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Best Baldur's Gate 3 Classes Mods

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January 13, 2025

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been the most celebrated game of 2023, arriving out of early access to much fanfare and celebration. It takes players on a breathtaking and exhilarating adventure throughout the world of Faerun, combining the rich world and lore of Dungeons and Dragons with Larian’s approach to RPG games.

Baldur’s Gate 3: Missing Dungeons & Dragons Classes and Subclasses

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Baldur’s Gate 3 arrives with most vanilla D&D classes, but which did not make the final cut?

As one might expect with this branded RPG, it does allow players a broad choice of vanilla classes and subclasses to choose from. But in addition to the choices the game provides, the modding community has created several mods to elevate the fantastic range of classes and subclasses.

Updated January 12, 2025, by Hamza Haq: Larian Studios has reaffirmed their stance on Baldur’s Gate 3’s modding community time and again, most recently by adding full-fledged mod support to their game and a dedicated website to house it all in. Class mods are excellent for replayability as they give players completely new archetypes to experiment with while journeying through a familiar Baldur’s Gate.

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Hexblade Class

Adds a New Curse-Focused Warlock Subclass

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The Hexblade subclass leans into the aspect of a Warlock cursing their enemies with stacking debuffs to make them vulnerable to follow-up damage. The mod adds new spells that can be selected during level-ups, a way to deal extra damage to marked enemies, and a way to revive the specter of a recently killed character to fight for them.

On top of that, players can also choose to get the optional Invocation add-on to give their Hexblade Warlock access to alternative invocations. There are 11 new invocations to choose from, with effects ranging from animating undead without using a spell slot, to increasing the range of Eldritch Blast by 2.5x, to creating a domain of death and decay around the caster, and much more.

Mod’s original version is not compatible with Patch 7, but a fork that works with the latest version of BG3 has been made here.

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Necromancer Warlock – The Dread Overlord

Offers a Unique Twist on the Necromancer Archetype

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Baldur’s Gate 3 doesn’t explore the raising undead aspect of D&D lore beyond giving players ways to speak with the dead and some basic necromancy spells. The Necromancer Warlock mod fixes that problem by giving Warlocks a brand new subclass: the Dread Overlord.

The Dread Overlord’s kit revolves around raising armies of corpses, gaining power from the deceased, and creating Greater Undead, a variant not offered in the base game. The great thing about this mod is that it integrates extremely well within the existing storyline of BG3 through Profane Blessings. Profane Blessings are story-related, permanent buffs that only unlock after The Dread Overlord reaches certain milestones in the campaign.

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Unearthed Arcana

Grants Access to New Class Features

Unearthed Arcana is playtest material for Wizards testing tweaks to features, classes, spells, and races. It tries to offer more balance and new, exciting gameplay, and now, BG3 players can experience some Unearthed Arcana material for themselves.

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By installing the Unearthed Arcana mod, players can access Unearthed Arcana for all vanilla classes for new and fun gameplay, including all magic casters becoming capable of learning spells stored on scrolls. There is an impressive amount of depth and effort put into creating this mod, and it can be a refreshing breath of fresh air for players who feel like they have already experienced everything Baldur’s Gate 3 has to offer.

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Magus Class

Grants Access to a New Class from a Different System

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The biggest TTRPG competitor to D&D is Pathfinder, a fantasy role-playing game with a different world, lore, classes, and significantly higher numbers to make gameplay more crunchy. D&D fans have likely at least heard of, or even tried, this system for themselves.

Fans of Pathfinder who are delving into BG3 might be excited to hear that many members of the modding community are also fans of both systems. The Magus Class mod adds this Pathfinder class to the list of those available to the player in BG3. Players can wield arcane forces and weapons, making it a fun and versatile class mod that even non-Pathfinder fans should try.

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Harlequin Class

Unlocks a Fun and Unique Homebrew Class

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There are mods to expand on existing classes or add new ones that were missing, and then there is the Harlequin mod, which is a homebrew class that adds something completely new and refreshing for players to experience.

Straddling the line between bard and rogue, the Harlequin class seeks to beguile and deceive their foes and usually sow chaos wherever they travel, coming complete with 3 different subclasses that the players can choose from.

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Diemnocturnum Class

A Unique Mod That Features a New Game Mechanic

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Light and dark magic are common magical systems in works of fantasy. Even D&D has spells surrounding these two forces, giving players the ability to magically summon light or dark without much thought given to the in-between.

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The Diemnocturnum Class mod is here to fill in this blank space, as it focuses on twilight rather than the two opposing forces. The mod includes unique spells, three disparate subclasses with their own focus on magic, and starter equipment. It even offers an original new game mechanic to make this class mod truly feel unique and stand out as someone’s creative invention.

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Warlock – The Undead

A Warlock Subclass Focused On Necrotic Damage

Lore-wise, Warlocks are some of the most interesting characters in Baldur’s Gate 3, making pacts with divine beings for an increase in power that’s not entirely their own. The Undead Warlock is an alternate subclass for this class, introducing a pact between the character and one of six possible patrons: Archlich, Vampire Lord, Eldritch Undead, Specter, Nightwalker, and Greater Mummy.

The Undead Warlock also gains access to the Form of Dead class feature, which lets them transform into a zombie-like creature with additional hit points, the ability to frighten enemies, and immunity to the Frightened status. This Warlock also has the ability to passively convert all damage they deal into necrotic damage starting at Level 6. This mod is compatible with level 20 campaigns.

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Arcane Vanguard

A Spellblade Class With a Twist

While Warlocks in Baldur’s Gate 3 do sort of work as a Spellblade archetype if they go the Pact of the Blade route, it doesn’t fully lean into that class fantasy. Eldritch Blast’s presence almost always overshadows any martial presence they might have, especially at higher levels. The Arcane Vanguard is meant to fill that gap, giving players a way to live out their Spellblade dreams in BG3 using a class that doesn’t just use magic in addition to melee attacks but one that empowers all of its melee attacks using magic.

Arcane Vanguard is further split into four different subclasses. Eldritch Vanguards focus on debuffing and weakening the enemy instead of outright killing them, Sentinel Vanguard serve as tanks, Judgement Vanguards work essentially like Paladins with heavy armor and face-tanking ability, and the Arcane Dervish gain unique melee weapon attacks like Fighters.

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Blood Hunter Class

Offers Access to a New Witcher-Inspired Class

Born from the mind of Critical Role’s Matt Mercer, the Blood Hunter class has become popular among D&D players, making its way into many peoples’ home games. With the class license not owned by Wizards, it is sadly unlikely that it will ever be added to the game officially, but thankfully, this is what the modding community is here for.

The Blood Hunter class mod is exactly as the title implies, but it also includes the Lycan and Ghostslayer subclasses, 2 out of 4 total subclasses. Including all of the known features associated with the Blood Hunter, this mod holds impressive depth and is a must-have for any Blood Hunter fans.

Only works on Patch 7 with a hotfix detailed in the Posts section.

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Death Knight Class

Allows Fans to Play a Famed World of Warcraft Class

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The ever-popular MMORPG World of Warcraft contains numerous unique classes for players to choose from, each with a range of unique abilities or spells. One of these classes is the Death Knight, champions of the evil Lich King. The Death Knights have a unique class ability known as the Rune System and several other abilities and proficiencies.

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The Death Knight mod is truly impressive. The creator of the mod has implemented a fully unique spell list, the Rune System, and two subclasses to choose from. This class mod should be on the radar of every WOW fan playing BG3.

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Drakewarden

Adds A Ranger Subclass With A Dragon Pet

While Ranger is a perfectly serviceable class in Baldur’s Gate 3, it pales in comparison to the other classes on offer. To fix this, this mod adds a new subclass for Rangers, the Drakewarden. The Drakewarden is a ranger with Draconic abilities who keeps a Dragon as a pet. Just like other Ranger pets, this Dragon will grow and evolve with the player, undergoing physical evolution as the character levels up, transforming from a cute little four-legged flying companion to a fearsome fire-spewing dragon.

In addition to the class features, the Drakewarden also adds Draconic Gifts to certain vendors throughout the world, which are power-ups for the Drakewarden class that can be bought and consumed.

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Unleashed Classes

Buffs All of the Vanilla Class

A series of mods known as (Class Name) Unleashed has made its way onto Nexus Mods. These mods are all about buffing the vanilla classes of Baldur’s Gate 3 to make players feel more powerful, and they can accomplish more before having to take a long rest and burn their way through precious supplies.

So far, the mod covers all vanilla classes that come with the game. If players want more bang for their buck, they need only download the mod that corresponds to their chosen class. Druid Unleashed is an example. These mods are a must for players who want to feel like heroes.

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Artificer Class and All Subclasses

Adds a Whole New Class With All Subclasses

The Artificer is Wizard’s most recent class to be added to D&D, arriving with an impressive amount of powerful features that cleverly combine magic with technology, as is fitting with the setting they originate from. With them being an official class, many BG3 players hoped to see them added, but they have yet to receive an official release for the game.

Fortunately, the Artificer class mod is here to save the day, as this mod adds the class and all of its subclasses to BG3. With its own unique UI and icons, a lot of care and effort has gone into faithfully recreating the class in-game, and it continues to receive updates to provide an even better experience for players.

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Blood Mage

A Homebrew High-Risk, High-Reward Class

The Blood Mage class uses a high-risk, high-reward approach to combat, consuming the user’s very own HP to fuel its spells instead of just the regular spell slot system the rest of the spellcasters rely on. This allows their spells to be more potent but at the risk of being consumed by their own power. Not only that but every enemy they kill fuels their power as they can recover health from the enemies that fall to their blood spells. It’s a fun playstyle, and for players who want to live even more on edge, an honor run completed with this class would keep them on the edge of their seats throughout the campaign. The Blood Mage class comes with three subclasses: Blood Magus for a true spellcaster playstyle, Blood Knight for something more Paladin-esque, and Blood Reaver, who use the blood spilled by their attacks to fuel themselves.

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Mind Weaver Class

Adds a Psionic/Psychic Spellcaster Class

The Mind Weaver Class introduces a psychic archetype into the mix, where players use their eldritch mind powers to fling enemies around instead of using simple sorcery or sword fighting. The premise is perfect for a full evil Illithid playthrough consuming tadpoles to lean into the eldritch playstyle even more.

There are six subclasses for the Mind Weaver, with five being implemented and the last one currently in development. Players can choose the Psionic Warden for a mix of melee and magic, the Forceblade for a heavier leaning into melee with heavy armor aided by psionic spells, the Astral Seer for a full spellcaster build, the Void Reaver for a dual-wielding close-range spellcaster who can also trade blows, or the Aetheric Strider for a shadowy assassin playstyle who uses psychic abilities to aid their stealthy kills.