Baldur’s Gate 3 offers a fantastic feature that allows you to give your character a profile. However, you might want to avoid using it, at least as a beginner. MeinMMO editor and D&D expert Sophia Weiß explains why.
Baldur’s Gate 3 allows your creativity to flow when it comes to your player character: whether it’s the selection of 11 races and 12 different classes, some of which even offer multiple subclasses. Our overview Baldur’s Gate 3: All 12 Classes and 11 Races at a Glance – Which One Suits You? provides you with a comprehensive overview of all character options.
If that’s not enough, you also have the option to “multiclass” your character. What this is, how it works, and whether it’s really a good idea for every player in their first run, we will reveal here.
What is Multiclassing?
Multiclassing refers to when a player gives their character levels not just in one class, but in two or even more.
This could be a rogue like Astarion, who later “multiclasses” into a paladin and a druid. Depending on how many levels the character gains in each class, they can acquire more or fewer features from each class.
A Thought Experiment: If the player gives the companion Astarion, one of the playable characters, a new rogue level at each level-up for five levels, the character will have all rogue abilities up to level five.
However, if another class is chosen at the next level-up, Astarion will now have access to the abilities of the new class at level one.
In the mentioned example, this means that Astarion has received
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