This 100% there is no world where alert isn't top 5 feats lol.

If you really just want to go first you can just suprise them which is better. The only thing about is i dont think it works on most bosses. Well i could be wrong because i cant help not talking to bosses before their evil plan.

Having used it with a Monk I found it very rare that the hit chance was less than 95%, usually because I hadn't taken a potion of hill giant strength!

Hit chance bonus is what makes Tb so op. Because it breaks dice rolls

It's even funnier with elixir of cloud giant strength. +8 to attack and damage rolls. I made astarion into a monk and I didn't even need to put a single point into strength if I didn't want to, because the game provides enough elixirs of hill/cloud giant strength to last pretty much all your long rest cycles, because he became so overpowered that I hardly had TO long rest. As monk with 3 points into rogue for thief I was getting ludicrous amounts of attacks per turn. A single flurry of blows, oh look that boss on tactician lost half its health!

@@Hirotoro4692i hope larian never rebalances this because being allowed to just *_dump_* on a boss by only being one feat deep into a class feels amazing and truly makes you feel like a powerful adventurer

I would be open to raising Alert, at least for non-dexterity characters. I gave it to three of my party in my first honour mode run, and although it's hard to quantify the difference it made, by the end I had almost my whole party going first in combat and generally denying at least a few enemies their turns. That's a fair point about the crossbow expert build. I generally record my video 1-3 weeks ahead of release and as such I do miss out some of the most recent points. As I said during the video, just about every feat does have a niche use, but in all honesty it would make it much more difficult if I was to take every use of a feat into account.

There's some value in knowing you'd likely go first in combat particularly for Assassin rouge

Can you tell me the build? I want to try it

⁠@@barcster2003 Exactly, it’s crucial to go first with an Assassin Rogue, and since the subclass doesn’t get any features that boost it’s initiative like Dread Ambusher does, Alert pretty much becomes a necessary feat for Assassins.

Alert alone lets you win every battle with 3 or less enemies. It's definitely S tier.

Huh, I never knew that! Thanks for sharing.

Heavy armor master is actually good for reducing damage.

@@barcster2003 sure but that's not the part I have an issue with, thats the reason I found about about the weird stat boost in the first place

Thank you for that explanation! I was trying to get Karlach to 22 Strength with ASI+Potion+Heavy Armor Master (had respecced to Paladin) Was wondering why my Strength was capping at 21

This really needs to be fixed. The quick fix larian could do ; would be to give that little plus icon that you click to add strength. Because I think all other feats that use the little plus or minus allows you to use the potion to go over 20 strength

I'm happy to hear that!

Life, War, and Tempest domain clerics are the exception as well. Basically, if you're getting the proficiency as part of a subclass feature, you'll get it even if you multiclass into it instead of starting out with it.

@@common_undead Good to know!

@@common_undead Same with ranger with the urban choice, because it comes to an ability and not the base class.

I used one during my first honour mode run!

I had recorded this video just before or around the time honour mode came out. I would say that for honour mode alert is S tier, I ended up taking it on 3 out of 4 characters, but my team didn't have my high dexterity characters. I haven't actually checked the warlock/paladin multiattack on tactician , but one thing I used to do is forget to actually bind Wyll's weapon at the start of the day! This meant he only got two attacks for the first battle of the day until I bound his weapon.

The Thing about Initiative is, that Dex buffs it. So put high Dex on everyone plus some bonus to initiative here and there and all your team will start early in every combat, even in honour mode. So Alert isnt that good. If it would be harder to get a bonus to initiative, then yes Alert would be a good choice.

@@CasualVeteranGamer Meant 2 attacks, not 2 extra attacks, and didn't take Alert on Astarion given his Gloomstalker/Thief build. Don't use Wyll that much, but did for Ansur, and did bind his Deva Mace. Planning on a Lore Bard for my next playthrough. Am considering a 2 Tempest Cleric/10 Lore build, but being able to twin Haste is a real plus. How did your Bard build perform?

@@alexh2717I usually go 16 Dex, 14 Con on most of my builds, which is good enough for Act 1, but not being surprised, especially in Act 2, is a major advantage.

@@alexh2717 that only works for dex primary builds like rouge. For anything else it won't work into acts 2 and 3, not to mention you've seriously nerfed some classes if you put that much into dex. A paladin shouldn't have that much dex or they are a very sub optimal paladin. But,it's true that for some classes, alert isn't a great feat. I still think for most classes it's S tier though.

Hah, thanks!

I have found that with high dexterity characters alert isn't as necessary, but as I've said to others, I did take it on 3 out of 4 characters during my first honour mode run and I'm sure it made a big difference.

@@CasualVeteranGamer you are right, with high dex or barbarian it isnt really a must have but still strong

Actor is great for my sorcerer/warlock who really wants to be a bard, since he keeps talking his way out of almost every situation

That is a very specific use case at a very late part of the game. I'd hardly feel that it should change it's overall placement, but it means that it has it's use case with that specific set of circumstances.

@@PowerSenpai I'm not arguing that it's the best feat in the game or anything, but the point is that there is a scenario where it's good, which is imo at least better than critical miss tier. There's more reason to take it than most of the things in the tier above, though idk if I'd bump it above C tier. More importantly, it's not about the final placement, it's about the discussion of where it's useful so people know about options like this. It's not a useless feat, just a hyper specific one.

I haven't tested it recently, but in theory it's supposed to work like that, yes.

I'm playing a Moon Druid in my current playthrough and I can confirm it does work that way!

It also breaks the game totally if you go with a throwing build.

​@@CasualVeteranGamer TB works for attack and damage rolls on standard and tactician difficulty and only for attack rolls in honour mode difficulty. It's probably a must for moon druids until level 10, where you can either MC fighter or take "Weapon Master" to get the proficiencies of the weapon attacks of all the elementals. Alternatively, you can use exclusively the fire guy because he uses a scimitar which is the only weapon the druid is proficient in by default (and the summons use YOUR weapon proficiency for attack rolls)

There are some ability checks that use performance in conversations as well. I think it would have been better if I added that it's probable that Actor doesn't need to be taken more than once in a party. Personally I like being able to take a half-feat at level 4 to even out an ability score and get another bonus, but that's just down to preference in the end. During my first honour mode run I will admit that I took Alert on 3 out of 4 characters and really allowed me to make each fight easier. It meant my characters often took turns together, which allowed me to plan and set up combos more easily.

Actor works wonders for my sorcerer/warlock who really wants to be a bard, since he talks his way out of almost every situation he finds himself in.

@@TheOnyxSpy haha sure but that’s a very specific build!

At some point, however I will cover more general things first before moving onto more specific parts of the game.

Since I find myself taking ASI with every character at least once I thought is deserved to be S tier. Perhaps I have placed it a bit higher than it deserves, but it's such a common pick and I want to give it recognition for that. That's a good use for magic initiate cleric since you really want all those levels for multiclassing.

FEETS!

Minthara at S+

I'm pretty sure it's a display glitch, and you actually do have the proficiency

I'll admit the performance expertise isn't so useful, but deception is quite common and is far better than guidance and it stacks with guidance, enhance ability etc. Also it's a half-feat for Charisma, and while we can use the hag's hair, there is only one hag's hair available. I guess I need more practice with polearm master!

I will say that I would only take actor on a single character in a party, one that has an odd number in charisma and I would respec them to not have proficiency in deception or performance. Expertise is very good, by the end game it's a +8 in the relevant skill checks and deception comes up fairly often. Like you said though, performance isn't so common. I love the idea of mage slayer, and perhaps I didn't use the character with it correctly, but when I took it I didn't get many chances to actually use the reaction. I'll try to give it another go.

I agree that perform is good in that regard, however I have a couple of things against the feat. Firstly the action can be learnt from Alfira in the Druid Grove, and secondly minor illusion can do a similar enough job that I don't want to use a feat to be able to perform. With regards to merchants I'm fairly sure fog cloud or darkness can do a similar job in hiding five fingered discounts, as can disguise self.

We've both made Spell Tierlists and the next most asked for tierlist was feats, and so it's the natural progression!

The polearm master feat is bugged rn where the bonus action extra attack doesn’t add any of your damage numbers like it’s supposed to so you have to keep that in mind when taking it over like great weapon master for instance

Polearm master is fine on its own, getting more reaction attacks is good and there is at least one good halberd in the game, although this falls off in act 3 because Balduran's giantslayer is the best weapon in the game and doesn't work with polearm master Adding sentinel doesn't add much because of how fights work in this game. There are two types of fights in the game, fights where you fight one big guy and ones where you fight a lot of small guys. The big guys are almost always large sized and have larger attack radius than you, or have spells or other ranged abilities and don't try to approach you. If there are many enemies pinning one of them every round is of minor importance. There aren't a lot of fights where there's one human-sized melee enemy that you can kite with polearm mastery+sentinel Overall the "combo" is a two feat investment that limits your build and doesn't add much value. It's a gimmic, not one of the best strategies in the game

​@@exantiuse497totally correct

What really makes savage attacker good is the fact that this advantage on damage also applies on each rider that you have on your melee attacks. So if you have a d4 fire damage on the weapon as a base, that gets the effect, if you sneak attack, all of your sneak attack die get the effect, if you divine smite, all of your smite die get the effect. Pair this with the fact that you are attacking multiple times per turn and your damage increase from savage attacker can easily be +8-25, and that's without the hit penalty of GWM.

Doesn't work with Sneak Attack unfortunately :( @@common_undead

You can also get heavy armor proficiency from some of the cleric domains, as the proficiency comes from the subclass and not the class itself. But as you said multiclassing to Fighter or Paladin won't work, in that case you'd need to respec and take them as your first level. This will also affect your saving throw and skill proficiencies which you might not want.

you can just start as a fighter if you intend to multiclass into it

All “ritual” spells cost no spell slots to use outside of combat, but in combat require spell slots

I've been tryin to use the same tiers for each video, but I do understand that Tavern Brawler should be in a tier of its own.

I believe that bringing the main stat of your class up to 18 or 20 is first priority because it's a very strong thing to do, hence the S tier. I would not take an ASI for every feat choice. I don't think picking tavern brawler is a fair choice in your example since it's well known to be one of, if not the strongest feat. Conversely to that I would say that if Dungeon Delver is D tier then it's not right that ASI is only 2 tiers above, especially if we're using an ASI in the main stat of a class i.e. its strongest application. As I said in the video, ASI makes your character stronger, whereas (most) feats give a character more versatility, like the depth vs. breadth idea I mentioned. I personally wouldn't consider the feats at C or lower worth taking most of the time for someone who is trying to play without RP in mind, B worth taking for certain classes/builds and most of the time I would take A or S tier feats. Putting ASI at B is too much of a disservice to it in my opinion since it's a choice I take on all characters at some point. I cannot say the same for any other feat and that's why I mention opportunity cost for the lower tiered feats. My guess is that most people take an ASI at least once on their characters, but without data from larian I obviously cannot back that claim with any evidence. If that's the case then I don't see why it shouldn't be S tier, but we'll have to wait and see if Larian will release that data to be sure. In the end I am agreeing with the fact that most feats are not worth taking over an ASI. We usually have 3 feats per character, although multiclassing can lower that number, so there will be at least one time that an ASI isn't taken, sometimes 2. If I want my character to be better at what they already do, there isn't much better than an ASI, and that's why most of the so called "half-feats" are also ranked highly because they can make an ability score be even as well.

What’s the difference? Combo worked well when I tried it a month ago, people would step closer and get hit with the reaction and then stopped out of range and I could back up on the next turn. Multiple enemies could get around it tho

@@muscularclassrepresentativ5663 BG3's movement system is not reliable enough to quarantee your positioning will work as you want it to.

I don't see the point in going MI warlock when you could be taking a two level dip into warlock for agonizing blast + repelling blast/devil sight and hex a lot more frequently than just once/long rest.

@@common_undead dont encurage it either unless you need lvl 6 spell slots. just mentioning it because i dont feel it's on the same tier as other MI's