Baldur's Gate 3 - Ultimate Support Build

all right we're doing some support testing here uh everyone's pretty low HP so let's start uh doing support stuff we're going to start off with some Mass cure wounds to heal everyone boom boom boom boom okay that's a big ass heal and everyone's resistant to to physical damage now with blade War damn all right let's do another heal Pretend This is like one whole turn Okay Mass healing word so that wasn't action and a bonus action so everyone's pretty much topped off okay cool all right um song of rest okay Bang all right let's let's do some more support stuff let's give everyone um some bartic inspiration there you go there you go there you go an extra 1D 1 d10 to the next attack roll ability check or saving throw is pretty damn good all right now now let's make let's make everyone a little bit faster during combat let's do that let's go ahead and just give everyone long Strider which is a ritual spell does not cost a spell slot all right now everyone has more movement speed cool um but we're not done yet let's go and give everyone freedom of movement as well let's go and do that and now yeah let's do that real quick it does cost a a spell slot but it doesn't matter because we're not going to be using high level spells anyway all right now for one as Freedom Movement which means uh difficult terrain doesn't do and they can't be paralyzed or restrained damn that's pretty good that's pretty good all right how about featherfall everyone need feather fall there we go ritual spell another ritual spell all right cool um man what what else can I do oh how about we bless everyone let's go and bless everyone let's go and bless everyone matter of fact let's go and double bless everyone see that double bless now because I'm blessed I don't want to be targeted so let's just go and cast Sanctuary on our now we can stay in the back line and never attack and bless will always be up okay cool um I mean another ritual spell speak with animals okay okay okay we can make someone invis we can make someone fly we have Misty step and dimension door we have lesser restoration and greater restoration we have knock to open I mean the only build the only thing this build doesn't have is damage all right good testing all right all right all right welcome to the ultimate support character now this character it does a lot of things really well okay now I will say just like you saw in the intro this character don't expect to do any damage at all with this character okay this character is a fullon support healing utility okay um dialogue God Charisma all right you need a talker in the group they can they can also do that you can also spin it to be a stealthy stealthy thing if you want I would not recommend that but if you want to do that you could okay um the check God if you need if you need to make any checks in the game use his character even a random Arcana check that no one that no that no one is proficient in in the group this this character can probably pass that check all right this is the allrounder the only round it doesn't have again is it doesn't do any damage but I think it literally does everything else if you play this character in your party you won't do any damage but you're probably going to be the most useful person in the group straight up actually I would guarantee that all right every time I play through the game all my playthroughs I have had this support character and I've refined it over I think I'm on my sixth playthrough now Jesus God help me um and I've refined it to where it feels absolutely perfect whatever I need whenever I'm in a bind whenever I need a uh you know get out a jail free card this character has that it can save characters it can make characters fly it can make characters invis it's a really good character to have in your group okay so if you're that support support person in your in your crew this is going to be it all right so let's get it going this is how I would level it we're going to start our first level into cleric of course we are cleric here's your C trips you want thury you want sacred flame and you want guidance you want thury because it gives you advantage on intimidation and performance checks um like I said this character is going to be your social character too it can be played as that all right and thury is a free advantage on those all right and because they're can trips they don't cost a spell slot next can trip is the classic DND damage spell for uh support type character sacred flame whenever whenever you want to do damage you're probably going to be using this to be honest okay um it's your highest damage in can trip throughout the whole thing you could you can use this or another can trip that we're going to discuss later but if you want to do damage you're probably just going to be casting sacred flame because I would suggest only using your spell slots to get to have your characters back to have your parties back like healing or um you know getting them out of a stun or something like that okay or making them invis whatever and the last can trip probably the best can trip of the game to be honest is guidance you can add a 1 D4 to any and all ability checks and you can do this throughout the whole damn game through dialogue through stealing stuff um the reading a book all that types of so I would recommend these three canps to start off with for show and the domain that we're going to pick is of course the life domain uh it comes with cure wounds it comes with bless two pretty solid support things but most importantly it comes with Disciple of Life your devotion empowers your healing spells when casting a healing spell the target regains additional hit points equal to two plus the Spells level okay um so it's just more healing it's just more healing and I believe this scales off of your spell casting modifier or your wisdom modifier as a cleric all right we're not going to stay a cleric but this is this this this is what this scales off of if I'm not mistaken all right so cool good healing there good spells there as far as the ability check uh the ability um points go I would get Charisma to 16 I would get wisdom of 16 you're probably not giving your hag hair or you're probably not boosting this character stats at all because to be be honest the stats don't matter too much you just want to make sure your charisma is high enough and your wisdom is high enough uh to to pass through dialogues and to heal your party members okay and your constitution of 14 of course to um have you beefy enough the thing is this character is going to be super freaking tanky anyway with the amount of equips I'm I'm going to be giving it um and your Constitution does not have to be super high I would focus on getting again your charisma and wisdom higher enough for dialogue checks and and healing okay and as far as the the fourth stat put it wherever you want I put it intelligence to make sure I can make uh intelligence checks uh and we don't need decks because we're going to be wearing heavy armor uh the reason why we're another reason why we're going life cleric is because we have proficiency with heavy armor heavy armor is what we're going to be wearing we are going to be the off tank I I would say we're going to be the off tank we don't want the smoke but we're willing to accept it you know what I'm saying so that's why we don't need dexterity cuz we're going to be wearing heavy armor and we're we're not going to need strength because we're not going to be hitting people with melee attacks we're probably again if you if you're going to do damage with this build you're probably just going to be using sacred flame anyway the point of The Bu The build is to just heal be utility be useful and that's it okay so cool as far as the proficiencies go I just chose uh whatever it gave me persuasion medicine it fits the character so there's that that's level one as a cleric also as a level one cleric before I forget clerics can prepare their spells every day kind of like Wizards and kind of like Druids or Z Rangers one of those anyway so you're going to press k k is the the default to pull up your your little spell list here and here are the spells that I'd recommend you prepare as a level one cleric we're only taking one level in cleric so this so this is the only time that you have to worry about this okay I would take create or destroy water because creating water is really freaking good at this game it dowes out fires and it can make your ice or lightning spellcaster do double damage all right and of course healing word a bonus action heal super solid and um if you it it if for some reason your team needs that extra bit of damage um like they need a Target to die then you just you can just cast a a guiding bolt otherwise if you don't if you really don't care about doing damage at all which you really shouldn't with this build you could take out guiding bolt and put in command command is very very good it is not a concentration spell but you can command something um to drop their weapon an easy way to get boss uh boss weapons you could comand it literally stops their turn it's a wisdom save okay um and it's a level one spell slot so I would actually use command over guiding bolt because again this is not a damage build all right and the last spell that I'd recommend is actually the most important spell for this build is sanctuary you or an ally cannot be targeted until you attack attack or harm a creature you can still take damage from area spells until the affected entity attacks or harms another creature it cannot be targeted by enemy attacks however it can still take damage from spells that influence a larger area why is sanctuary good is because a lot of the times this is how your turns are going to look like this is your first turn as a support character bless action as your action bonus action if no one needs a heal you're going to sanctuary and because we're never going to do damage we're never going to be out of sanctuary so nothing can Target you um so you you really never have to worry about breaking concentration on bless because you're Sanctuary it's actually such a good combo um it's a classic D and D combo again and super strong and also Sanctuary can be used uh in combination with another spell that we're going to get later that we'll talk about to keep NPC characters alive cuz their AI is very dumb okay but yeah this is the prepared spell list that I would recommend as a cleric and now that we're done as a level one cleric let's go ahead and immediately multiclass all right at level two we're going to immediately multiclass into Bard and guess what we are staying here for the next 11 levels the reason why is because when it comes down to Healing sure cleric gets that number one thing but we we only need that one level dip into cleric for disciple of life and blood less and cure wounds and the heavy armor proficiency that's a lot for a level one dip and now we can get all the good Stu that bards come with and bards are clearly the best when it comes to allaround utility I mean they they come with so much good stuff one of the good things as you guys probably can recognize is BIC inspiration Inspire an ally to to add a 1d6 to the next attack roll ability check or saving throw that's pretty much every role you make in the game name all right um now when you do B inspiration your allies I recommend toggling it you know it it is a passive feature you want to you want to turn it on on your reactions to ask you otherwise the game is going to use them automatically and you want to toggle it off in your passive bar so the game doesn't use it on a random freaking perception check in in the world you most likely want to be using these BC Inspirations uh I use it for my attack roles I'm a very offensive player so I saved it for my attack roles or my save throws but it's all up to you if you need that if you need that extra little 1d6 to your ability check then by all means go ahead and do it and this scales the higher level Bard you are this 1d6 die becomes 1d8 and eventually becomes 1 d10 an extra 1 d10 bonus you're never going to fail a check ever again right so there bar of inspiration obviously now let's go over some spells that I would choose as as a level one Bard the canant trips vicious mockery the Classic this is this is um most of the time I found myself using this over sacred flame actually sacred flame does slightly more damage but B vicious mockery uh gives the uh gives the enemy disadvantage on their next attack role so um whatever hits uh whatever uh has a higher chance to hit for some reason they're different so I think the the I think sacred flame uses your wisdom modifier and I think vicious mockery uses your charisma modifier I could be wrong on that but uh you want this just in case you just want to have disadvantage so whenever you doing damage it's either this or sacred flame whatever fits better for you okay and of course the second the second caner that we're going to pick is friends because we picked thury we have Advantage um on uh in intimidation and uh performance now with friends we have advantage on on the rest of those spells okay so uh you'll basically have advantage on every single Charisma check no matter what all right and because this is the social character you'll be making a lot of those chisma checks so you want to make sure you have Advantage either way the problem with friends friends is more problematic than thit turgy because friends can if you stay too long and the friends concentration breaks they can get mad at you so doat is kind of safer in that sense so but you want to make sure you justun run the away after you use friends all right as far as the Spells go for me I just chose the ritual spells there are plenty of ritual spells in this game and ritual spells if you don't know they don't cost spell slots we already have healing word we already have cure wounds as a cleric I guess we already have Bane from being a l one cleric too um I never use Bane though but so because of that I just chose ritual spells again we are the healing SL support utility so we get long Strider to give everyone in the party extra move this is this is free movement speed and it doesn't cost a spell slot next speak with animals there are there are quite a few moments in the game where speaking with animals can actually net you a a better reward or you can find out what's going on in the area more and again it's a ritual spell so it doesn't cost spells you can only cast this on yourself but that's fine because you're the talker in the group anyway next thing I'll get is disguise self um if you are a large character and you find like a little rocky crevice or something that you can't fit into you can use disguise self to turn you into into a little halfling and fit into that little area or if um there's a vendor if you didn't know this if you are the same race as the vendor they'll they'll kind of hook you up on some so you can change your race if you're talking to the vendor is with this as well and not only that there are a lot there are a lot of items in this game to where if you're like a if you're a GI Yankee or if you're a certain race that item will give you a bigger buff and again with dis Sky self you can change that to get those Buffs okay okay so the sky self and of course it's a ritual spell so it does not cost a spell slot and the last ritual spell that I chose is featherfall um feather fall there's actually quite a few moments in the game where you got to make a a pretty large jump and you take a chunk out of your HP and it causes well causes me to have to either use potions or have to take a short rest feather fall will remove that okay and there then and there there are couple jumps in the game that I could recall to where like for example the shortcut to the underdark from the from from the spider place if you cast featherfall it will uh you can get you can you can do some shortcuts into into some pretty cool places okay and and of course it is a ritual spell so it does not cost spell slot all right cool starting instrument if you're not doing the hand drum something's wrong with you it's the coolest instrument by far okay and as far as the uh skills I just chose deception because we are the talker and sometimes you got to persuade sometimes you got to deceive intimidate or perform just whatever all right at level three we're going another level into Bard and the spell that we're well first of all I guess we I should show what we're getting so we're getting jack of all trades now we have a plus half of our proficiency bonus to everything that we are not proficient in so again this character if you're trouble having making perception or survival checks or Arcana checks just have this character do it give him give him a little advantage and they they'll probably make the check all right and of course we get song of rest this is very very good okay especially in tactician and tactician it takes 80 goddamn cam supplies to take a long rest which isn't really a problem if you're if you're if if you're that good but it is a problem uh F first time playthroughs okay and song of rest makes it so you can add another short rest to your two short rests so you can take three short rests in total and it's just pretty useful to have okay think of it as another AOE heal for the group and it's a pretty big AOE heal which scales throughout the whole game cuz it's half of your HP you know what I'm saying and as far as a spell that I would choose there's no more ritual spells here so I just chose something something that I found was going to be the most useful Thunder wave not because of the damage but because it's a push spell anything that pushes in this game if you guys have seen my other videos you can push so many enemies off cliffs off off edges and they could have 200 hp they'll just die because you just did that so um I would use Thunder Wave you can also choose sleep it's not a it's not a concentration spell sleep is really really good early because there are a few things in the game that have over like 20 hp you know what I'm saying so sleep is really good um but I like I like again I'm a very defensive person so I I chose to under wve to push their asses off a damn Cliff at level four we're going to be a level three Bard and the subass we're going to be choosing is College of lore why College of lore because this is the college that comes with more spells it comes with more spells and more spells means more utility more healing we want that okay uh and of course it also comes with cutting words cutting words can be used uh so you can use a btic inspiration to um to distract a creature uh if they make any attack roles if they hit one of your teammates you can talk some which is cutting words I think the game actually makes you say some uh say roast them it's actually kind of funny and uh they can miss they can possibly miss their attack so it's pretty useful but then again when when you do get when you do get to this level make sure you put cutting words in the reaction make sure you tick the ask otherwise it's going to automatically use it and by the time you know it you're not going to have any B inspiration if available okay so make sure not only for this build make sure throughout the game um you're checking your reactions checking your passives and make sure the right things are toggled and and and ticked off all right that's that's very important okay um and the spell though we're going to choose where we unlock level two spells out of all these there there's a lot of goodies here by the way but out of all these spells I like enhan ability so in combat you're probably just going to be casting bless throughout the whole game I kind of this is how I play my support character in combat uh I bless I sanctuary and I AFK if someone needs to heal I throw it on them that's all you got to do really this character in my opinion is more so is more so out of combat okay so using so out of combat you're you're I'm probably going to be concentrating on enhance ability to give either me advantage on all Charisma checks or my teammate's advantage on strength dexterity whatever on on any chosen ability you can give them Advantage um for that and it's super useful uh having advantage on anything uh with with a with with a proficiency bonus plus some bonuses of your own you're probably going to pass that check okay so this makes it so you're pretty much never going to fail a check and there's there are a couple really really important checks in the game okay to whether you can decide whether you're going to fight uh for an hour or go through dialogue for a minute and have the same amount of XP type like like that you know what I'm saying so Boom at level five we're going to be a level four Bard and let's just go over it real quick we the cantrip that I chose was light cuz why not it's a it's a nice little utility to have having always casting light at uh just out of a long rest is is is is a habit of mine that I've been doing and it's pretty useful especially for characters that don't have dark vision like Shadow heart she's a human she does not have wait is she an elf never mind she has dark vision but sometimes uh a human like GI no dark vision boom cast light on his on his weapon he's good okay as far as the next spell that I chose it really depends who you are in the party you know what I'm saying I for me this is the full utility support character the only the only spell that I want to be concentrating on in battle uh is bless so it's a little boring but again it's it's exactly what I need but if you need someone to hold a person then get hold person here if you need someone if you don't have a lock picker in your group then get knocked if you need if you need to make people invis then get invisibility you know there's a lot of great choices here for me I went full on support so I chose lesser restoration which cures a creature from disease poison paralysis or blindness um and all of those things if your charact if one of your characters get gets affected by one of those things that's pretty bad okay if they're paralyzed especially that means every single incoming hit against them is a crit and they're probably going to die so having this in the the tuck is very clutch all right lesser restoration don't sleep on it and and as far as the feet goes so for me having 16 16 wisdom means I'm going to heal enough having 16 Charisma means I'm going to be able to get out of any dialogue that's enough for me so for me I like to choose other Feats other than ability score improvements normally the ability score Improvement would be the go-to for most builds for your first one but for me I I'm cool with this that this amount amount of wisdom and Charisma I'm cool with my main stats so I chose warcaster warcaster gives you advantage on saving throws to maintain concentration on spells and like I said right from the get-go you're going to be concentrating on bless most likely and um you want to keep that bless and not spend any more spell slots keep uh keep keeping casting bless because of your concentration you know what I'm saying so I chose warcaster because of that at level six we are at level five barred and we get some more cool stuff we get font of inspiration now you regain all your Bic inspiration after long or short rest before this level it was long rest now it's short rest so feel free to cutting words as much as you want during a fight CU you're probably going to short rest anyway but up until this point I would I would save the Bic Inspirations for out of combat uh and to use in combat or whatever but at this at this point in the game you definitely want to make sure all at all times all your teammates have a Bic inspiration especially after getting this fond of inspiration make sure they always have it if they use it during battle immediately replenish it okay unless you need to heal for your bonus action oh yeah and that's and that's probably something I should mention is in combat when you want to give someone inspiration it's a bonus action okay um which is it can kind of bad because normally your bonus action is going to either be using healing word to heal someone or Sanctuary on yourself to make sure you can keep concentration okay um but if if no one needs to heal and if you're already concent trading if you're already sanctuar uh then go ahead and use bck inspiration as your third go-to act all right um and as far as a spell that I chose now I know it looks kind of weird I chose feain death because I want for me I want the feain death Sanctuary combo as soon as possible in this game why is that it's because in balers Gate 3 if you keep certain NPCs alive that opens up dialogues in the future that opens up some items that can be easily missed that opens up some vendors that can be easily that that don't show up later in the game cuz they died you can keep them alive like 100% success rate so far for me with feain death plus Sanctuary a great example is the Isabel fight it's it's Infamous the game honestly puts you in a terrible position in my first playthrough she got her ass whooped she died immediately I was like what the so I so I'm thinking like well damn that was that supposed to happen but of course there are some cheesy strats like this one where you can do to save uh NPCs like her it's pretty simple so Fain death is an action you put an ally in a coma so you basically get put their ass to sleep and not only that they become resistant to to all damage except for psychic and disease and poison have no effect so they're basically in they're basically invincible in this sleeping State and because they're sleeping um they can't around and do some dumb you know what I'm saying so they're staying in that spot that safe spot but not only that for your bonus action you catch Sanctuary so not only are they resistant to everything but now nothing can Target them to get pushed to get thrown no nothing you know what I'm saying so now they're they're they're they're for sure invincible and now they that they can stay their dumbass they sleeping so they don't do some really stupid things in the fight you know because I don't know I don't know if you guys experienced it like me but there are some NPCs that are on my team that just they just want to die they have a suicide mission for sake I don't know I don't know what the hell their coding is they're for sure more stupid than the AO and the enemy team but you know I'm just going on a rant here feain death Sanctuary super good combo for keeping any of your NPCs alive and your teammates too I wouldn't use it on the teammates uh I would make my teammates more offensive you know what I'm saying or more tanky but I like to use this combo for a lot of NPCs like Isabel like the Night song like jira multiple NPCs all right so that's why I like feain death at this level as early as possible at level seven we're still going to be a Bard forever okay we get what do we get we get we get counter charm I never I never Ed this but it's it's something extra you have advantage on saving throws against being Charmed frightened that's probably very useful in very specific in Niche situations but I never Ed this I never had to right um as far as a spell that I got instead of choosing one of these level three spells so the problem is uh these spells are good bestelle curse fear hypnotic pattern glyph rewarding these these spells are really good but I I I I asked myself I was like would I rather be concentrating on these spells over bless and for me um all three three of my characters that's super useful on them so I was like not really okay for me no but if that's if that's a yes for you then feel free to pick one of these glyph awarding does do it's like a it's like a little uh pseudo Fireball okay um but for me I chose the pure support route so I chose an invisibility which is probably going to be something I'm going to be using out of combat to you know have a character pick a lock or have a character go steal some right so for me it was invisibility but for you it might be one of these powerful level three spells all right it's really up to you now to magical secrets so the reason why we go low Bard is because lore bards get magical Secrets a lot earlier than the other BS and magical Secrets is basically we can take spells from other classes for example hunger of Hadar uh one of the warlock's most strongest spells one of the best control/ damage spells in the game this covers a huge area and is really really good um but again I made my choices is because of my character how I wanted to play it for you feel free to take haste feel free to take hunger of Hadar feel free to take rify feel free to take a remove curse you know feel free to be more stealthy with pass without Trace if you want that spiritual weapon as a bonus action feel free to do that this is all preference baby all right I'm just showing y'all what work for me uh for my party and for my party I just needed more heels and I need needed a counter spell so because in battle you're not going to be using your spell slots very often if you want to if if you have a free turn you're probably going to do some some damage with like vicious mockery or something you're most most of the time you're going to be healing during battle and keeping everyone alive okay um and I didn't have a counter spell in the group because I wanted my my spellcaster to to be doing damage not wasting their spell slots on counter spells so for me counter spell was the best choice here and of course Mass healing word mass healing word is the AOE heal and um it is also another bonus action so now we have cure wounds healing word and mass healing word just in case we need it you know what I'm saying um so for me massine word and counter spell were the best choices for my group but again whatever you think is best for you there's also haste here haste is like one of the best Buffs in the game um and with war Caster you'll probably be able to haste anyone in the group all right but for me I like bless I like concentrating on bless cuz of a of another staff that I'm going to show you later um but yeah I chose masculine word and counter spell do whatever works for you all right at level eight as a Bard we get uh sorry at level eight where we are Level Seven bar which means we unlock level four spells and I got I like to get as early as possible freedom of movement freedom of movement um is not a ritual spell it does cost a whole ass fourth level spell slot but the reason why I like this is because it lasts until a long rest and it's not a concentration spell that means you can give your whole team immune to difficult terrain they can't be paralyzed or restrained and that it it also breaks stun off of them if they're currently stun you know what I'm saying so this is super useful to have okay um because there are moments in the game where randomly one of your teammates are going to be paralyzed one of them is going to be restrained and it's over for them they're dead especially in tactician all right the AI isn't that stupid you know what I'm saying at least the enemies aren't but freedom of movement uh just gives that little extra ump to your teammates so they're just out there doing whatever they want now now they're blessed now they're long strided now they're freedom of movement I mean that alone is coming from you so again this this build doesn't do damage but you are clearly the most useful person in your group you're providing all the Buffs you're providing all the healing you're doing all the dialogue this is a great character to have in your party trust all right I like freedom of movement level nine we are level eight barred by the way I forgot to shout out the beautiful Shadow heart that we're using here for our example of course she is the ultimate support the sh worshipper okay or Saloon worshipper if you want that route but um yes we are level eight barred what do we get here so the spell that I chose was dimension door just the best mobile skill in the game okay but there are so many good spells here um the second spell that I would choose is probably greater invisibility this will give one of your characters um greater invid which means they can attack or you spells in that invisibility as long they keep passing stealth checks and if they're a super stealthy character they'll probably stay invis but again like I said I like F I like concentrating on bless and I already have invisibility as a lower spell slot you know what I'm saying so I I for me I didn't really need greater invisibility in my party so I just chose dimension door because dimension door is just so good for getting places you know what I'm saying and of course as a level eight bar you get a feat like I mentioned earlier I didn't I didn't need any more wisdom I didn't need any more uh Charisma I didn't need any more Constitution we definitely don't need Constitution later because of an item that we use um so I just chose lucky lucky is a lot of D andd campaigns have have ban lucky just because of how good it is it just gives you three extra rolls or luck points if you roll a one you you can use a luck point and then refresh off of long rests and after I think every long rest you're going to have like one two or three bad rolls so now you can use lucky to replace that it's just super useful to have and this just stacks on top of enhan ability this stacks on top of expertise you're never going to fail a roll when this build you just and if it happens you're really unlucky okay at level 10 10 we are level 9 barard and level N9 bar gets level five spells and the level five spell that I'm going to get I feel like I'm rapping um great restoration touch a creature charm Petri petrification stun or curse super solid you can also get Mass cure cure wounds here uh we're going to get this next level so don't worry about it um but yeah again this is a full support utility character hold monster is great dominate person is great seaming is super good you know especially if you're role playing but for Pure support utility purposes greater restoration and having greater restoration and less lesser Restoration in your bag uh that means your teammates are good they never have to worry about anything any type of condition that that they'll be affected by you know what I'm saying so greater restoration level 10 at level 11 we're going to be a level 10 Bard and what do we get as a level 10 Bard now our Bic Inspirations give a 1 d10 to any attack rolls ability checks or saving throws super freaking good and you can get more expect expertise I just chose intimidation and performance you could choose whatever you want though whatever you want I just like the going Max Charisma make sure I make all the Charisma checks in the Game Bang Bang Bang the Can trip doesn't matter I just was minor illusion just cuz whatever right spell Mas cure wounds of course for more healing now we have mass cure wounds and greater restoration really good fifth level spells for support utility and for the magical Secrets again this is where you can freestyle do what you do do what you want for your playthrough okay for me I just chose more mobility and fly okay because now now my support character they have Misty step and dimension door so now they're super mobile they have invisibility and flight so now they can make anyone in invis and they can make them fly and they can give them more movement speed with long Strider and they can they can make them pretty much uh uh Unstoppable with freedom of movement you know and with Le lesser restoration greater restoration seriously this character will support the hell out of your teammates super useful okay all right max level level 11 Bard we actually don't don't get anything pretty crazy here all we get well for me all I got was knock because I didn't I didn't need any any of these level six spells because like I said I'm only concentrating on Bless but if you do want to know some good uh a good level six spell ibite is really really good if you if you don't care about bless ibite you can uh as long as your concentrating on it you can keep casting eyebite on different different creatures so you can take one by one as the turns go on you can make each creature be absolutely useless in a whole last fight you know in Ballers Gate 3 if you just build your other three characters not this one with damage then they're probably you're probably just going to want to do do offense instead so for me I am very offensive based and I had one character that did zero damage but was like I said the most useful character cuz now we can now we can unlock locks we can fly people we can invis people we can do so much stuff we can do so much stuff so many Buffs so much utility so much support so much healing it's a great character to have in your party and now let's talk about some items that we could use for this God level support character huh all right let's go over some easy to obtain items that you can use for this build all right we're going to start off from the top to the bottom and of course these items are my preference okay I just chose some pretty easy to obtain items uh besides our Shield um um but there are plenty of other there are plenty of options with this build the only the only thing that I would say is like a must for this build is probably the gloves which we I'll go over it in a second so let's start off with the helmet so like I said we're starting level one cleric level one life cleric because we want heavy armor proficiency we we want to be the one in the crew wearing heavy armor all right um for for me when I do my playthroughs I like to have one person rocking heavy one person rocking medium one person rocking light and one person wearing clothes that that way I can spread the spread the loot around and everyone's happy you know what I'm saying but for me my support character is going to be tanky as hell so it never dies all right the helmet from the adamantine Forge so this can be obtained obviously you guys should know if you kill the adamantine Forge boss um and it's just it's just really good it's just really good attackers can't land H Critical Hits and you gain resistance to fire damage all right and resistance can stack by the way um so I just chose this obviously if you're looking for best in slot then you could freaking go Helm of balerin Boom sure use Helm of balerin and you'll be good but uh obviously this is one of the one of the more late game items that's why I didn't put it for the base build um but the Helm of baldr will definitely replace the Grim skull helmet when you get to that point in the game but if you're not but if not like most people then just stick with the Grim skull until you get there okay as far as the cloak goes the classic the go-to cloak of protection I use this for so many of my builds I I actually wish I could clone this item so I can put them on all my characters okay but look plus one AC plus one saving throw on a character that you want to keep alive is just it's just good okay you can use other cloaks like cloak of displacement uh you know the the the foggy cloak or whatever you could even use this one plus one bonus to your spell save DC but for me I'm trying to keep this character alive so plus one AC and plus one saving throw is just too valuable okay and the armor again we are at still doing the adamantine Forge stuff uh all incoming this is really good all- incoming damage is reduced by two so tanky stuff when a melee attack hits you the attacker is sent reeling which gives them uh a debuff to their attack roles crazy uh and of course uh canine crit hits all right now um these two I use for quite a while obviously again you could replace this later in the game once you get to um there is you could play you could replace this with hell desk armor you can replace it with this easily get your AC up there or you can get it's I think it's called the armor of of uh persistence I don't know what it's called but if if if you kept Damon alive in act three he sells a 20 AC armor a heavy armor that's pretty damn good and that's probably going to replace this and I'd keep it there for this build that armor is really really good uh the only reason why I don't have it is cuz it's I think it's like 20,000 it's really expensive so make sure you save some money uh to buy that armor but uh if you're looking for a late late game armor I would suggest that one it's called the armor of resistance armor of something like that um but Damon D Damon keep him alive make sure he stays alive make sure he doesn't die in the emerald Grove make sure he doesn't die in the last Light in keep him alive so you can see him again here in act three and Bal this gate and you could buy the armor the the heavy armor that he's selling that gives 20 AC I forgot the name of it okay otherwise you can just use this which is the Raphael armor okay the gloves these are easily the best in slot easily the best in slot okay when you heal a creature it gains the effect of Blade Ward blade Ward gives you resistance against pretty much all physical types of damage when you revive a creature it gains the effect of death Ward you know how when you're uh when when uh when a character gets down in your party you revive them and they immediately die afterwards yeah well now they won't because of death W so these gloves and they come with revivify which doesn't really matter because you have you have a lot of revivify Scrolls anyway in the game and you also have Withers to restore your teammates um which is why we don't get the revivify spell cuz it's useless pretty much uh for w those Gate 3 um but these gloves are clearly the best in slot you know you know what I'm saying and you um these can only be obtained in act three they can be obtained in um so the bassis gate the bassis gate Waypoint in the big in the big big city in act 3 the first building on the right it's like a little church or like a place where you can you know um you can pray to Gods there's a little hatch there there's a little underground um sorry that's wrong um there's a guy in there in the in the base room where he doesn't he's not marked as a vendor but he does sell stuff and one of the things he sells is are these gloves and these gloves are really really good and just so you know there is a Act One version of these there's a less powerful uh version of these gloves that you can get a lot earlier and that can be in act one where you have to do the investigate kaga Quest I don't have it here I have it in my other playthrough but I you know what I'm saying um but yeah those are called called the hell riter's Pride if I'm not mistaken you have to follow the investigate kaga's quest line and then zor will give those gloves to you and they'll pretty much have the effect of Blade wart on them but they don't have the effect of death wart but having that blade wart effect throughout the whole game from act one super good super good so again yeah if you're looking for a a less potent version that you can get a lot earlier Act One investigate kaga Quest Google it all right as far as the boots go now the boots you can go anywhere you can go you can go evasive boots you can go Misty step boots whatever I Like These Boots because um there are two ways you can lose concentration in this game one is through damage where you have to make a roll either dc10 or half the damage that you took in total I believe okay the other is the one that happens more I I feel like or the one that's more annoying is if you get if your character gets knocked prone okay then your concentration just ends there's no roll sucks actually um and it happens a lot okay and it's very frustrating but these boots make it so that'll never happen again that'll never happen again you can and you can get these off of killing minara when Menara is one of the goblin Camp bosses the dro with the um with with smoker voice okay the one that you can lay with if you're a dark urge by the way um when you cast spell that requires con ation you get momentum so there's that you're concentrating on bless every game every every fight but while you were while you were concentrating which you should be all the time you can't get knocked prone or be moved against your will so not only can you not be knocked prone you can't be shoved and these boots for me I never swapped out of these boots because it just felt so good always keeping concentration on my spell on top of War caster and all that okay so Bang there you go this can be found in the under dark at the Arcane Tower at the basement you got to do the whole Arcane Tower to reach the basement and what this does is it gives you bless actually no I'm going to reward that it gives you double bless so as you guys saw in the intro when I blessed my teammates they received a bless on top of that it's because it comes with mistress blessing bless grants an additional 1 D4 to saving throws and weapon attack rolls and an additional 2D for to spell attack roles so it's just a bless on top of a bless and I combine this with characters like an Elders Blaster like a Bowman like a throb Barian all characters that use attack roles and I made it so they never missed they literally they always had a 90% chance or up even if they were using things like Sharpshooter to land their attacks okay it's it's it's it's crazy it's it's op stacking these blesses okay and of course um if you don't want to be concentrating on bless and be a boring gamer like me and you want to be concentrating on hold person or slow or hold monster or something cooler um you can do that and they'll still have mous blessing because it's not a concentration spell okay and that's why this staff to me is best in slot it's pretty much a bless all the time all right um also I want to point out I am I am aware there is a permanent bless in the circus that can be purchased if I'm not mistaken but I think that only works for one character I could be wrong on that but I think only works for one character so staff of Arc blessing is just it's just really really good okay and I would not replace this for anything else but if you wanted to replace it what can you replace it with I mean what what what could you possibly replace that with I mean if you're going a more control ba base than I uh than I get guess you could do uh staff of spell power or Mel's first staff uh and I guess if you were doing more of a melee you know uh support build you can do blood of Leander okay because this also gives you a cheat death which is pretty damn good but for me for my playthrough I had a lot of attackers so staff of Arcane blessing was a easy choice for my best slot okay now let's go to the shield okay so this Shield is obviously you can't get the shield to La three okay it's in the house of grief it's follow Shadow heart's quest line and it's pretty hard to get um and it's one of the few 3 AC shields in the game this is that this is easily best in slot just because of the 3ac and it deals Force damage you can knock it prone you have you you have advantage against saving throws against spells it comes with reflective shell it comes with warning Bond it's just it doesn't get any better than this shield in the game you know especially if you're trying to stay alive but if you don't have this Shield just yet you can use stuff like um like just a regular 3ac shield the earliest one that can be picked up I believe is at the moonrise Towers behind the lantar vendor in yeah I you can either steal it or you can just wait till you guys raid the moonrise Towers if you're going the good guy route and you can take it off of him okay another good one is cck Shield you know if you if if you want to you know do some more controlling type kri Shield is good senton Shield is also good you know uh gaining getting a bonus to your initiative roles means you can bless your teammates before they start going crazy and they start you know uh separating from you you know what I'm saying but clearly the best shield for this build um once you once you get to act three is vonia walking Fortress it's so good and again it's in the house of grief just follow Shadow Hearts quest line and you got it all right the amulet so the amulet is very interchangeable I got this I'm using this because just in case my cleric dies just in case because I'm not using um blood of Leander for the cheat death I'm using this for the cheat death okay um um so the second part of part of the item potent healing maximize the number of hit points restored so I was like most people in that I thought well damn that means whenever I heal someone I I heal them for Max Max dice uh Max dice number that's not true that only counts for yourself when you heal yourself with a potion or a spell then you get the maximum hit points but when you heal someone else it's just dice okay trust me I thought it was but even even even with that being not true uh having a cheat death on your healer is pretty clutch because that's the one person I've always said this about anime about RPGs any TV show I've always said this League of Legends the support character is the most important character in the game there's no debate there's no debate they keep everyone alive they give everyone Buffs they're willing to you know bite the bullet they are the they are the cameraman they never get the shine but they they do the most work seriously so I want to make sure my cleric my support character Never Dies that's why I chose perap there are other options here Amulet of restoration can be picked up super early okay uh at the mikon vendor I believe the perad can be picked up in um the beginning of act two just before the crush freaking lady Esther is selling it I think that's her name who wants the egg you could also use uh you could take out warcaster feet and just use this instead and you could change out your warcaster into something different like tough for more HP or more Charisma or more wisdom if that if that's what you wanted okay a lot of options here for the amulet for me I chose this one because I just wanted to make sure my cleric always stayed alive all right now um as far as the Rings I honestly do whatever you want I just I had extra Rings um so I just put these on them if I if I were to have the perfect rings then I'd probably use the Ring of protection which I don't have in this playthrough because I forgot but the Ring of protection which is really good you can get that from from uh the ACT you can get the ring of protection super early you can get that from the Act One Quest okay ring of protection is really good um and freaking I don't know and any any ring that gives it an extra spell sure that would go that would be your secondary ring for me I chose Keepsake dominate Beast you can also use true love's caress which is awarding Bond ring if if you don't have vonia walking Fortress okay uh to link with another character to give them Waring Bond and warding bond is a really really good defensive buff but other than that for the Rings just go what you want I I'd say ringer protection is number one but you know what whatever you whatever you choose is fine uh and as far as the range weapon goes dark fire shortbow is my favorite ranged weapon that is a stat stick just because it gives uh fire damage resistance coold damage resistance and it gives haste um but like I said I focus on bless so it don't matter and those are the items that I'd recommend okay again these are all preference all the spells that I chose all the items that that I'm using is all preference do what y'all want okay I just want to provide you know some type of guideline some some type of template for those who are looking for that really good support character that's more useful than anyone else in the party you know what I'm saying um and yeah I guess that's going to be it for the video normally I provide a how to play but I kind of showed that in the intro anyway I so this is how you this is how you play this is how you play the build okay when you fight okay out of combat first let's say you do a long rest out of combat you're going to inspire everyone you're going to toggle that Inspire off on their bar okay you're going to Long shrider everyone you're going to speak of you're going to speak with animals yourself you're going to Freedom Movement everyone all right and then when you get into battle you're going to bless everyone and you're going to Sanctuary yourself and if anyone needs a heal healing word cure wounds if you need a big heal Mass cure wounds Mass healing word if they're stunned greater restoration if they're poisoned lesser restoration whatever you know you have Missy step you have dimension door for Mobility you have invisibility to to make you or your whole your whole team invis if you need to you have knock to unlock things if you need to this is the jack of all trades build for real for real okay um super useful it even has create water if you want to drop their weapon just a super useful build all right so there you go y'all that is my ultimate support utility healing character that I like to use in every single one of my playthroughs cuz without this character it'd be it'd be much more difficult to play the game all right with that being said thank you all so much for watching I truly appreciate it making this balers Gate 3 content has been very very fun for me not only it has a game I'm still exploring new about the game because of just by playing and from you guys too sometimes if you guys can drop game have knowledge about the game feel free to put it in the comments I love reading that you know the more I can learn about this game the better and that I want I want that to to be the case moving forward you know what I'm saying whatever game I play I'm trying to I'm trying to get this knowledge trying to get these built down so I could so I could so I could slightly min max you know what I'm saying um but yeah if yall enjoyed it please leave a like leave a comment y'all know how the algorithm works at this point everyone does at this point all that stuff actually does help you know watch the video all the way to the end just mute on your tabs all that good man anything that helps bro I'm I'm struggling out here okay an hour okay um but yeah uh next video is probably going to so I'm right now I'm currently doing my sixth playthrough and I'm working on um the best items in each Act I just finished editing the Act One video so that should be up pretty damn soon um but just ju just expect uh that and all the acts best items for each act as well and I still have a lot more builds that I want to show y'all that are pretty freaking strong in this game you know you can do a lot of crazy multiclass com combinations and I'm excited to show you guys that so anyway with that being said yall have a good one I'm out of here appreciate y'all and um bc3 Game of the Year bye

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Keywords: wyll, karlach, shadowheart, dark urge, dnd, 5e, laezel, astarion, gale, withers, dungeons and dragons, tiefling, gnome, dwarf, drow, elf, half elf, paladin, warlock, sorcerer, barbarian, wizard, druid, cleric, bard, fighter, monk, ranger, rogue, dragonborn, duergar, githyanki, human, halfling, illithid, ability check, saving throw, bonus action, background, feat, attack roll, stealth, sleight of hand, charisma, persuasion, deception, equipment, act 1, act 2, act 3, mind flayer, concentration, action surge, bg3, lae'zel

Id: r5Hfdr0tIr0

Length: 55min 9sec (3309 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 12 2023