The Shadow Ronin: A Unique Dual Wielding Warlock Build for D&D 5e
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- Опубликовано: 22 сен 2023
- The Shadow Ronin is a dual wielding warlock that specializes in shadow magic. This build has answers for many different types of combats and excels at pumping out damage to his enemies. The Ronin is a Custom Lineage Undead Warlock with a 1 Level dip into Fighter giving us a dual wielding beast right at level 1 continuing to scale even into the very late game.
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D&D Daily - The Shadow Ronin: A Unique Dual Wielding Warlock Build for D&D 5e
Level 1:(@1:51) [fighter 1, fighting-style, race & feat]
Level 2:(@2:34) [warlock 1 & patron]
Level 3:(@3:26) [warlock 2 & eldritch invocations]
Level 4:(@4:05) [warlock 3 & sub-class]
Level 5:(@4:45) [warlock 4 & ASI]
Level 6:(@4:57) [warlock 5 & eldritch invocation]
Level 7:(@6:12) [warlock 6]
Level 8:(@6:28) [warlock 7 & eldritch invocation]
Discussions of where to go after. (@8:05)
Pedant here. The second sword was the wakizashi.
Yeah, more of a short sword, used primarily for seppuku. (Ritual suicide)
Pendant here. I'm holding a small picture.
@@ericpeterson8732plus with a shorter blade, it allows you better ways to maneuver, once you get in close.
Best then, would actually be a dagger theoretically.
@@nooneyouknowoftonto, right?
The Tonto was for seppuku. And some carried two katanas, some had a katana and wakizashi
Nice! What i love is that this guy is doing really competent damage at level 2. Youre looking at 2 attacks with 11 damage average. Thats really solid for that low.
Very fun build , shadow of moil is a great spell and more importantly it really fits the theme well. Here is a challenge for you single class sorcerer gish build, race/species and subclass are up to you. All official content are allowed even if it is setting specific.
I built a Paladin/Undead Warlock Death Knight type character a while back, and the problem with the invocation _Fiendish Vigor_ is that it doesn't stack with the temporary hitpoints your _Form of Dread_ gives you.
I recommend Devil's Sight, all darkness spells you are now effectively immune to, and if the DM doesnt allow custom lineage you get an awesome darkvision for V. Human
@@lasonris8934 Thank you, good recommendation. I did select _Devil's Sight!_ Among other reasons because the Death Knight monster gets 120 feet of Darkvision, so I wanted it too. I also took _Mask of Many Faces,_ mostly for shenanigans.
I would go 3 levels into fighter for samurai for the flavor
Another fresh build! I recently made a non EB pact of the blade gish using a Pike (flavor purposes). As you've showcased, the gish tools are there if you can find the armor proficiency somewhere.
I would definitely take 3 levels of fighter. Action surge every short rest is always great, and battle master maneuvers make fighting so much more dynamic, or cavalier marking could be good with shadow of moil and/or armor of agathys. Echo knight could be thematic for shadow magic as well.
I think the main conflicting thing with incorporating echo knight would be the conflicting action economy, because echo knight uses mainly your bonus action. With that said, weapon usage could be adjusted to better suit that but you'd lose that dual wielder identity. Although, a nodachi wielding shadow ronin sounds AMAZING.
@@NayWowski It uses your bonus action to create your echo or teleport using it. So long as you have it out and its not taking damage, your bonus action is free.
I love you keep bring up the build I mentioned months ago improving on the undead patron warlock tank build
Amazing build thanks
Glad you like it!
Cool build, shadow of moil is often overlooked.
A challenge inspired by this video
A "Stop hitting yourself" build. Someone that runs in to melee/tries to provoke opportunity attacks on purpose/tries to get hit so the enemies end up killing themselves. Armor of Agathys would be a staple, Shadow of moil, Hellish Rebuke maybe?
Shadar Kai for teleporting in with AoA active, being resistant to all damage whilst enemies CHUNK themselves by hitting you.
Love this idea!
Samurai didn't use two Katanas they used a pair of swords referred to as a Daisho meaning long and short. Katana meant long sword or long Blade and the shorter sword was called a waikizashi which meant short. Before the creation of the katana they used a Tachi and Kadachi
A really interesting mechanic that can be read from hexblade as well is that the bonus extends to all your pact weapons, but you can still have it active on another weapon. So for a dual wield hexblade build, you could have your main weapon be the pact of the blade weapon, and your secondary be the hexblade weapon and you'll be able to use charisma to attack with both of them. It's pretty cool, and totally RAW.
Yep, a lot of people miss that line in the Hexblade dedicated weapon description that it extends the benefits to your Pact weapon meaning it doesn't have to be your Pact weapon leaving you free to only needing a 13 str or dex for the Fighter dip and cranking everything into Charisma. This especially awesome if your campaign goes high enough for Life drinker Evo at level 12.
If u start fighter you can get heavy armor but plate requires 15 str and you would be trading wis/chr saves for str/con. Going medium armor with 14 dex probably better honestly.
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Awesome build
Samurai always carried 2 swords but not 2 katana's. Katana was one of the swords the second being a wakizashi or a tanto. There was one famous Samurai who did use 2 katanas Miyamoto Musashi. Course katana is a term for all swords sooo?
Gonna try this with a bloodline of Levistus tiefling (flavored towards ice/cold instead of fire) since ice/ ice spells seem to be a better fit when paired with shadow spells and abilities.
This is Yone minus the wind magic and honestly I'm all here for it.
I love this build and answers my desire to be an effective dual wielding hexblade style character! What I love the relationship between the Warlock & Patron and Hexblade can somewhat vague at times, where as here it allows so much more customization.
I would re-envision this character as a Egyptian themed character, with the Patron being Pharaoh Lich/Undead High Council, ala The Undying Court from Eberron, and the Warlock being sworn to carry out their will, for whatever they may be plotting or desire. Communication between the Warlock and Patron could be a scarab 'pet' that whispers commands. (Or wearing a scarab amulet, that opens and a scarab crawls out and whispers in you ear... )
A lot of cool thought and flavor to put into your Form of Dread and ways of describing the appearance of spells and there is even an argument for choosing Radiant Damage for certain spells, because of the sun, the desert, etc.
Great font of inspiration for this take on the theme for this build if one is into mythology.
Eldritch Blast is incredible, but without Agonizing Blast, etc. I would make an argument for picking up Chill Touch because of the undead/mummy-esque feel.
I would totally dip further into fighter after getting Shadow of Moil, maybe after having access to level 5 spells. If Echo Knight is allowed flavoring ones shades as sand-like replicas of yourself just seems cool, and it is just super strong. Otherwise Battle Master is strong, but one could just dip 1 extra level into Fighter, for that delicious, DELICIOUS Action Surge and it just synergizes so well with the fact that the build is Short-Rest heavy.
Rant over.
Awesome video! Keep them coming!
Thanks! I love that you took the idea and just ran with it!
It might be nice to show a build that is all about reflavoring. I’ve always had issues with gun mages because they felt like a mage who owns a gun, or a warrior who sometimes uses spells. But then it occurred to me to reflavor spells as gun shots. Like Fireball is just a rapid series of mystical gun blasts that destroys an area, or Thunderstep could be firing a blast at your feet that yeets, you in a direction, Fly is just a rapid series of similar blasts and so on.
How about conjuring a Tarot Reader/Fortune Teller Witch DnD Build? I'd love to see witchy build with October coming up! ✨
Dang this is a Massively MAD build
By massively you mean that it is the same as a Paladin. Strength and Charisma.
Doesn't the frighten effect rely on the charisma you dumped? I don't think they're gonna fail the save particularly often
It's just spamming at them. It still has value.
Challenge- Warlock/Bladesinger/Fighter that maximizes the Bladesinger extra attack feature to spam Eldritch Blasts. I would also like to see Metamagic Adept for a Quickened spell. Ideally, per attack roll damage buffs would tune up the damage. The details would be up to you but I’d love to see what you could do with the concept
Fighter 2 just for Action Surge so you can get Moil up and attack in the same turn.
Has anyone figured out a build that stacks as many on hit saving throw effects as possible. I would love to see one.
With Echo Knight, you could flavor it like a ghost or even your spirit or possibly even your shadow are stepping up to help. Lots of possibilities!
well when it comes to what samurai used, they typically would acutally primarily focus on using a long bows from horseback with a their katanas were almost secondary to that with usually it would be a primary katana with than they would typically carry a tanto (think a japanese dagger that basically is just a really short katana) and it was also common enough to use a wakazashi with dual wielding the katana and wakazashi was actually a rather good tactic when you needed better defense against a particualarly agressive opponent as it would allow for you to both defend AND make an attack to force the opponent to guard themselves or get shishkababed
5:40 you mean longbow... again, samurai were by and far most well known for their horseback archery.......
Sage,
Could you make a build I call the hamster ball menace? (There's a few ways to build it, gestalt is even better since it comes online at 7th lvl) Based around the protective nature of Otiluke's resilient sphere, but still be able to fight outside of it. There's 4 ways that we can manage to effect outside our sphere while being inside these being through manifesting out the sphere, trickery cleric channel divinity (requires a buddy to pull of this combo), wild fire druid's wild fire spirit lvl 6 feature (requires quite a few lvl's though), manifest mind from scribe wizard (limited use) and an echo from echo knight (also brings extra attack and action surge).
3 lvls echo knight, 7 bladesinger is 1 option or 5 echo knight, 7 scribe wizard should also be great.
I would take the following route: goblin, blind fighting fighting style echo knight (minimum 5 lvls), scribe wizard with a bunch of obscurement spells (fog cloud, pyro technics, sleet storm, stinking cloud as well as some defensive spells mirror image, blink, haste and Ashardalons stride), if you can request magic items look for mithril plate or alike, +1 or higher shield, periapt proof against poison (non of these require attunement), winged boots, cloak of displacement and sword of the paruns. Try to see if you can fit in a lvl of order cleric to boss charmed foes around and if you really have a lot of room add Gloomstalker.
I'd like to see SOMEONE do a really solid Aasimar Divine Soul Sorcerer/Celestial Warlock.
I’m playing a DEX based Hexlock right now, personally I’m not too crazy about STR builds in general…Stealth is really powerful and winning the initiative gives you a “free turn” effectively.
This is especially pronounced with a Hexlock since using weapons CAN be used with CHA if that’s what you want.
I flavored my shadowy spirit dude as the dog xenomorph/alien creature bursting out of the dead baddie’s chest…it’s awesome for exploration and getting a sneak peek at the next encounter - just have it put its head through the door or wall (whatever) and then have it draw you a picture of what it saw.
It’s a fun little buddy.
my gosh this is so cool. "dumping charisma" I never thought of for warlocks, but you could rock a 14-16 most of your career. The theme is superb, all those ghost armors are awesome. Highly recommend Musashi the novel, as others have mentioned the historical figure. It's classic Asian unrequited love triangles and a book I've read a few times in my life from a teenager up.
A spell request: How would you stat a Summon Ooze spell along the lines of the Tasha's summon spells?
Hexblade swords bard. Shield is awesome but making a tiefling will have you running with a few different smites
I'm fairly new to DnD and was looking for some sort of Pirate/ Djinn Warlock build that was viable. All I see is the stone push Djinn lock.
Awesome build! So, what do the stat spread look like at level 1?
Primary stat Strength, secondary Constitution, Tertiary Charisma, anything leftover in Wisdom 👍
I'm 100% using this idea for a NPC in a Kamigawa DnD game Im making
Challenge build: make an effective healer, both in combat and out. Use whatever you like, but you need to be able to bring one or more characters up to at least 75% of full health in combat. Ultimate healer build. I don't care about anything else. (I'm asking you to break the healing system)
Rationale: I'm tired of the "let your friends drop before eking out enough healing to bring them back into the fight" model of healing. I want the healing fantasy, so you need to get your party in fighting strength both in combat and out. the build also needs to be able to cure diseases and poison and other nasty conditions. Thank you for consideration.
Hell yes. Want to see this. Think it will be large part druid. Maybe a level or so in life cleric ?
This is a fantastic build. Flavorful and good. I was worried this build would also completely rely on echo knight as usual which just is a BalancedToSell third party content :P
How are you casting with your hands full?
I think I appreciate this build a little bit more if it includes different types of weapons.
Per say… A shadow whip?
I think the first ASI you get should be used for Heavy Armor Master. Armor of Agathys scales *really* well when you have a way to reduce the damage you take on those hits, and majority of the the damage in 5e is non-magical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. So, when majority of the hits you take lose three points of damage, your temp HP lasts a lot longer, and any of those hits that are melee are dealing damage back to those that attack you at a much higher rate.
Good point!
How would you build an Assassin's Creed style of 5e character?
Yeah, that's badass... I'd want a Deah knight as my patron -- though I might also ge Genie Warlock... I mean you get the extra damage, flight, eventually limited wish....maybe take crusher and use hammers... of course not the challenge you were given, but PAM/ GWM and flight go very well together
Don’t know if you have done this, but I would love to see a DnD Build based around one of the Mortal Kombat characters
Dark mage, but can heal, 3 ds sorc, 2 grave cleric, 3 undead Warlock, 2 Necromancer. 10 levels allows for pretty great blaster mage focused on necrotic damage. Allows for twinned inflict wounds, at distance with imp, and quicken toll the dead. This is not even adding the debuff turn: twin mind spike and quicken bane. If you want, use glyph of Warding to effectively double your concentration spell available.
Can even lay down heals with glyph of Warding to trigger to make a triage space..
I challenge you to make a build based off wild magic. They need to be able to withstand hits with the ability to produce a magic surge as often as possible.
Nice idea, but I wanna do one small change and it is partially for flavor reasons. Shadow magic is partially illusory in nature, which means it plays with the mind. So, I wanna go Psi Warrior 3 for the increased damage and push effects.
If its me i will dump the thirsting blade and take the booming blade cantrip instead. Damage vice its better and i can favor it as a fast cut that deal damage after the enemy move like a delayed cut in moves.
I'm confused, doesn't Pact Weapon have you using your CHA as your weapon stat for attack rolls and damage? Why pump STR?
Wouldn't it be better to warrior then three levels in worlok hexblade putting a longsword as your primary weapon using charisma for roll and using the shadow blade spell as a secondary one? With this you can use charisma for everything and concentrate in dex and con
Interesting Not sure about the Str main stat. You can get just as much damage with dual weilding raipers. That would also let you have the higher inish.
Can u even dual wield lances. I know it says when mounted it only uses one hand but I don't think they meant it so u can dual wield them lol
By RAW yes, but as always talk to the DM to see if they have house-ruled it, or if you are the DM just decide what you will allow.
Wow! I never realized how shadow of moil worked before... completely overlooked it 😮
My Shadow Ronin would be using the monk.
Sure he'd be MAD, but with point buy, you can easily get in, and strength wouldn't be a thing then)
I like the extra movement/flavor abilities: I would make him a dhampir way of long death, with the undead patron.
Can still use Tasha's for the longsword ability as a monk.
Can use the fighter selection feat from Tasha's too, for dual weilding.
Way of long death monks are obsessed with the concept of death, and it makes a lot of sense in his research of how death works, to either seek out a patron( for more control/power of it) or to catch the eye of one, because of his actions.
Especially after he became a dhampir.
Using shadow of moil saves me ki points, instead of using step of the wind for defense all the time, and frees up my bonus action.
Could use way of the shadow too, instead of long death 🤔
You would get that nice teleport in shadows ability plus pass without trace, and goes with the shadow theme nicely! 🥷
Challenge.. halfling or gnomb build as a fighter or ranger . Front line or tank. Small tough guy who kicks ass
Raw damage isn’t better to go with two hands weapon?
Build idea: Draconic or Storm Sorcerers Shockin Grasp focused build. I call it "Lightning Monk". SG is flavored as Chidori strike.
Or way of the ascended dragon monk, and literally punch and shoot lightning
Could you do a character build based on Garak from Star Trek DS9?
He is a spy focused far more on intelligence gathering and hiding in plain site. rather than directly sneaking.
Also I think the mastermind's ability to give someone the fear that you know something then mind read to find out truely what that is would be an amazing character.
This is the closest character we've done to this theme: ruclips.net/video/Cdh88Sx6AoU/видео.html
I actually played this character and had a fantastic time doing so!
So I have tried this combo, there is a flaw (at least on DnD beyond so not sure if its them)
If you go fighter first lvl as your starting class you get heavy armor, but youll never get shadow of moil which is where this build shines
If you go Warlock as the starting class you can get Shadow of Moil but no Heavy armor Prof so if that happens youll want at least a DEX of 14 for medium armor here
The max lvl I go for is 10-12 on average because its too rare to consider the lvls past them for campaigns
I really wanted to try this out so hopefully you can give me some ideas to fix this
Shadow of Moil is a 4th level warlock spell. Any warlock with seven levels or more can cast it. Your choice of class at first level has no bearing on your ability to cast this spell.
Then I dont see why its not letting me use it@@G-Blockster
@@lasonris8934 Keep in mind, for 5e D&D, a 7th level Warlock may know only three cantrips and eight spells from 1st - 4th level. You may need to jettison one of your earlier selections.
@@G-Blockster DND beyond didnt even give 4th, i only chose 2 lvled spells
I have a question, if you’re always dual wielding, why not use raipers?
It's definitely an option, we opted for longsword because we are a STR based build, but in reality they are essentially interchangeable on this build
Challenge: Sauron build, heavy armor, fire damage and manipulating everyone
Love this idea! We'll take it on!
Can this be a dex build instead of a str base character?
It can be! You end up trading AC for Dex saving throws, but it's still effective 👍
Thanks buddy!
Why strength tho?
Can you do a Naruto Style ninja?
It's kind of boring, but shadow of moil with Champion Fighter would be cool for crit fishing. I don't normally delve into that camp though.
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Just one criticism here (besides the "samurai carried two katanas" thing that's already been covered): if you're placing WIS in *FOURTH PLACE,* you are absolutely not "covering wisdom saves" unless you're rolling for stats and either getting insanely lucky or have a DM who uses some idiotically overpowered random number generation method. That's not a critique of the build, just of your claim; no 5e character can be good at everything, after all.
Except maybe paladin multiclasses ... 🤣
I think I would take the Ritual Caster feat at some point if I wanted to use Phantom Steed. Warlocks have too few spell slots to be using them on a mount that pops like a soap bubble with 1 HP of damage. Besides, any feat that gives warlocks extra spellcasting is a good one, IMO. 😁
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hmm why not 2 level fighter? is 19 level warlock gets anything that interesting that 18 does not?
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@G-Blockster well said! @Kangstor 2nd level in fighter would work just peachy