Wyll makes a respectable frontliner. As long as you're killing things, he'll keep getting hp for it, and you can use armour of agathys as well if you're fairly confident that you'll take the melee hits to be worth it. I can't say I've ever used witch bolt with him - it's honestly a fairly lacklustre spell, that gives up damage throughput for reliability, but given the concentration abuse that this game heaps on your characters at an unfair degree, that reliability is not very reliable, really.
Larian's implementation of Cloud of Daggers is broken beyond all reason - any other use of a 2nd level spell slow is a waste, by comparison. They need to fix their spell timing issue - it's discussed in the main spell feedback thread - but until they do, that's a really broken spell right now.
(Conversely, Crown of Madness is busted in the other direction, since right now it's awarding advantage to literally every target of the spell no matter the circumstance, which means it almost always fails, due to Larian's poor balancing of saving throw spells against their homebrew stat modifications.)
I generally don't use Wyll or Lae'zel unless I'm doing something in particular with them. I don't much like running around with Shadowheart either, and I'm not a huge fan of Astarion.... Of those four I tend to just take whoever I can stomach the most, which is usually Astarion, and then probably Shadow, who is okay, as long as you never talk to her ^.^
I'm a bit over Wyll, currently, because I dislike the way Larian writes their NPCs to always have the last word and always have the one-up on you, and never giving your character a proper recourse to respond - and right now that's rearing its ugly head with Wyll, lying directly to my face and continuing to lie directly to my face, upwards of five distinct times now, after I know about his stone, he knows I know about his stone, I know he knows about his stone, and we all just know, without any doubt, about his stone, and yet he *continues* to lie directly to my face about it and I'm not allowed to call him out on it, at any point. Each time I catch him in the act, I ask him about the stone, and who he's talking to, and each time he tells me I'm mistaken and imagining things, and each time, I'm forced to just *Accept* his dismissal and going on with things, and... er... apparently it's really grating on me today, reading that back...?
I dunno, they're all unlikable pieces of work, really. Except Gale. He can cook for me and read from scholarly discourses to me in his waterdeep study any time.
*clears her throat*
What were we saying?
