Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback [ACTUAL FEEDBACK] 42 Change Requests, 23 Feature Addition Requests, and 24 Bug Reports

5e is tabletop. This is a video game.
Its not the same as moving slightly aside to let someone else pass. At all. Especially in TB combat where movement has cost.
And that in no way answers the few examples i wrote.

I cant see how actually watching character pass through other characters would look good in any way, or play well in any way.

Decent list, but no we need to change the "Bonus actions" that are supposed to be actions. It's a game balance issue, and it affects so many things.
Rogues are nerfed because of it.
Shield Master Feat is nerfed because of it.
Goblins are nerfed because of it (They have disengage as a bonus action)
Melee characters/monsters are nerfed because of this. (Less opportunity attacks)

I agree with much of the lest, but no, these things needs to be changed back. Especially if they are going to keep high ground and back attack advantages, because free disengage makes getting those advantages so much easier to do.

This is a wonderful list. I agree with pretty much everything.

Right now Long Rests and Short rests being obsolete is the biggest problem of this game. Also the fact that solving encounters peacefully does not provide equal exp compared to solving encounters via combat. You already miss out on loot because often times the NPC's run away. Just make it so you cannot gain more exp after you solved this encounter peacefully so players don't exploit this for 2x exp.

Also rework the Siding with the Goblins storyline. It has pitiful rewards. And there is just no incentive to siding with them. They never promise to aid you with your Tadpole problem and they do not promise you to make its effects strong, either.
And the Questlog lies to you. The Questlog says "The absolute has awarded me with more power" but you get nothing. There is a dialogue after you finish the raid where it says something like "the tadpole is really happy, you are becoming." But there is no reward at all.
The best rewards are from killing Mintharra and the goblin leaders and you miss out on those when raiding the grove. Kadgas and Zevlors items are nice, but Kadga can simply be killed or die during the attack, or at the party, so you can easily get her items while not siding with the goblins.

Please change the writing of the Quest Journal. Throughought the whole EA: Your journal says "Removing the Parasite". However as we all know, this is not the goal for everyone. Astarion for example wants to keep the tadpole and its positive effects and learn how to control it. My personal character would want this aswell, so why does the game already force you into a decision? It should say something like "Find a healer to understand the tadpole" or "Learn about the parasite".

Please add Hexblade to the game and add something useful to Great Old one Warlock. There is no reason to pick it other than having a few different spells to chose from, but no bonus like Dark One's blessing level 1. Also Dark One's blessing is bugged sometimes and does not grant you temporary HP, even when you do not have False Life active.

The best part of this EA are the dream interactions and the promise of power and authority, and actually getting the powers of the Absolute via the Dreams and via a Questline in the underdark. These are amazing rewards and I hope you keep this up. But the evil Questline as siding with the Goblins is the worst part about EA. There is no incentive to do so. They never promise you to help you in your main goal. They do not offer any information, any cure, or increasing your powers. You have to actively force the evil playthrough in dialogue description without any incentive.

There is almost no information about the Brand of the Absolute. The game never explains to you that you can use the powerful items of the absolute now. There needs to be an option to force your party members to also receive the brand. Maybe use your Illithid powers to make them obey and brand them? And the fact that your character is branded NEEDS to be a tag in your character sheet.

Also siding with the goblins and a general evil playthrough is not about murdering everyone. During your evil playthrough you should also gain followers, or servants, or slaves. Similar to how a good character would gather followers united under the same goal, an evil character must also be able to gain followers who follow you because you are powerful, or because they are afraid of you. If you can add this to the game, then you will have a wonderful playthrough for both the good and the evil side. But please do not make the evil side "randomly murder a bunch of refugees or random npcs" and not help with our characters problem. Because thats what the goblin path is right now. And in the end, you feel stupid because they betray you. Which makes little sense given that you are a True Soul. Why should they listen to Mintharra over you?

Also magic items are great, but they need some tuning and balancing. The 18 int circlet is way too powerful. Change it to 16 instead.

The items which grant you spells to cast, like the Circlet of Blasting which grants you a cast of Scorching ray, needs to use your actual casting attribute instead of always using intelligence. Items like these favour mages because mages use intelligence. But they already have the most amount of spell slots, they do not need items like this as much.

On the other hand, an item which grants an additional cast of Scorching ray is very useful for my Warlock! But you made it so this Scorching ray uses intelligence instead of Charisma as a spellcasting modifier. So it has a really low chance to hit. This makes these items less useful as they should be. Please change the casting attribute for these items to match your class.

Thank you for compiling this list! I may have missed it, but my additional request would be to either change how pausing works to make it instant and global or to add a real option for players to instantly do a global pause.

I would actually like it if when we press ESC to bring up menus, it would pause the game.

It could be hard because of the multiplayer.

If I read Firesnakearies' feedback correctly, they want a bonus action that's not as powerful as the regular action. It makes sense.

A bonus action I'd like to see is Dodge, which is already 5e but not in BG3. If we can't get dodge, then I agree with Firesnakearies for other bonus actions, provided I read their feedback correctly.

I dont remember what Dodge does, does if give you a bonus to AC or disadvantage to people attacking you or something?

I disagree about Disengage, having it as a bonus action really hurts martials, it diminishes their ability to keep enemies off their backline. They [Enemies you're trying to threaten] can already switch between ranged and melee weapons or attempt a shove, unlike in 5e.

The issue with Sacred Flame is that it doesn't benefit from the excessively easy way to leverage ADVANTAGE to ranged attacks (same goes for melee w/ flanking). This can be fixed somewhat with changing the homebrew as outlined below*. From bad to worse; Sacred Flame saves vs DEX which is the most heavily resisted save.

Larian's homebrew is GUARANTEED to break game balance in any number of ways and will force subsequent patchwork homebrew to fix what needn't be broken in the first place, so a better fix would be more authentic D&D rules whenever that doesn't get in the way of fun gameplay. A middle ground solution could be to give Clerics the non-PHB cantrip: "Toll the Dead" which saves vs WIS. Besides being strong on its own, this would afford Clerics with both cantrips the option to target the weakest save providing the class with a much needed combat boost w/o expending resources.

Shadowheart illuminates the problem further as she is very poorly built both mechanically and thematically (a roguish cleric of her sleight build should swap dex and str currently), so now she is poor both ranged and in melee outside of abusing the excessively imbalanced rest mechanic to cast spells every round.

BALANCED ADVANTAGE CHANGE (while still incentivising fun tactical mobile combat):
Flanking: +1 attack flank, +2 attack back
Higher Ground: +2 AC/DEX save (half cover to simulate defensible position). No disadvantage on attacking prone enemies on lower ground.

Great suggestions. I agree to every one except the last one.

I don't like Disengage, Shove and Jump as bonus actions. They're cheesy and OP as it is and really spammable on top of that as bonus actions. 5th+ level Fighters should be able to both Shove prone and Attack and it's a good move against a high AC target getting that advantage and giving it to your team. Keep that a Fighter perk, they don't have that many.

I especially don't like the ability to both attack and disengage on the same turn. That gives too much free mobility to everyone and makes positioning in combat utterly meaningless. Tanks NEED to be able to punish enemies who run and control their movement. The combat is already a silly DPS king of the hill race as we have no Dodge, no Cover, defensive concentration effects won't last because the floor is lava everywhere, and high ground is completely OP. Choosing to engage an enemy needs to have consequences, on both sides.

About dice rolling. I want to see all the actual dice rolling on the lower left side of the screen where the attack breakdown is. It needlessly shows the percentage there for a second time as we can already see it on mouseover on the target. It would be especially important seeing Advantage / Disadvantage rolls there. I want to see the proof I failed a 94% shot. =)

Also something that should be added is combat-text window should automatically scroll to the bottom and keep scrolling if you have it open. Every time I want to check dice rolls in combat, I open the text window and then I have to scrol allllll the way to the bottom. Thats very annoying.