The Oathbreaker, also known as the Oathbreaker, is a paladin in Baldur’s Gate 3 who has broken their oath. If you have broken your oath, you will be assigned a new subclass and also receive new spells. We will show you everything about the Oathbreaker build.
What is the Oathbreaker? The Oathbreaker is a subclass of paladin. You get assigned this when you break your sworn oath.
The “evil” paladin is known for their high damage, aggressiveness, and unique abilities that make them a powerful warrior in combat.
How do I become an Oathbreaker? To break your oath, you must attack or kill an innocent NPC. Once you have broken your oath, the Oathbreaker knight will appear in your camp. Once there, he will give his lecture and you will be branded. This process will replace your previous subclass.
Now you have the option to take a dark path and benefit from the new abilities of the Oathbreaker.
We will now show you in the following section which attribute points, talents, and spells you should focus on if you want to play as an Oathbreaker.
Oathbreaker Build: Attribute Points
Which attributes should I focus on? For your paladin, you should primarily focus on Charisma and secondarily on Strength. Constitution may also be worth it as a third attribute since this stat grants you more hit points.
Make sure to pay attention to even rather than odd numbers with attributes, as otherwise, you won’t benefit from improved dice values. You can find more about the attributes in our overview.
Oathbreaker Build: Talents
How do talents work? In Baldur’s Gate 3, you can choose a talent at levels 4, 8, and 12 to complement your build. However, if none of the talents appeal to you, you can instead invest 2 points into your preferred attributes.
Which talents do I need? In this case, we recommend focusing on the following talents at each level:
- Level 4: No talent, but improve abilities
- Charisma should be raised to level 16. The remaining points can be invested in Strength and Constitution.
- Level 8: Heavy Weapons Mastery
- Function: Causes that when you kill a creature or land a critical hit (rolling a 20), you can make another main attack with your bonus action. Additionally, if you want, you can take -5 on your attack roll (you roll first to hit and must reach at least the opponent’s Armor Class). If you hit despite the -5, you can add 10 additional damage to the normally rolled damage.
- Level 12: Charger
- Function: When you use your action to dash, you can perform a melee attack or shove a creature as a bonus action. If you have moved at least 3 m in a straight line before this bonus action, you either gain a +5 bonus on your damage roll (if you chose the melee attack and hit) or you shove the target up to 3 m away from you (if you chose to shove the opponent and are successful).
In our overview, you will find a ranking of all talents and which are the best for all classes.
Oathbreaker Build: Spells
Even as an Oathbreaker, your previous spells remain in your repertoire. However, there are new options you gain due to your dark side. Here are the spells you should use as an Oathbreaker:
- Cure Wounds (always take if possible)
- After breaking your oath, “Cure Wounds” provides you with a good option to heal yourself.
- Forced Duel
- Ensures that you can provoke opponents and draw their attention so that your allies suffer less from attacks.
- Thunderous and Scorching Dispatch
- With these attacks, you can throw opponents to the ground or engulf them in flames. Especially good against stronger opponents.
- Protection from Good and Evil
- With this spell, you can protect yourself or your allies from aberrations, celestials, elementals, fey, undead, and fiends.
- Bless
- Grants you and three allies a 1d4 bonus in attack and saving throws.
- Heroism
- Grants an ally 5 health points per round – up to 10 rounds possible.
Those were the most important things if you feel like being an Oathbreaker. If you want to reset your skills, visit the “Withered” in the camp. For 100 gold pieces, he can assist you with your endeavor.
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