The sniper build is the epitome of social distancing.
@jukesdtj656
3 жыл бұрын
10:26 The point of taking Armor of Shadows is that you can cast Mage Armor at will which means you can always charge your Arcane Ward up to max capacity, because it's an abjuration spell.
@JohnW-yv6yp
3 жыл бұрын
But I don't think you can cast it if you have heavy armor. I think this is a weaker version of Treantmonk's Abjuration wizard build.
@jukesdtj656
3 жыл бұрын
@@JohnW-yv6yp Wdym? They had levels in fighter. They had proficiency in Heavy Armor. You can still cast the spell it just doesn't do anything but charge the Arcane Ward.
@jareddavidson6654
3 жыл бұрын
You can’t cast it on somebody wearing armor at all
@jukesdtj656
3 жыл бұрын
@@jareddavidson6654 It would be entirely a pain to do but seeing as the only time you would really be casting Mage Armor would be outside of combat, meaning you could take off the heavy armor outside of combat and charge your arcane ward. It would take like half an hour to do but you could reasonably do it during a short rest.
@pearlhoff8888
3 жыл бұрын
@@jukesdtj656 You could just cast ritual spells at that point to recharge your arcane ward, and you can't cast spells during a short rest iirc
@Eramiserasmus
3 жыл бұрын
The usual breakdown of why most of us don't know what power building is.
@billysullivan8484
3 жыл бұрын
Brimstone here, I made this build while drunk, and kinda forgot I even submitted it. I'm surprised it's rated as good as it was and it could be much better, still working on fleshing it out more
@sediaramus446
3 жыл бұрын
My favorite character that I built was for a One-Shot, and he was a Level 5 Fathomless Warlock who took the Dual-Wielder Feat so he could dual-wield maces. His Intelligence was a 5, and his Wisdom was an 8. He was useless, but *so much fun to play*.
@Princess_Narii
3 жыл бұрын
The big problem of Tanky builds (expecially the once that focus so hard that they have no damage output or rely on getting hit to deal damage) Have a little thing we call in the pokemon vgc community All your friends are dead syndrome. Basicly it means that you can ignore him attack all the other party members and leave him for last. A Tank NEEDS to deal damage it needs to be a Threat otherwise whats the reason to attack it in the first place!
@OffbeatOutlaw
3 жыл бұрын
^^^^
@destroyer5574
3 жыл бұрын
Or they can be a good healer.
@OffbeatOutlaw
3 жыл бұрын
@@destroyer5574why would your healer be trying to take all the damage
@Anton_Jermakoŭ
3 жыл бұрын
This is why best tanks have ways to draw hits onto them
@hijixincorperad
3 жыл бұрын
So basically the same problem with monks you're basically intangible by what's point of the that if all your friends can die and you're doing barely any damage
@gav7497
3 жыл бұрын
Hear me out, level 20 moon Druid. You have infinite wildshapes, so you’re basically immortal. Also you can cast spells while wildshaped.
@nessesaryschoolthing
2 жыл бұрын
I rate this moondruid/10
@Salad_Propaganda
Жыл бұрын
or a level 15 zealot barbarian+tough feat+ elf so they dontsleep is literally immortal, since they are always awake, they are unkillable (unless a creature does 185 damage when ur at 0)
@jacobreichert6239
2 жыл бұрын
One month late but I’m glad my build wasn’t ripped to shreds. It was my first “power build” and was more a thought process of , “ how do I make the most out of a death clerics channel divinity?” I was terrified it wouldn’t be up to snuff. That’s why it took me a month to watch this video.
@hijixincorperad
3 жыл бұрын
I think the problem with most damage build in this series is that people are trying to be way to different, they're specifically trying to avoid the hexblade, Paladin, fighter, and bladesinger when they are allowed and should abuseing them.
@Narinjas
3 жыл бұрын
I liked the sniper build ... but they should have gone to 3000 feet if you want sniper builds at least make the enemy fear your range ... having 3 of them on this distance + 2 close range units (going with the 500+ hp fighter and the Nuclear paladin) for protection against flankers that the DM will surely take you ... + a Recon Rogue sorcerer that can teleport and telepathically show you the location of the target while being silent(hidden/undetected) (maybe metamagic helps here much more) would be a gorgeous sniper squad build.
@MrBigbadj
3 жыл бұрын
For the sniper build I current am running a campaign where I use warlock 7th lvl warlocks with Eldritch blast at 600 feet aimed downhill with each hit pushing the targets back and dealing cha mod damage. Essentially having them go uphill through difficult terrain and knocking them back down. Makes for great tower defense
@karier7921
3 жыл бұрын
Build Idea : Totem Barb (Bear) 5 Soulknife Rogue 15 Path : Rogue 1, into Barbarian 5, into rogue 15(total) Race : Kalashtar. While raging you gain resistance to all damage, proficiency, evasion and usually advantage versus dex saves, proficiency in wisdom and intelligence saves, and you can pick up a feat for resilient constitution. While in flat hp you are not that tanky , your features and resistances more than make up for it. You can be a bullying build with athletics expertise, or a semi-regular rogue with added survivability. The build works decently well with almost any positive stat start(in the physical department), and it gets you proficiency in Medium armor, which can in turn be turned to crit immunity as well thru adamantine. This build is extremely fun and i highly suggest it!
@creedoflies
3 жыл бұрын
Snipers usefulness is only in fights with flying monsters. Our DM threw a dragon at us a t one point and forgot that we can only hit up close. Dm decided to make that fight a dream sequence. We all woke up with 1 level of exhaustion. Rather have that than be dead.
@Votuse
3 жыл бұрын
May 21st I posted the best perception in the game. I can't wait for it to be rated. Passive perception 37 Min-max roll 19-41 (with advantage) 150ft darkvision And can see invisibility. This character finds more hidden people than horror villains. Running isn't an option either Expeditious charge (retreat) Longstrider, haste, fly, thorn whip, Ray of frost. (Edit)I just found out I could reroll stats for another +5 to perception. So min-max roll of 24-46
@Anton_Jermakoŭ
3 жыл бұрын
But can you see in heavily obscured area or behind total cover ?
@rhael42
3 жыл бұрын
@@Anton_Jermakoŭ that's not how perception works, so no.
@SilverDungeoneer
Жыл бұрын
"Mitigate damage by not being hit" Cries in high roller DM
@BYERE
2 жыл бұрын
I took inspiration from a Tumblr post and made a Paladin that's just a really confused Warlock. I created Lyomar. He was a Shapeshifter Warlock whose patron was a Great Old One... The story for him was that he was just a normal human, but then some higher being reached out from beyond the veil and touched his mind. His mind couldn't take the strain, and he instantly went completely insane, and his body was transformed into a Shapeshifter. The being then came to him in a dream, in the guise of a beautiful maiden, a goddess claiming to have been unjustly ensnared and trapped in another dimension, and begged him to help her. Being the gullible... and now insane... idiot that he was, he was so moved by her plight that from that moment forth he declared himself as her champion! Took up his trusty club (that he later swapped in for a proper mace), and set off on an adventure to set things right in the world, helping those in need, with the goal of freeing his maiden goddess from her prison, so she may spread her love to all in the realm! What he didn't realise was that his "maiden goddess" was actually Xel'Lotath, the Mistress of Insanity (from the Gamecube game, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem)... and that should he ever manage to create a portal to her plane of existence, she would be free to slip into the mortal realm, spreading fear and insanity to every living creature! My friends in the game group had never played Eternal Darkness, so they quite enjoyed how I played with spells too. Whenever he'd cast a spell, runes would appear in a circle around him, and a whispered voice would name each rune as they appeared, just like in Eternal Darkness. Every spell that I took I would flavour it towards some form of insanity effect... such as Hideous Laughter became "Gibbering Madness", where instead of the target falling prone due to fits of giggles because they found everything they looked at funny, instead they'd fall to the floor, cowering in fear as everything around them looks like something from a Lovecraftian nightmare (I'd never change the effect of the spell, just the idea of what it would cause to bring about such an effect). And that's how I got away with playing an Evil character in a Good-aligned manner :P The campaign only lasted a few sessions before the DM had to leave the group, but he was a fun character to play. What I really wanted was a soundboard so that I could play all the runes at the touch of a button, but I could never find sound files for each rune (only videos of the entire spell lists here on KZitem)
@skelecharge4273
3 жыл бұрын
Hey Offbeat! Loved the video! If you would be up for it (and if it doesn’t break you) reviewing home brew subclasses/classes i think would be quite interesting.
@OffbeatOutlaw
3 жыл бұрын
Stay tuned 👀
@AllHailSp00nRiver
3 жыл бұрын
The immortal hydra is an anti-optimized build.
@andrewbrown2057
3 жыл бұрын
Hafling + rune knight = 16 foot hafling
@leafsneakers3257
2 жыл бұрын
I'm playing a Necromancer wizard right now. While the rest of the party is busy fighting something and I'm standing away from the big baddie, somehow every fight. I always end up getting ambushed by something. The party gets worried, but then I simply say "Don't worry guys, I'm not the third-string tank for nothing." Then I get hit and immediately bloodied or almost downed. I've been playing this wizard from level 1 to 8(that's our current level) and this has been one of my catch phrases for most of this game. This has become a joke in our party and everyone always laughs then plans how to get the threat away from me.
@jonasboel2473
3 жыл бұрын
the thorns cryomance would be exelent against a fuckton of low damage threats, but at that point you could just cast meteor swarm.
@trently89
2 жыл бұрын
I really liked the homebrew I found, called the way of the closed fist, a monk subclass
@badnewsbears9358
3 жыл бұрын
PAM doesn't trigger if they approach the echo. PAM specifies if a creature enters "your" reach, your echo is not you.
@TheOneWhoReportsForDuty
2 жыл бұрын
“You’re not gonna be hitting anything with a 13 Strength.” I can’t hit anything with an 18 Strength, teach me your secrets of hitting an enemy with an Axe!
@emeralddragongaming8510
2 жыл бұрын
Lets be honest the best first round nuke is a lvl20 wizard with fireball at 9thlvl spell slot
@basmbee4325
2 жыл бұрын
Spell snipe... If you ever need that kind of range, just cast meteor swarm with its range of 1mi.
@michaelporter179
3 жыл бұрын
He is never going to catch up to discord power build at this rate
@Anton_Jermakoŭ
3 жыл бұрын
You can wear heavy armor if you lack str, you will have speed penalty if you don't have enough strength
@techomonk8098
3 жыл бұрын
Btw. Barbarians can wear medium armor and light armor and still rage
@OffbeatOutlaw
3 жыл бұрын
This is true, musta missed it in the editing
@techomonk8098
3 жыл бұрын
@@OffbeatOutlaw It happens. It's all good
@theinsanegamer1024
2 жыл бұрын
Not one I've played, but Warforged Swashbuckler Rouge/Illusion wizard multiclass. Robot Pirate Ninja. That is all.
@captianbacon
2 жыл бұрын
To be fair. In storm kings thunder the longbow range of 600 has felt a bit to short at times.
@jonasboel2473
3 жыл бұрын
champion on average is a
@Razdasoldier
2 жыл бұрын
Proper build for the thornes is Barbarian 3 Wizard 17 (abjure) Take the dward that gives racial armor of A
@aboi6638
3 жыл бұрын
Me with my kobold wizard who can't read but instead draws pictures of how the spell works: What dumb character idea's
@NRush1100
3 жыл бұрын
11th level ranger (hunter), take volley. 3rd level fighter (samurai for fighting spirit) 2nd level artificer (any, just take the repeating shot infusion) 4 levels left over for fun :) Now every turn you can attack a 10ft radius (16 medium creatures) using volley, action surge once per short rest for another volley, 3 times per day make all these attacks at advantage, and you won't have to worry about ammo :) You're welcome
@matthewwoods2638
3 жыл бұрын
Also one other thing I wanna say, is you use tarrasque as this all powerful creature when in honestly, 1 clay golem ends it's life, easily.
@grantpflum6844
Жыл бұрын
Sniper builds are good if you have the flight spell and feather fall.
@NatasWhite
3 жыл бұрын
I have a power build that is built strictly to know a ton of languages
@absolutleynotanalien8096
Жыл бұрын
Critt fishers are useful against extreme ac. And barbarians get most of their hp from dice.
@Delstraan
2 жыл бұрын
Please introduce Tom as a character in the forever DM series as just a guy who's in the Rogue + FDMs original party who just doesn't know how to properly build characters powerfully
@OffbeatOutlaw
2 жыл бұрын
Not a bad idea actually…
@George-hz3cb
3 жыл бұрын
Bald Boi my man you looking clean af
@Boiyu
3 жыл бұрын
Try a build that only uses it’s fists and can oneshot anything
@alexboyd9993
2 жыл бұрын
Question: if death cleric uses their channel divinity, does it impact the whole turn? Or just single attack
@OffbeatOutlaw
2 жыл бұрын
Just a single attack, however, with enough levels in cleric you get 2 channel divinities
@wesleywyndam-pryce5305
2 жыл бұрын
if you want to do a crit build, you need hold monster and hold person. don't fish.
@captainpolar2343
2 жыл бұрын
Here's the party (points at map) and here's the ranger (chandelier) here is the sniper (seriously tho, why do you need to be 1200 feet away)
@GrrumpyPants
2 жыл бұрын
Crit threshold is potentially more valuable than you give it credit for. Instead of looking at it as a percentage of yhe d20, look at it as a percentage of your hits. Some targets you might only hit with a good roll, and critting on an 18+ might make a significant portion of your hits be crits, especially with advantage.
@OffbeatOutlaw
2 жыл бұрын
If you have a 15% (18-20) chance to crit and you have advantage on every attack, you will have roughly a 28% chance to crit per attack. This means that you can double the average damage of your dice for 28% of the damage. Let’s say you are wielding a greatsword and make 8 attacks per turn. Roughly 2 of those will be a critical hit increasing the damage from 16d6+(modifiers) to 20d6+(modifiers). This is an increase of only 14 damage. Let’s now assume you are a crazy multiclass Paladin build that deals an extra 5d8 per hit from smites and somehow you got a 15% chance to crit, and you have advantage. The maximum amount of attacks you’ll be able to make in a turn is 4. Assuming you’re using a greatsword that would be 2d6+5d8+modifiers per hit. If you somehow can attack 4 times every turn you would crit roughly once a turn. Meaning you can double your damage dice on one attack. Your average for this build would go from 8d6+20d8+(mods) to 10d6+25d8+(mods), that’s an increase of only 35 damage on average. And that’s assuming you somehow have multiple actions surges and infinite 4th level smites. Now compare this to other damage builds which are far more consistent at dealing damage and don’t require any incredibly generous assumptions and you’ll see that crits simply don’t hold up as a good strategy. Crits are fun, but they aren’t good strategies.
@GrrumpyPants
2 жыл бұрын
@@OffbeatOutlaw you aren't doubling your dice on only 28% of your damage though, because that would mean you're hitting and dealing damage even if you roll a 1. If you require an attack roll of an 11 to deal damage, your crits actually account for 37% of your hits, not 28%. It's still not worth it, but you are undervaluing it a bit.
@jo_burn4540
3 жыл бұрын
My most broken build is the one I am playing next. 14th level tempest cleric, 6th storm sorcerer, this allows me to cast fireball and transmut it using transmut spell to lightning and Chanel divinity to deal max damage for 48 damage
@Anton_Jermakoŭ
3 жыл бұрын
Trust me, the cleric scribe wizard is better for the same purpose Treantmonk made a build for that
@SquIDGAmiG62
3 жыл бұрын
The sniper build would work a bit better in sea fairing Campaign for naval combat.
@burningwp
3 жыл бұрын
Love this series. The main criticism is that sometimes you focus on little things too much for the sake of humor, which ends up looking contrived. Also, I understand why you would rate a single class "build" as not a build, but sometimes for flavor you want to do this. To add to this, you might want to clarify what you mean by power build because arguably there is a most powerful build (artichron), so you can't expect everything someone comes up with to match it. There are few people that would argue PAM/GWM and CBE/SS are not considered power builds but neither of them are going to be more useful than a level 20 wizard for overall use.
@TheGeopigMan
3 жыл бұрын
I still think it's cool that you can have proficiency in every skill at lvl6 😋
@zelike360
3 жыл бұрын
god, still one month to get to my build, I hope you'll be proud of the monster I created
@DragonSirenHITOMI
3 жыл бұрын
So everyone is always on about bards and the seducing of everything including dragons. What if you had a bard that WAS a dragon…..
@shadow910977
2 жыл бұрын
when are you going to do another one of these episodes...i added a really great build on your discord that i really can't wait for you to review!
@OffbeatOutlaw
2 жыл бұрын
New one of these is coming out in 2 weeks 😁
@aviumstrepitus5158
3 жыл бұрын
You should to one where you reach to homebrew
@animedudenumber1
3 жыл бұрын
random question here. do anyone have a power build for a lvl 12 eladrin elf ? I will HAVE play a spring eladrin in a one shot ( lore stuff) and the DM want us to be at our strongest so he can also go all out whit his monsters, for item I can have 1 uncommon
@erikbaumgarten739
3 жыл бұрын
Champion is good, if you go for crit fishing (elven accuracy and some way of getting advantage for example)
@OffbeatOutlaw
3 жыл бұрын
The problem with crit fishing is that it’s average
@marchurley2195
2 жыл бұрын
I'm building a sea elf artificer with the armourer subclass. Any thoughts on this?
@Logical_Panda
3 жыл бұрын
With the echo knight my personal ruling as a dm is that the echo can give you flanking benefits. This means all attacks are made with advantage this boost your hit/crit rates. Is this an incorrect ruling.
@OffbeatOutlaw
3 жыл бұрын
Technically your ruling is incorrect as flanking requires there be a “creature” an opposite sides of an opponent and echo knights are very specifically not creatures. Meaning that your ruling is technically incorrect, I hope this helps!
@Logical_Panda
3 жыл бұрын
@@OffbeatOutlaw fare point. That does help thank you for the response! Love the content wishing you well on continued success!
@matthewwoods2638
3 жыл бұрын
Question, how long does it take to get access to your full discord. I did the react to message but still no access. And second question I need a valid answer for, if you petrify a creature while their under the effects of reduce spell, do they stay reduced until unpetrified?
@noahtackett6264
3 жыл бұрын
Sniper builds are fun tbh just not very useful most of the time
@DrakeDavis248
3 жыл бұрын
Offbeat I can't verify my account to join your discord it says channel verification level to high
@wiseone5019
3 жыл бұрын
Every fan submit video I think this will be the one. The last video he was doing was build from may 11. Search discord my post was may 12. Video ends date may 11 well it getting closer soon offbeat outlaw will have the chance to call my build trash. Lol
@nicolasvillasecaali7662
3 жыл бұрын
Self proclaimed Trash builds! UNITE!
@hijixincorperad
3 жыл бұрын
If I can't make a good power build I'm just going to try to break as many rules as I physically can
@DabiBlue82
2 жыл бұрын
Anyone notice you watch this is 2160p?? Like damn. It won’t even load if you try to use it. But props for camera then 🤣
@thedimmestbulb9846
2 жыл бұрын
Are you still doing this series as of July 2022
@OffbeatOutlaw
2 жыл бұрын
Yes I am, but I don’t make them very often
@TV-qm8ob
3 жыл бұрын
Hi
@thatoneperson0481
3 жыл бұрын
yo hello
@notajalapeno4442
3 жыл бұрын
sup
@qade2128
3 жыл бұрын
hello
@raymondsandalphonrahon6124
3 жыл бұрын
howdy
@hijixincorperad
3 жыл бұрын
What up
@avitivitavi4636
3 жыл бұрын
Why not just submit a 20th level wizard and call it a day?
@OffbeatOutlaw
3 жыл бұрын
You’d get a wizard/10
@Ghostdesuu
2 жыл бұрын
crit fishing builds are just sad
@shadowboy2149
3 жыл бұрын
You lookin dirt But I will say this I’m sad that I caught up on 7 seas six idiots now I have to wait 3 days and a half Whyyyyyyyy 🥺😢. ☠️☠️☠️☠️
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