Immortal Ice Assassin Wizard Build In Baldur's Gate 3 (Honour Mode Full 1-12 Min-Maxed Guide) 

Hope you guys like this one! I definitely do, it's my favorite way to build a Wizard for sure. Insane damage + insane defenses and done so in style, sign me up. Thanks all for supporting the channel! patreon.com/nizargg (there are written versions of my guides there as well!)

Warlock level 1: Cantrip - Eldritch Blast, Blade Ward Spells - Armor of Agathys, Hex Subclass - Great Old One Abilities : Intelligence - 17 (+1 from Auntie Ethel) Dexterity - 14 Constitution - 14 Wisdom - 12 Race - Wood Elf/Wood Half Elf or Silver/White Dragonborn Warlock level 2: Spells - Hellish Rebuke Invocations - Repelling Blast, Armor of Shadows Cleric level 1: Domain - Tempest Domain Cantrip - Guidance, Thaumaturgy, produce flame Spells - Create Water, Sanctuary Wizard level 1: Cantrip - Ray of Frost, Shocking Grasp, Bone Chill Spells - Shield, Ice Knife, Chromatic Orb, Longstrider, Magic Missile, Find Familiar Wizard level 2: Subclass - Abjuration Spells - Expeditious Retreat, Tasha's Hideous Laughter Wizard level 3: Spells - Misty Step, Cloud of Daggers Wizard level 4: Cantrip - Minor Illusion Spells - Hold Person, Flaming Sphere Feat - Dual Wielder Wizard level 5: Spells - Glyph of Warding, Counterspell Wizard level 6: Spells - Haste, Remove Curse Wizard level 7: Spells - Ice Storm, Fire Shield Wizard level 8: Spells - Stoneskin, Blight Feat - Ability Improvement (+2 Intelligence) Wizard level 9: Spells - Cone of Cold, Conjure Elemental Gear: Mourning Frost, Spellsparker/Markoheshkir Hellrider Longbow Coldbrim Hat Fleshmelter Cloak Bonespike Garb Winter's Clutches Boots of Arcane Bolstering Necklace of Elemental Augmentation Callous Glow Ring Snowburst Ring

Bro, I lowkey can't believe how well edited these videos are. Your build videos are just very aesthetically pleasing, and they've helped me understand the combat in the game a lot more clearly,, along with being really powerful and fun. So thanks!

Love the build! For the boots, I would probably pick those who get you immune to ice surfaces, found in the Inquisitor room in the crèche

2:09 Level breakdown 8:31 Level 1 (Warlock) 9:51 Abilities 10:53 Level 2 (Warlock) 12:50 Level 3 (Cleric -Tempest domain) 15:08 Level 4 (Wizard 4-12) 24:34 Gear

Well, I have been avidly reading all comments, posts on reddit, other builds... Al info I could get, to determine whether it goes better going Sorc + Wizard or Warlock + Wizard. I thought missing the 6th level slot was a huge miss, so I was looking for how to access it. I have tried not dipping into Cleric: I have a cleric and a bard in the party that can cast Create Water, and I want to keep my AC low, so better wear robes than armor. I would only be giving away the melee reaction and a couple of spells that my companions can cast. Going 2 Warlock, 10 Wizard gives you the build NizarGG has developed, plus 20 charges in your Arcane Guard. Level 5 spells, but you recharge your guard freely in between fights. Going 2 Sorcerer, 10 Wizard gives you level 6 spells, but you would need charge your guard with spells while fighting. The two spells that I find more useful are Summon Water Mirmidon (free healing every turn with huge area of effect that leaves wet enemies and allies alike for a turn - huge! - and a triple area of effect beam that inflicts cold damage), and Ice Wall (it deals a ton of damage and... well, is wall that prevents enemies from reaching you). After playing for a while with both styles... I lean slightly on the Warlock side. As some other people have pointed out, starting every fight with your guard maxed up allows you to do not feel any presure if you are being hit a lot, so you can use all your spells more flexibly. I have found sometimes having to cast a spell I would rather save for later because my guard was running low. The mirmidon can be cast by other member of the team. Dipping into Cleric is not a big loss either. You don´t need the 20 charges really. I have been as low as 10 and most enemies were not able to go trhough my arcane ward. I have my cleric casting Wuarding Bond on me so all incoming damage is half as if using blade guard. And the level 10 Abjuration Wizard is no longer needed. You do loss a 5 spell slot though. So is up to you. But all in all I thing the Warlock build works better. Hope it helps!

Just got baldurs gate a couple days ago with the steam sale and ive been addicted to the game. Your guides are really fun and super useful. God bless you

Abjuration is so underrated man. I played a fighter/abjuration wizard and was literally immortal. Most enemies couldnt touch me at all I think I only sustained actual damage on the fights against Ansur and Raphael, zero damage otherwise. And even if I took damage I also had an absurd health pool.

This is the build I sorta accidentallied into on my first playthrough. The Warlock + Abj Wizard synergy is hilarious and takes being a caster from being stupid squishy to essentially untouchable. The fact Counterspell is an Abj spell is just icing on the cake

Ice WIZARD - GALE/Wood Elf Half Elf/White or Silver Dragonborn Level 1 - Warlock Cantrips - Blade Ward, Eldritch Blast Spells - Armour of Agathys, Hex Subclass - The Great Old One Abilities - 8 Str, 14 Dex, 14 Con (+1), 17 Int (+2), 12 Wis, 10 Cha Level 2 - Warlock Spell - Hellish Rebuke Invocation - Repelling Blast, Armour of Shadows Level 3 - Cleric Tempest Domain Spells - Create or Destroy Water, Sanctuary Cantrips - Guidance, Thaumaturgy, Light Level 4 - Wizard - Abjuration Cantrips - Ray of Frost, Shocking Grasp, Bone Chill Spells - Shield, Ice Knife, Chromatic Orb, Longstrider, Magic Missile, Find Familiar Level 5 - Wizard Spells - Expeditious Retreat, Tasha's Hideous Laughter Level 6 - Wizard Spells - Misty Step, Cloud of Daggers Level 7 - Wizard Cantrip - Minor Illusion Spells - Hold Person, Flaming Sphere Feat - Dual Wielder Level 8 - Wizard Spells - Glyph of Warding, Counterspell Level 9 - Wizard Spells - Haste, Remove Curse Level 10 - Wizard Spells - Ice Storm, Fire Shield Level 11 - Wizard Spells - Stoneskin, Blight Feat - Ability Improvement Intelligence Level 12 - Wizard Spells - Cone of Cold, Conjure Elemental Gear: Mourningfrost Staff - Underdark 3 pieces Spellsparkler - Waukeen's Rest quest - Replace with Markoheshkir in act 3 Winter's Clutches - Act 1 Esther in Mountain Pass Coldbrim Hat - Act 2 Balthazar's Chambers in Moonrise Towers - first floor, behind bookcase Fleshmelter Cloak - Act 2 House of Healing Morgue Gilded Chest Bonespike Garb - Act 3 Rivington Exxvikyap Boots of Arcane Bolstering - Act 2 Moonrise Tower Araj Oblodra Necklace of Elemental Augmentation - Act 1 Creche Inquisitor's Chamber Display Case Callous Glow Ring - Act 2 Gauntlet of Shar Vault Room Opulent Chest near Balthazar Snowburst Ring - Act 2 Last Light Inn Perception Check Loose Plank Hellrider Longbow - Act 3 Rivington Ferg Drogher

Jeezus this is an OP build. I just finished monk build on balanced, and started bard on tactician. This looks unreal for honour mode, love this content!

if you go 2 sorc instead, you can get agathys from draconic bloodline, and you can get more than your total stacks of arcane ward quickly by doing extend metamagic for the lock spell on a chest/container, so you get like 8 arcane ward stacks for casting armor of agathys and then extend the lock spell and instantly get liek 28-34 stacks of arcane ward or whatever your potential is based on wizard levels

An early game clothing piece that’s really good is the infernal robe, which lets you cast fire shield for completely free once per long rest. It’s really good at that stage of the game, and arguably the best clothing piece in Act 1. The problem is that it’s a reward given to you by Mizora that can only be obtained by killing Karlach, so it’s similar to the BOOOAL buff where it’s really good, but you need to sacrifice a companion to do it. If you plan on doing an “evil” playthrough where you raid the grove, then it’s definitely worth picking up as Karlach leaves the party anyway if you side with Minthara. Wyll leaves too, so you can sacrifice him to BOOOAL for the buff if you want that too.

Create Water has now been changed which makes this build a little harder to use early on, but I found that hording bottles of water works the same way :)

Aaaand, we are making a new character named Bi-Han for the next run, NizarGG delivering pure gold as per usual.

I'm using a similar build to this right now with sorc 1, cleric 1, wizard 10 as the ultimate goal. A great side benefit to this in a party is that your wizard can trigger all of the melee reactions early in the round and give your other members free rein to move around.

If you opt to wear medium/heavy armor from cleric (of which there are plenty of solid options, but Armor of Persistence stands out immediately to me), you no longer need the Mage Armor invocation really, and can squeeze one more level of Wizard into the build. This further amps your Arcane Ward, and lets you scribe 6th level spells including Globe of Invuln, Freezing Sphere, and Wall of Ice.

Just about to try this solo, but as a suggestion: because of the Cleric dip, you can use the luminous armour from Act 1. Combined with the Callous glow ring, it will put radiating orbs on everyone that hits you. This can cause issues earlier in the game with too many attacks missing you so you get no return damage from Armour of Agathys, but later on in the game with higher level enemies, you may not want every one of their attacks to hit you each round. Even early game though, you can still use it and just blast attackers individually with ray of frost for as long as you want as its an cantrip .

You don't need to worry about Blade Ward or Stoneskin when you get a party member to put Warding Bond on you. Its the best build to receive WB as the caster will rarely even take the shared dmg because of wards, but you get full resistances.

Very nice build video and demonstration. Definitely very powerful. I personally went Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer level 1 to allow Mage Armor, Armor of Agathys as well as Blade Ward in one singular level. You can then triple spec into Storm Cleric and Abjuration Wizard for heavy armor proficiency as well as the Storm Cleric's reaction for added lightning/thunder damage.

Glad he made a video about this. I was just reading a post on Reddit about this exact thing and boom! He uploaded it an hour later. And the cool ❄️ part is that some of the best gear comes early in Act 2.

As always expected, I am both entertained and enlightened by your videos. Thank you so much for sharing and I look forward to trying this build as I load up BG3 as soon as the video is over. :)

THIS is the Wizrd Tank ive been looking for! Thank you so much!!

I rarely comment but I have to give respect to such high effort, well edited, well executed material

Brilliant video as always! Stunning editing, and a detailed and fun build. I now have two playthroughs running your different builds and they are the most enjoyable out of all I tried. Thank you for your hard work, it’s appreciated.

The problem I have with this build (I've given it a try in a run-through) is that there are multiple steps in a fight to make this work. For example, first you have to get the ground wet which is a turn and there's no way to add another action with this build. There are little dips that if you take, dilute the wizard power by reducing levels. For example, you could take a second level in tempest cleric and max the damage but then you lose a wizard level. Also, early in the game I couldn't find "armor" that wasn't armor that I could swap with my standard robes - it appears you can only find that in Act 3. so this is definitely a late game power build, but early game it's hard to justify this as built because you just don't get anything powerful enough to be super helpful.

This video is very well made. The graphics are very well put together, and explain things in a very helpful way.

Clearly I'm a little late here, but just have an ally cast Warding Bond on you to give you resistance to ALL damage in the game instead of worrying about Blade Ward. The ally will take half of your damage of course, but half of zero is well... still zero. This frees up some of those actions to just keep blasting with more frost.

Sad to say that Patch 6 took away the ability to upcast Create Water without consuming a spell slot, which nerfs this build quite a bit

For those who don't scoff at respeccing, you can get your arcane ward / armour of agathys combo going earlier by taking the first level into sorcerer: white dragon, and then 2 levels wizard... If you then later wish to swap to the cleric/warlock variant, you'll at least have enjoyed your ward in the early levels.

There is a heavy armor in act 3 called "Armor of Persistence" that permanently gives the effects of "blade ward" and "resistance". Seems like a no brainer for this build.

Thank you! I've been looking for a frost wizard build for so long! Originally I thought maybe 2 levels of fiend warlock and 10 levels of evocation wizard was gonna be the way to go but after seeing this I can't wait to try this build instead!

They patched create water. It has no longer a cantrip version

Ah the beauty of enemy phase builds. Always fun to see a unique take on them.

This is one of the most beautiful builds you've made in terms of pure synergy. I love it. This is going to be my build for the next run I do. I want to see how it does for solo Honor mode with a Dark Urge. Might as well slaughter the world since I'm doing it solo, right? XD

I tried a build like this but I got annoyed because the Shield spell which is abjuration didn't increase my Ward level, and I was using Sorcerer white dragon for the Armor of Agatha. This works much better with the Armor of Shadows. 10/10

if you use sorc instead of warlock, you can choose extend spell/arcane lock and get double the arcane ward charges 2 sorc/2 cleric/8 wiz = 32 ward charges

This build is really powerful, but for any beginners watching this I would advice not to follow this leveling progression from the start of the game because it's going to be really weak and your life would be miserable. You shouldn't start the game with multiclassing shenanigan, just go pure wizard or warlock or whatever to get a feat at level 4 and then respec into this build when you're at least level 7 or 8.

Bro, it's always a pleasure to watch your videos. How well everything is edited and entertainingly commented. The build is also absolutely strong, will definitely check it out. Thanks for your work.

Damn this build looks crazy, thanks dude 🙏

Another hit. Best BG3 content creator on YT!

Love your builds! They feel distinct and strong. Maybe you could add stats for the build in the description? Or make them more accessible somewhere. I, personally, do a lot of characters and respecs, but can't remember them and searching for that part in a video is a little pain)

My favorite channel for bg3 content, love these videos man!

I've tried an ice wizard before and unfortunately a lot of the cold gear is not great. Winter's Clutches and Coldbrim Hat's only effect is adding Encrusted with Frost. if you're willing to forgo encrusted with frost which is a non-essential condition, you become less thematic, but you can swap those item slots for something more powerful. Hood of the weave for example, or spellmight gloves, there's lots of options. You still get a charge of encrusted with frost from markoheshkir's Frost of Dark Winter ability.

needs a little refinement - if you inspect the eldritch blast, you'll see a book icon with "CHA" next to it. It isn't getting set onto Wizard Int since they can't learn that. You'd have to either boost Cha up, or get EB via Spell Sniper feat to put it on int. So your to-hit chance is pretty low. I'd rather spend those levels on White/Cold Sorc to get AoA, and some metamagic.

Absolutely love the build, I love seeing builds that are not just strong but also thematic as well! Would love to see a light domain build one day

Nizar going sicko mode 🔥🔥🔥

My god what University is the course through? 😆Thats some high quality editing too! Definitely earned my like + follow! 👍

Please follow up on that early game paladin build next, im really curious to see what you did with it

Very nice, i have been trying out Ice Wizard builds. Great timing on this video.

Larion also asked what would happen if this build fell into the wrong hands, and nerfed it

Thanks for this guide. It was exactly what I was looking for.

In Act 3 you can buy the reviving hands gloves and combined with the regeneration ring you should get blade ward for free at the start of every turn. Or when you dont want to use the regeneration ring, when you stand in water and wear the wavemothers robe, the gloves also trigger blade ward.

I loved the wise man advice. I totally cracked up. "Son, it's a great idea to make things wet before you blast them, hard." Keep it up 🙂!!

I remember playing this a few months back, even though you take 0 damage, you still have to succeed a concentration check. You mentioned at 21:30 you will rarely break concentration because you don't actually get hit - you do actually get hit, the damage is just reduced to 0.

The "True Crime" editing was so good, lol.

Can I get clarification on something you said in this video? When you were talking about Create/Destroy Water you said if you don't upcast it it won't use a spell slot to cast. How? It uses a spell slot when I cast it. Is there something that I overlooked in this video? Or did I misunderstand?

EPIC video, thank you for making and sharing this with us.

Probably best to give your melee partymember Hoarfrost Boots so they don't slip when walking on those icy surfaces

To push damage reduction to absolute maximum: - as Tempest Cleric, you have proficiency in heavy armour - so replace Bonespike Garb with Adamantine Splint Armour (and later with Helldusk Armour) - and instead of Ability Improvement pick Heavy Armour Master Which, compared to Bonespike Garb, will give +4 dmg reduction for non-magical attacks, and +1 for magical ones. But sadly we'll lose that extra retaliation damage =(

I’m doing something similar by going 4 white draconic sorc/2 temp/6 abj. The nice thing about wiz is that you don’t need full high levels of wizard to access high level spells. You can offload all utility spells like misty step, haste, shield etc to sorcerer. You go 2 tempest with amulet of the devout for high save and 2 maximize spells that you can use to nuke things when they are not clumped up

hey Nizar, I appreciate how much effort goes into the edit of your videos, but it kinda feels like this build is min-maxed for late game / Act 3 and sucks pretty early on. Could you maybe give a guide on how to play it early in honor mode? I tried the "immortal assassin" ice mage build in an honor run with 3 friends and it felt pretty underwhelming. I did no damage and my shield got broken all the time. compared to the rest of my party I had pretty low value and had to long rest pretty fast since I had no spelllots left. In this run we died kinda early around lvl 6. Since I really wanted to make your build work I logged into a save from a normal run and tested the damage with lvl 10 / 12. Obviously I didn't had the same gear, but leveled the same. I fighted the same guards as you (5:17) and did pretty much no damage, but my shield hold on for longer than in my honor run. (probably just because it had more hp) Overall I was just sad because it looked so cool in your video, but without the exact gear it seemed to be pretty weak and come online to late in the game to bu fun in honor mode. Yesterday I finished honor mode with my 3 friends with a different build (frost socrerer into lighting cleric/sorcerer/wizard late). Honor mode was probably the hardest in act 1 since you have no lvl and no gear, but get clapped by many enemys if are not careful eneough. In Act 3 are the bigger boss fights that are tricky too, but with a good build your damage is high enough to get through fights aslong as you read abilities.

Love your bg3 builds! And with this one all my companions are op! Can you make a necromancer build?

For y'all to know: Create Water is broken at the moment (after patch 5) and Larian still didn't mention it in the patchnotes. Some of you might not have notice, others got the bug and can't cast it for free (especially on console from what i've read online).

Love your builds but I would like to point out a few things. I’m not a RU-vidr by any means just a guy that enjoys your content. (Doesn’t matter the game you’ve been putting out hits) I purchased the Patreon to say thank you for what you do and to also have access to the written version. The flashy-ness of the videos are great but hard to actually follow step by step when I’m looking for what items specifically or what to choose when character leveling. It may be a minor gripe or grievance but if you would maybe format it like the following: Level 1: Warlock 1 “Blade Ward” (Maybe some fancy colors or picture text so it would be easily spotted) (Insert you commentary here) “Eldritch Blast” “” Level 2: Warlock 2 All this is just examples added to what you already do, just want you to know I’m not bashing. Just constructive criticism. Ty again bro keep up the good work.

I love this build. Ice Mages is my favorite power in any game ever. I am curious though, was the only real reason for Warlock 2 to get Armor of Agathys and constant recast of free mage armor? Because Armor of Agathys could have come from White Dragon Bloodline instead and the free mage armor trick feels kind of cheesy so was thinking I might do the same thing but as part Sorc. Going Sorc 2 instead of Warlock 2 would also allow for level 6 spell slot if so desired. Then again I'm on PC and really tempted to add the mod that lets me have an ice eldrich blast so... :)

I think that the reason why wizard is as popular as other caster is probably gale being already a wizard companion

On a side note, if you ever played BG 1 & 2 on SCS, you should know that wizard fights are won by casting "Protection against Abjuration spell" all the time It's not really linked to anything in this video, and it's part of bigger weird puzzle mechanic, but I like the fact you do play Abjuration !

Bro its fun to scroll through your video due to the random edditing

Now you have every class covered in some capacity. (Rogue and Ranger mainly through multiclassing)

Looks like this might be broken now? Can no longer upcast create water. It will now always use a spell slot.

I dont think this build works anymore?? Can no longer cast mage armor and stack wards??

Making this tonight. Great video!

How do you infinitely cast Create Water?

Looks so good. A nice change from the other wiz waz options.

I like the disintegrating night walkers on this build better that the boots you had so that you don't slip on your own ice

Dont think this build works anymore..

As a brother-in-arms in the "run around to kill stuff" archetype, monk/cleric with at least 2 monk and at least 5 cleric and maxed out strength gets you multiple very long jumps per turn while using spirit guardians, letting you aoe the entire battlefield in one turn. Pair with enhance leap from this here wizard to be truly everywhere.

This is the single best build I've heard of since reverb-locks. I'm an enjoyer of making enemies skip their turn, but reverb-lock is too much RNG for me. Immortal ice wizard will definitely accompany me in my next playthrough.

Nice wizard for my honor mode party. Love your vids btw!😁✌️

I like your videos so much. I actually let the ads play through

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Those animations are hilarious. ❤

Pair this with the lore bard that applied blade ward on a heal. You're golden

I just soled serevok with this build. That was so fun seeing he hitting himself to bhaal

You can sacrifice your warlock 2 for sorcerer 2 to get the water myrmidon lvl 6 summon (accumulated spell slots give you 1) while still having Agathys (via ilithid or legendary staff or the replenish item), in honor mode you'd be resting a lot anyway so the spammable mage armor wouldn't really impact you as much and having a water myrmidon for healing + wet is always nice.

I noticed enemies will not attack you in honor mode if you have Agathys up. The steel watch, for example will not attack and sit around until they cast their flame exhaust attack so they can damage you without retaliation. You MUST keep Ray of Frost around and itemize. When testing the build to see the survival side of it I left it out and did not have the items. Eventually pulled a couple extra Steel Watch at end of a combat, had no spell slots left and it eventually burned through arcane ward charges before I could down them with punny melee attacks.

I accidentally built 50% of this build just yesterday and thought myself clever. Good on you, man.

great video I learned a lot , thanks bro!

Very well made video. Have a like and a subscriber.

What a great build, thanks!

0:23 BEST N MOST IMPORTANT PART EVER!!!

Now i want the same thing but with fire. GET OVER HERE

Personally instead of the repelling blast invocation I would take beguiling influence as persuasion and deception are a huge part of this game and can allow you to skip deadly boss fights. This is important for your main character, other characters in your quad can roll with repelling blast but main character should have beguiling influence

(Spoilers) This build still works in Patch 6 and my Gale was so scary that he solo'ed the gith ambush after Act 2, the AI literally could not understand what was happening that they started dashing and running away instead of fighting LOL

One suggestion... Instead of choosing Tempus as a deity, choose Selune instead. Whichever character worships Selune and carries the Idol of Selune is granted 1 point in INT and 1 point in WIS.

This could be risky however for your companions

A build that’s powerful in the end but you will eat shit the whole way to it.

Nice Video, thank you. I like the build very much. But watch your gain, audio is clipping sometimes. Sorry, I'm an audio engineer. :)

I've been using infernal robe instead of the bonespike garb. You can get some crazy thorns damage by doubling down on the magical shields