I can assure you that you can use this build very well in Baldur's Gate 3 even without roleplaying specific interests, admittedly in a normal group. How do I know that? I'm playing it right now

. It works very well when someone else in the party speaks Hare and you can protect yourself with Blur as it triggers various artifacts anyway.
I just wanted to know if from your point of view Paladin levels are really necessary from a purely gamistic point of view or if you could go for example to Cleric 5 / Wizard 1 / Bard 6.
As I said, a purely gamistic approach