"At first I thought Vampiric Touch was bad..." "What changed that?" "Torturing hostages."

Guards and Wards also has a range of touch, so it can be cast offensively in full-on enemy territory by, say, an unobtrusive spider familiar.

Dawn ends vampires. There is a vampire in this small room (hello white plume mountain), open the door, chuck in dawn, have the fighter hold the door close till the screaming stops.

One of the big thing Gate has over Plane Shift is that the material component is not specific to the plane. For example, if I want to go to the Plane of Fire but only have a tuning fork to the Astral Plane, Plane Shift isn’t going to help me at all.

Confusion is fun to cast on the party as DM. Rolling those dice to see what effect you get is very tense, and the effects can be hilarious.

Tying up enemies and slowly draining their life with a necromancy spell seems kinda evil.

The fact you made this vid reinforced in my mind yet again how you come from as objective a perspective as possible. Really appreciate this kind of vid, both for that and to help people like me who try to follow your advice. Thanks, TM!

Another thing to consider about wall of ice is that you can set it up in a "zig zag" pattern. So if you have a restricted enough space (and with 100 ft to work with it doesn't have to be that restrictive) you can force an enemy to burst through multiple walls, potentially wasting multiple actions and taking a decent amount of damage in the process.

I would add that a bonus to confusion is that it is on the druid spell list. They have very few mental compulsion effects.

Vampiric touch can also be useful if you have buffs that increase necrotic damage. A fallen aasimar death cleric could heal a formidable amount of hitpoints with vampiric touch.

I think that the most underrated thing about "Gate" is the last paragraph. Set up an ambush point and teleport any non-completely-legendary creature to you (using some simple planar preparations), and you can have the fight "on your own terms" without any minions and nothing else. And you can literaly force some creatures to interract or help you that way.

I'll continue to say that Catapult is underrated. 1) it's as strong as chromatic orb, no costly component. 2) it can come in at odd angles since it's 60' to target an object and then a 90' line from there. 3) you can catapult flasks of oil, vials of acid or holy water for extra damage or effects. Glue or flower can also work. 4) if you shoot it in a line with at least 2 enemies, and the first one saves, then i've never seen a DM not agree it keeps going and the next target in the line now has to make a save. This is easy to assume since it never says the spell targets anywhere in the spell, and so if someone saves, that means the spell can easily have 2 or 3 shots at landing. 5) the spell can be utility at getting things over walls, I've launched a grappling hook up the side of a cliff that was 80' high and when it landed we were able to climb up the hill. These are all things to consider. To me, it's a Green spell. Good and one i consider as a damage option almost every game. It's not always what i jump to, but i almost always consider it. (also if you're someone who likes a theme, like "Fire bender" or "Earth bender" it's a great way to lean into that and bend some spells. Lastly if you're worried about damage reduction, you could just fire a lump of silver, a silver coin or even a magic dagger to by pass damage reduction, you do risk breaking those things, but who cares about all but the dagger.)

The combination of an evocation wizard and Dawn is just brutal. You can place Dawn on enemies and allies, exclude the allies from the effect of Dawn. If your allies are in melee with an enemy the enemy has now to decide to either run out of Dawns AOE and risk getting attacks of oportunity or stay in there and take dmg frome the spell. This way i had the dmmg from Dawn easily stack up to 12d10 and more.

Perfect timing for when I can’t sleep

I like using Wall of Ice as a way to separate enemies and ice-olate them :D

If you have a Twilight Cleric or Artillerist Artificer on your team, you can just Vampiric Touch your allies 😀

Gate might even kill the target off screen. Just imagine sending some big-time devil into the Abyss. Yikes.

Gate is also useful as an ambush spell. Instead of the party having to deal with the BBEG's dungeon, the BBEG can be pulled from anywhere to *the party's* dungeon.

My issue with "stranding" spells is that, while effective at removing powerful individuals from the battle, they're gone: no one left to interrogate, negotiate with, ransom, or loot afterward.

Another thing about Gate is that in can transport an unlimited number of creatures. Sure, a cleric could summon a planar ally, or they could open a gate to their deity's dimension and have a host of angelic warriors flood through (so long as summoning the angels would further their patron deity's interests).

Nothing like a video at 2am instead of noon

Put the hound on tensor's floating disc and have a bodyguard

I like to cast vampiric touch from my order of scribes wizards spellbook. It can’t be harmed, just send it in, tell it to touch everyone. Risk less encounter.

I've used Dawn as the initial spell as foes are charging into us from adjacent rooms - I can think of a fight recently when it racked up sooooo much damage, prevented enemy stealthers from hiding in dim light, and imposed disadvantage on some of their members. Their ranged members would have been able to pop out shoot and walk away, but instead they simply had to eat the damage, and I indeed kept repositioning it to better facillitate our melee characters moving up and engaging. My cleric was recently extremely excited to gain access to it in our current party which is pretty light on AoE damage.

The best sign that you use data and evidence is an evolving understanding.

Good to see someone who is open to revisiting underrated elements.

Having Pulse Blast as an Order of Scribes Wizard, wouldn’t that allow you to cast a Fireball with Force Damage? I‘d call that neat.

Also, Pulse Wave is pretty good for Graviturgists, who are generally the only ones who are supposed to get it, due to synergy with their subclass features. You even mention Pulse Wave + fly as a core gimmick in your Graviturgist guide!

Another consideration that Tasha’s brings up with Pulse Wave is that it’s a 3rd level spell that deals Force damage. Order of Scribes Wizards can therefore modify a Fireball into a Forceball if they have both. Off the top of my head I can’t think of any other 3rd level spells that deal force damage.

It's worth mentioning that vampiric touch crits if the target is paralyzed or unconcious, dramatically increasing it's healing and can be empowered with 1 lvl Life Domain

Regarding a circle being a square on a grid, I must say that many DMs use actual geometries (e.g. circles) for spell effects while simultaneously using a grid for movement. Regardless, the area of effect for Circle of Death remains just as much larger than a Fireball's (9x).

"there might be cases where you have a helpful superpower" Cleric and Warlock: What do you mean "might"?

I think you missed a trick with Dawn in that its area of effect is large enough often to fill an entire room. Often you walk through a door, into a room, see a bunch of enemies, roll initiative. Now your evoker wizard can overchannel a dawn, filling the entire room so enemies have nowhere to go, sculpt out your party members, step out and take a break while everything inside fries.

Circle of death is especially good against flying creatures. They tend to spread out in three dimensions, and you cover a whopping 27 times more space than with a fireball. It is _the_ spell for sieges, I would argue it is even better in an offensive siege, since enemies within fortifications tend to be more clumped. You can also hit a large area _behind_ walls. High wall with arrow slits on each floor, no problem, you hit everyone along 120 feet of the wall and 60 feet behind it, or even further if you have vision on a point behind the wall. This spell can turn the tides of a war. Still highly circumstantial. Orange is the correct rating. (You might kill a few dozen civilians every time you use it, but what hero hasn't commited few war crimes in their days?)

I have to disagree on circle of death. You were right about how bad it is. Simply because Otiluke's Freezing Sphere exists. 10d6 instead of 8d6, same range of 60ft radius, extra utility of freezing large bodies of water and the ability to precast it and the same con save. The only down side is that cold damage is more commonly resisted than necrotic. But if we are talking about huge hoards of enemies, you are more likely to face undead than anything resistant to cold

Ah, you don't need push effects to use Gate. "You can orient the portal in any direction you choose." Meaning, you can just make a portal under a creature and let gravity do the work. No save, no nothing, their gone. Unless they have flight, this is an instant win button against a whole bunch of creatures.

I’ve always thought circle of deaths huge area was its main reason to take it, glad to see I’m not a dummy hahahahahah

I like Vampiric Touch for out of combat flavor, and flavoring the touch as a kiss. Also helps that necrotic damage at our tables is similar to psychic damage in that it's subtle, though not as subtle as psychic, it can leave them husk-like if seriously harmed by it or killed with necrotic damage. With this subtle damage type approach, it can be great in some situations. Warlock has access to Gate. So the very common Sorlock, could quicken a Repelling Blast to have multiple hits/chances to push 10ft, without a save, and no size limitation (Save the size of the gate itself). So a Gate-Sorclock, could instawin a lot of encounters with gate. If the first hit does the job, then your remaining uses of Eldritch Blast could potentially hit other creatures through the Gate as well. The place the gate leads to could also of course be extremely hazardous, naturally or via creature threats. An entity you pull through to your side might be a problem for you, but it could also be like a dumbfire rocket barrage in that you want to get out of dodge anyway, and are just leaving a present behind. Of course, that would reduce team play, so maybe just take Wish as a genie warlock and let the wizard drop it and the warlock pushes it.

I like the fact that wall of stone only provides the save if you try to trap them inside. I was in a one shot where the DM put us up against a vampire that was stat blocked out to be Straud. He came to scare us off and one of the guys tossed up Dawn. I tossed Wall of Stone and left a 5' gap on our end for him to escape through so no save. Our Echo Knight fighter stood in the 5' gap and fought to keep him in. Our DM was surprised and a little upset as we basically ended the game very early. We ended up RPing going and raiding his castle for treasure. It is nice to know that there is some use to Wall of Ice.

Many spells change rating based on the tier you are playing. That could be a video on its own.

I'm loving these longer videos. The spell ones in particular help me with my Wizard character.

Always love these!

Honestly I think watching your videos is the reason I’ve started getting really into casters.

Very well reasoned. Thanks for the revisit.

The gate trick is a good way to utterly destroy a lot of enemies, as others have said. If you are facing a super powerful highly optimised lich, just chuck them over to the base of mount celestia, where presumably they will be quickly swarmed by planetars and the like. Send a devil to the abyss or a demon to the nine hells. Send a regular humanoid to an especially unpleasant corner of an elemental plane.

Guards and Wards in the enemy's entrance hall is brilliant. I could see a villain tearing his hair out as the party keeps luring his patrols into a stinking cloud killbox that they get to ignore 😁

Pushing/pulling really changed the meta. I like it. Thanks for helping me see new possibilities for tactical gaming.

Curse of Strahd has a staff of power and a staff of frost, and I was THE arcane caster in that group. It was a good time, but really, I wasn't thinking about how great wall of ice was, but kept running into situations where I was very happy to have it.

For Dawn, if I am reading it right, creatures within do take 4d10 (on a fail) when the light first appears and then again at the end of their turn. So, on the first turn, it can double-down that first turn.

Worth noting: Confusion is a Wisdom save that has a 60-80% chance to waste an enemy turn, then they repeat the save. Hold Monster is a Wisdom save that has a 100% chance of wasting an enemy turn, then they repeat the save. Thinking of it that way, Confusion acts as a sort of "poor-man's Hold Monster", with a chance of not quite working but also a chance of affecting multiple enemies with it at once.

In looking into it, a "spell attack" counts as an attack, which means a 6th level Bladesinger could use Vampiric Touch as one of it's two attacks on a turn. So they could heal 5 HP per round, potentially 30 HP on average over the life of the spell. Which is a bigger percentage of their HP than pretty much any other class, and effectively doubles a L6 wizard's HP pool. And it's an attack spell, which means it can crit. (Then just for fun they cast Shocking Grasp for their other attack and dance away to another enemy as their target can not take an opportunity attack). And you 1/2 of necrotic damage dealt for the attack, which means there might be a clever way to boost necrotic damage.

I agree that pushing stuff into a gate could be useful, but it is overshadowed by prismatic wall that can be used the same way, in addition to being the ultimate wall. Nothing shreds through legendary resistance and HP like 7 saves threatening 50d6 damage, restraining, and blinding, that could turn into petrification and banishment, every time you use a push someone through the wall.

I’d like to see a top overrated 10 spells (by me) Would be very interested to see which spells you fell the hardest on, and why you see them as merely good instead of great or ok instead of very good or even ok to bad.

Great video and a great addendum to the spell review series! Would you consider doing your spell by level rating for the different spell casting classes? I’m playing a Druid right now and there is some overlap between them and Wizards, but there are a lot of unique spells too. One of my favorite dnd channels to watch!

Interesting, I have said before that I think almost all spells are circumstantially useful, it just depends on how circumstantially we're talking. If you're in a hell based campaign, lots of spells that usually aren't better than fireball, become better than fireball, for example. Of these spells, I think there are a few I wouldn't have ranked red before this video, gate and gaurds and wards especially, but that might just be because I find the situations you can use them in more common than other people. My groups tend to end up with a home base that may well be the focus of some sessions of combat, and the ability to permanently make that better with guards and wards is pretty good to me. Wall of Ice was not one I really thought of though, but that's a really good point.

Dawn on an Evocation Wizard seems super strong, Getting the damage off on multiple turns would usually be quite difficult due to friendly fire, but being able to just drop it on the party without worry is huge.

thoughts: -Guards and Wards... uh... find familiar exists... this was mentioned here in the comments before, just have a familiar scout ahead and cast GaW through it and make the Dungeon your playground -Pulse Wave... I know this is not great but at least funny: flying above enemies and yoinking them up in the air for a lil' extra fall-dmg OR yanking flyers outa the air -Wall of Ice... I have never seen or heard anyone talk 'bout dis but... this spell doesn't say "has to be vertical"... and "on a solid surface" does not imply "ground" or "floor"... 2x5 10x10 feet Wall of Ice panels horizontal from wall to wall in a dungeon, anyone? put it ~4 feet of the ground and now "pushed to one side" enemies will have to go prone underneath cuz there is not enough space to stand upright wich also prevents them from standing up again. And if they DO want to stand up they have to destroy the wall and accept that they are now standing in a dmg-aoe *smirk*

Vampiric Touch isn't bad in combat on a Death Domain Cleric. I've played a campaign where a L6 Death Cleric lost concentration and was at low health, there were still 5 hostile rogues, spread out, of medium power and a slaad. He was going to get hit and die before his next turn for almost for sure. He was able to cast VT and Channel Divinity: Touch of Death to kill one of the rouges and heal up ~15 HP with one action. This let him survive 2 more rogue hits on the next 2 rounds, I think he got off 3 more actions and bonus actions as result before going down. Had he cast spirit guardians or something, he would have just done small damage to one or two rogues and died.

With Tasha's Ive actually been able to create a build capable of utilizing Vampiric Touch in combat. Its Life Cleric 1/Divine Soul Sorcerer X. At level 6 you can cast and attack with Vampiric Touch as a bonus action using Quickened Metamagic then attack with it again using your action. If both attacks hit you'll do an average of 21 damage and heal for an average of 20, that's roughly the equivalent of casting a 3rd level Cure Wounds while attacking twice with a longsword. On subsequent turns you can continue to attack with Vampiric Touch while using your bonus action on Spiritual Weapon, another Quickened Spell, or Healing Word.

The big win for faithful hound is that it’s an immortal, no concentration, summon spell that lasts for 8 hours

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23:50 Gate is a spell that smart players can use to summon a celestial army to help take down a BBEG's army, while the PCs take on the BBEG themselves. Have the players ever contacted their gods or patrons directly using a variety of divination magics? Gate could be the culmination use of that connection. PS, Gate is most often used by DM's villains to do the opposite ... summon hell's hordes to lay waste ... turnabout is fair play.

Vampiric Touch: 30d6 DoT. It's not bursty, but for a single lvl 3 spell slot, you're actually dealing 30d6 (potentially, if you use it for it's full duration), as well as getting 15d6 healing. If you want sustain DPR and healing, this is a great spell. It's not bursty, however, so it's not ideal for alpha strike, which is what most people go for. Guards and Wards: Awesome for when the session ends with a 'final assault' type scenario where the players need to defend an area from a wave of enemies. 6th level is a bit high though. This feels more like a 5th level spell. As an optional homebrew, you can also allow the caster to swap out some of the effects for other, equivalent (same level) effects for different flavor - for example, you might let them replace Gust of Wind with Darkness, Immovable Object, Magic Mouth, or Silence. Circle of Death: penetrates obstructions like walls. Deals necrotic damage. Aganazzar's Scorcher: I agree it kinda sucks. But also, if I were going to take a line AoE, I'd take Lightning Bolt instead. I mean, sure Lightning Bolt is 3rd level and this is 2nd...but I'd just skip this one and hold out for Lightning Bolt, take something more utilitarian for a 2nd level spell. Dawn: Just like Circle of Death, this spell is so much bigger than Moonbeam. Gate: Can be used to create a lot of chaos. Just because a creature might be hostile to you, doesn't mean it isn't also hostile to everything else in the area as well. Confusion: is just great. Wis is not a common ability for most enemies to have a lot of, and it can completely swing the action economy in your favor. Wall of Ice is great. It can be used to traverse chasms and ravines.

Thinking about the use of Guards and Wards in a heist scenario where you've had the chance to scope out the target.

Hey, love your content and been watching a lot of it lately. I'm about to get to play my first dnd game ever after like 5+ years of wanting to play. I love support/battlefield control so your God wizard guide has been a huge help! I'm wanting to play an order of the scribe wizard and I was wondering if you had any tips for a order of the scribe god wizard (level 3-5ish)? I know it isn't the most optimal subclass but I just love it the most. not to mention (in my uneducated opinion) it seems to be able to make spells like cloudkill, which you understandably rank low, into solid control spells but maybe I'm just not understanding the game well enough. 5d8 (insert desired damage that isn't poison) in a 20ft area seems really good. especially if you take the telekinesis feat which you can use to force enemies into the AoE with a little bit.

Ok the comment about high level gameplay. This is the most underrated knowledge that players and optimizers online overlook constantly. I see so many builds and talks about strategy, that just would NOT work at high level play. Currently in a campaign rn, 1-10 so far, and creatures are immune to the likes of charm, fear, they have sight thru mirror image, improved invisibilty, and so on. The creatures just start getting really strong and i dont think enough ppl really understand or realize that.

I could mostly see Circle of Death as useful for Evocation Wizards because the much larger radius and higher level spell slot both work really well with Sculpt Spells.

14:30 "Why wouldn't you just take fireball?" Well, force damage won't set a forest or a house on fire. There are so many places where big fire spells are off the table unless you don't care about mass destruction.

A very interesting video, which effectively brings underdog spells into the new meta.

Pulse Wave can also be used from ABOVE a group of enemies, like if you can fly or jump well, to pull up all that fail and apply an extra 1d6 bludgeoning and knock prone, or 2d6 if L6 Graviturgy wizard. I've entertained the idea of an Aarakocra Graviturgy wizard. Would be a lot of fun in the right party.

I consider Vampiric touch on Necromancy Wizard a good choice. Even not upcast, you can do up to 30d6 dmg - with 60% chance to hit and familiar, it is on average 88.2 dmg, so 44.1 heal and on top 9 hps healed per enemy killed. So with let's say 3 killed enemies, we have 88.2 dmg and 71.1 hps healed - fantastic for one third level spell! Upcast: lvl 4: 117.6/94.8 lvl 5: 147/118.5 lvl 6: 176.4/142.2 lvl 7: 205.8/165.9 lvl 8: 235.2/189.6 lvl 9: 264.6/213.3 I know it takes time to use it all, but it is an efficient spell from both dmg and healing point of view.

Speaking of the gate spell, it says you can orient the gate any way you want. So, just open it under the enemy, so they fall through, then quickly close it. Unless the enemy can fly, it's basically a guaranteed banishment spell. And, without the caveat of needing to be from a different home plane. You could send a vampire to Mt Celestia, or a fire elemental to the endless plane of water. T'ssssss much? LoL! Or, open it above an enemy, and link it to the inside of a volcano. Lava/magma shower, anyone...? Lol. Or, in a non combat, more utility version of the spell, you could use it like plane shift, but for an entire crowd. I think people would actually rate this spell better, if the text of the spell ended before the "draw a being forth" part.

For Gate, since you can pick a precise location on another plane to open your Gate, you can be pretty crazy with what exactly you do with it (DM willing, of course). There are other planes that have day/night cycles. Open a gate to that plane’s star’s photosphere and point it at an enemy. Good luck surviving the full heat of a star.

Thank you for this.

Another good use of the gate spell is if you have a BBEG and they are dug in to a lair, you can use it to pull them out and fight them in your prepared area instead. One of my friends did this to avoid fighting a dragon and its minions in its lair. Vampiric touch is a good npc spell for dramatically and slowly killing a friendly npc while the party races to save them

Gotta love his humility and ability to admit when he might be wrong. My favorite KZfaqr

I did use Guards and Wards offensively once. We needed to neutralize a small fortification to protect the flank of an advancing army. It required using Clairvoyance and Arcane Eye to scout out the interior somewhat and two characters used Dimension Door to get the other two inside. As I recall, I was only able to effect about half of the floor plan, but this included a lot of the doors and all of the staircases (unless there were some secret ones). There were only three casters inside capable of getting through the locked doors and a couple of groups successfully broke them down. But, overall, we were able to subdue most of the defenders piecemeal and captured it intact without needing to kill everything that moved. The fact that we had mercifully spared most of the opposition had some RP benefits in the next scenario, which was the end of the campaign. It is clearly highly circumstantial, but as battlefield control if you can pull it off it turns the dungeon against the occupants.

Ive upcasted vampiric touch to 6th level with my level 19 wiz/1 order cleric. It's a ton of healing for my wizard, especially on a critical hit, which is very common with even accuracy and foresight- it also gives me an option for dealing with air elementals, since they go in melee and are immune to shocking grasp... Gate is also one-way; it's a great way to retreat while also drawing in enemies to a potential trap. I combine faithful hound with wall of force all the time... Love it; the trap also stays long enough for you to potentially scatter multiple people inside

one thing with gate is you can orient it in any direction, including upwards and downwards, if you are facing a flying enemy you could knock them prone through the portal if you are facing an enemy who can't fly you can place it over their heads and reverse gravity, just the fact that you can pull a named creature through it means you can summon anyone you know the true name of, which maybe your enemy, but also could be a mutual enemy to whom you are already fighting I see this being alot of fun in cases where you want to trap any creature in a demiplane, you open the demiplane, pull a king into it from his palace, then just drop concentration on the gate and use your movement to exit the demiplane who once the door closes, is trapped lots of planes like the plane of fire, you will die instantly when you get there, hence it's name the crematorium, which as mentioned in the video is waaay stronger than a wall of fire, still not as good as true polymorph, but man this spell looks really fun

Another advantage of Wall of Ice over Wall of Stone: Wall of Stone requires existing stone to emerge from, Wall of Ice just requires a flat surface. This depends on the campaign, but I'm presently playing a Mountain Land Druid with a Staff of Frost, so I have access to both. I've gotten far more use out of Wall of Ice because the particular campaign has put us in two dungeons made entirely of ice in a row. The damage can also be clutch, as can it being used to make any shape you want. I actually wiped out a large number of Shadows swarming the party with Wall of Ice, and when it comes to Shadows, wiping out a good chunk of their swarm is very important.

I think Gate also has other uses: 1) combo with planar binding. It's one of the few summoning spells that combines with planar binding unproblematically, and it allows you to summon practically anything. It's nice that balors and pit fiends lack legendary resistances. 2) summoning natural enemies. If you are fighting fiends or undead, a solar is not going to turn you down if you ask for help 3) summoning universally hostile creatures can still be advantageous if you control the placement. For example, summon greater demon. This is a more powerful version of that. 4) transporting large groups of creatures 5) portals into environmental hazards. what happens if you open a portal to a deep drench in plane of water? the Goblin slayer anime has a good illustration what might happen. It's not a no-brainer like a wish or foresight, but it is still fun and powerful

Since gate can be oriented any direction you choose, just orient it directly underneath the enemy of your choice. They fall through, and then you drop concentration. Sometimes the simplest answers are the best answers.

Dawn. I’m playing COS and will pick it to finish Strahd. (Level 7 currently). Thanks for the content, now I am planing to add mordekainen hound to fry strahd in the wall of force untill is time to cast dawn and finish it

Always great to see corrections done in a humble way. You're the best D&D KZfaqr.

Double team: Dawn with Spike Growth in a locked room. Friends + Hound: "creature becomes hostile to you". Also like the idea of G & W for incrementally clearing out dungeons or rendering hostile fortresses dangerous to their owners.

I created a Winter-Witch themed Warlock Homebrew that gained access to Wall of Ice as well as the special ability to move through any snow or ice at will. I love taking spells that are kinda not great but still good and then building a subclass that optimizes it into something awesome.

I would like to point out an issue with the ranking of Shatter VS Aggawhatever Scorcher. Shatter... Damages objects. That includes a little something called... Cielings. I have played under multiple DMs, and it's gotten to the point where most of the time, I'm afraid to cast Shatter, because I'm worried about collapsing whatever building or tunnel our party happens to be in. Scorcher doesn't have this problem.

37:10 I think the caster should have the option to make the whole Wall of Ice opaque or transparent, and maybe at higher levels be able to vary it area by area. Default as you say is opaque but letting significant diffuse light through, and almost all light if transparent. That ability to choose might make it a bit more competitive with Wall of Force.

I lean towards using Gate to outright delete my enemies from existence using a killbox. Demiplane, a lot of glyphs and symbols cast for free with Wish. Summon the enemy into the killbox with Gate and watch them explode as they instantly set off all the boom. The lazy wizard kills from the comfort of their demiplane. While eating cookies behind a wall of force. You don't want gore on your snacks or, heavens forbid, your books. That's just unhygenic.

Classy to make a follow up video to tighten the ratings up...

Another use for gate. Combine it with glyph/planar binding/magic circle tactics to call a high CR creature and bind it to your will, and lets you do it with fey and celestials, which a wizard has no way of summoning.

a point about cirle of death: some characters have evasion, wich means they get no damage on successful dex save, but there is no evasion on successful con save, so SOD can be used to get rid of those anoying rogues and monks who are hiding somwhere ahead

I always love these kind of insight videos, might give you new infomation you didn't know or hadn't thought about yet. On another note, what's your opinion about the _Ceremony_ spell? Seems like a great NPC spell, but for PC's I think it might be Red/Orange.

I also had dawn be super effective against drow, with the help of 2 front liners with the sentinel feat. It was a great instance of teamwork!

I didn't see the (by me) at the end of the title so I was sitting here watching this video going "man, he doesn't even consider these underrated, he's just going over his own mistakes in previous ratings!" Then I reread the title, and realized that maybe watching this at 4am was a mistake. Cheers y'all!

One thing I feel also should be pointed for OoC uses with the Vampiric Touch is that it stacks for the Necromancer if you’re killing down or captured enemies as well for even more healing. Not a very common use but still.

Vampiric touch got added to the sorcerer spell list. Quickening this spell gives two uses of the spell on the first turn its cast, like a few other spells in the game. Fallen aasimer sorcerer can activate its racial as an action and quicken the this spell to deal a decent attack while synergizing the necrotic damage for healing and offense.

Gate can take large objects not being carried not just creatures, summon something that tried to escape by planeshifting, as well as rescue a PC that has been planeshifted without hunting the entire plane to hit them with it.

Guards and Wards + Leomund's Tiny Hut would make for a pretty secure resting spot against any Wandering Monsters.

Aganazzar’s scorcher with Transmuted is a good play or boost as well