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There is a Risky Ring in Moonrise Towers that gives you advantage on all attack rolls. It means you get sneak attacks on every attack. Puts rogue on easy mode. The Risky part of the ring is disadvantage on saving throws but if youre a back row player it wont come up too often
Dude do it!!! Are you US based? Their M72 tour is sick. Pantera opened for them and I've always wanted to see Zakk Wylde shreddddd and oh.. He SHREDDDDDS
@@italianspartacus No, im from germany so theres no way haha. Even if they would ever do an international tour again, the ticket campers would probably too much to deal with.
The "knife" Freudian slip really made me chuckle! Great guide as always! I have read that rogue fits thematically for a Durge character. I have read a lot of little things here and there about what works and doesn't work for a Durge origin, due to the complex background. If only there was someone who is really good at making game guides who could compile all these (non-spoilery) tips about creating a Durge character into one video...
Weird, but thanks for keeping the small speech flubs in. It's endearing. I've made Shadowheart my Rouge as I want one and enjoy her character. Wyll, I've made a monk. and Karlach is just awesome as is. I run a bard. very helpful videos across the board.
My pleasure brother! I like it to feel like I'm actually delivering information I'm passionate about so there's no scripts, it's just me free flowing. Some people hate it, most don't. So I just keep the organic feeling over the bleached scripted feel of most UA-cam videos
Content suggestion: I don’t see anyone doing BG3 videos that are about group composition. There is a way to make a fighter “better” than an average fighter through gear, subclass and feat selection. Measurably you can show that fighter A will output more damage or have more survivability than fighter B. Cool. I think you can do something similar for full group composition. What lead me to think of this was a video that released about every legendary in the game. People argued over which was the most powerful weapon. Answer seemed easy to me. Bloodthirst. It gives vulnerability to piercing damage. That’s double piercing damage for EVERYONE, not just the person with that weapon. No one was thinking about the full party. Everyone was only thinking about a single character. I think this may be an avenue for content for you.
One I've really been enjoying is picking up extra attack through swords bard. Ypu get two attacks that can each hit two opponents with the flourish, then of you're using hand crossbows you get both bonus action attacks with your crossbow. This means you get 6 crossbow shots off a turn if spending inspiration, or four if not, and gives you access to some good spells for getting advantage like tashas hideous laughter. Sharpshooter to add +10 damage to all those shots, and the band lf the mystic scoundrel to let you cast invisibility, dissonant whispers, and vicious mockery as a bonus action. Meaning that you can get off two crossbow attacks that deal +10 damage, then hit someone with vicious mockery, then go invisible, then sneak attack someone from invisiblity. Plus the teleporting and extra defense from the other floirishes. And the medium armor proficiency. Absolutely busted subclass, and fits thematically with asterions past
Act 1 & 2 equip the joltshooter and the boots that give lightning charges when dashing. Shoot cunning action dash cunning action hide. You proc bonus lightning damage every round. Astarion as a Hunter Thief was dishing insane damage doing this.
Love the video. The funny thing is this is almost exactly my first build in the game. Except I went to level 6 monk before switching back into rogue. Just had to have that shadow step ability. Thanks
Rogue/Monk is exactly the build I'm going for! I did also go with lvl 1 Rogue to get the extra proficiencies and it's been a fun rp experience too. I know that Thief is functionally stronger due to the bonus action, but Assassin just fits the ninja vibe and playstyle so well too lol
this is one of the few multiclass concepts i actually want to play. I'm doing straight halfling thief for my first playthrough and enjoying it. I did ability improvements to and picked up sharpshooter at and lucky feat. and am mostly doing dual hand crossbows / dual wielding. having a 12 charisma and expertiese in deception has saved my ass a lot. I was able to sneak past the devil in the temple of shar to steal the orb without any combat so that was probably the highlight of my character's whole career. Plus a few sneak attack criticals have saved my party several times! I kicked astarion out of my party this playthrough so I will probably do this monk/rogue build for him next playthough!
Love this! This helped me out a lot for astarion in my playthrough. You should do more multi class vids. I’m trying to muliclass and make a frost death knight and struggling hahahah.
Hey! My friend recommended your videos since we've been planning on buying bg3 and trying out a turn based game for the first time! Your enthusiasm and creativity with this game is amazing, and so much fun to watch, thank you :). I was actually curious if whether a Monk + Rogue + Barbarian character was viable/useful. If you could, may we see a video on that type of combination please? :)
The better i get at the game the more i appreciate the rogue playstyle. I currently run 2 multi-classed Rogues in my DU/Tactician run and its downright nasty. I have my main guy who's an Assassin+Gloom Stalker combo and for Astarion i run a fairly experimental but so far really good Wizard + Arcane Trickster support-ish build. Both are more mid to late game build as they both only come online at level 6 but having a blast. Basically Astarion is there to set up CC, Hold Person, Grease or Sleet Storm usually depending on the scenario while my main guy just nukes the primary threat out of existence or go for a double/triple/quad kill on turn 1. After that Astarion just keeps harassing with CC or poke (or both via Ice Knife which is his bread and butter) while my main just keeps trickling the enemy team. For the other 2 companions i ysually have Shadowheart around for the support and the 4th skot has been a revolving door as it doesn't feel necessary lol. Wyll is nice to keep stuff at bay with Eldritch Blast, otherwise its something tanky if i feel the need.
Fun bit of extra utility for Astarion specifically: his Vampire Bite ability only costs a bonus action, so a Thief could open with that and inflict the Bloodless debuff, lowering the target's stats for another action and bonus attack :3
I believe that the Thief's Invisible Legerdemain Mage Hand acts as an "ally" in terms of enabling a Rogue's sneak attack. You don't have to have a party member dangerously near an opponent; you can just position your invisible mage hand next to your adversaries, and pop off a sneak attack, hidden, or not.
My neurosis ,restart-itis, and option paralysis is preventing me from progressing in this game , i have to watch every video made on class builds, spell chioce, party setup and tip and tricks, . I KNOW that i can respec anytime, I get Withers and do like 1/2 the grove quests, then i gotta restart. I've got 40 hours already, just restarting .Does anyone else have this problem?? There are too many muticlasses/spell choices/and ways to do stuff. I need help !!!
Great video, very informative. In response to your shadow ninja portion, while monk/thief is a solid combo, you could also do shadow monk/assassin, which is what I'm planning to do, as an evil Dark Urge playthrough (6 monk/6 assassin rogue). I won't have the extra bonus action, but with the mobile and potentially alert feats, I'll usually be going first or early, I'll have 2 turns on the first turn essentially, and I'll be able to teleport with shadowstep (assuming it's dark, which most dungeons seem to be) and get advantage and free crits from assassin. I should be very mobile, using a hit and run technique, and hit like a truck. :)
hey, I've been following a lot of Baldur's Gate 3 content on UA-cam, and you're one of my favorite channels. you have a great voice, good game knowledge, and the way you explain things is really nice. Just one little criticism: while you were explaining the subclasses, like the thief for example, it would be nicer if you actually showed the combat instead of just talking about it during character creation, people like me, who are retarded, would understand it much better.
HAHHAH no worries man. The only reason I don't is because I hate spoiling the experience for people! That isn't anything mind blowing though so I probably should have showed it off, my apologies man!
Only correction is you state disengage still allows opportunity attacks but at a disadvantage but that is not correct you do not provoke opportunity attacks when disengaged
Point in Arcane trickster vs Rogue+caster hubrid, is that Trickster doesn't lose sneak attack scaling, while getting some very good utility spells and defensive spells. Mage armor alone is god sent, considering how bad light armors are in BG3. To be on the same spell caster level as 12th level AT, you'll need to give up 4 levels of Rogue, which in turn means you're losing 2d6 of sneak attack damage, reliable talent and a feat. And I'm kinda not seeing a point to multiclass out of rogue to Wizard to begin with, since they kinda struggle to use bonus actions.
Agreed. Arcane trickster is basically just giving a rogue access to some utility spells while still being a rogue. Multiclassing isnt the same as that.
Or, just use Arcane Trickster, get tons of utilities spells that you can't get from scroll, and then use scrolls for damage or CC. There are tons of scrolls around, you just need one spells stat to cast it. And also there are one ring let you do enchantment or illusion spell with Bonus Action after you do main hand attack. Arcane trickster is very strong with all utilities combine
@@violau8550 I'm currently playing in a multiplayer session as full AT rogue, and it kinda depressing how much stuff is missing, how much stuff doesn't work how it should and how much stuff works as it shouldn't. Namely, you can dip 2 levels into wizard, get 3rd level spell slots and scribe 3d level spells. It shouldn't work like that in tabletop, since wizards can only scribe spells that they can know from their wizard levels, but does in a game. You don't have access to bread and butter cantrips such as booming blade and green flame blade, which should bump your dps by a multiple d8th. You don't have access to shadowblade, despite there being a ring that can cast it. But most importantly, due to how extra attack feature works in the game, and how many on attack items you get in act 1, AT just doesn't feel impactful. I would still say that it's better then any other pure rogue, but overall rogue as a class just sucks at what it should do.
@@DrNiradino well yeah, the thing is these so call battle mage just don't get much unique melee magic, but just regular magic, so end up just get all those utilities spells. But of course it means you need to get creative with equiment, for example, you can get expedition retreat as eldritch knight, and then keep using bonus action Dash to get Wrath, or electric charges, all these class they seem weak as a class, but when you be creative and combine with all sort of equiment, they can be really strong. (Or strong because of items bugged)
@@violau8550 my point being, is that if you want to play AT, you'll be better at playing any kind of ranger - access to extra attack will give you way more damage from martial attacks then sneak attacks would ever do, and spellcasting that you get is leagues above what AT has. Similar for EK - just play Paladin, instead.
My build is 1 level in fighter for proficiency and fighting style. 1 level in cleric for flavour as a cleric of Elistrae. 4 levels of bard cause it was either worsphip through music or sword fighting in the nude. Finally 6 disgustingly effective levels of thief rogue. And just like this, I'm a perfectly thematic sworddancer of Elistrae 😂
I am really disappointed by the way Larian impleted the "only once per turn" rule for Sneak Attack. In tabletop it's once per turn which means you can sneak attack on your own turn, but also as a reaction on someone else's turn (opportunity attack, sentinel feat, riposte etc.) if conditions are met. That means with smart play you can get in two sneak attacks per round. That makes a huge difference. It takes the rogue's damage from pretty bad to pretty good. It's also fun to play tactically to achieve this as often as possible. In BG3, there is counter which resets at the end of your turn. That means you can get off two Sneak Attacks in round one if you Sneak Attack on your turn first and then with a reaction afterwards (but not the other way around). But if you do that, you won't be able to Sneak Attack on your next turn in round 2 AT ALL but you could as a reaction after your turn. This is a really bad implementation. Even if they wanted to make it once per round (which would severely gimp the rogue compared to tabletop), they should make this reset at the end of the round and not your turn so you cannot prevent yourself from being able to Sneak Attack in the next round. It's clunky and simply not well done. After discovering this I decided to not play a rogue until this is fixed. I am really confused by the fact that Larian fixed other things which seem far less important to me but doesn't seem to see this as something that should be fixed asap. It basically breaks the potential of an entire class.
What would you recommend for someone who has never played D&D (or any RPG really) and was wanting to start with an Astarion Origin? I didn't want to multi-class my very first time. I plan to focus on stealth and range with an emphasis on conversation (deception/influence/charisma). Any suggestions?
sadly I think 5th edition did rouges dirty. mostly because sneak attack is limited to once per turn, and the lack of extra attacks - when compared to previous 'BAB' system or 'thaco'.So in BG3 while I believe a 1 rouge dip or a 3 rouge dip is great I see no reason to go pure rogue, other than strict RP. One thing I will say - that the game does not let you know is that sneak attack DOES apply correctly with ray spells - meaning that a caster focused on ray spells could go heavy into rogue, not optimal but not terrible. 3 thief though.. is god tier, on so so many builds. My advice for non minmax type players - If you want a decent rogue character, go 3 rogue get a high dex, then get levels in whatever other class you like. It will handle the 'rogue job' well and just be better.
in tabletop there's other things to do with a bonus action like using a magical object or disable traps or just more to do in combat and somebody has to do it! also in tabletop you don't have to "attempt" your sneak attack and if you miss you don't get a sneak attack that round. that is my biggest pet peeve with the bg3 rogue. in tabletop if you get 1 or 2 misses and the second or third shot hits you get to add your sneak attack damage but not in bg3. maybe that's a bug? i hope they fix it eventually!
@@BassRacerx you can fix that issue your having, go into your reactions and make sneak attack a reaction (it does not use your reactions up). allows sneak attack correctly as pen and paper - needed for ray spells too. hope this helps.
Also, wondering again as I read two handed weapons cannot be used as Mc weapons does that include any weapon that used to hands on that’s not a two handed weapon?
It's weird, it does use intelligence, there's something up with this screen that shows the wrong stat. It's some sort of bug because I've noticed it with a lot of classes
Get the Yankee Monk, and great sword? Isn’t the great sword a two headed weapon? I am not playing right now. I wish I was but I am legally blind so I can’t at the moment. But everything I read online says a two handed weapon cannot be used as a monk weapon in boulders gate three. Is that correct?
You're right you're right I'm stupid. I totally forgot that you can't have a monk weapon be a "heavy" weapon. I just got excited. Quarterstaff CAN be even though it's versatile and two handed. It's particularly the heavy modifier if I remember correctly
Can anyone tell me how to start a game on lvl 12 already, i've been searching for an answer, but couldn't find how. Is it a mod? If so what it's called
Out of all the things you repeat in your videos, and I understand some of that is important, the word crackhead seems to be increasingly grading every single time you say it in every one of these build videos. Lose the crackhead, it's an unnecessary descriptive.
Build a bard instead and take jack of all trades. You say Rogue is the "Jack Of All Trades" yet bard gets that feat. Bard does everything as good as rogue if not better. Trapping = Picking = Locks = Tanking Bard Healing Bard Buffs Bard DPS = Conversation Bard Really nothing a Rogue does better than Bard in BG3 except offhand attacks.
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There is a Risky Ring in Moonrise Towers that gives you advantage on all attack rolls. It means you get sneak attacks on every attack. Puts rogue on easy mode.
The Risky part of the ring is disadvantage on saving throws but if youre a back row player it wont come up too often
WHERE???
Araj (the person who wants Astarion to suck her blood) sells it @@mikewatts1533
Really appreciate these guides dude! Keep em coming
My pleasure brother! man I just went to Metallica's concert at SoFI two weeks back. best concert of my life
@@italianspartacus omfg i wiiiiish i could see them before they retire haha
Dude do it!!! Are you US based? Their M72 tour is sick. Pantera opened for them and I've always wanted to see Zakk Wylde shreddddd and oh.. He SHREDDDDDS
@@italianspartacus No, im from germany so theres no way haha. Even if they would ever do an international tour again, the ticket campers would probably too much to deal with.
Brother! They started the year out there and they're coming back in March!! Tons of options! GO! I DEMAND IT!!! :) www.metallica.com/tour
Love this game so much I’ll be playing for months
Try years!
I respecced Astarion to thief rogue and he’s already 100x better at level 4.
The "knife" Freudian slip really made me chuckle! Great guide as always!
I have read that rogue fits thematically for a Durge character. I have read a lot of little things here and there about what works and doesn't work for a Durge origin, due to the complex background. If only there was someone who is really good at making game guides who could compile all these (non-spoilery) tips about creating a Durge character into one video...
Weird, but thanks for keeping the small speech flubs in. It's endearing.
I've made Shadowheart my Rouge as I want one and enjoy her character. Wyll, I've made a monk. and Karlach is just awesome as is.
I run a bard.
very helpful videos across the board.
My pleasure brother! I like it to feel like I'm actually delivering information I'm passionate about so there's no scripts, it's just me free flowing. Some people hate it, most don't. So I just keep the organic feeling over the bleached scripted feel of most UA-cam videos
Content suggestion:
I don’t see anyone doing BG3 videos that are about group composition.
There is a way to make a fighter “better” than an average fighter through gear, subclass and feat selection.
Measurably you can show that fighter A will output more damage or have more survivability than fighter B.
Cool.
I think you can do something similar for full group composition.
What lead me to think of this was a video that released about every legendary in the game. People argued over which was the most powerful weapon.
Answer seemed easy to me. Bloodthirst. It gives vulnerability to piercing damage. That’s double piercing damage for EVERYONE, not just the person with that weapon.
No one was thinking about the full party. Everyone was only thinking about a single character.
I think this may be an avenue for content for you.
One I've really been enjoying is picking up extra attack through swords bard. Ypu get two attacks that can each hit two opponents with the flourish, then of you're using hand crossbows you get both bonus action attacks with your crossbow. This means you get 6 crossbow shots off a turn if spending inspiration, or four if not, and gives you access to some good spells for getting advantage like tashas hideous laughter. Sharpshooter to add +10 damage to all those shots, and the band lf the mystic scoundrel to let you cast invisibility, dissonant whispers, and vicious mockery as a bonus action. Meaning that you can get off two crossbow attacks that deal +10 damage, then hit someone with vicious mockery, then go invisible, then sneak attack someone from invisiblity. Plus the teleporting and extra defense from the other floirishes. And the medium armor proficiency. Absolutely busted subclass, and fits thematically with asterions past
I’ve just started my first playthrough on Xbox with my MC as Drow Rogue. Astarion is now a full Bard, it just fits his character so well.
Act 1 & 2 equip the joltshooter and the boots that give lightning charges when dashing. Shoot cunning action dash cunning action hide. You proc bonus lightning damage every round. Astarion as a Hunter Thief was dishing insane damage doing this.
Love the video.
The funny thing is this is almost exactly my first build in the game. Except I went to level 6 monk before switching back into rogue. Just had to have that shadow step ability.
Thanks
Rogue/Monk is exactly the build I'm going for! I did also go with lvl 1 Rogue to get the extra proficiencies and it's been a fun rp experience too. I know that Thief is functionally stronger due to the bonus action, but Assassin just fits the ninja vibe and playstyle so well too lol
appreciate these videos man, found your channel randomly and glad to have someone that isn't a clickbait AI written robot explain these things
Lmao I just searched for this and cant believe you uploaded!😂 Good work❤
I knew you'd need it ;)
If you go arcane trickster pop on the warped band of intellect so you can lower Intelligence and put more in DEX 🤙 and still dish out some nice damage
this is one of the few multiclass concepts i actually want to play. I'm doing straight halfling thief for my first playthrough and enjoying it. I did ability improvements to and picked up sharpshooter at and lucky feat. and am mostly doing dual hand crossbows / dual wielding. having a 12 charisma and expertiese in deception has saved my ass a lot. I was able to sneak past the devil in the temple of shar to steal the orb without any combat so that was probably the highlight of my character's whole career. Plus a few sneak attack criticals have saved my party several times! I kicked astarion out of my party this playthrough so I will probably do this monk/rogue build for him next playthough!
Love this! This helped me out a lot for astarion in my playthrough. You should do more multi class vids. I’m trying to muliclass and make a frost death knight and struggling hahahah.
Respecced astarion 5 levels into gloomstalker and 7 into assassin, didnt know how to play rogue but im happy with how it turned out
Hey! My friend recommended your videos since we've been planning on buying bg3 and trying out a turn based game for the first time! Your enthusiasm and creativity with this game is amazing, and so much fun to watch, thank you :).
I was actually curious if whether a Monk + Rogue + Barbarian character was viable/useful. If you could, may we see a video on that type of combination please? :)
The better i get at the game the more i appreciate the rogue playstyle.
I currently run 2 multi-classed Rogues in my DU/Tactician run and its downright nasty.
I have my main guy who's an Assassin+Gloom Stalker combo and for Astarion i run a fairly experimental but so far really good Wizard + Arcane Trickster support-ish build.
Both are more mid to late game build as they both only come online at level 6 but having a blast.
Basically Astarion is there to set up CC, Hold Person, Grease or Sleet Storm usually depending on the scenario while my main guy just nukes the primary threat out of existence or go for a double/triple/quad kill on turn 1. After that Astarion just keeps harassing with CC or poke (or both via Ice Knife which is his bread and butter) while my main just keeps trickling the enemy team.
For the other 2 companions i ysually have Shadowheart around for the support and the 4th skot has been a revolving door as it doesn't feel necessary lol. Wyll is nice to keep stuff at bay with Eldritch Blast, otherwise its something tanky if i feel the need.
Fun bit of extra utility for Astarion specifically: his Vampire Bite ability only costs a bonus action, so a Thief could open with that and inflict the Bloodless debuff, lowering the target's stats for another action and bonus attack :3
Yeah if you can get the scene that gives him his powers to even start 😂
@@ThatGuy-en2nn lmaooo, just find the exsanguinated boar and long rest :P
@@misslethal2355 I did and I got wylls scene. I probably have a lot of backed up events at this point so it's not that simple.
I believe that the Thief's Invisible Legerdemain Mage Hand acts as an "ally" in terms of enabling a Rogue's sneak attack.
You don't have to have a party member dangerously near an opponent; you can just position your invisible mage hand next to your adversaries, and pop off a sneak attack, hidden, or not.
For a race I would recommend Deep Gnome.
Enhanced Darkvision
+ advantage in Stealth
I just wish I had that Lucky for Halfling
Savage attacker is also great for those who want to maximize damage output.
Have been waiting for this one forever!!!
My neurosis ,restart-itis, and option paralysis is preventing me from progressing in this game , i have to watch every video made on class builds, spell chioce, party setup and tip and tricks, . I KNOW that i can respec anytime, I get Withers and do like 1/2 the grove quests, then i gotta restart. I've got 40 hours already, just restarting .Does anyone else have this problem?? There are too many muticlasses/spell choices/and ways to do stuff. I need help !!!
Great video, very informative. In response to your shadow ninja portion, while monk/thief is a solid combo, you could also do shadow monk/assassin, which is what I'm planning to do, as an evil Dark Urge playthrough (6 monk/6 assassin rogue). I won't have the extra bonus action, but with the mobile and potentially alert feats, I'll usually be going first or early, I'll have 2 turns on the first turn essentially, and I'll be able to teleport with shadowstep (assuming it's dark, which most dungeons seem to be) and get advantage and free crits from assassin. I should be very mobile, using a hit and run technique, and hit like a truck. :)
hey, I've been following a lot of Baldur's Gate 3 content on UA-cam, and you're one of my favorite channels. you have a great voice, good game knowledge, and the way you explain things is really nice. Just one little criticism: while you were explaining the subclasses, like the thief for example, it would be nicer if you actually showed the combat instead of just talking about it during character creation, people like me, who are retarded, would understand it much better.
HAHHAH no worries man. The only reason I don't is because I hate spoiling the experience for people! That isn't anything mind blowing though so I probably should have showed it off, my apologies man!
Yeah same here. This channel is amazing ❤
Awesome content as always! How about a best class for Dark Urge playthrough?
Hell yeah dude give me that good bg3 knowledge
I'm guessing if a thief takes the necessary path to turning Illithid powers into bonus actions, it borders on OP.
Amazing video❤
I cant wait for how to build a fighter
this helped very much, thanks man
Only correction is you state disengage still allows opportunity attacks but at a disadvantage but that is not correct you do not provoke opportunity attacks when disengaged
Really great video!
Would you say that an Assassin(6)/Battle Master(6) is a decent melee multi-class set up?
Point in Arcane trickster vs Rogue+caster hubrid, is that Trickster doesn't lose sneak attack scaling, while getting some very good utility spells and defensive spells. Mage armor alone is god sent, considering how bad light armors are in BG3.
To be on the same spell caster level as 12th level AT, you'll need to give up 4 levels of Rogue, which in turn means you're losing 2d6 of sneak attack damage, reliable talent and a feat. And I'm kinda not seeing a point to multiclass out of rogue to Wizard to begin with, since they kinda struggle to use bonus actions.
Agreed. Arcane trickster is basically just giving a rogue access to some utility spells while still being a rogue. Multiclassing isnt the same as that.
Or, just use Arcane Trickster, get tons of utilities spells that you can't get from scroll, and then use scrolls for damage or CC.
There are tons of scrolls around, you just need one spells stat to cast it.
And also there are one ring let you do enchantment or illusion spell with Bonus Action after you do main hand attack.
Arcane trickster is very strong with all utilities combine
@@violau8550 I'm currently playing in a multiplayer session as full AT rogue, and it kinda depressing how much stuff is missing, how much stuff doesn't work how it should and how much stuff works as it shouldn't.
Namely, you can dip 2 levels into wizard, get 3rd level spell slots and scribe 3d level spells. It shouldn't work like that in tabletop, since wizards can only scribe spells that they can know from their wizard levels, but does in a game.
You don't have access to bread and butter cantrips such as booming blade and green flame blade, which should bump your dps by a multiple d8th. You don't have access to shadowblade, despite there being a ring that can cast it.
But most importantly, due to how extra attack feature works in the game, and how many on attack items you get in act 1, AT just doesn't feel impactful. I would still say that it's better then any other pure rogue, but overall rogue as a class just sucks at what it should do.
@@DrNiradino well yeah, the thing is these so call battle mage just don't get much unique melee magic, but just regular magic, so end up just get all those utilities spells.
But of course it means you need to get creative with equiment, for example, you can get expedition retreat as eldritch knight, and then keep using bonus action Dash to get Wrath, or electric charges, all these class they seem weak as a class, but when you be creative and combine with all sort of equiment, they can be really strong. (Or strong because of items bugged)
@@violau8550 my point being, is that if you want to play AT, you'll be better at playing any kind of ranger - access to extra attack will give you way more damage from martial attacks then sneak attacks would ever do, and spellcasting that you get is leagues above what AT has. Similar for EK - just play Paladin, instead.
My build is 1 level in fighter for proficiency and fighting style. 1 level in cleric for flavour as a cleric of Elistrae. 4 levels of bard cause it was either worsphip through music or sword fighting in the nude. Finally 6 disgustingly effective levels of thief rogue. And just like this, I'm a perfectly thematic sworddancer of Elistrae 😂
Something to note is that pickpocketing modifiers are not added to the roll. When you pickpocket someone, you're getting the raw die roll.
11:33 listening, listening, listening
...da dootie. 😂🤭
Fantastic video! For the multiclass Rogue/Monk, which class would you invest in after level 9? Thanks!
I’m in a tough spot I didn’t get an option for that hag item since I silenced her during the fight 🙃
I am really disappointed by the way Larian impleted the "only once per turn" rule for Sneak Attack. In tabletop it's once per turn which means you can sneak attack on your own turn, but also as a reaction on someone else's turn (opportunity attack, sentinel feat, riposte etc.) if conditions are met. That means with smart play you can get in two sneak attacks per round. That makes a huge difference. It takes the rogue's damage from pretty bad to pretty good. It's also fun to play tactically to achieve this as often as possible. In BG3, there is counter which resets at the end of your turn. That means you can get off two Sneak Attacks in round one if you Sneak Attack on your turn first and then with a reaction afterwards (but not the other way around). But if you do that, you won't be able to Sneak Attack on your next turn in round 2 AT ALL but you could as a reaction after your turn. This is a really bad implementation. Even if they wanted to make it once per round (which would severely gimp the rogue compared to tabletop), they should make this reset at the end of the round and not your turn so you cannot prevent yourself from being able to Sneak Attack in the next round. It's clunky and simply not well done. After discovering this I decided to not play a rogue until this is fixed.
I am really confused by the fact that Larian fixed other things which seem far less important to me but doesn't seem to see this as something that should be fixed asap. It basically breaks the potential of an entire class.
Instead of gloomstalker/assassin, Hunter/Thief with dual crossbows just gets SO MANY damage die out per turn with the colossus slayer ability
Awesome!!!!
What would you recommend for someone who has never played D&D (or any RPG really) and was wanting to start with an Astarion Origin? I didn't want to multi-class my very first time. I plan to focus on stealth and range with an emphasis on conversation (deception/influence/charisma). Any suggestions?
Hey, I'd love to know what mic you're using. Thanks :)
I believe it's an Audio Technica 2020 into a scarlet solo :)
I always saw him as a necromancer
the ps5 version is surprisingly good
Half-Orc Assassin for that triple crit
sadly I think 5th edition did rouges dirty. mostly because sneak attack is limited to once per turn, and the lack of extra attacks - when compared to previous 'BAB' system or 'thaco'.So in BG3 while I believe a 1 rouge dip or a 3 rouge dip is great I see no reason to go pure rogue, other than strict RP.
One thing I will say - that the game does not let you know is that sneak attack DOES apply correctly with ray spells - meaning that a caster focused on ray spells could go heavy into rogue, not optimal but not terrible.
3 thief though.. is god tier, on so so many builds.
My advice for non minmax type players - If you want a decent rogue character, go 3 rogue get a high dex, then get levels in whatever other class you like. It will handle the 'rogue job' well and just be better.
in tabletop there's other things to do with a bonus action like using a magical object or disable traps or just more to do in combat and somebody has to do it! also in tabletop you don't have to "attempt" your sneak attack and if you miss you don't get a sneak attack that round. that is my biggest pet peeve with the bg3 rogue. in tabletop if you get 1 or 2 misses and the second or third shot hits you get to add your sneak attack damage but not in bg3. maybe that's a bug? i hope they fix it eventually!
@@BassRacerx you can fix that issue your having, go into your reactions and make sneak attack a reaction (it does not use your reactions up). allows sneak attack correctly as pen and paper - needed for ray spells too. hope this helps.
@@bigolbearthejammydodger6527 i'll give it a shot thank you!
6d6 at level 11? High level rouges are playing yahtzee
Sounds like the stink attacks make the rogue silent but deadly. ~_^
Also, wondering again as I read two handed weapons cannot be used as Mc weapons does that include any weapon that used to hands on that’s not a two handed weapon?
Does Arcane Trickster really use Intelligence? Doesn't it say CHA as the base stat at the top when you're selecting spells?
It's weird, it does use intelligence, there's something up with this screen that shows the wrong stat. It's some sort of bug because I've noticed it with a lot of classes
Step one, ignore arcane trickster, step two, profit.
Get the Yankee Monk, and great sword? Isn’t the great sword a two headed weapon? I am not playing right now. I wish I was but I am legally blind so I can’t at the moment. But everything I read online says a two handed weapon cannot be used as a monk weapon in boulders gate three. Is that correct?
You're right you're right I'm stupid. I totally forgot that you can't have a monk weapon be a "heavy" weapon. I just got excited. Quarterstaff CAN be even though it's versatile and two handed. It's particularly the heavy modifier if I remember correctly
Here for all the people misspelling the word ROGUE since forever 😂😂
Just commenting to say Bard Astarion is far superior
Can anyone tell me how to start a game on lvl 12 already, i've been searching for an answer, but couldn't find how. Is it a mod? If so what it's called
How do you change Stars subclass? I went to withers but it's not giving me the option
Pretty sure you have to get Withers and pay g to respec
Random comment for UA-cam algorithm
Appreciate it!!
Yaa I am fighting the dark urge. sure.
Heh doody
Out of all the things you repeat in your videos, and I understand some of that is important, the word crackhead seems to be increasingly grading every single time you say it in every one of these build videos. Lose the crackhead, it's an unnecessary descriptive.
No
Build a bard instead and take jack of all trades.
You say Rogue is the "Jack Of All Trades" yet bard gets that feat. Bard does everything as good as rogue if not better.
Trapping =
Picking =
Locks =
Tanking Bard
Healing Bard
Buffs Bard
DPS =
Conversation Bard
Really nothing a Rogue does better than Bard in BG3 except offhand attacks.