i know this is an older vid but warlocks also get spirit shroud too so you could forego the cleric levels for more hexblade levels (unless you wanna do the push back). i know that your full caster slots won't go up with adding warlock levels but meh, something to think about.
With the push tactics you can put all hits on one target, push it in the air, and then watch him fall for an extra 1d6 dmg for every 10y you pushed him :D You can imagine it as a big ol' giant wondering why the small cobold is running under his feet..... and then get blasted into orbit!!
Great minds think alike. I have a blue scaled kobold Draconic Sorc/tempest cleric that is convinced he's a Blue dragon, but someone or something messed with him while he was inside his egg. My DM let me reflavor Shocking grasp as a small breath weapon, have so much fun with him
@@jakobchaney6819 Treantmonk's build was Tempest Cleric/Scribes Wizard, and in the video he specifically talked about how Tempest/Storm doesn't really make much sense.
Sage advice answered the question about sunlight sensitivity talking about wildshaped druids still suffer from the penalty "unless the beast form lacks sight. Sunlight Sensitivity requires sight". So the upshot is that no matter how you can see, if you're using your eyes you have the penalty, but if you're not using your eyes, you don't. So it appears the blindfold+blindsight is legit per sage advice.
@@VivianAckers why going above fighter 8 tbh? yes, third weapon attack, but if you're mixing in casting with weapon attacks that should be less of a concern. I could see fighter 5/ tempest cleric x or fighter 6/tempest cleric 2/ fighter 2 Rune knight and eldritch knight both have good options that add to Thor's abilities. Rune knight can even try to get booming blade and use it alongside cloud rune.
I'm with you on the interpretation that blind-fighting would eliminate the disadvantage on perception and attack rolls in direct sunlight(within the first 10'). Thematically, I would say, a deep hooded cloak and blindfold during such times would be really cool!
Not to mention the idea of a partial dragon resistant to fire would be harmed by sunlight on its skin. Lol! Kobolds are supposed top be subterranean creatures, that just tells me their eyes aren’t used to bright light. As a DM, I’d totally let a kobold lose disadvantage if they blindfight, especially with a hood, as in your idea.
@@clo8076 At our table while you'd be welcome to avoid the penalty by doing this, it literally means you can't see enemies, terrain, etc greater than 10' away and raising or lowering such a hood or similar blindfold would be an action. In short, there's really little benefit to doing this unless your opponents are standing still.
@@Ichiryu000 I imagine this more than just a hood. You're talking about putting a blindfold on. A turn is 6 seconds , it's not like it's an elastic sleep mask, you'd have to secure it in place. But hey, everyone's table is different. Essentially this is a debate about how to sidestep a built-in disadvantage, some tables are just going to flat out say "you can't" - For instance the argument that being IN sunlight is the trigger for this disadvantage, regardless of if you can see. So RAW this achieves nothing to begin with.
Blindfighting in my interpretation isn’t mutually exclusive with vision. I mean why is your blindsight turned off just because your eyes are open? Doesn’t make much sense if you look at animals with sonar or similar. There’s no reason why you couldn’t use your blindsight within 10’ and your vision beyond that.
Errata: Kobolds only get a +2, not a +2 *and* a +1, so we'd have to take a hit to either Dex or Con if we wanted to go 13 Wis for Cleric (another reason to consider just doing Divine Soul). Also, to clarify: I realize that pushing your enemy away would likely move them away from your ally and move them out of the 10' reach of your spirit shroud damage, thus greatly reducing the nova damage numbers - my intent was *not* to transmute scorching ray to lightning during the nova round, simply present all the amount of enemy movement you could potentially do as an option. Carry on!
@@snazzyfeathers I would highly recomend asking your dm to just act like if the spell list and carracter cheet say "fire", you deside it is cold(or a single other type). www.google.com/amp/s/www.sageadvice.eu/would-it-alter-the-balance-of-the-game-to-change-a-weapons-damage-type-from-piercing-to-slashing/amp/ It is fun to think about tho❤
have you done a video on fighter 2 / hexblade 3 / bladesinger/lorehold 15 yet? they make 19 attacks by doing a combo like this: weapon attack + eldritch blast [4 beams] (action) weapon attack + eldritch blast [4 beams] (action surge) quickened scorching ray at 8th level [9 beams] stacking this with a 7th level spirit shroud and hexblade's curse for 3d8+6 on each beam.
@@snazzyfeathers Sort of... only if you could transmute Scorching Ray every time. So you'd either need a lot of Sorc points or to go Scribes Wizard, I guess.
@@DnDDeepDive The RP of the Dragon Sorcerer is quite fun to play around with. As is the Dragon 'Mage Armor'. But the huge amount of versatility and the extra points we get to put into important stats (especially if ur using the Kobold) IMO makes the Divine Soul the optimal choice. Personally I'd Go with Custom Lineage for 'Race' choice & pick up Fey Touched as my bonus feat. Thus starting with an 18 Cha and making a capped modifier much quicker. I honestly still feel that Elemental Adept is a bit redundant, and a Feat is a heavy investment. I would probably go with Tough or Lucky. I've been subscribed to this channel since about episode 13, it's fantastic to see the expansive growth that you've brought about. Keep up the excellent work!! 👍
@@daltondavidson7997 agreed. repeating shot infusion will allow him to skip crossbow expert (since the bonus action of an artificer is always full anyway).
I love catapult because it only requires somatic components. I don't know why but I'm always looking at the components and thinking of situations where I'm hiding in an illusion or if I'm tied up but not gagged. When I spell just has an S or a v it gets me excited for those weird edge cases
Well, if your goal was to deal pure damage, I think tiefling+flames of phlegethos deserves a special mention and is stronger then the kobold if you can't get pack tactics to trigger. Winged tiefling is obviously broken, but the others from MtoF are decent options. Nowadays you probably want to go custom lineage. Since you already are a hexblade, you should consider green flame blade. Especially with quicken spell. I would definitely pick up shield for one of the hexblade spells known. The two levels of Fighter do wonders to your one round burst damage, but I think they are otherwise pretty lackluster. You have a short rest single target ability from hexblade already, I don't think action surge to burn through your resources quicker is that necessary in actual play. Getting more spells, slots, sorcery points and faster ability score improvements seems more valuable overall. You will be less of a one trick pony overall and still do great damage. Special mention to magic missile which also does great damage with hexblade's curse in case you need to circumvent fire resistance/immunity or high armor class. There are a number of easy ways to thwart your calculations in actual play: Sunlight, no ally adjacent (e.g. because the target teleported), opponents near you just to name a few. Just adding a level of hexblade to a fire heavy draconic sorcerer seems much more versatile while giving up very little.
Since Kobold has been changed so much in MotM, I wonder how that would affect this build. No reliable advantage and no need for Blind Fighting could theoretically change the entire build.
MotM makes me want to run a red chromatic Dragonborn dragonic sorcerer instead. Get resistance to fire naturally instead of having to spend a sorcery point for temp resistance. Then immunity to fire for a minute as an action to nuke yourself with a quickened fireball. You also get a few uses of the breath weapon to save on spell slots per long rest. The option to have a sorcerer just coat himself in lingering fire while immune somehow/way and laugh while he has 13 + dex AC is also a funny situation. Then there's taking a dive in lava if the DM allows it, because you are _immune,_ bonus points if you hug an enemy before you dive in.
Is there any other reliable way to gain advantage since pack tactics has been essentially removed? How much is the build nerfed without advantage? I was wanting to do a different race concept with this but still focus on the flame throwing aspect.
Made my self a Dwarven (Hill), Dragon Sorcerer so he gets good HP every level. 1d6, +1, +1, and a decent Con to start 3 for 1d6+5 HP every level. Colby was watching again and was wondering if it would make sense to take another level of Warlock to get Invocations or the Eldritch Adept Feat to get Devil's Sight? Darkness and Devil's Sight would keep us from having to worry about Sunlight Sensitivity. Also in the sneak peak of Mordenkainen's Guide to the Multiverse (Nerd Emersion Channel) showed kobolds without Sunlight Sensitivity, +2, +1, and No Pact Tactics.
Prioritize Wisdom, don't multiclass, use your Twilight Sanctuary as often as possible. Now you're more defensively powerful than any build ever created. :)
There has never been any other mention of the suns effects on sunlight sensitive creatures other than vision in all of dnd history until now (outside of vampires). Why start now?
I really hope they keep the Way of the Ascendant Dragon in the UA the way it is. Tempest Cleric, three levels of Monk, go anywhere you want after that. It’s the melee version of this and it seems great on paper.
Never heard of you until your collaboration with The Dungeon Dudes. Loved yalls mini shots. Found you now. See ya have a live play, now I will watch yalls until I finish it or The Fate of Drakkenheim drops, then I'll finish yours in between episodes! Bunch of fun watchin you bud. Very informative n cool as well!
I would absolutely watch a remake of Thunderball where Sean Connery is a kobold. Don't have to change anything else or even mention the difference, or have anyone question why a kobold is real or in her majesty's secret service. Also, what happened with that level 15 font? 🤣
With tashas optional rules, i made a half orc +2 dex, with draconic resistance and a shield i have 18 ac, and i started as a paladin defence fighting style defence +1, im not wearing any amor and have a Ac of 19, and when my Dex is better will be 21, and with a shield spell just for funzis
Note on Catapult: if the target saves, the projectile keeps going to the next viable target in the path of the throw. Just had my wife's wizard Catapult a rock toward the back of the head of the enemy in front of her - it saved, she didn't and took a rock to the face. (Also had a party nearly kill a friendly NPC due to the baddie making the save and the ally being in the projectile's path)
You sure about that? In that case every arrow should go through as well doesnt it? I think there is no such rule in 5e but i as well ruled it like that in a narrow path where the party activated a dart trap^^
@@jomohunter4649 Pretty sure. The wording on the spell in Xanathar's is "The object flies in a straight line up to 90 feet in a direction you choose before falling to the ground, stopping early if it impacts against a solid surface. If the object would strike a creature, that creature must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the object strikes the target and stops moving." I take it the same way I would a draconic line of lightning - everything in this line has a chance of taking damage - whereas a single arrow is meant to target just one person.
You can also catapult a bag with acid vials or alchemist fire inside it. On failed save they need to save against the substance DC or take additional damage
8:16 I know that you meant the professional basketball team, but I like to imagine that there are competitions where jazz musicians try to out-jazz each other, and Colby screams wildly in attendance.
I’m curious how this build might change if you went with an elvish ancestry so you could use Elven Accuracy for super advantage on all of the rays. What might you suggest to get reliable advantage now that pack tactics is out?
Theoretically spirit shroud could do some crazy damage if you could keep your target at 10 feet like blind fighting suggests Edit: oops should've finished before commenting
I'm curious if the Pyromancy subclass for Sorcerer's from Kaladesh is a good fit here. It allows you to put out crazy Dave even against fire resistant and eventually immune enemies
Does you wearing red mean you are switching from.the jazz to the clippers? Haha. glad to see a nice variation of my force lightning build (shadow sorc 6, 2 fighter, 2 tempest). i went shadow sorc but yeah draconic is a worthy alternative. i went custom lineage with feytouched but yeah kobold is great as well. i'm with you on the kobold sunlight sensitivity ruling. anyway my only quip here is that RAW destructive wrath applies to all rays. as per JC and the PHB, when you cast scorching ray (unlike attacking with weapons) you resolve all attacks/choose targets at the same time (you can't wait and see if an opponent dies to a ray before sending an extra ray to another target). due to this all the attacks of the spell scorching ray are treated as one instance (because they are happening all at the same time) and therefore all are maximized. all attacks for scorching ray are resolved 1st then dmg resolution for all rays happens together (and this is where you activate destructive wrath).
Think you could do a Lycan Blood Hunter burst build with dexterity? I'm trying to figure out how best to build mine and I was wondering what you might do with this idea.
Love your channel!! Where are you getting the 14 constitution from? To my knowledge, kobold only get the +2 to one ability score and nothing else. Mine as it stands is a 13. Did I miss something?
I wonder if it would be a worthwhile trade, with the forced movement from tempest cleric, to switch the warlock levels to genie and take enough to get spike growth from the Dao list?
Would you be willing to do a character inspired by a speedster like the Flash? Optimized for movement speed and number of attacks with both evasion and uncanny dodge?
@@DnDDeepDive This idea has stuck in my head for some reason. I keep picturing using some combination of rogue with beast barbarian for the extra attack while raging with beast claws at Barb3. But I’m not sure what else (if anything) to mix in to get ideally five attacks per round consistently. Fighter takes too long, dread ambusher Isn’t sustainable... Maybe Monk? But rogues get better access to evasion and uncanny dodge. I’m really not sure. Can you choose whether you want to use the martial arts die from Monk or the from beast claws? Wording on claws seems like a yes but it wouldn’t count towards your flurry of blows. Would artificer be worth it for non-concentration sources of additional damage per attack? I don’t know, but hopefully this is something you can help answer.
@@cornycornsnake took a stab at a strong Beast Barb with the Spore Beast if you haven’t seen it yet. Problem with Rogue levels is I don’t believe your claws would count as finesse weapons, though you could still use a finesse weapon and then claws...
The new Bugbear gets an extra 2d6 damage on every attack as long as the target hasn't taken a turn yet in the current combat. It would be cool to see it used for something like this or a Gloom Stalker. Assassin Rogue could give advantage to either build.
I agree with the monk tank build, I think I emailed you saying something about a monk tank but I may have forgot. I know you responded to my email but I don't remember if I actually put monk tank in there, I think you should use either a Satyr or a yuan-ti pureblood as the race
Thank you. My love for sorcerers, and more so draconic blodline, is well put on this build. Thought im not a fan of multiclasing, I do love the idea of the little kobold that could... And will destroy you all
In your divine soul build you don't have to wait to upcast spirit shroud, you can create a 5th level spell slot with sorcery points as soon as you have the spell. Granted that requires sacrificing spell slots for sorcery points, but in the spirit of going nova it must be said.
RAW, "You can never have more sorcery points than shown on the table for your level." so you can't do that till 7th level since it costs 7 sorcery points to make a 5th level spell slot. Still, that's 2 levels early!
If you couldn't convince you DM that Blind Fighting would mitigate Sunlight Sensitivity then your best bet is Twilight cleric. It creates 30 foot radius of dim light around you, which will solve all of the problems with sunlight which you could ever had. And Twilight cleric is also absolutely busted support subclass even without that
Ok but the gap between this and the Divine soul starts quite a bit sooner, a 7th lvl sorcerer can trade 1 4th level slot and 1 sorcery point for a 5th level slot and can do this by lvl 10, also with access to aid sooner although more resource intensive it is more durable
I'd love to see your take on one of my characters that I've really enjoyed playing. His name is Devo. Because he uses a whip. He whips it. Whips it good. He's primarily a fighter with Maneuvers for controlling the battlefield.
Should do an update for this considering MotM. I came here wondering for ways to use Jim's magic missle, a spell that I think might have some potential as a Better eldritch blast...
Just realized that a light domain cleric would also have a pretty solid nova round. Could take metamagic adept to get a few twinned spells or a quickened one or fey touched for more damage at levels 3/4. Would innately have spirit shroud, lots of channel divinity to turn to spell slots, and potentially higher level cleric spells... worth a consideration.
sadly metamagic adept doesn't get you twinned. you'd really have to dip into sorc for that. going light also means not going tempest and you lose out ona lot of dmg on destructive wrath + transmuted scorching ray.
Can you please try to re-create the 3.5 foclucan lyrist? I would love to see how you handle the “can do everything pretty well, but completely own all social situations” build!
love these videos so much. my friend got me into your channel and I'm kind of just jumping around different videos right now, but these builds are amazing
Or, here's the better take that I'd have if I was DM'ing for someone who wanted to play Kobold than allowing your blindsight tactic: 'Sunlight sensitivty is BS so just pretend that doesn't exist'. But then I'm also someone who would let anyone who wanted to play barbarian either play a half-orc (mechanically) and reskin it as whatever they wanted for the RP, or, without much persuasion needed (because, and I'll acknowledge my bias as someone who loves barbarian+3 dip into fighter for champion greataxe half orcs) let them take savage attacks somehow (as a homebrew feat, trading it for another racial ability etc), so maybe I'd also be a bit too generous to allowing cool stuff.
What about skipping sorcerer and grabbing Scorching Ray with Background: Boros Legionnaire? You can still get the sorc metamagic via feat. Clerics also get Spirit Shroud.
Doable if your DM would allow the background, but I'd hate to miss out on the extra sorc points and additional metamagic options, not to mention extra elemental damage.
For the question at ~33min about sunlight sensitivity and blind fighting, I'd say the most intuitively sensible interpretation is that the "that rely on sight" bit applies to both. The context (it's given to races that in the lore have traditionally lived mostly underground), the co-text (the phrasing being in a way that makes it interpretable when, if they wanted to say all attack rolls rather than just sight-reliant ones, they could've easily specified that), and the mechanics (the fact that you don't have to be in direct sunlight, so long as your target is) all point to that. Bright light make eye go aegh
Right - the only problem with Bestow Curse is the extra round of set up - I love it for fights against a BBEG that you *know* are going long. With the Hold spells, I ultimately decided against because, as they require your concentration and take an action to cast, on your nova round, you'd get half the attacks for double the dice, minus the extra damage from Hex or Spirit Shroud. Also, the crit only counts if you're standing 5 feet away from the Paralyzed target, so you'd now need to get the Crossbow Expert feat to keep advantage. Just got a little weird. Overall might be better damage for your entire party, depending on your party. Worth considering.
@@DnDDeepDive you dont need to use crossbow expert to keep advantage. The disadvantage for "melee" ranged attacks only applies if the enemy isn't incapacitated. The enemy is incapacitated while paralyzed. Little addendum to the above: you get to keep advantage on "melee" ranged attacks as well if the enemies cant see you like via illusions, obscurement like shadow of moil/fog cloud, blindness and invisibility.
@@TheRobversion1 Good catch on the incapacitated. As for the "enemy can't see you" bit - I just had to look it up in the PHB and somehow never realized that the disadvantage only applies if they can see you. Nice.
@@DnDDeepDive yup. I dont worry about it too much in my experience as optimized ranged martials typically have advantage generators and most advantage generators involve not being "seen."
I have played at tables where spells like scorching ray and eldrich blast just roll damage once and all the rays do the same damage. Then if you used your channel divinity it should apply to all rays. Side note, while lighting ray is the obvious choice, I think thunder ray is more interesting and unique. Beams of sound that cause the target to vibrate so intensely that it damages them on a molecular level.
I'm a little disappointed. I want to see the 4 booming blades a turn combo (3 without a magic item). I have seen DMS come up with thg SO MANY homebrew rules just to stop this combo
If I had to build it for level 20 I would probably do hexblade 5 (Blade for smite) + fighter 2 + Sorcerer (clockwork?) 13 Take a shard and illusionist bracers TWINNED SPELL IS A MUST.
@@blairbrook1336 The magic item listed in the comment [Illusionist Bracers]. You Action (Booming Blade_Twincast) this gives you 2 weapon attackes + 2 booming effects. You then use the ability to cast the same cantrip as a bonus action if cast as an action from illusionist bracers so you Bonus Action (Booming Blade_Twincast) allowing you to hit the same 2 enemies for the initial weapon damage + Booming damage but only get 1 stack of lingering damage or you can split it between 4 people and get 4 lingering booms. Then if you have mobile you back up and let them trigger the damage. :] Hope this helps! Additional info: You can apply the Tasha's shards and many are not limited to once a turn so this allows 2 triggers for 2 metamagic uses a turn. Additional info 2: The total cost of this ability without doing smites (from warlock for the combo power) is only 2 sorcery points a round or the equivalent of a 1st level spell slot. So for 1 spell slot you can do 4 attacks and 4 booms. :)
This build reminds me a bit of a fire character I made, though mine is a grappler build (in an attempt to break Flames of Phlegethos and other auras like that.) It's a bit MAD, but it's so entertaining
If you convince your dm to let you maximize and fire 2 (Lightning) Scorching Rays with all those buffs and crush an enemy 120 ft. into a wall, I might severely judge you, if you don't scream: "UNLIMITED POWER!!!!!!!" That aside, all this super building makes me very interested, in what an arena battle royale between all these optimized characters would look like.
I've always wondered when casting darkness or fog cloud or some other similar spell that makes it difficult for everyone to see if it would get rid of the sunlight sensitivity.
yup. and its accessible too. its just a common magic item: spellwrought tattoo-find familiar that hopefully either the dm allows you to buy common magic items in your campaign or you have an artificer 2 in the party/friendly npc.
Divine Soul Sorcerer 13/Fighter 2/Hexblade Warlock 2 (for Agonising Blast, to crunch numbers, and maybe Repelling Blast, to make some survivability, by increasing distance). After You burn your high level spell slots for Scorching Ray (PUN intended 😁), and You don't want to go smaller Nova Round (like saving slots for healing, or reviving) You smash enemies with Eldritch blast for 1d10+3d8+5, four times per turn. That gives some sustained damage, maybe not much, comparing to your Sustained DPR builds, but I think it's still a decent number. And if You transmuted Spirit Shroud, You're still throwing flames 😉
For those who are looking for a new build with the new 5e dipping into fighter does not allow you to cast more spells anymore but if you have a magic item that lets you cast a spell like a wand of fireballs you can use quicken to cast another fireball if you have it as your own spell because casting a spell from a magic item does not count as you casting a spell from your own spell list
My dm is only allowing a single multi class. I'm going to go sorc / cleric. Would you suggest getting the same levels of cleric and put the rest back into sorc?
EEEEK!!! I'm like #666, and to think your hexblade is what brought me to your channel in the first place! #backbebesatanback #thebloodofChristcompelsyou :D
26d6 + 39d8 + 88 !!! I had to stop the video, run to my DnDBeyond, and make it roll that just to watch the madness go across my screen. It delighted me how long it took it to calculate the result, even without adding the 88. So, how do know how many times you critted? Anyway… amazing ha ha ha!
For your sliding into DMs - can a wizard make scrolls of artificer spells if they are shared between the lists? Can a character's wizard persona learn spells from their artificer persona if they are a multiclassed artificer/wizard?
if an artificer spell is also a wizard spell of course you can make a scroll of it as it's a wizard spell. remember multiclassing is more like a unique class in itself. it's not separate. your persona doesn't separate between the 2 classes. your persona is as you create it to be and it's whatever you want it to be regardless of how many classes you multiclass.
I am calling this the "Roy Mustang" class (at least before the cleric levels). Flame spell slinger, going into military service, then doing a few magic no-nos. The only thing that doesn't work is that Roy doesn't need blind fighting... because of being a kobold. Maybe his hex object could be the pocket watch? (Not a weapon, but he won't use the weapon skills of the class). If your DM allows MTG material, I'd look at pyromancer as your sorcerer subclass. Unfortunately 2 fighter/1 hexblade means you never get the 18th level feature that turns fire immunity into resistance. But, fire shield on a pyromancer is fun, as per the Roy Mustang build by Tulok, which was returning > 30 damage every time it is hit (even without Armor of Agathys).
Really like your build, looks fun. Would love to see your take on a short rest nova type build. Someone who can deal out a lot of damage multiple times a day. Maybe a combination of divine intervention, action surge and spell?
"If you are under direct sunlight, you are in trouble"
Me, a ginger: *nods understandingly*
Hahahaha same
“We can push them 10”
IS THERE A CLIFF!?!
i know this is an older vid but warlocks also get spirit shroud too so you could forego the cleric levels for more hexblade levels (unless you wanna do the push back). i know that your full caster slots won't go up with adding warlock levels but meh, something to think about.
With the push tactics you can put all hits on one target, push it in the air, and then watch him fall for an extra 1d6 dmg for every 10y you pushed him :D You can imagine it as a big ol' giant wondering why the small cobold is running under his feet..... and then get blasted into orbit!!
This is actually hilarious, because I made a brass draconic sorcerer kobold last week. He thinks he is a small gold dragon
Might steal this idea! xD
Great minds think alike. I have a blue scaled kobold Draconic Sorc/tempest cleric that is convinced he's a Blue dragon, but someone or something messed with him while he was inside his egg. My DM let me reflavor Shocking grasp as a small breath weapon, have so much fun with him
Level 1:(see above) [sorcerer 1, race & sub-class]
Level 2:(see above) [sorcerer 2]
Level 3:(@17:03) [sorcerer 3 & metamagic]
Level 4:(@22:40) [sorcerer 4 & ASI]
Level 5:(@24:40) [sorcerer 5]
Level 6:(@26:04) [sorcerer 6]
Level 7:(see above) [fighter 1 & fighting-style]
Level 8:(@35:53) [fighter 2]
Level 9:(@37:06) [warlock 1 & sub-class]
Level 10:(see above) [cleric 1 & sub-class]
Level 11:(@48:49) [cleric 2]
Level 12:(@51:51) [cleric 3]
Level 13:(@52:52) [cleric 4 & ASI]
Level 14:(see above) [cleric 5]
Level 15:(@57:29) [cleric 6]
Level 16:(@1:01:59) [sorcerer 7]
Level 17:(@1:02:42) [sorcerer 8 & ASI]
Hope that helps.
THANKS
*"I cast fireball"*
The minute my DM did the math he would laugh. Then he would murder me. 😂
"No, I don't care how big the room is, I cast fireball!"
I resend all my barbarian levels
Sir, this is a session 0
@@danielclark-hughes692 "Yes, this is my character introduction".
"I'm sorry for my voice, it's sexy af today"
fixed it for you~
LOL!
P L E A S E do a storm sorcerer or tempest cleric build, like a- lighting master
keep watching... :)
Watch til the end. You might be surprised.
Treantmonk did a video on this, seemed pretty cool
@@jakobchaney6819 Treantmonk's build was Tempest Cleric/Scribes Wizard, and in the video he specifically talked about how Tempest/Storm doesn't really make much sense.
@@eshansingh1 meant to say *similar video* thanks for catching it
Sage advice answered the question about sunlight sensitivity talking about wildshaped druids still suffer from the penalty "unless the beast form lacks sight. Sunlight Sensitivity requires sight". So the upshot is that no matter how you can see, if you're using your eyes you have the penalty, but if you're not using your eyes, you don't. So it appears the blindfold+blindsight is legit per sage advice.
I know youre gonna mention a lightning version probably, but Ill just say it now anyway
Please do a Thor build. Like the norse mythology version
Storm cleric or wiz\sorc?
@@jacobstallard2678 way too squishy, I've seen a decent Fighter 12/ tempest cleric 8 idea thrown around but idk about it, not 100 on it
@@VivianAckersif you are worried about HP just take dwarf and start with a decent CON.
@@ATMOSK1234 while I see your point, Thor is very much not a dwarf
@@VivianAckers why going above fighter 8 tbh?
yes, third weapon attack, but if you're mixing in casting with weapon attacks that should be less of a concern.
I could see fighter 5/ tempest cleric x
or fighter 6/tempest cleric 2/ fighter 2
Rune knight and eldritch knight both have good options that add to Thor's abilities.
Rune knight can even try to get booming blade and use it alongside cloud rune.
I'm with you on the interpretation that blind-fighting would eliminate the disadvantage on perception and attack rolls in direct sunlight(within the first 10'). Thematically, I would say, a deep hooded cloak and blindfold during such times would be really cool!
Not to mention the idea of a partial dragon resistant to fire would be harmed by sunlight on its skin. Lol! Kobolds are supposed top be subterranean creatures, that just tells me their eyes aren’t used to bright light. As a DM, I’d totally let a kobold lose disadvantage if they blindfight, especially with a hood, as in your idea.
@@clo8076 At our table while you'd be welcome to avoid the penalty by doing this, it literally means you can't see enemies, terrain, etc greater than 10' away and raising or lowering such a hood or similar blindfold would be an action. In short, there's really little benefit to doing this unless your opponents are standing still.
@@josephlieberman8295 a whole action!!! Free object interaction maybe
@@Ichiryu000 I imagine this more than just a hood. You're talking about putting a blindfold on. A turn is 6 seconds , it's not like it's an elastic sleep mask, you'd have to secure it in place. But hey, everyone's table is different. Essentially this is a debate about how to sidestep a built-in disadvantage, some tables are just going to flat out say "you can't" - For instance the argument that being IN sunlight is the trigger for this disadvantage, regardless of if you can see. So RAW this achieves nothing to begin with.
Blindfighting in my interpretation isn’t mutually exclusive with vision. I mean why is your blindsight turned off just because your eyes are open? Doesn’t make much sense if you look at animals with sonar or similar. There’s no reason why you couldn’t use your blindsight within 10’ and your vision beyond that.
I lost it at one shotting Baphomet, that's fucking funny
Errata: Kobolds only get a +2, not a +2 *and* a +1, so we'd have to take a hit to either Dex or Con if we wanted to go 13 Wis for Cleric (another reason to consider just doing Divine Soul).
Also, to clarify: I realize that pushing your enemy away would likely move them away from your ally and move them out of the 10' reach of your spirit shroud damage, thus greatly reducing the nova damage numbers - my intent was *not* to transmute scorching ray to lightning during the nova round, simply present all the amount of enemy movement you could potentially do as an option. Carry on!
Have not watched the whole video just yet, but could we take the same build here and do it with lightning or cold?
@@snazzyfeathers I would highly recomend asking your dm to just act like if the spell list and carracter cheet say "fire", you deside it is cold(or a single other type). www.google.com/amp/s/www.sageadvice.eu/would-it-alter-the-balance-of-the-game-to-change-a-weapons-damage-type-from-piercing-to-slashing/amp/
It is fun to think about tho❤
have you done a video on fighter 2 / hexblade 3 / bladesinger/lorehold 15 yet? they make 19 attacks by doing a combo like this:
weapon attack + eldritch blast [4 beams] (action)
weapon attack + eldritch blast [4 beams] (action surge)
quickened scorching ray at 8th level [9 beams]
stacking this with a 7th level spirit shroud and hexblade's curse for 3d8+6 on each beam.
@@snazzyfeathers Sort of... only if you could transmute Scorching Ray every time. So you'd either need a lot of Sorc points or to go Scribes Wizard, I guess.
@@DnDDeepDive The RP of the Dragon Sorcerer is quite fun to play around with. As is the Dragon 'Mage Armor'. But the huge amount of versatility and the extra points we get to put into important stats (especially if ur using the Kobold) IMO makes the Divine Soul the optimal choice.
Personally I'd Go with Custom Lineage for 'Race' choice & pick up Fey Touched as my bonus feat. Thus starting with an 18 Cha and making a capped modifier much quicker. I honestly still feel that Elemental Adept is a bit redundant, and a Feat is a heavy investment. I would probably go with Tough or Lucky.
I've been subscribed to this channel since about episode 13, it's fantastic to see the expansive growth that you've brought about. Keep up the excellent work!! 👍
The Thor build would be cool to see, however I would like to see an optimized use of the heavy crossbow
2 levels of Artificer would be in order (or an artificer companion)
@@daltondavidson7997 agreed. repeating shot infusion will allow him to skip crossbow expert (since the bonus action of an artificer is always full anyway).
Check out the Double Phantom Rogue build.
Y'know.... generally, I'm a pretty strict dm. But I like this interpretation of sunlight sensitivity and blind fighting
To me, it makes sense for RAW and RAI, plus it uses the rule of cool. They also pass up getting +1 AC to obtain it, which I feel is a worthy tradeoff.
I would love to hear your thoughts on updating this since Kobolds have been changed re: pack tactics/sunlight sensitivity
I'm a monster:
Critlander: "Try to avoid broad daylight."
Me: "Ah yes, I'll pursue a more specific daylight then."
Narrow Daylight = 👍🏻
Dial up daylight was too slow and it often would go down for no reason. Thank the many gods we upgraded to broadband daylight so much more consistent.
I laughed out loud when you said 'it won't happen again' talking about starting sorcerer. 🤣😂🤣
I love catapult because it only requires somatic components. I don't know why but I'm always looking at the components and thinking of situations where I'm hiding in an illusion or if I'm tied up but not gagged. When I spell just has an S or a v it gets me excited for those weird edge cases
Well, if your goal was to deal pure damage, I think tiefling+flames of phlegethos deserves a special mention and is stronger then the kobold if you can't get pack tactics to trigger. Winged tiefling is obviously broken, but the others from MtoF are decent options. Nowadays you probably want to go custom lineage.
Since you already are a hexblade, you should consider green flame blade. Especially with quicken spell.
I would definitely pick up shield for one of the hexblade spells known.
The two levels of Fighter do wonders to your one round burst damage, but I think they are otherwise pretty lackluster. You have a short rest single target ability from hexblade already, I don't think action surge to burn through your resources quicker is that necessary in actual play. Getting more spells, slots, sorcery points and faster ability score improvements seems more valuable overall. You will be less of a one trick pony overall and still do great damage.
Special mention to magic missile which also does great damage with hexblade's curse in case you need to circumvent fire resistance/immunity or high armor class.
There are a number of easy ways to thwart your calculations in actual play: Sunlight, no ally adjacent (e.g. because the target teleported), opponents near you just to name a few. Just adding a level of hexblade to a fire heavy draconic sorcerer seems much more versatile while giving up very little.
Since Kobold has been changed so much in MotM, I wonder how that would affect this build. No reliable advantage and no need for Blind Fighting could theoretically change the entire build.
MotM makes me want to run a red chromatic Dragonborn dragonic sorcerer instead.
Get resistance to fire naturally instead of having to spend a sorcery point for temp resistance. Then immunity to fire for a minute as an action to nuke yourself with a quickened fireball.
You also get a few uses of the breath weapon to save on spell slots per long rest.
The option to have a sorcerer just coat himself in lingering fire while immune somehow/way and laugh while he has 13 + dex AC is also a funny situation. Then there's taking a dive in lava if the DM allows it, because you are _immune,_ bonus points if you hug an enemy before you dive in.
Is there any other reliable way to gain advantage since pack tactics has been essentially removed? How much is the build nerfed without advantage? I was wanting to do a different race concept with this but still focus on the flame throwing aspect.
Made my self a Dwarven (Hill), Dragon Sorcerer so he gets good HP every level. 1d6, +1, +1, and a decent Con to start 3 for 1d6+5 HP every level. Colby was watching again and was wondering if it would make sense to take another level of Warlock to get Invocations or the Eldritch Adept Feat to get Devil's Sight? Darkness and Devil's Sight would keep us from having to worry about Sunlight Sensitivity. Also in the sneak peak of Mordenkainen's Guide to the Multiverse (Nerd Emersion Channel) showed kobolds without Sunlight Sensitivity, +2, +1, and No Pact Tactics.
That is grinch build: green draconic sorcerer and Warlock cloak of flies
Burn bright dragon man, burn bright
You should do a Twilght Cleric build, it would be awesome
Any twilight cleric will be strong, they're OP
Prioritize Wisdom, don't multiclass, use your Twilight Sanctuary as often as possible. Now you're more defensively powerful than any build ever created. :)
There has never been any other mention of the suns effects on sunlight sensitive creatures other than vision in all of dnd history until now (outside of vampires). Why start now?
I really hope they keep the Way of the Ascendant Dragon in the UA the way it is. Tempest Cleric, three levels of Monk, go anywhere you want after that. It’s the melee version of this and it seems great on paper.
As Johnny Storm once said, "FLAME ON!!"
“I know, I’m making a sorcerer build and starting sorcerer. It won’t happen again”
Can confirm. Three years later, has never happened lol
Always excited to watch your newest video! Thank you Colby!
Never heard of you until your collaboration with The Dungeon Dudes. Loved yalls mini shots. Found you now. See ya have a live play, now I will watch yalls until I finish it or The Fate of Drakkenheim drops, then I'll finish yours in between episodes! Bunch of fun watchin you bud. Very informative n cool as well!
I would absolutely watch a remake of Thunderball where Sean Connery is a kobold. Don't have to change anything else or even mention the difference, or have anyone question why a kobold is real or in her majesty's secret service.
Also, what happened with that level 15 font? 🤣
With tashas optional rules, i made a half orc +2 dex, with draconic resistance and a shield i have 18 ac, and i started as a paladin defence fighting style defence +1, im not wearing any amor and have a Ac of 19, and when my Dex is better will be 21, and with a shield spell just for funzis
Note on Catapult: if the target saves, the projectile keeps going to the next viable target in the path of the throw. Just had my wife's wizard Catapult a rock toward the back of the head of the enemy in front of her - it saved, she didn't and took a rock to the face. (Also had a party nearly kill a friendly NPC due to the baddie making the save and the ally being in the projectile's path)
ha ha! ouch!
You sure about that?
In that case every arrow should go through as well doesnt it?
I think there is no such rule in 5e but i as well ruled it like that in a narrow path where the party activated a dart trap^^
@@jomohunter4649 Pretty sure. The wording on the spell in Xanathar's is "The object flies in a straight line up to 90 feet in a direction you choose before falling to the ground, stopping early if it impacts against a solid surface. If the object would strike a creature, that creature must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the object strikes the target and stops moving." I take it the same way I would a draconic line of lightning - everything in this line has a chance of taking damage - whereas a single arrow is meant to target just one person.
@@DJWidget in that case i have to agree! Thanks for pointing that out :)
You can also catapult a bag with acid vials or alchemist fire inside it. On failed save they need to save against the substance DC or take additional damage
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I know that you meant the professional basketball team, but I like to imagine that there are competitions where jazz musicians try to out-jazz each other, and Colby screams wildly in attendance.
I would be screaming the loudest.
Excited for video. Commenting before I watch because I'm slow, and don't want to forget! :)
I’m curious how this build might change if you went with an elvish ancestry so you could use Elven Accuracy for super advantage on all of the rays. What might you suggest to get reliable advantage now that pack tactics is out?
Theoretically spirit shroud could do some crazy damage if you could keep your target at 10 feet like blind fighting suggests
Edit: oops should've finished before commenting
I love the idea of tossing out a fireball action surge toss a lightning ball
I’ve seen people point out find familiar as a way to permanently activate pack tactics, and I love the idea of a seeing eye bird on your shoulder.
I'm curious if the Pyromancy subclass for Sorcerer's from Kaladesh is a good fit here. It allows you to put out crazy Dave even against fire resistant and eventually immune enemies
#wajackoyahband #D4 #wajackoyahband why do we need to recycle leaders when there are other Kenyans who can lead Kenya
Does you wearing red mean you are switching from.the jazz to the clippers? Haha.
glad to see a nice variation of my force lightning build (shadow sorc 6, 2 fighter, 2 tempest). i went shadow sorc but yeah draconic is a worthy alternative. i went custom lineage with feytouched but yeah kobold is great as well. i'm with you on the kobold sunlight sensitivity ruling.
anyway my only quip here is that RAW destructive wrath applies to all rays. as per JC and the PHB, when you cast scorching ray (unlike attacking with weapons) you resolve all attacks/choose targets at the same time (you can't wait and see if an opponent dies to a ray before sending an extra ray to another target). due to this all the attacks of the spell scorching ray are treated as one instance (because they are happening all at the same time) and therefore all are maximized. all attacks for scorching ray are resolved 1st then dmg resolution for all rays happens together (and this is where you activate destructive wrath).
I'd be curious to see that JC reference...
@@DnDDeepDive I'll try to look for it. i remember reading it with magic missile discussion. i'll link it to you once i find it.
Think you could do a Lycan Blood Hunter burst build with dexterity? I'm trying to figure out how best to build mine and I was wondering what you might do with this idea.
look at Treantmonks videos on them.
Im mostly here to see what you might do with an optimized eldritch knight chasis. Preferably without warlock.
Does this mean Kobolds speak with Scottish accents, canonically?
Love your channel!! Where are you getting the 14 constitution from? To my knowledge, kobold only get the +2 to one ability score and nothing else. Mine as it stands is a 13. Did I miss something?
Good catch! Kobold is one of the only races that doesn't get a second stat boost.
25:34 Thunderball is literally a James Bond movie.
30:49 "Has been passed down for generations in your family" Sooo... someone found it last tuesday?
lol. Poor short-lived Kobolds.
@@DnDDeepDive I mean, they CAN live to be 120. Assuming they don't encounter terrible death.
> I love the idea of a gold Kobold.
I'd like to introduce you to Goldy, she's very proud of her Gold Teeth.
Blind Fighting also gives you blindsight within 10ft so I think that this works regardless.
I wonder if it would be a worthwhile trade, with the forced movement from tempest cleric, to switch the warlock levels to genie and take enough to get spike growth from the Dao list?
Spiritual Weapon allows you to add spellcasting ability modifier to attack damage.
That's a much better answer. My brain went to Magic Stone lol
I understand this (and your other builds) are built from level 1. Are there any changes you would make if you started at a higher level?
Would you be willing to do a character inspired by a speedster like the Flash? Optimized for movement speed and number of attacks with both evasion and uncanny dodge?
Will put it on the list :)
@@DnDDeepDive This idea has stuck in my head for some reason. I keep picturing using some combination of rogue with beast barbarian for the extra attack while raging with beast claws at Barb3. But I’m not sure what else (if anything) to mix in to get ideally five attacks per round consistently. Fighter takes too long, dread ambusher Isn’t sustainable...
Maybe Monk? But rogues get better access to evasion and uncanny dodge. I’m really not sure. Can you choose whether you want to use the martial arts die from Monk or the from beast claws? Wording on claws seems like a yes but it wouldn’t count towards your flurry of blows. Would artificer be worth it for non-concentration sources of additional damage per attack?
I don’t know, but hopefully this is something you can help answer.
@@cornycornsnake took a stab at a strong Beast Barb with the Spore Beast if you haven’t seen it yet. Problem with Rogue levels is I don’t believe your claws would count as finesse weapons, though you could still use a finesse weapon and then claws...
@@DnDDeepDive Oh darn, you are right. And I did see your spore beast build already. That’s part of what seeded this idea.
The new Bugbear gets an extra 2d6 damage on every attack as long as the target hasn't taken a turn yet in the current combat. It would be cool to see it used for something like this or a Gloom Stalker. Assassin Rogue could give advantage to either build.
Any chance of a quirky "monk tank" build? I think it would be a fun challenge and really interesting to see what you would come up with! :)
on the list!
I agree with the monk tank build, I think I emailed you saying something about a monk tank but I may have forgot. I know you responded to my email but I don't remember if I actually put monk tank in there, I think you should use either a Satyr or a yuan-ti pureblood as the race
Thank you. My love for sorcerers, and more so draconic blodline, is well put on this build.
Thought im not a fan of multiclasing, I do love the idea of the little kobold that could... And will destroy you all
dont forget to add that almost no monsters have resistance to magical weapon attacks
Blind Fighting would need Crossbow Expert to not make your performance tank.
You *could* attack from 10 feet, but yes, at 5, disadvantage would hurt.
In your divine soul build you don't have to wait to upcast spirit shroud, you can create a 5th level spell slot with sorcery points as soon as you have the spell. Granted that requires sacrificing spell slots for sorcery points, but in the spirit of going nova it must be said.
RAW, "You can never have more sorcery points than shown on the table for your level." so you can't do that till 7th level since it costs 7 sorcery points to make a 5th level spell slot. Still, that's 2 levels early!
If you couldn't convince you DM that Blind Fighting would mitigate Sunlight Sensitivity then your best bet is Twilight cleric. It creates 30 foot radius of dim light around you, which will solve all of the problems with sunlight which you could ever had. And Twilight cleric is also absolutely busted support subclass even without that
Does that turn bright light into dim?
@@adventurer3288 Yes. Doesn't matter what it was before total darkness or bright light: everything becomes dim light in this area
Ok but the gap between this and the Divine soul starts quite a bit sooner, a 7th lvl sorcerer can trade 1 4th level slot and 1 sorcery point for a 5th level slot and can do this by lvl 10, also with access to aid sooner although more resource intensive it is more durable
Huh, interesting. Never realized that the flexible casting doesn't require it to be slots of a level you're supposed to have
@@torunsmok5890 yeah for that reason when I take sorcerer levels I always take at least 7
Dragons have blindsight so I can see what you are saying at 35:00
I'd love to see your take on one of my characters that I've really enjoyed playing. His name is Devo. Because he uses a whip. He whips it. Whips it good. He's primarily a fighter with Maneuvers for controlling the battlefield.
lol - on the list!
@@DnDDeepDive I hope you never die because your "list" has to be EPIC at this point. I mean... you comment "on the list" more than once per episode!
@@DnDDeepDive would you also give a take on my version of Aang? Just lvled up to 7 in a current campaign and I am having a blast!
@@kin2naruto Ha ha... it's only... 4 pages long at this point >.> - singe spaced...
@@DnDDeepDive Might be good to go through and see which concepts can be combined - or that you've already done.
Should do an update for this considering MotM.
I came here wondering for ways to use Jim's magic missle, a spell that I think might have some potential as a Better eldritch blast...
Just realized that a light domain cleric would also have a pretty solid nova round. Could take metamagic adept to get a few twinned spells or a quickened one or fey touched for more damage at levels 3/4. Would innately have spirit shroud, lots of channel divinity to turn to spell slots, and potentially higher level cleric spells... worth a consideration.
sadly metamagic adept doesn't get you twinned. you'd really have to dip into sorc for that. going light also means not going tempest and you lose out ona lot of dmg on destructive wrath + transmuted scorching ray.
Can you please try to re-create the 3.5 foclucan lyrist? I would love to see how you handle the “can do everything pretty well, but completely own all social situations” build!
E.G. a min-maxed build for social situations that is still fun to play in combat with high variety of options and very good support capabilities.
on the list!
@@DnDDeepDive Sounds to me like it would involve some eloquence bard.
@@DnDDeepDive hooray!
love these videos so much. my friend got me into your channel and I'm kind of just jumping around different videos right now, but these builds are amazing
Thanks - glad you're enjoying!
Or, here's the better take that I'd have if I was DM'ing for someone who wanted to play Kobold than allowing your blindsight tactic: 'Sunlight sensitivty is BS so just pretend that doesn't exist'.
But then I'm also someone who would let anyone who wanted to play barbarian either play a half-orc (mechanically) and reskin it as whatever they wanted for the RP, or, without much persuasion needed (because, and I'll acknowledge my bias as someone who loves barbarian+3 dip into fighter for champion greataxe half orcs) let them take savage attacks somehow (as a homebrew feat, trading it for another racial ability etc), so maybe I'd also be a bit too generous to allowing cool stuff.
Draconic-Kobold is perfectly reasonable. Just look at Donkey and the Dragon from Shrek for inspiration!
After the core of the build is finished, I like the idea of picking up another warlock level, so we can get Agonizing Blast and Eldritch Mind.
What about skipping sorcerer and grabbing Scorching Ray with Background: Boros Legionnaire? You can still get the sorc metamagic via feat. Clerics also get Spirit Shroud.
Doable if your DM would allow the background, but I'd hate to miss out on the extra sorc points and additional metamagic options, not to mention extra elemental damage.
Your nova build countdown brought me here. Holy moly this build, and viable roleplay for multi-classing.
"My draconic ancestor told me what to do! I'm now not scared of sun!"
For the question at ~33min about sunlight sensitivity and blind fighting, I'd say the most intuitively sensible interpretation is that the "that rely on sight" bit applies to both. The context (it's given to races that in the lore have traditionally lived mostly underground), the co-text (the phrasing being in a way that makes it interpretable when, if they wanted to say all attack rolls rather than just sight-reliant ones, they could've easily specified that), and the mechanics (the fact that you don't have to be in direct sunlight, so long as your target is) all point to that. Bright light make eye go aegh
100%
You can get even more damage with Bestow Curse (+1d8 on every attack) and Hold Monster/Person (crit on every attack that hits).
i personally use the hold option for the concen spot (over spirit shroud/bestow curse/hex) as it adds a control element to it as well.
Right - the only problem with Bestow Curse is the extra round of set up - I love it for fights against a BBEG that you *know* are going long. With the Hold spells, I ultimately decided against because, as they require your concentration and take an action to cast, on your nova round, you'd get half the attacks for double the dice, minus the extra damage from Hex or Spirit Shroud. Also, the crit only counts if you're standing 5 feet away from the Paralyzed target, so you'd now need to get the Crossbow Expert feat to keep advantage. Just got a little weird. Overall might be better damage for your entire party, depending on your party. Worth considering.
@@DnDDeepDive you dont need to use crossbow expert to keep advantage. The disadvantage for "melee" ranged attacks only applies if the enemy isn't incapacitated. The enemy is incapacitated while paralyzed.
Little addendum to the above: you get to keep advantage on "melee" ranged attacks as well if the enemies cant see you like via illusions, obscurement like shadow of moil/fog cloud, blindness and invisibility.
@@TheRobversion1 Good catch on the incapacitated. As for the "enemy can't see you" bit - I just had to look it up in the PHB and somehow never realized that the disadvantage only applies if they can see you. Nice.
@@DnDDeepDive yup. I dont worry about it too much in my experience as optimized ranged martials typically have advantage generators and most advantage generators involve not being "seen."
actually Sean Connelly for this charismatic character is a perfect play RP style.
I have played at tables where spells like scorching ray and eldrich blast just roll damage once and all the rays do the same damage. Then if you used your channel divinity it should apply to all rays. Side note, while lighting ray is the obvious choice, I think thunder ray is more interesting and unique. Beams of sound that cause the target to vibrate so intensely that it damages them on a molecular level.
I know this is a single target build; however, at lower levels, Dragon's Breath + Quickened Burning Hands is a wonderful combo worth mentioning.
hey francisco. i think you should've put this comment on his burst build vid.
I'm a little disappointed. I want to see the 4 booming blades a turn combo (3 without a magic item).
I have seen DMS come up with thg SO MANY homebrew rules just to stop this combo
If I had to build it for level 20 I would probably do hexblade 5 (Blade for smite) + fighter 2 + Sorcerer (clockwork?) 13
Take a shard and illusionist bracers
TWINNED SPELL IS A MUST.
How do you get 4 a round?
@@blairbrook1336 The magic item listed in the comment [Illusionist Bracers]. You Action (Booming Blade_Twincast) this gives you 2 weapon attackes + 2 booming effects. You then use the ability to cast the same cantrip as a bonus action if cast as an action from illusionist bracers so you Bonus Action (Booming Blade_Twincast) allowing you to hit the same 2 enemies for the initial weapon damage + Booming damage but only get 1 stack of lingering damage or you can split it between 4 people and get 4 lingering booms. Then if you have mobile you back up and let them trigger the damage. :] Hope this helps!
Additional info: You can apply the Tasha's shards and many are not limited to once a turn so this allows 2 triggers for 2 metamagic uses a turn.
Additional info 2: The total cost of this ability without doing smites (from warlock for the combo power) is only 2 sorcery points a round or the equivalent of a 1st level spell slot. So for 1 spell slot you can do 4 attacks and 4 booms. :)
if your dm lets you and fortunately for me he does, go blood cleric instead and get bloodletting focus for even more damage that really stacks.
This build reminds me a bit of a fire character I made, though mine is a grappler build (in an attempt to break Flames of Phlegethos and other auras like that.) It's a bit MAD, but it's so entertaining
Whilst I love this, here’s another idea (will need DM’s aproval)
Race: Aarakocra
Class: phoenix soul sorcerer (UA)
You’d be a funny firebird.
If you convince your dm to let you maximize and fire 2 (Lightning) Scorching Rays with all those buffs and crush an enemy 120 ft. into a wall, I might severely judge you, if you don't scream: "UNLIMITED POWER!!!!!!!"
That aside, all this super building makes me very interested, in what an arena battle royale between all these optimized characters would look like.
I've always wondered when casting darkness or fog cloud or some other similar spell that makes it difficult for everyone to see if it would get rid of the sunlight sensitivity.
I would think so, yes.
Perhaps cast fog cloud just above your head level. Creatures taller than you would have obscured vision, while you wouldn't, DM allowing.
RAW, Kobald + Find Familiar = Ally always next to you unless they did an errata. That and familiar's can deliver touch spells.
yup. and its accessible too. its just a common magic item: spellwrought tattoo-find familiar that hopefully either the dm allows you to buy common magic items in your campaign or you have an artificer 2 in the party/friendly npc.
Divine Soul Sorcerer 13/Fighter 2/Hexblade Warlock 2 (for Agonising Blast, to crunch numbers, and maybe Repelling Blast, to make some survivability, by increasing distance).
After You burn your high level spell slots for Scorching Ray (PUN intended 😁), and You don't want to go smaller Nova Round (like saving slots for healing, or reviving) You smash enemies with Eldritch blast for 1d10+3d8+5, four times per turn. That gives some sustained damage, maybe not much, comparing to your Sustained DPR builds, but I think it's still a decent number. And if You transmuted Spirit Shroud, You're still throwing flames 😉
For those who are looking for a new build with the new 5e dipping into fighter does not allow you to cast more spells anymore but if you have a magic item that lets you cast a spell like a wand of fireballs you can use quicken to cast another fireball if you have it as your own spell because casting a spell from a magic item does not count as you casting a spell from your own spell list
This build makes me think of Bahammut’s mega flare from final fantasy and I love it! 😍
the level 3 nova could be a quicken scorching ray and a dragon breath casted earlier.
Okay, but what if you push them 130ft straight up? That fall damage would be amazing in your nova round!
if he could somehow be directly under the target then yes. otherwise RAW, you can only push away horizontally.
My dm is only allowing a single multi class. I'm going to go sorc / cleric. Would you suggest getting the same levels of cleric and put the rest back into sorc?
EEEEK!!! I'm like #666, and to think your hexblade is what brought me to your channel in the first place! #backbebesatanback #thebloodofChristcompelsyou :D
Better knock on wood and start throwing salt over your shoulder!
God damn it. Why did I laugh at the poo poo zoom 💀 well played editor
Mr. Rogers, killing it as always!
26d6 + 39d8 + 88 !!!
I had to stop the video, run to my DnDBeyond, and make it roll that just to watch the madness go across my screen. It delighted me how long it took it to calculate the result, even without adding the 88. So, how do know how many times you critted? Anyway… amazing ha ha ha!
For your sliding into DMs - can a wizard make scrolls of artificer spells if they are shared between the lists? Can a character's wizard persona learn spells from their artificer persona if they are a multiclassed artificer/wizard?
if an artificer spell is also a wizard spell of course you can make a scroll of it as it's a wizard spell. remember multiclassing is more like a unique class in itself. it's not separate. your persona doesn't separate between the 2 classes. your persona is as you create it to be and it's whatever you want it to be regardless of how many classes you multiclass.
I am calling this the "Roy Mustang" class (at least before the cleric levels). Flame spell slinger, going into military service, then doing a few magic no-nos.
The only thing that doesn't work is that Roy doesn't need blind fighting... because of being a kobold.
Maybe his hex object could be the pocket watch? (Not a weapon, but he won't use the weapon skills of the class).
If your DM allows MTG material, I'd look at pyromancer as your sorcerer subclass. Unfortunately 2 fighter/1 hexblade means you never get the 18th level feature that turns fire immunity into resistance.
But, fire shield on a pyromancer is fun, as per the Roy Mustang build by Tulok, which was returning > 30 damage every time it is hit (even without Armor of Agathys).
Really like your build, looks fun. Would love to see your take on a short rest nova type build. Someone who can deal out a lot of damage multiple times a day. Maybe a combination of divine intervention, action surge and spell?
"Why did you cast prismatic wall horizontally over everyone's head? Are you dumb?"
**Casts reverse gravity**