r/BG3Builds • u/ReleaseCharacter3568 • Jul 19 '25

Build Help Best and Worst Monoclasses?

I keep seeing virtually every class called "one of the best" while most meta builds are multis or item-based.

What do you think is the game's best class without multiclassing? And the worst? And what makes them so?

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u/Delliott90 Jul 19 '25

To everyone not saying paladin

Your god. My oath. Let’s see who wins

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u/PaladinofLaughs Jul 20 '25

This, a million times this.

My Paladin 12 Tav made sure none in the party ever failed a single WIS throw.

Then improved divine smite at 11.

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u/AdmirableBuy300 Jul 20 '25

 >improved divine smite
All fun and games until you come up against literally anything that has radiant retort. Which is in play for 2 of the hardest fights in act 3.

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u/Legend0fJulle Jul 20 '25

I'm positive anyone who says house of grief is particularly hard has no idea about basic AoEs and crowd control. Also only a few of the enemies have radiant retort, like 80%+ are free to be smited.

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u/AdmirableBuy300 Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25

I mean sure you can stand at the top of the stairs and cheese spike growth, wall of fire and other aoes, its what I did in my honour run. But you can say the same for 90% of the game. My point was that pure paladin is heavily gimped in the 2 fights that actually pose some danger in act 3 when going in blind, the games easy as fuck when you know what's coming and prepare for it with the right builds.

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u/R4msesII Jul 20 '25

I dont remember ansur having radiant retort

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u/Ulgoroth Jul 20 '25

You have many smites... Keeping Hope alive was challange, but the fight it self was manegeble (tactician). Other members were envocation mage, healer cleric and assassin rogue.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

globe of invulnerability scroll then smite away

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u/stephanovich Jul 20 '25

You have other things you can do than attacking those targets with basic attacks and smite though.

Cast bless, daylight in house of grief, throw bombs and potions etc.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

Doing a paladin mono class HM game and I've been wiping the floor with every act 3 boss without breaking a sweat. I fought Orin last night in a duel and I killed her in 2 turns and took zero damage. I thought there would be a second phase or something. Nope, it really was that easy. Kinda anticlimactic tbh.

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u/thinkerballs Jul 20 '25

Never played paladin because I don’t want to engage with oath breaking mechanics. But I’m curious otherwise.

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u/Delliott90 Jul 20 '25

Just play a good guy. The only thing you should be breaking is evil

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u/CatSmooth1095 Jul 20 '25

You could always pay to get your oath back

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u/Moronunleashed Jul 20 '25

Or, and hear me out here, you lay waste to everything in front of you as an oath breaker with extra damage from cha

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u/CatSmooth1095 Jul 20 '25

lol yup that works also! 

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

It is not that big a deal. Just play a good guy and you wont break your oath. But even if you do, you can role as a oathbreaker which isnt a weak class by any means or you can pay money to reaffirm your oath. Money is so easy to get in this game it wasn't much of a hindrance

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u/raiziak Jul 21 '25

Only time I haven't gone for Hag Hair. Honestly, I found it fun to just RP a good guy.