Best Feat for a spellcaster?

[Macamar]

Whats the current best feat for spellcasters (mainly wizard and sorcerer) besides just taking ability improvement? Also what other feats do you think are gonna be added?

[DeadBeat61]

I like my spellcasters to have cute feet. When they're big and their toes are gross it just totally kills my immersion.

[Pandasaur]

Warcaster! Have full hands and cast a spell! Advantage on Concentration checks!

Also, Fey Touched. +1 Mental stat and free spells. Welcome to the spellcaster essential feats.

[Recjawjind]

War caster, resilient (con), spell sniper (circumstantial, better on warlock), lucky (good on everyone), mobile (more movement never bad), if you have a source of armor proficiency, the next highest tier can be appealing, metamagic adept is never bad either

[Foolswalkin]

Full hand casting is the norm in these kinds of games, neh?

[Goose]

War Caster (advantage on concentration saving throws)

Alert (+5 to initiative rolls, cannot be surprised)

Crossbow Expert (Can use ranged spell attacks in melee range, great for warlock)

Tough (bonus HP’s)

Lucky (Ability to reroll saving throws or enemy attack rolls made against you)

[Clive Hawkins]

The best Feats are the one's that help you hold Concentration.

- Resilient CON: +1 to CON and Proficiency in CON Saving Throws. This adds a +5 to concentration checks by level 9 if your CON was an odd number on character creation. Great for pure Wizard and Eldritch Blast Warlock.

- War Caster: Gives advantage on Concentration checks. Great for a Sorcerer since they already have Proficiency in CON. Also great for a pact of the blade Warlock who will be hit in melee.

[BigAlzBub]

Crossbow Expert can be useful, not that you will be using bows or crossbow, but it does allow you fire a ranged spell without disadvantage when someone stands next to you.
Elemental Adept (fire) can be useful if you heavily focus on one element as it negates the resistance.
If you have picked up armour proficiences (either from race or by multiclassing) you might consider taking the next one in the chain to wear heavier armour, but only if your dex isn't good.
If you are not an evoker, you might consider Alert for the initiate bonus so you can unload powerful spells before friends and enemies are all mixed up.
Resilient in Constitution to help maintain your concentration when you get damaged
War Caster, as it gives advantage on concentration checks and also allows you to use spells to make attacks of opportunity, but if you pick this make sure you have shocking grasp as most ranged spells will have disadvantage unless you also have crossbow expert.

P.S. And lucky is of course good for anyone

[Tothe]

Imo there's really only 4 good feats.
Warcaster
Sharpshooter
Great weapon Master
Lucky

The rest are meh, and kinda just rp. I'm also a min maxer, so take what I say with a grain of salt lol.

For a caster, if your concentration focused, go warcaster. Otherwise you're probably better off with attributes.

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Originally posted by Foolswalkin:

Full hand casting is the norm in these kinds of games, neh?

In D&D you need free hands for spells with somatic components unless you have something that negates that need

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

Originally posted by Pandasaur:

Warcaster! Have full hands and cast a spell! Advantage on Concentration checks!

Also, Fey Touched. +1 Mental stat and free spells. Welcome to the spellcaster essential feats.

Warcaster is the only feat I ever need, as I go 1st level cleric to get all of the profs which cover all other bases.

[coverme21]

Observant seems pretty good for a wis or int caster

Quick to notice details of your environment, you gain the following benefits:
Increase your Intelligence or Wisdom by 1, to a maximum of 20.
If you can see a creature's mouth while it is speaking a language you understand, you can interpret what it's saying by reading its lips.
You have a +5 bonus to your passive Wisdom (Perception) and passive Intelligence (Investigation) scores.

[Foolswalkin]

Originally posted by Dαятн Wαfflεmαncεя:

Originally posted by Foolswalkin:

Full hand casting is the norm in these kinds of games, neh?

In D&D you need free hands for spells with somatic components unless you have something that negates that need

Woot! We did it! Happier thread!

But I’m pretty sure I’ve cast without a free hand in EA. I get that War Caster puts in serious work at the tabletop for casting with hands full, but not so here IIRC.

[Edstyles]

I think holding concetration is going to be rough in this game due to all enviromental damage. Fire on the grund, burning electricity etc. Even a diped blade might mess you up. So the con feats might end up being quite good.

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Originally posted by Foolswalkin:

Originally posted by Dαятн Wαfflεmαncεя:

In D&D you need free hands for spells with somatic components unless you have something that negates that need

Woot! We did it! Happier thread!

But I’m pretty sure I’ve cast without a free hand in EA. I get that War Caster puts in serious work at the tabletop for casting with hands full, but not so here IIRC.

Warcaster isn't the only thing that negates that. Having a spellfocus in a hand also counts, and for some clerics for example a shield can count as a spell focus.
There's obviously also always the possibilities that it was either a bug or Larian Homebrew.
And honestly I didn't even test it in BG3, as it's so in my blood to always have a hand free in d&d ^^

And yes, it finally happened ^^
Though I'm pretty much on my way out of the forums for release. Barely here anymore ;)

[ShayRey]

To be fair, we don't know what the full list of Feats will be in game. Though since Tough is in, if you wanna go for a tank mage, that'd be a good one. Draconic Bloodline specifically gets good mileage out of this IMO.