Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Sneak Attack once again. :D And hopefully for the last time ...

To keep it simple and short ...

I love what you did with Divine Smite ...
Set it to all those "reactions" (still didnt check if they consume reaction or not tho) ... but also kept active skill for those of us, who preffer using it that way.

Now, just Ctrl+C > Ctrl+V the system to Sneak Attack, add Off-Hand Sneak Attack, make it resource ... and i will be the happiest Ragnarok on forum! ^_^

//Edit:
Now when i think about it ...
Feel free to do exactly the same with Battlemaster Manouvers aswell.

+1

Agreed. Sneak attack just needs to work automatically when conditions are met.

Well, thats most certainly not what i said.

+1

the fact that it's only an active skill is just bad no way around it. so yeah +1

Yup I agree. If they put sneak attack as a pop up like divine smite then it will be perfect and play as intended.

Something like this?

This would be very good.
On top of using a mechanics players know (class specific ressources), it would really allow us to choosz exactly when we use it.

Is that working for AOO too ? Is that a mod you created ? Why is there so much lines to configure in the reaction menu ?

Yes, please make it a toggle and not an action in itself.

YES!!!!!

Eh ... no, not something like this ...
Exactly this! <3

Looks really good to me, i wonder, can you with this mod also combine Elemental Arrows with Poison and Sneak Attack?
That must be some Damage Monster.

My one concern would be it using your reaction for this and poof goes uncanny dodge.

I've pretty much given up on returning rogues their kit by removing bonus action potions (& poisons!) & bonus action Hide. Plus that dumb ass "solution" being giving them 2 bonus actions. Makes no sense with the description of bonus actions.
This solution would bring us one step closer.

Lets just not talk about the jump costing a bonus action. Let's not. Except to say that its dumb.

you need a separate sneak attack charge if they do it as a reaction pop up you can even stop it from going of on low hp enemies.

Yes, agreed that sneak attack damage should be reaction-like rather than a true reaction. Just like divine smite as per the original comment. At least I assume smite isn’t consuming a reaction, though it’s really hard to tell given the current somewhat jumbled handling in EA. I have had the opportunity to smite pop up on an attack of opportunity which should imply that one or the other isn’t being counted as a reaction, but am struggling to work out exactly what is going on.

Well with smite the charges are spell slots not reaction charge itself you can see that reaction charge if you hover over your own portrait.

Sneak attack doesn't have that option of spells charges so it needs to have it's own thing so you can't trigger it mutiple times on your turn. But if you use it on your turn it needs to recharge on the end of that turn so you have it again for any reaction hits.

IF it was only for AoO reactions i guess it's would be fine cos you can only do one anyway so for that it doesn't really matter.