Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Shadowheart's build is totally borked

I don't see any compelling reason to say that the only patron for Hexblades must be a Shadowfell entity. I could certainly see a Fiend-patron Hexblade. One of my character concepts for pen -and-paper is an Archfey-patron Hexblade.

For further examples, Fjord from Critical Role is a good example, he's a Warlock (Hexblade), Pact of the Blade, and his patron is "Great Old One" not "entity from the Shadowfell".

Her armor looks really cool. But it looks like a Breastplate more than a Chain Shirt, which it is mechanically. I'd prefer it as a breastplate so you could use it for longer. Sucks to have cool looking custom armor that gets replaced immediately because it sucks.

And yeah, give her more Dex so she can be tricksy and sneaky in that Breastplate.

Her armour does look nice. I confused it for a breastplate at first until I looked at its stats.

Shes not that charismatic but quite deceptive (or rather thats the vibe that im getting from her) and her voicelines and class specialisagion should focus on stealth.

Give more dex and lower her cha. Dont recall the stats but I think I saw someone here say she has 14 cha and 9 dex? If thats ttue just swapping those 2 stat lines could fix her stats to be line with the character.

She's not "fine". She is supposed to be a front liner, given that we only have 4 people in the party, and is pretty terrible at it, with an AC worse than Gale's. Swapping her Str and Dex and giving her a short sword would help a lot.

yeah she makes no sense as a cleric, honestly. she should be a ranger or a rogue. maybe a bard. but not a cleric...

She also needs darker spells than Sacred Flame and Guiding Bolt. Or that dexterity boost and a Crossbow.

How are Cleric spell lists so broad anyway? Shouldn't they be more narrowed down for the deity in question. More of a 5e thing than BG3, I know.

Let's also consider how ShadowHeart's build is a bit more important than the other companions due to the struction of the early game.
After finding her in front of literally the back door of a dungeon, new players would need to rely on her a bunch to survive that dungeon.

Not really? They have a very wide array of spells and their specialisation offers some flavoured spells that are drawn from other sources like the wizard spell list. 5th ed doesent really restirct players all that much based on alignment or god.