Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Unarmed Strike with weapon equipped

Currently the Unarmed Strikes button is inaccessible while a weapon is equipped. Would like to see the Unarmed Strike button not be removed for Main Hand Attack, or at least leave it in the Weapon Actions section of the Spellbook so it can be added back to the hotbar if desired.

This mostly cropped up while playing an open hand monk wanting to mostly use unarmed attacks. I then obtained the Corellon's Grace quarterstaff, item tooltip below. It improves unarmed attacks and damage while equipped, but a character can't make unarmed strikes while its equipped. Exception to this being the monk's bonus actions, which shows its possible to still unarmed while using a weapon.
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Absolutely! A big point of a Monk is being able to use many parts of their bodies to make attacks.

+1

Finally got around to respecing someone as a monk, and this is driving me crazy.

+1 no idea why this isn't in the base game. Have to mod it in.

I just figured it was a balance thing (Like Druids not getting effects from their items while Wild Shaped, besides the literal 2 items in the game that actually work) given that Open Hand Monks can already get the most OP weapons in the game due to all the available boosts to unarmed attacks that stacking on top of that more boosts from weapons being equipped might be too much (And render Four Elements and Shadow subclasses almost completely obsolete).

My personal qualm with Monk, is the way their Bonus Unarmed Attack works... From the constant spam from the condition being applied with every attack, to the fact that because the button only appears when that condition is active it's not possible to put it onto the Custom action bar thus it becomes tedious to use (Click to attack guy... Click on bonus unarmed attack... Click on guy again... Click to attack guy again... Click on bonus unarmed attack... Click on guy again...)