Larian has confirmed the hotly anticipated Patch 8 replace for Baldur’s Gate 3 lastly launches on Tuesday, April 15.
Patch 8 has been available in stress test form for some time now, however Larian has introduced it’s lastly able to be launched to all gamers subsequent week.
There’s a enormous quantity of new content material coming to the record-breaking Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game with Patch 8, together with 12 new subclasses. Elsewhere, there’s picture mode, cross-play, and Xbox Series S cut up display screen. Check out the Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 patch notes for more.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8 new subclasses:
Bard – College of Glamour
As a College of Glamour Bard, you’ll discover you might have the facility to heal associates and command enemies in equal measure. Cast Mantle of Inspiration to bestow your allies with 5 momentary hit factors. And ought to an enemy assault whereas it’s forged, they’ll discover themselves Charmed. Play your hand accurately and you’ll be capable to use this to your benefit with Mantle of Majesty. Target Charmed enemies and you may command them to flee, transfer nearer, freeze, drop to the ground, or drop their weapon.
Barbarian – Path of Giants
Opt for the Path of Giants, and your newfound big energy will make it simpler so that you can yeet good friend and foe alike. Forget chugging potions to pump these muscle groups, these Barbarians benefit from the Giant’s Rage passive that grants each energy and dimension – permitting you to deal extra harm with Throw assaults. Pockets weighing you down? Not for you and your elevated carry capability!
Cleric – Death Domain
As a cleric of dying, you’ll discover a few darkish new tricks up your sleeves – from spells that specialize in necrotic harm to 3 new necromancy cantrips. This contains Toll The Dead, a cantrip that causes 1~8 harm when your cleric rings the bell of impending doom – a quantity that scales in case your goal has already been broken. We’ve additionally added the homebrewed potential to blow up close by corpses, damaging enemies.
Druid – Circle of Stars
These Druids look to the celebs for solutions, accessing powers past these provided by way of the traditional wildshapes. Taking on one of three Starry Forms for his or her energy – the constellations of the Archer, Chalice, and Dragon. Each one favours a completely different play model and strategy – the Archer dealing radiant harm with astral arrows, the life-giving Chalice restoring hitpoints to you and others close by, and the clever Dragon, permitting you to deal harm with an added bonus to structure rolls. The Starry Forms offer not simply a celestial aesthetic, however sensible, highly effective choices to reinforce your position as a healer, fighter, or strategist.
Paladin – Oath of the Crown
You’ve been sworn to uphold the ideas of law. Stay true to your oath and you'll be rewarded with the facility to help your allies and disrupt your foes. Guide your companions in battle with Righteous Clarity, taunt enemies with strategic interrupts, and hold your social gathering standing sturdy with Divine Allegiance, absorbing their harm whereas restoring their well being.
Fighter – Arcane Archer
Mastering the twin arts of magic and marksmanship, the Arcane Archer subclass affords distinctive abilities on high of new capturing animations. Banish foes to the Feywild, eradicating them from the battlefield for a flip, or unleash Psychic harm that forces enemies to make a Wisdom saving throw or be blinded till the beginning of their subsequent flip.
Monk – Drunken Master
Putting the brew in homebrew, because the Drunken Master, you might have the power to devour alcohol straight out of your stock, in addition to drink from bottles you see across the Sword Coast, so as to get well Ki. By sharing the bottle along with your enemies utilizing Intoxicating Strike, you’ll generate a buff in direction of your Armour Class and your Chance to hit Drunk targets. Drunk enemies are additionally prone to the Drunken Masters' different talents, like Sobering Realisation – which sobers up drunk targets, dealing bodily and Psychic harm.
Ranger – Swarmkeeper
The Swarmkeeper subclass supplies Rangers with three sorts of lethal swarms to help them in fight. The Cloud of Jellyfish offers further lightning harm – doubtlessly surprising your enemy. The Flurry of Moths offers Psychic harm, supplying you with the potential to Blind your enemy. The Legion of Bees offers piercing harm and forces the enemy to make a strength-saving throw or be knocked back 15ft. Each swarm additionally has the power to offer you teleportation capabilities!
Rogue – Swashbuckler
This Rogue subclass introduces a vary of new actions match for the piratical life. Play soiled by tossing sand at enemies to Blind them. Flick your weapon at a goal to Disarm them. Or use your new Fancy Footwork passive whereas meleeing your enemy to make sure they will’t make alternative assaults towards you for the remainder of your flip.
Sorcerer – Shadow Magic
As a Shadow Magic Sorcerer, you deal in a kind of magic that makes you deadliest in darkness. This subclass provides its sorcerer Superior Darkvision, in addition to the power to Shadow Walk between locations of dim mild or darkness. It additionally permits you to call forth the peerlessly homebrewed Hound of Ill Omen to harass your foes, and use Strength of the Grave to forestall you from being downed – splendid for these making an attempt Honour Mode runs.
Warlock – Hexblade
Hexblade Warlocks make a pact with an entity from the Shadowfell that manifests within the kind of magical weapons. Curse your enemies and drive their souls to do your bidding. Slay any enemy that isn’t typically an factor of nature, assemble, big blob, or already useless, and you’ll be capable to raise their spirit from their corpse for ten turns. This new summon can deal necrotic harm and will rip away a chunk of your enemy’s soul to offer your Hexblade Warlock with therapeutic.
Wizard – Bladesinging
The Bladesinging subclass merges swordplay with wizardry. Expect new spellcasting animations when casting spells along with your weapon, a new Bladesong potential to grant you supernatural pace, agility, and focus, plus provides you a bonus to any Constitution saving throw you make.
Patch 8, as Larian has signalled, is the ultimate main replace for the game and attracts a line underneath what has been a exceptional time for the developer. Baldur’s Gate 3 launched to critical acclaim and enormous commercial success back in 2023, and has continued to promote strongly all through 2024 and into 2025.
Larian shocked the gaming world by confirming its intention to depart Baldur’s Gate 3 and Dungeons & Dragons behind to work on a model new game, which it teased at varied factors earlier than announcing a media blackout to focus on the new mystery project.
D&D proprietor Hasbro. nonetheless, has teased plans to proceed with the collection. Speaking to IGN on the Game Developers Conference final month, SVP of digital video games at Hasbro, Dan Ayoub, let on that with Larian moving on, Hasbro has "a lot of people very interested in Baldur's Gate."
"We're kind of working out our plans for the future and what we're going to be doing with that. And actually, in pretty short order, we're going to have some stuff to talk about around that."
Ayoub didn't offer any additional details about whether or not this "stuff" can be a full-blown new Baldur's Gate within the works, or some kind of crossover just like the characters had with Magic: The Gathering beforehand. However, he did acknowledge that he finally desires a Baldur's Gate 4, however that making one will possible take a whereas.
"It's somewhat of an unenviable position," he stated. "I mean, we're not in a hurry. Right? That's the thing, we're going to take a very measured approach… We've got a lot of plans, a lot of different ways to go about it. We're starting to think about, okay, yeah, we're ready to start dipping toes a little bit and talking about a few things. And I think, in really short order, like I said, again, not to over-tease that point, we're going to have some other things to talk about around that."
Meanwhile, Larian will rejoice the release of Patch 8 with a Twitch livestream during which senior techniques designer, Ross Stephens, will run by way of the adjustments and additions.
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