Baldur's Gate 3 Warlock Build Guide - Early Game Warlock Builds
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- Baldur's Gate 3 Warlock Build Guide - Early Game Warlock Builds
In this Baldur's Gate 3 Guide, I'm going to be showing you guys 3 Early game Warlock Builds that are very powerful. These builds are only up to level 6 and we will have some late game builds later.
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0:00 - 3 Early Game Warlock Builds for BG3
0:32 - The Fiend Fire Warlock Build
5:06 - Melee Warlock Build
8:40 - Control Warlock Build
12:12 - Final Tips
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Bro, THANKYOU for not only chapters, but summing it up and naming highlights at the start of the chapter of the build and then go into the details. Great format easy to skip one you know you don’t want.
Perfect video from details to pacing to tone.
I was stuck at Moonlight tower first floor fight, that control build single handedly handed me victory. Thank you.
For the melee warlock build, if I'm not mistaken, Drow and Half-Drow get Darkness as a racial ability, which could free up a spell slot or give an extra use of Darkness.
They do at level 5 or 6... on the other hand a human gets shield proficiency if you'd rather be more tanky
@@libramartin Wood Half-Elf gets shield, reach weapons and Stealth profficiency for free, extra movement, Darkvision and Charm/Sleep immunity. Hard to beat.
does anyone know if you get an extra use of darkness with this? I've tried finding information about this online but can't find any information
@@jamesnolan3030 depends what you mean by extra. You get once per long rest from being a Drow, and if you take the spell again from a different source like a spell or incantation, then yes, you have additional separate uses.
@@libramartinhalf drow gets both
Great build guide, please keep them coming.
I was waiting for the Warlock Video.. thanks for this!
Thanks for the guide. I've had trouble getting into the class at all.
In the first build I'm not sure why you take Fiendish Vigour when you get Dark Ones Blessing from the Fiend which gives you extra temporary hps which go up with each warlock level - and they don't stack. Admittedly, you have to kill something to get the Dark Ones Blessing, but that's not a big issue in BG3.
I've found that Githyanki, Human, and Half Elf are pretty good for Melee Warlock. Githyanki start with medium proficiency so you don't need to multiclass or waste a feat for it while Humans and Half Elves start with shield proficiency.
Always great work and great insight. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Loved the video. A lot of in-depth information that will help everyone watching.
Now, I have a Quick Question. What would happen if you took Magic Initiate, Warlock as a Warlock?
Thanks
I've rerolled like 5 times now. I'm excited to finish a play through. Even more excited to play differently, and having a team of monsters next play through based on your builds.
Also any word on toggle for left alt?
I really like a 1 level dip in draconic sorcerer for warlock. It gives you con saving throw proficiency, a little extra hp, a free level 1 spell (I like Tasha's) plus shield and another spell with 2 level 1 spell slots. I never used hex on warlock because by the time you have 2 blasts a turn your spellslots are level 4 and if I get to choose between fireball and hex guess what I pick. But this way I have a use for my bonus action and just more resources in general.
I think the sorcerer dip is stronger with more level, specifically 2 level for the Fiend and 3 for The Great Old One/Archfey. The addition of metamagics to a Warlock is pretty nice, and the latter two subclasses don't really benefit as much from their level 10 subclass feature. However, I think the inverse of Sorcerer 9-10/Warlock 2-3 is the much more potent version of the multiclass for the obvious reasons of far more spell slots at your disposal.
@@xenocide1307 Yeah but you lose a once per short rest 5th level spell slot for a couple once per long rest sorcery points. I prefer the pact slot.
i trust these guides with my life
Personally one of my favorite Warlock builds is known in 5E as a Hexknight, Paladin/Warlock multiclass. A Paladin's divine smite can be used using the warlocks spell slots and those slots come back on a short rest. There are some spells missing from BG3 that are very good with a Hexknight but with what Larian has given us its still pretty good.
pst he did something like that in yesterdays vid for paladins
pst I don't watch every video he puts out@@TrueHavoc13
There's some issues where the Divine Smites will use up Paladin slots before using Warlock slots. Pal/Sorc has been preferred so far for the higher level slots for Smites and things like Shield, which are absent from Pallocks without Hexblade.
It's unfortunate that people say Hexblade is in BG3 just because of +cha on Blade Pact.
@@anniedarkheart5224 this has actually been fixed, you are now able to use any spell slot you have in any order, you don't have to use your paladin levels first
honestly I was planning on having my first character be a a pure warlock however ended up respecing into this multiclass instead taking 2 levels. This multiclass honestly does so much if you're going blade warlock, it gives you proficiency in heavy armor, shields, con saves and smites which fixed the issues I was having which was getting hit too much, losing concentration (two things you would usually need to feats to fix) and not doing enough damage which just made my charcter feel real shitty to play. really feels like straight warlock was made to be played more as a ranged caster with eldritch blast.
Just gave the melee warlock with darkness a go. I find it's good if you're solo or building everyone around darkness, but otherwise it's too disruptive to the rest of the party.
Im just about to respec out of the melee build, it requires too much setup that can be “countered” by people walking oit of the darkness
But I should say that BG3 is my first experience with DnD
İ use darkness as a safe space. My wounded allies stays in corner of it and when their turn get out, shoot and get in
@@Just_G4its nice to hide in it and shoot eldritch blasts and not get attacked. or throw potions when needed
He might not like multiclassing into it, but a 2-3 level dip is awesome. You can get an invisible flying scout, a cantrip that can be boosted by ability score and another wacky perk, plus 2 spell slots that can be used by your other classes.
I dipped rogue for the free disengage, invaluable for a zappy warlock.
The third one is closest to how I've been playing my warlock! I didn't know what i was doing at all. im glad i was patient and figured out a lot of mechanics on my own before looking up other people's class guides. Now i can reclass and smooth out some of the edges of my early game noobness
Great guide! Can you make also an advanced guide on darkness melee build how to progress and improve further with other classes?
I have 2 story going on right now, one solo and one coop. In my solo run im playing a Warlock and repeling blast has been so usefull! pushing enemy off a ledge can really change a battle. In my coop im a bard (we dont use Astarion so we needed someone to disarm trapt and get skills) and im thinking a lot about taking 2 lvl of Warlock just because i could do way more in a fight (or picking magic initiate :Warlock feat, still debating what is best) Anyway, Great video!
in my co op playthrough i've gone few levels bard and few warlock so far, debating going 8 warlock or 8 bard with the other at 4 just to get all 3 feats/asi
I'm also the skill/utility monkey of my co-op campaign right now, and I've got Warlock 2/Bard rest of the levels. To be fair, I think Sorcerer might be equally strong, and both dips really want 3 levels to be excellent, taking away from the rather decent Bard level 10. But overall, I think they both add enough to Bard to warrant considering to make up for the mediocre last two levels. Lore Bard/Tome Lock 3 has some insane options at their disposal for example (but Tomelock 5 also steps that up to a degree).
Thanks for the video
Devils sight does give sight in dark places as well as the darkness spelk
That is a brilliant melee warlock build
Thanks!
For your psuedo-Hexblade build, I highly recommend Drow or Half-Drow for Faerie Fire and Darkness once a day. You can still take Darkness as a learned spell, but you’ll have an extra use.
Two days of Warlock info from Cas. The wait for Sept 6 grows more difficult lol
The main multiclassing I'm considering for the warlock on my first run is to take the first level in Paladin for the armor proficiency 🤔
Was looking into this vid, because my Lv.8 Paladin gets multiclassed now and decided it will be Warlock
Warlock is so different compared to the other spellcaster
@fextralife it is fascinating to hear your opinion that warlocks are not a good multi class choice. In table top 5th edition, players consider warlocks to be very front loaded and they are the most popular multi class class
I don't think he meant that. I think he's just waiting the Sorcerer video to talk about this. Beucase most Sorcerer + Warlock builds you get more Sorcerer levels than Warlock levels. So it's more apropriated in Sorcerer video, because it is really more a Sorcerer than a Warlock.
Adding 4 levels of Sorcerer to any Warlock build (for a feat but also spell slots / sorcery points) can really take a Warlock to the next level. You get (4) 1st level and (3) 2nd level sorcerer spell slots to cast your lower level spells without wasting your upleveled pact magic slots (so things like Hex which have no benefit from being upcast in BG3). Plus, you can convert spell slots to sorcerey points for metamagic. Or starting with 1st level fighter then taking warlock to 5 (for CON saves, armor proficiency and a fighting style) will really buff your Pact of the Blade melee warlock.
Warlock is one of the best multiclasses, even more so in this game. The extra attack you get at level 5 Warlock from Pact of the Blade STACKS with extra attack given by other classes, meaning that you will be able to attack up to 3 times each turn (Normally reserved to Fighter at 11, but you can do this from 10 with the multiclass). Warlock 5 and Paladin 7 is probably the best option, considering both scale with Charisma. Oathbreaker's Aura of Hate is essentially the same as Warlocks level 12 Eldritch Invocation Lifedrinker, giving up to +5 damage based on Charisma modifier. Aura of Warding is an option as well for the half damage to all spell damage. Aura of Protection at level 7 is just amazing. Divine Smite, Hex for all the extra hits. Eldritch Blast for ranged.
@@rammune7260 I would expect that to get patched at some point. Extra attack is not supposed to stack
I do suggest some Multiclassing combos in the Warlock Class Guide, and yes you can Multiclass them. Paladin is a heck of a good pairing for instance. However, I just showcased that build in the Paladin Builds video, and didn't want to do that again, and I think as a new player it might be easy to mess up Multiclassing as a Warlock, so I didn't show them here. Definitely will in late game guides. Also, I kind of wanted to show the Spells of the Warlock a bit, and was easier to do that by focusing on different aspects of the Warlock.
great guide, while I was playing something similar to a fire warlcok, your control warlock build is very interseting I might try just that at lvl 8... looks like a good place to respec
Thanks to this guide, my Warlock is now as powerful as my need for coffee in the morning. 😄
I love control Warlock because it makes it easy for me to funnel baddies into Lae'zels blender
Lae'zel's blender omg. I get a kick out of the colorful way D&D players describe things
good job!
The Golden Wyrmling Staff from the Goblin sanctum vendor near priestess Gut should be mandatory equipment for the Pyro Warlock build early. It adds the Fire Bolt cantrip to your build.
Thematic-wise, probably makes sense but in terms of practicality, Eldritch Blast just makes more sense, especially if you picked up Agonizing Blast and/or Repelling Blast.
@@Than211 EB is certainly going to be your bread and butter, but fire is just way too useful to not have in your tool kit. It ignites surfaces & explosives, removes webs, etc. But the main reason is vs high resistant targets, you have an unresistable option once your two spell slots are consumed. (Which is going to be every fight).
@@sofaking4779 what do u mean by "high resistant targets, you have unresistable option" ? i dont understand which targets can be resistant to eldritch blast, and how fire bolt can be unresistable option...
@@mickaelcohen7775 Based on the guide you are picking "Elemental Adept - Fire" as a feat. This bypasses resistance checks. EB is damage type "Force" which is not an elemental damage type. EB is subject to AC hit/miss and damage mitigation. So you can and will have misses and 0 damage rolls with EB. This won't happen with fire. (or whatever Element you select)
I can't remember what part of Act 1 I was in but I can recall one instance where I was fighting something and it was immune to Force damage. I found out when I was trying to shove it with my tadpole power and it just... did nothing lol
Questions: Using Hex into dexterity(enemy) then eldrich blast will negate armor?
What about Hellish Rebuque, is it worth it? With it you can attack on the enemy's turn, dos it scale each level?
Scorching ray is not available at lvl 3 for me. But I heard shatter is a great offensive spell too.
Warlocks are one of the best 2-3 level splash classes in the game. If we ever get a subclass expansion with Hexblade, it's by far the single best multi class tool.
When creating these what do we do with the Stat points? anything adjusted in Charisma?
Amazing guide. I'm struggling with Wizard, Cleric and Barbarian. So I'm looking forward to those as well. : )
Thx fex
Reroll 1s on Scorching Ray is nice, but Fireball has 8d6, so plenty of potential 1s to be rolled. Better than raising CHA? tough call as with all feats
who would y'all reccomend pairing a melee warlock with in the party?
Not having Hex on the first build baffles me as you will be spamming Eldritch Blast given so few spell slots.
Warlock is a great class to dip into if you start with other classes, but yea if you start as an Warlock it has less incentive for you to dip into other classes. A Warlock might consider getting 2 levels of Fighter for Action Surge, but that's a matter of preference.
i've seen a spell blade build with the warlock and multi classing with a fighter. It would be my first or a CRPG game.
My build is a Spellblade Oath of the Blade Warlock/Fighter. You have multiple ways to build it. I'm going 3 levels in Fighter to get Battlemaster subclass and level 5 spells, but you can go 4 levels in Fighter to get your last feat and stay at level 4 spells. All depends on your play style.
Warlock not being a good class to multiclass with is bonkers.
If you're wanting to be the best eldritch blast/scorching ray machine known to man, I recommend taking 3 levels of sorcerer (any sub class but I like tempest for the extra movement personally) to get quickened spell and just go nuts with it. Turn 1, cast hex on the enemy and hit them with a cast of eldritch blast. Turn two, use quickened spell to cast scorching ray with your highest level spell slot as a bonus action (up to 6 beams with a level 5 spell slot and each one procs hex) and then do it again with your action. You can grab a 4th level in sorcerer with the build if you really want the extra feat, but I think it's worth missing that to hit 9 levels of warlock and get access to 5th level spell slots.
I also recommend taking sorcerer as your starting class to get proficiency in constitution saves so you don't have to keep wasting spell slots on hex cause you missed the save for concentration.
If you start fighter you can be a spellblade with heavy armor
@@bordapatrol4930 I chose to forgo that to start as a Warlock, but will probably respec soon to do that
If you want a familiar but also want pact of the blade find shovel and learn the spell as gale then talk to them as your warlock and theyll allow you to summon them
Are we going to need to wait for the max level builds to get the text based breakdowns that are usually linked to on the main website? I know these don’t go very high, but I like being able to just bookmark the page and pull it up as I go 😅
This first Fiend build is basically my tabletop 5e Warlock build ratcheted up to 11
You can also get a pair of gloves that give you a 4 charge scorching ray. It’s op
I really need a sorcerer build, late game. I'm in the city of Baldurs Gate and feel like I haven't put together my Sorc that well.
I need an ice sorcerer build meant to freeze, alter battlefield, maybe slow enemies down... etc
6:21 what about sentinel? So an important enemy doesnt leave darkness
What background should I take if i am using the Fiend fire build?
I found a weapon in the under dark . Bought off a merchant by the shrooms. Call The Baneful. Gives a bunch of bonuses to bound weapon. Shit is dope.
Warlocks are a fund class for me, and since it was my first ever D&D class I chose it to be my first ever BG3 class as well, just because, I dont' know. though since Druids and Bards have become favored classes in D&D and Clerics are pretty amazing in this game.
as for how I playe dmy Warlock, it was a mix of your first build at first, using fire spells (scorching ray was a go to) and relying on Hex and invocations that helped my eldrict blast like Maddening Hex & agonizing blast, whouth a few of those could work with scorchign ray which was a go to spell early on, then I'd rely on eldrict blast once out of Pact slots. SInce my buddy had a shadow sorcerer who culd cast darkness with sorcery points and see in it/through it, I pick up devil's sight invocation and used that to where he started casting it on one of the object I carried like my weappon or shield, and he'd follow me with misty step around and we'd cast range spells from within that darkness, and since he concentrated on darkness I would concentrate on hex or another AOE spell. Later in teh game, I started to use more AOE spells and began swaping in things like hunger of hadar and sickening radiance, and was a build more like your 3rd one. Great old One is a great build, and I do also light archfey for the charm abilities.
ONe thign I disagree with you is the false life invocation. I won't chosse it, and I would ONLY if you could replace it later on, but I don't think you can. It become pointless pretty early, and Devil's sight does give you darkvision in both magical and non-magical darkness so ifyou chose a human for the extra skill, or another class without darkvision, this fixes it fairly early. Also, you can see in Darkness and dark spells like Hunger of Hadar. Again, this is a disagreement, and if I am wrong and you can swap invocations, as youc an in D&D, then it may be worth to pick up early on,and then replacw tih either Devil's sight once you have darkness or maybe Repeling blast or somethign else.
Do enjoy your build guides. Never thought to multi-class Warlock and bard, but in BG3 it makes perfect sense since an extra short rest is game changing as I discovered using Lae'zel (fighter" and Wyll (warlock & fighter) in my party, as long with Shadowheart who regains her channel divinity avility on short rest. That's a good party for a Bard, BTW. Bard, Fighter, Warlock & Cleric.
Unless they changed it since release, Armor of Agathys wears off when you lose the temporary HP, not until long rest like the description says. I took this on my warlock at creation, used it once, then ditched it at first level up. The temp HP did save my life, but the spell wore off and didn't damage enemies anymore.
It scales pretty well into the late game to be honest. It just says that it lasts until lost rest to distinguish it as a spell that is not turn-dependent.
I was looking for a new pure offensive caster build for my now level 6 warlock and realized I already made this same damn build
Do the pack of the tome spells upcast like the other spells when you lvl up?
Great stuff! Can’t wait for the ps5 release
Can someone please update me on Volo's Eye for +1 Cha -1 Int... I heard you can't pick pockets him anymore, and if you do the surgery it only gives you the ability to see invisible enemies (no +1 to Cha)... Is Auntie Ethels Hair the only way to get +1 Cha early game???
Early game, taking your first level in sorcerer (storm is best here) than going to level 11 with warlock gives you 2 level 1 spell slots for shield and constitution save proficiency.
When you Bind your weapon as a Warlock, and its considered magical after, do you now get the Charisma modifier added to it? I know pact weapon does that, but some weapons have great skills and I would like to know if Binding a weapon still gives me the charisma damage modifier.
it does, that's why there is an ability to bind weapons.
Yes, binding a weapon let’s you have proficiency with that weapon and also use your charisma modifier for its attack rolls
It's considered a Charisma weapon by then, meaning that it will scale with Charisma. Both for rolling hits and for damage.
@@hectamus_ Thank you
Hope you can create a more comprehensive guide or at least update the wiki to post full launch content. A lot of steps were skipped in creating the build per level 😢
Spores Druid is good up to level 6. Then, most people want to respec. I’d recommend a fighter multiclass after 1 more level of Druid. Fighter should have 5 levels.
I HAD PREACHED the gospel of Polearm Master for Spores Druid, but it currently DOES NOT proc with Symbiotic Entity’s d6 necrotic damage on melee hit; SE will proc with ranged damaged from bows.
BG3 doesn't seem to have implemented Warlock multiclassing right which kinda kills Sorlock
I like doing 2 warlock pact of the blade into bard as a frontline fighter to help support your tank, bard can either have ridiculous ac and a 3rd attack or you can cast haste with lore bard, and you have no weaknesses because you always have eldritch blast to fall back on
Do you have a link to this bard/ warlock build?
@@yazan80 no, but it's simple. Start half elf wood elf background, 17 charisma 14 dex 15 con 10 int and wis, go 2 warlock fiend, pick friends and eldritch blast, at level 2 pick repelling blast and agonizing blast, spells are the armor of agathys and hex. 3rd level and beyond go bard, if you want haste go lore bard and if you want ac go swords bard, pick duelist fighting style, boom you've got medium armor, +2 dex, shield, +1 from ac, access to shield spell (another +5), and you can pick up the defensive duelist feat for another +prof bonus to ac and use your defensive flourish for more ac.
@@asdf_asdf948 isnt 3 bard/9 warlock better than the other way around? Not sure what to get on Bard beyond level 3.
@@yazan80 you need 10 bard to get haste, if you have a sorcerer for that then yeah 3warlock/9 bard is better
@@asdf_asdf948 ah ty!
Not sure where to ask, but I want to make a necromancer/fighter class. Kind of like a little dollar store vampire count from warhammer. Would I take eldritch knight and wizard or would it be better to take champ or battlemaster for that? Or would a different combat class make more sense?
Druid circle of the spores might be your best bet actually. Take your first level in war cleric for heavy armour and martial weapons, plus some bonus action weapon attacks, then do the rest as spores druid. You'll be a melee necromancer since spores druid summons zombies
@@adc1222 never would have thought of that, thanks!
I got a level 5 fiend warlock now and I don't have the second target option for eldritch blast
I'm liking 2 levels in lock and the rest in lore bard.... Just so I get a nice powerful cantrip nuke.
You made an error on the second build. You said Devil Sight only works in Darkness, not dark places. I can confirm using a Dragonborn, after taking Devil Sight, I have 24m Darkvision as well.
Part 2 of asking for the sorcerer complete guide video next.
Can't you cast darkness on yourself? So it follows your character?
at lvl 5 which eldrich invocation are you picking??
Is necrotic warlock not a good build? I have seen one video about it, but the comments said there is a lot of misinformation in the video. I have never played BG so I am asking as a novice.
I hope they bring in notable D&D fan builds such as Bloodhunter, later with updates.
I'm pretty sure devil's sight is both dark places and the spell... According to the text at least.
Im not sure if its intended, i have a -1 penalty against. Im not sure if im wording this properly (early), its not acting as a statistic to the actual rolls as much as, an encumbrance on my character. Ill explain:
My party is (was) set for RP, an attempt to kill high level creatures failed to the point where i needed to respec and cast a different party. This was over 20 to 30 failures (adjusting spells, miss clicks, yadda). The character with the penalty landed TWO hits the entire time. The second to last attempt, and the last attempt, to which i defeated the enemies (opened with Eldritch Blast). The course of the saves and final win the character was a meat bag absorbing shots.
Again, not sure if its to be a statistic or an aura of the character.
As for this video, im switching my main to pact of chain (blade). In hopes i can trap targets in DARKNESS with Wyll (Repel/Grasp of Hadar)
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3 levels of warlock, rest sorcerer. Sorlock. incredibly effective
@@orestisp You can do a more even spread in Paladin - Warlock since you can get 3 main hand attacks with 5 levels in both(may be Larian homebrew, may be a bug). Paladin 5 > Warlock 7 gets you level 4 spell slots, so you can drop level 4 smites on enemies.
i debated 2 lvls of fighter, then 2 warlock, rest sorc, but prob too spread out@@orestisp
I Heard a thing: If you dip one level Wizard, you can learn spells from any level. That would be sick for a Warlocks as far as spell diversity.
Yes in a way but only from scrolls. Wizards are the only spell casters than can learn spells from scrolls. A Warlock/Wizard combo solves the biggest weakness of the Warlock which is lack of spell diversity. Still, there are A LOT of scrolls in the game so every time you find one, give them to your Warlock11/Wizard 1 to learn or in my case, my Swords Bard 3/Thief Rogue 3/Blade Warlock 5/Evocation Wizard 1. 🙂And no, I don't care about lack of feats, additional ability scores or high level spells, that's what cheat mods are for.
But aren't the spells you learn from scrolls then capped to your Wizard level?
@@Robula No, scrolls are capped to your character level so a 1 level Wizard dip can learn 6th level spells. I expected that exploit to be patched eventually but even with the latest patch 1, it hasn’t been so maybe it’s intentional. The one issue is that the spells are saved against your INT but that can be worked around with items that boost it.
@@Robula It also can change your spell casting Stat to intelligence. Cantrips that were using Charisma or Wisdom before might be effected.
Would you please add a mid game build for the fiend warlock
I'm currently Warlock 10 in my playthrough and I'm a little bit disappointed by the experience. The issue isn't really the class itself, in a vacuum it's very interesting and fun to play, but the amount of items allowing other classes to emulate some of the warlock's strongest features.
For example, there's a ring or amulet which allows you to add your spellcasting modifier to the elemental damage of your cantrip, which means that a sorcerer can suddenly have offensive cantrips almost as powerful as the eldritch blast, maybe even more so when you factor in the feat allowing elemental cantrips to bypass elemental resistance and never roll 1.
I also see a lot of questionable multiclassing options flying around, like Warlock 2/Sorcerer 10. Why not go Sorcerer 12 instead, attain the 6th level spells, get one more ASI and take the feat giving you Warlock cantrips and 1st level spells?
You cant talk to animals this way and no short rest resets I believe
@@AB-ho1cr Talking to animals is easy to achieve through the use of a potion lasting until the next long rest.
how about a necrolock? perhaps one with taming too?
So if I were a Paladin/Warlock using a pact weapon which rolls with Charisma could I ignore strength as a stat? And it won't hamper my damage on melee attacks?
late reply here but yes you can dump Strength.
My favorite multi-class in BG3 so far is a Fiend Warlock/Barbarian. With the changes in BG3 adding to what is an otherwise mediocre 5e multiclass at best. With Armor of Agathys lasting until long rest, and the additional damage from rage not requiring strength, you can get a powerful barbarian that can rush in with a bunch of temp HP that retaliates when enemies strike you. Since the rage reduces incoming damage and the retaliation damage from AoA lasting until your temp HP is depleted, you can dish out a lot of damage by rushing melee combatants.
Even when your AoA is depleted, a raging barbarian can make great use of the replenishing temp HP from the fiend warlocks level 1 ability.
Hex also works with melee attacks if you're out of rages, and you can pick up frenzy barbarian for an additional hit as a bonus action, or get resistance from more damage types with a wildheart barbarian to make the AoA potentially last longer. You aquire extra attack from Warlock Pact of the Blade at level 5 anyway etc. As an added bonus Fiend Warlock will give you Fire Shield when you aquire 5th level spells on your Warlock. 1-3 Levels barbarian depending on preference, rest warlock. Enjoy, i am.
A barb caster huh? "I unga, therefor I bunga"
I had never thought of this. But you're dead right. Fiendlock-Barb would be flippin' *SWEET*
I mean, I hadn't thought of it b/c it doesn't work in Tabletop. But the damage reduction alone seems like it'd be worth the barb-dip if you're going "Basically Hexblade".
I've also been running this on Karlach in my party and it's fucking sick lmao. She and my custom rogue/ranger are a crazy duo
I thought about Barb 2/Warlock 3 for the tabletop for a one shot with similar spell choices. Now I can make it in this game. Half orc would be fitting for that endurance feature. Wonder about wild Magic barb and warlock for flavor choice
@@KnicKnac Wild Magic barb would work better with Rogue/Thief in the game, as you can a second bonus action, which could allow you to activate the magic effect twice, or use the magic effect + bonus action attack from great weapon/offhand weapon
I’m so torn between straight warlock and Palladian/Warlock
So if ur a warlock .and u grab sorc 2 warlock 10 sorc u still only havw 2 spell slots? The sorc doesn't get its own spell slots ?
I'm waiting for the Sorcerer + Warlock
Idem
Unfortunately the combo doesn't work as well since meta magic costs more in bg3 than regular dnd 5e.
@slaik3088 Whilst that is true, one other important difference is that you can stack sorcerer points higher than your sorcerer level, so the combo can still be effective in that regard.
The other part of sorlock that sucks is you can't use your warlock spells with your warlock slots if you have higher level sorc slots, and you can't burn warlock slots for sorcery points while you have sorcerer slots available. Basically all the synergy on tabletop sorlock is stripped
Yeah this is what I've been looking for as well. Was actually a bit bummed to hear they weren't doing any multiclassing with Warlock.
Does Fiendish Vigour really stack with Dark Ones Blessing? AS I recall you can only have one source of temporary hitpoints.
It does not, and you're correct its one or the other
that third build is the entire reason I play druid, just to mess with the battlefield constantly
*I’m waiting for SORCERER + FIGHTER video please.* 🙏🏽
Anyone have an idea of the spells he took for The Old One?
Can't wait for the Druid / Bard guides 🐺🦖🪕🎻
I had previously been telling people that Archfey makes the best blade pact warlock because of greater invisibility. Now that I've actually used it and seen the idiotic way it's been implemented in this game, I retract my previous advice.
I've got to figure out how to mod so I can fix that damn spell.
Race? Background? Abilities?
I noticed the Warlock builds on the site are still showing the EA versions.
im going 5 warlock(pact of blade), 3 fighter(battlemaster), 2 paladin, 2 druid(circle of spores). warlock 5 gives me extra attack. fighter 3 gives me action surge and reposte. 2 paladin for smites. 2 druid for extra spell slots for smites and 1d6 necrotic damage on attacks. On a side note I cant believe the Warlocks Hex spell isnt mentioned in either of the recent warlock videos. Hex + Scorching ray is insane damage and hex only uses a spell slot once per long rest.
I would never multiclass out of all ASI.
@@trolleurdurden5534 maybe in 5e, but in bg3 there are other ways to get max CHA
@@rogueduelist3137 ways as in plural? I'm curious to hear about one of them.
@@trolleurdurden5534 probably the first opportunity is the hag. wont go into spoilers.
Whats the outro music?
I don't understand why I don't have the blue spell slot on my warlock can someone help me pls ?
my imp spell always stayed lvl 1 i dont udnerstand why
Resilient: constitution or War caster?
The deepened pact for my imp only allows him to attack twice in the very first round of a battle and that’s it. I have to summon another imp for it to work again and then it only works on the first round of a fight again. It does NOT attack twice every turn. Does anyone know if this is intended or a bug?
late reply here but this was fixed in Patch 1 couple days ago. Imp swings for the fences now twice every turn.
@@ckirk7317 I noticed in the patch notes. I’m very happy for my imp lol
@@icedcoffeegrigus I went Pact of Chains just because I love Imps and Quasits so much but I ended up finding a Permanent Summon Quasit ability from a certain part in the game. My Warlock now has a permanent ability added to his spells called (Summon Cheaky Quasit)! It even has a name, you can talk to and interact with it! I'm hoping it ends up having a quest associated with it too. It's really cool that it has it's own personality. Anyways, it made it to where Pact of the Chain was less useful to me since I get a permanent Quasit for free now. It doesn't get the two attacks though...but since I like it so much I am considering speccing out of Pact of the Chain for something different. Didn't mean to get so long winded here but thought I would share its really cool. If you are interested in having this too just look up "Shovel", as that's it's name...kinda lol.
Warlocks do lend themselves pretty well to multiclassing. Warlock Bard is very good, so is Warlock Sorcerer and Fighter (triple multiclass is a thing and this particular one is busted)
I wanna do paladin warlock personally and make an hybrid off tank, dmg dealer and cc/buffer(with refreshable spells for divine smite). Pairing it with some kind of barbarian while the paladin(ancient) holds spear and sentinel
They're great if you are focusing on the not-warlock class, since they are very front loaded in features. But if you want to be primarily warlock, they don't gain much from a couple levels in another class and lose much in their hampered spell progression.
Also BG3 is bugged in how spell slots are used, which can make it worse if you pair it with a levelled caster.
@@YourCrazyDolphin 9 Warlock 3 Bard is a popular pairing and quite strong. At 9 Warlock you get mist of your invocations and 3 levels of bard and picking the right subclass for your build is really strong. Pact of tome and college of lore go well together, pact of blade and college of valor/swords go really well together. Pact of Chains goes well with college of lore as well, tho I prefer to take college of valor for proficiencies. 9 Warlock 3 Bard grants you a lot of damage while also having a lot of utility, you can keep reviving people the way warlock spell slots work and you can even take a short rest mid battle by using the bard song. You can basically resurrect people multiple times during battle while having A LOT of damage from Eldritch blast plus some high level spells you can save for big dmg
@@chicolopes1928 Note that this is after Warlock has already upgraded their spell slots all the way, just missing the 3rd slot same as Fextra recommended in their overview video. Whereas this one is just levels 1-6.
@@chicolopes1928 Using Song of Rest works mid battle? Totally missed that... thanks for the info.