Lockpicking companion

[Elazul]

Am I basically stuck with Astarion or can I get Shadowheart to perform this function well enough to get by? I'm not really digging Astarion's personality much and thinking about replacing him with Wyll.

[Nazkai]

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

The MC can also be a dex/cha character with dual hand crossbows who can be pretty good at picking locks and be fairly good in conversations.

He won't have good STR, CON, INT, or WIS. But anything to do with DEX or CHA he can be fairly good at.

Also DEX/CHA means he can multiclass warlock and get the Great Old One patron who gives him mortal reminder. If you do the Champion subclass for fighter and get the Dark Justiciar helm, you're on your way to crit city with your hand crossbows and causing fear every time you crit.

Warlocks cast using CHA, so he can cast darkness which synergizes with the helmet.

Close to the route I took actually though I did still spec wisdom to 14 using Hag's hair for +2 rolls there as well. Bard or Thief or mix if you really like doing all the Talking, convincing and Lock picking plus sneak attack damage and highly mobile.

[steelcoresoviet]

Cleric Shadowheart is fine.

Assuming you can locate the smugglers ring, and rogue's gloves she can be +7-10 with advantage by level 4, which will get you through the entire game.

[Saint Anger]

If my main don't have Slight of hand, I respec Shadowheart with 1 level Rogue for the skills at level 1 and then pick a new Cleric Domain for her. Kinda keeps her Trickeryish :P

[AsianGirlLover]

Just put 4 levels of Rouge on someone else and pump the rest into Gloomstalker Ranger or Fighter and you’ll be fine.

[Doomvora]

Just have a character with knock or play a bootleg rogue (bard), you can also multiclass, or if none of those strike your fancy you can take the roundabout way and just send chests to your stash and open them with astarion whenever you long rest.

[Kafik]

I took the charlatan background for my sorcerer and haven't had much problems opening locks.

[Boge]

There are plenty of items that give you bonuses. You probably don't even need to bother specializing in Sleight of Hand.

[Thriller]

Make a Bard trapper that you play. Bard legit takes on trapper, tank, healer and dps in 1 build. At level three bard traps better than rogue with jack of all trades feat. If you check out my steam profile I show you how to build ANY class into a trapper. There is a ring in the forest by the injured tiefling that gives +2/+2 to thieving and the intel circlet from the giant by the goblin camp will allow you to trap, pick, unlock anything with any class you prep to be your trapper. Astarion is good for 3 things in BG3, giving me that dope looking armor then biting me so I get vampire power to use in fights, then sitting his ass at camp.

[Thriller]

Pretty much every class can excel at trapping except barbarian. Check my screenshots section, I put together several builds that trap effectively including barbarian. These are only EA classes and races, but they still work in FA. @Boge btw nice work on Charlatan...it is absolutely the best choice for a trapping sorc as you can see by my 6 month old sorc/trapper build here on steam. Again just click screenshots and look for the BG3 thumbs.

[Zoid13]

Originally posted by SoloQ:

As long as it's wooden you can always just smash whatever it is down.

yep you can just break most of the chests for the loot.

[magattatou]

It's incredibly unfortunate, but only Astarion has a DEX higher than 13 unless it is your own Tav. Every other origin character you'll need to respec and choose feats to increase their DEX, slight of hand, dedicate certain equipment slots for DEX+ gear, or etc.

There is also the Knock spell, but in early game especially you might find resting so much to replenish spell slots to be annoying.

Lockpicking alternatives is the easy part. It's those 30+ DC traps and if you want to steal from venders that a more dedicated thief-type is needed. It amazes me there was never invented some sort of Disable Trap spell.

[Xrystus]

Originally posted by magattatou:

It's incredibly unfortunate, but only Astarion has a DEX higher than 13 unless it is your own Tav. Every other origin character you'll need to respec and choose feats to increase their DEX, slight of hand, dedicate certain equipment slots for DEX+ gear, or etc.

There is also the Knock spell, but in early game especially you might find resting so much to replenish spell slots to be annoying.

Lockpicking alternatives is the easy part. It's those 30+ DC traps and if you want to steal from venders that a more dedicated thief-type is needed. It amazes me there was never invented some sort of Disable Trap spell.

If you have withers, you can respec anyone to have Dex and have a build designed around it. A rogue or bard can get expertise in sleight of hand, which is what is used for lockpicking and disarming traps.

[magattatou]

Originally posted by Xrystus:

If you have withers, you can respec anyone to have Dex and have a build designed around it. A rogue or bard can get expertise in sleight of hand, which is what is used for lockpicking and disarming traps.

Yes, which is why I emphasized out of "origin characters."

[Hex]

Shadowheart or Wyll will do just fine.

[Mirri]

Gale is my backup lockpicker. He's not too bad at it since I have him gloves of dexterity (to improve his armour class) and he can also use the knock spell. He's not near as good at Asterion but he'll get it done. Not sure if Wyll has knock as an option but it might be something to look into.