D&D Fighter Multiclass Tier list 

A Fighter adding 2 levels of Barbarian is like trading a hand grenadine for an atomic bomb. Barbarian is such a great multiclass.

Offbeat outlaw: fighter is the sacred potato! Me, an Irishman: guess it's time to play a fighter

"Monk is bad for multiclass with fighter" Meanwhile, Kensei monk: "Notice me! Notice me!"

I guess since I haven't seen it Artificer: cilantro. Some hate it, some love it Barbarian: sugar. Extremely strong, but very much a main part when you use it Bard: salt. Everything can use it, and it pairs perfectly with some things Cleric: beef. Great on its own, a good part of anything, but just doesn't fit with specific things Druid: tomatoes. They're good with a lot, but I don't want them with my rice Fighter: Potatoes Monk: Energy drinks. An ungodly mix of sugar and caffeine. Paladin: cheese. It's good with a lot, but not everything Ranger: milk. Some love it, some hate it, but it's a sleeper part of the dish Rogue: water. As good and useful as it is boring. Sorcerer: bread. Can be great, but has problems with certain other ingredients Warlock: peppers. Adds some kick to a lot of things Wizard: Cayenne pepper. Good with a lot, but suffers on some specifics

I love your outlook on multi classing. Most people are afraid to multi class at all

"Monk is monster energy drink" is also very fitting to the feral energy of a Monk player finally getting to use their class features

Another great optimization / powerbuilding channel is Treantmonk's Temple, his builds tend to be more themed as opposed to just maximizing one particular thing but he's definitely more mechanics-first than a lot of other channels out there.

Need Immersion loves his power builds, and you two have polar opposite energy levels so I think I’d be a pretty funny colab

I'm just glad artificer was put in a higher spot then last time.

i'm really curious about how you would build a multi-class monk, with the classes you want of course.

D4: Dnd deep dive does some optimized builds that are pretty good

Offbeat: Fighters can even beat wizards at single target damage! Wizards with gate showing people into volcanoes with no save: Am I a joke to you?

I think cleric so be S mostly because of some of the spells like spirit Guardians spirit weapon and other spells like them that give you more damage for just being close to a enemy or at most your bonus action

I'd love to see a deep dive into the sorcerer build and how much damage it can actually do

0:28 Honestly a powerbuild competition sounds awesome. Whoever has the more powerful/broken build wins

I recently worked out a spreadsheet comparing the base fighter, each subclass , each main weapon option, using all resources optimally, across an average adventuring day, for each level up to 11. Very insightful! Then I did fiendlock and it (most levels) blew it all away as long as most fights don’t have just one enemy

Well if your curious about another powerbuild channel, their not exactly powerbuild, but moreso they try to make characters as close to certain tv characters, so close enough since they can be really strong sometimes lol, its Tulok the Barbarian.

You have earned my subscription by being the first D&D RU-vidr to recognize how amazing the spellsinger multi attack is. It's so God damn strong and flexible, sure you can booming blade people in the face but that's smooth brain. Sapping sting can knock a target prone to get advantage on the rest of your onslaught, mind sliver before a battle master maneuver to ensure success, make blade ward into a pseudo rage if you get into a sticky situation without eating your whole turn, minor illusion to give you temporary cover for ranged fighters, mold earth for actual cover, Robinhood an arrow into a firebolt, I forget if guidance is on the wizard list or not but you can dip to get it if you don't but you can use it to give yourself a free d4 to a grapple or shove in the same turn! It's The Luffy of multi attacks, so flexible.

my rankings for fighter multi s/god: barb, cleric, pally, rogue, warlock a: bard, ranger, wizard b: druid c: artificer d: monk, sorcerer (as these two are both dependent on a set of points to do what their class wants aka ki and sorcery points)

I’m glad there’s videos like these, always trying to make new characters and your videos help a lot to get an idea on character builds

Just gonna make a bet about fighter-sorcerer and fighter-Paladin, these will be top picks

Optimisation channels? Treantmonk and D&D Optimized are my favorites besides you Outlaw.

Outlaw: Quivering Palm isn't valid Me: Stunning Strike tho

Having a good time watching this video, but dang...something about the music is making me want to go steal some hearts!

Yoo the Persona Background music really sets the mood, Gotta love that Behind the mask

Okay, thing about Monk Multiclasses, is that they are unquestionably non-viable for power-builds, however, +10ft movement bonus and adding your wisdom mod to your AC, plus bonus action unarmed strike, are pretty solid benefits for level 1 (edit: movement bonus is at lvl 2). Do they beat any of the other martial classes for damage and raw power? No. Your best Multiclass into Monk is as a non-martial class, that can acclimate to the different ability score requirements.

The only thing I would say for monk MC is that it can add tankiness to fighter if using BA for patient defense (dodge) to get disadvantage to be hit and adv on dex saves. Does use Ki, so not great, but I would place it as C. Stunning strike could be useful as well, but not reliable if not heavily spec'd for it.

Im runnin a fighter/warlock with undead/pact of the tome (BoAS) and duelist/eldritch knight. Definitely not the most "power built" stats at lower levels but gives you INSANE versatility/utility. You can have up to 6 cantrips and 7 or 8 spells by level 6 (3 in each) (short rest to replenish limited spell slots) combined with the form of dread can make some funny interactions since you have the potential to cause fear as well as have spells/cantrips that cause damage if the enemy moves. And thats before accounting for action surge plus the buffs FoD give you. So ba form of dread (cause fear) into booming blade 2x into action surge eldritch blast with or without agonizing blast or 2x melee attacks. Then next turn you can grasp of hadar them towards you 10 feet. Odds are being feared they move at least 5 feet from you and take the extra damage you can repeat (minus the action surge). Combine that with something like chill touch for a necro boss or big undead creature and you can see how the damage could stack (and stop boss from healing) But outside of that you also end up with things like identify and other "utility" spells within the BoAS as rituals to go over any loot or artifacts found after your boss fight/dungeon escape. Combine that with the fact that the BoAS gives you the ability to add ritual spells in for cost/time/finding them on scrolls, books, or (if the dm allows) from someone proficient in arcana who is willing to teach you it. Then if you can get ceremony into your spell book you can not only marry people but also cast spells to not allow dead creatures to be brought back to life for 7 days. Can you tell im in a zombie/necro heavy campaign?? Also let me know if i missed any cool combos. Keep up the sick videos!

my favorite build is always echo knight/rune knight partnered with sorcerer (any will do, but favor draconic bloodline and divine soul) my last build was a draconic bloodline (8 levels), warlock (the titan, homebrew, 1 level) and 11 levels rune knight. it was so much fun.

theres tulock the barbarian he does muticlassing to do your favorite fictional character in dnd

Yes! I’ve been looking forward to this for so long I love your tier lists!!!

I'm playing as a fighter in my first ever campaign, so this video is a godsend.

only class i think monk would work together is rogue. take shadow monk and assassin rogue and you can get behind people and back stab

Question: What are your thoughts on the other Ranger subclasses? Such as hunter, swarm keeper, and beast master.

When he eventually gets to the rogue multi class I think paladin and barbarian would be god tier with paladin supplying heavy damage with smite added on to sneak attack and barbarian can use reckless attack to get sneak attack every turn if there is no ally to help. Also if you do samurai fighter with rogue is also sneak each turns

D4 dnd deep dive is a great optimization channel. Along with treantmonk

Rangers one of my favorite classes. As for multiclassing with fighter, theres one really fun build I have using Horizon Walker Ranger, Cavalier fighter, Assassin Rogue, and war domain cleric for a boy blinking around the battlefield, striking multiple enemies for (potentially) safe crits, and marking an opponent to have disadvantage attacking anybody other than you before warping away and turning a fight into a benny hill chase scene. Is it weird and awkward having 4 classes on a build? A bit. But is it fun? Absolutely XD

Moon Illusions is great channel for these kinds of topics and is very underrated

What I picture: "I activate pot of greed which lets me draw 2 quivering palms"

Thoughts on the Bard-Barian? Personally one of my favorite class combos especially if I'm allowed to play as 2 seperate characters that act as one (think of ice climbers from smash bros ultimate) mostly not legal in game but pretty fun if allowed

When it comes to the Monk, I would say a Monk with a sprinkle of Fighter. But a Fighter going Monk is meh especially with Tasha's adding in the unarmed fighting feat.

i did build a multiclassed fighter druid. 1st lvl in fighter for the proficiencies, 2 levels in spore druid, then take the magic initiate feat to grab hex (or alternatively, one level in hexblade warlock). the rest of your levels in fighter. now all of your hits do 2 extra d6 necrotic. also gave him pole arm master for the bonus action attack and the double the chance of being able to use my reaction. havent gotten to use him yet, but i feel like it just takes what the fighter does really well, single target damage, and multiplies it

A multiclass I like is the Eldritch Barrage class. 2 Fighter-3Warlock-15 Sorcerer First level in fighter for proficiencies, obviously. Hexblade warlock because duh. All the rest in sorcerer can be whatever we don't care about it for anything but metamagic. First turn : Hex + Hexblade Curse. Every turn after that : Eldritch blast as action, and quicken spell to eldritch blast AGAIN as bonus action. 8 Eldritch Blasts with a 19-20 crit range, +11 to damage thanks to Hexblade Curse and the invocation that lets us add charisma to eldritch blast, for a total of 8d10+88. Yes, that's a flat 88 damage. In a turn. If you hit, but obviously you will because you've got at least a +11 to hit, and probably a number of magical items that increase your attack role value since you're level 20 so let's say +13, and surely u got some friends to help you hit. Get in melee with crossbow master and get advantage from flanking ! And of course, let's not forget our 8d6 damage bonus from Hex ! So a total of 8d10+88+8d6. Accounting for our 10% crit rate, and advantage with Crosspow expert, we should be getting 2 crits in there. Let's say one, just to be fair. So 9d10+9d6+88. And then ? ACTION SURGE, BABY ! ANOTHER 4d10+4d6+44 ! And the great thing about that, the reason we're taking all those level in Sorcerer ? WE CAN DO THAT CONSISTENTLY. AT A RANGE OF 120FT.

I disagree on fighter having to be a Frontline fighter. You can make an AMAZING archer/arbalist fighter

Poor Monk mains

fun fact: there was an actual person in history who was bassically a fighter/bard multiclass. during world war 2 he ran into the battle field armed with one of three things, a longsword, a longbow, and bag pipes. and the guy bloody dominated

Running a Paladin who is dipping into fighter. I did so for the tanking and the added frontline damage. Fighter is a great class for any build, I agree. 2 levels you get so much that is useful forever.

Min/Max munchking is a guy who makes powerbuilds! Anyway, good video!

About the Wizard, it also pairs nicely with Eldritch Knight because of the same spell casting stat so it reduces the MAD aspect of multi classing a bit.

A slur for Germans is Kartoffel - wich means potato - now I now it stands for fighters!

Great Vid! Next campaign we're starting at lvl 7, i'm going Lvl 6 Echo Kinght and lvl 1 Barbarian. Definitely once we lvl again i'd take Barbarian Lvl 2 for Reckless Attack, after that not sure. Probably best to take Barbarian Lvl 3 to get its subclass (not sure which one though), then Lvl 4 Barb for the ability score/feat. Although Echo Knight with some Rogue could work, Sneak Attack is a nice feature.

Happy to see the sorcerer get some recognition

I found that Monk mixed pretty ok with the fighter if you take echo knight and the way of the astral self on a bug bear. 15 ft reach, extra attacks, force damage, and flurry of blows. All of this with having a additional attack from your echo with having easy mobility between these two classes. It's not the biggest slobber knocker sure, but it has lots of options, easy ways to get around, ways to stealth, and options for mitigating damage ensuring you stay in the fight.

Agree: Barbarian, Rogue Cleric, Paladin, Sorcerer, Artificer, Monk Disagree: Warlock, Bard, Wizard, Druid On the ones I disagree with: Warlock and Bard should be dropped a tier to A tier. Apart from requiring a MAD build (13+ Charisma score), the skills/abilities gained are often offset by either the PC's low ability score (charisma), or a lack of damage-dealing options. In the case of the Warlock, the most that a player could get from Hexblade Warlock would be Hexblade's Curse, their choice of two spells (especially from among Hex, Hellish Rebuke, and Armor of Agathys), and Eldritch Blast. But in this specific instance, Eldritch Blast is nigh useless due to their generally low Charisma score (usually 13 to 14, which isn't much). For the Bard, having Bardic Inspiration and extra skills (for College of Lore) is nice and all, but neither ability per sé increases the damage output of the PC in question. (At least directly.) Secondarily, Vicious Mockery is a save-or-suck spell which becomes useless as soon as high tier 2/low tier 3 play. Finally, College of Swords/Valor doesn't add much to the damage output compared to what the Fighter can actually do already on its own, depending on the Fighter subclass. Druid should be in D Tier (Monk Tier), for a few reasons: A. Most DM's that I have played with (to include A.L. legal games) have made access to "natural armor" nigh improbable to either buy and/or make oneself. Without DM intervention, the PC has to rely on Wild Shape for Armor, thereby taking away their ability to both tank and defend oneself. B. Further, Wild Shape, while good for recon, tends to interfere with normal weapon attacks during combat. C. It's a MAD character. Finally for Wizard, I'd bump it to God Tier just on the strength of the Divination and Chronurgy Wizard subclasses alone. Find Familiar also aids with granting advantage via the Owl's flyby ability. Finally, spells like Shield and Silvery Barbs increase the defensive capacity of the Fighter.

You'd love MinMax Munchking

As far as artificer goes, IMO it depends on the subclasses. Battlesmith and armorer are best for psionic warrior and eldritch knight, making them fully intelligence based, without having to worry for other attributes.

Favorite power building channels would be D4: D&D Deep Dive and Treantmonk, would be cool to see some collab action there

On DDO my warforged sorcerer with quicken reconstruct was incredibly fun for self sufficiency! I can see a fighter 2 / warlock 2 / sorc being a fun build with the right stats

Thread necromancy! What wizard tradition do you pair a fighter with? Bladesinger? Sure. But you know what’s an absolute monster? Slap some war wizard on your eldritch knight. Arcane Deflection ftw, because after Ftr 7 you’re using the war magic feature to do booming blade coupled with a bonus action attack, and that’s a cantrip. Saves you those spell slots you’d be burning on Shield or Absorb Elements. Tactical Wit? Yes pls I’ll go first so I can light up my enemy w an action surge. The ideal split is 10/10, probably going Ftr7->Wiz5->Ftr10->Wiz 10. Get war magic online ASAP, then grab wizard for utility spells, better progression and your subclass abilities (and lvl 3 spells), then head on up to Ftr 10 for eldritch strike (you become a nasty nasty enemy when you use your action aurge to cut four baddies, then next round drop SLOW on them), and then take 5 more levels of wizard, ending with Durable Magic - now you’ve got concentration going on somethint (upcast Shadowblade?) you’re doing your fun Booming Blade shit, you take Mobile so you can peace out with impunity, and the whole time you’re rolling with stupid AC and saves courtesy of your concentration. Or use Summon Shadow Spawn and play buddy cop action movie on your enemies :)

I've made both a monk/fighter and a monk/rogue and they're surprisingly beefy when it comes to damage/abilities. The monk/rogue is is a swashbuckler with mobile, 5 levels of monk gives me stunning strike, so i go up and stun 2 enemies (with a failed save of course) cunning action hide with my movement speed. And if they both succeeded on their stun save, my leaving doesn't provoke opportunity attacks, granted i hit them at least once. Not to mention sneak attack, and if you have the Unarmed Fighting style (through a feat, i made it a variant human) so you're doing a 2D8+3D6 sneak attack plus mods, not the greatest but not terrible either. The monk/fighter is close to the same, seeing as how it doesn't get the sneak attack damage, but it does have Action Surge. So you could hypothetically stun 4 creatures in a round of combat, and run back to your hidey spot (4D8+ mods)

Love the videos man! As a fighter main, I enjoyed this. Here's an idea for a series of videos; class teir lists based on the tiers of play. I think it would be interesting to see how the power level of each class compares to each other of the course of a 1-20 adventure. Not to mention, level 20 characters are quite rare and most of the game is spent at 11 and below. Keep up the good work Outlaw!

Treantmonk and D&D Deep Dive are to great optimization channels I would check out. They actually did a recent collaboration together!

I’m currently in a low level Percy Jackson campaign and I’m playing a fighter sorcerer, child of Poseidon and it’s quite fun.

Starting dungeon of mad mage tonight. I'm taking a halfling fighter/bard. He's a beat boxer who doesn't know how to play instruments. College of swords is the only way to truly make it work. I'm loving what I see on paper for him. Hopefully it goes well.

My best DPS character is a Human Fighter 11/Rogue 9 with crossbow expert and sharpshooter. Crossbow expert single-handedly let's you dual wield hand crossbows, while sharpshooter's -5/+10 puts out so much damage that it's actually kinda broken

Someone appreciating the Eldritch Knight Sorcerer combination as a viable pick, playing one right now, and she is tough as nails.

I'm a new player and hearing that Fighters are actually pog is great. I'm honestly super glad to find this.

The min/max munchking is a pretty good power gaming channel.

If you go Kensi monk with fighter you can use your flurry of blows with fighter extra attack allowing you to attack a maximum of 8 times at level 8 with a long sword

me eating potatoes and drinking monster while listening to him talk about monks

Here's a really fun Barbarian fighter multiclass I'm super excited to use:Ancestor warrior. Taking Echo knight and ancestor barb you can style it like a warrior being infused with the power of dead souls, the echo being a hardlight manifestation of this. While maybe not the most min maxed, it's pretty cool and still pretty good.

Playing a 5th lvl Eldritch Knight/ Twilight Cleric now. So much fun dropping a weapon to switch between melee and range then summoning the weapon back later. Or surprising a new party member with a firebolt from the guy who healed them earlier. 300 feet of darkvision with two attacks (possibly four with action surge) from a bow at near max range. So many options...

Barbarian with Echo Knight.... OH GOD!!! THAT WOULD BE INSANE!

Monk can work with druid ... and I'm not talking about Moon druid since there are problems there (for example, natural weapon attacks actually being neither unarmed nor monk weapon attacks). But combining WIS and DEX bonuses in Unarmored Defense can help the druid's eminently lousy AC, and spells that provide Advantage to attack rolls (Faerie Fire, Entangle) can make it much more likely that the monk/druid can actually do decent (not outstanding) damage. It's certainly not a top-tier multiclass, but it can be made to work. Besides, even five levels of druid offers *WORLDS* more elemental mastery to a monk than any Way of Four Elements build. If I was trying to build Aang the Avatar, I'd go monk 6 (for flavor and some of the forced movement disciplines) and then druid for the rest of my career.

Monks are monster energy, ferment potato into vodka and get weird. In seriousness a dip into fighter might work, a fighting style, martial weapon proficiencies, and second wind. Monks don't get a lot of ranged weapon options so that is beneficial, duelling or interception spring to mind, but give your monk a longbow and take the archery fighting style and that could be fun.

Min Max Munchking is another power building Channel.

If you want to know another power builder there is minmax munchkin (if a minmaxer is a power builder)

"I don't know if there are any other power building channels other than me" d4 network deep dive series, but I will say you probably wouldn't be compatible, he focuses on a broad build like dps or tank with a certain class like hexblade dps and his builds are well rounded where as you hyper focus and therefore everything else takes a hit

Love daughter of the moon in the background

I have actually found a use for the Champion subclass - an Elven Archer, with Elven Accuracy, Sharpshooter, Crossbow Expert, Piercer, and a friend who loves starting combat with Faerie Fire to give you ranged advantage. With Bracers of Archery, +3 bow, and +3 arrows, that's an Alpha Strike with a 37% chance to crit per hit (assuming the target ends up glowy), eight attacks, and a potential average damage of roughly 250 damage / maximum 376, and a normal round of an average of 125 / maximum 188 - and all of this from up to 600 feet away, or at point blank with no disad. And those averages don't count the free 1d8 reroll per round. Oh, and one level of Rogue can be a great non-combat useful one level dip. Did that with an Eldritch Knight once to end up with a gish with the highest Arcana skill in the party. :D

response to 22:01 Pair it with the necromancer wizard and the battle master fighter and you get what is essentially a zombie general able to take spells and maneuvers that aid his troops and help him out like "bait and switch" or "commanding strike". additionally you can take spells like "phantom steed" "vampiric touch" and "unseen servant" "sapping sting" "toll of the dead" to enhance the theming of "leader of undead soldiers and army" fanstasy even better. I came up with this idea after watching this video a long time ago and honestly i think its a great combo

3rd level Battle Master fighter and 17 wizard abjuration school while getting the tough feat somewhere in there literally makes you god. I love playing this kind of class everywhere

Artificers can be armor "This is incredibly useful for Dex based fighter so they can use platemail to fix their pitiful AC..." Medium or light armor can get you AC of 17, Platemail provides AC of 18. So taking 3 levels in a class to get 1 more AC and disadvantage on stealth. So many other ways to get 1 more AC.

That Persona 5 music. Delicious.

I made a multiclass that deals 148 damage in 2 turns, and another that can do 174 in 2 turns (both are level 8 only) both had fighter 2 (cuz action surge is so good), the first was ranger 5 (extra attack, hunter's mark, colossus slayer) and rogue 1 (sneak attack) weapon was longbow, sharpshooter feat second was barbarian 6 (new path, giant) (elemental cleaver and the ability to add rage to a thrown weapon) (also extra atack) greataxe, great weapon master

tbh though the laughs you can get with a samurai/11 drunken master 9 is hilarious

As someone who likes playing ranger I'm happy to see someone isn't shitting on them for no real good reason honestly Im not even upset it isn't God tier since I don't think it's meant to be multi classed so often but some classes it works better and with the drake warden being a thing you basically always have flanking advantage after round 1

I think that 11 level In fighter and 9 in sorcerer could make the best spellsword ever, you could use quickened spell to cast a fireball as a bonus action and then use blur to teleport away.

I am the Monk Guy, I love them, but I will say, the power creep is slow, you dont get a big buff to damage for awhile, and the most useful skill, solely because of the mobility, is Shadowstep. If you got it at level 3, it might be worth taking, but you barely get anything until extra attack, save movement speed. You get a lot of good late game stuff, but that's only available if Monk is your primary class like you said. On top of that, you'd have to take more than one MC to make it worth anything. I built a level 20 character, that was two levels Trickery Cleric, 6 levels Shadow Monk, and 12 levels assassin and you could crit farm pretty well with Invoke Duplicity granting you advantage in melee. Monk/Cleric is probably your best MC, followed by Druid. Other than that, there's not much else you can do with it. Addendum: Rangers not bad either.

Draconic soul sorcerer is great for fighter multiclass because you get extra hp, natural armour, and extra elemental damage.

Rune Knight, Draconic Sorcerer Utilizing the Power of the most Hated Rivalery in DnD in the Palm of your fingers!~ No joke this has been the funest build I've done thus far.

I always pick fighter lvl 1 - any other class 19 Edit: except when the cleric multi-class hits kinda different

"The fighter is the sacred potato."

D&D Optimzed sole purpose is to optimize builds. Started in the last year.

This was JUST SO GOOD 😂

imagine using an artificer wizard and your spellbook is a sheikah slate

Adding anything to monk makes it better, adding monk to anything nerves it. Flavor is the monks only surviving reason for existance!

I'm not sure if you will find this comment. I love your videos, I also love the addition of the music in your videos. a comment I have about the music in the video, personally music with lyrics subtract a good bit from the video, because the lyrics are distracting. A suggestion I have would to find some royalty free chill hop or chill music.

Multiclassing Wildfire Druid gives you a great use of your bonus action, basically giving you a free teleport spell that damages. Ya, it ain't as tanky, but the mobility it provides is insane. Plus, the fire damage spells are a great bonus.

As an Irish person fighter potato speaks to me personally