Baldur's Gate 3 Guide: Early Companion Tips Everyone Should Know

Baldur's Gate 3 Guide: Early Companion Tips Everyone Should Know
In this Baldur's Gate 3 video, We're going to be talking about early game parties, and what they look like depending on the companions that you bring in and show you guys some real examples of how you would put a party together, depending on what characters you bring, what they might look like, as well as some other recommendations about how to handle those companions.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Baldur's Gate 3 Classes Discussion
0:45 - 5 Class Roles
1:00 - Baldur's Gate 3 Companions explained
2:04 - Respec companions for optimization
2:53 - Optimal Ability Scores for Companions
3:11 - Ability Scores and Modifiers
4:43 - Astarion
5:46 - Shadowheart
6:14 - Lae'zel
6:52 - Gale
7:34 - Wyll
7:49 - Karlach
8:20 - Companion Tips
10:44 - Party Composition Examples
11:35 - Full List of Possible Party Composition
11:47 - Final Thoughts

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[Tharagar]

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[SusannaSaunders]

As a complete beginner to the world of D&D this left more questions but thank you for such an excellent starter guide. PLEASE do more of this content for absolute beginners. BG3 will pull in new players to the world of D&D so I hope you will support us as we find our feet here!

[jr_cinnamons]

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[KungFuHustling]

2:28 wow! What a pretty halfling! The character models look amazing

[blizzrd]

Personally, I think the best way to optimize is to just look at support, utility, weapon dps, and then magic dps. That way there are only 4 roles to fill which is exactly how many characters you can bring. I think you should ignore the dialogue role as this should be for your main character regardless on class. If you have lower charisma then thats fine. Possibly failing dialogue checks is part of the fun imo and adds to the RP. I dont like the idea of being shoehorned into one of like 3 or 4 classes or have non main character companions do dialogue.

[MattyPGood]

A note on (and defense of) having one odd ability score: if you make your primary stat 17 at character creation, you can take a half feat (like athlete) at level 4 to bump that to 18. This is the most impactful way to use your level 4 stat increase because you get the initial +1 to your rolls with that stat AND the other benefit of the feat. This is more of a power increase than just taking the standard ASI to increase your main stat.

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[ForsmanTomas]

I'm very happy to have finally found someone who actually gives thoughtful advice. I'm glad you agree on my setup with Lae'zel, Gale, Shadowheart and me running as Bard.

[antoniotruong]

This is exactly what I needed. I wanted to play as a ranger and was going to research the optimal party members to bring along. Thank you YouTube.

[Diceux]

Shadowheart as Trickery Domain can fill in as your party Rogue. Her Urchin background gives her proficiency at Slight of Hand. Trickery Domain also makes her harder to kill. In a companion tier list she is probably S tier.

[tassey]

Thank you so much for targeting these to new players. I really appreciate the effort to organize the vast amount of data. D&D was made for people who like complexity. And that includes me (last played paper D&D almost 40 years ago). But beyond rusty now and have to have patience. Your advice to keep things simple at first is so right. Take a breather and enjoy your first play through.

[attackins]

If you play a Wood Elf/Half-Elf Ranger you can be a combat, dialogue, and utility specialist with some minor support casting. This gives you a lot more flexibility in who you can bring with you in your party.

Depending on your selections you can walk away with 7 starting skills covering many fields, a great Frontline and Ranged combatant if you go with Dex, some nice buff and utility spells, and if you dump Wis(or set to 10) and get a decent Cha you can also be a face. Just choose spells that don't rely on you having a good Wis and you're fine. Grab that Headband of Intellect asap, and now you're decent on your Int skills as well. Easily my favorite build in the game.

[TheMike]

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[aegis]

I have used Shadowheart for Stealth and Rogue skills and it works perfectly (at least on the EA). Anyway, it's a very useful guide! The only "problem" I see is if some characters don't fit good with someone (f.e. Shadowheart and Laezel are most of the time arguing, and I don't think they will cooperate well together in a long journey)

[mckinleygamble]

The face of my party has 8 charisma. I like failing checks on purpose. It's more fun than passing most of the time

[knumbchuck]

Thank you so much for this. Am new to D&D and simply cannot wait to get stuck in to Baldur’s Gate III. I need all the help I can get and love all your content. So incredibly helpful 😊

[ventrue]

This is prob one of the best optimization guides I've seen so far this will be really useful for a lot of people. Usually there are a lot of misinformation out there but everything is pretty much accurate here. The only thing I can say is paladins, especially ancients can fill out Cleric's role(specifically shadowheart if people don't wanna take her) and the combat role also prob party face . Clerics are actually more on the offensive caster and healing side than Bards and Druids both have more utility and support spells in general.

[BurlBullock]

Great video, I know this would help a lot of people out who want to optimize their party. Thanks always for the content!