{"id":158151,"date":"2022-12-15T02:53:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T02:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/baldurs-gate-3-early-access-to-get-paladin-in-maybe-the-last-significant-update-before-release\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T02:53:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T02:53:55","slug":"baldurs-gate-3-early-access-to-get-paladin-in-maybe-the-last-significant-update-before-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/baldurs-gate-3-early-access-to-get-paladin-in-maybe-the-last-significant-update-before-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldur’s Gate 3 early access to get paladin in maybe the last significant update before release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The paladin class is coming to the early access version of Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s the headline addition in Patch 9 which, I’m afraid, sounds like it will be the last major content update to the early access build before the game’s full release in August 2023.<\/p>\n

Larian leader Swen Vinke said this during a patch pre-briefing a week ago, telling press – myself included – they’d now like to concentrate on finishing the game, which is fair enough.<\/p>\n

No release date for Patch 9 has been communicated.<\/p>\n

The paladin comes to the game with two subclasses, like every other class has. In this case, it’s Oath of Devotion and Oath of the Ancients. Butt! There’s a sneaky third option available called Oathbreaker. This is actually quite cool: if you break your original oath, a scary Oathbreaker Knight turns up in your camp and offers you to follow their path instead. And their path is a far more aggressive, anti-hero kind of way to go.<\/p>\n

Vincke demonstrated this by getting his Oath of the Ancients paladin to kill some innocent creatures and break his oath of protecting them, the monster.<\/p>\n

Zoe’s a fan of Baldur’s Gate 3, and here’s what she thinks you need to know about it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Patch 9 also revamps a really important D&D mechanic in the game: reactions. If you play the tabletop game, you’ll know that there are a bunch of spells and abilities classified as reactions, which you can use the moment someone else does something – you don’t have to wait until your turn. You just have to have sharp eyes and keen ears and remember you can do them.<\/p>\n

Take Counterspell for instance: you can do this whenever someone else you can see begins casting a spell, expending a spell slot for a chance to interrupt them and stop them, which is really powerful. Or there’s the paladin’s Divine Smite, which gives you a potential extra hit.<\/p>\n

Baldur’s Gate 3 now handles reactions exactly how I’d like: by automatically presenting you with the option to do something when the appropriate conditions are met. It’s very handy.<\/p>\n

The other big thing coming in Patch 9 is level five. All characters can now progress to level five and, if they’re spell casters, access third-levels spells, which make a big difference. Whisper it: fireball<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Swen Vincke and Larian showed the patch in detail during this evening’s Panel from Hell stream.<\/p>\n


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