🧙♂️🐉🏰 D&D Wizard 5e Go To Spells for Tier 2 🏰🐉🧙♂️
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- Опубликовано: 26 окт 2024
- D&D Wizard 5e Go To Spells for Tier 2
Going back to the 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons wizard spell list. We are going to pick our go-to spells for the 5e D&D wizard. This is going to be our 3rd-5th level spells.
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Love me some Animate Objects. After all who doesn't like a tiny absolute unit of ten 1d4 silver coins flying around as a bonus action killing everything.
It's definitely a good one.
Nerdarchist Dave
A few spells that I’m suprises wasn’t mentioned:
Greater Invisibility: Best buff at level 4. Gets crazy when casted on a Rogue or a Paladin.
Dimension Door: Best get out of jail free card for you and an ally.
Animate Objects (!): Best damage spell by far at this level when used on tiny objects. I rate it as borderline broken. If the party has access to Crusader’s Mantle you will dominate most bosses.
Synaptic Static: Psychic fireball. Targets INT which most monsters suck at. Deals psychic damage which is almost never resisted. A super Bane spell on top.
Everyone is surprised when we don't pick their favorites. 😜
Nerdarchist Dave
Polymorph is probably the best level 4 spell bar none, but 9 times out of 10 you should be casting it on a party member at low health. Functionally it is basically a 100+ HP healing spell that also gives you a new tank with good damage.
I've seen that done once, and you're right, it's kind of brilliant in the right situation.
I saw it in the last campaign I played in. We were fighting a group of drow slavers and it wasn't going well (this was the 5th or 6th encounter since our last long rest- our fault, we kept pushing on despite DM hints to pack it in) so our resources were getting scary low. Battle started with several of us failing saves versus a Fireball, and a Sleep spell stopping our Fighter- off to a bad start, and it didn't get better for a while. The turning point came about 7-8 rounds in... Our party's Sorcerer was nearly dead, pinned in a corner by three drow fighters with the Bard. They were whispering at each other, then both got huge grins. The Bard gets his turn and says he's holding a spell until the Sorcerer acts. The Sorcerer's turn comes around and she burns her last high level spell slot casting Tenser's Transformation on herself... and then the Bard triggers his held action to cast Polymorph turning the Sorcerer into a triceratops. A triceratops that's basically raging, thanks to Tenser's.
I can't help but chuckle when I imagine what the looks on the faces of those drow would have been as a battered human woman in bloody robes- barely able to stay conscious, let alone stand- suddenly became several hundred pounds of EXCEEDINGLY angry dinosuar.
In a one-shot an NPC sorcerer transformed a dragon into a toad while it was flying above a 200ft pit. Made the fight easier by dropping the dragon to almost half health with a single spell.
Vengarth To pull that off first you have to burn through 3 legendary resistances, and then have the dragon fail the Wisdom save with a +8 bonus. And even after burning 4+ spells, it’s only 20d6 damage, or 70 damage on average. For it to lose half its HP, either the DM watered down the stat block, or you guys are playing with some sort of house rule, or the NPC sorcerer somehow rolled max damage 20 times.
@@M0ebius Well it was a weaker dragon. We were supposed to stand a chance with lvl 5 characters. And the dragonborn paladin almost convinced the dragon he was just there to deliver a packet.
However it was only possible cause the dragon kept rolling between 1 and 5 on almost every saving throw.
And the damage roles ended up pretty high. We were extremely lucky the entire time.
A minor note about the Disintegrate interaction is that as of the most recent errata, Disintegrate now needs to leave you at 0 hp in order to be a confirmed kill as opposed to before where it could outright kill druids, polymorphed targets, and similar creatures with constrained hit points.
Wall of Force is beastly for a controller. If you play Overwatch, it's very similar to a Mei wall, splitting a group up so you can isolate targets while their allies helplessly watch the carnage. I've also had players double up walls to make an X or a corridor through enemies and environmental threats. For extra trickiness, pop a wall of force on the ceiling of a tunnel and collapse it. When the enemy comes... Rocks fall, everyone dies.
It makes a decent utility spell, too. Trapped floor? Make a horizontal Wall of Force just above the surface of it. Ditto for bridges that are out, or places where there never was one and you need it. Also, I've seen it used to block a river coming out of the side of a cliff. Well, until the DM decided that six rounds of pressure was all the rock around the hole could handle and it kinda exploded... Just a bit. :P
My lvl 9 Abjurers spell list
3rd: Leomunds Tiny Hut,Magic Circle, Fireball, Dispel Magic (i was lucky enough to find some scrolls)
4th: Banishment, Vitriolic sphere, Arcane eye, Stone skin( which is honestly a very lackluster spell)
5th: Conjure Elemental, Wall of Force
I'd love to see you guys make a "sustain party" of 4-5 characters. A couple beefy tanks, a controller and a healer possibly. The refilling HP pools of a Moon Druid, the resistances of a Totem barb, the heals of a Life Cleric and the control of any kind of Wizard. Really just the Moon Druid cycling forms and refilling HP, then having Polymorph cast on them before death, and healing up the squishies and fallen with the heavy armor Cleric. The Totem Barb would just be "pulling aggro" by applying disadvantage on attacks against allies and stopping pushes with polearm mastery.
Storm Sphere is one of my favorites, it has two sources of damage and anything that let's me attack with my bonus it always helpful. It also creates an obstacle for enemies and has a potential to do 40 D6 damage, which is unlikely but possible.
Don't forget that with the right Dragon origin Sorcerer, the lighting bolts add your charisma mod to damage
I just want to add that Animate Dead lets you choose skeletons, if you’re a necromancer a 6th level Animate Dead brings back 8 creatures. Skeletons are immune to exhaustion. So you can have them grapple your enemies. And if they pass their save they don’t die when they enter. And they can help force your opponent to start their turn their.
Good idea! They wouldn't even necessarily need to grapple or make saves, either... Just standing at the edge of the area of effect, keeping your intended targets from leaving, would be good enough.
Hmm... I need to look up the specifics on raised skeletons again. I know the commands they can be given are limited, but if they can be told to use the Total Defense action to offset their fragility a bit, it might get a lot more blocking time out of them.
Sickening radiance can be brutal when used in combination with other control spells and especially devastating if you are playing at a very tactical minded table. As a DM if you feel that your players are "abusing" this spell, just remember that once cast this spell hits ANYTHING that enters its area including players.
Excellent reminder on the point of it hitting players, too!
Vitriolic Sphere
Same radius as fireball
More damage (even if fireball is cast at 4th lvl)
Fewer creatures resist
Does its damage twice which means two concentration checks for enemy casters
and with acid elemental adept's damage boost all those d4s start looking more d6 totals [10% damage boost per die, not counting resistance bypassing]
Hey Ted & David, great video. Learned a few things for sure. A low level spell that I came across, Catapult. It moves 60ft in a straight line until it hits something. So just because a PC has a good Dex doesnt mean the PC behind him does. Its 3d8 damage to a monster, PC, door, etc. What a bad lil spell. Thanks David & Ted, you guys put out so much content! Thanks again & have a great day.
Thanks. Combine catapult with alchemist fire or acid.
Nerdarchist Dave
I was just hear to stay Haste, Polymorph and Fireball and the comments did not disappoint
I think sickening radiance was a really good choice, that spell is a great battlefield control spell, really good for a choke point too. And yeah I think you guys should have included haste just because haste is so good, I use haste with my Find steed mount, and a hasted mount is soooo quick.
We did include haste, but at the wrong tier.
Nerdarchist Dave
Dont forget you can use Telekinesis to poison goblets or food if you have a distraction, plant a bomb, remove a chest that was full of treasure too heavy to carry, help move steeds onto boats, drop boulders on people, lift an enemy and move them out a castle tower window and just let the round end so you drop them to their death...So much fun
Scrying isn't a ritual spell, actually, which makes it tough to use if the DM puts too many combats in.
Yea Ted boned that one. It's still a useful enough spell to keep around or you can prepare it if you think you'll be spying.
Nerdarchist Dave
No doubt. I've been trying to use it but I haven't had the chance due to needing my slots for Cone of Cold. Still love the spell as a player and a DM!
kickass hoodie @Ted
Oh wow that last spell I never new it existed. Guess I just always overlooked it lol. Also for the necromancer who wants undead that don't last (kinda for the good necro?) Danse macabre. Level 5, 1 action casting time, consentration, 1 hour duration, 5 medium to small corpses become either skeletons or zombies you decide, plus the get bonuses to there attack and damage rolls equil to your spell casting ability modifier, they can be controlled through mental commands 60ft away and last untill the spell ends or they're destroyed. A none permanent undead horde great for battles and other things (carring loot out a dungeon or being trap fotter) and you don't have to keep them so the wandering paladin or city won't be like wtf? Also your not permanent enslaving someone's soul just kinda putting them in an hour long jail sentence probably for trying to kill you and your friends lol. I think that's less then evil since town guards would throw you in the slammer for a night or worse if you did something bad. Anyways what are your thoughts?
I dunno about the Nerdarchy gents, but I love the idea of using the BBEG's dead minions as treasure mules while I loot his castle. :D
I love Sickening Radiance. I have an Evoker that uses is quite often.
It is an excellent spell that my evoker uses to really change battles. Shes lvl 8 now but i have my eyes set on Dawn. Noone talks about this spell. But it does 4d10 real sun light radien damage on cast AND 4d10 on the end of thier turn. Meaning that it really do 8d10 damage in a 30ft radius. And vs some undead drows etc it should be totally devestating. What is your experience?
OH and it moves with you.
AND it is save for half.
@@JoelBrage oh yeah that's that's an amazing spell.
It sure would be nice if any group im in stayed together long enough to make it to tier 2. But typically between people having weird work schedules, kids, family issues, and health problems, having a consistent group never happens, and none of the DMs i know will start a game above 3rd level
I feel your pain. My gaming group is slightly more fortunate, but only slightly. There's about 20 of us, six who can DM, and we run three games a week; every game is a 'drop in' game... and yet with so many people to draw from and time slots to play, we rarely manage to get more than four or five people at the table at once.
If you have enough people to make it work, maybe you can borrow our campaign set-up? Despite the challenges, it's been working pretty well for about a year and a half now.
We set our campaign up so that the players are members of a guild who can be hired out for all kinds of jobs (like the Hunter's Guild in Phantasy Star 4, if you're familiar with that old RPG). The five of us who DM worked together on an over-all plot for the campaign, and we each have solo plot control only over single sessions, with each being a short-plot 'job' that is being performed by whatever players can make it on a given night. By making the players part of a group where their tasks are assigned instead of a fixed adventuring party it's a lot easier to explain away people who suddenly aren't in the group... They're just not on that assignment.
@@Nathan_Talisien yea, a friend of mine suggested something like this, apparently the name for it is a "west marches" campaign. Its a neat idea but i only have like 8 people to pull from currently. And NONE of them could stay focuses long enough to finish a mission in a 4-5 hour session. Hell, they may take an hour to fight half dozen goblins. Im considering, when i GM, using a timer for each turn. Anyone who isnt done finish their turn in a set amount of time will be skipped. Either that or i need a new group
yes telekineses is bada55, my wizard had portent and he used a dragon to literary stomp out a campfire, it was great.
A gish that uses sickening radiance and sential feat
Hopefully that gish has a good con save because this spell would affect them as well
Sorcerer?
I really enjoy Telekinesis. Back in 3.5 my a favourite class of mine was a caster path called 'Master of the Unseen Hand'. So much fun!
15:57 They aren't "hit" by the spell when you first cast it, they have to move into it or start their turn there. This is true for almost all DnD 5e spells of this nature, which is rather unintuitive. Further spells like Cloud of daggers won't work at all unless the creature moves into it; it sucks. It's a really bad job with the rules imo, highlighted here by two decades long playing vets totally not getting this spell and rule right, which is a very important fundamental template for all dnd 5e spells of this nature, and grossly flawed I'd argue.
Fire shield, really? I mean, I don't hate it, but as a go-to buff? What about haste or greater invisibility?
And scrying is not a ritual, and rituals don't take ten times as long to cast.
Haste is great, and so is GI, but Fire Shield covers so many bases. Versatile defenses against super common elements even at high level, and for a melee caster like an EK or other Gish, the ally triggering effect makes for absolutely INSANE damage. As good as Haste is, it only allows ONE extra attack only, has a bitch of a downside when it wears off and only gives advantage on Dex saves.
They are situational for sure, but Fire Shield has so many upsides and absolutely no downsides.
@@Diditallforthexp I'm not sure we're talking about the same spell.
The serious downside of fire shield is that it is a gamble. If the wizard is never hit by a melee attack, the spell does no damage. The resistance means nothing if the enemy/situation doesn't deal that type of damage. Even the lighting doesn't matter if you're carrying a torch. Though it is very powerful in some situations, that is not how I would define "go to."
I have no idea what you mean by "ally triggering effect." As far as I can see, there is nothing in the description of fire shield that either triggers allies or is triggered by allies, unless an ally attacks the wizard, in which case the shield would damage that ally.
One of my favourite 4th and 5th level spells for an abjuration wizards is Armor of Agathys. :3
thats not a wizard spell
Beneteus der graue Wolf
I kow, I did not say it was either. I was very deliberate when describing it as one of my favourite spells for an abjuration wizard rather than an abjuration wizard spell. Obviously you haveto multiclass to get it, but if you do it is a really powerfull spell in the hands of an abjuration wizard since their arcane ward can greatly extend the amount of return damage you can get out of Armor of Agathys before the temporary hitpoints run out.
Man it must really suck to have a villain you've hyped up to the PCs have their magical sword ripped out of their hands in the first round of combat leaving them unarmed and basically powerless... Telekinesis is awesome im totally going to take that and steal all the weapons and armour I can.
Could you combine Wall of Stone, Stone Shape, and then Animate Objects to make a weaker temporary Stone Golem?
Sickening Radiance is also an evocation spell, an evocation wizard could exclude up to 5 people from the effect, meaning your party is safe, while thr baddies aren't.
If you combine that with a wall of force, you can create an insane killbox with another player
Just wanted to add a thought about Fabricate change items make new stuff if proficient couple of castings a week sell the items set up for life.
I would honestly have called Wall of Force a control spell. It even denotes it as such on the website, and given the defense spell to counterspell.
Wall of force is at its best when used to isolate troublesome enemies from simpler ones so you can deal with them separately when you're prepared. Literally controlling the encounter.
not a fan of sickening radiance, we've had it eliminate our melee fighters from being able to help in the fight, and if they make the save it does nothing. I do see uses for it, but vs one big bad it can really hold back a party that consist of a lot of hand to hand fighters
They can just stand on the edge and shove.
Nerdarchist Dave
You could have linked to the video that covers half the tier that you admit won't be in this video
Polymorph + fly equals a crud ton of fall damage
Just need polymorph and a flying familiar.
Nerdarchist Dave
Anyone remember the spell that allows you and 5 targets to change places with another 6 targets
Big Hamster take a look at Scatter
Scrying isn’t a Ritual spell, unfortunately. Would be crazy if it was, though!
How would y'all do a guy that can do 30 on all skill rolls or as many you can get
Easy enough, just grab as many expertise features as you can, which gives at least a plus 10 to each check by level 13: 6 levels of Rogue (Scout) gives 6 expertise, 1 level Cleric (Knowledge) grants another 2 expertise, 10 levels of Bard (Lore) to obtain 4 more expertise and more proficiencies, make them a human variant prodigy to grab 1 expertise, and grab pass without a trace as a Bard in order to get that sweet +10 to stealth with 30' radius. If your DM lets you, grab as many feats that grant expertise as you can.
By the end of it, you should have at least 14 of the 18 skills able to achieve a 30 skill check (13 expertise and +10 to stealth with a spell), without counting your ability modifiers. Throw out unpopular skills like animal handling and medicine (only needs a 10 to be useful), and you're only short by 2 skills and still adventure's league legal. To start out fast, go for 1 lvl cleric, 3 level rogue, and 3 level bard with human prodigy to have 8 expertise by level 7. Use the skilled feat until you have proficiency in as many as possible. If you want, take 1-3 levels of Artificer to gain 3-5 expertise with tools.
sometimes I'm in a mood to nitpick, not sure why... but allow me this one, Scry doesn't actually cost you ten times the time to ritual cast it, just double the time... 10 minutes + 10 minutes = 20 minutes, not 1 hour and 40 minutes, sorry Dave
more like best spells for evocation wizard
Critical role spoilers for campaign 2 around 2:30 - 2:37
I think he means Vox Machina, but still a spoiler
Dig Ted’s mod vortex shirt
Have they changed the rules for rituals? You said that rituals takes 10 times longer.
Isn't it 1hour regardless of the spell?
@@LCDqBqA cast time +10 min
was this filmed on awesome shirt day?
Could you guys go back the normal font? A large percentage of your fanbase can't even read your video names
Makes 'em tricky to repost in other groups, too.
@@blue_tetris And virtually impossible to search up again
Yeah, its indecipherable absolutely no idea what it says.
@@hydrainfernos9081 I typed in "wizard tier 2" and this was the very first video that showed up. It's not the most easily read font but I wouldn't say it's hard to read in any capacity. Perhaps it's different from computer to phone, but it's pretty simple to read on mobile
What kind of device are you using? But duly noted. Was fine on my phone and desktop. Was there any problem with Monday's Animal Companion video? Thanks and sorry.
Nerdarchist Dave
Nerdarchist Dave
Scrying isn't a ritual
Synaptic Static
My phone can't view the font of your most recent video titles. Which font are you using? Id like to know so i can figure out how to solve this
We did some tests and they seemed ok, but since it's an issue for a lot folks we be switching back to normal font.
Nerdarchist Dave
@@Nerdarchy thanks 😁 i figured i just was missing a font pack
What's going on with these video titles lately?
I'm with you, why all the emojis?
So we played with some different fonts that seem problematic for some, but not others. So we won't be using them any more.
Nerdarchist Dave
getting grey´er ;) welcome to the old Mens club :)
So a disintegrated Wildshape is turned to dust?
According to the most recent errata, no. But that is honestly one of the worst errata I've seen in years.
I didn't realise Sickening Radiance was available for wizard... thought it was sorcerer and Warlock only
Damn Clickbaity titles. You know Imma click on random gibberish. Also, what's this top 5 spell stuff? Sounds like some witchypoo Kardashian tricks