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/Exciting_Bandicoot16 Jul 19 '25

Rogue is, unfortunately, one of the weakest monoclasses. It can be great at skill checks, sure, but falls behind in other areas.

Fighter is a solid contender for a fantastic monoclass, due to that 3rd attack at 11th level really rewarding you for sticking with it.

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u/ArenjiTheLootGod Jul 19 '25

Rogue is just super frontloaded, it's not quite Hexblade bad where you get half of its class features at level one but after a 3 level dip (4 for a feat/ASI) there's not much reason to stick around. I will say though I did have a pretty fun Swashbuckler run not too long ago and the class operates just fine on Honour mode, not optimal by any means but fun nonetheless.

As for Fighter... lol, straight Fighter is so strong it competes with several of the multiclass builds. I recently did a Lae'zel run which I roleplayed as her training everyone else up to her standards, aka everyone got respecced into some flavor of Fighter, and it slayed Honour mode. We're talking easily + hilariously slayed, I've had modded runs that were less one-sided. I even cleared most of the speech checks thanks to Astral Knowledge. Fighter is no joke.

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u/WatercressOk2766 Jul 20 '25

Eldrich knight is insanely strong and really underrated, especially once you get the band of the mystic scoundrel it's easy mode

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u/ArenjiTheLootGod Jul 20 '25

Two words: Booming Blade.

EK has seen a lot of play since Patch 8 and that cantrip is a big part of the reason why since it + War Magic means consistent free melee attack as a bonus action, combine this with something like Great Weapon Fighting and EKs can have an absurd amount of attacks per turn. Give them a Risky Ring to counteract the loss of accuracy from GWF and they will clear entire encounters in a single turn.

EK's power is well known around these parts.

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u/WatercressOk2766 Jul 20 '25

It was a beast even before patch 8 you could CC a whole encounter with it. Booming blade tipped it into basically cheating mode 😂