Stealth Is OP! ROGUE Class Guide For Baldur's Gate 3! - (Baldurs Gate 3 Rogue Build Guide)

I feel assassins have to be reworked. Why no spells like teleport behind back and 100% crit witt daggers +additional poison damage in 1 spell?
Also why there aren’t poison attacks / poison spells or AoE daggers like in wow ? Current state is really bad for rogues, you have just 2 attacks and they are worthless

I don't know, Rogue just feels so much less powerful than a lot of the other classes. By level 5-6 I was able to do multiple smite attacks on my pally, practically 1-2 shotting bosses. Same with the fighter (Lae'zel) and barb (Karlach), both decimate enemies with multiple powerful attacks. Gale is a walking glass cannon, those fireballs just vaporise anything in the vicinity, and he has the advantage of staying far away and using a lot of utility - teleportation, invisibility, cc, etc. And then there's Astarion, who can stealth and shoot 1 arrow per turn, or 1 melee + off hand attack. It's just so underwhelming. Every level I'm hoping for some unlock that "activates" his build, but he's level 8 now and he's still so boring and hardly puts a dent in the enemies of the same level. If not for his utility outside combat (lockpicking, deception, disarming traps, perception checks), he would stay in my camp permanently.

If you want to be an insanely powerful rogue do a Dark Urge play through. Why? Because you get an invisibility cloak pretty early on.

You know what's funny? If you play a shield dwarf, get the exotic material armour in Act 2 and you can get a crazy AC at like Level 6. Max out your Dex (easy to to if you get the hags hair in Act 1) for a +5 on your AC. Buy a cloak of protection, boots and gauntlets that give you +1AC each and any shield for +2 on your AC.

As a shield dwarf you get proficiency in medium armour and shields, so that problem is out of the way
The exotic materials don't limit your AC bonus on medium armour

A base of 15+5 from Dex, +3 from the other items and a +2 from your Shield. Thats's a total of 25 AC at level SIX!
Throw a Necklace with the spell shield on top of that and you can bump it up to 30 once per day
Buy the shortbow from Dammon which gives you Fire and cold resistance; Congratulations, because you are a dwarf, you now have resistance agains poison, fire AND cold damage.
Get the helmet grom Dammon for a +2 on your Saving throws
..., etc
The possibilities are endless

No disadvantage on stealth, just an unhittable rogue, that hasn't even gotten his REALLY evasive skills yet.

i multiclass my assassin rogue with lvl2 fighter to get that sweet sweet action surge

I'm playing rogue but when I hide (and it is a successful hide) I don't have advantage for some reason. It's almost like it's bugged.

Damn, I've been doing combat wrong this whole time haha.

Nice review! Thanks!

My main character is a drow rogue thief. The extra bonus action is just to good, though i opted for charisma as my second main stat so he would also be the face of the party. Once I hit lvl 7 and got evasion i dipped into warlock for the devils site invocation. With Wyil having the same devil's sight and Karlach using a ring that prevents blindness my team runs in and throws down some darkness spells and just stomps. Add in Shadow heart in the middle of the darkness with spirit guardians and cure wounds and your unstoppable.

Also with the extra bonus action dual wielding in both melee and ranged, using hand crossbows, to me is a must.

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what was Larian's decision behind removing the Drow Scimitar proficiency (a light finesse weapon for rogues) from their game but allowing Elves to keep their longbow proficiency? Even the Drow npcs ingame are wielding scimitars but my drow's running around with shortswords and shortbows

"sneak attacks always have advantage" is like saying "critical attacks always hit"
like no shit.

i have to ask where did you get that black armour and hood from? i found 2 people who wear it but no idea how to get it for one of my characters ?

There seems to be a bug with rogue, if you notice sleight of hands and stealth are both +7, then go to character sheet and skill will say +9 at level 6. How? when you start +7 and proficiency bonus is +3 at level 6, should it be 10 in those skills?

I still cant figure the whole sneak/stealth out. If i attack a target out of stealth, my Astarion always gets in combat after the attack AND loses his first action because he did the attack. What should i do to stop this?

What is a crossbourerr proficiency

Isn't acrobatics just completely useless?

Isn't the "lightly armoured" feat kinda obsolete given that rogues have light armour prof anyway? am I missing something? except for the +1 dex but you could just get +2 with ability improvement

Get dual hand crossbows.

i just started playing and made my character a rogue thief... now i do like astarion tho so he is ALSO in my group, but hes an arcane trickster. I'll go check my ability points on both now, thanks :)

dual crossbow thief is one of my favorit atm because u can use stealth and ur offhand attack in the same turn

duergar seems very overlooked as at level 5 they get invisibility just all the time. no short rest or long rest or spell slot restrictions just unlimited uses of invisibility outside of combat and a limit to once in combat.

where can i get my hands on that armor

I dont understand why Trickster is better Than Thief. Can you explain please? :)

what would an arcane archer rogue class look like?

Dude ı think none of the rpgs give enough power up for the rouge classes ... ı mean you are an assasin right .. get in , kill someone with one shot if its not too strong for you , no one knows anything , get out ... this is how it should work but for god sake when you kill one of them all other around the area become catious and start a combat ... so tell me where is the STEALTH in this gameplay ? assasins must be quite. jesus !!! when ı kill someone not within anyones vision this must not be trigger any combat ... game takes away ONLY GOOD THİNK from this class ....STEALTH

Why do enemies get 3 detect rolls tho? an enemy approached and it rolled 3 times? I passed, failed, then passed again (stealth check) for the same enemy and lost stealth a couple turns later (before my rogues turn).

Why not go fighter for the last levels and get an extra round of attacks?

Can you get the red highlighted area to show up without using hide?

pretty sure the race that gets advantage on all stealth checks and int/wis/cha saves is the best race for a rouge, just saying....

How about the Dual Wielder feat, is that worth it as rogue? So you can use two Rapiers.

I’ve found mage hand quite useful for a few things: tossing hard to reach smaller chests over to me to unlock, pushing enemies off cliffs, and tossing items into the battlefield (like bombs set on the ground ahead of time),

have you ever tried it with a second class? level 3 barbarian looks quite strong with Reckless attack and free medium armor. at lvl 3 you pick Berserker with his rage. I would be interested to know what you think of it

So.thief instead of assassin?

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Question!
Since I'm new, I'm genuinely curious if there's any actual benefit to using two Daggers over, let's say, two Shortswords, and such? At least in Divinity Original Sin 2, Daggers had an increased Crit Damage. But here, Idk. Just seem like weaker Swords.

I was trying to play melee rogue, and this is super weird, yes, you can crit around 40-60 on level 8, but there are too many if's, fighter simply does this every turn without any impediment, idk, feels good to have rogue for lockpicking and some social checks, but honestly feels very weak.

Hiding in combat if someone is looking always fails for me, even with a +7 on stealth checks and this includes if the character is out of melee range.

I always heard that getting your ability score up to 20 in dex is the first priority.

My current multiplayer rogue uses duel hand crossbow and is a theif archtype
the half fall damage and ability to drop 2 offhand shots or a dash/hide and a shot

I think taking a single level as a Fighter then swapping to Rogue(Thief) is meta.
You can take 2 weapon fighting so you do Dexterity bonus on off-hand attacks plus use all weapon/armor types and also have second wind for some healing.
Most boots, gloves, helmets and shields don't incur disadvantage on stealth.
Sneaky trick I have used in all the previous BG games is to stealth around in light armor then once behind a target equip full plate armor and a shield then backstab.

one thing I dont really get about assassin is that how its actually supposed to be played. before You start replying, I AM AWARE of what the classfeatures do and how they work, its just that they dont really fit the theme of the game? Like 80% of the combat ecounters start with a dialog, are u supposed to leave your rouge behind? even if You do and You attack in, they wont get the surprised feature? Like simply hiding and sneak attacking enemies, without talking to them is just so much missing out in terms of RP. To me, it seems like assassin cant really get implemented into a game like this, I would've been so much happier with soulknife.

I'm 25 hours into the game and I'm still in act 1. I can't stress enough how ranged builds make the game much easier to play, at least in early game.