The Meteor Master: A Uniquely Flavored Swarmkeeper Ranger build for D&D 5e
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- Swarmkeeper is one of the most versatile subclasses of Ranger in D&D 5e allowing players to adopt all sorts of playstyles as well as flavor for their characters. Today Sage is showing off his Space themed character the Meteor Master, an Astral Elf Swarmkeeper Ranger specializing in the Magic Stone cantrip.
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0:00 The Meteor Master
0:41 Flavor Profile
1:43 Build Beginnings
2:40 Early Levels
5:26 Mid Levels
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Wow...my mind is blown!!!
Another "gravity" fest would be the Telekenetic feat or Thunder Wave
This has Ebony Maw written all over this!!!
You can start your build out of the gate at level 1 with the Astral Drifter background, which nets you the Magic Initiate (Cleric) feat, letting you take Shield of Faith that represents your orbiting swarm as a defensive shield, and the Light Cantrip so you could take Shillelagh later on.
I have a Spore Druid Astral Self Monk Plasmoid I’m playing in a Spell Jammer game, which I treat as a sentient mold colony at the center of a living cloud of spores that form the many different effects of this class combo.
this build idea is dope! do you have any specifics on the build and where you like to take it? e.g. first 2 lvls in spore druid, rest astral monk etc
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Yes, first two levels are Spore Druid, the rest Astral Self. It’s ridiculously complicated to actually use it in combat, between Halo automatic damage and Astral Arms + Awakened Halo damage, so my DM gifted him an enchanted musket (+1, deals an extra 1d6 acid per hit) so I went Gunk, but realistically at the top end he would automatically deal 2d4 necrotic (halo) followed by 5 attacks dealing 1d10+5 force (arms)+ 1d6 necrotic (awakened halo) every turn until he runs out of Ki, then dropping to halo + 3 attacks without Ki. He’s a brute. I like to shape him like a cube and chase people at Monk speed! Took Primal Savagery so he can “eat” people by “licking” them with stomach acid. Would do Faerie Fire at lower levels by “igniting his spores”, and use Thorn Whip as a pseudo pod that hits things and pulls them in. One of my more fun builds.
@@jeffersonian000 very cool, thank you
@@jeffersonian000 With only two levels in Spore Druid, don't you lose your 8 temp HP in round 1 of combat and lose the benefits of Symbiotic Entity? I love the idea of the build, and any advice to counter my concern would be appreciated :)
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Only if you get hit.
I adore the swarm keeper flavour options
Hanging onto the sling and adding in sharpshooter would be an excellent way to increase damage and range. But overall it's a fun build with some great flavor that I will definitely have to keep in mind for some of my other builds.
For this build I would go with Custom Lineage (artificer initiate) to pick up magic stone as an Int based cantrip, then I’d go Wizard all the way to pick up things like Melfs minute meteor, crown of stars, meteor swarm
If the table allows dunamancy stuff I’d probably go Graviturgy and get all the fun gravity spells
If not, I’d go evocation so I could meteor swarm my party without hurting them.
Pick up crusher and telekinesis feats along the way and reflavor wizard spells as manipulations of gravity/asteroids like you’re doing here
If you grabbed sharpshooter, the sling would double the thrown range for magic stone too
I thought it was gonna go in this direction at first because of those three spells as well, but I just realized that this is even better than I thought it would be because it means I could finally have the build I've been wanting to make for a long time that uses Catapult as a core spell. I might honestly go Bladesong as my subclass, but I would flavor my bladesong as forming a gravity field around myself that makes it easier for me to move and projectiles or weapons get sucked into my personal orbit making them harder to hit me. This way you can get extra attack, and when you make your second attack you can replace it with Firebolt and flavor it as a more powerful version of your magic stone. The only thing that sucks about this is that your Song of Victory is totally useless in this build, but you could potentially still get use out of it.
It is a difficult decision to make though, because I truly do love the idea of having a swarm of asteroids floating around you, and while you could flavor this direction similarly, it wouldn't have the same effect without the mechanics backing it up I think
I've thought about a similar build of Gravity Knight. Something like Starscourge Radahn from Elden Ring. And the best thing for this is Armorer artificer. This subclass has thunder wave, catapult, shatter, vortex warp etc. You can reflavour them as gravity waves. Artificer has access to Magic Stone as well and since sling is a simple weapon you're proficient with it and you also can attack twice using your intelligence. Add up crusher feat and you are an awesome battlefield controller now.
Id be tempted to go air genasi with this build for levitate and feather fall. Shocking grasp is also nice to get away from people. Finally if you ever go to space you can hold your breath indefinitely.
I actually ran a slightly tweaked version of this concept for a Christmas one shot. She was a Githzerai instead of astal elf, mainly to lean into the telekinetic fighter angle rather than space. It was remarkably effective. Flavoured the Shield spell as consolidating the rocks to form a barrier. A lot of fun, great work.
For a magic stone build, I'm going goblin and battle smith artificer, i know it sounds strange but you ride your defender and on turns where you don't have your bonus action to command the steel defender it takes the dodge action allowing you to cast magic stone and attack twice at level 5 you can also add a bit of extra damage with furry of the small. Love the flavor of your build.
I had a Kobold Druid/Ranger swarm keeper who was protecting the grave of a fallen Green Dragon. So her flavor was the spirit of the Green Dragon helping the Kobold who protected her resting place. The "Swarm" was ghostly projecting of the Green Dragon materializing.
My DM gave each of us a free feat to start and I took Sharpshooter to use with a Sling and Magic Stone to give me 120 ft range and a damage bump of I could hit with that -5.
I absolutely LOVE playing around with Swarmkeeper and figuring out different flavor and visuals for the effects. Well done!
YOOOOO THIS WAS MY REQUEST. LOVE IT MAN KEEP IT UP!!!!
As someone who's introduction to DnD was Spelljammer I absolutely love space dnd. With that said, one of my favorite builds is actually a Warformed Twilight Cleric with the Astral Drifter background.
The concept is that he is basically a medical Droid but one that actually met the diety in charge of Astral Space. This diety gave him a mission to protect and guide people as they traverse the Astral Sea. I choose twilight Cleric as it represents the emptiness of space really well.
I also have a space pirate Thri-Keen that is a Fey Wanderer Ranger to really play into the survival on the fringes of space while leaning into the fear that Pirates/Fey can invoke.
Giff: Hey Star Elf, taste my meteors.
Giff: And then I started blasting
Might be one of the coolest builds ever
Very interesting build but one thing I though you might do with it is Earth Genasi and bee a bond to his element
Very nice use of swarm keeper, reminds me of my playing card slinger that uses the same subclass and throws around cards (darts).
Love swarmkeeper, crusher and elves. I would 100 play this.
Keep em coming!
I’ve thought about Magic Stone a lot. A lot of people do not understand how it works and think you can Extra Attack. Best option I’ve seen is for a Rogue that wants to attack with a casting stat, probably an Arcane Trickster taking Artificer Initiate feat or a level of Artificer. Then you take Crossbow Expert so that you can attack in melee with a a bludgeoning weapon or just can attack with Intelligence.
Swarmkeeper is just top tier flavour no matter what you do. I played a Goblin one whose swarm was just a bunch of small critters he picked off the ground and stuffed into his pants, so when combat broke out he'd just shake said pants to have all the animals drop out
Alien flavored? Plasmoid Moon Druid with either the Telepathic Feat or two levels in GOO Warlock.
Change the ooze into flesh that’s constantly knitting itself into new shapes. Maybe describe the beasts you wild shape into as different alien forms.
1 thing about web, if you flavor it to be gravity you must remmemver that it ignites, so make sure that make a reason for it to cach fire.
I flavoured something similar, this player character I designed is an plasmoid, the flavouring is that it has strong psyonic powers and uses them by manipulating a large mass of slim cells as it’s swarm produce from its body
Love how you flavored it and how that inspired the build further. You've got a real talent for it. I'll have to flesh this out to see how it looks at higher levels.
This really is sounding like a Wisdom-based gravity hunter/mage from Elden Ring, XD Purple lightning, tearing the earth asunder to use the rocks to your advantage, and calling meteors from beyond and using the natural processes of the cosmos to destroy your enemies!
When you first mentioned an alien build, Custom Lineage came to mind.
Might i recommend a small dip into Way of the Open Palm Monk? There ability to also knock something back 15 pairs well with Swarmkeeper as well as fix the close range issue and allows you to easily trigger crusher since it needs to be bludgeoning damage.
Nice build. I love the way you went for flavor. I've been thinking of Magic Stone for my earth genasi build. For whatever reason, I can't seem to get enough earth genasi.
So astral self monk 11 spore Druid 9 (Also works with Mercy & Wildfire) but basically I’d pick a race where I could get tools, take woodcarvers tools and put stones in my Quarter staff. And his stick was within the 1st two rounds bonus action shillelagh, action chill touch 2nd Turn bonus action magical stones, attack action. So that magic stones, necrotic, and shillelagh damage. And the reason I went those two over the other two is the fact that I’m using my wisdom mod for attack rolls. Also one time I was playing a wildfire swarmkeeper and my DM let me make arrows with my smith tools and he let me use magical stones on the tip but they had to do bludgeon damage instead of piercing damage
Also just brought up to me that magic stones have to be thrown another work around could be blacksmith artificer, and either psi warrior or Run knight fighter and put the stones on a spear, and take returning infusion. Plus attack rolls can be made with Intelligence. Also take the fire rune
The first two rounds can go
Action Guidance/Tasha’s caustic brew(Just a tad more expensive)
Bonus action magic stones
Turn 2:
Action: attack action and booming blade
So you can throw the spear twice using intelligence, and deal magic stone (if you take psi warrior, psychic damage or rune knight fire damage and do booming blade.) also Rune knight might be better because your fire rune acts like scared flames
Githyanki does come to mind.
Maybe trade a lvl or 2 for fighter. For Archery fighting style. And maybe Battle Master for some Maneuvers. Quick toss seems to be a standout for this flavor build.
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Crazy how Tasha gave us 3 whole psionic subclasses and the best telekinetic you can make is by re-texturing the subclass intended to make bees. WotC needs to up their game.
Swarmkeeper has been one of my favorite subclasses of all time since it came out just for how flavorful the subclass is (it also being really good is a nice bonus!). I would personally take Shillelagh over Light, but actually for flavor reasons. While yes it would be nice to have a melee option for those situations where you just can't get away from a melee combatant, I also just really love the idea of you carying around this standard quarterstaff, and you whip it out and the stones that rotate around you coalesce around the end of your staff to create a massive hammer. In my head it wouldn't be a solid amalgamation of rock, it would be many shards that kinda float around the end of the staff to make it look large, and when you hit someone and use your swarmkeeper feature/crusher to move them, a portion of the shards that hit them seperate from your staff and carry the enemy away.
Your thumbnails are awesome
Doesn’t work out well with stats to multiclass but 3 levels into sorcerer / wizard would get melf’s minute meteors upscaled into oblivion for the flavour? Loved the flavour of the build, excellent as always mate, big fan of your work!
I adore this build! I realized as you kept building on the flavor that this build also gives good earth bender vibes.
Totally different flavor, but I did a very similar build with a Lizardfolk as a Witch Doctor. I took the Druidic Warrior fighting style, and grabbed Magic Stone and Shillelagh. After 5 levels of Ranger, I grabbed 2 levels of Stars Druid, for that Starry Form and a few extra slots. Then back to Ranger, I think ending at character level 10.
In combat, I alternated between Starry Form Archer and Summon Beast for my BA, and usually Magic Stone throws on my action.
Out of combat, I used Wildshape for scouting both shape-shifting myself and summoning a familiar.
Not a super high damage build. But versatile, and with enough damage potential to be reliable.
My favorite gravity build?
Daolock 1/Graviturgist 6 w/ Crusher Feat.
Use ray of frost, slow them 10ft, add bludgeoning from Daolock to proc crusher. Send them 5ft into the air. You also proc gravity well, send them another 5ft. They fall 10ft take 1d6, and are prone, with speed at (x-10)/2. But you're concentrating on Summon (Sorrow) Shadowspawn. It reduces their speed by a flat 20, so it's probably zero, so they can't get up. And since they're prone, you're attacking with advantage.
I love the flavor of this build
I actually have a magic stone build made that 12 levels into Psi Warrior (so I can throw all three stones per turn) 1 level of Dao Genie Warlock (for bonus bludgeoning damage) chose Goblin for Nimble Escape and Fury of the Small (for some more damage) I used the feat Artificier Initiate to grab the Magic Stone cantrip
Taking the gunner feat or crossbow expert would allow you to make point blank attacks without disadvantage, thereby removing your biggest weakness. Start with 13 DEX and take gunner for +1. In my opinion, that's much more valuable than the 5 extra feet of Crusher. You can still take Crusher, but I'd put that after gunner.
If you're in a space campaign, you can flavor it as using a meteor pistol.
As for the spell thing people are talking about. By RAW (rules-as-written), it seems to mean you can't do cast Bonus Action Cantrip followed by Action Leveled Spell.
But RAI (rules-as-intended), it's pretty obvious that this rule is aimed primarily at two things:
Casting a *leveled* spell with your Bonus Action followed by another *leveled* spell.
Using Metamagic to quicken a damaging Cantrip on the same turn as casting a leveled spell (even that's not so bad for anyone other than a Warlock/Sorcerer).
But Magic Stone on a Ranger? There's clearly no design reason to forbid someone casting a regular spell as an action on the same turn as casting that.
Jeremy Crawford summarized the rule as "you can cast two spells on one turn, but one of them must be a cantrip." That's probably the best way to apply it.
i like this shors builds, they come onlyne early and they are bery thematic
"I want my web to be intense gravity...." I cast burning hands on your intense gravity. I love reflavoring, but sometimes it can come with hidden advantages and disadvantages.
I agree, a similar issue comes up with Entangle-gravity & spike growth-meteor field and the Land's Stride [also fly speeds] and other plant manipulation features feature. "Flavor is free" can only go so far, pushing some things further you will start running into irregularities.
I love the irony that I find this video the day after I finish putting together a swarmkeeper for a new game. This is funny to be because this will be my first time using a swarmkeeper specifically. I flavored the swarm as little mote looking soul fragments though. I used earth genasi and had the souls actually have brought her to life because she used to be a statue in the forgotten ruins where she was born. Sure I could have used warforged but I wanted her to have a more elemental feel than that so earth genasi. She looks like she is made of white jade too. Since I’m joining a party late, and the party just survived a massive battle that was an invasion and slaughter by the enemies, my character is set up to join them because her swarm, the soul fragments, are urging her to seek the party out and help them. Dm and I discussed it and she is supposed to actually be the gate to the realm of the dead. It may not ever come up in game but that is who she is even though she isn’t aware. She is very dedicated to her responsibility towards her swarm though. I even gave her the magic initiate cleric feat to feed into the esoteric and alien feel she has. She is made to bring calm to this group which is apparently sorely needed as of late. Should be fun.
I am getting strong Gara of the dessert vibes from this. and o love it
Reminder the rules for casting spells as a bonus action state that if you cast a spell as a bonus action (regardless of if it’s a cantrip or not), the only other spells you can cast on that turn are cantrips with a casting time of 1 action. So this means you won’t be dropping your “fight-winning spell” and casting Magic Stone on the same turn.
Maybe you could persuade your DM that the stones that float around you are always being re-upped as they feed off of your magical essence, but RAW you can’t cast both on the same turn
Thanks.
Weapon: hoopak
cantrips: Magic stones and Shillelagh
warlock Eldritch smite
multiclass can be with paladin, ranger, or fighter
I know that you got the hair cut a little bit ago but I love it dude, looks great sage, much love
I'd love for you to meet R'a'an.
R'a'an is a Hadozee child, set adrift in the astral sea when his parents spelljammer was set upon and destroyed by a Tyrant Ship when he was 4 years old. After several decades adrift, the Silver Void preventing him from aging or dying of hunger/thirst. At some point, he was happened upon by none other than Celestian, god of stars and wanderers. Charmed by the young boy's fearlessness in the face of divinity, it only took a moment to realize how long this deceptively young looking person had been drifting. Concern crossed his divine face for just a moment, before his features relaxed again and he reached out and bestowed this old-young being with a modicum of power over the most common material found in the Sea, Gravity.
What followed next is a sort of montage where we see R'a'an testing out his new power, adding impulse to his drift over time to gain speed, cracking asteroids apart and reforming them at will, crushing a bit of rock into fusion to provide a small amount of light. Since his travelling speed had increased, it became possible to latch onto passing Spelljammers, and thus R'a'an was able to join a crew for a spell every now and then. This gave him the opportunity to learn language, and over time he became proficient in a number of useful skills. Spelljamming is not without its dangers, so R'a'an got experience fighting with weapons, using various armors effectively, although he tired quickly with physical work due to his stunted growth. As time went on, he grew more and more reliant on his gravity to augment his shortcomings. And, as not all spelljammers are crewed by good and honest people, R'a'an learned a lot of hard lessons about deception and how to spot it in people before it became a problem that could threaten his life.
R'a'an is level 9 now, somewhere north of 80 or 90 years of age (although his physical body still appears young, maybe 5 or 6 years old). His aptitude with gravity has reached levels where it starts to become scary with the speed at which he's able to project rocks, rapidly orbiting a rock around his person before shunting it away with a shocking amount of force and accuracy. He's able to expand the gravity well he usually floats on to gain a modicum of flight (although he has to go slow so as not to lose control), which he combines with his natural ability to glide to some degree of efficacy. He can also, with some effort, project gravity fields around others as well, locking all but the strongest of them in place, or even creating miniaturized singularities that rip and tear at those that move between them (willing or not).
I hope you like my adorable little weapon of mass destruction, because he's almost entirely your fault.
I would love if you would please make Primal Savagery focused build. Please 🙏
I played a Warforged Graviturgy wizard named ST4R once. His backstory was essentially that he is part of this alien/extradimensional race of robotic people called Riftborn (based on Endless Space, for those who know), who are each powered by their own small internal sun/star. He was part of a group doing research on black holes, particularly on how they influence time and space, and during an experiment a mishap happened and he ended up getting sucked inside the hole. As this happened he had a revelation on how gravity and time are connected to eachother, and he used this new found knowledge to escape before he got completely destroyed by the immense gravity of the singularity. He ended up in the Forgotten Realms and since has been looking for a way to return to his people, whilest also slowly learning about this new place he found himself in.
Most of this spells are based around manipulating his internal sun in certain ways to influence the gravity of the world around him, as well as creating what are essentially wormholes through time and space in order to teleport people around. That all in addition to an emotionless machine trying to understand emotions and irrational thought, and it was one of the most fun characters I have ever made/played
What about a build where its thri kreen, and you have a shield and a one handed weapon in the 2 buff arms, and light cross bow and somatic components for spell w the skinny arms
"Ioun Stone" the heart of a dying star. a.k.a. after Jack Vance.
Awesome flavour!
It was clarified a while back that Hunter’s Mark doesn’t work with with magic stone.
It’s not a “weapon” attack. Not my favorite ruling but oh well.
Well I posted a link to the clarification but looks like it got removed.
in fact I don't see hunter's mark named anywhere in this video :)
@@gianmariacapuzzo2383 at 4:16 he does.
This is a very interesting idea and I might try it out, but I would do it a bit differently. I like my archery too much tho, so I would get magic stone thru a background that gives the magic initiate feat picking either druid or warlock... I do love me some prestidigitation too lol. That way, I still have the option of longer distance, and if the DM is nice, they might allow magic stone to benefit from sharpshooter, maybe doubling its range? For a space build tho, I would go astral elf and circle of stars druid, again with a background that gives magic initiate, picking a spell list that gives either magic missile or witch bolt as the 1st level spell and whatever cantrips you want to spice things up. I would also be a wereraven to fly around the battlefield to mess with the enemies more lol.
Melf's Minute Meteors: Am I a joke to you?
4:44 don't take a rapier, keep the sling. RAW you can use a ranged weapon as an improvised weapon in Melee, so you can hit them with a magic stone sling with bludgeoning damage that uses your spell modifier in melee.
Was thinking Earth Genasi druid with more of an Earthy flavor... but I like the gravity spice you are using.
Love the hair today! Looks really cool!
I would go with a bladesinger wizard so I could get Melf's Minute Meteors and extra attack. Going full caster you would get Magic Stones at first level.
This build is just the season finale of the Kenobi show.
nice build
Swarmkeeper/Gravaturgy wizard cross class. Wizards have some narly gravity spells thanks to Matt Mercer
This is not only nice! thx for building my next character, and BBeg a swell! let me know you you build something else this superb!
My take on a meteor master would be a dwarf wizard with spells like catapult, Melf's minute meteors, tiny servants, animate objects etc. Spelljammer has space dwarves so I'll just stick with that
I would love to see a Druid/Artificer.
A bioengineer that work with fungus or plants or iron bacteria to fuel their gadgets. And protect their summons. The cannon could be manipulated plants or fungi species automaton to burst magic fueled gas, shield spores/pólen or chemical fires.
Or Wildfire Cleaver (artillerist/wildfire) that uses the green flame blade, shillelagh and wildfire elemental to hit and run. To do +2d8 per attack with the green flame blade. The theme could be a forester firefighter that use flames to control wildfire.
Or a star fueled magic studded leather that the studds light up forming the conjured star form. Could be a spacesuit.
Really interesting build idea! I love movement/location based builds. I think the spell flavoring is fun, but some may need a little work (i.e. when reflavoring Web as gravity, how can the enemy “burn away” the gravity?)
Magic stone loaded into a sling + sharpshooter will greatly increase your attack range. I'm just not sure if the stone's damage will override the sling's 1d4 base damage.
I used a build like this yesterday on a oneshot.
My kobold in community games is a ranger that uses magic stone. I also dipped into Rogue for expertise and sneak attack. There is an amazing weapon in Dragonlance called the Hoopak. This weapon is a Sling / Staff that utilizes dexterity for both types of attacks.
Magic Stone turns our Sling part of the weapon into a 60ft / 160ft Range Monster and with Sharpshooter we gain long range efficiency.
Shillelagh turns our Staff into a great melee weapon for us allowing us to focus solely on Wisdom for both Melee and Ranged Combat.
The amazing thing about all of this is because the weapon is a Finesse Weapon both our ranged and melee strikes benefit from Sneak Attack and since we are Kobold (either variety) we have either Pact Tactics or Dragon Bark which generates Advantage on attacks against foes so even when our allies aren't around we are set to lay down the sneak attack.
This is how i built my kobold and i love them, and the nice thing is its not subclass dependent at all. Just need Druidic Warrior Fighting Style (Level 2 Ranger) and Sneak Attack (Level 1 Rogue). I also picked up Green Flame Blade as a Kobold so when i smack foes with my stick they take extra fire damage as well since the modifier for it is your choice of mental stats.
I love the Hoopak, very underrated weapon and kinda the ultimate melee/range combo weapon (why doesn't DnD have a spearbow?, they existed!).
You say you use it with Shillelagh, but I haven't seen it discribed as counting as a (quarter)staff. I would love it if it could, I mean polearm sentinel warcaster with booming blade would like to say hi, (I don't know of any finesse polearms and staffs or at least quarterstaffs count as a polearm. A reaction attack on a rogue when they enter your reach is their dream weapon after all) but does it actually count as a (quarter)staff for the purpose of those feats and the Shillelagh cantrip?
@@woutvanostaden1299 The description of a Hoopak is as follows:
A Hoopak is a sturdy stick with a sling at one end and a pointed tip at the other.
My DM rules that a druid can go into the woods and rip a branch out of a tree and make a staff out of it so he ruled that since a Hoopak is a study stick then its considered a staff.
@@Synamint87 If I ever get to play I'm using this. Polearm master sneak attack here I come.😁😁🤩😀
mmmm might steal this and flavor it as a geomancer for the dragonlance campaign if my rogue dies.
Druid centaur with the Noble background. You get 3 gnome servants from your background, and they can all ride you and throw your stones. You lay down a big spell, and then use your high movement to kite.
You'd need a very permissive DM. The servants from Noble don't have player classes and aren't meant for direct combat aid.
@@brianb7385 Do you need player classes to throw a magic stone?
@@saltypork101 If you want a modifier to the roll, I suspect so. IF your GM allows them to take attack actions, I suspect it would be with +0 modifier.
@@saltypork101 Ah, I forgot MS passes on your WIS modifier as the attack bonus. That might work.
@@brianb7385 It's not just your wisdom mod. The attack uses your whole spell attack bonus.
If you could instead get MS on a wizard, then Tiny Servant is a good way to go for some extra bodies.
I think I'm not gonna be the only one mentioning it, but 5 or 6 Levels of Stars Druid may actually do some key stuff for you. Still gives you access to 5th Level Spells Slot, and really the 4th Level Spells for Ranger don't add A LOT to this flavor build.
Meanwhile, with Stars, you obtain free uses of Guiding Bolt to kind of fix your range issue.
Meanwhile, you add support for your Party Members.
I would say that Archer is a bit redundant, but it adds to your damage output.
My favorite Option is Chalice However, allowing you to heal and support your allies from the back lines.
I’d pick up sharpshooter, archery fighting style, thrown weapon fighting style and start throwing as many rocks as humanly possible probably multi classing into fighter.
Or… and hear me out here… you get shillelagh as your second druidic cantrip.
If you really want Light you can be an Astral Drifter as background (you also get an extra spell and cantrip from the cleric’s spell list, so also wisdom), and is also in the Astral/Space vibes you are looking for (I might go Strixhaven for my Dhampiric young heir of Wallachia, who’s really into bats and starts with Find Familiar)
Crazy I just made a magic stone build today. Ok
Before I was disgusted by the Swarmkeeper subclass, but this build has my attention. After watching this video, if I were given this prompt the only thing that I would change is that'd I'd play as an Earth Genasi (so that I'm quite litterally a planetary body - plus their racial abilities).
Have you done a Swarmkeeper ranger/spore druid build?
I did something similar once but used paler and origami. Death by a thousand cuts sort of thing
Very nice, flavourful build!
One (potential) correction - I don't think the Web spell is available to rangers.
It is on the Swarmkeeper Subclass Spell list
@@DnD_Daily Ah, I missed that! Thank you! :)
I was curious why you didn't include gravity Wizard but your build makes up for it.
Druidic Warrior gives you two druid spells
Artificer stacking enhanced arcane focus, enhanced weapon and archery fighting style with Sharpshooter for +4-6 bonus to sling attack rolls
Thri-Kreen [extra arms needed to wield sling, load sling and hold an enhanced arcane focus at the same time] + battlesmith artificer (x) [primarily for extra attack and enhanced focus & enhanced weapon infusions] + fighter (1+) [archery fighting style] + sharpshooter [will be wielding magic stone with the enhanced sling for the -5/+10] + spell sniper [magic stone tuns your ranged attacks into spell attacks, so SS's long range and 3/4 cover benefits are not applicable, spell sniper lets you ignore 3/4 cover again and increases magic stone's range to 120, and since it's a spell attack, there is no long range disadvantage.
Your attacks will benefit from archery fighting style, enhanced arcane focus and enhanced weapon at the same time [magic stone attacks are spell attacks, so the focus bonus applies; you're wielding the sling to make the magic stone attacks, so archery and enhanced weapon apply] this gives you +4 to magic stone sling attacks when you first get it and becomes +6 at artificer 10.
You could go to battle master or psionic warrior fighter level 3 or 4 for more dynamic and damaging attacks. Champion's improved crit range is not applicable because because it is only for weapon attacks and after using magic stone you are technically making spell attacks, and RAW arcane archer is for shortbows and longbows only, although with the extra arms you could wield a bow and a sling on the same turn, you would just need to shift the sling to a lesser hand to make the bow attack and the bow wouldn't benefit from the enhanced focus of course.
I would avoid probably avoid taking a bladesinger dip because your dex is not going to be great, so when you can't use bladesong your AC will be lower since medium armor and shields would be off the table. Also activating Bladesong delays benefiting from magic stone synergies a round unless you set up bladesong the second round.
You could optionally take rogue levels to increase your damage with sneak attack since magic stone with a sling qualifies the attack for "The attack must use a finesse or a ranged weapon", with the steel defender as a pawn for setting up sneak attack conditions [it would need to have been be positioned the previous turn since it's turn is after yours]. Though I would probably just stick with Battlesmith Artificer (17) + _ fighter (3) for casting and infusion/artificer feature progression. Additionally, you start coming up against ASI issuesif you take more than 2 classes.
Battlesmith was taken over Armorer because it allows your weapon attacks to use int instead of dex for the sling regardless if you cast magic stone or not, for more action flexibility and you have 2 arms remaining to wield another [int based] weapon [even a 2 handed, or 1 handed and an (enhanced) shield], and you can weaponize your bonus action with the steel defender when not casting magic stone. Additionally, the battlesmith gets a limited use damage improvement via Arcane Jolt.
Repeating shot was not taken because you have enough hands to reload and it's unique feature would negate magic stone-enhanced focus synergy, since using that feature means you're not using one of the magic stones. Similarly, the Two Bird Sling is an appealing magic item, but since it's magical already you would not be able to infuse with the Enhanced Weapon infusion, and since magic stone fades after a hit, the secondary target attack would not benefit from Enhanced Arcane focus [and possibly not even the archery fighting style since the second attack isn't coming from the weapon?]
Maybe I missed it, but why don't you have shillelagh? Druidic Warrior gives two cantrips and you get one from Astral Elf...
Shillelagh, Magic Stone, Light.
why not "shelelelegh" as a second druidic cantrip?
Earned a sub from this imaginative build, very nice. One quibble though: if you bonus action cast a spell you cant use your action to cast a leveled spell. Cantrips are spells and technically "cast Entangle and Magic Stone on turn 1" is against RAW.
Its still 1 cantrip and 1 leveled spell, which most dms will allow anyway, but technically its against the official rules as written.
Hey... help me out on this... Magic Stone's Description says "You or someone else can make a ranged SPELL attack with one of...". Doesn't that means that you cannot combine it with multiattack, wich require attack action ?
I think you could still use multi attack because it doesn't say that you need to use an action to make the attack, but could definitely be wrong RAW. I think even if the RAW ruling says no, most DMs would probably let you anyways
There is no difference between a weapon attack and a spell attack if we are looking at multi attack. It's just that most spell attacks are tied to spells that take an action or so to cast.
*IF* (and this is a big if) I were going to base a build around the Magic Stone cantrip, then this build is okay, but I think it can be improved upon. For instance, I might go ranger 4 or 5, then switch to Psi Warrior fighter (which has its own gravity manipulation abilities) until fighter 11 to maximize Magic Stone damage with three attacks before going back to ranger for the rest of my career.
But if I really wanted to base a build around gravity manipulation and stellar bodies, I wouldn't touch this build with a standard ten-foot pole. Even if I couldn't or didn't want to play a Graviturgy wizard, the Arcane spell list has far too many good gravity manipulation and and "stellar" or "meteor" spells to be ignored ... everything from Mage Hand, Catapult and Levitate to Fireball to Telekinesis, Animate Objects, Crown of Stars, Reverse Gravity and Meteor Swarm. Just about any kind of wizard could pull this off, as could the Lunar sorcerer.
This is, of course, just my two cents, but I do find it rather silly to call a build a "Meteor Master" when it's based on one of the weakest cantrips in the game, one that doesn't *EVER* upgrade with level advancement, and then it isn't even used to its fullest potential. 😡
You say at 4:37 that the build doesn't have shillelagh. Why not? Druidic warrior gives you two cantrips. What did you take besides magic stone?
Starscourge Radahn!!! LETS GOOOOO
When he joins Your party ;p
When you cast magic stone you cant a leveled spell like entangle as your action
Otherwise adore the build and its flavour
yes you can :)
@@gianmariacapuzzo2383 "You can't cast another spell during the same turn, except for a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action"
@@elliotbryant3459 ah yes, "casting time of an action, not a bonus action.. truuuuuuuuuue.. you can have fun or you can play RAW while shooting your legs with a nailgun.. cause it's exactly the same
Could magic stone work with lightning arrow?
Unfortunately RAW, no because lightning arrow specifies that it must be a weapon attack and magic stone's attack is a spell attack. Though your DM could always overrule the RAW.
This sounds a lot like the overwatch character sigma
Why do you get web?
>.> eartbender/sandbender. Nuff said. Lol
Quick correction: The first turn you describe is not legal RAW. Since you are casting a spell (Magic Stone) as a Bonus Action, the only other spell you can cast that turn is a cantrip with a casting time of 1 Action.
That said, if I were playing this build I'd go with Earth Genasi, with the flavor being that the rock swarm is actually a result of the character's stronger than normal connection to the Elemental Plane of Earth. MOTM gives the Earth Genasi Blade Ward, and the ability to cast it a few times as a Bonus Action, which would be represented by the rock swarm spinning around the Genasi to deflect incoming attacks, along with Pass without Trace, which would be the rocks following behind to erase the Genasi's footprints and signs of their movement, and the ability to pass through difficult terrain without expending extra movement, which would be the rocks swarming ahead to push obstacles out of the way. For the second cantrip, I'd go with either Shillelagh, flavored as the rocks turning the club or staff into a kind of smart stone hammer, or Thorn Whip for extra forced movement and another cantrip to use when I need to refresh the Magic Stones.
So long as you cast your leveled spell first you may then cast magic Stone as a bonus action after because it's a cantrip.
@@ImpaleTheLiving You can't cast another spell during the same turn, except for a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action. The order doesn't matter
4:00 You can't cast a spell of Level 1+ as an action and a cantrip as a bonus action on the same turn. If you cast any spell as a bonus action, the only other spell you can cast on the same turn is another cantrip with a timing of 1 action.
The rule you just quoted literally allows for the casting of a cantrip as a bonus action after casting a leveled spell. If you cast any spell (of which a leveled spell is a spell) The only other spell you can cast is a cantrip (and Magic Stone is a bonus action can trip)
You just need to worry about order. Cast the leveled spell first then the cantrip.
Stupidly worded rule tbh and as a GM I'd simplify it to 1 ea. leveled spell and cantrip per turn unless action surge is involved.
@@ImpaleTheLiving That is incorrect. The exact wording is: "A spell cast with a bonus action is especially swift. You must use a bonus action on your turn to cast the spell, provided that you haven’t already taken a bonus action this turn. You can’t cast another spell during the same turn, except for a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action."
QUOTE: except for a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action.
If you cast any spell or cantrip as a bonus action, you are limited to action cantrips for the rest of the turn (both before and after). The timing does not matter.
so no spell sling? :(
It’s still on the list and I don’t consider the challenge completed. I’ll probably tackle it again at some point. Sometimes when you’re on a road trip you gotta pull over to check out some of the sights.
That’s this build :P
Any news on the spell sling? I have tried to make one but i am struggling.
Moving an enemy 15-20ft means absolutely NOTHING, when the most basic enemy can easily move 30+ feet each round. And the swarm keeper ability can only be performed a few times per day, which makes this build extremely weak.
Only builds worth making, are ones that completely break the game. Which are :
●Bear totem barbarian + Circle of the moon Druid
This build uses wild shape and Polymorph to turn into large or larger beasts, and then making use of gravity (the improvised damage table for falling objects onto living beings) land on enemies by jumping or shaping into a flying dinosaur and then just drop on target. Don't even need an attack roll, because you are just using movement and physics. This can also be accomplished through the use of Conjure Animals, which you can have 16 large animals fall on top of an enemy, dealing massive crushing damage due to them being used as falling debris. And if there isn't enough room to drop them in unoccupied spaces in mid air, you can always tell them all make skill checks to "jump" onto the enemy. If it's a medium size target, the DC should be pretty low (5-10) and easily accomplished by say the 16 Axe Beak you summoned (which are large size creatures). The bigger you are, or creatures summoned are, the more damage you will deal. (Refer to falling fortress damage in the Improvised Damage table of 5E)
●The Sorlock:
3 levels of Hexblade warlock to augment our Eldritch blast. The rest in any Sorcerer bloodline you wish(my personal favorites being Divine Soul and Shadow). Making this build the most broken of all. Due to being able to stack max-rank spell slots infinitely at each short or long rest (you don't sleep due to having the Eldritch Invocation from warlock that allows this).
With the sorlock build as Divine Soul, you can inscribe damaging spells like Fireball into objects, through the use of the glyph spell. Turning something like a 108 monk bead necklace, into a doomsday device. Being able to throw the necklace at the feet of a boss, and speaking the trigger word to ignite the glyphs. Simultaneously casting 108 Fireballs or what ever else.
This build can be made far less costly (the glyph spell costs gold) by adding 3 levels of paladin, and using smite skill to eat the infinite spell slots you posses, or however many you want to use, and smite your enemies for an nearly incalculable amount of damage.