The Four Elements Avatar: d4

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Can we build a Way of the Four Elements Monk that's actually effective in D&D 5e combat? It's not exactly Aang from the Last Airbender, but I love it anyway :).
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@DnDDeepDive Жыл бұрын

Errata! Gathered Swarm requires you to choose between the extra d6 *or* movement - we'd be doing movement, obviously, which does lower our high level damage numbers just a teeny bit.

@mattmakermusic9743 Жыл бұрын

Sorry to bother you, but I got curious while I was watching the video and I had to check on the PHB. I don't think that water whip has a limit on how many ki points you can spend on it. The PHB mentions that the spells have a limit and have to wait till level 5 to spend extra ki points, but the "disciplines" (fist of unbroken air, fangs of the fire snake...) just have the extra damage written in their descriptions, so technically, I think it would be possible to spend extra ki points on it right away. I don't know though, maybe I misinterpreted.

@marinecor23 Жыл бұрын

"Making sound investment strategies sound very, anti monkish" but, it also sounds very dwarvish.

@johnhume1 Жыл бұрын

@@mattmakermusic9743 You're right! No limit to extra ki spent on Water Whip or Fist of Unbroken Air (other than the Monk's meager pool of ki points).

@brandendunagan8822 Жыл бұрын

I mean its by 2-3 on average so it doesnt seem that bad.

@-Titania Жыл бұрын

You can actually combo shape water and minor illusion very easily

@gaidencastro9706 Жыл бұрын

But when the world needed OGL most, it vanished

@DieDieNacho Жыл бұрын

WOTC reading this: 👁👄👁

@adambeck427 Жыл бұрын

Out of the Maw already sweating and their third party Sourcebook just came out. I wish them the best with WoTC craziness.

@LordNerfherder Жыл бұрын

I came for rhetorical prowess and innovation and find it in the comments!?

@MrMravetto Жыл бұрын

This is hilarious!

@momqabt Жыл бұрын

There are workarounds, but fuck WoTC

@debuyarou7463 Жыл бұрын

Wizards Of The Coast are grateful for all your cool builds. Soon will be theirs cool builds.

@Zynovus Жыл бұрын

lol there won’t be any IP on builds anyway.

@ElManReborn616 Жыл бұрын

@@Zynovus yet.

@matthewlenard8346 Жыл бұрын

Kobe is safe, the ogl contract does not affect Financial gains made from patreon support. There would be some licensing fees that will apply to him but nothing that's any more damaging than the original contract. Now if Kobe was to make a book based on his stories Wizards of the Coast would have royalties on that content. If Colby was to make Minis based off his content Wizards of the Coast would have royalties. As long as he is giving away the social media content for free and only making money off patreon-based support he has no worries.

@matthewlenard8346 Жыл бұрын

Also I would like to add that everyone is bad-mouthing Wizards of the Coast, this however is not the case. The deal they made with Hasbro was a bad move, but Wizards of the Coast wanted access to their digital Technologies. Hasbro now has the marketing rights to D&D. They bought this for $325 million. When a company makes a purchase of another Company's stock, contracts or Legacies of said stock does not have to be honored. The new ogl is being crafted by Hasbro to turn DND into a online experience. This sucks tremendously for a new generation of content creators. There will be a grandfather clause placed into the contract that will protect content creators on a lower level. If you're making under $700,000 a year you're under the radar.

@drumlineking07 Жыл бұрын

@@matthewlenard8346 I don't think it applies to a character build like these videos. Then again I haven't read the whole thing so I could be mistaken.

@ExplosiveFloofBall Жыл бұрын

I heard that "pull them 25 feet" and knew druid would be coming

@MrMravetto Жыл бұрын

Me too!

@Trenell83 Жыл бұрын

You know in retrospect there are some fixes I would have for 4 element monk: 1. Elemental Attunement given for free and you gain the Control Flames, Gust, Mold Earth and Shape Water cantrips. 2. Make the cost 1 less ki for every discipline. While per your suggestion learn all of them at appropriate levels so no need to choose. 3. Give them a feature where their unarmed strikes can be cold, fire, acid, or thunder.

@MrMravetto Жыл бұрын

Love this!

@TheRollingStone11 Жыл бұрын

You didn’t mention how Moonbeam works with the theme of being a waterbender! The Moon spirit is one of the spirits from which water benders derive their power (tides), and is a focal point of the season 1 The Last Airbender finale!

@trevorgreenough6141 Жыл бұрын

I like water benders for this, because all the other elements learned from the fantastical animals, water benders learned from the moon. It both sounds ridiculous and somehow makes sense at the same time.

@corymorse4271 Жыл бұрын

You can also treat any radiant damage as a "solar wind" effect.

@slimee8841 Жыл бұрын

If colby can make a 4 elements monk work he would indeed be the Avatar

@momqabt Жыл бұрын

The problem about the 4 elements monk is its the worst subclass on the worst chassis.

@xx_toasterreturns_xx1166 Жыл бұрын

"My name is Oong"

@life-destiny1196 Жыл бұрын

*Sun Soul monk has entered the chat*

@zach415 Жыл бұрын

@@life-destiny1196 still suboptimal compared to a divine soul sorcerer with guiding bolt

@hericn Жыл бұрын

Wow... Until today I saw you as a school of optimization wizard, but this time you proved you are a lvl 20 optimization domain cleric and you have just performed a miracle!

@DnDDeepDive Жыл бұрын

🤣

@JoschiChr Жыл бұрын

A dwarf with a hammer makes for a great earth avatar, kinda reminds me of Gow, the guy Zuko fought when he was traveling through the earth kingdom alone.

@eliw6297 Жыл бұрын

dude I love these videos. Colby is one of the most charismatic and disarming hosts on youtube. I rarely leave comments, but these videos just make me happy to watch

@DnDDeepDive Жыл бұрын

cheers!

@apocXIX Жыл бұрын

Welcome home...

@Tusitala1967 Жыл бұрын

He also dances... which he has promised to do the very next time he includes Bladesinger on a build. 🙂

@DnDDeepDive Жыл бұрын

@@Tusitala1967 😏

@CarlosHenrique-kh5mn Жыл бұрын

He seems to be such a cool guy. I hope he supports minorities' rights.

@andreapiccolo8199 Жыл бұрын

Tiny pebbles or even Sand seems like a good way to flavour the swarmkeeper feature

@wassentme1891 Жыл бұрын

Warhammer definitely gives Earthbender vibes, so a strong wind or sandstorm seems great!

@linuxpenguin823 Жыл бұрын

now let's figure out a way to cast Find Familiar to get Momo and get a flying Appa mount

@alexanderbyrne9684 Жыл бұрын

Momo is definitely a bonded familiar as opposed to a summoned one

@JudeCranberry Жыл бұрын

Dude, I didn't think the build could get cooler

@resurrecsean Жыл бұрын

I think he could spend a Wildshape to summon a familar?

@TheElectrikCow Жыл бұрын

Reskin a 'Find Greater Steed' Griffin

@ThomasBD Жыл бұрын

@@alexanderbyrne9684 You could flavour that Momo ran away, is doing something else or was asleep when the time of the "spell" ends. He's always shown being sleepy, doing other stuff while the plot is keeps going and being a little coward and flying away at some moments of danger.

@WelsknightGaming Жыл бұрын

As a slight change of pace, I'd love to see a couple of builds that don't use point buy: one build for if you roll god-tier stats, and one for if you roll terrible stats (that isn't just a Moon Druid).

@MrMravetto Жыл бұрын

If we are going to change the pace make Colby combine existing builds at random, but Live. I would pay to see that.

@phanspiritus910 Жыл бұрын

I am just amazed to see Welsknight here!

@benjaminwalker9369 Жыл бұрын

@@phanspiritus910 same bro

@marianpetera8436 Жыл бұрын

Colby: "I'm not a huge fan of trying to recreate third party fictional characters to be played in DnD." DnD designers: "Wow, an original series with a monk who does cool elemental stuff! Let's give our players the option to play one!"

@momqabt Жыл бұрын

The problem is its still a monk

@solar4planeta923 Жыл бұрын

Such a tortured path was necessary to arrive at the peak of the... small hillock of might. Kudos to you for finding a way around the obstacles! Great build effort.

@SwingRipper Жыл бұрын

You are going to love PF2's Kineticist when that comes out! Elemental user "martial" character with unlimited use spell like abilities from feats!

@MEIZimm Жыл бұрын

Hidden bonus feature: this build is one of the few "cheese grater" builds that can handle flying enemies (so long as they don't fly using magic or hovering), since both Fist of Unbroken Air and Water Whip can knock prone = knocking the birdies out of the sky.

@rockwallguy Жыл бұрын

As a longtime fan, I'm looking forward to your pathfinder 2e builds!

@abcrasshadow9341 Жыл бұрын

Did Colby confirm this somewhere or are you just speculating?

@rockwallguy Жыл бұрын

@@abcrasshadow9341 More like trying to wish it into existence. 😊

@beachedsam Жыл бұрын

I mean pathfinder builds are so much much more complex and better.

@venusianblivet9518 Жыл бұрын

I’d love to see more Brandon Sanderson characters! He’s my favourite fantasy author, and the very specific magic systems might be a challenge to work into the mechanics of D&D.

@jackakimbo5718 Жыл бұрын

I wish the Four Elements Monk got: -reduced Ki point cost for their spells -some passive that lets you apply a little bit of elemental damage to your fists, maybe once per short/long rest you could swap out which element you're channeling and until you swap it for something else, your punches would (at no extra Ki cost) always deal a bit of extra damage of that element

@Abalabexabandraba 2 ай бұрын

Ok, I always love when the outtakes include singing, but that recorder bit was particularly amazing 😻

@ErikkuBlade Жыл бұрын

While the square peg doesn’t fit into a round hole very well, where does the round peg go? That’s right, it goes in the square hole!

@bigaj6901 Жыл бұрын

I've always wanted an Avatar build from you Colby, what a way to kick off 2023 :D

@seantepe5071 Жыл бұрын

My Avatar theorycraft has been re-flavoring the Ascendant Dragon Monk and multi-classing with Nature Cleric. You get access to cleric spells and some Druid spells including shape water and mold earth and can change both your weapon and unarmed strike damage to become elemental. Monk8/Cleric12 would get you evasion and a D6 and now you can ask past avatars for divine intervention. You can use your reactions to protect yourself and others from the elements. And both subclasses have some peaceful features for communicating with plants, animals and making charisma checks. Hold heat AND preach non-violence. 💕

@keggotht9323 Жыл бұрын

Love the theme of this character. It's always incredible to see how much you manage to get out of each level in a class and I always feel inspired to make more characters after a Tuesday

@dragoknight589 Жыл бұрын

Experts. Priests. Mages. Warriors. Long ago the four class types live together in harmony. But everything changed when WotC messed with the OGL.

@dungeondr Жыл бұрын

Intriguing, 4 elements monk build was the second ever build I uploaded on my channel, and naturally it was HEAVILY Avatar themed. Can't wait to see what you did with this ☺️

@ramiroflores5057 Жыл бұрын

So I have never played DnD yet or any tabletop games, but for some reason watching Colby the last few months, is always so enjoyable and soothing to listen to. I will have to try something eventually but great video as always! Also I can see a calm Avatar Colby XD

@solar4planeta923 Жыл бұрын

This is why WotC should appreciate third party content creators and not punish them. Thanks for making the point.

@erikm6941 Жыл бұрын

Yesterday I was thinking of some concepts for Four Elements Monk, playing with ideas of Druid or Nature Cleric, and was wondering if you'd ever done a build with it... now it's today and I'm so happy to see it. This is awesome and I can't wait to use some of these ideas in my own build!

@arieleconforti6112 Жыл бұрын

Nice to see this build! I've played a campaign inspired of the characters of Avatar in a Edo Japan-like world. The master had prepared for us the characters using the base of four element monks but adding more (features from others subclasses, form other classes and homebrew features) for made them more thematic and viables. I was the waterbending and I needed l liquids for use my power so I bought acid and I started to acid wips my enemy for extra dmg. So in case you try out this build and your DM allow, this can be a nice tip 😉 thank you again Colby for your work!

@johngleeman8347 Жыл бұрын

Colby at the end of his rope trying to build a house out of sawdust. XD

@darkfograven570 Жыл бұрын

I love the build, the mental image of this monk dragging their foes though a fields of stones spikes they created with a whip of water is legendary, and to follow all that up with multiple punches to the face adds insult to injury.

@andrewhalmo656 Жыл бұрын

I was optimizing the 4 elements monk and came up with a different approach that stays mostly in monk and does good damage. I only figured out level 9, and I’m sure you can do better optioning higher levels. It does depend on hold person like Critlander though. Start with being a bugbear and pickup sharpshooter at your first ASI. At level 9 you have 3 levels in battle master/ 6 monk. Cast hold person with 3 Ki points. Action surge and attack with your sling and then do a second attack with flurry of blows. You can use your battle master maneuvers to add damage or use precision attack to help with sharp shooter. That’s 4 attacks with the bugbear sneak attack at 2d6, 2 of which are with sharpshooter and all being crits. Of course this only works if you attack a humanoid. I do like your avatar flavor though😁

@danielbeshers1689 Жыл бұрын

Obligatory "What sort of bender would you be?" comment thread: Generally I think I'd be earth: very stubborn, sometimes overly literal, and I've actually studied Tiger Fist Hung Ga. I think Colby would have to be air because... that voice...

@urvidhnarula6362 Жыл бұрын

I buffed the monk class a fair bit to allow it to be mechanically viable for the player who plays at my table. I gave him extra ki equal to his Wisdom modifier (a desperately needed buff for low level monks), made Patient Defence and Step of the Wind free, gave him a d10 hit die and two reactions per turn (feels like a very monk thing to have amazing reflexes) and access to a very small list of spells that he could cast once per day for free (like Blur and Haste which are super thematic for monks), and then use ki equal 1+spell level to cast later (which prevents spamming of low level spells for 1 ki, but doesn't tax recasting high level spells more than once per day insanely) With all these buffs, my player is..... About on par mechanically with the rest of the party (paladin, rogue and wizard). Just about. Monks need some buffs.

@johnhume1 Жыл бұрын

This build hits me right ♥️! My second DDAL character is a 4 Elements Monk. I started at Monk 4 / Druid 1 to beef up elemental magic with spells. While I got a lot of utility from cantrips out of combat, the lack of synergy in combat was frustrating. I've taken advantage of AL rules to rebuild a few times. After looking at Wildfire Druid but deciding against a pet with action economy cost, I'm planning to try Ranger next. I was going to do Gloomstalker for Dread Ambusher and Umbral Sight, but this has me looking at Swarmkeeper.

@bustinboffa4297 Жыл бұрын

My first ever character in 5e was a human four elements monk with this chain-whip kinda thing. If he saw how this character turned out, he'd definitely be proud.

@jesterbravo3317 Жыл бұрын

This is far from your best build, but quite possibly your best video ever. And that's a fine trade. Great work!

@ryanscanlon2151 Жыл бұрын

When you started singing at the end for a split second I thought you were gonna sing leaves from the vine, what an emotional rollercoaster that would have been lol

@samblanton9010 Жыл бұрын

I love how you give an example of why the character would make a multi class decision. It really helps me create a character based on these videos instead of just following a build.

@horbi3683 Жыл бұрын

I am happy that you did a 4E Monk, thank you 🙂 The moment I saw the water whip on Randall's artwork, I knew you'd go Druid for Spike Growth on a nova build 😊 It's so sad that features for the Monk, and 4E in particular, might not even help because Wizards would surely have them cost tons of Ki... Oh, and nice flute skills!

@Nikotheos Жыл бұрын

For All the Fans: over on The Rules Lawyer’s channel, a series with Colby and Chris (Treantmonk) playing PF2 has started to be posted. Colby’s playing a monk.

@Nikotheos Жыл бұрын

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@ninnusridhar Жыл бұрын

My personal favourite avatar build is straight stars druid. You get all the elemental and spirit world powers you could want. Starry form is the avatar state. Shillelagh can be aang's stick. But this seems fun too.

@androlgenhald476 Жыл бұрын

Really fun build today! One note on Gathered Swarm though: you only get one of the options, not multiple. So you can either: 1. Try to move an enemy 2. Do an extra d6 of damage or 3. Move yourself 5 ft.

@DnDDeepDive Жыл бұрын

posted an errata on this :)

@MrMravetto Жыл бұрын

Thank you Colby! Very cool build, I would skip ranger but love the RP potential on this!

@shoulung6203 Жыл бұрын

Ok, so totally not what I thought you were going with. First thing I'd like to point out; the ki point restriction for the Four Elements Monk only applies to elemental disciplines that allow you to cast spells; Water Whip and Fist of Unbroken Air are not spells(see book description). This means you can spend as many points as you have available for one attack. So I'd have went 15 levels of monk with 2 levels of Path of the Grave Cleric for 16d10 x 2 damage, modified for your save and average damage calculations. I'm fairly certain this makes for a super strong nova build. You could also go three levels for assassin and 2 levels of fighter(to get divinity use on surprise round) for 11d10 x4 damage. Now if we wanted to go all multiple attack about it, Fangs of the Fire Snake, (another non spell discipline) + halo of spores + battle master maneuvers (including superiority die fighting style and feat selections) + Action Surge gets you 6d10(fangs) + 6d8(unarmed) + 6d6(spores) + 4d8(battle master) + 2d6(feat + martial style) damage, all of which cost you 7 ki. I think that might also do more damage than this cheese grater build; but it's a bit closer. On another note, the Open Hand monk has the greatest nova damage of all when fighting your neighborhood tarrasque; who doesn't love some quivering palm.

@andrewhalmo656 4 ай бұрын

I’ve been thinking about the 4 elements monk build lately for some reason 🤔 (Netflix) and have been thinking about Colby’s build. I was thinking on the same lines as you for the Path of the Grave aspect and came across your post. Unfortunately Path of the Grave takes an action to use so you can’t use it on the same round unless you use Action Surge. You might have been hoping to get it off before combat, but it might be hard most of the time since it only has a 30 foot range. Also Assassinate wouldn’t work on it, since it is a saving throw not an attack roll. Too bad, because that would be awesome! Unfortunately for the other build Fangs of the Fire Snake actually takes 2 Ki to get the 1d10 damage not 1 Ki. It’s one Ki to make it Fire and a 10ft reach and another to give it a 1d10 of damage, which really sucks! So it would actually take 13 Ki to pull this off not 7. Both are is still a really good builds just not as strong as you thought there were.

@andrewhalmo656 Жыл бұрын

So the monk feature of up casting limitations is only for spells. The water wipe isn’t a spell and doesn’t have a cap, so spend as much as you want😊 Technically at 20th level you can do 23d10 damage, even though you probably wouldn’t.

@zaecus Жыл бұрын

Sound investment strategy and a warhammer seem like perfectly reasonable qualities for a -Dwarven- monk. ;)

@fasterpet Жыл бұрын

My first character was a way of 4 elements monk. It was a blast! I did get my dms to allow me to use water whip as a bonus action (since that was what was published in my handbook prior to the errata). It made a fun bursty option for when I had ki to spare. Took him to level 12 with 2 levels of tempest cleric as more flavor! Started human with druid magic initiate for shilelegh and produce flame. Tons of fun.

@mjust7119 Жыл бұрын

This multiclass combo is insane and I love it.

@user-lt6ho5kt7v Жыл бұрын

I have my version of this build, which includes monk and stars druid for very distinct glow and lots of spells to replicate manipulation of nature. Additionally, you can reflavour spells

@SatansWerewolf Жыл бұрын

Dnd was fun while it lasted. I'm going to miss vids like these and hope the ogl ends up changing, but I'm not very optimistic. I'll keep watching these vids til the end, tho. Love this concept as well, btw.

@matthewscorner2990 Жыл бұрын

I made an Avatar style build once. He was a Tabaxi. I just have him as half sorcerer half druid so far. For lots of elemental spell variety.

@randomize.4 Жыл бұрын

hooray new video. A friend is currently trying to play an 'Avatar-like' character in a campaign, so this will be interesting for him! Thanks.

@RealHarryWells Жыл бұрын

Hey Colby, haven't been able to watch your videos for a few weeks but was excited when i saw the theme for this video, great work! I was thinking of making a four element monk for a campaign we just started, I wanted it to be a genasi whos element came out during his martial arts. However my favorite element is earth and the subclass doesn't provide much earth flavored attacks so I went a different direction. I know theres home brews out there that provide a good class but my group tends to avoid home brews. I ended up going a different direction, wish wotc released a rework for the class.

@stevenshelton4807 Жыл бұрын

Sooooooo much flavor! Love it, keep it up Colby!

@B.J.Camire Жыл бұрын

The fact that Colby not only owns a tin whistle, but also knows how to play it, fills my hear with joy (and yes that's a reference to the Tommy Mulvihill version of Kerry Dances) 😄 (Also, I don't how to type the required phonetic characters, but smoyn-cheh should get you close enough.)

@mattdahm4289 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Colby- I’m so happy to tune into your videos every week ❤

@ericmerrill9808 Жыл бұрын

You could easily reflavor your Warhammer as a Meteor Hammer style monk weapon. Sure it’s more of a flail technically but it follows the idea of hitting your opponents with lots of blunt force trauma. In fact it pairs well with the water whip because you are making an extra meteor hammer made out of ice and water to bludgeon further while still flipping around and kicking your normal meteor hammer at people!

@pomeot9613 Жыл бұрын

You should try and make a build around using the Double-Bladed Scimitar + Revenant Blade feat. It's strange to get a feat that's specific to only one particular weapon which gives you so many different bonuses. It's always so interesting to see what you come up with!

@Cirdan345 7 ай бұрын

Kolby has one - rogue/paladin mix

@thejammiestjam Жыл бұрын

I wonder if a druid or ranger with the Tavern Brawler feat could make an avatar-ish thing work! Might make them a bit MAD, so maybe a STR-based ranger, with some more elemental-focused spells. Just an idea off the top of my head that I have not fleshed out beyond this lololol

@chadmeadows4557 Жыл бұрын

It is my personal beliefs that monks make the best bbegs. Especially against party of casters. I recently did a game where my party of 5 2martials 3 casters came up against 4 elementals. Instead of using stat blocks I made the elementals genasies of the different types and did builds for each. The rock was a barbarian, the water was a cleric, the fire was a sorcerer and the air a 4 elements monk. When I tell you I had them shook when on round 3 I went the full distance around the party and hit the Wizard with an upscaled fist of the northern winds that instantly downed them and sent them landing at the feet of the bard you best believe it was some of the best feelings I have gotten as a dm watching my players scramble and work together as a team to take out this perceived threat. The truth is I burnt through all but 1 ki point but they didnt know that. So now the air elemental was a bigger problem then the rock berserker barbarian charging at them. Plus I didny have to spend months of my life as the weakling trying to level out of the early game monk struggle.

@gaidencastro9706 Жыл бұрын

I would have personally made the character building rule "You can only use attacks that you unlock/get proficiency in by going monk."

@gurugru5958 Ай бұрын

Hey Colby, I think you missed something about Water Whip. "Upcasting" it isn't barred by level, since it isn't a spell. So you can whip out 4d10 damage at level 3.

@beneteus3833 Жыл бұрын

i made the the 4 elements monk a 1/3 caster with spell slots, selecting spells from a custom spell list (mostly the druid and sorcerer elemental spells), casting with Wisdom. Gaining the feature to attack after casting a cantrip (later spells) as a bonus action, and gaining access to meta magics at level 11 for Ki points.

@schuepbachr Жыл бұрын

I would vote for Wildfire, too. The wildfire spirit familiar can teleport (right after your turn, instead of during like misty step, sure.... But it doesn't take a spell slot!)

@asurabloodworth8673 Жыл бұрын

This is the build I was waiting for.

@calebboure7429 Жыл бұрын

Makes me excited for the Avatar Legends game!

@wandrilleturle36 Жыл бұрын

Homebrewing advice at the end of the video is nice 😃

@chrisg8989 8 ай бұрын

Just had a crazy Monk tank Build Idea Colby! Dwarf Monk utilizing Patient Defense combined with Dwarven Fortitude and Durable. Maybe multiclass with Barbarian to get some D12 Hit Dice. And if you're lucky enough (or have a kind DM) find a Periapt of Wound Closure... that's potentially a lot of healing for a Ki point and a bonus action...

@tiem6260 Жыл бұрын

i currently am already running a swarmkeeper air genasi who's swarm is a bunch of clouds sun-wukong style! it works pretty seamlessly flavor wise

@onyaz3147 Жыл бұрын

The fix for Four Elements monk that I am home brewing for my campaign is a focus on one element, reducing the cost of those disciplines by one ki (with the appropriate level requirements reduced) and adding one in-element discipline for each of 3rd and 6th, along with a once per long rest spell for the 11th (investiture spells) and 17th that is on par with a caster of the same level.

@davidecolucci6260 Жыл бұрын

Swarmkeeper, i wonder what would synergize with it to make a vampire

@Rashagar Жыл бұрын

Wasn't expecting the tin whistle haha! Regarding Smaointe, while I don't know the official way of writing pronunciations, you'll probably get close to how it's said with "Smweenta"

@Rashagar Жыл бұрын

I was actually making a monk for a one shot just yesterday, and had been originally thinking of going with the 4 Elements Monk, but ahh.... he didn't end up a 4 Elements Monk at the end of the character creation brainstorming session haha!

@eldoriath1 Жыл бұрын

Fun idea: A short video of "Colby saying some of those things he should not say!" xD

@benin8or Жыл бұрын

The monk (most especially this subclass) benefits greatly from some homebrew. I'd love to see some homebrew treatments for various subclasses to boost their effectiveness.

@Zahnpuppy Жыл бұрын

I'm excited for this build.

@DrunkenDonuts_96 Жыл бұрын

Love it Colby, just watch out for copy right flaggers!

@cmccbuilds8229 Жыл бұрын

Why would this get flagged?

@DrunkenDonuts_96 Жыл бұрын

@@cmccbuilds8229 I’m making a joke about studios hunting to copyright strike anyone who mentions their characters or whatever

@cmccbuilds8229 Жыл бұрын

@@DrunkenDonuts_96 ahh ok

@ethangld1206 Жыл бұрын

Just think how much earlier this build comes online if you have a druid in your party to cast spike growth for you! All those pushing abilities would be useful right at level 3

@Apfeljunge666 Жыл бұрын

forced movement is a nice way to use 4E monk. I kinda would be interested in a build that works more closely to an Avatar in the series, but no Monk levels. just a focus on using as many elemental spells as possible.

@utkarshgaur1942 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. For trying to make 4-elements work. The push-and-pull is truly something Aang and Katara would do (while Toph concentrates on Spike Growth).

@rayindc2074 2 ай бұрын

You can flavor Spike Growth as a bed a pointy spikey icecycles.

@RioDrake Жыл бұрын

Hmm. Going to go check the viably of Blood riser Striker and Prodigy (Drop Dead Studios) to see how cool I can get an avatar build going

@markhumphries6020 Жыл бұрын

Not sure if anyone caught this but water whip and fist of unbroken air are not spells. Therefore there is no limit to the ki you can spend to upcast it. Ki spells will say that you CAST the spell. Which then the upcasting limitations apply.

@flash1face1 Жыл бұрын

I noticed that too, in sure it's raw but not Rai but it's so bad to waste all your ki in sure DMS would allow it

@authorindisguise5173 Жыл бұрын

Viable Four Elements monk?! So cool! Never thought about how Tasha's might have changed it. Also, could be really good if someone in your party can cast Spike Growth. With Water Whip and Pushing Attack, you're making even a warlock jealous. Maybe cast it yourself as a Lotusden Halfling with Action Surge. Never mind, I see you go Druid for Spike Growth.

@tibdragger Жыл бұрын

We home brewed 4 elements to use the eldritch knight casting table, wisdom as a stat and all spells to require earth, wind, fire or water manipulation.

@darkfograven570 Жыл бұрын

My home sends you love Colby, I hope your doing well during these trying times for dnd.

@lunamoth34 Жыл бұрын

Loved it! Still hoping for a build made around uncommon damage types or witch bolt, if possible!

@TheRawrnstuff Жыл бұрын

I've toyed a lot with Witch Bolt builds trying to optimize them. For me, the biggest gripe is that it's so easy to break it. Either you have to restrain the target somehow (speed 0), or you have to find a way to ride the target so you move with them. I wish Witch Bolt inherently at least slowed the target down, if not stop them. Additionally, you need to dedicate your action to Witch Bolting, so you have to find ways to access and utilize bonus actions to do anything else. It's a tricky spell to make work.

@Dave004 Жыл бұрын

Great video, nice to give some Monk love every now and then. BTW, has Colby ever done anything with the Gunslinger subclass? I know he's done guns with Sniper build but wanted to see an actual optimized Gunslinger build personally. Cheers

@captainpolar2343 11 ай бұрын

can i get a location of description used for ki-empowered strikes? i've looked at 3 sources (wikidot, my go to; player's handbook ov; DND Beyond) and all only say unarmed strikes not monk weapons

@playlistb3795 Жыл бұрын

Spike Growth, Action Surge, and everything Nova. These are the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little optimized character. But Professor Colby accidentially added an extra chemical to the concoction: Chemical 4 Elements Monk

@jello4615 Жыл бұрын

Its also possible to just flavor thron whip as a advanced water bending move, there were the people bending the water in the vines in that swamp episode in avatar

@mitchhaelann9215 Жыл бұрын

This is... impressive. It takes a lot of talent and understanding of the system to polish this turd of a subclass. But speaking of Elements, I'd like to see what you can do with the Pyromancer sorceror class from the Planeshift:Ixalan semi-official supplement.

@bentebent5298 Жыл бұрын

As I was just having my headphones on and not watching the screen. I must admit I got really confused by the tin whistle xD

@mrconk254 Жыл бұрын

Would love to see a card based caster using the cartomancer feat

@jameswillis5682 Жыл бұрын

I refused to believe that his jaw is real. It's some kind of mimic trying to capture the visage of the giga chad.

@DnDDeepDive Жыл бұрын

lol

@samasin5565 Жыл бұрын

Video request! It would be super cool to do a video revisiting various builds you've done and just speculating a little bit about good complementary characters for them and how that might change things. Would it make character XX much better to have another character in their party? For example, in "The Ultimate reroller", you take the monk levels to do the stunning strike if I remember correctly. How much more powerful/badass would that character be if it just did the rerolling and left the stunning strikes to a different pc? Are there some characters that could be much better if we just assumed one simple thing like a specific class in the party? It's also just fun to think about team up potential for characters anyways. ------- I was thinking about it because in this character today seems to me it would benefit so much by being with the ultimate reroller (stunning strike + the water whip landing more, assuming I'm understanding the water whip correctly). Also, again I didn't watch too closely, but I wondered on this one if the druid levels are really bringing much other than spike growth/moonbeam. With those 2 in mind, it made me wonder if there could be a complementary character that exists to cast spike growth or something similar and tries to get some rerolling style things done at the same time. Druid/wizard multiclass is awkward, but maybe there is some way to avoid that and still fill both roles (or just make that multiclass work).