Baldur's Gate 3's most popular class is Paladin and 65% of players "veer on the side of good" – I'm so proud of this community
The most popular class in Baldur's Gate 3 so far is Paladin, and I don't think it's a coincidence that most players are also roleplaying as the good guys.
Developer Larian Studios released a handy infographic about the mammoth RPG's opening weekend earlier today. Among other things, it confirms the popularity of Paladin, which I speculate is due to the reasons I also chose the class for my custom character: it's durable, it's got healing, it can use a lot of different weapons, and it can fill many essential roles.
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Second place goes to Sorcerers, followed by Warlocks in third, then Rogues and Bards and Barbarians in an almost dead-heat tie for fourth. I'm surprised Rogue isn't in the top three, frankly, but it's also no shocker for spellcasters to rank so highly in a game with a magic system as engrossing as Baldur's Gate 3's – which is to say, as engrossing as D&D's. The least-picked class so far, by quite some distance, is Cleric. Sorry, Clerics.
Exposing the moral compass of its player base, Larian reports that "in terms of diplomacy, players veer on the side of good." It seems the opening encounter with the grove sanctuary was a key test here, with 65.1% of players saving the grove and 34.9% assaulting it.
It'll be interesting to see how this metric fluctuates, and how Larian measures it, as players get deeper into the game and encounter more difficult choices. I'm also curious if the PS5 population may have noticeably different
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