation
8:02 Ability Points
9:02 Warlock Summoner Early Levels
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21:51 Summoner Abilities
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Thing you forgot to get is the book of thay that gives you the dance macabre skill that lets you summon 5 zombies aswell
It’s 4 ghouls now, but yes very strong addition to this build.
I always feel like it actually isnt that powerful, since you cant control them anymore
@@mikkelfuglsig171 You can't? Then what's the point?
They act like an allied AI
It’s disappointing that you can’t control them but it’s still very good to have
Plus you can have 5 ghouls if you play necromancer
And you don’t need corpse to raise them
Honestly loved doing it, super OP
For Act 2 theres also the Shadow Lantern in Balthazar's secret room, summons a Shadow Wraith for free (although its a lil lackluster imo, especially for taking up a weapon slot)
Dual weilder feat is important to make this viable imo
I personally like the 10/2 split for Spore druid, especially on non-full-casters as you will still get access to level 5 spells (notably Conjure Elemental) which helps round out the summons damage types. Going at least 2 levels in warlock gives the empowered EB and Hex to allow you to stay at range and protect your low Temp HP pool. The Biggest weakness to a Spore Druid imo is needing to protect the 4xDruid temp HP, and especially late game you will always be within one hit of needing to recast your Symbiotic Entity to have access to the class features.
If you split 10/2 with even a half caster you gain access to 1 level 6 slot which is great to use to upcast your Elemental to a Myrmidon which is a pretty big boost to power. My personal favorite is cleric/wizard but at 2 points you could pick up a wizard school or even Smite if you wanted to run a paladin (though melee and temp HP is a hard sell).
2 lvls Light Cleric sounds fun as the channel divinity scales with character level and could RP as some kind of photosynthesis.
I think lvl 11/12 spore druid is good too for Heroes' Feast and it gives just a few more temp HP
@@Excalibaard for sure on going 11 for Hero's. Fighter or Sorc might be good for Con prof at a 1 level dip. Aid is great for your horde, so any way you can get it up helps, especially once you start buffing with gear.
I'm high, can you explain this in stupid terms for me?
@@thedevilscadence Spore druid loves investment. Going less than 9 and you miss a bunch of the goodies. 9+ you can play with multi-classes like warlock, wizard, cleric, more druid etc. Each have pros and cons, but it comes down to playstyle and what feels good to you.
Personally I ran my spore as 10 spore, 1 wiz and 1 cleric because I could get Heavy Armor with Cleric and could eat scrolls with Wizard to pick up any of the spells I was missing (like Aid). That being said, Hero's Feast (druid 11) is really strong so you could easily go Spore 11 and 1 level in something else to pick up something nice; like heavy armor, shields, and/or Con Proficiency.
11/1 split for spore/life domain. Heroes feast + lvl 5 Aid = healthy minions.
Oooo I’m excited to see this, I love conjuration/summoning play style in Skyrim, GW2, BG3 and in other great games. This is gonna be right up my alley ❤
What class do you summon in GW2? Ranger pets? Messier?
Thanks for making this vid. I had originally done a warlock druid build hoping to capitalize on hex + symbiotic entity for necrotic bonuses, but they don't stack. The summoning angle is great.
You can use the amulet's utility to restaure a point and get the second summon, and then you can swap the amulet as it's no use anymore. To get a usefull one I mean, same with all items you can use out of battle, I carry them in a bag and use them whenever needed, heals, bonus point, free spell, passive (the amulet that grants max heal for example) ...
Nice, deep vid. Thank you!
Interesting build concept. I'm thinking about toying around with an oathbreaker/spore druid combo. Seems like the Oathbreaker Paladin's abilities might synergize better although you do have to choose between their lvl 7 aura of hate or the spore druid's fungal infestation.
A few of the spells he recommended like faerie fire and darkness are simply given to Drow for free as they level up, keep that in mind
He recommended Drow and pointed out that they have access to those spells specifically
you forgot about shovel, the quasit. You can get it on act 1 in the blighted vilage
You misspelled "Basket."
@@charlesboots6508what a weird way to spell Fork
Maybe he's just not a fan of fisting time. Did you ever think about that? Of course you didn't. People like you never do. You just leap to conclusions and judge him because he doesn't conform to what you think is 'normal'. You're spreading a disgusting and hurtful stereotype that has to end, so here's some words to live by:
Never kink shame a Necromancer because revenge is best served cold.
#InclusiveLarian #NecroEqualityNow #WithersRomanceWhen?
Shovel counts as familiar and therefore get overwritten iirc
Honestly worth grabbing still, really good scout with free invisibility @@Yobolight
Plus you can keep the spell outside of wizard
I really love playing circle of spore druids, and duegar seem to work well for my RP.
fun mage hand use is dropping a pile of alchemist fire or smoke bombs and creating a lobbing station before a fight.
Alert is by far the best feat for any build, particularly a build focussed on controlling the battlefield. The bonus to initiative means taking the first turn almost every battle, which is invaluable.
I like going warlock summoner with lore bard with the summon. You get one summon, but you get to pump it full of buffs and enemies with debuffs and still keep some offense, and still get to use magic secrets at lvl 6
you don't need to always have the spellcrux amulet equiped it is a 1 time use until your next long rest so after using it you can swap to a better amulet
When I realized this game was 50% "pretty princess dress-up" where you're constantly swapping your jewelry around for the best bonuses my life got much easier.
well looks like i found my dark urge build this looks dope
Love this build idea. Going to have to try it out. When I first found the Dryad I had a lot of fun with it.
Also slow is amazing on this build. Huge advantage in battle.
Spore Druid is a subclass I've never messed around with, which is weird because those few missions you get with Glut in the Underdark are so much fun.
1. Spruids are awesome. Make one now.
2. Spruids have no unique interactions with Glut or any other Myconids and have to have spores explained to them like anyone else.
3. Spruids are awesome. Make one now.
As someone who picked this as their first class and had a good time going through it when I got to those little fungus people, they literally told me that our spores are not compatible ….racist
my first solo play was a 6 sporedruid, 6 necromancer. and she was absolutely god tier.
I like sparty - but im really really not sure about warlock mixing in here, that pact of chain familiar is not good - and I would not want to miss out on a myrmidon as a summoner.
I think its fair to say sparty's builds for BG3 are more flavour and less brutal effective - but you know thats fine.
FYI: my 6/6/ split.. 6 out of control ghouls, 1 myrmidon, 2 mephits, 1 familiar, 1 'brain kitty', 4 flying ghouls(or skele archers), 1 mummy, 1 deva, 4 zombies.
thats 21 summons.. most of which are buffed by necromancer.
and my best bud party member had aid for bonus HP to them all.
I would recommend picking an additional amulet for the build. The amulet you have that regens a spell slot can be used then unequipped.
I had been scratching my head trying to figure out a good way to do a PotC summoner in BG3 besides relying on Necromancy of Thay, but I hadn't considered Spore Druid! I might try this out
Thanks for the video
One feat that is always worth consideration on spell casters is dual wield.
I keep.seeing this.but noone explains on why
@@davidhujik3422 lets you equip two staves or staff + other weapon so you get the effects of both
WHY
So you can put a staff in one hand and a sword in the other and spin around like Gandalf.
@@Purity21gk is it actual just for cool factor or is this beneficial for spellcasters?
Mhm... Ive been thinking about this, and he might of mentioned this but I might of skipped over it. But what is the benifit of going Warlock and spore when you have a Necro wizard that can get even more zombies out with conjure elemental as well? Though if you wanted to use a Warlock, I feel it might get better utility if paired with a beastmaster ranger instead. Though I could be wrong.
I know that the find familiars are good especially the scare, but out of curiosity if you're going for a lvl 5 warlock, would pact of the tome not be better so u get access to animate dead at level 5 warlock? is find familiar with x2 attacks better?
Edit: you also get haste and call lightning, which means u can pick a different lvl 3 spell for level 5 druid like daylight
Tome Warlock is more optimal for a mid to late game summoner/caster for sure. But it doesn't fulfill the summoner role in the early-game. It lacks the flavor, extra combat body, or utility of familiars, especially the insane scout that the imp can be. That's one thing that even the most powerful summons in the game usually can't do. It's really a shame that Chainlocks didn't get any in-class access to Animate Dead.
IS there a mod that allows you to construct these builds via adding experience or something? Great build vids dude!
Currently in the process of building my own Spore Druid Summoner just got six, as much as I love these benefits is the Imp summon still useful in latee acts?
you have the best build content on youtube.
Thank you so much man! such high praise!
Question! Have you already made a guide or builds using the assassin rogue class or the way of shadows monk class? I've no idea if they're viable and I love your video formats
Yes! Legolas archer I believe I named it!
I would recommend the use of Cheat Engine and a cheat table in order to add missing items and quickly make max level characters for the purposes of making these guides.
I recommend starting as druid and picking up shovel from the blighted village and then level warlock after you finish leveling as you'll get access to summoning wayyy sooner. Warlocks familiars get an extra attack at level 5 yes but you could have more summons at level 5 with druid if you pick up shovel since at level 5 spore druids get animate dead and then at level 6 they get access to fungal infestation. As a necromancer I feel like you want animate dead specifically ASAP since theres an area in act 2 where you can summon undead for free without the need of a body as far as I know
I tried the abyss beckoners gloves. Absolute trash. It was wyll with the flying imp. I summoned my imp coming back from camp. Every 5 seconds the thing was failing and we had to keep killing it
Pretty great video, however The locations of the items mentioned being showed or at least said would've helped s lot, as I've never even seen a lot of them. I can't believe the necromancy of thay was never mentioned though, as it gives an additional 4 summons for free, though you can't control them they are allied and follow you.
here's an idea for a thematic run. a power rangers moon druids, with each shaping into a diferent elemental.
I'm trying a playthrough where Tav is a spore druid, Wyll is a tomelock, Gale is a necromancer, and Shadowheart is support/light damage. I'm going to give Tav the Shadow Lantern and give Wyll the Infernal Rapier instead, spread it around a bit.
Concept is solid I think, but unless I'm missing something you're waiting until the last 2 levels of the game for spells that actually summon minions (that aren't an imp) on what is supposed to be a summoner build. If nothing else I'd recommend leveling Druid first if you're starting a fresh character and really want to summon stuff, not to mention putting that many levels into warlock for basically one (admittedly decent) imp seems sort of underwhelming. I think it might be better to put 2 more levels in druid for Conjure Elemental, and then either 3 levels in Cleric (either war, trickery, or life) so you can get some support abilities and spells, or 3 levels in bard so you can pick up Combat Inspiration or Cutting Words (and some other support spells).
i just got this game, i spoiled a lot of the start because i can wait and i chose warlock for my start. i thought the start would be kinda boring because i saw it already but I've never seen anybody encounter auntie ethel in the emerald grove and now my warlock is suspicious of her.
However, I've started with Druid for at least 2 levels and found that I can 2 out of 3 times get Kagha to go "good" after going and taking out the note in the tree and returning with my party. Then Warlock.
I thought karlach is a good companion no matter what you do
The thing I wrote on your stream vod yesterday, exhibit A: bonechill.
Question for you. Do you keep replaying this game over and over with different characters/builds or do you have a save file you keep going back to to experiment with fights and stuff?
The latter :) I haven't even beaten the game. I'm afraid to! Then... Then it all ends!!!
What's the difference between this and the nurgle one?
Oh yeah even a straight spore Druid is good .. the 24 extra health plus the ability to attack almost 4 times a turn is nasty
Hopefully you still pay attention to your vids comments, Any way, I have 30 levels to work with and wondering as far as a Necromancer goes. What would you experiment with, considering that wiz is the most played as far as a Necromancer. Any helpful tips would greatly be appreciated.
Firstly Merry Christmas. I love your builds. I had an idea to make Karlach a Duel Wielding Beast Master Wildheart Barbarian build.Something about her just screams animal lover. It would probably be a dex build (tho i don't know if rage will trigger dex weapons.) Im thinking 16 dex 16 con 14 wis dump cha and str. Eagle i think thematically fits the dex theme. Not sure exactly how many levels each , would love to hear your thoughts
Merry Christmas brother! :)
I like that idea! How about if you want wolf heart with a wolf companion!? I think that'd work better though if you have another melee character because you give them advantage when within 7ft
Id do 3 barbarian / 9 beastmaster!!
Does that help?
Beastmaster is one of the few classes that is better off not being multiclassed. The beast only levels up with the ranger class level so its capability will plateau earlier than it should.
Yeah you aren't wrong not only that rage only works with Str unfortunately.
I would like to point out if you do this build as a lolth sworn drow you get fairy fire and darkness as race spells so there is no need to pick this spells as class spells
Accidentally read title as Italian spore Druid oops lol
😂
It is a little saucy lol
That's just Mario with the raccoon tail
That’s a spicy summon build
It works if i go with druid first?
To top up this army, you can throw a spider egg from act 1 and get another 4 summons, which makes it 20 total faces in 1 group, just imagine
Or blowing the ogre horn to summon reinforcements
My comments on the build
Do not take barkskin spell! 16 Ac is too small, it is beter to cast slow for example. Barkskin is waste of concetration slot.
Take alert feat instead of spell sniper. As caster you ussually will have better option that cast candicap. Control batlefield is essential to win combant .
I've been toying with a dark spellcaster build, i'm just not a fan of literally all of the druid's offensive spells being mainly concentration. So i've opted for 8 Storm Sorcerer, utility in sorcery points, enough spell slots for thing's you want to do later on as you progress, I would be utilising Lightning bolt, ice storm, blight primarily as the big hitter's, Level 3 fiend warlock - Hex, Hunger of hadar, devil sight, armour of shadows, (yes we're not using eldritch blast) 1 point wizard purely to learn spells from scrolls - Be learning Conjure elemental, animate dead as the main focus of it. Act 2 pick up infernal rapier for the summon, In act 3 the legendary staff attune it to lightning , Staff of Cherished Necromancy for unlimited Blight casts, dual wield feat ofc. Pick up ring in act 3 that summons a mummy. Upcast water elemental to water myridon. 2 Tanky summons, animate dead if you want to as well, plus the ghoul summons from codex book.
Does the symbiotic entity deal 1-4 necro damage for any attack? Melee or magic?
Malee only!
These build videos are all well and nice but I think it’s more valuable to show lower level builds with Act 1-2 gear rather. Honestly, could skip 90% of character creation and not go into detail with spell options that you won’t use. Like for example, we get it.. Don’t use animal friendship.. Don’t need to know why. You make great content tho. Thank you for your time!
So the build videos are geared towards all stages of the game, trying to emphasize the character and NOT the gear because I want people to enjoy the experience. Once you do get the gear then that's awesome, but the build should be able to stand in it's own for the exception of pieces here and there. I do have builds that focus on particular pieces.. But i also want to educate people as to why a choice was made over another. Sure I can skip why, but then you're just playing MY game and I want you to play YOUR game making the decision for yourself whether or not you want to follow my reasoning. Does that make sense?? I feel like too many videos just say exactly what you should be doing and take the imagination away from the player and thus their agency!
@@italianspartacus I appreciate the whys. Without the whys, I find it difficult to learn. Same reason why I always did better with more "formal" language training (why the grammar is as it is) rather than "conversational" methods. I'm a first causes kinda lady, so without the "whys" in the vid I'd be asking anyway. :)
Ive been playing Divinity Orginal Sin 2 with 4 summoners and u can only summon 1 at a time per person. I cant wait to flood the field with summons.
That staff is amazing because people save all the time on halo of spores since it’s a con save 🤷🏾♂️
Did they ever fix the problem with NPCs always reacting negatively to your summons (meaning everyone in town starts running around stupidly screaming)? Because the last time I tried playing a summoner, it always boiled down to me always having to park a huge army OUTSIDE of any place populated with NPCs or it just screwed up the AI horribly.
Yes it's way way better than launch. It's been fixed for awhile, your undead summons don't frighten any npcs anymore anywhere.
Can you please do a wildform build
Dropped barkskin so damn fast.
I would actually go lv9 Druid on this and add Shovel to the summons instead of the Imp that you get from Warlock, just because the big elementals are soooo good, and considering the buffs from aid and hero's feast, they'll be even better.
Shovel is a unique summon that doesn't override other Familars, so it's her AND the Imp. The Raven (Quothe) is arguably the best regular Familiar purely because it can fly around and set others up for things like Sneak Attack, or trigger a Reaction/Opportunity so it doesn't go off on someone important, and it can blind enemies every turn on top of that... but it only has 1HP pre-buffs. The Imp gives you another flier to summon but it has much more HP than Quothe, so it lasts longer.
Personally, I think the value of the Extra Attack is reduced by every summon you have beyond maybe 4-5. Don't get me wrong, it's always good, I just think that you're better off going with better spellcasting. I would go 3 Chain Warlock, 2 Abjuration Wizard, 7 Spruid, so that you can get your level 6 spells and drop things like Fireballs on top of your army without worrying about them.
Of course, then I'd be blaming the Imp for a missing Feat, and would end up with 3 Abjurer/9 Spruid, for another Arcane Recovery charge, or 2 Abjurer/10Spruid for more spore fun, and end up with a completely different build.
The beauty and the pain of BG3 is all the damned ways you can tweak a build and so easily change it completely while remaining viable.
Sporelock best lock!
What's the duration on all of those summons?
Can you also have Scratch/ Cheeky Quazit or do they override?
The fact that Shovel as a summon exists, and is blissfully easy to acquire, tends to invalidate the whole Chain Warlock thing.
What armor and dye did you use for wyll @ 9:30?
I see that it is the druid armor. What dye?
Devil’s sight works that way, maybe somethings wrong with my game but devils sight doesn’t work with the darkness spell for me
Yes for sure. You should have advantage on your attacks in darkness if you have devils sight. The ring that makes you immune to blindness should work also for another character.
Good job as usual. I'm asking which class is better for necromancer between druid and wizard? I've just started a new run with a wizard but it's still possible to change it.
insane guide brother. One question; How did you get all those corpses into your camp?🤔
You can pick up corpses and add them to the inventory. I think it depends on your strength but the smaller creatures (halflings/gnomes/goblins) are pretty easy to pick up.
@@TheScathed Goddamn. I never even thought about this.
@@erko948 To be fair, stuffing a bunch of dead bodies in your bag isn't exactly a normal thought pattern LMAO
@@TheScathed hahahaa yeah right
Bring in the cleric's planar ally too lordy and the ranger's companion +- familiar and Us
Maybe i missed it? Not sure but how did u get the weapon proficiency with the rapier?
Wyll gets it as part of his race bonuses, humans have proficiency in rapiers I believe
personally if i was gonna try this build, id do a slight tweak that prolly messes with a portion of the whole summoning thing, but anyroad, id go fiend warlock with pack of the blade to level 5, as you could get 2 attacks with ur pact weapon, fireball, and a scorching ray that does 4 hits, and then move to 7 of the spore dealio(i always go more for damage than CC)
Is this build strong in the late game? I was told that the summons have no damage and die easily.
They do! But what they really do is exhaust the enemies action economy so you can maximize your own. I didn't talk about this enough in thr video but the AI will prioritize the closest enemy typically and that's usually a summon. This isn't always the case in say honor mode but you cna get a LOT of mileage out of the summons, especially the stuff with undead fortitude that will stay alive for a whole turn even if it takes a ton of damage
I'm trying this out but, I'm starting out as a druid
So warlock doesn't actually add anything to the build but instead slows your spell and class progression?
Is summon greater demon in the game?
just found your channel yesterday and just started this game last week have a question im 100% new to both baldurs and DND all around im want to do a druid/paladin shapeshifter style build but not sure how or if any of that would work
So... what is the best somoner??? Plz
wtf man I follow your guide and take the necrotic touch cantrip as a warlock
Whats shadowheart have next her at 23:08
Could yoy go druid with 2 levels of sorcerer too twin spell a conjure spell?
unfortunately not because it requires an actual target :(
I am commenting so that CZcams likes this video! Also because having a ton of mobs to better abuse action economy and em distract enemies is really quite valuable!
Couldn't you use this build for all 4 people in your team and have an army?
Tbh I found a straight up Spore Druid to be a better summoner, but be warned, summoning an army is absolutely overpowered, 2 spore druids and a cleric in a party to cast Aid can have so many hitpoints on the battlefield on your side that the enemy jusy won't mathmatically be able to deal enough damage to kill you. Couple that with a cleric who has Sanctuary and you literally can't lose most encounters.
I don't understand, is mage hand good or something?
Yup!! You can use it to move objects, open things, use levers, trigger traps. It just doesn't seem so at first but you can do a tonyof fun stuff with it
@@italianspartacus hm interesting, I'll try it my next play through!
So basically you're finally a summoner when the game is over 😂
Game is far from over at 12 bub, and more at lvl 11 :) which happens right around the start of act 3! Got a whole third of the game to go homieeee
@@italianspartacus The point I'm making is there should be a summoner class right off the bat like in Divinity 2. Having to get max level before it comes online sucks.
@varianngaming9403 you get summons at level 3 or even earlier if you include familiar or mage hands which all add actions. Classes start coming online at level 5 for summons, fiend warlocks arguably 3. Undead summons don't stack with the book of thay summons you get in Act 3. You get scratch and shovel in Act 1 but can't have them both out same time and US in Act 2 which isn't same time either, its only one of them and US is best. You can grab a wand for 10 turn summon around hag. Best way for army summons is multiple characters stacking, don't send your minions into hunger of Hadar they will get hurt. Some stuff can see in darkness and undead is immune to poison, including poison cloud.
just like, a list plz, maybe in the description section. Ill still want to watch ur vid, give u a like etc, but then i have a nice list i can reference quickly instead of having to pause at the correct moment every inch of the progression chain. Plz/ty.
it still angers me that they said it was going to be 5th edition which i dont like...but then it isnt 5th edition, it is a hybrid of 5th edition and divinity original sin 2
Who needs friends when you can summon the ultimate squad of doom with The Broken Summoner build! Watch out, enemies, here comes the party bus! 🎉🧙♂️
Youve gotta add im the necronomocon ghouls too
I immediately switched up my character for this type of fun lol Luckily I had all but 1 item to improve the build. Siick video bro. Now on to mass genocide 😂
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That's not a build feature if you don't have access to aid. Also this shit crumbles if at any point you become incapacitated i.e. hold person.
Remember you Can Still Use Scrolls to summon pets so if you didn't want to Use up a Spell slot to summon pets.
You get Bone Chill for free as a Spore Druid. Why take it as a Warlock?
Made a mistake! I say it at the spore druid part hahaha my bad bro!
could you figure out the build and then make the video. kinda annoying to hear "pick this ability" then "actually don't because it's big dumb" a few levels later. would cut down on the rambling too
halo doesn’t have aoe
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This build sucks since it only really works late game
As far as a warlock summoner build this build is great even in the early levels so I'd have to disagree about this build being bad or "sucking"
So a pure warlock only gets to cast one eb a turn? And a warlock.figjter.sorc gets like 15?