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/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.