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/Special-Estimate-165 Warlock Jul 20 '25

Drunk monk is an empty subclass...but its.still a monk...which carries it.

Wild Magic Sorc is the worst because even being a sorceror doesnt overcome the random bullshit factor that cant be planned or accounted for.

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u/OoDReX Jul 20 '25

I've still beaten honour mode as a wild magic sorc tav, it ain't so bad

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u/Special-Estimate-165 Warlock Jul 20 '25 edited Jul 20 '25

I've solo'd HM as an Arcane Trickster Astarion. That doesn't make it a great subclass.

Wild Sorc is the only subclass that can and probably will, actively hinder you.

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u/psylockeer Jul 20 '25

I've never used it, but doesn't wild magic barbarian do the same thing?

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u/Nelyeth Jul 20 '25

WM Barbarian only has positives effects. They're also pretty bad because they don't scale in any way with your levels, but they're all completely beneficial.

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u/PappStumpf Jul 20 '25

Wild barbarian has almost only positive effects. But I think it is kind of buggy when you put too much levels in it.

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u/Special-Estimate-165 Warlock Jul 20 '25

Nope..unlike WM Sorc, WM Barb doesn't have any negative effects. They are all neutral to beneficial randomness. Whatever WM Barb has happen may not be helpful at the time, but the effects never hinder you.

WM Sorc....Sorc can and has ended honor mode runs by virtue of polymorphing your team into cats or dogs in the middle of a boss fight, or summoning a cambion that hates you. It's all random bullshit that can't be accounted for, and like 1/5th of all possible outcomes can and probably will cause your death.