Not even just invisibility, fog cloud can also be broken with this and there might be others that I’m not thinking of that have a similar effect.

It would be great for an enchantment school wizard since they get a free twin spell for enchantments.

It would also be interesting for a NPC sorcerer assassination attempt as they walk by a target whose name they know....

The difficulty is knowing names, it can be rare to know the name of your enemy. Maybe with detect thoughts, but that’s a lot to concentrate on during a combat. However, if you know someone’s name, you have power over them ;)

@@papersage69 also aberrant Mind Sorcerer. They can pick it with psionic sorcery.

Yeah, this really seems to buff most of the casters, especially sorcerer and wizard, at the expense of everyone else.

@@rogerwilco2 Rangers can summon their dragon with a 1st lvl spell at full health and they don't require concentration so they could have summon beast or conjure animals at the same time. Sorcerers don't have summoning spells so it is a huge buff for them but wizzards have better options than that :P

unless you are playing a shepherd druid

@@docnevyn5814 I think mighty summoner only affects beasts and feys. But it would be sweet if it worked on all tasha-like summoning spells.

I think celestial summon is better simply for that fact and it up casts to 6th level better cause it’s melee attacks do more damage

Honestly I’d sooner compare it to summon aberration (star spawn) since it also gets bonus damage pending a save also you’ll almost never need to choose between summoning a celestial or a dragon spirit (only DSS gets both).

I think that especially for sorcerers and wizards, this is still a boost.

With a Beast Companion you would have to watch out that you and your companion don't accidentally burn each other though.

This would be a very fun bard build. Magical secrets for find greater steed and flaming stride spells would let you get some serious mileage out of them.

FGS a Nightmare and viola

FYI: the beastmaster does not require self. only The ranger to be both the caster and one of the targets. so bless(MC dip) would allow 4(R+B+PM1+PM2) creatures. self target spells get both rangers characters(beast and ranger). It's functionally the same with Ashardalon’s Stride but some people read comments and remember that over the real rules. The find steed spell ,however, is more limited but i think it still works.

proportionally sure, but its an equivalent buff to the two despite one class being weaker. I don't understand why sorc only spells are so rare.

100%

The Draconic Sorcerer needed more for them in this book so at least all sorcerers making out well is something.

@@leodouskyron5671 I wish the draconic sorcorer got more melee tricks like claw attacks, wings, etc as they leveled to mirror the dragon disciple prestige class.

I don't know druids actually did really well with the spells here, both draconic spirit and draconic transformation work really well in the framework of a moon druid. Also as noted in the video draconic spirit synergizes with a shepard druid. The idea of a brontusarus or a mammoth flying around, with blindsight and a bonus action 6d8 breath weapon is effin terrifying.

Would a creature use their resistances for something so minor?

@@20storiesunder Incapacitated isn't minor at all

@@1033515 True, but that one's only a 25% chance - decent, but not guaranteed to burn through multiple legendary resistances.

@@Nr4747 Blind is a very good modifier. It makes it so you can't cast spells and all attacks at disadvantage thus being a good counter for either melee or spellcaster enemies.

@@frking100 perhaps, but I would be interested in how many creatures with legendary resistances have blindsight

I have this image in my head of my arty/wiz character running through an army of enemies making a huge firey wake.

Handy for a blade singer and a fey wanderer as well. Pick Tabaxi and go to town.

@@Hyde_Hill hexblade also.

@@torunsmok5890 Warlocks don't get it as a spell though.

Yeah I agree, the comparison to Web completely missed that it’s a non-concentration spell. That’s just fantastic. Blindness/Deafness is saved entirely by the fact that it’s non-concentration. Consider that you can stack it with Web as a sorcerer or wizard. A creature stuck in both needs to have someone else use an action to help them get out of the ice (says “another creature” which says to me they can’t free themselves) which means they need someone to come within melee range and risk getting Webbed themselves. They can use actions to free themselves from the Web, but they’re stuck in place so they’re just going to have to make the save again next turn. It’s essentially permanent restrained and immobilized unless the enemies get very lucky.

@@Skyhigh91100 sadly it says “it or another creature” must take the action to free it.

@@MyNameIsNotPa Still it bones npc action economy which is a major win for the pcs. Downside is the con save, I avoid con saves at it tends to be monsters/NPCs highest save.

I came to the comment section to say exactly this. I think it's pretty good low level with the damage + control and at higher levels you just don't care about the damage. The freezing works even against ice-immune creatures! There are no non-concentration, non-situational, area control spells of lvl 2 or lower, so it becomes pretty good as a tool for harder combats level 6+. Not to mention even if the damage is low, it is still damage + control, which means forcing concentration checks wheter they save it or not. Against melee targets you basically hinder their effectiveness until they spend an action and against casters this is also good, since they will become easy targets and this effect does not fade away with teleportation.

Binding Ice Combos crazily with web aswell, keeps stuff in the ranger for the longer term restrain.

Although there's a 25% chance that the spell will cause those it hits to scatter, so that'll make it harder to just follow a clump of enemies around with it.

He definitely underrated Binding Ice as it is non concentration damage and control, it lingers even if they teleport, and it can stack with web to annihilate enemy action economy

🤔 The fact that it's a spirit summoned by a spell doesn't make its physical attacks magical? That's a shame.

@@bigdream_dreambig As far as I know, no. Doesn't make the attacks magical for any of the other summon spells, at least. Obviously I don't have the new book.

nice I was a bit bummed at first view that dragon summon seemed like a power creep of all other tasha summons, but this makes up for it a bit

@@KaitlynBurnellMath afaik any damage dealt by a spell is magical by default unless it's like, dropping an enemy out of the air and letting the ground do the damage

@@torunsmok5890 Damage from summons by default is non-magical unless otherwise specified (e.g. conjure animals deals non-magical damage by default, and Shepherd Druid has an ability to make it magical).

That's what I was thinking. Non-Concentration battlefield control is nothing to sneeze at, either if it's because their speed is 0 or they waste an action to break free. I think it's more comparable to Grease than Shatter, IMO. It will by no means replace web, but it complements it very well.

@@seacliff217 since people say that Shatter is the poor mans version of Fireball, then Binding Ice is the poor mans version of Sypnatic Static lol

I already thought about combining this with the scout rouge's skirmisher ability that let's you move up to half of your speed as a recation when a creature ends their turn next to you.

Or you can use the Ready action to move after your turns over, literally doubling the damage potential of this spell

@@Greenomb That seems like alot of investment for a mediocre trick. You’d need 3 Rogue levels and 5+ caster levels which don’t have much synergy with each other just to deal a few extra d6s.

@@M0ebius vengeance paladins get an ability to pursue targets, could combo with sorcerer levels and it'd be neat, plus stride will work with find steed which is badass

DM: Haha, I've grouped up fiends, undead, shambling mounds, and that horrible thing from the monster manual that actually decided to be resistant to Force. No blaster wizard can handle this encounter! Rainbow Dragon Breath:

@@aprinnyonbreak1290 the gay dragon reigns supreme

30feet radius

@@Fr4nZeR my bad, typo. good catch.

Yeah, that's the way I read it, too. By default, it just does nothing since you aren't moving, the thing beneath you is. But, spread the effect to the mount, and you got a burning horse. There's a super, super cool skeletal, ghostly steed that leaves trails of blue fire build waiting to happen. Or ask your DM for your summoned mount to look like a motorcycle and become Ghostrider.

Yeah, it seems like a mini haste almost

Yeah, the fact that you need 2 bonus actions to Bladesing and cast Ash's Stride is not great. It is also Concentration, so you can't use it with Shadow Blade or Summon Fey. I do agree that the visual of running so fast you leave a trail of fire is pretty cool.

Speedy Speed Boy meme build wen? If I'm not mistaken, there's a race that can get us 35 starting move. We can grab the 10 from Monk 2, dip in rogue to Dash as a bonus action, pick up Haste, Longstrider, probably through an item, and our new fire escape, upcasted as much as possible. Take the feat for more movement, and I think there's a magic item for more. I'm probably forgetting something. Can we break a standard move of 100 feet, before Dashing? I think we get like, 55 just from race, Monk, and our Longstrider hat. I forget how much the feat gives, I never see it taken. We're one or two abilities or splatbooks away from Chuck's revival.

@@aprinnyonbreak1290 personally I prefer the 'every time you don't move you get double movement speed charge back' ability of tabaxi over a starting racial speed of 35

The 2 bonus action setup is the only real downside to this. add in 3 levels of rogue for Scout's skirmish ability and cunning action dash for a real win. Say you cast it at 7th level, you're a wood elf and you have blade song up. Your speed is 45 from wood elf and bladesong, plus another 40 from Ash's for 85 speed. Use your movement to run by every enemy on the battlefield. If you can't get everyone with just your movement, then dash for a whole lot more, then attack with booming blade and your extra attack on one creature. Move just 5 or 10 feet away. They will have to come to you, causing the booming blade rider to trigger. Then if they end their turn next to you, you use your reaction to run by everyone on the battlefield again. At this level everyone that you run by takes 5d6 damage without an attack roll, or saving throw.

I could see this being a decent twin spell target against an epic monster with a big dex hitting attack, like a dragon.

I never plan for the full 10 rounds personally. But even going by the 3 round standard I judge by, 18d6 in three 60 foot cones over three rounds is still good, in addition to the other benefits. Especially since it's a bonus action. If it was an action, yes, purple rating. But as a bonus action I'd rate it Green. You're still able to control the battlefield while dealing damage. Against singular foes, not as great but against swarms or flying enemies, excellent.

*mindblown*

Just remember that you can only hit the same creature with this once per turn

@@thegloatingstorm8323 ah, thats unfortunate. Still a decent combo though, I think, even if you can't hit them multiple times with it. Good AoE if you want to be Virgil lol

@@BobbyGentile I'm not sold on this spell as a 3rd level spell. It just competes with way to many game altering magic (haste, slow, fly, major image, hypnotic pattern). If it doubled speed like haste or the damage was upped to a couple dice maybe? Or better yet make it a second level spell and make the damage a d4 or something?

I guess my question would be whether the caster and steed do damage to each other when riding together.

Yea I though Ice Binding would’ve been higher.

Agree, I was surprised to see the rankings

Whelp looks like he completely disagrees lol. Really don’t get the love for stride in particular. 3.5 damage even automatic damage is just not worth a casters concentration+a third level slot. It would be worth on a half-caster if they didn’t get it so late. Would this be a good 2nd level spell? Yes I think so. Rangers/artificers could get it by level 5 and get some use out of it, and it would be a great mobility spell for casters. But 3rd level? Yes it is okay to upcast, but then you compete against really really good spells like polymorph or wall of force… Honestly didn’t look too in depth into the summon block, I can see why he ranks it so high. Higher level spells again just feel like a waste of concentration. Platinum shield would be great if you are fighting Tiamat, but situational otherwise. I Guess transformation would be pretty dope on a moon druid, but otherwise you are using concentration+a slot that could have cast force cage for a but of sustained damage. For Lance I waffled between purple and orange. I was thinking about it mostly in terms of level 7 selections, I can see the point about choosing it later when you have higher level spells to concentrate on. I’ll agree with green for mischief for bards, but casters with web are doing themselves a disservice choosing this over that. Not bad, but the randomness makes it harder to use. Binding Ice is like an AOE mind whip. Great to spam on a higher level wizard when you are concentrating on something else, I think his opinion of it will improve with play.

@@caleb4836 the transformation spell is probably the best transformation spell thus far in the game (aside from like, things that actually swap out your stat sheet) simply because the repeatable damage cone is a bonus action and not a spell. People are crazy with how high they're rating stride for being able to do 1d6 aoe damage a turn. But 6d8 aoe damage a turn? On top of other spells? And giving you flight? That's actually quite good. I think its good enough to merit purple on its own, but on bladesinger and moon druid it becomes green/blue. Far better than tenser's transformation and still pretty good compared to tasha's guise.

:D

Apparently, yes. Spell's range limits only initial casting; any continuous effects from it work even if the caster walks away afterward. If it isn't the case, the spell directly says so (Witch Bolt).

They're still in the game. As a 6th level artificer infusion.

@@exomancer3632 Oh, I thought they got removed when artificer went from UA to Tashas. They did rework it so it's not really the same as it was in the UA, but its honestly just a straight upgrade from the UA version, and the only downside is the 2 higher level requirement.