FEATS Guide (Solasta CoTM): Complete Guide to Feats! 

A nice niche use for Discretion of the Coedymwarth is a Court Mage wizard. The subclass lets you be a mid/frontline caster and grants you proficiency in shields and the Protection Fighting Style. This feat compliments that playstyle further. Especially if you still want to give your high-int wizard the enchanting background and thus won't have access to the armor proficiency.

I have found flawless concentration amazing for my disruptor/support classes such as cleric. Keeping those buff/debuff spells on even after taking damage is so helpful

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Might of the Iron Legion through Sellsword background seems amazing for Blade Pact Warlocks. Heavy armor and greatsword. Your warlock guide didn't cover blade pact much so thought I'd throw that out there if you're really wanting a tanky hexblade.

Take Aim is amazing for spell casters or rogues that want to nail that sneak attack from cover. I find that my Warlock finds themselves next to a baddie and this just lets me blast away without disadvantage. ♥

I made a court wizard with the sell sword background flawless concentration and might of the iron legion nobody could hit him with his shield spell

Hauler generally isn't worth a feat but if you find yourself with an odd# of strength and already capable of wearing heavy armor (extremely common) hauler is IMO the best option. Hauler with bag of holding lets a high strength character basically hold more rations then you'll ever need.

The trip attack one is good because knocking an enemy prone on THEIR turn is huge. They will be prone until they can stand up, meaning that your whole party can take melee attacks with advantage against them, and then they lose half their movement. Not bad for a readied action.

I am a huge fan of the ready trip attacks. When using a Melee character, I’m often out of range for most of the first round. So if I can ready an attack, I still do damage the first round on an enemy turn. If I also knock them down, then not only did I do damage to them for the first turn, but I also took them out of the fight for a second. And when I’m running this on characters, I always have high strength bonuses to ensure that the push down is successful. Pretty underrated. Edit: also solid guide! It was nice to see that most of my assumptions about these feats are something we agree on. I do have a tough time with the plus AC feats. It’s hard for me to buy into them. It’s like if I have a character that has 10-12 AC, is 11-13 going to really make a difference? Most the time, no. If an enemy rolls a D20+proficiency, then more than half of the rolls will hit. So the strat for them is going to be keeping them as far away from the battle as possible. Not making them tanky. If I have a character with heavy AC sitting between 16-18 (+shield 1-3) and the enemy rolls a D20(+proficiency) then my AC is already high enough to not get hit by most attacks. So I think the AC bonus feats don’t quite give value to the tank because they have so much already. These probably shine for medium armor classes. But even sitting from 12-15, going up to 16 is still a tough sell unless you couple both AC feats to gain a total plus 3 AC. But then why not just get that from heavy armor? Then I can permanently increase my AC by the same amount with one less feat. Idk Feats in this game leave a lot to desire.

Malediction (Hex) doesn't trigger on Eldritch Blasts that only hit because of Powerful Cantrip. On one hand I want it to work because it's super busted combo, on the other hand it makes Powerful Cantrip better than pretty much any other Feat or Stat option. Ready or Not actually does a decent job of being what Powerful Cantrip wants to be for Warlock. As long as you move Malediction to the next (visible) enemy in the turn order, a readied cantrip will go off as soon as that enemy takes any action, with advantage on all Blasts.

Daunting Push is more for shoving an enemy off a ledge and then making sure it can't climb up again on its turn, other than that it's not really useful unless you want to disengage without using the disengage action. At most i'd have it on an archer i want to park on a ledge, so they can fire after shoving an enemy off and then not be impeded the round after since the enemy can't get to them on their turn. Follow-up Strike is actually a must-have on a Hoodlum Rogue fighting with a 2H. In case the main attack misses, you can still do a Follow-up Strike and if that hits, Sneak Attack gets added to it since it's the first time you're dealing damage in a round. May also apply to other builds that add damage on the first hit. Mighty Blow... i'd go for one of the element Touch feats instead. Half your strength bonus rounded up is 3 (from 2.5) meaning that your proficiency bonus is going to be higher from level 9 and up, and if something resists physical damage that 3 is also going to get halved. May as well get some elemental damage in and make your character more versatile in terms of damage dealing. Mender is also pretty useless if you have a Ranger or a Greenmage Wizard in the party as they can cast Goodberry, and you can feed those to unconscious party members to also have them get up at 1 HP. Uncanny Accuracy is actually pretty good on a caster as well, since most cantrips are ranged attacks you'll want to negate cover as best you can to ensure the cantrip hits. Obviously pairs well together with Powerful Cantrip on Draconic Sorcerers, since that guaranteed damage will trigger adding their CHA bonus to said damage every time. Overall, nice set of feats added. Still missing my boy Magic Initiate, but i can't complain about the added options.

as always nice video really helpfull

Might of the Iron Legion is kinda fun on a Strength-based Rogue, specifically that one subclass that can sneak attack with STR based weapons. Frontline tank rogue! Can even throw on the bonus action attack as a psuedo Extra Attack type deal, in case your first attack misses.

the push feat is good to avoid getting attacked when moving away letting a fighter flee

Thanks. You may want to talk the with mod team but when the Mod for solast is updated you may want to do a full breakdown of it like this.

The initiative advantage is pretty good. I'd consider treating it like sometimes getting an extra turn (on top of +1 DEX).

Forest runner is on every one of my characters in my party. Its that good in my pov. The dex is perfect when your on a odd number and a ability increases dont level up 2 ability scores. The movement is just icing

I had a blast with my full-metal sellsword sorcerer. Picked up might of the iron legion and raise shield for superior AC, and could do a quickened spell and a weapon attack on top of it. Thanks to the bracers of archery, I did not need any ranged weapon proficiency and use arrows nonetheless.

I used ready or not on my archer rogue. Very helpful to guarantee hits/sneak attacks

I would argue with at least the paladin the buff to constitution and proficiency in saves if it rounds up the stat is a massive buff compared to flawless concentration. Considering if you have a decent CHA and CON which you should have already on a paladin give you at least a +9 to the save with the pally aura at level 5.

Eager for Battle is INSANE on spellcasters, especially if you have an odd dex score. Getting early initiative on a caster can trivialize so many fights. Plop down a hypnotic pattern early on and boom, combat won.

Hoodlum sub-class would be great for the Might Of The Iron Legion feat.

Something worth mentioning about the Follow-up strike feat. While the attack is only 1d4+Str and doesn't get any of the bonuses from the weapon, like say, bonus radiant from the lightbringer greatsword. It DOES get the bonus damage granted to you by the Path of the Claw. I had an acid dragonborn barbarian with melting touch, lightbringer greatsword and a blue dragon ancestor for Path of the claw. Every turn he'd hit insanely hard. 2.5 swings doing 3-4 different damage types. It was epic.

They kinda made a dual wielding Fighter character rather potent if you specialize in Light weapons.

Might of the iron legion + sell sword makes 0 dex mages worthwhile, especially if you go point buy, lets you move points elsewhere.(Int/Con) add raise shield and before magical gear you will have high AC, but imo Raise shield is a better pick, since having low dex means bad dex saves. Because medium armor removes the need for mage armor or having past 14 dex and can pick up raise shield to use a shield for another 2 AC and a bit more with enchanted ones.

Daunting push is good as a taunt if you are protecting squishies behind you.

Do the touch elemental damage feats stack with the dragon blooded sorcerer class ability? --> e.g. dagger stab = melee dmg + strength bonus + burning touch (prof bonus + cha bonus)

Is ambidexterous really all that strong if you then loose access to cloak and dagger? I guess it depends on the magic weapons you can find, but on the weapons still have to be one handed. And a longsword deals 1d8, or 1 more on average. With 4 attacks on Swift Blade Rangers, that is 4 additional damage. Cloak and Dagger on the other hand gives you +2 AC, basically a flat -10% ov the amount of times you are hit. Especially if your AC is already very high, (twin blade gives +3, blade dance gives +2) that is quite significant. It depends on the weapons you can find, if most of the good ones are without the light property. From what I have seen online, there are enough equally good light weapons to weapons without the light property though...

My two playthroughs (regular/dlc) campaigns. Seems like it is better to just take the ASI over the feats except powerful cantrip on clerics for sacred flame.

Might of Iron Legion: you kept talking about Great Axe, but it doesn't give proficiency in that according to the text on the feat (LS, GS, BA... no GA?) Also, saw someone talking about using a Hoodlum Rogue with Ready or Not, Trip Attack, and Daunting Push. Get maxed out strength through items or whatever, with expertise in athletics for shoves. Then, guard the way to your allies with readied actions. If anyone comes near, triggers an attack, they then have to roll competition against your massive strength plus expertise. If they fail, they fall down, and because it counts as a shove, they can only use half their movement (rounded down) next turn. Standing up takes half movement, so they might not even be able to get back up for another round. Even if they DO get up, then they can't go anywhere. If you back up a couple squares, you can ready action again... L/R/R 😂 However, while this might be entertaining... generally, fights have far more than a single enemy, and if only one enemy, it probably won't be easy to knock down, either. What's your opinion of making a kind of 'Power Rangers' group (or, Captain Planet, or whatever analogy) where each party member picks a different 'Touch' feat, so that all elements are covered except one (probably burn due to common resistances). Would have to be an all melee group, maybe even make it a 4-Monk party lol

Im making the dual weild melee ranger. Is the feat allowing non light weapons useful or worthless for my build?

Btw, re: rogue hasting. In theory, if your rogue is hasted, you can sneak attack this turn, then ready action with the hasted action and sneak attack with the ready action again since it’s no longer your turn. I have never tried it but in PnP that’s how rogues get two sneak attacks per round. Might even be able to combine it with a trip attack and a strength based hoodlum tank rogue or something? Probably not. But 2x sneak attack heavy crossbow sneak attacks would hurt. I’ll need to one day play a rogue to experiment. Regarding take aim, it’s a bit of a lame feat, buuuuuut if you cover yourself in fog so enemies can’t see you and shoot with disadvantage and you could shoot without disadvantage, that’s worth … something. I still don’t see enough value. One question? Would the forest walker feat add movement to a hill dwarf cleric in all terrain? Or only forest? If it adds movement all the time then I think it’s always better than that rush and lose AC feat?

Timestamps in the description or time markers on the video line would help.

Would cloak and dagger work with monks unarmed? Or I am misunderstanding?

Sadly, feats aren't really in a good place in 5e. There are some standouts. Polearm Master(or the adapted Follow Up Strike as it is seen here) is one case where it's worth using in place of an ASI. Flawless Concentration has uses on support casters; especially if you're running something like Twinned Haste on a Sorcerer and keeping half your party hasted. Powerful Cantrip is interesting too, for guaranteeing half damage on failed attacks.

2handed feats are pretty good. My Frenzy Barb half Orc is a best. Overall though, majority of the feats are far too situational, and extremely underwhelming

New Perspective for you: On normal difficulty (one less than the hardest) the game is too easy for me. If you pick feats randomly (or even thematically) this makes the game just a bit harder, makes the game fresh as one adjusts to a unique person - "Ok this character has this unique quirk how do I adjust my play to account for this?" Kinda like what happens in real life. Point: Not being some optimizing God all the time, makes the game interesting - to have unique unexpected traits to adjust for. (You will never play with the same character.)

feats in Solasta are pooly documented.

Feats? What feats?! It dawns on me that I'm playing Solasta without DLCs. No feats for me! :)

Armor Master is a completely useless feat unless you already have 20 dexterity. Why not just increase your dexterity by 2 with an ASI?

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Seems like most of them are bad : P

Ambidextrous is a terrible feat there are no weapons you can wield in one hand that are higher than a d8 therefore the increase from short swords which is a d6 is a grand total of 1 on average. You get an extra 1 damage from your asi and it increases your chance to hit. The feat is mathematically worse than the asi.

I do feel like Ready or Not increased my rogue’s damage output a lot, I just ready my bow and crit almost every time, it’s not just the first/surprise round. If we are focusing fire or if there is a character engaged then its better to go direct.