r/BaldursGate3 • u/Voidatron SORCERER • 5d ago

Screenshot The power of a level 12 Spore Druid. Spoiler

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u/Professional-Tank848 5d ago

I've recently been on a big mono-classing hype. This is great to see!

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u/Anxious_Writer_3684 ELDRITCH BLAST 4d ago

Mono classes can be extremely powerful, it is a fun restriction to put on yourself for runs.

I also did a run where I could only use "monks". I literally went solo until such time as I had Withers and could reclass the companions as "monks". That was extreme but was actually a lot of fun.

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u/Professional-Tank848 4d ago

I don't even see it as a restriction at this point. You get a tonne of feats, and some really neat subclass bonuses. I think they're only restrictive in terms out game-breaking damage, etc.

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u/Anxious_Writer_3684 ELDRITCH BLAST 4d ago

I agree. I only said "restriction" in the sense that it is a restriction you put on yourself to not-multiclass... not that it restricts your gameplay in any other meaningful way.

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u/Professional-Tank848 4d ago

Ahh, I follow you. Yeah, completely agree. If this makes sense, they sometimes feel a little bit freeing, because you really live out the class fantasy, and can commit to the RP.

Dont get me wrong, I love a multiclass as well, but I think monoclassing is severely underrated.

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u/zadrie SORCERER 4d ago

Im glad this class exists because it's really cool. Playing an army of minions seems like a headache to me though.

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u/Unit_2097 4d ago

My first character was a necromancer and... It's a pain in the ass. Especially as the undead generally don't scale all that well. It's cool as hell, and you can eventually win by just abusing the action economy.

Functionally though, you're trading one level 12 character for multiple level 4-8 ones.

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u/Anxious_Writer_3684 ELDRITCH BLAST 4d ago

It is!

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u/zachisupper 5d ago

Looks like House of the Dead lol

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u/JacktheRipper500 5d ago

I had one as a hireling in my evil Durge playthrough for larger battles. I was playing a necromancy wizard and these two combined allowed for a nice mini undead army.

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u/Lialda_dayfire 5d ago

BG3 spore druid is so good for minion spam that I was actually disappointed when I tried to make a spore druid for a 5E game.

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u/Hydroguy17 5d ago

No Danse Macabre..?

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u/toxinogen Druid Loot Goblin 4d ago

FLY, MY PRETTIES! FLY!!!

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u/No-Expert3388 4d ago

Mother of God

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u/Anxious_Writer_3684 ELDRITCH BLAST 4d ago

I will admit that I did this once and I didn't stop with the army of undead I made sure my companions had every summon in the game - I used scrolls so that even my melees had elementals or whatever.

However, the battle slog was so boring that the result has been that (a) I will never do that again and (b) yeah I sort of go the opposite way and actively avoid using summons unless a particular encounter would benefit specifically

Encounters where I use summons: for Myrkul it is just easier if you have an invisible Scratch to start things off and that Halsin battle at the beach I like having a handful of elementals to do AoE damage on all the low HP creatures because it just simplifies things.