The way Colby says "welcome home" always brings an enormous smile to my face.

@brockmacd

2 жыл бұрын

Sames. I like the videos, but then feel like I’m hanging with a friend, not just power gaming

@bossarugamer

2 жыл бұрын

Recently while watching back some old eps I came to the realization that Colby and this show have become my comfort watch.

@LoudAngryJerk

2 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one

@MrMravetto

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@paigemackie8942

2 жыл бұрын

@@bossarugamer felt that lol

This and Treantsmonk's are my favorite dnd optimizers channels. And it's really not because of the math or theory craft. It's because of the attitude. Colby and Chris are so genuine and welcoming and it just makes it feel like you're just chatting with a friend. And it really warms my heart to hear "welcome home, this is where you belong."

@anders8461

2 жыл бұрын

They are DnD's Oogway

Literally refreshing the page waiting for this one, super excited

@dylanrainman9506

2 жыл бұрын

Me every week ^

@PoshSlothOG

2 жыл бұрын

Yep

@brockmacd

2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty excited. A little late to the party

Anyone thinking about becoming a subscriber, I have to say that I cannot recommend ENOUGH doing so. Not only are the written breakdowns terrific and you're supporting an awesome channel, Colby also sometimes posts some crazy slash fiction. Ok, so that last part might be untrue, but the rest isn't.

@DnDDeepDive

2 жыл бұрын

lol! *furiously begins writing some crazy slash fiction*

@grendl74

2 жыл бұрын

@@DnDDeepDive My body is ready.

love the interaction between armor of agathys and the sorcerer's bastion of law. by reducing the damage your armor takes, you effectively prolong its duration, allowing it to deal way more damage over more impacts against you

I love specializing as a character. Thats why you're my first stop for new character builds when i jump in a session. Its great. Like i just started playing your Ice Mage build, and its been fantastic, save for the part where we got captured and the captain has some magic dampening item and im trying to stealth without proficiency and have an 8 strength lol. Im getting carried, but boy when im out ill be super useful again

@oathboundhero1782

2 жыл бұрын

You shall have your spotlight, brother!

@theFunkyThumb

2 жыл бұрын

@@oathboundhero1782 right now the only magic ive gotten to work is message, so im the teams walkie talkie while we try to take care of that dampener lol. Im taking all the credit i can

33:40 the silence spell is also insanely effective, and is single handedly the best antimage spell in the game when a sentinel is in your party.

My alternative version of this which is a bit* more "pure" Sorc. Tortle STR-based Clockwork Soul Sorc. Pure Clockwork Soul outside of a 2 level dip in Pali. Your goal is to invest in Strength, use your staff for attacks (hence investment in STR), take Warcaster at level 4, and use Booming Blade + Smite to make enemies stick to you with pure damage. Luckily there are SO many excellent spells on the Clockwork Soul spell list that require 0 saving throws so we take the minimum 13 in CHA and just pump up our STR and CON. Warcaster + High CON + Proficiency allows for safe casting of Haste essentially allowing us to get multi-attack without a investment in a martial class, along with the other numerous benefits. We can also TWIN this to boost another martial in the party. Eventually we can get Crusher and pull off the "Catch-22" for HUGE burst. We can use AoA + Haste + Aid all at once to do massive amounts of tanking. And we can use metamagic to twin amazing concentration spells and protect that concentration extremely well. I love my Clockwork Soul tank!!

@gibbcharron3469

2 жыл бұрын

Tortle is also very cool flavor-wise for this kind of build because you can integrate stuff like armor plating or clockwork elements into your shell.

@aquartertwo

Жыл бұрын

The 2-level dip in Paladin and investment in STR can be replaced with 1 level in Hexblade Warlock instead. In exchange for the burst damage of Smite, you can use your CHA modifier for attack and damage rolls. You still get the (one-handed) martial weapon and shield proficiencies, too. Once you get War Caster (or ideally, you start this character at 5th level+), you can swap out your staff for a one-handed martial weapon like a warhammer for better damage. The only downsides I can think of is that you don't get the +1 AC from the Defense fighting style, so you only get a max AC of 19 instead of 20 after the dip, and you lose the Paladin features.

I'm probably gonna steal this build and modify to suit my tastes, thank you very much. Hexblade dip sounds delicious, btw. And i think that it might work as a narrative tool with one condition: ancient warforged. Okay, let's say that we are ancient warforged found in a forgotten dungeon. We come online for the first time in X hundreds/thousands of years, our memory block is damaged, personality fragmented. But we don't know about it. So, we kinda try to piece our identity together, we know ancient forgotten artificer ways and we create a set of armour. Except, when we do that, we figure out that the armour is sentient and it's us, another us, with different personality and totally different set of skills. This creates disorder in ourselves. And therefore, fighting our contradictory nature, we instinctively are trying to establish order around us to avoid chaotic environment, where our disorder thrives, thus preventing our mission/goal/desires to be achieved/pursued.

@oathboundhero1782

2 жыл бұрын

Bro, this is fantastic story

@Mr911superstar

2 жыл бұрын

Could be a Modron as well

@DnDDeepDive

2 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@paigemackie8942

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds a lot like Dissociative Identity Disorder, if you replace "personality" with "identity" or "alter" Good story tho I like it

@jormungandthemidgardserpen1845

2 жыл бұрын

@@paigemackie8942 except it's not a disorder, but real case of multiple personalities. I'm not familiar with the correct terms, because I'm not native english, i just tried to deliver my idea as best i could.

Alt point buy numbers: Str- 8 Dex - 10 Con - 14 Wis - 10 Int - 14 Cha - 15 Give +2 to Con, +1 to Cha. Gives +3 con mod, +3 Cha mod At 1st ASI get +2 int for +3 int. Only drop Str.

@Ricardo-zo1ti

2 жыл бұрын

But your taunt requires INT to attack, I don't think 14 is enough unless you take one level on hexblade

I seriously can never get enough of this channel. I’m gearing up to use a tweaked Psi Knife in my group’s upcoming campaign.

I love when Colby says "If you love creating new and some what powerful characters, this is where you belong." Thank you so much for having us who love playing DnD with not so powerful characters! I love the videos you put out, keep up the good work!

I am making a stained glass warforged clockwork soul sorcerer and was looking for some inspiration, and I absolutely LOVE the thematic awesomeness of the armorer artificer for this. I think I'll forego the tank route in favor of making a literal glass cannon instead, but this is why I love this channel: even if the build isn't quite the route I am looking for, there is always a Font of Inspiration to be drawn from.

This is definitely top 3 of your builds for me. I love the concept and flavor of this character. Awesome job, and as always; the plant is looking great.

I've been playing a Clockwork Sorc/Dao Lock Earth Genasi for almost a year and have used so many of these ideas for him as well as your "Shredder" spike growth tactics. Anyone considering a build like this one, I can't begin to recommend it enough. Being a sorcerer that's so well rounded is one of the most rewarding characters I've made.

This video came out just in time when I needed a new tank build that I haven't done before! Thanks!

Interesting build. Love the fact that you upload on Tuesday’s. I’m a gm for a pizza joint and on Tuesday’s I go open at a store that’s about an hour from my house and these vids are the perfect length for me to listen to on my way home. One of these vids even in a round about way inspired the build for my current character in the campaign I play in. I’m playing a divine soul sorcerer/hexblade warlock that uses a similar combo to your nature cleric sustained dpr build. My go to combo is spirit guardians with eldritch blast+agonizing blast+grasp of hadar to pull them. Also took telekinetic feat to bonus action push a second target in. Also took haste to buff the party paladin and monk for the combats I feel like I should stay back and play the healer/buffer role. Also I like making the other dudes feel more powerful. I’m the only experienced pc in the party so I don’t wanna always steal the spotlight. :)

Love the use of Earth Genasi here I didn't see that coming though after reading through MOM I totally should have lots of great utility to be had. I'm currently working on an earth Genasi bladesinging tank build (another reason why I shoulda seen this coming 😄) Appreciate all the work you do thanks for another fantabulous build!

Mate, Thank you SO much for these videos, I've been always a huge fan of D&D even though did not get a lot of chances to play it. Seeing your videos always explodes my brain because of their awesomeness and how you make different classes fit in roles none would even think off! (Sorcerer tank?? WTF??) Thank you for your hard work, I'm sure it's not easy the research but I'm sure I speak for the community when I say that all your videos were amazing and lots of us will be playing these builds in DnD tables! keep up the EPIC work mate!

HELL YEAH my fav sorcerer subclass by far. Thanks Colby!

Ah, the best D&D channel, not only do you get to learn more about the game, but you also get some soothing ASMR.

Bless your sneeze at the end, very interesting build 😊😊

Love this build! As always great video. And hope you had fun with the folks at EC! One of my favorite channels! I've been working on a Aztec/Mexican inspired tank build. I wanted to base the build in Ancestrial Gaurdian. So far I've been messing around with 5 levels of ancestral gaurdian and then some amount of undead pact warlock. Allowing you to cast Armor of Ag. Before raging & active form of dread on the 1st round and move to position with a Greatsword (or a polearm) Then rage and start attacking to apply fear while also making it harder for people to attack your allies and doing tons of extra damage. It's a bit bonus action heavy but you gain a lot of uses of rage and form of dread so you have options or you can stack them for big damage, big temp hp& damage res. Eldritch smite is also an option later on, invocations could actually be useful in combat or out of combat. The flavor is amazing though especially with this theme based in Mesoamerican designs and both subclasses being themed around spirits. (Edit: if you read all of this BIG THANKS!)

You have some really good ideas. Thanks for the builds!

My Most favourite part of MOM content is the "your SA is int, wis, or cha". Thanks you! This is sooooooo much better than the old "oh youre a tiefling cleric and wanna use your tiefling spells? Get f***ed" Edit: Dwarf race + Dwarven fortitude + Blood vial thingy(if you can get it) just gives you so many more sorcery points. Which this build needs

@nicholaswells4572

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always called it “SCAM” spell casting ability modifier, for that reason.

@0_Body

2 жыл бұрын

Bloodwell vial

@nicholaswells4572

2 жыл бұрын

@@0_Body gave that to my Con based sorcerer. Very good item.

@rg6637

2 жыл бұрын

Wither and Bloom is another fantastic option. It is not race specific and is a decent 2nd level spell instead of a feat tax.

@bouboulroz

2 жыл бұрын

@@rg6637 Also you don't want to take the Dodge action during combat as a tank because the enemy lose its incentive to attack you, so Wither and Bloom is a nice alternative.

Not saying the art is bad, it’s amazing. But, there’s a big missed opportunity. Should’ve had the shield as a huge Clock (Pocket Watch)

@evannewell7985

2 жыл бұрын

Name: Flavander Flavius

@grendl74

2 жыл бұрын

@@evannewell7985 Seriously underrated reply

Love the shirt! Mass Effect is my favorite video game franchise.

@DnDDeepDive

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Same here :).

@keep_on_harpin8267

2 жыл бұрын

Count me for this fan train! N7 Day is also my Bday!

@aidandunne5978

2 жыл бұрын

It is SOOO GOOD!!!

Fun and ridiculous as always! Thanks for always exploring what's possible! Also great shirt!

I spent weeks trying to come up with a clockwork sorcerer build because thematically its my favourite sorcerer subclass. I ended up settling on being Warforged for the +1 ac, and then decided to stack as much AC as possible. A Warforged with 16 DEX wearing medium armour with the medium armour master feat has an AC of 19. You can then add the defense fighting style, magic armour, shields (and magic shields) and also the shield spell. Also, Sorcerers can twin haste which grants another +2 to both you and a teammate. Potentially an AC of 35 without any reliance on teammates! I'm pretty proud of combining all these options - it's probably a common choice, but I'd be super excited to try it nonetheless

When you do calculate how many spell slots you're using to buff your HP and your AC, you don't realistically last more than 17 rounds against a Young White Dragon, 4 berserkers or the level 3 fireball. It's relatively easy to calculate, too. You just determine how much damage you take with and without shield/absorb elements, and how often you'll be able to do the former.

Amazing! Thanks for some ideas for new characters one of my friends was looking for a build like this!

I play a Clockwork Sorcerer tank in one of my campaigns! I'm sure whatever you come up with here will be more optimized but it's a fun one!

I can totally imagine this character being a spiderman villain, either mimicking Venom, your armor becoming this otherworldly aberrant entity giving you this powerful creepy entity, or like doc ock being driven crazy by the will of his tentacle's strange mechanical intelligence

This was the build i was waiting for, Thank You!

Clockwork Soul is one of the only sorcerer specs I like, but I haven't had a chance to play one yet. I hadn't realized how powerful the swapping out spells from their Clockwork Magic list can be. And any chance to get Armor of Agathys makes me happy.

Love the build. Always look forward to and enjoy your videos. A feature I almost thought you were going to explore when you were describing the character, and which could potentially fill a lot of the same roles, is a combo I’ve been thinking of: The Work-a-holic Prep master. (Bit of a mouthful, I’ll admit.) Basic concept is to be a CoffeeLock who takes full advantage of the Elf’s ‘Trance’ ability to gain a full rest in 4 hours, then spend the remaining 4 hours of your companions Long-Rest casting a fuel spells (Aid, Deathward, MageArmor, ‘Bastion of Law’) with short rests to few your Pact Magic. You can boost your whole party for the day and still have all your resources when they wake up. The trickiest part is deciding what Sorcerous Origin to go with. Clockwork is really strong with Defense and knowing more spells. Aberrant Mind could give you a lot of divination spells to gather information, plus knowing more spells. Divine Soul gives you a lot of strong Cleric spells like Warding Bond(pair it with Extended Spell MetaMagic) and DeathWard, but the typical Sorcerer restriction on number of spells known. For your Pact, the Undead and the Undying both get DeathWard at level 7, Hexblade gives you armor and shield proficiency. Alchemist is also fun with this to really mass produce the potions. WoodElf Magic feat gives you Pass Without Trace, which you could extend and then start your day, or after any short rest, with stealth bonus. Would love to have you take a stab at optimizing this.

Love the options you just opened up for me with the Armorer. Never noticed the "taunt" before. Got me thinking of another variant. I would think going Armorer 6 and Glamor Bard 14 would be an awesome combo. too bad I can't get unbreakable majesty prior to level 14... so it wouldn't completely come together till level 17.

Animate objects combined with a few flasks of alchemist’s fire/acid can be an absolutely mean and explosive combo.

I will likely be trying this out soon, playing character from 7 to level 20. I'll keep you posted for the results!

This might be one of the only build that would help us actually punch our enemies as a caster without any monk level or feat. Great!

This sounds like such a fun character build, second favourite next to the wizard tank

Ha! I knew you were going to link Chris’s character. The respect between my favorite D&D KZreadrs is, well, respectful. 😁 BTW - still playing the whippoorwill build. It’s a blast.

@DnDDeepDive

2 жыл бұрын

Yay!

i LOVE the idea of this build so much

Before watching, I’m guessing some combination of Clockwork and Order cleric for the armor and a bit of healing. I’m excited for this build!

I like to think this specific artificer's guardian armor has an emblem indicating they graduated top of their class in the Interplanetary Combatives Training program. Mayhaps a little inspired by the shirt you're wearing, or by the hoodie I have on as I watch this :D

At our table I think this one would meet an early wisdom save.... fantastic build

I am a viewer and this is my favorite DnD Channel on the Citadel.

I've actually been trying with clockwork soul recently! my favorite so far is an Oath of crown / clockwork soul sorcadin with full plate, a Spear, and shield with polearm master and War caster.

I recently made my own Artificer tank with an Abjuration wizard. Needless to say it was extremely fun

My favorite thing about this tank build is how much of your tanky abilities can be given to allies

Your videos are so great! Please keep up the wonderful content. And this video in particular was so great!

When Dragonlance 5e is out, you could taunt as a kender PB/long rest. :). Chaotic kender having a lawful influence as a clockwork soul sorc would be fun. Like Tasslehoff with the time travel device :)

This was insane and I loved it so much.

20:30 GLORIOUS EVOLUTION!

I really like to see your sorcerer builds, a really under apriciated class in my opinion (both by players and wotc) would be fun to see a aberrant mind sorcerer build from you

This build sounds super fun to play :D

Wow. I would never have thought to use booming blade twice in one round!

Subtle Spell is the one of the best metamagics, it lets you cast spells without material components without anyone knowing you're casting them so they can't be counterspelled (confirmed by JC to be RAI as well). Also useful in social situations or if your hands are full can't cast shield or absorb elements normally.

I'm going to get to play this build in a very short level 17 campaign (like 4-5 sessions total) and I am very excited

The idea of a magical suit of armor being a hexblades patron is so cool. I think thats the first interesting sounding hexblade patron I've heard. You could even have your artificer be a bit underwhelming intelligence wise (13 or 14) but very charismatic. At later level you could take headband of intellect as your armor makes you smarter.

By dipping just one level into hexblade lock, you can focus mostly on charisma rather than intelligence, get access to wrathful smite (which if combined with heightened spell is an insane way to keep an enemy CCed for a long time. It's a wisdom CHECK to break out of it, so no saving throw proficiencies, and disadvantage cause frightened) On top of that, you get the lock slot which is a short rest resource you can use to make sorcery points for more charges for your d8 shield! Mostly for use after you spend your resources but before long rests The d8 shields are great for maintaining concentration if the hit's big, so, worth

One thing to mention about those lovely D8's of Damage reduction is that they don't negate the fact you have been hit, this means you have the chance to activate Armor of Agathys without losing any Temp HP which can be a lot of extra "free" damage.

@wynq

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! This plus Blade Ward, and a 2 level Abjuration Wizard dip makes the AoA tHPs last sooooooooo much longer.

I'm a relatively newer pen and paper rpg player who fell into a great group of guys who have been doing it FAR longer. I like these vids so I can seemingly pull wild ideas out of my rear and surprise them. Thanks for making me look like a prodigy my man, don't tell anyone 😂🤫

@DnDDeepDive

2 жыл бұрын

My lips are sealed! :)

Talking about INT and CHA MADness, would love to see a Hexblade and Bladesinger multiclass build c:

I’ve been winging multiclass builds for a while without any understanding of the underlying principles. I’m finally taking the plunge: doing some reading/viewing on multiclass build theory and use your channel and Treantmonk’s for some examples, because I *absolutely love* making characters, even if I never play them. It’s fun and also good way to make both PCs and NPCs.

Oh yeah i needed this one lol, thanks for your Work!

Amazing video. Side note, nice n7 shirt ;) gotta love rep for my favorite game.

Great build!

Although you repeatedly gave the caveat regarding resources, I wish that you had taken them into account for the RTD calculation, especially with respect to the damage resistance of Blade Ward. Unlike Shield, Blade Ward can't be used with discretion, and must be applied every round to be effective, so it's predictable when you will run out of that resource - which is well in advance of the RTD numbers you gave. Not taking that into account is as problematic as, say, building a Divination Wizard tank, saying it can use Portent to turn every attack into a miss, thus earning infinite RTD. In reality, the Blade Ward resource is so much less than your RTD in most of your damage reports that it would be a more accurate approximation simply to cut the RTDs in half, ignoring Blade Ward entirely.

@EnchantedCharm

2 жыл бұрын

is that considering turning high level slots into tons of sorcery points in order to quicken blade ward, basically substituting the genasi's feature?

@DnDDeepDive

2 жыл бұрын

This is why we say "at that rate of damage you'd survive for x rounds." It's not really an attempt to calculate how long we'd actually survive (because who needs to survive for that long anyway? It's silly), but how much taking *that* much damage would actually hurt us, based on our current total potential HP. I should probably rename the thing :).

@Capt.Fail.

2 жыл бұрын

I tend to agree that some effort should be made to predict when resources will be expended. If not, it makes every class with resources to expend wildly inflated in the metrics when maybe the average performance of such a class is the same as one who is consistently durable. I appreciate that sort of detail on Treantmonk’s builds, for example. He pre-defines his adventuring day so that resource expenditure can be factored in. Sure, his adventuring day is on the extreme end, but it does make it consistent at least.

@nyanbrox5418

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I mean, in reality you would survive for 1000 years for this character if they played an elf instead of the 100 from being an earth genasi, heck we would also be able to reincarnate with an immortal elven soul if we just wanted to live forever why not play that immortal warforged this is comparing tankiness to the other tanks from this channel, none of this is universal and you cannot take the numbers and compare them with other channels, but it does allow this channel to have a ranking system clearly, the more resources you have for defence, the more tanky the character is, and out of all the builds on this channel it clearly has the most defensive resources, most combats are around 4 rounds long, so using bladeward every turn isn't a stretch, if the rounds to die is 50, this just means the combat would take up 8% of your hp if you focused every single one of your resources on defense alone, once you run out of that resource, suddenly your rounds to die increases, as you begin to take damage at a faster rate, but if the enemy is dealing damage at a lower rate as they thin out, as they die one by one, the rounds to die roughly decreases linearly as the rounds progress, which is as expected mathematically speaking, it's a very simple model, which actually works really well for how simple it is in practice

@nyanbrox5418

2 жыл бұрын

edit, but I disagree with saying portent is equivalent, because there are not only fewer uses, but also they only apply once per round, but we don't just have 3 or 4 blade wards by level 10, we have sorcery points for extra blade wards if necessary, taking it to 5 or 6 if we were desperate, but not just that, we could take the stoneskin spell and for an hour with concentration, have the bladeward bonus, that's an entire hour, if we also use the 17th character level ability to always roll at least a 10, concentration would not be easy to break at all in a fight, though possible how often do we get all these spells? well we could take arcana proficiency, with our +3 intelligence we could have a +7 arcana by character level 10, have stone skin, bladeward, and keep in mind it's a cantrip, if we forgo any attacks, we can still cast it does that affect the calculations of survivability? no I mean we could have just taken the dodge action each turn and now we absolutely survive for sure, actually much more effectively than with bladeward, and if hasted while dodging we can still dish out soft taunts, but now enemies won't attack us whatsoever, and if we lose concentration we lose a turn and definitely don't have resistance now the game is complex, but those same factors affect other characters just as much as does us, the barbarian can run out of rages, sure they last a minute but pretty much just burn away if the barbarian is say paralysed and left to cool off, and this character has dumped wisdom, the most important defence, heck, you could just cast dominate person with a spell-like ability from a demon lord, and have the tank taunt the rest of the party to protect its new demon master instead, at the end of the day this character was just built to annoy dms like mine who love damaging party members, and to feel helpful in a way besides dealing damage or crowd control, (which a clockwork soul could also be insany good at) you also forgot to mention that bladeward doesn't affect all damage, what if you are fighting someone with a shadow blade? or a liches necrotic like touch? you don't have resistance against radiant or psychic damage either but a limited use resistance to weapon attacks, or to non magical bludgeoning piercing and slashing does come up, and at least should be considered as an ability I think, with your ac, any hits would be highly likely to be crits anyway, oh we also have limited spell slots for shield, certainly not 50 of those, should we ignore the ac bonus of shield too perhaps? sure its only expended when you know it will be used, we have alot of them, and we *always* have a free reaction no matter what right? it's not like we have anything like counterspell that might occasionally take up that reaction, nor that there are spells and effects like slow that can remove actions and reactions from a pc

A rogue modron as your origin and patron could be fun. Perhaps the event that made the modron rogue somehow infused you with power and later as the modron became more aware ( partially due to your growth) a portion of it came through in your works.

Clockwork sorcerer: how to run out of sorcery point before the first encounter...

@Razdasoldier

Жыл бұрын

Blood well vial +1 is only uncommon so should be found early. Talk your dm into allowing wither and bloom to regain the points in combat

My God this guy unintentionally combines D&D and ASMR...😆

I know normally you don't make builds that require a magic item, but my favorite build at the moment is one based on the Mizzium Apparatus. It allows my character to have tons of spell options! It's so fun :) The character I'm playing is an Aarakocra (he was a gnome but died and got reincarnated haha) Knowledge Cleric 1/ Circle of the Stars Druid 2 / Divination Wizard X The 3 classes are full casters, so I don't lose spell progression Knowledge Cleric gives me expertise in Arcana, Circle of the Stars Druid gives me the Dragon Starry Form so that I have at least 10 in Arcana and Concentration and divination wizard has portent I would love to see your take on it!! Keep up with the amazing content!

Finally level 4 with this build in the battle campaign I'm playing in. The dm allowed us a feat along with other perks so I got sentinel and now I can actually tank for my friends much better. Noone shall hurt my friends for as long as I stand!! Unless I roll bad...

Clockwork Soul always reminds me of Sotha Sil from The Elder Scrolls series of games. A warforged would also fit perfectly for that theme as well since he built his Clockwork City and created mechanical equivalents of biological creatures. Your character could even be one of his Imperfects. Alternatively, this would be amazing in an adaptation of a certain part of the Tribunal expansion of TES III: Morrowind. Fighting this build would be a challenge.

Hey Colby, great job on these videos. After the first Bladesinger build I was hooked. I recently made your Clockwork Sorcerer Tank Build but tweaked a couple things you might like. Shadar Kia race to deal with charmed or frieghtened and Shield Master Feat for Dex saves.

@ClintonJohnson1

Жыл бұрын

This is a straight up better race to take. Both this and Earth Genasi use a bonus action to get resistances, but the shadar kai resistance is much more comprehensive and is usable just as many times.

@finalfantasy50

2 ай бұрын

​@@ClintonJohnson1and the shadar kai is not casting a spell with his bonus action so you can teleport and cast a spell on the same turn

Love to see your take on this. I have actually been inspired by your thornlock concept when I saw it and made my own clockwork sorc tank. She is a paladin 3 (I went with crown, but conquest works as well for the crowd control channel divinity) and currently clockwork sorc level 7 half elf, using metamagic to quick cast melfs minute meteors or wind ward and regular action blade ward(although I would love to take earth genasi, alas my DM is old school one...) I did get him to let me have amulet of the devout for extra cast of channel divinity

@Lucky_Luke486

2 жыл бұрын

My girl has orderly ocd. Everything needs to go in 3s or divisible by 3. So she uses dancing light cantrip all the time in party of 4 (summoning 2 dancing light fairy like shapes and calling them tinker and Belle, insisting they are real :)

@DnDDeepDive

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lucky_Luke486 love it!

18:40 RAW I don't think you can use the weapon infusion on your gauntlets until artificer 9. Before then they are a part of the suit of armor. Or at the very least, you wouldn't be able to used both enhanced armor and enhanced weapon since the armor is a single item.

@DnDDeepDive

2 жыл бұрын

Enhanced Armor would go on your shield :). I'm confident this is just something that D&D Beyond needs to fix, but I could be wrong!

@kaneofmars

2 жыл бұрын

I’m torn on this. Yes, DDB does not do this because the Infusion feature looks for items in your inventory. The Gauntlets are just an added attack action. I would probably rule the Gauntlets are magical since they are part of the Arcane Armor feature. Edit: and upon further research, I changed my mind. The armor is not magical and can be infused. 😝

@DnDDeepDive

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaneofmars Ha ha that's what the vast majority seem to think and rule at their tables. Obviously it'd be one to double check with your DM before hand!

I know it's a bit of a side note, but the Levistus Lineage Tiefling gets Ray of frost and a 2nd level armor of agathys once a day. I made him a barbarian, 10 temp and damage back, and then rage is a great start to low level combat.

A Silly fun thing to do which would require maybe a belt of strength to boost your STR (or good rolls) is take two extra levels in Barbarian. Reckless attack without the reckless part thanks to trance. run out of blade ward uses and sorcery points, use an action to undoff your armor and rage to half it anyway (ignore the 14-15 AC)

Hey Colby! Love your videos. I will watch your new videos as I am winding down for the night. I can’t remember which video it was, but I saw one where you used a certain artist for your character art and they were great! It would be cool to have a link to their work/site so we as a community can become clients of theirs!

Can't wait for this one. Hyped!

Best part of any Tuesday

About time! Haha looking forward to this one

I'd love to see what Treeantmonk thinks of this build. The "Do it All God Mage" he made is my favorite sorcerer build to date, but this one is fantastic and I might consider playing it in an upcoming game this week 🤔

Thanks for the Earth Genasi buff MoM!

I love thinking about the earth Genasi being descended from the beings of Mechanus and putting on the infused gauntlets awakened that biology through the magic leaking from the gauntlets into the body

Careful spell only works /when you cast a spell that forces/ other creatures to make a saving throw. So works when the spell is cast, and they are making a saving throw.

I love taking classes and figuring out how to make them really good at things they are traditionally "weak" at. Playing a class non-traditionally seems so much more fun! ...and what could be more fun than making any/all your party members that do not build at all for tankiness into super tanks! I had an idea for a temp HP generator and pairing it with warding bond to spread out HP loss. My build focused on divine soul for warding bond, heroism from paladin dip, and potentially interception fighting style from pal or using reaction for shield/absorb elements. Taking warlock to get false life as free cast to boost self HP each round instead of attacking (variant human eldritch adept?). and finally artificer artilliarist for protector cannon. probably tough to run numbers on for solo character but would be interesting in a party that gets hit from all sides. Also might not scale that well... This might still work for a duo episode, but probably more interesting idea than actually optimized. works better on small hits than big ones, especially with rounding down damage from resistance. ...then twilight cleric happened and ... well... definately overshadowed... probably could still use heroism via fey touched and protector cannon.

In advance I will say that for both armorer Weapons that the part that says you can use int in place of str or dex for your weapon doesn't specify which weapon would be based off of str or dex just that you can use int instead of str or dex so RAW you can use dex (the better stat in my opinion) for both the Thunder Gauntlets and the Lightning Launchers if you just want to go the minimum 13 int for artificer multiclassing The text in question: Each model includes a special weapon. When you attack with that weapon, you can add your Intelligence modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, to the attack and damage rolls.

Commander Shepard approves this video!

My name is Commander John, and this is my favorite D&D show in the citadel.

I really like your overall approach. If I'm playing a BLANK subclass/concept I want to play the best version of *that* not one that is got a chassis of a class inspired by a concept but feels like something absolutely integral on a thematic and mechanical level. As you say, one isn't better than another but if every creator is trying to create the same kind of optimization 2/3 of them could go away.

Request: after your done with the video, could you leave a link to it in dnd beyond, so we can all use it easier? Thank you a lot, big fan.

@DnDDeepDive

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't done character sheets for the builds yet. I *do* put out written “cheat sheets” for the builds, but it *is* actually the one thing I give as a benefit to members of the channel - here’s a little video I did explaining why if you’re at all interested - I’d love to have you as a member! (it’s pretty cheap : ) ) kzread.info/dash/bejne/oaSTs7Cyl7zcY6g.html

Love the build! I once tried to squeeze 6 clockwork sorcerer in the Abjuration wizard tank instead of warlock, because what's better than 2 bubbles? 3 bubbles! (Armor of Agathys + Arcane Ward + Bastion of Law) But such build would be a very late bloomer, no access to Fizban's Platinum Shield until lvl 20... oopsie :D This one is much more elegant.

To save on resources during battle, cast aid with extended spell using your highest level spell slot right before you take a long rest, and you get the effects of aid for 8 hours after your long rest

05:55 OMG, those guns ... I'm melting!

Just like clockwork another fantastic build😁

Made my PAX to meet you! And awesome build!!!

@DnDDeepDive

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Great meeting you too!

Love the build! Does anyone know if it’s possible to swap the Sorcerer spells for Warlock spells in D&D Beyond? Nvm: I see you have to homebrew a copy of the subclass.