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i feel like, after the serie is done, you could do a vid that compares Fighter Monk Barb and Pali in 2024. Maybe even Ranger... but i do not like it lol which could give us an idea about how they stand to eachother, damage wise at least

Just found your channel. Good info, good vid.

Rogues are still the best. 😊

Can you do a video about the new chromatic orb comparing it to other spells like fireball and chain lightning would love to see the math on it

Your Brutal Strike calculations seemed off, so I checked the spreadsheet, and it seems your parameters are incorrect. You use an attack bonus of 8 - presumably 18 Str + 4 proficiency bonus at level 9. This is fine. Your dice damage with Brutal Strike is 12 - presumably 6.5 from the 1d12 weapon + 5.5 from the 1d10 Brutal Strike dice. This is fine. Your dice damage without Brutal Strike is 7.5. This should be 6.5 from the 1d12 weapon. Your flat damage for both columns is 6. The descriptive text says this should be 7 - 4 from 18 Str + 3 from Rage. Correcting for these, rather than No Brutal Strike starting to pull ahead at AC 16, they should be essentially tied at AC 17 (12 vs 11.97), and No Brutal Strike only starts to pull ahead at AC 18 (11.05 vs 11.4). The difference only becomes large enough for me to really even consider not using Brutal Strike for its secondary effects at AC 20 (9.15 vs 10.05).

This is not the fix to martial-caster divide that i was looking for 😂 Time for rules-light systems!

22:34 this is where you are just incorrect imo, high level barbarians have *plenty* of ways to spend their rage for additional effects either in or out of combat by level 15 Berserker 14, Bonus action: spend 1 rage; 30ft emanation fear, 1 minute Wild heart 14, Power of the wilds, Falcon, out of combat, 40ft fly speed with bonus action dashes for 10 minutes, with 5 rages you could fly for 50-60 minutes then have everything back when you start combat, and you no longer need to spend that bonus action to maintain rage, so you could dash out of combat for effectively a 80ft fly speed World Tree 14, Travel along the tree: gives you bonus action teleports each turn so long as rage is up, but if you have to spend a bonus action to maintain rage each turn, so you have an out of combat 60ft teleport per turn, similar to flying regarding it's utility, and teleporting no longer ends your rage by not attacking Zealot 14, this feature is a little scuffed but you can use all of your rages in 1 combat keeping your allies from dying as a reaction you expend a rage to save them one rage per day, So you see, literally every single barbarian subclass in the phb gets big upgrade at level 15, because at level 14 their subclass lets them do something else in or out of combat by spamming rage, and remember you can't use both a bonus action to maintain rage, *and* a bonus action granted by your subclass, in the same turn, so those features up until level 15 only worked in combat where you can attack or grapple enemies to maintain it while using a different bonus action Also, as mentioned elsewhere, persistent rage also means getting stunned, put to sleep, paralysed, petrified, hurled through hell, etc, no longer ends your rage

I like your analysis and delivery style. Will look for more of your videos, thanks.

New to the channel, if you like teamwork then you likely share my feelings for the order domain cleric as the sleeping giant of clerics

Thanks for the insight! As someone who LOVES what we've seen of Daggerheart, I have to say, armour is my least favourite part of the system. I think the devs are trying to avoid some things I've noticed in D&D 5e: HP bloat at higher levels, the swinginess of combat at lower levels, and the fact that AC doesn't reflect anything about the armour you're wearing other than your likelihood to take full damage (an attack roll against a target in platemail either results in no damage at all, or maximum damage as if it found the perfect chink in their armour, which is weird). I like the Daggerheart damage and HP system! It takes some adjustment from 5e - admittedly the only other TTRPG I've played - but for my group, it didn't bog down play on its own. It's quick to check your thresholds. Deciding when to use armour slots (and how many) is what slowed things. I appreciate giving players meaningful choices, but this one doesn't add much to the experience in my opinion. It feels like the grit of resource tracking that the rest of the system vehemently avoids. Daggerheart also wants mechanics that reflect the narrative, and "hmm, this hit seems like it's gonna absolutely decimate me, my armour won't do much - I'll just block with my bare arm instead to avoid denting the metal!" is NOT that. You could play it off as the character being unable to block with their armour, but that choice being the player's and not the dice's is odd... and time-consuming. I think that changing damage thresholds (either all three or any combination) and removing Armour Points might be for the better. It doesn't necessarily solve the imbalance between armour and Evasion you've noticed - which I hope they resolve in the final product - but would speed things up and remove that weird dissonance between the fantasy and the rules. As for knowing which character options to take when levelling, I think it's fine if it isn't immediately obvious how to perfectly optimise. Players can calculate that (or find advice online) if they want. Key word "perfectly" because their options should be made pretty equal - it can be fun to play an unoptimised character, but that should come from an obvious lack of synergy between build choices, rather than the system inherently favouring certain numbers! Also don't worry about botching terminology, it was clear what you were referring to - I like some of their lexical changes but man does it feel like some stuff is mostly there to sound different. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

I really think the weapon swap mechanics need an errata. There is no way that swapping between weapons should speed up the rate that you attack. It’s so gimmicky. Personally I will not be allowing this abuse of the poorly written rules at my table and am going to push for limitations at my game store league.

I’m interested to know if all the classes increase their damage output over their 2014 version. When you are done it would be good to know the kind of damage increases for a party of 4-5 with a mix of classes with to compare against any HP increases the monsters in the MM end up getting (if any) The claim is the monsters will better match their CRs but it might be that rather than increasing HP the monsters damage output or resilience is increased instead. A few monster comparisons would be good to see in the new year. PS - Thank you for your suggestion on keeping the option of using different weapon mastery properties without the absurdity of weapon juggling. With a few caveats I think it will work. I intend to give it a try anyway.

“I was always annoyed about bards being scarier than barbarians” Well continue to be so because Expertise and Inspiration go brrrrrrr xD

Nice informative video. Thank you RUclips suggestions! Subscribed my man ❤

Danger sense is pretty good if you take a 2 level barb dip on a shield master fighter If you want to play a full full tank, using a reaction to nullify damage from a dex save seems pretty nice, and using rage to reduce everything that is non-magical is great Also fighters get a great 10th level feature for making saves But, if you just went barbarian, you can absolutely go shield and sword for both sap and a shield, personally I think shields are alot more viable in general due to shield master

Yesss, looking forward to Class vids. I would love videos covering all the subclasses as well. Your analysis of this game is always top notch. Cheers.

Took a look at your spread sheets, because I can't see how you actually did the calculations, I do not know every assumption you made, though I did notice the flat dpr of both 2024 and 2014 at level 9 is higher than level 10 and 11, is this a typo perhaps? Cause I find it very strange looking at final graph for barbarian 2014 to have a massive dpr spike at lvl 9. Also, I understand why you chose great axe, but maybe wizards balanced it against PAM. In this case, graze, additional rage damage, and new GWM scaling will make the new barbarian scale a bit more linearly at higher levels.

Really good video. My only comment is on comparing damage for 2024 vs 2014. I feel that a player would be much more likely to take polearm master in 2014 over slasher (even for new players its a common suggestion online) and it synergises with GWM, which it no longer does in 2024. Appreciate its less control, but martials weren't known for control before. I dont know the math, but if we use the lower cleave % i would imagine this closes the damage gap. The bonus action GWM attack chance seems slightly high too, at my table the barbarian is usually gitting big things and the casters fireball the groups of weaker enemies.

Topple isn't good for the Barbarian in isolation, but it can be good to set up your friends to also have Advantage against the fallen foe. That's probably not usually better than the alternatives, but it can be with the right party composition.

This is a good video. I want to see a range one next.

Great video! I really like your approach to comparing 2014 and 2024! Keep it coming!!!! 🤩

Taking damage doesn't maintain your rage, don't know why they dropped that part from the old rage.

This is interesting and feels like something that can be missed. I do think you are using the wrong term though. Many of these effects are general debuffs as opposed to actual control effects and debuffing an enemy's defences is really buffing the DPS of the party. Debuffing movement tends to be useless unless it prevents the target attacking, which is essentially removing their action, or sometimes if it traps them in a hostile effect. So I like the metric but fell it is misnamed and should include party buffs to - you mention haste but nothing else.

I really want to see the fighter on next tbh

I recently made a barbarian that had slasher and a whip. With a single attack, after 9th level, they can reduce in enemy speed by 35 ft with a single hit. Then, if you have shield Master feat, you can also knock them prone right after. Then, on their turn, they will have no movement to get up from prone. For the following rounds as you just keep reducing their movement to zero and they'll never be able to get up.

I think you have a mistake on 26:37. You deal extra damage on a critical hit equal to the ability score(not mod) increased by this feat. So on lvl 19 once you crit you deal extra 21 damage

Actually there is an extra little nugget on persistent rage and it is that you wont lose your rage if stunned or paralyzed.

Hi, awesome video! You gained a new subscriber. When you do the ranger, or in a future ranger build video, could you include a Str build too? Obviously the two weapon fighting dex ranger is the go to option because of the sinergy with hunter's mark, but i think a halberd "semi-tank" hunter ranger with though or alert, cleave, GWM and Sentinel (or PAM) could be super viable, considering their "break the horde" feature and their "anti multiattack" defensive feature at lvl 7. The only problem is the bonus action clog but i think the extra control is worth it.

Maybe i missed it in the video but now you have more reliability because of the aditional rages per day and aditional raging time

Awesome Video! But I find using Cleave consistently will be... well, it's not very consistent. If your DM is always grouping enemies together, yeah Cleave will boost damage alot, but if you are facing solo monsters more often, or spread out enemies. Cleave does nothing. I appreciate the damage comparison, but I don't see it being super accurate. If you have focused on somthing like TwoWeapon Fighting /Single target damage it would be alot more accurate.

I'm looking fwd to this series, it's a good idea. (I think your barb build will be utterly shut down by Wis and Cha saves -- unless maybe you're planning on a gnome?) I also think you should comment on the mechanical relevance of the class in the 2024 meta. (e.g. Barbaians are no longer a relevant class to play because reckless attack is less important, rage remains limited, The need for decent dex + Str both is awkward. -- at this point both fighters and Paladins are much better classes.)

Thanks for this. I have done the damage thing for a few martial builds and most do get becalmed around 12 level which might bother me more if I ever played above 12 level. I expect the Combat Mastery Epic Boon will give more damage then the one you picked (assuming you are not facing resistant enemies). It means for one thing that your Brutal Strike always hits mitigating the downside. The Berserker does add a lot of damage and not much else while the other barbarians are stronger in other ways which seems like a good design principle. I'm off go & watch your other guides now.

One big thing about persistent rage that was washed over: incapacitation alone doesn’t end your rage; only being unconscious does. Plus you no longer need to use a bonus action to sustain it. The big thing here is that rage continues even if you get controlled and can’t take actions (such as with a hold person spell), and you’ll retain your damage reduction and all other defensive benefits of your rage.

Great stuff! I've never been interested in Barbarian (except Path of the Giant maybe), but this looks like it could provide many more meaningful choice and tactics in play! Love the CPR putting some things into context.