Remember, to roleplay X properly, you have to play him as wanting to be a pacifist in the most wargamey campaign possible. also, every time you cast an ice spell, you have to shout "SHOTGUN ICE" every time for maximum immersion. sorry, i don't make the rules. also, as a DM, i would give the player a spell scroll that that they can copy into their spellbook when the beat certain bosses to replicate them getting the bosses power.
Well the Eberron setting already has the D&D version of Sigma with the Lord of Blades so we've already got our recurring main bad guy for the D&D version of X to battle.
I love mega man and I'm sure you had a lot of fun playing this game for the video! I especially love Mega Man 6! There's so many cool upgrades like when you beat flame man you can fuse with Rush to get a cool new form! But that's enough geeking out about Mega Man! You know I'm here to plead for a build for Anderson Cooper!
@@phantafalconpunch it might have something to do with him knowing all the characters from doing research for his videos and me having to google them half the time 😅
Well Zero is popular with the ladies seriously he hooks up with three different girls over the course of the X and Zero series Iris in X4, Layer in X8, and Ciel in the Zero series I didn't count Marino from X: Command Mission since that was more her flirting with Zero, and Zero being indifferent to it so yeah I'd say Charisma would be one of Zero's top stats.
well, in the zero series, he does basically use elemental weapon instead of getting proper enemy weapons. I was thinking more like battle master with a long sword, shield, spear, and hand crossbow based on the first mmz game, but elemental weapon is certainly a more important aspect to the gameplay than anything battle master gives you, and smites I guess fit the flavor of charging your weapon.
My version will be named Ten 2. "Ten" is spelled with a Roman numeral "x". The "2" is because he was built from the parts of an older warforged that was predominantly blue. I don't care if it's clever or stupid, it just makes me smile
Hey Tulok! Great video. I think you don't really understand why people don't like Witch Bolt though (but it is in character and that's what this channel's about!) There are 2 problems with it. To start, when you upcast the spell it only gets the additional damage on the first roll, not with the guaranteed hits on later rounds. Because of this the spell really doesn't scale well. The second issues is that if the target is at any point more than 30' away from you, the spell ends automatically with no concentration check. So having to stay close to the enemy while probably being a squishy caster is pretty dangerous (this build doesn't have to worry about it that much though.) Again, I think that it's definitely in character, but it really isn't as good as you give it credit for. Oh god, am I THAT guy?!
The irony of showing gameplay from X5 and X6 while mostly mentioning boss attacks from X1-X3 is not lost on me, that was well-done. Also, this build in general is just cool and I'm super happy to see it considering that Mega Man is one of my all-time favorite series! You rock Tulok!
This reminds me of the build I just made with my son. He wanted to be a literal vampire with laser eyes that summoned monsters and led them into combat. So.... I allowed him to choose Dhampir (which is still in playtest.) and we went wizard. Conjurer, actually. A bit of reflavoring gave him blood-sucking fingers (which he requested) as his bite, and scorching ray as laser eyes. The rest of the abilities? Shooting blood from his fingers to conjure an elemental, watery sphere became sphere of blood. Yeah, it’s anime, but he’s having fun.
My sweet, beautiful, blue boy finally gets a video! I feel like X could have a dozen different builds for each game, weapon list, and armor set but I'll be damned if this doesn't cover as many bases as possible. One of my favorite videos from the series yet.
Race: Warforged Background: Folk Hero? Since he is built based off of the OG Megaman? Stats: #1: Strength #2: Constitution #3: Wisdom #4: Dexterity #5: Intelligence #6: Charisma Class(es) Basically, I see this build being made in one of two ways, either a more focused vanilla Megaman or a more game accurate one. Vanilla Megaman X - Artillerist Artificer: You can us this class to get your Mega Buster. - Some Fighter levels will help megaman get that bit of extra oomph. So I'll guess some will be in here. Maybe Champion to simulate the effects of the charged shot. Game Accurate Megaman - Armorer Artificer: Use this to get Megaman's beefy strength and durability. - Some form of Wizard or Sorcerer to get the grab bag of different powerups he acquires. Wizard would be useful because it shares a casting modifier with Artificer but since he doesn't need to learn to use Chill Penguin or Flame Stag's attacks he just kind of absorbs them from his enemies Sorcerer would be a little more realistic.
Fun build! Good to see artificer getting some love from you (because WOTC sure doesn't give it any). I honestly miss the "What works and what doesn't" section from the Josuke build video, though. It was interesting to hear the how and why of the build working.
7:14 Something to note about Witch Bolt is that only the _initial_ damage gets buffed when you upcast it. Afterwards, you just keep dealing 1d12 each turn, no matter the spell slot level. That's why so many say it's a bad spell.
I actually have a homebrew ruling for that spell, which is that after the initial hit, the damage drops a damage die. Then, every time you activate it, it's damage drops by one again, with a minimum of 1d12. It's not much, but I feel like it makes upcasting the spell worth it
I wasn’t even paying attention to the build. I was just watching the gameplay in the background remembering how much a pain in the ass some of those stages/Mavericks were. Great build though, I did the same thing for Vile, he’s really fun.
I literally searched for this yesterday. Thank you!! Edit: The Protomen is a band that does rock operas (get it... Rock Opera.) about megaman. They are good. You know who else would know CALLIGRAPHY? Iroh. 🕷💪🏻
"Hey x! Listen x, the big boys like me, are gonna take care of this so why don't you go and wait at hq where it's safe. For you. You little baby boo bop."
I kinda want an official feat that lets you concentrate on two spells at once, but have you either roll two saves or one with disadvantage. The ability to stack say danse macabre and polymorph to get a trex with zombies riding it under your control is neat
Very impressive build. Knew that artificer would be part of it, but didn't count on it being an armorer or that it'd be a gravity wizard multiclass. Hearing "Arcane Sword" threw me off, but then I realize it's the SRD version of "Mordenkainen's Sword".
Interesting tidbit. EVERY boss in the X Series is either a plant or an animal. So arguably not even 5% of his enemies are humanoid. Unless you count the smaller baddies throughout a level. But then again, then are anrhropomorphic plants and animals, so again it's hard to say one way or another whether they count as humanoids or not. Long story short (too late I know) Hold Monster is the better bet for X. Lol. Love the videos man. Trying to make my way through the backlog and get current. Really dig this type of stuff. Thank you for everything you do, man
For those playing X who want to try and play him with as much accuracy as possible, giving him a sword (longsword at most) would also give him an equivalent to Zero's Z-Sabre, which X uses in Megaman X6
I made an X build with Divine Soul 18 and Hexlock 2. Warlock is for EDB and Armor of Shadows, and Sorcerer of all of its blasting, Transmuted spell, and Haste mobility.
I've probably mentioned this in a prior video, but it's been so long since then I think I'll say it again, I have an issue with the spell distribution among the schools of magic. Evocation has the most spells of any school of magic, over all of the spellcasting classes (and subclasses), while Divination, Illusion, and Necromancy are tied for the fewest spells available, by the same metric. I get it, combat-oriented spells take priority for most players, but it would still be nice to have the schools of magic have a bit more even distribution when it comes to spell options.
Had a game I was dming where two of the players played as Megaman and Dr. Light with Megaman being a warlock/sorcerer and Dr. Light as a Battle Smith Artificer with the steel defender being Rush. It was so much fun seeing them be the characters, but for some reason Dr. Light's player thought he would be full of dad jokes.
Episode 258 of the Fire Emblem stats: Mega Man X, or X for short. By default, he's great at heavy armor (as a robot) and bows (his lemons count more as projectiles than magic, so that's my reasoning). He can have any strength or weakness other than those due to his power-stealing system. His stats vary slightly depending on the power-up but you can count on him being tanky, with high HP but bad speed.
Friendship is magic is a good show though. For twilight sparkle we could do something like shifter or centaur or satyr possibly? For class its tricky, she's smart and studies and has a familiar but she also has innate gifts like all unicorns. For flavor I'd probably say she's a divine soul sorcerer, and take a ritual caster feat. I'd like to see some way to work in celestial warlock to work in her connection to Celestia, and pact of Chain for a psuedodragon familiar. I'm never right about these though
@@randomim42 That's not bad, actually. Personally, I'd call her a Wizard, but I'm thinking endgame where she can take Shield and Misty Step as her Signature Spells. High Elf starts with a free cantrip, if you want an "innate" Mage Hand, or Variant Human gets a feat. Take Magic Initiate as a Warlock to get Mage Hand and Eldritch Blast.
@@eliasmolck5566 i just want as my goals casting powerful spells, spike as familiar, and endgame gets wings. I think you can do that as a 17th level holy souly and 3rd level celestial warlock of the chain. Probably gets the Scholar background
Witchbolt is one of my favorite spells flavor, love me some Sith Lightning. But it is butts mechanically, it scales awfully with higher spell slots. Each level above 1st gives 1d12 TO THE INITIAL DAMAGE, then it does 1d12 per round after with your action, regardless of the level it was cast at. It's actually strongest at low levels and gets outscaled very quickly.
Scorching Ray+Hold Person is an even better combo than how you described it. Ranged Attacks are only made at disadvantage if you're making them with a hostile creature within 5 feet of you that isn't incapacitated. Being Paralyzed from Hold Person not only gives you advantage on your attack against them, it also makes them incapacitated. So doing the Hold Person+Run up to them to point blank Scorching Ray gives you both advantage and makes any attack that you do hit them with count as a crit.
We actually have a D&D incarnation of Sigma as one of the chief antagonists in the Eberron Setting with the Lord of Blades who is the leader of The Mournlands aka what's left of Carn after the magical nuke went off and practically wiped the kingdom out to bring an end to the Last Great War. And the Lord of Blades' goal is ensure the "freedom of Warforged" by creating a Warforged-only Eberron free of organic-life with him as the supreme ruler by any means necessary including murdering innocent Warforged who disagree with him.
This is amazing. I don't know if you remember but I asked if you could do a Mega Man build for a friend years ago. It was me. I am friend :) But seriously, thank you so much for this!
15:50 Spiritual weapon at 7th level should deal 3d8; At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for every two slot levels above 2nd.
One important thing to note about witch bolt and up casting it with higher spell slots is that only the initial hit damage is increased the following rounds still only hit for the 1 D12 lightning damage
Cool video Tulok! The algorithm didn't recommend it to me fsr despite my love for Megaman, I actually found it through the Josuke video. :P Either way, it would be pretty cool if you did Vile from the X series, but judging by that ending... I predict that when you get around to Zero, he'll be a fighter/warlock, with Dr. Wily as his patron.
Hey Tulok, I know your patrons get more say on upcoming videos more than youtube, but any foreseeable future where you could look into how to build Cecil Harvey from FF4, or any FF Dark Knight?
Excellent build as always sir. Only changes I would make is do 7 levels of Artificer for Flash of Genius and I'm not impressed by the Graviturgist, so I'd make him an Evocation wizard. Or maybe even a War Mage. But I am definitely using this template for future character. Also, PLEASE make a Zero build. That would make my 💙 happy.
I love your videos Tulok. I am curious on how you would build Golbez from Final Fantasy IV / Final Fantasy IV: The After Years / Dissidia: Final Fantasy
I made zero as a battle Smith ranger. Cyber elf as the defender. It's easy and fun although paladin and college of swords bard is equally viable since he doesn't make his tools but Cerveau does. But artificer blade singer is my suggested combo.
First thing, warforged artificer. Only other thing I can think of is warlock for eldritch blast. If not full artificer. Ok yeah, wizard made sense for multiple attack types. I was thinking more techno wizard, upgrading your gear, getting that cannon, the various spells you can pick up along the way to 20, etc etc etc. But the levels in artificer make you tough to hurt while wizard does great for damage and damage types. Nice build. Fun to rp, and fun to play a game with.
What's funny to me is that one of the first things I thought would be cool with Armorer (After iron man of course) was a Warforge that learned how to improve themselves beyond what they were designed for. I think it could be fun to play a "rogue" Warforge that abandoned it's post as like a butler or something else with a drive for traveling.
YEEESSSS YESSSSSSS YEAASSSSSSS !!!! Btw Witch bolt is a bad spell because the upcasting only effect the first attack roll and not the rest of the dice ... meaining no matter what level after that you will use an action to deal 1d12 damage, because it says the Initial damage "the more you know!" XD also no ture strike ? the only charcter that actually have a true strike ability XD XD
The thing about this build is it opens the flood gates for building all of the other megamans: Zero, Battle Network, even the original Rock. That means he has to play them for research... And there are a LOT of games.
I have a homebrew weapon idea (havent tried this out yet so...) Buster: a mini magical canon the user attaches to their arm. Base damage is 1d6 plus intelligence mod. The user can charge the buster for a round, ending their turn unless they still have their movement action. Charging the buster adds the user's intelligence mod to an attack and half the intelligence mod to their damage rolls. Can be charged for a maximum of 3 rounds, and all bonuses are removed after the next attack they make. I'm not an expert on homebrewing things, so someone may wanna balance this
Very cool build, but one complaint (not really tho just a minor thing): I think one of the reasons most people (myself included) call Witch Bolt a bad spell is that upcasting Witch Bolt only ups the initial damage. Example: If you cast Witch Bolt at 3rd-level, you deal 3d12 lightning damage on a hit, but then if you use your action on your next turn to damage the enemy again, it only deals 1d12 lightning damage. So while the first hit is pretty good damage, at later levels it really isn't worth it to try to keep concentration for a measly 1d12 damage, by 5th level some of your cantrips will out damage that and cost literally nothing, so Witch Bolt just isn't worth it after a while.
The reason people hate witch bolt is that upacasting it only increases the damage of the initial attack but not the action you take to keep the spell going round after round. That only ever does 1d12 each action, which is worse than most cantrips after level 5. It would be alright if upacasting it allowed you increase the per round damage. RAW it is actually worse than casting cantrips.
@Tulok - you don’t have disadvantage to ranged attacks if your opponent is incapacitated... so Scorching Ray on a Held person = Adv to attack and auto crit!
I'd have put that extra point into Dex, because mobility is basically the most important thing in the games other than blowing shit up. It's a platformer series - run, jump, dash, dodge, climb, evade - all that good stuff. Pretty key. Also 3 was the best game but the original had the best music. Fite me. Actually I still have them. I should dig out my old, yellowed SNES and try and figure out if I can even plug it into my TV lol.
Are you ever going to do a build for Classic Mega Man or is this the Mega Man you're using for the Smash builds? If the latter is the case, I'll just swap Graviturgy for Evocation, and use spells that are more in line with classic Mega Man weapons and skills.
How nice would it be if upcasting Witch Bolt actually increased each instance of its damage instead of just the initial one? Doesn't quite fix how easy it is to just walk away, but it would help. Love this build! Gravity wizard has some nice abilities, and I wish they actually gave the gravity spells to other spell lists. They're so fun.
Witch bolt is bad because even upcast, the subsequent turns still only deal 1d12 damage by raw. I usually homebrew it on my games to either only require a bonus action to apply that 1d12 or do the extra spell level damage on subsequent turns with a full action
I want to say something about witch bolt. Bc it sounds awesome. But the problem with this is, that when upcast, only the innitial damage is empowerd. And startinf from level 5, just casting a cantrip is more bang for your action most of the time.
Remember, to roleplay X properly, you have to play him as wanting to be a pacifist in the most wargamey campaign possible. also, every time you cast an ice spell, you have to shout "SHOTGUN ICE" every time for maximum immersion. sorry, i don't make the rules. also, as a DM, i would give the player a spell scroll that that they can copy into their spellbook when the beat certain bosses to replicate them getting the bosses power.
Well the Eberron setting already has the D&D version of Sigma with the Lord of Blades so we've already got our recurring main bad guy for the D&D version of X to battle.
Unlike most ex's, seeing him walking down the street loaded up with weapons should make you feel safer.
Bravo good sir
"Sentry's Rest"? More like, "centuries rest", am I right?
I literally thought that was what he said.
Yay, puns! I was about to make this one
... The door is where you found it.
I love mega man and I'm sure you had a lot of fun playing this game for the video! I especially love Mega Man 6! There's so many cool upgrades like when you beat flame man you can fuse with Rush to get a cool new form! But that's enough geeking out about Mega Man! You know I'm here to plead for a build for Anderson Cooper!
It was so much easier to guess the build when Tulok gave the hints...
@@phantafalconpunch it might have something to do with him knowing all the characters from doing research for his videos and me having to google them half the time 😅
@@phantafalconpunch it either has to do with the number 6 or flames I think...
Perhaps a Big Hero 6 character?
Let’s see. We’ve got “cool”, “flame”, and “fuse”. Twinrova build confirmed.
I like how you implied Zero would have Charisma, since he would probably be a Paladin.
Well Zero is popular with the ladies seriously he hooks up with three different girls over the course of the X and Zero series Iris in X4, Layer in X8, and Ciel in the Zero series I didn't count Marino from X: Command Mission since that was more her flirting with Zero, and Zero being indifferent to it so yeah I'd say Charisma would be one of Zero's top stats.
well, in the zero series, he does basically use elemental weapon instead of getting proper enemy weapons. I was thinking more like battle master with a long sword, shield, spear, and hand crossbow based on the first mmz game, but elemental weapon is certainly a more important aspect to the gameplay than anything battle master gives you, and smites I guess fit the flavor of charging your weapon.
I'm just going to make the sensible point and ask one question: what are we fighting for?
@@skeletalgaming4198 that's actually answered in MMZ4 during the final confrontation: The people we believe in.
@@sigurdgram Huh. The more you know
Me: I'm playing a Warforged Artificier named "Y."
GM: "Y?"
Me: Because I felt like it.
GM: What?
Me: No, "Y."
I love Abbott and Costello.
My version will be named Ten 2.
"Ten" is spelled with a Roman numeral "x".
The "2" is because he was built from the parts of an older warforged that was predominantly blue. I don't care if it's clever or stupid, it just makes me smile
Yes! I remember asking for Zero forever ago, and seeing this brings me hope. Thank you.
you're not alone^^
Hey Tulok! Great video. I think you don't really understand why people don't like Witch Bolt though (but it is in character and that's what this channel's about!)
There are 2 problems with it. To start, when you upcast the spell it only gets the additional damage on the first roll, not with the guaranteed hits on later rounds. Because of this the spell really doesn't scale well. The second issues is that if the target is at any point more than 30' away from you, the spell ends automatically with no concentration check. So having to stay close to the enemy while probably being a squishy caster is pretty dangerous (this build doesn't have to worry about it that much though.)
Again, I think that it's definitely in character, but it really isn't as good as you give it credit for.
Oh god, am I THAT guy?!
Figured someone else already made the comment. At least you were good natured about it!
I like the warforged Artificer combo, a new meaning to "know thyself"
I wonder what kind of shenanigans you could get up to with Mending and such...
Me seeing this video being a Terminalmontage fan: “I’M A BIG BOYYYYYYY!!!!”
*I ‘ M A M E G A M A N N O W !*
@@Sansmemelordover Zero: Just for you... my little baby boo bop
Ace Ventura build? 👀
The irony of showing gameplay from X5 and X6 while mostly mentioning boss attacks from X1-X3 is not lost on me, that was well-done. Also, this build in general is just cool and I'm super happy to see it considering that Mega Man is one of my all-time favorite series! You rock Tulok!
This reminds me of the build I just made with my son. He wanted to be a literal vampire with laser eyes that summoned monsters and led them into combat.
So.... I allowed him to choose Dhampir (which is still in playtest.) and we went wizard. Conjurer, actually.
A bit of reflavoring gave him blood-sucking fingers (which he requested) as his bite, and scorching ray as laser eyes. The rest of the abilities? Shooting blood from his fingers to conjure an elemental, watery sphere became sphere of blood.
Yeah, it’s anime, but he’s having fun.
Is that a jojo reference? Just give him time stop and you're good
You're child made Dio
Hey tulok, I hope you’re doing well, and that the algorithm blesses you. I’m really looking forward to the video!
My sweet, beautiful, blue boy finally gets a video! I feel like X could have a dozen different builds for each game, weapon list, and armor set but I'll be damned if this doesn't cover as many bases as possible. One of my favorite videos from the series yet.
I almost forgot Tulok did an entire MONTH of Building Character, so I was shocked to see that this was Episode 258.
Race: Warforged
Background: Folk Hero? Since he is built based off of the OG Megaman?
Stats:
#1: Strength
#2: Constitution
#3: Wisdom
#4: Dexterity
#5: Intelligence
#6: Charisma
Class(es)
Basically, I see this build being made in one of two ways, either a more focused vanilla Megaman or a more game accurate one.
Vanilla Megaman X
- Artillerist Artificer: You can us this class to get your Mega Buster.
- Some Fighter levels will help megaman get that bit of extra oomph. So I'll guess some will be in here. Maybe Champion to simulate the effects of the charged shot.
Game Accurate Megaman
- Armorer Artificer: Use this to get Megaman's beefy strength and durability.
- Some form of Wizard or Sorcerer to get the grab bag of different powerups he acquires. Wizard would be useful because it shares a casting modifier with Artificer but since he doesn't need to learn to use Chill Penguin or Flame Stag's attacks he just kind of absorbs them from his enemies Sorcerer would be a little more realistic.
I’m predicting a Warforged with levels in Armorer/Artillerist Artificer and Evocation Wizard.
Ridin’ on cars!🎸🎶🎶
Why you gotta ruin a perfectly good comment by referencing THAT guy?
@@KINFIN123 why egoraptor hasn't been in any controversies as far as I know
@@damianstruiken5886 He used the N-word a lot right?
@@reloadpsi No. He did for a Knuckles joke, like, 15 years ago.
Is it bad I played the 2 second guitar riff in my head from that video?
X!? You... are amazing, man. Thank you so much for this build.
Apparently he IS gonna give it to me. Good to know.
Fun build! Good to see artificer getting some love from you (because WOTC sure doesn't give it any). I honestly miss the "What works and what doesn't" section from the Josuke build video, though. It was interesting to hear the how and why of the build working.
last time I was this early, MegaMan still made sense
When a video is this long, either he is a wizard or he have to tell us what he didn't do for an ambiguous build
Loving the longer videos, man. Your stuff really gives me something to look forward to during the week.
You're a good man, Tulok. I've been waiting on the blue bomber for a while now.
7:14 Something to note about Witch Bolt is that only the _initial_ damage gets buffed when you upcast it. Afterwards, you just keep dealing 1d12 each turn, no matter the spell slot level.
That's why so many say it's a bad spell.
I actually have a homebrew ruling for that spell, which is that after the initial hit, the damage drops a damage die. Then, every time you activate it, it's damage drops by one again, with a minimum of 1d12. It's not much, but I feel like it makes upcasting the spell worth it
I wasn’t even paying attention to the build. I was just watching the gameplay in the background remembering how much a pain in the ass some of those stages/Mavericks were. Great build though, I did the same thing for Vile, he’s really fun.
I literally searched for this yesterday. Thank you!!
Edit: The Protomen is a band that does rock operas (get it... Rock Opera.) about megaman. They are good.
You know who else would know CALLIGRAPHY? Iroh. 🕷💪🏻
This is the build I've wanted since you started doing D&D builds.
Even if it'll never quite get the respect of calligraphy, it's nice to see glass-blowing getting some love. One of my favorite proficiencies.
"Hey x! Listen x, the big boys like me, are gonna take care of this so why don't you go and wait at hq where it's safe. For you. You little baby boo bop."
I'm a big boy. I can help.
Prediction: Warforged Artillerist Artificer/Divine Soul Sorceror
WRONG!
Just kidding, I was thinking straight artificer. So, I feel you.
I was thinking something similar, and was shocked with the build we got, but not disappointed.
I figured armorer because it is the only way to get the armor without shenanigans, but I thought he would go evocation after.
Zero's a Hexblade/Clockwork Soul. Why? Wily in MMX or X in MMZ.
I kinda want an official feat that lets you concentrate on two spells at once, but have you either roll two saves or one with disadvantage. The ability to stack say danse macabre and polymorph to get a trex with zombies riding it under your control is neat
That... MIGHT balance it out? I'm not sure, having two Concentration spells up at once is VERY VERY strong.
I'VE NEEDED EXACTLY THIS FOREVER!
i plan to play X in a friend's game
Very impressive build. Knew that artificer would be part of it, but didn't count on it being an armorer or that it'd be a gravity wizard multiclass.
Hearing "Arcane Sword" threw me off, but then I realize it's the SRD version of "Mordenkainen's Sword".
Yes! Very very curious if we'll see Sigma at some point too. Hope you enjoyed playing through the games
Interesting tidbit. EVERY boss in the X Series is either a plant or an animal. So arguably not even 5% of his enemies are humanoid. Unless you count the smaller baddies throughout a level. But then again, then are anrhropomorphic plants and animals, so again it's hard to say one way or another whether they count as humanoids or not. Long story short (too late I know) Hold Monster is the better bet for X. Lol. Love the videos man. Trying to make my way through the backlog and get current. Really dig this type of stuff. Thank you for everything you do, man
Just don't forget what you're fighting for.
"dealing 1d6 lightning damage"
*X on screen gets hit by electric bolt*
Noice
Mega-man X4 and X5 were the games that introduced me to big blue, and I love them dearly.
Cannot wait to see a possible zero build. I've been playing through the Mega Man games and currently on Mega Man 3 I love this game series
For those playing X who want to try and play him with as much accuracy as possible, giving him a sword (longsword at most) would also give him an equivalent to Zero's Z-Sabre, which X uses in Megaman X6
Great job picking X5 & X6 for the gameplay!
Very underrated~
I made an X build with Divine Soul 18 and Hexlock 2. Warlock is for EDB and Armor of Shadows, and Sorcerer of all of its blasting, Transmuted spell, and Haste mobility.
"Graviturgist"? I think you mean Gravity Boy
That's the official Term, I checked
I've probably mentioned this in a prior video, but it's been so long since then I think I'll say it again, I have an issue with the spell distribution among the schools of magic. Evocation has the most spells of any school of magic, over all of the spellcasting classes (and subclasses), while Divination, Illusion, and Necromancy are tied for the fewest spells available, by the same metric. I get it, combat-oriented spells take priority for most players, but it would still be nice to have the schools of magic have a bit more even distribution when it comes to spell options.
Had a game I was dming where two of the players played as Megaman and Dr. Light with Megaman being a warlock/sorcerer and Dr. Light as a Battle Smith Artificer with the steel defender being Rush. It was so much fun seeing them be the characters, but for some reason Dr. Light's player thought he would be full of dad jokes.
I’ve been waiting for this one!
Episode 258 of the Fire Emblem stats: Mega Man X, or X for short.
By default, he's great at heavy armor (as a robot) and bows (his lemons count more as projectiles than magic, so that's my reasoning). He can have any strength or weakness other than those due to his power-stealing system.
His stats vary slightly depending on the power-up but you can count on him being tanky, with high HP but bad speed.
I hope the reason you’re taking forever to make Twilight Sparkle is because you’re building the willpower to watch MLP.
Friendship is magic is a good show though. For twilight sparkle we could do something like shifter or centaur or satyr possibly? For class its tricky, she's smart and studies and has a familiar but she also has innate gifts like all unicorns. For flavor I'd probably say she's a divine soul sorcerer, and take a ritual caster feat. I'd like to see some way to work in celestial warlock to work in her connection to Celestia, and pact of Chain for a psuedodragon familiar. I'm never right about these though
@@randomim42 That's not bad, actually. Personally, I'd call her a Wizard, but I'm thinking endgame where she can take Shield and Misty Step as her Signature Spells. High Elf starts with a free cantrip, if you want an "innate" Mage Hand, or Variant Human gets a feat. Take Magic Initiate as a Warlock to get Mage Hand and Eldritch Blast.
@@eliasmolck5566 she’s a variant human. So variant, in fact, that she’s a unicorn
@@eliasmolck5566 i just want as my goals casting powerful spells, spike as familiar, and endgame gets wings. I think you can do that as a 17th level holy souly and 3rd level celestial warlock of the chain. Probably gets the Scholar background
@@nicolasvillasecaali7662 Worship? HA! Try being obsessed with them!
Witchbolt is one of my favorite spells flavor, love me some Sith Lightning. But it is butts mechanically, it scales awfully with higher spell slots. Each level above 1st gives 1d12 TO THE INITIAL DAMAGE, then it does 1d12 per round after with your action, regardless of the level it was cast at. It's actually strongest at low levels and gets outscaled very quickly.
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Scorching Ray+Hold Person is an even better combo than how you described it.
Ranged Attacks are only made at disadvantage if you're making them with a hostile creature within 5 feet of you that isn't incapacitated. Being Paralyzed from Hold Person not only gives you advantage on your attack against them, it also makes them incapacitated.
So doing the Hold Person+Run up to them to point blank Scorching Ray gives you both advantage and makes any attack that you do hit them with count as a crit.
About time, I've been suggesting this for a while. I hope you do Zero and Sigma next. Maybe even Dr.Wily
We actually have a D&D incarnation of Sigma as one of the chief antagonists in the Eberron Setting with the Lord of Blades who is the leader of The Mournlands aka what's left of Carn after the magical nuke went off and practically wiped the kingdom out to bring an end to the Last Great War. And the Lord of Blades' goal is ensure the "freedom of Warforged" by creating a Warforged-only Eberron free of organic-life with him as the supreme ruler by any means necessary including murdering innocent Warforged who disagree with him.
Ever since the new year I kinda forgot about this guy
Seeing the X-Man as his reference pleases me to no end. I am a woman of simple pleasures.
This is amazing. I don't know if you remember but I asked if you could do a Mega Man build for a friend years ago. It was me. I am friend :)
But seriously, thank you so much for this!
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Spiritual weapon at 7th level should deal 3d8;
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for every two slot levels above 2nd.
One important thing to note about witch bolt and up casting it with higher spell slots is that only the initial hit damage is increased the following rounds still only hit for the 1 D12 lightning damage
Cool video Tulok! The algorithm didn't recommend it to me fsr despite my love for Megaman, I actually found it through the Josuke video. :P Either way, it would be pretty cool if you did Vile from the X series, but judging by that ending... I predict that when you get around to Zero, he'll be a fighter/warlock, with Dr. Wily as his patron.
Hey Tulok, I know your patrons get more say on upcoming videos more than youtube, but any foreseeable future where you could look into how to build Cecil Harvey from FF4, or any FF Dark Knight?
Excellent build as always sir.
Only changes I would make is do 7 levels of Artificer for Flash of Genius and I'm not impressed by the Graviturgist, so I'd make him an Evocation wizard. Or maybe even a War Mage. But I am definitely using this template for future character.
Also, PLEASE make a Zero build. That would make my 💙 happy.
I love your videos Tulok.
I am curious on how you would build Golbez from Final Fantasy IV / Final Fantasy IV: The After Years / Dissidia: Final Fantasy
Mega Man X. A robot who has great mobility and a big cannon. Sun Wukong has even better mobility and a big stick. A build to see him would be amazing
I made zero as a battle Smith ranger. Cyber elf as the defender. It's easy and fun although paladin and college of swords bard is equally viable since he doesn't make his tools but Cerveau does. But artificer blade singer is my suggested combo.
As a DM, I like the longer video format.
did you see Screen Rant just published a Conan the barbarian build? I think you can totally do a great build for the Cimmerian.
you forgot to include the crossbow that shoots lemons.
First thing, warforged artificer. Only other thing I can think of is warlock for eldritch blast. If not full artificer.
Ok yeah, wizard made sense for multiple attack types. I was thinking more techno wizard, upgrading your gear, getting that cannon, the various spells you can pick up along the way to 20, etc etc etc. But the levels in artificer make you tough to hurt while wizard does great for damage and damage types. Nice build. Fun to rp, and fun to play a game with.
Loving all the artificer builds its my favourite class 👍
What's funny to me is that one of the first things I thought would be cool with Armorer (After iron man of course) was a Warforge that learned how to improve themselves beyond what they were designed for. I think it could be fun to play a "rogue" Warforge that abandoned it's post as like a butler or something else with a drive for traveling.
YEEESSSS YESSSSSSS YEAASSSSSSS !!!!
Btw Witch bolt is a bad spell because the upcasting only effect the first attack roll and not the rest of the dice ... meaining no matter what level after that you will use an action to deal 1d12 damage, because it says the Initial damage "the more you know!" XD
also no ture strike ? the only charcter that actually have a true strike ability XD XD
Ooh, a Beast Machines reference! Many saw it as a subpar spin-off a a good show, but I haven't seen it in years. Still nostalgic, though.
The thing about this build is it opens the flood gates for building all of the other megamans: Zero, Battle Network, even the original Rock. That means he has to play them for research... And there are a LOT of games.
Thank you tulock for the nostalgia
I have a homebrew weapon idea (havent tried this out yet so...)
Buster: a mini magical canon the user attaches to their arm. Base damage is 1d6 plus intelligence mod. The user can charge the buster for a round, ending their turn unless they still have their movement action. Charging the buster adds the user's intelligence mod to an attack and half the intelligence mod to their damage rolls. Can be charged for a maximum of 3 rounds, and all bonuses are removed after the next attack they make.
I'm not an expert on homebrewing things, so someone may wanna balance this
Finally a Mega Man build. So happy.
OMG please do zero too now. That comment at the end about zero made me need this in my life.
Very cool build, but one complaint (not really tho just a minor thing):
I think one of the reasons most people (myself included) call Witch Bolt a bad spell is that upcasting Witch Bolt only ups the initial damage.
Example: If you cast Witch Bolt at 3rd-level, you deal 3d12 lightning damage on a hit, but then if you use your action on your next turn to damage the enemy again, it only deals 1d12 lightning damage. So while the first hit is pretty good damage, at later levels it really isn't worth it to try to keep concentration for a measly 1d12 damage, by 5th level some of your cantrips will out damage that and cost literally nothing, so Witch Bolt just isn't worth it after a while.
Never got into Megaman but its a great build. Love artificers
The reason people hate witch bolt is that upacasting it only increases the damage of the initial attack but not the action you take to keep the spell going round after round. That only ever does 1d12 each action, which is worse than most cantrips after level 5. It would be alright if upacasting it allowed you increase the per round damage. RAW it is actually worse than casting cantrips.
People say Witch Bolt is bad because only the initial damage of the spell scales with higher slots, not the repeated damage every round.
@Tulok - you don’t have disadvantage to ranged attacks if your opponent is incapacitated... so Scorching Ray on a Held person = Adv to attack and auto crit!
I'd have put that extra point into Dex, because mobility is basically the most important thing in the games other than blowing shit up. It's a platformer series - run, jump, dash, dodge, climb, evade - all that good stuff. Pretty key. Also 3 was the best game but the original had the best music. Fite me. Actually I still have them. I should dig out my old, yellowed SNES and try and figure out if I can even plug it into my TV lol.
Excellent build as always. If you'd like to make another tech-y build, please consider building Techna from Winx Club
I recently pitched the idea to a friend of mine of playing battle rainbow rockman in D&D as a warforged artificer/bard
So.... When will we get "Trusty" Patches the Hyena, the Spider, The Unbreakable?
probably after Anderson Cooper, which is coming soon, I'm sure of it
Imagine not casting Magic Stone with your bag of lemon drops...
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Are you ever going to do a build for Classic Mega Man or is this the Mega Man you're using for the Smash builds? If the latter is the case, I'll just swap Graviturgy for Evocation, and use spells that are more in line with classic Mega Man weapons and skills.
Another fantastic build! With the new UA lineages could we possibly get a build for the prisoner from Dead Cells?
With the emphasis put on saying beast machines, I feel like Optimus Primal is on the table.
Warforged druid of the moon. Plus idk.... only saying cuz we have a warforged druid in one of my campaigns....... and yes he says MAXIMIZE!!!
@@danielemery906 I didn't even catch the maximize part! With all the 90's CGI that would be one crazy video to watch.
Here’s one:
Sister Friede from dark souls 3
The only spell I could think of that would be a must have for her would be
investiture of ice.
This is Mega quality content
Beast Machines - great reference
This is insane. But more calligraphy would be better. I know you get it, but using science, we can see that double calligraphy = Double power
How nice would it be if upcasting Witch Bolt actually increased each instance of its damage instead of just the initial one? Doesn't quite fix how easy it is to just walk away, but it would help.
Love this build! Gravity wizard has some nice abilities, and I wish they actually gave the gravity spells to other spell lists. They're so fun.
Just needs the Hadouken, Ultimate Armor and possibly the golden chip so he can get Alia all hot and bothered with his Domon impression.
Thank you Tulok for the Xmazing video. Hopefully this comment will buster the algorithm.
Witch bolt is bad because even upcast, the subsequent turns still only deal 1d12 damage by raw. I usually homebrew it on my games to either only require a bonus action to apply that 1d12 or do the extra spell level damage on subsequent turns with a full action
I want to say something about witch bolt. Bc it sounds awesome.
But the problem with this is, that when upcast, only the innitial damage is empowerd. And startinf from level 5, just casting a cantrip is more bang for your action most of the time.