Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Thief-Second Story Work buff

I don't know if this has been said before, but the reduced fall damage of second story work feels underwhelming as an feature to the class. Easy access to abilities like feather fall, jump, and even easy access to healing makes it not that valuable.

With the high dex of thief builds (I don't know of any STR-based thief), I think second story work should change your jump to be based on DEX instead of STR. This would make the feature feel more impactful and closer to the original book aspect of Thief in allowing you to climb any wall.

That's a really good idea. I approve

Cant even imagine how much will be people Swearing about "stealing unique feeling from Monk" :-/

But i like the idea ...
Cant see tho any reason why not having both? o_O

Whoops, I didn't know Monk had something similar, I never played that class before.

I knew they had slow fall, but that was basically fall resistance. Kind of how BG3s Second Story Work currently functions.

It's not stealing from Monk, Rag - Second-Story work functionally gives you a climbing speed, more or less, but that's not the same things as Monk's mid level, supernatural-like ability to run on smooth walls and across the surface of water (And I can't wait to see BG3's interpretation of that ability...).

The rogue is underwhelming in this game since they gave other classes part of Cunning Action for free, took away Expertise, and also made Sneak Attack less useful.

I like this idea. I like it a lot.

I'd also like proficiency in Athletics to increase the jumping distance for low strength characters...

I know ...
I just said that i can easily imagine that some people will see that differently. :P

And yes, im looking forward for this too ...
This and allowing druids in spider form to climb walls. :3

Athletics, or Acrobacy wichever is higher i would dare to say. :-/
And yes i know that Acrobacy is actualy more like Capability to remain Ballance, but still ...

Not considering it difficult terrain, probably?

Acrobatics should be used to help prevent fall damage from when jumping too high, while Athletics should help you jump higher/farther.

Right now, though, does Acrobatics even do anything?

Acrobatics helps resist against being shoved. (It doesn't help to shove, only to resist against being shoved.)

In my opinion, acrobatics should allow a character's jump distance to be based off Dex instead of Str. That's a change I would like to see.

I wouldn't be against that. Since there's no climbing action, low strength characters need a way to get around (i.e. jumping).

Agree to this!
Always found it super annoying that you need a STR char to be able to get to certain places (excluding magic).
Harpies nest, some chests around the world. Just Lae'zel and Tav who can reach it, depending on class.