Baldur's Gate 3 - Which Class Is Right For You 

This is definitely a game where I'll sit on the creation page for 3 hours, start, then realise I want to start again 😂

The bard is actually really cool class I won't play. It's neat that they actually took the time to voice all of these skills and added the ability to play music. You can tell they put a crazy amount of thought into this game. They have my utmost respect, for the work they put into this title.

I think this is the only game where I had a difficult time choosing a class! The devs really did put in much effort into everything

Thats actually pretty cool that your in game desisions can affect your oath as paladin, lotta games ive played just have it as an RP element

I wish these kind of games would have some kind of combat demo in the creation suite to be able to demo the combat and features of each class before picking them

12 hours in, played each class thru to the beach. No clue what happens after the beach. Loving the variety.

Spent at least an hour and a half in the character creation screen just to choose the race class combo. Got in the game, saved, and went back out to do it all over again. 11/10 game just this part of the game alone😅

Went with paladin for my first playthrough. Just seems like a good balance between being able to fight, cast some spells and have charisma enough to hold a conversation too. All around a good guy.

Fun fact: BG3's class system is VERY simplified compared to 5e. They cut out dozens of subclasses, subspecies, backgrounds and features to make it easier for newbies. The Gith alone have four separate subspecies and 10 subclasses exclusive to them.

I watched the recent 1 & 2 recap video and I'm looking forward to your continued, succinct and to the point coverage. Forget game of the year, this could very well be a game of the decade candidate. Props to the team on choosing whoever this guy is on covering this release. As an aside, credits in the description with socials would have been appreciated. The editors and Narrator who put this and other BG3 coverage together, have been doing a really fine job and they deserve a little credit. Great job folks! Cheers 🍻

Just pick an archetype you’re interested in, then pick the simplest class of that archetype. I went with wizard, and it’s been straightforward and self explanatory except for one thing: To change out spells, “k” to open your spellbook, and you can swap from there

Never played this series, but i loved Divinity so I’ll have to check this out on release.

"The most important choice" but also one of the few choices you can change at any time.

Fun fact: The game DOES have a respec option. So you can undo your class if you muck it up.😁

Playing as a Druid sounds very intriguing!

I’m happy that choosing the race has a effect on the class you play and same for background.

Best baldur's gate 3 guide ever 👌🏻 thank you so much

I really appreciated the game pad UI footage! Makes the wait for the PS5 version a little better

That trickery domain cleric comment was a swipe at Laura Bailey's Jester 😅

I think for the first play through I'll go with the simplest: the fighter. I have had easy access since it came out but have not really played to avoid spoiling. With a fighter I can get a grip of the other mechanics - it's a straightforward class. Of course, I'll be a dwarf.

Im loving the sound of Bard, Paladin, and Druid :D

Thank you! This was very helpful!

Great video! btw, 'ensued' means 'happened after' (re: the sorcerer class). Can't wait for the console version to drop!

I’m having the hardest time deciding over a Druid, paladin and sorcerer

I'm thinking of making either a Female Half Elf Wizard wielding a wand, Male Half Orc Fighter wielding a two handed sword, a Male Halfling Rogue wielding daggers, a Female Tiefling Warlock wielding a staff, a Male Drow Ranger wielding a bow and arrow, a Female Dwarf Cleric wielding a mace and shield, a Female Human Paladin wielding a two handed hammer, a Male Dwarf Barbarian wielding a two handed axe, a Female Gnome Druid wielding a scythe, a Male Half Elf Bard wielding a lute and sword, a Female Half Orc Monk wielding a boa staff or a Male Dragonborn Sorcerer wielding a staff.

Great, I've narrowed it down to Bard, Ranger, Druid, Paladin, and Warlock 😅

My IRL character is named Henry Blackjack. A human Rogue/Fighter. A petty thief who grew up without parents. On the night of his 18th birthday he learns that he's a Lycan(werewolf) and that his father was an adventurer who angered the god of the wolves. The god tells him if he wants to remove the Lycan curse. He must Prove that he's a noble warrior by retrieving an ancient Fae artifact and defeating a vampire lord who's a warlock to an old god. Henry in his human form is charismatic and cunning and would rather choose to talk his way out of a fight. In his Lycan form he's a great warrior. If anyone wants to tell me their character I would be happy to hear.

I just picked this game up today. Haven't started it yet, but I know the character creation screen is going to be my new home page for a while. Might ever break out my PHB for 5E just to figure out my build. Not sure yet.

i wanted to just have an idea of what i was getting into, but i was thinking about druid bc my favorite class is druid. and yup, my BG3 character will definitely be modeled after my first D&D character.

I've found that having a healer or dedicated support is relatively useless, at least in my current playthrough. I've got supportive items and spells (Fog Cloud, False Life, Sleep, Feign Death, etc) spread across all my party members but I usually just take advantage of environment and items over health pools because I know if my enemies outnumber me, my healing actions might be worthless.

there are so many things to take note of in the game lol. its information overload

You had me at "talk to cows...." !!!!!!😂😂😂. Worth the price of admission!

I love to use a wizard and a rogue as combo. I always use this is strategy and almost always win- I put 1-2 tanks melee in front where the enemies cant pass, can be in a wall hole or a long corridor... then I use wizards invisibility on the rogue and go all the way back to backstab mages,support and range. the ai is so dumb sometimes that they will never notice the rogue destroying their back row while your tanks get all the damage, but the wizard / and sorceror can buff and heal the tanks. also have a ranger with good attack to initiate the battle, put her behind a wall on highground so her accurary doubles where the lower enemies miss it a lot. when that happens make your rogue back stab happily all you want, ai will be so distracted. its a very fun strategy XD.

Great video, even if i will not play for now, it's interesting to see how it works

Definitely needed this guide 😬😬😬 I wanted to playthrough as someone who can talk to animals and also do charisma conversations (since I enjoy the story/unique dialogue stuff a lot). I chose to be a noble Wood Gnome (so could talk to animals) cleric (with the animal God). I've put 12.5 hours in, but only just realised that the talk to animals skill is a spell you have to cast on yourself, so I thought all the "conversations" with animals were just interpreting them chittering or squawking and was kind of disappointed until I realised you had to cast a spell to do it first 🙃🙃 May start afresh with a druid and then do the animal talking properly from the get-go 😅 EDIT: Also if anyone has any tips please could you reply with them? 😅🙇🙇🙇

I started off as a war domain cleric, then moved to a oath of vengeance paladin. That character is for co-op with my gf, and my solo character started as a monk and then quickly switched to wizard. Having fun with the paladin, but 90% of the characters I’ve played on tabletop have been wizard and it’s easily my favorite class. I picked necromancer, as that’s my favorite subclass to play, but I’m tempted to switch to evocation so I can throw fireballs at a cluster without endangering my party.

patiently waiting for the playstation release i’m so excited! more guides please!

Made the gith woman into a mageslayer and it was awesome. Nobody can keep their concentration when she hits them. And the cleric is now a war mage, so _concentration for me, but not for thee!_

Fighter… it suits everyone and is the only class you should ever start a D&D campaign as. It gets the right saves for multiclassing. It starts with all the armor and weapon proficiencies. It has the best combat subclass (eldritch knight. No, battlemaster is mid in 5e and without bait&switch is just bad.) Wanna play a wizard? Start fighter for armor prof and defense style and con saves and that sweet D10 starting hit die. Level to two for action surge and then go into wizard. This is how every class should start.

i'm 100% gonna go with Druid and i'll speak with any animal i can

glad classes actually kinda matter here (i know you can multiclass) unlike in divinity original sin 2 where it just determined your starting abilities

The druid has been awesome!

I'm stuck in the current cycle of starting a character, playing for a bit, wondering if I like tthat character, starting a new one... I wanna try them all haha.

That moment when you spend waaaaayyyyy too long creating the perfect character…. Only to start and realise you didnt change the voice ruining the whole thing and needing to start over….. yeah, done that more tomes than id like to admit

A Druid…that’s actually GOOD!! oh man this is awesome. Now I know who to pick, Diablo 4 completely disrespected the Druid to oblivion. I’m so glad BG3 is getting a lot of love, I’ve been playing BG2 for years so this brings a tear to my eye.

I've been thinking of getting the game simply to build the character I'm using in my current campaign, a Half-Drow Fiend Warlock.

Yeah I'm definitely going to do a bard+druid multi-class

I really wanted to play fighter but I also want to do all the dialogue stuff so I guess I'm going paladin. Oathbreaker sounds cool

Only thing I’m kinda sad about is my fav wizard class isn’t there (bladesinger) so I’ll probably eldritch knight

I made an Asmodeus Tiefling Bard. He's pretty dope.

I’ve played 120 hours and I’m just excited for my next play through

I don’t even own the game yet because I have an xbox…but here I am watching character creation guides in preparation LOL. I’m studying in preparation for spending several hours creating my character when I do buy the game.

i'm basically making my dragoborn warlock i use in my dnd sessions with my friends.

I love persuasion and influence might have to go bard

I always choose some type of magic class when I play these type of games. I wish they had a necromancer class though. 🥺

Probably the paladin since that’s my go to class if they’re in the game.

3:10 doctor dolittle lol

I think im gonna make a character like my current one in a campaign. Sorlock eldritch blast cannon.

what I love about 5e is that classes aren't race dependent ,you may have seen the halfling barbarian memes, but that doesn't stop you playing other odd ball mixes either, halfling paladin is my current build and Acquisitions incorporated made famous the grandmoth halfling monk Rosie Beestinger sometimes there are unexpected synergies, luck for a halfling paladin means I never rol a 1 in combat, and get a charisma and dex bonus making me even harder to hit with my magic shield and magic chain mail

This will be my first game like this, and I have NOO idea what race or class I'm gonna be

I did a Drow rogue. My first time playing Baldurs gate and never got into D&D.

I’m playing a bard because I never ever pick bard like classes in any rpg so I’m giving it a go in this game. Just downloaded it and started last night. Interesting game. I’m determined to not look at any how to guides lol

the githyanki on the bridge made me respect fighters.

What a great video. So what to choose...😅😂

Ranger all the way, played the ranger in bg1 and 2 as well as any DnD paper games I played in... BG3 has been great so far...

I turned into an oathbreaker after Simping for Karlach. Very suprised to learn that it was a thing to break your oath.

i wish the sorcerer, monk, and warlock had more sub classes and that the wizard had my favorite sub class order of scribes

I always go spellcaster or rogue in all my dnd games. I wanna try something different this time so im gonna go max tank

All of these look so goooood 😭😭😭😭

Video is a bit old now but id just like to say if u pick the "wrong class" the game isnt over for you, you can switch class whenever you want at the cost of 100 coins

From this i realise im gonna do oathbreaker paladin with blessed warrior fighting style and then multi class to a warlock just because it'll be fun. That or tempest cleric

Can you make a pure ice magic user? Also is there a necromancer sub class?

I think i'll just pick druid because i am a tree hugging hippie at heart

Bard is the most fun class by far!

Tiefling Criminal Monk basically just some street urchin who has been takin in by a monastery lol art of shadow ofc

I'm new to this game, so bare with me.. But can ANY class use spells? I'd like the idea of being a ranger, buy I want to be able to use some spells because I've seen many spell tricks to get early op weapons and gear

I shall pick Paladin as i did all w Baldur's Gate and DnD games. Lawful Good with good charisma (Persuasion) and equipping heavy armors wielding the most OP sword(Carsomyr in BG2) in the game.

"With 12 classes available" (Artificer crying after not getting in)

I can't wait for the ps5 release! So excited to play this

soo...I'm looking for pure aoe lightning caster build, should I go druid or sorcerer? I played pillars of eternity games a lot and my favorite class was druid for aoe thunder stun and sunlance spells. I don't know if its the same in this game

I ended up taking a personality quiz to figure out what class I’m suited for 😅😅 I got paladin and chose oath of vengeance

Do we know if half orc racial ability triples ALL crit damage? Or just weapon dice?

Tbh creating a character is one of the best things!! I made a couple haha

I'm going either monk or ranger knight. Haven't decided yet.

My playstyle and personality fits rougue the best :D

The more I play and try to watch videos, the more I think I might not be smart enough to play lol. It's really fun though. I choose a half elf, Paladin Oathbreaker trying a dark Knight thing so I guess we'll see.

My headcanon is that that weird gnome-troll hyena thing from the preschool cartoon boobah is a baldurs gate gnoll

I have absolutely no idea which to pick - I'm thinking maybe the Warlock....possibly? I'm already frozen with choice 😭

i think i'll go with artificer when i eventually get it

I really want to play wild magic sorcerer but I dont like how Larian implemented Tides of Chaos. The risk/reward cycle of getting wild magic surges in order to reset Tides of Chaos is absent in Baldur's Gate 3.

All fun and can crush with proper gear.

I haven't played any of these games BG1-3. And I'm really interested in this game. Is it good? Immersive? And most importantly how's the story?

you can swap class whenever. I wouldnt overthink it. ITs more your appearance you should stress over

I’m tossing up between bard, cleric or paladin for my first play

I would choose either a ranger or rogue

I think im going to rock the druid!

guys a i have a doubt, wich is the difference between the character you create and a companion? i mean yoour maiin charactwr have some advantage comparing of the same class but of a companion?

I would have never considered druid for any other games due to things like w.o.w and such always seeming to butcher the uniqueness of the class but i think thats what imma play for my first go

Been thinking of purchasing this game. Never played any others of the series. How is the story and how is the combat? Like is it right into the action or turn based? Any help/tips would be great. Thanks

I can't decide. aaaaargh!