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An instantaneous concentration spell is interesting. It's only effect is to interrupt concentration spells, which is a legitimate nerf.

This joke might go over everyone’s heads watching this video a decade from now - but the Lord Gator “we need to have a discussion about that later” was pretty good

I will defend this version of guidance as it's fixing the BIGGEST flaw with guidance, hearing your cleric go "I cast guidance" EVERY TIME a ability check happens. Now you're only going to hear it when someone fails a check and are within 4 of passing it.

"It's Lord Gator now." "Yeah we've gotta talk about that later." LOL

Hocus pocus you’ve lost your focus

It would honestly be very interesting seeing you cover more spells that seem strong but aren't strong. It would be interesting to see how different some viewpoints can be, and how they alter spells power.

maaaan, prayer of healing is SO strong if you have a fighter, a druid and a warlock in your party. You basically give their main features all back again in 10 minutes (its the casting time). This spell depending on the right party is REALLY strong

The thing that bugs me the most about putting 1/rest limitations on slotted spells is that spells, unlike class features, are already limited by rest. Short rest for warlocks, and long rest for everyone else. There's no reason to add these extra limitations to resources that are already consumable.

I believe the change to banishment was made because players were upset when it was cast on them and they were out for the entire combat, but i personally don’t see the point since the spell is concentration so your team should clearly focus the caster if that happens

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The Prayer of Healing change is so weird to me, especially if it isn't accompanied by a similar change to Catnap. Catnap is a *third* level spell that lets you put *up to three* willing creatures to sleep for 10 minutes. If they stay asleep for the duration, they gain the benefits of a short rest. A creature can only receive the benefits of the spell once per long rest. Prayer of Healing is a *second* level spell that targets *one to five* creatures (realistically 3+), gives them the benefits of a short rest if they stay in range for the duration (even while traveling or engaging in combat!), and lets them heal for an additional 2d8 or more on cast.

I agree with your characterization of guidance, now it feels like a paladin aura for skill checks. Just make it a static +2 so we don't have to find and roll a d4 every time, if that's the way you want it to function. Better still, leave it as touch range so it feels like it's own thing, and not an aura

The argument Crawford made for Spiritual Weapon wasn't that the spell is particularly powerful, it was more in the realm of "it demands more time than what an instantaneous spell does". Also, it offers a little bit more consistency with the wizard spells that do something similar.

I love how you owned the fact that you were sponsored by "Pay me so you can say you're a Lord/Lady" scam at 6:12. We all did get scamed and it hurt because I was planing on give that certificate to my brother in law as a present on chrismass.

Spiritual Weapon is my go-to "I have nothing better to do this turn" spell for my cleric because it's very low-risk, low reward. I basically only use it because it doesn't require concentration and I don't have any other bonus action stuff. Now, I imagine Spiritual Weapon will only see use from levels 3 to 4, since after that, you'd have access to Spirit Guardians.

Without the 1/day limit on prayer of healing, anyone with a 2nd level warlock spell slot could chain it as many times as they wanted (since you can be one of the targets and there is no "while resting" limitation). It would also encourage people taking a bunch of short rests in a row which is a bad play pattern. I think that it is strong and fun exactly how it is.

Spiritual weapons power depends on the campaign. In some campaigns, you have to conserve your spell slots a lot, this could be dungeon crawls with 5+ encounters a day. Not that great there. In other campaigns, you just have to turn your spells into output as fast as possible, any spell not spend at the end of the day, is a wasted spell, this is games with 1-2 very big encounters in a day. The fact that spiritual weapon is non-concentration, and is a bonus action, makes it really good in those campaigns. (I know you can get similar or better numbers with telekinetic feat, but you might have other feats to take first) Anyway, the change to concentration, is mostly because it slows gameplay, and they are trying to go for spellcasters only having 1 continious spell that slows gameplay at a time.

Neymar is so good he can casually pilot a mecha in death battles in between each world cup game

Guidance wasn't changed because it was powerful. It was changed because it was a huge pain in the butt for both players and DMs. As soon as someone has Guidance, they're incentivized to constantly cast it any time anyone is doing anything. "Can I Guidance that?" "I say a small prayer to my god for Guidance." ... "Has it been a minute since I cast Guidance?" It creates a lot of overhead and interruptions and/or breaks the immersion a bit by asking the DM to sign off on you auto-casting it all the time. It was already behaving like a reaction, so it should just be made one. It means you can't cast it on someone in advance of leaving your range, which is a small nerf but removing concentration is a huge buff and changing it to a reaction removes all of the bookkeeping and table awkwardness. Now you can always just do it if they're within 10' of you, nothing conditional, no need to ask. Absolutely 10/10 good change now that the limit on uses is removed. Does this make for powerful situations where a Paladin aura combines with a Cleric's use of their reaction? Yes. Is that a problem? No. It's thematic and appropriate. Now, is it TOO powerful if multiple people at the party use feats and races to get access? Maybe if those feats and races don't have other strong combat and utility options that are sacrificed to do so. As long as the player is pulling levers and the classes get a similar number of levers to pull, power is okay. As for Prayer of Healing, nerfing Lifeberries and the inevitable Aura of Vitality nerf, I suspect they're trying to curtail healing, encourage short rests and make hit dice and things like Channel Divinity, Second Wind and Quickened Healing much more impactful. I'm all for it if they can pull it off right, but we'll have to see.

I actually like the Guidance/Resistance changes and I hope they change True Strike to the same format. Especially since you won't hear Guidance being called out 500 times per session and the fact that players have been using it like pseudo reaction spell anyway (notably on Critical Role). Unsure if multiple Guidance on a single is an oversight or not.

Yes, please cover Spiritual Weapon. We need your insight.

You know, I wouldn't mind if banishment were changed to work like death saving throws. 3 failures or 3 successes. Although, I don't see why they felt the need to nerf it.

Spiritual Weapon costing concentration is probably entirely to keep the main goal of concentration as a mechanic. One tracked effect per player. (It is really really bad though.) Banishment was generally viewed as one of the major combat ruiners, where the players would banish the GM's boss monster then crush it after dealing with the minions.

Pack Tactics is the only one who makes sense on the One DnD break downs, I saw all the same problems with my first reading of these new spells as well. And judging by the fact that guidance was buffed... and then Buffed again I believe the input from experienced players will be overshadowed by the player base that just like buffs... thus one dnd is in danger of being buffed to the point of being unplayable, or at least less fun than 5E on release, which hurts the game.

I'd love to see more of a dive into the current spiritual weapon because I guess I still don't understand why it's bad. Yes, it's not much damage for one round, but it lasts multiple rounds without taking up your concentration. But I normally play martials so I'm not super familiar with a lot of spells in general so I don't know exactly what I'm comparing it to.

loved the "Lord Gator" bit

I like that resistance and guidance are reaction spells, makes them a little more worthwhile to pick. Resistance moreso

Also something to consider with PoH is what else is at lvl 2 that you want to take, considering preparations are now level gated and Aid doesn't seem to hot, and if you weren't taking spiritual weapon before you surely ain't now, so you can grab Lesser Res, aaaaaaaaaand. . . .locate object? I guess Silence and Zone of Truth are contenders but not much else, so theres not much loss for taking it and then only using it once on the off chance you need a 10min conscious power not-nap

Banishment is even worse than you think in that regard because removing the creature from the field will prevent you from using things like Silvery Barbs to try and make the banishing more consistent. Either way, the spell is now about as strong as Hideous Laughter.

Honestly, seeing the changes they've made to Spiritual Weapon I just *know* they're going to give an undeserved nerf to Haste in the Arcane beta, since they're nerfing spells that "feel" strong rather than the ones that actually *are* strong.

Yeah, we gotta talk about that, Gator. I'm sorry, "Lord Gator".

I spam-cast Guidance to improve Kobold's KZfaq Engagement rolls

i don't know if kobold is just reading a text or what but I love how oblivious he sounds to the idea of the world cup

I'm confused on how Kobold sees Spiritual Weapon as a bad spell. I've seen it in play and from what I've experienced it's really effective. It's a bonus action so it leaves your main action open, before the playtest it's not even concentration so you can have it and a concentration spell up at the same time. The damage it deals isn't bad either since it deals 1d8 + your spellcasting modifier, which is as much as a rapier. You basically get a rapier as a non concentration bonus action attack every turn that can be pretty dang far away from you as well. Anyone wanna clarify why Kobold says it's a bad spell to me? Like maybe he only means it's a bad spell at higher levels which I can see. I'm not the most experienced in games higher than 5th level so there are probably better things to be using your bonus action on at higher levels.

I've changed the name of this edition to 1d6 in my head. So now I'm picturing kobold rolling 5d6

I would honestly prefer them to buff underperforming spells rather than nerf overpowered spells, pretty much every caster has about 3 or 4 good spells in every level and the rest you never even blink twice at. All I really want from one dnd is for them to make martials more able to stand on even ground with casters late game outside of just damage which requires an optimized build to keep up in. I think optimizing your build is important as a martial, more important than I would appreciate.

My thoughts on these are pretty similar. Although I like prayer of healing a bit more than you do. I think players are adverse to regaining full hit points "For free" between fights, for some reason. Its why healing spirit got nerfed into the ground. I think its silly since that shouldn't matter so much. Last time I played a druid for example I would spend all of my remaining spell slots at the end of the day for casts of good berry. Our party was always able to fully heal between combats... And that's without life berries. Honestly, this isn't really a real issue. Looking forward to your video on cleric. Maybe you'll have the same thoughts I do or maybe you'll have a different take. Either way I know it'll be thoughtfully put together.

I agree the spell changes are so weird. Aid seems okay thou affecting 6 targets vs 3.

another thing that's changed which has actually come up in one of my campaigns is how barkskin works. in 5e it makes it so that the targets AC cannot be below 16. while in one dnd it just gives temp HP. granted it's a 1 minute concentration spell. but when you've got an ally with absolutely awful AC and there's a level to go before they can change that it's helpful. Edit: I'd like to clarify that my memory is a bit fuzzy. but I got the info from my DM who is a very reliable person when it comes to these things.

The change to Aid makes it fit as a bridge between false life and mass cure wounds, whereas before it had the same functionality as mass cure wounds at a lower level

3.5E had a reputation for big numbers and big math. But in 5E (or 5.5 if you will) you can stack magical bonuses?? That's insane...

Banishment also had a more situational nerf, where now a creature cant just be native to another plane, but has to be a specific type. It makes the spell much weaker in high magic high power campaigns, where, for instance, Genasi from the elemental planes are a bus ride away from the material plane, but cannot be banished there since they're not elementals themselves

The spells/effects that have a saving through each turn in many cases should get harder and harder as the affect target fails and/or have demenishing effectiveness as the target makes saves or by degree of off success. This would allow for dynamics and upscaling of the spells would have something else to interact with.

Now, I actually believe the changes done to guidance are a massive nerf over it's 5e counterpart. Yes, it no longer requires your concentration, and you no longer have to think about it beforehand, but the huge deal is, that you CAN'T think about it beforehand. You will have to cast the spell as the check is made, and it has both a verbal and somatic component. I know a lot of tables allow spell casting to be hidden, completely disrespecting the sorcerers subtle spell metamagic, but RAW that is not a thing. If someone in your party fails a stealth check, and you make him succeed with guidance, you're going to be noticed anyway. If you want to use it on a persuasion check, the other party is going to notice the involvement of magic. This new version of guidance is basically only applicable, when no other creatures are involved, like when trying to disarm a trap and those checks are typically done on purpose and a 5e cleric is going to think about guidance beforehand. Just of the top of my head, I can only think about situations in which this is performing equal or worse than it's 5e counterpart.

I actually like the new version of guidance compared to 5e, Since it only applies to failed checks, Meaning skills with multiple DC level associated with them can't be overly helped, E.g. a investigation check could have multiple DCs for different degrees of success, so if DC 12 was a pass then DC 16 could give you a bonus but guidance can only be used if you roll a 11 or lower - so the best case after getting a 11 is a pass not a greater pass. Previously guidance would just be spammed out of combat and always used to get a better result, so if you roll a 14 on a DC 12 check, you could still use it and get to a higher DC threshold.

I feel that aid as it's new iteration will fight for the temp hp provided by other abilities while the prior aid felt like it was worth the cast and it's 8 hour duration. Guidance is better off as a reaction ability though it doesn't allow for failure states that the players wouldn't be aware of Such as a perception or insight check. You now have to ask the dm if it was a failure which will give players meta knowledge that there was something there to miss as well as what if there are degrees of success to a check such as study for pieces of lore or arcana/nature for a creature and its abilities? As for spiritual weapon the changes to spell lists mean that from as much as we can suppose that paladins will also gain access to it so it has to be kept in frame of references as well as the prior form being a win more spell that you would just add on to other spells such as spirit guardians since you did not have to concentrate on it. Adjusting spells is important in this edition to give those that have been underutilized time in the sun while also working to adjust those that have created a meta in the game.

I think they're mainly looking at the general power level of Cleric and thinking it's good enough. Most of the changes seem to be made more for making the features intuitive and easy to understand for newcomers. Like why would Spiritual Weapon not be concentration when other continuous battlefield effects that you can move and deal damage with like Moonbeam, Flaming Sphere, Mordenkainen's sword and Blades of disaster are. And since they're nerfing it on one aspect by making it concentration, that also allows them to buff the upcasting, which also streamlines it further in the process. I don't agree with all the changes, like Guidance and Prayer of Healing still need some tweaking. And the Banishment change doesn't make sense, I don't think there was really anything wrong with the old version of it. High risk of wasting your action and your spell slot, high reward of shutting down 1 creature (or more if you upcast it) for as long as you have concentration. Only issue I can see with the old version was that it allowed for a trick where it can be used to get the caster home if it's trapped on a different plane of existence, which could potentially ruin some sort of "trapped in another world" story if you just get the party back to their home plane one at a time at lvl 7. I like the direction of the spells in this UA. It just still needs some work

One thing I disagree about in your critique is the prayer of healing change. The spell itself was never super strong for healing in the first place since it required 10 minutes to cast. Giving it a short rest component is a nice buff for its overall usefulness and it gives the spell a "niche" that it didn't really have before, but making that buff unlimited? Nah-ah. It just calls for atmospherically incoherent short rest feature abuse. It's too early to talk about how strong a short rest providing effect would become until we've seen the new versions of Monk, Warlock and Fighter. Those three would be the lynchpins of setting the mark for how strong a short rest in onednd will really be. But if we use the 5e counterparts - warlocks regaining their spell slots in 10 minutes time without any restraint would clash with my perceived fabric of fantasy reality, aka it will ruin my immersion to a certain degree. Subjectively, ofc.

I've gotten decent mileage out of Spiritual Weapon as a Conquest Paladin. It's not a spell for every combat, but for combats that lasted 3+ rounds in fairly close quarters it did more damage than if I spent that spell slot on a non-critical Divine Smite. In practice, it effectively allowed me to make 3 attacks per turn, at the cost of a bonus action that was usually spent doing nothing outside of the occasional Smite spell in the situations where they were useful. EDIT: That said, when I hit level 9 I started using it less because I got even more mileage out of Spirit Shroud for both the extra damage and the extra debuffs, and so fights had to last even longer for it to be worth the extra setup time of casting both Spirit Shroud and Spiritual Weapon over the first two turns.

That nod at the established titles drama was perfect for this channel. No need to address it, just an acknowledgment that it’s a thing.

So now 4th level Banishment is basically 1st level Tasha's Hideous Laughter. It's like they don't know their own game.

Concentration up to 1 round would still stop double Guidance and keep the cost of dropping concentration on other stuff, but should add a limit to self-Guidance, since you’re casting, not taking another action. Guidance would become like an extra Help action.

My idea for Banishment would be to let the caster use an Action to deny the saving throw at the end of the turn. If you Banish an elemental and it doesn't escape before you deal with the other threats you can make sure the spell lasts its full duration. If you Banish a target from a safe environment they get a saving throw against the spell and another one at the end of their first turn, then you can prevent the next 9. My idea would keep the new Banishment weaker than its current version while returning some of its banishment capabilities.

8:22 THIS! Banisment is now have same effect as 1st level Tasha's Hideous Laughter but requares 4th level spell. From specific unique spell to uselsess spell in 1 change. Same with Aid. All arcane cleric have Armor of Agathys now and billion other sources of temporary hp. If they wanna fix it- make it a 1 minutr casting spell. Spiritual weapon is a noob bait now, as it destract you from concentrating on Bless with illusion that you are dealing some damage. (You are not). And on top of that you can pick only 3 second level spells. So say hellow to same builds with mandatory picks.

Spiritual Weapon is like an extra attack that have limited uses, not unlike a War Clerics special ability, except better, because you chose it temporarily.

I’ve only once seen a player fail every save for spell with a duration where every turn they can repeat. It was kind of great watching the rogue continue running away for 10 turns til they were on the other side of the dungeon because they couldn’t succeed there save on fear

Damn it, he's right. When you do the math - Spritual Weapon actually isn't that great. I still think concentration is the right move, they just need to buff the damage a bit. Maybe bump it to a d10 and increase the speed to 30?

I'm wondering how many years into the future will pass before we are introduced to Two D&D, Three D&D, Three and a Half D&D, Four D&D and Five D&D. After that I suppose they will convert to roman numerals.

Spiritual Weapon was good without Concentration because you could combine with Spirit Guardians, Dodge Action and be a reliable and cheap tank/zoner on the battlefield. Putting a concentration requirement on it makes it almost certain no one will ever pick this spell over any other good concentration effects.

Honestly, I think the nerf to Banishment may be to have Players get a chance to save out of it if they are targeted by the spell. I had the party try to attack an evil wizard at the top of a tower, but they had to climb a flight of stairs. The wizard cast Banishment on the monk, and the player literally sat for an hour IRL doing nothing as the rest of the party slowly climbed the trapped staircase. Wizard knew the monk could climb walls and removed them as a threat...

This version of prayer of healing would be nice to have as a scroll for that rare situation when you can spare 10 minutes but not 1 hour, but it's a waste of a spell preparation. I'm not sure how I feel about a spell like that.

They actually have to fail 11 saving growth the initial and 10 repeats. That's 1:275

The problem with the banishment change, in my opinion, is that now it’s basically impossible to use for its actual purpose. For keeping a native creature incapacitated in a demiplane? Sure, they can reroll. Banishment isn’t meant to be an all purpose control spell. But for extra planar creatures? One save, that’s it. If you hold the spell for its duration, they’re banished! That’s how it should work. It should be reliably effective in doing what is was purposely designed to do, and less effective when haphazardly applied to do other things.

I don’t like Aid and Barkskin becoming temporary hp. We’re getting to the point in 5e where there’s too many effects that use the same mechanic and the mechanic can’t stack or work together. If you have aid cast on you and you want to cast something like armor of Agathys, then you have to either wait until you take damage and lose the aid temp hp, or cast it right away and waste the temp hp because they don’t stack.

Next UA: Telekinetic feat is now concentration

aid feels like it should heal 5 and give 5 temp hp

People we need to remember that arcane spell list isn't out yet. From what we see for now its seems 5.5 is reducing power from PC mainly because the power creep in 5e was that too much and spells where too powerful. Let's whait to see the arcan list. Mybe it's also weaker. Remember spell's just where batter then weapons and trivialize the other pillars.

Guidance and Resistance should both be cast in reaction to a creature within 10ft *making a check*. Before the d20 roll. If the party gets hit by Hypnotic Pattern, getting to wait to pick the ally who failed by 4 or less is too powerful. If it works like the protection fighting style where you don't know if it will change the result that is better for a cantrip

I like this guidance 🐊 but now it can be cast consecutively while casting other spells with casting times of more than 1 action, since it is a reaction without concentration. Some examples 🐇: (stealth) pass whiteout trace, (perception) see invincibility or detect magic, (persuasion) enhance ability, etc.

at least with old spiritual weapon you could use it while also keeping up bless or spirit guardians or whatever your support concentration spell of choice is so you could maybe keep it up and contribute a few free bonus actions to dealing a bit of damage over a fight, it wasn't much but at most it cost a spell slot and some cleric bonus actions that may not be used otherwise... the new one is just a trap and turns something that was mostly non committal into something actively detrimental for your party

I wonder… would healing be bad if magical healing only stabilized an unconscious player rather than bringing them back up? In this case them going down is a threat so you do want to heal them in order to keep them from going down in a fight, assuming the healing spells can provide enough healing, and if not then at that point the solution is just buffing the healing magic.

Can True Strike be the same as Guidance and Resistance?

Another, hidden nerf of Banishment: with previous version permabanish was simpler (if you target something that's not from the plane you are on right now, it's banished to its homeplane). Well, first of all, no chance in Hell that a devil you target with this will fail his saving throw 10 times in a row. So it's a dead feature. Second, in 5e you can use that effect as a improvised Planeshift whenever you need to go back to your home plane. It's a lifeline against being send against your will to other planes. Not anymore. Overall, this nerf makes that spell practically useless.

Sure SW isnt the best bang for your buck, but it lets you deal dmg with your ba, which i dont think clerics have many other options for, so if you have the slots you can always drop one to maximise damage if needed. Now its kinda useless, unless a whole bunch of other spells get nerfed. And the banishment nerf is so dumb, now it basically cant banish stuff.

Wow, gator got a texture update

Yeah im still not convinced that saying these really good options are slightly better than spiritual weapon makes spiritual weapon bad. Telekinetic is a bit of an overcentralizing feat And bless is dependant on party but very good but previously we would get both bless and sp-weapon

So the one causing ability checks will strive to target creatures more than 10 feet from the castor. Cool!

So Kobolt at 3:40 you say that the duration is instantaneous and thus they have no duration, but in fact they do. They're total duration is the point of trigger of the failed save. As reactions are taken without initiative in mind they would would all be happening at the same time. Now that doesn't mean that 2 people couldn't cast this reaction at the same time just that while they would both burn their reaction only the highest of the d4's would be added to the original roll. I think it's actually better explained if you think of how a counterspell battle takes place where spell level can even get into it. As follows. Assume all participants have +2 to their respective spell casting ability modifier for simplicity sake Level 9 Red war wizard casts FIREBALL (unknown to the others at level 6) In reaction to the fireball the following characters declare their reactions (spell levels unknown to red wizard). Level 5 Bard casts counterspell at level 3. Level 6 blue war mage wizard casts counterspell at level 3 Level 7 green war mage wizard casts counterspell at level 4 Level 10 abjuration wizard casts counterspell at level 4. Level 10 yellow war mage wizard casts counter spell at level 5 Level 17 arcane trickster uses their spell thief ability. Level 20 sorcerer casts counterspell at level 9 As the triggering event for each reaction is the same the Red war wizard sees all these reactions start to take place all at the same time and Level 9 Red war wizard casts counter spell at level 5 on the sorcerer. Reactions then resolve by a latest Trigger time first so. red war wizard's counter spell requires a check rolls a 17 on the die +2 int to equal (19) meeting the 19 DC SORCS COUNTERSPELL HAS BEEN COUNTERED BY RED WAR WIZARD Red war wizard gians a power surge Now the reactions to red war wizards fire ball all resolve if they were to succeed or not at the same time. Bard's level 3 counterspell requires a check rolls an 18 +2cha +1JoAT to equal 21 meeting the DC 17 PASS Blue war mage Wizard's level 3 counterspell requires a check rolls an 18 +2int to equal 20 meeting the DC 17 PASS Green war mage wizard's level 4 counterspell requires a check rolls an 17 +2int to equal 19 meeting the DC 17 PASS Abjuration wizard's level 4 counterspell requires a check rolls an 11 +2int +4Prof to equal 17 meeting the DC 17 PASS Yellow war mage wizard's level 5 counterspell requires a check rolls an 8 +2int to equal 10 not meeting the DC 17 FAIL Red war mage must make an Int save vs Arcane trickster's Spell save DC rolls a 6 +2int +4Prof to equal 12 not meeting the DC of 16 FAIL (note: Red war mage can't use arcane deflection to succeed after adding +4 as their reaction has been used) Sorcerer's level 9 Counterspell has been countered FIZZLE. END result is as follows All participants have spent appropriate spell slots and abilities, Sorcerer's counterspell was successfully counted by Red war mage, Red war mage gains a power surge, Red war mage's fireball was successfully counted by Green war mage. Green war mage gains a power charge, Red war mage's fireball has been negated by the arcane trickster's spell thief granting the trickster access to the spell and costing the red war mage access for 8 hours. THINGS TO NOTE Only one counterspell actually countered the fireball even with multiple casts and it wasn't the first successful one listed but rather is determined by how you would determine the STRONGEST successful counterspell first by the highest level of cast that was successful and within that the highest result on the check. Any tie breaking beyond that (and really at this point, would be down to the table's go to methods) WHY I SEE A NEED FOR THIS EXAMPLE SCENARIO It's good to have a fair way to resulve what would be possible in a zero meta (Act as the character not as the player) situation like this. Useful at tables that want to avoid first speak up first served leading to possible conflicts. Or games that have delayed responses like chat based games. A good way to see layering reactions is a stack based system. Like MtG Different triggers stack but different reactions to the same trigger resolve at the same time much like how overlapping spells are discribed. I also believe that if you still believe that instantaneous spells don't have overlapping durations in this context that you can not have a counterspell chain (as in you can't counter a counter or any other reaction based ability or spell with an instantaneous effect) For the sake of reaction resistance or guidance. I'd allow multiple people to stockpile but I hope you would see why only the highest rolled d4 would apply to the original d20 roll. They would only add together if even though they are worded to provide the same result the are NAMED different effect (this being why you can't stack a speed potion and the haste spell or enlarge/reduce with a growth potion) May have OVER EXPLAINED myself here. Not rant just hope to clarify a take on this.

"Why do we kill enemies? To reduce the damage we will take" Me: Bold of you to assume that I kill people for a good reason.

5:29 Are you really surprised the same group constant effect Shalily to the warlock nerfed the cleric?

The reason 5e Spiritual Weapon is balanced, even without concentration, is that it has a mobility limitation of 20 ft. IT IS TERRIBLY SLOW. In most use cases, you will only benefit from the bonus action attack against 1-2 enemies at most before the duration expires. Making it additionally take concentration (even with the increased scaling) makes this spell a complete noob trap.

I also personally don’t like the changes to Aid, since my party likes to combo it with other things that currently in 5e give temporary hit points. Since we’re a party of 3, the increased # of targets does nothing for us. I get where they’re going with it though and it’s probably still the right call.

fix to banishment: only allow the save each round to non-fey/fiends/etc

Guidance has a bit of a shadow nerf because you need to get confirmation that you failed a check before you can use it.

You've never covered spiritual weapon? I always take it for action economy

I do mot agree with your spiritual weapon take. I don't think it's broken mechanically, but the fact that is not concentration makes it almost a cleric tax, since if you are not already using your bonus action there is almost no reason not to cast it. I'm glad they made it concentration

If anything all healing effects really need a strong buff to make undoing attacks that were already done worth it compared to taking an enemy out or making various future attacks not work or what have you. I have been trying to run an actually efficient healer, and even using out of combat options and the like its just really never worth it…

Oh man banishment nerf, I use that spell as a sorcerer for quite a few encounter skips, dual hill giants? No problem twinned banishment skip a guaranteed boring combat, high tail it out/stealth for a minute bam entirely different encounters. Enemy can track or is fast? Extended spell and suddenly we have 40 rounds of combat for a headstart

As I understand it the effect of multiple casts of Guidance would not combine because their effect overlap, even though their duration is instantaneous. Both instances happen at the same point in time, when the target fails their skill check. If that's the case the other part of the RAW might allow us to roll both Guidance dice and pick the highest result. Anyways, as others pointed out the main point of this change is to make Guidance simpler to use: a skill check is failed, a reaction is used, move on.

I didn't think the current version of spiritual weapon was too bad, it was a terrible upcast but not requiring concentration made it, I thought, a decent spell to use alongside spirit guardians to do continual turn over turn damage and give a use to your bonus action, which at least I find no use for otherwise as a cleric if no one is unconscious. 2nd level spell slots are relatively plentiful, especially with the harness divine power extra two slots per long rest. Requiring concentration though completely kills the spell, as does concentration basically remove any spell besides spirit guardians, because spirit guardians..

I don't like the change to Banishment but honestly the effect was absurd. Completely removing someone from a fight is incredibly strong, and it's not easy to make someone lose concentration.

that banishment change breaks my little horizon walker heart.

For dnd ONE spiritual weapon as currently written is not a viable option. Too many concentration spells. Rather support if that’s the case.

Lord Gator! Brilliant!!

Yeah spiritual weapon damage isn't great but it's a reliable use of a bonus action and a second level spell slot isn't a huge deal. I think it's fine as is in 5e.

Kobold! Can you tell us how you will be voting in the feedback quiz?

my problem with the reaction guidence is that they are pushing against degrees of success

A big problem with catnap and new prayer of healing is how they interact with alternate rest rules. The group I play with generally uses heroic rests, so you take 10 minutes and expend a spell slot to do... nothing! Complete rules fail. It'd be like including an optional rule that let everyone ignore the invisible condition but leaving see invisibility in the game. Oh.... wait... no that would still be a buff.

Honestly if I was the dm I would say that since Resistance is a reaction spell the durations would overlap. If two people tried to cast it on the same person for the same effect then the duration would still overlap even if the duration is instant, since the spells are both cast theoretically at the same instant.