Baldurs Gate 3 There are 12 classes to choose from when creating a character. The Bard Performance-based casters that can play an offensive or supportive role.
Bird mixes music with magic, causing damage, inspiring (and sometimes healing) allies, just like other caster classes. Their main statistics are Charismatic.
There is no best class Gate 3 of Baldurand this game offers as much creative problem-solving opportunities as you would do for punching. Finding the best class just sums up how you really want to play. Even if you play solo, you’ll still manage the rest of the party, so you can experiment with multiple classes at once.
Read on to find out everything you need to know about bird classes Gate 3 of Baldurand learn everything about the subclasses, feats and construction of the best bards.
Update (April 15): Added details for new subclasses introduced in Patch 8. This also adds cross-play support and photo modes.
Is Bard the best class in BG3?
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Bird is a pizzazz spellcaster. They are far better support classes than frontline fighters. Inflicting damage on the bard involves a combination of limited spells and dexterity-based attacks. It includes finesse weapons like a rapier and ranged weapons like a crossbow. Their bard’s inspiration feature means they can support their teammates in most roles (usually except for damage rolls – normal).
Birds thrive outside of combat. Spellcasting ability is charismatic, which means that you are also good at skills such as deception, performance, and persuasion. All of these are useful in non-combat encounters and normal conversations.
Birds are not the easiest class to get started, especially. You need to manage spells and spell slots, but they are not the strongest fighters. However, the bard is great if you want to bend non-combat muscles Gate 3 of Baldur.
- Hit dice – 1d8 per bard level
- Hit Points at the 1st level – 8 + Constitutional qualifier
- Higher level hit points – 5 + Constitutional modifiers per bard level after 1 day
Birds can grant allies The Bard’s Inspiration Once for every long rest. This works like this guidance It’s a spell, but an alliance can roll a D6 instead of a D4.
Birds start with a 2-level 1 spell slot for each long break.
- weapons – Simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords
- armor – Light Armor
- skill – Deception, insight, performance, persuasion, religion
- Saves throw – Charismatic, dexterity
Birds start with two cantrips from the Bird Spell List.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Bard Cantrip List
name |
explanation |
|---|---|
| Malicious ock lol | Insult creatures: It has a disadvantage in the next attack role (wis save). |
| Bladeword | Deals half damage from collisions, piercings, and thrashing attacks |
| The magician’s hand | Create spectral hands that allow you to manipulate and interact with objects |
| True Strike | You’ll get an advantage in the next attack role |
| friend | Get benefits from charismatic checks against non-hostile creatures |
| Dance Light | Lights up a 30-foot radius |
| Light | Inject an aura of light into an object |
| Minor fantasy | Create an illusion that will allow you to investigate nearby creatures |
Birds also start with two Level 1 spell slots for each long break. They know four spells from the 15 lists.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Bird Spelllist
name |
explanation |
|---|---|
| Animal Friendship | Convince the beast not to attack you (wis save) |
| Bain | Up to 3 creatures receive a -1D4 penalty, attack rolls and save throws |
| Attractive person | It will captivate humanoids and prevent them from attacking you. You will gain the advantages of dialogue with a charismatic check |
| Heal the wound | 1d8+3 healing |
| Disguise yourself | Magically transform every aspect of the appearance |
| Dissonant whisper | Turning creatures twice to scare them will deal 3d6 mental damage |
| Fairy Fire | All targets in the light are visible and the attack role against them has an advantage |
| The wings fall | You and your nearby allies will gain immunity to lower damage |
| Healing words | 1d4+3 healing |
| heroism | Create immunity to scare yourself or your target and earn 5 temporary hit points for each turn |
| Long Strider | Increases the creature’s movement speed by 10 feet. |
| sleep | Put the creature into a magical sleep. |
| Talk to animals | Gain the ability to understand and communicate the beast |
| Tasha’s horrible laughter | Leave the creatures with laughter without the ability to get up |
| Thunderstorm | Releases lightning-like forces that push away all creatures and objects for 2D8 Thunder damage (CON SAVE) |
At level 3, Birds can choose a subclass (called a university).
College of Law Abyss Love Story – Listen to them and tell them. You get Proficiency level At Arcana, you can get blackmail, hand skills, and more. Cutting words (Use the bard’s inspiration to subtract the number that has rolled out of the enemy’s roll).
College of Valorbirds is a little more heroic. The Bard’s Inspiration Diamonds can also be added to damage rolls.
Swordbird College fights weapons just like they do when they make instruments. They can choose:
- Prosperity (proximity) – Attacks up to 2 creatures at once
- Defensive prosperity (melee) – Attacks defensively and increases AC by 4 if hit
- Defensive prosperity (remote) – Attacks defensively and increases AC by 4 if hit
- Mobile prosperity (proximity) – Push the weapon in with enough force to push the target back 20 feet. You can then teleport to the target.
- Mobile prosperity (remote) – Shoot the target with enough force to push the target back 20 feet. You can then teleport to the target.
- Prosper (range) – Attacks up to 2 creatures at once
Added to patch 8 in April 2025, this is a subclass with big commands and charm focus. Mantle of inspiration Not only will your allies give five hit points for a short period of time, but the enemies that attack you will be captivated. After that, any charming enemy is ordered The mantle of majesty They flee, freeze, or move around to drop their weapons.
Best Bird Subclasses and BG3 Builds
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Gate 3 of Baldur While races don’t really have a direct impact on the class, certain races and sub-races have features that work well in certain classes, such as extra movements and proficiency in certain weapons. For Birds, it’s best to focus on padding your spell list.
- High Elf and Half Elve Get Firebolt Cantrip
- All three Tiefling Sublace gets cantrip – It creates flames, The magician’s handand Thauturgry each
- Both sub-races Drau Get Dance Light Cantrip
When you create and level up your bard, charisma (because you are attractive) follows your most important stats followed by dexterity (because you are damaging). Make your charisma your best stats and dexterity your second highest.
At level 3, choose a subclass of the bard. Valor University is a way to go. Get extra attacks with each turn, gaining more weapons and medium armor proficiency, and Bardi’s inspiration is even more useful to allies. This allows you to play Bird as a little less supportive character and as any fighter.
For each of the four levels, you will be presented with the option to increase your stats or choose a feat. A feat is a special talent that adds features to your character. If you start to take feats with your statistics, Birds can benefit from:
- actor. Your charisma increases to up to 20. Your proficiency bonus will also be doubled for deception and performance checks.
- Crossbow Experts (When fighting a crossbow). If you perform a crowbo attack within melee, there is no disadvantage in attack rolls. Your piercing shot will also cause major injuries for twice the length.
- Defensive Duelist. When attacked while swinging skilled finesse weapons, you can use your response to add a proficiency bonus to your Armor class, which may lead you to miss an attack.
- Performers. Gain proficiency in the instrument and increase your charisma to a maximum of 20.
- Sharp Shooter. There are no penalties from highlands for your ranged weapon attacks. Weapon attacks using skilled weapons will have a -5 penalty on attack rolls, but deal 10 more damage.
For more information about the class, please see Gate 3 of BaldurSee an overview of the Wild B, Clergy, Druid, Fighter, Priest, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Magician, Warlock, Wizard Classes. If you’re confused about your choice, check out our guide on which class to do first.
Why is it important?Gate 3 of Baldur He is almost solely responsible for the revival of the computer RPG genre. Set in a dungeon and dragon world, it also helped bridge the gap between video gamers and tabletop gamers.
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