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Hi everyone! I want to get back into the game after a long time and the last patches starting over and I wanted to create a dark build with a druid. I mean something like a Dark Knight with dark magic, but I would definitely like to create it with a Druid, so an evil Druid character who will also be good at fighting with weapons and that's why I thought about combining it with a Paladin and then adding a Warlock to add even more evil magic. Is it possible to do something like that by creating these 3 classes together and what is the best way to do it and with what subclasses?

Well, if you're going for a "Dark" theme, then Paladin is probably not the best choice - Even with the Oathbreaker subclass much of the overall class is very much Light theme (With the primary feature being Divine Smite which is quite literally smacking things with light)

Druid/Warlock could work with a "Dark" theme.

Something like 7 Circle of the Spore Druid/5 Great Old One Warlock could work well (Fiend Warlock is also good)

Warlock provides Pact of the Blade to enable weapon usage with Charisma and a second attack (At level 5 with Deepened Pact), you also get Eldritch Blast, Hex, Arms of Hadar and Hunger of Hadar for potent (And dark themed) spells.

GoO vs Fiend is an choice. GoO provides AoE frighten when you crit and access to Tasha's Hideous Laughter and Slow. Fiend provides a small amount of Temporary Health on kill (It won't stack with Symbiotic Entity but can refresh it if it's lower) and provides access to Command and Fireball.

Spore Druid gives you Symbiotic Entity to provide extra Necrotic damage to your attacks and eventually you can start summoning zombies (Both with Animate Dead and Fungal Infestation).

For leveling, I'd suggest Druid 2 to get Circle of Spores, then Warlock 5 to get your Deepened Pact. Then finish off with the remaining levels of Druid. Prioritize Charisma over Wisdom as most of your attacks will be using Charisma.

On a side note: Paladin/Warlock can be a very powerful melee class if you don't mind losing out on the Druid aspect of the overall build (And can put up with Divine Smiting everything as a "Dark Knight")

7 Oathbreaker Paladin/5 Fiend Warlock is pretty good.

Warlock again gives the Charisma for weapons and extra attack.

While Paladin also naturally gets an extra attack (So you get 3 attacks per standard action just like a Fighter because Pact of the Blade stacks with normal extra attacks) and Aura of Hate provides your Charisma modifier as damage to your melee weapons (ON TOP of what it would already get from Pact of the Blade making it scale of Charisma base. Meaning you end up with 2x your Chr mod as damage for your melee attacks)

Similar leveling strategy as before, 2 Paladin to get Divine Smite then 5 Warlock then the rest in Paladin. Just stack Charisma out the wazoo and beat everything up with many high damage weapon attacks and plenty of Divine Smites.

Oathbreaker controls undead as long as their level is less... this makes it a very strong class in act 2 but not as a muliclass and it also blocks you respecing

Druid is strong as a caster, melee or talker but it doesn't do range damage which is why a few Warlocks levels can help but Warlock wants to be good more than evil

the strongest class is Druid but Druid is also a class that needs skill i.e, if this is your first run i'd go for Warlock as that is simple to learn

if i did this build I'd start as Druid to get the base class and talking options at the grove, then I'd take a level in Pally to unlock amour and my 3rd - 7th levels in Warlock to have charisma as my main casting stat... if you want a more melee build i'd take 3rd level as Warlock then 4th -6th as druid to make quarterstaff hit as magic charisma instead of building for str

making a multiclass means you need all your different classes as soon as possible in the level order and the final one is the most important because thats your main stat... you end up with a weaker character at the end of act 3 because the 11th class tends to have the best bonus

Oath of Vengence is LN/LE, so quite Evul!, I'd say

Ok thanks but i've already found the right guide and it shows the combination of Druid with Paladin and Warlock As you can see, everything can work well together

its a very weak build at level 12 struggles to kill just 1 peon however if not playing honour mode and you enjoy the pets then sure

Now that is definitely not true, there is really hardly any synergy there. But you do you.

Outside of the harder difficulties Paladin 5 / Warlock 5 gets 2 extra attacks, thats why thats popular.