Baldur's Gate 3 Barbarian Guide - All Subclasses (Berserker, Wildheart, Wild Magic)

I just finished a Barb game and i was 12 lvls in beastial heart for tiger rage and the tiger passive for double attack mod to hit. Cleaving with over a +10 to hit is INSANE

I never thought I'd say this but I'm looking forward to multiclassing into way of the four elements monk 😂

This is totally random. Can i completley avoid druids grove and go straight to the goblin camps ?

wild magic barbarian + way of 4 elements monk sounds awesome,
you would basically be just a really angry wild magic sorcerer

1 question can I mix the wild of magic with another class ?

Error, ti use sneak attack must have a finesse weapon, so great sword cannot do the trick

Savage attacker is great on barbarian

Karlach in my game has the Armor of Agility and the Gauntlets of dexterity to set her dex at 18. So AC 21 for a barbarian, is pretty good

I am playing with a 4x Barbarian party (4x Wildheart, jumping between Eagle and Tiger Bestial Heart) and I'm shocked by the versatility of the "dumbest" class in the game. Barb may have a very linear gameplan (1. Rage 2. swing 3. keep swinging until the screaming stops) but it is really, really, REALLY good at the things it does well. You have relatively weak AoE (though Tiger cleave helps) and ranged (though Throwing helps and you're usually not stuck at ranged for long), and very little magic synergy since Rage locks you out of it, but all of those flaws are quite minor cause your single-target damage is through the ROOF. And having Elixir of Bloodlust just doubles your killing power against hordes because you can just killstreak squishy mobs to offset your relative lack of AoE.

About the only weakness to this extreme(ly awesome) party is that your CHA will be pretty weak the whole game even if you have multiple dump stats later in the game. So if you want to talk your way through conflict with NPCs or companions, you're generally not gonna be very good at anything other than Intimidation, and even then not quite as good as a CHA-focused character even with Guidance. This is very much a Choose Violence party (but it's very, very, VERY good at violence).

I think I finally settled on a gold Dragonborn Wildheart barb/Draconic Bloodline sorc as a main. A lot of fire damage and the designs on Dragonborn with the draconic bloodline stuff looks really cool.

Thats why noone outpizzas the hut

Thought this game wasnt for me. Now im 150 hours in and obsessed and cant stop playing

Since Berserker no longer gives exhaustion it's actually a viable subclass now. There's a Pike of Returning that returns to your hand upon throwing so you can throw it as a bonus action with Enraged Throw, knock the enemy down, then move in for free advantage. The pike is found by trading with Grat the Trader at the goblin camp.

A great example of why premade systems (like DnD) are awful for CRPGs.
If you pick anything other than berserker youre actively trolling yourself and theres 0 chance of sh. getting balanced because hurr durr thats how it is in the original rules.

I'm playing my first playthrough now as a wild magic barb and it's fucking awesome. Plus, being able to proficiently use any weapons I pick up is nice. I haven't played a single player game in prolly 7 years, and I can not put this game down. I took vacation time off work so I would have 12 uninterrupted days to play this game. I also bought some cocaine so I wouldn't have to waste time eating or sleeping 😂

I'm having a blast

Tiefling (zariel) is amazing for barbarian for those free smite spells and darkvision

Honestly Tiger rage with the aoe bleeding cleave attack into Tiger aspect at level 6 is pretty bonkers, adding double strength damage,
and it seems to stack with a very strong late game two handed sword that adds you strength AGAIN for triple dip,
+18 damage just from strength alone is pretty bonkers, +34 with GWM bonus and +3 from the weapon and the +3 rage bonus.

After you get a little bit into the game, have some gold/resources...
Stock up on Elixir's of Hill/Cloud Giant Strength. They increase your strength to 21/27 respectively (Cloud giant tends to only be in act 3) so if you use these constantly, you can dump your strength into another stat. Finished my first playthrough as a barbarian with a natural 8 in strength.
Long rests don't seem to affect anything other than restocking the shops. So rest, shop, rest, shop, rest, shop, etc. until you have all the elixirs/potions/scrolls/arrows you want, need or can afford.

Finally waited for 1 months and this came out, time to maximize damage !!

Wild Magic Barbarian is always fun. Definitely on my list to play. A dumb yet interesting idea is 3 Warlock (pact of blade) 9 Wild Magic Barbarian. Armor Agathys and free pact weapon. Cast then go into a rage with temp HP.

I got some levels in fighter for action burst, 2 extra attacks per short rest

I did 9 lvl of berserker and 3 champion, it works nice

How does Barb compare to fighter after lvl 5? Also who is stronger in the higher levels? Thanks.

No other game has scratched my barbarian dwarf role play itch like baldurs gate 3.
First playthrough I killed Astarion because we don’t rock with vampires. Also killed Karlach because I trusted my boy Wyll too much.

Finallllllly!! Lol

I wouldn't say the wild magic is always positive. I had one trigger, sucking the life from nearby creatures, that killed and NPC I was attempting to rescue

But who's May Lee

Hey my dude thanks for all the great content over the years 👏

Little surprised that multi class with fighter didn't get a nod, barbarian can get a lot of use out of action surge. It isn't as interesting as some other combos, but it's reliable.

Turned Karlach heavy berserker she can still use frenzied strike so can attack three times a turn at level 8. While medium she was taking way too much damage im happier with heavy with mostly inferno gear and helm from grym she became so tanky.

9 tiger wild heart 3 assassin half-orc give a bump to crits from both half-orc and barbarian plus auto-crit on the first turn from assassin. Tiger bloodlust lets you hit multiple enemies with each attack.

I’m trying to come up with a Barbarian/Wizard combo but don’t know what to do.
Any advice?

I have a save before the goblin camp with a full barbarian squad. If I'm ever having a bad day, just toss the little runts around for a bit.

I mever would have expected throwing to be so good. Normally i don't play a barb type build but its been so fun yelling at people and chucking javelins at people.

Man, of course the guide comes out the day after I make my barb. What makes it funny though was the fact I was looking for a guide for Barb from you. Cause I was convinced I had watched one before. Thankfully my stats were around the same you used, just I had 17 str, 13 dex, and 16 con.

How about LvL4 Berserker Barb and LvL8 Battlemaster Fighter? You get frenzy, reckless attack, frenzied attack, extra action, second wave, action surge, superiority die for menacing attack, trip attack (as you can already push with barb) and riposte. This is the one I am going for atm. Just achieve Lvl5 barb for extra attack and when you get to level 8 switch to Level5 fighter and Lvl3 Barb. Then pick one more barb lvl for the feat and go fighter for the rest. You also get fighter's lvl 6 feat so its 4 feats in total not 3.

Champion Fighter would not be that good as you can crit easily with spells like hold monster and hold person anyway. So extending crit range by one point is inferior to superiority dies you get with battlemaster.

Btw the berserkers enraged throw also gives you the frenzied debuff even though the tooltip doesn’t say so. Take literaly any other subclass. Lol

I really wish the additional rage damage scaled a bit better (like it does in Pathfinder). Plus 2 damage at level 1 is way better than plus 3 at level 12. Also, crossing my fingers that they’ll add Storm Herald barbarian at some point 🤞🏻

Love your videos man. Would love to watch a series of your playthroughs of the game on here!

If I am correct, unarmed attacks dont benefit from Rage damage boost in BG3, yes?

Bruh, poor jihara, she got WORKED this video XD

This breakdown is not nearly as useful as it should be. I can't believe that all of the choices of the Wild Heart are left totally unexplained.

If you multiclass Barb/Monk, do you get to add both Con and Wis to AC? That'd be pretty sick, right there!

Barbarian Wildheart/Monk of the four elements is a lot of fun since ki abilities aren't spells 😎

Barbarians look like they are fun to play. Thank you for the great vid.

You guys are really gonna leave my cleric for last aren't you? 🤣

Awesome thanks for this. Love your guides!