Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Misty Step Opportunity Attack

Not sure if this belongs here or in the technical issues section, but since the last update (on PS5), Misty Step now provokes an opportunity attack. There are a number of reasons this feels terribly wrong, not the least of which is that it feels like it was done simply for b a l a n c e reasons, in direct contradiction to how it worked previously and how it works in D&D. Essentially, you aren't moving but are teleporting, so there is no reason it should provoke. The fact that the arrows of transposition still do not provoke and that they work basically the same way (aside from their costing a full action instead of a bonus action) supports what I'm talking about. This should be reverted back to how it was originally.

One thing I will question, just as supporting data to any bug report that you make - Are you making sure that the game is not forcing your character to walk out of a creature's range and provoke, first, before teleporting, when you select the location you want to teleport to? Larian's movement system is abysmally archaic and gives you virtually zero control over exactly where you characters move when trying to target abilities - often building small elements of movement into the attack or teleport that you're trying to position, unnecessarily and without there being any functional way for you to countermand this, except to cancel the ability and try targeting it again from scratch (and even then it often will just do the same thing).

What this often means is that you will select Misty Step, and highlight an area on a ledge just up and away slightly, and it will show you the silhouette of it working properly, but then what it isn't showing you is that the actual action it is projecting for you is "move away from the enemy five feet, then Misty Step", when that isn't what you're telling it to do... so when you click the button, because the game told you that you had good line of sight and the spell was correct, your character walks away, provokes, then teleports.