There's a lot of good synergy there for an Eldritch Knight. I was tempted to go that route for a friends campaign but I went with Artificer instead for some utility and RP reasons. But having the defense and initiative boosts would be really really good. Especially since you won't have a ton of spell slots you can only have so many uses of Shield. The other point I'm warming up to is that Wizards can make a bigger impact using debuffing/controls spells compared to damage spells. An eldritch Knight can get a ton of damage milage out of their weapon and a good cantrip, I'd probably focus spell slots on defense and control.
Ya, I like the Artificer idea too. I also agree about the EK . You don't have enough spell choices as an EK to try and do everything, so you may as well get your damage from weapons/cantrips and save your spells for whatever else you wanted to do.
Been playing this combo for 2 years now. My character is a Zariel Teifling with 6 levels of Eldrich Knight and 7 levels of war wizard. Heavy armor, arcane deflection, sheild, mirror image made her annoyingly hard to hit at early level, the Zariel Teifling spells helped with the sword mage feeling.
Nice review, So if you want to be a fighter/mage and use the heavier style weapons and use heavy armor this is a great way to go. But if you are going to use light weapons i would say better to go bladesinger.
Agreed. Bladesinger is very strong. But I think we all know that, so I'm trying to provide alternatives. Also, this one is more martial focused. That can be good or bad, depending on how you look at it. This guy's never gonna have Wall of Force or Teleport for example, haha.
i like the war wizard here though since you can get spell slots, find familiar, shield, absorb elements, etc from the wizard levels, i don't see any value with taking the eldritch knight. going battlemaster to boost dmg and martial control or echo knight for mobility/dmg would be better subclasses to take. arcane archer is an interesting pick for a ranged version as grasping arrow works well with certain wizard spells like fear, watery sphere, cause fear but think that build would be more wizard than fighter or would need a 3 level dip into battlesmith to align attack/cast stats.
There's a lot of good synergy there for an Eldritch Knight. I was tempted to go that route for a friends campaign but I went with Artificer instead for some utility and RP reasons. But having the defense and initiative boosts would be really really good. Especially since you won't have a ton of spell slots you can only have so many uses of Shield.
The other point I'm warming up to is that Wizards can make a bigger impact using debuffing/controls spells compared to damage spells. An eldritch Knight can get a ton of damage milage out of their weapon and a good cantrip, I'd probably focus spell slots on defense and control.
Ya, I like the Artificer idea too. I also agree about the EK . You don't have enough spell choices as an EK to try and do everything, so you may as well get your damage from weapons/cantrips and save your spells for whatever else you wanted to do.
Been playing this combo for 2 years now. My character is a Zariel Teifling with 6 levels of Eldrich Knight and 7 levels of war wizard. Heavy armor, arcane deflection, sheild, mirror image made her annoyingly hard to hit at early level, the Zariel Teifling spells helped with the sword mage feeling.
That's a nice choice. The Zariel smite type spells would really help with that. I like it.
High elf
7 eldritch knight and 13 war Wizard
Elven accuracy
War caster
Polearm master
Sentail
If you go 6 levels of wizard might as well be a blade singer lol. I am making this for my next guy.
Agreed, using one of your attacks to cast cantrip and leaving bonus action free would be amazing once you get more attacks.
Nice review,
So if you want to be a fighter/mage and use the heavier style weapons and use heavy armor this is a great way to go.
But if you are going to use light weapons i would say better to go bladesinger.
Agreed. Bladesinger is very strong. But I think we all know that, so I'm trying to provide alternatives. Also, this one is more martial focused. That can be good or bad, depending on how you look at it. This guy's never gonna have Wall of Force or Teleport for example, haha.
i like the war wizard here though since you can get spell slots, find familiar, shield, absorb elements, etc from the wizard levels, i don't see any value with taking the eldritch knight. going battlemaster to boost dmg and martial control or echo knight for mobility/dmg would be better subclasses to take. arcane archer is an interesting pick for a ranged version as grasping arrow works well with certain wizard spells like fear, watery sphere, cause fear but think that build would be more wizard than fighter or would need a 3 level dip into battlesmith to align attack/cast stats.
Im liking this idea
Maybe 3 levels of wizard for shadow blade. I also like 2 levels of warlock and the rest bladesinger.
Good call; shadow blade is pretty nice on a character like this. I should have thought to mention that one.
@@thedungeon1578 shadow blade becomes easily replaced though once you get spirit shroud/get a magic weapon.