Tenser's Floating Disk & Phantom Steed. Spell Mastery and you could spam the entire area around you with your Tenser's Floating Disks and with the Steed, carry your allies, things, treasure, stuff. Crash into enemies with 3ft disks compressed into each other like Final Destination in Smash Bros.
Web and fireball is a bad combo because you lose the web, containing the enemy is often more valuable than some damage. Web and forced movement options like Eldritch Blast with repelling blast or Thorn Whip are great combos. Thorn Whip and Spirit Guardians is great. My favorite is Sickening Radiance and Forcecage.
All of those are great classic combos! I have never seen the microwave pulled off because its such a high level requirement but am a huge fan of spirit guardians.
The Gloomblade won’t work without blind sight or devil sight. Advantage and Disadvantage don’t stack they cancel each other out. Also shadow blade and darkness both require consentration. A work around is be a warlock with an imp familiar and the devils sight invocation. Get a ring of spell storing and have the imp cast it from the ring, off loading that consentration and the imp can see in darkness as well.
My explination may be off in the video but I after re-reading the spell I am still confident that shadow blade would give advantage on attacks. The verbiage and explination of the spell seem pretty clear to me but I can understand the different interpretations lol. And yea it does require 2 casters, thats why I mentioned some of the combos use concentration at the begining of the video, although I do like your work around.
@@ThisCrits the spell gives advantage on attacks in dim light or darkness. However if you can’t see in the darkness you will have disadvantage canceling out the advantage. You cannot add more advantage weather it’s from the enemy not seeing you, reckless attack, flanking, silvery barbs. You can only get advantage or disadvantage once per roll, if you have both they cancel out.
Advantage doesnt work that way, my explination was off but after re-reading shadowblade you should still have advantage on an attack made in darkness. I can understand it being up to interpretation but with how it words the spell, I think its fair to assume it grants advantage.
Cast dissonant whispers in melee range. On a failed save they need to use their reaction to move away. This provokes. If you have warcaster and booming blade, use your reaction to opportunity attack with booming blade. They take 3d6 psychic damage plus your weapon damage plus booming blade thunder damage. In addition, this could also provoke with your allies.
@omarijackson1034 incorrect. They provoke if they move out of your reach. They don't provoke if they teleport or if something moves them without using their movement, action, or reaction. In this case, they're using their reaction to move away from you, so it provokes.
I’m excited to try out the Fearful Frost combo soon, and will try a quickened Fear to pull it off. Thanks for the tip. Grasping Silence is also really cool and one I may use as a DM against my players’ casters. Unfortunately, my favorite combo flavor wise is the Gloom Blade, where you’d still need to take the devil’s sight Eldritch invocation or blindfighting fighting style to pull off.
Im glad you enjoyed :D The more I read about shadow blade the more I think it would still work. I understand the advantage rules but the spell literally states any attack in darkness has advantage. Im 90% sure when rules or spells have clarifications like that it overrides the basic rules. That being said, Im not jeremy crawford but I think its safe to assume it would work hahaha
not as potent as some of these others but a really annoying combo i've done is Ray of Frost to reduce movement then sapping sting to knock them prone...congrats you can only move 5 feet on your next turn after getting up
Grasping Silence is actually something that was used against me to great effect. My players destroyed a high level wizard from a cult with that combo. I was very new as a DM back than. The wizard wasn't even supposed to be fought but rather just him trying to recrute them, so they get a few informations about the cult Gloom Blade doesn't work. Having any number of advantage cancels out with one source of disadvantage and the other way around. While a cool concept it is against RAW Also I really like the timing of the video, after I wrote you "Natural Talent" just a day ago ^^
Well it's good to hear a combo I mention being used! It's funny you day that because I specifically released thos combo after my campaign wrapped up for that reason haha. And yea I just learned. I'm kinda bummed about that to be honest but oh well hahah I KNOW!! I saw your comment the other day and laughed realizing this was releasing this week hahaha
Advantage doesn't stavk. Once you have one instance of advantage you cannot gain more. So multiple instances of advantage and disadvantage will not stack. Two instances of advantage in one instance of disadvantage equals a straight roll.
This is why I love fog cloud when fighting in natural darkness: I cast it as a point of cover for allies without dark vision (like myself) and the attack advantage against us is immediately cancelled out 😁 it also does well against enemies with pack tactics for the same reason
A spell combo that is fun but is rather high level (Level 9 Minimum) is what I would call "Natural Talent" (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Combining the 2nd Level Spell Borrowed Knowledge with the 5th level Spell Skill Empowerment. Borrowed Knowledge allowes the caster to gain proficiency in one skill of their choice and Skill Empowerment let's you choose one skill a creature is proficient in and give them expertise in that skill. Both spells have a duration of an hour. Bonus points if you use two caster and the one with borrowed knowledge just so happens to be an arcane trickster of 11th level or higher triggering reliable talent to boot Sorry I've been quiet lately, I am not caught up with your videos because University is keeping me busy (Wished I could cast Borrowed Knowledge just before my exams ^^")
Thats such a great combination! Pretty much gauentee a success on any check hahaha. And no worries dude hahah I appreciate you continuing to drop by when you get a chance =D
We'll see how it goes, but my rogue wizard is taking this spell mostly so I can use the Order of Scribes Awakened Spellbook feature to make Radiant Fireball just by virtue of this spell being in my spellbook. It's the only 3rd level radiant damage spell on the wizard list to enable this. Also gives me the option to Necrotic Fireball or Cold Fireball. And we're gonna go visit a lot of vampires, so I'm happy to have some radiant damage added to my melee attack that also gives a chill touch effect. I'll try to remember to report back after a few sessions. Hoping for a magical ambush radiant fireball on a whole room of vampires.
Its absolutely brutal in tier 2 or 3 play with a spell caster. Divine soul sorcerer, hex blade dip, quicken scorching ray and cast eldritch blast with agonizing blast. Upcast to 5th. 8 attacks or so plus 16d8 from ss. Then follow up with 6 eb the next round. It's the nuclear option.
hears an idea of a spell, "Rise my friends" LVL 19 spell, wizard only as this spell has to very well earned, This spell you could go to a grave site, or a wiped out town of death with bodies everywhere and summon a 150foot radius and raise all the dead there and has an affect for 72 hours and can only be performed again after a boss fight, the chance is 50/50 to have it work so high rick high reward. I have tried to find this book on dnd beyond and not sure where else you said it was but still not finding it, a link to it would be killer.
This is what I would call a DM spell hahaha You should be able to join my discord and find everything! if you cant find it let me know or send me an email and I can direclty invite you!
This was a fantastic, informative and fun breakdown of a module I haven't really looked at in the past, and there's a lot more good here then I've picked up from secondhand comments on it. Heck, I might even feel like running it one day now, since I'll be able to identify the faults quicker and easier and patch them ahead of time.
I'm glad you found it helpful! Out of the abyss is a module that doesn't benefit from reading it all before running it, it's a module that absolutely needs it. The more preparation and knowledge you have the better this campaign will be. Hopefully knowing its shortfalls will make a huge difference when you decide to run it. I know it gets a lot of well deserved hate but it has some amazing stuff in there if people can work around its flaws.
Considering I just escaped the Underdark, we decided not to continue into part 2. We spent a year and a half, and it was tedious. I’m sure our DM didn’t help himself, because he decided to combine this campaign with a different one, making things convoluted and confusing. The pacing was rough, and it just seemed like we were always running away, witnessing the genocide of a culture. Our DM was also played his NPCs as extremely aggressive and hostile towards at all times. So although I was a charisma character, I didn’t want to talk to anyone. We also kept getting piled on with tasks and never solving anything. It was frustrating, to say the least. I will say, there were some real highs though (though it’s hard for me to know what is the Abyss and what was the other campaign), the oozy temple was fun! The Society of Brilliance and Grazillax was awesome, the Darrow and our investigations into Buppido and the cave system was great and challenging. The Neverlight Grove was both enchanting and terrifying, though I loved that little investigation portion talking to the different circles. Hard words to say (Yggmorgus, Loobamub, Yesterbrod etc) but fun nonetheless. This was a great video!
Yea! You prety much names 90% of the main issues people talk about with the campaign. Its a bummer that you arent continuning because the 2nd half is where you stop running "away" and start running "into" the danger more prepared, Everything you mentioned at least in this comment is from the module. I didnt do too much in Graklestug but I realllllly enjoyed the neverlight grove as well! Thanks you very much :D
You can’t cast 6th level spells with this build. Unless the dm specifies, there’s not enough levels of any of the three classes that let you get up to 6th level spells. 5th level by way of warlock, but that’s it.
The damage of spirit shroud is out-performed by bless. I would rather concentrate on bless, or play a crown paladin with a quarterstaff, shield, polearm master, and spirit guardians. It's a mediocre spell. Not necessarily a worthless spell but definitely worse than other options that paladins have. I will say though, trying to compare it to hunter's mark or hex is really dumb. Both hex and hunter's mark are pretty lame spells by the time you have access to 3rd level spells. The big advantage they have though is range. You can use ranged attacks with hex and hunter's mark. Which is a superior approach to combat in general than melee, and why spirit shroud is more situational. You can't use it on as many builds. The stopping people from healing thing is actually also mediocre. Very few creatures have the ability to regain HP, a lot of them already lose their healing from radiant damage or from another already very easily accessible damage type like fire. Speed reduction is great but the way spirit shroud does it is a bit roundabout. You have to get in melee, but enemies can just walk up, attack, walk away and now their speed isn't being reduced because on their turn they aren't starting next to you. One of the enemies might get hit by an opportunity attack but that's it. I don't really see how this spell is causing major chaos for all the enemies you're walking up to.
Your combat example is a bit flawed, I think. Doesn't Animate Dead take a minute to cast? You'd have to have it precast before the combat. I do like your necrotic heals in the build, though. I'm currently playing an Oathbreaker Hexblade with basically the same rotation. Wish I could add the necromancer wizard in to the mix, but he dumped int, so I'm just SoL on that one. lol
True. It would require the setup but the concept still remains that same :D Thats the big problem with multiclass builds like this. If you dont go into the character planing it specifically its likley not possible because of dump stats and such which is a bummer. It really needs a class/subclass of its own.
you could also do the curse one to get a sword imbued with runes to really hit those WoW deathknight vibes OR go down the route instead of eldritch armor do have heavy armor you can always justify as looking like badass deathknight gear as your bond with it corrupts it into a fitting form ;D
I feel like the whole "Death Knight" kind of play style has so much potential but theres nothing that fits the theme well enough. Someone shoul make some sort of class/subclass for the style of play!
@@ThisCrits id honestly love a whole race of a redeemed deathknight granted life again even if their soul will forever be corrupted with them being a unqiue half living, half undead entity with their flesh returned to them but their heart would still not beat and they would clearly look like an undead to mark them forever for their transgression and hopefully to remind them to never repeat the same mistake again.
@@ThisCrits hell if could even give a unique ability to come back to life a number of times of your proficiency modifier a day with no asi and the full reborn undead style traits of dark vision and no need to eat, drink, sleep, or breathe to kinda hit that right theme
My DM let's me use a 5th curse for Bestow Curse that I came up with... each round the target loses hp equal to my spellcasting mod and I gain that much hp, of course this ends if the spell ends.
I'm going to be a paid member of Beacon, but honestly might still watch on RU-vid at times, and for some of the older content I have not seen moved over... as of yet at least. However, I love Critical Role, they give me far more joy every month than my bi-weekly large Lattes and so it is more than worth the nearly identical price to support them directly, as well as get the special perks like Cool Down and such.
Great to hear it! I kind of attribute it to my hulu or netflix subscriptions which I personally use a lot more of but I can definitley see the appeal for bigger fans! I am still going to give the free trial a go and see how it is!
True Strike is being revised (they announced it along with the bastion rules). Now it’s instantaneous, the materials are a weapon you are proficient with, and its wording is, “guided by a flash of magical insight, you make one attack with the weapon used in the spell’s casting. The attack uses your spellcasting ability for the attack and damage rolls instead of using strength or dexterity. If the attack deals damage, it can be radiant damage or weapons, normal damage type (your choice). Cantrip upgrade: whether you choose to deal radiant damage or the weapon’s normal damage type, the attack deals extra radiant damage with you reach level 5 (1d6), 11 (2d6), and 17 (3d6).”
