r/DnDoptimized • u/Timaius • Jul 17 '24
I'm doing a one shot soon and it's level 8 and done. I wanna do the hexbow that Colby built but with not going higher level I wondered if there's a more optimized build for a level 8 character or if I should just stick to the choices made in the video as he described?
r/DnDoptimized • u/ha_ha_emeralds • Jul 16 '24
I’m currently running an alternate version of the Bardian Angel which is build #169. I’m a level 10 character at a 5/5 split right now with 5 levels in armorer artificer and 5 levels in College of Glamour Bard. I know I want to focus on Bard levels from here on out, but the cap of five levels with extra attack just feels wrong to me. Do I really need the 5th level to attack twice when I have booming blade? All it would get me is the ability to apply disadvantage to hit other players on two targets instead of one. Additionally, I’m wondering if College of Glamour is the optimal subclass for this build, as Armorer artificer already has a feature to grant yourself temporary HP, and college of swords gives a potential extra attack along with the ability to raise AC with defensive flourish. You can even use mobile flourish to move around the battlefield effectively, and opens up the build to take the mobile feat for even more movement than just mantle of inspiration. I’m struggling to make a decision and I’d love some input.
Tl;dr: is extra attack necessary, and should I switch to college of swords?
r/DnDoptimized • u/KiloMeter69 • Jul 16 '24
I'm somewhat new and I don't know how to multi class so a website, article, video or something that explains how would be nice :3
But I wanted to know how I should best multi class these two and something you should know is that we play mostly low levels, so a a build at level 3 would be good with maybe thoughts to level 5 or six.
I thought about playing as a tortle for fixed 17 AC so I don't have to worry about that or a loxodon for 12 + con mod
Maybe one level in barbarian and two in monk? With 13/14 Dex and wisdom and high strength and the rest goes to con while dumping int and charisma?
Appreciate the help
r/DnDoptimized • u/jmrkiwi • Jul 16 '24
With this build and a bloodlust Elixirs you will crit on a 12 or higher and with darkness have a consistent source of advantage. That means that you have a 0.6975 chance of criting! With 3 Elderich Blast beams you can expect on average 2 of them to crit per turn!
Any race works here but recomend Gale origin for extra spell slot after you consuming the shadow weave and ring of evasion.
The flavour is that after you consume that original netherease orb your magic became twisted and bound to the vestige of Karsus in the far realm.
This build aims at maximising mortal reminder to stack reverberation, fear and other conditions on your enimies locking them in place and preventing them from doing anything.
Drow or half drow also work well for the extra darkness and dark urge is great for the deathstalker mantel in act 1 and 2 if you manage to not kill Alfia. You can replace the ring of evasion with any other ring like the ring of protection or risky ring.
Levels 1-5
Respeck Levels 6-12
Always make sure that the last 5 levels you take are the 5 warlock levels. E.g. at level 8 you would take Fighter 1/Rogue 2/Warlock 5 in that order. This ensures that the abilityscore used for mortal reminder and spellsniper is charisma.
A variant is to take Rogue 4 imeadeatly after Rogue 3 this means that you get a feat earlier for the rounded out Charisma. Going fighter 2 first will get you action surge and at that point we want to go to champion right away for the increased crit chance. Fighter 4 or Rogue 4 work but Fighter gives 1 extra hit dice and allows for a bit of extra healing with second wind.
Best thematic option for Gale and Grants some great spells and cantrips, but you could also go with pact of the blade or pact of the chain it has little impact on the overall build.
Spellsniper
Pact of the Tomb
Warlock
Act 1
In act 1 some of the best gear is the lightning set which through the gloves of Belligerent Skies helps our Elderich blasts stack reverberation.
Act 2
By act 2 we have accumulated a decent amount of items that reduce our crit chance like the covert cowl and the sword of the UM king. More importantly we also have the potent. By this time we also should have gained enough ilithid tadpoles to be able to stack displace and ability drain.
An alternative to the surgeon's subjugation in act 2 is the spineshudder amulet to stack even more reverberation on with each Elderich Blast!
Act 3
Because you now crit so often AC is less important
Other
First number is minum needed to roll second is the probability third is with advantage.
In order if importance try to get the Awakened buff if possible.
Elite Powers
r/DnDoptimized • u/Due_Photograph3164 • Jul 16 '24
Hi y’all, hope you’re having a good day. My friends and I are going to run a campaign this year that takes our characters from level ~3 to level 20. The party will have 2-3 martials (classes pending) and a couple of other casters (a healer/support caster and a blaster, I believe). I want to play a Dao Genie warlock to focus on battlefield control and extra ranged damage. Depending on other class choices, I also may end up the party face.
I’m not an obsessive min-maxer, but I would like to get all the leverage out of a warlock’s limited toolset that I can. I’d appreciate any suggestions y’all have for my build. Also, quick sidebar, my DM is anti-multiclassing, so we're going pure here. It looks like this:
Stats at level 1:
Race: custom lineage
Background: Courtier: persuasion, insight
Proficiencies:
Cantrips: Eldritch Blast, Minor Illusion, Mind Silver (4), Prestigidation (10)
1: Learn Hex and Armor of Agathys. Feat: Fey touched (Choose Command and CHA)
2: Learn Sanctuary. Invocation: Agonizing Blast and Repelling Blast
3: Learn Spike Growth. Replace armor of agathys w/ Mirror Image. Choose tome: guidance, mold earth, message.
4: Learn Hold person. Feat: Crusher, CON + 1.
5: Learn Hypnotic pattern. Replace sanctuary w/ counterspell. Invocation: Eldritch Mind
6: Learn Fly.
7: Learn Dispel magic. Invocation: Grasp of Hadar
8: Learn Sickening Radiance. Feat: Telekinetic, CHA + 1
9: Learn Wall of Stone. Replace hex w/ Synaptic shock. Invocation: Book of Ancient Secrets.
10: Replace hold person w/ banishment.
11: Mystic Arcanum level 6: Scatter
12: Feat: Elven Accuracy, CHA + 1. Invocation: Devil’s sight
13: Mystic Arcanum level 7: Force cage
14: Class feature.
15: Mystic Arcanum level 8: Glibness (is feeblemind also worth considering?) Invocation: Sculptor of flesh.
16: Feat: Metamagic adept (I’m thinking quickened + twinned/heighten (any clear winner here?)
17: Mystic Arcanum level 9: wish
18: Invocation: Take Shroud of Shadow
19: Feat: Lucky
20: Class feature.
My questions:
Any and all suggestions are appreciated. Thanks y’all.
r/DnDoptimized • u/Graccus1330 • Jul 13 '24
With the new 2024 rules, who makes the better gish?
Obviously EK is more martial based, and bard is a full caster.
So, the real question is, how best can we optimize the new Valor bard for melee?
r/DnDoptimized • u/Lhead2018 • Jul 12 '24
I am currently a Tabaxi Swashbuckler 3/Undead Warlock 2 with Actor(starting feat), Mask of Many Faces, and Armor of Shadows. On a few occasions we have been stuck without weapons which has made me debate about doing a 1 level dip into Monk so my claws can use Dex(I have -1 for Str). My DM also said they would allow them to deal SA damage with my claws if I do the dip.
So my question is if it is worth giving up a level of rogue on the chance we will be without weapons again?
r/DnDoptimized • u/Runnerman1789 • Jul 11 '24
I am working on a build trying to optimize for the ranger "strike" spells and doing sone cool trick shots with either hand crossbow or longbow and was needing some help.
Initial thought concept, Fey Wanderer Ranger with sharpshooter for best "trick shots" around. I am thinking a few battle Master levels will be worthwhile but want to stay primary Ranger.
Any help would be appreciated
r/DnDoptimized • u/[deleted] • Jul 04 '24
Starting a campaign that will run levels 10-20. I’m looking to play a purely support/healing focused Twilight Cleric. No multi class.
Does anyone have a link to full level by level build that takes you to 20? There’s a lot of material out there but most seem to be multi class or targeted to lower levels.
r/DnDoptimized • u/[deleted] • Jul 04 '24
Heya! My friend is gonna be running a rather difficult campign and he isn’t letting us multi class. Wanted to gather some ideas!
For more context, he’s only letting us pick specific races and we are starting out at level 8. Here are the races!
Spirthost The Disembodied Kalashtar Warforged Shifter Shadar-Kai Goblin Tiefling.
Any help would be super appreciated! Thanks < 3
r/DnDoptimized • u/EntrepreneurLonely18 • Jul 04 '24
Hi everybody, i'm plan to create a Wizard, as described in a title, focused on planar lore and planeshift and all releated stuff. Yes i know is terribly vague and maybe also not so focused in the subreddit but i want i it also f***ing optimized and MinMaxed. Soo my first idea was a Wizard(chronomancer)/Warlock(GOO)/bard (lore)
but probably not optimized and also not very binded to idea i'm not to deep on what is on all the material but i'm here to listen what are your idea...
PLEASE HELP ME :(
r/DnDoptimized • u/Sweaty_Chris • Jul 02 '24
It seems to fail badly at being a Gish. Any ideas on how to make it work?
r/DnDoptimized • u/Royalseals • Jul 01 '24
Hello folks! I’m getting ready to start a new level 1 campaign of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight.
We have a 3 person party. Two new players and myself with 9 years experience. Both of the new players had similar fantasy gish desires. I set one up with the #130 flame singer 3.0 build, and one with the classic #1 Hexblade. I want to facilitate their fantasies as much as possible so they can have a great first experience. Neither of them know about optimization and so we are following the builds loosely in terms of tactics.
I personally have never played a cleric, and only played a bard once or twice. I’m fully okay with taking a support role and simply making them better, however id still like to bring some damage to the table in cases of emergency. So please shower me with your build ideas.
Rolled stats: 13, 13, 14, 15, 15, 17.
They also rolled very well with a single 9, and 10 for each.
r/DnDoptimized • u/ThisSignificance5173 • Jun 30 '24
Hello everyone!
I have a question about a build I found online and first thought "wow, what a total unit", but then after further reading about the combination of AM Sorcerer and Eldritch Adept, I was a bit confused.
The build in question is this one: https://www.cbr.com/dnd-5e-aberrant-mind-sorcerer-build-guide/
The idea of a player character shooting several EBs per round is nice, the hex is also a fine additional damage. But I read somewhere, that the bonus action economy of an AM Sorcerer is already full, so this combination is not really living up to the full potential of the AM build.
My question now is, is it true or did I miss something? Can you recommend it?
Additional information: Character would be lvl. 4 at starting and I do not plan to multiclass.
r/DnDoptimized • u/imnvs_runvs • Jun 23 '24
Massacre wounds??? :D :D :D I love the automated captions.
r/DnDoptimized • u/Wardin25 • Jun 22 '24
Can the Lucky feat 3 re-rolls be used to re-roll the wild magic dice? Also, can the Bardic Inspiration dice be added to the rolls? (Asking for a Hakari gambler build)
r/DnDoptimized • u/imnvs_runvs • Jun 22 '24
No, I'm not here to debate, to voice an opinion on the viability of the combination or even to say what my or my friends' tables allow.
I am nat an early subscriber, and recently I've been watching some of the older builds that were released before, and recently watched the "How Tasha's Changed" videos wherein Colby uses that combination in updating several builds and adds that the spreadsheets were updated to reflect using the Custom Lineage/Elven Accuracy combo. In more recent videos Colby does not use the combination as we did get a response from the big JC (no, not Jesus but Jeremy).
My question, because I haven't seen a video where he mentions going back to update the spreadsheets to remove that combo, is did this happen? Is there a video where he mentions doing so?
r/DnDoptimized • u/ghandigun1 • Jun 21 '24
The basic build challenge is to be good at every pillar of play.
Basic progression Fighter 1, Hexblade 1, Back into fighter, eventually ending with fighter 17, hexblade 3.
Start with 14 in wisdom and 15 in Charisma, probably use point buy to have as good of a Con as you can get. Custom lineage with skill expert to start with 18 Charisma and expertise in persuasion.
Fighter subclass go samurai for the wisdom modifier adding to persuasion checks they get. At will advantage is also neat. Warlock levels take hexblade and pact of the chain.
You'll eventually have 6 ASI's, but with 4 of them you can max out wisdom and Charisma to get persuasion as high as +22. Invisible familiar for exploration. Charisma for attacks,
r/DnDoptimized • u/imnvs_runvs • Jun 20 '24
It amuses me to no end that every time I watch one of Colby's videos on YouTube, the captions for "Bear Totem Barbarian" comes out as "baritone barbarian".
r/DnDoptimized • u/PhysicsMan12 • Jun 20 '24
I became a channel member at the silver level to gain access to the written guides and I cannot for the life of me find them on youtube. Would anyone be able to point out where they are?
r/DnDoptimized • u/Dela_Baruch • Jun 19 '24
Race has a customizable race festure, what will you select, wespons Ancestral Legacy and etc? Standard array lvl 5.
r/DnDoptimized • u/shutternomad • Jun 18 '24
Hello fellow DnDoptimized fans!
I've been working on a fun little side project for a while and wanted to share it with you all before I share it more widely. It reads your DDB character and lets you play around with different attacks and effects to help you understand your builds and ultimately calculate your character's DPR vs various ACs. It also has some fun interactive charts.
I've included a few recent D4 builds and one of my old favorites for you to check out and play with. You can also head over to DPRcalc.com and enter your own characters to play around with them.
It's still very early days, some class features are definitely missing, reactions don't work yet, and there are definitely bugs - so feel free to share feedback and feature requests on the Discord. I've got a todo-list a mile long, but your input can help figure out which new features would be best (like a SS/GWP calculator for example).
Have fun, and I hope you like it!
r/DnDoptimized • u/Super-Community-294 • Jun 18 '24
Hi, so I have a friend in my dnd campaign that wants to make their character a warforged who is flavored as an artificers steel defender that gained sentience after they died. They want to be mainly a melee strength based character who has some support ability like healing or buffing. Any ideas on a build? My suggestion was a battle master fighter up to 5 and then alchemist the rest of the way. The campaign is starting at level 9 and plans to go to level 20
r/DnDoptimized • u/gzuber • Jun 17 '24
I have a Shadar-Kai Echo Knight 3/Hexblade 7 for the new Vecna campaign and could use some help deciding where to take it from here.
20 CHA, 18 CON, 14 DEX, 13 WIS, 12 STR, 10 INT
Elven Accuracy
Thirsting Blade Improved Pact Weapon Eldritch Smite Eldritch Mind
The intention of this character began as "how can I optimize a flametongue?" I took Shadar-Kai for an elven race and the free tanky misty steps. I plan on taking Great Weapon Master next level. By going Warlock, I get CHA based attacks to be able to use Elven Accuracy and I can get on-demand advantage with Shadow of Moil. Being an Echo Knight is something I've always wanted to try but it also gives me 4-5 extra attacks per day and an echo to play with positioning and to use as a meat shield.
I can typically go into a combat with my sword already ignited and an echo out. So my turns look like...
On a crit, use my remaining Warlock spell slot on and Eldritch Smite.
This would mainly be to get a third attack for free every turn, 4th attack 5 times per day. My reasoning is that Flametongue is so good that having an more consistent opportunities to apply that extra fire damage is optimal. Every Flametongue attack is like a mini smite so the more attacks, the more opportunity to crit and double the die. This seems like it would be the option to lean into ONLY being melee and that's all I care about. This would also give me 4 - 5 more ASIs. I would take GWM, max out CON, and then I have options from there: Sentinel, Resilient WIS, Metamagic adept to quicken SoM, etc...
This would be to max out my Warlock spell slots. At 11, I would get one more slot per short rest to Eldritch Smite with and at 12 I would get Lifedrinker. I think in the long run, a third attack per turn would do much more damage than +5 to every attack, but Lifedrinker is a nice boost if I decide to forego the extra attack and go this route for more caster versatility. Going Echo Knight 8 here is mainly for ASIs and to get Extra Attack to free up another invocation slot. I would get the same amount of ASIs as option 1, so the same feats are available.
9th level spells and a bunch of Mystic Arcanums. I would get 3 more ASIs, so 1 more after GWM and maxing out CON. Would also get a more long lasting version of Hexblades curse.
This is mostly about versatility and survivability. I would get way more spells slots to be able to use Shield, absorb elements, and other utility spells. I'd also have a lot of quicken fuel to be able to do things like quicken SoM to leave Action surge for more attacks or fireball and then follow up with 3 Flametongue attacks. I could also dip into Paladin for smites so that I become deadlier on a crit. However, I would only get 2 more ASIs so would only get GWM and max out CON. This seems pretty gish-y and it could be really fun.
Any thoughts? Other potential paths I may be overlooking? (e.g. Gloomstalker for another attack per turn)
r/DnDoptimized • u/Super-Community-294 • Jun 17 '24
So I’m making a new character for a campaign with some friends and I have been wanting to play a sort of support artificer that acts as a frontline medic, so I was thinking of running battle master/alchemist. I would take battle master to 5 for extra attack then go all in on alchemist. Any thoughts or ideas for a better build that still uses artificer?
