Hey everyone! The video seems a little bugged at the moment - it kinda freezes and just spins at around 1:15 - just manually skip ahead to 1:30 or later and you should be good - not sure what the deal is! Hopefully it's fixed soon :).

Your Sorcdin Critlander is ridiculous. I used it in Baldur's Gate 3. Holy hell it's busted lol.

@birubu

6 ай бұрын

TBF, it’s partly because BG3 has a comparatively large amount of humanoid enemies. I’d wager it’s a decent bit less reliable in most home games, but when it hits it hits hard.

@j0gi

6 ай бұрын

It's crazy, really feels like a homelander type of character especially after level 6 or 7. I didn't even use hold person as much as I probably could have and it still walked through most enemies like a literal super hero.

@20storiesunder

6 ай бұрын

Sorcadins are preety impressive.

@Semety

6 ай бұрын

I must be playing my critlander wrong, cause he doesn't play as fun as the others in the party. (Tavern brawler Monk is insane)

@maxd5007

6 ай бұрын

I especially love when this build turns my whole party into sheep 😅

I know its a lot of effort but I'd love to see a video like this for your support characters (even if its just a compilation rather than a ranking) i absolutely love them and finding them is unfortunately difficult sometimes. Anyways i absolutely love all the stuff you do and look forward to more content 😁

@beastslayer8729

6 ай бұрын

I second this

@coyoteflavouring

6 ай бұрын

Signal Boost

🥂 Here’s to another year Colby

So much to watch! Catching up on years of your vids, while watching new content! So much to digest and share with my kiddos (my actual children and my kiddos in my D&D Club at my school) Thank you for your amazing ideas!

Seeing all your builds in these ranking videos and realizing that I've watched a majority of your build videos since BG3 (and I do mean like 130+ at least) has made me come to the realization that you are the reason I haven't finished my BG3 campaign. Because every time that I see a new build I'm like "dang it now I wanna play that from the beginning". Your builds are awesome, love the content and style, and now imma switch back to critlander, thank you.

Happy new year colby! Started watching a couple months ago and absolutely fell in love with your flamethrower build. Anytime I do a sorcerer or wizard in bg3 I find it so hard not to swap to just using scorching ray and on tabletop the flavouring you can do with spirit shroud and how it comes in three elements it’s just *chef’s kiss*

Happy New year 🎉 can't wait to see what builds you cook up next especially with the eventual 1D&D release, you can just "remaster" old builds and finding new builds that never worked previously

Best dnd channel on the website imo and this is honestly just what I needed rn. Thanks!!

This list really ranks! 😂 Happy new year to you and yours, Colby! Thanks for all the fun characters.

Love these videos: either is a reminder to watch an old favorite or I hear one that I somehow missed.

In early again!!! Happy new year Colby! As always, great to see a new video.

I’m looking forward to watching the rankings.

Thanks Colby!

Hey there, wanted to say when the channel started I was just a player and for the last year+ I've been a DM. Been using lots of your builds as mini-bosses, starting with the Shadow Sorcerer - which was an Awesome fight, with some Shadows as minions. Since then done a lot more, the sniper, the poison dart frog, the psionic protector Trio of evil scientists; Mind over matter, song of ice and fire and bladesinger tank And looking over this video it would have been soo great if there was a book with NPC versions of these builds. Maybe each with a full page art for each. I like monsters here and there but hunanoids antagonists feel much cooler to me; allowing for deep background as characters in the world, sometimes from PC's backstories and there is a woeful lack of support rn from Wotc for these types of "monsters" Hope you develop that big-bad idea more. Keep up the great work!

Thanks for all the effort and builds you've made for the DND and other communities. I can't imagine all the time it takes to theory craft, plan, make the builds, do the math and then on top of it, make videos and edit all of them. Love the content. I wanted to reach out and see if you would be interested in making an illusionist build (maybe not illusionist wizard?) that would still be viable in and out of combat but primarily focused on illusions and a playstyle around it. Cheers to the New Year!

@DnDDeepDive

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! On my to do list :)

Came for the builds, stayed for the "pbhtbht." 😂 Thanks Colby.

Thanks Colbs!

Oath of Vengeance or, as I'd like to call it, Echoing Vengeance is still my fave. Very consistent, very little caveats for the max damage, nova is good even in not-so-ideal conditions, sustained DPR is decent with GWM, crazy melee range, scales well with magic weapons. Although I would like to request a build for the highest nova in round 1 without surprise or pre-fight preps

Thank you so much

Glad to see Flurry of Darkness made it so high up the list! I spent about a year playing a drunken master/warlock build that acted similarly and LOVED it for the Jackie Chan flavour. Would love to revisit drunken master as the basis for a character whose main attribute is being frustratingly hard to hit ;)

Thanks Colby.

These and the rude comments of the year videos are my favorite. Thank you for bringing them back!

@DnDDeepDive

6 ай бұрын

Stay tuned for Thursday ;)

@aidandunne5978

6 ай бұрын

​@@DnDDeepDiveYYYYYYAAAAAAAAASSSS!!!!

@lloydlineske2642

6 ай бұрын

@@DnDDeepDive I can't wait buddy! ❤️

Number 1 in spreadsheets and number 1 in our hearts 😀

It's definitely 💯% home! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Ohhhhhh yeah the old music!

I actually played with the War Priest (it was tier 1 at the time). That was a solid build. I enjoyed it.

I played in a Holiday 1 shot (granted it was level 11) but it was a SUPER quirky build that I think was right up your alley. I played a Leonin conquest paladin 7/archfey warlock 4. My Dm let me flavor my armor as bones and club as a femur and my character just used fear to lock down the battlefield. I took 13 strength to multiclass and then put the rest in con and charisma. I took telekinetic and used book of secrets for shillelagh and used that for attack and damage. It was SOOOOO much fun rooting all the enemies in place, and EVERYTHING resets on a short rest! It was probably the most fun I’ve ever had playing! And occasionally he hit like a truck using the ol reliable divine smite and the smite spell bonus action.

I love playing support characters in D&D. And my favorite way to do that, is to freaking nuke on round one, and shift gears on round 2.

@DnDDeepDive

6 ай бұрын

Me too! :)

10:42 Didn't realize you were sick, hopefully you get over that cough soon Colby! 😉

I imagine that the fey spirit that is summoned for find familiar is you whenever someone summons an owl for the flyby help action

NOOOO, no builds this week? still appriciate :3 And happy new year to all

I've got a gimmick build for you, revenge of the grung. Take a grung BM ranger 5+ and a rogue of your choice and for the pet take a giant poisonous snake and make it a side kick, then take the poisoner feat on both the snake and the grung and do all kinds of poison damage. (I think you could technically have the snake use its bonus action every turn to add some of its own venom to your weapons with the poisoner feat. Also I think you could use that snakes venom as the costly component to make the poisoners poison maybe just add vial and you can negate the gold cost if the feat)

@shanelilly9673

6 ай бұрын

I feel like a Conjure Animals (snakes only) would be well received for a character like this! 🐍 🐍 🐍 😎

@ryanscanlon2151

6 ай бұрын

@@shanelilly9673 Conjure Snek let's go lol

I was trying to craft a HX-Bow Saint build. 2 Artificer, 2 Fighter, 7 Paladin (Conquest), 9 Warlock (Hexblade). Using Eldritch smite to knock a target prone then walk up to them and use your extra attack and bonus attack to shoot 2 more times in melee with the crossbow expert feat. In review the build isn't all that strong and it takes quite a while to get all it's vital components. Though the concept of a holyman shooting someone off their feet, then walking up to shoot them several more times in the face is a powerful image. Maybe you can take the concept and optimize it. I took conquest paladin to use their aura to drop the creatures afraid of them to 0 speed so they couldn't get up while prone. Artificer's repeating shot to allow the character to attack while wearing a shield and make the HX-Bow magic. Improved pact weapon to allow the HX-Bow to be the pact weapon and focus. Fighter for action surge. Sharpshooter feat for that damage boost.

It's awesome that you provide proper subtitles. Accessibility is the future and benefits all kinds of people. Edit: Although would benefit from a bit of proofreading.

@DnDDeepDive

6 ай бұрын

They're actually just the auto-generated ones from KZread - I don't have time, unfortunately, to type them all up myself, but hopefully this is good enough most of the time!

Session zero on Thursday. Never played a ridiculously optimised build in DnD. Worst offender was a sharpshooter battlemaster artificier with silvery barbs. If the table is very optimisation focused, I’d be tempted to bring one of these

@20storiesunder

6 ай бұрын

I mean as worst offenders go the one you described does hit a couple of the min max flags xD

Honestly I watch these and don't realize I've watched for so long.

I just had a thought, 2 levels fighter, 2 levels paladin, 3 levels assassin rogue, 3 levels grave cleric. 2 levels sorcerer, 8 levels whisper bard. I probably have the action economy wrong. But you could activate path to the grave, and assassinate, then booming blade and smite with a huge spell slot, which would have physic blades and sneak attack. And then quickened spell to do it all again sans sneak attack, path to the grave and assassinate.

Is there a place that is just an index of all the builds with classes mentioned? Like if I want to find a cool build with circle of wildfire druid, which videos do have one. I cannot find it in the sheet. I can do fulltext search on the writeups, but if I were to search fighter, I would get like 3/4 of builds without being able to filter which is just action surge and which is a real fighter build

If you are concerned about overvaluation for higher levels because high level play is uncommon, you could weight the levels, something like 5/10 3/10 2/10, so if the build explodes in potential only in the last stage it means less than the second or first stage.

Hey :) Hope you are fine and well. Build Idea: how about try using the Ranger „Monster Slayer“ for the majority of an build? The ultimate Monster Hunter or something like this. The features are potentially good but like most of the Ranger‘s a little meh. Would love to see your thoughts on this subclass. Which you the best for 2024! 🎉

This makes me wonder if this combo is actually useful or could be improved: Hold Person (Reaction) + Grave Cleric's Domain action (Vulnerability) + Quickened Spell (sorc dip or metamagic feat) to use Inflict Wounds as Bonus Action: IF enemy is paralyzed = Advantage (prone) => 9d10 level 1 Inflict Wounds. Also Scribe Wizard can change the damage type of a Wiz spell to another one he has in their book. Could adding Inflict Wounds through a background or feat be considered a Wiz spell? For Witherbloom it says for example "the spells on the Witherbloom Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class". It makes me wonder if it could be useful for a combination with Tempest Cleric's Domain to transform it into lightning / thunder damage for a crazy max-damage-output. (No Grave-domain vulnerability though sadge)

Waiting for DPR builds of 2023 now

I wonder how well Colby could optimize the Abserd build

@20storiesunder

6 ай бұрын

It can be at best be a cantrip master. Grab eldritch adept for agonising invocation and at least you'll do baseline warlock damage.

@PatRiot-le7rd

6 ай бұрын

I love that idea!

Not sure if I missed it in theae recaps but have you ever built a cleric/fighter gish?

1:15-1:30 freezes the video, although not the audio. Anyone else?

@bootlickerfr

6 ай бұрын

mine freezes entirely, the video and audio

@roaringthunder8069

6 ай бұрын

Skill issue

@relaxedfantasyreview

6 ай бұрын

@@roaringthunder8069 haha yeah right

@20storiesunder

6 ай бұрын

He's just moving veeeeeery slowly.

@PatRiot-le7rd

6 ай бұрын

Mine froze, too. :-(

What song is the riff in the opening from?

at the end of your GloomBear you stated the build could be better I personally like: 6 battle 6 battle 3 gloom 8 Battle 4 gloom 1 Twillight 12 battle, 4 gloom 1 twillight ofc the 11 battle, 3 gloom 3 assassin at 17 would rock for 8 attacks being the absolute beast if you had the same assumptions of assassin. the lack of surprise kind of killed the Gloombear hard.

Im playing in a table with a homebrew feat wich allow you to hold 2 greatswords... So I make a echo knight 😅 5d12 before lvl 5 is trully something...

Im sorry for my ignorance, what changes are they doing for shepherd druid?

Hey, I have a big favor to ask, could you do an in depth review of Baldur’s Gate’s 3? As someone I trust to be morally sound, I would love to see your opinion, my wife & I are trying to decide if I should or shouldn’t get it due to the mature content and how well the filters work, & if there is anything in it that is immoral(mainly pertaining to being forced to make immoral divisions) Ty for your content & all the hard work you put in.

@Onethirdless

6 ай бұрын

Obviously I'm not Colby, but as long as you don't play as the Dark Urge and avoid dialogue options that seem romantic in nature, you should be able to play a fully lawful good playthrough. You'll still have to kill sentient beings as in most video games, which some might consider immoral. "Immoral" content is present in the game, but only the Dark Urge character is forced to do that and you definitely have choices on who and what to romance, kill, or steal from.

Hey Colby! 😊 Last year, you did a video where you featured your mean comments, and I wanted in on the fun. You're a stinky dodo head. Ps. I love you, and thanks for all you do Sincerely, D&Demetreon. EDIT: This is clearly sarcasm. I dont actually think Colby is a stinky dodo head. I've met the man, and he is an awesome guy.

@20storiesunder

6 ай бұрын

Wow I've never seen someone so rude.

@DnDDeepDive

6 ай бұрын

I'm actually putting one out Thursday for 2023 ;)

@20storiesunder

6 ай бұрын

@@DnDDeepDive Oh in that case you wouldn't know an excel sheet if it divine smited you across the head. xD

@TheNinjawithboots

6 ай бұрын

@@DnDDeepDive that's OK. You can hold onto this one for 2024. 🤣

Was that a Pbtpd at the end? 🤪

You don’t have a primarily Fighter character in tier one of DPR, Nova, or Tank at the moment… could you please try to make one?

Hey where can I find the discord for members?

@DnDDeepDive

6 ай бұрын

From support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/215162978-KZread-Channel-Memberships-Integration-FAQ#h_01GWJBQMD6DATC8W2XQNTE4V6B 1. Open up the Discord app and next to your username to access the cog wheel. 2. Under your User Settings, head to the Connections tab. 3. Connect your KZread account to your Discord account by pressing on the KZread tile. This will open a new browser window where you can log into your KZread account. 4. After logging into your KZread account you should get a message stating you’ve successfully connected your accounts.

I'm not sure you haven't done this already, but I'd love a character that casts self-centred offensive aoe spells! A kamikaze if you will!

Can u make a ranking ur tank builds ?!

@DnDDeepDive

6 ай бұрын

I have! Linked to it in the vid - just haven’t updated it for 2023 because I think I only added a couple last year…

hey I just joined, where can I find the discord?

@DnDDeepDive

6 ай бұрын

From support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/215162978-KZread-Channel-Memberships-Integration-FAQ#h_01GWJBQMD6DATC8W2XQNTE4V6B 1. Open up the Discord app and next to your username to access the cog wheel. 2. Under your User Settings, head to the Connections tab. 3. Connect your KZread account to your Discord account by pressing on the KZread tile. This will open a new browser window where you can log into your KZread account. 4. After logging into your KZread account you should get a message stating you’ve successfully connected your accounts.

@Smug_Jeremy

6 ай бұрын

@@DnDDeepDive thank you!!

Would DBS Broly be a Nova build. 🤔 maybe you could build him and tell me 🙏

Who needs tanks when you wipe the floor with your enemy's before their first turn...

The video glitches for me at about 1:17, not sure what's up with that.

@DnDDeepDive

6 ай бұрын

It's the boss in your existing campaign trying to keep you from build ideas, prolly.

@matthewhelmers1426

6 ай бұрын

@DnDDeepDive since I'm the DM I'm now afraid to look in the mirror!

Weird I get 1:14 in and it just stalls, but can watch other videos on youtube just fine. Guess I'll try again later. )=

@SouvenirSpices

6 ай бұрын

skip ahead like a minute and itll work fine. some videos are like that on youtube, it happens rarely but ive had it happen a few times in the past week

@shanelilly9673

6 ай бұрын

Same issue. Ended up just watching on my phone.

As much as people prefer either burst or substained damage i like to go for the tanky type of build majority of time follow by sustained then burst. Is there any chance for updated video on all tank builds of 2023?

@20storiesunder

6 ай бұрын

Tank builds are tricky, there's only a handful of subclasses that can tank successfully (tank as in be tough and draw agro not just be tough.)

@laffywaffy1989

6 ай бұрын

@@20storiesunder true true but I always like tank build especially the barbarian totem warrior but there are times I like the ranged sniper build not a fan of magic builds prefer martial builds

@20storiesunder

6 ай бұрын

@@laffywaffy1989 Oh if you like barbarians I absolutely recommend playing a polearm master Path of the Ancestral Guardian one. They are not as tough as totem warriors but are close and make for amazing tanks due to their features.

@laffywaffy1989

6 ай бұрын

@@20storiesunder may have to try that out never really got into that subclass of barbarian only two really caught my eye was the totem warrior and path of the zealot

@20storiesunder

6 ай бұрын

@@laffywaffy1989 Zealot has fantastic flavour but alas is underpowered.

The Ass-ass-errrrr.....

A year of damage in Al under an hour 😁 ~_~

Ewwwww nova builds (Sustained Damage Gang was here)

Im Disappointed..... I REALLY would have liked to see the character art for each of these as you were ranking them.