How To Be A Truly DARK Overpowered Warlock In Baldur's Gate 3 (Get OP Early) 

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Level 1: Eldritch Blast and Blade ward The fiend Armor of Agathys, and Arms of Hadar +2 Charisma (17) +1 Constitution (16) 8 STR, 14 DEX, 8 INT, 10 WIS Level 2 Repelling Blast and Devil’s sight Hex Level 3 Pact of the chain Level 4 Bone chill Command Ability Improvement +2 CHA (19) Gear: Spellsparkler, daredevil gloves, disintegrating night walkers or amulet of Misty step, spider silk armor, Level 5 Agonizing blast Hunger of Hadar! Level 6 Fireball Replace arms of hadar with counterspell

Very good build. Only a few pointers, though: 1) Temporary HP doesn't stack, so I would not advise grabbing Armor of Agathys as a ranged Fiend Warlock when every single one of your kills gives you a fresh layer of Temp HP. 2) I would grab Hex at 1st level, since it's pretty much the only concentration spell worth having as a Fiend Warlock until 3rd level, and it pays for itself with being able to be transferred from enemy to enemy as they die. 3) It's worth considering a race that grants you a free casting of Darkness per day, like Drow or Asmodeus Tiefling, in case you run out of spell slots in the middle of a fight. 4) Although Eldritch Blast produces multiple beams, it's worth having Scorching Ray to burst bosses down, especially good with Hex. 5) Making Karlach use Reckless Attacks neutralizes her disadvantage when attacking enemies inside your Darkness, exploit it when she's caught in it. 6) MINOR ILLUSION is worth having early on, because it lures enemies together so you can blast them all at once. (EDIT: Separated the points wider to make this more legible.)

Nizar, with all my heart, this build guide is one of the best on the entire platform. Y0our explanations are concise and informative. Your guide isn't just taking a max powered cheat engine character and showing different builds, but a realistic, "I just started the game" build guide. Guides that center around level 12 make ZERO sense in a game like this. Building towards something is different than building for something. Many don't get the difference and you obviously do. So thank you for being realistic and keeping it real for us.

wow the special effects and production on this video are amazing. very cool to watch

This is fantastic!! I've been playing a spellblade warlock and having loads of fun, but I learned some cool things here, like Devil's Sight letting me cast ranged attacks from within Darkness. Thank you!!

Gotta say, the cinematography of your guides is amazing. Even if I know most of these builds, it's a pleasure to watch them anyway!

Awesome video! Very well presented, easy to follow and understand, and superb editing. Thanks for the build guide!

Also wanted to mention that your builds are fantastic. I'm following your builds for both Wyll and Tav (who I made a tempest cleric.) In particular, your suggestion to use Darkness is particularly helpful. In fact, I use it for more than just Wyll. I also place my other characters right at the edge of it so they get the benefits of the darkness on the enemy's turn and can easily step out of it on my turn. Never would have thought of that without your suggestion to use darkness in the first place.

this is great, thanks dude! As others have mentioned, I also really appreciate build guides that work from the beginning! so many are end-game super builds that aren't relevant for ages. as someone new to DnD videos like this are super helpful!

Love this guide!! Looking forward to part 2 on multi-classing

I love your in depth build guides, keep up the great work its so nice to watch your videos. Also 2 build suggestions would be 4 element monk and a melee /self buff circle of the land druid.

Digging the Ungodly OP Monk cameo. Glad to see you're covering multiple op builds in your playthroughs for us.

The best video!! waiting for LV7-12

Can't wait for the second part! I join the chorus 'Yours are the best guides around'. Thank you!

I can't tell you how much I celebrate your build vidz. Very informative, you explain it in a way that any beginner can understand. And above all, the entertainment factor is simply the best thing I've seen in Baldur's Gate 3 build vidz in the last few weeks. I mean "Ok Hadar, enough is enough". 😂😆 Thanks bro and I'm looking forward to the second part, the mid and late game build of this char. 👍❤

Really hoping you'll eventually do all of the classes. I really like your layouts because they make sense and I can already see how it would improve my current playthrough where I'm struggling.

Love your style and editing with this build. This would be a good companion to dark shadowheart.

What a great (and funny!) video. I'm totally new to this game and genre. On my first run I just jumped in blind, half the time I had no idea what I was doing but I had a blast. For my second run I found your videos to teach me how to be more badass 😈 Thanks so much!

Keep the guides coming. Love them

Game is almost over by the time you hit level 12 anyway, early strong builds give you waaaaay more mileage

your videos just get better and better, can't wait for the multiclass video, I want to see what you say about sorlock

Loving these guides nizar!

I really enjoy your humor as well as your tips! Thanks a lot🎉

Just based off the devils sight, I feel like if someone was going to attempt a solo tactician run with a magic character I feel like this would be the best option to try. Thank you for the video and build!❤

Making that introduction must've been an asbolute blast, I love it

As always, another brilliantly produced guide. Nobody entertains at the same time as informing as well as you. It must take so much effort, and is appreciated. Wyll is about to get made over in my first play through, and I look forward to blasting everything! Cheers!

hahaha 11:50 that was subtle. you earned this sub 😂 also great guide. i only started playing recently, so i don't know all the classes. have seen a bunch of guides on the pala, but somehow still struggle to really make it my thing. this however got me hooked

Love it bro, thanks for the help.

Thanks for another great video Nizar!

Nicely done!

Scorching Ray is better than Fireball. Still can target multiple enemies but if you Hex an enemy and focus all rays each ray adds 1d6 necrotic damage from hex. Since you always upcast as a Warlock, you'll 4 rays with a 3rd level slot, which is 8d6 fire damage plus 4d6 necrotic damage, for 12d6 total -- an average of 42 damage. Considerably better than a Fireball's average 28. With it being multiple attack rolls the damage is more consistent than relying on a dex save (noting that higher level rogue enemies can negate all damage on successful dex saves if they have evasion) plus chances to crit. Even if not using Hex and using Darkness/HoH then all rays are at advantage. Also, no risk of damaging your allies or setting things on fire that you don't want to be.

Love your videos man! Very in depth and clearly a lot of editing work into it. Could you do one for Paladin next?

Love these videos

I really like your guides :) waiting for part 2 hehe

I just happen to be running this exact same build on my dark urge drow. it feels very good to play. scaling off of charisma makes you very persuasive in dialogue which is always fun.

Fast clear to the point top guide 👍

Great video!!!

Pact of the blade has some of the best use of opportunity attacks when paired with polearm master. Its powerful early on and also gives you free attacks each turn late game. It'll also give you access to the most fun weapons of the game that you might not be able to use effectively otherwise. Definitely a contender and shouldn't be dismissed 😅

Love this guide

Top, ga ik zeker proberen!

I love this build, but I deviate from it by going Great Old One and Pact of the Tome. You can get Shovel as a permanently available summons very early, negating most of the usefulness of Pact of the Chain, IMO. Also, the later spells from Tome are great additions.

Must admit I picked agonizing blast as my first invocation. Increasing minimum and average damage by 3 really felt like a lot and made the damage output rival Lae'zel and Karlach. It was not until I picked up the Titanstring bow and specced Karlach for a hybrid dex/str build that I saw higher numbers for the spammable stuff.

I really enjoy your videos! Can’t wait for you to post the final leveling build video! Soon?

I played a pal/warlock til end of act 2. Started a Druid and played til end of act but haven’t finished. Went back and started a monk. Halfway through act 2 I love monk. I saw my two fav of monk and Druid are 10-11 on the list. Crazy because I never play as either. I always go fighter, wizard, or rogue. But haven’t played as 1 yet besides the companions. I love that this game has such variety and replayability .

A rogue with warlock abilities darkness and dark sight would be interesting as well. Great video.

I made a whole team of characters multiclassing into warlock a while back, then put them all in darkness with devil's sight. It was completely broken. So easy I decided to try something else. It was fun for a while, though! Definitely recommend trying it. You can make pretty much any class work with a dip in warlock.

Looking forward to the mid to late game build! Kudos good sir

this is fantastic:) I knew I just did this build wrong

You can't have temporary hit points from more than one source so the fiend temp hp doesn't work with Armor of Agathys which is much better. Race wise, Drow and Half-Drow are good if you're going pact of the blade melee since they get faerie fire as a racial but they also work with the darkness build because you get an extra cast of that as a racial. However, Asmodeus Tiefling is probably the over all best since they get darkness and hellish rebuke as racials so you don't have to waste spell slots on them. I've tried several variations and the Great Old One ended up being far better, especially combined with spell sniper. You will regularly lock down groups of enemies with eldritch blast crits and by the end of the game you can have up to 4 blasts in a single cast so 4 chances to crit. Repelling blast is the one to leave out at level 1. Devils' sight and agonizing is the way to go with repelling later but only if you feel like you really need it. It's a good way to destroy loot by throwing it down a hole. Agonizing blast with 17 cha are +3 damage from 1 - 4, +6 total from 5 - 9 and +9 at 10 - 12 (until you get the gloves that give you the 4th blast) and that's assuming you never raised cha through the whole game. I also recommend getting the Knife of the Undermountain King from the Creche as well as the gloves mentioned. The improved crit range works on all attack rolls including spells like eldritch blast.

Bro, just motivated me to do an evil run through with this build... Let me know when you have done the second half off this build please! Subscribed!

Good video, but Archfey is actually BUSTED (with the small caveat of having a Durge in the party... and they don't want the cloak they'll get). With Archfey patron at lv6, you'll get a free lesser invisibility (2turn) on reaction and a free bonus action misty step (on your next turn) for being damaged. (Misty Escape) Pair that with free invisibility on killing a creature, avoid killing Alfira for a well-loved boost to damage in Act 2, stack as many items that give you +to hit and -to min roll crit... and you've made an unstoppable monster. You get hit? Advantage and a free relocate. You kill? Advantage. It gets to a point where every beam is 99%, and they're critting 33% of the time. Mind you, that's WAY better than the typical 60-80% to hit, 5% to crit. LITERALLY INSANE, even. I've been letting my Durge Drow Warlock do literally all the tadpole and extra funny magic shenanigan story beats, and they can pump out damage and self-sustain like its leaves on the wind... Do NOT sleep on Archfey.

amazing video i love not to waist my time and i enjoyed every sec.

Nice build. I have to add that the darkness synergy works REALLY well with a pact of the blade warlock as well. In general, warlocks can become terrifying melee fighters.

Hunger of Hadar has good synergy with Storm Clerics, as they get the ability to push back targets hit by their lightning. This applies to lightning surfaces, so they keep getting knocked back into the lightning surface when they try to walk out of it. Drop a HoH on top and it's virtually inescapable!

Wow, I thought since normally you can't shoot into or out of fog cloud/darkness that it was just a hard rule, and not related to the blind condition. I swear I tried this with the ring that prevents blind + fog cloud, and I had to walk out of the fog cloud. This is EXACTLY the build I wanted for my Dark Urge, time to respec!!

my main is a human warlock - fiend. i didnt realise how powerful this blind+devil's sight. I am in midgame and already got eversight ring now else would have definitely respec'ed to get devil's sight. the pact of the tome did give me call lightening which is a aoe spell i can use for 10 turns non stop - once per long rest as long as my concentration is not broken. i am level 8 at the moment and i got +21 AC from +10 Base Armor +3 Mage Armor +4 Dex +2 shield +1 Clock of protection +1 evasive shoes For saving throws, i got Amulet of the Harpers Cloak of protection Absolute's warboard since i am branded by the goblin leader and another +2 saving throws to Corellon's grace staff since i am unarmored Wisdom saving throw from Forbidden knowledge the feat i have taken is +2 to charisma and war caster for advantage on saving throws and situational lovitar's love Also got Obsidian Laced Robe that reflects 4-7 fire damage on successful saving throws and gives fire resistance which synergies with my helmet - which gives me arcane acruity on dealing fire damage 8 Str 18 Dex with the Gloves of dexterity 14 Constitution 10 Int 16 Wisdom 20 Charisma incl Aunt Ethals hair I am in middle of Act2 atm.

GREAT Build again, after i changed cleric, fighter and Sourcerer according to your build vid's, now the next one following - perfect job! Did i miss the second part of this build? Couldn't find it (maybe am resting in my own dark)?

Thanks this is exactly what i have been looking for. Meaning someone to just tell me what to pick. Everyone wants to take you down a rabbit hole of information and im watching like just tell me what to pick already. I replayed the game 2 times already and im not happy with either of my builds. Fist as a warlock but obviously i didnt pick anything else right to go with the warlock and then the bard and that seems really weak. Im goona try this one i think ill be happy with it and stick with it. Im just annoyed i gotta restart it all over again.

Exciting build~

Eldritch blast has the coolest animation for a spell hands down

Hunger of Hadar reminds me of a Convention Game I played and they gave me a Warlock Tiefling from the lower Nobility of Baldurs Gate - was a murder Mystery with a Fiend as Boss the Murderer had made a Pact with. GM had only given that Char the "Worst Spells" with close to no utility - but allowed to alternativeley use them. And intimidating People when telling them to stay on the "good Side" else the Hell awaits them - and then conjure "hellish Stuff" was a grat Option for me to be the "nice bad Cop".

Also good multiclass options are gloomstalker ranger or even shadow monk. Extra resources are very useful and it's nice to be able to hide as a bonus action.

Another cool way of how you can play this build early is to get pact of the blade level 3, get sentinel feat at level 4, and get that extra reach weapon from the druid groove. So, starting from level 4, you can jump into the biggest pack of mobs, cast darkness on them, cast arms of hadar, and just start smacking them while being in the darkness. And they can't get out of darkness because each time they try, they are getting hit by your sentinel opportunity attack, which dries out all of their movement speed. At level 5, you get your 2nd attack, and then you can multiclass into a paladin or a fighter to smack inside of the darkness even harder

Another banger

Good stuff, about to try this class out for the first time. hunger of hadar with a bard casting confusion is going to be amazing.

I wish there were more videos on getting op and also breaking this game 😊

Hell yes a Warlock build let's gooo

On darkness vs hex, i say always use hex and load up on darkness arrows. Instead of a action to cast darkness shoot a arrow as it does not require concentration. Sure it only lasts 3 turns but even in tough fights 3 turns is enough to pretty much end it.

Pretty nice

Love it

Waiting for the best druid build 😂 love the video

This is a great build. Currently using it on my second tactician playthrough. Have you done up to level 12 with a build like this or is it better to switch it up to a different kind of warlock?

I like this guy

Great video! Any alternatives to the potent robes? I locked myself out of it in my playthrough and am bummed on all the extra DPS I am missing out on.

Great video and editing too ! I'm highly interested in this gameplay but I'm scared that I'll end up making it worst since my teammates who are not immune to blind won't be able to do anything, how do you deal with this situation? I heard about the ring that gives you imune to darkness that I could use on one of my teammate I guess

I consider Warlok a very bad class you make it seam like its awesome :D thx for the build it seams outstanding :D

Very good when multiclassed with rogue. Enemies have no idea what to do when the whole party is hidden in darkness.

nice of u to talk about level 3 and after that jump to lvl2 like that was possible

amazing

I’ve seen a few of your videos recommend having a hard in the party. Could you make a video on Bards?

Little Addition: The Charisma Thing is nice, but Dex is imho to be favoured to Con. When Multiclassing, mind the Saving Throw Proficiencies. Warlock has Wis and Cha as Proficiencies - pretty important ones. Yet, Dex is a real Deal as well especially when you want to use the Shield Feat to negate AoE Spell Damage. Regardless of your Choice, you might Want to consider Favouring Dex and multiclass into Rogue as well as choosing Pact of the Blade as option to this Build not focussing on Spellslinging rather than Melee. Rogue grants a pretty Boon in form of Expertise for Sleight of Hand (Lockpick and Pickpocketery) and also for Survival (basically finding all of the Hidden Chests) or something else you like - and an extra Bonus Action is nice as well as the Assassin Feat could work out well as well - in addition to the Cunning Action you gain. And with Sentinel you can lock down Enemies pretty good inside your Hunger of Hadar/Darkness Spells. The Thieves Gloves grant advantage on Sleight of Hand so you can basically either Barter or steal as you please - all of the Vendors Stock is "for Free" for you. And I do not have to tell you what a Thief(3) Warlock(5) with Double Melee Attack and 2 Bonus Actions plus Cunning Action can do - especially when you then start to put in Levels of Sorc after that and gain the Spells from Wizzard Level(s) as well (with the Int17-Circlet a really good deal).

You are DA BEST xD

Man your voice is exactly the same of Fenris of Dragon Age 2!

'In the night, come to me You know I want your touch of evil In the night, please, set me free I can't resist a touch of evil'

Here is the build in easy form for "respecting": Dark Warlock (Ranged attacker) Level 1 - Warlock Cantrips - Eldritch Blast, Blade Ward Spells - Armor Agathys, Arms of Hadar Race/Subclass - Githyanki/The Fiend Abilities - 8 Str, 14 Dex, 16 Con (+1), 8 Int, 10 Wis, 17 Cha (+2) Level 2 - Warlock Spells - Hex Invocations - Devil’s Sight, Repelling Blast Level 3 - Warlock Pact Boon - Pact of the Chain Spells - Darkness Level 4 - Warlock Cantrip - Bone Chill Spells - Command Feat - Ability Improvement (Charisma to 19 or 20 if you do Hag Quest) Level 5 - Warlock Spells - Hunger of Hadar Invocation - Agonising Blast Level 6 - Warlock Spells - Fireball Replace Arms of Hadar with Counterspell Gear: Staff: Spellsparkler Staff - Waukeen’s Rest Act 1 Quest in burning building Gloves: Daredevil Gloves - Act 1 Githyanki Creche Helm/Hat/Circlet: Circlet of Blasting - Sold Act 1 Myconid Colony Armor: Spidersilk Armor - Act 1 Goblin Camp Boots: Night Walkers - Act 1 Nere Quest

This is the video that made me sub. Also, would you recommend starting level 1 as tempest sorcerer for that bonus to constitution saving throw, considering we will need it for how much we are using concentration? And then following this guide as is afterward.

I would like you to post the entire build to follow it up in your guide. Thanks

Hunger of Hadar plus rock wall druid spell is the true death trap

Great video :) Re:Hex, does choosing Constitution mean harder Concentration checks for enemy casters targetted?

There was a bug in the video. Did anyone notice it? Lightning charges and other modifiers which add to the damage of cantrips or spells bug Agonizing blast. If you look at the video at 13:53 you see something strange. That's a bug, But the damage of agonizing blast is being counted twice. Once as part of the normal damage roll and again being added as force damage as flat damage. Although I think this bug was fixed with Lightning charges this last patch, or my mods have fixed it I'm not sure, this bug still works with Phalar Aluve's shriek ability. Do note that the enemy needs to be in the aura, you don't need to be. Slap this on your Cleric or Bard and increase your damage exponentially. Another Note, Pact of the Tome gives you Haste, Call lightning and Animate dead at level 5. As of right now from my playthroughs Tome is far stronger long term than Chain, however chain is stronger up till level 5. But I haven't been able to test this with the best familiar you get later on in the game, US. Also, you don't need a frontline character. Control spells work just fine. Bring a druid with infinite web or ranger with a pet with infinite web and repelling blast and you're good.

10:13 pact of the "THOME" lol

Hey sir can u make a video on how the perfekt team or the most effecktiv team looks like? i dont care if its 3 hours long. i will watch it. i love this game so much ty and keep up the ood work.

I have a question.....So from my understanding of how temp hit points works, when receiving temp HP from more than one source (in this case from the Fiend Warlock's Dark Ones Blessing as well as the Armor of Agathys spell), the highest source of HP will take precedence (or override) the other. So, if you have Armor of Agathys up (5 HP per upcast level), the Dark Ones Blessing will have no role in combat as long as AoA is active, as AoA is stronger than the Dark Ones Blessing (at least, in the case of a level 1 casting of AoA). So, in a combat scenario for a 1st level Warlock, you have already pre-cast your AoA (you have 5 temp HP). You enter combat, and kill an enemy, which would normally grant you 4 temp HP as a Fiend Warlock due to the Dark Ones Blessing, but since we have AoA currently granting us those 5 temp HP, the 4 temp HP from the Dark One's Blessing won't apply. Then you get hit for 5+ damage. Your 5 temp HP is now gone, as the AoA spell ends once the temp HP is depleted. From my understanding, this is where the benefit of the Dark Ones Blessing will activate, basically giving us a secondary source of temp HP. So, it doesn't stack with the Dark Ones Blessing, but it does supplement it. Am I correct? And the whole time AoA is active, is the 4 temp HP from Dark Ones Blessing basically being "banked"? So if our AoA ends, and we've already killed 3 enemies, will we now have 12 temp HP up and active as soon as our AoA ends?

Major problem in with this. Dark Onee's Blessing cancels out Armour of Agathys. You can only have temporary hit points from one source, so as soon as you kill something with armour and get the blessing, the armour goes away.

Pact of the tomb will give you thornwhip. Which will help your amor spell, and will drag them into your darkness to blind them.

I've been running everyone with 3lvl of fighter for proficiencies Surge and Champion, and then Warlock for old one, devil sight and blade pact. 4 characters with 20AC, double crit chance and fear on crit going into act 2 is brutal. A lot of enemies with legendary resistance don't apply it to fear and it absolutely neuters them when you can average around 2 crits a turn.

After all, the fiend and armour of Aghatys Overlap If you have Aghatys on you and you kill your opponent, Armour disappears and only the buff from fiend remains.

was there some sort of nice the great one skill line a while back? I remember using your guide build in first playthrough, now in my second it seems slightly different - nerfed in a patch maybe?

Idk why when I see these graphs of class usage, I always look for my favorite class when I know damn well cleric is always last place 🤣