head to head
vs
Baldur's Gate: Dark AlliancevsDark Deception
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Dark Deception leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Baldur's Gate: Dark AllianceDark Deception
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 4
Dark Deception leans harder on variance: Pursuer positions create unknown moment-to-moment danger
Optimization6 vs 5
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance leans harder on optimization: Feat and skill selection have clear dominant paths for each class
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.