Baldur's Gate III - Non Spoiler Edition

Druids are generally not considered beginner-D&D-player friendly, at least in the tabletop game. You have to be comfortable with both weapon combat and spell combat, as well as learning the unique Wild Shape mechanics. Wild Shape has become much more key to their identity than in earlier editions, where they were primarily just nature casters. If you aren't using Wild Shape in 5E, then you basically need to forget about melee and embrace their caster potential. They have cooler offensive spells than clerics while still having access to decent healing spells. If you want to go melee, you better be Circle of the Moon. They can actually be quite OP tanks at low levels because of the massive amounts of extra HP you get when you Wild Shape (always go bear!). In my experience, though, even Circle of the Moon druids have to rely more on spells at higher levels because their damage can't keep up with the warrior classes.

I haven't found the druid companions yet (I'm still in Act 1), but in the previous BG games Jaheira was a dual-class fighter/druid. Even with her fighter levels, I still kept her at range just because it was easier for her to cast spells that way and there were much better melee fighter companions available. Those who've made it farther into BG3, is she still dual-class? Which circle did Larian choose for her? I'm honestly surprised they added another druid companion if they knew they were bringing Jaheira back; seems like a wasted opportunity for a bard or good-aligned paladin.

I feel like the most powerful classes in BG3 that I've tried are barbarians, rogues, and wizards.

I played a druid as a total D&D noob and played her like a melee tank for the most part, always owlbear shape. I found that to be very straightforward. Since I'm not super smart and don't know much about all the intricacies I basically ran around as a melee party all game and that worked fine on Normal difficulty. My druid/Laezel/Karlach/Shadowheart for a bit of magic. And sometimes my druid would do some spells too.

I read druids were weak before I started playing but since I don't know how to play any class well I didn't notice that.

1 - Does anyone have the achievement for Multi-classing through all 12 levels with a different class? And, if so, did you acquire it 'naturally' i.e. with a character you used regularly throughout the game? Or was it someone you just decided to leave out on that particular run?

Two questions;

1 - Does anyone have the achievement for Multi-classing through all 12 levels with a different class? And, if so, did you acquire it 'naturally' i.e. with a character you used regularly throughout the game? Or was it someone you just decided to leave out on that particular run?

2 - I am thinking I might multi-class my sorcerer. It would be an 8/4 so I don't miss any Feats, but looking for suggestions as to a class with good synergy. It needs to be 'viable'. I'm not good enough at the combat to be going in to the end game with a subpar main character. Would prefer a non-casting class, if anyone thinks there is a good pairing available for sorcerer that fits that description?

Two questions;

1 - Does anyone have the achievement for Multi-classing through all 12 levels with a different class? And, if so, did you acquire it 'naturally' i.e. with a character you used regularly throughout the game? Or was it someone you just decided to leave out on that particular run?

2 - I am thinking I might multi-class my sorcerer. It would be an 8/4 so I don't miss any Feats, but looking for suggestions as to a class with good synergy. It needs to be 'viable'. I'm not good enough at the combat to be going in to the end game with a subpar main character. Would prefer a non-casting class, if anyone thinks there is a good pairing available for sorcerer that fits that description?

I forgot about the owlbear option! Forget what I said about regular bears; always go owlbear!

I believe Wizards is changing the creature type of owlbears to beasts to druids can "legally" wild shape into them when they release the 2024 rulebooks. Doric from the Honor Among Thieves movie just made the possibility too exciting! If players can do it in BG3, too, then I'm sure it's officially coming to the tabletop rules.

Well apparently an Oath of the Ancients paladin, is a paladin of nature. Not really what I wanted when I thought of the Aasimar paladin. When choosing a subclass it sounded very paladin like. But oh well I am not going to restart again. I will just not think about it.

I agree they are really useful. I just found it weird that there is such a thing as a nature paladin.

A lot of Faerun's gods have ties to nature, so it's not completely random lore-wise. Lathander, Selune, and Chauntea all spring to mind as good sources of divine nature power. If you want to be edgy, you could worship Umberlee, the BLEEP Queen of the Seas; she even had her own temple in old Baldur's Gate! Talos and Auril would also qualify as evil nature gods. You've definitely got options.