The best Wizard feats in Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3) will help you sling spells like a cowboy, but one who is magical. The Wizard is one hell of a class in Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s got some amazing versatility in how you can specialize your build and create a powerful character.
Best Wizard Feats in BG3
The best Wizard feats in BG3 basically help you live out that Wizard dream. The class is well-loved for its ability to become a Necromancer and is often used in multi-classing setups. As you’re leveling up your Wizard, you’ll have to take feats into consideration. These can help you in specializing your build quite a bit. In this guide, we’ll be taking a look at five of the best feats to consider while leveling your Wizard in BG3.
10) Dungeon Delver
Dungeon Delver is a skill at least one of your party members should have. It grants advantage on Perception Checks made to see hidden things and on saving throws made to avoid or resist traps. It also grants resistance to the damage dealt by traps as well. It’s just a useful one for exploring.
9) Alert
A +5 to your initiative rolls means you’ll nearly always be one of the first up in any given fight, and when you’re playing a Wizard with the spell fireball, which is the only spell most Wizards know, that’s all you really need to end a fight before it even starts.
8) Ritual Caster
More spells are essential for that true Wizard experience in BG3. Ritual Caster lets you pick up a couple of extra spells, and you can cast them for free, too. It’s just a nice little buff to your general usability, and we recommend Speak with Animals and Find Familiar, but you can do what you want.
7) Lucky
Nothing feels as bad as failing on an important attack, ability roll, or saving throw. Thankfully, Lucky gives you three luck points to use to give yourself advantage on those things every long rest. You can also use these to make enemies reroll their attack rolls, which can help keep your squishy Wizard self alive.
6) Spell Sniper
Spell Sniper not only lets you learn another cantrip, which is nice but also lets you roll critical hits with spells at 19, not just 20, effectively doubling your critical hit chance. That’s the kind of power boost that’s worth shouting about, and that’s why we’re doing so.
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5) Tough
The Wizard class in BG3 is all about casting lots of powerful spells. This often leaves them quite vulnerable and squishy. Taking a feat like Tough can help beef them up and give them better survivability in combat. The extra two max hit points for every level really add up over time and give Wizards the ability to take a hit in battle.
4) Elemental Adept
Elemental Adept is one of the best feats for the Wizard in BG3. No doubt you’ll have a wide range of spells at your disposal. If you wanted to specialize, though, you should take this feat and then focus on the elemental type you chose for your spells. Having spells that can ignore resistance to the type of damage you choose is huge. It means you’ll be effective against pretty much any enemy with that type of spell. You also won’t be able to roll a one when casting with that type of spell, which means no critical failures.
3) Magic Initiate
Magic Initiate is a feat that can add a really nice extra layer of spells for the Wizard to work with. The class loves casting, and this feat gives you a wider range of Cantrips and Spells from another class to make use of. Just be aware that these spells will be limited to level 1 and tied to a certain stat like Wisdom for the Druid spells. Wizards scale with Intelligence, so unless you have a decent secondary stat like Wisdom, you won’t be able to make good use of these.
2) Resilient
With Resilient, you gain a point in the Ability of your choice, which is always beneficial. The big thing with this trait, though, is the +1 that you get to that Ability’s saving throw. This can be a huge benefit for the Wizard to keep you up and running and in the fight.
1) War Caster
Similar to Resilient, this feat is all about saving throws. This time, however, it’s focused on saving throws to allow you to maintain concentration on your spells. Most of your powerful spells are tied to concentration. This feat allows you to keep those spells going for longer without being interrupted. If you break concentration, you lose out on the spell slot you spent on casting that spell. So it’s quite a big boost to damage or utility output to be able to keep your concentration going. You also get a nice little bonus of a reaction cast of Shocking Grasp when an enemy moves out of melee range from you.
And those are the best Wizard feats in Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3).
Baldur’s Gate 3 is available on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.
The above article was updated on 3/25/24 by Jason Coles to add additional information about Baldur’s Gate 3.
