Strength before death can save you if you use second wind.

I played a kenku archer Samurai. 15 levels with sharp shooter. Action surge with fighting spirit dominates combat.

The biggest gripe is only 3 fight spirit per long rest when fighters always have been a short rest class

@mcullennz

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe make it like blade song and be proficiency bonus per long rest (or short rest)

@danielhristov81

Жыл бұрын

I'm ok with 3 uses per long rest, but changing Tireless Spirit to activate when you have one or less uses remaining will make the resourse management more meaningful. Now use are incentivised to just blow all your uses on the first serious combat and then just use one each combat from then on or just hoard your uses for the final combat and never make use of Tireless Spirit. Changing it to activate if you have one or less uses remaining will make it so that you can evaluate the pos and cons of using more than one or no fighting spirits each combat.

You can use the strength before death very strategically if it happens. You can take advantage of the fact that you have 0 hitpoints to take a gamble on a couple of opportunity attacks. After you make it through to where you need to go to be more advantageous, you can use your second wind to heal as a bonus action and proceed to use your action.

My elven accuracy archer samurai is probably the most fun I've had playing a martial character in 5e. Crit fishing is fun, rolling 3 dice per attack is fun, getting to participate in other aspects of roleplay is fun. It's one of the few archetypes I want to return to for a different character, trying out half-orc great weapon master crit samurai.

@skullsquad900

3 жыл бұрын

Yes 👍

@andynelson952

3 жыл бұрын

These are the two builds I plan for my samurai character. It depends if the party needs more ranged or melee.

I’ve been playing a sword and board samurai and it’s been a blast. I mostly see people use GWM and Elven Accuracy but I wanted to try something different. And since I’m the main front line in my group, I’m surprised how tanky I am on top of being a damage machine. Slasher and Shield Master also make my fighter great at keeping enemies away from my friends. With the right party buffs my fighter is a nightmare.

I like the samurai and agree with the rating. I would go wood elf, longbow, archery, elven accuracy, sharpshooter, piercer, possibly fey touched for hex/hunter's mark. Amazing archer.

I've been wanting to play a Samurai for sooo long!

I would change the 3 times a days to Either 2 3 and then 4 per short rest OR Profincy per day. having it 3 times until level 10 is rather bad. And even at level 10 having it once per initiative .... is kinda doesn't excite me to have it only once. specially being a daily feature for one turn .. leagues better from the underwhelming once per turn arcane arrow. and kinda wanted the samurai rapid strike to be applied for all attacks ? like making that anime moment that the swordsman make a melion slash and reduce something to dust ... real cool. but I understand the restraint

Remember son, dying is gay. Yes, father. *Strength before death*

Rapid strike is worded in a bit of a wonky way, and I’m not sure if you touched on it but... The extra attack gained from the rapid strike feature isn’t automatically assumed to not be affected my advantage. In the scenario you gave with the use of tireless spirit, you would be making 3 attacks with advantage and one attack without advantage at level 15. A more rare instance of you getting advantage on only one of your attacks, perhaps from a help action, would leave you with 4 attacks with single attack rolls.

You could also make Fighting Spirit wismod per long rest that would also fit with its other features.

I had a Player who tried, but he found the amount of temporary hitpoints to be lackluster, espacially in higher tiers of play and that combined with the pitifull uses had him switch to Rune Kinght when Tashas came our. Though I aggree that for critfishing and with the feats it would be way better so my idea was to up the uses but now I am Not so sure. By the way thanks for the great intell I did not realize the good synergy with the feats so yeah... A Hexblade Multiclass would be interesting...

@Breadcutter

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for the spelling and grammar errors

It should be pointed out that the Katana samurai is mostly a work of fantasy and historical samurai were mostly known for their archery or spearmanship so an archer samurai is in line with lore.

I think Samurai Warforged or Reborn can have a wonderful narrative

@matthewjames7504

Жыл бұрын

Check out the PC "Honor System" from the Dumbs Dumbs & Dragons podcast. Robot Samurai that can not lie, and slowly learns what it means to be alive.. super interesting character

Elven Accuracy + piercer + samurai + hexblade

I agree that samurai is a great crit Fisher. I've played one for a while. But poor champion.

It doesn’t prevent you from being a weeb

@Indestructoboy

3 жыл бұрын

No, it enhances the weeb play style.

@Cbev1994

3 жыл бұрын

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@mohammadmurie

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cbev1994 NANI