If you’ve chosen to play as a Rogue in Baldur’s Gate 3, you’ve made a great choice. These devious and stealthy characters are incredibly effective in the game and can deliver impressive damage. Let’s delve into the best feats for the Rogue in BG3.
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Top 10 Feats for the Rogue in BG3
Here are the ten best Rogue feats in BG3:
- Sharpshooter
- Skilled
- Athlete
- Tough
- Mobile
- Alert
- Dungeon Delver
- Crossbow Expert
- Lucky
- Savage Attacker
Sharpshooter
Sharpshooter is a game-changer for Rogues who prefer long-range combat. This feat allows you to ignore cover, extend your attack range, and increase your attack damage by 10, albeit at the cost of a -5 penalty to hit. With Sharpshooter, your Rogue can transform into a deadly sniper, striking targets with pinpoint accuracy and enhanced power, making it a top pick for optimizing ranged combat effectiveness.
Skilled
The Skilled feat offers exceptional versatility for Rogues, granting proficiency in any combination of three skills or tools. Whether you want to excel in stealth, acrobatics, and sleight of hand, or become your party’s locksmith, tracker, and appraiser, this feat allows you to customize your Rogue’s abilities to match your preferred playstyle. Skilled enhances your Rogue’s adaptability and expertise, making them invaluable in various scenarios.
Athlete
The Athlete feat boosts a Rogue’s agility and finesse. It removes the extra movement cost for climbing and getting up from prone and allows running jumps with only a 5-foot run-up. These improvements make your Rogue more efficient at navigating terrain, dodging traps, and leaping across obstacles, ensuring they can perform with grace and speed in any situation. You also gain a +1 to Strength or Dexterity.
Tough
While most Rogues prefer to avoid taking hits, it’s nearly impossible to remain unscathed in Baldur’s Gate 3. Even the sneakiest Rogue might occasionally fail a roll or be caught in an AOE attack. Given the high damage output of Rogues, ensuring their survival is crucial for winning battles. Tough isn’t mandatory, but it significantly enhances your Rogue’s durability by granting a substantial number of extra hit points, making them much harder to take down.
Mobile
If you’re aiming for a hit-and-run style with your Rogue, Mobile is an excellent choice. You can dart in to deliver devastating strikes, then quickly retreat without repercussions. It also aids in ranged duels by allowing you to snipe a target and then slip back out of their range.
Alert
Being surprised is a dangerous scenario for any Rogue. An ambush can lead to a swift defeat, especially without feats like Tough to bolster your survivability. The Alert feat helps keep your Rogue safer by improving their initiative and reducing the chances of being caught off guard, thereby maintaining their valuable DPS.
Dungeon Delver
Baldur’s Gate 3 is filled with traps, locked doors, and chests. The Dungeon Delver perk, combined with a Rogue’s natural aptitude for such challenges, makes navigating these obstacles much easier. You’ll detect most traps before they trigger, disarm them effortlessly, and bypass locks without breaking a sweat. It’s an invaluable quality-of-life feat for Rogues outside of combat.
Crossbow Expert
Crossbow Expert is my favorite Rogue feat. If you haven’t tried using a crossbow in Baldur’s Gate 3 yet, you’re missing out. Equip your Rogue with a good crossbow and this feat to become a truly devastating damage dealer. With Crossbow Expert, you won’t worry about melee combat at all. You can use your Crossbow’s sneak attack at close range, and your sneak attacks will deal more damage at all ranges. Plus, it feels incredibly thematic to be a crossbow-wielding Rogue.
Lucky
Lucky is a versatile feat that benefits any class and build in BG3. With three Luck Points, you can gain advantage on Attack Rolls, Ability Checks, or Saving Throws, increasing your chances of success. You can also use a Luck Point to force an enemy to reroll their attack, potentially turning a hit into a miss. Since these points refresh after each Long Rest, you don’t need to be conservative about using them.
Savage Attacker
If you’re focusing on a melee build, Savage Attacker is a must-have feat. When making a melee attack with this feat, you roll the damage dice twice and use the higher result. Combined with your Rogue’s sneak attacks, you’ll deal significant damage and maintain that output even when sneak attacks aren’t an option.
That’s it for the best feats to transform your Baldur’s Gate 3 Rogue into a formidable force, capable of dealing as much damage as they can absorb (which is quite substantial). If you have a different loadout, I’d love to hear about it. In the meantime, for more tips on improving your survival odds in the game, explore our comprehensive guides.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is available now on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.
The above article was updated on 2/7/2025 by Melissa Sarnowski to include additional information about Baldur’s Gate 3.
