The Nope Mage – Glamour Bard / Divination Wizard

On r/BG3Builds, someone mentioned having great fun playing Lore Bard + Div Wizard. A comment mentioned Glamour being a viable option–though it results in “pop-ups from hell” gameplay.

So I decided to build it out!

There is no theorycrafting, no concern for party balance, no optimization. This is just how I would play this particular build concept. I like half-drow because they get elf benefits and a few free cantrips/spells that can be useful for battlefield control (in theory).

Leveling recommendations:

If you don’t want to respec, I’d level up like this:

Bard 1

Wizard 1-2

Bard 2-6

Wizard 3-6

This way you get to have scroll learning abilities early, divination rolls early, while still having vicious mockery and charisma control mechanisms. I know this royally messes up the feat progression. Again, this isn’t optimized in any way and I use a lot of mods (including a “get a feat every even level” mod) so please modify as needed and let me know what works/what doesn’t!