Pure Archfey Build | Baldur's Gate 3 Warlock Guide | Level 1-12 & Combat Tutorial

so there you go you can see we did 52 damage and because of our packed ability we have a second attack and in two hits we have taken down a half Fork Barbarian the Warlock is a amazing class in dungeons dragons and this is going to be my pure Arch Fay warlock build so we're going to do this as normal we're going to do level by level guide some items you should have and a Combat tutorial so let's begin so obviously we start with warlock at level one and obviously we're going to take eld's blast the best C trip in my opinion in the game and I do also like blade Ward it's a really good spell if you know you're going to be taking some incoming damage um n out of 10 you are probably going to want to use eld's blast but blade Ward is another good option the other thing you could do is bone chill prevent the target from healing until your next turn an undead Target receives disadvantage on attack rolls either of these it kind of depends if you have an enemy that you know will heal Lots if this is like your second play through or whatever then in my opinion bone Shield is the way forward and if you know that they've got a cleric with them who can do some healing spells again bone CH is a really nice way if you're focusing on one enemy to Bone CH them so they can't heal and then take him down that way and of course we are doing the arch face so this gives us F presence charm or frighten nearby foes with the Fay worlds of beling disturbing Magics really amazing fairy fire everyone in the zone if they fail the save has dis sorry has advantage on all attacks against enemies that are lit up really really powerful stuff is concentration though bear that in mind and we have access to sleep a spell that I don't really personally use but if you find a way of doing it it can be pretty helpful now I would personally switch these out and I would take hex 1d6 extra damage and it can be a bonus action so you throw this up hex an enemy and then you blast him with get El blast this is probably how 99% of warlock players play no Matter of the subass it's phenomenal and then I just take hellish rebuke as you can use this as a reaction and you can do two to 20 fire ding as a reaction this coupled with some Ultra Bloss on your turn which is a can trip and you will blast enemies and do so much damage okay when it comes to your ability scores we are going to have something that looks like this we're going to have eight in strength we're going to have 14 in decks because decks affects our armor class and it means we can use some finesse weapons we're going to have 16 in Constitution 10 intelligence 10 wisdom and 16 Charisma because Charisma is our damage dealer for our spells and all sorts and when it comes to proficiencies we're going to have whatever you feel like and just remember this is mainly going to be a spellcaster type build so we're really going to to focus on Charisma have our spells do as maximum damage as possible okay warlock level two we have two passives and this will make sense when we get to them for our spells however we are going to take the armor of agapis so gain five temporary hit points and Deals five Cal damage and this can be upscaled as you go through the game and the arms of Hadar prevent the target from using reactions really good way of if you want to get out of a melee area using this spell and then running away cuz a reaction would be an opportunity attack now of course we are going to take agonizing blast when you cast Ultra blast add your charisma modifier to the damage it deals unless is negative now AR is actually positive AR is a plus three at the moment this will be as high as possible as a plus five or a plus six if you follow my item guide we will also take repelling blast when you hit a creature with Al's blast you can push the creature up to 4.5 M away from you really good way of throwing enemies off of Ledges that sort of stuff okay warlock level three now we don't get subclass because we've already chosen it at level one and we have access to a bunch more spells and first up we're going to take hold person I think this is such an underrated spell not only will you hold an enemy for yourself you hold enemies for other characters and suddenly every hit against the held enemy is a critical hit if this lands and because we're going to be focusing on our kisma to boost our spell casting as high as possible we have the highest chance of being able to have this succeed really good stuff it is concentration though so if you take damage it will be lost but it's really good and we're going to take packed of the blade you can summon a packed weapon or bind the one you're wiing packed weapon you the build a spell casting ability modifier which means will now be used for our melee weapon attacks as well okay warlock level four we have our access to our first feat and we have access to another can trip I would take minor illusion to begin with and when it comes to a spell there are lots of options you can have mirror image is really good um basically increases your armor class by nine to begin with so if you are concentrate on a spell this is a great way of keeping that spell alive darkness is also another really good spell throw this up and enemies can't see you and inth reduce a character's peripheral vision and make it look at you if you want to become a tanky warlock this is a great spell to use for that as well and there is also fantasmal Force this is a great spell but I personally wouldn't choose this over hex both are concentration and if you're going to use one or the other hex in my opinion is the way to go so we'll be taking mirror image and for our feet obviously we're bumping our Charisma up to 18 now warlock level five we have the health increase but more importantly we have deepened packed which means that our weapon if we were to do a melee attack we now have an extra attack with that weapon so we can engage enemies in melee or we can El just blast them and for your spell the hunger of AAR this in my opinion is one of the best spells in the game I put this in my top 10 list of spells for Border's game and I still stand by that you throw this up and it's basically an AOE where creatures that start their turn in the area take between 2 to 12 C damage and if they end their turn in the area 2 to 18 acid damage is also considered difficult terrain which means enemies will struggle to walk through it now for an Eldridge invocation devil sight is the way forward here in my opinion you can see normally in darkness both magical and non-magical up to 24 M really good stuff and this can come into play as we will see warlock level six Misty Escape upon taking damage become invisible on your next turn you can cast a misty step though this will break your invisibility amazing you take damage and suddenly you've disappeared such a good way of not only being able to hold your concentration for longer because if you save your concentration roll and then become invisible they cannot see you and you also have the option of misy stepping so if you become invisible you could misy step to a higher ledge away from everyone and then just blast them with eld's blasts so such a versatile and amazing ability to give a warlock and for a spell I would take Darkness here and this ties into our devil site we can throw Darkness on oursel and then we can just stand in it where people can't see us and hit them hold our concentration of stuff really great way of tanking without even being in danger warlock level seven we have one more passive and a bunch more spells now there are loads of good options here you might be tempted to take for example counter spell or greater invisibility some people like blink I'm not a big fan warlocks in my opion especially this build is more of a DPS controller and I think counter spell is best left to a Bard or something like that where if you wish to use the spell slot to do that then at least with the Warlock you've got your spell slots for things like hex or hold person if you're mainly going to be a blaster type with this build and you really only want to focus on uh hex and eld's blast then counter spell will work you'll still have the spell slots available to cast it but if you wish to change up some of these spells and you want more damage dealing ones or more versatility like you want to take cloud of daggers or you want to take shatter and then C spell will eat into your spell slots so just bear that in mind now with that being said my two options here would be blight because it does Max damage or counter spell now I think counter spell is worth taking because it is a really good Battlefield control spell and if you can really just cast one spell per combat which is either a hex or hold person then you have no reason not to take counter spell but as I said if you want to use loads of multiple spells bear in mind eldr blast is a can trip so it won't eat into your spell slots another good thing to remember so those will be my two options I am going to take counter spell okay we have another ELD invocation really here you could take anything I actually really like the book of ancient secrets because you get rare sickness chromatic orb and silence you can cast these once per long rest and they don't expend any spell slots so essentially you just get three more damage dealing versatile spells I say damage dealing silence isn't but rare sickness is really good catic or is really good silence can come in really handy if you have a spell Caster against you um yeah and it's just it's free spells and they don't even eat into your spell slots I think this is the way to go okay warlock level eight now we have access to another spell and at this point I would take blight and our ability score Improvement we are buffing our Charisma to 20 okay warlock level 9 we have another passive and a bunch more spells now there is dominate person make a humanoid fight against you very very good if you can land this however it does use a wisdom saving throw against you so bear that in mind hold monster is basically as I've said before hold person but steroids and banishment from the last round I still think is a really good spell if you can land it cuz it just takes them off the battlefield fo around my picks would between any of these three for this one I will take dominate person just to show you how it works and for another Elder unication we are going to take the minions of chaos and we'll get a conjure Elemental which means we just have a summon on the battlefield okay warlock level 10 we have biging defenses so cannot be Charmed which ties into the very first level where we have the ability to charm enemies we have one more can trip so again take whatever you feel like going to take blade Ward which was my first option and now here I would take hold monster warlock level 11 we have more spells and access to Mystic Arcanum this will not use any spell slots but all are so good Circle of Death is a mass damage dealing necrotic spell Arcane gate basically allows you to teleport between two areas ibite is mass damage as well flesh to Stone so basically you just petrify an enemy and it can't do anything and crate Undead which means you can raise a corpse this really depends there's no wrong answer here in my opinion um crate Undead basically will give you another Minion to go alongside your Elemental flesh to Stone is basically kind of like hold monsters so maybe hold off on this ibite is really good like really really good Arcane gate maybe steer clear of this one as well I personally would take Circle of Death and at this point I would take and we're on our final level which is warlock level 12 we have more spells we can choose so at this point I would take hypnotic pattern and we have life Drinker you attacks doal an additional necrotic damage equal to your charisma modifier this is the only option to take here there are multiple things you could do here you could take like Savage attacker anything like that and we're going to bump our constitution up to 18 okay so that was our build levels 1 to 12 done now let's go with some items and the most important one is the birth R this is a hat that boost your charisma up to 22 and now again kisma is used for our melee weapons for extra damage for our spell casting essentially this just Buffs everything and that's exactly what we want when it comes to a cloak I really like the cloak of the weave this gives you a plus one bonus to your spell save DC and spell attack rolls which means we just have more chance of Landing things like hold monster and stuff like that uh it also means we can absorb Elemental damage once per short rest so if you're up against something you know only does fire damage you can trigger this and then alas you have half damage the evasive shoes plus one to Armor class which I think is key cuz the higher the armor class the more chance of holding our concentration spells when it comes to gloves I really like the giny gloves can trips targeting foes and allies can Target an additional creature the same targets can be chosen twice really good stuff however you do need to toggle this so bear that in mind the Ring of regeneration of your turn the ring activates and heals you one to four hit points the strange con ring while concentrating on spell the wearers weapon attacks do an additional one to four psychic damage now for a necklace there's loads of options I quite like just having the healing option so I like throwing on the amulet restoration this is interchangeable same with armor I've gone for very basic light armor bear in mind if you do pick human this is the only thing you will have proficiency with but this does give you a plus one to your initiative so bear that in mind and for a weapon you could take multiple weapons cuz you're just going to bind them as your packed weapon but for this I am going to take the charge bound Warhammer 1 d10 damage plus 1 D6 lightning damage when it is bound as our packed weapon and bear in mind even though we are not proficient with a Warhammer once we bind it as our packed weapon we become proficient with it so let's go find some combat show you this build in play okay so before you do anything make sure you bind your packed weapon so B packed weapon there we go and make sure you you have toggled your ad castron this is from your Gemini gloves and let's pick the fight move okay as you can see we just took damage and we can show off our Misty Escape ability and atas we are now invisible okay it is now Will's turn and as you can see we have the ability to mdep because of our Misty Escape so if we were to do this and to come up to here you can see we are now out of danger now unfortunately we are stuck up here but that's not necessarily a bad thing because we have the chance to now do things like our hex so we could do a Charisma hex and we will cast it on we'll do the big Barbarian apparently they want to move out the way not quite sure why I want to do that but okay um and because we are in melee we will just show off how regular attacks work with this packed weapon so there you go you can see we did an insane amount of damage just then if we come into our combat log you will see we hit 22 damage cuz it was a critical so all in all we did 13 from Life Drinker four necrotic five psychic eight lightning 22 bludgeoning for a grand total of around 52 damage and because of our packed ability we have a second attack and in two hits we have taken down a half Fork Barbarian now unfortunately we did take damage so we have lost our hex but we have hellish rebuke and there you go that is another bulk damage in fact that was 31 damage from a reaction which means our R could come in here and finish it off okay and we've done all that without even casting a spell yet so let's come up here and let's actually off some of our spells now so we could do our hex again okay so we can come up here and start blasting now we have our adroit Caster toggled on which means instead of having three ELD blasts we can now do four and alas another way of just killing enemies really really quick now bear in mind the Droid cast only works once per short rest so it will have to be refreshed but this is just a really nice quick way of just dealing extra damage now if we were to come up here making my move we still have multiple spells we haven't even shown off yet so let's start doing some stuff like Circle of Death this was our free ability we had and we'll just place it here enem for as you see Unfortunately they made the save so he took 19 damage but even still 19 is insane and we can come back in here reapply our hex although for some reason it wants me to be in melee now which I don't understand why now we have other things like you could do your F presents which we haven't had to test out because of how much DPS we've been dealing but for this you will mostly be doing your Eldridge blast okay we are going to ELD blast again 95% chance and we'll see how a regular just normal three shot works and there you go a huge amount of damage thrown back as well okay now that we're here we're going to close the distance a little bit and we're going to try off our fa presence and we can do disturbing or belingle let's try disturbing and we'll see if it works and there you go the enemy is now frightened which means if we come in here can move and have disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls really top stuff from a warlock and as you can see they are just Frozen still manag to land a hit but they are unable to go anywhere and we can come in here and we can finish the fight off with another huge 22 points of damage and that is what makes the Fay warlock so powerful is the buffed your DPS it's all Charisma focused you have such good Battlefield control whether it's Escape in where it's holding monsters frightening people in a massive Circle it's so so powerful and versatile and it's so worth trying out if you have enjoyed please let me know in the comments below and let me know what you change as well there's multiple ways you can do this but in my opinion this is my favorite way especially with the giant hammer I think it's just so much fun if you have enjoyed please also drop the video like it helps me amazingly and if you're new and you haven't subscribed what you'd like to that would also be amazing and hopefully I will see you guys in the next video bye [Music] guys

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Published: Thu Apr 11 2024