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Is this 2024 rules or 2014?

My lowest scores are a 6, 9, 10. May The Dice Gods treat me well

Nice build but I think is better get first level rogue, you gain an extra skill proficiency. You gain all you want (shield and maybe medium armor) from a dip in fighter. You may also consider "Medium armor master" for a 15+3 armor (without stealth disadvantage) instead of a 12+5 from the sttuded leather armor.

Guys help please, i dont understand how doble The sneak attack strategy, someone can help me?

Rewatching this, it makes me very bummed out that they changed the level 6 ability to summon illusionary pets. Changing illusions just seems like an element of control that you could not duplicate anywhere else in dnd 5 & 5.5 dnd.

I know I am late to the party but Why not in Hexblade pick Magic Stone and as a wizard pick Mold Earth. Keep a big rock in your bag and in combat turn the rock into pebbles then as a bonus action Magic Stone. After an hour the rock change back and your ammo restock itself. The other thing since I never seem to get sleep to do anything... Why don't you used Catapult spell instead. Might not be much but combo it with a Net and you got a first lvl web. I do like your build but I might moved getting fighter closer to the start so I can do more at the start.

No sunbeam?

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Just here for that intro 😂 👏

Just an idea that popped into my head while watching the video, but I wonder if Vex wouldn't work better as something like Vengeance Paladin 6/Lore Bard 14? Could just use Find Steed as a stand in for Trinket (the spell says the creature is large and can look how you want, if it can be a warhorse/camel/elk/dire wolf, I don't think a bear would be out of line). By the time the first campaign went up, I think they were in the 7-9 level range, in that range the character would have 9 skills, and expertise to help make up for stat deficiencies (probably something like 13/17/12/8/8/16. At Bard 6, could try to grab a couple of spells to help boost damage. Mercer doesn't hate homebrew, could see him allowing some ranged smites, but even without, I think it'd work reasonably.

Liam took time spells because of his character goal. This isn't a bad video, but it's not a great one either.

Im so exited about the 2024 artificer! Would a build around the armorer infiltrator and the rogue thief work if we try to utilize sentinel feat and the battlemaster riposte/brace maneuvers for double sneak damage? 4 attacks per round without extra extra attack and with a shield and also double trustrike maybe start dwarf with tough feat for tamkyness but iI think woodelf with lucky is a better option for Damage and partysneakyness at lvl 5 artificer infiltrator could get Plate armor, shield +1 and the shiledspell ready at lvl 3 !and also do the sneaking/scouting with heavy armor! rapier (vex) and shield (maybe lightnig launcher (+1d6 once per turn) with sharpshooter?) at lvl 4 sentinel at lvl 5 extra attack then rogue thief at lvl 8 for utilize magic item and use true strike two times per turn (artificer could craft scrolls with truestrike) with sneak attack as race elf would be nice to have longer crafting times and get elven accuracy at lvl 9 (rougue 4) Using Fearyfire etc. for concentration could get reliable advantage tu use triple advantage. building battlemaster for riposte/brace maneuvers in to maximise the tank (taunt) and damagepotential (2x sneakattack per round) maybe from there on rougue the rest for more sneak attack damage and evasion (for tank purpuses) also 4 attunements! or artificer the rest for more attunements than 4 and more spells or wizard evoker for potent catrip and never missing a trustrike I would really apreaciate your professional opinion or community opinion on this build. Are there any suggestions to optimize? would it be better to go with dexterity or intelligence as mainstat?

Wellllll, use all the charisma classes apparently but fair enough

Treantmonk's 2024 baseline is now pact of the blade warlock. Eldritch blast warlock was too low.

When even after all this time the ranger still requires homebrew to be good. Shame of Wotc for being so incompetent they can't even balance a game they've been working on for decades.

According to the Heavy Property, you only need a 13 Dex to use the Longbow. You only need a 13 in Str to use a Heavy Melee weapon. …. Unless you are using Great Weapon Master, As I was corrected XD Speaking from experience, having been playing an Elf Trickery Cleric with True Strike to wield a Maul/Longbow, you only need both if you plan to use both Melee AND Ranged Heavy weapons

Laura would never dump Charisma, and Vex was going to be a rogue. This was pointless. A character a player has no interest in playing is not optimized. How YOU see the character is irrelevant. If you're going to do this, retain their choices (their attribute and class choices).

Using the 2024 ruleset? Ewww... racist, corprate schlock

Hey Mike.

A little surprised you stuck with Ranger for so long... I thought the "optimized" thing to do was leave at level 7. P.S. My understanding of the Shade Creepers in early campaign 3 was that since they were shadow, and bright light would do it. But you're likely even more into the Crunch than I am 😜

Daylight not creating actual daylight was a unforced error. Glad thats fixed.

I think it was said that the city there father is from is mostly wood elves. But he definitely acts like the stereotype of a high elf

Share spells should work with Conjure Woodland Beings and while I don't see Vex trying to double up on damage with it via herself and Trinket moving in and out of melee range (I think together without including grapple stuff, they could trigger this like 4 times?) its an option for them if they wanted.

Well done. I was a little surprised you used peace domain when the start was 2024 options only. I get it, thematically it fits, and at lvl 18 it doesn’t break a game. In tier one or two, it’s way over powered.

Given that this is an optimized multiclass level 20 build, why not end up Ranger 16 / Cleric 4 so that levels 19 and 20 EACH yield their own epic boon?

I just dont understand why are you talking about the half elf as If it doenst exist anymore? Bugbear wanst in the 14 phb and it still was a playable race, so was kenku, tortle and dozens of others, even the game developers said that the older species are still available, this inst a new game with only 2 books, its a balance update , also aside from that heroic inspiration is WAY stronger than any measly spell the elf can give

Wouldn't it be better to take Cleric 4 at lvl 20 to get a 2nd epic boon than lvl 17 ranger?

no views at 1 minute? wow cmcc fell off :( but honestly i really like these vids, they show how you can be optimizing without comprimising roleplay

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Build release when???

I run a game with DC and or Marvel characters as playable characters. That's right, you play as them .

I still wish they made rangers get 1/2 of expanded spell slots on short rest. Thematically it makes sense. You're going to tell me a ranger is going to need to go to an inn or something for a safe rest to get their spell slots back? The class all about survival, should at least get some of the slots back on a short rest, especially so they can use the alarm spell to alert them in a potential threat is approaching. The surprise round changes takes away the theme of them being hunters. What's the point of sneaking on prey of the prey can get a turn before you with terrible luck on the rangers side. Lastly, every subclass should change/add to how the ranger wants to use hunters mark. Fey wanderer could give HM creatures disadvantage on persuasion defense, gloom stalker could have the HM target have lower passive perception, monster slayer could allow free HM retargerting when the HM target dies or something. One thing i personally think would've been cool for flavor is something like "rangers ward" where they magical leave markings on landscapes for rangers for warnings or hints on the local area. One could be for danger, another for safe, one for potential friendlies (like forest settlements, or something like that).

TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!

Loving this build. Gonna use it for a one-shot next month. I went with Duergar (darkvision, enlarge/reduce, invisibility) instead of Githzerai; 19 AC is plenty high, no need for shield spell.

1:34 Correct. 10/10 video. I'm very happy. Keep it up.

I don't mind the rangers thing being hunters mark, cause yeah, the hunter class marking foes and assassinating them, that's a hunter/ranger if I ever heard of one. I think the biggest problem is how they handled hunters mark, cause I feel like no matter what, you're gonna feel like you're missing out one way or another. Either A: You use hunters mark are your primary concentration, but you miss out on the higher level and cooler concentration ranger spells (Such as conjure animals) or B: You use those higher level spells which, why wouldn't you since hunters mark doesn't scale, but you're then missing out on class (And sometimes subclass) features, and even if conjure animals is stronger, it still never feels good to have a class feature that does nothing, shitty class features are why the ranger had the rep it did for a while (Until tashas.) Honestly, I feel like the fix for ranger is pretty easy to do, just say that hunters mark doesn't require concentration, but you can only apply one hunters mark on a creature (So no 2d6 every attack from level 1) and maybe also hunters marks damage die to scale as the ranger levels up, maybe with similar scaling to the monks martial arts die? Dunno what the capstone would be changed too but honestly, just about anything would be better than it currently is.

I don't even think hunters mark should be a spell for the ranger. it should just be applied to the target hit by a attack. frees up concentration to actually use spells and frees up their bonus action

Its Just so hard to build a ranger. Now, previously ranger struggled with any build that did not rely on these 3 core elements. Conjure, Surprise , CBE SS. But that is because both new and old ranger have dead class levels that give them features they could gain way more easyly via multiclassing. Multiclassing that is dead in the water. The 2 main damage paths are Dual wielder and Greatswording(Or equivalents). Dual wielder feat simply does not work with the damage options of the Ranger outside of Singletarget fights. HM needs Moving, Smite spells require BA, Natures Veil needs bonus actions. Crossbow expert can't use the nick property without throwing daggers which dont work with archery. As such anti synergy with all 4 features of that damage package. So that leaves greatswording. That has to use str or charisma(multiclassing with points is impossible because of new heavy property) because true strike will not and cannot keep up without the celestial warlock package. STRangers are as usual gutted by multiclassing requirements that have not changed. So you need a total of 10 pointbuy points in both wisdom and dexterity to make it out of Ranger. (If you want +4 str at the first asi you will have to get 2 times 14 and a 13 in con dex and wis and if you are not what are you even doing). And you need to pick up heavy armour and helpfull features that are just absent in the levels after 5. You cant multiclass into anything but cleric, druid, fighter or monk, Of which meaningfull amounts of level in Fighter while usefull get gutted by them not getting anything worthwile (ASI dont count outside lv 6 because everyone gets them) for the levels 5,6,7,8,9,10. So that cant be the way to go. Barbarian seems the most promising but is as usual incompatible with hunters mark, and all other actually good ranger spells making it so that one ask themselves why take ranger 5 at all. Especially since both Beastmaster and Gloomstalker scale of wisdom, so you are stuck with hunter. Monk ain helping a stranger. So you are left with druid and cleric. BOTH OF THESE DONT HELP WITH GREATSWORDING and benefit you a lot less with a + 2 wisdom at max since walking into melee with a +1 concentration check is just asking for you to get focuss fired , you conc broken and knocked out because you were missing a LOT of max hp you dont realy have the feat space to improve upon. Lucky or magic inniciate shield 9 times out of ten will do more then tough and maybe you dont want to sacrifice your very valuable origin feat on the alter optimization. So. You are left with 2 choices. Do you go druid? Well druid already has a martial subclass. And it will be so much better as a streight class if you arent stuck with 2nd level known spells till level 9 even if you do druid. Or cleric. Here is the only option worth a damn. Heavy armour if you want it. Mithrill is a thing after all. More recources in the form of channel div. And the most powerfull subclasses in the game. Live cleric to amplify the heaing you will be spending your oversized spellslots on. Douplicity for the BA advantage(adv>+1d6 dmg on hit) on all attacks in 2+ +short rest count fights. And last not least WAR, Sweet sweet war*rime war. BA attacks 3 per short rest more if you go wis. free action to just hit 2+ +sr count per day and later gets you the same amount of conc free shield of faiths or Spiritual weapons( which are great upcasts in low encounter days) Blessed strikes does a lot too. more then collosus slayer and fey wanderer at lv 3. In general its damage boosts every level or for levels 3-15 with a war cleric after 5 levels of ranger. With spirit guardians and spiritual weapon and later Conjure celestial you have GREAT spells for upcasting. L3 . war cleric subclass, LV4 asi lv5. Spirit guardians (5th level cast edition ), lv 6. War cleric conc free spiritual weapon. lv7 blessed strikes + 1 to max level of spell slots lv 8 asi lv9 +1 to max level of spell slots conjure celestial lv 10 divine intervention. lv 11 +1 to max level of spell slots lv 12 asi lv 13 +1 to max level of spell slots lv 14 improved blessed strike. lv 15 +1 to max level of spell slots (lv 9 slots , lv 7 spells known) and if you have a flame tongue type weapon, then you can burn a 3rd lv for and additional +2 to hit and dmg or a 5th for +3 with magic weapon, conc free at that. Last not least . Do you go dex attacks or shaleighlei. str Both should work and will have different strengths. In my oppinion shaleighlei is better for damage and spellcasting. Dex gives a lot more options.

In 2014 we thought Rangers were bad because we didn’t know how to play the game. In 2024 the designers made Rangers bad because they don’t know how to play the game.

In 2014 there were fewer automatic features you could use as a bonus action, so you could choose them via feats. Now the paladin or the ranger are forced to use their bonus action to their class features.

Damage wise, Rangers are doing well until you hit level 10. Though for HM, I would add that if you miss a target you can use your d6 of hm damage to add it to your hit chance instead of doing extra damage. At lvl 10 HM no longer requires concentration & can be moved by just hitting a new target. The flavor missing from Rangers is a harder fix. I think giving them find steed spell & find familiar might help a lot, making them somewhat the animal specialist & hunter class.

Everything you said was true as was other things others have said. I will also add: 1) it is more MAD because they took out the proficiency bonus in many area trying to dice you to upgrade Wis and they are a half caster 2) they have Tasha and standard features that come in too late for them to be impactful 3)by focusing on Hunters mark and simultaneously removing the other bonus flair spells it causes action clog and lack of feature focus.

Ranger feels like the guy who played by the rules, and when he finally got any improvements in life all the rules changed because other people were doing fucky things.

Thank God. I HATED the hand crossbow bonus action sharpshooter attack. The idea that because of game mechanics, a hand crossbow is better than a longbow or a heavy crossbow at damage and pure archery, irked me to no end. What do I mean by game mechanics? Because it's a game and not real life, there is a limit to how much range is necessary. Most games do combat on a battlemat, and those combats are not practical at 100 or more feet. It's the same with character speed. Being able to move 100ft or more in a round has a very limited application. Because it's a game. The +10 damage tradeoff feats were not intended to turn a hand crossbow into a magnum pistol. The designers underestimated how quickly players could offset that -5 to accuracy, with spells, fighting styles, surprise/hiding (for advantage). So I really like reigning that in. The bonus action attack from XBE was meant to offset the smaller damage dice of the smaller weapon. But as long as the SS bonus applied to all ranged weapon attacks, it favored the hand crossbow more than any other. I'm sorry that nerfing that playstyle makes Ranger boring to you, but that's on you, mate. They still have some of the best ranged spells and now, they are the only ones who can use them. Mourn the old rules, if you must, but don't blind yourself from how much fun 2024 Rangers can be.