Baldur's Gate 3 - The Psionic Warrior (Build Request) 

There is now an updated version of this build! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BEJiUzedckI.html

This is one of the best builds I’ve ever seen visually speaking. It’s absolutely beautiful. I’m still trying to experiment with the different armors in the game for fashion.

The fact that the subtitles says Gif Yankee made me giggle

I really love your comments about the theme and role play aspects of a build. So many build videos are so centred around maximising they can feel disjointed. Especially loved how you mentioned the possible role play factor of magic missile.

This is by far one of the best builds I've seen yet. Every armor piece goes perfectly with your build. I gotta try it.

This is good inspiration for a build. I will make adjustments to it for leveling since it looks like it will struggle to pull it's weight when leveling up. Dump charisma + intellect and get more strength + constitution, use the ogre item for 17 int. Later on when getting items Stats can be replaced. Build thirsts for proficiency in con saving throws (unless i missed it during the video) because 90% of your arsenal is concentration. So taking resilient while leveling is a must.

Just finished watching, wow you went above and beyond, you're a legend! I swear, I would've never come up with divination but I think I love it! I had two ways in mind to go about it with this concept (had help too); college of swords/thief OR storm sorc/college of swords + 2lvl dips into fighter. But anyways, this build is a beast! I think this is a no-brainer for me, I'll be using as my dark urge run. I guess we'll be playing githyanky lmao! It was bound to happen sooner or later anyway, so thank you! The phantasmal force reminds me when Itachi used to cast that mind ability on people to make them think they're experiencing something they aren't irl, i lvoe it! Yeah, I love this build 100% I think you have the most unique builds on yt, the others are pretty vanilla, it works and all but I like thematic builds like the ones you've done. I'm yet to play with V's build however. Thanks HZ 🥰

So glad I ran across your channel, love seeing smaller channels with great content! Keep pushing pal!

I'm glad that this was recommended to me. Loved that you went in-depth with the explanations behind feats, levels, and gear. I don't know if this means you'll be taking the break you were mentioning, but I'll look forward to builds from you whenever they come. Keep up to good work.

Perfect balance between optimization and lore. This is the first of your builds i’ve seen and if your others are even half as good as this one I see myself never finishing act 1 cause i’ll be too busy trying them all out lol. Great video

Ey, Just randomly had this suggested to me. I'm impressed by the build and the level of depth you go into on your explanation of how and why some choices are made.

Great build, gets a sub! I look forward to more builds.

Really cool theme and aesthetic build. The resonance stone in the mindflayer colony makes all nearby enemies vulnerable to psychic damage at the cost of disadvantage on your saving throws. you have to put in a chest at night to keep it from losing its power, but otherwise all you need to do is have it in your inventory to do crazy psych damage. Awesome synergy with illithid powers as well.

This build looks great ! And your presentation gained a sub. I will say that my beast master in bg3 is doing amazing, despite all the dnd hate they get ;)

"Beastmaster sucks" The raven that can call down a handful of darkness balls per turn would like a word.

OK, I know this video was post to nine months ago, but I just wanted to say he said slow wasn’t on theme but it might be one of the most on theme things ever. It’s literally telekinetically slowing down your opponents.

the reason dissonant whispers is 1 per long rest is because that's how the magic initiate feats work, they do not cast using spell slots they just give you a free spell anyone can use as if it were a 1st level spell.

It's been awhile since I've catch a 360p video on the making, but I'm too excited to wait for it render in better quality, lets watch this! haha

Only thing I might have gone into is the illithid powers, especially if you can make them bonus actions, totally on theme and stuff like force tunnel and psychic drain can be super potent for a psychic warrior

If you're going to use items for Str and Con, you should have dumped them both to 8, those points are better spent elsewhere. Yes, the -1 is applied first, but you get an additional point in the + to make up for it.

I did a similar build to this but did an even 6/6 Eldritch Knight Abjuration Wizard build with GWM and Str20/Dex12/Con16/Int14/Wis8/Cha8 with the telekinesis Gloves. I can't live without Extra Attack on my melee builds and the Abjuration Wizard with the Armor of Persistence made up for the relatively lower HP pool when combined with the fire/cold resistance bow. You still get to be an 8th level caster with Telekinesis and its so much fun.

Dark Side Dwarf Thor. Roll a Dark Dwarf EK fighter so you can weapon bond a unique light hammer. Throwing light hammer staver of skulls it deals 1d4 bludgeoning and 1d4 radiant, ring of flinging, gloves of uninhibited kushigo and the tavern brawler feat. With some permanent buffs you can have a standard STR of 22 for +6. That's +12 to hit because of tavern brawler and +12 damage. Dueling works with thrown +2, weapon staver of skulls is +1 so +15 damage. Attacks deal 4d4+15, you can make 3 per round at level 11. Don't be afraid to use potions or elixers, blood lust comes to mind if you get a kill you gain another action, haste pots are always welcome, also cloud giant strength pots are 2x as effective. Tavern brawler stacks you up with a total of +21 to hit and +19 to damage at late game if you have 27 str. Even against some of the most ABSOLUTE bullshit ac enemies you still got a solid 70-80% chance to hit. Most of them are gimmick fights anyway and almost require you to stun lock the target with sleep or paralysis effects. But wait there's more. Get at least 14 dex and Luminous Armor, strange conduit ring, boots of stormy clamor and helm of arcane acuity. Also activating enlarge from your racial feature adds 1d4 damage to your weapon and the strange conduit ring adds 1d4 psychic and on each hit you stack radiating orb and reverberation. That's 6d4+15, per throw. Also keep your eyes peeled for the helm of arcane acuity it is a good option with your lower int, or you could just use the warped headband for 17 int. Each throw that hits adds +2 to your spell dc and +2 to your spell attack rolls, and it stacks up to a total of +7 save dc and +7 to spell attacks total but you lose one stack per turn. Hypothetically if reverberation wasn't broken you'd deal even more damage by stacking it up on targets but it is atm bugged as hell, As it stands you can stack reverb to 7 and make all enemy str, dex or con saves roll at -7 penalty, and also increase the spell save dc of your own spells by another +7, that's a 14 point penalty. Haven't really messed around with shields but honestly any good shield would likely do, addy shield I think would be a good idea to ignore incoming critical hits, but I imagine there are better shields out there. Also not sure if it would work but I don't think savage attacker applies to thrown attacks but if it does, it's kind of worth it (never tested). Given you're rolling at the height 6d4 that's a lot of potential to get 3's and 4's that you could re roll and potentially 12d4 on a critical hit. Think of it this way, you have a 50% chance to get a 3 or a 4 normally, with SA you have a 75% chance to get a 3 or a 4 on any roll of a d4. If 75% of your 6d4 are rolling 3 or 4 that can easily be 4 to 5 of them are rolling 75% or 100% damage. That's mathematically too good to pass up if it works. This a build that you can play from early game lv4-lv5 it comes alive (tavern brawler early level 4 feat, level 5 2 attacks per action) and works well into late game The stacks of radiating orb reduce enemy attack rolls and reverberation causes penalty to any str dex or con save for any of your other casters keep in mind, and you don't need to rely on re rolling after finding specific gear to be a viable build path, I'd rather not re roll my pc if I can help it, I want to go from level 1 to 12 in a campaign. I often do re roll companions just to mix things up. I like making Lae'zel is my wizard lol

Enchantment school might be a good second choice for people who don't like Divination.

Great build. Toss some Illithid Tadpoles in there for Tadpole users and boom, got yourself a whole slew of new psychic abilities like Mind Blast, Perlious Stakes, Charm, Psionic Counter. Psychic on Psychic on Psychic lol

Suggestion for taking this idea to a ludicrous extreme (Spoilers for Act 2): Pick up the "Resonating Stone" item underground at the end of Act 2, before the final showdown. Then just carry it around in your inventory. This item is located very close to the creepy talking head brain DVD player thingy, but it's easy to miss, or to dismiss as strictly harmful. It emanates a constant aura, with a large radius, that gives the "Steeped in Bliss" buff/debuff (including you.) Steeped in Bliss gives advantage on all physical saving throws, but inflicts disadvantage on all mental saving throws, and it inflicts vulnerability to psychic damage. This aura will be fully canceled out by the buffs from the Silver Sword. Almost all enemies will automatically get disadvantage when saving against this build's favorite spells, and will take double damage from your favorite damage type. Absolutely wrecks most encounters. You'll have to be careful with the rest of the party, especially on first rounds of combat, to avoid letting them getting hit with mind-affecting spells while they're stuck in the aura. On the way to Act 3, you can loot some medium armor that wiill protect another gith in the party from psychic damage,

For the magic initiate feats sadly the spell you get is a free cast version that's why it's once per long rest, which is a shame because I was hoping you'd drop a level into bard for this or take this feat either way

The Infernal Legion (Party Wide): Sorcerer at lvl 1: Gain charisma and constitution saving throw proficiency as well as trigger wild magic and gain advantage on the next attack, ability or saving roll per short or long rest. Gloom Stalker 7: Gain intelligence and wisdom saving throw proficiency with Iron Mind. Gnome Cunning (MC, Sir Fuzzlewump) and Fey Semblance Amulet: Gain advantage on intelligence, wisdom and charisma saving throws for three party members. Transmuter's Stone (Hireling), Armour, etc: Advantage on constitution saving throws. Enlarge, Armour, etc: Advantage on strength saving throws. Ketheric's Shield, Boots, etc: Advantage on dexterity saving throws. Devilfoil Masks x4: +3 strength, -3 intelligence, wisdom, and charisma for all party members within 67 ft of each other. 5 int, wis, cha on all party members for a -3 to all mental skill checks and saving throws transformed into +1 via sorcerer, iron mind, and character level 12. 17 strength, 15 dexterity, 16 constitution base physical stats. Titanstring Bows x2, Dwarven Thrower, and Lightning Jabber (weapon bound) or Nyrulna to round out the full strength based ranged/throwing party. Sharpshooter x2, College of Swords x2 for flourishes instead of horde breaker and arrow use. Tavern Brawler x2.

Lotta concentration spells with no Constitution? I love the theme though. I love videos like this. I now see Constitution at 23. Wow, that must be a nice piece of equipment. And the strength problem is fixed with equipment.

Returning to this one cause I am starting an origin laezel and making her an eldritch knight

Hi, I love the build concept and implementation! I have a question - what is the benefit of the Charisma ability score of 16? Thematically, I see why it would be good. But, combat-wise, does it really help anything other than the 2 cantrips and 1 spell we get from the "Magic Initiate: Bard" feat?

I found an upgraded magic missile level 5 spell in sorcerers sundry called curriculum of strategy: artestry of war. I think its the only one you can get so learn it 😮

This build seems very thematic, but I can't help but think it's going to dramatically underperform when it comes time to fight, because of the lack of a martial at 5. I do think the use of the diviner subclass is on point, and there's a ton of good work to explore there.

Hey, two questions: 1. How do you do damage at the beginning with no Strength and no spells? 2. Why go Eldritch Knight, instead of just doing Fighter 2/Wizard 10? 3. Thanks for the video!

Could you try your hand at a pyromancer themed build?

I would have gone fighter 5 for the extra attack. Wizard 7 for phantasmal killer is everything you need. Take GMW and magic initiate bard for dissonant whispers and vicious mockery. Now add the resonance stone and you're good.

Portent is really good. I'm running a Halfling wizard sorcerer with divination, wild magic, & the lucky feat + favorable beginnings 🤣 it's kinda broken

Hey great guide, wierd question but what did you dye your armor, it looks good?

I would think any concentration spells all have psionic synergy and fit theme?

is the spell dc not a problem? but what to swap maybe the weave cloak?

I like the build, and I think it fits the theme very well. But in terms of pure effectiveness, I think you're sacrificing a lot. This is meant to be a frontline fighter, and all those wizard levels won't do much for your hp. Almost all of your spells are concentration. The loss of that extra attack is massive. I wonder if one couldn't achieve better results as a frontline fighter with a Fighter / College of Valour bard mix, or even a Fighter / Bard / Wizard mix Sure, I'd lose on spell slots and highblevel spells, but is the objective to be a Psionic WARRIOR, or just a Pure Psionic with heavy armor?

You should do an illusion wizard build or enchantress haha

I would love an amazonian preistess ranger/druid build

different flavor of the same ice cream :^)

Looks very cool. Is playing the first sort of 1/3 of the game a bit of a grind though with low physical stats on your fighter?

Curious question, will the Strength be higher if you take the Potion of Everlasting Strength after equipping the gloves?

For psychic damage. One of my favorite builds would be the psychic assassin who utilizes shadow blade and the resonance stone. Gives guarantee crit on surprised foes and vulnerability to psychic damage from the resonance stone. Can also use the invisibility cloak to confuse enemies and keep restarting combat for continued surprise. Not sure if they have patched that yet though.

Very cool build! But does it also play out in the Early game? Most of the important items , like the strength gloves, are at the end of act 3.

I love this build. What appearance did you use for this?

I did this build, but playing in coop I went with Evocation.

Yeah with the gith sword my whole party but laezel died and she killed like 8 dwarves by herself and saved the party

Could I ask for some clarity on the Charisma at 16? Is this the modifier for weapon binding?

Githyanki, or in other words, what if Michael Jackson was a Lizard Alien and we made it a race.

i did a build around the shadow blade before, it was stupidly strong, sadly it depended around the psychic resonator... which stopped working for some reason after time, and cant affect undead or constructs. if there is a way to make it permanent it would deffinently be one of the stronger builds you can get

we need a modder who add the Psi Warrior to the game

11:45 Don't the constant reminders for portent die get really annoying? I've heard that's why most people don't use it and instead go for something like evocation or conjuration.

You could rename this to Jedi.

Cool build but it seems to take awhile to get online. That early initial Act 1, missing a feat AND extra attack seems brutal

giths are baddies ur buggin (im stealing this build)

portent dice are the worst. pop-ups constantly until you use them, just like that 1/day illithid auto-crit ability. pain in the ass in practice, good in theory.

way too many concentration spells to deal with

I just want to say wow. I'm just in process of creating an Arcane archer that specialises in lightning. So I was going to use all the lighting gear can get. Then level 2 in Temp Cleric 1 in Storm Sorc and the rest of levels into ranger. This allows Electric Arrow Spell. Combine with water and bam lots of dead people. I will also be using as many special arrows I can pick up as possible as arcane archer isn't really a class. That being said I'd totally going to run this class with Laezel on this character I'm running as both will be Gith Characters.

Hm...so this is basically useless until late Act3 because you can't go with any viable Ability score before that point, right?

I feel like this build won’t fare very well until end game. Having only 10 str and 10 con until you get act 3 equipment you will be super weak

Why would you go Eldritch knight and not Battle master ? Since you spec so heavily into wizard you have the required amount of spells. You lack melee power on the build

Whyyyy did they make the astral sword utter garbage for any other race to use, bruh

Why not really dig into Tadpole powers ?

The portent die are ffin annoying. The game asking you to use the dice way to often XD. it slows down the gameplay too much

Why this build needs charisma?

This looked really great until I realized this is basically the same thing I'm playing right now (except as a Githyanki) but worse. Fighter 1/Sword Bard 10, last level open for whatever. I'd suggest sorc, wizard or another in fighter level. The only thing you loose is Telekinesis (unless you swap the gloves).

Congrats on stretching out the video for 45 min!!

44 min... come on