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@cdnarmymedic

Ай бұрын

Dude, the "Particle Man" riff at the start had me in stitches. I usually skip through the sponsor roll, but had to give it a watch today.

@BLynn

Ай бұрын

This is a great video. Thank you for doing this.

@DnDDeepDive

Ай бұрын

@@cdnarmymedic Ha ha - was hoping someone would pick up on that ;)

@michael3105

Ай бұрын

Well, I do not share the enthiusasm: While I understand that you need to earn money for all your work, I'd prefer if you stayed with sponsors, who thematically have something to do with RPGs.

@zaneferrara1933

Ай бұрын

I do love the new ad roll Colby, it definitely seems like you’re having fun with it!

"who do you think I am, Treentmonk?!?!" I died 🤣

@scotthalfhill7501

Ай бұрын

Chris is always saying "I like to make my saves". Colby is like "I like overkill everything".

@Carter933

Ай бұрын

I highly enjoy both of these guys. 😊

@RLKmedic0315

Ай бұрын

I can not stand Treantmonk. He irritates me to no end.

@Bacon_and_Busch

Ай бұрын

I like Treantmonk. He definitely has some hard opinions. However, he'll give you some good reasons not to believe some of the hype... or anti-hype (we need a word for that, we probably do). Ah, but Colby, this man spells out the best ways to commit fantasy murder in such a calming voice... How can you not be relaxed with your shoulder shredded in a cloud of daggers while dragging your enemy directly through it?

@GlenFinney

Ай бұрын

I cracked up too!

This is a fantastic concept for a series. I also really appreciate your openness with the whole "Sorry, it will just get more clicks y'all." Most people won't do that, and it shows that you don't want to manipulate your audience.

@gavinlangston603

Ай бұрын

Colby earned a smidgen more respect for that today

@The-27

Ай бұрын

No it just shows that he wants to be open about it, we still are manipulated just knowingly this time

YES MORE LIKE THIS! THIS IS INCREDIBLE! I'd like you to make an entire series like this please. Do burst damage for 1-5, tank for 1-5 first, then start working up in levels for all 3. You're the best man!!

@xaveir7787

Ай бұрын

this! ❤️

@bora7494

Ай бұрын

Yes

@CompWiz17

Ай бұрын

Definitely. Not only is this really useful by itself, it'll be a great way to promote many of your other build videos.

Best burst damage at level three: the Bugbear War Wizard casting Scorching Ray for 3x 2d6+2d6 (av. 42) against a creature that hasn't taken a turn in combat and War Wizard gets a bonus to initiative. Or go Sorcerer for a quickened SR and twin firebolt for a total of 10d6 surprise damage! I appreciate your low level builds and want more of them!

@CompWiz17

Ай бұрын

Surprise attack damage is harder to get than most people expect. For example, let's say it's a dark night. Your human (no dark vision) enemy is facing away from you towards a fire, standing behind a wall with only their left leg and left arm visible around the edge of the wall. You fire an arrow at them from a dark, well-concealed location 600ft away using a longbow from. They roll a higher initiative than you when you fire the arrow. You do not have surprise attack.

@tillfangohr9286

Ай бұрын

@@CompWiz17 But you don't need surprise to trigger the extra damage, only that a creature hasn't taken a turn yet in the current combat. And it's not even limited to once per turn or creature. Completely broken and worth to make a build around it!

@CompWiz17

Ай бұрын

It does sound very powerful, and that's a fair point that you don't need surprise. It is still dependant on the initiative rolls, although as you point out, you do have a bonus to initiative.

@ethanjohnson2849

Ай бұрын

It's a cool option but assuming a +5 spell attack against an AC 15 creature you have 60% chance to Hit. 42*60%+42*5%=27.3 The cost... a 2nd level spell slot...meh and there is a chance of doing 0 if you miss... I'll pass

@tillfangohr9286

Ай бұрын

@@ethanjohnson2849 So You would rather not spend a 2nd lv spell slot for potential 12d6 damage? Do you have a better option for single target burst damage on that level?

Considering Vecna Eve of Ruin came out today, I'd be stoked if this series continued to 20

@ericgonzales419

Ай бұрын

Go to any build that goes to 17 and add 3 more levels

You already earned a like with "Who do you think I am? Treantmonk?", but I also appreciate the inclusion of all-day, no setup builds. As somebody who chronically hoards resources for when I'll "really" need them, I much prefer builds that are lighter on resources... and setup rounds are boring.

I just started reading Vecna, Eve of Ruin. Since that adventure runs from level 10-20 I have a video/series idea: Take your 10-20 most popular builds. Do a rundown on how you might change it to start at level 10 and a summary of how you'd finish it to 20. I watch all of your videos, but this might be really useful for those who might be jumping into higher level play for the first time!

@The1WiThe6un

Ай бұрын

Yes please! Starting that one next week and need to commit to a super fun martial build for levels 10-20 before then (party already has a ton of casters, so thought I’d go the other way)

I would love a "Saving Grace" build. The concept would be a support character all about buffing the party's saving throws specifically, ideally with Paladin or Artificer as the bulk of the build as both classes get a bonus to saving throws that they can share with party allies. There are an insane number of ways to boost saving throws, from Bless to Divine Soul Sorcerer and even Cutting words. I'm sure you could come up with something that puts a level 17 paladin with 20 charisma to shame. I know you have a very similar cleric build, but it really feels like it can be a lot better than just advantage on a saving throw because that hardly matters to characters with a low saving throw modifier to begin with

@blackluna7385

Ай бұрын

This sounds pretty fun to play, off the top of my head a divine soul sorcadin (watchers? ancients?) potentially with bard levels would fit great. Nice bonus of being just a conventionally strong gish build

@NotYourAverageNothing

Ай бұрын

I gotchu: Bard (Eloquence) 9 Cleric (Peace) 1 Paladin (Watchers or Devotion) 7 Sorcerer (doesn't matter; Aberrant Mind I guess) 3 STR / DEX / CON / INT / WIS / CHA 14+1 / 9 / 13+1 / 8 / 13 / 15+1 Race/Species: something that increases mobility; recommend Tabaxi Progression: Sorcerer 1 Paladin 2-7 Cleric 8 Sorcerer 9-10 Paladin 11 Bard 12-20

More of these please!

I always watch your videos at 1.5 speed because if I don't I fall asleep because your voice is too soothing.

"From 2x to 1.5x" How did you know?! :O

Cool way to break the mold. Wish you would do the 13 lvl1 next: Build 13 optimised lvl 1 characters, rapid round style: * You must use a class once, and no more than once (so once you build a variant human archery fighter, no more fighters) * You must use a lineage once, and no more than once (so once you build a variant human archery fighter, no more variant human) * You care only about the math of 1st level. NO PLANNING AHEAD! I've done it a year ago, but have no idea how well optimized my choices were...

@Slobrojoe

Ай бұрын

If there’s no planning ahead how are you supposed to crunch the numbers properly?

@shlomgar

Ай бұрын

I guess you don't. 😂 Only crunch them for level 1.

This is so perfect for filling in the gaps between the builds that you present in these videos. I rarely get the chance to level up a character so far and play in a lot of shorter campaigns / one shots so this will be really useful for me :)

Low level build concepts are really excellent for real play. Love to see more like this!

This Advertisement... I was listening to this without watching the video; and it looks exactly like what played in my head 😂

I absolutely love "I can do this all day" builds. No matter how long the day is I can stab + sneak attack + booming (or green flame) blade. I dont get tired and my damage may not be the highest but I'm always consistent.

@5:43 "you might even want to slow it down from two times speed to like one and a half times today". I feel so called out.

I vote in favor of making this a series 👍🏻

This is the video I was waiting for!!!

And we still got the art! I was just starting to think we wouldn't get one and boom, big art for all the builds.

Very fun new series, I think the "best at X" 1-5 format is pretty cool. I've got a pretty out there but extremely strong option, Pixie Warrior (or spell caster they both have their perks) sidekick, at will greater invisibility and polymorph available from lvl 1 it does some pretty gross combos. Lvl 1 brown bear polymorph lvl 2 cave bear or saber tooth tiger for up to 3 attacks a turn lvl 3 giant scorpion, level 4 elephant level 5 Brontosaurus. Just saying lol, embrace the power of sidekicks...DO IT( Palpatine voice)

100% would love to see your highest damage "I can do this all day". More tier 1-2 builds would definitely be cool too though given that's where most campaigns exist.

Fab idea for a series, all the suggestions at the end sound good to me. Burst, survival and higher levels, all sounds interesting. Would be cool to see these numbers in comparison to Treantmonks "baseline damage" graphs when you get all 20 levels haha

This! Most campaigns end before the builds even start working! Early game is so much more important!

This is awesome! Love the concept for this video series!

34:19 having watched your bard grappler build... yes, we know. We're the cool kids. Wink*

@vinspad3

Ай бұрын

39:00 THERE IT IS!

This was great. Looking forward to seeing more of this however it looks.

22:55 hahaha I was literally using a bear as one of my examples about how strong a character with 20 Strength actually is not knowing you were actually gonna be a bear doing the dragging lol! Small world and great minds I guess lol

Holy cow this Is EXATCLY what I needed for the one shots that I'm playing right now 😂 Love you Colby!

This might be fun to do with BG3. It's more restrictive, in that a lot of tabletop tricks won't work (no custom lineage or readied actions), but you actually can change your build every level.

I love this. Most of the builds I min max are at level 1 for the fun of it. But the "Best" build I found was variant human taking mounted combatant then going fathomless warlock. Getting two attacks each turn at advantage adding a d6 to both attacks. Dealing about 20 damage accounting for ac.

I would love to see a build that can be applied to all party members in BG3, so essentially the entire party would be the same class/multi class that actually works off of each other. Love the videos, haven't played DnD yet but when I do I'll know kind of what to do lol

Aiming for lower or mid-range characters is perfect. Thanks!

With the comment about flying in the level 4 section, I've found that DMs are way more lenient regarding flying PCs if you pick something that doesn't get permanent flight, like Aasimar, either Protector Aasimar from Volo's or the Radiant Soul revelation Aasimar from MOTM. They can actually fly while wearing heavy armor, but DMs allow it more than Aarakocra because the flying Aasimar can only do it for a minute at a time per long rest. That said, I'm one of the people that voted that dragging enemies through Spike Growth should cause you to take damage as well, since it is absurd to claim that you can realistically drag someone through thick brambles without getting caught by some thorns yourself, even if you are standing on the outer edge of the ring. Though I also personally think Spike Growth shouldn't deal damage for forced movement due to how much abusing that can warp fights, on the rationale that flinging enemies around should push them through the brambles too quickly for the thorns to properly catch on them. Even without forced movement damage, it would still be a good spell for area control due to it being difficult terrain and still dealing damage for voluntary movement.

I love this idea I’m excited. I would absolutely love a series on each of your archetypes (sustained damage, nova, tank, multi-target, etc)

I love the idea of the Bard grappler as, like, a Pro Wrestler 😂. Also, not sure I've seen the held action used for movement to get extra damage out of a once-per-turn AOE. Although, not sure if you accounted for this in your numbers, but whenever you use your reaction for cutting words you can't then use it for a held action (and vice versa when the enemy tries to escape your grapple). Overall, love the builds, I wish I could play them all!

Came for the build(s), stayed for the second guessing of oneself!! 😂 Fun stuff this week, Colby. I enjoy breaking the mold every now and again (and this one isn't *that* different lol).

@DnDDeepDive

Ай бұрын

Oh, there was so much of the second guessing. You'd think after 3 days I'd be done but nope... right up until the middle of the recording

@joshuaclendenon

Ай бұрын

@@DnDDeepDive, that's the beauty and curse of optimization. 💯 😂

This is such a needed video. I can't tell you how many times we've run a level 5 one shot and I've needed a character fast. ❤

Exactly what we need, looking forward to the grouping.

I've actually made some DPR calculations that compare both to Treantmonk's baseline and to the "infinitely sustainable" rotation of the given build, and it's fun to try finding something that works "all day, every day" in addition to having the capacity to do a lot more.

Variant human (Crossbow Expert) Twilight cleric is my favorite 1st level character. Decent consistent damage, decent AC with starting scale mail and you're packing Sleep and Bless on top of it. Fun stuff.

Great idea to bring different levels than the normal. I have found lv 3 and 5 to be very important because a lot of games I've played have started at those levels.

I love how you highlight the difference between all day, reasonable, and out there builds. I'm surprised too see how close you can get without assuming best case scenario - at some levels at least.

Enjoyed this. Would love to see a version of this with "all melee weapons," another with "all ranged weapons."

Commenting to show my support for this series! I love your videos, and for this I appreciate the look at "I can do this all day" and "reasonable" builds. While I love watching the builds that assume best case scenarios to explore what is possible, I get more excited for the builds I feel I could cleanly bring to my table without much issue or setup required. Our table has fairly short combats (3-4 rounds) so even a single round of setup feels like a pretty significant investment.

I haven't been watching your videos as often recently, but you definitely caught my attention with this one. I recently participated in a massive 5th level one-shot with no long rests, and I went for the Fiend Warlock for damage. 2 Fireballs per short rest really softened up the hordes of enemies. Plus decent sustained DPR after that with standard warlock tricks. That's the best I could come up with.

Good timing. This was very helpful for a game I'm currently playing.

Thanks Colby! ❤

Absolutely mad video, great job Colby

Love this video series concept! Please keep it up!!

I love the concept of this video, thanks for doing this.

That was awesome! Love the concept and I would love to see more 1-5 builds like this. I also enjoy your "acted out" ads; so much fun to watch

Really like this video focusing on the lower levels, where most folks actually play. Hope to see more of these.

I love that you presented a 'do it all day' version for those of us with tables that are not full of optimisers 😂 Seriously though, barbs are so good at low levels. Probs the most consistent damage and resistance to most damage as well. But i think that's good because they have very little else going for them in terms of features.

This video was definitely full of MASSively EFFECTive builds!

Been watching your videos for months now and as somebody who is about to start a brand-new campaign from level one with a bunch of noobs - this couldn’t have come out a better time! Love your standard build videos, but would really appreciate some more love looking at lower levels like this in the future! Looking forward to the next upload ❤

Saw the title and was TOTALLY STOKED for this one! I was even happier with the 3-tier-per-level arrangement!! Can't wait to enjoy what is coming. Oh, and being you, I was fully expecting it to be damage-dealing 'BEST'! :-D

@kevinboles3885

Ай бұрын

Yep, LOVED IT! And I really appreciate the effort you put into this. Even for just this "limited" project the permutations are enormous. I do request a follow up post with a bit more coverage of the options for tables that flat out deny the spike growth mechanics. I certainly would not allow them at my table if I were DMing, and the flying is totally out of the question at all tables I have played at. Thanks in advance!

Keep up the great work, Colby!

Really love you mixing it up like this! Including the different levels of buy-in really is a great touch because it feels like every level you talk about is viable regardless of the DM/Table. I’d love to see this done with burst damage.

Love this idea!

Blew it away with the commercial again! Best part of the video. XD

This is awesome! Would love to see best nova and best AOE for each level as well.

The video I didn't know I needed

I love this series idea! It’s refreshing to see characters evaluated at different levels from the normal damage reports. It’s also good inspiration for one-shot characters that don’t have to worry about their performance at different levels

I thought about this a couple times. This is amazing. Please make more.

Colby actually doing an ad skit is as cheesy and adorable as I thought it would be. EDIT: I take it back. That jumpscare with "BROOOOOOO" will be in my nightmares tonight.

Ok, at the beginning it sounded like we're at "Avengers, assemble" stage, but that's more like Power rangers. Still amazing, give us more xD Been a while since we had a wizard build. And even more since we had something gimmicky, so here we are with two gimmicky wizards ideas. Pact Wizard: a wizard, who can only use their highest available spell slots to cast spells. You're wizard 9 with just one 5th spell slot and you have to cast Shield to survive? Too bad, you can't do your wall of fire anymore. Zawardo: a wizard, who's entire schtick is about time control or time control-like spells. Basically, delaying enemies movement and actions so from round to round they try to do something only to end up at the same spot after your turn while your team can be all over the place with their stuff. Extra points to Gryffindor in case you could place a few lvl of Astral self monk into it

5:47 whoops, got me there xD

Loved this episode! It shows a great range of options for one shots!

Hey, IDK id you've done this before, but I found a funny build combo for semi-resource less burst damage. Bugbear Hexblade 2/Bladesinger 6/Battlemaster 4/Gloomstalker 5/Assasin 3 Use pass without trace to get suprize, Assasin to always have advantage and crit, and a combo of eldrich blast and bladesinger extra attack and dread ambusher to get 2 hand crossbow attacks and 4 repelling eldrich blasts per attack action. Add on the 2d6 damage per attack from bugbear and a 6 damage to each attack from hexblade, and well: THATS ALOT OF DAMAGE! And if you want to forgo the hexblades curse, you can get pushing attack and stack that with crusher to send the enemy 140ft in the air. Or, if you can get a good setup, you can use phantom steed to set up a spike groowth and circling it to push the enemy through it from all angles.

@DnDDeepDive

Ай бұрын

something similar, yes, but not focused on bladesinger :) - kzread.info/dash/bejne/dHmczNKTp9Wed9I.html

Wow. A lot of work you have done here. Thank you

Great idea for a video! As we get to the end of this version of 5e, I'd love to see more retrospective/wrap-up-this-edition videos!

This is a fun series idea. Great work as always.

Love your stuff... Excellent as usual 😊

This is awesome! I would really love to see these types of builds for levels 15-20!

This is a massively useful video, exactly as is. I would love to see this exact same format taken to levels 6-8. One thing that stands out from your offhand comments during the builds is that you looked at multiple builds, ran the numbers, and presented to us a quick guide for the top 1 of each category. It would be great to hear what class/subclass combinations were runner(s) up, even without going in depth like you do for the winner.

Loved this! Thanks!

More of this! Most of my games, we start and finish at low levels!

Love it! More videos like this would be fun.

Def saving this for future one shot ideas. Hoping there's more to come for higher levels.

This was just absurdly fun Colby!!! Never really expected it but it was hella fun!

Like the idea as a series! Totally understand the limitations of how many levels you could cover at once. Best tank, best burst, best support... lots of categories

This was really good, definitely watch more content like this

So much utility from this video. I’m going to create templates on DnDBeyond based off these.

I love this kind of content. I'd like to see similar series that optimize at specific level ranges for different roles, like support, tanking, or utility/skill monkey

Loved the video, loved the concept, and absolutely loved the TMBG song at the end. Favorite TMBG album for me has to be The Else. Great band. Great video!

Amazing! Love the whistle stop tour of 3 classes level 1 to 5

Absolutely love this list and definitely want to see what you come up with for higher levels and for burst damage

Love the series! More please!

A level 1 Fighter can get to 13 resourceless DPR with no setup by dual-wielding lances with the dual wielder feat and two-weapon fighting while mounting a mule as a small custom lineage with 16 strength against 13 AC.

Would definitely love to see more content like this

I'd love for you to continue this series, especially the Sustained DPR versions, through levels 6-10, then 7+ etc.

This was a great video. Excellent idea and would certainly love to see similar higher level videos

This vid was fantastic! Hope to see more

That was awesome. Thank you

love this! I would love to see levels 6-10, split over 2 or even 3 videos (and then 11-20). Honestly you should make it into a 20 video series where you go over the three categories of build for each level. One level, three builds per video. It would give people a resource to link to when asked about what build they should do for an X level one shot

Love this idea, especially for one shots, specially levels 8-20 (big range!) which are more common for one shots. At those higher levels there are soooo many options!

Love seeing you experiment

Love the "I can do this all day" type of build. This way you could do builds that are: burst when needed, utility saving for just that right moment, lay down mid combat (due to holding back -trying to spice c9nmbat boredom away), oh! You thought that was everything?, now is a good time for this or even I can redirect and avoid those hits too; all of which are on top of the lasting all day. This could lead to characters with more depth than OMG DEATH and DESTRUCTION but less than a sophisticated veteran Jack of all trades.