There is actually a sort of followup to that intro, where Zee Bashew wakes up and realizes that JoCrap not only burned the building he was in down, but where he kept his replacement spellbooks too.
1. The Wizard teacher in the beginning is Zee Bashew who I gave a video for a couple of days ago in a comment. Definitely worth watching his Animated Spellbook episodes. Alas, he has taken some offline for legal reasons (apparently). 2. "Bolt, fire, ice" There are plenty of enemies who are immune and/or resistant to "energy" damage (acid, cold, fire, lightning and sonic). So no, those AREN'T the only three you need. Force damage is the least resisted/immune damage type, so a simple ol' Magic Missile build can rule the day, especially when upcast and you have bonuses to improve their individual damage. 3. 2:52 - INTelligence is the primary stat for wizards, which means just about anything else is a dump stat. CONstitution is what I consider a secondary requirement for extra hitpoint and to keep you from failing concentration checks (D&D mechanics!), and DEXterity directly affects your armour class since most wizards can't wear armour. But yes, many people consider CHArisma to be a dump stat and put it at 10, along with STRength and WISdom. Sorcerers cast spells from CHArisma though, so they're the more influential casters since CHA is the stat you do diplomacy, deception, and intimidation from. Which is why Chad Sorcerer is the popular kid and wizards are virgins. He steals all the girls and tells everyone you stink, and can convince them of it. 4. MOST reagents you need for spells are inconsequential costs. Fireball's guano and sulfur is covered by a one time acquisition in the beginning of the game (a component pouch, part of your class' starting equipment). SOME spells do have a gold cost though and that's a component you can't ignore. A 500gp diamond to cast Raise Dead for example, absolute requirement, and possibly the subject of an entire quest since most villages don't just have big honkin' chunks of immaculately cut ice laying around. 5. Fireball is NOT the answer to everything. Sometimes you want to burn that one person over there in a gunpowder and rum soaked environment and not explode yourself in the process, in which case Scorching Ray is the answer. Sometimes you want to laugh at people hurting themselves as they try to get close, so Wall of Fire is the answer. And yes Zee's right, illusions or Prestidigitation are really useful, even if it's only to cast FIREworks, because convincing a bunch of greedy dopes to group together around a fake glittering chest of gold is a great way to set them up for fireball. 6. Wizards are very often tied to one of the schools of magic, and each has a fantastic set of bonuses as you level. Evocation for example at one point very early on gives you the ability to say "that guy, that guy, and that guy, don't burn them. Everyone else though go boom" and cast a fireball in the middle of your allies which will ignore them. The rare exception is the War Mage who basically trades spells for defence or "eats" spells to turn them into incidental force damage against enemies.
I still remember my kitsune wizard who in the first session of the campaign we were in was the first person to drop to 0 HP. Not in battle mind you, but from failing an athletics check while trying to climb a rope and took a fall that took all of my lv.1 6hp...
He scored a zero on the magic test but every answer was “Fireball”. You mean to tell me not ONE question could have been solved by Fireball? Test was rigged.
Currently playing an abjuration wizard with a party that has a paladin, orc fighter, a monk, and a rogue. Somehow I'M THE TANK OF THE PARTY. Not all wizards are frail ;)
"Lightning, Fire, and Ice are all I need!" il'l like to inform you about any spell that allows you to trow objects from a area. I used a custom cantrip, shape air (shape water for air) and by trowing the fangs of a gigant monster that deal 3d8 dmg each i murderd my dm plans. I had 49 of them and i trown all of them at the same gigant enemy, leading to 147d8 dmg, instakilling his boss encounter
Memes apart, fireball is indeed a incredible spell, specially when you get it (around 5th level). It can pretty much clean up a room with it's damage and reach. But speaking of the wizards themselves, if you ever play a table that is going to be up to the later levels, this class is one of shiniest (along with it's other caster friends), allowing you even to transform into a Dragon, to summon a blade that cause some great damage, getting immune to all damage types, and one of my favorites: Getting advantage on every roll because you have foreseen every second of the next 8 hours.
its not that Wizards in particular have low charisma, instead charisma is a dump stat on anyone who isn't a charisma caster. (Bard, Paladin, Sorcerer, Warlock, ect)
In most Final Fantasy games you have more than just Fire, Ice and Lightning though. Cure and Life are good for your party and, along with holy, are good aginst undead enemies. You also have Wind Earth, Meteor, Flare, Sleep, Blind, Esuna, Protect, Shell, Reflect, etc. In some of the games you can even gain enemy abilities like bad breath and dealth
I remember the Rune Of Portals costing 50s before discounts. Which was fairly eyugh, considering the 100g for apprentice riding and a mount was an nigh insurmountable hurdle until well after you hit 40, and lots of vanilla players never got enough money for Journeyman.
It DID make you appreciate the mount when you finally did get it, though. My priest still has his original Brown Skeletal Horse in the list of random favorite mounts.
Oh you definitely can have a charismatic Wizard if you want... Just that unlike Sorcerers, Charisma is no the spellcasting stat for wizards (its Intelligence). Thus, the stat you want to maximise is not the one that help in social stuff but it doesn't mean wizard get shit charisma by default.... All depends on the scores you get in each stats at character creation 😉 Oh and yes, Wizard have the least HP at lvl 1 : traditionally, they get 6 + Constitution modifier... A standard mace does 1d6+ Strength mod in bludgeoning damages... Wizard CAN get one shot easily at 1rst lvl
Ah.. War Mage... If you really wanna piss your DM off and make them hate you more than the tanky paladin. "WHY WON'T YOU DIE!?" -> War Magic in a nutshell Seriously tho, Wizard is one of my favorites, I played an enchantment wizard before, and I had an answer for EVERYTHING the DM threw at us. I paralyzed one of the major bad guys, I mind controlled several cultists into killing each other and just... The DM had to purposely make enemies who were immune to charm, sleep, paralysis, poision, levitation/ect just to counter ME and my bullshit. Then I learned to straight up ALTER MEMORIES and it was all over then.. My old man lizardfolk wizard was scary, all while being a sweet old grandpa to the party.
Jocat: Just fireball My Abjuration wizard with maxed Int by lv 4 and potentionally 21 ac with mage armor, cloak of protection and shield: just counterspell.
You can have a high Charisma Wizard if you're not hell bent of min-maxing every last stat point. Likewise, you can have skills like persuasion with the right background. The good thing about D&D character creation is that you are free to play around and not automatically go with the base clichee. I currently play a Barbarian with a Charisma of 14 and trained in Persuasion, and he is the go-to character when talking to most of the common people (Folk Hero background). He's one of the most fun characters I have been playing recently, even though he is not optimized to the max.
@@Squeekysquid It doesn't always have to be either of the extremes. For example, I am currently playing a Barbarian with a Charisma of 14 (point buy, so it was a deliberate decision and not just lucky high rolled scores to distribute). I still hit things really well. I could probably be more effective by a small margin if I had dropped the Charisma, but I doubt the character would be as much fun. Sure, I don't need that Charisma or proficiency in Persuasion to be effective in a fight but it gives the character a lot of flavor. And just to be clear, there is no right or wrong in these situations, it's an issue about what the group wants. Does a group and DM want to focus on challenging and optimized combat and not much care about things beyond optimized builds? Absolutely viable! Does a group want characters who are more believable as people, with some unique quirks and stats that are more "natural" rather than optimized to whatever their role in combat is? Also perfectly viable! As long as everybody at the table is having fun, they're not playing it wrong.
The best caster class in D&D, in my opinion. And despite the jokes in video, they are very versatile. Not to mention you get much better spells than fireball, like wish, which lets you wish your target was hit by a fireball. (Can I get a bunch of JUST FIREBALL replies to this comment, please?)
Oh Lord, I remember when getting silver was a common reward for levels 1-35, and the only way you can get gold for free was to join a guild, raid the bank, and leave the guild. 🤣
Why did Jocat fold after trolls disliked his very likable "Girls" song/rap? Everybody was propping him! I get it! Internet poison is bad!! But when you have these mages buffing you.... WTF?!?!?!
I know that Jocat says Fireball is the solution to everything, and I completely agree with him. But what is his opinion on metamagic Fireball? Say... twin Fireball, or Fireball transmuted to a different damage on type, especially on enemies are resistant or immune to fire?
Yeah best spells fire lightning and ice others lame but I'm more of a ice wizard when I did my firts d&d like I'm more to ice I like ice magic my fav and fire and lightning are cool ice fire lightning cool other magic boring
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JoCat knows full well that he has bars for days, and decided to completely flex it for his guide to races
"That's the best song he has ever done."
Correction: The best song he had done up to that point.
Wait until he gets to the classes!
You should check out his crap guide to dnd for races. It’s basically just 5 minutes of him spitting bars
That is a DAMN good song, but I still think JoCat's 'I like girls' song is his best work, musically speaking.
@@WeAreTheBentusi agreed. Plus he just did that with no prep at all
@@skelestache7281 Well, it is based on an existing song.
@@jm329 I know, no less impressive though
"Lightning, Fire, and Ice are all I need!"
High end fiends would like to talk to you
Nah they'll just be really happy that's the damage types you bring to the table.
Favoured Soul: "My time to shine!"
There is actually a sort of followup to that intro, where Zee Bashew wakes up and realizes that JoCrap not only burned the building he was in down, but where he kept his replacement spellbooks too.
1. The Wizard teacher in the beginning is Zee Bashew who I gave a video for a couple of days ago in a comment. Definitely worth watching his Animated Spellbook episodes. Alas, he has taken some offline for legal reasons (apparently).
2. "Bolt, fire, ice" There are plenty of enemies who are immune and/or resistant to "energy" damage (acid, cold, fire, lightning and sonic). So no, those AREN'T the only three you need. Force damage is the least resisted/immune damage type, so a simple ol' Magic Missile build can rule the day, especially when upcast and you have bonuses to improve their individual damage.
3. 2:52 - INTelligence is the primary stat for wizards, which means just about anything else is a dump stat. CONstitution is what I consider a secondary requirement for extra hitpoint and to keep you from failing concentration checks (D&D mechanics!), and DEXterity directly affects your armour class since most wizards can't wear armour. But yes, many people consider CHArisma to be a dump stat and put it at 10, along with STRength and WISdom. Sorcerers cast spells from CHArisma though, so they're the more influential casters since CHA is the stat you do diplomacy, deception, and intimidation from. Which is why Chad Sorcerer is the popular kid and wizards are virgins. He steals all the girls and tells everyone you stink, and can convince them of it.
4. MOST reagents you need for spells are inconsequential costs. Fireball's guano and sulfur is covered by a one time acquisition in the beginning of the game (a component pouch, part of your class' starting equipment). SOME spells do have a gold cost though and that's a component you can't ignore. A 500gp diamond to cast Raise Dead for example, absolute requirement, and possibly the subject of an entire quest since most villages don't just have big honkin' chunks of immaculately cut ice laying around.
5. Fireball is NOT the answer to everything. Sometimes you want to burn that one person over there in a gunpowder and rum soaked environment and not explode yourself in the process, in which case Scorching Ray is the answer. Sometimes you want to laugh at people hurting themselves as they try to get close, so Wall of Fire is the answer. And yes Zee's right, illusions or Prestidigitation are really useful, even if it's only to cast FIREworks, because convincing a bunch of greedy dopes to group together around a fake glittering chest of gold is a great way to set them up for fireball.
6. Wizards are very often tied to one of the schools of magic, and each has a fantastic set of bonuses as you level. Evocation for example at one point very early on gives you the ability to say "that guy, that guy, and that guy, don't burn them. Everyone else though go boom" and cast a fireball in the middle of your allies which will ignore them. The rare exception is the War Mage who basically trades spells for defence or "eats" spells to turn them into incidental force damage against enemies.
No, no, no, no, no, no, and no.
Only use Fireball
@@hypermaeonyx4969 JUST Fireball
Nice to see people discovering and appreciating this series even now, years later.
I still remember my kitsune wizard who in the first session of the campaign we were in was the first person to drop to 0 HP. Not in battle mind you, but from failing an athletics check while trying to climb a rope and took a fall that took all of my lv.1 6hp...
Jocat is the King of the Bards
Go look up Dingo Doodles and her interview of JoCat. His favorite character is a half-orc bard named Storig.
He scored a zero on the magic test but every answer was “Fireball”. You mean to tell me not ONE question could have been solved by Fireball? Test was rigged.
question 34 A sub-question 3 was FIreball related but only cared for the radius and the heat in merlins kelvins not simply wring down the spell name .
"I'm gonna do it all... IN SONG!" Love it when Jocat flexes his bard skills.
I recommend reacting to Jocat's A Crap Guide to D&D Races
This gave me PTSD of playing icewind dale 1 back in the day. Initial levels on wizards were such agonyyyyy
And that was before they upped the Wizard's Hit Die to d6.
Zee Bashew is the wizard at the start, he's another D&D RUclipsr and he did a video after this one that showed the aftermath of that big fireball lol
Currently playing an abjuration wizard with a party that has a paladin, orc fighter, a monk, and a rogue. Somehow I'M THE TANK OF THE PARTY. Not all wizards are frail ;)
have you seen Aabria's character in CR calamity? talk about buff!
@@emy6732 Right? Abjuration plus Tough Feat? That’s a hardy wizard right there
I'm currently playing a lizardfolk bladesinger thanks to Tasha's and I am probably the strongest character in my party
A fine transition into starting Zee's Animated Spellbook series.
Unfortunate that he was forced to take down a large backlog of his collection. I'm sure the internet has them preserved somewhere though.
"Lightning, Fire, and Ice are all I need!"
il'l like to inform you about any spell that allows you to trow objects from a area. I used a custom cantrip, shape air (shape water for air) and by trowing the fangs of a gigant monster that deal 3d8 dmg each i murderd my dm plans. I had 49 of them and i trown all of them at the same gigant enemy, leading to 147d8 dmg, instakilling his boss encounter
"Ladies won't like you" unless you're the author Ed Greenwood with his Gary Stu Self-Insert Elminster.
Just fireball.
JUST FIREBALL!!!
Especially the wiza-Oh wait wrong one
Stringly suggesting to also check out the Guide to Races and Artificer ( a class taht got added later).
He just dropped the full spooky slice song 👻
Memes apart, fireball is indeed a incredible spell, specially when you get it (around 5th level). It can pretty much clean up a room with it's damage and reach.
But speaking of the wizards themselves, if you ever play a table that is going to be up to the later levels, this class is one of shiniest (along with it's other caster friends), allowing you even to transform into a Dragon, to summon a blade that cause some great damage, getting immune to all damage types, and one of my favorites: Getting advantage on every roll because you have foreseen every second of the next 8 hours.
its not that Wizards in particular have low charisma, instead charisma is a dump stat on anyone who isn't a charisma caster. (Bard, Paladin, Sorcerer, Warlock, ect)
Wizard Trips, Wizard Dies of 1d4 scraping damage
Best song you have heard, So Far.
There is a reason the meme began of "wizard dies of 1d4 (insert funny source) damage" i.e. wizard dies of 1d4 sneezing damage
In most Final Fantasy games you have more than just Fire, Ice and Lightning though.
Cure and Life are good for your party and, along with holy, are good aginst undead enemies. You also have Wind Earth, Meteor, Flare, Sleep, Blind, Esuna, Protect, Shell, Reflect, etc.
In some of the games you can even gain enemy abilities like bad breath and dealth
I remember the Rune Of Portals costing 50s before discounts.
Which was fairly eyugh, considering the 100g for apprentice riding and a mount was an nigh insurmountable hurdle until well after you hit 40, and lots of vanilla players never got enough money for Journeyman.
It DID make you appreciate the mount when you finally did get it, though. My priest still has his original Brown Skeletal Horse in the list of random favorite mounts.
Jo Cat's song about girls is pretty awesome too.
Fireball is the answer to all problems
Red Dragon appears which is Fire proof
"Roll a Nat1 you die" the Class
And with the Wildemount book they added gravity and time magic for wizard
Oh you definitely can have a charismatic Wizard if you want... Just that unlike Sorcerers, Charisma is no the spellcasting stat for wizards (its Intelligence).
Thus, the stat you want to maximise is not the one that help in social stuff but it doesn't mean wizard get shit charisma by default.... All depends on the scores you get in each stats at character creation 😉
Oh and yes, Wizard have the least HP at lvl 1 : traditionally, they get 6 + Constitution modifier... A standard mace does 1d6+ Strength mod in bludgeoning damages... Wizard CAN get one shot easily at 1rst lvl
You're going to have to hold off on doing races if you want to keep saying "it's the best song he's ever done" :P
Ah.. War Mage...
If you really wanna piss your DM off and make them hate you more than the tanky paladin.
"WHY WON'T YOU DIE!?" -> War Magic in a nutshell
Seriously tho, Wizard is one of my favorites, I played an enchantment wizard before, and I had an answer for EVERYTHING the DM threw at us. I paralyzed one of the major bad guys, I mind controlled several cultists into killing each other and just...
The DM had to purposely make enemies who were immune to charm, sleep, paralysis, poision, levitation/ect just to counter ME and my bullshit. Then I learned to straight up ALTER MEMORIES and it was all over then.. My old man lizardfolk wizard was scary, all while being a sweet old grandpa to the party.
I remember a friend telling me that in old DnD the wizard could get oneshot by a regular housecat depending on the roll
One time i step on d4. But im still alive.
Wait til you hear the races rap he made for dnd
RACES RACES RACES!!!! as you could tell... WATCH RACES NEXT LOL
can't wait for the races video.
Jocat: Just fireball
My Abjuration wizard with maxed Int by lv 4 and potentionally 21 ac with mage armor, cloak of protection and shield: just counterspell.
If you know where the block sound clip comes from you an absolute chad
YOU'D BE SUCH A POWERFUL CHAD YOUR BRAIN WOULD EXPLODE IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE!
You can have a high Charisma Wizard if you're not hell bent of min-maxing every last stat point. Likewise, you can have skills like persuasion with the right background.
The good thing about D&D character creation is that you are free to play around and not automatically go with the base clichee.
I currently play a Barbarian with a Charisma of 14 and trained in Persuasion, and he is the go-to character when talking to most of the common people (Folk Hero background). He's one of the most fun characters I have been playing recently, even though he is not optimized to the max.
@@Squeekysquid Really depends on the person / group's preferred playstile - it's totally valid to value flavor over being optimized.
@@Squeekysquid It doesn't always have to be either of the extremes.
For example, I am currently playing a Barbarian with a Charisma of 14 (point buy, so it was a deliberate decision and not just lucky high rolled scores to distribute). I still hit things really well. I could probably be more effective by a small margin if I had dropped the Charisma, but I doubt the character would be as much fun. Sure, I don't need that Charisma or proficiency in Persuasion to be effective in a fight but it gives the character a lot of flavor.
And just to be clear, there is no right or wrong in these situations, it's an issue about what the group wants.
Does a group and DM want to focus on challenging and optimized combat and not much care about things beyond optimized builds? Absolutely viable!
Does a group want characters who are more believable as people, with some unique quirks and stats that are more "natural" rather than optimized to whatever their role in combat is? Also perfectly viable!
As long as everybody at the table is having fun, they're not playing it wrong.
Ironically enough, I knew a wizard that was more handsome than the rogue and he was a necromancer
That song killed me so much
6:00 wait until you see the races video
Fireball is the only spell you need
Wait till you get to the Races part of Crap Guide and the DM guide
Wizards can't talk about the day they took an arrow in the knee. You can't talk when you're dead ^^
what is cute is between those characters, that wizard and fighter are dating. and so are the paladin and bard.
Just wait till you get to the Races video.
He has quite nice gloves
I recommend his video on races.
Finish up the class guides (including the redone Barbarian) so you can get to the masterpiece that is the Races video. Then you'll hear bars.
You should check out Pointy Hat's D&D With a Twist!
The best caster class in D&D, in my opinion. And despite the jokes in video, they are very versatile. Not to mention you get much better spells than fireball, like wish, which lets you wish your target was hit by a fireball.
(Can I get a bunch of JUST FIREBALL replies to this comment, please?)
I cast fireball (xp to lvl 3 reference)
Just Fireball
JUST FIREBALL!
>multiclasses into two levels of Fighter
*ACTIONSURGEFIREBALLS*
JUST FIREBALL!
No disrespect meant to any Fireball fans...but personally, I'm going to go a different angle with a wizard.
Dual-wielding Shock Lightning!
The wizard is basically an allegory for growing up as a 🤓.
Oh Lord, I remember when getting silver was a common reward for levels 1-35, and the only way you can get gold for free was to join a guild, raid the bank, and leave the guild. 🤣
What’s the outro song
Nah, legit, without Featherfall you could fall in a pit at level 3 and still maybe die outright
If you like JoCats musical skills you should watch the races video
Have you seen how to make yugi build from yugioh in d&d? Hes too over powered
Why did Jocat fold after trolls disliked his very likable "Girls" song/rap? Everybody was propping him! I get it! Internet poison is bad!! But when you have these mages buffing you.... WTF?!?!?!
6:00 you've seen nothing yet, or maybe you did when did you recorded these videos? Did you finished the series?
I know that Jocat says Fireball is the solution to everything, and I completely agree with him. But what is his opinion on metamagic Fireball? Say... twin Fireball, or Fireball transmuted to a different damage on type, especially on enemies are resistant or immune to fire?
Well, prolly not Twin, since Twinned only affects single-target spells and Fireball is a big ol’ AoE… but transmuted Fireball’s probably lovely.
If you think that's the best song he's done, wait till you get to the D&D Races
Do his vid about the races, dope song there too
I’d let you be a war mage in my campaign. 😃.
Know you're probably going to do the classes first, but the Character Sheet video is the one most likely to improve your D&D game.
Jokes on you, the first one he reacted to was the character sheet
SIX MONTHS ago
@@tennoyamamoto1800 Might have to look for it.
Fireball
If you want to listen to a good joke cat song listen to ''I like girls''
still hope to see this guy react to fools gold by dingo doodles
....so who's gonna tell him that fireball is useless against most creatures because fire resistance and immunity on so many creatures.
JUST FIREBALL!!
That's what the Metamagic Adept feat is for; you get Transmuted Spell.
I prefer meteor storm 11D6 damage in a at least 20 foot maybe 50 foot radius
He's gotta watch the crap guide to DM now, right?
I have been taking out of the mental ward my wife now respects me and I now have a job all because you reacted to wizard.. I mean fireball
Crimson KB there's new archThrones videos out go watch them for your Next videos
should watch races.
Yeah best spells fire lightning and ice others lame but I'm more of a ice wizard when I did my firts d&d like I'm more to ice I like ice magic my fav and fire and lightning are cool ice fire lightning cool other magic boring
ok black mage
damn skippy