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Oh, true! That’s a good call!

@@ccoopplay1 I’m so glad you loved it!! I got a whole playlist if you didn’t see, and a new one is coming out tomorrow! :D

@comradewarners awesome! Already half way through the next one haha

@@maegn I would say yes because it says, “you can increase the spell's range by 60 feet” to me that means while you’re using the spell its range is increased by 60 feet, so that’s awesome!

@@maegn no problem! I’m glad you liked the video! :D

@ Oh wow! I didn’t realize it was lore accurate! I just felt the typical cleric abilities felt like such an odd choice especially with all the darkness synergy in all the gear you get. I’m so glad you liked it and I hope you enjoy your playthrough! 😎😁

@@Keithmtaylor1 Ahhh, you’re correct! I didn’t notice that in dndbeyond. I would say 100% dndbeyond made a mistake. There is zero wording in the ability that requires an action, it just happens after you cast an illusion or enchantment spell that consumes a spell slot. Another reason I know this is the case is the bard doesn’t have access to hex or any bonus action enchantment or illusion spell anyway at the level this ability becomes available.

@@comradewarners I knew you were going to say that. I just had a lvl 6 bard with a dc 16 wis absolutely wreck a lvl 10 mini boss with this and silvery barbs. The boss has a +9 to wis saves too! No sure how to balance this other than making them arbitrarily immune to charm and frighten. That just doesn't seem fun or fair tho.

@ oh wow!! I didn’t even think about Silvery Barbs!! LOL

@@unseencrowyomare4143 is that the version in the new rules? It’s a bit more balanced now I would say! :D

@comradewarners old version

@ yeah, luckily the new Lucky Feat just gives advantage or disadvantage. It’s not a reroll if that makes sense.

That is so cool! I bet it looks awesome! I’m excited to play again tomorrow night!

@ see ya there!

That’s awesome!! It’s a very fun one!

@@DidItMySelfProdu I actually go into this in the build, this is very true, but it’s still only 25% of monsters. Obviously a higher percentage of that is higher CR monsters, but for example the Ancient Green Dragon that they already revealed for the 2025 MM is only immune to the poison condition. Also there is tons of other stuff to consider that make the Glamour Bard sooo good at high level. 😁

@@jpperron1835 oh man! I hope you’re doing okay! 🤒 That would be really cool! Especially because you can make a spell a bonus action, you could do some crazy stuff! In one of my campaigns I play in a player is playing a Thrikreen Bard and he’s been loving it!

@ yeah just a simple procedure but still had to stay a while so they could do all the things yknow

@ that’s good to hear! I’m glad the procedure went well!

@ thanks man

I have no reason this made me think this other than glamour bard

@@jpperron1835 This for sure has those vibes! 🤣😎

@@mjust7119 you’re right! I feel like this could be really good, but more in a build specifically centered around it. If you don’t plan on going pact of the blade and don’t plan on getting the extra attack and instead taking True Strike this could be amazing. My problem is that it only effects 1 target even though you can have it effect enemies on other turns. That create bonfire build sounds awesome! I think also since this one is based off of my 2014 character updated I was more trying to recreate them instead of coming up with something new. Did you see Treantmonk’s recent Searing Smite build? It makes great use of this! You should check it out if you haven’t!

@comradewarners yup (to Treantmonk's build), that's when I realized the rewording haha. Yeah currently I'm thinking agonizing true strike, whip, warcaster, you don't even really NEED a spell like bonfire, but between bonfire and warcaster it's almost a guarantee off turn damage. Telekenetic to try and get two enemies in bonfire/ sickening radiance and in your opportunity range. My dm is allowing Grasp of Hadar with true strike but probably can't count on that. If not you can still probably build it with Grasp on Eldritch Blast, or agonizing thorn whip (you'll need to take tome for bonfire anyway) Basically it's a lock down tank, saving spell slots to heal (or armor of agathys in a pinch)

@ That’s super cool!! Not many caster Tanks out there so that’s filling a pretty unique niche! 🤯😁

@comradewarners you can also Agonizing Bonfire which is wild. I couldn't really find any more cantrips that were that cool, but I just love that one.

@ Create Bonfire is a really fun cantrip, especially with all the new ways to move creatures now with the new rules! :D

@@xiongray I agree!! One of my favorite things is when I have many options to chose from depending on the situation!

@@bponcho414that is a good point, True Strike for sure wouldn’t hurt! this build is assuming your party is gonna bring the hurt, and with enemies wasting their actions, and getting so many penalties to hit, I agree that this is more of a damage negation build for sure!

@@evansmith2832 That’s true, so I feel like using Dissonant Whispers and the Approach Command is a good way to counteract this problem since they will come back to me, also luckily at later levels we get an insane speed as well.

@@ariashkenazi9211 good to know! So would only work on attack rolls. 😎😁

While that's true on a strict reading of the "can't attack charmer or target charmer with magical abilities or damaging effects" part of the rule, I would argue that if the charmed creature has the option to cast the spell in a way that avoids hitting the charmer, it would reasonably take that option; and if collateral damage is unavoidable, might even take a completely different course of action.

@@Monch05 It's not a strict reading of the rules, those are just the rules. A GM can always change those rules if they want, but any who do should be aware that such a change makes charm significantly stronger against enemies with area of effect attacks.

@@ariashkenazi9211 I get your point, but at the same time, there's too many scenarios and possibilities to acccount for in 'what if' bullet points. I would actually argue that Charmed is pretty weak on its own, and is very commonly resisted, allowing for the scenario where "I don't need to target you to damage you on purpose" just makes it even weaker and borderline irrelevant. I personally think that if a rule has a relatively simple goal (no harming the charmer on purpose), instead of looking for loopholes in the non-exhaustive text to be able to ignore it, we should make *rulings* to try to follow it, otherwise it would require a much specific and rules-heavy game than 5e and 5.24e

@Monch05 it's not a loophole, you can check sanctuary which has a similar effect and they explicitly mention that area effect spells aren't included in the spell's protection. I'm mentioning this because build videos can't factor in who has house ruled certain features and who hasn't. There will be tables where charm doesn't work against fireball because that's what the rules say. Knowing that ahead of time is good for players trying to use this build.

@@ryanweaver3348 you can take Hex with shadow-touched, but also they didn’t make half of Warlocks features revolve around Hex. Also Fey-Touched and Shadow Touched are included in the new players handbook. If the designers think that Hunter’s Mark is as good as a feature as they think it is, then it is just odd to me that they make it available to any character as PART of a feat. Imagine if you could pick up rage with a feat, that would be so odd, right? It’s annoying since it should be one of their only unique things, but it also is annoying because it shows that the designers know it’s really not THAT good of a feature. This is all just my opinion though.

​@@comradewarnersI did have to double-check; you take Hex with Fey Touched, just like Hunter's Mark. Nice that FT is in the 2024PHB. Half is an exaggeration, but goes go to show that, while other beings may be able to use it, Rangers are the master of its application. While their benefits are kinda crappy, and just making it concentration free would have been better, you cannot say that other classes cannot do as much with the spell as the ranger can. As for Rage, I am actually surprised that they don't have a baby feat for it: Ferocity: 1-2 times per day, gain +1 damage, -1AC, + temp hp equal to level, for up to 10 minutes, same duration and restrictions as Rage (except can wear armor). All that said, Ranger isn't a new class like they said; this is just the Tasha's ranger, with a couple more uses of hunter's mark. It was a lazy take that they could have done better.

​and I agree, at 13, making it concentration free is low hanging fruit; if a designer is worried about damage stacking at 13, they missed a whole lot of other options that stack things even earlier. 13 would have been fine for removing concentration, and I even think switching targets after downing one could be a free action at this point. Could also have done +d8 at 13, +d10 at 17, and +d12 at 20.

That is very true! I feel like this would especially be good if your table does longer combats(my table does!) mostly just because of bonus action bloat. (I would LOVE a subclass with BONUS Action Surge! lol) once you get everything set up you would be doing so much fearing and charming every single round it would be insane! 😁

Totally understandable! The thing is, every time you use Command with Mantle of Majesty it doesn’t use a spell slot. So you’re only using 1 slot per round. 😁 Also as you get into higher level encounters since a lot of the spells being used don’t actually scale, you will be using your second level spell slots even at level 20. Plus we also eventually pick up Warlock levels and they give you an extra 2 slots! I will say my DPR calculations are usually meant to show you what you are going to do in an encounter that you have all or most of your resources, and are planning to use most of them in this 1 encounter. This is mostly because my table usually does only 1 or 2 encounter days, and when polled a lot of viewers said their tables are similar. So I would say with most of my builds it’s good to keep that in mind. If your table does a ton of encounters in an adventuring day I would advise to switch to using cantrips for sure a bit more often! 😎😁

@@glitchking666 Thank you so much! 😁 Yeah, a sorcerer Multiclass would for sure work well with this build, especially if you aren’t gonna take it to super high levels. This is probably out of all of my recent builds, one that I might actually try to play at a table sometime! 😎🤘

@comradewarners I definitely want to try this build as well, I usually look at videos like this for inspiration for a build or if I'm stuck on something, I've never played a build from TH-cam before, but this feels like you're doing so much in a turn and actually making a difference. I see this build getting used a lot especially for high level one shots! Keep up the good work

@@glitchking666 Thank you so much! I really do appreciate it! 😁

@@mjust7119 ooooo, that is a juicy question! I would say based on the wording you can 100% do a second attack after using True Strike because it meets the requirement of being an attack with a weapon, but I feel like the second attack would need to be a regular weapon attack, but just with that same weapon. The wording isn’t clear enough though so I could see a DM letting you double True Strike! (I would allow it) the fact that you normally can only hit 1 target with True Strike makes this a fun interaction especially because you have to set up having two targets next to each other, but rules as intended I don’t think the designers would like this! 😂

Pretty much exactly what I settled on. You probably should just do a normal attack but if I'm a wisdom build, cmon, it's just 1d6 lol gimme it. Also I love the heavy crossbow to push enemies into place to then hit a second.

I understand what you’re saying, but there is no rule that states you share the same space as a grappled creature. You’re in a separate 5 foot cube as them. Rules as written as long as you don’t move into the spell effect, there is no reason you would take the damage as well. To give an example, if you do a melee attack to creature in moonbeam, but you’re staying on the edge, do you think a DM would make you take the damage as well? All you need to do is drag them through the spike growth while staying on the edge yourself.

Dual wielder grants an extra attack not tied to nick, but requires a light weapon and uses your bonus action. See Enhanced Dual Wielding paragraph

What they said!^^ 😁

Good to know!! I love lore!! 😁