THE MOST OP HONOR MODE Party Comp for Baldur's Gate 3

Why are they Bardlocks and not Wards?

I crushed everything in the game and instantly wiped to Cazador. Oh well time to run it back

Sooooo… say the hag dies… then what? 😭

I think if Gith had built body types they would be picked way more. The male body types look skinny and weak (physically) everyone wants a buff super hero avatar. Just my thoughts on it.

The most OP build I have found is actually a beast master ranger with the spider pet. Run up to boss on karlach, place booze around boss, web boss and booze with spider, fire bolt the web and profit.

Honestly I wouldn't go into Honour Mode without a Cleric. I find them too powerful to not have considering they have the ability to apply radiant orbs, deal AOE spells, stop bosses from healing, heal the entire team or distant revive someone, also buff the entire party and provide extra health and defence. It's just so much from one class. By act 2 they become a hard carry. They'd do so sooner but majority of the gear for the build is in act 1.5 and 2. But my Cleric has 22 AC with medium armour, a 10+ saving throw in every single ability and they deal great damage.

Light Cleric - Githyanki. (Main for extra proficiency and movement skills)
10,14,15,10,16,10.
Feats, Resilient Con for 16, Alert, API +2 Wis.
Holy Lance Helm, Luminous Armour, Clock of Protection, Evasive Shoes, Gloves of Dexterity (Respec Dex into other stats now), Coruscation Ring, Ring of Protection, Moondrop Pendant, Darkfire Shortbow, Blood of Lathander, Safeguard Shield.

You literally become such a tank, all of your saving throws succeed constantly. The one flex option here is the gloves as the Dex isn't as required once you get Alert but it allows you to dump dex later still giving you overall more points to spend else where while getting the medium armour bonus for dex still. Up to you. Everything else is basically best in slot until late game, mid act 3.

This build carried me through Tactician difficulty. I know it's not perfect as I haven't routed it yet to min max what items you can get first and when to replace certain items for better ones but in general by act 2 you have all the gear and it's super easy. You become a great face character and have very little risk of dying unless you walk into a trap. You become this tanky, caster, flex healer. So you can really go deep in three other DPS characters to help delete enemies before they can do too much damage or use legendary abilities on you. As long as you have Rogue somewhere for stealing and lockpicking you should be good. Though I think I like that about this game, you can really do whatever and manage fairly well with enough preparation, potions and scrolls do a lot of the heavy lifting for any class short comings.

I am wondering for the throwing barbarian build, why not dip into Thief Rogue for the extra attack every round? Aside from a few extra hitpoints, it's basically a comparison of a single extra damage die when you get a critical, (Barbarian 9) vs. a full on extra attack guaranteed every single round. Let alone the extra maneuverability in a pinch it provides with Cunning action. I'd still recommend Champion for the benefits there, but I like Barbarian 6, Fighter 3, Rogue 3 total.

Have a question for anyone able to help! I’ve been using his bardadin build so far for second playthrough (level 5), and really love the bard role. However, I’m a duergar so I can’t use shields. Is this make or break for the bardlock role? I really would love to do this party comp, but don’t want to relinquish my role as the bard unless I really need to. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Just get Gale to blow up in act 2. EZ Honor Mode.

Has anyone used this party comp and successfully done the Orin fight? I’m in act 3 rn and that’s really the only thing I’m worried about killing my run

Hi will you have an in depth video about the lore bardlock build?Thank you

Paladin/warlock + three barbarians (one from each subclass) -> smash mode

have you ever made a druid build? I would love to play a druid, but I have this feeling that it takes so long to get strong as druid….

I am not saying this disrespectfully... but you should hire a voice coach. You have a great natural voice, and with proper training, you could possibly find yourself going much further.

Love the barb thrower.

Githyanki Do not give you proficiency with shields. Just a heads up to anyone following his bardlock build

Is ac not that important? Doing a multiplayer run with improved enemy ai and 2x health mods atm and the character with the least ac in our party is a bow bard with 21 going up 23 with celestial haste and twin hasted sorlock and monk with like 24 and 26 ac

PSA on the Hag's Hair: Her Legendary Ability procs on spellcasting. This is still true when you reach her surrender at low HP dialogue check! If you cast Level 1 or higher buffs like Enhance Ability, it will proc her ability and force you back into combat with no choice but to finish her off and miss your chance for the hair. I learned this the hard way so you don't have to!

Just wanted to give an update. I'm almost done with my honor mode playthrough, and I used this party for the whole game (my only fight left is the final fight and the nether brain). Having this experience, easily the weakest member of the team was the throw barb. They did great getting me through act 1 and did fine in act 2, but in act 3, they are almost useless now. They don't do AoE damage, except the piddling amount from the legendary trident, they can't cast spell scrolls cause rage, and their single target damage has fallen off a cliff compared to other characters, even when they do hit their crits. I'd highly recommend running another spellcaster instead of the throw barb. A tempest cleric/storm sorcerer would be a huge compliment to this team, and you get plenty of items to have 2 spellcasters decked out in good gear

If you c out mid fight like go to main menu can you restart at your save?? Please I need this answer before I attempt this.

For the 1st build why not start Bard for the extra weapon and skill proficiencies?

i feel like going 5 barb, 4 warrior and 3 theif is better for the throw build.

Gloves of Archery you get in Act 1, Pretty sure it's from the Goblin Merchant, but if I'm wrong, you can get them from the Zhentarum Merchant guy, where you get the Titanstring bow

Monk saving throw proficiency is Dex + Wis so you don't need the resilient Wis for the additional proficiency. You never naturally have advantage on those saving throws.

Love your vids! Love the way you organize them in different chapters too!😁🖤👌
A request- please make a full bardlock build vid.🙏
Please continue making awesome BG3 content!😁✌️

every other build recommendation i've seen for honor mode has said to not spec your character as if you are going to get hag's hair since it's not a guarantee on honor mode, so what would be your recommended specs for without?

Are you relying on rests and pots for your healing early levels? or do you recommend having some healing on your bard early on?

the friends drawback works the same way pickpocketing does. if you quickly ditch whoever you enchanted before the spell wears off (i.e. go to camp) you can drop the spell and leave camp without consequence

I wanna say, this guide is fantastic. You are very thorough and I reallllly appreciate your methodical layout which makes it so much easier to reference things as a player goes along in game. Extra props for not mentioning redundant gear and one time buffs to every member. I get kinda annoyed when someone recommends the hags hair for all 4 of your members like many do. Finally thank you for timestamps. I wish all bg3 content was this well laid out. Sub'd!

Thanks for the time and effort it took to make this. Will definitely be using this for my honor mode run

A couple things I'm sure other people have mentioned by now:

Most everyone knows about the Hill Giant Elixirs that can be bought 3 at a time from Ethel in the Grove, and her stock resets on a long rest, so long as you don't trigger her quest or go south, but also the hobgoblin and the alchemist in the myconoid colony in the underark both sell fingers of hill giant and the alchemist will sell 1 Elixir of Hill Giant strength, which also resets on long rest. If you stay to the north of the map and go into the Underdark via the temple in the Goblin camp this gives you 4 and 2/3 elixirs every long rest as long as you have gold and camp supplies. For that reason, I would dump strength on either the throw barb or monk, with monk being the better choice imo. This lets you give the monk 16 dex, 16 wisdom, and 15 con. Bump con with tavern brawler. You could even stock up enough elixirs for both characters if you loot everything you find, but tbh I prefer to play it safe and keep it on one

There's a few good items you can get very early on for your bardlock, too. Volo sells The Whispering Promise Ring and there's a chest near Alfira that gives you Cap of Curing. There are also Boots of Aid and Comfort (though I don't remember where you get them off the top of my head). The bless doesn't work with the bardic inspiration heal, but having extra healing and buffs is amazing for early game and getting those hit percentages and survivability up until you start getting gear

There's also the Silver Pendant on a skeleton next to the fire at the Harper Stash which gives you the Guidance centrip. Since we're not running a cleric, this is invaluable for passing skill checks and can be used for most of the game until you get end-game gear

The Bracers of Defense and Haste Helm can both be found in the blighted village, both amazing for the monk or throw barb

The Graceful Cloth can be bought at the very beginning of the mountain pass from the lady who asks for the gith egg, amazing for the monk. She also sells gloves that give unarmed attacks 1-4 Fire dmg for your monk

Gloves of Dexterity can be bought in the Gith Creche. I'd recommend giving them to throw barb. These let you dump dex and put more points in con, str, and wis. 17 str boost to 18 with Tavern Brawler, 16 Con, 14 Wisdom.

Act 2 at last light inn you can buy clothing that gives you +2 str up to 20, put on throw barb (or monk if throw barb is using elixirs). This gives you 20 str with no ASI if you have the Gloves of dexterity, too

I'm sure there are a ton more items I'm missing, but these early game items can make all the difference and help you actually get to act 3 to make the builds fully come online

Which character would you have take the Potion of Everlasting Vigour?

Im wrapping up my second tactician run and thinking ahead to honor mode. I gotta ask, I dont see much healing in this comp or am I missing something??

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Is there any room for a wizard multiclass with portent dice even just specing in 2 levels

Thank you so much for this video I feel like I have a chance at Honour mode now.

I got killed at the crèche

My tav was half orc 6 swords bard/3 fighter (champion)/ 3 rogue (assassin). You can get your crits down to 14/15. You get heavy armor from fighter and just equip the risky ring so you can use sneak attack every turn. You don’t really cast spells in combat so every spell slot can be used for utility/buffing. With defensive flourish I was getting up to 26 AC. Pretty crazy build imo

Wont the gloomstalker assassin suffer from not having any ASI therefor no skill beyond 16

Githyanki doesn’t start w shield proficiency.

For Bard, I just prefer 100% Bard of Swords, get the Helmet of Arcane Acuity (+2 arcane Acuity per damage with a weapon), since it's in act 2, you'll bascially be lvl 5, so you can use this with your flourish to get 4 hits, that's +8, aka max amount. Then just cast hold person next turn for 100% chance to succeed, (Use other CCs for non-humanoids) and then in act 3, you can easily get the Weapon Attack = Illusion/Enchantment bonus action. All your CC as a bard is those two, so now, you can do on turn 1, CC everyone and just win. (Also Arrow of Many-hits also works for this)

Then get deadshot for your bard because their damage will mostly be auto attacks and since it doubles your proficiency bonus for attacks. Get Alert as your feat so you always go first. Your other 3 can be a paladin (With hold person you have 100% crit, so that means Crit-smite) and then just whatever you want. You don't need more in Act 3.

So a half drow can use darkness as a cantrip while a full drow can only do it once a day?

My son-in-law helped me build a dark urge fighter; that along with his monk and bard, killed Raffell and all but one minion on the first turn. The fourth character was a Cleric who just buffed...Honor Mode

For the gloomstalker build, why choose two weapon fighting over archery for your fighting style, is the bonus to off hand damage that much more valuable to a +2 to hit on all your ranged attacks?

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My current Honor mode run im playing a Gith Knowledge Cleric/ Beastmaster Ranger so i'm proficient in everything except Acrobatics. Also gunned to get the 3 magic items to increase Str, Dex and Int so my stats are all 16 and above once ive reached act 2.

What is max Charisma? 20 base, 22 birth hat, 24 duke sword, 27 mirror 28 hag hair?

I'd prefer a swords bard (fighter1/wizard1/sb10) to bardlock. The band of mystic scoundrel + helm of arcane acuity make the control available to a bow user nearly unstoppable. The bard lock is better if you're doing a full team of devil sight that is gonna spam darkness everywhere, which can be really powerful but in a balanced team it's no contest. You could get slightly closer with Markoheshkir granting thunder damage + hat of storm scion. Would then also benefit from general reverberation gear to prone your primary target but I generally like this setup better on a Sorcerer/GOO Warlock who can fear on crit (fear + prone causes skipped turn because to get out of prone you have to move) and twin haste. I'd prob swap SB for bardlock and Sorlock for Gloomstalker, then you don't need to deal with sneaking.

why do Fighter levels for Throw Barb when you could throw 3 times a turn every turn with Thief Rogue. Frenzied throw is a bonus action and thief gives you two.

Stealing from the gnome in the goblin camp the following scrolls: mirror image, blur, fireball, haste, invis potions, darkness arrows, fire arrows, scorching ray scrolls, magic missile scrolls, warding scrolls, oil of accuracy, poisons, elixir of hill giant strength, bloodlust elixir…. And then stealing much of the same stuff from Volo at level 3 is the only way I’m making it through honor mode.