BEST HONOR MODE Dark Knight (Paladin/Cleric) Build in Baldur's Gate 3
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
- Combining Warlock and Paladin has always been a great combo, but in Honor Mode, things are different! In this video, we talk about my THE BEST Dark Knight (Paladin/Cleric) Build in Baldur's Gate 3 by bringing Cleric and Warlock together with Paladin for a great class! This will combine the Pact of the Blade Warlock, the War Domain Cleric, and Vengeance Paladin!
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9:18 Dark Knight Early Level Build
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To clarify, enemies can still disarm your pact weapon. Pact weapon says you cannot drop it, which you as a character cannot drop the weapon. But enemies using disarming attacks can force you to drop the weapon.
This man is smarter than I!! Appreciate it brother, sorry for the fuck up
I learned that the hard way with the stupid whelpings by grymforge.
@@italianspartacus all good brother! I was disappointed to find out the hard way haha
I also found this out the hard way 😅
This happened to me yesterday I was so confused 😂
Love this variation of the Lockadin, always felt like there was something you could do with War Priest and Paladin but couldn't figure out exactly what. Great video, man.
OK you earned the sub. I've been using your builds as a baseline for testing different classes and builds in my second playthrough and you keep giving more and more fun options to try. Keep doing what you are doing, its great content.
Also subbed for that reason. I kinda have a thing where if I realize I have watched multiple videos from and creator and I have enjoyed them, I check and make sure I’m subscribed as they deserve at least that from me for their time and effort. It’s a great way to make sure that I’m doing my part to help the channel succeed if I want to keep consuming that creator’s content.
I was literally searching for a Paladin / Cleric build! Thanks mate keep up the good videos
You keep making great videos. You have made my me and my friends play through easier to understand and we feel confident making our own builds now thanks to you
Just finished act 2 and your videos have helped so much. My son and a buddy at work are struggling a bit I think so urged them to watch some of your stuff. Top notch content sir, keep it up
Just try not to Durge them
Keep the videos coming!!! Love listening to your builds while at the gym!
Love your content! Thank you for everything you do
You are so welcome!
You're videos are a curse and a blessing at the same time. I love all of them but I can't decide what to play! 😂
your videos are the next level. thank you
Dr. Crusher's Ring: +5 to medicine checks, might put you under the effect of Otto's irresistible dance
This is one of my faves from you. I'd love a dex based tank build from you.
you are making great content about BG3 and cool builds of course. keep up the good work! 😊 I never could get into paladin, dont know why. tried it 2 times, I never had fun with paladin builds. maybe your build can change that. greetings from austria.
Really appreciate the sheer volume of how much content you put out and I love how in depth you go into each build! Hope you keep crushing it
Thanks for the video
Love the content man keep it up. I would not have made it this far without you in tactician mode. Im on the orin fight currently struggling... 😅😅😢
I’m going to finish Honor Mode one day. For now, I will just be content with your awesome content ❤
Hahahahaha thanks man
Also do remember that dumping Int is probably the best option, especially in act one when you can get the headband of intellect. Makes it so you can dump possibly 3 stats and only have to deal with the effects of dumping 2. Also works well with any build that does a 1 lvl wizard dip. Makes offensive options viable, as well as more spell's prepared available.
I love the videos man! I've been doing a similar more thematic build. It's a dark knight of elistraee (drow ofcourse). War domain cleric and old one warlock. Kind-of stuck on the exact spread right now, but I'll figure it out!
Anyway, I'm also going dark urge. So basically, start off as a warlock who doesn't know who his patron is, he just knows he's getting the power from a patron and hears them talk to him in these dark urges.
Gets to the underdark and begins worshipping Elistraee in hopes that the urges go away. Mainly uses the singing sword, spirit guardians, and the ice shield that the warlock gets. Arms of Hadar is a cool AOE on self, so I use that too.
And like you said, the war cleric gets that sweet second attack, so I utilize that aswell!
I'm only playing on balanced as I don't have the time or patience for higher levels, but I LOVE this game!
Would definitely love to see your take on Light cleric. Maybe with ways to maximize not only radiant but also fire damage.
There's a helm you can find in Act 1 (on top of the monastery) that deals radiant damage to enemies that miss you. Provided they fail a Dex save. I used it alongside the Luminous Armor. Which creates "Luminous Orbs" when dealing radiant damage. Best part was as long as the enemies kept missing, they would activate the helms ability which would cause the armor's ability to activate.
Love your style dude. It makes me want to do more than just like/sub.
Thanks so much dude!!
It’s my first time attempting honour mode 😭 I am not having a good time rn but this has been incredibly useful so far !
Great video. Curious what your party setup is when using this?
Saw paladin and knew I had to watch
I am sick and had an math exam for engineering today, the video is the best thing possible right now
Bro I am literally in the same boat lmao. Just passed international public law exam and immediately feel sick. Need to chill and recover... Finally.
Same 😭 golang exam
Hope you all feel better dudes! No better way than to spend that time in bg3
Im recently in the middle of a honour mode playthrough with 5 Battlemaster/ 7 Draconic Sorc. Its a very tanky sort of battlemage build with armor of agathys, maneuvers and extra attack/quickened spells. Its definitely not the most min maxed build but its so much fun
Awesome build guide man. How did you get that Djin guy with 173 health to join your party?
I did appreciate the 'upfronting' here. so have a comment and a like - been subbed for years ;)
You TRICKED ME! hahahah
Interesting. I haven’t tried Honor mode yet but I’m tempted to try this out. I think imma go Half Orc since it comes with Savage Attacker and the Endurance feat. Kinda makes up for the fact this build only gets one. Lol wish me luck 😅
What an awesome build/video! What build are you running with Shadowheart that she has that summon?
12 lvls into light cleric! :)
Hey man, love the build! Just wanted to ask, though, in case I'm missing something.
The Everburn greatsword is only a fire greatsword, so you're not getting the magical +1 bonus to attack/damage that you'd get for "dipping" a +1 weapon in a candle.
Is there something special about Everburn that pushes it ahead of a regular +1 Greatsword/axe?
Big ups iSpart
I would like to see you make a 4 class multiclass build. just because I think that would be neat.
The only ones I can think of are:
3 thief rogue / 5 gloom stalker ranger / 2 fighter / 2 barbarian - burst melee physical damage
2 tempest cleric / 2 fighter / 1 wizard / 7 storm sorcerer - electric + cold Spellcaster with extra action / twin spell and ability to learn any scrolls
love to see a caricature build with triple class
Hope you don’t mind the unrelated question, love your videos. Do you think this multi class could work; 6 swordsbard, 4 rogue for extra bonus action, and 2 fighter for action surge. Then dual wielding deva’s mace with the dual wielder feat, so if I calculated correctly, that’s 2 attacks / action + 1 attack each for the 2 bonus actions. Each doing like 10-44 damage most of which is radiant. Or am I just overthinking and a Bardadin dual wielding deva’s mace would just be better?
I did this build on my current honor mode run but with an archer. It’s good for that. Probably would be good for melee as well. Just respec later to have fighter lead for heavy armor proficiency
I’m playing a war cleric/swords bard/vengeance paladin right now and absolutely destroying everything.
That intro!!!
I'd love some "full class" builds. I keep hesitating on any build that involves all of these dips into other classes. Might just be me, but if you could do a build for a full sorcerer or full fighter. or maybe a party with 4 none multilcass? love the videos
12 Battlemaster (fighter) is a combat god. Riposte, Disarm, Trip, and Feinting attack are the best ones, I think.
If you want higher AC, go with the Protection (+1 when in armor) or if you want damage, go with either 2H weapon or 2 weapon fighting.
Strength and Con, with maybe a 12 to 14 Dex just for initiative.
Love this guid and so quick to the point 😂
I’ve been using the spellthief bow to get my spells back when I got em with hold person. What do you think?
Can I still get aura of hate if I oathbreak early? Or are the skills based on level? Because I'm trying to play the evil rout while joining Minthara and I really don't want to proceed any further if getting the absolute mark breaks my oath in the proccess
Hex can pretty reliably replace Hunter's mark imo, and you can build around divine smite/thunderous which can be buffed by spellmight gloves and boots of arcane bolstering which would add a boost +arcane synergy +arcane bolstering, you can also proc the boots off of the level 1 expenditious retreat which is concentration but you can always use that for the bonus dash to get charge then throw up a hex and smash away those items also stack with diadem of arcane synergy which can lead to a riduclous thunderous smite
also theres another weapon that adds charisma modifier if you use actor feat crimson mischief and Harmonic dueller actor gives advantage on performance checks and harmonic dueller reads as You make a DC 15 Performance check, success granting all your melee weapon attacks additional damage equal to your Charisma Modifier (minimum 1 additional damage). you would need to run duel weilder to pull that off though that' combo is also cracked with Bhaalist armor but not everyone is doing an evil playthrough
great build been looking for a Paladin cleric mix for Minthara that compliments the Oathbreaker build i'm going to run after Monk and this is perfectt was just throwing my two cents in
You mentioned an interesting Paladin ability that grants Advantage on the next attack...
That got me thinking about the viability of a Paladin/Rogue (thief) build that uses that to gain Backstab and can you also do a Smite on that?
It's in my inquisitor build!!
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I haven't seen that one, I will give it a look!
I'm sure this has been said, but mirror image increases your AC by 9, 3 for each mirror. However, each time an enemy misses you, a mirror disappears, and your AC goes back down by 3.
Very powerful in a short burst.
This is amazing. I can't wait to use this for my first honor run. Still running through my first tactical run as pure thief, not changing any ally classes unless I start to have trouble. So far so good!
I hope they add transmogs in BG3, I'd like to maintain my stats and buffs while wearing the oathbreaker set.
Can you make a Dark Justiciar build for Shadowheart please.
Good video note, gloves of heroism that when use oath and get heroism that’s in bottom of toll house where pallies karlach want u to talk to are
polearm is awesome
I did a necromancer/oathbreaker. Stuck to necro spells and used the warped intelligence band. Got up to 1 lvl5 slot and with danse macabre had plenty of undead minons while still having plenty of smiting power. Though dont believe i optimized very well. Would love to see if thats something you could optimize. Maknly for role play purpose so definitely not for honor mode. Thoigh i did use a custom difficulty with player power balanced amd every other setting set to tactician
Could you do a barbarian monk build?
I play z evil run with dark urge, it's possible dont break vengeance ? I 'm already a onbreaker, but i can pay for try again maybe
Trying a strength based version of this build going into champion fighter for easier crits instead of warlock (trying to make a paladin of Helm). Any advice or suggestions are appreciated 👏
I want to ask how you are dealing with that War Priest bug when (if you have bonus action and charge avaible) game forcing you to do War Priest bonus attack before an Extra Attack (from level 5 Paladin).
It happend to me all the time. Respecing fixed it, but after a long rest it brokes again.
Finally I gave up and replace War Cleric with a Light one in a mix.
I'm a week late but my favorite build is 5pala 7 war cleric and had the same problem. I respec at withers the first 5 levels into paladin getting the extra attack before the war priest cleric charges and that fixed it for me
I'm a week late but my favorite build is 5pala 7 war cleric and had the same problem. I respec at withers the first 5 levels into paladin getting the extra attack before the war priest cleric charges and that fixed it for me
I'm still on first playthrough in Act 1, no m n honor. Should I save hag hair for respec and go 18 char with
GWM or 20 char or a20 str
Also, after respèc, you could do 1 lock, 1 cleric, 1 pal. You'd lose Avenger, but gain 20 ASI with GWM
at 38:38 when you bind the balduran giantslayer the damage actually (visible) goes down !! cos your charisma is lower then your strength (with the elixir), though you sayed it doesnt effect it???
I would stick with 6 lv into paladin and 4 into warlock for additional feat. I don't think so extra movement is worth it unless you go with polearms
Personally I would go with 2lvl cleric, 5 pal, 5 lock. For deepened pact ability that will grant us 1 extra attack and also we will gain 1 feat as well.
In honor mode the extra attack from the pact does not stack.
If you start from cleric, and I think that the best starting class for honour mode - because of command spell and possibly sanctuary spell, put some points in to wisdom and respect lately.
wisdom save proficiencys too, right?
In terms of spell selection, how do people feel about confining those spell choices to simply the ones NOT available to scrolls?
Lots of Mirror Image scrolls available, so why choose it for your limited spell economy?
I think I may be overthinking this, or am being way too "thrifty," I think is the polite word. Or, both. Interested in people's thoughts.
Really love this build, especially since making Charisma our only "mandatory" stats is soooo helpful to compensate the lack of feats.
Radiating orb on a Dark Knight just makes me think of Batman throwing flashbang grenades at his enemies 🤣
Crusader's Mantle is amazing when you either have a at least one other melee character in your party, or tons of summons that can all benefit from that extra damage.
Little note related to picking Inflict Wounds on Cleric: this will use your Wisdom to attack, which isn't really the highest AND it will eat up your entire action, which in turn means you can't use your Great Weapon Master's potential bonus, or Polearm Master bonus, or your War Priest Bonus attack.
Kind of same for Turn Undead, which uses your Wisdom for the Undead to try and save.
Out of all the Paladin smites, Thunderous is the only one I'd plan on using, and only as a way to possibly gain advantage against a prone enemy. But again, it consuming your bonus action means one less divine smiting opportunity.
Again, kind of same for spending spell slots on damaging Warlock spells (other than Eldritch Blast). Like, you looked at the potential damage of a 3rd level smite, which went up to 60 I believe, and which can be doubled on a crit, vs a 3rd level Arms of Hadar, which only does 4 to 24 damage, and can be saved against for only half damage...
Divine Sense's Advantage means higher chance of landing a juicy crit that can then be smited using a 3rd level spell slot.
Further more, on a Paladin that isn't Oathbreaker, Cure Wounds is fully outclassed by Lay On Hands, since both are melee healing that use your action, but Lay on Hands just gives you a flat amount of healing. The same can be said of picking Lesser Restoration with your 2nd level spell slots, that can partly be done with the "Cure" part of Lay on Hands. Also, I'd much rather be using a 2nd level spell slot to smite baddies.
A little trick I like using with the Coruscation Ring is just having a caster in the party cast Light on my melee weapon, and boom, enemies are illuminated! 😂
Ring of Free Action is kind of unnecessary when you have the boots that give you Freedom of Movement, since the Ring of Free Action is just Freedom of Movement in ring form I believe.
Still have my hopes for transmog or some outfit system to make dark knight in glory.
tbh you can get rid of warlock and focus on elixir of hill giant strength as they are quite easy to comeby and stack (3x at auntie ethel everyday + then in underdark mycoid colony you can buy hill giant fingers or potions)
Hmm wouldn't vow of enmity work well with a rogue sneak attack build?
Take a look at my inquisitor build I posted, I use just that :)
@@italianspartacus Ooooh will do homie thanks
Why not just take the last level in warlock and get an extra feat?
How are you having carrying capasity problems ? Is that even a thing? Just send to base
Why not just get dual wielder so you can always attack on bonus Action instead of war priest charges?
it’s the best, after reaper ofc!
Hello
Firstly, I love your videos. Thank you for taking the time to create them and for making them so easy to follow.
In this video, there are several moments (see 40:21) when you can see the other characters in your party. I was looking at Shadowheart and wondered if you have set her up as a Life Cleric? I only ask as I would really love to see a guide from you on a Shadowheart (Companion) Life Cleric Build. There are plenty on CZcams, but I genuinely feel the way you present your build guides would make yours the very best.
Thank you in advance!
I have her set up as a Light Cleric actually!! just straight 12 levels into Light! I recently tried one where she's 10 Light / 2 Evocation wizard though and it's a lot of fun! gives her access to spells she can go crazy with and evocation means i don't hurt my teammates! :)
Thank you so much for the quick response, @@italianspartacus. Can you recommend the best items, weapons, gear etc. for her. If you're using it for your Shadowheart, I am confident it will have no equal! 😀
This, but instead running only one level of Cleric, or even 9 pally, and dual wielding short swords(optional), so I can pick up savage attacker and a 2nd feat.
What would work better in honour mode, this or your other bardadin build ?
Both! Do whatever you like the appeal of more :) or! Do both - one on one character, and the other on a companion. Swap them if you like the Bardadin more
@@italianspartacuswould a 2 war cleric/5 veng paldin/5 swords bard be good in your opinion ? This way we keep both war cleric extra attacks on bonus actions, paladin's smithes and extra attacks and bard's flourishes and bardic inspirations refreshing on a short rest bc of bard level 5. You could also go 6 paladin/4 bard if you needed aura of protection or 4 paladin 6 bard fo more spells, and in this way the only thing that gets lost is warlock's extra damage with pact bound weapon, but i think.that flourishes make up for that and we get also 2 feats instead of one
I say forget about warlock lvl3 and instead get 3 lvls on thief for the bonus actions, wich allows you to use more smites or even attack more using war priest charges.
I actually tried to cast Vow of Enmity on myself just today and the game told me I can't target myself. Are we sure this is (still?) working?
Yup! I did it in the video just yesterday!
I'm not getting very good results with this but i dont have the gear and Im still level 10
This is another way to use Shadowheart. As a Dark Justiciar Knight. As the knight that killed the nightsong
I'm fairly certain i could choose Vlaakith for my deity on my human cleric/sorcerer. Might be because of mods though but idk
You can, without mods :)
I took the two levels out of cleric and then i can put 1 more level into paladin and warlock for 2 more feats
I prefer the Woundseeker to Everburning Blade
I wonder if this is viable for a dark urge playthrough.
Absolutely!
Why would I spend gold? When I always use Astrion and rob shopkeepers.
If not on honor mode is it still just better to go 7 paladin 5 warlock?
Yup!! :)
@@italianspartacus If you start an honour mode run but die at some point but decide to continue anyway, will the paladin/warlock build with 3 extra attacks work again?.
In all ot the builds everywhere it's the same bow and sword.
plot twist, the grinch is a gith
so you dont need to kill ansur to get the helmet , you can just go past his body e grab it
Why not just put the 2 cleric into warlock you still get extra attack, doesnt cost bonus point
You really overvalue the Everburn Blade. It is just a greatsword dipped in fire. Pretty much any +1 2 handed weapon is better than it because they are dippable to get the same effect.
I dont fully understand why you reset strength to 8 or 11 at most.
When you take Pact of the Blade in Warlock, it makes your melee attacks scale with CHA instead of STR
I never take Greatweapon Master because I always have to turn it off due to the hit chance penalty when facing armored enemies, which just makes the feat rather useless.
Sure, it's great vs. trivial enemies, but then those can't hurt your party either and they're just trash, so who cares it takes a couple extra turns to kill the pack of trash enemies?!
Hi
Nice build but for me I think you can just stay at 6 level of paladin and add 1 level in warlock only for the feat add. There you loose 2 feat and I think it's way too much. And honestly the 7th level of pal is not that interesting.
"blaggard" is the correct pronunciation. The "ck" is silent in "blackguard".
why not just start with what you need instead of having to respec?
Also, has anyone said you sound like the guy from Binging with Babish?
Finding out by accident that there IS a way to save scum on honor mode was game saving
I was really disappointed they took Bane out of the full game as a deity option; Early Access had some great "Paladin of Bane" dialogues.
Game of the year edition will likely readd a ton of removed content like paladin diety options, but i’m not sure when that will release. I just know they did a similar thing for DoS2
Cecil is the best!
FIRST AGAIN, lets goo keep up the content
Thank you for not having this be an elixir build. I'm so sick of that shit...
mf said quaffed lmao
I will finally get a shadowban for repeating that, but I will comment same comment as long as Sparty spread Githyanky propaganda.
"Kids what we say, when stranger offer you to play a gith? In hatered for gith I was raised, get that freaking frog away from my party face"
I actually know an incredible build which i dont see people talking about. But I’ll keep quiet 😂
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