Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Build Discussion Dragonborn are terrible, regardless of class, they need a buff

At least your Dragonborn racial got fixed this patch to scale with level and use a constitution save.

My Mephistopheles Tiefling druid got a useless mage hand that can't interact with most things, including levers and buttons. It got a duplicate conjure flame blade that is actually worse than the one my druid gets because the tiefling spells STILL SCALE WITH CHARISMA INSTEAD OF YOUR MAIN CLASS ATTACK ROLLS. This makes the Tiefling racials in general just worthless for any non-charisma class as the spells will never land on enemies if you're on a class with like 12 charisma.

And the other tiefling racials? The darkvision that everybody but humans get, and a Hellish Resistance fire resistance that's obsolete because the game showers you with fire resistance elixirs and magic items that grant fire resistance. The Tiefling racial should stack with normal resistance to give invulnerability to fire at least. Conjure Flame Blade is terrible anyways because it unequips your weapon, so you lose the passive effects of your magic equipment to equip that blade. Burning Hands is also terrible, it doesn't scale well at all.

Not that it matters because almost no one in the game but Raphael uses powerful fire spells on you. Tiefling racials are absolute trash. Zero weapon and armor proficiencies.

Meanwhile Halsin, who is also a druid like my tiefling, gets advantage against charm, cannot be put to sleep by magic, dark vision, extra movement, stealth check proficiency, weapon proficiencies, including being able to use a bow while my tiefling druid cannot use a single ranged weapon, and on top elves get a very powerful Perception proficiency racial in a game where perception checks are so important.

Simply put, elf and orc racials are stupidly overpowered compared to everyone else. Half orc gets a cheat death mechanic and a massive damage boost on crits. It's crazy how bad the racial balance is in favor of elves and orcs. Humans and half elves are really good too because civilian militia allows human and elven casters to use medium armor and shields while wielding a staff, so they are the highest AC casters in the game.