Multiclass lvl3 rogue into fighter

[Toxic Spoon]

Thinking about multiclassing my dual wielding fighter into rogue with thief subclass for extra bonus action. Is it worth it?

[VoiD]

I think thief works well for dual wield as you say, but dual wield itself seem really, really bad in this game.

I mean, the offhand weapon kinda doesn't do anything, you get to use it to attack IF you want to burn your bonus action on it.

But you can also use a bigger, better weapon, with better feats for it, and then use your bonus action to deal extra damage with item skills/spells doing more attacks, or cast something like hunter's mark, or even apply some poison to your blade instead, so what's even the point?

If the offhand attack didn't cost anything and always went off along with the mainhand there would be a point, since it doesn't I'd much rather have a shield for bonus AC, or use a better 2h weapon, or even leave the hand empty and go with dueling feats instead, you'll probably end up doing more damage.

[DorkDroll]

Originally posted by VoiD:

I think thief works well for dual wield as you say, but dual wield itself seem really, really bad in this game.

I mean, the offhand weapon kinda doesn't do anything, you get to use it to attack IF you want to burn your bonus action on it.

But you can also use a bigger, better weapon, with better feats for it, and then use your bonus action to deal extra damage with item skills/spells doing more attacks, or cast something like hunter's mark, or even apply some poison to your blade instead, so what's even the point?

If the offhand attack didn't cost anything and always went off along with the mainhand there would be a point, since it doesn't I'd much rather have a shield for bonus AC, or use a better 2h weapon, or even leave the hand empty and go with dueling feats instead, you'll probably end up doing more damage.

ok, this is a bit off topic but I didn't expect to see you here on the bg3 forums

[Proper Skux]

Originally posted by VoiD:

I think thief works well for dual wield as you say, but dual wield itself seem really, really bad in this game.

I mean, the offhand weapon kinda doesn't do anything, you get to use it to attack IF you want to burn your bonus action on it.

But you can also use a bigger, better weapon, with better feats for it, and then use your bonus action to deal extra damage with item skills/spells doing more attacks, or cast something like hunter's mark, or even apply some poison to your blade instead, so what's even the point?

If the offhand attack didn't cost anything and always went off along with the mainhand there would be a point, since it doesn't I'd much rather have a shield for bonus AC, or use a better 2h weapon, or even leave the hand empty and go with dueling feats instead, you'll probably end up doing more damage.

This is mostly correct but having two attack rolls and therefore two chances to hit can be relevant for damage per round calculations.

[ACS36]

You can change classes as much as you want so just try whatever you feel like and see how it works. Though, that might ruin your immersion of the game.

[Szorrin]

Will it make it better? Yes.
Is it worth it? Imo, no. Dual wielding is just almost always worse than 2h or 1h+shield in 5e.

However, if you like the idea of dual wielding, go for it. It's your character, your game, and it's not like you need to min-max to do well.

[Snake_In_The_Eye]

Originally posted by Toxic Spoon:

Thinking about multiclassing my dual wielding fighter into rogue with thief subclass for extra bonus action. Is it worth it?

kind of a waste, but doable.

Thing is the more the game goes on, the less an extra bonus action is impactful, unless you do specific things.

[Steppenrazor]

i had astarion re-speced as a bard. (seemed more fitting) and for awhile i had him using a short sword/dagger. (though mainly he uses that spell thief bow.)

anyway - i could be wrong/mis-remembering - but - the few times he got into melee - i would attack - and he'd try to hit with both weapons. i could then use his bonus action to do an off hand strike?

[ChaosKhan]

You can multiclass, but if you started out as a fighter, you will probably want to switch attributes, since all the utility a rogue would provide relies on dex. If you intend to remain str based, there is literally no reason to multiclass into a dex class.

[FashionSuckMan]

you should probably go to level 4 in rogue first so that you can get a feat or ability score imporvement