10 Best Items For Rogues
No class matches the dextrous utility a Rogue brings to a party. With their expertise, no door can hold you, and spotting them in the dark is a futile effort. In combat, Sneak Attack allows them to deal massive damage with a single shot.
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If you're going to strike down your enemies, why not do it in style?Rogues are one of the few classes in Baldur's Gate 3 that have wide control over their bonus action. They have very few weaknesses, and the ones they do have, you can cover with equipment.
10 Duelist’s Prerogative
Sneak Attack is the Rogue’s main source of damage. Without it, their damage output falls to the bottom of the party, but when it works, it really works. In order to get Sneak Attack in melee, you have to be using a finesse weapon, and Duelist's Prerogative is the best finesse weapon in the game.
If it's your only weapon, it increases your crit chance. You also gain an extra reaction, can make an extra attack as a bonus action, and deal bonus necrotic damage to all your melee attacks with the weapon. There is a caveat, however; Rogues normally don’t have proficiency with rapiers. To use this, you’ll need to take a background or a feat that can give you proficiency. As a Rogue, it is well worth the cost.
9 Gontr Mael
Rogues make excellent ranged attacks. Unlike melee weapons, all ranged weapons let you use sneak attack. However, the best-ranged weapons, like Gontr Mael, are martial weapons, meaning the Rogue will need the Weapon Master feat to use them.
Gontr Mael alone is worth the feat. It's a powerful longbow granting the wielder a casting of Haste, marks the enemy with Guiding Bolt, and can inflict fear. It plays masterfully into the Rogue’s hit-and-run strategy. Defeating the Steel Watch Titan will reward you with this bow.
8 Mask Of Soul Perception
Rogues usually only get one attack per turn to deal massive damage, or none at all. Accuracy buffs are quite important for their contribution, and the Mask of Soul Perception does that and more. It gives a +2 bonus to your attacks, initiative, and perception.
While it's equipped, you’re more likely to act first and land your sneak attacks. The perception boost will help prevent you from being ambushed as well. You also get to cast Detect Thoughts once per short rest. You can steal the mask from a chest in the Devil’s Fee.
7 Deathstalker Mantle
With only light armor and mediocre health growths, Rogues are not the frontline warriors you want in the thick of combat. If your Rogue is landing the killshots you need them to, this cloak will help them slip in and out of danger without impacting their playstyle one bit.
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6 Elegant Studded Leather
Light armor in Baldur’s Gate tends to fall behind other armor in terms of protection, but the Elegant Studded Leather will grant you a good AC if you have the dexterity to supplement it. It raises your AC to 14 before adding your dexterity bonus, and it grants you a casting of Shield once per short rest.
You also gain advantage on stealth rolls, perfect for all the sneaky Rogues hiding out there. Lastly, it boosts your initiative rolls by two. It is found in high-security vault nine in the Counting House, a key for which is a reward for the Return Rakath’s Gold Quest.
5 Bhaalist Armor
For more evil playthroughs, this armor lets Rogues deal some truly massive damage. Like the Elegant Studded Leather, your AC is increased to 14 before dexterity is applied. It also shares the +2 bonus to initiative, but the similarities stop there.
The Bhaalist Armor provides you with an Aura of Murder. Enemies that aren’t resistant or immune to piercing damage, gain vulnerability to it while you are within two meters. If your sneak attack does piercing damage, this will double your damage against a lot of enemies. To get it, you must become an unholy assassin of Bhaal.
4 Stalker Gloves
The Stalker Gloves improve your offense by granting another damage die to your sneak attack. For assassin builds, you want to seek out items like this that add dice to your damage, because critical hits double the dice you roll. These gloves grant you a d4 of force damage to accompany everything else.
You also gain another one-point boost to initiative; you're definitely going first at this point. You can buy the gloves from Exxvikyap in Rivington. They don’t cost much, and force is a rare damage type for any enemy to resist.
3 Helldusk Boots
If you’ve played Baldur’s Gate 3 for long enough, you know if an enemy sees a chance to shove you off a cliff and instantly kill you, they take it 100% of the time. The Helldusk Boots put an immediate stop to that. While wearing them, you can’t be moved by enemy spells or actions, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain.
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Its second ability, Infernal Evasion, lets you turn a failed saving throw into a success as a reaction. You also gain a fiery teleport that recharges on a short rest. You can steal the boots for Gortash’s private chest in his office at Wyrm's Rock Crossing.
2 Risky Ring
You can attack an enemy with Sneak Attack if you have advantage on an attack roll, or if an ally is standing next to your target. It can be frustrating sometimes when the flow of combat means you can't get your big hit every turn, but there is a way to ensure it happens; use the Risky Ring.
The Risky Ring makes all of your attacks roll with advantage. So long as you’re within your weapon’s range, you’re getting Sneak Attacks. The ring has a huge downside: all of your saving throws will be rolled with disadvantage. As the ring suggests, it's a high-risk, high-reward playstyle, but a Rogue can make it work. Araj Oblodra sells the ring at Moonrise Towers.
1 Caustic Band
When you only get one good shot a turn, you want that shot to be the only one you need. The Caustic Band is an Act One ring that gives you a small damage boost on your weapon attacks. You will deal a fixed two-acid damage every time you hit with weapons.
Acid is a good damage type as it's resisted far less than poison, or other elemental types for that matter. You can get some extra value from it if you have another way to get an extra attack, such as the one provided by Duelist’s Prerogative, or by shooting an Arrow of Many Targets. You can buy the Caustic Band from Derryth Bonecloak at the Myconid Colony.
