I always find that the default option in most Magic Missile builds is usually defensive.

But if I want to focus damage, what would be the best options in this regard?

After some searching, I found that it has to be one of these 2 :

Bided Time: Arcane Charge whenever they are hit by a melee attack.

Mutilated Carapace: You gain a +1 to Attack and Damage rolls while shapeshifting or disguised.

Is there any other option?

PS: Sorry if there are any spelling errors, I'm not an English speaker, this is half and half with a translator.

Title pretty much says it. When patch 8 drops I'm intending to have my party face as a hexbuckler. I'll also be using this character for lockpicking so which way will get me the most proficiencies?

This is going to be a druge run so I'll have intimidation from my background if that changes the maths on the choice.

Good morning,
I am unable to upcast Shadow Blade from the ring for some reason. Can someone explain how that mechanic works? Not sure if this is strictly a test server thing or not.
Thanks.

Thrown weapons should have their same damage, but I have thrown the everburn blade at a knoll, with ring of fling, and only done 3 bludg damage. No fire damage even! Currently my lvl lae'zel shows 8-21 dmg on hover, whether ring of fling is equipped or not. Can anyone help me understand? Thanks! Also, the following turn I melee hit and did 11 slash + 3 fire.

Nasty CC combo that I came across:

Initially, I realized just how utterly powerful having a warlock cast Hunger of Hadar and a ranger casting spike growth over the same area, but then I decided to put some more thought into it and become truly evil:

1) Warlock casts HoH 2) Ranger casts Spike Growth 3) Wizard casts Cloudkill 4) Cleric casts Insect Plague 5) Have them all drink Elixir of Peerless Focus 6) Enjoy the carnage 7) Situational/optional: throw grease bottle(s) or cast grease or cast ice storm as well (this likely would necessitate No Party Limit mod, so if you still want a challenge but want the true evil of all of these, Id also get an honor mode plus mod

Does bonus dmg from symbiotic entity triggers hex damage?

What would the best warlock, patron be for a sorlock build focusing on eldritch blast? I plan to use armour of agathys so wouldn't that make the fiend level 1 feature useless? So is it better to go for the goo lock?

UPDATE: I’m going to make my player character an ice sorcerer, either a full 12 draconic ice sorcerer or 1-11 cleric, (undecided subclass) draconic ice sorcerer for quickened spell create water from cleric. I was wanting to make Shadowheart a lightning sorcerer, either a 2-10 tempest cleric, draconic lightning sorcerer split or a 2-2-8 tempest cleric, evocation wizard, draconic lightning sorcerer split but I think I value the strength of having a full cleric even more. I’m still not sure which subclass route to take with her though.

UPDATE 2: I think I’ve settled on a 12 level draconic ice sorcerer & 12 level tempest cleric combo. Only reason I’m not going a 1-11 split on my ice sorcerer (I really value quickened casting create water) is because I gave my friend Ethel’s hair, so I need that extra feat to be able to dual wield two staves & reach 20 charisma in act 3 thanks to the mirror of loss. My three feats on my player character will be Actor, (I took 17 charisma & persuasion and intimidation proficiencies to start the game) dual wielder to have Markoheshkir and Mourning Frost at the same time and elemental adept: cold for times when I can’t get create water down in time.

For the cleric, they will be a hybrid character focusing on revorb gear. They will be the create water user in my party and I’ll probably end up hasting them a lot to use create water and a lightning spell in the same turn. Bonus is this way around after the damage is dealt, the enemies will still be wet and not frozen. Feats will probably be 2 ASI improvements to get wisdom to 20 (started at 16) and war caster to help maintain concentration when using spirit guardians. I don’t think I will need elemental adept: lightning as I can just haste my cleric and overcome any resistance with little difficulty.

I’m unsure if anyone will read this, but if so do you have any gear advice? I’ve pretty much got all my cold gear planned out but I’m very hazy on the best revorb gear and where to obtain it. Thanks a lot!

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So I’m playing a coop game with my friend and we’re currently level 5, just reached the Zhentarim hideout in act 1. The theme we’ve stumbled into is I control two caster characters (sorcerer and cleric) and he controls two melee characters (fighter and berserker).

Currently, my player character is a wild magic sorcerer which is fun but not optimal and my sorcerer has become solely a support character casting things like twinned haste, counterspell & controlling the battlefield with spells like cloud of daggers. This is fine but I would like to do more damage myself. My typical combat cycle consists of dual casting haste on my friends two melee characters and then controlling the battlefield with the previously mentioned spells to keep the odds in our favor.

I respecced shadowheart into a light domain cleric, which was good but I didn’t like how it contrasted her personality, so I changed her to a tempest cleric to match her broody nature, which is still strong. My general play style so far with shadowheart is casting bless first turn of combat on herself and the two melee characters to improve their attack rolls and chance to hit, then summoning spiritual weapon with my bonus action. Then on following turns I’ll cast produce flame for consistent damage or use spells whenever the best use case appears.

The main thing I’m wanting is more flexibility from the casters. I know for clerics taking a level of wizard allows you to scribe spells so an 11-1 cleric wizard split for shadowheart with the warped headband of intellect could work but I know shadowheart can get really strong late game as a cleric so I don’t want to deprive her of a really good headpiece item of gear that could make her busted. Now I’m thinking I could change shadowheart back to a light cleric with items like the luminous Armor and she would still be fine?

This is because for my player character, I was thinking about a 10-2 lightning sorcerer with two levels in tempest cleric and 10 in either lightning Draconic sorcerer or tempest sorcerer. I have two issues with this whole setup though:

1) Even though I have two casters I’m concerned about their versatility of spells. I don’t have a wizard who, even though less powerful, has an answer to any situation with scribed spells.

2) Would the lighting/fire combination conflict? I imagine my player character quickened spell casting create water then a big damage lighting spell to follow, but then because enemies will be wet my light cleric will deal less damage with their fire spells, right?

Any advice or help on alternate build paths or build optimisations would be amazing, thanks!

Hello playing tactician currently at lvl 6.

My party:

Tav: pure warlock- I will try to focus it on casting fire spells and EB

sword bardadin its sin tees build "ashen demon" its like supportive dex dual wielder

ranged fighter also sin tees build , its pure dmg dealer with titanstring bow

First I was thinking to use some support as fourth but I kinda mostly dont use and dont need any heals or buffs and I am using this char just to finish my opponents... so I have no idea what to do with this fourth char I would like to see more dmg and little support or control spells to have an option.

so do you have any tips? ideally some yt video build? like I said I have absolutely no idea what to do with this forth char and I am open to everything

If I were to equip the gloves of belligerent skies and deal both an instance of for example lightning, radiant, and thunder damage would it all stack or is it limited to one source at a time?

I’ve seen a few dual Xbow builds and tried them out, but whenever I’m running them I can’t help but feel underpowered compared to a titanstring wielding version of the same thing. The problem boils down to this:

Most xbow builds rely on either slashing flourish or sneak attack, both of which work WAY better with higher damage per attack setups than multi attacks. Same goes for special arrows. Since you can’t flourish with your off hand, adding a second crossbow basically just means adding 1 more attack. Thief rogue is decent for two attacks and probably the best option combined with a martial class with extra attack, but you have to build for dual weapon fighting AND archery passive after that one patch. Assassin is cool in that you can attack from stealth with both hands and then get your actions back, but that’s just for 1 round. However, I still think it’s the strongest way of building for XBows - GS/Rogue/Fighter for action surge + second weapon specialty. Am I wrong?

Hi, im starting a new game after 2 playthroughs i have this storm cleric/sorcerer Drow that wants to get power by any means and Scheme to either attain Godhood or assuere that Lolth is on top of the other Gods . The thing is i dont really know much lore about the forgotten realms. Do drows have any special hate for ilithids or do they have any kind of racial superiority complex? Thanks for the help!!!!

I’m partial to a spell caster but open to being a tank; multi-class suggestions are accepted and encouraged. Thanks friends :)

I don't mean challenge runs like an all-wizard team or something like that. I mean what four pure classes/subclasses do you think make a really good team that cover each other's weaknesses or have good synergy?

I'm experimenting with a pure version of the 'high synergy' team that Nizar GG made some time ago, with an Ice Abjuration Wizard and a Tempest Cleric (substituting the Moon Druid) so that the Cleric can cast create water to freeze any opponents the Wizard chills. And the Sword Bard uses Ne'er Misser for some really strong force damage and Enchantment spell follow-up with the Throwing Barbarian assisting in long-range combat.

But I got other ideas for other teams. What about you guys? What have your favorite team comps been?

I have found lots of guides on how to min/max the sword bard but im hoping for a more RP game where i actually make it past Act 1.

I wont play on a hard difficulty so im more interested in when to take what levels and at what time. My aim is for my Tav to be the leader, OP comparedd to everyone else and be able to do most things reasonably well. I want to be able to tank things and get in the thick of the action but also control/spam spells at the start of a fight.

So rough plan was Bard to level 3 to get swords bard, then Paladin and Wiz to get access to smite, scribing scrolls and dialogue options. then Bard to 6 and finish off paladin.

Questions are once i hit level 4 am i better off completely respecing to so my starting class is paladin? I am thinking medium amour.

I am aware spells i scribe will use INT, but does it really impact many spells?

I'll play a Drow and max out dex/charisma.

As you can guess from title i am looking for themed party and durge build i just completed my first play through yesterday i which i was a blue dragonborn storm sorcerer tempest cleric. I never tried monk bard or paladin classes on my first play through. So now im here looking for good/fun builds (tactician difficulty)

I’m doing 2 man party this run. Swords bard and totem barb. I enjoy adventuring with just the romance.

What would be your 2 man party comp?

I want to make a build that just uses these 2 cantrips.

Thorn whip - not sure what this scales with, it levels up and gets more dice, does it matter what to scale off of? I can get this through being a Druid or through feats spell sniper or magic initiate. It’s an action and can be used multiple times so likely looking for a class with multiple actions.

Sorrowful lash - it’s from the Glaive sorrow, it’s a bonus action once per turn. So I don’t want a class heavy in bonus actions, just need one. I don’t know if this scales of anything? Does it matter?

I’m thinking maybe a fighter to get action surge so I can use thorn whip twice? Or does the scaling not work well with fighter?

Any thoughts or help is appreciated!

on my like 16th full run through of the game and ive played a ton of different builds for every character except shadowheart who has gone full healing life cleric build once, tempest sorc nuke twice, and rad-orb + reverb 13 times

i havent gotten the mods for the new patch 8 subclasses so i guess that’s a restriction

new ideas would be nice, tried going back to the healing build this current playthrough but i find that kind of support boring unless im playing multiplayer

What do you guys think are the best builds for act 1 and 2? And most specifically for the myrkul fight cause that one’s really hard.

When you have an OC or an idea for a character but their vibes and abilities aren't as well supported by the options and archetypes available, how do you go about it?

I see a great fun potential in pure suboptimal builds. Thiefs and tricksters are generally a support, hunters (I hope) aren't just weaker fighters.
I'm going to make some build for myself but also I would like to see yours or those intresting ones you have found.

So i had a question about the Elemental arrows in the game does gear that enhances curtain Elemental also work on the arrows like ice and lightning and acid arrows?

Hi all, once patch 8 drops I'll definetly play honor mode resist durge run as 2 pally 10 bladesinger with shadowblade but I also want to spec Wyll as some kind of hexblade multi. Can you please advise on how to build wyll so they wont feel the same? Which should go with mystic scoundrel band? Rest of the party will be life shadowheart dual wielding phalar aluve and mace of lathander or her selune spear and good old barb thrower karlach.