List of changes: Druid: - 1st Level Primal Order: Choose between two options. Warden grants proficiency in Medium armor and martial weapons. Magician lets you choose an extra druid cantrip and lets you add your Wisdom modifier to Nature and Arcana checks. - Druidic also returns at 1st level and you gain the spell Speak with Animals for free. - Level 2 Wild Shape: All Druids now Wild Shape as a bonus action. You can also speak while in beast form. The biggest change has to do with hit points as you no longer adopt the hp of the beast, you use your own hit points instead. This is a buff and nerf in one. Moon Druids will be less of a damage sponge than before, but since you use your own hit points you won’t be knocked out of low health Wild Shape forms as easily, meaning that any Druid will be able to use some low CR Wild Shape forms in combat to some degree. - Wild Companion - Spend a Wild Shape use to cast Find Familiar. - Primal Fury - Gain another choice like at first level taking either Primal Strike (I think bonus elemental damage on weapon and Wild Shape attacks) or Potent Spellcasting (add Wisdom mod to cantrip damage). - Can expend a spell slot to regain a charge of Wild Shape. Also, once per day, you can expend a use of Wild Shape to get a 1st level spell back. - I’m guessing level 14 or 15: Improve your Potent Spellcasting or Primal Strikes feature. I think this is a damage boost for primal Strikes and a 300ft range boost to cantrips for Potent Spellcasting. - Level 18 Beast Spells: You can cast spells while in Wild Shape. - Level 20 Archdruid: Gain a use of Wild Shape on rolling initiative if you have no uses left. Improves your ability to trade a Wild Shape for a spellslot but how exactly remains unclear. They also kept the flavor part where your aging slows to a crawl. Circle of the Moon: - Combat Wild Shape gains some benefits: - You can take either take the AC of the creature you Wild Shape into or can have an AC of 13 + Wisdom modifier. That’s just Mage Armor but better. - You gain temp hp when you Wild Shape. Here’s to hoping this scales well. - Gain Beast Spells that can be cast while in Wild Shape. This includes Cure Wounds, Starry Wisp (new cantrip), Moon Beam, Mass Cure Wounds, and more. - Level 6: Beast form attacks now deal radiant damage. - Level 10 Moonlight Step: Teleport as a bonus action. This grants advantage on the next attack you make. This works in and out of Wild Shape. - Level 14 Lunar Form: Attacks in Wild Shape deal extra radiant damage. Moonlight step allows you to teleport one willing creature alongside you. - They mentioned improved saving throws at some point but did not elaborate. - I think we need to see how the beasts section in the PHB/MM has been improved to make a full judgment on Moon Druid, but I think these are all good changes. It’s a nerf to the initial power of Moon Druid, which was busted at low levels, but also dramatically improves the scaling and longevity of the subclass. Circle of the Land: - 1st Level: You choose a terrain that you are connected to. This determines your expanded spell list as well as grants additional bonuses later on. You get 4 options and can swap your choice on a Long Rest. - 2nd Level Land’s Aid: Expend a use of Wild Shape to cause an eruption of nature magic to heal allies and harm enemies. - Also at 2nd Level, you gain Natural Recovery. You can recover a limited amount of spell slots on a Short Rest similar to a Wizard’s Arcane Recovery. This feature also allows you to cast a 1st level spell from your expanded spell list without using a spell slot once per long rest. - Level 10 Nature’s Ward: Gain a damage resistance based on the terrain your chose at first level. You are also immune to the poisoned condition. - Level 14 Nature’s Sanctuary: Expend a use of Wild Shape to create trees and vines in an area. You and your allies gain the benefit of half cover and your allies gain the damage resistance of Nature’s Ward. Circle of the Sea: -Level 3 Wrath of the Sea- Expend a use of Wild Shape to manifest a small storm around them. Once per turn, you can cause a target within this aura to make a constitution save taking cold damage on a failure and pushing them away from you. -Level 6: Wrath of the Sea’s aura increases in size. You also gain a swim speed equal to your speed. -Level 10 Stormborn: While Wrath of the Sea is active, you gain a flying speed equal to your speed. You also gain resistance to Lightning, Cold, and Thunder damage. Not sure if this resistance is active all the time or only while Wrath of the Sea is active. -Level 14 Oceanic Gift: You can manifest your Wrath of the Sea around another creature. Circle of Stars: -Identical to the version we currently have besides some minor changes to leveling as the subclass is now granted at level 3.

@shawnwolf5961

11 күн бұрын

They also said some extra ways to use wildshape for stars, but did not elaborate--infuriatingly.

OMG!!! Druids can speak in wildshape now?!?!?! Thank god! I've had to struggle with communication with the rest of my party when I'm in animal form!

@SpicyTrifongo

13 күн бұрын

Seems like the way you describe is more funny.

@sparkychan123

12 күн бұрын

@@SpicyTrifongo oh it was hilarious, but still... it gets old after the twelfth time of them failing to understand me, 😅

Just wanted to point out regarding the Owlbear: we dont actually know whats changed in the Monster Manual yet. They could be classified as Beasts now, in which case you *can* be an Owlbear

@nyanbrox5418

13 күн бұрын

Owlbears are a species created by high magic from the scrolls as an experiment That being said, if they turn them into literally just a beast, and change the lore about them to be, well, basically non-evil, the majority in the community who want to raise a cuddly pet will suddenly be very happy when animal friendship works on an owlbear

@bryanabbott6169

10 күн бұрын

Well, there's been multiple generations of owlbears since their magical inception. They are able to procreate on their own, without the aid of magic, so it wouldn't be a stretch to say that they'd migrate to the Beast category.

@robhiro

10 күн бұрын

The new folks that got into the hobby because of Bg3 will expect an owlbear wildshape. It's a good idea to make that possible now

If you want an easy Sharknado, just use Spirit guardians and make the spirits look like sharks as they circle you and you walk through the enemy as a spiritual tornado of sharks

@nyanbrox5418

13 күн бұрын

Nono, use conjure animals, and have the animals be sharks Conjure animals is like spirit guardians now only it doesn't move centered on you, and can be moved 3 dimensionally, then simply fly in the centre of your conjured sharks flying around a swarm around you, while you blast enemies with sea foam and shark bites Behold, sharknado

You can be a martial Druid now... so a Ranger. They better have knocked Ranger out of the park.

@brilobox2

12 күн бұрын

Not really. Proficiency with martial weapons does not a martial class make. Rangers have many other tools.

@barcster2003

12 күн бұрын

To be honest not really. You are mostly getting martial weapons the medium armor is just restoring what the druid already had.

@jamesanderson6769

12 күн бұрын

It sounded like you got more stuff at higher levels.

@barcster2003

12 күн бұрын

@jamesanderson6769 from what I can tell the only change the made from the playtest was add Arcana checks getting a bonus from your wisdom in the Magician option. Which it defintely needed something else I'm guessing the cleric gets that same thing because thermaturge was clerics "magician" but for religion instead of Nature. If you are talking about warden all it gives is Medium Armor proficiency and martial weapons and all that does is give druids martial weapons because they already had medium armor proficiency In 2014.

circle of seas druid are going to make sharks 80x more deadly shar week is every week

@camusreviews6877

13 күн бұрын

“Shar week is every week” -Shaddowheart

@Dragonfly542

13 күн бұрын

Shark week is coming in a few days

@theflame5665

13 күн бұрын

Spoken like a true worshipper of Shar

@tommygalarian-slowbro9745

13 күн бұрын

shark i meant shark

@charlesboots6508

12 күн бұрын

​@@tommygalarian-slowbro9745...sure you did...

43:50 Dissing Aquaman in this day and age? OUTRAGEOUS! Thanks to old chum Duke for his spirited defense of the fearsome warrior!

@Dunybrook

12 күн бұрын

He is the lord of the seven seas. Talk about him like that again and he might drown you in your fraking toilet.

Someone mentioned Bear Smites, but sadly since Smite is a spell now, such a thing is not possible.

I know the exact reason they included a badger in the druid art, and his name is Mudd and his pet Gumbo.

im just imagining an aasimar, circle of the sea, druid, doing the water storm thing and using the aasimar thing where you just light up and radiant damage everything. just a huge tornado of water and light. and sharks. lol

You can literary make "Antman" with 18 AC and grow and punch like a truck then shrink back down. Lol

I think Circe of the Land switching their land is kind of like you attuning to new terrain or calling forth new boons from the earth, sea, or sky

Maybe that's what Doric was doing in Honor Among Thieves, using her druid spell slots to wild shape

At this point they might as well reflavor Wild Shape into Nature Communion or something like that. Which I'm really happy with, since there was only one subclass thag really worked with Wild Shape.

32:31 id rule that on level up you can change your "homeland" and at long rest you can choose between your current environment or your homeland

Flying hippos gonna go hard

I would house rule the verbal components part cuz no one ever gets to 18. Or maybe limit it to cantrips so no one takes any feats that break it.

@nyanbrox5418

13 күн бұрын

Nono, I think this is too strong, there is a reason moon druids are simply getting a curated list of spells that are OK for wildshape, you don't want a brand new spell to get printed that breaks stuff

@rawrbeez6625

13 күн бұрын

@@nyanbrox5418 verbal cantrips will be fine at my table. Narrative cohesion and internal logic are more important to me than just mechanical benefits so there’s gotta be a balance there for me as well. So if they’re able to speak they can cast cantrips that require verbal components only. Otherwise it just doesn’t make any sense at all that they can speak.

@toolbeltmaster813

13 күн бұрын

I agree that verbal cantrips probably wouldn't break the game, the issue then is that *currently* there aren't any Druid Cantrips with only a verbal component. This may change, but as far as I've found this houserule wouldn't actually apply to anything. Maybe make it Verbal and Somatic (as long as they have limbs) so they could at least have some cantrips that they could actually cast.

@rawrbeez6625

13 күн бұрын

@@toolbeltmaster813 good point out!

@brilobox2

12 күн бұрын

@@toolbeltmaster813 thats pretty much all cantrips.

A variant human with Skill Expert could have (16 INT 16 WIS) a potential +10 nature bonus at 1st level... Wow. BA Wild Shape is incredible to buff every Druid. Find Familiar as a free spell for Druids is massive. Talking animals?! Holy crap! Wild Resurgence is nuts. It is like Sorcery Points for Druids. +300ft on cantrips?! Holy crap! Moon Druids sound terrifying!

@gaelofariandel6747

13 күн бұрын

If a Druid got 20 intelligence, 20 wisdom & expertise in Nature then that's a +22.

@brilobox2

12 күн бұрын

Variant Humans don’t exist in PHB 2024, EVERY Human gets an extra Origin feat. Also an automatic Inspiration point if they finish a long rest without one. Wild Resurgence is much more like a weaker Arcane Recovery.

@barcster2003

12 күн бұрын

You know I forgot you could choose proficiency in the skill to make it relevant. I still think the crazy thing is the Arcana proficiency.

In the UA they said you pick a list, of certain number, that you can choose from in between long rests.

Reject humanity return to Fish

After the 2024 PHB is released, are you going to be updating your various videos for the D&D classes?

15:30 "It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it." George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four

@silvertiptetra1771

11 күн бұрын

Those were probably actually protests, this was Winston's interpretation of the reporting of The Party.

The damage resistance is at level 10, and you choose your circle at level 3, not level 2 now No more level 2 brown bears

43:28 would you say that the character would feel "like a fish out of water"?

I was wondering if it was weird that I actually was excited about Circle of the Sea Druid. Clearly, someone else was even more so 😆 ~_~

I'm in the middle of building a fairy druid circle of stars. I'm hoping my dm let's me use the new lvl 1 & 2 benefits.

Loving these. I’m just biting my nails waiting for the ranger. Last I saw from the UAs Gloomstalker was going to be all about the fear mechanic and I wasn’t sure whether I was pumped or grieving the loss. Friday can’t come fast enough.

honestly going to miss the "destruction and rebirth" aspect of the wildfire druid

Truly wild

I missed stream 😭 it was 1:30 at my time while streaming!!!

Who wants to bet that "Elementalism" is Control Flame, Gust, Mold Earth, and Shape Water all rolled into one cantrip? And all of their single effects made weaker.

I’m not 100% on the new Druid. It’ll be easier to judge once I have the book in hand and can see their spells but it feels like the main fantasy of them that I like to lean into, elemental forces and shifting into bigger and stronger animals has been lost. The sea Druid appears to be an attempt to have the tempest cleric as a Druid and I’m not sure if it works. They’ve also stripped out the exotic land archetypes such as the underdark. I’m really surprised they kept circle of the stars as a poster Druid. I’m guessing someone at wizards really loves it but as a nature guy it just doesn’t feel that druidy for me.

omg i'm so happy circle of stars is base game now!

After watching so many of these I feel like every class is becoming a generalist class. I don’t feel like there is as much of a niche for everyone. When you’re all amazing no one is special.

@gaelofariandel6747

13 күн бұрын

Well as long as no one is feeling left behind I call it a win. And there's a difference between special & unique.

@lexistential

13 күн бұрын

the appeal in these is that they're significantly more flexible than they used to be. previously there was a set arrangement of ideal races and subclasses if you wanted to be mechanically sound, and people who played for flavor were at a disadvantage, but now you can do both.

Wait, circle of the moon basically gets hidden pathways too at 14? Wth? Dream druid gets no tweaks? There's almost nothing special about it now. 😢

@brilobox2

12 күн бұрын

Old subclasses are fodder for reusing good features, get used to it.

@ronnyj6780

20 сағат бұрын

Right now they only are focusing on 4 that are in the handbook, but I would be surprised if Dream and Shepherd (seeing how conjure animals no longer works with them) are changed in future books. We just have to wait... (or homebrew)

The new Druid, the new-Id if you will

"sharknado" no, tempest of Mosasaurs

Ah bummer. I missed the stream :(

@orderneo

13 күн бұрын

Me too 😢

I didn't like a bunch of the class fantasies connected with this class. Now with the changes I can't wait to play a druid for once. Imo the druid class got the best updatw out of all classes. It got nerfed and buffed at the same time making it feel different and exciting to play.

Sad that the zswamp & Underdark Land Druids aren't in it. But I suppose that you can just coppy & paste

@barcster2003

12 күн бұрын

I get why they didn't it's already pretty nutty with 4 lands you can switch out.

Still kind of shocked that so few people played druids considering how OP they were. Now they've pretty much nerfed why people liked them and they expect this to lead to more people playing the class? I guess we'll see.

@barcster2003

6 күн бұрын

Some things are better. For example as druid you can use wildshape for things other than wildshaping. The sea druid gets wrath of the sea which you can have up alot if you want. Stars druid obviously wants it's starry forms. Land druid has more magic options and castings if it wants, moon druid does what it does.

So, no Primeval Druid, huh?

Rip wild shape, rip divine smite. During the playtests I was apart of or Dm’ed for the Druid was the classes that went down the most and died the most if they fought with wild shape by a huge margin! The temp HP comes no where close to the amount of HP the full animal form granted at mid to higher levels .

@XanderHarris1023

13 күн бұрын

Did they not discover the exploit where you can burn a spell slot and get all your temp HP back every round?

@Aion1725

13 күн бұрын

Yeah, that's crazy because I'm dming for a group now. With both a palatin and a druid, and those are the two sturdiest characters in the group, Even with the changes in the play. Tests and whatnot, like they're still beyond terrifying at. Level four, Like the only reason the drew had ever went down was because they were level one and got hit with a crit from a goblin

@barcster2003

13 күн бұрын

​@@XanderHarris1023if you are willing to burn a spell slot sure.

@danielnelson5601

13 күн бұрын

@@barcster2003 don’t think you can cast a spell while wild shaped so u should be willing to burn those slots bud

Except Wizard going from all 8 schools of magic down to only 4.

@shimasclan

13 күн бұрын

Well, they wanted all subclasses to have the same number of subclasses, and 8 per class would have been wild. Side benefit (knowing Hasbro, the actual reason): They can sell those to you later now.

@barcster2003

13 күн бұрын

Clerics are also going to loose base game subclasses.

@shimasclan

13 күн бұрын

@@barcster2003 Light, Life, Trickery, and War. They said during one of the playtest videos that they are staying to 4 subs each, and related pairs. For cleric it's War and Life, and Trickery (illusion/lies) and Light (truth/revealing). Druid was Land and Seas, Moon and Stars. Rogue was assassin and magic assassin(soul knife), thief and magic thief(arcane trickster), wizard iirc will be Abjuration and Evocation (protection and damage), and Divination and Illusions (cleric theme 2 again), so on.

@greenchilistudioz4537

13 күн бұрын

@@shimasclan Thank goodness that my Wizard can still be Illusion!

@brilobox2

12 күн бұрын

Just use old subclasses and backport new things that make sense.

One weird and awkward (flavor-wise) quirk of the new wild shape hit points: *you can’t heal the animal form.* Just the person in? The form? You can’t restore hit points to the animal form the Druid is in, and while the Druid will be at full or should be near full once those temporary hit points drop (and with it, the form itself), you also can’t keep the Druid from dropping in those temporary hit points like you could before. I understand it from a game balance perspective, but can’t wrap my head around it from an in-universe perspective. It’s another of those things that just kinda… takes me out of the game a bit. Like, imagine this: A Druid is doing just fine, but in wild shape and looking rough, they’ve taken some hits. A cleric comes by, heals them, aaaand… nothing happens. They touch this bear, the spell goes off without a hitch, and the bear’s wounds do not change. How does that work??? In a physical sense??? This is an issue. I might just be misinterpreting it and it’s just a massive nerf bat to druid wild shape, removing almost any and all extra hp they might gain from a new form.

@barcster2003

6 күн бұрын

They don't drop the form when the temp hp goes away but yes it's not as tanky.

So every druid now makes both being a firbolg and being a beastmaster ranger obsolete

@austingallman-brown418

13 күн бұрын

Lol. Every day there are comments across the community about how this new thing makes a different new thing we haven't looked at yet obsolete or ruins something else we haven't seen yet. We literally have no idea what ranger will look like yet. Just wait another, what, day?

melee ranger is so dead lol

@brilobox2

12 күн бұрын

Every time someone says this and 99 times out of 100 they look stupid.

@HighCharityYT

11 күн бұрын

@@brilobox2 You're right, the entire 2024 Ranger is dead, not just melee.

Sharknadooooo xD

Why are Druids so much better than Rangers? Seriously what the hell?

@barcster2003

6 күн бұрын

Ranger seems bad because it's trying to do everything. Weapon mastery, expertise, tracking and intelligence checks for monster details, spells, fighting style, extra attacks roving as an exploration feature, tireless as another exploration feature, invisibility for all rangers, ect The big issue is tracking, monster knowledge and exploration isn't valued highly

I like pathfinders druid abilities to transform into humanoids, that could be useful in d and d!!

remove the stars circle and give me the Cricle primeval from the UA thatw as gonna go intot he giants book you cowards! I WANT MY DINOSAUR DRUID!

Sharknado was a stupid movie. Plan 9 from Outer Space was better.

Yup, the ruined yet another good feature in the game. So crapped on Smite, and now on Wild Shape. Well those are two changes I wont be using. Stupid.

@NovelVanguard

13 күн бұрын

How, did I miss that part of the change to wild shape besides it being a bonus action was something else changed?

@takeshimovies5869

13 күн бұрын

​@@NovelVanguard when they said about Moon druid. Now you have your character HP even in whild form (so now you don't have x3 HP due to 2 transformation on level 2). You only get temporary HP while wildshape.

@kozmayhem7520

13 күн бұрын

Yup Rip wild shape and divine smite. I and my players will never use those changes

@NovelVanguard

13 күн бұрын

@@takeshimovies5869 I think that’s total fine. That doesn’t ruin wildshape at all I actually think it’s pretty fair. I heard Jeremey say that and didn’t think it was bad in the slightest.

@NovelVanguard

13 күн бұрын

@@kozmayhem7520 I kinda get not using the Divine smite changes cause will I don’t mind it being able to be counter spelled the cost of a bonus action ruins it for me personally. But the wild shape changes are fine you guys made it sound like it was a terrible change I’d totally use the new one over the old