As amazing as it is, I would not recommend wrath of the righteous for 'new' players because;
1. It's brutal even on normal dififcuties
2. It's dense as hell systems wise, it takes 30-40 hours of research to understand all the systems from the go and even then it's hard to follow.
3. It's extremely long, you aint gonna finish that before BG3 comes out.
It is however a 10/10 cRPG. Probably the current best available, other than BG2.
I don't necessarily disagree, but some thoughts. Well, and note that it is probably my favorite CRPG other then BG2 (soon to be BG3 I suspect) as well, lol.
1 - new players can set it to Easy or customize difficulty. It will still be interesting and they can bump it up once used to the systems.
2 - yeah, it's pretty dense, but if folks played say NWN2 or are familiar with D&D 3/3.5 it's not too bad. It's certainly rich in systems but you can learn by playing. And you can respect. The systems though make the game fun. Well, except for crusade system, but you can set that part on Easy and mostly ignore it.
3 - this just gives BG3 more time to patch up!
. Plus WotR is cheap on sale now days. And even with DLCs it's not expensive. Also note, you don't really need DLCs unless you really get into it.
The game though is so good, and it seemed to have flown under radar for a lot of folks. But yeah, for CRPG newbies, D:OS2 might be a better bet, but even that on normal can devolve to "puzzle" based encounters toward latter half of the game.
Maybe Wasteland 3 or Shadowrun Dragonfall/HK are better "starting" CRPGs. And Shadowrun games are super underrated also.