The Bard of Frontiers. That is what I have dubbed Wyll in my latest Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough. Sitting down to my first multiplayer stint in a game I now know like the back of Astarion's…well, back, I know I had to shake some things up if I wanted a novel new experience. My remedy for tedium? To finally play one of the classes I've never dared to before, but in a slightly different way. Enter: Wyll Ravenbard.
I've multiclassed the Blade in previous saves, finding paladin-warlock to be especially effective for my Wyll origin run. But this venture is slightly different: it's once again all about the origin characters, but I'm playing it with my older brother. I select Lae'zel as my main while Zack steps into the delicious-looking magical boots of one Gale of Waterdeep (not unlike GR+'s own Heather Wald). But while leveling up Wyll right before one of my least-favorite Act One battles, my brother makes an offhand comment. He's no BG3 rookie, but in 350 hours, he admits that he has never once messed with the set classes of his companions. Nor has he ever multiclassed them. It started as a joke, but by showing him the joys of multiclassing in Baldur's Gate 3, I've accidentally made Wyll far more OP than any of my Tavs that came before.
