In Pathos's Embrace: Unlocking Devious Feats of Baldur's Gate 3

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

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

Top Rogue Feats in BG3

Here are eight exceptional feats to enhance your Rogue's capabilities:

Sharpshooter:

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

Skilled:

Highly versatile, granting proficiency in three skills or tools of your choice. Customize your Rogue to excel in stealth, acrobatics, lockpicking, or any combination that suits your playstyle.

Athlete:

Boost agility and finesse. Reduce movement costs for climbing and rising from prone, and enable efficient running jumps. Improves navigation and maneuverability. Also provides a +1 to Strength or Dexterity.

Tough:

While Rogues prioritize evasion, BG3 presents unavoidable damage. Tough significantly increases hit points, enhancing survivability, especially when combined with a Rogue's inherent evasiveness.

Mobile:

Perfect for hit-and-run tactics. Allows repositioning after attacks without penalty, ideal for ranged combat or escaping enemy attacks.

Alert:

Avoid the devastating effects of surprise attacks. Provides a significant initiative bonus, ensuring your Rogue acts first in combat.

Dungeon Delver:

Improves navigation and exploration. Easily detects and disarms traps and unlocks chests, significantly enhancing the out-of-combat experience.

Crossbow Expert:

A top choice for crossbow-wielding Rogues. Allows sneak attacks at close range, increases sneak attack damage at all ranges, and enhances overall crossbow effectiveness.

Additional Powerful Feats:

Lucky:

Universally beneficial, providing Luck Points to reroll attacks, ability checks, or saving throws. Increases chances of success and mitigates critical failures.

Savage Attacker:

Ideal for melee Rogues. Rerolls damage dice, maximizing damage output, especially when combined with sneak attacks.

These feats will elevate your Baldur's Gate 3 Rogue to a damage-dealing powerhouse. Experiment to find the perfect combination for your playstyle. Consult our other guides for further survival tips and strategies.

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

This article was updated on 2/7/2025 by Melissa Sarnowski.