When you’re looking at the Baldur’s Gate 3 Wizard build, you want to make sure that you’re getting the most bang for your buck. Remember, you’re a glass cannon that can dish out a ton of spell damage, but you need to be mindful of your allies, too. Our Baldur’s Gate 3 build guide discusses the School of Evocation.
Our Baldur’s Gate 3 Wizard build guide looks at the Evocation subclass, which is viable in the long run due to its amazing perk. We also have a Wizard class overview that takes note of ideal selections during character creation. As an aside, we opted to focus on a build that avoids multiclassing. However, you’re able to respec and change classes when you see fit, if you want more flexibility.
Wizards aren’t going to last long in melee, and they certainly shouldn’t wear any type of armor. As such, we have to fine-tune their capabilities to succeed. We recommend the following for the Baldur’s Gate 3 Wizard build:
Our Baldur’s Gate 3 Wizard build guide presents options for ideal spell picks during character creation and beyond. Moreover, we cite reasons as to what makes the School of Evocation really great.
Cantrips:
Spells:
You can choose two more spells to learn, though these aren’t priorities compared to those at level 1. More importantly, you can now choose your subclass.
Evocation – Has the Sculpt Spells feature for all Evocation-type spells. The reason this subclass is amazing if because your Evocation spells no longer hit your allies. That means you can drop a Fireball on the spot where your melee units are, and not bother with any potential friendly-fire damage.
Spells:
Spells and Cantrips – For your cantrip, we suggest just grabbing anything that you neglected during character creation. As for the spells:
Feat: Magic Initiate: Warlock – We can save the extra stat boost for later. We want this for the following actions:
Spells:
Subclass Feature: Potent Cantrip – Cantrips become harder to evade. Creatures that pass a saving throw against your cantrip still take half damage.
Spells:
Spells:
Spells:
Feat: Ability Improvement – You’ll want to add +2 points to your Intelligence. Moreover, if you’ve already defeated Auntie Ethel, don’t forget to get the extra point to hit 20 INT.
These are our picks for the Wizard best build in Baldur’s Gate 3. We’ll update our guide soon, so stay tuned.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is filled to the brim with activities and secrets. You’ll no doubt be part of an adventure that can take countless hours to complete. For other tips, you can visit our BG3 guides hub.
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