Help me decide what class to roll please

>nooooo my smash threads

Nice one. Enjoy BG3.

Probably gonna be trash

The beamdog nonsense is overblown. I played it on an iPad a while ago and it was great, but don’t download any of the extra characters they added. Even if they’re free.

Probably minimum stats thief, all skill points in Detect Illusion. Can't use spells, can't fight up close, all your stats are trash, dex is almost average but it's little consolation. Worse progression on pretty much anything than a fighter. Won't be able to backstab because you can't stealth (or hit), won't be able to open locks, find traps, or do anything useful.

He can't, he's a retarded zoomer, so first he has to ask for tips, what mods to use and what he's in for before he can play the game

Playing bg1 here. Why is my HP so low? I got 18 con. Is Sorc suppose to have 6 HP and the beginning?

pathfinder kingmaker is better

Yes. At the start of D&D you have pretty much no health, this is true for any class. However some classes get more with each level. Magelikes have very little HP, I think Barbarians have the most and fighters are second.

If it's your first time playing then I'd go with Blade. It's good sampler class that can do a bit of everything without having to mess around with multi/dual classing. At the very least it can help you find out what you like so you can be more specialized with your next playthrough.

Arcane casters don't have much hp, also 18 con was a waste on Sorcerer. Non fighter classes don't benefit from having more than 16 con

You can cast nearly every spell in the game. You can use spell sequencers for Cleric spells too. Also you can wear Robe of Vecna, single class clerics can't

>Monks are a meme don't fall for it op
You've misspelled "bards".

>Non fighter classes don't benefit from having more than 16 con
Dorf + Manual of Bodily Health.

What is the best stronghold?

Fighter

That is like 1 hp regen every 6 rounds. Not useful except for rest/travel healing

Recommended Base Class use either Fighter or Ranger (or Blade). Cavalier is good too.

For Multi go Ranger/Cleric for Divine Casting or Fighter/Thief for stabbity stab characters

Fighter/Mage is hard to pull off if you are new.

Fighters are fun and you can’t fuck them up

Mage one gives you potion or scrolls every week IIRC. The ranger one gives you a summon so strong I consider it an advantage to the class itself

monk is only good from bg2 onwards, if you have to carry him through bg1 it's not very fun

Kensai Mage

fun little thing about sorcerer is that even though their spell pool is rather limited, obviously because they don't need to worry about preparing spells, sorcerers can still use all wizard scrolls
so little hint for you that I'll spoiler just in case you'd rather figure it out yourself
at the end of one of the chapters, after the first mine I believe, you get attacked in a town next to an inn by some scrub with a find familiar scroll. I don't believe there is any other way to get this scroll, so wizards usually start with the spell to make early life easier but it's an absolute fucking waste for a sorcerer because you cast the spell once for the hp boost then pick the fucking thing up and put it in your backpack so it doesn't eat shit and die

Even in 2 its not very good, its immune to haste for fucks sake.

Yeah but their natural apr gain should make up for this I think. And for improved haste replacement they have greater whirlwind

monks are overhyped trash that cant compete with any warrior class, I think they get one unique fist weapon which bumps them up a tiny bit. Still shit compared to most things

You don't roll your class. You pick your class, which is sometimes limited by your ability scores or race.

thief/mage

put all your points into pick pocket
pick pocket scrolls and delete spells/relearn them for near infinite xp

thief anything is garbage imo, backstabbing is fun but is high maintenance to use properly, and doesn't work on many enemies in ToB. only time my main char is a thief is if i'm soloing and i go fighter/mage/thief multiclass. otherwise i just bring along a thief to the party and accept that he'll be garbage in combat 90% of the time. thief is not brainlet choice, or lazy man choice.

Paladin Inquisitor. Dunk on that autistic second edition high-level wizard chess game and just cut wizards in half.

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cast all the spells

Durlag's Tower > All of BG2

Anyone else just dump your thief companion in favor of a more suitable character if you know you're going into a big fight or combat-heavy area?

there isn't even supposed to be a find familiar spell in BG1 or monks

I love DT but I disagree. Firkraag, Spellhold, Guild War shenanigans just off the top of my head. Even if they aren't equally good in your opinion by themselves they certainly add up.

Thieves can effectively get unlimited gold and they can delete any boss with damage traps. They're broken.

i personally don't use that trick, you get more than enough gold vendoring everything especially if you can be bothered picking up magic ammo

It's not a trick, you're a thief. You get to steal every item from every shop the first time you visit them, and then use any leftover gold to buy all the items from the Adventurer's Mart. It's good.

I think he's talking about the exploit of stealing from a fencer and selling to them again. You can have infinite gold this way though this might have been fixed in EE, not sure

Wasn't there also an exploit with a quest giver rewarding you as many times as you talk to him/her somewhere in the Graveyard? Or was it only for XP?

Difference between original BGs and BG3 will be weird. With stuff like in BG only lawful good humans being paladins to atheist chaotic neutral thieflings being paladins in 5e

>5e
Eww.

>BG3
Also, what's the point? Rewrite metaplot to kill whoever is the $most_convenient_deity_with_opposing_alignment? What story is there left to tell in the deep end of the epic levels? Or will it be the golden industry standard "it was all a dream/amnesia/magical reset of all power to zero/whatever" lame cop-out?

We don't know anything about it except that it exists and it has illithids in it

They would've been much better off with "Forgotten Realms: Something - Whatever". It could've been Spelljammer, for example. Why can't there be a good Spelljammer video game.

>Illithids

Fuck those things sideways with a rake.

Spelljammer would scare the normies away.

>normies
Eww. How long until you're a big enough girl so that you're allowed to say "normalfags"?

Humans - The bandits on Cleaver cliff