I was just going to say this same thing. I'm glad it was noticed and pinned. Accidents happen! 👍

Yeah, I had just looked up the same thing 😅

Yup, came here to say this too. Lol.

Replace it with false life

Probably for 1st level. Maybe you can cast it on your familiar or other interesting creatures as well.

*Laughs in Elven Accuracy*

Goblin lines up dor bladesinger training. Elf Instructor: ahem excuse me we only train elves in this martial art. Goblin: Right well I'm here training therefore I must be an elf... Elf Instructor< figures he arguing the point is a waste od his long life span> okay you are an elf...

I am about to run it as a Harangon

I find it lame. Speaks to being ing a crybaby "I want everything my way".

Is it possible I saw it last week?

Well, now you left me no choice but to watch it again

Okay hey? I just STARTED one for Strixxhaven. Debating Mage Slayer feature (@level4) It seems extra potent in the setting and for this wizard. But everyone says I should take WARCASTER (lol basic (• ▽ •;)) I wanna try something different but also the level 4 asi..

Lol just got to the the numbers I did EXACTLY the same

Well yes but im not sure. I would just push more people into dipping hexblade 1 to get a weapon cantrip.

@@texteel yeah, I get you, but sometimes I don’t want to multi-class.

@@PearseNation in that case I am not sure how would a cantrip/weapon attack would help you with the bard spell list

@@texteel Feats

@@DragonKingSkye i did a brainfart, ill be over here, being stupid in silence

He did address this in his Wizard Spell series. He undervalued “non-charm” debuffs.

I made a whole list of spells where I think I originally underrated them, you'll see confusion there and my explanation as to why it was underrated: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nZyHZ9x1nLWUnaM.html

Just played in a game with Treantmonk recently, confusion worked pretty well for us.

@@TreantmonksTemple I really enjoyed that video, and appreciated how you were willing to go back and reevaluate those spells. It shows that you're willing to accept that you can make mistakes and correct them. And that's the learning process I think we're all striving for.

You mean he can change his mind?

I think this could be a remnant from 3.5. You could identify spells being cast with a spellcraft check. Specialist wizards got a +2 on the check if the spell was from the school they specialized in

I personally think it should be a requirement for counterspell

I've already used this method before Solasta came out. I don't necessarily agree with Shoulung about it being a 'requirement' for counterspell, but I do think it should be implemented more. Especially with cross magic types (a wizard trying to counterspell a Flame Strike from a cleric for example, it's not on the wizard spell list, so why should they automatically know what's being cast - I say either counter at your own risk, or Arcana check it first to see if you want to use that reaction)

I don’t know what Solasta is but you can do that through rules in Xanathar’s

@@LemonMoon solasta crown of the magister. A small game based on 5.1 SRD. It goes from level 1 to 10, and while it has many things missing (no multiclassing), it also does a few thigns better than baldurs gate (reactions, smites, sneak attacks, the action-bonus action split)

Same. Playing a bladesinger today. Thankfully, I have enough time to tweak my character if need be.

agreed having greater invisibility made my life easier and you don't need find familiar

Plus any of your further spells can’t be countered, since they can’t see you cast them.

Been using Greater Invis as a Bladesinger and it's crazy good.

@@paytonmiller768 it's concentration, you won't be casting anything else worth countering anyway, plus a wizard with counterspell isn't worried about their spells being countered, especially not a goblin one who can disengage or hide as a bonus action, but the fact that you can use greater invisibility followed by a bonus action hide means in terms of battlefield attacking, you do get pretty good at it what treantmonk was doing by not picking this spell, was basically outlining that at these levels you will not outshine a martial character who focuses on damage, even with greater invisibility (I mean now you don't have shadow blade so you are literally just a duel wielder in damage) so like, your damage won't be that impressive, you aren't throwing down a major control spell so there is no reason to break your concentration, you're not imposing any other conditions or effects, you've basically gone into a stealth mode that allows you to poke enemies rather than say cast slow or confusion or polymorph and straight up end the entire encounter completely I mean, the benefit is you turn into a ninja, which is really cool, but I don't think that being a good rogue, basically using booming blade as sneak attack, is as effective as just well, being a wizard of course casting this on an ally is great too also keep in mind it doesn't always work, firstly against dragons or anyone else with blindsight it's useless, ie oozes, but also celestials and high level demons and devils often have truesight so this spell really won't scale particularly well, You can already disengage for free with a bonus action anyway, and hiding is used to protect your concentration, but now you are using up your precious concentration just to well, protect your concentration effectively you are spending your concentration and bonus action each turn, to make enemies not attack you well they *can* just attack your allies, who are unnaffected by your spell, the druid concentrating on conjure animals is now going to get hit by the enemy mages ultimate spell, when if they were confused they might have just missed their turn that's just my take on greater invisibility for this character specifically, it is a nice spell but the fact that it's concentration is a big turn off for me personally, same with blur at level 2

​@@nyanbrox5418 Optimization analysis up there with Chris himself :) Excellent advice :)

Hope you enjoy!

bingo

Yeah can’t cast on someone in armor.

They treat it as a MC Gish instead of a wizard caster that secondary or support melee fights.

I have played Bladesingers up to 9th level and in my experience they do very well in melee due to their extremely high mobility and potent single target striking power when using Shadow Blade (because a weapon that does 3d8+dex that you get advantage with when in dim light or darkness for a single spell slot each encounter is hard to beat, but I wouldn't cast it above a 3rd lvl slot.) I normally kept a mix of melee spells (Things like Blink, Shield, absorb elements, misty step, Shadow Blade, mirror image, and False Life) and your normal wizard control+AOE spells with the exception of fireball which I switched out for Pulse Wave so I could have and AOE that would be practical in melee if necessary. Which does bring me to one of the underrated features of a Bladesinger and that is the ability to tie up enemies in melee due to the fact they are simply so hard to hit and can dynamically switch from an defensive focus to an offensive focus during combat for relatively low spell slot cost meaning they can tie up a lot of enemy actions as they just try to deal with you.

The sad part about Eldritch Knights is evocation spells at the spell slot progression of a third caster are dogwater. If you swap out the evocation requirement for transmutation, it could get really interesting.

@@-Lindol- Abjuration spells are pretty sweet though.

eldritch knight plus war magic wizard is a pretty great combo

@@-Lindol- but do I care that Fireball at 13 is weak and situational? I have three attacks and 13d10 hit dice and two (soon to be three) extra ASI/feat options. If I wanted good spells, I wouldn't be an EK at all. =)

@@sixofone8663 A ritual book, a pile of extra Cantrips, an initiative bonus, and a nice saving throw reaction. Yeah, a pretty nice dip.

Not arguably, it explicitly says it in the spell. So that is a +13 to attack assuming you don't have a magic weapon.

Just finished a COS campaign with my friends, careful for undead with resistance/immunity to psychic damage from shadow blade if you choose to go that route!

@@madwithjacob much obliged. I imagine I’ll be on crowd control duty, more than damage. Be nice to get the shadow blade out every now and again though. We rolled stats and it didn’t go magnificently, so I’ll have to save slots for layering defensives as my Con is 11 :/

@@jonathanholmes3149 ( *Cough cough* Radiant *cough cough* )

@@madwithjacob oh shit, that's right! Just begun CoS with my bladesinger too!

Actually he did a brief DMing series over a year ago, including encounter-building. Search for Dungeon Master Excellence in D&D: Part 1 for the first part.

@@Adurnis I don't think they meant a DMing tutorial. I think they meant they wanted to see how Chris DMs specifically. I could be wrong, but that's what I got from it.

@@lordvalinar774 The last video in the series is Chris building an encounter for a game he runs.

how is it able to attack twice with gore? gore isn't part of its multiattack, and I don't believe it's a part of the charge. charge specifies movement and an attack that you can combine for extra effects, but you aren't given extra movement or attacks because it's not an action it's a trait. am I missing something? am I wrong?

@@collinw9792 so the way i read it: charge is a feature you can apply whenever you move 15 ft and make a gore attack. The bladesingers extra attack lets you make two attacks, regardless of they type of attack. Attacks can be broken up by movement. So you run up, take the attack action to gore, run back 15 ft, run up again and gore again with your second attack on extra attack.

@@TheRagnarok428 you know I think you're right, I was thinking of it as a separate action, but it's just a melee weapon attack, so absolutely would work with extra attack imo. Thanks for clarifying!

The philosophy of the designers is currently to move away from forcing players to make their characters according to lore, but if that's more fun for you, then go for it.

If custom lineage is allowed, you can still be an "elf" but with a 1st lvl feat.

why they didn't is this was procced for kiting when in melee not accuracy.

agree

Eh, personally when I played I liked having the booming blade OP or maybe some other spell if I wanted. And the ability to use dual shortswords with no somatic issues is also nice.

@@brettrichards4048 BB works with the material component in hand (the sword), you do not need a free hand to cast the spell. But, yes, you do need a free hand to cast any other spell. Simply drop your shortsword, or maybe throw the shadow blade in the round prior, if you absolutely must cast another spell in those situations. Dropping the shortsword is usually the better choice, it's a free action, you can pick it up as your free interaction with an object next turn if you want it back in the exact next round.

@@calebbroeker8412 to make opportunity attacks with booming blade would still need it. And yes while I'm aware you could just drop it and draw another or pick it up, it's still not ideal. Even less if you get to hire levels and suddenly you want to hold a melee weapon and something like a wand or a staff like gandalf then you're really in for a bad time as those are harder to just drop. While not as necessary as say a sword and shield user, still not ideal. I'm not going to say res: con isn't better or that you don't want both, but I am saying that both have pros and cons and enable a different kind of playstyle. The superior choice is less black and white and more going to come down to what the player wants to get out of the character. More health and stronger defensives vs better offensive capabilities, but slightly more vulnerable.

@@brettrichards4048 Personally, I find attacking and withdrawing (kiting) a much better fighting style when you are procced for it which a goblin with shocking grasp is. Having others to engage those would could attack you to not also works. But if bladesong and warcaster, i find most con spells can often stay up. Delaying the build for a +2 BAB addition isn't a huge persuasion, but when you get into +4, then I can be more swayed.

good thing is you can dip 1 level of artificer to get Sanctuary so you don't have to put points into Wisdom.

@@goodgulfgas That is true, but I do believe Cleric is a stronger lvl 1 dip? They tend to be really front loaded. It also doesn't delay your spell slot progression

@@MaMastoast artificer casting starts at 1 and rounds up, so no spell casting delay with a 1 level dip.

@@elliotbryant3459 Interesting

@@MaMastoast I agree that Cleric is strong at 1st level (probably the strongest first level class in the game). It's just that cleric and artificer share some spells (like sanctuary) and both have at least medium armor and shield proficiency, and you wouldn't need to have at least a 13 wisdom score to get what the artificer gives you. Yet they are half casters and you would have a half delay on the spell progression, but if it's a one level dip, it's not too noticeable.

My neceomancer reached lvl4 Last week I fell the lack of AC. 🤣🤣

I roll the stats My dex is a low +1 My constitution is even worse i had to put everything on constitution i start whit an 8 But after bonusses of the game and racial and an item i reach a 13 😑

I'd start with Artificer for the CON save and you can always come back to get levels 2 and 3 after we get extra attack. There's so much in the Barb class that we aren't making use of and artificer is on theme with the INT warrior

Sorc doesnt have shape change :(

But, if you are a warlock, you are a half caster and have very few spell slots.

It’s literally because it DOESNT allow you to cast spells. It already doesn’t do more damage than you can with other options, but even if Tensers did the most damage for any spell, it still arguably wouldn’t be good because you CAN NOT cast other spells. No shield, no teleport (misty step or Dimension Door), no counter spell, no dispel magic, no AoE fireball if they group up. All of these are non concentration and just to name a few. You take away what makes you so versatile and strong just to say a higher damage number.

Mentioned in the pinned comment on the original video, probably forgot to re-mention it for the reupload.

Wading into melee with an army of summons is the best part of my melee druid build. And with as much damage as I can do with Conjure Animals there's really something hilariously cruel about using my Fey Spirit to dunk a cube of darkness right onto an enemy I just tagged with booming blade

I am currently running a blade singer and summon fey has been amazing. Something not considered by a lot of people is its duration of 1 hour. Unlike shadow blade, I have my summon fey is almost every encounter in a dungeon. It also acts as another body to absorb hits that otherwise would be smacking you or your ally. It also can help wall off narrow corridors and prevent the badies from smacking your backline. It also scales well with level, gaining an extra attack at 4th level which is amazing. I stopped using shadow blade simply because summon fey was almost always a better option since we use flanking bonus. Having your first round's bonus action to bladesong is amazing since my damage is nearly the same round 1 and round 2. All I loose out on in round 2 is my two hand fighting, a measly D6 with my second short sword.

I agree with you, but he wanted to list combat optional optimized builds instead of summoning optimized builds.

I already did a metallic dragonborn bladesinger. Check out "The Tear and Scare" build on my channel.

@@TreantmonksTemple I completely missed this video. Thank you!

@@TreantmonksTemple Missed that one TYVM!

I'm stealing this! Arcane formula means I can swap cantrips,but I'd take this over mage hand then.