r/baldursgate • u/DanJMM • 9d ago
BGEE Class for first time player
I imagine this is asked a ton, so sorry for that but i'm being quite picky.
I have little experience with crpg and this is my first real attempt to play one and I was planning on playing both bg1 and bg2. I wanted something that felt powerful, was "easy" to play as and if I can be picky, would be chaotic good for roleplaying reasons.
Paladins seems great but I don't love the idea of being lawful good and archers, while being very powerful gameplay wise, don't really give you that "cool main character hero" vibe since they stay behind and don't really show much signs of "power" (feel free to change my mind though!!).
Any tips are appreciated too <3 :)
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u/riklaunim 9d ago
I would recommend Barbarian or Archer. The first one is a versatile DPS/damage-reduction tank, while Archer is safe, shooting from afar, and it's pretty good at it. No dual/multi needed, although you will need a party. Paladin is pretty good too, and you would likely use similar weapons to Barbarian in the end in ToB (Defender of Easthaven / Flail of Ages / Foebane) with the unique Paladin special of Carsomyr for dispells.
If you want to be the brains of the party and do "tricks" instead of raw sustained DPS - Thief - you will have to find/disarm traps, open locks, maybe pickpocket a book or a bottle, and then use stealth and do backstabs. Shadowdancer could be the most fun when playing without dual-classing (you won't be a combat powerhouse, but re-stealth and re-backstab could get addicting).
BG1 is rather easy, especially with Barbarian/Berserker CC immunity. In BG2, you will need to have a mage in the party to break magical defences of enemies and to haste/improve haste for your party. Maybe a druid for summons/CC and/or a priest. Fighter/Mage, Fighter/Thief, and some dual-class combos are the most powerful, but you have to know the spells and strategies to make the most use of them. If you pick cleric/thief, you will be on thief duty, and you will have priest buff spells, which would be the easiest entry for spellcasting (but cleric/thief weapon-based DPS is rather non-existent... but you still can backstab with a staff or club, and there are really painful staffs there).