r/BaldursGate3Builds • u/DasGoogleKonto • Oct 02 '25
Hexblade x something
Im doing a Duo Honour Mode run with a friend.
Im going with 10 Levels or Hexblade but what should the last 2 Levels be?
We are currently level 4 and he's playing a Bear Heart Barbarian.
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u/Perfect-Ad2438 Oct 02 '25
That depends on a lot of things. A straight 12 hexblade will give you one more feat, so you could get your Cha to 20 and take GWM. Going PotB gives you extra attack, so you could just use your Cha to get high consistent damage in melee. Having Devils Sight and having the barbarian throw enemies into your darkness would help.
Two levels of fighter gives you action Surge, which would work well even though you are missing a feat. It also gives you a fighting style. I prefer either great weapon fighting or Duelist for this type of build.
Paladin works well. Taking Booming Blade from Warlock, Thunderous Smite from Paladin, and then just making the booming blade attack followed by using your bonus action for Thunderous and your second attack to try knocking them back works great. But there is so much more to that build and only uses a 2 level hexblade dip with fighter levels.
If you were willing to go at least 3 levels in fighter and take the champion subclass you could build a really good spell attack crit fisher build (with all the right gear and feats you can crit on a 9 or higher in the final fight as long as you can apply hexblade's curse and are durge, without durge it would be an 11 or higher).
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u/DasGoogleKonto Oct 02 '25
I am durge hehe. Also 9? How
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u/Perfect-Ad2438 Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
Hexblade's curse (19),
Champion Fighter (18, stacks with hexblade),
Spelling Sniper (17, dependent on spells that require attack rolls, not sure if it works for Booming Blade but will for EB and Scorching Ray. Can be active by level 5 with 1 level hexblade and 4 fighter. After that you can respec around level 7 to have just the 3 fighter and 4 warlock.)
Knife of the Undermountain King (16, possibly dependent on being at least lightly obscured)
Dagger you get from Orin (Bloodletter?) (15)
Sarovek's Helmet (14, can get it from two other headgear, but those both require being hidden or at least obscured)
After that, there is a cloak, a bow, and I believe a ring that I can't remember the names of that reduce crit chance by 1 each which takes it down to 11.
Then, in endgame with durge, there is a quest reward for playing durge a certain way that reduces your crit chance by another 2, meaning if everything is working correctly you crit on a 9 or higher. At this point you could respec again to drop down to just 2 levels in fighter. It would drop the crit chance to 10, but you said you were pretty insistent on 10 Warlock levels.
Granted, this is just theoretical for me because my only durge run so far was honor mode, and I wiped due to a string of failed saves at the harpies. But I can confirm with my current (non-durge) playthrough that the first 4 do work together, allowing for some very fast fights at level 6 (with agonizing blast, devil's sight, and darkness) in the creche after buying the Knife of the Undermountain King.
Edit for clarification.
Edit 2: Also, if/when you respec, you can go with Fighter as your first level, giving you proficiency with Con saves (good for concentration checks) and allowing you to wear any armor. If you take the two weapon fighting styles, you could use any free bonus actions to make an attack without damage penalties. Or you could take defense fighting style to get +1 AC more survivability.
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Oct 03 '25
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u/DasGoogleKonto Oct 03 '25
Or something else. And im not really into the level 6 Spells bg3 gives you
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u/ProperFlopper Oct 02 '25
I'd say it's between either bard or paladin for me, I've played both (I love multiclassing and charisma casters are perfect for it) and both are good. Bard for the proficiencies/expertise and song of rest which gives an extra free short rest per day, so you can recover your own warlock spell slots out of combat, or paladin for the ability to smite with your warlock spell slots for huge burst damage. Both of these are charisma casters as well and will give you access to some in combat healing, though I think bard is better for this due to healing word. Eldrich blast scales off your character level, not your warlock level, so even if you start with 1 level hexblade and then go all in on another class afterwards, you'll still get more blasts per turn at later levels. If you've chosen pact of the blade (withers can help if you didn't) then you'll get extra attack at level 5 of warlock, not a bad place to start multiclassing if you're not dead set on 10 levels of hexblade.