Glad I wasn’t alone in IMMEDIATELY thinking about stacking “Push” with Battlemaster. I’m a simple man…I want to send that guy flying across the entire room.
What I'm gonna do is use disarm with a push weapon, make the enemy drop their weapon and throw them away from it. "What now, punk?" as I use my movement to step on the space where their weapon is dropped to prevent them from getting it back. It's gonna be great.
@@jabbourchris i mean it should be very powerfull, there an epic boon for giving a ninth level spell slot, so it's great that it's that powerfull actually
@@minerbrine1861 I don't think it is a mistake. Fighter at lvl 19 hits 3 times, this lets him make one of those three attacks to be an automatic hit. But I think that means no chance for critical strike.
The combat stuff is great, but honestly having some extra RP things with second wind excites me more. It means it doesn’t always make sense for me to pass skill checks to other people, so long as I am moderately good at it. As it is one of my favourite classes, I definitely am looking forward to playing it once the handbook comes out.
@@ConstructedChaosOverview of confirmed weapon mastery: 8 properties Cleave: If you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can make a second attack against a creature within 5 feet that is also within your reach. When you hit with the second attack, you can roll your weapon’s damage, but you don’t add your ability modifier unless it’s negative. Graze: If you miss a creature with your weapon, you deal damage equal to the ability modifier you used to make the roll. Nick: The Nick mastery property allows you to make the additional attack you receive from wielding two Light weapons as part of the initial attack action. Push: The Push mastery property allows you to launch a creature you hit 10 feet straight away from you without a save. you can only push enemies Large or smaller. Sap: When you hit an enemy with an attack, this mastery property inflicts Disadvantage on your target’s next attack roll before the start of your next turn. Slow: When you hit a creature and deal damage, you can reduce its Speed by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. a creature’s Speed can’t be reduced by more than 10 feet with this property Topple: When you hit a creature, you can force it to make a Constitution saving throw or fall Prone. The DC for this save is 8 plus the ability modifier used to make the attack plus your Proficiency Bonus. Vex: When you hit a creature and deal damage, this mastery property gives you Advantage on your next attack roll before the end of your next turn.
@@haiclips3358 I pulled this from D&D Beyond: "When you make an attack with a weapon that has the Light property, you can use a Bonus Action to make one attack with a different Light weapon you’re wielding. The Nick mastery property allows you to make the additional attack you receive from wielding two Light weapons as part of the initial attack action. Keep in mind that this doesn’t mean you can make a third attack as a Bonus Action, as the Light property specifies you only get one extra attack." From what I understand, as a lvl 5 Champion fighter with the Telekinetic Feat I should be able to attempt a Shove as a bonus action, then take the Attack action to make a Shortsword attack with one hand, then make two dagger attacks due to the Nick property. All attacks would have advantage on a successful shove; one dagger attack would still be made with advantage - all great due to a higher crit chance. 👍
@@WyrmHunter That all depends on which weapon is your primary and which is your secondary. So if your shortsword is primary you would make two attacks with that, and then one with the dagger. If your dagger is primary you would make two attacks with the dagger before you attack with the shortsword once. And I am not sure you would be able to make an offhand attack with the Shortsword as part of the attack action as it does not have the Nick property. It would have to be your bonus action. And why would you want to use the lower damage dagger twice anyway? Shortsword does slightly more damage. With that as the primary, you would have Shortsword Vex attack, 2nd Shortsword Vex attack with Advantage, Nick Dagger attack with advantage, and TK shove whenever.
@@vindex57 the subclass has always been more than a bit anemic because despite being "buff the numbers" it didn't do a great job at buffing the numbers. The changes outlined here add a bit of fun stuff to chew on though, I think, between having always-on ADV on initiative, getting free movement whenever you crit to add more flexibility, and then the free Inspiration every combat turn at lv10 as a fun little resource to give some player choice on how to use it during any given round. It's not much in terms of complexity, but with how these things interact with the new additions to the Fighter chassis, I feel like I can actually call Champion a subclass rather than a waste of paper, and that's got me kinda hopeful to see what they do with the other reworks :)
I was talking about this to a friend earlier, like, this is something I really want to try, but it also makes me want to try shortsword and shield, (as shortsword, unlike rapier, is a slashing weapon and stacks with slasher)
I am a little worried about it on a theming angle. If I've been using a longsword, my longsword has Sap, which means instead of 4 options when I swing, I have three. But if I was using a weapon like the Battleaxe with topple, I'm doing the same damage, but have all 4 options. I might give a player who has been consistently wielding a weapon with one of these masteries the chance to swap one out (kind of like skill profs from multiple sources) so that this isn't an issue
I wish Arcana Archer got fixed. Two shots per entire playthrough of a fighter is stupid. Either be tied to your Dex or Str modifier or even proficiency bonus I would settle for LOL
You get to pick new shots or new abilities what your Quivers will do. But you still only get to use this ability two times per entire campaign. (Arcane Shot At 3rd level, you learn to unleash special magical effects with some of your shots. When you gain this feature, you learn two Arcane Shot options of your choice (see "Arcane Shot Options" below). Once per turn when you fire an arrow from a shortbow or longbow as part of the Attack action, you can apply one of your Arcane Shot options to that arrow. You decide to use the option when the arrow hits, unless the option doesn’t involve an attack roll. (You have two uses of this ability, and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a short or long rest.) You gain an additional Arcane Shot option of your choice when you reach certain levels in this class: 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level. Each option also improves when you become an 18th-level fighter.)
If there is no Sage advice that updated this. Which I'm going to look now because you never know if I got an update in one of those. Rule as written versus rule as attended. It's pretty much spot on. You only get two shots. No DM's were willing to compromise for me not in a bad way. Just that's the rules.
The removal of spell school restrictions from the Eldritch Knight and Arcane Trickster are great enhancements for roleplay. Lots of canon swordmages in the Realms now will have an easier time being built.
@@LuchoCl93 They've specifically pointed out the Psi Warrior and Soulknife as getting redesigned due to being too weak and bland. They were the first examples yesterday, while talking about how much they wanted to get psionics done justice in this book - and they were also the first redesigns to be mentioned weeks ago in the teaser discussion.
Im sad they didn't go with making Battlemaster part of the core Fighter. For a "simpler fighter" (it's not even that complex) people can go to barbarian or rogue
I like the way the abilities for Fighters with tactical mind and the barbarian ability to be more useful for skills outside of battle. Gives them more outside battle stuff instead of just standing behind the rogue and bard
The very first PC I made in D&D was a human fighter champion with a halberd and that was in 2014. I want to remake that same character with the 2024 rules and see how they stack up!
Eldritch Knight is sounding much stronger now, no longer the niche pseudo-gish option but now potentially the gish-powerhouse, it’ll just depend on how good you can get cantrips to be.
I feel like Weapon Masteries in particular are shaping up to be a really solid way to kinda guarantee value from your cantrips on an Eldritch Knight. Like, using GFB and Booming Blade as examples, Push can be used to guarantee both effects, either pushing an enemy to a spot adjacent to someone else so that your followup GFB can splash on both targets, or like at lv9 dropping a Topple + Booming Blade onto an enemy and then doing a Push attack afterward. The possibilities go up pretty heavily with Action Surge adding on more attacks, the bonus movement from Second Wind, Improved War Magic, and all those sorts of things. I REALLY like how it's shaping up personally
I like the existing combo of BB then moving yourself 5 feet back with a bonus action shunt from the Telekinetic feat, making that stuff possible without a feat sounds like great QoL
What I want to see for champion fighter, are magic items and feats (like slasher, and redesigned vorpal sword), which trigger on a crit, not just when you roll a 20 on the dice I have basically always wanted to play a champion fighter, and one thing that put me off is getting a legendary vorpal sword and it basically just being a regular magic sword, but if it and the sword of sharpness are altered to work on crits, not just on nat 20s, I will be so darn excited to play one
Level 9 feature is really good once you get to 11. if you have topple, you can knock them down, slow and then push with three attacks. With 15ft movement to get up that could Make it impossible for average speed creatures to reach you (presuming you step back a little bit)
You still get the other 2 masteries. If you want to squeeze every drop of mechanical blood out of the stone yes it does, but the previous weapon system also did that, for everyone, ten times worse.
@@brilobox2 look, i agree, this system is better. I still don’t think it’s gonna be enough to make martials anywhere equal to any spellcaster, which is disappointing. I was just also confused why they would be three that show up in most weapons, which just means (not even in an optimized sense) you just don’t get to use all the aspects of your class feature. it’s like saying, “you can rage, but you only get the melee damage this time, and then next time, you can take the damage resistances but not the melee damage.” It’s just kind of… dumb.
I still think it's a travesty that they didn't collapse battlemaster into the base fighter class. If you find the maneuvers too "complex", then don't play with them, simple as that. Oh well, back to using Laserllama's fighter!
Whole heartedly agree with surprise, stuff, feels a lot more fun to me than just missing a turn. Though as a DM if there is no logical way for an NPC to react to something like someone being invisible I'd let the player do something out of initiative and then once the first set of those things happen which must be simultaneous somehow then you can do initiative. But if you're just jumping from a hidden position say from 20ft away I don't think you should get the entire free turn
Second Wind can be used multiple times (2 at 1st level), restores a use on short rest and all on long rest, and can be used to add 1d10 to failed checks. Also at lvl 5 it allows you to move half your movement without provoking Opportunity attacks whenever you use it. Also Indomitable now allows you to just reroll a failed save with a bonus equal to Fighter level. Weapon Masteries are also a whole thing.
So Fighters didn't get superiority dice because some people want a simpler class... That reasonaing would only make sense if we didn't already have a simpler warrior class. It's called Barbarian. Do we really need both warrior classes to be "simple"? Really disappointing, though at least the 2024 Fighter is at least better than the trash tier 2014 version.
I don't really like his statement about there being a whole array of players who aren't that interested in playing Battlemaster, hence why they scrapped the idea of merging it with the base class. I for one am usually uninterested in Battlemaster and usually go with other classes... but it's not because I hate the Battlemaster. It's because the fantasy of battlemaster is so basic compared to so many other more flavorful subclasses. I've played 3rd party fighters before which merge the battlemaster with the base fighter, and I gladly use the features there while also enjoying the much richer flavor that other subclasses give me.
I agree in my homebrew I gave the fighter a limited number of maneuvers and Battlemaster dies and then if they decided to take the Battlemaster subclass, they become up to par with the 2014 Battlemaster fighter
I'm actually a little worried for the battlemaster, because while they are AMAZING at level 3... by level 9 or so they aren't DOING anything new. They stagnate quickly, and that is a real disappointment
Respectfully I disagree. Baseline fighter is supposed to be one of the simplest classes. Keeping maneuvers in battlemaster lets you decide the amount of complexity you want.
@@qwerty098cool1 Baseline fighter isn't "supposed" to be a simple class. It is only that way because JC and the team wants to make it that way. It does not, in any way, inherently need to be the simplest class.
@@qwerty098cool1 The idea that the fighter needs to be the "simple class" seems almost toxic to the game. It has roots in Gygax thinking veteran players would "graduate" from playing fighters to playing wizards and hiring fighters. And it leads to all sorts of unfortunate decisions
I think one of the key flaws in D&D combat is how often it is correct to stay put when in a fight; to just stay in melee range of the one enemy you're fighting until they're dead (and this goes for enemy creatures too). There's little to no motivation to move away from enemies in order to pursue other ones unless a friend really needs help. I like that the Fighter now has an ability that allows them to move out of combat range of an enemy without provoking AoO, because it makes the decision to actually move around the field more likely.
Hearing that the eldritch knight being able to replace an attack with a cantrip makes me giddy, both the min-maxer in me and the "features reflecting story' aspect of me. It never made sense why the magical fighter, who was specficially trained to qeave those two practices together, couldn't do that, though I could also understand doing that could potentially be broken.
The Champion Fighter artwork depicts them with a Vorpal Sword. For those unaware, rolling a 20 on an attack roll with a Vorpal Sword instantly decapitates an enemy (or deals an extra 6d8 damage from the hit, at the GM's discretion). RAW, this effect does not interact with the Champion's Improved/Superior Critical feature, since it explicitly states that the roll has to be a 20. HOWEVER, if they change the wording of the Vorpal Sword's effect to "On a Crit" instead of "On a 20", Champion Fighters would be rolling around with a 15% chance to instakill their victim ON EVERY ATTACK ROLL. This does not even factor in all the new advantage shenanigans that Champions have access to. Admittedly, this interaction is wholly dependent on your DM giving you a Vorpal Sword, and making it to at least level 15. But if the stars align... Who wants to RP One Cut Man?
"THE FIGHTER" Being OP now, thank you XD Fighter + Greatsword = Death. I miss? I still hit halve your HP low level mob! now lvl 1 onward is PLAYABLE AGAIN given missing doesnt end your life anymore as easily.
what I don't understand is how most campaigns will end once you hit max level but when I run my games I make sure that all my players get a chance to enjoy being max level for a while and us what they earned, Bottom line, DMs STOP ENDING THE CAMPAIGN WHEN THE PLAYERS HIT MAX LEVEL. let them enjoy being powerful and have fun playing with max level abilities.
Oof, I don't care for the new surprise rules. For narrative reasons, having enemies (or PCs) gawking for the whole first round of combat is fun. 5E's 2014 rule of having the ''surprised'' condition for the first round of combat was simple and effective to that end - and keep in mind, not all PCs or enemies had to be surprised, either, setting up fun and dynamic situations. RAW, this 2024 update means that your efforts to surprise an enemy, even with a character with advantage (apx 30% higher roll) can still thwarted by a sleeping enemies roll pretty easily or lots of stuffs passive perception, which will not be satisfying. Furthermore, RAW, initiative order doesn't change after the first round of combat, so maybe you did get to go first, but the surprise really didn't affect the action-economy of the battle at all. Even with "chaos initiative," where you roll (probably with a digital tracker, and which is more fun and dynamic IMD) every round, higher initiative characters do stand a much higher chance of going quicker the second round if they didn't get to go first the first round... but it's still just one turn per character per round... TLDR: being higher in initiative order really only helps the first round of combat, then it's wait your turn...
I'm so excited for Fighter now! I loved the play test fighter and only thought they needed to fix Master of Armaments and they did with Tactical Master. This is so great! Thank you!
So now I can do three full attacks and still tack on a Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade as the fourth hit, instead of giving up all but one attack to do a magic melee combo. Neat.
I'm gonna buy the PHB and literally level up my character to level 20 somehow and play it against my DM who's running a level 1 campaign. If he allows me I'll literally annihilate everything or he'll make me the final boss 😂
Very disappointed with Psi Warrior receiving only minor adjustments. The concept is fantastic, but the resource management is done poorly, especially at the earliest levels.
I really wish that battlemaster was just rolled into the main class. I really feel that makes the whole fighter class better and closer to how amazing magic classes are.
Too far from being "backwards compatible" with 5e. A lot of these features are like 3 to 3.5 and you can staple them into existing stuff. But removing a subclass and overhauling how maneuvers function as a base class feature creates a new class.
I think the Weapon Mastery system is fine for that. Think of it like "Battlemaster Lite" and if you want to go all in on that style you go Battlemaster.
@@karsonkammerzell6955 In some ways, yes. I do find it said every weapon only gets one option though. Which mostly makes every attack a little more complicated but doesn't really give you many meaningful options during combat.
Im excited but I feel they dropped the ball on the high level abilities again. Level 18, I have a 5% extra critical death save chance! That is only useful if I die! Maybe let you use a second wind to stay conscious? or give something that makes you not want to multiclass? They always have situationally ok late game abilities. I know they put tons of thought into everything and I cant wait to multiclass monk and fighter and rogue do all kinds of crazy things, but I wish there were stronger end game abilities to at least make me question whether I wanted to multiclass or not! Fighter ends at level 11 lol
This is so rubbish. There is no character growth, you might as well start of a fighter at 9th level. They act like this is cool, but its simply cheapening everything. These people have knowledge but no understanding about what makes D&D great.
1.) I hate fighters. No offense but prior to 4E fighter was boring. 3E you had the feat trees which were also boring... 1-2E fighters were jokes... 2.) I always compare new class to my 5E class SOO... L.11 Human muniver battle master fighter with martial adept feat as well as mobility and shield master feats... A.) expend second wind to ability check .. ehh. You get it like once per short rest? B.) battle master better out of combat skills already Tactical strike... Better tactical mastry good.. (Side note .. fighters are becoming more 4E typr fighters.... Good?) Bartle master ... More like 4E Epic boon... Ehh how often is this going to cone up? God teir... Overrated ... 3.) protection fughter not locked in... Ehh. Goot but not best 4.) weapon master... Yea your really stuck... But ok interesting... B.) fighter better multi class than base class 5.) battle master... Still like 4e fighter... 6.) new Munivers... Good... 7.) non-combatant munivering.... Good 8.) know your enemy... Great action economy. Better than befoe
Well. I feel like I was the only playtester that put this in input for this issue, and it wasn't read or just ignored. All the tweeks to actions and action surge so players can't multiclass in wizard and action surge to do 2 fireballs in one turn. Has now fallen on the Eldritch Knight. And now this subclass has been improved and nerfed in one smooth stroke. What we've done here is open the EKs bonus action and allows a few more attacks to be made as well when it comes to war magic and improved war magic. This is great until you stop and think about it. Limiting improved war magic to lvl1 and lvl2 spells is lame. At that level The EK should be able to cast any level of spells within his spell list, which, as a 3rd caster, only goes to lvl4. At fighter level 20, the EK only gets 3, lvl 3 spell slots and 1, Level 4 spell slot. Improved war magic is a major nerf! This is literally the sub classes Capstone ability. I height of the EKs power. Your taxing half his attacks snd your saying that the EK can only action surge and double up 2, lvl 1 or lvl 2 spells in a turn. That at level 20, the EK isn't capable of casting 2 spells of a higher level with his action surge. Is Wotc so determined to just make sure this is not a thing.l!? 2 high level spells in one turn? This should be the awesome niche ability specific to this subclass that is only rewarded by reaching a high level with 0 multi classing. And they jerked the rug out from under the EK by doing this. They buffed the mess out of the Battle master and the Champion. Only thing they did for the Ek was really open up thier bonus action and give them access to all schools of magic which was a bad part of the build to begin with and shouldn't have been done in the first place. Fixing what's wrong and improving a subclass are 2 different things. I'll probably use the new EK, but allow a no spell level restriction on improved war magic at my table. They always overdo too much for some and undercut the rest. Either way it is still not well balanced in my book.
Honestly while Mastery is better than nothing it feels like they could have done so much more with it. Masteries should have been moves that can be used with any weapon, why cant a shortsword graze you, why can't an Axe cleave & topple. It just feels like WOTC are deathly afraid of making something too powerful even though there are already soo many Overpowered options, why not just go to town and even the playing field.
litereally champion and eldritch knight become super strongs and funs! 11 champion fighter and 2 barbarian have 3 attacks can have rage + reckless attack and of course the heroic warrior. so already have 19-20 crit and by reckless you roll 2 dice and then you can reroll at least one or maybe both dice! then you can attack 2 too! so have 7-8 times to roll crit.
I know its not PHB but Id really love to see a modern interpretation of the Banneret (Purple Dragon Knight). I just really like some of the thought behind it despite its execution being a bit lackluster
Everyone can do everything. The Fighter who needed to have a limit on weapons accessible can now do rider effect on each and every weapon attack. This is just going to be a cumbersome system in 5.5. A better choice would've been to give fighters the ability to be proficient with a number of weapons equal to their proficiency mod, along with weapon mastery giving a limit of uses equal to the proficiency mod. Instead, your four player game feels like an eight player game now.
Not rolling in battlemaster was a major misstep IMO. Certain features sound like they improve the situation somewhat, but it still looks like fighters are going to be a braindead class to play, where unless you're playing an Eldritch Knight or a Battlemaster, you get to just make your attack and move on, with little other mechanical incentive to think outside the box. Still gonna have to homebrew battlemasters out myself I guess.
This video start with Rangers and fighters are neck and neck in changes. Some need to edit all their video.. taking out what already was printed before 2024.. to actually see what was really add. Plus, I love how this is a script written interview.
Man, i am so pumped. Was just reading about the new Barb sub class. I am excited about the game becoming even more tactical for players. As a DM I also cant wait for them to come up with some insane synergies or tactics.
Thanks for expanding on your reasoning and process behind not giving all fighters a list of manuevers - that was really neat to sort of "peek behind the curtain" a bit and now that I have that perspective I can understand your decision a lot better. Thanks!
"You can put any weapon in their hands and they know how to use it and they know how to use it well" Like Pinkertons and assault rifles used on kids with MtG cards?
Anybody else interpret that the Psi-Warrior didn't get anything new? At the very least I was hoping for an invisible mage hand at level 3. As it stands tactical mastery makes telekinetic thrust kind of redundant.
Warrior fighting style could use some spellcaster style. You pratice your skills at morning and changing styles that way "if u can pratice it for N hours". Sounds more like a fighter.
trivializing encounters? of course Its like you shouldn't have given that +3 vorpal greatsword in the wild beyond the witchlight in which I proceeded to behead both the wizard and the fighter before they could even have a turn in the last bit of the campaign.
Can an eldritch knight use mage hand with their bonded weapons feature to bond to a weapon at a "reach" of 30. Pulling the weapon to you as a bonus action on the last turn of the hour bonding ritual. Potentaly stealing a weapon, just to give it back and call it later. Maybe you steal the captain of the gaurd's weapon knowing your going to fight them later.
True Strike is still trash, losing one of your attacks to give an attack on the next turn advantage is a waste of a cantrip slot. They need to rework it to be a weapon attack cantrip like Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade. Maybe it adds spellcasting modifier to the attack and damage. Maybe they have reworked it for PHB 2024.
so when he says weapon mastery is "Brand New" he is talking about new to this edition right? cause if he's saying new as in never been done I'll bet you whatever amount of money saying you're full of it.
They never had the ability to use any weapon well. They had better base fighting ability in 1st and 2nd edition but still had to use proficiency slots to gain basic proficiency and mastery in a weapon.
I can't comprehend how the level 9 feature got approved for print. Surely *someone* noticed that it just makes weapons with those properties objectively worse when used by fighters after level 9. How could should a glaring flaw be ignored?
@@lordvolland1930 I think folks who are happy with it are probably comparing it to the UA feature that allowed a switched-up weapon mastery. It's much better than the UA feature since it's additive. However, as a standalone feature, it undermines making weapon choices meaningful because of tradeoffs introduced by weapon mastery.
Fighters @ 6:53 - "We're the battle field masters and we size up our opponents to be better at hitting" Rangers - *too busy concentrating real hard to not even get the same level of bonus*
ah so battlemasteris the master tactician until we talk about maneuvers. there you cut it short wtf. i know you made the dismission to conserve the image of the battlemaster. but still. make it an variant rule at the least
I have a hard time getting excited over classes on their own. Monsters haven't really been talked about at all. They were generally underpowered in 5e, and I worry about all this new stuff to players will overwhelm a DM trying to make a compelling encounter. Monsters are the DM's characters, so I genuinely hope they are putting a lot of effort into making each of them something exciting for a DM to use, and the players to fight.
They're still using "bounded accuracy", so that's still going to be a problem. Unfortunately, 5.5 is still going to suffer from sack of hit point monsters. It sounds like they're trying to incorporate more themed attack types, but we won't know till the MM drops
Glad I wasn’t alone in IMMEDIATELY thinking about stacking “Push” with Battlemaster.
I’m a simple man…I want to send that guy flying across the entire room.
What I'm gonna do is use disarm with a push weapon, make the enemy drop their weapon and throw them away from it.
"What now, punk?" as I use my movement to step on the space where their weapon is dropped to prevent them from getting it back. It's gonna be great.
@@SchrollShepard just remember to keep that energy when the enemy hits you with the same moves. :)
Multiclass it into Open Sea paladin for even more pushing :D
My favorite stacking of abilities was knock down and grapple. They can't move, can't get up, me and friends have advantage, good times...
@@hitrapperandartistdababy605 NOW we’re talking!
Champion Fighter has a reroll in their pocket every round. That's INSANE.
I'd be more worried about the: "Well screw you, I HIT!" ability they said was every turn too
@@jabbourchris I believe that was a mistake. In reality it is once per short or long rest.
@@jabbourchris i mean it should be very powerfull, there an epic boon for giving a ninth level spell slot, so it's great that it's that powerfull actually
@jabbourchris you're really worried about level 19 characters confirming a single hit?
@@minerbrine1861 I don't think it is a mistake. Fighter at lvl 19 hits 3 times, this lets him make one of those three attacks to be an automatic hit. But I think that means no chance for critical strike.
4:50 "A number of headaches..."
Meaning I was putting topple on my longbow and shooting fliers prone from 600' away.
The combat stuff is great, but honestly having some extra RP things with second wind excites me more. It means it doesn’t always make sense for me to pass skill checks to other people, so long as I am moderately good at it.
As it is one of my favourite classes, I definitely am looking forward to playing it once the handbook comes out.
"I can do this to you even if it doesn't make sense" doesn't make sense though.
Here’s hoping we get an in depth look at weapon masteries and the specifics of each subclass! I can’t wait until September to get eyes on it all. 😅
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It's on DnDBeyond in an article on the front page.
@@bwaresunlight oh are all of the weapon mastery properties listed there now?
Not the exact text, but yes. They're the eight options from the last playtest.@@ConstructedChaos
@@ConstructedChaosOverview of confirmed weapon mastery:
8 properties
Cleave: If you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can make a second attack against a creature within 5 feet that is also within your reach. When you hit with the second attack, you can roll your weapon’s damage, but you don’t add your ability modifier unless it’s negative.
Graze: If you miss a creature with your weapon, you deal damage equal to the ability modifier you used to make the roll.
Nick: The Nick mastery property allows you to make the additional attack you receive from wielding two Light weapons as part of the initial attack action.
Push: The Push mastery property allows you to launch a creature you hit 10 feet straight away from you without a save. you can only push enemies Large or smaller.
Sap: When you hit an enemy with an attack, this mastery property inflicts Disadvantage on your target’s next attack roll before the start of your next turn.
Slow: When you hit a creature and deal damage, you can reduce its Speed by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. a creature’s Speed can’t be reduced by more than 10 feet with this property
Topple: When you hit a creature, you can force it to make a Constitution saving throw or fall Prone. The DC for this save is 8 plus the ability modifier used to make the attack plus your Proficiency Bonus.
Vex: When you hit a creature and deal damage, this mastery property gives you Advantage on your next attack roll before the end of your next turn.
Hidden extra attack: throwing two daggers with the nick property as a free attack without using a bonus action. Spread the pain!
V for Vendetta play!
I don't think you can do this because Nick is tied to the two weapon fighting rules for light weapons. Which require the Attack action.
@@haiclips3358 I pulled this from D&D Beyond:
"When you make an attack with a weapon that has the Light property, you can use a Bonus Action to make one attack with a different Light weapon you’re wielding.
The Nick mastery property allows you to make the additional attack you receive from wielding two Light weapons as part of the initial attack action.
Keep in mind that this doesn’t mean you can make a third attack as a Bonus Action, as the Light property specifies you only get one extra attack."
From what I understand, as a lvl 5 Champion fighter with the Telekinetic Feat I should be able to attempt a Shove as a bonus action, then take the Attack action to make a Shortsword attack with one hand, then make two dagger attacks due to the Nick property. All attacks would have advantage on a successful shove; one dagger attack would still be made with advantage - all great due to a higher crit chance. 👍
Dagger dagger dagger
@@WyrmHunter That all depends on which weapon is your primary and which is your secondary.
So if your shortsword is primary you would make two attacks with that, and then one with the dagger.
If your dagger is primary you would make two attacks with the dagger before you attack with the shortsword once. And I am not sure you would be able to make an offhand attack with the Shortsword as part of the attack action as it does not have the Nick property. It would have to be your bonus action.
And why would you want to use the lower damage dagger twice anyway? Shortsword does slightly more damage. With that as the primary, you would have Shortsword Vex attack, 2nd Shortsword Vex attack with Advantage, Nick Dagger attack with advantage, and TK shove whenever.
Put it at ×1.5, thank me later ;)
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Funnily enough, I already did.
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Hope they've done a good job with the Champion subclass
What do you expect from it? It's supposed to be a very simple "just buff the numbers" subclass right?
@@vindex57 the subclass has always been more than a bit anemic because despite being "buff the numbers" it didn't do a great job at buffing the numbers. The changes outlined here add a bit of fun stuff to chew on though, I think, between having always-on ADV on initiative, getting free movement whenever you crit to add more flexibility, and then the free Inspiration every combat turn at lv10 as a fun little resource to give some player choice on how to use it during any given round. It's not much in terms of complexity, but with how these things interact with the new additions to the Fighter chassis, I feel like I can actually call Champion a subclass rather than a waste of paper, and that's got me kinda hopeful to see what they do with the other reworks :)
@@bbqtime5735 finely said
Woahhh Champion fighter sounding kind of lit...
Definitely, you could go champion and take the feat where u get battle manuevers and really start popping off.
@@Fro609that’s the plan :)
Level 9 feature is a genius redesign! I love how it adds exciting options when you hit with a Graze weapon (Greatsword).
I was talking about this to a friend earlier, like, this is something I really want to try, but it also makes me want to try shortsword and shield, (as shortsword, unlike rapier, is a slashing weapon and stacks with slasher)
Graze doesn’t specify as you hitting with the weapon, just allowing you to deal damage.
@@chazzerine7650 Right, so it doesn't do anything on a Hit, making the option to also have a Hit based mastery in your pocket really good.
I am a little worried about it on a theming angle. If I've been using a longsword, my longsword has Sap, which means instead of 4 options when I swing, I have three. But if I was using a weapon like the Battleaxe with topple, I'm doing the same damage, but have all 4 options.
I might give a player who has been consistently wielding a weapon with one of these masteries the chance to swap one out (kind of like skill profs from multiple sources) so that this isn't an issue
@@nyanbrox5418 Shortswords are piercing actually. Scimitar is slashing, but that has the Nick property (in playtest).
I wish Arcana Archer got fixed. Two shots per entire playthrough of a fighter is stupid. Either be tied to your Dex or Str modifier or even proficiency bonus I would settle for LOL
Or give this subclass to the ranger or druid lol.
Don't you get an additional option at levels 7, 10, 15, and 18?
You get to pick new shots or new abilities what your Quivers will do. But you still only get to use this ability two times per entire campaign.
(Arcane Shot
At 3rd level, you learn to unleash special magical effects with some of your shots. When you gain this feature, you learn two Arcane Shot options of your choice
(see "Arcane Shot Options" below).
Once per turn when you fire an arrow from a shortbow or longbow as part of the Attack action, you can apply one of your Arcane Shot options to that arrow. You decide to use the option when the arrow hits, unless the option doesn’t involve an attack roll.
(You have two uses of this ability, and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a short or long rest.)
You gain an additional Arcane Shot option of your choice when you reach certain levels in this class: 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level. Each option also improves when you become an 18th-level fighter.)
I'm pretty sure there is a sage advice about this, or a case of RAW vs RAI
If there is no Sage advice that updated this. Which I'm going to look now because you never know if I got an update in one of those. Rule as written versus rule as attended. It's pretty much spot on. You only get two shots. No DM's were willing to compromise for me not in a bad way. Just that's the rules.
Fighters are going to be _so good_ with the new Weapon Masteries. Can't wait for the redesigned Psi Warrior especially!
The removal of spell school restrictions from the Eldritch Knight and Arcane Trickster are great enhancements for roleplay.
Lots of canon swordmages in the Realms now will have an easier time being built.
Psi Warrior is fairly new, I don’t think there’ll be too much changes
@@LuchoCl93 They've specifically pointed out the Psi Warrior and Soulknife as getting redesigned due to being too weak and bland. They were the first examples yesterday, while talking about how much they wanted to get psionics done justice in this book - and they were also the first redesigns to be mentioned weeks ago in the teaser discussion.
@@tantalus_complex I just looked at the related article on D&D Beyond and it says Psi Warrior is mainly unchanged.
@@adamdoherty3072 That's interesting. They must have just increased the potency or recharge for Psionic Energy. I'd be okay with that.
I wanted to know more about the Psi Warrior!!!
What about the new Indomitable feature, to reroll a save adding your Level? Did it stay?
Yeah it did, it is listed on their site in the 2024 Fighter vs 2014 Fighter
Im sad they didn't go with making Battlemaster part of the core Fighter. For a "simpler fighter" (it's not even that complex) people can go to barbarian or rogue
Simply adding the tactical mind is a huge boost for less combat focused campaigns. That’s really good😊
Looks like fighters are getting some overdue love. Champion sounds especially good.
I like the way the abilities for Fighters with tactical mind and the barbarian ability to be more useful for skills outside of battle. Gives them more outside battle stuff instead of just standing behind the rogue and bard
The very first PC I made in D&D was a human fighter champion with a halberd and that was in 2014. I want to remake that same character with the 2024 rules and see how they stack up!
Eldritch Knight is sounding much stronger now, no longer the niche pseudo-gish option but now potentially the gish-powerhouse, it’ll just depend on how good you can get cantrips to be.
I feel like Weapon Masteries in particular are shaping up to be a really solid way to kinda guarantee value from your cantrips on an Eldritch Knight. Like, using GFB and Booming Blade as examples, Push can be used to guarantee both effects, either pushing an enemy to a spot adjacent to someone else so that your followup GFB can splash on both targets, or like at lv9 dropping a Topple + Booming Blade onto an enemy and then doing a Push attack afterward. The possibilities go up pretty heavily with Action Surge adding on more attacks, the bonus movement from Second Wind, Improved War Magic, and all those sorts of things. I REALLY like how it's shaping up personally
@@bbqtime5735 Booming blade works only if he moves WILLINGLY
@@adastra3147 correct. If the target wants to do anything on his turn though, he'll have to move because you just isolated him HARD
I like the existing combo of BB then moving yourself 5 feet back with a bonus action shunt from the Telekinetic feat, making that stuff possible without a feat sounds like great QoL
I'm just looking forward to hasting myself as eldritch knight now you can pick it up. So many options for spells and attack combos.
Interested in seeing what order they release these videos. Hopefully I won't need to wait for the warlock to be done last lol.
What I want to see for champion fighter, are magic items and feats (like slasher, and redesigned vorpal sword), which trigger on a crit, not just when you roll a 20 on the dice
I have basically always wanted to play a champion fighter, and one thing that put me off is getting a legendary vorpal sword and it basically just being a regular magic sword, but if it and the sword of sharpness are altered to work on crits, not just on nat 20s, I will be so darn excited to play one
That’s something your DM could easily approve 🤣
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Bring back Brawler please.....it was the most exciting part of the updates....then poof...
Level 9 feature is really good once you get to 11. if you have topple, you can knock them down, slow and then push with three attacks. With 15ft movement to get up that could Make it impossible for average speed creatures to reach you (presuming you step back a little bit)
does the level 9 feature not just incentivize you to never use a weapon with those three properties?
You still get the other 2 masteries. If you want to squeeze every drop of mechanical blood out of the stone yes it does, but the previous weapon system also did that, for everyone, ten times worse.
@@brilobox2 look, i agree, this system is better. I still don’t think it’s gonna be enough to make martials anywhere equal to any spellcaster, which is disappointing. I was just also confused why they would be three that show up in most weapons, which just means (not even in an optimized sense) you just don’t get to use all the aspects of your class feature. it’s like saying, “you can rage, but you only get the melee damage this time, and then next time, you can take the damage resistances but not the melee damage.” It’s just kind of… dumb.
Removing restrictions on EK and AT is among my favorite changes
That and changing their War Magic to be like the Bladesinger’s. The previous version became almost useless after lvl 11
I want to play an EK so badly now
I still think it's a travesty that they didn't collapse battlemaster into the base fighter class. If you find the maneuvers too "complex", then don't play with them, simple as that.
Oh well, back to using Laserllama's fighter!
Whole heartedly agree with surprise, stuff, feels a lot more fun to me than just missing a turn. Though as a DM if there is no logical way for an NPC to react to something like someone being invisible I'd let the player do something out of initiative and then once the first set of those things happen which must be simultaneous somehow then you can do initiative. But if you're just jumping from a hidden position say from 20ft away I don't think you should get the entire free turn
Cant wait! Hope its more than just extra attacks and action surges
Second Wind can be used multiple times (2 at 1st level), restores a use on short rest and all on long rest, and can be used to add 1d10 to failed checks. Also at lvl 5 it allows you to move half your movement without provoking Opportunity attacks whenever you use it.
Also Indomitable now allows you to just reroll a failed save with a bonus equal to Fighter level.
Weapon Masteries are also a whole thing.
So Fighters didn't get superiority dice because some people want a simpler class...
That reasonaing would only make sense if we didn't already have a simpler warrior class. It's called Barbarian. Do we really need both warrior classes to be "simple"?
Really disappointing, though at least the 2024 Fighter is at least better than the trash tier 2014 version.
I don't really like his statement about there being a whole array of players who aren't that interested in playing Battlemaster, hence why they scrapped the idea of merging it with the base class.
I for one am usually uninterested in Battlemaster and usually go with other classes... but it's not because I hate the Battlemaster. It's because the fantasy of battlemaster is so basic compared to so many other more flavorful subclasses. I've played 3rd party fighters before which merge the battlemaster with the base fighter, and I gladly use the features there while also enjoying the much richer flavor that other subclasses give me.
I agree in my homebrew I gave the fighter a limited number of maneuvers and Battlemaster dies and then if they decided to take the Battlemaster subclass, they become up to par with the 2014 Battlemaster fighter
I'm actually a little worried for the battlemaster, because while they are AMAZING at level 3... by level 9 or so they aren't DOING anything new. They stagnate quickly, and that is a real disappointment
Respectfully I disagree.
Baseline fighter is supposed to be one of the simplest classes.
Keeping maneuvers in battlemaster lets you decide the amount of complexity you want.
@@qwerty098cool1 Baseline fighter isn't "supposed" to be a simple class. It is only that way because JC and the team wants to make it that way. It does not, in any way, inherently need to be the simplest class.
@@qwerty098cool1 The idea that the fighter needs to be the "simple class" seems almost toxic to the game.
It has roots in Gygax thinking veteran players would "graduate" from playing fighters to playing wizards and hiring fighters. And it leads to all sorts of unfortunate decisions
Damn. We almost got LaserLlama alt fighter in the base game
When do we get to hear about the new warlock?
So the Psi Warrior will only be a reprint, but Battle Masters get new maneuvers. Lol. Let's welcome the future's new worst subclass.
Human Champion Fighter with a Shortsword and the Alert feat is going to go hard.
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Levels 20-30, decide how to achieve demigodhood.
Artificer add in when?
Maybe in the DMG. I feel like it fits better in the book that's filled with magic items.
@@carsonrush3352 could be good point
Hopefully never
I think they don't own the rights to it.
It already exists?!?
Or are you looking for a 'glow up'?
I think one of the key flaws in D&D combat is how often it is correct to stay put when in a fight; to just stay in melee range of the one enemy you're fighting until they're dead (and this goes for enemy creatures too). There's little to no motivation to move away from enemies in order to pursue other ones unless a friend really needs help. I like that the Fighter now has an ability that allows them to move out of combat range of an enemy without provoking AoO, because it makes the decision to actually move around the field more likely.
You always had the Disengage action and most fighters had something available as a bonus action.
Hearing that the eldritch knight being able to replace an attack with a cantrip makes me giddy, both the min-maxer in me and the "features reflecting story' aspect of me. It never made sense why the magical fighter, who was specficially trained to qeave those two practices together, couldn't do that, though I could also understand doing that could potentially be broken.
Psi warrior hasnt changed much T_T
Its over...
The Champion Fighter artwork depicts them with a Vorpal Sword. For those unaware, rolling a 20 on an attack roll with a Vorpal Sword instantly decapitates an enemy (or deals an extra 6d8 damage from the hit, at the GM's discretion). RAW, this effect does not interact with the Champion's Improved/Superior Critical feature, since it explicitly states that the roll has to be a 20. HOWEVER, if they change the wording of the Vorpal Sword's effect to "On a Crit" instead of "On a 20", Champion Fighters would be rolling around with a 15% chance to instakill their victim ON EVERY ATTACK ROLL. This does not even factor in all the new advantage shenanigans that Champions have access to. Admittedly, this interaction is wholly dependent on your DM giving you a Vorpal Sword, and making it to at least level 15. But if the stars align... Who wants to RP One Cut Man?
Very excited to not ever get to use Epic Boons at level 19 because how few games go past level 12.
Would be great If protection could work to The user too
"THE FIGHTER" Being OP now, thank you XD Fighter + Greatsword = Death. I miss? I still hit halve your HP low level mob! now lvl 1 onward is PLAYABLE AGAIN given missing doesnt end your life anymore as easily.
what I don't understand is how most campaigns will end once you hit max level but when I run my games I make sure that all my players get a chance to enjoy being max level for a while and us what they earned, Bottom line, DMs STOP ENDING THE CAMPAIGN WHEN THE PLAYERS HIT MAX LEVEL. let them enjoy being powerful and have fun playing with max level abilities.
Oof, I don't care for the new surprise rules.
For narrative reasons, having enemies (or PCs) gawking for the whole first round of combat is fun. 5E's 2014 rule of having the ''surprised'' condition for the first round of combat was simple and effective to that end - and keep in mind, not all PCs or enemies had to be surprised, either, setting up fun and dynamic situations.
RAW, this 2024 update means that your efforts to surprise an enemy, even with a character with advantage (apx 30% higher roll) can still thwarted by a sleeping enemies roll pretty easily or lots of stuffs passive perception, which will not be satisfying. Furthermore, RAW, initiative order doesn't change after the first round of combat, so maybe you did get to go first, but the surprise really didn't affect the action-economy of the battle at all. Even with "chaos initiative," where you roll (probably with a digital tracker, and which is more fun and dynamic IMD) every round, higher initiative characters do stand a much higher chance of going quicker the second round if they didn't get to go first the first round... but it's still just one turn per character per round... TLDR: being higher in initiative order really only helps the first round of combat, then it's wait your turn...
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I'm so excited for Fighter now! I loved the play test fighter and only thought they needed to fix Master of Armaments and they did with Tactical Master. This is so great! Thank you!
So now I can do three full attacks and still tack on a Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade as the fourth hit, instead of giving up all but one attack to do a magic melee combo. Neat.
Imma miss samurai
I'm gonna buy the PHB and literally level up my character to level 20 somehow and play it against my DM who's running a level 1 campaign.
If he allows me I'll literally annihilate everything or he'll make me the final boss 😂
Very disappointed with Psi Warrior receiving only minor adjustments. The concept is fantastic, but the resource management is done poorly, especially at the earliest levels.
I really wish that battlemaster was just rolled into the main class. I really feel that makes the whole fighter class better and closer to how amazing magic classes are.
Totally
Too far from being "backwards compatible" with 5e. A lot of these features are like 3 to 3.5 and you can staple them into existing stuff. But removing a subclass and overhauling how maneuvers function as a base class feature creates a new class.
I get it but not everyone who wants to play a fighter wants to play a Battlemaster.
I think the Weapon Mastery system is fine for that. Think of it like "Battlemaster Lite" and if you want to go all in on that style you go Battlemaster.
@@karsonkammerzell6955 In some ways, yes.
I do find it said every weapon only gets one option though. Which mostly makes every attack a little more complicated but doesn't really give you many meaningful options during combat.
Kinda silly that Jeremy and Todd aren't credited in the description?
In the newest D&D movie the credits did not mention Gary Gygax, Ed Greenwood, etc.
Lack of credit is par for the course.
Im excited but I feel they dropped the ball on the high level abilities again. Level 18, I have a 5% extra critical death save chance! That is only useful if I die! Maybe let you use a second wind to stay conscious? or give something that makes you not want to multiclass? They always have situationally ok late game abilities. I know they put tons of thought into everything and I cant wait to multiclass monk and fighter and rogue do all kinds of crazy things, but I wish there were stronger end game abilities to at least make me question whether I wanted to multiclass or not! Fighter ends at level 11 lol
This is so rubbish. There is no character growth, you might as well start of a fighter at 9th level. They act like this is cool, but its simply cheapening everything. These people have knowledge but no understanding about what makes D&D great.
Damn, do you think Bladesingers will have weapon mastery??
No blade singers in the 2024 phb
1.) I hate fighters. No offense but prior to 4E fighter was boring. 3E you had the feat trees which were also boring... 1-2E fighters were jokes...
2.) I always compare new class to my 5E class SOO... L.11 Human muniver battle master fighter with martial adept feat as well as mobility and shield master feats...
A.) expend second wind to ability check .. ehh. You get it like once per short rest?
B.) battle master better out of combat skills already
Tactical strike... Better tactical mastry good..
(Side note .. fighters are becoming more 4E typr fighters.... Good?)
Bartle master ... More like 4E
Epic boon... Ehh how often is this going to cone up?
God teir... Overrated ...
3.) protection fughter not locked in... Ehh. Goot but not best
4.) weapon master... Yea your really stuck... But ok interesting...
B.) fighter better multi class than base class
5.) battle master... Still like 4e fighter...
6.) new Munivers... Good...
7.) non-combatant munivering.... Good
8.) know your enemy... Great action economy. Better than befoe
I would have liked to see the Fighter get non-combat features as well.
They... did? Did you not listen to the video?
@@veiledChaoZ Yes, I did. Determining monster information with some sort of supernatural senses is not a none combat feature. Is that what you mean?
They did get the ability to use their second wind for bonuses to skill checks at least
Removed school of magic restrictions!?!?!? Holy f*ck! Let the mayhem BEGIN!!!
Champion gets advantage on Athletics checks? Guess I'm replaying my Unarmed Fighter Grappler Rogue build without needing a level of Barbarian
Well. I feel like I was the only playtester that put this in input for this issue, and it wasn't read or just ignored. All the tweeks to actions and action surge so players can't multiclass in wizard and action surge to do 2 fireballs in one turn. Has now fallen on the Eldritch Knight. And now this subclass has been improved and nerfed in one smooth stroke.
What we've done here is open the EKs bonus action and allows a few more attacks to be made as well when it comes to war magic and improved war magic. This is great until you stop and think about it. Limiting improved war magic to lvl1 and lvl2 spells is lame. At that level The EK should be able to cast any level of spells within his spell list, which, as a 3rd caster, only goes to lvl4. At fighter level 20, the EK only gets 3, lvl 3 spell slots and 1, Level 4 spell slot.
Improved war magic is a major nerf! This is literally the sub classes Capstone ability. I height of the EKs power. Your taxing half his attacks snd your saying that the EK can only action surge and double up 2, lvl 1 or lvl 2 spells in a turn. That at level 20, the EK isn't capable of casting 2 spells of a higher level with his action surge. Is Wotc so determined to just make sure this is not a thing.l!? 2 high level spells in one turn? This should be the awesome niche ability specific to this subclass that is only rewarded by reaching a high level with 0 multi classing. And they jerked the rug out from under the EK by doing this. They buffed the mess out of the Battle master and the Champion. Only thing they did for the Ek was really open up thier bonus action and give them access to all schools of magic which was a bad part of the build to begin with and shouldn't have been done in the first place.
Fixing what's wrong and improving a subclass are 2 different things. I'll probably use the new EK, but allow a no spell level restriction on improved war magic at my table.
They always overdo too much for some and undercut the rest. Either way it is still not well balanced in my book.
5.5…..
Honestly while Mastery is better than nothing it feels like they could have done so much more with it.
Masteries should have been moves that can be used with any weapon, why cant a shortsword graze you, why can't an Axe cleave & topple.
It just feels like WOTC are deathly afraid of making something too powerful even though there are already soo many Overpowered options, why not just go to town and even the playing field.
litereally champion and eldritch knight become super strongs and funs!
11 champion fighter and 2 barbarian
have 3 attacks can have rage + reckless attack and of course the heroic warrior.
so already have 19-20 crit and by reckless you roll 2 dice and then you can reroll at least one or maybe both dice!
then you can attack 2 too! so have 7-8 times to roll crit.
I know its not PHB but Id really love to see a modern interpretation of the Banneret (Purple Dragon Knight). I just really like some of the thought behind it despite its execution being a bit lackluster
Everyone can do everything. The Fighter who needed to have a limit on weapons accessible can now do rider effect on each and every weapon attack. This is just going to be a cumbersome system in 5.5. A better choice would've been to give fighters the ability to be proficient with a number of weapons equal to their proficiency mod, along with weapon mastery giving a limit of uses equal to the proficiency mod. Instead, your four player game feels like an eight player game now.
Not rolling in battlemaster was a major misstep IMO. Certain features sound like they improve the situation somewhat, but it still looks like fighters are going to be a braindead class to play, where unless you're playing an Eldritch Knight or a Battlemaster, you get to just make your attack and move on, with little other mechanical incentive to think outside the box.
Still gonna have to homebrew battlemasters out myself I guess.
This video start with Rangers and fighters are neck and neck in changes. Some need to edit all their video.. taking out what already was printed before 2024.. to actually see what was really add.
Plus, I love how this is a script written interview.
Man, i am so pumped. Was just reading about the new Barb sub class. I am excited about the game becoming even more tactical for players. As a DM I also cant wait for them to come up with some insane synergies or tactics.
Thanks for expanding on your reasoning and process behind not giving all fighters a list of manuevers - that was really neat to sort of "peek behind the curtain" a bit and now that I have that perspective I can understand your decision a lot better. Thanks!
"You can put any weapon in their hands and they know how to use it and they know how to use it well"
Like Pinkertons and assault rifles used on kids with MtG cards?
Would it have been asking too much for the Arcane Archer to get updated?
Anybody else interpret that the Psi-Warrior didn't get anything new? At the very least I was hoping for an invisible mage hand at level 3. As it stands tactical mastery makes telekinetic thrust kind of redundant.
If they put it in its probably at least slightly different, but it might just be reworded
The two most likely stack.
Warrior fighting style could use some spellcaster style. You pratice your skills at morning and changing styles that way "if u can pratice it for N hours". Sounds more like a fighter.
I like the level 9 redesign, but it really takes away from using weapons that already have those properties once you reach level 9.
trivializing encounters? of course Its like you shouldn't have given that +3 vorpal greatsword in the wild beyond the witchlight in which I proceeded to behead both the wizard and the fighter before they could even have a turn in the last bit of the campaign.
Can an eldritch knight use mage hand with their bonded weapons feature to bond to a weapon at a "reach" of 30. Pulling the weapon to you as a bonus action on the last turn of the hour bonding ritual. Potentaly stealing a weapon, just to give it back and call it later. Maybe you steal the captain of the gaurd's weapon knowing your going to fight them later.
Eldritch Knight’s war magic sounds awesome! True Strike as a bonus action along with regular weapon attacks on one turn? Nice!
True Strike is still trash, losing one of your attacks to give an attack on the next turn advantage is a waste of a cantrip slot.
They need to rework it to be a weapon attack cantrip like Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade. Maybe it adds spellcasting modifier to the attack and damage. Maybe they have reworked it for PHB 2024.
They did @@brilobox2
@brilobox2 you use spellcasting mod for hit and dmg, can choose to do radiant instead and it does some extra
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so when he says weapon mastery is "Brand New" he is talking about new to this edition right? cause if he's saying new as in never been done I'll bet you whatever amount of money saying you're full of it.
They never had the ability to use any weapon well. They had better base fighting ability in 1st and 2nd edition but still had to use proficiency slots to gain basic proficiency and mastery in a weapon.
9th level abilitt is bad, because people will take weapons without this properties
I can't comprehend how the level 9 feature got approved for print. Surely *someone* noticed that it just makes weapons with those properties objectively worse when used by fighters after level 9. How could should a glaring flaw be ignored?
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I don't understand why some people so happy about it. It creates problem with some weapon being more powerful than others AGAIN
@@lordvolland1930 I think folks who are happy with it are probably comparing it to the UA feature that allowed a switched-up weapon mastery. It's much better than the UA feature since it's additive.
However, as a standalone feature, it undermines making weapon choices meaningful because of tradeoffs introduced by weapon mastery.
Im gonna miss my Rune Knight. I know I can still play him.. but I always feel meh about using old content in a new version.
Fighters @ 6:53 - "We're the battle field masters and we size up our opponents to be better at hitting"
Rangers - *too busy concentrating real hard to not even get the same level of bonus*
The going beyond level 20 is awesome, but still would have preferred if they brought back paragon paths from 4e.
they've had these epic boons in the 5e DMG already, seems like they're finally making it more prominant by shifting it into the players handbook
I would rather have more action surge slots over second wind slots. I hardly ever use second wind. That's what health potions are for
You can over lvl at lvl20? Damn, god hunting, lv20 campaigns became a thing
hope they actually change up the Cavalier so its feats aren't incompatible with a Lance, so it can actually function like a fantasy knight cavalry
Me: oh epic boons sound amazing
Also me: Never making it yo level 19
Champion sounds damn juicy. Keen to play it.
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ah so battlemasteris the master tactician until we talk about maneuvers. there you cut it short wtf. i know you made the dismission to conserve the image of the battlemaster. but still. make it an variant rule at the least
I have a hard time getting excited over classes on their own. Monsters haven't really been talked about at all. They were generally underpowered in 5e, and I worry about all this new stuff to players will overwhelm a DM trying to make a compelling encounter. Monsters are the DM's characters, so I genuinely hope they are putting a lot of effort into making each of them something exciting for a DM to use, and the players to fight.
They're still using "bounded accuracy", so that's still going to be a problem. Unfortunately, 5.5 is still going to suffer from sack of hit point monsters. It sounds like they're trying to incorporate more themed attack types, but we won't know till the MM drops
I wonder if Mr Mathew Mercer will make any changes to blood hunter
I'm really excited to learn more about the new Druid!