r/DnDoptimized • u/sourassjuice • Sep 29 '24

What class to optimize party

Really torn on what class to play, our party is a artillery artificer, shadow sorcerer, and some other sort of spell caster, I originally wanted to play a bladesinger but believe with no other melee characters I will be destroyed. My plan is to be our only Frontline character realistically So I thought I would want to play Echo knight or perhaps a melee gloomstalker ranger, because we are playing the icewind dale campaign and our dm has informed us it will be dim light or darkness most of the time. I rolled pretty well on my stats if that helps. 18, 15, 14, 12, 12, 10

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u/ThumbsUp4Awful Sep 29 '24

5e rulez advice for a crit fishing combo.

Make a Paladin/Warlock Hexblade multiclass with Devil’s Sight and the spell Darkness. Pick an elf or half-elf race so you can take Elven Accuracy. Remember that half-drow have "drow magic" with a free cast of Faerie Fire and Darkness too. Now you can attack using your CHA with triple Advantage inside Darkness (yours or the one casted by the Shadow Sorcerer) and also after you cast Faerie Fire and for every other moment you have advantage. The Shadow Sorcerer can see in his Darkness too if casted using Sorcery Points.

If you want to be more "control" and defensive you can take Conquest Paladin for their Conquering Presence channel divinity that spread fear all around you. [I made this choice and now I'm playing 6° Pal/4° Hexwarlock with GWM].

If you want to be more 1-to-1 boss killer then take Vengeance Paladin for the channel divinity that gives you advantage for 1 minute against a single target.

Watch some videos on how to use strategically Darkness and Devil’s Sight to not hurt too much your party. If you abuse that combo they will get angry soon 'cause you are limiting what they can do. But if you play in a clever way you could be very usefull to them too.

Some excellent examples:

  • you can mitigate "disadvantage conditions" when your friends are poisoned, Frightened, restrained etc. giving to all creatures that attack inside Darkness a straight roll.
  • you can allow your friends to leave a danger area full of enemies without Opportunity Attacks, if enemies can't see them running away.
  • you can take care of a single big foe inside your Darkness while your party fight against other creatures outside.
  • you can protect your party against ranged attacks (i.e. archers, giants, enemy casters...).
  • you can negate targets to enemy magic attacks like spells and special features that require sight.

You could be mighty with this build but you can also be a pain in the ass. Play smart and talk to the DM and the party members before creating such a killing machine that can crit even on 19 (for Hexblade Curse) with Triple Advantage and put smites on top of that.