Best Feats For Warlocks In BG3

Key Takeaways

• Feats like Durable and Resilient are great for increasing a Warlock’s survivability in battle.
• The Actor feat can boost a Warlock’s Charisma-based skills for better persuasion and deception.
• Consider feats like Great Weapon Master for increased damage output as a Blade Warlock.

Ever wanted to sell your soul to a shady deity in exchange for power? Well, you can do just that if you play as a warlock in Baldur’s Gate 3. This iconic class is surprisingly versatile and provides many options to consider.

One critical part of building a character is the feats you give them. These can impact the game a lot and guide your builds. Warlocks are of two worlds, as they can function perfectly as front-line fighters via the Pact of the Blade or go full caster instead. Regardless, here are the best feats for Warlocks.

Updated on November 30, 2024 by Britt Poteet: Baldur’s Gate 3 has received many patches and updates since the game’s launch. This article has been updated to reflect the most current information available so you can choose the best feats for your Warlock character.

13 Durable

Warlocks are powerful spellcasters, but they’re a bit squishy. The Durable feat increases Constitution, making your Warlock stay up longer in battle.

Warlocks can also heal fully every Short Rest, fully regaining their Hit Points. This mixes well with their pact feature, where they also regain all their spell slots on a Short Rest. Your Warlock is back up to speed much quicker than other party members.

12 Resilient: Constitution

Warlocks can always use more Constitution, and the Resilient feat can give you that. You can choose one skill to increase. The feat also gives you proficiency in any saving throws related to that skill.

This +1 addition to Constitution is a lifesaver when it comes to saving throws during combat. This feat helps save your spell slots and keep you upright in the heat of battle.

11 Actor

Warlocks are one of the many Charisma-based spellcasters in Baldur’s Gate. That means that they are perfect for the role of party face. You can easily persuade or deceive people to further your goals as a warlock. Two skills, Persuasion and Deception, are crucial if you want to get out of every situation. Bards aren’t the only ones with a silver tongue, after all.

Luckily, the Actor feat gives you proficiency in both skills and increases your Charisma by one. This means you can spend the proficiencies you get at the beginning of the game on other, more niche skills like History, Investigation, and Religion. This feat is tailor-made for warlocks who aim to take the lead in conversations.

10 Moderately Armoured

One cool thing about the Warlock class is that it’s decent at taking hits, especially compared to the Wizard or Sorcerer. In fact, Warlocks begin the game with a Light Armour proficiency. However, with this feat, you can level that up and gain Medium Armout proficiency and shield proficiency.

This immediately increases the potential Armour Class of a Warlock by a respectable amount. You can easily grab a shield and put on a Half Plate Armour to become way more tanky. This feat works for both Warlocks, who focus on spellcasting, and the front liners, which is always lovely.

9 Ritual Caster

Ritual Caster is one of those feats that you should only consider if your Warlock is the primary spellcaster of the party, without a Wizard or Sorcerer to take on the role. With this feat, you learn two Ritual Spells from a small list. All of these spells are utility spells, such as Disguise Self and Speak With Dead.

These spells can free up so many item slots occupied by necklaces or rings that grant you said spells. You can cast these without expending a Spell Slot as long as you’re outside combat. This is just such a quality-of-life feat that it’s hard not to recommend it to Warlocks, who mainly function without relying on combat feats.

8 Skilled

This is yet another feat that’s incredibly easy to recommend. You gain proficiency in three skills of your choice, and that’s it. While this feat is good on any character, Warlocks can take it with the least amount of buyer’s remorse. The class doesn’t rely on feats for the most part and can act as the party face, meaning Skilled is an excellent pick for it.

Skills like Sleight of Hand, Stealth, Investigation, and Perception are excellent on all characters and can quickly turn your Warlock into what’s called a skill monkey. You can also round out any Charisma-based skills to make your Warlock an expert negotiator.

7 War Caster

War Caster gives your warlock a spellcasting advantage. Your saving throws have a better chance of success with this feat, allowing you to maintain concentration for longer. This means your powerful spells are less likely to drop suddenly, so you don’t waste your spell slots.

You also gain the cantrip Shocking Grasp, allowing you to react to enemies as they move away from you and deal lightning damage.

6 Charger

Around half of the feats on this list are here purely for the Pact of the Blade Warlocks among you. Charger, for example, gives you two significant actions that make you more dangerous on the battlefield. The charge action can be excellent at closing gaps if needed, and the shove action can be an instant kill in fights near chasms.

Only take this if you’re a Pact of the Blade warlock and want to play a more melee-focused character. Luckily, you don’t need to invest much into your Dexterity or Strength either, as your Pact Weapon uses your Charisma modifier for attack and damage rolls.

5 Defensive Duelist

Defensive Duelist is another feat that’s perfect for melee Warlocks. If you’re wielding a Finesse Weapon, you can use your reaction to increase your Armour Class by your proficiency bonus. This feat improves as your level increases and, with it, your proficiency bonus, so don’t rush to it at your first opportunity.

The great thing is that Warlocks don’t use their reactions all that often. They don’t get access to the fantastic defensive spell Shield, and Defensive Duelist is an excellent proxy. Sure, you’re replacing reaction spells like Counterspell and Hellish Rebuke, but you can pick and choose what to use your reaction on according to the situation.

4 Great Weapon Master

This one is maybe the most out-of-place feat on this list. After all, Two-Handed weapons are made for Barbarians and Fighters, right? Well, if you’re a Blade Warlock, you get proficiency with your pact weapon, which can be anything you want.

Once you make sure you can use the bigger weapons in the game, Great Weapon Master immediately becomes a top-tier feat. It lets you attack more times and hit significantly harder. What more could a melee character want? Even Karlach will be impressed by your damage output with this feat.

3 Sentinel

Yet another feat that’s a staple of melee classes is Sentinel. This feat allows you to stop enemies from moving, punish them for bullying your allies, and even gain an advantage on Opportunity Attacks. Since a Blade Warlock functions almost like a fighter, you’re so encouraged to take this feat.

Sentinel, while not a damage buff like Great Weapon Master, is an immensely powerful feat. Its area control alone can trivialize certain encounters. If you’re the min-maxed type, combine this with Polearm Master and use a larger weapon to lock enemies in their place. You can even spam Eldritch Blast as they struggle to leave your reach.

2 Mage Slayer

Just because you’re a spellcaster doesn’t mean you have to get along with others. With this feat, you get many benefits as long as you’re within melee range of a spellcaster. You have advantage on saving throws against their spells, can use a reaction to smack them after they cast a spell, and even have disadvantage on their Concentration saving throws when you hit them.

This is amazing for melee Warlocks that rush in and disrupt the enemy formation. You can even combine this with Sentinel to prevent the casters from leaving your vicinity. This feat is what you want if you aim to become a caster hater.

1 Spell Sniper

While a melee Warlock or a utility Warlock can be pretty fun, their primary purpose is to blast damaging spells. Chief among those spells is obviously Eldritch Blast. This endlessly spamable Cantrip scales with your level, meaning it never gets overshadowed. It also reaches absurd damages with the Eldritch Invocation named Agonizing Blast.

With spell sniper, your Critical Hit range with spells is reduced by one, making Eldritch Blast twice as deadly. If you stack items that do similar things and position yourself carefully, you can turn into an Eldritch Blast turret that rains death on your enemies. It appears that selling your soul for a Cantrip might be worth it after all.