D&D's New Rogue, Bard, and Warlock - Full Breakdown 

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In the new version you can get a 9-5 job for one of your subclasses. It's called the Excel Warlock.

My Guy, in the current 5e DMG, ALL RESISTANCE POTIONS AND THE HILL GIANT POTIONS ARE UNCOMMON. That 6th level spell means 5 people can get ANY Damage resistance or a 21 Strength Score for an Hour... That's worth it.

Silent casting for the warlock revamp is such a nice touch makes great for social interactions and of course even better certain combat situations!

1:02 You missed the fact that warlocks now automatically know and have prepared their patron spells - unlike in PHB 2014, when the patron spells were just added to the list of spells warlocks could choose from. It's a pretty great boost.

2:15 as an spanish dnd player, in my table we use the "wrong" traduced hex because it makes it a lot of more interesting for a spell that only warlocks get, and its surprisingly not as broken as it sounds

The Dance Bard sounds like lots of fun.

Upto 5 uncommon potions.... makes Philter's of Love and then let the DM sort out the madness that ensues.

I love how he didn't get a press release like everyone else (because presumably Crawford has a grudge) but is still overviewing the content by citing the others that did receive the material

I misheard you the first time thinking you said “capybara bard”, absolutely best subclass Ever!

Tasha’s Couldron could actually be really cool! Uncommon rarity has healing potions, but it also has potions of Giant Strength (it’s 21, so probably hand that to the Wizard for goofs and gaffs), Potion if Growth (I can already imagine the shenanigans), and Potion of Fire Breathe (it’s a bonus action, so pretty cool on a barbarian or a familiar)! It’s also got plenty of niche antidotes, so that’s something

Sherlock “Holmes” is my favorite dnd insider

Potion of Water Breathing, Potion of Advantage, Potion of Diminution, and Potion of Hill Giant Strength are all Uncommon rarity potions, and I'd argue more worth taking over healing potions

Finally mark gets credited! I love how he handles things and create great storytelling for the people at highrollers

I did that telepathy something once. Five minutes into the campaign, party sits down for soup at a tavern. At the table next to us, another group is complaining to the bartender and turns down the soup. I used telepathy to infiltrate their minds and just say SOUP! over and over again until they bought soup. From that day forward we were known as the "Soup Cultists"!

Don't forget the Dungeon Dudes had access to the World Tree Barbarian.

You guys heard that, right? Will called me his man! 😍😍😍

The old one warlock dealing 2 damage psychic to the other old one warlock, realizing that he just doomed them both

At the beginning of the video, you reference the psychic spells feature in that you said that it allows you to ignore Verbal and Material components, but in the text provided at 1:19 it says Verbal and Somatic components. It seems like you may have just mispoken, but to anyone that does not know, Somatic components for spells refers to things you do with your body during spellcasting. For example, if the summoning jutsu in naruto was a spell, shouting "summoning jutsu" would be the verbal component, the blood from his finger would be the material component, and the handsigns, as well as pressing the bloody thumb into the summoning circle would be the somatic components.

As for shenanigans with Tasha's Bubbling Brew, it would basically let you make 5 Potions of Growth you can pass around with the party. This can then be stacked with Enlarge/Reduce, basically allowing your whole party to grow to Huge Size in a single turn with a little team work. If their is a Giant fighter, this can be pushed to them being Gargantuan Size in 1 turn.

I love ALL DnD Shorts videos!

It would be a great time to do a video comparing weapon masteries in D&D 2024 versus the weapon properties and maneuvers in DC 20 showing how much better it's being done in the next Evolution of ttrpgs. With all the buzz for D&D 2024 and the closing of the dc20 Kickstarter around around the corner, it'd be perfect timing!

I actually really like the idea of the cauldron spell. It pushes people to use that specific potion since it doesn't stick around, and gives the party's (usually only) healer some breathing room. Instead of what I'm guilty of doing and hoarding potions for that emergency that, usually doesn't come.

Thanks for the shout out to Sherlock Holmes and Ginny Di. I like their content creation style and I like to see them being considered as a great source. 😊👍

My group has unanimously decided to continue playing 5e. Some of the changes of D&D 1 , we have already house ruled. Feats at first level for everyone. We are not buying everything again over the next 5 years. We are not going digital for micro charges. Good luck to all. Don't forget it's a game. You can play whatever you want. HAVE FUN WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY!!!!!

Great breakdown 🎉

11:06 if potions of resistance, giant strength or watchful rest get introduced again this spells gonna be one of my staples

Imagine having just as much HP as a monk, unarmed fighting equal to a monk, bonus action attacks and disengaging like a monk, evasion just like a monk, but also you're a full caster?

I'm so glad they didn't give that evasion ability at level 6 like they intended in the initial playtest. Paladin - "Use my Charisma against this fireball!" Rogue and Monk "If only we had one more level we'd be able to evade" Bard - "Bet. you all get evasion with me team! *Guitar solo that deals more damage than the Monks unarmed strikes* College of Dance is still pretty powerful. I'm just glad they aren't doing the "Are you 10th level yet? Okay get all the spells" bullshit.

Awesome vid boss. I am looking forward to playing the new warlock :)

Remember that potions are becoming a bonus action to chuck... so, 4d4+4 healing to everyone in the party for a bonus action for a 6th level slot... Or 20d4+20=20*2,5+20=70 healing distributed among the party... it is a different heal spell in terms of usage (better to divide the healing than just one target), but with none of the added benefits of the heal spell (cure conditions) - and as you mention, it can be used during your down time. I think it sounds balanced enough.

Thanks for the info! Glad you made a video- I had no idea 💀💀💀 guess I'm a bad dm 🤣

I was thinking capoeira when I heard College of Dance, great point out DnD Shorts!

Holy shot, Hex becomes Spanish for the great old one's 10th level ability. (Context: In the Spanish translation of 5e, Hex is miss worded as giving disadvantage on ability checks and saving throws)

Group Evasion for the Dance Bard at level 6 was nuts. Glad it is moved even if that means losing Otto's.

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For the cauldron spell, 5 potions of hill giant strength seems good for buffing everyone's strength saves

Cauldron seems pretty decent I think, it heavily leans into player choice, adaptability and can interact with any additions to the potion list that might come up from homebrew. Though it loses a lot of value in games where players don't really have restrictions on inventory space and can just lug around a library of potions, or for players who are very well prepared and stocked up on the specific potions they need.

Imagine buying healing potions from a vendor and they just disappear because the vendor summons a new cauldron.

thanks Will

Can anyone tell me where the footage is from at 1:58 ?? I love that art style! Also, great video as always!! I’m sooo excited for these updates!!!

The bard just became the “don’t fight someone who knows ballet, it’s absolute how something so graceful translates so well to fighting” meme and I’m for it.

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Potion of Growth says hi :)

I've been watching Treantmonk's videos reacting to the live streams of the WotC releases, and it's been interesting to have him tell the audience that Crawford's either underselling the class/subclass, or that the information is just plain wrong, which TM corrects after pausing the stream.

waiiit, isnt silvery barbs illusion or enchantment? Ummm....undetectable and material free silvery barbs...oh no

8:07 Just one thing about Leading Evasion: the playtest version of the Dance Bard got it even earlier than the Rogue (at lv 6), but people gave them feedback saying that was unbalanced because it's far better than regular Evasion (Leading Evasion lets you share the feature with any creatures within 5 feet of you). I'm not saying level 14 is the right place for the feature, though (maybe they could have left it at level 6, but only letting you share the benefit later on).

theory for why the video that mentioned artificer might have been pulled: What if they decided to make artificer a wizard subclass instead?

Never really been excited to play a rogue before, now I am

Poison definitely needs help. The fantasy is obvious, but everyone and their grandma is immune/resistant. Kinda puts a damper on the whole thing. Granted i think if you made "poisons" do different types of damage, that could also help a little. I can really only think of mecrotic and maybe acid working with that though.

My support NPC Interdimensional Innkeeper Ian the Third, is inadvertently buffed, haha. This guy is equivalent to being a combo of Pokecenter, Trader, and Bank Agent. All from a TARDIS like Cart. Build available upon request.

I really love the dance bard for the kind of builds I go for. Give it a sword if you really want to and it still works well. It will also work for my Professional Wrestler that I want to make.

As a DM I absolutely love Tasha's bubbling cauldron. The party thinks they're getting a good deal on potions, if they don't use it by the end of the day they don't notice they're missing unless they actively look for it. Turns out they were so cheap because the vendor used that spell to make them.

Truly magical

Tbh, as a goolock player this feels like a step down, awakened mind is the coolest starting ability but now it's weaker and at lvl 3

I noticed that the warlock spells from the patron are always prepared, instead of just extra options. I know most people homebrewed it that way anyway, but a nice change nonetheless

Can't wait for the Druid breakdown.

Cure Wounds at 2d8 is a nice buff! I’m assuming the rest of the healing spells will be bumped up. Tbh, 5e didn’t need to be much easier, but healing has always been a real hassle. It’s literally more efficient to wait until someone is down, then cast healing word than it is to cast Cure Wounds while they are up. I hope WotC can make it more balanced now.

I really cant understand the Assassin damage being Rogue's Level. I feel like that is extremely weak, even if reliable.

With the buff to healing spells being confirmed, I am very interested if Beacon of Hope is untouched. A dedicated healer character may actually be viable, probably a life cleric primary and 3 level dip into stars druid for chalice form. To put into perspective, at wisdom 18 and beacon of hope active and chalice form. A single cast of cure wounds (2d8+4) combined with the additional healing from life cleric (3) and chalice (1d8+4) will guarantee a total healing of 35 hit points on a 1st level spell slot. Coupled with the now official bonus action for healing potions, this spell has indeed become interesting. Unfortunately with the changes to when subclasses are obtained, the earliest you'll see this happen is at level 8 (5 cleric for beacon of hope, 3 druid for starry form).

The clairvoyant combatant feature being called "solid" made me laugh. That is the biggest improvement i have seen, even despite requiring concentration

New rogue stuff is nice. Arcane trickster looks spicy

I have a issue with the new edition still. But.... Rapier welding no armor warlock dance bard is going to be a new hex blade.

I really like the idea of someone just choosing what potion they take, even if it is a 6th level spell. That's really cool.

The Dancer has tons of flavor, but mechanically it feels like a rough draft that never got polished. Unarmored Defense and Bardic Damage are effectively ribbon features that let you keep up with everyone else until they get magic weapons and armor and you fall behind. The larger damage dice at higher levels keeps up with the damage from magic weapons when you hit something, but you won’t be hitting as often because you aren’t getting the +1/2/3 bonus to hit. Also, unless the rules on Bardic Inspiration changed significantly from the play test version, the Dancer can’t actually trigger Agile Strikes as that feature is written until level 6 because giving someone Bardic Inspiration is not the same as expending it. It isn’t expended until they use it, and even then, you aren’t the one expending it. Plus, how often am I going to give up my reaction to use that? The movement from the level 6 feature is decent for oh crap moments and I suppose a chance to deal a little bit of damage in the process isn’t bad, but that doesn’t make Agile Strikes anything approaching a good feature. It also feels like I’m supposed to be a melee Bard, but without any tools to be useful in melee or maintain concentration when I inevitably get hit. This is clearly the weakest Bard subclass, and arguably the worst official 5E subclass ever released.

11:10 potions of resistance are uncommun

If the cauldron spell can be cast by sorceres/warlocks/wizards then that gives healing options to classes that otherwise don't get them or only get them with their subclasses.

Did I read that right? Do warlocks *always* have those extra Patron spells prepared now instead of them just being added to the Warlock spell list?! That's a massive buff in utility.

lucky is actually quite different... its your proficiency not the base 3... yes you start with less but you get up to 6 re-rolls which is nuts

Omg I finally get an easy version of my Monk Bard

I only have one big question, which will determine whether I like it: is Eldritch Adept a 1st level feat? If I can get Pact of the Blade on my rogue or Pact of the Blade or Tome on my fighter from level 1, that will literally fix one of my biggest annoyances with 5e, that being the unavailability of pact boons to other classes. Gone will be the days of my compulsory 3 level dips in warlock.

Restorative ointment is considered a potion, and so does other like oils

Ehr meh gerd! I'd been wanting to play a Great Old One warlock/sorcerer multiclass for a long time in 5e with silent/still spell just to make people think they're going insane. I'm so glad to see that's just baked into the GOO warlock. On the other hand, I don't think I like those Assassin changes. Trading an auto crit for rogue level damage _once per combat_ seems like garbage to me. Never mind the crappiness of surprise, if the average game still only goes to level 12 then at your maximum, assuming no multiclassing, then you get an ability that does 12 extra damage once per combat, and that's assuming you don't have a terrible initiative roll (or the enemies roll really high). Are you telling me I'm supposed to waste feats to have a better chance at doing pitiful extra damage on one attack? The capstone is great, but very few people are ever going to get to use it.

This may happen later, but I would like to see a link to the other creators channels mentioned in this video in the video description.

Ah yes! I can finaly revive my pole-dancing half-orc gigolo bard from 3.5

A note about mention of the Artificer in the spell video being a possible thing why it was pulled made me think somethink... Maybe, the Artificer will come later, as a part of 2024 DM's Guide? Oathbreaker Paladin and Death Domain Cleric were tucked away into a 2014 version there, so, since while being an optional class Artificer quickly become quite the crowd favorite, maybe they just tucked away there? Or maybe it's just my copium setting in, idk

i just hate how the assassin gets barely anything. slightly more damage maybe once per combat isnt enough and all the utility is outmatched by spell casters with far more ease.

DnD shorts thanks for the summaries. Could you put the links to the creators who did the full breakdowns. Really sorry if you already have and I missed it.

2:03 Spanish warlocks are canonically more powerful than regular warlocks

I'm so happy to be a main rogue right now

I would make it so with tasha's cou8ldron that if you cast this spell 5-7 times on the same cauldron those potions become real permanently. This would allow it to be sort of rp, high level alchemist shopkeeper spell. Or add that if you throw certain amount of gold into the cauldron it will materialize permanently, giving you those potions. So this spell would allow you to dump money into it to obtain potions.

Really hope the alchemist artificer getsthe cauldron and some buffs to choose the potions to make

Everything is gonna be amazing! Or could evolution to Incredible

Arcane tricksters booming blade does more assassinating than the new assassin

better balance, rules clarification, quality of life improvements, the new Surprise and heroic Advantage rules are amazing and elegant.. WORTH IT!!

New Great Old One looks cool, but I do prefer the older spell list, and it makes less sense for warlocks to get their subclass at level 3

rip artificer, i won't let my current one die

I'm just glad I can grab pact of the blade off a 1 level warlock dip to be able to use charisma for melee weapons with charisma based martial classes.

Tasha's cauldron sounds like a great shenanigan spell. Like it sounds like a pretty okay one when prepping a journey and saving some gold, but if used right it can get way outa pocket

I hope they consulted Lou Wilson for inspiration when the created the Fabian Aramais Seacaster bard.

I dunno I'm kind of disappointed with the assassin rogue redesign, like realistically a rogue is only going to sneak attack once a turn without haste shenanigans. As a result it feels underwhelming because it's unlikely a low or even mid-level rogue is actually ever going to assassinate a target. They might hit for big damage but without surprising the target its still unlikely they'll kill or incapacitate it because of how much less damage they're doing.

My biggest concern is the warlock and how they’ve reformatted the class. I like warlocks original progression in the way that they’re full casters but very unique among them. They just need more invocations and slots and they’d be perfect. One change the warlocks I really did enjoy is that you can change what the spellcasting modifier is.

For the Great Old One Warlock's level 14: Create Thrall, the description implies you modify the casting of the spell Summon Aberration. So the "limit" is the number of spell slots, so a fresh 14th level warlock would only have 3 castings per short rest and it reduces the time from 1 hour to 1 minute, with a max temp hit point boost of 5 (which really feels too minor to care about). The most I could see it being abused is someone allowing a warlock to spend three rounds to cast the spell three times, having three of them up, but that takes away a fair bit of action economy and means that they won't attacking for those rounds personally and it would only be for that solitary combat (since they'll be gone in a minute except possibly one that the make a normal cast for concentration). In addition, they wouldn't be able to cast Hex and use its feature that would benefit themselves and their summon. So at best, they spend a turn to Hex something and two rounds to summon aberrations for a minute that have 50 hp with 5 temp hp, at a level when most creatures, including the players, have over 100 hit points, and deal an average of 30 hp. At best they are damage sponges that can make a pair of attacks that would deal less damage than the warlock if they had used eldritch blast instead. Optimally having just one is good enough and two or three is excessive and a trap for eager players. Edit: Didn't realize the temp hp also included Warlock level at first. So the max temp would be 19-25, depending on warlock level. A hefty amount and much more useful, but still not enough to really see summoning two or three at once for a short time to be overly excessive imo.

Ill play the 5e warlock

For Tasha's cauldron, there's definitely better options out there than healing. And assuming there's a least one day of downtime between adventures, having this means everybody in the party should start every adventure with one of those potions (and you still have your slot).

Inquisitive Rogue seeing the Steady Aim upgrade for Assassin: "Am I a joke to you?"

Insane.

I thought it said in the presentation the venom strike does the damage even if immune to poison?

Regarding assassin the change makes more sense when you see they have removed the 'Surprised' condition. Instead, 'surprised' means they will roll initiative with disadvantage, so .... oh hang on, I am watching the video as I type and you have just covered the surprise change. Nevermind.