The Best Spell Of Every Level In D&D 

whats that pokemon uve used in the vid. its incredibly cute. and i dont know pokemon

@@enjaded7222 its furret

@@enjaded7222 The Pokemon who is walking on screen is Furret! The others featured briefly are Noctowl and Alolan Ratata

I actually just got Random Tables 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. I highly recommend them for any DMs. At the very least theyre super helpful when your party decides its time to derail the campaign or talk to random city folk you havent considered naming. I also suggest Universal NPC Emulator (UNE) for the Npc thing.

What know command? It literally a smart person's second counterspell. Why command to Forget Relax Kneel Strip Flee Dance Sing Hug Play Kiss Trip Grapple Love Swim Pay Cry

True strike is good for big spells

Lvl 2: Find traps

Demi-plane, reading it and actually thinking what it means... it isn't worth the 8th level spell slot.

@@eternalomen I really like it on acid arrow. D4s are my favorite die

True Strike is great if you’re the King of 1s, like my friend who rolled a total of -2. He had advantage & reroll of nat 1s at the time. He had a -3 to dexterity. That means he rolled THREE ONES IN A ROW!

Make a simulacrum and cast plane shift twice 😁

@@jackbarrow8810 if you use a 7th level spell to make a simulacrum then it wouldn’t have a 7th level spell slot. Since it would be a duplicate of the caster at the end of the casting.

@@DannySharesStories Though you could upcast it at 8th level, as could the simulacrum if you have the slots for it! And so on, and on, and on after every long rest. Shift a huge group of important NPCs across multiple planes, hell, teleport an entire city directly into Limbo. All you need is a lot of time and a loooot of simulacrums /simulacra.

@@platyclysm4633 The best thing to do before you reach 20th level, actually, is upcast Simulacrum to an eighth level spell. That way, it will have a level 7 spell slot available. Then it can cast Simulacrum on YOU rather than itself, and its simulacrum will also have a level 7 spell slot available. Ad infinitum, ad nauseum ... until you have a veritable army of characters with spells of every level from first through sixth ... with one (the last) who's still got a 7th level spell slot ...

Plane Shift would be great without that Tuning Fork requirement.

Warlocks can generally be incredibly fearsome opponents in the right campaign. Only having 2 spell slots screws you over in combat. If there's no combat though... #1 class for roleplay and illegal or morally questionable activities.

@@hieronymusnervig8712 They get multiple invocations that allow spells at will. The Ascendant Step levitate at will, One with Shadows and Shroud of Shadow are invisibility at will basically.

@@StarAllKungfu true plus the mask of many faces, literally just ripping off on changelings

Booming blade should be up there as well tbh. U can build booming blade to do as much dmg if not more then eldritch blast. And that’s with agonizing blast and hex and that’s without having to use up a leveled spell slot and your concentration. Even if the enemy doesn’t move u still are giving major battlefield control and keep them locked in a certain place and can put them In between a rock and a hard place like either keeping them in some bad area spell or moving to get out of it but taking dmg to do so. The Dm needs to not metagame here tho cause unless the enemy is some smart spellcaster they shouldn’t know what was casted on them. Either way your getting use of this no matter what especially since your still getting extra dmg even on the initial hit. GFB is good too but not as amazing.

Well I thank you for your agony and this video was great 👍

Really? Blast has pretty much always been considered absolutely top tier.

Invisibility isn't as good as Enhance Ability.

@@ChazTheYouthful For damage, yes, but imo the 'best' cantrip would be something like Minor Illusion

@@thomaswillems6384 blast has no diminishing returns. You make one fake thing, it works. You constantly make fake things, enemies should get wise to it.

I vote for prestidigitation hand down.

@@williammeek4078 imagine thinking presti is better than guidance

@@robinsimon4176 i don’t have to imagine. It is just facts.

Correct, they removed the size limit on clone, now the vessel simply needs to be large enough to fit the creature to be cloned. So permenantly becoming and Adult Gold or Adult Red or Adult Amethyst dragon are back on the table.

@@HallowedKeeper_ As long as you can find a big enough jar for it.

@@Janoha17 ... or make.

You're gonna cast Clone with Wish anyway, so you don't need any of the components. They just happen. EDIT: Which is also why you're gonna cast Clone using Wish at the end of every single day you don't use up your level 9 spell already.

@@SaintDaisley well every single 1d4 long rests where you haven't used your 9th level spell.

OH yeah, a moon druid did this in a PVP our DM hosted. he summoned the elks, turned into a spider in bonus action. and he killed us all. guess what, our selfish DM (who got in a fight with us when we argued about this): hadn't read the spell. the druid had to give commands as well, meaning next turn the elks wouldn't atk because a spider can't talk. or he couldn't specifically choose ELKS as the video talks about it as well. so there you go, if the gods of RNG do conjure ELKS then yeah that is gonna wreck the very foundations of heaven

@@arian512 or cows or stench kows or rothes or ox or boars or deep rothes. Although giant owls, pteranodons, dimetrodons, wolves and velociraptors are also quite good.

@@arian512 The thing is that even if your DM decides to give you the "worst" group of the CR you pick, it's still really good. All animals are extra bodies on the field that are counted as your allies. Opportunity attacks, advantage etc. works the same with the animals as they do with your own allies.

@@floofzykitty5072 If the DM really decides to be an asshole, he could read the spell literally. "One beast of challenge rating 2 or lower" wouldn't mean a challenge rating 2 at all. Could still give you a single elk. And even if you chose the 8 beasts, 8 fish flopping around isn't really anything the enemies will get scared about.

Your damage calculation was way off. An Elk's charge adds 2d6 damage to the Ram attack, and Ram does 1d6+3 damage. With 8 Elk, that 3d6+3 x 8 = 24d6+24, and that's assuming that all Elks hit. If we take the average damage for simplicity sake, that's 7 (from charge) 6 (from ram). 13*8 = 104.

Shield is good on a wizard, but it really gets crazy on Eldritch Knights and other gosh builds. I like the utility of the familiar. It's so integral to the concept of wizards that I feel it should be a class feature instead of a spell.

@@MrJerks93 Yeah, but since it's a list of all spells you can count getting shield on other stuff and not just straight classed. Dip 1 level out of paladin for shield, and you can get super tanky on demand while also picking up some level 1 sorcerer or warlock features or whatever. Wizard can dip into cleric for armor or take armor feats and really maximize shield too. Heck, a battle master with spell storage ring and a friend can get it without being a caster at all. Shield probably takes armor combos like that to really push it over, but once you do its super silly. Familiars are definitely ultra useful and a spell a lot of classes will like to have even just as a single casting from magic initiate or something. Still, it's not something everyone in the party really needs so much as just somebody should get it. Also it's a lot less impressive if you're not a ritual caster. It also doesn't have a big combat impact unless you are cheesing with owl flyby help actions, in which case it's likely to get shot down. Still, if I could pick one 1st level spell to learn, I don't know if find familiar is actually the first pick for a lot of builds.

I just now realised... You can take Actions before combat, as long as you're seeing it coming. Your familiar can take the Help action. Initiative is an ability check. Your familiar can literally take its action every round before combat, to help you on your Initiative check RAW, can't it?

@@hieronymusnervig8712 Mechanically yes but rolling initiative is something that happen like instantly and since you need to make the familiar to use help before it starts, it could never work. the DM can also argue like how does familiar help you have a faster reaction time.

@@hieronymusnervig8712 I think that there is no mechanical reason why this cannot happen, but there are also two reasons why it likely won't usually. First, most combats in my experience just kind of break out and you don't get time before combat to know it will begin and ready stuff. If you could reliably know when battle was about to begin, spells and abilities like Bless and Sacred Weapon would shoot up even further in value but usually they are reigned in a bit by being your first action to cast. The other is that the familiar has to have some actual way to help in the activity. For an attack, the help action can be conceived of as a distracting action or blow attracting the enemies' attention at the right moment. Lifting a rock, the animal can also push on the rock to help a bit. For perception, the familiar can also scan the room with its senses. But what action can a familiar actually take to make your initiative better? Initiative in a combat is very contextual, so it probably can't just context free spam help action every 6 seconds in the off chance combat starts next round. If this were allowed in general, you don't really need a familiar. Your team can just daisy chain help actions as they move around and have mostly party wide initiative advantage at all times. So while RAW I think it is possible, I'm also certain it will not be allowed often or at all by most DMs and is more likely an oversight. At least not unless enemies get it too, and you have packs of wolves all chaining help actions for initiative advantage every encounter against you.

Damn, so the dragon trick works again!! HYPE!

@@DnDShorts just gotta find the biggest jar ever

Where do I find these updates? I want to read them over sometime without having to go buy a new PHB

Errata is already plural... Erratum is the singular. Like agenda and agendum.

@@MarkLewis... he probably mistyped A with S hence the lack of A in "errats"

That's a great idea!

The "hold a Medium creature" could be argued that a Small creature would fit inside that container as well, though if they have used the errata to change it then that's good.

@@mikeunderwood734 it says that the container have to be large enough to hold a medium creature, not that it cannot be big enough to hold a gargantuan or colossal creature..

wraiths can age you i think

or the wish spell could probably age you as well.

@@amberphoenixfire3510 never ever ever use wish beyond what it was meant to do

I’m not seeing the downside. Now I get to grow bigger and angrier!

@@lancecarlisle1749 dragons evolve like pokemons, they need a certain age and a fortune requirement, they also need to take increasingly long rests completely submerged in riches at every stage of evolution..

2nd: Pass Without Trace

@@lyebatenkaitosofgluttony2452 Spiritual weapon, aid, misty step, shadow blade, silence, and mirror image are also really good 2nd lv spells. Silence can shut down a spellcaster especially if someone grapples them in the silence area, mirror image is good cause it’s a way u can literally stop a Nat 20 from hitting u since it could hit one of your clones instead, aid is good cause it’s more health and stacks with temp hp since sis just increases your overall health and isn’t temp hp, I shouldn’t need to explain y the others are amazing. Theirs just so many amazing 2nd lv spells (and then theirs find traps 😂).

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@@Drekromancer I didn't even think of that hahaha!

Catapult is neat. Twinned 3d slot catapult double acid vial shot is 10d8 +4d6 to a single enemy. Remember twinned spell requires two targets, that atre the vials not the monster in case of a catapult:)

@@bilbospox "Twinned spell: When you cast a spell that targets only one -creature-..." I would be hardpressed to accept acid vials as creatures for this purpose.

I like minor illusion more than prestidigitation, because it doesn't have a verbal component and more range, but both are fun and usefull.

What about Guidance though?

The flavor cantrips Minor illusion Guidance These three cantrips are the best.

I think prestidigitation is better to have in a day-to-day life but for adventurers, EB is better due to its versatility and damage

Yes that is my favorite cantrip

BUT you can have the spell Dragon breath on you and then use that :D so a Sorcerer twin Dragons breath on himself and the wizard/bard that then cast invisible on them both :D

Im actually building a melee mountain dwarf warlock marid genie. I'm going to use the first wish to bring back into my posession "emberfall", a legendary magical smithing hammer that was created using the ore from a fallin meteorite that landed slightly on the neighboring gnome clan in cogs basin. (Not useable in the campaign, just an item for the backstory) King Cog was annoyed that the dwarves stole it from their lands and after seeing all the magical weapons flow from mount khalagrigore and hurting the gnome artisan business...they decided to bore into mount khaligrigore to steal emberfall back. My characters great great grandfather was a part of the elite guard to the king and was charged with protecting emberfall. Strongrip Goldbelt was his name and he accidently dropped it into the fast flowing underground icetears river and thus ending the assault but staining the goldbelt name at such a magnificent loss. In enters Strongrip Goldbelts son Surefoot Goldbelt who was just admitted into the elite guard at the young age of 139 to follow in the footsteps of his great great grandfather. He went down to the ice tears river to practice his somersault hammer bops and ironically lost his footing and fell into the river. 7 turns and 4 drops later he sees a bright flash and.......falls towards a planet made entirely of water. Long story short he lands on the throne room floor of the citidel of 10 thousand pearls and the Padisha of the throne forces the dwarf to make a pact with Theewee who everyone knows she is the strongest Marid. The purpose of the pact was for the dwarf to make a wish back home so Theewee can close/secure the portal that leads to their underwater sanctuary. Unfotunately the Padasha granted him the ability to breathe underwater not to pronunciate well. He made a wish to return to mount Khalgddfrah tah and......he appeared at the start of campaign not sure if he is even in the same world as he is surrounded by strange names for places he has never heard of. Thewee is a tad might annoyed with the idiot dwarf that wasted the wish. For she is now in a less magical realm and it will take quite sometime to draw on the inate ley energies of this mundane world. The flavor for this is choosing devils sight improved pact weapon and later thirsting blade. A melee dwarf who distrusts raw magic which is why theewee reaches a hand out of the bottle to cast warlock spells like hex and blur to keep dum dum alive. It takes an action so he is always distracted and can't attack when i spell is cast. Because he will do anything to get emberfall back he is chaotic neutral. His distrust for magic was an unconscious warning that he would later succomb to the power and thus casting necromancy spells himself instead of theewee thus turning chaotic evil when he dips into those type of spells. But in the meantime elemental gift will be used to toss the dwarf around to safety because Theewee is overprotected of the small brained dwarf and needs him to make a wish when she gains the power for it. She gonna be big mad when he wishes for emberfall and decides to help finish the adventure.

They un-changed it last patch, so it doesn't have the size limit anymore

That's awesome.

@@mr.mephitis2492 Thank you! I still haven't gotten to play him but one of these days i will! lol

Pass without trace is great but web and spike growth get outmatched by higher level spells unlike invisibility

@@BigPurpleCarrot not really, do the math on sorlock repelling blast through spike growth, there's plenty more forced movement too, the damage out paces nearly everything, dragging enemies through is the best damage in game hands down, using mounts, haste/potion of speed, or summons. Web is super high impact at level 3, and is still great at L20, higher level spells can be better but cost much premium on resources, Web is a bargain always.

@@SpiderWaffle Not every party comp can take advantage of it though. And at the end of the day there are a multitude of ways to deal damage but invisibility is unmatched in its utility

@@BigPurpleCarrot That's fair, especially if you value out of combat utility a lot. Dao Genie and Halfling (Lotusden) has made Spike Growth available to all Sorlocks now though. Further, any character in any party can get mounts. Find Steed and Phantom Steed are common spells too. I tend to weight combat higher when ranking things since it's much more objective and 90% of the rules are about it.

How? Werewolves don't deal magical damage.

@@ChazTheYouthful idk ask my DM somehow it worked

@@BrookeA12 yeah raw werewolves can't actually hurt each other which is kinda hilarious

@@ChazTheYouthful i believe the goons were homebrewed as well and were given attacks that were magical

@@BrookeA12 Why would they? It doesn't make any difference against players whether or not they deal magical damage.

Amazing. What a compelling argument for the power of battlefield control!

@@Drekromancer Another good idea that one of my group came up with was to create a dome of force over a group of enemies, and then have a second caster summon a "cloud" spell inside it (since it emerges at the area you point to, and doesn't have to move THROUGH the wall, they all become trapped inside with the cloud). Better still, unless your DM is a dick about it, even if they cast something to create wind, even the wind can't get out of the dome of force, thus it can't disperse the cloud spell. It's great for the likes of Cloudkill for damage, or even Stinking Cloud if you want to disable people for ages without killing them.

Hot takes. I like them!

feather fall is highly situational, it's just in the situation it is needed that it can be the difference between life or death. But I'd still say shield or find familiar are more useful overall.

Healing cantrips are a big "Nono" in DnD balancing, because you now have a free way to get people back into the fight

@@maxgustafsson7802 Also out of battle, never need to rest because just cantrip everybody back up to full health. Literally only if everybody uses up class features/spell slots or to avoid levels of exhaustion.

I feel like that nerfs it too much. I mean it gives people more of a reason to pick other ones which is good but if your gonna apply this rule I feel it should only apply to the owl since that’s the whole reason your doing it. I mean of course the owl is the only one with flyby so it’s the only one that can get away freely but the enemy could’ve used up their reaction or their reaction could’ve been taking away from them.

Tiny hut is really awesome. Great way to stifle a DM that utterly refuses to let the party ever rest unmolested. A rookie dm got so angry that he had an npc poison and kill the bard so he could terrorize us every time we tried to rest. Tldr.. we asked the DM to leave because he seemed to enjoy making the players miserable