In Baldur’s Gate 3 there are plenty of talents to optimize your character. MeinMMO reveals which 3 talents you should rather avoid.
What are talents? Talents can make you more powerful in combat, but can also be particularly helpful in social interactions. In Baldur’s Gate 3 there are a total of 40 different talents. Your character can choose up to 3 talents during the gameplay. You can select the talents when you level up at levels 4, 8, and 12.
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These 3 talents are less useful than you might think
Entertainer
What can the talent do? With this talent, you increase your charisma and skill in handling musical instruments by only one point. At first, this sounds very tempting, but there is already a specific class in this field: the Bard. The bard can play musical instruments on his own.
Why it’s not worth it: Furthermore, you can learn the ability “Play musical instruments“ from the NPC Alfira in the Emerald Grove. She needs help to complete her song, and you help her with that. Afterward, you receive a lute and the talent “Play musical instruments“.
You can also choose the Actor talent, which also gives you +1 charisma and additionally doubles your proficiency bonus on Deception and Performance.
Weapon Master
What can the talent do? Weapons play an essential role in Baldur’s Gate 3. You might be tempted to take the path of the Weapon Master. The Weapon Master grants you expertise in the handling of four weapons that you can choose at will. Additionally, you can increase either your strength or dexterity by one point.
Why it’s not worth it: As a Barbarian, for example, you will already be practiced with several weapons. Therefore, the Weapon Master talent is not worth it.
When you choose a class, you already have knowledge of the weapons you are likely to want to play. The Weapon Master talent simply does too little.
Barroom Brawler
What can the talent do? When you make an unarmed attack, use an improvised weapon, or throw something, you add your strength modifier twice to your damage and attack rolls. Additionally, you gain a +1 bonus to Constitution or Strength.
Why it’s not worth it: Barroom Brawler might be worthwhile as a Berserker Barbarian, Monk, or Moon Druid. If your Monk’s strength is higher than your dexterity, then you attack with your strength modifier. However, the talent is more suitable for more specific builds, like a Monk-Rogue multiclass. So there are indeed more efficient talents that offer more suitable bonuses.
Additionally, there is a risk of an “accident” with Barroom Brawler.
Choosing talents is a matter of taste: These talents may simply be less strong and useful compared to others. What may be “bad“ for one player could be super useful for another player in certain situations. So it cannot be said in general which talents perform particularly poorly.
If you prefer to increase your main attribute (for example Wisdom), you can choose the ability score improvement instead of a talent. You can also find the ability score improvement under talents and choose it at levels 4, 8, and 12.
With the ability score improvement, you can increase one attribute by 2 or two attributes by one. This way, you can bring your Wisdom to 20 faster. Remember that only even numbers give you a bonus on rolls.
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