If you've chosen to play as a Rogue in Baldur's Gate 3, you've made an excellent choice. These cunning and stealthy characters are incredibly effective in the game, capable of dealing significant damage. Let's explore the top feats that can enhance your Rogue's performance in BG3.

Top 10 Feats for the Rogue in BG3

Here are the ten best Rogue feats in BG3:

1. Sharpshooter
2. Skilled
3. Athlete
4. Tough
5. Mobile
6. Alert
7. Dungeon Delver
8. Crossbow Expert
9. Lucky
10. Savage Attacker

Sharpshooter

Sharpshooter is a game-changing feat for Rogues who prefer to engage from a distance. This feat allows you to ignore cover, extend your attack range, and increase the damage of your attacks by 10 in exchange for a -5 penalty to hit. With Sharpshooter, your Rogue can become a lethal sniper, hitting targets with deadly accuracy and increased power, making it a top choice for maximizing ranged combat effectiveness.

Skilled

The Skilled feat offers exceptional versatility for Rogues, granting proficiency in any combination of three skills or tools. Whether you want to excel in stealth, acrobatics, and sleight of hand, or become the party's locksmith, tracker, and appraiser, this feat allows you to tailor your Rogue's abilities to fit your preferred playstyle. Skilled enhances your Rogue's adaptability and expertise, making them invaluable in various situations.

Athlete

The Athlete feat enhances a Rogue's agility and finesse. It removes the extra movement cost for climbing and getting up from prone and allows running jumps with only a 5-foot run-up. These improvements make your Rogue more efficient in navigating terrain, dodging traps, and leaping across obstacles, ensuring they can perform with grace and speed in any situation. You also get a +1 to Strength or Dexterity.

Tough

While most Rogues will prefer to avoid getting hit, it's challenging to stay unscathed in Baldur's Gate 3. No matter how sneaky you are, you're bound to eventually fail a roll or get hit by something with a large area of effect. Given the amount of damage Rogues can deal, ensuring your Rogue stays alive is crucial for winning battles. Tough isn't necessary, but it's incredibly beneficial for your Rogue. You gain a significant number of extra hit points, which greatly increases your survivability. Combined with the natural evasiveness of the Rogue, you become quite difficult to take down.

Mobile

If you want a more hit-and-run-style Rogue, Mobile is an excellent choice. You can quickly move into range to attack, then retreat without consequence. It also helps you win ranged duels by allowing you to snipe someone and then slip back out of their range.

Alert

Being surprised is a mechanic you certainly want to avoid as a Rogue. Being ambushed could mean going down very quickly, especially if you don't have something like the Tough feat to help you out. That's where the Alert feat comes in, helping to keep your Rogue safer to maintain their valuable DPS. The bonus to initiative is also highly beneficial in general.

Dungeon Delver

There are numerous traps, locked doors, and chests in Baldur's Gate 3. Using the Dungeon Delver perk on your Rogue, who is already naturally adept at dealing with these, makes life much easier. You'll be able to detect most traps before you run into them, disable them with ease, and get through most locks without breaking a sweat. It's a very nice quality-of-life feat for the Rogue outside of combat.

Crossbow Expert

Crossbow Expert is my favorite Rogue feat. If you haven't tried using a crossbow yet in Baldur's Gate 3, you're missing out. Equip your Rogue with a good crossbow and take this feat for a truly devastating damage dealer. With Crossbow Expert, you don't have to worry about melee at all. You'll be able to use your crossbow's sneak attack at close range, and your sneak attacks will deal more damage at all ranges. Plus, it feels pretty badass and on-theme to be a crossbow-wielding Rogue.

Lucky

Lucky is a feat that's good in any class and for any build in BG3. You have three Luck Points, which you can use to give yourself an advantage on Attack Rolls, Ability Checks, or Saving Throws, increasing the odds that you'll pass the threshold needed to succeed. Additionally, you can use a Luck Point to force an enemy to reroll their attack, which can turn a hit into a miss. Since these points refresh after each Long Rest, you don't need to be shy about using them.

Savage Attacker

If you're going for a melee build, then you want to take Savage Attacker as one of your feats. When you make a melee attack with Savage Attacker, you roll the dice for your damage twice and use the highest result. Combined with your Rogue's sneak attacks, you'll be able to deal a lot of damage and sustain that damage even when you can't use a sneak attack.

That's it for the best feats to make 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 be happy to hear it. And in the meantime, if you're looking for more tips on how to improve your odds of survival in the game, check out our full 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.