As spotted by GamesRadar, Jennifer English—the voice behind everyone's favourite head-wiggling smarm machine Shadowheart—has been playing Baldur's Gate 3 with her partner Aliona Baranova (also the game's performance director) on Twitch.
28.09.2023 - 15:05 / ign.com
Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out for nearly two months and developer Larian has revealed its most-popular multiclass builds.
In a PlayStation Blog post, product manager Emily Gera discussed the “art of multiclassing”, which lets players create versatile, powerful, and “occasionally kind of weird” class builds.
Baldur’s Gate 3 hybrid characters are made by combining two or more classes in the game. There are 12 classes and 46 subclasses to pick from (for more information, check out IGN’s Baldur’s Gate 3 How to Multiclass guide).
The most-popular multiclass combination is Rogue/Ranger, with over 175,000 players giving it a shot. The Rogue/Ranger class build “marries sneak attacks with high damage at long range”, Gera said. Given how tricky Baldurs Gate 3's combat can be, you can see why Rogue/Ranger would be so popular.
In second place is the “beefy” Barbarian/Fighter combo with 158,161 players. Barbarian/Paladin is in third, closely followed by Cleric/Paladin and Fighter/Paladin.
Here’s Baldur’s Gate 3’s top 20 multiclass combinations by number of players:
Larian revealed Baldur’s Gate 3’s most-popular player character classes and races in August. At the time the most popular player character class was the Paladin with over 200,000 players, followed by Sorcerer, Warlock, Rogue, and Bard in that order. Cleric was the least popular, as the only class with fewer than 100,000 people choosing it.
In a similar breakdown of character race choices, Halfelf was revealed as the most popular, but was only a slim margin ahead of Humans and Elves. The least popular races were Halflings and, at the very bottom, Githyanki.
Larian also revealed that the vast majority of players (93%) chose to play as custom characters, but of the Origin characters Gale was the most popular (closely followed by Karlach and Astarion).
In IGN’s review of Baldur's Gate 3, which returned a 10/10, we said: "With crunchy, tactical RPG combat, a memorable story with complex characters, highly polished cinematic presentation, and a world that always rewards exploration and creativity, Baldur's Gate 3 is the new high-water mark for CRPGs."
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As spotted by GamesRadar, Jennifer English—the voice behind everyone's favourite head-wiggling smarm machine Shadowheart—has been playing Baldur's Gate 3 with her partner Aliona Baranova (also the game's performance director) on Twitch.
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