Top Rogue Feats Revealed for Baldur’s Gate 3

If you’ve chosen to play as a Rogue in *Baldur’s Gate 3*, you’ve made a fantastic decision. These cunning and stealthy characters are not only a joy to play but can also unleash devastating damage. To help you optimize your Rogue, let’s dive into the best feats you can select for them in *BG3*.

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-changer for Rogues who love to strike from a distance. This feat lets you bypass cover, extend your attack range, and boost your damage by 10, albeit with a -5 penalty to hit. With Sharpshooter, your Rogue transforms into a lethal sniper, hitting targets with deadly precision and power, making it a top pick for enhancing ranged combat effectiveness.

Skilled

The Skilled feat offers remarkable flexibility for Rogues, allowing you to gain 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 tailor your Rogue’s abilities to suit your preferred playstyle. Skilled boosts 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 standing up from prone, and allows running jumps with just a 5-foot run-up. These enhancements make your Rogue more adept at navigating terrain, evading traps, and leaping over obstacles, ensuring they can perform with grace and speed in any situation. You also receive a +1 bonus to either Strength or Dexterity.

Tough

While most Rogues aim to avoid getting hit, it's nearly impossible to dodge all damage in Baldur’s Gate 3. No matter how stealthy you are, you might fail a roll or get caught in a large area-of-effect attack. Given the high damage output of Rogues, ensuring their survival is crucial for winning battles. Tough isn't essential, but it's incredibly beneficial for your Rogue, granting a significant boost to hit points and making you much harder to take down, especially with the Rogue's natural evasiveness.

Mobile

If you're aiming for a hit-and-run style with your Rogue, Mobile is an excellent choice. You can dash in to deliver a devastating strike and then retreat without repercussions. It also aids in ranged duels, allowing you to snipe an enemy and then quickly move out of their reach.

Alert

Being surprised is a situation you want to avoid as a Rogue, as it can lead to a quick downfall, especially without feats like Tough. The Alert feat helps keep your Rogue safe, ensuring they can maintain their valuable damage output. The bonus to initiative is also a great general advantage.

Dungeon Delver

Baldur’s Gate 3 is filled with traps, locked doors, and chests. Using the Dungeon Delver feat on your Rogue, who is already adept at handling these challenges, makes life much easier. You'll detect most traps before they trigger, disable them effortlessly, and unlock most doors and chests without breaking a sweat. It's a highly beneficial quality-of-life feat for your Rogue outside of combat.

Crossbow Expert

Crossbow Expert is my top pick for Rogue feats. If you haven't tried using a crossbow in Baldur’s Gate 3 yet, you're missing out. Equip your Rogue with a good crossbow and this feat to become a truly devastating damage dealer. With Crossbow Expert, you can ignore melee range concerns, using your crossbow's sneak attack up close. Your sneak attacks also deal more damage at all ranges, and it feels incredibly thematic to be a crossbow-wielding Rogue.

Lucky

Lucky is a versatile feat that's beneficial for any class and build in BG3. You get three Luck Points, which you can use to gain advantage on Attack Rolls, Ability Checks, or Saving Throws, increasing your chances of success. Additionally, you can 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 freely.

Savage Attacker

If you're building a melee-focused Rogue, Savage Attacker is a must-have feat. When making a melee attack with this feat, you roll the damage dice twice and use the higher result. Combined with your Rogue’s sneak attacks, you'll deal substantial damage and maintain that output even when sneak attacks aren't possible.

That’s it for the best feats to transform your Baldur’s Gate 3 Rogue into a formidable force, capable of dealing as much damage as they can absorb (which is quite a lot). If you have a different loadout, I’d love to hear about it. In the meantime, if you’re looking for more tips on how to improve your odds of survival in the game, check out our comprehensive range of 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.