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@eleishar18

2 ай бұрын

Didn't You make a build video for this character like before starting season 2? Unless it went different way than what You described then. Asking during preamble.

@DnDDeepDive

2 ай бұрын

@@eleishar18 I made several that had some similarities - this was a bit of a compilation of them all.

@eleishar18

2 ай бұрын

@@DnDDeepDive Well, I do not remember the title of the previous video, but You told in preamble there, that You plan to play this character in season 2, because the player (Tori?) had to leave your group, and your characters were a couple, so them leaving together felt right.

@DnDDeepDive

2 ай бұрын

@@eleishar18 Right - this is that character that I started playing for season 2, but I never did a video for them - not the way I ended up building them, exactly.

I haven't watched the video yet, but if there is a single Van Gogh pun... you'll be earing from my manager.

@pederw4900

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this 😂

@DnDDeepDive

2 ай бұрын

@samcords7389

2 ай бұрын

Well done

@echtervogel

2 ай бұрын

*Slow clap*

@alex2legit66

2 ай бұрын

Lmao

When my first ever character, Ollie the Twilight Cleric, would cast spiritual weapon, I would roll a 1d12. The summon would be the zodiac sign relative to the roll. If I rolled a 5, a bull made of stars would appear.

@MetalheadSapling

2 ай бұрын

I love this kind of flavor, and Spiritual Weapon and Guardians offer some of the best opportunities for it.

"Only 6 pages of a word doc" - D&D Longs at it again xD

I would buy a "I don't make the rules I just understand them" shirt

@chillycharizard5985

2 ай бұрын

Truly the Optimizer’s Motto

@GameMastersAcademy.

2 ай бұрын

Take my money!

@godsownphilosopher

2 ай бұрын

So would I!

@keithpowell8611

2 ай бұрын

I feel like it should have a meme of Colby's face on it though...that would be golden

@JustinTheRevLovejoy

2 ай бұрын

@@keithpowell8611 while I like Colby I would prefer something a little more generic. Just the words and a d4 logo. I don't wear many shirts with a person's face on it.

Got a somewhat similar build! 5 Gloomstalker Ranger/ X Circle of Stars Druid. Themed as a archer that has space magic. Flavored a lot of the spells as gravity effects. Example: Ensaring Stike becomes Gravity Arrow. Then the void of space with gloomstalker darkness abilities & obviously the stars with starry form.

That is a really, really neat thumbnail backdrop

I feel like we forget sometimes that druids and clerics can pick their spells daily, at the high level you're going to pick a completely different spell is sometimes each day, that is hands down the best part of playing a high-level druid or cleric

21:33 Just because Spirit Guardians tends to end combat in a minute or less, doesn't mean the spell's actual duration is one minute. 🤣

"I always like to go with warhammer" Meanwhile my Cleric who was the son of a cheese merchant summoning a giant wheel of cheese that slams into enemies.

@DnDDeepDive

2 ай бұрын

Hey! This the build i was requesting in the comments a couple weeks ago! Colby is the Goat for responding to the fans! 💯

I've wanted to make a Stars Druid/ Ancestral Barbarian combo to be a sort of "Barbarian Shaman" class. Speaking with ancestors, interpreting the stars, but can absolutely throw down if needed.

@DnDDeepDive

2 ай бұрын

I *did* do a Shaman build with Barb and Druid... not sure if you've seen it... kzread.info/dash/bejne/eIdq2Mtwj9zLec4.html

@atingley0913

2 ай бұрын

@@DnDDeepDive I haven't! I'll have to watch this! Thank you! 💜

Crusher has definetly crept to my top 5 favorite feets

Twinkling Constellation is fantastic. My party was on the ropes at one point with two down. I switched to Chalice, moved to one downed member and fed them a ready potion getting them up, cast Healing Word getting the second up, and then healed the Paladin for 2d8+5! It was amazing! Also, the Twinkling Constellation Dragon form not only allows you to fly but *also* gives you Hover so you can’t get knocked out of the air!!

I like that having higher level spell slots that you’re not fully using and access to a spell like armor of Agathys that scales so well. Punish those trying to break your concentration

@SilvrSavior

2 ай бұрын

Runechild Sorcerer could possibly be the best subclass to take advantage of Armor of Agathys now. Cast at the highest spell level you can, pickup crusher, booming blade, a bludgeoning weapon, and maybe a 2 level dip in Hexblade. The Aegis feature can reduce damage to preserve your AoA temp hp. Booming Blade plus crusher can push enemies around and force them to take damage to get back in the action.

Really loved the story of Alomah. Would love to have more stories on characters based on their build.

I would love if you did some sort of retrospective for your builds' "playability." Take into account things like: How much DM buy-in is required? How disruptive, if at all, it is to play at a real table with other players? Does it take them 2 or 3 rounds to "get going" or are they good to go right away? Do things come together relatively early on in levels? For the sake of their multiclass, were you forced to dump their Constitution score? Taking into account how "playable" it is, highlight a few of each type of build you've done (sustained damage, burst damage, single target, aoe, etc.) and explain how/why they are not only very powerful but also how/why they are a very realistic option for actual play in a long-term campaign. I really enjoy your builds as thought experiments, but I feel like a lot of them are not super practical to actually play at a real table in a real campaign. Love the channel! Hope that doesn't come off as too harsh!

@foldionepapyrus3441

2 ай бұрын

In part much of what you want is the 'how long is a piece of string?' question. Really something I'd say you have to judge for yourself, it is very much down to if you even enjoy the build concept enough to go through the potential pain. As every DM is different, so you can't really predict if they will accept even RAW/RAI correct. So is every party, which means a build that may be hard to play, doesn't manage to set up its nova often etc in one group will find it easy in another. And on the way through the build description you usually get a 'take these levels first, but I have a damage report... ...so I'm going ___".

If you're really particular about making the multiclass make sense and subscribe to the idea of flavouring it like a custom class, then I propose: Emissary of Vulcan or Volcanic Priest. You start out with Light Cleric for Fire Gain the favour of Earth/Stone with the Warlock level Mix the two together when you get the Druid levels Fire + Stone = Magma Flavour the Thorn Whip as molten stone, healing as the ash from the eruption creating fertile soil and giving life etc. Obviously stuff that can be workshopped, but there's something here, I think.

Three of my favorite subclasses! Especially love the light-stars theme here and the versatility of clerics and Druids.

This build *crushes* the Telekinetik fanboys. You get to use your BA, like with the feat, and you also get to deal damage, unlike the feat. Monsters have closer average AC than they have STR saves. STR saves have a *wild range* while AC ( discarding some undeads and beasts ) will be around that 18-20 range the higher you go ( with few monsters having over 21-22 ). Around 31:00 Chalice form wording might suggest that you heal "you or *another* creature". That another could mean other than the one healed, other than you, or another in general ( who knows ). Dragon form: Very strong for *counterpsel and dispel magic* as well. Thanks for making a video featuring the *best class in the game, druid*

Thanks Colby! Always appreciate the time and attention you put into these

This is exactly the kind of build that I like playing. Sure it can deal a lot of damage. But its bringing a lot of support and flavour along with it. You can choose to do anything your party needs you to do. Sort of like the vengeance paladin/hexblade/whispers bard combo.

When I read this I immediately thought “here’s a twilight cleric build 🙄” I was SO HAPPY to hear that it was any other cleric.

Love the build... happy to almost be a member for 2 years! ^^ playing a similar star druid build in my campaign right now... got some nice ideas to build him further out from this video!✨️✨️✨️..

yOOOOOO WHAT A CONCEPT🎉 I always get so hyped from the shorts that come out pre-video

I’m playing your old stars Druid build and am having a blast!! He’s an astral elf and I ended up needing to get a half-feat so I’m taking elven-accuracy and the “Gaurdian of Nature” 4th lvl spell. It gives you advantage on all of your wis/dex attacks and con saves, so when you fight huge or bigger creatures that you can’t move you can get the crusher crit ability to pop off

The Starry Knight: D&D Build #165 Level 01: (see above) [cleric 1, sub-class, race & feat] Level 02: (see above) [warlock 1 & patron] Level 03: (@15:39) [cleric 2] Level 04: (@16:52) [cleric 3] Level 05: (@19:20) [cleric 4 & ASI] Level 06: (@19:57) [cleric 5] Level 07: (see above) [druid 1] Level 08: (@27:23) [druid 2 & subclass] Level 09: (@32:32) [druid 3] Level 10: (see above) [druid 4 & ASI] Level 11: (@35:50) [druid 5] Level 12: (@36:26) [druid 6] Level 13: (@37:30) [druid 7] Level 14: (see above) [druid 8 & ASI] Level 15: (@39:49) [druid 9] Level 16: (@40:08) [druid 10] Level 17: (@40:54) [druid 11]

This and the Moon and Stars build are my absolute favorites. I’ve been playing around with building a Daolock/Stars Druid with the playtest rules, and needing three levels in warlock and in druid just to get it all going is tough!, but still really good. The extra levels in Warlock get me invocations, two great options for concentration in Spike Growth and Cloud of Daggers, and all the flavor that comes from being so evenly split between nature’s power and Faustian bargains

You could achieve much of the same build with just Stars Druid 5, Genie 1, skip the cleric entirely, and take the Lorehold background for Spirit Guardians on your spell list. You'd be thorn whip and starry form arrowing people crusher style into your spirit guardians at level 6, and will have an easier time this route because you can spirit guardians and starry form both on round 1, a compatible action + bonus action.

Love your content I’m one of those who likes making character builds almost as much as playing and your videos are so fun to watch 😄

I've always liked the idea of being like a big mumma winged tiefling thats a gourmet chef in the hells. Her goal in life is to find rare and exotic ingredients to bring back to her pit fiend. Stars druid 4 / dao genie warlock 1 Idea is to use create bonfire with starry form archery. Essentially you conjure up a large hellfire grill with create bonfire and then your starry form archery is like a large tong or lash that can lift enemies up with crusher (druid 4) and then cook them again within the hellfire grill.

World Anvil is great. My problem has been finding ways to use it. In theory every character I've ever made could have been recorded in World Anvil for historical context. I could be using it for notes during sessions. But I don't actually use it. I think it's a me problem. Wondering if anyone else has the same issue.

@AwesomeWookiee

2 ай бұрын

Typing things out is definitely time consuming, which I found was a big barrier to entry.

"I always calculate for 3 targets." I just watched the Law & Disorder build today, and no you don't! :D

@DnDDeepDive

2 ай бұрын

😮😮😮

@SeanClaudeVanQuam

2 ай бұрын

Still love you, Colby. 😘

Druid prediction: success. Subclass prediction: failure. Want Wildfire Druid!

@SoI_Badguy

2 ай бұрын

He did a wildfire druid before that took a level of arcana cleric for green flame blade that was a gish/skirmisher that did multi-target damage with it, shalleleigh, and firey teleport.

@life-destiny1196

2 ай бұрын

@@SoI_Badguy would you say a wildshaped wildfire druid is a volcanic viper

Another awesome build Colby!

Thank you for inspiring me to get my channel started. Maybe one day I'll get an editor, but the important part is starting. Also, I loved your build. It seems like it would be super fun to play.

I love your channel so much I watch it every week to the end the day it comes out and it makes ny day. Thank you for being so great ❤🎉

Love this build! Very flavorful

Great Build. The druid lvls fit so well with traditional Kit'Sune

Versatile characters are always fun to build and play. Star druids have such a fantastic flavor to them, but maybe I'm just a sucker for that astral style.

Wonderful Choice of Soundgarden song to pop in there. ❤

This is awesome! I've been saying ever since the Dungeon Dudes multiclassing Cleric video that Stars Druid was an amazing option for clerics (I think I even tweeted at you about it) and it's great to see it laid out like this. I'm currently playing a Tempest Cleric, and once I get to level 6 the plan is definitely to switch over to Stars Druid for at least 2-4 levels. Sadly I don't have the Charisma score for the Warlock dip, but Thorn Whip+Spirit Guardians+Archer Form will still do plenty of damage, with Destructive Wrath on an upcast Shatter for a solid burst of multi-target damage a couple times per Short Rest.

35:33 - in particular for clerics, war caster is really useful if you don’t have your holy symbol on your shield and hence you can do more somatic components with your shield hand if your DM uses RAW for components (which I argue is a necessary check on some spellcaster shenanigans).

Thanks Colby!

I did the Shaman thing with my goblin wildfire druid Krackle. The fire spirit was named Wick. A grumpy little flame. Fun little character for the time I played him.

I was sitting by my computer since 17:00 refreshing the youtube page waiting for this video - this is the best day of the week!

May I suggest some alternatives? The first is a touch more MAD, but not as much. The second is definitely SAD. Divine Soul Sorcerer (CON SAVES and Fireball and Metamagic and Spirit Guardians and Spiritual Weapon) 5, then Druid (Stars) 2 (Magic Stone does bludgeoning damage with 60' range), then back to Sorcerer to get to 18. Also lets you focus CHA as the major attribute and use WIS only for the Magic Stone attacks. You can use the metamagic to burn those higher level spell slots as needed to add more spell slots, or metamagic effects to maximize the damage. Minimal impact to spell progression and it doesn't stop you from reaching 9th level magic. Artificer 1 (CON SAVES, Magic Stones, some armor) then Order of the Scribes wizard to be able to switch any damage type (except cantrip) into bludgeoning if you have Catapult or Earth Tremor in your spellbook for 1st level).

@SilvrSavior

2 ай бұрын

Magic Stone is also on the Warlock list, so you can always dip that class to get the Cha mod for the spell.

Sound like a fun build! But there's one caveat, in that you can only do Genie's Wrath damage once per turn; so there's no pulling two enemies into the SG area (which I think you were assuming). So that will affect your damage output quite a bit, I think.

@SilvrSavior

2 ай бұрын

Could be thorn whip + crusher.

@DnDDeepDive

2 ай бұрын

Right - Thorn whip pulls one, Star Druid ba attack + genie’s wrath + crusher pulls the second 😉

@PjotrV1971

2 ай бұрын

@@DnDDeepDiveAh, of course! My bad..

Awesome build!!!

Trying out the stars druid in a game right now and the starry in the title just got me Edit after the intro: Can't wait to see where you took it

4:10 broke me into song. so good lmao

Oooh. I want to try this one so much.

I’ve been playing the more Druid-y version of this and it’s been fun!

11:20 The unecessary 'Burn' on the sun soul monk was gratuitous xD

Thanks Colby

Think I might try to build something around this concept, but around the Tempest cleric instead, and see what I can get out of it.

I think what needs to be pointed out is when colby mentions picking up a spell for the cleric or druid, you do not need to select the spell, clerics and druids know their whole spell list, you have to choose to prepare that spell for the day not including the Domain spells that are always prepared.

Hi Colby! Great vid as always, I might use this… I would love to see a horizon walker/echo knight scimitar or long sword/ katana build! Thanks :) 😊

The stupid idea I had was what I call the street fighter build 5 monk (astral soul), 3 rogue (assassin), 3 paladin (vengeance). Unarmed strikes need to be ruled as finesse for sneak attack. You also take magic initiate warlock for Eldritch blast. So you can unarmed strike someone for punch damage, 2d6 min sneak, 2d8 smite damage, all doubled potentially either from adv roles or through assassin. Plus you have extra attack from monk 5. Its VERY stretched on stats but i thought it was a fun idea.

First time to watch this early! Looking forward to this build

Loving the build idea. Wondering how well it would work with a pure Genie warlock, using a mix of Crusher and Grasp of Hadar... (I just love 5e warlocks lol)

Small note that a fireball dropped into a tavern made of wood would not set anything on fire as the fire is magical in nature. Interesting difference, though when you cast fire bolt that can set objects on fire!

My first rule set was the Red Box. I ran and partook in tales that ran to the limits of the Gold Box. AD&D2E was released and tbh that made DMing a joy. Now? I question how much freedom there is to actually play the role.

Great build, Colby. I'm wondering if you plan on making builds for Daggerheart when it releases out of play testing ?

My old lady (cook) character, Griselda, manifested a Rolling Pin as her Spiritual Weapon.

TBH, you could drop the Warlock level and of the crusher feat and still have a very solid build

Anyone else kind of hoping for divine soul sorcerer as just the absolute jack of all trades?(with my personal favorite race for it being aasimar for obvious synergy)

@owenrice1756

2 ай бұрын

I was thinking this too! Going divine soul still gets you spiritual weapon, spirit guardians, and fireball, the lvl 1 feature is similar to the stars lvl 6 ability to control the chaos, and of course you get metamagic to play with. I did a version of this build with Shadar-kai race so I could teleport in with spirit guardians and resistances. It also felt great twinning my free guiding bolt from stars druid following up with archer form free BA. With the warlock lvl he took in mind, you could also go 2 for repelling blast, push their frontline closer to backline, and then get in there with spirit guardians. You can still get crusher but I would say eldritch blast scaling makes the push to cluster at least just as strong as the more simple pulling enemies to you.

reminder that radiance of the dawn isn't a spell so its a good action to take after casting spiritual weapon as a BA

Good morning, Colby. Hope your doing well!

I miss your pf2e builds! Hope you occasionally do a one off of a couple general builds for it again sometime, so long as it works with your ad cents and stuff

let's all do our best Don McLean impersonation - "starry starry night"

I wonder how many of Colby's top builds are "get hit by continuous effect multiple times". I understand it works RAW but feels against the spirit of the rule(and against whats happening in the fiction) But this means I can safely drop the warlock dip and crusher (so frees up race as well) and the light cleric + moon druid is a nice mix. The pulling effect on crusher feat on a ranged attack feels weird. It would work the same with a sling, which is just crazy, at least with the archer bolt I can imagine it arcing around or something.

such a great thumbnail!

I really liked this build! Especially the backstory, as its been something that you actually played before! I dont know if you take requests only from challenge members, or if you still have any interests in doing any more BG3 builds, but i really would like to see your take on the most MAD, yet still most effective unit you could make in BG3 (not thinking 1 level for each class, but at least a 11 (10 feels a bit easy, 12 too stifling) in each stat and using 3 classes?) Idk, seemed like a cool idea for a run, maybe not a solo build idea tho 😅

I heard crusher so inb4 crusher + spike growth + repelling blast for damage, and other spells for support

KZread stopped recommending me your videos. Rolling for initiative as we speak. (Great content as always)

@DnDDeepDive

2 ай бұрын

This seems to have happened with a lot of people lately 😖. Dang algorithm!

Starry knight, huh you've got my ear.

I love the idea of the "I don't make the rules" shirt. Get on that. While I haven't played this exact character, I have played a healing domain cleric/stars druid. Loved all the healing, plus pulling enemies towards me and bonking them with a shillelagh weapon. I'd say that six pages is a long backstory. I've only ever been allowed to write one backstory for any of my characters, and it was four pages long, and I got mocked and ridiculed by the DM and the other players just shook their heads in disappointment. Apparently backstories should only ever been one paragraph.

@megamarkread

2 ай бұрын

Ew that sounds like a shitty group. I've been lucky enough to play in groups where the level of backstory between PCs differed greatly, but no one would mock the others for it!

Interesting, I thought you would go with a Echo night / life cleric. Max dammage and max healing.

Damn, imagine if there was a druid subclass that gave access to spirit guardians

I'm playing the Dragonborn Druid/Warlock build from awhile back. I just let my DM know that I want my character to pick up Cleric levels at some point, and it's not even for Spirit Guardians. I want that Augury spell lol And eventually, maybe, I'll pick up SG.

As always a goofy / lovely outro

I found your channel in recent months and I love your videos! If you’re taking build recommendations beast barbarian echo knight! I plan on turning my beast barbarian into this and wanted to know how you’d do it! Thanks for making work more bearable for me I listen every day!

@DnDDeepDive

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! On the to do list :)

Saw someone mention that death roles at their table are private so table doesn’t know if the member is down or stabilized, which might make it less efficient to wait until after combat

@pheralanpathfinder4897

Ай бұрын

I would do a little heal on an unconscious PC so they don't have to watch the game. But no need to burn spell slots at 1 HP since it is hard to heal enough to overcome on round of hits.

3:09 I would buy that shirt

I would buy that shirt. Hands down.

What do you think about CBE/SS Bladesinger with Fighter (archery) + peace cleric dips? I find it to be the top for sustained dps and control/support. The cherry on top is that this build synergises perfectly with nets and haste. ALL HAIL THE NETSINGER 🗣️🔥

I just really want that next bg3 patch.

Amazing voice!

Yo sick thumbnail man

Sun Soul was just soooo underwhelming that guy had to bring out the big boy

Okay now I have a challenge!!! I dare you to place a class on character in popular franchise like other video game franchise, graphic novels, and hell even smaller project!

@life-destiny1196

2 ай бұрын

There's an old Kaladin Stormblessed video, but it'd be fun to see more.

Thanks for the cool/fun build. Who did the awesome thumbnail art?

is the english sub new? thank you, it helps a lot if someone unfamiliar with dnd. 20:56 thx to larian, I can replicate your shaman build using this spell. My range characters can focus on damage or cc.

Like number 13 is from me :D

WUWUWUWUUWWUW TUESDAY HELL YEAH, have a good one man thanks for the vid🎉🎉🎉

@manuelestrella2358

2 ай бұрын

I've been meaning to set up a game but for the moment I love the vids man thanx

I approve of this message

@DndDeepDive would it be possible to also categorize the DPR, Tanking, Nova, ect builds like.. more martial focused vs more spell focused? Like if the majority of the damage you deal is from cloud of daggers or from just hitting the target with multiple GWM/sharpshooter. Also I would love to see a 'how-to' use the damage calculator. I've been doing things in it myself but I'm just not sure if its giving me accurate data, or if I'm putting in the information correctly XD. Keep up the good work Coby. Enjoy watching all your video :D.

While it might be too campaign specific for your channel, I wonder if you could do an Echo Knight / Gloomstalker combo. Manifest Echo, Dread Ambusher and Action surge for 6 attacks at level 6, and 8 attacks at level 8 (if I understood how all those interact). I personally am making such a character with a Cyclopian (Nothic-like) from Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting. I love the idea of a Gloomstalker with no depth perception.

@pasqualecirone9755

2 ай бұрын

I think I meant to cite unleash incarnation - that's what gives an extra attack, not Manifest echo.

I wonder if d4 would be down to make a tank build using the new Runechild subclass. I wonder where it will rank on his spread sheets. I'm thinking Lvl 1 Sorcerer, change one of the subclass spells to Armor of Agathys, and build from there. Maybe a 2 level dip in Hexblade for armor & weapon Proficienies. Maybe it could be a sustained damage dealer by using booming blade, provoke opportunity attacks, and try to maximize the life of Armor of Agathys.