BALDUR'S GATE 3 – THIEF ROGUE BUILD GUIDE \ Melee Stealth Rogue Build Guide

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Here is my Baldur’s Gate 3 Melee Rogue Build, Thief Rogues can be very strong with their extra bonus action per turn allowing you to attack 3 times in one turn. The extra movement rogues get is great fun as well. Let me know what you guys think! 🙂

Intro: 00:00 – 00:33
Build Summary: 00:33 – 01:33
Character Creation: 01:33 – 02:42
Leveling Up and Feats: 02:42 – 04:34
Equipment: 04:34 – 05:52
Gameplay Tips: 05:52 – 07:25
Outro: 07:25 – 08:10

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29 thoughts on “BALDUR'S GATE 3 – THIEF ROGUE BUILD GUIDE \ Melee Stealth Rogue Build Guide”

  2. I take it there is also going to be a 3rd sub-class called assassin once the full game is out right ? Norzza

    I always have the traditionalist mindset of rogues being the highest single target dps or burst target dps glass-cannon class in cRPG games unless that is different for DND games ? It be cool if rogues or the assassin has a stealth spell or something

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  4. I'd like to suggest these changes to maximize your build.
    1st, use two short swords. Thats 2 1d6 weapons vs a 1d6 and a 1d4.
    2nd, at 4th level, take Dual Wielder feat. I sm basing this off fextralifes website info, but if that is correct the feat offers another feature you didnt mention (which makes me wonder if its in the game or not) The feat allows you to dual wield weapons that are not light. So Rapiers which are 1d8.
    Guess I'll just have to make a new character and see……oh darn….

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  6. I noticed that I don't get a 2nd damage roll when I use Sneak Attack when I have an advantage called "Advantage on attack" (for example, go into hiding at the same height as the enemy and use the ranged sneak attack). It does work for advantages such as "Backstab" and "High ground". Hopefully it's just an early access bug that will be fixed soon.

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  7. NorZZa, Rogue only gives you proficiency in Shortbows (1d6) where Elf races give you access to the Longbow (1d8).
    You also miss the point of Dual Wielder – note that you can use weapons that are not Light in either hand while dual wielding, this opens up so many options.

    Fun fact, Backstabbing with the Shortsword of First Blood you do 1d6 + 1d6 + 1d8 + Dex mod damage – if you crit, you can do 4d6 + 2d8 + Dex mod damage (max 44 damage with a single hit). If you have Wyvern Poison applied as well.. uff. add another 14d6 on crits. That'd be 44+88 damage.
    If you happen to have the Amulet of Misty Stepp and Crusher's Ring, while being a wood elf thief you can move 14m normal move + 18m Misty Step Bonus Action + 14m Cunning Dash Bonus Action + 14m Dash Action. I.e. 60m in a single turn (in D&D land, that is a lot)

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  9. Big issues not mentioned immediately: You should be running playercharacter rogues and astarion with the wizard, and removing their armor, and casting mage armor on them. With +3 dex mod, this grants them 16 AC This rivals a fighter's AC for a long time. Once you get magic robes with things like cold resistance, equip those to your rogues. Your rogues will be quite tanky.

    Race totally neglected: Human. Human can have THREE stats be 16 for +3 mod. That's +3 dex, +3 con, +3 wis. With focuses in your dex skills and perception… that is a very good build option as well.

    The other thing: as soon as you have 2 short swords, you never use a dagger again. Shortsword is light finesse and deals 1d6 instead of the dagger's 1d4.
    There are cheap +1 daggers in the druid place tho, and I do recommend that over the default shortsword.

    also literally you should always be backstabbing. Every attack. You get your sneak attack once per round and it will always proc on the backstab lest you hit the very low miss chance.

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  12. What are your thoughts on Dual Wielder perk? I don't know if there's gonna be worthy finesse/light weapons to deal decent damage, so I thought I'd be dualling two rapiers. The gnoll vampiric hammer+2 also looks like a good choice for main hand if you need your rogue tank some harm, since it heals for any damage dealt even with off-hand, and heals twice on successful backstab (so it's like 4d6 healing per turn while dealing pretty damage numbers).

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  14. I'm dual wield sickles but they are not finesse but 2d4 instead of 1d4
    they seem to work better than dual wielding the dagger +1 but i'm not sure
    i can't seem to find anywhere how the finesse mechanic works.

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  18. Why did they remove Rogue's Cunning Action and hand it to everyone?

    Rogue in DnD 5e uses Disengage bonus action to walk back to avoid gettin attacked at all staying alive easier… Much more effective than dealing 1d6 more dmg as without two weapin fighting stule you don't add dex not str bonus to dmg.

    They LITERALLY have taken Class defining ability Cunning actiong and give 2/3 (the two better ones) to every class for no fucking reason . . . hiding and disengage should be actions and Cunning Action should make them Bonus actions 🙁

    Kinda sad Rogue got FUCKED by developpers taking one of two defining Rogue abilities and givi g it to every other class while at it 🙁

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  19. Magic Initiate: Warlock is also definatly worth a consideration. You can apply the hex with your 1st bonus action and still make 2 attacks in the same round for +2d6, while on follow up turns you will be doing 3 attacks.

    But tbh, Rogues in BG3 EA are just a gutted class. No Expertise, only dash for cunning action, sneak attack damage doesn't go up with level (W.T.F?)…If they arn't doing damage and arn't exceptional skill monkeys then why should I play them? I can do pretty much everything a Rogue can on a Ranger but better (and have limited spellcasting to boot).

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  23. "Dual Wielder" is not only +1 AC…. it also lets you dual wield non-light weapons such as rapiers and longsword. and then you will have 2d8 in your hands instead of 2d6 with those shortswords! brings your damage output way up compared to +1 damage from dex! you lack the +1 on the attack roll though. doesnt matter as a thief since you are always in advantage and backstabbing, your chances will always be around 90% with 16 dex

    edit: also pretty redicolous is a gith thief with a greatsword. focused on strengh your ranged is lacking, but the damage… getting 50+ non-crit damage from one greatswort backstab at level 4 with no buffs regularely! just chose the great weapons specialisation on lvl4. this reduces your accuracy so you only get around 70%, but with +1 weapons and when more levels get released, you can counter that with more dex. also you can use medium armor, since stealth checks dont even matter. if youre out of sight, youre hidden. even if you stand right behind the enemy in melee range.

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