Thief multiclass?

[BloodyBlades]

So I am currently a level 4 Thief, I seen that I have level in other classes too? Is there one I should go for? Or stay a pure thief? I tried to do some research about it, but I could not find anything to assist me with it.

[Underprivileged White Male]

If you want to bother with stealth, you can stay pure, but honestly adding in monk is going to add more raw power.

[Ranpo]

Thieves are better multiclassed because the class wasn't well thought out especially stealth, I don't know why they didn't just port DOS2's rogue over

[Sabon682]

It totally depends on your personality. You can "win" with any combination. Some may make it easier but for some people that is less fun. For other people the frustration of the harder ways takes away the fun. it just depends on you but I have so far created eight different characters for my main character and almost as many for the secondary characters.

In reality I would only be able to "suggest" things the other characters might want to choose but then it would be up to them. In this game (as in most of the ways that D&D is played), the human gets to make all the decisions (the vast --majority-- of decisions) for the non-player characters ("NPCs").

It doesn't make sense that the human playing the game gets to make the decisions for the NPCs but this isn't about making sense. It's about letting the human (when I talking about "the human", I'm talking about the person in front of the computer playing the game) choose what the characters do and become.

[Aurite]

8 levels of fighter gets you 3x feats (at 4, 6 and 8) and you can wear armour and do thief stuff.

I play a Paladin 4, Bard 8 and fight in melee, dual wielding - which there are some excellent magic weapons for!
So I have 22 Dex, use a medium armour thats magic and allows you to use your full dex bonus to armour, so I have a high armour class, I think about 24 if I remember correctly. Dual wielding I am doing a lot of damage, easily keeping up with Karlach using 2h weapons, plus I have spells and high charisma smites to add on top of that. Being a Bard of Swords I get 2 attacks at 6th level and I can lockpick which is the most useful skill in the game, and high charisma lets me be the party face man and get through speaking checks. Really having a blast!

[Aurite]

oh, and dont forget you can respec to a totally new class using withers. So no choice is permanent.

[Linca]

For Astarion I went with 4 Thief, 2 Fighter, 6 Bard with a focus on 2 1-hand crossbows.
Gives you a lot of bonus actions with insane damage output.

[OnkelTag]

you can go with rogue / ranger / fighter to have an insane amount of actions, 2 1-handed xbows are really fine, bonus attack with archery fighting style are huge !

[butbka]

Two reasonable builds with good explanation:

Thief/Fighter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6KtsrePQys
Thief/Monk
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3030807516

[guard65]

For me level 4 is the max for the Rogue class. I get it for the bonus action features and maybe the subclass components. Then I switch to just about anything else since every class ban benefit from bonus action dash, disengage, and stealth.

Just note that if you keep the level cap in the game if you go spell caster you may loose your top tear spells.

[BloodyBlades]

Originally posted by Linca:

For Astarion I went with 4 Thief, 2 Fighter, 6 Bard with a focus on 2 1-hand crossbows.
Gives you a lot of bonus actions with insane damage output.

Ohhh you can DW hand crossbows thats cool!, I might want to give that a try!

[Underprivileged White Male]

Originally posted by BloodyBlades574:

Originally posted by Linca:

For Astarion I went with 4 Thief, 2 Fighter, 6 Bard with a focus on 2 1-hand crossbows.
Gives you a lot of bonus actions with insane damage output.

Ohhh you can DW hand crossbows thats cool!, I might want to give that a try!

I wouldn't if I was you. There are next to no weapon options for it in the first 2 acts. Been using the same two from the underdark for like 50 hours, and they both suck. A +1 and another with a mostly useless effect.

[Pozzy Vibes GGHF :)]

Originally posted by BloodyBlades574:

So I am currently a level 4 Thief, I seen that I have level in other classes too? Is there one I should go for? Or stay a pure thief? I tried to do some research about it, but I could not find anything to assist me with it.

You go 5 ranger (gloomstalker) then 5 thief then 2 fighter. Go respect into 5 ranger 3 thief at 8, youre too low for multiclassing to matter right now. You get 2 bonus actions, 2 hides, extra attack, plus one extra attack per battle, sharpshooter feat. Basically you can guarantee that you get a sneak attack every turn, and then hide to end your turn - this hiding can draw aggro from enemies that will waste time revealing you

[player]

Originally posted by Pozzy Vibes GGHF :):

Originally posted by BloodyBlades574:

So I am currently a level 4 Thief, I seen that I have level in other classes too? Is there one I should go for? Or stay a pure thief? I tried to do some research about it, but I could not find anything to assist me with it.

You go 5 ranger (gloomstalker) then 5 thief then 2 fighter. Go respect into 5 ranger 3 thief at 8, youre too low for multiclassing to matter right now. You get 2 bonus actions, 2 hides, extra attack, plus one extra attack per battle, sharpshooter feat. Basically you can guarantee that you get a sneak attack every turn, and then hide to end your turn - this hiding can draw aggro from enemies that will waste time revealing you

pretty much this. Best endgame build for a ranged rogue with double crossbows.

[Math1337]

In my first playthrough, Astarion was all thief. You can't roll less then 10 on dice in skill cheks and your sneak attack is huge (+6d6). And he is also effective both in close combat and using a bow.
But if want more ranged style:
3 rogue(thief or assasin) + 3 ranger(gloom stalker) + 6 fighter(champion or battlemaster)
Otherwise rogue is great for most multiclassing.
4 rogue + 8 bard(valor/swords) is realy flexible
3 rogue + 3 barbarian + 6 fighter = rage from nowhere
rogue + cleric/paladin mix = sneaky inquisitor.
rogue + monk(shadow) = ninja
Multiclassing with more spellcasting specific clsses can be fun too, but you lose roguish style of gameplay.

[guard65]

The only problem I have with Rouge Barbarian is when raging I loose my dexterity weapon modifier and it uses strength instead. Not good if you build dexterity and not good if you build strength and run out of rage. I also do not remember sneak attack ever working while I was raging but I could be wrong on that. I dropped the build because of its issues,