Him: the STRONGEST level 2 character! Me: huh, I wonder what…. Him: Moon Druid Me: ah ok

@trippstudios12

2 жыл бұрын

Strongest level 2 build for 5e. In 3.5 you can make a god level character at level 1.

@clon1122

2 жыл бұрын

@@trippstudios12 I mean a mega min maxed spell focus varisian tattoo duel blooded sorcerer focusing at level 1 can get a color spray DC up to 22 . Now the only thing that pretty much stops that build early is oozes

@trippstudios12

2 жыл бұрын

@@clon1122 look up punpun dnd

@TheDexp

2 жыл бұрын

​@@trippstudios12 Punpun is cheat, that uses loopholes in system, that was never meant to be balanced.

@QuantumBeard

2 жыл бұрын

@@trippstudios12 nobody considers pun-pun because it's purposely broken and creates an anti-fun playstyle

So you can light someone on fire, then beat him up to "prevent forrest fires"?

@jeffcook6735

2 жыл бұрын

I think Smokey might not be a thing in England, but i loved it.

@L11_Restart

2 жыл бұрын

Thats the iWay

@alexander_markovski

2 жыл бұрын

Smokey the Bear on steroids heard about Poison Ivy and decided to take matters into his own hands

@darrellwillis4871

Жыл бұрын

Maybe or maybe not, but you do become an AMAZING firefighter.

@Allantitan

Жыл бұрын

@@alexander_markovskionly you can prevent forest fires

Hold on, I can make this even shorter. "Take two levels in Moon Druid."

@Im_Local

9 ай бұрын

Even stronger Take druid

@ghoulgunner177

4 ай бұрын

Even Weaker, take monk

I've literally rolled this exact combo for my next campaign and have had him waiting to go for a couple months. One point in barb also for rage. It should be fun

@FoereaperGaming

2 жыл бұрын

Rage will keep you from casting and concentrating on spells.

@insertphrasehere15

2 жыл бұрын

@@FoereaperGaming Who cares though? Raging while in wildshape essentially gives you functionally 80+ hit points. This is a build that kinda doesn't scale well, as moon druid is bonkers powerful early on and trails off as the game goes on, but a 1 level dip isn't putting you behind that much. It also leaves you open to putting 3 levels in barbarian later for Totem of the bear, so you can be a Bear-Bearian.

@ganjapanda25

2 жыл бұрын

@@insertphrasehere15 this. Exactly my plans until after lvl 5 where they will focus on druid exclusively after 3 points in barb. Early to mid game health pool and if we make it to end game I can still get shapechange. So imagine turning into a dragon, that can rage... and then shape-shift into an even more terrifying dragon

@bleach-kun

2 жыл бұрын

@@ganjapanda25 "FUCK YOU IN PARTICULAR GOBLIN ARCHER! *angry swipe*"

@raphaelmessiaslinopereira8499

2 жыл бұрын

@@ganjapanda25 Sorry to ruin your dream, but... Shapechange is a *concentration* spell. In the moment that you start your rage, the spell will be dismissed

Don't forget! You're still rocking all the great healing, buff and control spells druids have too! Not to mention that although your shifter form lasts only 1 minute, your bear form lasts *AN* *HOUR* and can be done 2x per short rest! I also undershot the HP calc slightly, your max HP would be *49,* not 43 at this level!! Although not used in the damage calculation in the video, your DM also might let you use the Bear's bite attack as a bonus action, rather than the shifter one while you're in bear form! That gives you *EVEN* *MORE* *DAMAGE* and makes sense to me, personally. Enjoy!

@mattisbette3932

2 жыл бұрын

Every moondruid can make up to 4 attacks per turn at level 2. The deinonychus gets 3 attacks from multiattack and a pounce bonus action attack.

@martinnielsen7746

2 жыл бұрын

For lvl 3 look at genie warlock chain pact Take investment of the chain master, in combat go into your flask or ring and use your action to let your imp attack, and with investment invocation it can make a second attack, imp have an average DMG of 15 with 2 attack this makes 30, all of this with advantage on the first hit, if it's invisible at the start of your turn and it can use its own action to become invisible every turn. You are now impossible to touch, and your imp very hard to attack, and have resistens to all DMG if it gets hit. Off course, take custom linage to bump up the DC for the imps poison save. You can even concentrate on a spell while during this, if you take metamagic adept and quicken spell, you can cast the spell as a bonus action, if you take Dao, you can cast spike growth so they can't even escape without taking damage, then jump into your ring and have the imp pick it up, attack and turn invisible. Enjoy! ✌🏻😎🤟🏻

@markuhler2664

2 жыл бұрын

Only 1 minute. So 10 rounds of combat? Yeah, that's acceptable.

@cringedetector5560

2 жыл бұрын

My cleric build begs to differ. I challenge thee to a duel

@rampagent9226

2 жыл бұрын

Would you be willing to put the set up in the comments or descriptions for these? For when I don't have a way to write it down I can screenshot instead?

No wonder one of my players wanted to play this exact race/class combo

@jamesbaker2092

2 жыл бұрын

Dw, it's actually really weak, it takes 2 turns to set up

@jamesbaker2092

2 жыл бұрын

@ReyMercury and a single monk level gives you all this and +3 AC in wildshape, freeing up your racial options, on top of taking no turns to set up. Edit: monk isn't very effective RAW, but the point still stands that it's not very strong.

@supersmily5811

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesbaker2092 It does take two turns to fully get the entire combo rolling, but both steps to setup are Bonus Actions, so you can do some Actions in the meantime to fill the gap and keep your momentum. In other words, no, it's actually quite good. You just have to know what you're doing, and the power will level off as you gain more character levels as none of the Shifter forms are amazing in the end game.

@jamesbaker2092

2 жыл бұрын

@@supersmily5811 you're right, in turn one you can do a mind bogglingly huge 11 damage per round, followed by a turn 2 of 16, this damage doesn't improve til level 6, meanwhile you have 30 hp, can't heal in the second turn and an ac of 11 in melee. Not to mention you can Only do this absolutely broken combo *once per short rest* so unless your group has a lot of warlocks, it probably isn't happening all that often.

@thegiantcrow7416

2 жыл бұрын

Technically you can do a one turn step up as Moon Druid gives you the ‘option’ to use a bonus action to wild shape. So you can just shift as a bonus action then wildshape as an action. Only reason not to is if you would want to cast a spell before you wildshape.

Dang, I appreciate the energetic enthusiasm you've got with this one.

Wow made it all the way through without a terrible pun! “UnBEARably strong” ….Never mind

@bayoubilly5176

2 жыл бұрын

Those are quite literally my fave part of his videos. Followed closely by his terrible commercials that are secretly awesome. Especially when his buddies with zero acting ability help out. Classic...

@Nurfarious

2 жыл бұрын

@@bayoubilly5176 Oh I agree! If a dad pun is ever not included, I will riot

@user-cx9un9fs7q

2 жыл бұрын

If he he didn’t say “you could say” before it I would’ve found it way funnier.

@RichardLeslieWhereat

2 жыл бұрын

No, there were no terrible puns. That was a glorious pun.

@th3_fp3e

Жыл бұрын

Whenever I see bear puns, I hear it voiced in Sam Riegel's voice. It's BEARely BEARable...

Petition for him to make a series from level 1 to lvl 20 builds

Me: "Oh cool! Can't wait to try this one ou-" DM: "Nah not allowed"

@prazerpedro5379

Жыл бұрын

DM's to DM's

@micahsmith2066

Жыл бұрын

Same result with 90 percent of his videos. "Oh, you're power gaming and rules lawyering with no roleplay explanation to how this character came to be? Denied."

@anonymoose2474

2 ай бұрын

​@@micahsmith2066Sounds like dog shit dms

Okay but hear me out, Were-Elementals

@Year2047

2 жыл бұрын

🤔🤔🤔

“How to make the most overpowered character in D&D!” … “Play Moon Druid”

@WillTBear1

2 жыл бұрын

Worked for Keyleth. The only thing that killed her was herself...

@upsidonkey9570

2 жыл бұрын

fills me with pride and joy

@badwolf3618

2 жыл бұрын

Or do what I do. 3 levels bear totem barbarian, the rest of the levels as Moon Druid. Raging while in Wild Shape is fucking awesome. And being able to burn a spell slot to heal as a bonus action while in Wild Shape is a great way to get around not being able to cast spells while raging. We just had a major epic battle not long ago. As a level 8 character, I took around 250 hit points of damage in that battle. After Rage resistances, extra HP from two Wild Shapes, and healing as a bonus action every turn using spell slots, I took that much damage and still had a decent amount of HP left in my main form.

@dgmisal1979

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly it drops off too hard for me. I'll take straight wizzy or my fav multiclass... order cleric 1 and clockwork Sorcerer the rest of the way.

@fraidei2094

2 жыл бұрын

@@dgmisal1979 the damage doesn't scale much, but you become one of the tankiest characters in the game, with all the healing from spell slots

I forgot to mention, this is a sequel to my Top 5 Most Powerful Level 1 Characters video! kzread.info/dash/bejne/inposdOPprTUYZc.html I was going to do a full video for level 2 builds, but most of them were just the level 1 builds again, because those builds are so good they outlcass most Level 2s!

@supersmily5811

2 жыл бұрын

Reverse Werebear is actually hilarious! Well done!

@KevinVideo

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't mind seeing a level 3 build video.

@casbot71

9 ай бұрын

When doing low level builds, a note about how they perform later on would be useful. Of course with Moon Druid it's... "yep, Level 20, now unkillable" even if you don't go multiclassing into Totem Barb later. But some combos might only be viable at certain level ranges and don't scale well later on.

God I love transformations that stack in this game. Even if its something simple like rage, being able to layer them gets my creative juices flowing. Like Guardian of Nature and Wildshape stacking for a super fast and strong version of the animal you already transformed into. :)

@fraidei2094

2 жыл бұрын

What's Guardian of Nature?

@sutoriimmortal2177

2 жыл бұрын

@@fraidei2094 it's a fourth level spell for druids and rangers that transforms the user into one of two forms: Primal Beast or Great Tree. Each does their own thing but Beast increases your speed, gives dark vision, gives advantage on strength based attack rolls, and makes your melee weapon attacks deal an extra d6. The Tree on the other hand gives some temp hp, advantage on Con saves, advantage on Dex and Wis attack rolls, and the ground within 15 feet of you is difficult terrain. Conc up to a minute and takes a bonus action.

All great although i feel like for your Average Damage calculations you should include the Average chance to hit an attack rather than making it 100%

@jeremy.N

2 жыл бұрын

it goes down to 18.3 avg DPR if you do edit: the bear has a +5 vs AC for it's attacks, but the shifter has a str mod of +4 and a +2 proficiency, thus a +6 vs AC, so the bonus action attack is a little better with it does 18.675 avg dpr

@anthonynorman7545

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, that number seemed ridiculous.

@Apfeljunge666

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeremy.N which is still extremely high damage, I dont think any martial class can reach this at level 2

@jeremy.N

2 жыл бұрын

@@Apfeljunge666 yeh i agree

@ograndebill8752

2 жыл бұрын

@@Apfeljunge666 Variant Human Barbarian can Take 15 str +1 ratial GHM for feat Great Sword is 2d6=7 avg Rage is 2 Str bonus is 3 GHM gives plus 10 Advantage from Reckless You have 2d20+2+3-5 to hit, so the chance to hit is 75% against an enemy with 15 AC 22*0,70+(29+16,75)*0,0975=21,210625 The second part of the calculation is the critical hit+BA attack Now in retrospect I can see that it's even bigger, since you can crit on the BA attack The guy under me corrected this comment, I assumed 10 AC midway through my calculation(here comes the 75%) instead of the 15 AC with 51% of hitting

I'm normally more of a fan of Wildhunt shfter, since the ability stopping advantage is BONKERS, especially when paired with Barbarian and Reckless Attack, but it is great to see Longtooth getting some love.

As soon as I saw "Level 2". I knew it was a moon Druid. Wasn't exactly expecting the Longtooth Shifter however.

Shifter being my fav race, I appreciate this vid 1,000%! Great stuff! ❤️

Shifter is a slept on race honestly. though it is technically ebberon exclusive its were-whatever theme works for most any game.

@Morhgoz

2 жыл бұрын

In friend's couple decades old homebrew setting Shifters are elfs, so get elven immunities and dreaming on top of things they normally have.

I love this. It feels like cheat codes that jist makes the game crazy.

The design of the Wear bear, that also sets things on fire, kind of makes me think of ifrit from Final Fantasy X. Anyone else?

That F-Zero background music is great

@TrueAlphastrike

Жыл бұрын

It's SO GOOD!! 😎

Thank you for the very satisfying pun at the end 😂

I love this channel

Not unsubcribing after this last pun is the hardest thing I did.

Thank you for early game boss idea :D

It was the bear minimum about of puns!

never thought you can make this anymore badass sounding, currently a noob at this but now I'm just wanting to say, now I wanna play with some friends or strangers, still sounds pretty awesome though

I made a monk fighter with the ability to attack three times per attack and I recently unlocked action surge and I do extra damage with bludgeoning weapons

Only you can prevent forest fires. Them: "Oh shit oh fuck."

"What is the MOST POWERFUL..." Oooo, this will be interesting, how will he compare the dif "level 2" Oh, its a Moon Druid video All jokes aside, great vid man :)

Wow, that's a pretty good vid... DnD Shorts: You could it's Un-Bear-Able ...

Thanks so much for these.

Turns into a werebear. DM says a Tarasque bust through the trees & it's hungry for meat.

Honestly I want to see one of these for every level

Can you imagine seeing a fucked up bear and then it casts fireball at you

My party member is an elf mood druid and im an artificer ehos in love with create bonfire. I think we're gonna do swell

As a DM I wouldn’t allow them to be a wearbear. It’s either your Beastial form OR the Bear.

@dumbghost3109

Жыл бұрын

thats how it is RAW too. wildshape doesnt keep ALL racial traits. only non physical ones. you dont keep a a shifters shifting, a simic hybrids adaptations, or an owlins fly speed. you DO keep the sleep immunity from elves or the extra feat from humans.

@TonkarzOfSolSystem

Жыл бұрын

@@dumbghost3109 The druid wildshape rules state: "You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so. However, you can’t use any of your special senses, such as darkvision, unless your new form also has that sense." Meanwhile the Shifter's shifting ability is described as: "Shifting. As a bonus action, you can assume a more bestial appearance. This transformation lasts for 1 minute, until you die, or until you revert to your normal appearance as a bonus action. When you shift, you gain temporary hit points equal to your level + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 temporary hit point). You also gain benefits that depend on your shifter subrace, described below. Once you shift, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest." To me, RAW, a character should not be able to take on the humanoid "more bestial appearance" and the shape of a beast at the same time, as these are entirely difference shapes. However, it could be read as the character taking on a more bestial appearance on top of whatever appearance they already have. There's nothing in the rules about only keeping non-physical traits, that's Rules as Intended, not Rules as Written.

Everybody gangster till the charnel hound strolls through town.

I mean, if you want sheer damage, level 2 conjuration wizard could theoretically make purple wurm poison.

You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other sources and can use them IF THE NEW FORM IS PHYSICALLY CAPABLE OF DOING SO. Bears cannot shift.

You can also go for Lizardfolk as their Hungry Jaws feature carries over in wildshape. So it comes online immediately on the second turn instead of the third turn. Just one per short rest though. You also get Natural Armor (basically studded leather +1), better ASI's (if not using the Tasha rule) and some other nifty stuff on top though.

Nice! Sounds like a good villain 😊

I helped make characters fory brother and my friend, along with mine, for a campaign my buddy was running. They were busy and asked for some sheets to start with based off of classes they chose. So I made our group into a sort of "Inquisitor" themed squad of shifters. We had a barbarian beast hide shifter who wore only pants and an open leather jacket with aviator goggles. A swift stride shifter who was a middle-aged, sassy, awakened mystic, sort of medium with short skirted victorian dress wear and a cigarette holder. I was running a wild hunt shifter way of mercy monk dressed in plague doctor attire with a cracked comedy mask. Really cool bunch of dudes.

This feels like one of those moments where you explain your long list of actions that you somehow fit in your turn, and the DM counts up the damage just to say "HES LIQUID. THE POOR BASTARD. IS LIQUID. THAT'S ALL THATS LEFT!!"

@followeroftheprince

Жыл бұрын

Or your dm listens to your plan, reads the book, then notes the fact that you can only use racial powers that your new form, quote, "can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so. " And as a bear is not physically capable of shifting, as only shifters and were-beasts can shift, the shifter part of this plan can't work.

Werebear: only you can prevent forest fires.... But if ya do, let me cook guy real quick. I'm tired of eat them raw

I mean, moon druid is a pretty insane subclass regardless, every wild-shape is essentially an extra chunk of hp

Ah nothing like tearable puns early in the morning, something to really sink teeth into. Other people would be FURious over those puns but not me I can bear it and I don't were my feelings on my sleeve.

I remember having a dnd campaign where my character was a Russian bear man, and was a barbarian his name was Misha for short

Bugbear Rune Knight Polearm Master is a build I personally find very funny

Can't wait for you guys to learn about pun pun in 3.5

Sounds like a fun way to set your werebear on fire

Let’s be honest, we all knew it was gonna be moon Druid

If I was playing with a character like this, I would be screaming "WEREBEAR" the hole time

I know that the long tooth shifter is a great option and thematically correct for what you're trying for wouldn't be lizardfolk be a good options as it also has a bonus section bite attack that also can gain temporary hit points. Then you could be like a scaly bear lol

The new One DND that is out has a dwarf Barbarian with a 16 CON hitting 18HP at level one with the tough feat adding to the dwarves toughness feature that they retained. Taking AVG HP (7 +1 +2 +3) that’s 31 HP at level 2

"Burn your enemies while you tear them apart" You mean prepare and cook your food while you're killing it. Lmao

I've never played dnd, never searched it. BUT I GET A SHORT ABOUT EVERY FIVE VIDEOS

Love thy brilliance

Remember to join the discord to chat D&D, suggest videos, find groups to play with and share trash memes! 🧸discord.gg/ST5YV34H

You really made that pun on pawpus

this is literally my pc in our eberron campaign

As a new DM I'm gonna make this guy a boss fight

Smokey the werebear stepped up his game

Doing this my next opportunity I get

Thanks I’m just about to start dnd so this means absolutely nothing to me but I’m sure it will be useful

DEAR GOD I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS

I also later on stacked in some rune knight… And if you want a third transformation pick up Beast Barbarian

Ok it's going be an npc somewhere in my next home brew

I loved you in that old Rudolph the Reindeer stop motion show from the 60's.

Is that the music from the N64 game "F-Zero X" ? It brings back memories :,)

Okay, but let's not forget You also get to be a freakin werebear. That alone is reason enough to do it

I’m rather partial to variant human barbarian 1 monk 1 for a strength brawler. You can use action and bonus to punch twice, so if you use your feat to get unarmed fighting it’s d8 per punch +strength +rage damage for 19 average dpr, 26 max dpr assuming 16 str, with 12+d8 (assume 16 con) average 22 hp, max 26 effectively doubled to 44 or 52 because of rage damage resistance, and no need for any equipment of any kind. Crank con and str, with dex third and dump all mental stats for a terrifying brawler. Very fun, highly recommend.

Grapple, pin, repeat checks till their unconscious.

If you want a more tanky bear, go tortle for that 17 ac and call yourself for Cheeseburger

I hope I'm not the only one who sees these videos and used them to avoid busted builds. Great content.

Great! I will use this as my next low level bbeg! Give 2 rogues with bows shooting pcs in the back while they try to fight him!

Pretty sure you need to say in 5e.... or Pun Pun may obliterate this cute build.

I did something very close. Shifter barbarian with path of the beast. Then I picked up lycanthropy it is a sick build.

it was very temping to play this

In a party of 4, a twilight cleric adds up to 240 hp per SR(much less effectively, but prob much more tanking than a druid). You get VHuman with CBE and you can do 2 RANGED attacks per turn. You also can cadt spells without dropping CD, so you can cast healing word on your fallen friends I think it's stronger because you're making sure EVERYONE is safe and your damage is more sustainable and safe

Ah, bear puns. I've found my people.

This depends on the DM since some will say you can only do certain racials as long as the wild shape can naturally perform it. My bear wasn't allowed to use dragon breath or fly according to my DM

I always use the long tooth shifter with the barbarian class

I was thinking Rogue for the B.A. hide /dash on the Owlin race, but this works too. Depending on the DM, Stealth can be the most overpowered skill in the entire game, especially when paired with the ability to easily get away from dangerous stuff and into hiding spots.

Someone get al gore on the line, there be werebears

So as a bear you could cook and eat your dinner XD

This character build be Digivolving

As a DM I wouldn't let a shifter shift while in wild shape.

I made a long tooth shifter ranger as my first character they are Unbeatable

he is a powerful level 3 character human variant with the meta magic feat choosing quickened spell then 2 level into fighter giving you action surge then a level in wizard giving you the ability to cast 3 spells in one turn

I still love the damage a grave cleric can do, granted it takes some setup. At level 3, you can use your channel divinity to impose vulnerability on a target. Next you can cast inflict wounds at level 2. On a natural 20 roll, you now deal 4D10 and double the damage (or 8D10, depends on the DM), and double that damage for the vulnerability stack. Making it possible to deal 160 damage to a single target.

That was a grizzly pun. It completely polar-ised your audience. Really sun-dered the crowd. You made a real spectacle of yourself with that one. Puns aren't very sloth-isticated, you know. You should try going black to basics. And if you come up with another pun in a video, you should panda whole thing.

@byronwalters4756

2 жыл бұрын

This comment is tarti-ng to go to a new grade of genius.

@saltypork101

2 жыл бұрын

@@byronwalters4756 Aw man, how did I miss the tiniest bros?

Them: what is the most powerful level 2 character in 5e?? Me: a moon druid Them: ITS A MOON DRUID

Pun-pun: “Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!”

I'm seeing a fast track to getting shit banned at a table lol

Me who has never once ever played DnD before in my life: hmm yes very interesting, good to remember

Missed the opportunity to call it a berewolf

Bonus points for realism if you chose a polar bear to shift into

Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today