Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Missing two actions

Hi

When I'm engaged in a combat I'm really missing two actions:
- Dodge: According to the PHB "When you take the Dodge action, you focus entirely on avoiding attacks. Until the start of your next turn, any attack roll made against you has disadvantage if you can see the attacker, and you make Dexterity saving throws with advantage". It would be great to have some kind of deffensive position for these times where making an attackis not a good choice.
- Ready: I would use this action to postpone your turn in the track in order to combine you turn with your companions.

i'm pretty sure, that dodge just isn't implemented yet.
on the ready action... it's pretty hard to implement the ready action faithfully to TT. the TT ready action is pretty complicated with it's specifics.
i would say, that this should be a lower priority right now, and be looked at again, if we see how other mechanics are implemented.
maybe it can be as easy as saying, that i want to wait with my turn until someone elses turn was done, maybe that implements other issues.

dodge should be implemented, no question, but I am not sure about "ready" in the current system

Someone else has mentioned that they are working on these. Haven't seen anything from Larian saying this.

it's a wild guess. but to implement dodge is easy.
ability cost: 1 action
gives buff on character that lasts 1 turn, which gives disadvantage on attack rolls against him.

there is nothing special about the dodge ability. thats why it's an educated guess, that they will implement it. it nearly doesn't cost any resources to do.

Just adding my voice to this thread. Dodge is a priority and I hope (and expect) it will be added to the game soon. I think the "Ready" action could be simplified into an "overwatch" command like in XCOM or Phoenix Point.