Great Weapon Master |
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| When you land a Critical Hit or kill a target with a melee weapon attack, you can make another melee weapon attack as a bonus action that turn. Attacks with Heavy melee weapons you are Proficient with, can deal an additional 10 damage at the cost of a -5 Attack Roll penalty. (You can toggle this on and off.) |
Great Weapon Master is a Feats in Baldur's Gate 3. Feats are special talents or expertises that provide special capabilities to characters. At certain levels, your character will get to choose between an Ability Score Improvement Feature or a Feat.
Great Weapon Master Information
- When you land a Critical Hit or kill a target with a melee weapon attack, you can make another melee weapon attack as a bonus action that turn.
- Attacks with Heavy melee weapons you are Proficient with, can deal an additional 10 damage at the cost of a -5 Attack Roll penalty. (You can toggle this on and off.)
- Class Feature
How to unlock Great Weapon Master
You'll need to fulfill the following requirements to unlock Great Weapon Master
- All Classes at Level 4
Great Weapon Master Tips & Notes
- This feature can be toggle on or off for each attack, so you can use it when you have Advantage for best results.
- This feat does not give an action but allows you to do an extra attack as a Bonus Action.
- When you land a critical hit or kill a target with ANY melee weapon attack, you can make another melee weapon attack as a bonus action on that turn.
- It's important to try and make the most out of each of your turns, trying to use your action, bonus action, movement, everything that you can possibly use if you need it. And this is a great way to give melee characters something to do with their bonus action if they don't have anything else.
- To negate the attack roll penalty, consider getting weapons that provide +X Weapons, Proficiency Bonus, Bless, or multiclass War Domain.
- All Heavy Weapons in Baldur's Gate 3 include all Glaives, Greataxes, Greatswords, Longswords, Halberds, Mauls, and Pikes.
- This feat only works with Heavy Melee, the Longbows and Heavy Crossbows will not gain anything by using this feat.
- Note that if you kill an enemy with Divine Smite's Radiant Damage, the Bonus Attack will not trigger.
- Applies to Versatile weapons when they are wielded as two-handed.
Very good at barbarian, because he have advantage on every attack.
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Tried with Sword'n'Shield and the extra attack from crits or kills does NOT proc.
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Which is better for a Barbarian build: GWM or Tavern Brawler?
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Does QS count as 2h for the purpose of GWM bonus if you use it with another weapon like a dagger?
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To be clear does the extra melee attack proc with ANY weapon attack (like short sword)?
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Using a versitile spear with this feat and it is procing the extra attack. I hope this isn't a bug because its an insanely good feat that allows shield users to have damage stacking duelist and GWM
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Can this proc off itself? In other words, if you crit with the extra attack, does it grant you another attack?
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Does this work with Cull the Weak illithoid power to get an extra attack?
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Is working with versatile two handed weapons can confirm with a trident equipped
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Could the crit effect trigger from an attack of opportunity? Thus giving me an extra action once it's my turn?
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Hi. Trying to plan out my build to start, so don't even have a level 4 character to test this out... can the extra attack activate off of a thrown weapon? Intuitively I would think yes since a thrown spear is still a "melee weapon attack", just a ranged one. But if it did work I'd think there'd be more buzz around combining this with Eldritch Knight?
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Can someone please look into if this stacks with an Adamantite weapon? If it hits, the weapon should be critting, and if its critting, doesnt that keep up the amount of attacks?
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Getting one more hit after a crit or kill is great and oddly enough makes it worth while to go for even if you have no interest in two handed weapons.
Personally the two handed passive you can turn on and off doesn't often seem worth it to me, since you become quiet a bit less likely to hit anything. There might be some set up where the downside becomes almost none maybe.
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what are you guys using to negate the attack bonus penalty? both in items and spells. ill be playing with my firends as soon as we finish the story and i want to be a monster
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What is a heavy melee weapon? Is that just 2h melee weapons?
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Even if it was working as intended, this feat is extremely over estimated by people. You are much better off picking ability improvement at level 4 and sentinel at level 8 if you are playing melee. I would strongly recommend not picking this if you are not familiar with 5th Ed.
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Does the +10 damage stack with the damage dealt from tenacity on a miss?
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It does not work with heavy ranged weapons if you were wondering.
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Has anyone seen if the extra attack works if you are not using a 2hander? Im curious if the tooltip is poorly written and it means that with a 2hander you get the damage bonus, with a 1hander or dual wield you get the extra attack.
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Can comfirm ( to my knowledge) that the extra attack as a bonus action does not work currently. I assume, simular to attacking with an offhand weapon while duelweilding, an icon appears on your hotbar that lets you attack from the feat. Witchbolt also works this way, but no such icon appears. You also can't just attack normally after killing an enemy, still requires your action. If someone figures out how to get it working, would love to know, but seems broken right now.
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Creature? Does the extra attack not work with killing humanoids?
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does it work with Quarterstaffs ?
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