Best Baldur’s Gate 3 Builds – All Classes and Companions

This short article contains our best and updated Baldur’s Gate 3 Builds for all classes, companions, and the best party combinations.

This page lists our guides for all known skills so far, multiple playstyles, companions, and classes. Currently, the guides are designed based on analysis of all revealed Baldur’s Gate 3 content over the past months and Early Acces playthroughs. Our builds are created after countless hours of playtesting and build crafting to provide the best possible setups. We will continue to update the guides specifically after the game launches.

Our Best Baldur’s Gate 3 Builds

Every Baldur’s Gate 3 build below contains the information you need to create powerful characters, whether you are a beginner or an advanced player. In short, our build Guides explain playstyle, abilities, skills, and gear to help you understand the class’s strengths and weaknesses so that you can play the build at its full potential.

Each Baldur’s Gate 3 build includes the following:

• Class Mechanics Guide – Each class is different and has a special set of skills.
• Best Subclass
• Race Choices
• Ability Score
• Background and Skills
• Leveling tips – Each level will give you a chance to pick new spells, sometimes feats, or abilities.
• Gear
• Consumables
• Companions – they play a big role in each build, especially during solo playthroughs.
• Gameplay and Combat Tricks

Best Baldur’s Gate 3 Builds List for all Classes and Subclasses

Additionally, this page is split into Classes and Party sections. Click the specific button to be transported to the build guide. Here are all the best builds for all classes and Subclasses in Baldur’s Gate 3:

Barbarian Build (Berserker)

Barbarians are the ultimate melee warriors, relying on their raw strength and ferocity to tear through their enemies. They can enter a state of rage, which increases their damage output and durability.

Barbarian Build (Wildheart)

This subclass is straightforward, with both passive and active benefits. You want to play this build if you want a simple Barbarian that you can customize with an animal spirit.

Barbarian Build (Wild Magic)

Wild Magic Barbarians focuses on channeling chaotic and unpredictable magical energy into their rage, allowing them to tap into the forces of randomness and wild magic. You will use medium armor, a Two-Handed weapon, and maintain the identity of the Barbarian.

Bard Build (College of Valour)

Bards are versatile characters skilled in various areas, including music, magic, and combat. They are known for their ability to inspire their allies, debuff their enemies, and their unique ability to play musical instruments.

Cleric Build (Light Domain)

The Light Domain subclass is extremely versatile because you can access powerful support spells, bonuses, and extremely high-damage spells and weapon options. Since you will play range and have healing spells, your character will most likely die the last on the battlefield.

Cleric Build (Life Domain)

The Life Cleric is a character class that specializes in healing and supporting their allies. They draw their power from a divine source, often a deity associated with life, healing, and restoration. Life Clerics possess unique abilities and spells that make them invaluable members of any party.

Cleric Build (War Domain)

This War Domain Cleric build is designed to be a heavy armor front-line damage dealer. With high Strength and Charmisa, you will play differently than other Cleric builds. Using weapon attacks and taking advantage of a unique subclass feature that allows you to attack with bonus action, blending it with offensive spells and outside-of-combat utility.

Druid Build (Circle of the Moon)

Druids are nature-based spellcasters who have access to a broad range of spells and abilities. They can shape-shift into various animal forms, granting them unique tactical advantages. Druids excel at support roles, crowd control, and summoning, making them valuable assets to any party.

Fighter Build (Battle Master)

The Fighter class is a great choice for players who want to focus on dealing damage and being a tough tank in Baldur’s Gate 3. Fighters have a high hit point pool and access to a variety of armor and weapons, making them very durable in combat.

Fighter Build (Champion)

This build is focused on using a two-handed weapon style, ultra-aggressive and big damage. The subclass Champion prioritizes burst damage, and with a Two-Handed melee weapon, we will aim for big damage and a feat that feeds into a critical strike build.

Fighter Build (Eldritch Knight)

This build picks the Eldritch Knight subclass, making a hybrid Fighter and spellcaster. We will keep our intelligence low and use Sword and Shield for higher Armour Class (AC), providing high survivability and damage. The spell choices we select will be geared toward utility and crowd control. 

Monk Build (Way of the Open Hand)

This Monk build is a skilled and disciplined martial artist who harnesses their body’s inner energy to perform incredible feats of physical prowess and spiritual enlightenment. Monks are known for their unarmed combat, swift movement, and unique mystical abilities.

Paladin Build (Oathbreaker)

The Oathbreaker Paladin focuses on aggression, melee range with great damage, and mechanics like Smite, Dreadful Aspect, and Hellish Rebuke, making it a juggernaut on the battlefield. Oathbreaker Paladin is a unique subclass that focuses on darkness and corruption, allowing you to play an antihero or a fallen paladin seeking redemption.

Paladin Build (Oath of Ancients)

You can provide some decent healing, get access to crowd-control abilities, and still retain the identity of the Paladin. We will be using heavy armor, and two-handed weapons, playing in melee aggressively.

Paladin Build (Oath of Devotion)

Heavy armor, two-handed melee build with extra utility, healing, and buffs. That’s what the subclass brings: the same raw damage and flashy Divine Smite spells with extra healing and buffs that your team may need.

Paladin Build (Oath of Vengeance)

Paladins of this Oath are driven by a burning desire for justice, and they will stop at nothing to see their enemies brought to ruin. Oath of Vengeance Paladin is a unique subclass that focuses on spells and abilities to deal with targeting specific types of enemies. You want to play this subclass for single-target burst damage with a lot of debuff utility.

Ranger Build (Beast Master)

The key feature of the Beast Master subclass is the ability to form a strong bond with a loyal animal companion, which fights alongside the Ranger and aids them in various ways. The animal companion can be used for combat, exploration, and other activities.

Ranger Build (Gloom Stalker)

For this build, we will be focused on single-target burst damage at range using a bow. Your objective with this build is to destroy targets and be the first to take a turn. This way, you can prioritize the highest damage dealer and eliminate it before their turn. High initiate, stealth, and big damage!

Ranger Build (Hunter)

The Best Range Hunter subclass in Baldur’s Gate 3 is a master of ranged combat and survival skills, blending the finesse of an expert marksman with an innate connection to the natural world. The Hunter subclass is unique because of Hunter’s Prey, allowing your target to pick a unique ability.

Rogue Build (Arcane Trickster)

The Arcane Trickster Rogue build will focus on typical Rogue aspects like stealth damage. The benefit of this build is the ability to cast spells, mainly crowd control, stuns, and immobilization. This adds to the Rogue’s kit, allowing the class to still do great damage and play its natural tendencies.

Rogue Build (Assassin)

The Assassin subclass in Baldur’s Gate 3 is a specialization of the rogue class that focuses on stealth, precision, and deadly strikes. This build will play with dual wield and focus on high single-target burst damage.

Rogue Build (Thief)

Rogues are masters of stealth, deception, and precision strikes. They excel in both melee and ranged combat, and their Sneak Attack feature allows them to deal substantial damage in a single strike. Rogues also possess a wide array of skills, making them exceptional in non-combat situations.

Sorcerer Build (Draconic Bloodline)

Sorcerers possess innate magical abilities and manipulate their magic with a class mechanic metamagic. Using metamagic, Sorcerers can add additional range, cast multiple times in a turn, and provide incredible versatility when it comes to the spell casting.

Sorcerer Build (Storm Sorcery)

This build is intended for massive area-based damage using predominately Lighting Spells. With the subclass for Stormy Sorcery and with Dragonborn racial choice, you will have a lot of advantages when using Lighting spells. We will focus more on offensive area damage.

Sorcerer Build (Wild Magic)

Your goal is to do what the Sorcerer excels at, lobbing multiple fireballs or similar massive area spells and wiping out groups. This subclass choice favors randomness and added fun with Wild Magic. The Wild Magic subclass also helps with any damage element so you’re free to experiment with your favorite spells.

Warlock Build (Fiend)

Warlocks are mysterious and powerful spellcasters who have made a pact with a powerful being, such as a demon, devil, or archfey. In exchange for their power, warlocks must serve their patron’s bidding, often in dark and nefarious ways.

Wizard Build (Evocation)

Wizards class are renowned for their spellcasting prowess and unmatched versatility. They have access to the largest spell list in the game, enabling them to adapt to various situations. Wizards excel in area-of-effect spells, utility, and control, but they may require careful planning and preparation.

Wizard Build (Necromancy)

The Necromancy subclass is a compelling choice for spellcasters in Baldur’s Gate 3. It opens up a realm of dark and potent magic that allows characters to control the forces of life and death, raising the dead and sapping the life force from foes.

Best Baldur’s Gate 3 Builds List for all Companions

Click the specific button to be transported to the build guide. Here are all the best companion builds for Baldur’s Gate 3:

Astarion Build Guide

As a character with a secretive past and uncertain loyalties, Astarion’s journey will be filled with twists and surprises, keeping you on your toes as you unravel the mysteries that surround him.

Gale Build Guide

He is a powerful spellcaster with a wide range of spells, making him an asset to any party. Gale is also a kind and compassionate individual, always willing to help those in need.

Halsin Build Guide

Halsin can shape-shift into a wolf, bear, spider, and much more, each granting him unique tactical advantages. Druids excel at support roles, crowd control, and summoning, making them valuable assets to any party.

Jaheira Build Guide

Jaheira is focused on transferring via Wild Shape and is primarily a damage dealer. There are other forms of support, and you can heal to some extent. But this build Wild Shapes, provides great damage, crowd control, and high survivability.

Karlach Build Guide

Karlach is a powerful Asmodeus Tiefling Barbarian who admires strength in both combat and life. She was once a slave soldier, so it’s likely she has a soldier background.

Lae’zel Build Guide

Lae’zal is a powerful Githyanki warrior who joins your party on your journey through the tumultuous world of Avernus.

Shadowheart Build Guide

Shadowheart is a High Half-elven Cleric who serves Shar as a Trickery Domain. This means that she is a powerful spellcaster who is also proficient in stealth and deception.  Shadowheart is a complex and well-developed character.

Wyll Build Guide

Known as the Blade of Frontiers, Wyll carved a reputation as a renowned living legend and esteemed human noble, harboring a concealed and ominous truth. His formidable might emanates from a Demonic patron.

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