Glad I wasn’t alone in IMMEDIATELY thinking about stacking “Push” with Battlemaster. I’m a simple man…I want to send that guy flying across the entire room.
What I'm gonna do is use disarm with a push weapon, make the enemy drop their weapon and throw them away from it. "What now, punk?" as I use my movement to step on the space where their weapon is dropped to prevent them from getting it back. It's gonna be great.
@@jabbourchris i mean it should be very powerfull, there an epic boon for giving a ninth level spell slot, so it's great that it's that powerfull actually
@@minerbrine1861 I don't think it is a mistake. Fighter at lvl 19 hits 3 times, this lets him make one of those three attacks to be an automatic hit. But I think that means no chance for critical strike.
The combat stuff is great, but honestly having some extra RP things with second wind excites me more. It means it doesn’t always make sense for me to pass skill checks to other people, so long as I am moderately good at it. As it is one of my favourite classes, I definitely am looking forward to playing it once the handbook comes out.
@@haiclips3358 I pulled this from D&D Beyond: "When you make an attack with a weapon that has the Light property, you can use a Bonus Action to make one attack with a different Light weapon you’re wielding. The Nick mastery property allows you to make the additional attack you receive from wielding two Light weapons as part of the initial attack action. Keep in mind that this doesn’t mean you can make a third attack as a Bonus Action, as the Light property specifies you only get one extra attack." From what I understand, as a lvl 5 Champion fighter with the Telekinetic Feat I should be able to attempt a Shove as a bonus action, then take the Attack action to make a Shortsword attack with one hand, then make two dagger attacks due to the Nick property. All attacks would have advantage on a successful shove; one dagger attack would still be made with advantage - all great due to a higher crit chance. 👍
@@WyrmHunter That all depends on which weapon is your primary and which is your secondary. So if your shortsword is primary you would make two attacks with that, and then one with the dagger. If your dagger is primary you would make two attacks with the dagger before you attack with the shortsword once. And I am not sure you would be able to make an offhand attack with the Shortsword as part of the attack action as it does not have the Nick property. It would have to be your bonus action. And why would you want to use the lower damage dagger twice anyway? Shortsword does slightly more damage. With that as the primary, you would have Shortsword Vex attack, 2nd Shortsword Vex attack with Advantage, Nick Dagger attack with advantage, and TK shove whenever.
I was talking about this to a friend earlier, like, this is something I really want to try, but it also makes me want to try shortsword and shield, (as shortsword, unlike rapier, is a slashing weapon and stacks with slasher)
I am a little worried about it on a theming angle. If I've been using a longsword, my longsword has Sap, which means instead of 4 options when I swing, I have three. But if I was using a weapon like the Battleaxe with topple, I'm doing the same damage, but have all 4 options. I might give a player who has been consistently wielding a weapon with one of these masteries the chance to swap one out (kind of like skill profs from multiple sources) so that this isn't an issue
@@ConstructedChaosOverview of confirmed weapon mastery: 8 properties Cleave: If you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can make a second attack against a creature within 5 feet that is also within your reach. When you hit with the second attack, you can roll your weapon’s damage, but you don’t add your ability modifier unless it’s negative. Graze: If you miss a creature with your weapon, you deal damage equal to the ability modifier you used to make the roll. Nick: The Nick mastery property allows you to make the additional attack you receive from wielding two Light weapons as part of the initial attack action. Push: The Push mastery property allows you to launch a creature you hit 10 feet straight away from you without a save. you can only push enemies Large or smaller. Sap: When you hit an enemy with an attack, this mastery property inflicts Disadvantage on your target’s next attack roll before the start of your next turn. Slow: When you hit a creature and deal damage, you can reduce its Speed by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. a creature’s Speed can’t be reduced by more than 10 feet with this property Topple: When you hit a creature, you can force it to make a Constitution saving throw or fall Prone. The DC for this save is 8 plus the ability modifier used to make the attack plus your Proficiency Bonus. Vex: When you hit a creature and deal damage, this mastery property gives you Advantage on your next attack roll before the end of your next turn.
@@vindex57 the subclass has always been more than a bit anemic because despite being "buff the numbers" it didn't do a great job at buffing the numbers. The changes outlined here add a bit of fun stuff to chew on though, I think, between having always-on ADV on initiative, getting free movement whenever you crit to add more flexibility, and then the free Inspiration every combat turn at lv10 as a fun little resource to give some player choice on how to use it during any given round. It's not much in terms of complexity, but with how these things interact with the new additions to the Fighter chassis, I feel like I can actually call Champion a subclass rather than a waste of paper, and that's got me kinda hopeful to see what they do with the other reworks :)
I wish Arcana Archer got fixed. Two shots per entire playthrough of a fighter is stupid. Either be tied to your Dex or Str modifier or even proficiency bonus I would settle for LOL
You get to pick new shots or new abilities what your Quivers will do. But you still only get to use this ability two times per entire campaign. (Arcane Shot At 3rd level, you learn to unleash special magical effects with some of your shots. When you gain this feature, you learn two Arcane Shot options of your choice (see "Arcane Shot Options" below). Once per turn when you fire an arrow from a shortbow or longbow as part of the Attack action, you can apply one of your Arcane Shot options to that arrow. You decide to use the option when the arrow hits, unless the option doesn’t involve an attack roll. (You have two uses of this ability, and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a short or long rest.) You gain an additional Arcane Shot option of your choice when you reach certain levels in this class: 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level. Each option also improves when you become an 18th-level fighter.)
If there is no Sage advice that updated this. Which I'm going to look now because you never know if I got an update in one of those. Rule as written versus rule as attended. It's pretty much spot on. You only get two shots. No DM's were willing to compromise for me not in a bad way. Just that's the rules.
The removal of spell school restrictions from the Eldritch Knight and Arcane Trickster are great enhancements for roleplay. Lots of canon swordmages in the Realms now will have an easier time being built.
@@Luis_LG93 They've specifically pointed out the Psi Warrior and Soulknife as getting redesigned due to being too weak and bland. They were the first examples yesterday, while talking about how much they wanted to get psionics done justice in this book - and they were also the first redesigns to be mentioned weeks ago in the teaser discussion.
I like the way the abilities for Fighters with tactical mind and the barbarian ability to be more useful for skills outside of battle. Gives them more outside battle stuff instead of just standing behind the rogue and bard
Eldritch Knight is sounding much stronger now, no longer the niche pseudo-gish option but now potentially the gish-powerhouse, it’ll just depend on how good you can get cantrips to be.
I feel like Weapon Masteries in particular are shaping up to be a really solid way to kinda guarantee value from your cantrips on an Eldritch Knight. Like, using GFB and Booming Blade as examples, Push can be used to guarantee both effects, either pushing an enemy to a spot adjacent to someone else so that your followup GFB can splash on both targets, or like at lv9 dropping a Topple + Booming Blade onto an enemy and then doing a Push attack afterward. The possibilities go up pretty heavily with Action Surge adding on more attacks, the bonus movement from Second Wind, Improved War Magic, and all those sorts of things. I REALLY like how it's shaping up personally
I like the existing combo of BB then moving yourself 5 feet back with a bonus action shunt from the Telekinetic feat, making that stuff possible without a feat sounds like great QoL
The very first PC I made in D&D was a human fighter champion with a halberd and that was in 2014. I want to remake that same character with the 2024 rules and see how they stack up!
Level 9 feature is really good once you get to 11. if you have topple, you can knock them down, slow and then push with three attacks. With 15ft movement to get up that could Make it impossible for average speed creatures to reach you (presuming you step back a little bit)
What I want to see for champion fighter, are magic items and feats (like slasher, and redesigned vorpal sword), which trigger on a crit, not just when you roll a 20 on the dice I have basically always wanted to play a champion fighter, and one thing that put me off is getting a legendary vorpal sword and it basically just being a regular magic sword, but if it and the sword of sharpness are altered to work on crits, not just on nat 20s, I will be so darn excited to play one
I don't really like his statement about there being a whole array of players who aren't that interested in playing Battlemaster, hence why they scrapped the idea of merging it with the base class. I for one am usually uninterested in Battlemaster and usually go with other classes... but it's not because I hate the Battlemaster. It's because the fantasy of battlemaster is so basic compared to so many other more flavorful subclasses. I've played 3rd party fighters before which merge the battlemaster with the base fighter, and I gladly use the features there while also enjoying the much richer flavor that other subclasses give me.
I agree in my homebrew I gave the fighter a limited number of maneuvers and Battlemaster dies and then if they decided to take the Battlemaster subclass, they become up to par with the 2014 Battlemaster fighter
I'm actually a little worried for the battlemaster, because while they are AMAZING at level 3... by level 9 or so they aren't DOING anything new. They stagnate quickly, and that is a real disappointment
Respectfully I disagree. Baseline fighter is supposed to be one of the simplest classes. Keeping maneuvers in battlemaster lets you decide the amount of complexity you want.
@@qwerty098cool1 Baseline fighter isn't "supposed" to be a simple class. It is only that way because JC and the team wants to make it that way. It does not, in any way, inherently need to be the simplest class.
@@qwerty098cool1 The idea that the fighter needs to be the "simple class" seems almost toxic to the game. It has roots in Gygax thinking veteran players would "graduate" from playing fighters to playing wizards and hiring fighters. And it leads to all sorts of unfortunate decisions
Im sad they didn't go with making Battlemaster part of the core Fighter. For a "simpler fighter" (it's not even that complex) people can go to barbarian or rogue
Whole heartedly agree with surprise, stuff, feels a lot more fun to me than just missing a turn. Though as a DM if there is no logical way for an NPC to react to something like someone being invisible I'd let the player do something out of initiative and then once the first set of those things happen which must be simultaneous somehow then you can do initiative. But if you're just jumping from a hidden position say from 20ft away I don't think you should get the entire free turn
The Champion Fighter artwork depicts them with a Vorpal Sword. For those unaware, rolling a 20 on an attack roll with a Vorpal Sword instantly decapitates an enemy (or deals an extra 6d8 damage from the hit, at the GM's discretion). RAW, this effect does not interact with the Champion's Improved/Superior Critical feature, since it explicitly states that the roll has to be a 20. HOWEVER, if they change the wording of the Vorpal Sword's effect to "On a Crit" instead of "On a 20", Champion Fighters would be rolling around with a 15% chance to instakill their victim ON EVERY ATTACK ROLL. This does not even factor in all the new advantage shenanigans that Champions have access to. Admittedly, this interaction is wholly dependent on your DM giving you a Vorpal Sword, and making it to at least level 15. But if the stars align... Who wants to RP One Cut Man?
Thanks for expanding on your reasoning and process behind not giving all fighters a list of manuevers - that was really neat to sort of "peek behind the curtain" a bit and now that I have that perspective I can understand your decision a lot better. Thanks!
Second Wind can be used multiple times (2 at 1st level), restores a use on short rest and all on long rest, and can be used to add 1d10 to failed checks. Also at lvl 5 it allows you to move half your movement without provoking Opportunity attacks whenever you use it. Also Indomitable now allows you to just reroll a failed save with a bonus equal to Fighter level. Weapon Masteries are also a whole thing.
36:37 eh... Unless they've added more 1rst or 2nd level spells, I can not think of any reason from a purely damaging/mechanical stand point why you would give up two attacks for a 1rst or 2nd level spell at that level of play. It's neat though.
Thunderwave a group of enemies, use a defensive Spell like blurr and still hit. Enemy is using a defensive concentration-spell itself? Magic missile to end concentration and then have a better chance to bonk. There's more for sure
Being able to Protection from Evil and Good and still attack is ridiculously strong. Lots of combos. Blur jumps to mind. Hold Person + Attack and crit if you landed the spell.
More often it would be a utility spell like hold person, blur or mirror image and "hey, I can still get in an attack!" All while still having your bonus action available.
I think one of the key flaws in D&D combat is how often it is correct to stay put when in a fight; to just stay in melee range of the one enemy you're fighting until they're dead (and this goes for enemy creatures too). There's little to no motivation to move away from enemies in order to pursue other ones unless a friend really needs help. I like that the Fighter now has an ability that allows them to move out of combat range of an enemy without provoking AoO, because it makes the decision to actually move around the field more likely.
I'm so excited for Fighter now! I loved the play test fighter and only thought they needed to fix Master of Armaments and they did with Tactical Master. This is so great! Thank you!
Hearing that the eldritch knight being able to replace an attack with a cantrip makes me giddy, both the min-maxer in me and the "features reflecting story' aspect of me. It never made sense why the magical fighter, who was specficially trained to qeave those two practices together, couldn't do that, though I could also understand doing that could potentially be broken.
I really wish that battlemaster was just rolled into the main class. I really feel that makes the whole fighter class better and closer to how amazing magic classes are.
Too far from being "backwards compatible" with 5e. A lot of these features are like 3 to 3.5 and you can staple them into existing stuff. But removing a subclass and overhauling how maneuvers function as a base class feature creates a new class.
I think the Weapon Mastery system is fine for that. Think of it like "Battlemaster Lite" and if you want to go all in on that style you go Battlemaster.
@@karsonkammerzell6955 In some ways, yes. I do find it said every weapon only gets one option though. Which mostly makes every attack a little more complicated but doesn't really give you many meaningful options during combat.
I’ve always liked the idea of the fighters fight style , weapon choices being a part of their identity , back story. I see a battle master as being a trained soldier that has honed their skills through years practice and experience in many battles. But perhaps a fighter is from a nomadic people , their weapon of choice is a spear typically used for hunting. Or maybe a fighter whose charge is to defend a woodland folk village and as a woodsman an axe is their common weapon , too. That’s a potential symbol of their people , how they’ve become so adept at the use of the axe. Weaving the relationship to the weapon to the identity of the character in a meaningful way. This is turning out to be a (seemingly) well thought out and interesting approach.
True Strike is still trash, losing one of your attacks to give an attack on the next turn advantage is a waste of a cantrip slot. They need to rework it to be a weapon attack cantrip like Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade. Maybe it adds spellcasting modifier to the attack and damage. Maybe they have reworked it for PHB 2024.
Man, i am so pumped. Was just reading about the new Barb sub class. I am excited about the game becoming even more tactical for players. As a DM I also cant wait for them to come up with some insane synergies or tactics.
I know its not PHB but Id really love to see a modern interpretation of the Banneret (Purple Dragon Knight). I just really like some of the thought behind it despite its execution being a bit lackluster
I love these changes to the champion. I made a water genasi fighter champion. I pictured her not as the best fighter but as the most brutal fighter. She duel weilds and was intended not to do the most damage but to make the absolute craziest crits. These new updates will launch her into the next level!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
So now I can do three full attacks and still tack on a Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade as the fourth hit, instead of giving up all but one attack to do a magic melee combo. Neat.
You still get the other 2 masteries. If you want to squeeze every drop of mechanical blood out of the stone yes it does, but the previous weapon system also did that, for everyone, ten times worse.
@@brilobox2 look, i agree, this system is better. I still don’t think it’s gonna be enough to make martials anywhere equal to any spellcaster, which is disappointing. I was just also confused why they would be three that show up in most weapons, which just means (not even in an optimized sense) you just don’t get to use all the aspects of your class feature. it’s like saying, “you can rage, but you only get the melee damage this time, and then next time, you can take the damage resistances but not the melee damage.” It’s just kind of… dumb.
Hopefully this new stuff fits in well with subclasses from other books so the subclasses from other books can make use of all the second wind stuff along with all the rest of it
Im excited but I feel they dropped the ball on the high level abilities again. Level 18, I have a 5% extra critical death save chance! That is only useful if I die! Maybe let you use a second wind to stay conscious? or give something that makes you not want to multiclass? They always have situationally ok late game abilities. I know they put tons of thought into everything and I cant wait to multiclass monk and fighter and rogue do all kinds of crazy things, but I wish there were stronger end game abilities to at least make me question whether I wanted to multiclass or not! Fighter ends at level 11 lol
It looks great. You guys really listened to the community. The only headache with the Fighter is that weapons with sap, push or slow end up being terrible options for him (goodbye long sword). Still, it was a great solution. I would opt to allow him to use any known mastery as long as the weapon allows it (for example, replacing graze to cleave on a great sword). Even so, the simpler path was good for most players.
@@shadow-faye that or u cast booming blade and then attack a second time with a weapon that has push which will make them move and take the damage from the booming blade
I still think it's a travesty that they didn't collapse battlemaster into the base fighter class. If you find the maneuvers too "complex", then don't play with them, simple as that. Oh well, back to using Laserllama's fighter!
Anybody else interpret that the Psi-Warrior didn't get anything new? At the very least I was hoping for an invisible mage hand at level 3. As it stands tactical mastery makes telekinetic thrust kind of redundant.
what I don't understand is how most campaigns will end once you hit max level but when I run my games I make sure that all my players get a chance to enjoy being max level for a while and us what they earned, Bottom line, DMs STOP ENDING THE CAMPAIGN WHEN THE PLAYERS HIT MAX LEVEL. let them enjoy being powerful and have fun playing with max level abilities.
Listened to all of these so far and I'm pleasantly surprised! Feels like it's still all pretty balanced. Surprised to be saying I'm looking forward to the new handbook coming out.
Eldritch Knight with 4 attacks, equipped with the Illusionist's Bracers can attack 3 times, cast Booming Blade on the last attack, bonus action cast Booming Blade, action surge, attack 3 times and last attack cast Booming Blade. Nice.
Back in my day I had a system that let fighters have options on higher attack rolls or if an enemy missed roll was low enough. You can disarm, off balance the enemy, and counter attacks.
Very happy with the changes to Champion. It's still "simple" so to speak, but all the small changes and little re-works make it feel like it's going to be very rewarding when making choices, rather than just hoping you get a 19 or 20 over and over
I wasnt interested in post 5e D&D until this week. I've seen a lot of positive direction with the design and I'm legitimately excited to see what comes next.
Please call it something other than 'Second Wind' if they're using it multiple times a rest period; Recouperation or something. Otherwise it's not really a Second Wind. it's more like third, fourth, and fifth wind...
Everyone can do everything. The Fighter who needed to have a limit on weapons accessible can now do rider effect on each and every weapon attack. This is just going to be a cumbersome system in 5.5. A better choice would've been to give fighters the ability to be proficient with a number of weapons equal to their proficiency mod, along with weapon mastery giving a limit of uses equal to the proficiency mod. Instead, your four player game feels like an eight player game now.
Please reconsider the scaling on the number of superiority die. I don't want to relive the fighter subclasses having their features usage limited to "protect" the battlemaster, just increase the scaling by 1 or 2 before level 15.
This video start with Rangers and fighters are neck and neck in changes. Some need to edit all their video.. taking out what already was printed before 2024.. to actually see what was really add. Plus, I love how this is a script written interview.
I didn't hear mention on the Eldritch knight about the bonded weapon. I really didn't like having to use my bonus action to return my weapon. I really really really want to be able to build Gyro Zeppeli from sbr and Eldritch knight was always a good contender for it. Paladin is looking good to try and build him, I can't wait to see what options monk and ranger get now, those were good contenders too.
"THE FIGHTER" Being OP now, thank you XD Fighter + Greatsword = Death. I miss? I still hit halve your HP low level mob! now lvl 1 onward is PLAYABLE AGAIN given missing doesnt end your life anymore as easily.
litereally champion and eldritch knight become super strongs and funs! 11 champion fighter and 2 barbarian have 3 attacks can have rage + reckless attack and of course the heroic warrior. so already have 19-20 crit and by reckless you roll 2 dice and then you can reroll at least one or maybe both dice! then you can attack 2 too! so have 7-8 times to roll crit.
If I had to guess, I would expect to see a Xanathar's/Tasha's style book somewhere in 2026. I expect we'll see another UA playtest series sometime in mid/late 2025 for it.
I'm so happy that fighters are getting more options that will be usable outside of combat. I always felt this was lacking in the class. Also I'm excited about the Eldritch knight.
Oh my God Eldritch Knight is getting buffed!!!!! It was my first ever subclass choice in 5e and I always wanted it to be a bit better. Spell swords are objectively the coolest characters and I'm glad we have a better subclass option to really make it happen. Paladins have the whole oath side that doesn't work with the idea and rangers are more natural magic and don't quite hit the same either. Eldritch Knight has been justified 🥰
Fighters @ 6:53 - "We're the battle field masters and we size up our opponents to be better at hitting" Rangers - *too busy concentrating real hard to not even get the same level of bonus*
Would be cool if Psy warrior could cast and maintain Telekinesis (18 lvl class feature) with his bonus action. Telekinesis is cool but I can't really see a situation where fighter decides it's better to try to restrain or move an enemy instead of 3-4 attacks with his fancy weapon (we're talking about 18 lvl here).
Warrior fighting style could use some spellcaster style. You pratice your skills at morning and changing styles that way "if u can pratice it for N hours". Sounds more like a fighter.
I have a hard time getting excited over classes on their own. Monsters haven't really been talked about at all. They were generally underpowered in 5e, and I worry about all this new stuff to players will overwhelm a DM trying to make a compelling encounter. Monsters are the DM's characters, so I genuinely hope they are putting a lot of effort into making each of them something exciting for a DM to use, and the players to fight.
They're still using "bounded accuracy", so that's still going to be a problem. Unfortunately, 5.5 is still going to suffer from sack of hit point monsters. It sounds like they're trying to incorporate more themed attack types, but we won't know till the MM drops
The backup masteries being push sap and slow is a bit of an odd choice because it means that if you use a weapon that has push sap or slow you have access to one less mastery. Maybe make it so that if you have a push sap slow weapon, you can have the topple mastery so that you always have 5 no matter what weapon you use
@@dreamseer_3 guess it matters if the epic feats are required 19th level class specific or 19th level overall to take. Potentially getting 2 by multiclassing 3 times. 8,8,4 or some other combo where level 19 and 20 are feat levels.
Well. I feel like I was the only playtester that put this in input for this issue, and it wasn't read or just ignored. All the tweeks to actions and action surge so players can't multiclass in wizard and action surge to do 2 fireballs in one turn. Has now fallen on the Eldritch Knight. And now this subclass has been improved and nerfed in one smooth stroke. What we've done here is open the EKs bonus action and allows a few more attacks to be made as well when it comes to war magic and improved war magic. This is great until you stop and think about it. Limiting improved war magic to lvl1 and lvl2 spells is lame. At that level The EK should be able to cast any level of spells within his spell list, which, as a 3rd caster, only goes to lvl4. At fighter level 20, the EK only gets 3, lvl 3 spell slots and 1, Level 4 spell slot. Improved war magic is a major nerf! This is literally the sub classes Capstone ability. I height of the EKs power. Your taxing half his attacks snd your saying that the EK can only action surge and double up 2, lvl 1 or lvl 2 spells in a turn. That at level 20, the EK isn't capable of casting 2 spells of a higher level with his action surge. Is Wotc so determined to just make sure this is not a thing.l!? 2 high level spells in one turn? This should be the awesome niche ability specific to this subclass that is only rewarded by reaching a high level with 0 multi classing. And they jerked the rug out from under the EK by doing this. They buffed the mess out of the Battle master and the Champion. Only thing they did for the Ek was really open up thier bonus action and give them access to all schools of magic which was a bad part of the build to begin with and shouldn't have been done in the first place. Fixing what's wrong and improving a subclass are 2 different things. I'll probably use the new EK, but allow a no spell level restriction on improved war magic at my table. They always overdo too much for some and undercut the rest. Either way it is still not well balanced in my book.
Glad I wasn’t alone in IMMEDIATELY thinking about stacking “Push” with Battlemaster.
I’m a simple man…I want to send that guy flying across the entire room.
What I'm gonna do is use disarm with a push weapon, make the enemy drop their weapon and throw them away from it.
"What now, punk?" as I use my movement to step on the space where their weapon is dropped to prevent them from getting it back. It's gonna be great.
@@SchrollShepard just remember to keep that energy when the enemy hits you with the same moves. :)
Multiclass it into Open Sea paladin for even more pushing :D
My favorite stacking of abilities was knock down and grapple. They can't move, can't get up, me and friends have advantage, good times...
@@hitrapperandartistdababy605 NOW we’re talking!
4:50 "A number of headaches..."
Meaning I was putting topple on my longbow and shooting fliers prone from 600' away.
Champion Fighter has a reroll in their pocket every round. That's INSANE.
I'd be more worried about the: "Well screw you, I HIT!" ability they said was every turn too
@@jabbourchris I believe that was a mistake. In reality it is once per short or long rest.
@@jabbourchris i mean it should be very powerfull, there an epic boon for giving a ninth level spell slot, so it's great that it's that powerfull actually
@jabbourchris you're really worried about level 19 characters confirming a single hit?
@@minerbrine1861 I don't think it is a mistake. Fighter at lvl 19 hits 3 times, this lets him make one of those three attacks to be an automatic hit. But I think that means no chance for critical strike.
The combat stuff is great, but honestly having some extra RP things with second wind excites me more. It means it doesn’t always make sense for me to pass skill checks to other people, so long as I am moderately good at it.
As it is one of my favourite classes, I definitely am looking forward to playing it once the handbook comes out.
"I can do this to you even if it doesn't make sense" doesn't make sense though.
Yesssssss I needed this tid bit. Thank you!!!
Hidden extra attack: throwing two daggers with the nick property as a free attack without using a bonus action. Spread the pain!
V for Vendetta play!
I don't think you can do this because Nick is tied to the two weapon fighting rules for light weapons. Which require the Attack action.
@@haiclips3358 I pulled this from D&D Beyond:
"When you make an attack with a weapon that has the Light property, you can use a Bonus Action to make one attack with a different Light weapon you’re wielding.
The Nick mastery property allows you to make the additional attack you receive from wielding two Light weapons as part of the initial attack action.
Keep in mind that this doesn’t mean you can make a third attack as a Bonus Action, as the Light property specifies you only get one extra attack."
From what I understand, as a lvl 5 Champion fighter with the Telekinetic Feat I should be able to attempt a Shove as a bonus action, then take the Attack action to make a Shortsword attack with one hand, then make two dagger attacks due to the Nick property. All attacks would have advantage on a successful shove; one dagger attack would still be made with advantage - all great due to a higher crit chance. 👍
Dagger dagger dagger
@@WyrmHunter That all depends on which weapon is your primary and which is your secondary.
So if your shortsword is primary you would make two attacks with that, and then one with the dagger.
If your dagger is primary you would make two attacks with the dagger before you attack with the shortsword once. And I am not sure you would be able to make an offhand attack with the Shortsword as part of the attack action as it does not have the Nick property. It would have to be your bonus action.
And why would you want to use the lower damage dagger twice anyway? Shortsword does slightly more damage. With that as the primary, you would have Shortsword Vex attack, 2nd Shortsword Vex attack with Advantage, Nick Dagger attack with advantage, and TK shove whenever.
Level 9 feature is a genius redesign! I love how it adds exciting options when you hit with a Graze weapon (Greatsword).
I was talking about this to a friend earlier, like, this is something I really want to try, but it also makes me want to try shortsword and shield, (as shortsword, unlike rapier, is a slashing weapon and stacks with slasher)
Graze doesn’t specify as you hitting with the weapon, just allowing you to deal damage.
@@chazzerine7650 Right, so it doesn't do anything on a Hit, making the option to also have a Hit based mastery in your pocket really good.
I am a little worried about it on a theming angle. If I've been using a longsword, my longsword has Sap, which means instead of 4 options when I swing, I have three. But if I was using a weapon like the Battleaxe with topple, I'm doing the same damage, but have all 4 options.
I might give a player who has been consistently wielding a weapon with one of these masteries the chance to swap one out (kind of like skill profs from multiple sources) so that this isn't an issue
@@nyanbrox5418 Shortswords are piercing actually. Scimitar is slashing, but that has the Nick property (in playtest).
Here’s hoping we get an in depth look at weapon masteries and the specifics of each subclass! I can’t wait until September to get eyes on it all. 😅
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It's on DnDBeyond in an article on the front page.
@@bwaresunlight oh are all of the weapon mastery properties listed there now?
Not the exact text, but yes. They're the eight options from the last playtest.@@ConstructedChaos
@@ConstructedChaosOverview of confirmed weapon mastery:
8 properties
Cleave: If you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can make a second attack against a creature within 5 feet that is also within your reach. When you hit with the second attack, you can roll your weapon’s damage, but you don’t add your ability modifier unless it’s negative.
Graze: If you miss a creature with your weapon, you deal damage equal to the ability modifier you used to make the roll.
Nick: The Nick mastery property allows you to make the additional attack you receive from wielding two Light weapons as part of the initial attack action.
Push: The Push mastery property allows you to launch a creature you hit 10 feet straight away from you without a save. you can only push enemies Large or smaller.
Sap: When you hit an enemy with an attack, this mastery property inflicts Disadvantage on your target’s next attack roll before the start of your next turn.
Slow: When you hit a creature and deal damage, you can reduce its Speed by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. a creature’s Speed can’t be reduced by more than 10 feet with this property
Topple: When you hit a creature, you can force it to make a Constitution saving throw or fall Prone. The DC for this save is 8 plus the ability modifier used to make the attack plus your Proficiency Bonus.
Vex: When you hit a creature and deal damage, this mastery property gives you Advantage on your next attack roll before the end of your next turn.
Woahhh Champion fighter sounding kind of lit...
Definitely, you could go champion and take the feat where u get battle manuevers and really start popping off.
@@Fro609that’s the plan :)
Hope they've done a good job with the Champion subclass
What do you expect from it? It's supposed to be a very simple "just buff the numbers" subclass right?
@@vindex57 the subclass has always been more than a bit anemic because despite being "buff the numbers" it didn't do a great job at buffing the numbers. The changes outlined here add a bit of fun stuff to chew on though, I think, between having always-on ADV on initiative, getting free movement whenever you crit to add more flexibility, and then the free Inspiration every combat turn at lv10 as a fun little resource to give some player choice on how to use it during any given round. It's not much in terms of complexity, but with how these things interact with the new additions to the Fighter chassis, I feel like I can actually call Champion a subclass rather than a waste of paper, and that's got me kinda hopeful to see what they do with the other reworks :)
@@bbqtime5735 finely said
I wish Arcana Archer got fixed. Two shots per entire playthrough of a fighter is stupid. Either be tied to your Dex or Str modifier or even proficiency bonus I would settle for LOL
Or give this subclass to the ranger or druid lol.
Don't you get an additional option at levels 7, 10, 15, and 18?
You get to pick new shots or new abilities what your Quivers will do. But you still only get to use this ability two times per entire campaign.
(Arcane Shot
At 3rd level, you learn to unleash special magical effects with some of your shots. When you gain this feature, you learn two Arcane Shot options of your choice
(see "Arcane Shot Options" below).
Once per turn when you fire an arrow from a shortbow or longbow as part of the Attack action, you can apply one of your Arcane Shot options to that arrow. You decide to use the option when the arrow hits, unless the option doesn’t involve an attack roll.
(You have two uses of this ability, and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a short or long rest.)
You gain an additional Arcane Shot option of your choice when you reach certain levels in this class: 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level. Each option also improves when you become an 18th-level fighter.)
I'm pretty sure there is a sage advice about this, or a case of RAW vs RAI
If there is no Sage advice that updated this. Which I'm going to look now because you never know if I got an update in one of those. Rule as written versus rule as attended. It's pretty much spot on. You only get two shots. No DM's were willing to compromise for me not in a bad way. Just that's the rules.
Fighters are going to be _so good_ with the new Weapon Masteries. Can't wait for the redesigned Psi Warrior especially!
The removal of spell school restrictions from the Eldritch Knight and Arcane Trickster are great enhancements for roleplay.
Lots of canon swordmages in the Realms now will have an easier time being built.
Psi Warrior is fairly new, I don’t think there’ll be too much changes
@@Luis_LG93 They've specifically pointed out the Psi Warrior and Soulknife as getting redesigned due to being too weak and bland. They were the first examples yesterday, while talking about how much they wanted to get psionics done justice in this book - and they were also the first redesigns to be mentioned weeks ago in the teaser discussion.
@@tantalus_complex I just looked at the related article on D&D Beyond and it says Psi Warrior is mainly unchanged.
@@adamdoherty3072 That's interesting. They must have just increased the potency or recharge for Psionic Energy. I'd be okay with that.
I like the way the abilities for Fighters with tactical mind and the barbarian ability to be more useful for skills outside of battle. Gives them more outside battle stuff instead of just standing behind the rogue and bard
What about the new Indomitable feature, to reroll a save adding your Level? Did it stay?
Yeah it did, it is listed on their site in the 2024 Fighter vs 2014 Fighter
Looks like fighters are getting some overdue love. Champion sounds especially good.
Eldritch Knight is sounding much stronger now, no longer the niche pseudo-gish option but now potentially the gish-powerhouse, it’ll just depend on how good you can get cantrips to be.
I feel like Weapon Masteries in particular are shaping up to be a really solid way to kinda guarantee value from your cantrips on an Eldritch Knight. Like, using GFB and Booming Blade as examples, Push can be used to guarantee both effects, either pushing an enemy to a spot adjacent to someone else so that your followup GFB can splash on both targets, or like at lv9 dropping a Topple + Booming Blade onto an enemy and then doing a Push attack afterward. The possibilities go up pretty heavily with Action Surge adding on more attacks, the bonus movement from Second Wind, Improved War Magic, and all those sorts of things. I REALLY like how it's shaping up personally
@@bbqtime5735 Booming blade works only if he moves WILLINGLY
@@adastra3147 correct. If the target wants to do anything on his turn though, he'll have to move because you just isolated him HARD
I like the existing combo of BB then moving yourself 5 feet back with a bonus action shunt from the Telekinetic feat, making that stuff possible without a feat sounds like great QoL
I'm just looking forward to hasting myself as eldritch knight now you can pick it up. So many options for spells and attack combos.
I wanted to know more about the Psi Warrior!!!
Simply adding the tactical mind is a huge boost for less combat focused campaigns. That’s really good😊
I looooove it too!
The very first PC I made in D&D was a human fighter champion with a halberd and that was in 2014. I want to remake that same character with the 2024 rules and see how they stack up!
Level 9 feature is really good once you get to 11. if you have topple, you can knock them down, slow and then push with three attacks. With 15ft movement to get up that could Make it impossible for average speed creatures to reach you (presuming you step back a little bit)
Removing restrictions on EK and AT is among my favorite changes
That and changing their War Magic to be like the Bladesinger’s. The previous version became almost useless after lvl 11
I want to play an EK so badly now
What I want to see for champion fighter, are magic items and feats (like slasher, and redesigned vorpal sword), which trigger on a crit, not just when you roll a 20 on the dice
I have basically always wanted to play a champion fighter, and one thing that put me off is getting a legendary vorpal sword and it basically just being a regular magic sword, but if it and the sword of sharpness are altered to work on crits, not just on nat 20s, I will be so darn excited to play one
That’s something your DM could easily approve 🤣
Put it at ×1.5, thank me later ;)
Not all super heroes wear capes
Funnily enough, I already did.
Guess I wasn’t the only one!
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I don't really like his statement about there being a whole array of players who aren't that interested in playing Battlemaster, hence why they scrapped the idea of merging it with the base class.
I for one am usually uninterested in Battlemaster and usually go with other classes... but it's not because I hate the Battlemaster. It's because the fantasy of battlemaster is so basic compared to so many other more flavorful subclasses. I've played 3rd party fighters before which merge the battlemaster with the base fighter, and I gladly use the features there while also enjoying the much richer flavor that other subclasses give me.
I agree in my homebrew I gave the fighter a limited number of maneuvers and Battlemaster dies and then if they decided to take the Battlemaster subclass, they become up to par with the 2014 Battlemaster fighter
I'm actually a little worried for the battlemaster, because while they are AMAZING at level 3... by level 9 or so they aren't DOING anything new. They stagnate quickly, and that is a real disappointment
Respectfully I disagree.
Baseline fighter is supposed to be one of the simplest classes.
Keeping maneuvers in battlemaster lets you decide the amount of complexity you want.
@@qwerty098cool1 Baseline fighter isn't "supposed" to be a simple class. It is only that way because JC and the team wants to make it that way. It does not, in any way, inherently need to be the simplest class.
@@qwerty098cool1 The idea that the fighter needs to be the "simple class" seems almost toxic to the game.
It has roots in Gygax thinking veteran players would "graduate" from playing fighters to playing wizards and hiring fighters. And it leads to all sorts of unfortunate decisions
Im sad they didn't go with making Battlemaster part of the core Fighter. For a "simpler fighter" (it's not even that complex) people can go to barbarian or rogue
Whole heartedly agree with surprise, stuff, feels a lot more fun to me than just missing a turn. Though as a DM if there is no logical way for an NPC to react to something like someone being invisible I'd let the player do something out of initiative and then once the first set of those things happen which must be simultaneous somehow then you can do initiative. But if you're just jumping from a hidden position say from 20ft away I don't think you should get the entire free turn
The Champion Fighter artwork depicts them with a Vorpal Sword. For those unaware, rolling a 20 on an attack roll with a Vorpal Sword instantly decapitates an enemy (or deals an extra 6d8 damage from the hit, at the GM's discretion). RAW, this effect does not interact with the Champion's Improved/Superior Critical feature, since it explicitly states that the roll has to be a 20. HOWEVER, if they change the wording of the Vorpal Sword's effect to "On a Crit" instead of "On a 20", Champion Fighters would be rolling around with a 15% chance to instakill their victim ON EVERY ATTACK ROLL. This does not even factor in all the new advantage shenanigans that Champions have access to. Admittedly, this interaction is wholly dependent on your DM giving you a Vorpal Sword, and making it to at least level 15. But if the stars align... Who wants to RP One Cut Man?
Thanks for expanding on your reasoning and process behind not giving all fighters a list of manuevers - that was really neat to sort of "peek behind the curtain" a bit and now that I have that perspective I can understand your decision a lot better. Thanks!
Cant wait! Hope its more than just extra attacks and action surges
Second Wind can be used multiple times (2 at 1st level), restores a use on short rest and all on long rest, and can be used to add 1d10 to failed checks. Also at lvl 5 it allows you to move half your movement without provoking Opportunity attacks whenever you use it.
Also Indomitable now allows you to just reroll a failed save with a bonus equal to Fighter level.
Weapon Masteries are also a whole thing.
36:37 eh... Unless they've added more 1rst or 2nd level spells, I can not think of any reason from a purely damaging/mechanical stand point why you would give up two attacks for a 1rst or 2nd level spell at that level of play. It's neat though.
Thunderwave a group of enemies, use a defensive Spell like blurr and still hit. Enemy is using a defensive concentration-spell itself? Magic missile to end concentration and then have a better chance to bonk. There's more for sure
Being able to Protection from Evil and Good and still attack is ridiculously strong. Lots of combos. Blur jumps to mind. Hold Person + Attack and crit if you landed the spell.
These fine fellows above have the right idea. This has opened up an enormous door of possibilities that definitely won't seem obvious at first glance
They did mention adding spells, but I don't know what spells or what spell levels.
More often it would be a utility spell like hold person, blur or mirror image and "hey, I can still get in an attack!" All while still having your bonus action available.
Interested in seeing what order they release these videos. Hopefully I won't need to wait for the warlock to be done last lol.
Human Champion Fighter with a Shortsword and the Alert feat is going to go hard.
Did you say... Gobin Slayer? 👀
I think one of the key flaws in D&D combat is how often it is correct to stay put when in a fight; to just stay in melee range of the one enemy you're fighting until they're dead (and this goes for enemy creatures too). There's little to no motivation to move away from enemies in order to pursue other ones unless a friend really needs help. I like that the Fighter now has an ability that allows them to move out of combat range of an enemy without provoking AoO, because it makes the decision to actually move around the field more likely.
You always had the Disengage action and most fighters had something available as a bonus action.
I'm so excited for Fighter now! I loved the play test fighter and only thought they needed to fix Master of Armaments and they did with Tactical Master. This is so great! Thank you!
Hearing that the eldritch knight being able to replace an attack with a cantrip makes me giddy, both the min-maxer in me and the "features reflecting story' aspect of me. It never made sense why the magical fighter, who was specficially trained to qeave those two practices together, couldn't do that, though I could also understand doing that could potentially be broken.
I really wish that battlemaster was just rolled into the main class. I really feel that makes the whole fighter class better and closer to how amazing magic classes are.
Totally
Too far from being "backwards compatible" with 5e. A lot of these features are like 3 to 3.5 and you can staple them into existing stuff. But removing a subclass and overhauling how maneuvers function as a base class feature creates a new class.
I get it but not everyone who wants to play a fighter wants to play a Battlemaster.
I think the Weapon Mastery system is fine for that. Think of it like "Battlemaster Lite" and if you want to go all in on that style you go Battlemaster.
@@karsonkammerzell6955 In some ways, yes.
I do find it said every weapon only gets one option though. Which mostly makes every attack a little more complicated but doesn't really give you many meaningful options during combat.
I’ve always liked the idea of the fighters fight style , weapon choices being a part of their identity , back story. I see a battle master as being a trained soldier that has honed their skills through years practice and experience in many battles.
But perhaps a fighter is from a nomadic people , their weapon of choice is a spear typically used for hunting. Or maybe a fighter whose charge is to defend a woodland folk village and as a woodsman an axe is their common weapon , too.
That’s a potential symbol of their people , how they’ve become so adept at the use of the axe.
Weaving the relationship to the weapon to the identity of the character in a meaningful way. This is turning out to be a (seemingly) well thought out and interesting approach.
Eldritch Knight’s war magic sounds awesome! True Strike as a bonus action along with regular weapon attacks on one turn? Nice!
True Strike is still trash, losing one of your attacks to give an attack on the next turn advantage is a waste of a cantrip slot.
They need to rework it to be a weapon attack cantrip like Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade. Maybe it adds spellcasting modifier to the attack and damage. Maybe they have reworked it for PHB 2024.
They did @@brilobox2
@brilobox2 you use spellcasting mod for hit and dmg, can choose to do radiant instead and it does some extra
Man, i am so pumped. Was just reading about the new Barb sub class. I am excited about the game becoming even more tactical for players. As a DM I also cant wait for them to come up with some insane synergies or tactics.
I know its not PHB but Id really love to see a modern interpretation of the Banneret (Purple Dragon Knight). I just really like some of the thought behind it despite its execution being a bit lackluster
I love these changes to the champion. I made a water genasi fighter champion. I pictured her not as the best fighter but as the most brutal fighter. She duel weilds and was intended not to do the most damage but to make the absolute craziest crits. These new updates will launch her into the next level!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
So now I can do three full attacks and still tack on a Booming Blade or Green Flame Blade as the fourth hit, instead of giving up all but one attack to do a magic melee combo. Neat.
does the level 9 feature not just incentivize you to never use a weapon with those three properties?
You still get the other 2 masteries. If you want to squeeze every drop of mechanical blood out of the stone yes it does, but the previous weapon system also did that, for everyone, ten times worse.
@@brilobox2 look, i agree, this system is better. I still don’t think it’s gonna be enough to make martials anywhere equal to any spellcaster, which is disappointing. I was just also confused why they would be three that show up in most weapons, which just means (not even in an optimized sense) you just don’t get to use all the aspects of your class feature. it’s like saying, “you can rage, but you only get the melee damage this time, and then next time, you can take the damage resistances but not the melee damage.” It’s just kind of… dumb.
Damn. We almost got LaserLlama alt fighter in the base game
When do we get to hear about the new warlock?
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Hopefully this new stuff fits in well with subclasses from other books so the subclasses from other books can make use of all the second wind stuff along with all the rest of it
Artificer add in when?
Maybe in the DMG. I feel like it fits better in the book that's filled with magic items.
@@carsonrush3352 could be good point
Hopefully never
I think they don't own the rights to it.
It already exists?!?
Or are you looking for a 'glow up'?
Im excited but I feel they dropped the ball on the high level abilities again. Level 18, I have a 5% extra critical death save chance! That is only useful if I die! Maybe let you use a second wind to stay conscious? or give something that makes you not want to multiclass? They always have situationally ok late game abilities. I know they put tons of thought into everything and I cant wait to multiclass monk and fighter and rogue do all kinds of crazy things, but I wish there were stronger end game abilities to at least make me question whether I wanted to multiclass or not! Fighter ends at level 11 lol
Cool! I played an Eldritch Knight in BG3, based on a character I want to write stories about. These changes seem fantastic
It looks great. You guys really listened to the community. The only headache with the Fighter is that weapons with sap, push or slow end up being terrible options for him (goodbye long sword). Still, it was a great solution. I would opt to allow him to use any known mastery as long as the weapon allows it (for example, replacing graze to cleave on a great sword). Even so, the simpler path was good for most players.
Not too terrible, you just have 3 options instead of 4
Well with the EK push can be useful with booming blade
@@j.tscyre4004 as in you push them back and if they try to approach you again they take damage?
@@shadow-faye that or u cast booming blade and then attack a second time with a weapon that has push which will make them move and take the damage from the booming blade
@@shadow-faye nm i just checked booming blade and they have to willingly move
I still think it's a travesty that they didn't collapse battlemaster into the base fighter class. If you find the maneuvers too "complex", then don't play with them, simple as that.
Oh well, back to using Laserllama's fighter!
Would be great If protection could work to The user too
Bring back Brawler please.....it was the most exciting part of the updates....then poof...
Anybody else interpret that the Psi-Warrior didn't get anything new? At the very least I was hoping for an invisible mage hand at level 3. As it stands tactical mastery makes telekinetic thrust kind of redundant.
If they put it in its probably at least slightly different, but it might just be reworded
The two most likely stack.
what I don't understand is how most campaigns will end once you hit max level but when I run my games I make sure that all my players get a chance to enjoy being max level for a while and us what they earned, Bottom line, DMs STOP ENDING THE CAMPAIGN WHEN THE PLAYERS HIT MAX LEVEL. let them enjoy being powerful and have fun playing with max level abilities.
Listened to all of these so far and I'm pleasantly surprised! Feels like it's still all pretty balanced. Surprised to be saying I'm looking forward to the new handbook coming out.
Eldritch Knight with 4 attacks, equipped with the Illusionist's Bracers can attack 3 times, cast Booming Blade on the last attack, bonus action cast Booming Blade, action surge, attack 3 times and last attack cast Booming Blade. Nice.
Back in my day I had a system that let fighters have options on higher attack rolls or if an enemy missed roll was low enough. You can disarm, off balance the enemy, and counter attacks.
And high damage rolls stunned an enemy for a turn. Just to make fighters more juicy of a choice.
Oh and on high attack rolls and being missed badly the fighter can try holds and throws to render an enemy prone.
Very happy with the changes to Champion. It's still "simple" so to speak, but all the small changes and little re-works make it feel like it's going to be very rewarding when making choices, rather than just hoping you get a 19 or 20 over and over
I wasnt interested in post 5e D&D until this week. I've seen a lot of positive direction with the design and I'm legitimately excited to see what comes next.
Very excited to not ever get to use Epic Boons at level 19 because how few games go past level 12.
Please call it something other than 'Second Wind' if they're using it multiple times a rest period; Recouperation or something. Otherwise it's not really a Second Wind. it's more like third, fourth, and fifth wind...
Everyone can do everything. The Fighter who needed to have a limit on weapons accessible can now do rider effect on each and every weapon attack. This is just going to be a cumbersome system in 5.5. A better choice would've been to give fighters the ability to be proficient with a number of weapons equal to their proficiency mod, along with weapon mastery giving a limit of uses equal to the proficiency mod. Instead, your four player game feels like an eight player game now.
I really like the surprise change. That's immediately going into all my games. Hell yeah for these changes and new options
I mainly play fighter but the subclass I always choose is echo night because a shadow clone ability is so cool
Please reconsider the scaling on the number of superiority die. I don't want to relive the fighter subclasses having their features usage limited to "protect" the battlemaster, just increase the scaling by 1 or 2 before level 15.
The going beyond level 20 is awesome, but still would have preferred if they brought back paragon paths from 4e.
they've had these epic boons in the 5e DMG already, seems like they're finally making it more prominant by shifting it into the players handbook
29:14 Hey, I recognize that party
This video start with Rangers and fighters are neck and neck in changes. Some need to edit all their video.. taking out what already was printed before 2024.. to actually see what was really add.
Plus, I love how this is a script written interview.
I would have liked to see the Fighter get non-combat features as well.
They... did? Did you not listen to the video?
@@veiledChaoZ Yes, I did. Determining monster information with some sort of supernatural senses is not a none combat feature. Is that what you mean?
They did get the ability to use their second wind for bonuses to skill checks at least
I didn't hear mention on the Eldritch knight about the bonded weapon. I really didn't like having to use my bonus action to return my weapon. I really really really want to be able to build Gyro Zeppeli from sbr and Eldritch knight was always a good contender for it. Paladin is looking good to try and build him, I can't wait to see what options monk and ranger get now, those were good contenders too.
I like the level 9 redesign, but it really takes away from using weapons that already have those properties once you reach level 9.
I'll be honest. I like the new Champion. Not sure it's complicated enough for me personally, but I'm interested.
I'm really excited to learn more about the new Druid!
"THE FIGHTER" Being OP now, thank you XD Fighter + Greatsword = Death. I miss? I still hit halve your HP low level mob! now lvl 1 onward is PLAYABLE AGAIN given missing doesnt end your life anymore as easily.
Kinda silly that Jeremy and Todd aren't credited in the description?
In the newest D&D movie the credits did not mention Gary Gygax, Ed Greenwood, etc.
Lack of credit is par for the course.
litereally champion and eldritch knight become super strongs and funs!
11 champion fighter and 2 barbarian
have 3 attacks can have rage + reckless attack and of course the heroic warrior.
so already have 19-20 crit and by reckless you roll 2 dice and then you can reroll at least one or maybe both dice!
then you can attack 2 too! so have 7-8 times to roll crit.
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I love it because eldritch Knight Through feats and using all your action surges Has the capability of doing 960 damage In one round it Beautiful.😢
Anyone know where the subclasses that aren't covered in the book will probably end up updated?
If I had to guess, I would expect to see a Xanathar's/Tasha's style book somewhere in 2026. I expect we'll see another UA playtest series sometime in mid/late 2025 for it.
@@Dan-Dillon Sounds good to me. Thnx for the speculative answer!
6:37 Ah, the Belmont strategy
My first punch didn't do anything, but surely if I try it again with no hesitation it'll work this time
I'm so happy that fighters are getting more options that will be usable outside of combat. I always felt this was lacking in the class.
Also I'm excited about the Eldritch knight.
What is the sequence for masteries and maneuvers when attacking? Like which one will activate first whem making an attack using a maneuver?
Oh my God Eldritch Knight is getting buffed!!!!! It was my first ever subclass choice in 5e and I always wanted it to be a bit better.
Spell swords are objectively the coolest characters and I'm glad we have a better subclass option to really make it happen. Paladins have the whole oath side that doesn't work with the idea and rangers are more natural magic and don't quite hit the same either.
Eldritch Knight has been justified 🥰
New rules for surprise round seem to be my favorite flavor added to this new dish of a D&D edition entree so far
Fighters @ 6:53 - "We're the battle field masters and we size up our opponents to be better at hitting"
Rangers - *too busy concentrating real hard to not even get the same level of bonus*
Would be cool if Psy warrior could cast and maintain Telekinesis (18 lvl class feature) with his bonus action. Telekinesis is cool but I can't really see a situation where fighter decides it's better to try to restrain or move an enemy instead of 3-4 attacks with his fancy weapon (we're talking about 18 lvl here).
Warrior fighting style could use some spellcaster style. You pratice your skills at morning and changing styles that way "if u can pratice it for N hours". Sounds more like a fighter.
I have a hard time getting excited over classes on their own. Monsters haven't really been talked about at all. They were generally underpowered in 5e, and I worry about all this new stuff to players will overwhelm a DM trying to make a compelling encounter. Monsters are the DM's characters, so I genuinely hope they are putting a lot of effort into making each of them something exciting for a DM to use, and the players to fight.
They're still using "bounded accuracy", so that's still going to be a problem. Unfortunately, 5.5 is still going to suffer from sack of hit point monsters. It sounds like they're trying to incorporate more themed attack types, but we won't know till the MM drops
Levels 20-30, decide how to achieve demigodhood.
So the Psi Warrior will only be a reprint, but Battle Masters get new maneuvers. Lol. Let's welcome the future's new worst subclass.
The backup masteries being push sap and slow is a bit of an odd choice because it means that if you use a weapon that has push sap or slow you have access to one less mastery.
Maybe make it so that if you have a push sap slow weapon, you can have the topple mastery so that you always have 5 no matter what weapon you use
Soooo… beyond level 20 if you had multiclassed do you still level up that way? Or just stop? Or continue each class?
In 5e. 2014 edition the total level of both classes combined would stop at 20 i would assume the same is for the 2024 edition
@@dreamseer_3 guess it matters if the epic feats are required 19th level class specific or 19th level overall to take. Potentially getting 2 by multiclassing 3 times. 8,8,4 or some other combo where level 19 and 20 are feat levels.
Well. I feel like I was the only playtester that put this in input for this issue, and it wasn't read or just ignored. All the tweeks to actions and action surge so players can't multiclass in wizard and action surge to do 2 fireballs in one turn. Has now fallen on the Eldritch Knight. And now this subclass has been improved and nerfed in one smooth stroke.
What we've done here is open the EKs bonus action and allows a few more attacks to be made as well when it comes to war magic and improved war magic. This is great until you stop and think about it. Limiting improved war magic to lvl1 and lvl2 spells is lame. At that level The EK should be able to cast any level of spells within his spell list, which, as a 3rd caster, only goes to lvl4. At fighter level 20, the EK only gets 3, lvl 3 spell slots and 1, Level 4 spell slot.
Improved war magic is a major nerf! This is literally the sub classes Capstone ability. I height of the EKs power. Your taxing half his attacks snd your saying that the EK can only action surge and double up 2, lvl 1 or lvl 2 spells in a turn. That at level 20, the EK isn't capable of casting 2 spells of a higher level with his action surge. Is Wotc so determined to just make sure this is not a thing.l!? 2 high level spells in one turn? This should be the awesome niche ability specific to this subclass that is only rewarded by reaching a high level with 0 multi classing. And they jerked the rug out from under the EK by doing this. They buffed the mess out of the Battle master and the Champion. Only thing they did for the Ek was really open up thier bonus action and give them access to all schools of magic which was a bad part of the build to begin with and shouldn't have been done in the first place.
Fixing what's wrong and improving a subclass are 2 different things. I'll probably use the new EK, but allow a no spell level restriction on improved war magic at my table.
They always overdo too much for some and undercut the rest. Either way it is still not well balanced in my book.
I would rather have more action surge slots over second wind slots. I hardly ever use second wind. That's what health potions are for
I like the music
Lovin how War Magic doesn't need a Bonus Action.
hope they actually change up the Cavalier so its feats aren't incompatible with a Lance, so it can actually function like a fantasy knight cavalry
Oooh now i can flavor second wind also as a boxing sway, very nice
I am curious to see how Barbs feral instinct will be handled since there are now ways to get Adv on Initiative sooner then level 7
With 2 very specific subclasses that have very specific niches. Barbs get init adv no matter what so they probably won’t do anyhting to it.