L11E5: Efreeti 

It was my pleasure to make them, I'm glad you enjoyed your time with them. I'd love to take a look at them and see if they would fit our style, feel free to get in touch.

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Thanks!

I don't like to speak for other people, but I'm pretty sure that Fear_No_Equal would also replace the fighter. Haste has a specific list of actions that the extra action can be used for, and Ready is not one of them. There is certainly a question about whether or not the Haste doubles the Fly speed, and the order they have been cast certainly doesn't help your argument, but I don't know the actual answer, or if it matters. I'm not sure who exactly you are referring to with the Oppy, but both shield and Oppy are Reactions, so you can't make both in the same round. I like Haste, I don't know that it's better than a Fireball, which is what it's competing with. Obviously the right choice if the enemy is immune to fire, or if there are not enough targets to justify the AoE. I like it on Rogues and Rangers and other things that get massive single attack hits, ensuring they are more likely to hit with them.

@d20tactics @d20tactics You are right about holding the Haste Action. You are wrong about Haste not doubling your speed whether it's walking, flying or swimming. Haste just literally states it doubles your speed. If you have 40 ft movement, it's doubled. If someone casts flight on you even after you have casted Haste, it is still doubled. I checked up on all the forums and I'm not finding any one saying Haste doesn't double your speed. If I cast Haste, and then someone casts fly, they gave me a new fly movement that is still affected by the Haste conditions. I meant my character doesn't care about provoking opportunity attacks against her because her AC is so good. It also is a way to lessen attacks made on her by moving out of range to avoid the multi attacks. This is what I would use when hitting and running. If I need to lock down an area or a big beefy boss, I can take the dodge action and become even harder to hit. Sure, but then you are asking me to play a caster and I made a Gish. I already play two OP casters that can cast fireballs. I wanted a Mystical Monk Gish. You are highlighting the caster martial divide. I know it exists but don't care that my character would be better off playing a caster. I wanted a magical monk so I made this. Haste specifically works well with this build/concept because it gives her so many options in melee fighting which is what she does - she doesn't throw fireballs and her DC would suck anyway. All her spells are Gishy and buffs. Later on with her Bladesinger levels, I will grab a few DC spells like Blindness/Deafness because her Int is actually decent. The Sorc spells are all about non DC buffs and utility. So, yes, fireball is better. Hypnotic Pattern is more optimal. Taking the fighter you are playing and balling the character sheet into a ball to throw in the trash to be replaced with a Clockwork. Sorcerer or a Chrono Wizard would be optimal because they can do more damage and be less squishy than most fighters can, but if someone really wants to play a martial, more than likely, they are doing it for flavor and a love for the RP associated with martial classes. I like both. I also have Improved Invisiblity for situations where I think Haste might not be as optimal. But for most situations, Haste works well with this Gish. It's helped me dodge dragon breaths, do more damage, boosted an already high AC and so forth. Yes, the Rogue combo works well. But Gishes are also made for Haste.

@d20tactics "Until the spell ends, the target’s speed is doubled..." Which means it is continuous. If my base speed somehow increases for walking, then Haste doubles that. It even works with longstrider and Monk speed. Haste doesn't give you a static movement speed, it says whatever your speed is - walking, flying, swimming, climbing - it is doubled. Why it would matter in what order the spells were cast doesn't make sense to me. It's not like Haste only doubles your speed when it's cast on you and then never doubles again. It doesn't say only the first round is speed doubled. It says that until the spell ends, your speed is doubled for whatever movement you have. Fly gives you a fly speed that can then be doubled. This is such a universal combo that it's a meme videos are made on. 🤣 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cqPN4LDdK8M.htmlsi=H_UjiorNlEvlvxSI

@d20tactics I could see a DM ruling against haste doubling fly speed or haggling over the order of casting but it's no DM I've run into yet until today. I've only played at 9 tables but all of them accepted the haste + fly combo. RU-vid videos from well known optimizers to whole articles have been written about the haste + fly combo. When I'm wrong it's usually pretty easy to find out with a quick search - sorc points was the exception - but ai kept checking over and over to see if I'm wrong and I can't find any evidence to support the notion that fly + haste, no matter the order of casting, doesn't give you a fly speed of 120. It's even worse because you can movement - move for 120ft + haste action - dash for 120 ft + Action - dash for yet another 120 ft for a total fly speed of 360 feet per turn. Ha! "Combined With Haste Haste is a spell that doubles the speed of a target. Your 60 feet of flight speed turns into 120 feet. You also gain an additional action that players can only use to make an Attack (one weapon attack), Disengage, Hide, Dash, or use an Object action. tabletopden.com/dnd/fly-5e-guide/

I'm certainly not wrong about what I said regarding Haste and Fly, which was "I don't know the actual answer..." I'm 100% certain that it was true when I wrote it. Knowing what I know now, I would revise it. Under Combining Magical Effects on page 205 of my Player's Handbook, it says "The effects of different spells add together while the durations of those spells overlap." It doesn't matter which spell what cast first, they combine while they are in effect. I'm not asking you to play a caster, you're playing a caster. Opportunity cost is a legitimate concern when discussing mechanics. If the question were which looks cooler, feels cooler, or has more role-playing opportunities, I agree that Haste is better. I'm not likely to find the arguments, "This RU-vid video says it works," "This GM says it works," or "This blog post says it works," compelling. It's also odd that the actual answer is three lines from the Player's Handbook, a resource mostly available for free, and instead everything else except that is being quoted as the source of truth. That being said, one of the goals on this channel is to provide tactics to players that they can use, and if everyone and their brother says it works that way, even if it doesn't, then that would still qualify.

These are pretty heavily edited. We try to play fast, but the actual encounter is about 3x longer than the video. That being said, we try to get through 6 combat encounters in 4 hours, which is faster than any other group I've been in or seen. As for the Wall of Fire, it looks like you are 100% right. I saw "takes the same damage" and referenced the wrong line. Good catch.

Super impressive to get 6 done in 4 hours. Any advice on how to achieve that kind of efficiency, or ground rules you implemented ahead of time?@@d20tactics