All of Baldur’s Gate 3’s core systems—combat, role-playing, and utility—are balanced around one thing and one thing only: Player choice. Chasing after the optimal build is not something the game needs you to do in order to beat it in balanced mode. Any character can work, and in most cases, roleplay matters more than combat in that a ‘suboptimal’ party composition will eventually find a way to handle even the most difficult combat encounters with some creative thinking and a bit of luck.