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Awsome, I guess the warlock just needs to remember to buy ammo, or take on a repeat weapon

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interact with object would allow a character with a free hand to draw a scroll but without a possibility to stow the use scroll, with result that the character would leave a paper trail.

Can you please cite the rule that you say allows an elf wizard to swap cantrips every long rest?

It seems to me aginst RAI to take a skill not allowed by class, race of background, What interpretation of RAW do you use to attempt to justify this?

Sorry, I’m not tracking. How does he get 2 “turns” per round?

Sorry, but i think it's only 1 sneak attack per turn.... even when you have multiple attacks... except at level 17 with 2 turns...

I guess my confusion comes from the 13 Thief ability. I dont understand why they meed to include a paragraph for spell scrolls specifically if they already have the ability to use the magic action at third lv. "Scrolls. You can use any Spell Scroll, using Intelligence as your spellcasting ability for the spell. " Ya i just dont get why they have that lv 13 bit.

How can you sneak attack twice when the PHB says you can only sneak attack once per turn? I can see two attacks, one with each hand but there can be only one sneak attack

Lucky.. realy Musician everyone in the group will get one lucky dice roll per short rest

So uh, they never left the starting area? That's a yikes.

What module are you using to show the damage on monsters? What module are you using for the emanation radius on the owl?

If the 2025 Monster Manual improves those higher CR beasts all this could be premature. If we get even a quarter the CR 4 selection we get at CR 1 then Moon Druid is up there with the most powerful classes.

Great video. Really need a new revision of this build since 5R nerfed Sharpshooter.

What about a thief/sorcerer instead. Then you can use innate sorcery at L1 to get advantage for 1 minute, two times per long rest for a minute. If you got one more level of sorcerer you get quicken metamagic. At 2 levels sorcerer you'll have 2 metamagic points + 3 level 1 slots which is 8 sorcery points or 4 bonus action true strikes per day. If you go one more level of sorcerer then you 3+8(4xL1 slots)+6(2xL2slots) for 8 bonus action true strikes without spending resources or having to scribe scrolls. You can get 1-2 more bonus action true strikes with the bloodwell vial (maybe a bit more if you GM will let you keep surplus points you recover). If we use treantmonk's 4 combats/day of 4 rounds each we've cut down on scrolls by half (with 3 levels), and at least 2 of those rounds will be no hassle set-up rounds with innate sorcery. The best part is burning slots for metamagic points doesn't take any action so you're in a 'superposition' of having the slots without needing to burn them until you do need it. You also don't need to be generating booming blade/greenflame blade/true strike separate scrolls and can just cast what you want when you need it. Maybe even a eldritch adept for pack of the blade so you have a melee weapon off CHA for the blade cantrips. The downside obviously is your 1d6 sneak attack behind your build. But, its far more self sufficient up until your L18 nova level basically. So games that only go to L15 at the max I think this would be a better option IMO. Maybe not vs. a one shot type build for the gauntlet.

I'm sorry that you're having to go thru this with so many people online, and I'm sorry that so many of them didn't take the time to watch your video and actually absorb the information. Im dealing with this same simple issue with another player, i feel your pain. If they need further guidance they can always watch the interview with Jeremy Crawford where he talks about the new 2024 Rogue... But they probably wont pay attention to that video either. Thank you for your hard work!

Did you use dndbeyond for the character build? They don't have merchant as a choice in the drop down menu.

Ive commented this before, as have some others in this video and the last one related to this build, but I still believe there is one huge issue with casting truestrike through a spell scroll. Per the rules of casting and scribing spell scrolls, you need to use any material cost associated with the spell when you are scribing the spell, and you do not use any other material components when using the scroll itself. Truestrike has a specific material cost, a weapon worth 1 gp. It would become DM dependant on whether or not you could just use the same weapon you had on you when scriving the scroll, but its not a guarantee that you CAN do this at all RAW. Youd think this would be touched on, but it seems like I can't even find the older comments. Some clarification on this would be great considering it is the main interaction of the build.

I dread the day they come out with an elven accuracy revision.

11:51 I don’t see any wording that Thief’s Reflexes would reset your reaction. You’re taking a second turn in the same round at a lower initiative. Your reaction wouldn’t refresh until the top of the next round.

Good taste in background music at the start 😉

This build is good, but you still didn't fix the fact that each scroll takes a day to scribe. Yes, you can argue a work day is 8 hours, but that doesn't automatically mean you can dedicate work 24hrs straight and make 3 scrolls, or spending extra time each day reducing the number of days to scribe higher level scrolls. But if your DM allows you to claim your character is fine living their life as a printer every moment of their life not in combat, at most you make 2.5 scrolls a day. So for every 2 ROUNDS of combat, you need a day of downtime?

Sounds amazing, BUT: How long does it take to craft a cantrip spell scroll? Even ignoring the cost, typically, we assume 4 fights with 4 rounds each and 1 short rest per long rest. So thats 16 required scrolls per day pre lv 17(18) and 5 hours downtime per day without making other players wait in ingame time. I actually don't know how long it takes to scribe 16 scrolls but I would assume this cannot be sustainable without help of others, days of downtime or an agreement to chill a while each morning.

For ranged weapons I think you need to use hand crossbow instead of shortbow, since that requires two hands to attack and if your casting True Strike from a scroll to make the attack then you need a hand free for the scroll.

You can do take a different background skill in the D&D Beyond Character Builder if you already have it from your class, but that just leftover bug from 2014 rules, in the 2024 rules you don't choose your skill proficiencies from your class until after you have chosen background. You can break the 2024 rules in other ways when you use the Character Builder, like putting the +2 and +1 Ability Scores adjustment from your background in the same Ability.

Why wouldn't you take Night Spirit epic boon with this build to further help with maintaining advantage and for incredible survivability? Truesight isn't super necessary in most cases, and can be achieved through a scroll or a magic item anyway.

This is very interesting I like it a unique play style and gives you almost a mini task to complete when adventuring about! but I did have a question I might have missed it but what was the persuasion proficiency for?

How much GP does it cost to make a level 0 Spellscroll? How much gold do y'all's DMs usually give out?

The preview of the new DMG had a big focus on flushing out the magic item crafting system which is only going to make this build skyrocket in power and versatility!

Wow I am making one of these

So how many scrolls do you need to run this build for one 4 round fight?

I want to point out that if your dm allows an illusionist bracers by taking ready truestrike. Per the rules of the ready action, you cast the spell as normal holding the release of the spell. This means it triggers the bracers allowing you to bonus action cast the cantrip.

Thanks Mike.

Yes please.

One thing to consider is that readying true strike takes your reaction. This would make Shield and Absorb Elements less useful. Not useless just less useful. By the way, using Dissonant Whispers via scroll in a party with multiple melee might generate more damage, just not from the Rogue (who used their reaction for the casting and would not get the Opp Attack).

No question that this works per RAW. But… it just shouldn’t. The idea that you gotta do this weird action economy hack for mega damage just screams “exploit” to me. I mind it less with Haste (because it’s a resource, there’s a risk factor, etc) than here. I’m coming around to the view that sneak attack dice should have been doubled and sneak attack limited to 1/round.

Would this be any better than a war cleric rogue? High elf same build take true strike and use WIS over int? Then you don’t even need to scribe scrolls, and just reverse the attack order. BA attack with war cleric, hold action to true strike. No scroll necessary. Does need 3 in cleric tho. You’d probably still want one wizard too for the spell list. But still, seems more table efficient without the need of scrolls. Maybe arcane trickster could help with scrolls.

How disappointing, you ignore the part of Magic Action that calls out magic items vs spells... oh well, I can run with that ruling. You don't need a Wizard dip to cast true strike as a bonus action, because according to the logic shown at the six minute mark, you can use a magic item (Ruby of the War Mage) to take the Magic Action (cast a spell) to cast true strike as a bonus action using fast hands. With my optimization you can now spend your gold on your Bastion instead of on spell scrolls. It also highly amuses me that Fast Hands never requires you to use your hands at all, so long as you take the magic action and a magic item is involved. I also have something to look forward to, as Fast Hands can also use Class features as bonus actions. Using the magic item Amulet of the Devout you can take the magic action to use Channel Divinity as a bonus action. No idea on where that line of thought goes, but it sounds like it could be fun exploring that path for all classes.

This build seems like it takes a lot of party buy-in and gold from the DM. 15 GP and 8 hours per round of combat seems like an extremely steep cost to measure consistent damage off of unless you're in a really unique campaign. I don't think most campaigns give the players weeks of downtime and hundreds of GP at low levels of play. Even if they do, other players get the benefits of that as well, making a comparison to a baseline that gets no magic item consideration kinda pointless.

Awesome. Now figure out Arcane Trickster.