I’m not fond of some of the classes or play as one myself and want else on companions, but I try to keep them lore friendly.
- Shadowhear I first made a monk, on 2nd playthrough first a paladin, but changed her to a Fighter eventually and I love the positive battle impact.
- Halsin I changed to a Bear Heart Barbarian. I’m not fond of Druids in fights, not sure why.
- Wyll I always respec, also not fond of Warlocs. He usually ends up a paladin, but I also usually don’t bring him along.
- Karlach I made a ranger.
- Astarion also a ranger.
- Gale I keep a wizard, because I cannot find any lore friendly class other than a wizard and also tbh I don’t mind wizards at all.
- Made Lae’Zel a Vlakith cleric.
- I’d respect Jaheira, but I cannot bear the fake sounding accent, so I don’t bring her anywhere.
Evidently if you make them bards, they have a whole new round of voice acting lines. loke the actors specifically recorded a bunch of bard lines, just in case you made them one. I’d make karlach a bard but she’s so strong as barb
I want to spec everyone into at least one level of bard and give them all different instruments. Most of them are non-charismatic so having the thaumaturgy cantrip might be a necessity.
Can’t you just have everyone talk to Alfira for musical instrument proficiency? They won’t have performance proficiency but at least they can play instruments. Mostly.
Without the performance they constantly fail.
It’s like 50/50 for me if they fail when they don’t have performance. But if you’re that set on it you can take the actor feat which gives performance proficiency.
Yeah I might do that instead. It’s not like I’m committed to a whole playthrough, but 50% failure rate is high when I’m trying to get 4 good performances at once.
Shadowheart I respec into light domain after certain plot events.
Astarion I respec into Thief because mage hand is useless in this game.
Wyll I respec into Paladin after certain plot events.
Respec Astarion? You don’t choose subclass for rogues til lvl 3.
Yeah I guess it defaults to Trickster.
It defaults to that, and I didn’t notice, so I chose spells and accepted the level up. Ended up re-speccing him into thief. So handy to have an extra bonus action!
Everyone is a bard
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I always respec Shadowheart into anything but Trickery domain, usually Light or Life. I also generally respec all companions just to fix their ability scores, some of them are terrible by default.
I didn’t realize till my second playthrough how much better light domain is. It’s massively more powerful. You get a great support reaction, more useful channel divinity (massive AoE radiant damage), and a bunch of useful fire spells including fire ball and flame wall. 10/10, would respec again.
Lae’zel as a monk, Karlach as a fighter.
I made Jaheira a ranger 8 fighter 4 because my character was already a druid.
Not sure if you played the original Baldur’s Gate, but Jahiera was originally a Fighter/Druid multiclass. So that’s canon.
Shadowheart I’ll move out of Trickery domain, always. There’s a brief point early-to-mid game where it’s pretty good to have Blessing of the Trickster up to set up an opening Concentrated Blast for a resource-free, guaranteed hit, but that falls off quick. The domain is so bad otherwise. I wish there was a more fitting option, but I’ve put her in either Life or War.
I also put Karlach in Ranger. Had a blast with her in Hunter + dual wield spec.
I’ve got Wyll in Monk in my current playthrough. Something about his physical build makes me feel like he’s suited for it. Or maybe I’m just playing too many RPGs where the men are ridiculously top-heavy.
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Shadowheart I changed to life domain and really leaned hard into healing/supporting. I’ve also tried multiclassing her into wizard or sorcerer to get access to some other support spells
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Karlach I made a Paladin. She can tank hits, has great damage output with smites and has minor healing. You can also multiclass her as a warlock to get 3 weapon attacks per turn but you do lose out on some of the higher paladin stuff. Temporary hitpoints on kills also works with the build nicely. I don’t think I would consider Karlach warlock lore friendly though
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Canon Jaheira is probably battle master 6/land druid 6
Minthara: Vengence 2/Swords Bard 10
BONK
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I’m still learning all the ins and outs of builds for each class so I haven’t even thought about doing respecs yet. There is so much depth for a relative DnD newb to unpack.
And keep in mind 5e is shallower than most did editions
Still to deep for me to reach the ground
Don’t worry, you’ll get there, my first actual pen and paper game was Palladium’s Rifts and Heroes Unlimited and I turned out mostly ok. Got a strange craving for GURPS though
I’m having lots of fun figuring stuff out. I’m playing the game without looking anything up and it’s so much fun.
I respec’d Lae’Zel to a Paladin, she’s about as fight-y as she was before but now she can heal and fuck up the undead a bit more.
I want to respec Wyll into something else 'cause I like his story so far but he’s pretty useless in a fight, especially since I’m a wizard and I pretty much always have Karlach and Shadowheart on the team, so anything he can do there’s usually someone who does it better. Maybe either a monk or a bard?
How is wyll useless in a fight? Give him the +cha to cantrip robe and at fifth level he’s doing 2d10+20 +2d6 every round. At 11th level he gets a third beam for another 1d10+10 +1d6. The d6s are hex, but you could drop that for something else I guess. Darkness + devil sight is very effective.
Though I guess if you long rest a lot, a class with consistent output isn’t going to seem as nice.
he’s pretty useless in a fight,
What lol he has like the best cantrip in the game not to mention all his other great spells that refresh on short rests
Bard Wyll would make a lot of sense, at least to me. I tried making him the elemental monk, but didn’t like the gameplay.
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Give him a couple levels in Paladin and he becomes an awesome frontliner
Not a major change but I made Shadowheart a War Cleric subclass to give her a broad variety of options in combat.
Yep. She’s semi-tanking as a War Cleric in heavy armor for me.
I’m turning Astarion into an Orkothemage Monk in this current playthrough
