Best Rogue Feats in 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. This guide highlights the top feats to enhance your Rogue's effectiveness.

Recommended Rogue Feats in BG3

Here are eight exceptional feats for your BG3 Rogue:

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:

Boosts agility and finesse. Reduces movement costs for climbing and rising from prone positions, and enables efficient running jumps. Improves traversal and maneuverability, adding grace and speed. Also provides a +1 to Strength or Dexterity.

Tough:

Increases survivability by granting significant extra hit points. While Rogues aim to avoid damage, this feat provides a crucial safety net, ensuring your damage dealer remains in the fight.

Mobile:

Perfect for hit-and-run tactics. Allows you to move freely after attacking, enabling strategic repositioning and escaping enemy range after attacks.

Alert:

Avoids the dangers of surprise attacks. Provides a bonus to initiative, ensuring your Rogue acts first in combat, and negates surprise attacks, crucial for high-damage output.

Dungeon Delver:

Improves exploration and trap detection. Easily identifies and disarms traps, and unlocks chests and doors, enhancing the overall gameplay 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.

Lucky:

Provides three Luck Points per long rest to add advantage to attacks, ability checks, or saving throws, and to force enemy attack rerolls. A universally beneficial feat for any build.

Savage Attacker:

Ideal for melee Rogues. Rerolls melee damage dice, using the highest result, significantly increasing damage output, especially when combined with 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 preferred playstyle.

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

This article was updated on 2/7/2025 by Melissa Sarnowski to include additional information about Baldur’s Gate 3.