Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Would the game be better if there were no minimum stat requirements for multi-classing?

As has been pointed out, in the vast majority of cases, you're going to completely gimp your build if you don't get ay least a 13 into your new class. It's such a much ado about nothing, it's not going to make the game unbalanced in an exploitable way for the vast majority of times, rather the opposite. It's a recipe for newbies to gimp their characters.

Unless you are going to dip one or two levels, you would want absolute synergy in your multiclass. That means your main stats in one class are very useful in the other and feats and class features significantly meld well together. Easiest way to do this is find classes that share the same main stat and maximise that where possible.

If you're going for a dip, the vast majority of times, you get much more out of it by having at least 13 in the 2nd classes stat too, otherwise you're minimising the synergy. There's a few possible builds where you get something particular not related to the stat, like maybe channel divinity (storm sorc/tempest cleric). But the opportunity cost for that is giving up 2 high level sorc spells for a once per day ability and 2 first level spells prepared and armor prof. Rogue dips need finesse weapons to activate sneak attack and you might as well go dex then.

Two paladin then wizard would be tempting though, but you still give up 6th spells and are only attacking one and you really want to be using spells as much as possible from level 5 on, so it's still a big trade off.

I think a few people got the spell 'improvements' wrong though. He mentioned spell slots in the other thread, not spell levels Getting your caster level the same as your character level for multiclass is just downright broken. A paladin 6 who also casts as an 11th or 12th level sorcerer would just be insanely powerful even for tactician. At least I'm really hoping this isn't the case, I'm pretty relaxed about adding options, but this one would be too much even for me. Maybe only available in story mode

(Just to be clear I know the current rules add your spell slots together, but you only get the spells of the levels you have in each class, although you can upcast them. Gaining access to the higher level spells too is just too much imo)