Duel weilder is crazy good on spellcasters you can have 2 arcane batterys so u can cast 3 level six spells per long rest and u get plus 1 to spell attack and save for each staff
No Offense meant! For real, but you may be the first straight game commenter recommended to me by YT since Asmond… My groomsmen was gay, I don’t care but why does youtube only recommend gay gamers and I don’t understand why
I don't really know what you mean. Tbh, there is a reason I don't show my face, and it's because I really prefer to keep personal stuff private. I don't think those kind of things are relevant to the quality of my analysis.
I've come to appreciate your videos, mainly because you give an honest account of what you're on about and tend to cover multiple aspects of the game, including early game. It's refreshing in this sea of 'BEST EVAR BUIL U DONT ABOUT' crap videos that only showcase janky level 12 builds that are only achievable in the last 15% of the game. I don't always agree with your takes (and I will always run Shadowheart as a Life 6/Ancients 6 and will die before I change that), but I still enjoy hearing an in depth explanation of how things work and how X compares to Y. tl;dr Good content, sir. Edit: Forgot to mention that I'm trying out the retaliation mage thing as a way to incorporate an actual full caster. I typically do Swords/BM, Life/Ancients, and Barb/Monk with that last slot kind of...dangling. Nothing I put there ever seems to feel right. Maybe this will?
As a warlock I can say Hunger of Hadar is S for me Cast it so enemies are forced to walk through the entire cloud which costs them at least one turn and once they are out use repelling blast to send them back to the start
Concentrated Blast saved my life once - its utility came solely from a guaranteed concentration break on a boss who was using Dominate Person. It is niche tho and required casting Cloud of Daggers then Concentrated Blast (2 actions 🫤)
I'm watching through all your tier list videos while I'm grading -- grade one paper, watch one item or spell discussion, grade the next paper, watch the next one. It is proving to be a pretty good anti-procrastination tool! So thanks! :)
The best uses for Concentrated Blast are for when your damaging AoE spell has done all it's going to and you were going to stop it anyway. Or an opener when you just cast Guidance on a dialogue check.
I’m new to gaming, played my very first video game about a year ago. I was just looking to have some fun while also learning this game, I’ll probably play on balanced mode. I was choosing between this build and wild magic sorcerer. Which one would you recommend for a new player? Thank you for the video!
You see the reason Wyll is unbelievably powerful is because he’s a Warlock, which means he has Eldritch Blast and perks that increase its power, which means Wyll is the best character
Is this video still reflective of your current ranking of the classes? And if so, what would you say the best races to pair with the Palidan class are?
@@nathanbarnhart7823 Solo is just a completely different kind of game. As an example, imagine a glass cannon build, one that deals tons of damage but will die in an instant if targeted. In a solo run this build would be risky and low tier because if you ever messed up and got targeted you die and that ends the run. But in full team, that build would be amazing, because you can have other builds in the composition focused on keeping them alive. Wizards are a really strong class, especially for solo, because a retaliation build like the one I became popular for inventing deals more damage the more aggro they get. When you are solo, you get 100% of aggro, its insane. In a full team, the AI will just target other members of the party. By contrast, Sorcerers can do most of the things that Wizards can do, but have several other features that are more valuable in a party, like twin casting buffs for example. They also are a charisma class, and you always want at least one of those to talk your way through boss fights in Act 2.
absolutely loved Shocking Grasp for my Tempest Cleric/Storm Sorcerer. Got myself out of funky situations because of it. Even got a few kills with it. I imagine doing the double assassination thing when I use twinned spells for Shocking Grasp against two githyanki fighters that decided to surround me. Got myself out, walked a few steps, then Quicken Spell a Call Lighting. It was so fun.
I like to open the cazador fight with flesh to stone since if you have a decent dc he will 100% fail and so the fight is basically over in three turns and cazador is slowed
Can I just say, I love the way you talk about your builds. Like one can really get how you had a grand idea and then experimented with everything and found what worked best. It's very refreshing.
I love this build, and I think I'm actually going to use it! I've been thinking through the weapon choices, and I feel like I must be missing something: two of the weapons you consider are a shortsword (Crimson Mischief) and a rapier (Duellist's Prerogative), and it doesn't look like the character has proficiency in either weapon. Humans don't get it, Sorcerers don't, Wizards don't. Am I missing something? Edit: I think I figured it out. The video has the build on Gale, but the spreadsheet has Drow as the race, which is where you get the weapon proficiencies. I like making this a gish build, but it is pretty hard to figure out what weapons would be useable if I build it on Gale. I'm planning to use the 5e spells mod to get Booming and Green-Flame Blade.
One surprise I noticed was casting Minor Illusion as a Duergar while invisible and not losing my invisibility. I could cast it over and over to move a herd of enemies to wherever I wanted them. This especially helps if the enemies are really spread out---start at one end of the group and walk them all over to the other end until you have one big happy family. Then walk them over to your Smokepowder barrel for a bar-b-que!
Moon Druid should be A Tier imo. Extremely versatile can be a control caster, gets the best summons in the game. A triple attacker with 3 health bars that requires no items. With how much you value efficiency in your tier lists I thought you may take into account that they basically never need the good items that other party memebers may want. It's easily S tier at level 1-3 and 6-10.
I feel like its a bit of a misconception that you only want savage attacker on someone that rolls a lot of dice, as the amount of dice itself doesnt matter, its more of a "die damage multiplier" of around 25% and for some spaghetti code reason it actually doesnt work with sneak attack or unarmed strike. That being said its at least A tier if you dont like the -5 from great weapon master no matter the specific melee build youre going for as you get atleast a +2 to dmg and it doesnt block you from wearing shields. But on 2 handed melees it gets competition with the fighting style on rerolling dice so its not as good
"The point of a game is to be enjoyed." Is it, though? Video games might be the only art form where this idea is still widely accepted. Some of my favorite games are ones that I barely enjoyed playing (Hira Hira Hiriru, Pathologic 2, Pillars of Eternity). They all had meaningful, thought-provoking stories that taught me things I could use outside the games, and for me, that is much more valuable than enjoying myself at the moment. Even if you do enjoy a game, you are more or less just borrowing dopamine from your future self. The brain self-regulates the amount of dopamine released via homeostasis. Dr. Anna Lembke, the author of Dopamine Nation, phrased it something like "for every high, there is a low."
@@Aestus_RPG I completely agree, but I don't think this is relevant to the argument. I did not enjoy Pathologic, I do not enjoy reading Dostoevsky or Nietzsche, and I've only run two half-marathons and utterly hated the whole experience (maybe I felt a sliver of fulfillment after the first one, I can't quite remember). Doing these things was useful, and I'm glad I did them, but they were definitely not enjoyable for me. Pillars might have been a bad example because I did enjoy the challenge in it (I went for the ultimate achievement and somehow it still didn't feel like a slog - but I would've been fine with it if it did). Let's say a piece of art makes you feel afraid, disgusted, or even bored, but it teaches you an important lesson. Even if you remember the experience negatively, wasn't it ultimately valuable?
@@szipszi9625 I think this is losing sight of something, namely, that we are talking about games specifically, not art in general. Games are art, but not all art is a game, right? So, speaking of games, I think its reasonable to say the purpose of a game is enjoyment, because games are something we PLAY. How can we separate play from enjoyment? I don't think we can. That is different from other kinds of art. No one plays Dostoevsky's novels. No one plays the sistene chapel. But games are inseparable from play.
@@Aestus_RPG I don't think there's a clear line that separates video games from other types of art. The word "play" often connotes enjoyment, mainly because it was long associated with children's toys designed to be fun. However, in the context of video games, it simply refers to interactivity. Games from Telltale or Quantic Dream are essentially interactive movies, while The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is like an interactive book with sound effects. Interactivity in art isn't even exclusive to video games; consider installations like The Weather Project by Olafur Eliasson or interactive theater pieces. I completely agree that the statement "the purpose of a game is enjoyment" is currently reasonable, but I don't think it's entirely correct. The vast majority of games so far have been made primarily to be fun, but not all of them. Even those that aim to entertain often have other objectives as well. There's no reason to believe this won't change as video games and their audience continue to mature.
@@szipszi9625 I don't agree, I think the line is pretty clear. I don't think interactive movies are games. I don't think anything can be considered a game which you don't play. And again, by "enjoyment" I don't mean just "fun."
Tbh d&d just drags this game down so much. And a lot of those feats are okay for a tabletop cause it's another media entirely, but for a videogame environment, most of them just become useless and it's sad that larian didn't think of tweaking them
Tha ks mate, was thinking of something similar for my dark urge playthrough and this seems perfect. I'd be tempted to add some of the other wild abilities via mods like the diving strike or the elk stampede just for fun though.
Can you please explain to me why you have a 9/11 instead of 10/10 for the CON/CHA split? I know Resilient CON at lvl 8 makes the 9 no worse but is the 11just optimizing for if you get the Mirror of loss +1 CHA?
The big problem with magic initiate is it’s a feat but you can also just multi class into those classes. A 1 level dip grants you more than just two cantrips and one spell. And since every class gets a feat at 12th level you’re again not really missing anything by not taking that 12th level. It’s in rp tier if you wanted to roleplay a single classed character
Heavy Armour Master also works on magical damage, the tooltip is wrong :) And it is applied after resistances. So if you wear a heavy armor with 3 damage reduction, and use warding bond, then you effectively have 12 damage reduction. And even beyond that, damage types are calculated individually. So if an enemy deals 15 slashing and 15 piercing in an attack, for 30 total, that is reduced to 6 (15-12 + 15-12), not 18 (30-12) Especially in the early game, where the game is the hardest, this is extremely useful.
I didn't bother with Guidance because of the 10 turn limit. I didn't know at the time that: 1) It's spammable, being a cantrip. 2) If worst comes to worst, just use turn based combat mode. X.x
>black hole not at S Hunger of hadar+ wall of fire/insect plague makes it just so absolutely disgusting (any of the Aoe DoT spells) The fact you get extra uses and it's short rest is so absolutely disgusting. My friend and i cheesed the big G fight at his coronation by going to a side room and just constantly keeping the watchers n big G in all our aoe spells, then going back around the corner rinse n repeat
no ingame negatives for the use of powers but lore wise mind flayers dont have souls, or ilithids dont have souls, so being half ilithid, does that eat up half your soul too?, what are the lore negatives looking like no details there either
On the subject of Luck of the Far Realms (auto-crit once per long rest) we used it to kill Sarevok before he could attack us at all. Our Rogue was using the ring with Paralyzing Critical (when you crit, the target is paralyzed for 2 turns) and he gave himself an automatic crit at the start of the fight. Sarevok died before he unparalyzed. Legendary Resistance does nothing against this, because a critical hit automatically succeeds with no saving throws, including Paralyzing Crit apparently. Delicious cheese.
Thanks for the great video. two questions: what route do you take to the selunite outpost. I think you said at LVL3? Normally i wait to LVL 4 because you have to fight your way to get there. Also it would be great to see parts of your 0-1 long rest runs in Act 3. I don’t doubt you but i cannot imagine how to do that especially if using your cleric spells. I can think of Angelic slumber and Angelic repireve, the bath in House of Hope, staff of spellpower, markoheskir, spellcrux amulet, and pearl of power amulet. but I can’t see how thats enough given how frequently I use cleric spells. maybe because i use tempest or light cleric for damage as well as buffs, which eats spell slots fast.t
