Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General August will be here soon, what we are still missing before launch

I would really love to have monk in game and the ability to play with multiclassing before launch. Also would love it if Artificer class was in game, but not holding my breath for that. Would also love it if they added some of the newer races and sub races like elves there is still shadar ki elves, and eladrin elves.And since were gonna have githyanki , then why not the other gith like githzerai? And why not duergar as a playable subrace for dwarves? I mean we have drow and deep gnomes, why not duergar? As a matter of fact why not playable goblins? Why not half orcs, if not mistaken are they not in the players handbook? Yuan-ti, and warforged would be fun too.

The only thing we know is that PHB material is likely to be added. Anything other than that is very unlikely. I guess we will know more in the following months.

Duergar, Half-Orcs and Dragonborn had datamined tags, so they are probably in, either as companions or selectable options for the player. I'd be hesitant about expanding race options too far though. A lot of them would require a lot of writing to do right, and in many ways current race options feel somewhat lacking in some ways in that regard (Moon and Sun Elves not being distinguished, for example) Warforged are from Eberron. I'd rather not see them in a FR game, period.

I expect monks to be in the final release.

Now personally, what I'd like to see? The missing weapons (flails, slings) would be a nice start. More companions. Looks like we'll have 8 or 9, which still feels a bit low to me. Personally I'd also like to see more content for evil players, because as it has been brought up repeatedly-it's quite lacking in regards to what you get to experience if you play through the game as a good character, particularly in regards to companion options. Larian hasn't acknowledged that feedback in EA though, despite it being a pretty common complain, so I am ready to be disappointed in that regard.

Cosmetic options. More face options, tattoos, and piercings for folks who aren't playing the wildheart barbarian subclass. Hair options that don't clip through the ears of pointy-eared races (elves, gith, etc) Personally I would have liked to see elven heads look a bit more distinctively....elven instead of humans with pointy ears, but I think this is another area where that boat may have sailed and will have to wait for someone to (hopefully) make a mod for more distinctively elven heads after the game releases.

Indeed ...
Aswell as rolled stats, custom party without multiplayer nonsence, crafting, mercenaries, and many, many, many spells (and other class features) of level 1 and 2 that are still missing ... and those are just things from top of my head that was (at least semi) confirmed.

But we were given a playground where theese things were not ...
All we can do now, is hope that testers in Larian offices will do good job and things will be as polished as possible.
(But i wouldnt recomend hold our breath ... i dont really remember any game in past decade that was released in top shape ... would be nice if BG-3 would break this whell of missfortune tho.)

Indeed ...
Sadly, not gonna happen ... Sven himself in one old PFH specificaly stated that they want to keep races as surprise for final release ... and if *certain someone* (as again Sven himself admited in different PFH ... unless you think it was a joke) wouldnt spoil their presence during a presentation, we probably wouldnt even get Gnomes in EA.

I think i know the answer for this one ...
Its matter of reactions.

Githyanki seems to play cruicial role in story of this game ... Githzerai would need lots of specific dialogues.
Also, if we take under concideration how cruicial role Origin Companions play in Larian games ... i guess it would be quite problematic if one of our followers would automaticly attack us.

But maybe they surprise us!

Same reason as abowe ...
+ Remodeling everything on Goblins would be lots of work. :-/

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Indeed.

This on the other hand, is just a speculation. :-/

Playable Half-orcs, please!