Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Dueling Fighting Style and devil sight not working properly

Playing on stadia.
Character is a halfling ranger. 13 strength and 16 dexterity using a shortsword(finese weapon that can use dex or strength for +hit and +damage)

Dueling gives +2 to damage with a single handed weapon as long as your other hand is empty.

+2 Dueling +3 Dexterity =+5 total to damage.

What is actually happening is a total of +3 to damage. So either dueling isn't adding any damage bonus at all, or its using strength instead of my dexterity in this situation. Please address.

Also had another post with an error where devils sight and darkvision are not physically giving a character darkvision glow. Not sure if it is removing negatives to hit due to low light. Hovering over devil sight in character sheet menu shows an error and code language.

Out of curiosity, are you using a shield in your offhand? As per 5e, it shouldn't matter, and you should still get dueling bonus either way, but the wording of dueling in BG3 is strange.

I was not using a shield when trying to do this. As I believe even in 5E dnd, it does not work with a shield. Dueling fighting style is based off the idea of Three Musketeers style fighters. Which was my design as well for this build. A halfling dex based ranger using a rapier.

You can most certainly use dueling with a shield in 5e, as a shield counts as armor, not a weapon. It's a staple pick for sword and board users that want to focus on doing damage.

Someone on reddit, said that the dueling fighting style worked with a shield in BG3, but I haven't tested it yet.

If you don't see your character using a shield thematically, then that's pretty cool. I'm not trying to tell you how to play your character, I just like to make sure people aren't misinformed.