Bards are Baldur's Gate 3's best class and I can't imagine playing it as anything else

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Bards are Baldur's Gate 3's best class and I can't imagine playing it as anything else
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I was planning on paying a rogue, paladin, or warlock (based on my tabletop characters), but this article nearly has me convinced. I am waiting for the PS5 release, so any agreement or dissension from my PC friends? Other class recommendations?

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I’ve been having fun with my Ranger with a heavy armour build but this article does make a class change tempting!

Right? Ranger is probably at the bottom of my list just cause in 5e (as has been noted everywhere else), it seems to lack its own identity. If you're familiar with those rules, do you feel like BG3 does anything to make the Ranger more worthwhile than the tabletop version?

i'd only play a ranger if it came with a miniature giant space hamster.
"go for the eyes . . ."

This is my first entry into anything D&D / 5e honestly and the lack of identity kind of drew me to the ranger, I wanted to go for a melee front fighter but the barbarian and warrior trees seemed a bit too focused

Beast master ranger with the heavy armour proficiency ended up being the “do anything” class when I swapped between a couple