Is arcane rogue bad or just me?

[Terror]

Feels like most spells are pointless and you end up doing sneak>sneak attack anyway to be effective

[Erikkustrife]

hahaha oh man. Listen infinite casts of minor illison is so op you can walk through every single combat in the game with it.

[女王 [Queen]]

Originally posted by MIST:

Feels like most spells are pointless and you end up doing sneak>sneak attack anyway to be effective

Ima tell you this, every class has a way to be busted beyond relief. Its DnD accurate in that sense and its great

[Erikkustrife]

I guess i should elbaorate on that.

While some people do like actually fighting in combat this is the third larion game where you can just keep one person out of combat in stealth throwing explosives to kill everything whilst you party members sit afk.

And if you dont even want to enter combat just cast minor illusion to gather all the enemys ontop of explosives.

[Nomad]

Minor illusion is insane. Sorcerer is absolutely cracked because of just how effective it is at grouping enemies up for 1 giant fireball.

[RPGesus]

In my experience playing DnD 5E at the tabletop, the Arcane Trickster is probably the weakest subclass option for the Rogue in BG3. Like you said, a rogue's best move usually is to land sneak attacks.

What can help make your arcane trickster a bit better:
1) Avoid single target damage spells as sneak attack should be your primary single target damage.
2) Pick AoE, buffs/debuffs, protective magic, and utility spells. Shield is nice for avoiding the odd hit. Friends as a cantrip is super helpful.
3) Arcane trickster makes for good multiclassing into wizard.
4) Remember that your rogue is a rogue first and that the magic is there to supplement the rogue's package.

[Iconoclast]

Larian pointlessly nerfed Mage Hand so yes, it's useless compared to the real 5e rules.

[Erikkustrife]

Originally posted by Iconoclast:

Larian pointlessly nerfed Mage Hand so yes, it's useless compared to the real 5e rules.

Again its probably the strongest class due to infinite amount of uses of minor illusion the only spell you need in the game. Just dont use it to try to bash heads in. Use it to sneak around outside of combat setting up 1 shot kills for every encounter.

[Dailao]

Originally posted by Erikkustrife:

Originally posted by Iconoclast:

Larian pointlessly nerfed Mage Hand so yes, it's useless compared to the real 5e rules.

Again its probably the strongest class due to infinite amount of uses of minor illusion the only spell you need in the game. Just dont use it to try to bash heads in. Use it to sneak around outside of combat setting up 1 shot kills for every encounter.

To be honest that sounds more like creative use of spells and has nothing to do with the rogue. You can get minor illusion in other ways. So the point still stands, as a -rogue-, is it weaker or not doing rogue things.

[Erikkustrife]

Originally posted by Dailao:

Originally posted by Erikkustrife:

Again its probably the strongest class due to infinite amount of uses of minor illusion the only spell you need in the game. Just dont use it to try to bash heads in. Use it to sneak around outside of combat setting up 1 shot kills for every encounter.

To be honest that sounds more like creative use of spells and has nothing to do with the rogue. You can get minor illusion in other ways. So the point still stands, as a -rogue-, is it weaker or not doing rogue things.

but rogue gets infinite casts of it :D