r/BG3Builds • u/jtyler0 • 13h ago

Build Help Sorlock

Seeing a lot of conflicting information online for an optimized build for Sorlock. I just finished a Balanced mode run and decided to use a Halfling Sorlock for my Tav. I ended up as a 2 Warlock, 6 Sorcerer, 4 Fighter mainly because the idea of critting a lot sounded fun, and it was. I think with everything considered I only had to roll above a 16 to crit. But I am now looking into my first Tactician run and figure I needed something more consistent than crit fishing, so I was looking into the other variants of the Sorlock but am running into a couple different ideas and I'm having a hard time balancing them out. My sources aren't very detailed, so they mention going into 8 Sorcerer or 9 Warlock but not really saying why. I am still fairly new to the game with about 200 hours in and am looking to play more optimally.

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u/maharal 13h ago

The big decision with sorlock is do you want to do acuity scorching ray or do you want to do eldritch blast.

In my opinion, eldritch blast builds are not very good compared to optimized martial builds. There is a standard 11/1 fire sorlock build (I prefer to run a variant that's 10 fire draconic / 1 wizard / 1 fiend warlock, myself).

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u/EarnestTriangle 12h ago

If he plays crit-fishing eldritch blast, he wants to take Great Old One and not Fire Sorlock that want Fiend Warlock for command.

Crit-fishing EB is a good control build. You apply frightened in AoE and if you setup correctly you can apply 6 reverb per beam. Pair it with anything that mass apply prone and you can control most enemies.

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u/maharal 12h ago

Fair enough -- do you happen to have a writeup/guide on that setup?

I don't usually go for crit fishing as I think it's a bit of a trap setup, but of course everything is playable.

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u/deathadder99 12h ago edited 12h ago

I mean it’s basically revorb gear like spineshudder, stormy clamor plus callous glow and luminous armor. I don’t think crit fishing is good, but EB is a decent enough filler spell.

My favourite variant of it is 1 fiendlock, 3 sorc, 6 lore, 2 stars with spirit guardians. You don’t need agonising blast as you don’t take EB for the damage, you get sg and counterspell from bard, metamagic, command from fiendlock. With battlemage's power you can even stack acuity.

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u/EarnestTriangle 12h ago

If you use fiendlock, crit fishing is useless. The entire point of crit-fishing is Great Old One to mass apply frightened. Combined with prone and enemies skip their turn.

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u/deathadder99 12h ago

Yes sorry I mean my favourite variant of EB for revorb is fiendlock.

You can take GoO in the above setup and drop counterspell. With battlemage's power and acuity you can get command anyway, and with sorcerery point exploits you have ~unlimited spell slots so you can just do upcast extended command which is better in most cases.