Baldur’s Gate 3 | Ultimate Death Knight Build Guide | The DK Compendium - Paladin / Oathbreaker

death knight there aren't many words in RPGs that carry the massive amount of weight behind it like a death knight does but you are probably thinking about a hulking abomination of a death infused with the powers of cold and the Unholy but terrible that absolute father also able to control and summons the issue is every time I look up a death knight build for Baldur's Gate 3 I see the same oath break repelled and warlock hybrid and I keep thinking all we're really doing is using Divine Smite that's like the core of the build for like damage it it's a little bit weird and it started to bother me I'm an undead melee Knight Master of the Unholy how the hell could I do holy radio damage that doesn't really make sense to me what kind of BS is this so I went on a quest to discover what a death knight is I went down the DND Rabbit Hole back to even 1981. now to answer my own question it actually is lore appropriate death Knights and dozens and Dragons still retain their connection to the Divine even in death they can cast Divine smells so that's right guys hopebreaker Paladin casting holy you know using holy radiate damage device my is actually lower appropriate believe it or not this is coming straight from the 5e monster manual you can take a look here the 5V Mouse Marine has some other really cool tidbits but death Knights aren't only both breaker pounds though going back to monster manual 2 we see that death Knights can be raised from former black guards Fighters Rangers barbarians now that we have a grasp on the lore let's make some lower appropriate death knight builds now I can't get too into the lore because that'll just be a whole nother video in and of itself but you know you you know me guys I like to do a little bit of background I like the lower aspect of these bills instead of just mismatching something together I want something cohesive that makes sense to play and I I can get really ingrained with the lore of it and like make it make it much more entertaining to play through the game alright guys so the tldr we're gonna do four things to make a lower appropriate definite bill right one of the most important thing at least to me you want to we want to be an absolute Terror in melee combat right remember to be very strong we want to do a lot of damage if people come closer we want to utterly destroy them we also want to be tanky because we're going to be in melee a lot right number two we want to have some aspect of undeath right whether it's controlling Undead preferably we want to be able to summon Undead they don't have to be the strongest summons you know we're not a lich we're a death knight but being able to destroy our enemies in melee and then raise them up on our own side as you know zombies or goals would be fantastic we want to incorporate some type of Undead summoning control into our build number three now I am going to show in the background a little bit differences that bg3 did when it came to oath breaker and you know what oh it's keeper Paladin but their smites that actually is really cool the graphical differences I'll show it there but we still want to hopefully do some type of necrotic damage whether that's your spells or you know preferably on hit we want to incorporate some undeath Unholy necrotic aspect lastly we're gonna have an Infinity with magic you know death Knights are you know magical enemies at some point right like they have so infused weapons you know their weapons are a part of them right their magic infused their souls are in them you can't really kill Death Knight without destroying the weapon and then you can't just destroy them up on the oh yeah without you know their interlinks right so like whether that's soul packed or some type of magic weapon Elemental weapon some type of infusion with the weapon we want to incorporate that into the build all right guys so as this is gonna be the death knight compendium uh what better way to give you an assortment of builds right so I'm not gonna give you one I'm not gonna give you two I'm giving you four really different base builds to work with here to make your most flavorable you know aspect of a death knight that you want to do so just to start off real quick what better way to do that is with Shades so I'm not the biggest sheets person but you know I did my best to try to make it readable and colorful and whatever so the first build is going to be uh lock end and this has been covered uh tirelessly it's probably the most one of the most popular builds especially like Paladin wise or warlock wise super hybrid but real quick I'll just go over briefly build highlights it's by Far and Away the Undisputed champ you get three attacks I don't think this was fixed or changed in patch one I don't know how to describe it you get easy a stat distribution with the pack that ability and Charisma scaling you get a maze of hybrid damage algebra skills with hybrid there's a lot of good things like machine gunner builds like that you can go range your melee you have packed at a Tome if you want to not go back to the blade and be more Summoner Focus for uh minions and you get access to like the higher level spells for uh bigger smites which is good you have the option to dip in the fighter you have the option to dipping the wizard for a little bit of tankiness Shield uh the action surge with fighter and then another fighting style which is very very good but you know again it's been covered to death there's not a lot for me to add on you'll see a lot of the benefits here uh you get that really really nice darkness and devil sight for uh the ultrasound vacations and you know it's kind of self-explanatory the one thing I will say that is not a lock again I should have a I should have really five builds but if you go five palette and seven wizard if you want to be the more uh Lich side a more more of a summoner build you can do that at level six wizard you get better Undead you get access to level five uh Undead which is a a flying uh goal I think it's cool and then there's another one that I'll show you and you know they get more Health with the wizard level so that's one thing to keep in mind that is if you want to be more Summoners some people don't like the play style it is kind of annoying when you're going around town and people are running around and stuff like that but uh again I've been showing you the background of uh the minion stats and stuff like that so hopefully you have an idea of like is it worth it or not I don't know uh it's arguable it's probably not that good but if you want to go more that time if you want to be like a real like hey I want to focus on my minions as a definitely then you would probably go six Wizard or even seven and that would be a good option here now to get a little bit more in depth with like the actual bill right uh my take on it is gonna be the holy DK build again going back to our four aspects this one's gonna be very Unholy themed product so this is the way that you can do a lot of The Chronic damage you're going to be a walking Juggernaut you're going to get a lot of temporary health you're going to be tanky you get lots of actions you get you're very very active throughout the rounds and you get to summon a good amount of monsters right because uh Druid not only do they get access to anime dead if you go uh Circle the Spore but you get a fungal summon as a reaction which is going back to the temple uh what I like about this is that if you go champ or be master I think they're very very good you can go uh Elders night I don't think it's worth it if you want to do that you're pretty much doing it for shield access but you could do a level one a wizard dip if you want to go that way too uh you can end the build the core of the bill is gonna be five fight or five drude because you want level three spells and access to anime dead the issue with this is that uh the symbiotic the temporary health in order to get necrotic damage and get double damage I hate a little Spore it has to maintain the temporary health that's the issue so every uh level you get for so if you go five you only get 20 temporary health that can fall off so easily later on in the game that it's difficult to maintain so like you really have to invest even seven drude health is not that great when it comes to doing this like necrotic thing but you know you got to make sacrifices uh great weapon Master with extra attack is just really really good in the game especially how easy it is to generate advantage and again as we're like an unholdy DK where you are the necrotic team right so we get a lot of necrotic damage we want to be more melee focused but you know it is 24 Health if you go six levels or 28 if you go seven you know you just gotta make you know you gotta play around a little bit right in your party your DK if it is the main character you gotta play around a little bit right so the one thing I will say is that you do want to go at minimum probably uh level six in the Druid it'll give you 24 temperate Health you know every every little bit matters and you get access to fungal summon the way this build works and I'll show you some footage but pretty much you have all the the great things about Fighter fighting style second win action surge uh I would only really go champ or B Master champ really works well if you do a level one dip into warlock which I'll talk about a bit because the great other one you get on crit a chance to frighten which is very very good I overall like Battle Master better uh trip attack helps your summons get a higher chance to hit you get fright in there and then ripos is uh correct me if I'm saying it wrong but it's absolutely uh Temple changing thing it's probably one of the best superiority dive Spenders in the game because you really just set the tempo like this build is really about Tempo and taking advantage of those first early turns and what happens is that when we get into our turn we get two attacks if we crit or kill somebody we get a great weapon Master bonus action even if you don't you can bonus action goo if you want to start I mean bonus action hex and now we're doing more necrotic damage right uh with the Executioner and guaranteed crits you're gonna do some crazy damage with this guys it's very very nice a lot in the crotic if you have sort of chaos if you have a hex you have symbiotic you do a lot in the product damage per term it's very Unholy theme and then withdrew you get reactions so Halo spores reaction so you can get two attacks uh if you really want to do three attacks you have access to three attacks if you don't hex and then you can reaction Halo sports for more damage or reaction get some Tempo with a fungal summon and then you'll get you know preferably you'll have your uh your zombie already so that's why it's like really good really Temple focused and you know I have these uh color coded you can do different dips if you want and go uh just get five levels in Druid and get summons if you don't want the fungal if you don't think the fungal is worth it if you don't think level four is worth it and getting a little bit more health and symbiotic is worth it then you can do that I preferably uh do five fight or Sixth Street and then one warlock for a great other one and hex primarily right just be aware that the armor of a got this I don't know how to pronounce it does not stack with symbiotic you get one source of temporary health that's it uh the other thing to note is that the Drew charges for symbiote and I'm pretty sure the fungal summon reset on short rest so that's a big benefit now the last thing I'll talk about well the third build really but we're the fourth build depending how you think about it it's gonna be the oath breaker this is the most balanced if you're just playing the game as a new game and you want to be a death knight I would go this route it's the easiest way to get the most lore appropriate aspects of a death knight you go pal then you break your oh probably you know I don't know steal from somebody right early on the game you get all like in The Chronic themed stuff you get the dread aspects you get the auras you get Darkness or the hate you get get level 3 spells you get Feast you know you get great weapon you get all the stuff that's more appropriate for a palette it's the most balanced version uh the biggest negative about this is that you only get two level three spell slots because you're a hybrid Caster you get anime dead which is what you're probably going to want to use and you're probably going to use Elemental weapon Elemental Weapons very good the biggest issue with it is that you only get two spell slots so if you want to come back from a long rest and you want to Ellie weapon your own weapon and that's your concentration you have no other concentration and paladins are very very uh paladins have a plethora of like concentration spells like it's just too much and having a weapon God forbid you lose concentration that's it you have one more chance or you know you're probably gonna use the other thing for the other level three for anime dead so that's what you have so it's like that's what sucks about it but if you're if you're looking at from an objective standpoint from lore then you know just going night Paladin throughout throughout acts 1 and 2 is probably your best bet and then obviously once you get to the higher levels and you get to level 12 then you would start doing you know a wizard or fight or or a warlock dip right and it's all you know personal preference uh packed at a blade you know then you would go Charisma scaling at that point but typically you'll be strength con that's pretty much it so the last one uh not really my build everybody and their mother knows about this right you abuse a little a little bit of power that guarantees a crit and you just go Paladin dip for Smite access and then you just go any Caster to get a hundred you know all the spell shots in the world and do massive melee damage right so that's pretty much it there's nothing really unique about it so uh yeah so that's pretty much it guys I don't want to get uh too in depth I wanted to keep this video somewhat short and uh I will go over the races really quick especially with 1.0 so Dragon board did get buffed their breath is schedule level it's a lot better and you know they look awesome the other really really good ones well probably the best ones probably gonna be half Fork uh it's like probably just the best race in the game with crits and uh Reviving yourself on uh one hit point you know it's a really big deal tiefling is also super cool I think the idea of being like a bean from Hell coming to the Mortal plane and you know redeeming yourself as a paladin and maybe then falling to become a death knight is really damn cool uh for tiefling you would go uh zerial I believe yeah so for tiefling you would uh go zero because you get the smites later on which is you're just more smites you know you know you're you're a death knight so it's like it just it just makes sense it's really really cool um but that's pretty much it with the stats again you know it really depends on the build If You're Gonna Go the Charisma scale and you're gonna focus on Charisma if you're gonna go straight scaling you're going to focus on strength just always remember so just know for uh you know the the ability points guys if you're gonna go Charisma Focus If You're Gonna Go strength then that's what you're gonna go with right then uh just to know again the brackets 16 will get you plus three and you can't just get 17 you got to get to 18 right so if you're gonna go 17 strength make sure you rush uh ASI or something like heavy armor master or some other uh uh feat that will give you that plus one to get to the next bracket but that's pretty much it you know uh half Forks area are the best but again at the end of the day you pick whatever's uh most lower appropriate drow you know they really had that death knight look uh by next playthrough I'm gonna be doing a tiefling and then what I'm gonna do if you go here if you guys didn't know and you go to skin color you sh you show all and then I'll even show you like ice you know drown you get uh that More Death Knight that more uh definite look that more definite look you know and even some of them will show you like I think Jarrell has a lot of the ashy ones but you know you do have access to like that drought look that Undead look as other races too so something to think about um with that said again I wanted to keep it a little bit short uh I would have liked to show more gameplay and stuff like that but it's not the easiest thing to do and you know because I have like you know four to five to six builds like the compendium in this it's almost impossible but so most of the Negron Tech again you know if you did make it this far please like comment and subscribe and let me know what you think let me know how you made uh your death knight and if you think that you know what I gave you is a good uh basis to make something that flavorful on your end so that's pretty much it you know again uh leave a comment like comment subscribe and have a good one guys all right

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