@@ErrorlessQuill9watching this while I work, [[but I think I came across a slight error. In the “Topple” section you mention that “every time you hit you can use your weapon mastery” but I think that you only get to use your weapon mastery property once per turn per weapon. So if you hit several times with the same weapon, I think you only get to apply the mastery once. I could be wrong, I certainly don’t have the book and haven’t done as much research into it as you.]] I went back and watched D&D’s video on it and I certainly was wrong, Weapon Masteries can be used on every attack!
Hey dude, i want to provide some constructive criticism on the channel as this is the first video I've come across from you, but I think it will make a massive difference for your channel and your following. You need to get comfortable with silence in a sentence and stop filling that void with an umm or an uhh. In the first few minutes of the video you said each of these far too many times and I believe it would make a massive difference to the final product of the video and even your confidence in general to be okay with finishing a thought in your mind before completing the sentence. This will make people actively listen more to what you're saying. Don't want to come off as rude and I hope you see this and learn from it. I'd like to see more of your videos in the future where this has made a big difference. Good luck soldier!
I would like to piggyback on that constructive criticism and say it a little hard to read the red text on the art background. Otherwise, the vid is solid, thanx.
I’ll see about improving the audio. Far as I know, Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, and Rogue get Weapon Mastery. Though there is a General feat anyone can grab at level 4+ to give themselves one with a weapon of their choice, which they can switch as needed every Long Rest.
Two things: *Nick* - There's nothing that says both weapons have to have this property. So, comboing the Vex property of the shortsword gives you advantage on the Nick attack with a dagger or scimitar, making an excellent sneak attack combo for any Rogue. *Vex* - Nothing in the property says it only works once per turn. So, an 11th level Fighter, or similarly leveled Pact of the Blade Warlock can potentially get multiple attacks at advantage every round.
I think dual wielding will be quite fun with this. People I've heard talk about dual scim being the best option but I think I can see an even better version of this. Shortsword mainhand and and offhand scim. - You go Eldritch knight - When you gain the ability to swap an attack for a cantrip, use true strike with your short sword for your opening attack. Roll with advantage and gain extra damage while using vex. - Make the rest of your attacks with your action using your main hand short sword to keep up vex - finish your turn with a scim attack if you want to keep a free BA. Though you can do this with dual shorts words if you don't care about the BA every turn in order for you to gain advantage on any potential opportunity attacks.
So if Firearms are just Martial Ranged Weapons, there’s no need for a separate “Firearms” proficiency to use the new Musket or Pistol? Rangers and Blade Warlocks and Barbarians get guns?
@@ErrorlessQuill9 D&D Player's Handbooks has eliminated the Half Elves and Half Orcs from the 📖 book. If you want to play Half Elves or Orc you could ask your DM if you could still play one. Can't wait to see what they did with weapons like Katanas, Brass Knuckles and other Martial Arts weapons.
@@JamesRichardson-u3i Those currently aren’t weapon options in the game, but you can always flavor weapons to fit that style. For the longest time, my friends and I have ruled that a kitana is a finesse longsword.
@@ErrorlessQuill9 I play a Human Monk, The Way of the Ascending Dragon 🐉 or now The Warrior of the Ascending Dragon, Alignment Lawful Neutral, Background Folk Hero and I want use a Katana
Do note that you don’t need to be wielding two weapons with Nick, only the one you’re making the sped-up attack with. So a shortsword and offhand scimitar works fine - indeed, I’d say that explains why one of the default equipment packages on both the fighter and the ranger features these weapons in combination.
Audio on this video was cutting in and out a lot. At first I thought it was my headphones but it kept happening up through the point when I wrote this comment (while you were talking about Graze).
One thing you forgot to include is the prerequisite for each mastery. This probably only matters to fighters, but mastery is one of their main abilities and they can switch them around at some point.
That’s true, how silly of me. The only prerequisite though is having the Weapon Mastery feature, which is included in the Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, and Rogue classes. There’s also a General Feat that gives you weapon mastery for one weapon of your choice, which you can then switch every long rest.
I know I could just wait for the book but I don't want to! Thank you for piecing this all together. I tried myself and found it too exhausting XD. At the very least, I'm happy to give you a "like and subscribe".
For player features like topple, just have the player roll the monsters save d20 along with the damage roll. 75% of the time, they’ll know if the monster saves, and that’ll approach 100% in later rounds just like armor class gets figured out.
I've been thinking of just comparing the attack roll to the monster's con score plus proficiency bonus (when relevant). If you hit a kobold with a topple weapon they are going down with their measly con score of 9. A Brown bear with a con of 16 will need you to roll 5 above their AC of 11 to topple them.
Just finished watching. Great guide thanks. I’m very curious about the interactions of the pistol and the musket with the old rules regarding firearms now because in the old rules, those were called out under a weapon category of their own as firearms and so any of the feats or abilities that mention firearms automatically applied to those as well as the more modern weapons. However, with them being included in the general list of weapons as Marshall ranged weapons, there doesn’t appear to be a definition in these rules for firearms so if we’re using these new weapons, or I should say new versions of these weapons with their reclassification, it’s arguable that the gun feet or the Giff ry-al property or even the firearm, master or firearm expert feet from Critical Role, since all of those call out firearms generally, without specifying, a list of specific weapons, arguably those don’t apply to these new versions of the weapons…
So let me see if I'm right with this build: A Tiefling College of Dance Bard with a one level dip into either Fighter or Rogue to get the Weapons Mastery. He's Dual Wielding a Short Sword (Vex) and a Scimitar (Nick). In Combat he's using Dex as both are Light Finesse Weapons: Short Sword first to get Advantage on next Attack. Two Attacks with Scimitar, the first being with Advantage. Since he's a Dance Bard, he can make an Unarmed Attack in the Attack Action (or as a Bonus Action, not sure which this is made as). He then does a jumping spin (with flourish while singing a Dwarven Battle Song) and hits his opponent with his tail. Am I correct that he can get four attacks in one round? This is all info I gathered from your videos and others I've watched as I still don't have access to the books yet.
@@ErrorlessQuill9 I thought with the change of the Light Property, you could make two attacks as part of the Attack Action? Nick gives you one extra Attack, for three Attacks. The Unarmed Strike for a Dance Bard is a Class Feature, which would bring it up to four Attacks, with no extra Feats needed.
@@rickspotten8497 No, the Light property lets you make an off-hand attack as a Bonus Action. The Nick property lets you make that off-hand attack as part of the Attack action. If you did a College of Dance Bard, you could make one attack as an action, one extra attack as part of your action (because of the Nick property), then a Bonus Action attack with your Unarmed Strike. You can’t double up with both the Nick and Light property (in other words, you can’t make the attack as part of your action and do the Bonus Action attack as well; you’re only able to do one or the other).
0:31 "no one is talking about weapon mastery on YT or elsewhere". That's because it didn't change from the UA/play test with the exception of versatile being dropped and those weapons getting one of the other properties, typically sap. So basically all the information regarding masteries has been out there for 5 and 1/2 months already, that's why no one's talking about it now
Question though. The fighter has Unarmed Fighting Style as an option. Isn't there a weapon property for this, or are fighters who take this option screwed?
There’s no longer an attack roll. The target just makes a Dexterity saving throw based on a DC that you set: 8 plus your Dexterity modifier and Proficiency Bonus.
@@ErrorlessQuill9 All the other stuff about the net the attack roll at 10ac and deal five points of slashing damage and the strength check in order to free yourself or all the same correct?
Yep! Net gives the target the Restrained condition. 10 AC, 5 HP, Immunity to Bludgeoning, Poison, and Psychic. DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check to break free.
Something has come up. It doesn't have anything to do with weapon mastery. Guys playing a warlock and he's using The pact of the chain... In the 2024 book it says you can summon The familiar as a magic action... For clarification, does the spell still take an hour to cast? Or can he use it an unlimited amount of times as a magic action in one round?
@@ronaldrichardson1076 You only have one action per round. A Magic action is a type of action. So the answer is they can cast it once per round, and it’s as an action (doesn’t take an hour for that casting).
i've been wondering about the cleave property. it says you don't include your strength bonus but does it include other modifiers, like rage bonus, hunter's mark, great weapon mastery or anything else? i've been looking around as well and i can't find any further clarification
@@ErrorlessQuill9 that was my reaction as well. but looking closer at the graze property, they specifically state that the only way to increase the damage is to increase the stat. this clarity is missing from the cleave damage description. i guess we'll have to wait and see. nice to see your channel growing @ErrorlessQuill9 . you've definitely put the work in
Can someone explain this to me because I can't find any information about it anywhere. Can I have 2 different weapon masteris on one weapon. If so, can I activate both at the same time or can I choose to activate only 1 of them?
@@Salielle Each weapon only has one weapon mastery. There are some class features that grant toy access to extra ones on attacks, but that’s the only exception.
Topple mastery property make me think: if a wizard or a bard accessed that weapon mastery with a feat or multicclassing, rhey can use true strike and make their dc equal to their spell save DC, isn't that bad for any spellcaster... Not a best choice but a bladesinger could find ot useful
I'm... not certain what to think about the change to the Heavy weapon property. I particularly don't know how it would work for the longbow. Like, how can a Halfling fire an arrow from a bow that is almost twice their height?!
@@woutvanostaden1299 Yeah, that could work, but I just thought of something else. So, if a Goliath has a strength score of 12 they have a carrying capacity of 360 lbs. Are you telling me that a Goliath that can lift 360 lbs. is too weak to wield a Greataxe?!
@@videogollumer I have done HEMA and a slightly heavy sword was hard to go through different stances of the routine, where as cycling 10 km with 29 kilo's wasn't that much of an issue. Carry capacity is very different from wielding/fighting with a weapon. However d&d has never been that great as a reality simulator and I do think that it would be fine in some cases. Technically not RAW or RAI though.
I think these weapon properties are a little bit too much. They will bog down combat... And also, I expect that NPC's will have these tools available as well, to use against the players? It will get crazy.
I think this adds a lot of tactics for the melee types that will make the game play more fun for them. It might slow things down a little at first, but as players get to know how their weapons work, I think it will speed up pretty quickly.
Yes, I think the only one that might slow combat somewhat is Topple. However, someone in the comments did suggest rolling the saving throw while the player rolls damage, so maybe it won’t.
Thank you for this, it's been the thing I've wondered most about the 2024 rules and there hasn't been great coverage on it.
Exactly why I made this video. Glad I could help!
Nice work! This is the most in depth video on weapons so far.
That was the plan! Thanks!
Thank you for talking about this! I have been trying for weeks to learn which weapons get which properties and I couldn’t find it anywhere.
I know! Literally no one is talking about it! Or they talk about it and then don’t tell you which weapons have which properties!
@@ErrorlessQuill9watching this while I work, [[but I think I came across a slight error. In the “Topple” section you mention that “every time you hit you can use your weapon mastery” but I think that you only get to use your weapon mastery property once per turn per weapon. So if you hit several times with the same weapon, I think you only get to apply the mastery once.
I could be wrong, I certainly don’t have the book and haven’t done as much research into it as you.]]
I went back and watched D&D’s video on it and I certainly was wrong, Weapon Masteries can be used on every attack!
Yep, every attack! They’re pretty powerful!
Hey dude, i want to provide some constructive criticism on the channel as this is the first video I've come across from you, but I think it will make a massive difference for your channel and your following. You need to get comfortable with silence in a sentence and stop filling that void with an umm or an uhh. In the first few minutes of the video you said each of these far too many times and I believe it would make a massive difference to the final product of the video and even your confidence in general to be okay with finishing a thought in your mind before completing the sentence. This will make people actively listen more to what you're saying. Don't want to come off as rude and I hope you see this and learn from it. I'd like to see more of your videos in the future where this has made a big difference. Good luck soldier!
I appreciate the feedback and work to improve on that in future videos. Thanks!
I would like to piggyback on that constructive criticism and say it a little hard to read the red text on the art background. Otherwise, the vid is solid, thanx.
Thanks! I’ll make sure the text is readable easily next time.
Thank you for this video. It's been stressing me out not being able to see weapons chart.
@@Lamentlogic Happy to help!
So, I know not all Classes get Weapon Masteries. Which do and which don't? Except for the audio at times, pretty good video.
I’ll see about improving the audio. Far as I know, Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, and Rogue get Weapon Mastery. Though there is a General feat anyone can grab at level 4+ to give themselves one with a weapon of their choice, which they can switch as needed every Long Rest.
That video was great. Thanks for the heads up
Glad to help!
You're a real one for this. I've been trying to find this information and no one was covering it.
Glad I could help!
Two things:
*Nick* - There's nothing that says both weapons have to have this property. So, comboing the Vex property of the shortsword gives you advantage on the Nick attack with a dagger or scimitar, making an excellent sneak attack combo for any Rogue.
*Vex* - Nothing in the property says it only works once per turn. So, an 11th level Fighter, or similarly leveled Pact of the Blade Warlock can potentially get multiple attacks at advantage every round.
Thansk for the Guide. very detail. good luck and keep it up as content creator.
@@javierkrentzien4985 Thanks! I appreciate the well-wishes!
I think dual wielding will be quite fun with this. People I've heard talk about dual scim being the best option but I think I can see an even better version of this. Shortsword mainhand and and offhand scim.
- You go Eldritch knight
- When you gain the ability to swap an attack for a cantrip, use true strike with your short sword for your opening attack. Roll with advantage and gain extra damage while using vex.
- Make the rest of your attacks with your action using your main hand short sword to keep up vex
- finish your turn with a scim attack if you want to keep a free BA. Though you can do this with dual shorts words if you don't care about the BA every turn in order for you to gain advantage on any potential opportunity attacks.
Yeah, it’s very nice. Dual wielding might actually be a good strategy now!
I've been looking for this info! Glad I wasn't the only one having a hard time finding it lol. Thanks for the video!
No problem! Glad I could help!
Thank you for the great job ! I was looking for that content, glad you made it ! New sub here :D
Thank you so much!
So if Firearms are just Martial Ranged Weapons, there’s no need for a separate “Firearms” proficiency to use the new Musket or Pistol? Rangers and Blade Warlocks and Barbarians get guns?
Yep, that would be correct!
Giff across the multiverse are rejoicing by the decent decision.
@@ErrorlessQuill9 D&D Player's Handbooks has eliminated the Half Elves and Half Orcs from the 📖 book. If you want to play Half Elves or Orc you could ask your DM if you could still play one. Can't wait to see what they did with weapons like Katanas, Brass Knuckles and other Martial Arts weapons.
@@JamesRichardson-u3i Those currently aren’t weapon options in the game, but you can always flavor weapons to fit that style. For the longest time, my friends and I have ruled that a kitana is a finesse longsword.
@@ErrorlessQuill9 I play a Human Monk, The Way of the Ascending Dragon 🐉 or now The Warrior of the Ascending Dragon, Alignment Lawful Neutral, Background Folk Hero and I want use a Katana
Great analysis thank you!
Glad to help!
Do note that you don’t need to be wielding two weapons with Nick, only the one you’re making the sped-up attack with. So a shortsword and offhand scimitar works fine - indeed, I’d say that explains why one of the default equipment packages on both the fighter and the ranger features these weapons in combination.
Good catch! And not a bad idea to have a Vex weapon in your arsenal as well!
Audio on this video was cutting in and out a lot. At first I thought it was my headphones but it kept happening up through the point when I wrote this comment (while you were talking about Graze).
Thanks! I’ll double check to make sure it’s not a mic issue
I have no idea what happened there. I must have just not enunciated my words enough for the mic to pick them up 😂
One thing you forgot to include is the prerequisite for each mastery. This probably only matters to fighters, but mastery is one of their main abilities and they can switch them around at some point.
That’s true, how silly of me. The only prerequisite though is having the Weapon Mastery feature, which is included in the Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, and Rogue classes. There’s also a General Feat that gives you weapon mastery for one weapon of your choice, which you can then switch every long rest.
I know I could just wait for the book but I don't want to! Thank you for piecing this all together. I tried myself and found it too exhausting XD. At the very least, I'm happy to give you a "like and subscribe".
No problem! I made this video partially because I couldn’t find the info on my own without a lot of work on my part. So glad I could help!
Damage on the Tridents went up by one step, from a d6/d8 to d8/d10.
I didn’t catch that! Thanks!
For player features like topple, just have the player roll the monsters save d20 along with the damage roll. 75% of the time, they’ll know if the monster saves, and that’ll approach 100% in later rounds just like armor class gets figured out.
Good idea!
I've been thinking of just comparing the attack roll to the monster's con score plus proficiency bonus (when relevant). If you hit a kobold with a topple weapon they are going down with their measly con score of 9. A Brown bear with a con of 16 will need you to roll 5 above their AC of 11 to topple them.
That’s actually a really simple way of doing that. Great idea!
Just finished watching. Great guide thanks.
I’m very curious about the interactions of the pistol and the musket with the old rules regarding firearms now because in the old rules, those were called out under a weapon category of their own as firearms and so any of the feats or abilities that mention firearms automatically applied to those as well as the more modern weapons. However, with them being included in the general list of weapons as Marshall ranged weapons, there doesn’t appear to be a definition in these rules for firearms so if we’re using these new weapons, or I should say new versions of these weapons with their reclassification, it’s arguable that the gun feet or the Giff ry-al property or even the firearm, master or firearm expert feet from Critical Role, since all of those call out firearms generally, without specifying, a list of specific weapons, arguably those don’t apply to these new versions of the weapons…
That is entirely possible. Will have to look more into it once the book releases.
Thanks for watching! Glad you liked the video!
So let me see if I'm right with this build: A Tiefling College of Dance Bard with a one level dip into either Fighter or Rogue to get the Weapons Mastery. He's Dual Wielding a Short Sword (Vex) and a Scimitar (Nick). In Combat he's using Dex as both are Light Finesse Weapons: Short Sword first to get Advantage on next Attack. Two Attacks with Scimitar, the first being with Advantage. Since he's a Dance Bard, he can make an Unarmed Attack in the Attack Action (or as a Bonus Action, not sure which this is made as). He then does a jumping spin (with flourish while singing a Dwarven Battle Song) and hits his opponent with his tail. Am I correct that he can get four attacks in one round? This is all info I gathered from your videos and others I've watched as I still don't have access to the books yet.
Yeah, as long as you have Extra Attack, the Nick Property, and the Dual Wielder feat, you can make 4 attacks in a single turn.
@@ErrorlessQuill9 I thought with the change of the Light Property, you could make two attacks as part of the Attack Action? Nick gives you one extra Attack, for three Attacks. The Unarmed Strike for a Dance Bard is a Class Feature, which would bring it up to four Attacks, with no extra Feats needed.
@@rickspotten8497 No, the Light property lets you make an off-hand attack as a Bonus Action. The Nick property lets you make that off-hand attack as part of the Attack action.
If you did a College of Dance Bard, you could make one attack as an action, one extra attack as part of your action (because of the Nick property), then a Bonus Action attack with your Unarmed Strike. You can’t double up with both the Nick and Light property (in other words, you can’t make the attack as part of your action and do the Bonus Action attack as well; you’re only able to do one or the other).
@@ErrorlessQuill9 Ahhh. OK. Thanks for the clarification. Can't wait to get my hands on the book to actually figure this stuff out myself. Hahaha.
Same! I’m doing a livestream next weekend, so keep a lookout.
0:31 "no one is talking about weapon mastery on YT or elsewhere". That's because it didn't change from the UA/play test with the exception of versatile being dropped and those weapons getting one of the other properties, typically sap. So basically all the information regarding masteries has been out there for 5 and 1/2 months already, that's why no one's talking about it now
Still, it’s good info to share with people.
Question though. The fighter has Unarmed Fighting Style as an option. Isn't there a weapon property for this, or are fighters who take this option screwed?
No weapon properties for unarmed. You’re not using any weapon.
So with nets do you add your dexterity modifier to the attack roll that you make with a net?
There’s no longer an attack roll. The target just makes a Dexterity saving throw based on a DC that you set: 8 plus your Dexterity modifier and Proficiency Bonus.
@@ErrorlessQuill9 All the other stuff about the net the attack roll at 10ac and deal five points of slashing damage and the strength check in order to free yourself or all the same correct?
Yep! Net gives the target the Restrained condition. 10 AC, 5 HP, Immunity to Bludgeoning, Poison, and Psychic. DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check to break free.
Since the restraint condition can count as incapacitated, chucking nets at them might be among the best ways to break concentration.
There is no size limitation on Topple? Granted Huge creatures and above are probably making their saving throws but still.
I guess not 🤷🏼♂️
Something has come up. It doesn't have anything to do with weapon mastery. Guys playing a warlock and he's using The pact of the chain... In the 2024 book it says you can summon The familiar as a magic action... For clarification, does the spell still take an hour to cast? Or can he use it an unlimited amount of times as a magic action in one round?
@@ronaldrichardson1076 You only have one action per round. A Magic action is a type of action. So the answer is they can cast it once per round, and it’s as an action (doesn’t take an hour for that casting).
i've been wondering about the cleave property. it says you don't include your strength bonus but does it include other modifiers, like rage bonus, hunter's mark, great weapon mastery or anything else? i've been looking around as well and i can't find any further clarification
I am unsure. That’s a good question. Might be something that needs to be clarified by Jeremy Crawford.
My gut reaction though is that only the weapon’s damage dice are added though.
@@ErrorlessQuill9 that was my reaction as well. but looking closer at the graze property, they specifically state that the only way to increase the damage is to increase the stat. this clarity is missing from the cleave damage description. i guess we'll have to wait and see.
nice to see your channel growing @ErrorlessQuill9 . you've definitely put the work in
@@casualt7425 Thanks! Very proud that people are enjoying the videos!
Can someone explain this to me because I can't find any information about it anywhere. Can I have 2 different weapon masteris on one weapon. If so, can I activate both at the same time or can I choose to activate only 1 of them?
@@Salielle Each weapon only has one weapon mastery. There are some class features that grant toy access to extra ones on attacks, but that’s the only exception.
Topple mastery property make me think: if a wizard or a bard accessed that weapon mastery with a feat or multicclassing, rhey can use true strike and make their dc equal to their spell save DC, isn't that bad for any spellcaster... Not a best choice but a bladesinger could find ot useful
Not sure. I’ll need to double check once the book is out.
Pretty sure this is true.
I'm... not certain what to think about the change to the Heavy weapon property. I particularly don't know how it would work for the longbow. Like, how can a Halfling fire an arrow from a bow that is almost twice their height?!
I guess it’s either size appropriate or the Halfling is just that skilled. Either way, it’s nice
There are bows that are a-semmitrical having the hand at the lower part of the bow, this could help small races.
True!
@@woutvanostaden1299 Yeah, that could work, but I just thought of something else. So, if a Goliath has a strength score of 12 they have a carrying capacity of 360 lbs. Are you telling me that a Goliath that can lift 360 lbs. is too weak to wield a Greataxe?!
@@videogollumer I have done HEMA and a slightly heavy sword was hard to go through different stances of the routine, where as cycling 10 km with 29 kilo's wasn't that much of an issue. Carry capacity is very different from wielding/fighting with a weapon. However d&d has never been that great as a reality simulator and I do think that it would be fine in some cases. Technically not RAW or RAI though.
I think these weapon properties are a little bit too much. They will bog down combat... And also, I expect that NPC's will have these tools available as well, to use against the players? It will get crazy.
Unsure. We do know they’re redesigning stat blocks, so there may be features similar to these, but too early to say.
…compared to spells? I’d say martials needed this desperately.
Agreed!
I think this adds a lot of tactics for the melee types that will make the game play more fun for them. It might slow things down a little at first, but as players get to know how their weapons work, I think it will speed up pretty quickly.
Yes, I think the only one that might slow combat somewhat is Topple. However, someone in the comments did suggest rolling the saving throw while the player rolls damage, so maybe it won’t.