Quick correction: Dispel Magic can indeed take down a Globe of Invulnerability (15:40). Monty has been thrashed for not throughly consulting the Sage Advice Compendium. As a reminder because it's not 100% clear from our description in this video, the Globe of Invulnerability is fixed to the location once it's cast, so plan carefully when you are using it to defend against counterspell.

Gotta love Zone of Truth + Command: Confess. This 1-2 punch makes you the ultimate interrogator.

One of my favourite spell combo rules is having counterspelling counterspell triggering a wild magic surge.

I’d really like to see a list of combos between two classes. Like... “Warlock casts X and then Wizard casts Y”

That Dragon Kibble combo is one of the only reasons I take Dragon's Breath. The image of some random owl suddenly screaming out lightning always sits well with me.

I like spell combos. I like them better when the whole party gets involved. Face Melting Solo, for example, can be achieved in a single round if a Cleric casts Bane, a Sorcerer casts Synaptic Static, and a Bard uses Vicious Mockery. Good team tactics are key to true optimization.

Kelly has finally achieved old west banker look

A fun one I’ve seen was wall of thorns in a ring to entrap an enemy, then create bonfire to really do some fun. My players made a “roasted shambling mound” with this strategy

Great suggestions - especially as they're reasonably simple to assemble (but not obvious), available at relatively low level, and fun rather than 'broken'. Cheers, dudes!

Water walking + hallucinatory terrain on a lake is something I have been itching to try as a combination!

Force choke: concentrate on hold person, inflict wounds. Melee attacks are instant critical against paralyzed targets. At 3rd level (so freaking early) you can not only paralyze someone, but smack them for 6d10 necrotic on your next turn. Ouch!

I like the combo enlarge and reduce. One person enlarges a barbarian, another reduces a boulder, big barbarian throws reduced boulder, everyone stops concentrating and now a small mountain is flying at something that is about to not exist.

Ring The Bell: Here’s what makes Level 5+ Clerics deadly. Add Spirit Guardians to it. Spirit Guardians + Spiritual Weapon + Toll the Dead. It’s passive AOE damage, plus bonus action damage, plus main action damage.

The most effective youtube naming convention in D&D 5e... so appealing, and such a great video

Never forget Merylwin’s meat grinder. Field of thorns plus grease for enemies chasing you.

I think one of the best combos I've ever used was wall of force with cloud of daggers. Ready wall of force with the casting of cloud of daggers as the trigger. Caster A drops the cloud on an enemy, who is instantly boxed in by caster B's wall of force. No save, no rolls to hit. Simply 4d4 (or more, if cloud of daggers is up cast) every round for 10 rounds. My party made a pumpkin smoothy out of a monster by using this technique once. That was a fun encounter.

Another insanely powerful combination is Glibness + Dispel Magic/Counterspell. If you're a charisma caster, you automatically roll a 15 on any Charisma check, and both Dispel Magic and Counterspell are Charisma checks for charisma casters. This means that you can never roll below a 20 for a Charisma check, and will always end any magic effect or spell casting, guaranteed.

I don't know why you would entrust me, goblin, with this kind of powerful knowledge but thank you guys anyway.

That stache immediately grants expertise in Persuasion

I've used Field of Thornss many times (as a Nature Cleric); having Thorn Whip to pull them through the thorns as well is also really nice, as you're doing 2d6 Piercing from the cantrip + 4d4 Piercing from the Spike Growth, with no save to take half damage. Also, part of the reason that Nature Domain Cleric is one of the best control classes at 5th level or lower. This combo + Wind Wall + Hold Person + Channel Divinity to neutralize beasts, plants, and undead: Lots of "No Thank You" with little the enemy can do about it.

With Spirit weapon being my favorite spell and toll the dead being my favorite cantrip, I'm very happy it made the list!

I had a good one for a 3rd level cleric, I call it Ward of Faith: Warding Bond+Shield of Faith, as only Shield of Faith requires your concentration. So in effect, youre giving a target a +3 to AC, +1 to all saves, and resistance to all damage

When is Kelly's BOSS mustache going to sponsor one of these videos? 😍

The Field of Thorns sounds like a war crime.

Face Melting Solo... "We love you Wisconsin!"

Another one of my favorite spell combos is what I like to call Touching Dreams. First round you cast sleep next round you cast inflict wounds. Sleep redeners the target unconscious meaning all attacks made against the target have advantage and any attacks that hit the target are critical hits if you are within 5 feet of the target. If you hit the target with inflict wounds you will be rolling 6d10 necrotic damage. This averages 30 necrotic damage. This combo can also be pulled of at 1st level. The problem with this combo is sleep doesn't effect creatures that cannot be charmed, and it is single target damage based.

My favorite combination for Wizard is casting [Contingency] to trigger [Steelwind Strike] when I cast [Tenser's Transformation] Stronk Force Damage Melee Spell Attacks. It's only really good for dealing with groups but it obliterates the heck out of them. It's very potent, but it require a long rest to fully set up.

Kelly "Dorian Pavus (from Dragon Age: Inquisition)" McLaughlin -- that moustache/hair, man. Also, fun video as always.

I've done the "undertow" before. The catch was that all the water in the room was poisoned. So my character that can breathe water and is immune to poison just waited for everything to fall over.

I'm a trickery cleric. For big fights, I like to combine Mirror Image, Spirit Guardians, and Spiritual Weapon. It takes some set-up, which is why I reserve it for BIG fights, but it's been a good combo for me!

I have "The last prayers" with my paladin/sorcerer Cast hold person and say "You can use this time to say for your last prayers". On the next round, if they don't save against my spell, I hit them with 2 high level divine smites, that auto crits. If the enemy is tough, I can quick cast Hold person with metamagic. and attack on the same round, but the flavor of actually waiting a round is amazing. (also, Divine Smite will count ass a spell for this combo, fight me! >:U )

Reverse gravity + featherfall. Came up once in a recent online game & boy was it funny.

For that last one, Globe of Invulnerability doesn't prevent magic from affecting it, only what's inside it. So it can be dispelled, even with a level 3 Dispel Magic.

One of my personal favorite spell combos is what I like to call the Flaming Shishkebab. First round you cast hold person then second round you cast scorching ray. Because of hold person the target is paralyzed meaning when your are within 5 feet of the target each of your attacks crit on a hit, and you have advantage on attack rolls against the target. Meaning if you are within 5 feet of the target and hit all 3 rays you would be rolling 12d6 fire damage. That's more than a fireball casting using a 5th level spell slot. Also by upcasting scorching ray this combo yields 4d6 fire damage per a spell slot above 2nd level. Additional since the target is incapacitated you don't suffer disadvantage on the ranged attack rolls against the target. The problem with this combo is that it targets only one person, and they must be a humanoid. But that big bandit boss will never know what hit him.

A cool thing you can do as a Sorcerer is Metamagic quickened spell a Witchbolt to a bonus action for 1d12, then use your action to activate it (since it says on each of your turns and not *subsequent* turns) to instantly cause the damage for another 1d12, then next turn, use your action for the Witchbolt (since WB breaks if you use your action to do anything else) and Metamagic quickened spell any another spell (and since you haven't *cast* anything, you can bonus action cast any spell you want)

Something that pops to my mind is similar to the Druid/Ranger lockdown option, just for the warlock and with a mean twist: Hunger of Hadar combined with Eldritch Blast with the Lance of Lethargy and Repelling Blast invocations. Devil's Sight is advised to maximize the effectiveness. This combination is doable from Lv 5 onward and deals 2d6 cold damage, potentially also 2d6 acid damage (Dex-save), and in addition the scaling damage of the Eldritch Blasts used to keep the victims trapped inside the area of effect. In addition to that the mere narrative effect probably also does a number on the enemy's morale - depending on the DM.

For the Field of Thorns, this can make a devastating kill room given that rangers make good scouts... And can move freely through difficult terrain. Let's call it Taunt and Haunt

Dragon kibble has always been my favorite, "Light them up Lewigi!"

Spirit Guardian + Sanctuary + Dodge action. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

My favorite combo I pulled on my players one time was a Cleric that had cast Spirit Guardians on himself prior to the fight, and then as soon as the party attacked him, cast Sactuary on himself. Every turn after that he took the dodge action or healed himself as they wasted away for several turns at half movement trying to hit him to no avail

Another spell combo I like to call Gnomes Offering Hand. First you cast mage hand and then you cast enlarge/reduce on yourself. A gnome can weigh about 80 pounds and enlarge/reduce reduces a targets weight to one-eighth of it's normal weight meaning the gnome now weighs 10 pounds. A mage hand can move up to 10 pounds. So a gnome under the reduce effect of enlarge/reduce can ride in their mage witch can move 30 feet as a bonus action. The weakness of this spell combo is that it isn't really useful in combat since it takes two rounds to set up.

I’m a big fan of the Booming Blade, Dissonant Whispers combo. It’s a great way to proc the extra damage from Booming Blade. It works even better if the Character using Booming Blade also has War Caster because they can use a reaction to use Booming Blade on the fleeing enemy immediately triggering the extra damage.

That bardic face melting solo is such a great image, a building crescendo of distorted instrumental licks and vile lyrics, like a metal rocker making suburban whitebread parents everywhere clutch their pearls!

A nice one is Cage Match, which involves 2-3 party members at least one of which is a martial, a large or smaller creature, and Wall of Force. Apply any desired buff to party member, send them into melee range, drop the wall, and you don't have to worry about a smart enemy taking an AoO trying to get to your backline

The segues!! Monty: "It's time for the bard to take center stage..." Kelly: "That's a tough act to follow."

6:26 Loved that little wink lmao

Very simple one, but a favorite- Hunger of Hadar and Repelling Blast. If they make it out, push 'em back in! Also works for a Dao genie warlock with Spike Growth in place of the Hunger, buuuuut... Hunger of Hadar is so satisfying to narrate! The whole table squirms

So glad to see plant+spike growth. I've always loved that combo

Paladin+Sorcerer Divine Soul is doing combo: Spirit guardians (before battle) and then on every next turn he takes dodge action and spiritual weapon on bonus (casting or utilizing). Reaction for shield/counterspell. He grinds battlefields...

My favorite combo I found when I played a wizard was greater invisibility followed by steel wind strike... 6 attacks at advantage.. 6d10 each... I only got it to work 2-3 times but when it worked I dealt 30d10 of damage

I love the dragon’s breath + find familiar, but let me offer you this: Warlock (or Wizard) + Sorcerer multiclass. I prefer the warlock because it overlaps with charisma spellcasting ability and the pact of the chain feature for warlocks lets you get a pseudodragon familiar. By 6th level you can use the combo I’d like to call A Tale of Two Dragons which consists of Find Familiar, Flock of Familars, and Dragon’s Breath. You can Twin Cast Dragon’s Breath of two of your three familiars from flock of familiars to unleash draconic fury upon your enemies two-fold. I was building a Sorlock when I was watching this video, and I realized this combo was just AMAZING.

I don't have access to thorn whip. However, my Warlock companion has the eldritch blast invocation where it pushes the target ten feet on a hit. Now I have a lovely little combo to suggest for our next combat. Thanks dungeon dudes! 👍😀💖

instead of face-melting solo, just call it diss-track

Thank you for that Spiritual Weapon/Toll the Dead combo! I'll be sure to use it against my players when they fight the BBEG in their current adventure! (She's a Death Domain Cleric, so it fits her quite fine!)

Another good combination for Clerics would be Guiding Bolt + Spiritual Weapon. If you hit with GB, SW should have advantage on its attack. Sixth Level War Clerics especially can pretty much guarantee that leading GB hits - and do the combo twice! Combine that with Spirit Guardians and you have one power house damage dealer. For added benefit, take a dip into Wizard or Sorc to pick up Shield and Absorb Elements.

Excellent video Dudes, with some really great combos! I really love and appreciate that so much of your Dudes' content in videos like this are geared towards lower levels of play since that is the only area in which most people spend most of their time. It really makes your content feel accessible and it gives me hope/excitement that these are actually things I'll be able to set up and pull off in my games whether as a DM or as a player. Keep it up!

Anyone else noticing the slow evolution of epic-ness of Kelly's mustache

I love that these are low level! Thank you dudes

For using Plant Growth more frequently, Carry around a nice vine plant, or something that spreads super far, as with grapevines or blackberry bushes. The spell causes plants to become overgrown, and thus A single vine plant could probably fill the entire spell radius.

Yesterday, I've tried a variation on the Cool Whip combo: Moonbeam + Thorn Whip. Let's call it "Moon whip" for the flavor. Fantastic against undead. Need a bit more precision, but still. You place Moonbeam in front of your ennemy in a bonus action, then use your thorn whip to drag your ennemi into it. He takes damage right away and again in the beginning of his turn. That's great! :)

2 combos I love are: Glibness + Counterspell/ Dispell magic. as those are Cha checks for a Cha caster they auto succeed for the whole combat. Also Wall of Fire (Etc) with the push and pull eldritch blast invocations.

The Interrogation: Zone of Truth + Command (Answer) The truth will be found. My cleric went full Inquisitor with this on a VERY unlucky Yuan-Ti.

A combo I've enjoyed is faerie fire and fog cloud. You can see your enemies and attack with advantage, but they can't see you!

The Ring the Bell combo is indeed one of my favorite bread and butter moves with clerics. Love it

That shirt though.....just rolled a natural 20 against my eyes. Love the videos and personalities guys, keep it up. Liked, subbed, and so ready for my first game.

siege magic: Find a huge boulder, cast reduce size on it, then have an ally cast catapult on said boulder...lastly, drop the reduce size effect and enjoy the show.

The Face Melting Solo combo I've always wanted to use, it's also important/cool to note that if u have a lore bard u can use the cutting words to subtract a bardic inspiration die from their next attack too (assuming ur character can cast 5th level spells chances are that is a d10). So disadvantage (average -3) with a -d4 (-2.5), -d6(-3.5), and -d10(-5.5) to their next attack is on average a -14.5 to their next attack. And a -6 to every other attack on that turn, also note that u dont need to to use cutting words on the first attack if they rolled low and u know theyll miss anyways

One combo I really like is casting Melf's Minute Mentors the first round, then casting Snillocs Snowball Swarm along with 2 of the meteors as a bonus action. This hits everything within a 5ft radius with a total of 7d6 (Each meteor is 2d6 fire, and the snowball is 3d6 cold) worth of magical DMG.

I’m gonna try Darkness combined with Faerie Fire in a few days as a DM. It’s an easy encounter according to the kobold fight club, but will probably be quite difficult as most players will be visible without being able to see the enemies, thus having disadvantage on saving throws.

Not a spell combo as such, but for Spellcaster duels I'd make use of Seeming with the illusory reality feature that the school of illusion brings. Cast seeming with your main action and specify a number of casters you can see within range to have illusory breastplates. On the same turn use your bonus action to make a breastplate real on one of your targets. By RAW, you can't cast spells while you are wearing armour that you are not proficient in. It also takes a number of turns to doff armour. Therefore, if your opponent doesn't have medium armour proficiency he's pretty much out of the fight. The trade off is that they probably have a higher armour class. You can also use this combination on your allies if you're ambushed or have your gear stolen, and arm up your melee fighters. Sadly, the campaign I was in died before my illusionist could bit level 14.

Another combo that I caught one of my DM's off guard with is what I like to call whip crack which is a combo between thorn whip, and any smiting spell as thorn whip is a melee spell attack it effectively allows you to deliver smites from 30ft away or even further if your playing a sorcerer.

If your familiar is an owl, with fly though, you can have her fly up to an enemy, breathe fire, and fly away without provoking opportunity attacks. I discovered this on my own and I'm fairly proud of that. :)

If your bard has war caster, "Dissonant Whispers "+"Booming Blade". (Magic Initiate or otherwise).

Creatures can breathe underwater for longer than most combat lasts...

Fun story with Dragons Breath. The only time I’ve used it so far, I gave fire breath to the bloke who was afraid of fire.

It's mid-level, but I had a wizard with one level of bard. Animate Objects to surround the victim with tiny creatures, and then Dissonant Whispers. Target uses their reaction to flee, which triggers attacks of opportunities from any animated friend next to them. So much fun.

My favorite level 1 spell combo is definitely Disguise self + friends or charm person (they know who bewitched them but.... it was john, not you xD)

Please keep the names of the spells/abilities up when you guys talk. I cant keep up with english so well (2nd language) and I was seartching for "glow of vulnerability" for 10 minutes. : /

A good Paladin + Cleric combo is Aura of Vitality + Beacon of Hope. AoV Paladin spell grants 2d6 healing per round for one minute (concentration) and Beacon of Hope Cleric Spell maximizes heal rolls for one minute (concentration). Together you get 120 healing in one minute, plus whatever maxed potions your party wants to drink during that time.

This one takes planning, it needs 2 different casters, but it sets up a perfect scenario to attack a group that has a lookout. Have the first caster cast silence and the second cast hold person on the lookout. So now the lookout can’t alert the others, and is very easy to pick off. I think it works exceptionally well for assassins going after a party while they camp.

I've always wanted to play a party where everyone was the same class - like 4 rogues or 4 bards/wizards etc

Darkness + shadow blade on a blade pact warlock with devils sight

I've had a lot of fun setting up cheese graters with the rest of my party: cast Spike Growth, get somebody to push/blow the enemy into your 20ft radius field of spikes. Then take turns batting them toward your other party members. Back and forth, 2d4 damage every 5 ft, grating them like a delicious parmesan. Extra fun if everybody has spells that push enemies.

Can you do a video about the best party composition of 4 classes in 5e?

Fireball, then fireball

I once had a player use a similar combo to Cool Whip (Eldritch Blast+Grasp of Hadar instead of Thorn Whip) and other party members piled on with Moonbeam and Spike Growth. As a player, one of my favorite combos, though higher level, has been to cast a lasting AoE in an enemy's space (Wall of Fire, etc.) and use Action Surge to lock them in with Forcecage. With a second caster, Wall of Force works just as well in most instances.

In my mind, "field of thorns" will be "field of manzanita," after a certain incident when backpacking. (Protip: "partial plant cover" on a map does mean "easy to move through".)

Cool Whip. No? Nobody's gonna say anything about the Stewie Griffin reference?

My favorite Combo on my Bard is upcasting Bestow Curse to make it not need Concentration, use the effect for disadvantage on Wisdom ability checks and saving throws. Then cast Irresistible Dance. I call it Dance of Death. You can also choose to use the Wisdom save or do nothing effect from Bestow Curse.

My favorite combo we randomly came up with was Spike Growth + Darkness between the Druid and Shadow Monk. An enemy cleric + bodyguards was basically unable to do anything. One the darkness lifted they were already dead, trying to leave the area

It takes two spellcasters, but a domed Wall of Force + Sickening Radiance becomes 100 rounds of the enemy making saves against being exhausted while taking 4d10 radiant for each failure. A recent one that a Forge Cleric did in a game when I’m in when he got surrounded is Spirit Guardians first, then Sanctuary on himself, while taking the dodge action during subsequent rounds. The wording of Sanctuary, as written, permits the combo to happen.

Fun Fact. Archfey warlock ALSO gets the plant growth combo, but instead of spike growth you can use Hunger of Hadar, meaning they can't see you anymore all the while they take damage even if they DONT move and have to make a dex save every round or also take acid damage. This does use all of your spells for that short rest, but when it is good it is good.

Super Counterspell/ Glibness+Counterspell on a Warlock or a Bard who takes Counterspell as a magical secret (very likely to happen nonetheless). Glibness makes it so you can not roll lower than a 15 on a Charisma check. Counterspell requires you to make a spellcasting check to cancel the casting of a spell of a higher level than the spell slot used for Counterspell. Glibness is an 8th level spell that does not require concentration. With this combo every time you use counterspell even with a third level spell slot against a ninth level spell slot you will automatically negate it if your Charisma is at least 18. A Stone of Good Luck would decrease the Charisma requirement by 2. Considering you are a high level Bard or Warlock it is likely your Charisma is at least 18 nonetheless. The best thing about this is that Glibness and Counterspell are already useful by themselves. Glibness can be used during the "aggressive negotiations" portions if many boss encounters. Your Bard or Warlock can activate it as a means to address the confrontation beyond violence or to just set up for the fight if they want it. Your charisma skill checks are likely to be 25 and up because of Glibness so there is a fair shot to shape the confrontation however you want anyway. Even if the fight starts immediately, Counterspell is a reaction spell so all you have to do is cast Glibness and move towards the enemy to stay within 60 feet of them. If they are a magic user which many high level bosses are, you can counterspell all of their spells provided they are visible and not an Archdruid. See Invisibility or True Seeing are also non concentration options for the Bard to get to counteract this downside if you think you need it. One character with this combo is going to put some wind in the enemy caster sails if they use this combo because besides an Archdruid only an enemy counterspell can truly counter it and this will use its reaction and an additional spell slot to sap the caster. Not to mention you are using 3rd level spells to counter much higher ones, granting you better stamina compared to this powerful caster. I would recommend a Bard use it because of their higher amount of spells slots. But either a Bard or Warlock pretty much shut down a powerful spellcaster for several rounds if their are two members if your party using this combo effectively. The only recourse an enemy mage has is to have another mage their with counterspell or they have non spell resources and non spell teleportation abilities which do exist. Also because neither spells are concentration, you can have an addition spell on top like greater invisibility (which the Bard also gets) to make so you can't be counter spelled by an opponent without Truesight, blindsight, see invisibility as well as the great benefits of being invisible. The combo (just with Glibness) also turns your Dispel Magic into Super Dispel Magic as you can also dispel a high level spell effect with just a 3rd level spell slot.

Conditional, but a fun combo as a wizard: if you are surrounded by enemies and have at least 25 feet of headroom, misty step 25-30 feet straight up, fireball directly down, then featherfall safely on their burnt corpses. You could misty step 25 feet to the side and save a 1st level slot, but it's not as dazzling.

Me and my party recently discovered the joy of combo-ing our various parties casters aoes. My druid casts Spike growth our warlock overlays that with hunger of hadar and our sorcerer unleashes some aoe burst damage spells. It is normally enough to wipe out most hoards in a 1-2turns especially as a lvl 6 party. Any enemies that do survive are usually softened up enough to be no longer a threat. We have used this a few times and now our GM is starting to worry. I had to suggest to him that flyers would be able to get past it no problem and teleporters might be able to escape if they have a turn before the lock can cast hunger! He is happier now :)

Similar to the Dragon Kibble combo of Dragon's Breath and Find Familiar, I had a multiclassed Cavalier/Bard (and this also works well with an Eldritch Knight) who would cast Dragon's Breath on his highland cow steed, who would then breathe fire/cold on the enemies. Because of the rules of mounted combat, a mount you control can only take the Dash, Disengage, and Dodge actions, so he cast Awaken on his steed before implementing this strategy so his mount could act independently and still synergize with him on the battlefield.

A very simple but effective Druid combo is the Fog Cloud + Wild Shape into a Giant Constrictor Snake. Blindsight from the snake makes you have advantage on attacks against blinded creatures inside the fog. Casting it at 2nd or 3rd lvl increases the radius by a lot, and if you have Staff of the Python its even better. 2 giant snakes wreaking inside the fog.

"Goodnight Springton. There will be no encores." That bard combo is my jam. 9th level is rare for me but this is incredibly tempting.

My personal favorite I built a character around. Flaming sphere and booming blade. An abjuration wizard has a surprising amount of tankiness, and this comes online at level 3, but shines at level 4 when you take mobile. Flaming sphere for damage on bonus action, and if they dont move they take more damage. Then booming blade to deal action damage, and if they DO move they take more damage. With mobile you also move away preventing them from attacking you back easily. This immediately became a favorite move of mine and hated by my dm

May I recommend as a bard, taking hex as your magical secrets along with lighting bolt. Just always get full damage basically plus a little necrotic. But also hex with literally anything. Just give them disadvantage and damage.