In general, I would say Magic Initiate feats are not worth it on full spellcasters. You get 3 feats in total, and it’s likely you will use 2 of those 3 feats for ASI to get your casting stat to 20. If you take Magic Initiate, you might as well just do a 1-level dip into that class instead and get more benefit out of it without any drawbacks; you still can get 6th-level spells at 11, have 20 in your main casting stat with two ASIs, and full spell slot progression since you retain that if you multi into separate full spellcasting classes.
For your case in particular OP, I would consider doing a 2-level dip if you want to use EB as a damage cantrip on your Bard. The main reason is because a lv2 Warlock can get 2 passives, and 2 of the choices is adding your CHA modifier to EB damage and having EB be able to push back enemies on hit. You absolutely want the damage bonus from CHA, and then it’s generally a toss up between Devil’s Sight (24m darkvision through normal and magical darkness) or Repelling Blast for more utility. I think you’ll still have the best Bardic Inspiration die, but you will miss out on 6th-level spells. You’ll also get the Warlock benefits of having two replenishable spell slots every short rest, which can be used to cast your Bard spells if you need to.
I almost did the same to get eldritch blast as I thought my bard needed an every turn spell to cast. In my experience you are only a few levels away from having enough spell slots to make the problem go away. Also as a bard you will get the option to take a couple spells from any class which shoukd help round you out.
It’s kind of amazing to me that Larian bumped up the release of BG3 by a month on PC because they didn’t want to compete against Starfield (and given the two big patches, maybe they could have put that extra month to good use), and it turns out it was Bethesda that should have been the one worried.
I don’t know… I put on a toga and a squid, demon, and a bear all tried to suddenly bang me (despite me being neutral or friendly to all of them)… I’m not sure this is romance…
Side note: was it a coincidence that the toga looking outfit seemed to trigger three separate encounters? The flavor text does say that it’s for seducing.
I just skip through the dialogue shit in Starfield. The fun is in the kleptomania dungeon crawling and just turning off your brain for stupid time. BG3 requires brain on. The last good Bethesda RPG that actually had depth to it was Morrowind. I feel so bad for all the younger people that never got to experience the good years of CRPGs. Not that bad tho… They can get their asses on GOG and get the old classics.
I haven't played Starfield. But I have been amazed at the depth of Baldur's Gate 3. You can see the handcrafted world every where you look. And this makes a world you enjoy spending time in.
I’m having the same problem with Astarion and Shadowheart in Shar’s Gauntlet, I have to manually control them to make them do jumps they clearly can do but won’t on their own.
They’re not short so it’s probably stupid AI on low STR chars.
It seems like he said this before Larian said there was a bug making romances happen too quickly, so I wonder if his opinion would change after it’s been fixed.
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