Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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With Baldur's Gate 3 final patch going live, the emergence of the Deathreaper is a fact — a fearsome spellcaster who commands necrotic magic to harvest the souls of the living. Where she walks, life withers, and the dead rise in her wake.

The Deathreaper is my multiclass build between a Death Domain Cleric, Necromancy Wizard and a Circle of the Spores Druid. In my opinion it's the way to make a Death Domain Cleric centric build the strongest when considering its thematics and RP. This is a spellcaster that uses destructive necrotic damage as its primary source of damage and plays around the many shenanigans and utility tied to the game's necro spells and (potentially) synergistic gear. At the same time the build gets the most out of the Death Domain's subclass features like Reaper and Touch of Death. In addition you get a bunch of control and utility, resulting in a great mix of doing damage and controlling the battlefield — making it an absolute menace early, mid and late game.

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Timestamps:
0:00 The Deathreaper | RP and Gameplay
1:59 How The Multiclass Works
2:22 The Start: Shadowheart Vs. Custom Tav (and Best Races)
3:04 The Trio of Death (Cantrips that set up for early destruction as a Death Domain Cleric)
4:48 The Start: Abilities
5:26 Level 2 (and Spells)
6:14 Level 3 Greatness and Micro Strategy
7:52 Level 4 and Getting Amazing Feat For Touch of Death and Our Playstyle
9:32 Level 5 Nuclear Powerspike
10:38 Level 6 Nuclear Powerspike, pt 2
11:55 GEAR ACT 1 | Get OP Early (Full Overview)
12:09 Gear Act 1 | Sorrow's Early Power
13:01 Gear Act 1 | Amazing Utility Combo
13:50 Gear Act 1 | OP Spirit Guardians Combo
14:35 Recap: Combat Strategy Act 1
15:37 This Insanity Leads To
15:56 ACT 2: Necro Resistances and Immunity -- Is It Game Over For The Build?
16:09 Overcoming Necro Resistance
16:50 Beyond Good and Evil - How To Bypass Act 2 Immunity (Roleplaying Justification)
18:45 GEAR ACT 2 | Full Overview & Strategy
21:58 Using Our Enemies In Act 2 and Beyond
22:29 Level 7 and 8 | Becoming A Dual Wielder As Well | Divine Striking On A Bonus Action
24:16 Do We Really Need Higher Levels Of Cleric?
24:57 Level 9 | Wizard's OP-ness Gets Included
26:05 Level 10 | Necromancy Unlocked
26:17 Level 11 | Why Druid? | OP Synergy
27:12 Level 12 | Finishing Off The Build
27:19 Monoclass Vs. Multiclass - Why I Went Multiclass
28:42 The Superduper Exclusive Necro Spell That Is Usually Only A Scroll Cast - Is Now Permanently In Our Kit
29:25 Scribing CoD | The Ultimate Necro AoE Spell
29:57 Scribing Non-Necro Spells
30:15 Grim Harvest Makes You Never Die
30:19 Get The Ultimate Necro Weapon ASAP
31:47 Most Important Staff For Our Other Hand
32:16 Setting Up Infinite Free High Level Spell Casting
32:45 Setting Up Infinite Healing
34:04 GEAR ACT 3 | FULL OVERVIEW & STRATEGY
35:26 These Gloves Make Your Cantrips AoE Damage (Stacks With Reaper!)
35:55 Recap: Combat Strategy Act 3
37:23 This Build Completely Destroys Honour Mode (Conclusion)