In Baldur’s Gate 3, you have plenty of classes, subclasses, and specializations at your disposal to customize your character according to your ideas. However, some of the most powerful subclasses from D&D are missing. And that, despite the fact that they actually made it into the game.
Which class are we talking about? In a post on Reddit, the user Megazupa originally posted a meme about an encounter with a Githyanki NPC at the end of Act 2 in Baldur’s Gate 3. He depicts this character as significantly more powerful than a player party at level 12.
Githyanki with unique subclass in BG3
Why he portrays this NPC as so powerful becomes clear from his description. The Githyanki has a subclass that you as a player cannot choose at all. And this, despite the fact that it is very powerful in Dungeons and Dragons.
This is a subclass for warlocks, in which they make a pact with an undead being to be able to channel spells. In D&D, players can, for example, make a pact with a powerful vampire or undead pharaoh. However, in Baldur’s Gate 3, this option is not available. Or at least not as a player.
How does the community react? Some players seem to have not even noticed this detail. One user directly asks where one would encounter this NPC. Megazupa replies that you face the warlock during the Githyanki ambush at the end of Act 2. Presumably, the Githyanki has made a pact with the patron Vlakith.
Above all, most players agree about the missing – or almost missing – subclass. “It annoys me that they have subclasses in the game that we cannot play for no apparent reason,” complains NoLongerAddicted in a comment under the post.
Another user hopes that perhaps more subclasses will be added to the game. However, Larian Studios has already announced that there will not be much new content to follow for Baldur’s Gate 3.
“And I am still angry about it,” writes a user in his comment. “My favorite warlock subclass from D&D. I say robbed, ROBBED!”
Are there more subclasses missing? In fact, there are more subclasses from Dungeons and Dragons missing for players in Baldur’s Gate 3. Players have also noticed several NPCs that have a subclass that they as players cannot choose.
Among other things, players encounter a paladin with the “Oath of Conquest” in Act 3. This also seems to be a subclass that many players would have wished for their paladin. “We need an evil-aligned paladin,” writes a user. From the players’ reactions, it is clear that many would like to take an evil path with their paladin without breaking their oath.
Even without the “Oath of Conquest”, the paladin is already one of the most popular classes in Baldur’s Gate 3: Why is the paladin actually the most popular class in Baldur’s Gate?
