Blind fight feat

[kirill-busidow]

How many gaze attackers are their? Does it protects against gaze-attacks (nabasu, etc)?
How useful is this feat?

[darkholyPL]

You will probably use the part of it, where it allows you to reroll on a miss due to concelment, rather than gaze attacks. I'm not even sure if that part of it isn't bugged, I could swear I got hit by gaze attacks even on chars that have blind fight.

[Choco]

I don't find it useful at all given all the layers of buffs you can stack to boost your save rolls to an absurd amount and ignore most negative effects. I'm playing on Core though, I don't know if Hard and Unfair are a completely different story.

[wendigo211]

It's not protecting against gaze attacks like it did in Kingmaker. You have to use Death Ward for the Nabasu. That said, gaze attacks aren't as bad as Kingmaker. The Nabasu are probably the worst. There are some Succubus archers that attack from stealth/invisibility in the Midnight Fane and the Act 4 city, but you need the greater version of the feat to keep them from getting sneak attacks. Unless you're going Trickster and taking the trick that lets your party members take feats without prerequisites, you can safely skip it.

I am playing on unfair and, while most of my party members have basic Blind Fight, it's not really useful.

The worst effects in this game are the stun/daze effects, and the stuff that's supposed to protect you from it doesn't work half of the time. E.g. in the Baphomet fight, he uses Overwhelming Presence. It has the emotion and negative emotion tags, so Joyful Rapture should remove the effect, except it doesn't. Shield of Law is supposed to grant immunity to mind effects, except it doesn't work against most mind effects. That said, I've checked the logs and Mind Blank isn't giving you the +8 to saves against mind effects either.

[Bloodartist]

I dont think this protects against gaze attacks, since nothing says your character closes their eyes...

It does, I think, help when you are blinded by some ability?

[seeker1]

It's most useful because it negates (not completely, but some) the effects of concealment, and I have noticed the further into the game you get, the more concealed enemies you seem to be facing, notably demon archers. I have been getting weird mixed results from things like glitterdust and faerie fire which are supposed to de-conceal these creatures... I almost sometimes wonder whether those are working as intended.

[wendigo211]

Use true seeing, only a few incorporeal enemies have real concealment. For illusion magic based concealment, true seeing works. It also lets you bypass mirror image. +3 Finnean is also a Heartseeking weapon that ignores concealment.

[wendigo211]

Originally posted by Bloodartist:

I dont think this protects against gaze attacks, since nothing says your character closes their eyes...

It does, I think, help when you are blinded by some ability?

Read the last line of the feat description:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2639577126

[Trolleur_Durden]

Blind fight does indeed protects against gaze attacks, and it works against nabasu's gaze (the "aura"). However, it's not that useful because a nabasu can still give you negative levels with his other abilites, so you will want to have Death ward up, and if you have Death ward, his gaze attack does nothing.

Also, as someone else pointed it out, True seeing is the best option in this game, because a lot of enemies love to use displacement/mirror image.