The Kensai Mage Multi Class Baldur's Gate 3 Build Step by Step Guide [BG3]

hello and welcome to my channel kuros here today I'm bringing you the kai Mage this is a combination inspired in the kai a subass of fighter available back in balers gate 2 together with an Arcane Caster I tried to imitate the feeling of playing this but I must warn you that is not very efficient a build for truly try hard role players if you want to see how it works then get comfy a Kai where Fighters trained in an ancient School of Marshall fighting that refine the skills of an individual warrior in their weapon of choice when wielding their weapon of choice Ki exhibited an uncanny amount of control and finesse striking deadly accurate blows in bers gate 2 a kensai will not be able to wear any armor or bracers as a tradeoff for dealing maximum damage in combat there is no such thing in bers Gate 3 but we'll try to replicate the field and game Style by not using light medium or heavy armor also we will stick to using finesse long swords as their weapon of choice when planning the build I was hesitating between Monk and fighter as the starting class for this video we will focus in the fighter and sorcerer combination also we need to be able to survive as a fighter while not wearing any armor to achieve this we will start with a single level in sorcerer by choosing the draconic bloodline we start with decent health and a free mage armor at all times this combined with the shield spell plus High dexterity and Constitution should Aid us to stay alive then we will proceed with six levels into the Battle Master fighter since it provides the most damage while attacking thanks to Maneuvers then we continue as a sorcerer and we finish the build as a fighter 7 sorcerer five another combination that could resemble a canai would be a warlock 5 plus Wizard or sorcerer levels after that after you see the build let me know in the comments what are your thoughts or if you have an idea how to make a build that resembles a Kai better kindly read the description of this video to understand my thought process and some considerations for these guides also click the button down below to support my content without delay let's begin at level one we start as a sorcerer we select our c trips and our spells we try to get shield and magic Missile very useful early on draconic resilience will give us a base armor of 13 plus our dexterity modifier for our Dragon ancestor we go for cold or we can go as well for burning hands if we want the Fire theme finally for our ability points we are going to focus mostly on dexterity as it will be the ability that we will utilize for attacking IM High Constitution and a little bit of charisma at level two we will become a fighter we get access to Second win and we will use great weapon fighting this will allow us to use a versatile weapon as a two-handed weapon if we don't wear any other weapon in the offand slot we progress as a fighter and at level three we choose Battle Master to get access to Maneuvers I chose repost here but keep in mind it will compete with your Shield reaction the other two you can go for fainting attack messing attack trip attack disarming attack or even rally if you want to support your allies all are excellent choices at character level five we get access to our first Feit and we will go for Ability Improvement dexterity this will improve our Armor class attack rolls and attack damage with our finesse weapon we get the extra attack and and on our next level we go Fighter for the second feat I choose ability Improvement dexterity but later we will take great weapon master so if you want to take it here please go ahead it is also a choice I was also considering defensive duellist but that will be too many reactions on our next level we go back to sorcerer so we will learn an extra spell and we get access to meta magic so we can go with extended spell and twined spell at this point we get access to level two spells so blur is our Preferred Choice here since we will be in Mele most of the time and our choice for metam magic will be Quicken spell to make a better use of our bonus action on our next level we get access to another level two spell there are many choices here that we can take but keep in mind we do not have a lot of Charisma so our roles will not be fantastic so it's better to go for utility like Misty step for example make sure to replace spells as you see fit and then we continue and we get another fit our choice will be great weapon Master as this works with our versatile one handed sword our build is almost finished at this point we only will get one level three spell this time I will select the spell slow is a strong spell you can Target up to six enemies so we can give it a try this time for the last level I did not find the six level in sorcerer so appealing so I decided to go for another level in fighter we get an extra maneuver as well as an extra maneuver di so we will have a total of five per short rest as for the items as you can see we managed to get a very decent Armor class 23 we have the Finesse long sword but we can also equip this fantastic glaive that is obtained at the beginning of act three and now with the combat we have the tactician plus let's say because we have another two guys joining the party so now the combat will take a little bit longer but anyway I will cut the last part so it doesn't get super super long so what are the pros of this build versus let's say going for an eldrid Knight I actually have a build like that in my channel very strong combination so I didn't want to do exactly the same for this Kai showcase let's say what I like is that you have the Maneuvers but you sacrifice a lot of uh spell casting that is the trade-off but you will have much better melee than for example the end Knight and much more options for you to take during your turn so mostly we will use our spell casting to cast slow or any other level three spell that you chose to go for and we will maintain concentration on blur but since we're going to get swarmed let's say here by multiple enemies I decide to keep distance they can barely move I think it's a little bit underrated the slow spell I think it's very strong not a lot of people talk about it on top of that we have fantastic initiative thanks to our high dxterity so we can strike first and fast before we get wrecked let's say and as defensive options we have the shield and we can repost if we are in a one V one situation for example with this equipment we do not have advantage on concentration saving throws but we have Proficiency in concentration since we are a sorcerer so hopefully we can maintain the slow spell concentration long long enough to defeat one or two enemies let's see just to let you know guys I recorded the same combat with the glaive that I showed you before in the item showcase and literally took me half the time to make this combat exactly the same I think the sword falls off a little bit at this point of the game but uh it's really cool to to fight like that this poor guy has wasted like I don't know two three turns getting close second pikan closing in we get a fantastic repost here so the dwarf is almost out of the combat the cross Bowman keeps poking at us but we can manage for now for once I decided to use an item special because it's an area of effect to hit both of them but unfortunately I missed on one of them but I still have the bonus attack from creating on the dwarf at this point I will get snared by the Sharpshooter so I will miss a lot so I'm going to cut a big chunk of the fight so we move it to the pretty much to the end I hope you enjoyed this Kai showcase I think it was fun to to make the build to make this come together it is always interesting to try to come with new ideas or different ways to play and as usual thank thank you very much for watching and see you in the next one adios and since I smell blood I decide to go with evasive footwork so the enemies have disadvantage attacking me on this turn

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Length: 10min 16sec (616 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 06 2023