Best Bard Builds for Baldur's Gate 3

6 Lore Bard/4 Storm Sorcerer/2 Stars Druid - Radiating Orbs, Reverberation, Command, Debuffs, Spirit Guardians, Tank

6 Swords Bard/4 Sorcerer/2 Paladin - Shadow Blade, Psychic Damage, Arcane Acuity, Control Spells

6 Swords Bard/4 Swashbuckler/1 Hexblade/1 any - Rapiers, Slashing Flourish, Dirty Tricks, High Charisma.

10 Valour Bard/2 Light Cleric - Spirit Guardians, Radiant Orb Debuff, Combat Inspiration, Ranged Attacks, Buffs and Heals

2 Fighter/10 Swords Bard - the all-powerful nova round archer with access to control spells for a 100% success chance.

6 Lore Bard/6 Paladin - the radiant knight able to utilize support utilities and having access to Spirit Guardians

10 Lore Bard/2 Warlock - the controller Lore Bard build with access to Warlock's Eldritch Blast and special invocations.

12 Lore Bard - Support controller with access to a wide array of spells and belittling foes with Cutting Words.

6 Lore Bard/6 Draconic Sorcerer - the support and controller Bard with access to Sorcerer fire spells and 100% spell success chance.

2 Paladin/10 Swords Bard - also called Swords Smite Bard (SSB) with a strong nova round potential, multihit attacks, and strong control.