Yeah, it used to cost your attack, your bonus action, a superiority die, AND your ally's reaction. And then it could miss. Had the potential to be phenomenal if your ally was stacked and had a really good attack, but it was a ridiculous action economy investment.
@@austintaciusI prefer Eldridge knights. Paladin has some good but if it's allegedly the best I should see a lot more than I do. Fighter, especially now, will out damage a Paladin easily.
@@nickm9102 fighter should out-damage a plate wearing, d10 half-caster that also gives the entire party +5 to all saving throws and has their own free flying mount.
@@austintacius If that is your view then we are in agreement. However, I have also shown in previous video comments that the fighter can out pace a full caster 1v1 which is in contradiction to the typical argument and the meta that has resulted in the gutting of most of the above average spells. Arguing that a caster is better because AOE can hit multiple is a poor argument because it is fairly easy to create a campaign where you encounter only single target combats and saying differently means you are potentially basing a character's power on a situation that could never come.
As someone who doesn't care at all about optimizing my characters, I want to thank you for your clear structure, descriptions, and distinctions of rules. I say this because, even for someone who just likes thematics like me, your channel is my favorite for understanding rules and changes. 😁
I like to make optimised builds, but they're not right for my table, which is fine. Best part of TMs videos atm is the depth of understanding it gives me of the new system, so that I know how to DM and play at the right level for my table!
For sure. I am the same to a degree, I defo want to optimise but I will go flavor first and THEN optimise. Make a character I can role play and then make it as powerful as I can. For example I wanted to play a melee magic dwarf weaponsmith, but i didnt want to go purelcass. So I decided on Eldritch Knight with 2 Arty levels. I was behind on core class features/feats and therefor meant i wasnt fully optimised, but the flavor was at 200% because of it. He was a security guard, and one of the infusions I took was the Tankard of Sobriety, and when I cast cure wounds for flavor I said I was imbuing the contents of the cup into something similar to a healing potion
15:44 Ive been seeing the sentiment that "range isn't as good as melee now" pop up alot, and I think people kinda forget that despite the lack of DPR, range has the enourmous benefit of keeping you out of harm's way in many encounters. I'd even make the argument that ranged DPR shouldn't be as good as melee due to this favtor. Unless you commit to a GWM + longbow build, which is a big investment.
It also has a higher chance to hit due to the fighting style, which increases DPR, and can engage before the melee, and target switch more effectively. Not to mention flying targets. Ranged may have a lower "stand and hit" DPR, but will almost certainly be more effective on the battlefield than that implies.
Yes, ranged was better at everything before, damage, safety, deployability, positioning. Range by itself is an advantage, it is not worse than melee now, it was just better at everything, but now it loses in the damage department. But all that is before accounting for Magic weapons, with weapons that add damage dice and modifiers, the precision of archery starts to be even more important.
11th level eldritch knight can attack, cast mind sliver, creature has disadvantage on save from eldritch strike, attack again, and set up a party member next turn with disadvantage again and -1d4 on the next save.. IM IN LOVE 😍😍 edit : sadly the disadvantage only works on eldritch knight spells 😞 either way you can still set up some pretty cool combos
on the first EK i built, i made this combo, and then next turn cast hold person, following turn action surge to dump all of my attacks + BA polearm master attack all at adv. and auto crits from paralysis. takes a bit to set up, but the changes to the cantrip attacks make it happen faster, and man was it satisfying. killed a full health barbarian who was terrorizing people lol
Tasha’s Psi Warrior got a Psionic Energy die back as a bonus action, and could do so again after a short rest. So the new version actually gets one fewer per day.
@@WalkOnNick now, it gets one back on a short rest. Before, it could get one back as soon as it spent one, then again with every short rest, so it always had one more per day than the new version.
There's also the minor change that Psi Warrior and Soul Knife both mention that if you have another feature that grants the dice (such as the other subclass) you can only use the ones granted by this subclass for its features. Tasha's version didn't specify, so it was ambiguous on if you could use both types for both classes
True and another brainfumble from WotC, do they even reflect, playtest? Would it hurt SO much buffing weaker/ lacking classes and sub-classes instead of say nerfing strong ones? I smell sadistic and or ignorant spite and disregard.
as a Champion Fighter, in the end of a combat you can get heroic inspiration and not use it (if the situation doesn't seem really dangerous) and keep this inspiration for use outside of combat
Indomitable can give you a fighting chance to make a saving throw at high levels of exhaustion, when it might otherwise be impossible to succeed. Also it could save your life if you need to reroll a death saving throw.
Or an important intelligence saving throw, or a dominate person… god knows it’s scary when the tanky ass fighter gets dominated and the party has to try and beat their AC over and over to slap them out of it until they luck into a save
i'm all for martials getting really good saving throw abilities monks, rogues, paladins, fighters. If only they gave something to barbarian for their mental saves
Something you can do now with psionic warrior is take the magic initiate feat at level one for intelligence based shillelagh and focus solely on int. That would be a big boost.
I can't help but think the random last minute inclusion of Psi Warrior and Soulknife without much change covered for other unfinished work on classes people were actually asking about.
According to Jeremy Crawford the Psi-Warrior and Soulknife's inclusion (alongside the Aberrant Sorcerer) were part of a concerted effort to put more psionics content in the PHB, so that the Great Old One Warlock isn't a random outlier. Not how I would have gone about it, but as a psionics fan I appreciate the consideration.
Something I noticed is that a number of Battlemaster maneuvers work on any kind of attack roll which includes spell attacks. Not sure how many spell attacks there are that would benefit a ton from maneuvers but Precision Attack is welcome anytime and Maneuvering attack could be cool to help allies get out of tough spots even from range.
Taking damage can be managed with healing, or deflecting it away. Even conditions can just be removed! But fail a big save..... you die instantly, turn to stone, lose your mind,or are whisked away to a crazy Maze! Saves are way more clutch that most of the people I play with realize! Way to go Fighter!
I think the winner of the "Biggest feature glowup" reward is a toss up between indomitable and Rage. Ive some issues with some of the 2024 changes, but those are absoulutly stellar.
Psi-Warrior definitely needed some changes. Disappointing to see so many subclass reprints that feature basically zero changes when there were other subclass in dire need of a rework.
The thing that makes the Eldritch Knights Action Surge Teleport special, is that it doesn't require an action or anything to activate it, since there's no resource to activate action surge. I used this effect in a one shot to avoid falling into a pit on my turn.
The downside is that you can only use it when you action surge. I find that limitation severely nullifies this feature. I almost never need to teleport AND action surge. Being able to do those things separately would be so much better. The most common use case for fighters using action surge is simply attacking again. Then, you're probably already in range, so it does nothing; if you were not in range, a simple misty step would get you there. So, this feature is basically equivalent to one misty step per short rest, which is pretty garbage for a subclass that already gets misty step. I honestly consider that a dead level
@@limaTheNoob but you’re admitting that this would both free up your bonus action and combine well with attacking more. In cases where you can kill a frontline opponent and get on top of a backline enemy this now gives you a full attack action, and even better if you have GWM you’re kill gives you a weaponized Bonus Action. Alternatively a ranged fighter, which won’t be the most amazing, but still will be viable could use this to make distance when it counts. This isn’t happening in every encounter but when it happens will be way more than a “dead” feature. But if you just don’t want to utilize features have fun I suppose.
@@joshuawilliams8310 see, "dead feature" doesn't mean "it will absolutely, never ever come up". People - myself included - use that to mean "a feature whose impact is so incredibly minor that, if you didn't have it, you'd barely notice". That's how I define this feature. It's like... "sure, whatever". If eldritch knights had a proper, impactful feature at this level, we would call this one almost a ribbon. It can be useful, but it is so incredibly specific that it definitely is not worth a high level feature. I have used the weapon summoning more often than I'd have used this one - specially because weapon summoning is at will, and this one is once per rest. I'd miss the bonded weapon summoning if it was gone far more than I'd miss this one. That is, in my opinion, a huge problem, because one is a level 3 ribbon feature (the big one is spellcasting), and the other is a level 15 feature that is supposed to represent a significant power scaling. Of course, it is still better than the terrible scaling of battle masters (really, die increases are NOT full level features, maneuvers should auto-scale just like cantrips), but that is a very low bar
i was gonna ask if eldritch knights can bypass the surge casting restriction by using improved war magic but then i remembered you can’t use more than 1 spell slot a turn now, idk i kinda think it fits the flavor of the subclass, like if only one character can have access to an ability like that it should be a 18th level eldritch knight
Technically do bypass it as they could cast a spell slot one on one Action and cast a cantrip with their second Action without taking the restricted Magic Action, but do still run into the "only extend spell slot to cast a spell per turn" restriction unless some other way of getting around that is used though yeah
Evasive Footwork + Defensive Duelist combo can grant you a crazy AC (for a cost of a bonus action and a reaction) 😮 Also, I love that they kept Commanding Presence, it's one of my favorite maneuvers since it's one that let you use your resources even if there is no combat encounter. But I love playing charisma-based characters, even my warriors have some 😅
Something to note about Evasive Footwork: it can be thought of as a proactive Shield spell alternative. One of the biggest advantages of Eldritch Knight was access to the Shield spell and the massive AC buff that allowed for. Now, Battle Masters can get a similar average AC buff for the cost of a Superiority Die (4 / short rest) + a Bonus Action; this leaves your Battle Master with their Reaction still. With the Protection Fighting Style, both the Battle Master and his brother/ sister-in-arms can both rock impressive ACs on the regular.
And, once a Battle Master hits level 15 (if your campaign goes that far) you can use Evasive Footwork every round for free as long as you're ok using a d8 instead of a d10 or d12. You have to trade your bonus action, but that's a small price to not die. On top of that, since Relentless lets you use a free maneuver once per Turn not just once per round, your reaction Maneuvers can always be used for free. So buff your AC for free with Evasive Footwork, let attackers miss you, and then counter attack for free with Riposte. Or you Parry for free if they still hit you.
The chances for the Champions defy death feature to work are 27.75 % you seem to have calculated the chances of rolling 17-20 with advantage :) The Math: You succeed on an 18-20, that is 18,19,20. That is 3 results out of 20 possible. 3/20 = 0.15 = 15 % chance of success for 1 die But you get two rolls. You succeed in 3 scenarios: - the first die is a success, and the second die is a failure. - the first die is a failure and the second die is a success. - both are successes. But rather than calculate all those scenarios, it is actually easier to calculate your chance of failure. There is only one scenario where you fail. - both dice are failures. The chance of 1 die being a failure 85% = 0.85, the chances for two dice both being failures is then simply 0.85*0.85 = 0.7225 = 72.25% And when we know the chance of failure, the chance of success is simply the rest: 100% - 72.25% = 27.75 % For whatever reason it seems Chris put the base chance of success on one die in as 4/20, which would end out with 36 %. Honest mistake, happens to the best of us.
As a Champion you also get a free Heroic Inspiration at the start of your turn, so if you fail (or just fail to roll 18-20), you can use that inspiration you just got to re-roll it (totaling 3 dice per turn) which then gives you 38.59% that you get up on on that turn.
wouldn’t the chance be about 38.5%? that heroic inspiration you get back every turn doesn’t have much else to be used on when you’re rolling death saves.
@@End3r97 It's a risk using Heroic Inspiration on a Death Save though, since it's a "Reroll, must use the new roll" feature rather than something like Advantage you've got a 5% chance of rolling a 1 for two failures (excluding certain features like a Halfling's Luck that I think would trigger on rolling a first 1 with Heroic Inspiration?), one of the few things where rolling a 1 is worse than a regular fail RAW
I always loved playing into the human fighter trope. I loved being “guy with sword/bow” and letting the RP make that character unique while the gameplay was straightforward and consistent. But the 2024 fighter makes me wanna Human Fighter harder than ever before
Im a listener usually when it comes to the classic treant vid (mostly cuz im at work lol) and wow this was recored around July? I know my man has a gold mine of videos, i may have to contribute so i get my fix!
Psy warrior and Eldrich knight got both a huge indirect buff with Shillelagh, if you are fine with use quartestaff and use a bonus action on first turn you can focus on Intelligence and play both classes on fullest of their potential
Eldritch knight can cast leveled spells as part of the attack action, so it can cast leveled spells on action surge, wich with stuff like magic initiate, allow you to do stuff like this: a dragonborn eldritch knight can do a true strike, then do a breath weapon, then cast web with then having disadvantage on the save thanks to true strike being a weapon attack, wich counts to activate eldritch strike, then action surge teleport, breath weapon, true strike and then cromatic orb (obtained from magic initiate so it doesn't consume a spell slot), and just to make it a bit more chaotic, bonus action misty step (obtained from fey touched so it doesn't consume a spell slot) all on 1 turn.
Also, you could get your party's Wizard/Druid/Bard to make you a 9th level Conjure Minor Elementals spell scroll, use it, take 1 level in warlock for Eldritch Blast, Magic Initiate: Wizard for free Magic Missile. Then, while the scroll is active, Eldritch Blast, Scorching Ray 4th level, Action Surge teleport, Eldritch Blast, Magic Missile. Your choice bonus action
@@DanielHullihen-wf7jo using magic items is part of the magic action, but it's not "casting a spell", it's "using a magic item", so i don't think you can do it as part of the attack action with improved war magic, also, magic missile doesn't have an attack roll, so it won't trigger conjure minor elementals's damege.
It really sucks that Eldritch Knight Fighter still doesn’t get access to automatic return weapons with their war bond feature. It works out great in BG3 and doesn’t cause any balance issues. Needing to use a bonus action to get your weapon back is terrible
The Champion's Improved Critical seems AMAZING with the new Crusher (crit = EVERY ATTACK from anyone has advantage against that creature until your next turn) and/or Slasher (crit = the creature has disadvantage on EVERY ATTACK until your next turn) feats. The handaxe is a Vex slashing (and light) weapon to make your crits more often. The light hammer is a Nick bludgeoning (and light) weapon to be able to make more attacks to try to crit more often too. You could play a halfling and use this heroic inspiration every turn to make it more reliable.
Genuinely, what's the point of having more masteries known than other classes if you can swap them on a long rest? Who needs more than two or three at most in a day anyway? I wish fighter got like, masteries+ where they get an additional little something with each that other classes dont.
you are definitely right to value saving throws a lot, most of the worst effects that can come upon players can be avoided by making 1 saving throw and the most dangerous monsters tend to have some sort of effect that works this way the problem is the small number of uses, so you may need to avoid having to make other saving throws after using indomitable
Fighters with Shillelagh are probably going to become very popular in this edition. 1d8+(Str or Casting Stat) -> 1d10 -> 1d12 -> 2d6 Starting at level 11 it is basically a critical hit on every attack.
I think Fighter is going to be hands down the best martial in the game by far in Tier 3-4, and very strong in tier 1-2. This was already mostly the case in terms of damage previously, but now they've got insane survivability against everything (both vs saves and vs attacks) and an incredible amount of utility to go with it, especially for Battlemaster and Eldritch Knight.
@@trestinpeterson3324 That is true, but bear in mind Improved War Magic specifically says that the levelled spell you cast with it has to be a Wizard spell. So even if you get a way to cast without spell slots from a feat or species, it still has to be a Wizard spell. I don't know if spells you get from other sources like feats or species count as Class spells for purposes like this. My assumption would be that if the spell is on the Wizard spell list it counts, but I'm not sure.
One cool thing about heroic rally is that it triggers at the start of your turn, meaning at the same time as defy death, and since you can order them however you like, you roll a 1 and an 18 on your death save, pop back to 1 hp, then immediately regain those hit points At level 19, one level later, once per turn you can regain con hp whenever you regain hp, so let's say you start with a 17 str or dex, and a 16 Con, you use levels 4, 6, 8 general feats to get a +3 str/dex, then use level 12 for resilient wisdom, then use 14 and 16 to just use 2 ASIs to cap your Con at 20, then level 19 epic boon of recovery Now if you are not bloodied, you have a +5 bonus to second wind If you are bloodied, you regenerate 15hp per turn, and if you are unconsious you have a 1/3 chance of rolling a death save, then coming back at 16 hp, and then you can immediately roll second wind to get another 25.5 avg, and you can immediately move half your speed without opportunity attacks, and take the dodge, attack or dash or whatever, probably attack, then apply sap to whatever is hitting you so they have disadvantage, Every turn you don't die again you regain another 15hp This makes me want to play a tanky boi so much Also, the higher your con is, the more hp you have, the higher your max hp, the more that you survive, which instantly scales all champion abilities since they are resourceless as long as they have health, and also it increased the bloodied threshold, and the amount that epic boon of recovery restores, since you can gain half your hp once when you are knocked out If the combat is nearly over when you go down, I wouldn't use epic boon of recovery, I'd just wait for a death save or ally healing, then gradually regen back to half health, then take a short rest I love the new champion, the old one always had a nice 18th level feature, but with epic boon of recovery to scale it, (or any other epic boon if you prefer), the new champion has several great build paths which I would like to explore
I am looking forward to playing a aasimar grapple champion. You hit once and you get to grapple for free then get advantage on an 18-20 crit range for another 3 attacks. Tey keeping this zealot down down
Fighters are so much better now. i still would allow for Eldritch Knight to use a bonded weapon as a spellcasting focus, although other people might argue differently
LVL 1 Warlock dip Pack of the Blade for extra pact weapon that can be used as spellcasting focus + eldritch Blast to make up for lost capstone (With up to 4 attacks). Or just use Warcaster. I do agree though that they should be able to, especially because pact of the blade allows it. But at least there are workarounds.
Battle Master Maneuvers that add to skill checks, like Commanding Presence, should stack with Tactical Mind. This means adding like average +9-+11 to those skill checks. With proficiency, you're beating the Expertise classes at those checks (for a resource). It's expensive, but extremely nice as an option. It presumably also works with the Battle Master 15th level feature as a discount version of expertise
The Champion’s Survivor is even better than 27.75% (corrected math) right? You get heroic inspiration at the start of your turn if you don’t have it and you can use it on any d20 test. EDIT: if you use your heroic inspiration on your death saving throw the odds go up to 38.5875%
29:15 Slight correction: it's only really a 27.8% chance on any given death save. That said, if your GM rules you can gain Inspiration even while unconscious, you can use it for your Death Save and boost your odds to 38.6%. Assuming you make three saves, you have a 62.4% or a 76.9% chance respectively to revive yourself.
Do you think the new champion fighter is the new baseline? The new fighter looks pretty good. Eldritch Knight seems like easily the best fighter although the psi warrior and battle master are pretty close.
YES. I’m actually a little embarrassed with how often I checked UA-cam to see if your fighter video dropped already. As a side note, do you think the new wording of Great Weapon Fighting means that all the damage rider dice (superiority dice, the charger bonus, smites, etc.) that land on a 1 or a 2 also get upgraded to 3’s? I hope this gets some clarification from Wizards.
It's not even a question and I have no idea why he's hedging. Read the savage attacker origin feat, then read GW fighting style. One is clearly weapon damage only, the other isn't. I was confused why he rated the fighting style so low. Didn't realize he completely misread it.
Some of the maneuvers were removed. Brace is gone, for example. Edit: Why did WotC reprint so many subclasses with basically zero changes? Psi-Warrior definitely could've had some changes, or subclasses like Samurai, Arcane Archer, Purple Dragon Knight, etc., definitely were in need of changes.
We keep seeing that it seems there will no longer be resistance to b/p/s from non magic weapons. Isn't it safe to assume that there will still be b/p/s resistance, though? If so, martials will have less opportunities to overcome that, correct? Or am i interpreting something incorrectly?
@@brynwtsn I think we’ll see a lot more monsters with resistance to one of those damage types, rather than seeing them almost exclusively show up together.
There’s a lot of features (true strike, shillelagh, pact weapon, etc.) that let you change the damage type of your weapon attacks to specific magical damage types. I wouldn’t be surprised if even generic +1/+2/+3 magic weapons have this feature.
I know it has precedence and we all know what it means, but you could read the second wind opportunity attack as not granting any extra movement speed but just meaning half of your movement would not provoke opportunity attacks. I don’t think anyone in their right minds would enforce it that way, though.
It says ‘whenever you activate’. This implies you still get half your Speed even if you already used you movement, ergo its extra movement. Also pretty sure ‘Speed’ refers to your max movement stat and not your remaining movement.
Psi Warrior was a weird choice for the new book, the Arcane Archer really needed some love two uses of Arcane Shot is really not enough. Samurai too, that's more in need of upgrades than Psi Warrior
All psionic classes are back so no it’s not a weird choice and the samurai somewhat compete it’s the battle master as the smart fighter while the arcane archer is just straight up archer only Look in every subclass and you will see that they all are trying to get different flavors
I think there are some subtle, but serious problems with the Champion Fighter's level 10 feature, the way the level 10 feature seems to interact with general rules for GM's giving out Heroic inspiration seem to be filled with weird anti-combos... For instance, if the Champion player uses their Heroic Inspiration, and then before the start of their next turn does something so cool the GM might want to give them Heroic Inspiration, that is close to net zero benefit for the Champion player, since it could effectively disable their level 10 feature until after the start of their next turn. If the Champion every rolls really well for a round, and does not need to use their Heroic Inspiration before the start of their next turn, they effectively "get punished", losing their level 10 feature for a turn, merely for "getting good rolls" for a round. This feels like it could easily have a negative impact on the attitudes at the table. Like if the GM starts to feel there is no point in giving out Heroic Inspiration, and reduce how often they give Heroic Inspiration out, that will effective punish any non-Champion Fighter players. From the player side, if Champion players start to feel that it is not worth it to put in the roleplaying effort that is supposed to be needed to earn Heroic Inspiration via the general rules, since they will get it anyway at the start of their next turn, the feature would be training players to not engage in the very behavior the base rules for Heroic Inspiration are meant to encourage. If a GM starts to compensate any bad habits they fee themselves picking up due to the level 10 Champion feature by giving out Heroic Inspiration more often, they start to undermine the value of the Champion's level 10 feature. This feature feels like GM's will find themselves getting stuck between a rock, and a hard place more than they should, through no fault of their own.
So maybe any GM with two braincells will just allow the Champ to give the Insp to someone else. How many times does Insp get handed out in a fight? Once every 3 sessions? Hardly seems like a problem at all.
@@brilobox2 Yeah, it would probably take studying the behavior of hundreds of players/GMs over thousands of total sessions to prove if what I am talking about is happening or not, which is a main part of the potential problem - that the feature might influence player, and GM behavior in ways they are not consciously aware of.
You keep saying ranged isn't as good, I think because sharpshooter got nerfed, but I think you're sleeping on the fact that heavy weapon master applies to long bows and heavy crossbows. Yeah the crossbow expert / sharpshooter build isn't the ridiculous combo it used to be, but ranged always has the inherent power of keeping out of range of melee enemies. You'll do more damage as a ranged fighter against a melee character because you can push or slow them from far away and they are wasting turn after turn trying to get to you, and you haven't taken any damage.
I think this is good game design, though Melee should always do more damage than ranged because ranged is inherently better due to being more defensive oriented
You'll still be safer at range in 2024, but you won't be doing more damage than melee like you were in 2014, with your best-in-class fighting style and easier target selection. Reason why is that topple will be a popular weapon mastery, which gives advantage to melee and disadvantage to range. There are many many other sources of prone in 2024 (shield master, hill goliath, buffed hideous laughter, and many subclass features). Range is still viable, but those who risk melee will absolutely reap a reward.
I'm not sure Improved War Magic should have the limitation of level 1 or 2 spells, it's not like you have a ton of spells or slots to use even at levels 17 and beyond, There might be some possibility for exploits or something, but I can't think of much
Improved war magic allows you to avoid the new no magic action limitation in action surge. They really don't want people casting 2 fireballs in one turn
@@MethosJK9 I think it's not only a huge improvement compared to the 2014 version but also a very powerful feature overall despite the level restriction. You can still use your third attack for something like booming blade and benefit from the lv10 feature in the spell you cast as part of the same action. And your BA is still available afterwards, not to mention that since you used the attack action you can benefit from TWF or PM
As a lover of the Kingdoms of Amalur game, I want to actualise my Might/Sorcery main in D&D. Arcane Charge makes me cry inside knowing that Horizon Walker gets Distant Strike, which is a way better type of teleport that would fulfil that game’s movement. I suppose the Eldritch Knight is encouraged to use misty step a lot if you want to teleport a bunch. I just don’t wanna have to burn so many resources having that playstyle 😭
I don't know if you have a specific species in mind for your character concept. But if you pick Goliath (cloud giant) you can teleport a number of times per day equal to your proficiency modifier without using a spell slot.
I used to really like a 3.5 prestige class called Champion of Corellon. The theme was something like a paldin for elven culture, but mechanically it was an agile tank full of mobility and finesse combining tactics, dexterity and heavy armor. With battle master, especially with the change of level 15, you can consistently use Evasive Footwork, Ripost, Parry, Lunging Strike to do a similar concept
The Battle Master's Relentless feature says "Once per turn". So does that mean you can use any of your reaction Maneuvers like Riposte for free each round? Like, on your turn you use Evasive Footwork. You apply Relentless, so you get it for free but you use a d8. So you can bonus action disengage and get a d8 AC for free every round. Then an enemy attacks you, let's say it misses your AC because it's higher now, and you react with riposte. It's a new turn, you get another use of Relentless, so you use Riposte with a d8 but at no cost.
This is making me think about an Eldritch Blast Fighter, taking a Warlock dip... maybe even a tiny two-level one, maybe enough to get a subclass... and going Battlemaster and taking Maneuvers that work with Attacks. It seems like it would be pretty cool, and although you wouldn't get much out of Weapon Mastery, you could make up for that with Invocations to boost EB.
I haven't done a detailed analysis, but weapon masteries + battlemaster maneuvers is probably an absurd amount of CC/battlefield control. By the end of your turn an enemy will be prone, slowed, disarmed basically every turn.
I don't want to be negative, I like a lot of the changes for Eldritch knight, but I wish they would make some good melee cantrips. GFB and BB are great, but everyone uses them and they didn't even add them to the new PHB... that combined with their cantrip recommendations for Eldritch Knight makes me think that no one on the team even understands the sub class at all.
I'll tell you a secret. They didn't eliminate those cantrips. Anything from the previous books that doesn't have the same title, species, subclass, spell, wasn't replaced so you can still use it. Hence BB and GFB are still available. Still, I wouldn't use them on an EK unless I was going sword-and-board. Polearms don't really benefit from those cantrips.
@@MethosJK9 That's not a secret, but it's also not my point. A lot of EK's do use them. They fit much better with War magic than using regular caster cantrips from the Wizard book. I think as melee class, it fit's much better to have some variety to melee cantrips, but the designers never seem to think about it. Also, I know some DM's that will not allow things outside of the new PHB if starting a game with the new rules.
Bait and switch is a free action which is pretty cool. If your bm has a familiar nearby or an ally they can get a big buff to their ac for no action cost.
20:08 So what I'm hearing you say is the best Eldritch Blaster in the game might actually be a Battlemaster with a standard Warlock dip? And in Tier 4 (BM15/Warlock2), Relentless means a passive bonus to cantrip scaling + Quicken EB with Sorc dip. Let's call it IKEA Eldritch Knight. 😈 HEYYY COLBYYYYYY!!!!
I don’t think it works You’re supposed to choose before you hit so actually graze might be the worst combo since you’re never gonna use it when trying to use another mastery
@@TekGriffon Yeah. This isn't how it works. The phrasing "when you attack" means "when you declare an attack before you roll". Stuff that triggers on a hit always says so. By the time you have hit someone, "when you attack" has already passed. But maybe some DMs will homebrew it this way as sounds fun.
On saving thows you are ABSOLUTLEY RIGHT. Sure there are not anymore comm9n save or die like in older editions, but saving thows are always a priority.
Thank you for preparing the informative & fun review! Psi Warrior is great thematically, yet the mechanics feel disappointing when compared to the other sublcasses :(
For a heavy weapon using fighter that has an ok dexterity the archery foghting style isn't the worst idea. Lets say you have a 14 dexterity and take the new GWM as well as Archery. At lvl 5 you can now do 1d8+5 with a longbow while having a +7 to hit. That is pretty good for a backup ranged weapon. Much better then taking the great weapon fighting style which gives a minimal damage increase. I like the idea of a fighter that really has mastered different weapons for different situations.
You mentioned that you feel that most fighters will be switching between different weapons more often. Do you believe that makes the champion's extra fighting style more valuable than it was in the past?
I'm not sure the 36% on champ fighter popping up is correct. You roll 2 dice, if you get 1 18-20 you get up. Chance of not doing so on 1 die is 17/20; chance of not doing so on 2 dice from adv is (17/20)^2 or 72.25%. That means your chance of popping up is 27.75% That said if you're down might as well use your heroic warrior's inspiration here. So chance of not popping up is (17/20)^3 or ~61.4%, making chance of popping up ~38.6%. Either way 36% is a strange number.
Rally + 15th level feature is just better version of Inspiring Leader Feat. Before any combat, you just give everyone 1d8+ 1/2 of your Fighter level as Temp HPs! Awesome!
29:15 For the % to get up with 1 HP where does the 36% come from? I get less, about 27.75%. total possibile rolls with 2D20 are 400 configurations (20 x 20). Good rolls are (3x17) configurations for the first good die with a bad second die, (3x17) configurations configurations for the second good die with a bad first die, plus 3x3 configs with both dice good, so that is 111/400 = 27.75 % Long time not doing math but the 36% seems off.. Or we can do (3x20) + (3x20) good configurations but from there we have to avoid double counting the common configurations, so - (3x3)
For Champion's Defy Death, you said the chance of them popping up is 36%, but I think it's 27.75%. I think you did 1 - 0.8^2 = 36%, but it should be 1 - 0.85^2 = 27.75%, since not rolling 18-20 is a roll of 1-17, or 85% of the rolls. Still solid.
i thought with the new Equiped/Unequiped rule and the weapon mastery design, the idea behind was "swing the hammer, bringing it down, putting it back behind your back or putting it down the ground to unsheathe and bring down your sword with both hands in the same movement." was doable. But it would make Tactical master useless, doesn't it? why would i replace the property of my 2h mace if i can just switch. I love the walking arsenal overall design of the fighter, switching weapons every attacks, but something feels off, in weapon mastery. Seems i misunderstand the rule. and changing after a long rest feels like "i finally mastered my 2h mace, it became the extension of my arm. Oh nevermind, i slept and now i'm more a 2h sword guy"
Arcane charge could be just simply: "When you start your turn you can teleport up to 30feet to an unoccupied space you can see, if you do so, you must use the attack action om that turn." Also would have been great if eldritch strike also affects any saving throw of your on going spells.
29:00 Unless I missed something, this calculation is off by 1 die face. Should be 3/20 chance per die, right? 18, 19, 20. So 27.75% with advantage. Still amazing!
Huh... Relentless was something Swords Bard had in 2014, right? "Use a D6 for a Flourish, instead of expending Bardic Inspiration die", or something? It's nice, but I kinda read it as another clue that Swords Bards won't be coming to the 2024 ruleset... :/
ב"ה getting an 18-20 on a roll with advantage is only 27.75% and not 36%. It would have been 36% if it was 17-20 on advantage, so I can understand the mistake in the calculation, but for 18-20 on advantage it is only 27.75%. You can increase the chance even above 36% if you assume you use your free heroic inspiration should you not get 18-20, though it could be risky since you might reroll a success into a failure.
Can you clarify how you got 36% of coming back to 1 HP from death as a champion fighter? I thought it was 1 - (17/20)^2 *100 = 27.75% chance, because the odds that you brick is 17 out of 20 outcomes on two dice.
I wonder if the Graze weapon mastery stacks with the Evoker wizard's Potent Cantrip. If so, an Eldritch Knight/Evoker 3 could deal half damage + ability modifier on a missed True Strike.
15:49 i don't want any one at my table saying they can't do anything on their combat turn 30:44 ... A 10 hp max regen per turn... At level 18. I don't hate it, but it feels weak. 31:53 i liked the school restriction since it made sense. 32:26 War bond... None of the other features do anything with it, which is weird to me. War Magic: ..eh. it's alright. Comes two levels after extra attack though so... 34:45 personally I'd have it work with your bonded weapons only. 35:18 could put this at 3/7 frankly. 35:53 improved war magic... I can't think of any level 1 or 2 spells that would be worth the attacks off hand. I like Eldritch Knight, but none of the features are really doing it for me. Also, why not call it Arcane Knight sonce you're using the wizard list? . Make Eldritch Knight specific spells please WOTC.
34:45 Sorry, Chris but I really think you missed the boat on this one! I see 3 great uses. 2 you mentioned, but you missed potentially the most powerful. 1) Weapon attack until you hit then cantrip, as you suggested. 2) Hit on turn A, cast leveled spell on turn B. You say not enough slots, I say all the more reason to give disadvantage first. But this is also a very slow option. 3) Hit with an attack and cast a leveled spell on the same round. Lots of ways: a) Action Surge (obv, I know) b) Attack with a bonus action c) Attack with a reaction d) Cast with a bonus action Foes worthy of expending a (melee or ranged) attack and a save-or-suck spell slot on could be approached in this way with a L10+ Eldritch Knight.
Between Tactical Mind and Battle Master Commanding Presence and Tactical Assessment you will be a force in dance battles and off the battlefield with: Perform, Persuade, History, Investigation, and Insight.
Psi Warrior all the way! Gifted techniques from the Gith! Excellent for exterminating far realm scum. And multiclassing into Gloom Stalker Ranger * drools * I will rip and tear mind flayers till' its done! My purple dragonborn will be the G.S ranger while my topaz dragonborn will be the P.W fighter. My copper dragonborn vengeance paladin and amethyst draconic sorcerer will keep the 2nd line
"For 99% of Fighters, this [inability to use Action Surge to cast two levelled spells on one turn] won't make a difference." My man, that could be true for overall players, but among your viewership, I'd wager that percentage is wildly hyperbolic. 😅😇😝
I don't get why Rally now scales with half your fighter level while Parry still scales with STR or DEX Mod. Rally reduces future damage while Parry reduces inmediate incoming damage, Rally is for allies while Parry is for yourself. Shouldn't Parry also scale with half your fighter level to keep up with Rally ?
Maybe there is a separate video about the damage of the subclasses, but the Campion Fighter seems too low, particularly for levels 3 through 9. For comparison, if a Battle Master Fighter focuses on the Maneuvers that add the Superiority Die to damage after confirming a hit, you can guarantee an average of 18 damage every time you expend your 4 Superiority Dice for levels 3 through 6, so if every 8 encounters/32 rounds of combat if you are getting a short/long rest every 2 encounters, you should be able to get an average of 72 damage out of the Battle Master subclass, if you are getting a Short/Long rest after every encounter, you could be getting up to 144 average damage out of the Battle Master superiority dice every 8 encounters/32 rounds of combat (technically a Maneuver like Precision Attack could boost your damage even higher via turning misses into hits, despite the chance of still missing the attack). In comparison, for a Champion Fighter to deal a similar amount of damage from their subclass via critical hits on natural 19's (critical hits from natural 20's don't count towards the subclass's damage), they would need something like a magic weapon with the "Flame Tongue" enchantment (or maybe the "Dragon Slayer" enchantment in a campaign where most/all enemies are dragons) as well as Advantage on most attacks, if not every attack, in order to catch up to the Battle Master damage, discounting any of the non-damaging benefits you could get out your chosen battle Master Maneuvers, like knocking enemies prone with the Tripping Attack maneuver.
Getting Magic Initiate (Druid) for Int-based Shillelagh through Human or a custom background is a really strong option for Eldritch Knights and Psi Warriors
I like theme of eldritch knight but I don't know if he should get 5 out of 5. Very few spellslots, currently cantrip selection is limited, no booming blade or green flame blade in new PHB. Battlemaster can convert bonus action to decent AC through evasive footwork, on 15 level this is almost a perma shield at cost of bonus action instead of a reaction. New fighter looks really good, champion on higher levels should be also amazing as some DMs might allow heroic inspiration to be gained out of combat.
Limited, but there are a few exemplars. Shillelagh is amazing now. A single bonus action turns your trash club into a one-handed d8 force dealing weapon for 10 rounds, no concentration needed. At lv17, you essentially have a one-handed maul that lets you use a shield or dual wield.
@@mappybc6097We're a fighter. We have martial weapons. Why do we care about getting access to a 1d8 damage weapon? We have like 10 of them to choose from and they all have a variety of cool weapon masteries.
Commander's Strike used to burn your bonus action as well as one of your attacks. Now it only takes an attack, no Bonus Action required!
HUGE improvement. I loved that flavor but it was SO costly.
Came here to note the same thing
Yeah, it used to cost your attack, your bonus action, a superiority die, AND your ally's reaction. And then it could miss.
Had the potential to be phenomenal if your ally was stacked and had a really good attack, but it was a ridiculous action economy investment.
Wow, I'm pretty sure we missed that and just ignored the bonus action cost.
@@williamwalton9154 it was how it always should have been
"When we are talking about the martials... the classes that don't get spells.... the best one is... the one that still gets spells"... :)
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So Paladins :D
@@austintaciusI prefer Eldridge knights. Paladin has some good but if it's allegedly the best I should see a lot more than I do.
Fighter, especially now, will out damage a Paladin easily.
@@nickm9102 fighter should out-damage a plate wearing, d10 half-caster that also gives the entire party +5 to all saving throws and has their own free flying mount.
@@austintacius If that is your view then we are in agreement. However, I have also shown in previous video comments that the fighter can out pace a full caster 1v1 which is in contradiction to the typical argument and the meta that has resulted in the gutting of most of the above average spells. Arguing that a caster is better because AOE can hit multiple is a poor argument because it is fairly easy to create a campaign where you encounter only single target combats and saying differently means you are potentially basing a character's power on a situation that could never come.
As someone who doesn't care at all about optimizing my characters, I want to thank you for your clear structure, descriptions, and distinctions of rules. I say this because, even for someone who just likes thematics like me, your channel is my favorite for understanding rules and changes. 😁
He’s the best. No question
That is totally certainly, he deserves much more subs@@logancuster8035
Same!
I like to make optimised builds, but they're not right for my table, which is fine.
Best part of TMs videos atm is the depth of understanding it gives me of the new system, so that I know how to DM and play at the right level for my table!
For sure. I am the same to a degree, I defo want to optimise but I will go flavor first and THEN optimise. Make a character I can role play and then make it as powerful as I can. For example I wanted to play a melee magic dwarf weaponsmith, but i didnt want to go purelcass. So I decided on Eldritch Knight with 2 Arty levels. I was behind on core class features/feats and therefor meant i wasnt fully optimised, but the flavor was at 200% because of it. He was a security guard, and one of the infusions I took was the Tankard of Sobriety, and when I cast cure wounds for flavor I said I was imbuing the contents of the cup into something similar to a healing potion
15:44 Ive been seeing the sentiment that "range isn't as good as melee now" pop up alot, and I think people kinda forget that despite the lack of DPR, range has the enourmous benefit of keeping you out of harm's way in many encounters. I'd even make the argument that ranged DPR shouldn't be as good as melee due to this favtor. Unless you commit to a GWM + longbow build, which is a big investment.
It also has a higher chance to hit due to the fighting style, which increases DPR, and can engage before the melee, and target switch more effectively. Not to mention flying targets.
Ranged may have a lower "stand and hit" DPR, but will almost certainly be more effective on the battlefield than that implies.
Yes, ranged was better at everything before, damage, safety, deployability, positioning. Range by itself is an advantage, it is not worse than melee now, it was just better at everything, but now it loses in the damage department. But all that is before accounting for Magic weapons, with weapons that add damage dice and modifiers, the precision of archery starts to be even more important.
I think more recent creatures have stronger ranged options now
11th level eldritch knight can attack, cast mind sliver, creature has disadvantage on save from eldritch strike, attack again, and set up a party member next turn with disadvantage again and -1d4 on the next save.. IM IN LOVE 😍😍 edit : sadly the disadvantage only works on eldritch knight spells 😞 either way you can still set up some pretty cool combos
I think 10 lvl feature mentions only spell casted by eldritch knight so not so good, although d4 from mind sliver is something
Take MI: Cleric for Bane, use Mind Sliver and Eldritch Strike to land Bane, then make your targets roll their spell saves at disadvantage-2d4
on the first EK i built, i made this combo, and then next turn cast hold person, following turn action surge to dump all of my attacks + BA polearm master attack all at adv. and auto crits from paralysis. takes a bit to set up, but the changes to the cantrip attacks make it happen faster, and man was it satisfying. killed a full health barbarian who was terrorizing people lol
Tasha’s Psi Warrior got a Psionic Energy die back as a bonus action, and could do so again after a short rest. So the new version actually gets one fewer per day.
Are you sure that's gone? It gets one back on a short rest now, though. According to D4 that's still a thing, just not uses your BA any longer.
@@WalkOnNick now, it gets one back on a short rest. Before, it could get one back as soon as it spent one, then again with every short rest, so it always had one more per day than the new version.
There's also the minor change that Psi Warrior and Soul Knife both mention that if you have another feature that grants the dice (such as the other subclass) you can only use the ones granted by this subclass for its features. Tasha's version didn't specify, so it was ambiguous on if you could use both types for both classes
True and another brainfumble from WotC, do they even reflect, playtest? Would it hurt SO much buffing weaker/ lacking classes and sub-classes instead of say nerfing strong ones? I smell sadistic and or ignorant spite and disregard.
as a Champion Fighter, in the end of a combat you can get heroic inspiration and not use it (if the situation doesn't seem really dangerous) and keep this inspiration for use outside of combat
I actually kind of like this. Leans into sort of an inspirational “champion of the people” roleplay rather than just the “better bonks” subclass.
Genius.
Even better it's any dice roll
Indomitable can give you a fighting chance to make a saving throw at high levels of exhaustion, when it might otherwise be impossible to succeed. Also it could save your life if you need to reroll a death saving throw.
Or an important intelligence saving throw, or a dominate person… god knows it’s scary when the tanky ass fighter gets dominated and the party has to try and beat their AC over and over to slap them out of it until they luck into a save
i'm all for martials getting really good saving throw abilities
monks, rogues, paladins, fighters. If only they gave something to barbarian for their mental saves
Something you can do now with psionic warrior is take the magic initiate feat at level one for intelligence based shillelagh and focus solely on int. That would be a big boost.
woah this is great!
Indomitable = Legendary Resistance
Then you take the Mage Slayer feat, and you get another legendary Resistance (just for Int, Wis and Cha saves, but still amazing)
Let's go child, we have Legendery Resistance at home
Commander's Strike also doesn't use your Bonus Action anymore
This is a huge deal tbh.
I can't help but think the random last minute inclusion of Psi Warrior and Soulknife without much change covered for other unfinished work on classes people were actually asking about.
According to Jeremy Crawford the Psi-Warrior and Soulknife's inclusion (alongside the Aberrant Sorcerer) were part of a concerted effort to put more psionics content in the PHB, so that the Great Old One Warlock isn't a random outlier. Not how I would have gone about it, but as a psionics fan I appreciate the consideration.
@@watcher314159 I'm not ruling out multiple motivations.
Something I noticed is that a number of Battlemaster maneuvers work on any kind of attack roll which includes spell attacks. Not sure how many spell attacks there are that would benefit a ton from maneuvers but Precision Attack is welcome anytime and Maneuvering attack could be cool to help allies get out of tough spots even from range.
Taking damage can be managed with healing, or deflecting it away. Even conditions can just be removed! But fail a big save..... you die instantly, turn to stone, lose your mind,or are whisked away to a crazy Maze! Saves are way more clutch that most of the people I play with realize! Way to go Fighter!
Maze the 8th level spell allows no saves actually. So Indomitable still doesn't help with that.
Fighter has always been my favorite class. This made me very happy.
I think the winner of the "Biggest feature glowup" reward is a toss up between indomitable and Rage. Ive some issues with some of the 2024 changes, but those are absoulutly stellar.
I wish the psi warrior got at least the mage hand cantrip. It would be perfect flavor-wise.
Even the gith get it
Psi-Warrior definitely needed some changes. Disappointing to see so many subclass reprints that feature basically zero changes when there were other subclass in dire need of a rework.
The thing that makes the Eldritch Knights Action Surge Teleport special, is that it doesn't require an action or anything to activate it, since there's no resource to activate action surge.
I used this effect in a one shot to avoid falling into a pit on my turn.
The downside is that you can only use it when you action surge. I find that limitation severely nullifies this feature. I almost never need to teleport AND action surge. Being able to do those things separately would be so much better.
The most common use case for fighters using action surge is simply attacking again. Then, you're probably already in range, so it does nothing; if you were not in range, a simple misty step would get you there. So, this feature is basically equivalent to one misty step per short rest, which is pretty garbage for a subclass that already gets misty step.
I honestly consider that a dead level
@@limaTheNoob but you’re admitting that this would both free up your bonus action and combine well with attacking more. In cases where you can kill a frontline opponent and get on top of a backline enemy this now gives you a full attack action, and even better if you have GWM you’re kill gives you a weaponized Bonus Action. Alternatively a ranged fighter, which won’t be the most amazing, but still will be viable could use this to make distance when it counts. This isn’t happening in every encounter but when it happens will be way more than a “dead” feature. But if you just don’t want to utilize features have fun I suppose.
@@joshuawilliams8310 see, "dead feature" doesn't mean "it will absolutely, never ever come up". People - myself included - use that to mean "a feature whose impact is so incredibly minor that, if you didn't have it, you'd barely notice". That's how I define this feature. It's like... "sure, whatever". If eldritch knights had a proper, impactful feature at this level, we would call this one almost a ribbon.
It can be useful, but it is so incredibly specific that it definitely is not worth a high level feature. I have used the weapon summoning more often than I'd have used this one - specially because weapon summoning is at will, and this one is once per rest. I'd miss the bonded weapon summoning if it was gone far more than I'd miss this one. That is, in my opinion, a huge problem, because one is a level 3 ribbon feature (the big one is spellcasting), and the other is a level 15 feature that is supposed to represent a significant power scaling.
Of course, it is still better than the terrible scaling of battle masters (really, die increases are NOT full level features, maneuvers should auto-scale just like cantrips), but that is a very low bar
i was gonna ask if eldritch knights can bypass the surge casting restriction by using improved war magic but then i remembered you can’t use more than 1 spell slot a turn now, idk i kinda think it fits the flavor of the subclass, like if only one character can have access to an ability like that it should be a 18th level eldritch knight
Give them the Epic Boon of Spell Restore at 19 and they have a chance to not actually expend the spell slot?
Technically do bypass it as they could cast a spell slot one on one Action and cast a cantrip with their second Action without taking the restricted Magic Action, but do still run into the "only extend spell slot to cast a spell per turn" restriction unless some other way of getting around that is used though yeah
You'd have to cast using all the feats and features that grant you a free casting of a spell. Fey touched for example
Evasive Footwork + Defensive Duelist combo can grant you a crazy AC (for a cost of a bonus action and a reaction) 😮
Also, I love that they kept Commanding Presence, it's one of my favorite maneuvers since it's one that let you use your resources even if there is no combat encounter. But I love playing charisma-based characters, even my warriors have some 😅
Bait is better, only cost 5 feets
@@nahuelmonzon3765 But requires an ally nearby, which Evasive Footwork does not, you can always do it. Both are great though.
Something to note about Evasive Footwork: it can be thought of as a proactive Shield spell alternative. One of the biggest advantages of Eldritch Knight was access to the Shield spell and the massive AC buff that allowed for. Now, Battle Masters can get a similar average AC buff for the cost of a Superiority Die (4 / short rest) + a Bonus Action; this leaves your Battle Master with their Reaction still. With the Protection Fighting Style, both the Battle Master and his brother/ sister-in-arms can both rock impressive ACs on the regular.
And, once a Battle Master hits level 15 (if your campaign goes that far) you can use Evasive Footwork every round for free as long as you're ok using a d8 instead of a d10 or d12. You have to trade your bonus action, but that's a small price to not die. On top of that, since Relentless lets you use a free maneuver once per Turn not just once per round, your reaction Maneuvers can always be used for free. So buff your AC for free with Evasive Footwork, let attackers miss you, and then counter attack for free with Riposte. Or you Parry for free if they still hit you.
The chances for the Champions defy death feature to work are 27.75 % you seem to have calculated the chances of rolling 17-20 with advantage :)
The Math:
You succeed on an 18-20, that is 18,19,20. That is 3 results out of 20 possible. 3/20 = 0.15 = 15 % chance of success for 1 die
But you get two rolls. You succeed in 3 scenarios:
- the first die is a success, and the second die is a failure.
- the first die is a failure and the second die is a success.
- both are successes.
But rather than calculate all those scenarios, it is actually easier to calculate your chance of failure.
There is only one scenario where you fail.
- both dice are failures.
The chance of 1 die being a failure 85% = 0.85, the chances for two dice both being failures is then simply 0.85*0.85 = 0.7225 = 72.25%
And when we know the chance of failure, the chance of success is simply the rest: 100% - 72.25% = 27.75 %
For whatever reason it seems Chris put the base chance of success on one die in as 4/20, which would end out with 36 %. Honest mistake, happens to the best of us.
Thanks for doing this, I had similar conclusions.
As a Champion you also get a free Heroic Inspiration at the start of your turn, so if you fail (or just fail to roll 18-20), you can use that inspiration you just got to re-roll it (totaling 3 dice per turn) which then gives you 38.59% that you get up on on that turn.
wouldn’t the chance be about 38.5%?
that heroic inspiration you get back every turn doesn’t have much else to be used on when you’re rolling death saves.
@@End3r97 It's a risk using Heroic Inspiration on a Death Save though, since it's a "Reroll, must use the new roll" feature rather than something like Advantage you've got a 5% chance of rolling a 1 for two failures (excluding certain features like a Halfling's Luck that I think would trigger on rolling a first 1 with Heroic Inspiration?), one of the few things where rolling a 1 is worse than a regular fail RAW
I always loved playing into the human fighter trope. I loved being “guy with sword/bow” and letting the RP make that character unique while the gameplay was straightforward and consistent.
But the 2024 fighter makes me wanna Human Fighter harder than ever before
Im a listener usually when it comes to the classic treant vid (mostly cuz im at work lol) and wow this was recored around July? I know my man has a gold mine of videos, i may have to contribute so i get my fix!
Indomitable did not change wow. Seems way more than just broken to me. Its like a legendary resistance at that point. Also Death saving throw ?
Psy warrior and Eldrich knight got both a huge indirect buff with Shillelagh, if you are fine with use quartestaff and use a bonus action on first turn you can focus on Intelligence and play both classes on fullest of their potential
So a psi warrior can have a lightsaber.... Awesome 😎
Eldritch knight can cast leveled spells as part of the attack action, so it can cast leveled spells on action surge, wich with stuff like magic initiate, allow you to do stuff like this: a dragonborn eldritch knight can do a true strike, then do a breath weapon, then cast web with then having disadvantage on the save thanks to true strike being a weapon attack, wich counts to activate eldritch strike, then action surge teleport, breath weapon, true strike and then cromatic orb (obtained from magic initiate so it doesn't consume a spell slot), and just to make it a bit more chaotic, bonus action misty step (obtained from fey touched so it doesn't consume a spell slot) all on 1 turn.
The only problem with the example is using two spell slots on the same turn I think?
@@zeik101 The only spell slot consumed in that example is Web, so it should work RAW.
@@Anything_Random oh missed the magic initiate bit
Also, you could get your party's Wizard/Druid/Bard to make you a 9th level Conjure Minor Elementals spell scroll, use it, take 1 level in warlock for Eldritch Blast, Magic Initiate: Wizard for free Magic Missile. Then, while the scroll is active, Eldritch Blast, Scorching Ray 4th level, Action Surge teleport, Eldritch Blast, Magic Missile. Your choice bonus action
@@DanielHullihen-wf7jo using magic items is part of the magic action, but it's not "casting a spell", it's "using a magic item", so i don't think you can do it as part of the attack action with improved war magic, also, magic missile doesn't have an attack roll, so it won't trigger conjure minor elementals's damege.
It really sucks that Eldritch Knight Fighter still doesn’t get access to automatic return weapons with their war bond feature. It works out great in BG3 and doesn’t cause any balance issues.
Needing to use a bonus action to get your weapon back is terrible
The Champion's Improved Critical seems AMAZING with the new Crusher (crit = EVERY ATTACK from anyone has advantage against that creature until your next turn) and/or Slasher (crit = the creature has disadvantage on EVERY ATTACK until your next turn) feats. The handaxe is a Vex slashing (and light) weapon to make your crits more often. The light hammer is a Nick bludgeoning (and light) weapon to be able to make more attacks to try to crit more often too. You could play a halfling and use this heroic inspiration every turn to make it more reliable.
Eldritch Knight still not being able to cast Steel Wind Strike hurts my soul!
Genuinely, what's the point of having more masteries known than other classes if you can swap them on a long rest? Who needs more than two or three at most in a day anyway? I wish fighter got like, masteries+ where they get an additional little something with each that other classes dont.
you are definitely right to value saving throws a lot, most of the worst effects that can come upon players can be avoided by making 1 saving throw and the most dangerous monsters tend to have some sort of effect that works this way
the problem is the small number of uses, so you may need to avoid having to make other saving throws after using indomitable
Fighters with Shillelagh are probably going to become very popular in this edition. 1d8+(Str or Casting Stat) -> 1d10 -> 1d12 -> 2d6
Starting at level 11 it is basically a critical hit on every attack.
I think Fighter is going to be hands down the best martial in the game by far in Tier 3-4, and very strong in tier 1-2. This was already mostly the case in terms of damage previously, but now they've got insane survivability against everything (both vs saves and vs attacks) and an incredible amount of utility to go with it, especially for Battlemaster and Eldritch Knight.
One thing of note is that by replacing your attacks with spells, you aren't taking the magic action so you could be more flexible with action surge
Correct but there is still the restriction that you can only cast one spell that uses a spell slot per turn
@@tylerthompson7078 Could take magic initiate or be a species with a spell to get a free casting without a spell slot to circumvent this 1 or 2 times
You could cast Mind Sliver and Hold Person on the same turn. Not even full spellcasters can do that. Pretty neat.
@@trestinpeterson3324 That is true, but bear in mind Improved War Magic specifically says that the levelled spell you cast with it has to be a Wizard spell. So even if you get a way to cast without spell slots from a feat or species, it still has to be a Wizard spell.
I don't know if spells you get from other sources like feats or species count as Class spells for purposes like this. My assumption would be that if the spell is on the Wizard spell list it counts, but I'm not sure.
One cool thing about heroic rally is that it triggers at the start of your turn, meaning at the same time as defy death, and since you can order them however you like, you roll a 1 and an 18 on your death save, pop back to 1 hp, then immediately regain those hit points
At level 19, one level later, once per turn you can regain con hp whenever you regain hp, so let's say you start with a 17 str or dex, and a 16 Con, you use levels 4, 6, 8 general feats to get a +3 str/dex, then use level 12 for resilient wisdom, then use 14 and 16 to just use 2 ASIs to cap your Con at 20, then level 19 epic boon of recovery
Now if you are not bloodied, you have a +5 bonus to second wind
If you are bloodied, you regenerate 15hp per turn, and if you are unconsious you have a 1/3 chance of rolling a death save, then coming back at 16 hp, and then you can immediately roll second wind to get another 25.5 avg, and you can immediately move half your speed without opportunity attacks, and take the dodge, attack or dash or whatever, probably attack, then apply sap to whatever is hitting you so they have disadvantage,
Every turn you don't die again you regain another 15hp
This makes me want to play a tanky boi so much
Also, the higher your con is, the more hp you have, the higher your max hp, the more that you survive, which instantly scales all champion abilities since they are resourceless as long as they have health, and also it increased the bloodied threshold, and the amount that epic boon of recovery restores, since you can gain half your hp once when you are knocked out
If the combat is nearly over when you go down, I wouldn't use epic boon of recovery, I'd just wait for a death save or ally healing, then gradually regen back to half health, then take a short rest
I love the new champion, the old one always had a nice 18th level feature, but with epic boon of recovery to scale it, (or any other epic boon if you prefer), the new champion has several great build paths which I would like to explore
I am looking forward to playing a aasimar grapple champion. You hit once and you get to grapple for free then get advantage on an 18-20 crit range for another 3 attacks. Tey keeping this zealot down down
On Indomitable, if they're gonna make it like this, might as well had just made it Legendary Resistance
Fighters are so much better now. i still would allow for Eldritch Knight to use a bonded weapon as a spellcasting focus, although other people might argue differently
LVL 1 Warlock dip Pack of the Blade for extra pact weapon that can be used as spellcasting focus + eldritch Blast to make up for lost capstone (With up to 4 attacks). Or just use Warcaster. I do agree though that they should be able to, especially because pact of the blade allows it. But at least there are workarounds.
Even if Indomitable gave half fighter level as a bonus it would still be okay/good.
Battle Master Maneuvers that add to skill checks, like Commanding Presence, should stack with Tactical Mind. This means adding like average +9-+11 to those skill checks. With proficiency, you're beating the Expertise classes at those checks (for a resource). It's expensive, but extremely nice as an option.
It presumably also works with the Battle Master 15th level feature as a discount version of expertise
The Champion’s Survivor is even better than 27.75% (corrected math) right? You get heroic inspiration at the start of your turn if you don’t have it and you can use it on any d20 test.
EDIT: if you use your heroic inspiration on your death saving throw the odds go up to 38.5875%
petition to call the new edition "5r"
for 5e revised
29:15 Slight correction: it's only really a 27.8% chance on any given death save. That said, if your GM rules you can gain Inspiration even while unconscious, you can use it for your Death Save and boost your odds to 38.6%. Assuming you make three saves, you have a 62.4% or a 76.9% chance respectively to revive yourself.
Do you think the new champion fighter is the new baseline? The new fighter looks pretty good. Eldritch Knight seems like easily the best fighter although the psi warrior and battle master are pretty close.
I think champion fighter has always been the baseline for martials.
YES.
I’m actually a little embarrassed with how often I checked UA-cam to see if your fighter video dropped already.
As a side note, do you think the new wording of Great Weapon Fighting means that all the damage rider dice (superiority dice, the charger bonus, smites, etc.) that land on a 1 or a 2 also get upgraded to 3’s? I hope this gets some clarification from Wizards.
I believe it's just the weapon damage dice. I'll double check...you're right, it's not 100% clear. If it's any damage die, the feat is a lot better.
It's not even a question and I have no idea why he's hedging. Read the savage attacker origin feat, then read GW fighting style. One is clearly weapon damage only, the other isn't.
I was confused why he rated the fighting style so low. Didn't realize he completely misread it.
Unless I'm mistaken at level 15 with battle master you can give 1d8 + level temp hit points to all your allies before combat?
Some of the maneuvers were removed. Brace is gone, for example.
Edit: Why did WotC reprint so many subclasses with basically zero changes? Psi-Warrior definitely could've had some changes, or subclasses like Samurai, Arcane Archer, Purple Dragon Knight, etc., definitely were in need of changes.
We keep seeing that it seems there will no longer be resistance to b/p/s from non magic weapons. Isn't it safe to assume that there will still be b/p/s resistance, though? If so, martials will have less opportunities to overcome that, correct? Or am i interpreting something incorrectly?
@@brynwtsn I think we’ll see a lot more monsters with resistance to one of those damage types, rather than seeing them almost exclusively show up together.
@@theresnoracelikegnome oh, good call. That would be nice.
There’s a lot of features (true strike, shillelagh, pact weapon, etc.) that let you change the damage type of your weapon attacks to specific magical damage types. I wouldn’t be surprised if even generic +1/+2/+3 magic weapons have this feature.
I know it has precedence and we all know what it means, but you could read the second wind opportunity attack as not granting any extra movement speed but just meaning half of your movement would not provoke opportunity attacks.
I don’t think anyone in their right minds would enforce it that way, though.
It says ‘whenever you activate’. This implies you still get half your Speed even if you already used you movement, ergo its extra movement. Also pretty sure ‘Speed’ refers to your max movement stat and not your remaining movement.
I don't understand why indomitable makes you reroll. Why not just let you add your fighter level to what you already rolled?
Not fully satisfied with the Eldritch Knight but man, i will take it over the old one for sure.
Psi Warrior was a weird choice for the new book, the Arcane Archer really needed some love two uses of Arcane Shot is really not enough. Samurai too, that's more in need of upgrades than Psi Warrior
All psionic classes are back so no it’s not a weird choice and the samurai somewhat compete it’s the battle master as the smart fighter while the arcane archer is just straight up archer only
Look in every subclass and you will see that they all are trying to get different flavors
I would have liked a revision for Arcane Archer as well. I agree, psi-warrior did not need a revision (and barely got one)
I think there are some subtle, but serious problems with the Champion Fighter's level 10 feature, the way the level 10 feature seems to interact with general rules for GM's giving out Heroic inspiration seem to be filled with weird anti-combos...
For instance, if the Champion player uses their Heroic Inspiration, and then before the start of their next turn does something so cool the GM might want to give them Heroic Inspiration, that is close to net zero benefit for the Champion player, since it could effectively disable their level 10 feature until after the start of their next turn. If the Champion every rolls really well for a round, and does not need to use their Heroic Inspiration before the start of their next turn, they effectively "get punished", losing their level 10 feature for a turn, merely for "getting good rolls" for a round.
This feels like it could easily have a negative impact on the attitudes at the table. Like if the GM starts to feel there is no point in giving out Heroic Inspiration, and reduce how often they give Heroic Inspiration out, that will effective punish any non-Champion Fighter players. From the player side, if Champion players start to feel that it is not worth it to put in the roleplaying effort that is supposed to be needed to earn Heroic Inspiration via the general rules, since they will get it anyway at the start of their next turn, the feature would be training players to not engage in the very behavior the base rules for Heroic Inspiration are meant to encourage. If a GM starts to compensate any bad habits they fee themselves picking up due to the level 10 Champion feature by giving out Heroic Inspiration more often, they start to undermine the value of the Champion's level 10 feature.
This feature feels like GM's will find themselves getting stuck between a rock, and a hard place more than they should, through no fault of their own.
So maybe any GM with two braincells will just allow the Champ to give the Insp to someone else. How many times does Insp get handed out in a fight? Once every 3 sessions? Hardly seems like a problem at all.
@@brilobox2 Yeah, it would probably take studying the behavior of hundreds of players/GMs over thousands of total sessions to prove if what I am talking about is happening or not, which is a main part of the potential problem - that the feature might influence player, and GM behavior in ways they are not consciously aware of.
You keep saying ranged isn't as good, I think because sharpshooter got nerfed, but I think you're sleeping on the fact that heavy weapon master applies to long bows and heavy crossbows. Yeah the crossbow expert / sharpshooter build isn't the ridiculous combo it used to be, but ranged always has the inherent power of keeping out of range of melee enemies. You'll do more damage as a ranged fighter against a melee character because you can push or slow them from far away and they are wasting turn after turn trying to get to you, and you haven't taken any damage.
I think this is good game design, though Melee should always do more damage than ranged because ranged is inherently better due to being more defensive oriented
You'll still be safer at range in 2024, but you won't be doing more damage than melee like you were in 2014, with your best-in-class fighting style and easier target selection. Reason why is that topple will be a popular weapon mastery, which gives advantage to melee and disadvantage to range. There are many many other sources of prone in 2024 (shield master, hill goliath, buffed hideous laughter, and many subclass features). Range is still viable, but those who risk melee will absolutely reap a reward.
@@ram3n_goblin which is exactly the way it should be
I'm not sure Improved War Magic should have the limitation of level 1 or 2 spells, it's not like you have a ton of spells or slots to use even at levels 17 and beyond, There might be some possibility for exploits or something, but I can't think of much
Improved war magic allows you to avoid the new no magic action limitation in action surge. They really don't want people casting 2 fireballs in one turn
@@teogomez4394exactly and that’s not just fireballs since you also get to keep half of your attacks at level 20
@@teogomez4394yeah, but your spell slots are so limited already. I don't think they needed to limit this to
@@MethosJK9 I think it's not only a huge improvement compared to the 2014 version but also a very powerful feature overall despite the level restriction. You can still use your third attack for something like booming blade and benefit from the lv10 feature in the spell you cast as part of the same action. And your BA is still available afterwards, not to mention that since you used the attack action you can benefit from TWF or PM
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As a lover of the Kingdoms of Amalur game, I want to actualise my Might/Sorcery main in D&D. Arcane Charge makes me cry inside knowing that Horizon Walker gets Distant Strike, which is a way better type of teleport that would fulfil that game’s movement. I suppose the Eldritch Knight is encouraged to use misty step a lot if you want to teleport a bunch. I just don’t wanna have to burn so many resources having that playstyle 😭
I don't know if you have a specific species in mind for your character concept. But if you pick Goliath (cloud giant) you can teleport a number of times per day equal to your proficiency modifier without using a spell slot.
I used to really like a 3.5 prestige class called Champion of Corellon. The theme was something like a paldin for elven culture, but mechanically it was an agile tank full of mobility and finesse combining tactics, dexterity and heavy armor. With battle master, especially with the change of level 15, you can consistently use Evasive Footwork, Ripost, Parry, Lunging Strike to do a similar concept
I imagine that when Defy Death triggers, the fighter is like "I didn't hear no bell!"
The Battle Master's Relentless feature says "Once per turn". So does that mean you can use any of your reaction Maneuvers like Riposte for free each round? Like, on your turn you use Evasive Footwork. You apply Relentless, so you get it for free but you use a d8. So you can bonus action disengage and get a d8 AC for free every round. Then an enemy attacks you, let's say it misses your AC because it's higher now, and you react with riposte. It's a new turn, you get another use of Relentless, so you use Riposte with a d8 but at no cost.
i would say so, yup
How did you get 36%? I think you might have done the chance for 17-20. 18-20 is 3/20 = 15%; 1-(1-.15)(1-.15)=1-.85*.85 = 1-.7225 = 27.75%
This is making me think about an Eldritch Blast Fighter, taking a Warlock dip... maybe even a tiny two-level one, maybe enough to get a subclass... and going Battlemaster and taking Maneuvers that work with Attacks. It seems like it would be pretty cool, and although you wouldn't get much out of Weapon Mastery, you could make up for that with Invocations to boost EB.
Too bad you didn't have time to make a video about monks. Otherwise, a perfect 20-part series. Thank you.
I haven't done a detailed analysis, but weapon masteries + battlemaster maneuvers is probably an absurd amount of CC/battlefield control. By the end of your turn an enemy will be prone, slowed, disarmed basically every turn.
I don't want to be negative, I like a lot of the changes for Eldritch knight, but I wish they would make some good melee cantrips. GFB and BB are great, but everyone uses them and they didn't even add them to the new PHB... that combined with their cantrip recommendations for Eldritch Knight makes me think that no one on the team even understands the sub class at all.
I'll tell you a secret. They didn't eliminate those cantrips. Anything from the previous books that doesn't have the same title, species, subclass, spell, wasn't replaced so you can still use it. Hence BB and GFB are still available. Still, I wouldn't use them on an EK unless I was going sword-and-board. Polearms don't really benefit from those cantrips.
@@MethosJK9 That's not a secret, but it's also not my point. A lot of EK's do use them. They fit much better with War magic than using regular caster cantrips from the Wizard book. I think as melee class, it fit's much better to have some variety to melee cantrips, but the designers never seem to think about it.
Also, I know some DM's that will not allow things outside of the new PHB if starting a game with the new rules.
Bait and switch is a free action which is pretty cool.
If your bm has a familiar nearby or an ally they can get a big buff to their ac for no action cost.
It opens up a really strong tanking option for a bm + duelist.
Damn, it really is like Legendary Resistance!
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I mean on a +13 you are likely making that roll on top of any bonuses you'd normally have.
Champion death saves are 27.75% not 36% unless I am missing something.
20:08 So what I'm hearing you say is the best Eldritch Blaster in the game might actually be a Battlemaster with a standard Warlock dip? And in Tier 4 (BM15/Warlock2), Relentless means a passive bonus to cantrip scaling + Quicken EB with Sorc dip. Let's call it IKEA Eldritch Knight. 😈 HEYYY COLBYYYYYY!!!!
Tactical Master imo is most useful with the graze feature. Weapon misses? Do some damage anyway. Weapon hits? Switch it up to Push Sap or Slow.
I don’t think it works
You’re supposed to choose before you hit so actually graze might be the worst combo since you’re never gonna use it when trying to use another mastery
@@TekGriffon Yeah. This isn't how it works. The phrasing "when you attack" means "when you declare an attack before you roll". Stuff that triggers on a hit always says so. By the time you have hit someone, "when you attack" has already passed.
But maybe some DMs will homebrew it this way as sounds fun.
On saving thows you are ABSOLUTLEY RIGHT. Sure there are not anymore comm9n save or die like in older editions, but saving thows are always a priority.
Thank you for preparing the informative & fun review! Psi Warrior is great thematically, yet the mechanics feel disappointing when compared to the other sublcasses :(
For a heavy weapon using fighter that has an ok dexterity the archery foghting style isn't the worst idea. Lets say you have a 14 dexterity and take the new GWM as well as Archery. At lvl 5 you can now do 1d8+5 with a longbow while having a +7 to hit. That is pretty good for a backup ranged weapon. Much better then taking the great weapon fighting style which gives a minimal damage increase. I like the idea of a fighter that really has mastered different weapons for different situations.
One of Bard subclasses from 2014 had a similar feature to Relentless. You could give a d6(?) Inspiration without expending your dice pool.
You mentioned that you feel that most fighters will be switching between different weapons more often. Do you believe that makes the champion's extra fighting style more valuable than it was in the past?
I'm not sure the 36% on champ fighter popping up is correct.
You roll 2 dice, if you get 1 18-20 you get up. Chance of not doing so on 1 die is 17/20; chance of not doing so on 2 dice from adv is (17/20)^2 or 72.25%. That means your chance of popping up is 27.75%
That said if you're down might as well use your heroic warrior's inspiration here. So chance of not popping up is (17/20)^3 or ~61.4%, making chance of popping up ~38.6%.
Either way 36% is a strange number.
Rally + 15th level feature is just better version of Inspiring Leader Feat.
Before any combat, you just give everyone 1d8+ 1/2 of your Fighter level as Temp HPs! Awesome!
That Mage Slayer feature is so ham-fisted. A +infinite bonus to just succeed is so... ugh
I will fulfill finally the two weapon fighting fantasy.
Now that's basically the damage option
29:15 For the % to get up with 1 HP where does the 36% come from? I get less, about 27.75%.
total possibile rolls with 2D20 are 400 configurations (20 x 20).
Good rolls are (3x17) configurations for the first good die with a bad second die, (3x17) configurations configurations for the second good die with a bad first die, plus 3x3 configs with both dice good, so that is 111/400 = 27.75 %
Long time not doing math but the 36% seems off..
Or we can do (3x20) + (3x20) good configurations but from there we have to avoid double counting the common configurations, so - (3x3)
For Champion's Defy Death, you said the chance of them popping up is 36%, but I think it's 27.75%. I think you did 1 - 0.8^2 = 36%, but it should be 1 - 0.85^2 = 27.75%, since not rolling 18-20 is a roll of 1-17, or 85% of the rolls. Still solid.
i thought with the new Equiped/Unequiped rule and the weapon mastery design, the idea behind was "swing the hammer, bringing it down, putting it back behind your back or putting it down the ground to unsheathe and bring down your sword with both hands in the same movement." was doable. But it would make Tactical master useless, doesn't it? why would i replace the property of my 2h mace if i can just switch.
I love the walking arsenal overall design of the fighter, switching weapons every attacks, but something feels off, in weapon mastery. Seems i misunderstand the rule. and changing after a long rest feels like "i finally mastered my 2h mace, it became the extension of my arm. Oh nevermind, i slept and now i'm more a 2h sword guy"
Arcane charge could be just simply: "When you start your turn you can teleport up to 30feet to an unoccupied space you can see, if you do so, you must use the attack action om that turn."
Also would have been great if eldritch strike also affects any saving throw of your on going spells.
29:00 Unless I missed something, this calculation is off by 1 die face. Should be 3/20 chance per die, right? 18, 19, 20. So 27.75% with advantage. Still amazing!
Huh... Relentless was something Swords Bard had in 2014, right? "Use a D6 for a Flourish, instead of expending Bardic Inspiration die", or something? It's nice, but I kinda read it as another clue that Swords Bards won't be coming to the 2024 ruleset... :/
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getting an 18-20 on a roll with advantage is only 27.75% and not 36%.
It would have been 36% if it was 17-20 on advantage, so I can understand the mistake in the calculation, but for 18-20 on advantage it is only 27.75%.
You can increase the chance even above 36% if you assume you use your free heroic inspiration should you not get 18-20, though it could be risky since you might reroll a success into a failure.
Can you clarify how you got 36% of coming back to 1 HP from death as a champion fighter? I thought it was 1 - (17/20)^2 *100 = 27.75% chance, because the odds that you brick is 17 out of 20 outcomes on two dice.
I wonder if the Graze weapon mastery stacks with the Evoker wizard's Potent Cantrip. If so, an Eldritch Knight/Evoker 3 could deal half damage + ability modifier on a missed True Strike.
15:49 i don't want any one at my table saying they can't do anything on their combat turn
30:44 ... A 10 hp max regen per turn... At level 18. I don't hate it, but it feels weak.
31:53 i liked the school restriction since it made sense.
32:26 War bond... None of the other features do anything with it, which is weird to me.
War Magic: ..eh. it's alright. Comes two levels after extra attack though so...
34:45 personally I'd have it work with your bonded weapons only.
35:18 could put this at 3/7 frankly.
35:53 improved war magic... I can't think of any level 1 or 2 spells that would be worth the attacks off hand.
I like Eldritch Knight, but none of the features are really doing it for me. Also, why not call it Arcane Knight sonce you're using the wizard list?
. Make Eldritch Knight specific spells please WOTC.
34:45 Sorry, Chris but I really think you missed the boat on this one! I see 3 great uses. 2 you mentioned, but you missed potentially the most powerful.
1) Weapon attack until you hit then cantrip, as you suggested.
2) Hit on turn A, cast leveled spell on turn B. You say not enough slots, I say all the more reason to give disadvantage first. But this is also a very slow option.
3) Hit with an attack and cast a leveled spell on the same round. Lots of ways:
a) Action Surge (obv, I know)
b) Attack with a bonus action
c) Attack with a reaction
d) Cast with a bonus action
Foes worthy of expending a (melee or ranged) attack and a save-or-suck spell slot on could be approached in this way with a L10+ Eldritch Knight.
Between Tactical Mind and Battle Master Commanding Presence and Tactical Assessment you will be a force in dance battles and off the battlefield with: Perform, Persuade, History, Investigation, and Insight.
Psi Warrior all the way! Gifted techniques from the Gith! Excellent for exterminating far realm scum. And multiclassing into Gloom Stalker Ranger * drools * I will rip and tear mind flayers till' its done! My purple dragonborn will be the G.S ranger while my topaz dragonborn will be the P.W fighter. My copper dragonborn vengeance paladin and amethyst draconic sorcerer will keep the 2nd line
"For 99% of Fighters, this [inability to use Action Surge to cast two levelled spells on one turn] won't make a difference." My man, that could be true for overall players, but among your viewership, I'd wager that percentage is wildly hyperbolic. 😅😇😝
I don't get why Rally now scales with half your fighter level while Parry still scales with STR or DEX Mod. Rally reduces future damage while Parry reduces inmediate incoming damage, Rally is for allies while Parry is for yourself. Shouldn't Parry also scale with half your fighter level to keep up with Rally ?
Thanks Treantmonk! ❤
35:15 the wider availability of teleporting definitely makes this feel less special, however I don't think that impacts the power of the ability.
Maybe there is a separate video about the damage of the subclasses, but the Campion Fighter seems too low, particularly for levels 3 through 9.
For comparison, if a Battle Master Fighter focuses on the Maneuvers that add the Superiority Die to damage after confirming a hit, you can guarantee an average of 18 damage every time you expend your 4 Superiority Dice for levels 3 through 6, so if every 8 encounters/32 rounds of combat if you are getting a short/long rest every 2 encounters, you should be able to get an average of 72 damage out of the Battle Master subclass, if you are getting a Short/Long rest after every encounter, you could be getting up to 144 average damage out of the Battle Master superiority dice every 8 encounters/32 rounds of combat (technically a Maneuver like Precision Attack could boost your damage even higher via turning misses into hits, despite the chance of still missing the attack).
In comparison, for a Champion Fighter to deal a similar amount of damage from their subclass via critical hits on natural 19's (critical hits from natural 20's don't count towards the subclass's damage), they would need something like a magic weapon with the "Flame Tongue" enchantment (or maybe the "Dragon Slayer" enchantment in a campaign where most/all enemies are dragons) as well as Advantage on most attacks, if not every attack, in order to catch up to the Battle Master damage, discounting any of the non-damaging benefits you could get out your chosen battle Master Maneuvers, like knocking enemies prone with the Tripping Attack maneuver.
Getting Magic Initiate (Druid) for Int-based Shillelagh through Human or a custom background is a really strong option for Eldritch Knights and Psi Warriors
My god, the new Indomitable combos so well with Shield Master’s ability to negate all the damage on a successful Dex saving throw.
I like theme of eldritch knight but I don't know if he should get 5 out of 5. Very few spellslots, currently cantrip selection is limited, no booming blade or green flame blade in new PHB. Battlemaster can convert bonus action to decent AC through evasive footwork, on 15 level this is almost a perma shield at cost of bonus action instead of a reaction. New fighter looks really good, champion on higher levels should be also amazing as some DMs might allow heroic inspiration to be gained out of combat.
Agreed. From what I'm seeing BM > EK.
Limited, but there are a few exemplars. Shillelagh is amazing now. A single bonus action turns your trash club into a one-handed d8 force dealing weapon for 10 rounds, no concentration needed.
At lv17, you essentially have a one-handed maul that lets you use a shield or dual wield.
@@mappybc6097We're a fighter. We have martial weapons. Why do we care about getting access to a 1d8 damage weapon? We have like 10 of them to choose from and they all have a variety of cool weapon masteries.
@TekGriffon You can give any weapon 3 different properties.
Afaik, there are no one-handed light weapons that deal 2d6 force damage.
@@mappybc6097Yeah, at what level? Do your campaigns start at 10?