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It's 2025 and so patch 8 isn't too far off, and hopefully some of us will also get the opportunity to take part in the stress test this month.

Which, if any, of the 12 new subclasses are you looking forward to trying out? What interests you about them, and do you have any character or build concepts already sketched out? You can select up to three in the the poll below.

Personally, I'm most looking forward to converting my drunken master themed monk currently in Act 2 into a "proper" drunken master, but am also interested in Circle of Stars druid, Shadow Magic sorceror, Swashbuckler rogue, College of Glamour bard, Hexblade warlock and Swarmkeeper ranger probably in that rough order though it was hard to pick my top three! And I'm sure I'll try out the Arcane Archer fighter, Bladesinger wizard and Death Domain cleric at some point, the descriptions just didn't grab me as much. Nor did those of the Path of Giants barbarian or Oath of the Crown paladin, but I can see myself trying these out on Karlach and Wyll respectively.

What (up to) three new subclasses are you most looking forward to trying in patch 8?
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I'm waiting for Death Domain Cleric and Shadow Magic Sorceror. My Dark Urge gives it two thumbs up. But I will definitely test other Speccs as well.


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Death Domain Cleric is my jam. I'm interested to see what comes from it. The 3! additional cantrips seems interesting and then of course there's a question about what other Necrotic based spells they will have access to.

Hexblade Warlock seems interesting. I wonder how it will turn out. Especially if doing the classic 7 Oathbreaker/5 Warlock split so having Aura of Hate (Which could benefit the summoned soul), triple attack and double dip CHR

Bladesinger Wizard is always fun. So I'll definitely give that a go.

As for other options:

Path of the Giants Barbarian could be interesting. It's just a matter of exactly how useful it ends up being. I know I've tried Throwbarian before but even with Tavern Brawler it sucked. However, it was still incredibly fun to be picking up enemies and smashing them into each other (And/or AoE's) so if the balancing is there to make using enemies as weapons actually viable this will be an incredibly fun subclass.

Arcane Archer Fighter sounds promising. I wonder how it'll fare compared to Throw builds.

Circle of the Stars Druid sounds interesting. Though I can't help but feel it will overshadow Land and Spores...

Other subclasses sound kind of meh from the descriptions... Will have to have a looksee what their actual features are before messing around with them.

Outside of that, I'm hoping they add in some more items to supplement these additional subclasses. Such as more Necrotic damage synergy items (Especially notable for Cleric given they're going to have to compete against their Radiant synergies) which could also double up in helping Spore Druids.

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I agree Death Domain Cleric and Shadow Magic Sorcerer sound very cool. I'm also a bit interested in Circle of Stars.
My Astarion is a monk right now and I'm dying to try the Drunken Master class on him. xD Getting blood-drunk, maybe?

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Death domain cleric just sounds *so cool*. But I love playing a battlemage warlock, so the Hexblade will be so fun to check out. I can't wait:DD

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Is really hard for me to choose but Shadow Magic sorceror sounds the most interesting for me, if it includes new spells in shadow theme would really hope those also become available at random for Wild Magic subclass. laugh

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Half or more are duplicates of what we already have/can do ourselves. I'm not excitied about any, with mild interest in the Glamour Bard, as that is what IMO a Bard should be.
The Swarmkeepr? Now that's just silly. Pass.

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Honestly, I'm looking forward to all of them and hoping I can get in on the stress tests! I think that right now, nobody outside Larian has a firm grasp what these will ultimately be like because some of their features aren't yet public knowledge. I think it's a terrible idea to judge them before I play them.

...now watch me as I judge them before I play them!

Path of Giants barbarian: I like the idea of throwing, I think I'll have to act 3's sole recruit give this one a spin.

College of Glamour bard: I love bards, having another to work with without mods will be lovely.

Death Domain cleric: I think this'll make for a good, thematic team alongside Circle of Spores druid, Shadow sorcerer, and necromancy wizard.

Circle of Stars druid: What I know of those abilities sounds wild! Sounds like it will ultimately play pretty differently than BG3 druids currently do.

Arcane Archer fighter: I love the idea of an archery-focused fighter. As I understand it, it will probably diverge more from 5E than most of these because some of it's features are already in the game as different mechanics.

Drunken Master monk: I feel like the idea I have of it in my head is going to end up pretty different than how it plays.

Oath of the Crown paladin: Good. BG3 is a little bit light on the tank part of the gameplay "holy trinity", I think it'll be cool to have party member that can both draw aggro and facetank it.

Swarmkeeper ramger: I'm not sure, I think it's hard to pull away from Gloom Stalker as ridiculously good as it is, but maybe I can force myself to make a character.

Swashbuckler rogue: I'm not sure, I already played the Thief subclass pretty similarly with the Mobile feat.

Shadow sorcerer: Shadows, come to me and snuff out every last light of my enemy's hopes! While I don't expect it to diverge too much from the other types of sorcerors, I am absolutely going to make a good-aligned Dark Urge playthrough just for this!

Hexblade warlock: I like it, a more melee-focused warlock sounds like a lot of fun. I usually multiclass my warlocks, so it'll be nice to have more reason not to and make use of Lifedrinker.

Bladesinging wizard: More than most of these, I really feel that I need to get my hands on it. Usually in BG3, I'd go Eldritch Knight fighter with a single level of wizard to get my melee spellcaster, do I'm hoping the features of this subclass make it a more effective choice.


I'm also hoping for more specialized equipment that expqands the gameplay options both forthese subclasses and just to further expand on gameplay styles. Summoned weapons could stand to have a reevaluation, and it would be reallly cool if there were a wider variety of finesses weapons for rogues!

New and interesting dialogue choices would be AMAZING, too. I could imagine a Death Domain cleric tell Orin "your murder cult is bad and you should feel bad" or a Swarmkeeper ranger asking a certain druid if they've ever been intimate with a hive mind species, or a Shadow sorcerer being able bypass the skillchecks with Shadowheart like "honey, it's incredibly obvious looking at you that you're Sharran and tertible at hiding it".

I'm not expecting new weapons or dialogue though, but that would be amazing if there were smile

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I hope Larian's Swarmkeeper can keep up with that one from Nexus Mods or remain that one compatible... The green animation is so awesome. BG 3 lacks good combo classes for a green nature based mage. I've been experimenting a lot and the closest one for me will be a Swarmkeeper + Spore Druid combo.

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Glamour bard and Circle of Stars for sure.


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Shadow Magic has convinced me to play another round. Death domain and Drunken Master is really tempting too.

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Hexblade Warlock and Bladesinging both interest me as a fan of spellblade types. Also curious about Swashbuckler and Arcane Archer. How those two are implemented is the main thing I'm wondering.

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Not certain if this the the right place to ask, but I have what I think is a reasonable request:

I’ve been using the Bladesinger Mod, and I noticed that the Bladesong state does not work while wearing Elven Chain (from Rivington).

Elven Chain is Medium Armor, and Bladesong only works with Light.

I get it, but Bladesong could function like the spellcasting ability, where it works if you have proficiency with the armor you are wearing. That might be overpowered for multiclassing and getting the AC buff while also wearing Heavy armor, so another option would be to change Elven Chain to be light armor like similar Studded Leather +2.

Not the end of the world, but it would seem sensible for a bladesinger to use that armor without penalty

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Going for the ultimate tavern brawler with making a halfling path of giants barbarian and drunken master monk combo.

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Crown because I wanna play a legitimate tank.

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I love my Hexblade in the regular dnd campaign I'm in, so naturally I'm hoping it will work as written...

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I'm looking forward to the hexblade warlock and glamour bard, as I can (with mods) remake one of my favorite characters from an old 5e group: a CN satyr hexblade/glamour bard. I maintained a pretty versatile and mostly fey-inspired spell list -- plant growth, invisibility, misty step, hex. Those spells, coupled with the added verticle mobility from the satyr's increased jump distance, made her a great character for dealing with a lot of environmental puzzles and crowd control, ontop of being a fun party face.

Other than that, path of giants and death cleric look interesting. I had a CE path of giants minotaur for a one-shot that was fun. A fugitive gladiator who had escaped the arena and had gotten roped into a thieves guild operation. And I had a half-elf grave cleric I rolled up as a backup character that I never got to play, so... close enough. I'm interested to see how it fares in act 2 especially, considering the amount of necrotic resistant or immune enemies.

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Goth Shadowheart Death Cleric “life is pain”

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