College of Valor with the right multiclassing may be (one of) the best single target dmg dealer in the game on top of all that support and utility.

I think Dueling and Protection both S tier for Trident and Board Paladin.

Elemental adept is really good on the draconic sorcerer not only does it give some bad roll protection, and the ability to get around resistance, but it also increases your unarmored defense

Notably, pact of the tome in 2024 gives you a first level slot now, so GOO locks will DEFINITELY want to pick it up specifically for hex.

Ya wizards are still strong Druid is the only one to really get the nerf bat

I think they did a great job with the GOOlock which looks so strong and thematic now. I am a wee bit disappointed that they didn’t make hunger of hadar stronger to make it The quintessential warlock spell (as spirit guardians is for cleric). I would also liked for vitriolic sphere and maze to be added to the warlock spell list as they feel very thematic to me.

So. looks like if i'm reading this right, you can't conjure a ranged weapon without pact weapon, but you can bond with a magical ranged weapon: "As a Bonus Action, you can conjure a pact weapon in your hand-a Simple or Martial Melee weapon of your choice with which you bond-or create a bond with a magic weapon you touch; you can’t bond with a magic weapon if someone else is attuned to it or another Warlock is bonded with it. Until the bond ends, you have proficiency with the weapon, and you can use it as a Spellcasting Focus." The "Or create a bond with a magic weapon you touch" part doesn't mention the weapon having to be melee like the conjure part. So you couldn't just manifest a bow/crossbow/gun. But you could make a bond with one that you find during the adventure maybe?

26:00 the wording on Tides of Chaos is a little ambiguous. If you use this, then cast 2 spells in a row, only the first would guarantee a Surge, right? Has to go Adv, Surge, Adv, Surge, etc.

13:30 Seems like Draconic Sorcery and Dragonborn do a lot of the same things, no? I'd have preferred if the race/ class combo worked together instead of being redundant for RP reasons. But then maybe you'd feel compelled to take that pairing and diversity would suffer.

Seems like 1 spell switch per level should be enough

Nice summary

10:07 You made a mistake. It clearly says above the Moon Druid always prepared spell list that: "In addition, you can cast the spells from this feature while you’re in a Wild Shape form." That's really good!

17:30 Swapping +cantrip and sculpt is definitely an upgrade.

I think that the dance bard will struggle to effectively use their unarmed strikes due to being squishy and not getting extra attack, but they might be able to get some use out of the non-damage options. Specifically that can shove or grapple an ally. It is a decent little bit of added movement as you literally dance your friends around the battlefield. It is somewhat niche, but a lot better than hanging out in melee.

4:00 closing exploits is fortunate, not unfortunate

College of Glamour the average is up at the most played Tier (level 3 - 9 ) 1d6 -> 3,5 (7) from 5 1-2 lower 3,4,5,6 higher 1d8 -> 4,5 (9) from 8 1,2,3 lower 4 same 5,6,7,8 higher 1d10 -> 5,5 (11) from 11 -> same 1,2,3,4,5 lower 6,7,8,9,10 higher 1d12 -> 6,5 (13) down from 14 1,2,3,4,5,6 lower 7 same 8,9,10,11,12 higher How good can it be at level 3? (Bard 1d8 (5) +2 Con) Level 3 8+2 +5+2 +5+2 -> 24HP with a good roll (5,6) you can get 10-12HP vs 5HP 2014 That is at max +50% total HP at that level. (20,83% 2014) 4 Player party i could see the point to use it more often for the temp HP at low level. ~7*4 -> 28Temp HP Level 1 Cure Wounds 2d8+mod (4,5*2+3 -> ~12HP) *** Action Level 1 Healing Word 2d4+mod (2,5*2+3 -> ~8HP) *** Bonus Action same 60 Feet range

One notable nerf to evoker level 10 is that it no longer adds the damage to every missile of magic missile. The rule that stated that magic missile only rolled damage once, has now been changed to only saving throw damage. So Magic missile is now separate damage rolls making it not as strong on evokers than before.

I think the circle of the sea is meant to be a frontline disruptor/AOE damage dealer, or just a better circle of spores type class. (60% on all saves and chance to hit) At level 5, using conjure animals, their emanation, and true strike w/ longsword they get 26.1 (and if they position conjure animals so enemy has to either stay in and get hit or leave so they get an opportunity attack they get 33.9 (warcaster) or 36 depending on if they get either). A berserker barbarian with graze and GWM on that level gets 35 damage (w/o crits for both, so they get more). Now a druid only has 2 level 3 spell slots, they can still lose concentration, and when they lose concentration they don't have anything as action economy free as conjure animals, but it's possible. And this more importantly all has good AOE. At level 11, a berserker with retaliation does 62.74 (with crits you'd add like2-3 points to this, again not calculating coz it's too much work) and a druid does (with upcasted conjure woodland beings) 42.6 damage. If you add the reaction attack on enemies leaving reach then your damage can go up to 53.1 but again you are now extremely squishy and in melee range, warcaster is your only con save fallback and you do have to spend round 1 on (mostly) setup but they're still doing quite a bit even when not abusing CWB. Since they do start to fall behind though i assume that's when their level 14 feature comes in, to share your emanation damage across the battlefield, instead of just continuing to be a better martial. Edit: fixed level 11 damage, forgot barbarians will get frenzy damage on offturn. Level 14 for circle of the sea really is a novel solution to your damage falling off, but as it stands the subclass feels *fine*, it doesn't have the versatility of land, the sheer power of moon, or the fairly insane abilities of the stars druid.

Lifeberry also got cut off from the other direction, it's a Bonus Action to eat a Goodberry now, and you can only Ready an Action RAW, so can't even try to cheese it by everyone saying they'll eat one as it appears. Being a Bonus Action is a buff to Goodberry in general, but a further nerf in the specific case of Disciple of Life

10:11 I think this clarifies (and buffs) interactions with things like _wall of fire_ while also nerfing hypotheticals like _fireball_ (which isn't on their list). Note that it's excellent with _searing smite_ if you dip Paladin.

Playing an archfey warlock right now. Only level 5, so I haven’t had a chance to play around with some of the higher level features but I think it’s REALLY powerful. Teleporting around combined with repelling blast with eldritch blast leads to a ton of fun combos with the Druid in my party because he can lay damaging terrain and I can move enemies in and out of it. Sorta like I’m playing billiards lol.

There may be some light nerfs here and there, but I honestly can't express how much I love getting an extra spell per level. What do you think about the "summon meta" WotC seems to be pushing in 2024?

GOO-Lock and Archfey definitely look much better than they were, and Celestial is definitely busted with True Strike as we've seen from other creators. What's your favorite flavor of Warlock?

What do you think about Aberrant and Clockwork no longer being able to switch out spells from their spell list? Which subclass are you most excited for?

Truly the Circle of the Sea baffles me. It's like they only included it as the counter-partner to Circle of the Land, but didn't put any real creative thought into it.

How will you use the new and improved Invoke Duplicity in 2024? Any cool tricks in the other subclasses?

Okay maybe they're not the new Monk, but the party-wide initiative boost will come in clutch in a lot.

College of dance kinda seems like a very nice mid-range controller till level 9, with a lot of moving allies into place (with both initiative and tandem footwork), in-combat bardic inspiration handouts (improving ally rolls), and with their excellent spell list and one attack on top of that they feel like in combat they have no wasted movements. After level 9 though they just become a better war cleric because they can now get good gish spells like conjure woodland beings (offturn movement is very potent with those spells), they already had a limited resource bonus action attack that recharges on short rests, they have a limited resource improvement of ally d20 tests (which can be replenished), and with access to all cleric spells (as well as druid spells, and wizard spells) they can pretty much do anything a war cleric can, but better. It isn't my style of play but it feels pretty fun, especially when you consider the mental image of a dance bard dancing their way out of a dragon breath, potentially leading along an ally as well

enspelled armor with the shield spell being an uncommon item is craftable within about 2 weeks of game time. That's going to be so bonkers at so many tables

The cauldron and demonomicon, at least, were originally in Tasha’s.

The Demonomicon of Iggwilv already exists, I had it after a very lucky roll with the Deck of Many Things (which was funny since we were doing the Wild Beyond the Witchlight campain). Same thing for the Wraps of unarmed power, it's basically the Wraps of unarmed prowess from the Book of Many Things but instead of overcoming magical resistance for unarmed strikes (which isn't a thing anymore) you can switch your damage to Force damage (which is now the default magic damage).

8:03 Also they lose their optional feature Magical Guidance, which could make them reroll any failed ability check for a sorcery point.

Slight correction: The Demonomicon of Iggwilv is an updated version of the magic item from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything.

I think it may be too good when magic weapons come into play especially if the DM allows crafting as something like 2 vicious (vicious stands in for the multiple weapons that add d6s to each hit) scimitars would wreck enemies. Add in hunters mark and at lets say level 10ish when rare weapons are more common and that is 4 attacks at 4d6+5, kind of makes a rogues sneak attack look lame. Sure the hunters mark eats a bonus action every new target so it takes 2 rounds to ramp up but dang. As a warlock fan I kind of wonder 1 level fighter dip, rest warlock, pact of the blade, shillelagh vicious club, vicious scimitar. 1st round bonus action shillelagh, 4 attacks at 3d6ish each, next round 5 attacks at 3d6ish each(the club would be one die on 3 attacks at d10-2d6 depending on level) And this is without spirit shroud or a summoned fey or something. Not bad given you are a 2/3rd caser or whatever you want to call pact+mystic arcanum.

Enspelled Staffs Require Attunement by a Spellcaster only :(

**EDIT** Apparently the Demonomicon and Cauldron were already in Tasha's, which is 1) not surprising, and 2) totally on me for not putting that together. But honestly that makes the actual new list of items feel even less impressive as those are two of the cooler "new" items. Given, the Thunderous Greatclub doesn't increase your strength as much as the Belt of Frost - Fire Giant Strength, but the fact it's on a weapon is kind of a 2-for-1 allowing you to keep an attunement slot open. Finishing class/subclass reviews this Wednesday with the spellcasting subclasses! That should give me time to start working on the DMG.

I find the memorised spell feature takes too long. It is too seldom useful. 1 round or 1 minute would have been better and not broken given it can only be done once a day. It would have created that Wizard feeling of having the right spell somewhere.

How about build: dual wield Valour Bard with spell "Conjure minor elementals". We need 1 level Warrior or trait Weapon master.

Honestly Part of the rangers hunters mark feature should make it so they don’t need concentration. My groups homebrewing it that way.

I think some clarification needs to be made on epic boons. In your example (ranger3/druid16) I do think you can pick an epic boon, but the you would not be getting the extra level 19 epic boon granted by the class. Maybe that’s the issue with DnD beyond

i get the opinion that ranged should be weaker cause of the ranged part you can be safer but i really hate the nerfing stuff in a game were its more of the dms job to balance and choose what you fight sharpshooter was already on paper a crappy trade off but very strong if you built around it i don't think combinations and builds that are smart about it should be nerfed my only problem is yes it can feel kinda bad if you have people doing massive damage and your doing nothing but there's other roles and especially after the massive buffs to dual wielding it just feels unnecessary nerf cause without there all pretty in line with each other also the main problem was the cr balancing which there fixing so you'll also be fighting harder stuff now also on top of the nerf its just insulting how lazy wotc is to not give a different ability and just tack on crossbows experts melee shooter when gwm got something new i personally love being a high damage sniper because its fun and thats the point of dnd i think its weird there nerfing so much stuff in a game were it doesn't matter very little people do pvp

I think there is some question on whether or not you can take an epic boon prior to a class feature unlocking them for you. Though the counter argument to that is that the feats themselves only list Level 19 as a prerequisite. If they were called epic feats, I'd definitely say you could. With that said, as far as I can tell, D&D Beyond lets you select a boon provided you are level 19 total. But importantly D&D Beyond also lets you select that epic boon at level 4 if you are starting at 19 levels, so I'm not sure how much stock should be placed in D&D Beyond.

From the 2024 pbh under Magic Action: "If you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 minute or longer, you must take the Magic action on each turn of that casting, and you must maintain Concentration while you do so. If your Concentration is broken, the spell fails, but you don’t expend a spell slot. See also “Concentration.”" So if YOU cast the spell like Divine Intervention says you do, you also must take the Magic action each turn for longer casting times. Good faith interpretation, why would they not list ignoring casting times as part of this feature if it was intended? This is meant to allow you to cast a spell you didnt have prepared without using a spell slot or material component.

Wait why do you assume that divine intervention ignores casting time it says nothing about ignoring casting time

16:30 You might want to take another look at the rules, because nothing has changed about unseen attackers. The book even specifies this in both the combat chapter under "unseen attackers and targets", and in the rules glossary under the invisible condition.

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Moon druids will 100% be better and I think only people who never played them enough think otherwise. They are less of a HP sponge but increased AC and buffed Cure wounds makes up for it. Being able to exchange spellslots for wild shape is a massive buff. CR1 beasts in the handbook shows a lot of potential like knocking people prone by just hitting with an attack. Being able to caste a few non healing spells in beast form is great because you know what sucks? Loosing a concentration while in wild shape not being able to recast it. I think fount of moonlight will be a gamechanger. 2d6 extra each attack and if people hit you they need to make a con saving throw or be blinded.

Sorcerer 2024 supercharged my characters in so many ways. I have one character, (2 Warlock/10 Divine Sorcerer) 🎩 🪄 that basically is the "frontliner" and "Tank" of our party in Tyranny of Dragons. You mix Quicken Eldrtich Blasts + Halfplate (and a Shield) + Pact Warhammer Booming/Greenflame strikes + Warcaster and you have yourself one hell of a Battlemage. One thing some might not know, Innate Sorcery works on all attack rolls of your spells. Yes, that means Booming Blade/Greenflame Blade count and you gain Advantage in combat. A melee attack made as a part of the Magic Action counts as an attack roll of a spell. Its one more reason to smash someone with a Pact Weapon upclose instead of just Eldrtich Blasting them in the face. Wednesday session my Battlemage Sorlock was Fireballing, Quicken Eldritch Blasting, Summoning Planar beings, and last we left off he had cast Haste on himself and went 1 vs 3 against 3 Ettins. And that was all after taking a poisonous breathweapon to the face and barely had a scratch on him. The rest of my team is missing half their HPs but my character is just plowing through enemies with all the new goodies from Sorc/Warlock. Sorcerer was always OP but now its super OP. Lets not even talk about Subtle Spell shenanigans that now remove all spellcasting components....yum! 😂😅

Druids did not get “Devastatingly diminished” they got reworked to help bring the Moon Druid down from “problematically overpowered” to “strong but still reasonable “

amazing analysis 🎉🎉