Bottom line: after 300+ hours of Baldur's Gate 3 across multiple Honor mode runs, most public class tier lists get 3-4 subclasses wrong because they rank on damage-in-a-vacuum instead of action economy.
The full write-up ranks all 12 base classes and their subclasses against a fixed criteria (damage, control, party-slot cost, respec friction) with links to the specific mechanics that break the ranking on Tactician vs Honor.
Three things nobody tells first-timers:
- Land Druid (Circle of the Land) massively out-scales Moon in solo Honor because Wall of Stone breaks 40% of Honor boss fights.
- Life Cleric 1-dip on ANY caster > straight caster levels 2-5 (bonus healing scales with rerolls).
- Pact of the Blade Warlock is B-tier on paper, S-tier in practice because Elixir of Bloodlust turns a single Extra Attack into 3 hits/turn.
Full tier list with per-subclass notes: https://bg3hub.com/articles/bg3-classes-and-subclasses-tier-list.html
Curious which class you disagree with most — drop it in comments.
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