Druid (circle of the Moon) + Monk (Drunken Master). Dodge Tank and also a bear. AKA Kung fu Panda.

Sorlocks: *Born with magic* Also Sorlock: Feck it, I’m gonna sell my soul

Meanwhile the rogue Paladin sits in the corner laughing quietly while auto criting a sneak attack divine smite

I played a ranger/druid once. He was raised in the wilds. The only problem was he couldn't understand nor communicate with anyone I the party. But he was great in the wilds. Had a lot of laughs. The DM and I was teaching a group of six new players how to role play. One of the players was 81 years old. She had alot of fun. Just to show you that you are never too old learn or play.

"Once you get your extra feat at 3rd level." *Plays centaur." I get my extra feet at first level. 😎👌

Divination Bard: Look at me... I am the DM now...

A Friend of mine after i got her into Wakfu (in response for her getting me into D&D) made a Warlock Paladin based off Wakfu's "Knights of the Order of Shushu" and essentially said "She's a Paladin from a Templar Order that Seals Demons inside Weapons and use their powers against their own kind in the name of their God"

An updated version of this would be amazing! Tasha's really added to this conversation. I'm looking at you High Elf Gloomstalker Soulknifes!

Fighter/Barbarian: >You and what army? >"I AM the army."

" Sorlock " Also, as I affectionately like to call it, Eldritch Gatling Gun

2:34 Paladin + Warlock 10:28 Fighter + Rogue 5:33 Sorcerer + Warlock 13:04 Cleric + Wizard 8:14 Fighter + Barbarian

The idea of a warlock sorcerer is exactly what I need to power up my character. Thanks guys. I didn't think of using their warlock spell slots to recharge sorcerer spells

Paladin (X) + Warlock (3) "Witchknight" 2:30 Sorcerer (X) + Warlock (2-3) "Sorlock" 5:26 Fighter (X) + Barbarian (2) "The Brute" 8:06 Fighter (X) + Rogue (3) "The Commando" 10:19 Cleric (1) + Wizard (X) "The Mystic Theurge" 12:28

Barbarian/Moon Druid, i personally call it, "I can't die"

A potential explanation for Paladin + Warlock is that they are the spawn of a deity and a demon. The two parents are constantly fighting for their child’s attention, leading to the gifts of both classes.

Really wanna play a “wrestler” aka an unarmed fighting, barbarian-fighter with the tavern brawler feat

I do love how cr handled it, where the character did not want to follow his patron, so he became a paladon and his diety took over his warlock pact

A REALLY big thing to remember with a lot of these multiclass builds: proficiency alone isn't enough to wear armor. You also have to have the required strength score.

Bladesinger with heavy armor prevents you from using your iconic subclass feature bladesong, though... Otherwise great options - as always, I love your videos!

Love your channel guys. Awesome video! Love multiclassing! I recently added 3 levels of fighter (battle master) to my ranger character to get an additional fighting style, action surge, second wind, and maneuvers. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. Good stuff!

Travis Willingham has good taste (Grog: Barbarian/fighter, Fjord: Hexblade/Paladin).

Dungeon Dudes: "What are some of best multiclass combinations?" Abserd: "Yes."

This is great! I want to see more, especially 3+ multiclasses!

My favorite multiclass in general is wjat I called the “hellsmith” It is a multiclass between armorer artificer and fiend warlock with at least two levels in the latter; unfortunately the artificer is just that good so there are good motivations to keep on taking levels You start with 3 levels in artificer and your infusions should include Enhanced Arcane Focus, Enhanced defense and Enhanced weapon (use Enhanced defense if there isn’t any other tank, otherwise the attack is fine) and then remember to take the armorer subclass You’ll then need to take 3 levels in warlock, I used the fiend but if your dm is fine with letting your already infused blade also be your warlock hexblade you will be just as good (And I mean with the Hexblade warrior feature you get at lvl 1) Take the blade pact since to turn your infused weapon (which is now magical) into your pact weapon and have the hexblade warrior bonus as well Now you only have to decide how much you want to take from each class, artificers have good motivations to get to level 9 as you’ll be able to get 2 infusions for your armor, enhance your melee weapon even more and enhance a staff or whatever you choose to get a bonus for your eldritch blast If you also get 10 levels your most important bonuses will double in effect and you’ll get 2 extra infusions you can do Best race to play this is probably the warforged and the best feat imo is the heavy armor master and dual wielder for melee and a +1 ac. Ironically, despite the artificer being the most important of the two classes, your cha modifier and the con modifier should be on top of your list followed by intelligence (and I am not sure about the importance of the other 3 tbh, try complimenting the party on that part)

I had a Valor Bard who over the course of the campaign became more short tempered and more brutal in combat due to the difficulty of the campaign and eventually he lost it and I multi classed him into Barbarian

My dad is playing as a sorcerer/barbarian multiclass character with dual personalities

I love getting my wizards armor proficiencies. My favorite route to do this is through the hobgoblin race, get 11 or 13 starting dex and then pick up the moderately armored feat at 4. That first time a 20+ attack comes your way and you cast shield and block it there will be so many looks of envy shot your way

All these options sound so cool. Thank you for this video!

I would advise taking 3 levels of barbarian. Go path of the totem warrior and pick the Bear totem. While raging you now have resistance against EVERY damage type except psychic.

You guys have become quite comfortable in front of the camera over the last couple of years! Our group watches your videos regularly and our gameplay benefits from your Wisdom 20 score.

This was really helpful! I've got an idea for a fighter that ends up up having to make a pact to keep from dying and this was super helpful stuff to consider...

It's interesting how you have redone the Witch Knight and I love it, and it would be great to see what you would do differently now with these other builds.

I'm surprised no one brought up the Paladin/Rogue aka "the nuke"

Here's the thing about multiclassing... don't feel bound to roleplay your individual classes. A class *can be* just a collection of abilities and influences, and your actual class can be the combination of those, from a roleplaying standpoint. For instance, I made a Long Death Monk/Bladesinger Wizard who was a blood mage... his fighting abilities were expressed both by his martial arts skills and his spell selection. I've made a Conquest Paladin/Shadow Sorcerer who's a Lord's Alliance enforcer... she uses her fear and mind control abilities from her sorcerer spells to augment her paladin abilities, but I don't think of her as a "Conquest Paladin/Shadow Sorcerer", I think of her as an emissary who's sent by the Lord's Alliance to either get young nobles to get back in line, or replace them with someone who will. The overall combination of classes is really your character, not each individual class. So maybe your paladin warlock is *just* a warlock, but some of the powers he gets from his pact are expressed by paladin abilities.

Alternative to the Cleric + Wizard idea (one I plan to use): Evocation or Scribes Wizard with sprinkles of Tempest Domain Cleric. As an Evocation Wizard you can hurl around your large-hit box attacks without hurting friends and with Tempest Domain you can max output spells like Lightning Bolt or other great Wizard picks. Alternatively, with Scribes Wizard you can use your ability to change your damaging types to get that max-damage “Lightning Ball” without the drawbacks of doing the same with Evocation School

For those who want two weapon fighting, I highly recommend swords bard/ swashbuckler rogue.

Fighter(Samurai) and Rogue... "Mwahaha, I have advantage because Yes."

Most of my friends would do very creative multiclassed characters, they'd pretty much map out their intended progression right from the start, which classes and feats they'd take at which levels, which skills they'd level up. Most of them were really interesting and effective. Myself though, I preferred to keep things simple, one class, maybe two. My all-time favorite character was a straight Human Fighter, two-handed sword super-specialist. My GM would get so mad because he built what he thought was a tough encounter and I killed it in under three rounds, he'd be going "Jesus! How are you doing that much damage???" THIS IS WHAT I DO!! I don't talk nice, I don't play politics, I don't have a hundred skills, I just hit things with a 6 foot long 30 lb. scalpel! That's all I do!

Soradin (Sorcerer+Paladin) is my personal favorite class combo. The spells you get from sorcerer, along with the spell slots and sorcery points are pretty great. I like the Pali 6-8/Sorcerer 12-14 build, heavy on Paladin earlier on (taking first level of Sorcerer at 5th or 6th level)

Thank you for your videos. I might try one of these.

I'm actually playing a very deliberately non-optimized multiclass right now: Storm Herald Barbarian with a 1-level dip in Storm Sorcerer. I'm mostly using cantrips as a ranged option (Ray of Frost, in particular), while taking what I've learned from y'all about Polearm master when in melee. Our first combat as a group, I held a bunch of flying sharks off with Rays of Frost until we could get some people we rescued to safety, then aggro'd the hell out of the sharks when we were ready to finish them off.

Rogue/bard is my favorite. Be the rogue who’s the face of the party and lifting your coin purse while telling the tale of your latest adventure. Swashbuckled/college swords jived really good

So, I unintentionally made a power rogue. Astral Elf from Spell jammer, rogue (3) fighter (1). With the stars yep ability to teleport 30ft to a place I can see. I'm proficient in poison and non magical healing potions that I homebrewed thanks to every DnD YT including you guys for making/helping me explain to my DM my ideas better. It's been a wild one for my space adventures.

Thank you for making these guides, Dudes, they are fun, informative and well made :D That said, never really went with multiclassing, but I do see the potential :>

I made a triple-class once: Aasimar Paladin/Sorcerer/Warlock (taking Vengeance, Divine Soul, and Celestial Patron respectively) In an RP sense, I like to think it's the same celestial deity providing you each class. You make a pact with a deity (Warlock), it bestows part of its soul onto you (Sorc), and then you swear an oath to enact vengeance in their name (Paladin) Mechanically, it's a combination of the first two builds listed in the video. The Divine Smite spam is real, and if you somehow run out of spell slots, you can spend Sorc points for even more. Paladin fighting style can either be the +1 AC if you want to be tankier, or Great Weapon FIghting for damage. At 8 character levels (2 Pally/3 Sorc/3 Lock), you have a good balance of: -ranged spellcasting (beefed up Eldritch Blast or Sacred Flame from your celestial patron at range, can do the Eldritch Gatling Gun) -melee (Divine Smite spam, but you can also take some of the "blade" cantrips from Sword Coast Adventurer's guide, such as Booming Blade, as a Sorc. Also the Channel Divinity available to Vengeane helps in boss fights, and Pact of the Blade) -protection (16 base AC with the starter chain mail, can be boosted by taking FIghting Style Defense as a Paladin, as well as access to both the Shield spell through Sorc *and* the Shield of Faith spell through Paladin. -healing (Lay on Hands from Paladin, Healing Light from Warlock Patron, and access to Cure Wounds spell). From that point, go up to 5 Paladin levels for Extra Attack, 3 Warlock for the Pact, and the rest of the levels into Sorc for extra Sorc points and spell slots for more smiting fun. If you don't want to be *as heavily into melee*, you can forgo extra attack and do 4 each for Paladin and Warlock levels for an extra ASI or Feat. Good feats to take with this are: Martial Adept, Heavy Armor Master, Tough, Alert, Spell Sniper, Savage Attacker. The Aasimar race is mostly there for RP reasons, though the CHA bonus is legit. Basically I made Imperius from the Diablo series. That said, the 3rd level racial transformation gives you a nice aura, you are resistant to necrotic and radiant damage, and you get a little more healing.

One of my favorite multiclass combos is ol' reliable: Tempest Cleric + Storm Sorcerer. Being able to yell out "Maximize Magic!" As I throw out a 48 damage lightning bolt across the battlefield is one of my favorite things to do.

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That's why I love this guy's, straight forward, just say what the video is about and talk about it

Paladin warlock could theoretically be from the same deity. I’m helping a new dm by co-dming and one of the players is a paladin warlock of Tiamat, specifically conquest and hexblade, and he’s super powerful. Very hard to kill. He’s got plate mail with the spell blur... Additionally, due to being a conquest paladin, he can basically paralyze people with fear while dealing psychic damage, and he can stack that with being a fallen aasimar. Really fun character, a nightmare to deal with in combat though.

Personally I loved the "Drunk" Leprechaun I made going with Gnome, circle of spores druid, drunken fist monk. Provided a lot of fun with Shillelagh.

My friends and I have a campaign where our characters have absolutely zero sad backstories. They’re all just pure chaos

I have a Shadow Monk, Divine Warlock, Scout Rogue. The utility spells along with getting everything back on a short break actually makes it a solid infiltration build.

Rogue (Assassin)/Monk (Way of Shadow): For when you really, REALLY want to be Ninja.

Personally I’m working on a rogue/shadow sorcerer. Or as I call her “hey where’d they go?”

If your DM is pretty lenient with purchasing spell scrolls and you don't already have a cleric in your party, a wizard + 1 level of Knowledge Domain Cleric can essentially let you cast any cleric spells from scrolls with expertise in Arcana and a naturally high INT. Plus with something like a Divination or Order Of the Scribes Wizard you could play a really cool lorekeeper character who collects knowledge for their diety.

THANK YOU, GUYS! What you guys just said about fighter/barbarians just made my day! In fact, my most recent (&, as it turns out, my most favorite PC) is a Half-Orc 7th level Fighter-Battlemaster/3rd level Bear Totem Warrior Barbarian & I must say that my DM would either sic oversized foes on me (AKA Trolls!!!) or knock me off at range with either spells or ranged weapons! He knew FULL WELL that if I somehow managed to close with my foe/s, I'd be able to make mincemeat out of them in one turn or two, especially if I used Rage which, at 3rd level Bear Totem Warrior Barbarian, allows me to give my target/s LOT of damage should I hit while making me resistant to most damage except psychic damage! Overall, my "kid" turned out to be AWESOME at what he does best & that's SLAUGHTERING his enemies! Once again, THANK YOU, YOU GUYS!

This is my favorite multi-class, the "Beast Master," a Druid/Ranger mix: 2 familiars = wolf (combat) + falcon (utility) Druid's Wild Shape Ranger's Two-Sword Fighting Style Ranger's 1st "Favored Enemy" (Beast) All other Ranger "Favored Enemies" are Beast-related in some way (Dragons count!) The Ranger's the primary focus here due to combat style mastery and Favored Enemy selection. Multi-class into Druid to get the animal companion and Wild Shape ability. (Yes, I actually played this character!)

I tried making a Rouge-Fighter hybrid that use stealthy approach but with big hammer instead of daggers, it's impractical but it's hilarious when it work.

Way back in the day ( AD&D), I played a ranger/rogue/ druid. We didn't have all these sub-classes yet. He was awesome to play. I'd like to resurrect him in 5E with all the different sub-classes. That could be fun. Haven't played in over 20 years. Life happened. My children are all grown now, so I can devote time to other things. I want to get back into D&D.

i play as a reversed sorlock in one of my games (3 levels in shadow sorcerer and the rest as hexblade warlock) and like you guys said at the end, the first few levels were really a struggle for my character, as I wanted to be a melee frontliner but had to wait until lvl 8 before finally being able to unlock the thirsting blade invocation. now I feel really powerful with the added ability of being able to cast darkness with the special condition of being the only one who can see and be a whirlwind or damage. I know that its not nearly as powerful as maining sorcerer but for me its the right kind of flavour (and great storytelling from the DM's point) that makes multiclassing so fun to achieve.

Right now, I'm playing a Conquest Paladin/Hexblade Warlock. The roleplay definitely has a Darth Vader-y feel to it. His patron lured him with promises of an Empire that he would rule, and he wanted a place where those like himself could live freely. Playing Lawful Evil is fun.

Gloomstalker/Shadow Monk/Assasin if you want to be practically invisible to mostly anything short of creatures with true sight and tremor sense. Pair this with Sharpshooter and skulker feats. And you are invisible sniper that can teleport all around the battlefield.

Dungeon Dudes, love your channel name and loved your videos

I never knew Mike Myers and Kevin Smith were such big D&D buffs! Great videos guys keep em coming.

My current character is building towards sorlock. She is an Aasimar going for divine soul. However rather than take a celestial pact, I chose hexblade instead primarily so as to get a decent AC. The RP chrome is that she swore to the power of divine vengeance manifesting in the game world's equivalent of archangel Michael's flaming sword.

The Dice Controller: Wizard (Divination) + Bard of Lore + Lucky Feat + Halfling (Thanks for the addition, TheCNotes1)

*Sad Sorcadin noises while dealing over 200 damage per turn over multiple turns*

DM "I have an army" Party: "We have a Fighter/Barbarian"!

I play a multi class (druid+barbarian). I am 6 in barbarian and 5 in druid. I play an earth genasi and use the spells jump and gust of wind to launch my very heavy character at the enemy. I am circle of the land (forest circle) and I am totem warrior (tiger and bear aspect). Totem warrior cat empowers my jumps even more. Also the flavor of totem warrior + circle of the land is so tastey

As a Lore Bard with a single level in Life Cleric (in a campaign going since 2016) I can ABSOLUTELY confirm that this is an insane combination. Heavy armor proficiency Disciple of Life feature 3 Cleric cantrips Bless and Cure Wounds All the skills and expertise from bard cause you're literally only losing the Bard's famously crappy capstone. Also Additional Magical Secrets is broken as hell and it lets you take Aura of Vitality (which continually activates Disciple of Life) at 6th level. We're level 16 and (20d6)+50 healing is STILL hugely worth it for a single 3rd level slot.

3 levels of Gloom Stalker plus Shadow Monk. You get Umbral Sight(saves ki points on darkvision), bonus to initiative from WIS, and access to Fog Cloud which you can use to create shadows to teleport with just by casting it above the ground or around light sources.

I took a level dip in Knowledge Cleric on my Chronurgy Wizard and I love it so much. The first level of Knowledge Cleric may not be the most impactful, but double proficiency bonus in Arcana checks is certainly useful.

I love my Halfling Rogue/Ranger. Silent, deadly, and sneaky. Bought a pair a Boots of Elvin Kind, had secret compartments built into the soles to hide a spare dagger and thieves tools as well as disguised them as commoners boots.

In my current campaign I’m a tiefling doing x-levels in Sword College Bard and 1 level of warlock hex blade. It’s great being able to max out charisma and use that as a guide for everything.

I've heard of some of these combinations like the paladin plus warlock or the sorcerer plus warlock. Having a wonderful dip into cleric for some of the classes is a new one for me and does sound like a very intriguing idea. These are some good combinations and well thought out arguments to back them up.

seeing combos of 3+ classes would be a great follow up this

Aaahh, my second character ever was a teifling Paladin Warlock! It was so op, my dm called my 21 armor class "disgusting"

One of my favourite early game multi classes is fighter-wizard. At 1st level, you go fighter, take defence fighting style, heavy armor, and a shield for 19 AC, and then putting 2 or more levels in War Magic Wizard so you can arcane deflection or shield spell each time you’re attacked for 21-24 AC at level 3, which is basically invincibility to anything besides a nat 20

The way I Dm which I know sounds absolutely insane to do, but I've found a way to balance it myself so its really no trouble, but multi classing in my games is a free thing to do but you have to roleplay to earn them, and there is no guarantee you'll get another level in said class, so far my players have loved it, it rewards them for fantastic story telling and roleplay. It allows my plays to get those high level abilities of a class while still getting to muiltclass, it doesn't make sense to me that characters don't learn a thing or two from outside sources during their time as adventurers

Currently playing a Swashbuckler Rogue 3/Fathomless Warlock 5 and I'm having so much fun!

ok, so this is a bit late, but having heavy armor and shields don't work with bladesinger... bladesong wouldn't be able to activate

Very refreshing to see something related to D&D 5th edition that isn't created to appeal _exclusively_ to heavy hardcore roleplayers , but instead appeals partially to optimizers too... Thank you.

With all the updates and new subclasses, would love to see an updated video of this! For Sorlock, what subclass warlock would you recommend for a Shadow Magic Sorc? How many levels in each?

Roguelock is a personal favorite of mine. I'm currently planning on playing a Rogue Swashbuckler/Archfey Warlock. His high Charisma synergizes with both classes, and he can use a lot of his Warlock spells to give him advantage, plus it has a nice flavor to it.

3 GOO Tomelock/17 Lore Bard is a fantastic combo. Extra spell slots, access to a cool spell list, plus Magical Secrets to load up on curveballs. Not to mention getting Eldritch Blast as a go-to blasting power. Mine uses his telepathy to distract enemies by singing annoying commercial jingles directly into their brains where they can't escape the horror lol

I have a build i call the Michael Myers: 3 Rogue-Assassin, X Monk-Way of the Long Death. Make it a half-orc with the tough and durable feats, and watch your dms face grow red when your killing machine won't stay down

1 level dip starting as Artificer and then progressing into Wizard for the rest of it gets you a lot. CON saving throws, medium armor/shields, Guidance, Faerie Fire and Cure Wounds, and for spell progression Artificers round up when being calculated as a half-caster for multi-classing.

With the Fighter Rogue you can use sharpshooters -5 to hit and +10 damage, and have the rogues opt feature to get advantage on ranged attacks, it balances out the to hit

I am currently playing a Wizard (School of Necromancy) + Cleric of Death. I love it so much!

Going along with a paladin RP tip I read recently: Your Oath is the goal. Your ideals are the means. If your ideals allow you to make pacts with eldritch beings, then you can create some truly fun character concepts. It might not be as mechanically optimal, but imagine an oath of vengeance and making a pact with a fiend that you (or more realistically your order) managed to enslave and use against other fiends for a fire vs fire mentality. That's sorta how I would go about creating an Order of the Profane Soul Bloodhunter using official material from WotC. You can make a pretty fun albeit edgy faction out of this. Picture a rogue faction within the church so dedicated to the war against the infernal enemies of the faith that they specialize in enslaving lesser devils that are powerful enough to grant warlock powers. With such a fire vs fire mindset, you can imagine them need water as protection against the burns. This would quite literally involve an annual bath in holy water that actually hurts the paladin quite significantly due to the corruption of the infernal magic.

Love your stuff

My favorite multiclass is Fighter/Wizard or Fighter/Sorcerer, for one simple reason: Double fireball. Though you could also use the action surge to set up something like casting a concentration spell, then using another spell that combos well with it.

Yeah, the Fighter/Rogue in my game surprised a boss character and one-shot him with an Action Surge Assasination with Crossbow Expert and Sharpshooter. She did something like 265 damage...

I am currently running two extremely fun low/mid level multiclasses: An Arcane Trickster Rogue / Trickery Domain Cleric. With that combination, you have the potential to use your INVISIBLE Mage Hand from 150 feet away with Invoke Duplicity. It also becomes extremely hard to lock down in combat with high natural AC from being a Rogue (so you obviously have high dex), and then combine it with the Cleric spells Sanctuary and Mirror Image (Trickery Domain) and combine those with Rogue Evasion/Uncanny Dodge to become a fairly unique tank for the party, while also being incredibly useful in non-combat related deeds with Charm Person, Disguise Self, and your long range invisible mage handing. Unfortunately for the combination, it is very reliant on high stats. Second is a Circle of the Land Druid / Archfey Warlock. You need at least 3 levels in Druid and then whatever in Warlock -- but add in Magic Initiate, Pact of the Tome, and the Book of Ancient Secrets Eldritch Invocation (I also run Beast Speech for the added Druid Flavor and free Speak with Animals) -- with this combo you can have 10 cantrips (including Eldritch Blast), plenty of spells that don't require spell slots (Magic Initiate 1/day cast, a Ritual book, free Speak with Animals / eventually Detect Magic with Eldritch Sight)...and then because of the Druid and Warlock spell lists, you get access to a ton of Support-related spells. Add in Alchemist's proficiency and enough downtime, or eventually the Healer feat and you're the ultimate support character.

I'm actually really surprised that Ranger/Rogue didn't make this list... Zephyr Strike + Sneak attack, not to mention the crazy ranged abilities where you can get Sneak Attack dmg as welll.

I would love to see an updated version of this

I have a multiclass called Fighter-Cleric, where you multiclass them just right, so that they cant do anything properly, and i call it a useless paladin build.

Another great video Dudes . Between 0:02 and 0:04 you both looked like the sky was falling . I assume you were both looking at a boom mike that you were afraid would get in the shot . My current favorite multiclass is Assassin rogue and Gloom Stalker ranger . They blend together to make an incredible ranged assassin .

I'm hella stoked to try out Assassin Rogue 4/Divine Soul Sorc 16. You get an absolute unit of a turn 1, and are still useful to the party in and out of combat once your load is blown.

One multiclass that is pretty good as well is a paladin rogue. You get sneak attack and smite together for the big damage, and I think the classes create a great backstory/gameplay. Auto crits too