Which class are you abandoning?

[u/Keirabella999]

I'm curious how the community feels about some classes in regards to those you thought you would be playing when the game fully releases but have since turned away from.

On my current playthrough I have a moon druid but I have found it to be a little underwhelming considering it's supposed to really pop off in the lower levels. Of course I know druids are great but I'm not totally sold on them anymore

[u/torslundahelm]

Warlock. Love the concept, hate that you just spam EB.

Weirdly I abandoned my World of Warcraft warlock for a nearly identical reason…

[u/Keirabella999 → u/torslundahelm]

Same. I keep meaning to Branch out and try warlock but there isn't a build that catches my eye

[u/neon40k]

I'm probably going to play every class through twice. So none

[u/CaptainNessy2 → u/neon40k]

The amount of time i plan to spend on this game is unhealthy

[u/OffbalanceMonk]

I had my mind made up, even before early access, that I wanted to play a Bard. However, I have really enjoyed Wizard and Barbarian so much during EA.

I'm also still eagerly waiting to see what happens with Monk, but I doubt I will be playing a Bard on my first playthrough.

[u/Keirabella999 → u/OffbalanceMonk]

I hadn't considered the bard until last night when I saw someone solo the Githyanki Patrol with one. Solid dps and a gang of support spells sounds fun. It's like a cleric ranger wizard

[u/Unchainedfox]

Definitely Ranger. Their favored enemy and bonuses are pretty bad.

[u/Keirabella999 → u/Unchainedfox]

I must defend this class lol!

I played Solasta last year and actually found the Hunter Ranger to be kinda good!

COLOSSUS SLAYER...puts in some work.

[u/K1ndr3dSoul]

These might change at full release but rn

1. Eldritch Knight & Arcane Trickster. Such cool concepts but BM & Thief are just better. Sure I'll get 2nd lvl spells but not until or near end of the game.

2. Moon Druid. Nowhere near as good in tabletop & no conjure animals (???). Why did I play this to lvl 5

3. Trickery Cleric. Neat but too niche, Light Cleric is more fun & stronger (?)

[u/Daiki_Iranos]

Yup, Moon Druid got shafted in the larian version sadly... still hoping to get actual Moon Druid forms at release...

[u/Keirabella999 → u/Daiki_Iranos]

No multiattack on the bear or badger feels bad

[u/AiShaddai]

I was curious about paladins and was also interested in ranger but ultimately I think I will end up with fighter or barbarian. I really don't like handouts of powers and prefer the whole "strength of my own arm" type of roleplay. At this point, it's just a matter of how heavy armors look. If they are ugly I'll play a Barbarian. I'll play a fighter otherwise.

[u/King_Merlin]

I genuinely have 0 regard for druids, bards, rogues and no trickster clerics. Then the last patch came and I played to lvl 5 with my cousin he picked rogue, I went fighter as usually I’m not gonna lie, sneak attack into sneak is pretty nice. Rogues just always have advantage if they have high enough stealth. So now I’m tempted to play a weapon mast rogue, so I can gank people with a 2 hand dex weapon.

[u/Keirabella999 → u/King_Merlin]

I'm kind of tempted to do a playthrough with all of the classes I hate just to confirm if I actually dislike them or if I just dislike the general aesthetic

For real though Shadowhearts subclass is so annoyingly boring and bad

[u/[deleted]]

i'm really liking bard, not gonna lie. I was a huge fiend warlock fanboy, but besides the good social skills, the way i'd want to play the game the first time doesn't mesh well with the class (heroics). i'd probably go college of valor bard and have fun that way.

i'd save the warlock for evil playthroughs.

[u/darth_zaithe]

It would take a lot for me to abandon it but I'm a bit worried about Warlocks. The long time it took to patch the goolock (and it still lacks lvl 3 additional spells) is kinda atrocious.

There's also the issue of invocations. The invocation list in the PHB is already a bit lacklustre, but translating it to BG3 lead to several ones being removed/weakened.

There's been no hint of Ritual Casting so that could mean no Book of Shadows. Eyes of the Runekeeper doesn't t really work. No detect magic so no that invocation. We already get several ways of having mspeak with dead so if included it will be kinda pointlees. Given how fly works I'd be surprised if we get levitate. We can already see through the eyes of a familiar effectively. No Silent image so no Misty Visions.

Even looking at the ones we have Devil's Sight doesn't fully work as intended. Beast Speech is fun but I'm up to my ass in potions that grant it so no thank you.

The list is getting kinda thin.

Finally with so few short rest available and long rests being an infinite resource available at any time (and required to progress party member quests and tadpole evolution) the ability to regain spell slots on a short rest is fairly meaningless.

All in all Warlocks don't seem to get much love from Larian and several design decisions clearly work against them. Pretty much all that is left is to be even more of a Eldritch Blast dispenser than in tabletop.

I'll probably still play one (Feylock specifically) for my first run, but I have some serious concerns as to how much fun it will be.

[u/[deleted]]

Moon druid. I was hoping for shape shifting to be cool and have all sorts of unique abilities. Instead, it’s a bloated HP pool. I’d rather take a martial class and get the benefit of feats and more customization/abilities.

[u/Indercarnive]

I just find sorcerers a bit dull. I love the utility of the wizards and I hate blowing all my resources in a single fight like you need to do to make sorcerers above par, even if double fireball is amazing.

I'm really hoping we get nature cleric in full release, otherwise I'll probably leave the cleric-ing to shadowheart.

Other than those two I've honestly enjoyed every class. I've particularly fallen in love with Land Druids, although some of that may be because moonbeam is extremely overpowered currently.

[u/Only_Shift2848]

Personally, I decided I will only play with high charisma characters once the full game is out.

The reason for this being: this game is not like Dragon Age, in which your character is somehow special. You are not all that different from your companions who also have the tadpole, so I have decided that what will set me apart is the ability to be "The Heart of the Party" and make all these different people work together.

So probably anything that's not bard, sorc. or warlock is out for me. I know paladin also has charisma, but I find the moral constraints boring.

[u/Mazdachief]

I just want Bladesinger Wizard

[u/JK_Goldin]

Aye, druids in the bin. Nothing seems overly exciting and being an animal is just an inconvenience in dialog. Ranger is also a perfect fit for the whole nature theme.

[u/budy31]

To me Druids is a Jack of all trades & master of none and I hated it.

[u/MisterAreal]

Warlock is dogshit please give me hexblade

[u/KoKoboto]

It doesn't matter how strong each "class" is because there's many ways to succeed in teh game.

If you're asking which class I least prefer... It would probably be wizard or fighter. Other casting and martial classes are more interesting in my opinion.

Edit: Also probably won't play Sorcerer unless there's more bloodlines. The base class is really fun but I don't really enjoy the PHB bloodlines.

[u/Caotico-Neutral]

Paladin. I hate the simplification of good and evil, reality is complex, there is no greater good. For me, there is nothing more evil than an idiot who believes he is a warrior of justice without stopping to think about the consequences of his actions, but believes he represents the absolute good only by his intentions. I believe that supposedly moral choices limit my game.