Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General What race/class will you play at launch?

Gnome if available - druid.
Halfling Monk is the runner up.

Wood elf / Druid

Depends on if yuanti is implemented or not.

Depends a lot on final class implementations but likely from the following:

Half Wood Elf Ranger

Human Barbarian

Half Wood Elf Paladin

Half Wood Elf Cleric

I'd go for draconic bloodline sorcerer (either silver or gold dragon), seldarine drow of course. Depending if we get to have draconic bloodlines, otherwise wild magic it is.

I've heard 5e sorcerers are pretty pants, so I'm definitely doing that. As for race, I'd like to see how the world reacts to a halfling.

human fighter or paladin most likely.

High elf, wizard, evocation school

We already have chainlocks, so all I need to recreate my current D&D character are aarakocras.


If we're only getting PHB races, I'll probably go for the dragonborn sorcerer.

I'd love to make an Aasimar, but I do have a deep love for Tieflings, so even if they don't add some of the more interesting races (Aasimar/Dragonborn/Half-Orc/Firbolg/etc), I think I'll be happy. Honestly, right now I'm just itching to see more classes and subclasses. Really excited to see whatever the next content is that's added to EA.

Tiefling sorceress or bard. Probably sorceress - unleashing havoc is just too much fun.

Dragonborn Paladin - Oath of Vengeance. DIVINE SMITE!!

Well I'm really liking the Ranger character, and for some weird reason I am digging the whole "part demon" vibe so probably something in there.

Although after meeting Sazza, I really really hope they have goblins as a playable race. Normally I just don't go for Dwarves/Halflings or anything like that ... but she really intrigues me.

Human Paladin of Tyr. Great grandson of the paladi. I ascended to Godhoid at end of baldurs 2. I plan on killing the Gith and Shadow soon as they give me that judge dress vibe that Tyr wants me to bring the law!!!

Hunter Ranger and Hexblade

I certainly hope that Wyll gets redone as a hexblade. Not only will it make more sense, he'll be a more useful companion character.

Not going to happen. His patron is a character in the game and part of his quest line.

Edit: that being said, Larian did see that they were looking into options to respec the companions, which doesn’t make any sense to me seeing as most of their stories are built around their class, so who knows.

Tiefling Warlock, hands down. Favourite race-class combo. I'd go with Fey-pact warlock assuming it makes the cut.

Will co-op with le bf at launch, and I've set my mind on being a Half Wood-Elf (Beastmaster) Ranger :P

So I'm NOT playing that for EA, wouldn't be fair to him otherwise imo.

Assuming no multiclass and such, very likely Wood Elf Ranger just so I could replace that obnoxious addict Astarion for lockpicks/stealth/sleight of hand proficiency. Prefer this to Rogue as a whole, I don't know if what I see in EA will survive to launch, but you can cheese so hard with ranged attacks and stealth, it's ridiculous.

That's already level 3 Ranger there.



You can basically solo entire temple courtyard like this, by the time they even spot you - you killed half of them, after that you can just run off and hide and keep at it.

And you start with all this level 1 too with Wood Elf Ranger in BG3, they give you 2 proficiencies on top.