Rogues' Greatest Abilities Unveiled in Baldur's Gate 3

Maximize Your Baldur's Gate 3 Rogue's Potential: The Best Feats for Devastating Damage

Choosing a Rogue in Baldur's Gate 3 is a smart move. Their stealth and damage output are exceptional. To truly optimize your Rogue, consider these top feats:

Top Feats for Your BG3 Rogue:

Sharpshooter: Transform your Rogue into a deadly ranged combatant. Ignore cover, extend your attack range, and boost damage by 10 (at the cost of a -5 penalty to hit). Ideal for maximizing long-range effectiveness.

Skilled: Unleash unparalleled versatility. Gain proficiency in three skills or tools of your choice. Become a master of stealth, acrobatics, and thievery, or specialize in lockpicking, tracking, and appraisal – adapt your Rogue to your playstyle.

Athlete: Enhance agility and finesse. Eliminate extra movement costs for climbing and rising from prone, and perform running jumps with ease. Improve navigation, trap avoidance, and obstacle traversal. Also provides a +1 to Strength or Dexterity.

Tough: While Rogues aim to avoid damage, BG3 presents challenges. Tough significantly increases hit points, boosting survivability, especially when combined with the Rogue's inherent evasiveness.

Mobile: Perfect for hit-and-run tactics. Quickly enter and exit combat range, enhancing both melee and ranged combat effectiveness.

Alert: Avoid the perils of surprise attacks. Gain advantage on initiative rolls and prevent being surprised, crucial for maintaining your Rogue's damage output.

Dungeon Delver: Enhance your Rogue's already impressive skills in navigating dungeons. Easily detect and disable traps, and effortlessly unlock doors and chests. A significant quality-of-life improvement.

Crossbow Expert: Unleash devastating crossbow attacks. Use your crossbow for sneak attacks at close range, significantly increasing damage at all ranges. A highly effective and thematic choice.

Lucky: A universally beneficial feat. Three Luck Points allow for advantage on attacks, ability checks, or saving throws, and the ability to force enemy attack rerolls. Refreshes after a long rest.

Savage Attacker: Ideal for melee Rogues. Roll damage dice twice and use the higher result, maximizing melee damage output, even without sneak attacks.

These feats will transform your Rogue into a formidable force in Baldur's Gate 3. Experiment and find the combination that best suits your playstyle.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is available now on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.

Updated 2/7/2025