Best Mods For The Barbarian Class In BG3

Key Takeaways

• Mods enhance the Barbarian class with various buffs.
• New features like Rage resource & Storm Herald subclass add depth.
• Homebrew mods like Better Barbarian Wild Magic improve gameplay.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a game that has captured the hearts and minds of players across the globe. The capturing minds part is slightly more pertinent, what with all the mindflayers around. The game does an amazing job of impressing high stakes and urgency onto the player as quickly as possible, and it also does an amazing job of making each class transition from tabletops to the video game scene with grace.

But homebrew has been an essential component of D&D for almost as long as the tabletop game itself has existed, and it’s no surprise that the equivalent of homebrewing on a digital front, modding, has become such a huge part of Baldur’s Gate 3. If certain aspects of the Barbarian class are making one howl in anger – they’ve probably picked the right class – but many issues can be remedied with these Barbarian mods for Baldur’s Gate 3.

1 Barbarian Unleashed

Makes Barbarians A Force To Be Reckoned With

Barbarians are often expected to be on the frontline, facing down some of the most terrifying creatures that the worlds of D&D have to offer. Players can better equip themselves to take down these threats with the Barbarian Unleashed mod.

This mod adds various feats and bonuses to the Barbarian class. It’s not so much an overhaul or tweaking of the class as it is one colossal buff. As such, players looking for balance might find themselves a little overpowered – but such is the raw fury of the Barbarian Unleashed.

2 Barbarian Evolved – Complete Class Rework

Makes The Barbarian Class More Effective With New Features

While the 2024 Edition of D&D is reworking every class officially, it’s up to modders to overhaul their favorite classes into something more devastating and effective. This mod doesn’t buff or tweak the Barbarian class but overhauls it into something new and dangerous.

Rage is now a resource built up over time in battle. It can be spent on a host of devastating effects. Most notably, this includes more AOE attacks that help specialize it as a martial cast with unique abilities.

3 5e Path Of The Giant – Barbarian Subclass

Adds The New 5e Subclass To BG3 Faithfully

While the release of Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants had a shadow hanging over it thanks to the AI art controversy, once the dust had settled players were left with a fantastic, immersive barbarian subclass to build characters around.

This mod adds a faithfully recreated Path of the Giant subclass for Barbarians into BG3, down to the passive bonuses to size and reach whenever raging. It’s an excellent way to give a barbarian more presence on the battlefield.

4 OneDnD Barbarian – Relentless Rage

An Excellent, Balanced Feature For Barbarians

• Mod Creator: BG3 Community Library Team
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Barbarians are designed to be among the tankiest in any party, meant to take loads of damage while also dishing it out twofold. One excellent feature that keeps players up is a feature from the new 2024 edition of D&D – Relentless Rage.

Relentless Rage in this game is a buffed version of the OneDnD feature, giving players twice their level in HP when they are downed. This can be done multiple times per encounter and is an excellent way of giving barbarians more survivability.

5 5e Path Of The Zealot – Barbarian Subclass

An Excellent Take On An Interesting Subclass

While plenty of games that allow players to synthesize might and magic exist, the Path of the Zealot uniquely allows players to fuse the raw fury of the barbarian with the religious zealotry and fervor of a barbarian.

This mod adds a fantastic rendition of the Path of the Zealot to BG3, combining the unending, undying zeal of the subclass from the tabletop game with all of the QoL features that were introduced with BG3.

6 Better Barbarian Wild Magic

Keeps Wild Magic Powerful At Higher Levels

Wild magic is an excellent and powerful tool in this game – albeit one that is by its very nature hard to control. Players who take the Path of Wild Magic often control the battlefield with the host of intense and powerful effects their class produces.

However, as the game continues, these wild magic effects have a diminishing effect on the battlefield. This mod’s central purpose is to tweak or add level-scaling effects to all the wild magic results in vanilla BG3 to enhance them even into the late game.

7 5e Path Of The Storm Herald – Barbarian Subclass

A Powerful And Dangerous Class At Player’s Disposal

The three vanilla subclasses for Baldur’s Gate 3 Barbarians all provide distinct avenues to alter the typical experience of this class, but the Path of the Storm Herald mod allows players to unleash fury like no other subclass.

Similar to other mentioned mods on this list, part of what makes this mod so good is the extra utility it gives Barbarians as martial classes with an edge. Many Storm Herald abilities involve AOE attacks that are great for a frontline fighter.

8 Barbarian Quality Life

Small But Essential Barbarian Tweaks

These are all small-scale changes for the Barbarian, very different from the complete overhauls or buffs seen higher up on this list, but even the most vanilla-adherent of players should consider implementing the useful changes that come with this mod.

Players now get a notification if their rage will end early, and there are a series of small buffs – once divided by subclass – that now universally affect Rage, to ensure that the Barbarian class hits with the power it’s meant to.