If you've chosen to play as a Rogue in Baldur's Gate 3, you've made an excellent decision. These cunning and stealthy characters excel in the game, delivering impressive damage. Let's dive into the best feats for optimizing your Rogue in BG3.
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Top 10 Feats for the Rogue in BG3
Here are the eight best Rogue feats in BG3:
- Sharpshooter
- Skilled
- Athlete
- Tough
- Mobile
- Alert
- Dungeon Delver
- Crossbow Expert
- Lucky
- Savage Attacker
Sharpshooter
Sharpshooter is a game-changing feat for Rogues who prefer long-range combat. It allows you to ignore cover, extend your attack range, and boost your attack damage by 10 at the cost of a -5 penalty to hit. With Sharpshooter, your Rogue can transform into a deadly sniper, delivering precise and powerful shots, making it an ideal choice for maximizing ranged combat effectiveness.
Skilled
The Skilled feat provides exceptional versatility for Rogues, granting proficiency in any three skills or tools of your choice. Whether you aim to master stealth, acrobatics, and sleight of hand, or become the party's locksmith, tracker, and appraiser, this feat enables 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 enhances your Rogue's agility and finesse. It eliminates the extra movement cost for climbing and getting up from prone positions and allows for running jumps with just a 5-foot run-up. These enhancements make your Rogue more efficient at navigating terrain, dodging traps, and leaping over obstacles, ensuring they can perform with grace and speed in any situation. Additionally, you gain a +1 to Strength or Dexterity.
Tough
While most Rogues aim to avoid getting hit, it's challenging to evade all damage in Baldur's Gate 3. No matter how stealthy you are, you'll occasionally fail a roll or get caught in a large AOE attack. Given the high damage output of Rogues, ensuring your character's survival is crucial for winning battles. The Tough feat isn't essential, but it significantly enhances your Rogue's survivability by granting extra hit points, making them much harder to take down when combined with their natural evasiveness.
Mobile
For a hit-and-run style Rogue, the Mobile feat is an excellent choice. It enables you to quickly engage, deal significant damage, and then retreat without repercussions. It's also advantageous in ranged duels, allowing you to snipe an enemy and then slip out of their range before they can retaliate.
Alert
Avoiding being Surprised is crucial for a Rogue, as an ambush can lead to a swift defeat, especially without a feat like Tough to bolster your survivability. The Alert feat helps keep your Rogue safe, allowing them to maintain their valuable DPS. The bonus to initiative is also highly beneficial in general.
Dungeon Delver
Baldur's Gate 3 is filled with traps, locked doors, and chests. The Dungeon Delver feat enhances your Rogue's already adept skills in dealing with these challenges, making your journey much smoother. You'll be able to detect most traps before triggering them, disable them effortlessly, and unlock most locks with ease. It's a fantastic quality-of-life feat for your Rogue outside of combat.
Crossbow Expert
Crossbow Expert is a standout feat for Rogues. If you haven't yet experienced the power of a crossbow in Baldur's Gate 3, you're missing out. Equip your Rogue with a good crossbow and this feat to create a truly devastating damage dealer. Crossbow Expert allows you to use your crossbow's sneak attack at close range without worrying about melee combat. Your sneak attacks will also deal more damage at all ranges, and there's something undeniably cool about being a crossbow-wielding Rogue.
Lucky
Lucky is a versatile feat that benefits any class and build in BG3. You receive three Luck Points, which you can use to gain an 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 can use them liberally.
Savage Attacker
If you're building a melee-focused Rogue, Savage Attacker is a must-have feat. When making a melee attack, you roll the damage dice twice and take the higher result. Combined with your Rogue's sneak attacks, this feat allows you to deal substantial damage consistently, even when a sneak attack isn't possible.
These are the best feats to turn your Baldur's Gate 3 Rogue into a formidable force, capable of dealing and absorbing significant damage. If you have a different setup, I'd love to hear about it. For more tips on improving your survival chances 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.
