5 Tricks All Good DRUIDS Know
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Druids are one of my favourite classes in Dungeons and Dragons! They're also probably the most complicated, let's talk about how to make the most of them!
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Fun combo to save your tank but only suitable if you cannot break the concentration of whoever's cast heat metal and basically you have your Rogue remove the plate armor and then re-equipped them with a nonmetal armor if available. To my understanding there is no rule against that a rogue if sufficiently skilled enough can straight up remove your armor while just talking so I imagine using it as a bonus action or even just a main action to save one of the members would be suitable and then re-equipping them well armor is easier to get back into with health so
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What was the animated show used for background in this video??
@@justinanderson2460 man i was wondering the same thing. It Looks good
Moon Druid Barbarian has another nifty trick. You can't cast spells while raging or while wild shaped, but Moon Druids can use their spell slots to heal themselves while wild shaped as a bonus action. You're raging while still having access to your spells. I love it
Technically speaking is specifically says you can cast spells while wildshaped, but if youre raging while wildshaped you cant
This… this makes me want to play a Druid/Paladin now.
@@MadnessOpus Druid/Paladin would be awesome if it wasn't horribly MAD. If you're DM lets you ignore MC requirements or allows your druid to wear plate armour go for it, but RAW it ends up a mess.
@@agilemind6241 The MC requirements are doable. If you're going animal form mostly you can dumb strength, if you go with the shillaghly shtick you can dump strength and normal human is great for MAD builds.
Life Cleric / Druid is also great - 1 level in life cleric gets you 2+spell level to healing spells. with 16 wis, that's a level 1 Healing Word which heals for d4+6 as a bonus action. At level 2 pick up druid and you've got 10 goodberries per level 1 spell slot, each healing a flat 4 hp. that's 40 hp per day, for a single level 1 spell slot!
I was playing a druid in a campaign and the party got on an airship. We got attacked by an army of flying monsters (the DM intended for it to be an overwhelming force and we were supposed to use our actions to activate a teleportation device to escape). I cast control winds to create a downdraft that knocks flying creatures prone and wiped out more than half the army in a single turn. Druids are overpowered.
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My favorite thing about druid healing spells is goodberry. They last 24 hours, so you can dump any unused spell slots into free healing before every long rest.
yep my party are now goodberry addicts. if i dont give them at least 2 per day they are upset
This episode had so many tech issues it made me want to flee society and LITERALLY BECOME an irl druid. Audio will be fixed for future studio recordings! Any good Druid tricks I missed?
Still turned out great! Thanks for the content 😊 out of curiosity, how long does it take you to edit one of these longer videos?
Healing spirit is also a great healing druid spell.
@@majorillusion About a day to record, and a few days to edit I think. It's hard to say as I never time myself, I'm constantly picking it up and putting it down over the course of a week. Maybe 20 hours of editing? But I spend a lot of time cutting pngs and downloading footage too!
@@DnDShorts it's an inspiration so thank you! Keep up the amazing work
Barkskin is another fantastic spell to use in conjunction with Wild Shape since you can take those 10-14 AC creatures all the way to 16 AC. This is really helpful when you're sneaking around or scouting with low AC/HP critters. Take it from someone who got shot out of owl-form while flying away from a pirate ship and had advantage on drowning checks that session XD
My Shepherd Druid is literally the Swiss army knife in the campaign. If there's a situation that calls for some sort of obscure solution, I can probably use something from my available abilities. There was a ship getting away and my group wanted to get to it. Wild Shape into a porpoise and ferry them to it. I always keep snacks to talk with the animals so that I have spies everywhere. It's fantastic!
Druids also get Aura of vitality which gives 2d6 healing as a bonus action. I personally love dream druids because they can hand out some crazy burst heals with their 3rd level feature, and they have a lot of good bonus spells.
It's a good hp recovery spell, if you're out of goodberries. It's not really worth the concentration in combat.
i love aura of vitality immediately after combat. 20d6 healing you can split up as needed around the party is a fantastic way to get around needing a short rest in a dungeon when the party needs to get the macguffin on a time limit
@@last2nkow Metamagic Adept Feat (extended spell) turns that 20d6 over 1 minute in to 40d6 over 2 minutes (twice per day)
@@last2nkowtbh a short rest is probably better unless there's a reason you have to avoid resting because many classes recover abilities on short rests. Not to say it's a bad spell by any means but a short rest isn't just for healing, honestly in many of my games we actually forget that you can heal on short rests unless we have a bard in the group.
its worthless, with a level 3 spell slot you could cast healing spirit instead, which restores 2d6 per turn, no action required except for the 1 bonus action to cast it and doesn't need to be near you, yes aura of vitality lasts up to a minute so it can heal up to 20d6 compared to the 10d6 of healing spirit (assuming an 18 to wisdom by level 5), but you need to hold concentration for a full minute to do this and since it is centered on you you either need to be in the thick of battle with an aura range of 30 feet (30 feet is equal to or less than the move speed of virtually every thing, and if it becomes clear that you are healing your allies up from unconscious every bad guy is attacking you and you are getting squished and dropping concentration) while heal spirit has a range of 60 feet and you can move it 30 feet as a bonus action, or only use it on yourself, in which case it is still not worth it because it burns your concentration, instead of slamming down spike growth or windwall or one of those damage based concentration spells like moonbeam, heat metal, flaming sphere or conjure animals and you are burning 1 action and 10 bonus actions for this healing, with spells like heat metal and flaming sphere druid does not want to be burning concentration and bonus action on healing. Also healing spirit is capped to the number of times it can heal, there is no per turn limit, with 4 allies plus yourself it is basically 1 bonus action to give 2d6 health to every party member over the course of 1 round, you only need to hold 1 round of concentration, using something like shield (from multiclassing or a feat) or absorb elements coupled with war caster can get that easily and then with every ally back up you can go back to battlefield control. Aura of vitality may have a post combat use in healing after a fight but even then, I think I would rather burn a couple of level 1 spell slots on goodberry to heal allies rather than one of my precious level 3 spell slots. Also healing spirit scales, with a level 4 spell slot and 20 wisdom it is now 18d6 with 1 bonus action over the course of 2 rounds.
My friend did Monk mixed with Moon Druid so that way he could keep Wisdom and Dex as his main stats while still getting the unarmored defense. That way if you go one of the more dex based animals like Giant Elk you can just have all the AC.
Or just the classic Kung Fu Panda combo
Monk is a good one level dip for the armor boost and for the bonus action attack, since beats are technically unarmed. But my favorite will always be three levels in barbarian for that sweet sweet bear totem rage.
@@ThePi314Man The bears attacks actually don't count as unarmed, they are considered natural weapons unfortunately. I researched the combo so believe me. You can apply stunning strike on any multiattack hit though, so thats something.
I am/was (DM incapacitated, long story) running a Firbolg Moon Druid with 1 point in Monk for the defense buff. Soooo worth it to have my wildshape AC be the same or higher than my normal AC. Plus I took Alert early (for the +1 Wis bump) so my Perception is just nuts. Sadly, my DM HATES IT when I summon my 8 wolves to harry the enemy, lol. Hates it with a fiery passion. But hey, until he bans it entirely, it's a great distraction and flanking tool. Had never considered the flying owls though. My biggest issue is that my DM ruled that I could only learn a new wildshape if my character has seen it in the wild, so no dinos for me.
@@Ravencroft82 well that's an official rule that you wildshape only in something you saw
Always fun hearing about the best class in DnD.
11:35 druids do get greater restoration
oops, that's what I get for recording while drunk! Mass Healing Word is the main one though, that spell is amazing!
I noticed that hahahaha moment of panic as I was like “oh no, have I been messing that up?”
Also aura of vitality, which is waaaay better than healing word IMO
@@alastorcorvus Aura of Vitality is only good outside of combat. In combat there is a 90% chance your concentration would be better used on something else.
They also don’t get revivify
Been playing druids since first edition. Often overpowered, and unrecognized. Biggest problem is you often feel unbalanced.
You did forget: druids are the only class that can attune to a Staff of the woodlands (maybe artificer can?). Cast awaken every day with no material requirements and a casting time of one action. Every morning cast it and after a month you always have a posse of 30 charmed awakened trees. And if you treat them decently they may stay around after.
Thief rogues can too.
Back in 3.5, I played a Druid with Natural Spell and Augmented Summoning. I'd spend most encounters as a little songbird, healing my party and summoning elementals/big animals to help them fight. It was a blast, I tell you what.
Yeah, artificers can attune, because they can just ignore requirements of attunement.
my DM hated my 3.5 druid. as I took feats every time. wiith the silent and natural spell feats as my bread and butter, I became my DMs nightmare player in everything as a spell slinging, healing wildshape at every encounter.
Although they can't do so as an action Genie Warlocs limited wish can bypass the expensive material component.
double up your telepathic squirrels or spiders with the Observant feat for a great recon build. allows you to read lips of enemies from a distance and telepathically relay info back to the party.
Telepathic has a communication range of 60 ft and you have to be able to see your target.
@@dr.insanity9087 yeah I know, but it's still useful in scenarios where you could climb to rooftops to spy, climb trees for a vantage point or fly up 60ft a a bird. from 60ft up you can see what you need to, lipread and then report back to the party on the ground below you. could even be a bug if you're paranoid about the enemy spotting you.
My party has a cleric and a Druid, and who does most of the healing?
The Paladin...
This is so utterly correct, especially the last one. I saw the dungeon dudes rank classes based on support and i was arguably too worked up about neither giving the druid its rightful top spot
On the healing part Circle of Stars druids get starry forms, the Chalice form allows you to heal 1d8+WIS modifier to a creature including yourself within 30ft everytime you cast a healing spell, goes up to 2d8 at lvl10 as well
It's also a bonus action to shift, or at 10th level, no action at all. Dragon form, flying tanking from sky, someone go down, swoop down on the map heal them and someone else.
One thing I wish you would have mentioned when talking about wearing items while wild shaped is the fact that apes are similar in size and shape to humans so one of my favorite things to do is to wild shape into an ape and keep on my armor, shield, and club with shillelagh
As a note, Druids do get Greater Restoration. Had me panic for a moment, cause my Druid uses that and I worried I'd cheated a sec. Besides that, awesome video! I'll definitely be taking some of these tips.
One level in monk is huge because not only do you get bonus action attacks, you also get a speed and AC boost.
For the Fighter Fighting style I’d recommend Blind Fighting or Superior Technique. With blind fighting all your Wildshapes now have blindsight out to 10ft and there’s Battle Master Maneuvers that can really help in a pinch.
Unfortunately Wild Shape does specifically said that you can’t use any special sense from your original form unless your new form have that sense. So Blind Fighting Style wouldn’t work
@@honahamomoru151 Blind Fighting isn't a special sense though, mechanically; it's a fighting style. I'm pretty sure it would still work. It's essentially training that mimics a special sense, but is not itself a sense in origin.
@@aaronsirkman8375 Maybe, but it said that you have Blindsight 10 ft. If it just mimic a sense it would just remove the “You have a blindsight with a range of 10 ft”, instead it would just say the rest of the thing without saying you have a Blindsight. So mechanically it’s a sense, cause the fighting style said you have it
@@honahamomoru151 I get what you're saying. Blindsight is a sense, and senses don't cross over. However, I think that is a little too literal of an interpretation. Blind Fighting is a fighting style, so it is training that mimics a sense. It is easier for the author say "this trait grants this ability" rather than to add extra to clarify something for a narrow circumstance. The book would be HUGE if the authors did that for everything.
Something fun that I've found is stacking things up with Spore Druids. My Spore Druid is a VHuman former Soldier, so I gave him the Martial Adept feat to grant him so Battle Maneuvers. Combined with Symbiotic Entity, Halo of Spores and the trusty old Shillelagh cantrip, once per combat my man Silas can belt someone for 1d8+1d6+1d6+(WIS), dealing up to 20 bludgeoning/necrotic damage, and as high as 40 on a crit. Then as soon as his turn is over, immediately stack another 2d4 HoS damage too!
I played a kalashtar druid so I could talk to my party telepathically. I also used conjure woodland being to conjure Detached shadows that could strength drain an enemy to death in a couple rounds.
While its cool it doesnt work, ss conjure woodland beings specify fey creatures and shadows are undead
@@skalskabar2 Detached shadows are a fey version, reflections are also a fey version of shadows
@@BibesyViper Which Sourcebook/Setting are they from?
I currently play a Twilight Cleric in one campaign and a Moon Druid in another. I took telekinetic on my druid and it is hilarious to have the bear play as scorpion pulling stuff toward them.
Great tips.
Polymorph as a heal is my go-to "big heal" move with my druid. I'll also casts Goodberry every night before the party goes to sleep. All party members get two berries so everyone has a quick defibrillator to pick up a downed team mate.
The problem is in order to eat a goodberry it requires an action a unconscious teammate cannot eat a goodberry
@@MODGAMINYT That's why the entire party has a couple. If someone goes down another character can feed one to them. Saves on healing potions.
@@fightingcorsair7297 Months late, but by strict RAW, that doesn't work. The spell says "a creature can use its action to eat one berry", but nothing about feeding to another creature being possible at all (and unconscious creatures cannot take actions, of course). From what I've seen, most GMs would allow goodberries to be administered like potions, but… yeah, strictly rules-as-written it's not an option.
That being said, if you tend to have long or difficult enough adventuring days that hit dice for short-rest healing become a resource people need to worry about, well, it's hard to beat the efficiency of the "lifeberry" combo (that is, the Goodberry spell on a character with at least one level in Life-Domain Cleric). +3HP to each berry brings the total healing per casting up to 40HP.
Wild shape is a great solution for getting heavy or large things around, as it can merge with you. Chest behind a barred room?
Mouse enter, change back, pick up chest, mouse out.
This is actually a common misunderstanding. Wildshape only specifies that your equipment merges with you, not the common "anything you're wearing or carry."
throw 2 straps on that chest, it's now a bag. solved. Have more fun my man. :P
@@demnix6210 I still would absolutely agree that any DM would be well within their right to say no to that.
That's a bit much, but I did hide some of my party's loot by putting it on/putting it in my bag and turning into a dog once when the old owners came looking. Very funny.
I love the video, and you reminded of a few things that I haven't been doing with my druid. Namely casting a concentration spell before wildshaping. But you forgot to mention healing spirit. The best short rest in a spell slot spell
Fantastic video! I'm gonna show this to my sister (she's the moon druid at my table) She seems to play Druid really passively. Rarely (if ever) using her wild shape, rarely using a special magic staff I made just for her, and she doesn't seem to know how awesome Druid can really be! This video is hopefully going to be a huge help. One thing though: Can you do one for Ranger? (If you haven't already, I haven't checked) My older brother is convinced that Cleric, Wizard, Fighter, and Rogue are the only classes in the game ever worth playing, and refuses to see just how powerful each and every class can really be. But he seems to complain about how underpowered Ranger is the most. I've seen the Ranger subclasses and I know just how cool they can be, but it would be nice if everyone else could see too.
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It's very rare that I take the time to comment on any video but I just have to say that your recent videos on druid have been really convenient because I'm playing my first druid in my girlfriends campaign later today actually. I really enjoy your videos and keep em up man.
My favorite Druid moment of concentration spell then eagle was call lighting and hunting down tower mimic
Just got into Dnd over a year ago and my first character I played was a Moon Druid/Bear Totem Barbarian and this was before I was really knowledgeable and knew how good it could be I just liked the sound of it back then. Now a few more charters in and now DM'ing myself I can say she was fun af.
Every guide for Druids ever, just become a dinosaur, rawr.
Me as DM, allows Druids to take the form of a *beast they've seen before*.
Just started my first campaign a few months ago, decided to go as a druid, never really played one in any of the games that offer them, and I'm loving it so far, but with my team have decided to look into multiclassing, and this video helped me out alot. Thank you so much for all the information you provided
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Great video that I needed! I'm currently playing a Lvl 8 Circle of Shepherd Druid and it's amazing! The bear spirit totem for temp hp and advantage on STR or Unicorn for nice heals. And between the often overlooked Plant Growth to slow down the baddies, you're certainly a battlefield god. If your DM lets you pick the conjures, it's even more broken... I put most everything into getting the highest initiative so I can set up the battlefield and then retreat to a safe distance, exactly as you describe. And forget it... the utility is beyond amazing. The high Perception score really helps, too.
Druids have been my favorite D&D class since 2nd edition ! Glad to see you reminding us even here in 5E why they still deserve that!
Talking of druid healers, take a 1 level dip in life cleric and suddenly your goodberries heal 1hp + 2 + the spells level EACH! Literally the best out of combat healing
With Life Cleric Aura of Vitality also goes from an average of 70hp restored to 120 hp restored! very OP for healing.
it is cheesey though, Disciple of Life says: "Whenever YOU use a spell... ...to restore hp to a creature" if you arent specifically force-feeding, then they are feeding themselves and THEY are spell using/restoring hp NOT YOU
Or you can go Star Druid and in Chalice form, any spell slot used to heal also heals you or another creature with in 30 ft for 1d8 + Wis (2d8 at 10th). PLUS you can activate any form as a bonus action (at 10th level, at beginning of turn so bonus action still free), so if you are tanking in Dragon and someone goes down, bonus shift to Chalice and heal 2 creatures.
You'd really have a hard time making a cleric that can compete with that!
@Paul Late to the party here but I'd allow it. The extra healing was applied to the berries the moment the spell was cast. I'd argue each berry retains that, regardless of the hand that feeds, until they'd normally expire. To each their own, though
Incredible video, gonna use these in my future games!
Thanks a lot for this video! Really in-depth and exactly what i needed as i will be playing druid as my second character ever.
I used to summon a fire elemental and wildshape myself as one too. I loved it to make it apear as im duplicating myself. Awesome to look at.
Wow! You put a lot of awesome work into this!
The horrors that toy zebra must've seen...
Finally another one of these vids! Please make vids for the rest of the classes (Blood Hunter included EXTRA please, although I know it ain't official material) as well.
Can confirm, Conjure animals with 8 velociraptors is nasty early game
I have a war crime character, or at least that is what the group nicknamed him. He is a Kalashtar, Bear Totem Barbarian, Moon Druid. Since you can rage while in wild shape, it makes him an incredible tank. Thanks to his race, he resists psychic damage, and thanks to the bear totem, he resist all other damage while raging.
There are like a hundred fun ways to play druid, especially with a few dips. Rogue+druid gives you crazy whirlwind animal and elemental speed, perceptions to make any rogue cry. Warlock+druid gets you telepathy and extra slots and darkness vision, plus a ton of cantrips or awesome fae familiars.
Druids have been my favorite class since 1st edition. 5th is different, but still about as much fun as you can have. You can pick your role in almost any fight, be the solution to most non-combat problems.
Playing my first Druid and I'm gonna use these
As a kalashtar Druid, I can use mind link to talk while in wild shape
I like taking one level in monk when i play druids so i can add their WIS modifier to their AC when they're wildshaped
A party i was in with me and 3 other druids used wildshape to hide and just rain down 5 call lightnings every turn
I prefer a dip in monk instead of Barbarian in I am not playing a moon druid. It is Dex/wisdom for unarmored AC and an additional 10 movement as well as the Ki skills with a two level dip…. Sometimes I will do a three level dip for a sub class that works well with the druid sub class.
Plus unarmoured Defence is a class feature, and unlike polymorph wildshape doesn't remove class features and only affects your physical abilities. So a high WIS druid gets a higher AC while in wildshaped.
@@asheronwindspear552 Exactly, now that being said…. Feats can be created to mimic unarmored defense. I have made a few that mimic the Monk and Barb skills, including any resistances but I limit them to a minimum of lvl 4. I made one based on Int for a PC who was playing a blade singer who took a dip in fighter. While his HP was not high, he was a tank when it came to his AC. I built feat trees around my home brew feats, some feats are practical while others are for flavor or skills that fit the character’s background.
A lvl 1 feat I created called Ravings of a mad man’s next step is unarmored defense based on the monk skill. Next in the tree is taking tavern brawler, after that there are a few options that a player can take that makes them a monk/non-monk without changing class. It works for my table because feats have to be learned and choices justified.
At my table and the table I play at we use feats at the start in session zero to flesh out the character, usually two at the start sometimes three. Skilled is a freebie, then a “class” based, and then a “background” feat that is skills and/or language based but I have had players skip the free skilled feat to take the background feat and save the freebie for later as the character develops with the party. There was a fighter battle master in the party with the blade singer that wanted to learn the blade song (magic initiate feat) so the freebie feat was used for that at level 6 without the fighter taking a level in wizard, as payment the blade singer learned the martial adept feat and could choose two of the techniques the battle master had as payment. It makes for interesting roll play and team building.
The most common examples of low level feats in session zero I like to talk about are Sticky fingers and Ravings.
Sticky fingers gives Thieves cant, a skill proficiency, and a tool proficiency, ravings is half proficiency in performance, deception, and intimidation.
i played a sheperd druid who summoned dinosaurs and elementals to fight for him, only twice did i use the velociraptor trick during the entire campaign i was in. also only used wildshape like half a dozen times during the campaign. i also polymorphed the barbarian into a brontosaurus during a fight with a green dragon
The Spell, "Guardian of Nature" is a concentration spell that is AMAZING while in wildshape. The "Bestial Form" option gives you advantage on ALL strength attacks and checks + an extra 1d6 force damage, meaning multi-attack gets a lot better. (I personally love polar bear with this combo!)
Truly the most terrifying thing ever :
A Mimic with Arms
Been loving my Circle of Stars Druid, amazing heals and damage. Combine it with the fairy race and you get tons of free spells a day including guiding bolt, and rarely run out of spell slots
Druids also don't get Prayer of Healing but instead they get Healing Spirit which is like Healing Word and Prayer of Healing mashed together to get an awesome combat spell. It's in Xanathar's Guide to Everything pg. 157.
I love the new setup!
Dream druids also get Balm of the summer court, which is not a spell, but an ability that can be used as a bonus action on top of a spell and also in wildshape. They also have access to Wither and Bloom, which is a nice heal and damage for the chonky boys up front. So Wither and Bloom + balm of the summer court is a combo that no cleric can beat. Add to that a twilight aura for the temporary HP and good luck breaking through the tincans up front.
Life Domain Cleric + Circle of the Shepard Druid + Moon Sickle = Goodberry that heals for 4+1d4 per berry and you get 10 of them per first level spell slot meaning you can have a first level spell that heals a ally or your self for 40+10d4 HP. Also unicorn spirit totem, supped up super summons, and lastly Healing Spirit that can easily keep your entire party completely immortal in 95% of all fights 5e can throw at you short of your DM intentionally throwing deadly level encounters at your party.
This was amazing! Please do warlock next!!
Thank you for bringing Twilight Cleric to my attention. I'm heavily considering taking a level in it for my Eagle Totem Barbarian. (300ft range of perfect darkvision~)
Wild shape with perception can also have some pretty fun shenanigans with keen senses, if you pick up skill expert to always have expertise, observant for the additional plus 5 and then wild shape into a giant vulture then at levels 17+ you can have a passive perception of 37 for sight and smell without any magic items boosting it, that means that (again not accounting for magic items) if your rogue with 20 dex and expertise in stealth rolls a nat 20 on stealth they still can't hide from you unless they get a boost from spells like guidance
Off topic: The Conjure Animals spell is also available as part of the Human Variant Mark of Animal Handling race from the Eberron book. Conjure Animals is also available from the Gruul Anarch background found from the Guild masters guide to Ravnica.
Currently, I have a Twilight Cleric build on the drawing board that uses the Gruul Anarch background to get access to Firebolt, Shatter, Conjure Animals and a few other nice add on spells. Conjure Animals + Twilight Sanctuary = Harder to kill animals.
I'm also looking to upgrade my cleric by going Human Variant Mark of Passage race to get access to useful teleportation spells such as Misty Step, Blink, Dimension Door, and Teleportation Circle. Heck, Pass Without a Trace is even on that list. Your party will just love that +10 to stealth.
Wildfire Druid/Warlock , repelling blast any control. Or the great hex+scorching ray+teleport. Late game (antipathy) piss in the corner of a circular room fun.
I'm about to play a druid, so that's good to know. I picked circle of dreams anyway to be a support, so the "healing" option of polymorph is something i'll keep in mind for sure!
I am playing a druid in my campaign right now so this is so helpful
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Your video editing is getting god Tier
coolest thing about druids is the homebrew subclasses. currently running a circle of hunger(wendigo) homebrew druid. cool thing about this druid? it can speak in wendigo form, specifically druidic. since i have access to verbal and somatic components of spells, we have ruled i can cast spells while wild shaped. i am a magic wendigo. it is as awesome as it sounds.
just made a druid for the first time and was looking for a video exactly like this great drop
My friend actually used the Call Lightning/Wild Shape combo, but as an owl. Mote mobility than the badger, but less cover.
Such beautiful cheese.
Great video, thanks! Gotta say: Aura of Vitality is probably the best out of combat healing spell.
The ice spider is the ultimate CR 1 wild shape, you get (inhales) 60 feet of movement with spider climb, 15 AC, 26 HP, 1d8+3 damage with 2d8 and poisoned on a failed DC11 save and half damage and no poisoned on a successeful save, darkvision 60 feet and blindsight 10 feet, +8 to stealth and advantage on stealth checks in winter terrain, the same web attack and web walker and web sense as giant spider but any creature in your webs takes 1 cold damage at the start of each of its turns until it breaks free, and a 10 foot jump height and length with no runup.
I'd like to see a swarm shifter variation of the druid class. That could be some fun gameplay.
Honestly my favorite multiclass with Druid is Paladin. I made my first ever character a multiclass of both. Only 2 levels in Paladin, and the rest is going to Moon Druid. He's level 12, and can wildshape into an Elemental now. But he's stupid strong kind of. He uses his Aasimar feat to "wing out", and wildshapes into a big hitter, then just uses his 5th level spell slots to dump out a lot of d8s with a Divine Smite
And don't forget about the Herbalism Kit, in which you have the tools and storage for materials to craft (not only) healing pots during rests/downtimes for you and your teammates ^^
Hint: use magic stone, its bonus action, wild shape into an ape or baboon (a creature with hands) and you get a bit more damage with magic stone. Not a bad spell to also conjure apes and then some can attack, some can lob magic stones.
I also found plant growth, sleet storm (fog cloud too) and even control wind.
I love druids! my favorite class by FAR!
Personally I like the Dronk, higher unarmoured AC from WIS while boosting your spellcaster modifier. Plus shillelagh is a Quarterstaff or Club which are Monk weapons so if you get up close you can BA unarmed attack - damage is damage, more movement speed for better battlefield control from a two level dip.
Also thanks to Tasha's you can have a limited Find Familiar using one of your Wildshape charges, while casting it as a single action with no component cost.
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I just created a Shepherd Druid for a mass support build. Lots of summon, healing, and general support spells that will come in handy throughout the campaign
Warlock are a fun multiclass for druid (if your stats allow) if you take 2 lvl you can get an invocation that essentially gives you warcaster (which is great if your dm doesn't allow the feat optional rule)
sooooo...playing Circle of Blight Druid in my DM's campaign. We were charged with causing a distraction in a city to kickstart a war >.> I may have conjured 8 very undead looking wolves (they looked like that due to the Circle of Blight features) and the wolves proceeded to cause mayhem and just outright murder several NPCs...never been more happy to be just neutral alignment.
Side note, one of my favorite combos I was testing out at one point...Spike Growth on one turn, then proceed to thorn whip and telekinetic shove the enemy around the spike growth every turn
Thank you for the video. :)
My current moon druid. Variant Human w/ Magic Initiate feat and Mage Armor. At lower levels you can cast Guardian of Nature then Wild Shape into a Cave Bear. Using the mauling with advantage with an extra d6 force damage. All while being able to heal d8 damage per spent spell level as a bonus action every turn. You can also shove an opponent to the ground with advantage giving all your friends attacks with advantage on a downed opponent. Mage armor is very effecting with higher dex creatures. Nothing like a weasel with 16+ AC.
Great video! but remember that you can't cast 2 spell in 1 turn, only 1 spell and 1 cantrip (with metamagick or action surge etc) 9:39
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@@DnDShorts interesting! I see people in this very twitter comment agreing but saying otherwise at the same time xD and even "big DM" saying that, looks like this false rule is really implented in the mind of many ^^'
I've got my list of Moon Druid Shenanigan Forms handy for when my group goes back in for Rise of Tiamat (as we had most recently completed Hoard of the Dragon Queen) and it was very entertaining to trivialize one encounter in particular with a Giant Constrictor Snake. "What size is the boss? Oh, it's within Grapple range of a Huge creature? Well, let's see if this wor- oh, huh. It did. Whee!"
There was also early fun as a Giant Hyena tearing through packs of weak mobs. Looking forward to level 9 for Ankylosaurus & Giant Scorpion, level 10 for the Elemental forms, and 15 for Elder Giant Lizard, Hulking Crab, and (if we wind up in the water somehow) Giant Shark :D
Dwarven moon druid, with dwarven fortitude. Can take the dodge action to use your wildshapes hit dice to heal up between combats or for when you want to bottle-neck a 10ft tunnel as a brown bear to protect your squishies.
If you want an even healier druid!
Circle of stars chalice form Adds 1D8+Wis to every heal spell you cast and can be used on anyone within 30ft including you (scales to 2D8 at lvl10)
It gets this ability at level 2 which is fucking insane
Just found this! I'm newish to the druid style, but I'm a circle of the Stars Druid(if there's any tips on this, I'm open to all). I'm in love with being a druid, and our DM agreed to adjust and set up me being able to become an owlbear within a reasonable rule - it's been on my wishlist. This has given me lots of ideas and help, so glad I found this!
You know what I just might check out that kick starter
Regarding Rage, you also can’t concentrate on a spell while Raging, so it’s a toss up which is better
My group's campaign will wrap up around December. Hopefully Cleric, Fighter, Ranger tricks will be out then :)
Hah, The Druid in the art is Fulton played by the lovely Tallsquall! (we were very lucky to have him for a couple of episodes) The art created by the amazing Chandra Pandhita.
Playing my first druid today! Wish me luck!
I like my Divine Sorcerer for twinned 6th level Heals and Polymorphs, although they were a bit squishy.
Wow! I wish this video would have been a year earlier, lol! I've been playing a Druid in a game and have found them underwhelming, but always felt it was "user error" rather than a fault in the class. I'm an idiot, apparently, and have missed a lot of these opportunities! Well, now I can't wait for the next game!! Thanks!
We had a player in a party I was in who really didn't understand the Druid and was mad that everyone else was doing more damage, so she got upset and left the game. However, once you get to know the Druid, it's bonkers strong! It took a while and some trial and error, but now I have the bad guys looking to take me out first... which is a great sign!
In one campaign I was in I had a druid subclass called circle of the dragon. Once at higher level you could wild-shape into young dragons, on top of this I had two 9th level spell slots with shapechange, so could become adult and some ancient dragons. Btw I know this is incredibly broken, but it suited the campaign. So I was never outshining everyone or completely wiping the floor. If you couldn't tell the campaign was very dragon focused, cause who doesn't like dragons.
Could you do a video about the infamous spell combo "Meryllwenn's Meat Grinder" from Oxventure? I think that'd be pretty cool.
Finally! I've been waiting since the barbarian video.
11:32 I like prayer of healing, when there ain't time for a short or long rest
Star druids in Chalice form with a Moon Sickle do staggering amounts of healing