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Hmm I feel like this build might pair well with the cavalier subclass for the fighter making enemies have disadvantage against anyone besides you as well as action surge for more nova damage and second wind ig just for a little edge in tankiness. Would like to hear your thoughts on it.

Bonus actions were a mistake.

If you want to supercharge this build, just add a single level dip into fighter at level 2 for the great weapon fighting style. Sure, it doesn't boost the base damage of the attack much (a mere 1 to 2 points per hit), but it also applies to your sneak attack dice, which is the lion's share of your damage. I guarantee you, it's WAY better than the wimpy rogue capstone, especially since you can make use of it for almost the entire length of your adventuring career. This also allows you to switch out the elven weapons for extra tools (poisoner's kit, disguise kit, forgery kit, herbalism kit, vehicles, etc.), since the fighter gets all martial weapons for free. You even get medium armor and shields to help boost your survivability at early levels!

We're never going to get rid of the martial/caster divide, but pure martials should compare with each other, pure casters should compare with each other and half casters should compare with each other. We only have 2 (sorry artificer lovers) half casters, ranger and paladin. Old classes: They both get weapon and armour stuff. Great! They both get little flavourful but not crazy abilities - divine sense, divine health, deft Explorer, primeval awareness. Sure! They both get a class way to use their spell slots to increase their damage - Smite and Hunters mark. Not sure they're equal but Okay... One gets a short rest channel divinity the other the other can talk to a tree or a cow. Alright... One makes them and their allies immune to frighten while the other is a bit better at not being stopped by plants. What...? One gets 1d8 radiant damage every single attack, the other gets to turn invisible for a few seconds a couple times a day. Ummmm.... One gets a massive pool of healing that can also cure poisons and diseases that's on top of their spells and the other gets better at a couple skills. Wait... Only one gets a super powerful aura that helps themselves AND their allies resist the most worst things they'll ever face and the other took swimming lessons... My question is like will buffing Hunters mark and nerfing smite bring the classes closer? Sure. Will it alone make up for lay on hands + Aura of Protection + improved divine smite?....

ok. so now the assassin is... really obsolete.

No weapon mastery for monks?😭

I'm still at the main class, but I would like to say that there is nothing here that gives me hope that Wotc has invested in the Exploration pillar of the game. Sure, they talk about rules and classes in these videos, but I would also like to see what kind of "spirit" they intend to give to the game. Personally, that's what interests me and worries me the most. Will be there something other than combat and spells related rules?

I just had to see an old reaction since there was no react video today.

I think you should have to choose one vulnerability when you start a campaign.

My choice would be either long death monk and a few moon druid, a giant mole that wont be whacked and can spy and burrow up from under to gain surprise. Mercy monk and wildfire Also drunken monk for the 4 to 7 attacks and 3 in moon druid or champ fighter

the moon druid need armor ..... what the hell..... ac 18 max armor class is crap.... my wizard works for a 22 ac with +5 shield

I know WotC doesn't want us calling these books 5.5e, but it's gonna happen eventually, right? My brain starts to melt down slightly whenever I hear "2014 PHB" and "2024 PHB".

Go Wizard

It sounds like they seriously nerfed the 11th level options. No volley or whirlwind attack, just "splashing" damage to one other target? That's pathetic. Or am I misunderstanding something?

“Hardly anyone uses DnD rules as written.” Bro that’s true for essentially every ttrpg system out there. I just started running an osr system called Lion and Dragon and from the first session there have been homebrew rules that a used instead of rules as written and that’s only become more true as a feel my way through it. Most tables do this to one extend or another, hell, it’s one of the main rpg horror stories subject matters. The “rules as written or it’s complete anarchy” types

I wonder if monk will get anything or if WOTC are still convinced every 3rd battle starts with the party naked and imprisoned.

i would really like the claw attack damage to scale with your level

I feel like with topple the prone effect could just happen when the enemy falls below half health in the attack or is already half health. Or maybe it's hit point total is reduced until it's next rest. Or you can move your opponent around with the force of your strike by 5ft. Just spit-balling. Sad to not see a longbow centric weapon mastery, like knock to knock an additional arrow and add the damage die at the expense of accuracy or range (maybe) or draw where you pull the bow string far enough the arrow sent from the bow is more powerful, possibly exceeding it's usual range or being able to strike an additional opponent if their standing behind the target, as if the arrow has gone through two targets. Or fletch where you adjust the fetching on the arrows shot to enable the arrow to curve around on obstacle to hit a target behind that obstacle. Take your pick.

Nature's Recovery seems worse than the playtest. It used to be any spell off your land list that you can cast, but the way he said it, it's now only a lvl1 spell. Although, it does sound more balanced now (you could have cast a free Cone of Cold at lvl9, and recovered an extra lvl5 slot, after spending your normal one. That's a lot of free magic, especially considering Commune with Nature might still be a ritual spell). I know I'll probably pick Moon as my first druid, but geez Land looks flexible and powerful.

Now the ranger has more expertise, faster movement, and free invisibility while the rogue doesn't. Poor rogues.

I played in a one shot where we started in a cell. It took my echo knight all of two minutes to throw the DM's plan into chaos. And that was before he gave me Blackrazor.

I can't wait to see what kind of advice they give DMs to adjudicate illusionist's illusions. Hopefully it's something helpful. I would like to see more people play this subclass and maybe now they will.

When it comes to Conjure Animals, would every Fey beast that is conjured be an ally of each other, as well as the spell caster?

Am I missing something? Thematically - locking your patron to level 3 makes it feel like your character doesn’t know the source of their power. Does this not feel like it’s rubbing shoulders a little too closely with a sorcerer? The whole idea of a warlock is they’ve (usually they, directly) made a pact with a patron In exchange for power. This just doesn’t feel like someone’s receiving power from a decision at all. This feels like the only decision being made is “I want power” without caring where it comes from- something again that thematically really kinda locks your character into a specific trope. Maybe I’m being overly critical but it just seems like this new rule book is good mechanically but has no identity thematically.

You can say it was unfair that the Wizard got 8 subclasses in the phb but the wizards power was never really from these subclasses. Unfortunately because of the prohibition on mixing and matching the 2 phbs, 5 wizards subclasses have now been deleted from the game. Unless I misheard about the 2 phb, you can still play a bladesinger, scribe or war wizard but you cannot play a conjurer, enchanter, necromacer, or a transmuter which is not a small loss. Idk what their plan is, I'm sure they will try to reprint these updated subclasses, but this is just a giant avoidable casualty to arbitrarily forcing every class to have 4 subclasses. I just don't think the wizards power was due to them having more subclasses, subclasses shouldn't be what gives a class more power since ideally there shouldn't be wildly overpowered subclasses anyways.

So Crawford’s favorite class the warrior, sees the Eldritch knight subclass with no spell school restrictions casting a leveled spell, a cantrip and attacking with their weapon attack all while keeping their bonus action free. Meanwhile straight class Paladin completely cucked.

Just a small note on Beau's stats: People also need to bear in mind that the stats are actually worse than what they appear here, because it doesn't account for the number of times Mercer fudged a roll. So, Beau's 25 successful stuns are probably more like 20~ successful stuns, if that, with 5 fudges.

There's decent stuff in here but man, focusing so many class features on a single spell is not the play. Not even warlocks come close to this kind of offense, with Eldritch Blast. I think they got a good mindset in general when it comes to increasing versatility, but it still kinda feels like they missed the... uh... Hunter's mark on this one.

I wish that they’d make the concentration feature something closer to, “you can concentrate on Hunters mark and an additional Ranger spell at the same time” that way you could be more versatile but still use some of the arrow spells

How are you casting invocations without a patron. Narratively that makes no sense.

There's not a rule for using quarterstaff as an arcane focus, but there are rules for improvised weapons that are similar to actual weapons. If you're dm tries to argue that a staff isn't similar enough to a staff to use the staff as a staff then I imagine playing with that dm isn't going to be very fun regardless of what build you're playing.

I totally want to play a Thief who's pockets are full of odd scrolls and magic items.

I agree with your point about feats. I was very overwhelmed when I first played D&D, and that was as someone who gets hyper-fixated on things and loves to read all about them. I read the whole Player's Handbook before our first session, and had read over all the classes and races multiple multiple times while going over character creation, and I ended up playing a ranger half caster, and I was definitely overwhelmed with all the spell choices, subclasses, the concept of content in other books, I didn't understand why the subclass my table was recommending (gloomstalker) wasn't in the book I had read, I was very confused. And I had absolutely 0 understand of feats. Even when I completed that campaign, and started my second campaign, at character progression the DM told us we get a free feat with our background, and I had no idea what background OR feats were. and I thought I had become fairly well versed in the game. I was starting to understand the concept of spells, resting, skill checks, most important combat rules, and I felt familiar with my class. But yea feats felt still too much for me as a new player and if they weren't optional it would have been too much

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My first thought when hearing the summon spell options for illusionists went to shadow and demi-shadow monster from 2nd edition.

I do like how they are making the warlock more of a distinct conceptual thing with the focus on familiars and stuff. Iv often found when player 5e, the warlock just comes off as a “weird restrictive wizard” instead of its own path focused on making pacts with outer entities more than academic research.

what you forgot was how many of the rangers features(as well as it subclasses) are focus on hunter mark. you say thta at higher level you will be casting other concertation spells but that just means we arnt using loads of our ranger feature. so why are we playing a ranger if playing a druid could get us the same things(if a slightly smaller hit die). no to mention bonus action economy is bloated . two weapon fighting hunter mark beastmaster command turn invisible( at later levels) having hunters mark being a core feature that requires concertation and your bonus action is a mistake. didnt they just give the paladin to use their smite after hitting as part of the attack action...why couldn't the ranger do that

Love the balanced take! I am late to the party, you got a preview directly from WotC? Anyway, I really like everything about the new Ranger except the obsession with Hunter's Mark, but I get the feeling that I am different from most people online, in the sense that I still think the Ranger is now an awesome class to play considering it was never about damage with the Ranger. But I hope I am wrong and that people will still play the Ranger and that, God forbid, they won't refrain from buying the PHB just because of the Ranger.

Witchbolt is OK as a DM spell

Ok so where is the new class? A Tasha's Ranger that can change spells and have weapon masteries while getting the absolutely most ridiculously bad capstone feature at 20? I hope they at least removed it taking a bonus action if this core feature is already competing against all your concentration spells, because that would be aweful as beastmasters, having to decide whether you skip your beast's attack or your central feature and the added damage to keep the beast's attack competitive.

Nature’s Veil actually looks worse IMO. Yeah you get ‘til the end of your next turn, but you also get the feature way later and you get less uses of it. Most Rangers struggle to have more than +2 WIS even by lvl 14; being tied to your PB was WAY better.

Cant wait for the monk reveal, I really hope its good and they didn’t backtrack on the changes

My wife played an Owlin Wizard of Illusion. She loved playing her trickster wizard so hearing this is gonna make her wanna play more of that subclass.

I'm happy smite got nerfed. It's too strong. It changes everything. It makes all the other martials garbage in comparison. They had to rebalance the strongest elements of the game, and then bring everything else up

Has it been mentioned anywhere if HM stayed as UA6 once per turn damage?

Did they remove Hunter’s Leap from the lv7 hunter's defensive tactics options? It was such a nice defensive ability in the playtest paired with roving and the longstrider spell... better than escape the horde for sure

This channel worked hard to get paladin nerfed.

Why have the benefit being able to swap out spells when you are locked in to always using one spell? Lmao

You reinforce my excitement and alleviate my fears for the new edition, WoTC should pay you independent QA fees