Defensive Duelist |
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Effect |
| When you are attacked with a melee attack, you use your reaction to increase your Armour Class by 2, potentially causing the attack to miss. Must be wielding a Finesse weapon. |
Requirements |
| All Classes Lvl 4 |
Defensive Duelist 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.
Defensive Duelist Information
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When you are attacked with a melee attack, you use your reaction to increase your Armour Class by 2, potentially causing the attack to miss. Must be wielding a Finesse weapon with which you are proficient.
How to unlock Defensive Duelist
You'll need to fulfill the following requirements to unlock Defensive Duelist
- All Classes Lvl 4
Defensive Duelist Tips & Notes
- Notes & Tips go here
- Finesse weapons will use either DEX or STR, whichever is more convenient. However they tend to deal slightly less damage than their non-Finesse counterparts to compensate.
AnonymousIf it works as the PHB version does, ...
Source: Player's Handbook
Prerequisite: Dexterity 13 or higher
When you are wielding a finesse weapon with which you are proficient and another creature hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to add your proficiency bonus to your AC for that attack, potentially causing the attack to miss you.
- Anonymous
It works only with finesse weapons!
You should add this information.
- Anonymous
does this even work on patch 4 (I think it used to be permanen +2 AC which was really good)? It now doesn't seem to increase my AC, as far as I understand it, the AC bonus should be applied momentarily for the single attack so we wouldn't know if it works unless we do a controlled probability test
- Anonymous
Does that mean that you can do it with any type of weapon and not just finesse?
- Anonymous
Reaction increases AC by 2 when you are the target of a melee attack.
- Anonymous
This is amazing for dagger wizards for some extra defence, +3 AC at level5 is a very good reaction to have
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