He goes through the entire build on his channel like over a year ago. It’s a really simple build. Bilbron is just a power gamer who plays extremely well. He prioritizes defensive play, and does so within the context of the written rules of the game, extraordinarily well. Probably one of the best tactical players I’ve seen in terms of wanting to win combats.
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
I just gave it to CMCC to put in the video description, but here it is now: Molebron DaoLockStone Lawful Evil, Earth Genasi, Dao Genie Warlock 14 8/14/18/8/10/18 Pact of Chain for Imp Familiar Feats: Resilient: CON, +1 CON / +1 CHA, Lucky Invocations: Agonizing, Repelling, Spear, Devil's Sight, Eldritch Mind, Gift of the Depths Cantrips: Eldritch Blast, Toll the Dead, Magic Stone, Minor Illusion Spells: Armor of Agathys, Counterspell, Dispel Magic, Thunder Step, Banishment, Dimension Door, Psychic Lance, Stone Shape, Summon Aberration, Summon Greater Demon, Synaptic Static, Wall of Stone MAs: Summon Fiend, Forcecage Permanent casts from Limited Wish: Immoveable Object on clothes and those of Sidekicks and Imp, Permanent Image (upcast Major Image) for 20' cube cloud of black smoke (used only to cover our entry into the facility, then I basically forgot about it), Leomund's Secret Chest just because I can and might collect some loot, Word of Recall will be set up for extraction if need be
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
I'm also going to make a video that goes over the build, and some insight into my tactical thinking during the Gauntlet run!
@brannenpfister2579
Жыл бұрын
@@Bilbrons-and-Dragons Man I really hope we get to see you cast Summon Fiend. Very surprised to see it over Mass Suggestion!
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
@@brannenpfister2579 I took over MS because this is a Summoner build, so it fit thematically. SF definitely gets its moment! Stay tuned... 🙂
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
Note: I didn't actually cast spells "through" the Minor Illusion of a stone bunker that I used... I left an opening at the top that I'd pop through to fire, then duck back down. Gotta preserve that illusion!
@SuperSorcerer
Жыл бұрын
If you lost this guantlet, then it is only due to poor rolls to get a short rest. If you had rolled better there then you could kepp your free 10 minute short rest to before the final fight, which would have made a huge difference. If you won anyway, then you are truely amazing.
@JackalTornMoons
Жыл бұрын
Bilbron Hype 🍻 it’s cool that this is just one of the characters he normally plays intead of a character built specifically for the Gauntlet
@DeadpoolAli
Жыл бұрын
I know this is so lit!
@PatRiot-le7rd
Жыл бұрын
I've got to believe his familiarity with this build from playing it before gave him an edge over others who created new characters specifically for the gauntlet. Of course it didn't hurt that it was an optimized build already, even if not specialized for this adventure.
@MalloonTarka
Жыл бұрын
I'd like to highlight the excellent use of Wall of Stone. Being unassailable by melee attacks and having cover from ranged attacks is really damn strong, and it makes me wonder it isn't a more common tech.
@maxcoto9061
Жыл бұрын
Hot take: wall of stone is better than wall of force. The extreme malleability of wall of stone is incredibly powerful.
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
Context matters. Here? Yeah. I think so.
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
It's a great spell, but in my experience it can be so strong that it might trivialize a battle and annoy your DM! Deploy with caution, lol.
@thedeaderer8791
Жыл бұрын
Wall of stone only looks so strong cuz of the perfect situation that this was
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
@@thedeaderer8791 It's great in a lot of situations, but yeah, the requirement for there to be at least some stone in the environment can be crippling. Overall, though, it's still my favorite Wall spell and I think in 1,000 iterations stronger than Wall of Force. Being (pretty much) the only Wall that can have any shape is amazeballs (most are limited to plane/sphere/hemisphere, despite many misunderstanding this), being able to create battlements/crennelations is unique and super powerful, it's opaque so can stop sight-based Teleports, and it can trap enemies over double the area of Wall of Force (especially powerful if you can remove their Reaction first!).
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
Note: In the actual battle, I made sure to keep my team positioned so that they couldn't be attacked by creatures with a 10' reach (more than 10' from the exterior of the wall) CMCC redoes the battles on new maps for the videos, so the positioning isn't always super clear, but when the battle was taking place, most everyone was kept within a 2 square space, just stacked on top of each other with Fly/Climb speeds.
@lukaspequenomatos1681
Жыл бұрын
can you explain how a warlock with 0 6th lvl spell slots can upcast spells to 6th lvl?
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
@@lukaspequenomatos1681 I can't, I mistakenly used the 6th level token that I have for a Limited Wish cast of the spell. I did notice this after the first battle with it and corrected it for the remainder.
@YotamGalli
Жыл бұрын
Great run. It's a nice tour de force of your overall approach to combat. It had all the good stuff: ultimate defense, minor illusion cover, tasha summon, tiny servants. Loved it. Question: is it me or did you have PwT AND Summon Aberration up at the same time at the beginning of the third battle? Also, why isn't Fargar more active with its Help action?
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
The video says “with pass without a trace long gone, they don’t even attempt to stealth”
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
@@YotamGalli Fargar was with the ranged unit providing Magic Stones for them to chuck, so I didn't want to risk him on any other duties.
@frickenayee
Жыл бұрын
Bilbron Daolock Bafflestone is my hero.
@DeadpoolAli
Жыл бұрын
Same! I watched all the videos before making my own daolock
@rg6637
Жыл бұрын
LFG! Happy to see Bilbron taking on the gauntlet!
@DBXNaato
Жыл бұрын
wow, what a way to handle the first encounter
@horbi3683
Жыл бұрын
Ah, Molebron Daolockstone is back! Good to see him again and his pilot Bilbron. Very strong first part of the Gauntlet 👍 Excited to see the second 😊
@jbowers56
Жыл бұрын
As far as I can tell, the Aberrant Spirit statblock should do "1d8 + 3 + the spell's level psychic damage", but a Warlock has a max spell level of 5 so it should be doing 1 less than the +9 noted here. Probably wont make a difference, but just noticed that. Love this series btw!
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
I actually noticed that after 1st battle and fixed it! I was originally using the statblock of the one I'd be using if I'd cast it with Limited Wish.
@jbowers56
Жыл бұрын
@@Bilbrons-and-Dragons Ahhh, that makes sense!
@oliverg8085
Жыл бұрын
Happy to see Bilbron here. Nice!!
@trentcrofts3831
Жыл бұрын
I finally decided to take optimization seriously a month ago. There are many great content creators out there, but I have benefited from Bilbron's channel immensely. Happy to see him doing well here and I hope he gets more recognition. On another note, I wondered if it would be possible to run the Guantlet like a pvp zone, with different optimizers going head to head, or pairs facing each other. Each challenge could have parameters like "10th level," "only fighters," "one rogue, one cleric" etc. Maybe have a few magical items scattered about like the hunger games or something. Thanks!
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
Friends of the Gauntlet “DND PVP” have a discord channel for head to head matchups
@BeardedHansen
Жыл бұрын
I guess its argument of if batman has enough prep time he can beat anyone.
@tomek3470
Жыл бұрын
The OG of build optimising, cant wait for more
@not-a-theist8251
Жыл бұрын
10 heur sessions are brutal. used to do that in high school as teenagers lmao
@DeadpoolAli
Жыл бұрын
Yea did he say 23 rounds 😲??
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
@@DeadpoolAli A lot of them were to finish off the Forcecaged Hydra, so weren't really that impactful.
@jonathanhaynes9914
Жыл бұрын
It was a fun but brutal slog.
@rumproastercrypto467
Жыл бұрын
What a great run. Bilbron kicking ass! 💪
@cyanidechimp
Жыл бұрын
There is some serious misreading making this run kinda nonsense. The PC couldn't cast tiny servants via Limited Wish. It has a casting time of 1 minute and so is ineligible. If the DM allowed them to do so, then they would still only get one servant (as the spell is cast at base level) and not 7 (as if it were cast at level 6). On top of all that, issuing very general long-term commands like "pick up my magic rocks and attack any enemies that come into range" is debatable by RAW and certainly isn't RAI. These combined 2 or 3 misreadings are giving the team SEVEN extra attacks a turn that he shouldn't have. They are an enormous part of his strategy and entirely illegal. I mean, in the 3rd combat the player has the servants move up and ready actions before he even has a turn in initiiative. They aren't following commands at this point, he's just playing them as characters with no bonus action required. He also pre-casts Immovable object and Major Image through Limited Wish. And again, they presume them at 6th level (making them permanent) when they would actually be cast at base level. I did like the strong use of Wall of Stone though. That was well done.
@haiclips3358
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I do agree with these statements. I think the prepared cast time for a weeks downtime kind of renders this entire playthrough a wash. I would of liked to see fixed restrictions for a season of the gauntlet, and then changing it for a season 2 with new rulesets.
@mikegilkey
Жыл бұрын
So awesome to see him in it! So great!!!!!! I love all his videos. So glad to get him on here
@jonathanhaynes9914
Жыл бұрын
This was so much fun
@ryancrawford4639
Жыл бұрын
More gauntlet yeah buddy!!
@DeadpoolAli
Жыл бұрын
This brought me so much joy!
@mrbunnyban
Жыл бұрын
I was convinced only AoE builds would cut it for the first encounter, but I was proven wrong! Wall of stone to buy 23 rounds of eldritch blasting would do that. Great tactics by Bilborn!
@Uranium_Diet
Жыл бұрын
Love these videos so much!
@androlgenhald476
Жыл бұрын
The foreknowledge and unlimited prep time given cannot be understated.
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
I didn't metagame at all, and just played the normal PC. Unlimited prep time got me Immovable Object, which helped, but it's not like I brought a simulacrum or something.
@androlgenhald476
Жыл бұрын
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons wasn't implying you were doing anything wrong. It was my understanding from previous videos that players running the Gauntlet were encouraged to watch other runs and knew what was coming. I was simply saying that smart, tactical players, like yourself, with knowledge of thier challenge, and unlimited in-game prep time, could achieve amazing results. (Was complimenting your intelligence play)
@CaitSith87
Жыл бұрын
I can confirm that i remember watching a video from him like two years ago where he suggests to cast watherbreathing every day as it has no downside.
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
Common strategy
@josh-mf7lt
Жыл бұрын
If he doesn't win I'll be starting to think you need perfect rolls with your absolute best build possible because this guy has tech specifically selected for each encounter like he's the dm and he's trying to kill one particularly powerful player by nullifying everything the player can do.
@davidwilfand916
Жыл бұрын
People have cleared the gauntlet plenty of times on the Discord. We have an arguably harder version as well on there.
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
I’ll feature it soon
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
This is actually just the normal PC... I specifically didn't want to metagame for the Gauntlet. For example, I took in 2 Invocations that I knew would be useless, but hey, that's what the character would do!
@josh-mf7lt
Жыл бұрын
@@Bilbrons-and-Dragons well that's awesome that you had water breathing and immovable stuff to fight off telekinesis. Got a good laugh from me once I realized you countered two mechanics for the first fights.
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
@@josh-mf7lt Limited Wish can only create 3 permanent effects: Immovable Object, Major Image, and Leomund's Secret Chest. So I basically had all of those in place, but only IO had any impact.
@Iaadpgg92
Жыл бұрын
Can't wait for part 2
@eigonofcarim1406
Жыл бұрын
WotC: the 5e warlock was too weak so we turbed it into a half caster 5e warlock:
@DeadpoolAli
Жыл бұрын
I know right! I'm not doing that half caster crap when I can have wall of stone and synaptic static all the time. Ppl try to play warlock like every other caster... And that's why they fail.
@vincentvalashu
Жыл бұрын
Warlocks are weak in white room, no prep, post long rest compared to Wizards/Sorcerers. In actual gameplay with multiple battles between long rests?
@jean-christopherouleau1626
Жыл бұрын
He is the chosen one
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
Lol
@davidwilfand916
Жыл бұрын
Hell yeah
@YotamGalli
Жыл бұрын
OMFG it's finaly here!
@haiclips3358
Жыл бұрын
Why did you change the pre requisites for the gauntlet? I think having zero prep creates a more realistic framework for a builds potential.
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
It’s just for this run
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
I made the argument that permanent effects shouldn't be subject to prep time, and that allowing them showcases what the build can actually do. They allowed it because the philosophy at the Gauntlet is "hey, let's see how it works! Can always ban it later if it breaks the game."
@haiclips3358
Жыл бұрын
@@Bilbrons-and-Dragons I mean that's a fair take. But when you get to the temple and only have 4 hours to reach the bbeg. I think having prepared water breathing and used several days to create armors of immovable objects feels like a meta'd decision that breaks the plausibility of this being a test for a builds capability. That aside though, I think you've showcased strategy and mechanical understanding exceptionally well.
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
@@haiclips3358 Water Breathing is attached to Gift of the Depths, and honestly it had no impact (the one time the Orc got hit by a Water Weird, I separated them immediately with Wall of Stone). I took it as a RP invocation because the PC would have it for water superiority, but I didn't think it would have much impact and it didn't.
@drasil5242
Жыл бұрын
I've been waiting for this!!!
@VTheTuber
Жыл бұрын
Wall of stone could form crenellations?
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
Yes
@arborealhalfling8731
Жыл бұрын
How does the armor of immovable object work? How would one both move and prevent forced movement? Is there an assumption that the PC/NPCs get free (re)actions to invoke the immovability?
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
“You and the creatures you designate when you cast this spell can move the object normally. “
@500gmatt6
Жыл бұрын
I'm puzzled. Limited Wish for the tiny servants, then resting but how was Pass w/o trace used? I thought the race wasn't Earth Genesi.
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
He's an Earth Genasi
@500gmatt6
Жыл бұрын
Curious, during the Gauntlet challenge, was running to the exit in the 1st three encounters an option?
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
What does “with the gauntlets was running” mean?
@500gmatt6
Жыл бұрын
@@cmccbuilds8229 *Edited. Thank you.
@frankmartinjr6236
Жыл бұрын
Where's the roaming encounter? The crazy giant wolf?
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
It could be ANYWHERE!!
@kbeazy_3050
Жыл бұрын
How does a daolock have immovable object, it’s setting specific and class locked? Seems it should be out of scope for a build
@johnwood7532
Жыл бұрын
Limited Wish
@johnwood7532
Жыл бұрын
It's also how he got the tiny servants, which are not typically available to warlocks
@brannenpfister2579
Жыл бұрын
@@johnwood7532Was it just to make sure they couldn’t be disarmed?
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
@@brannenpfister2579 It's to ensure that my PCs can't be affected by forced movement, and since it's a permanent effect I made the argument that it shouldn't be affected by prep time.
@brannenpfister2579
Жыл бұрын
@@Bilbrons-and-Dragons Smart!
@benyblancofrbx
11 ай бұрын
For the Algorithm!! 🤖
@davidnash4905
Жыл бұрын
Is that Esper the Bard doing the but of voice acting?
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
It’s Bilbron in game
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
I just love RPing this particular PC (he's probably my most favorite ever), and I was very happy that CMCC was able to preserve some of it!
@davidnash4905
Жыл бұрын
Very cool. That voice definitely sounds like one that Esper has used. It was a fun episode to watch. Thanks
@AquaVision_
Жыл бұрын
Im sure there's a simple reason but why is the ring short rest only 10mins?
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
That’s how the feature works
@DeadpoolAli
Жыл бұрын
Genie lock level 10 ability
@Haveuseenmyjetpack
Жыл бұрын
Why not use wall of force instead of WoStone?
@jonathanhaynes9914
Жыл бұрын
Bilbron answers this better but basically wall of stone's malleability makes it a more versatile pick for this kind of fight.
@SuperSorcerer
Жыл бұрын
The poor rolls for the short rest were very unfortunate. If he lose this guantlet it is only because of these poor rolls.
@Typher_
11 ай бұрын
How did the hydra die?
@cmccbuilds8229
11 ай бұрын
Peppered to death
@brannenpfister2579
Жыл бұрын
Part two when D:
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
Editing now
@brannenpfister2579
Жыл бұрын
@@cmccbuilds8229
@jonathanhaynes9914
Жыл бұрын
Today
@brannenpfister2579
Жыл бұрын
It was Yesterday @@jonathanhaynes9914
@jonathanhaynes9914
Жыл бұрын
@@brannenpfister2579 technically
@lukaspequenomatos1681
Жыл бұрын
Hey, look! it's a warlock with miraculous 6th lvl spell slots! ashusausahsauhu I don't know from where this guy thougth that he had 6th-lvl spell slots as an warlock to cast that many different spells?? What a warlok has is One free casting of a 6th spell per day, and that spell must be the same spell everytime (unless leveling up mid-play). In what way he can upcast tiny servants AND immovable objects as 6th lvl when he simply doesn't have the slots for that? the entire gameplay is invalid because of the many outcome differences that would happen
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
Look up Limited Wish and modify your attitude please.
@lukaspequenomatos1681
Жыл бұрын
@@cmccbuilds8229 yeah, still not valid since Tiny servants has a casting time of 1 minute. Immovable Object maybe, since it's a gray area of RAW vs RAI. Still the same problem
@cmccbuilds8229
Жыл бұрын
What’s the grey area?
@lukaspequenomatos1681
Жыл бұрын
@@cmccbuilds8229 since there is no clarification on the feature if you request a spell, it will be cast at the lvl you request or if it will be cast at the lvl of the spell the same way when you cast a spell without using a spell slot. Tge same way, it is not clarified if you request a concentration spell, who will be concentrating on that spell? Since the rules don't specify either case, it is a strategy that can be invalidated on a tavle depending on the current DM's interpretation. If there is a sage advice o errata for this feature, i can't find and never found oficial material on this
@Bilbrons-and-Dragons
Жыл бұрын
@@lukaspequenomatos1681 There is no specific text regarding whether LW can upcast spells, so it is DM call, correct. However, Jeremy Crawford clarified that Wish can upcast to 8th Level, so I think most DMs can be persuaded that Limited Wish works in the same fashion. You are correct on the error regarding casting time, which I regret!
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