5 Best D&D Magic Items for a Druid

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[@commanderzulu4724]

Here is a challenging build for you guys: build a sorcerer with polearm mastery as the core of the build. A full caster that can hold their own in melee decently. Any subclass or multi class as long as most of the lvls are in sorcerer.

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@@prismatica8416 No normal person cares about what you SJWs think. You are a complete waste of oxygen.

[@littleratfella6857]

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[@gromaxe]

2:07 Staff of the Woodlands 4:40 Living armour 6:52 Verminshroud 10:11 Dragon Scale Mail 12:12 Ioun Stone

[@mcparks1968]

My Land Druid LOVES his Staff of Swarming Insects. Having the ability to be in heavy obscurement while still being able to see out clearly is a great advantage.

[@toffeeperezpnu]

Can save you from pesty counterspelling and feeble-minded-ning red wizards, too

[@ultimatechaos1000]

Might I suggest doing a separate video on magic items for moon Druids? Simply because their playstyle is more unique. One item I was shocked to not see here was the Insignia of Claws. Granted it's DM's discretion whether it works in wildshape or not but it's one of the only ways for a Moon Druid to get a +1 to attacks.

[@manseyful]

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[@gabrieldelion]

Amulet of Health for a circle of the Moon druid. That you do not absorb when you Wild shape.. Suddenly alot more HP when in Wild Shape

[@Cough75]

Love awakened creatures. Had a DM that had an alcoholic rabbit NPC. He hung outside of bars. Considered being awakened a curse. Couldn't be a happy bunny anymore, was riddled with anxiety and was staved for intelligent conversation with other rabbits. Also sad that he was only going to live for another few years, and what did he do with his life. DM did that to remind our party's druid that there were ramifications for randomly awakening animals and plants.

[@benjaminholcomb9478]

That's good

[@isaacgleeth3609]

No love for the Tome of Understanding? A permanent +2 to Wisdom score and +2 to max Wisdom score. For the more caster-aligned druid, this is a godsend. Max it up to 22, giving a +6 Wisdom modifier. While the 100 year reset is a trade-off, if your druid is a long-lived race like an elf, you can potentially get that Wisdom score to 30.

[@Fektthis]

100 years isn't much to an Arch Druid unless it's a dog..

[@beneteus3833]

@@Fektthis yeah even a human that reaches lvl 18 around 40 years or so still gets like 400 years more to life. and elf could easy get anohter 7000 years to go. its kinda crazy thinking of how old some characters in your world could be.

[@brendan1871]

The increased maximum Wisdom score effect is always still capped at 22. It cannot go higher than 22 even if you find more or reuse tomes.

[@Fektthis]

@@beneteus3833 That's why you should start your druidic training as a human when you're 5 years old.

[@isaacgleeth3609]

@@brendan1871 According to Jeremy Crawford, you can reuse them up to a maximum of 30. twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/973780717539741696

[@catstandish]

I'm actually really disappointed with this. Druids don't really get a lot of coverage, and when you're talking about go to magic items, you've used THREE of five spots for armor, one of which could be considered cursed as you cannot de-attune. Yes, armor is something that is harder for a druid to get, but that is still rather unfortunate. 1. Staff of the Woodlands -- sure, we'd have given you some serious flak for not including this. Obviously, a druid needs this. 2. Dragonscale Armor - absolutely. But a Ring of Protection will also work nicely. 3. Wand of Entangle - Entangle is a great crowd control spell, and that frees up a spell slot (Or Wand of Web) 4. Staff of Healing - if your Druid is the party healer, this is really handy 5. Necklace of Prayer Beads But what about some magic items that do NOT require attunement? (Some of these are good for anyone) +1 Ironwood armor (It's not metal) +1 Quarterstaff (at least until you get the Staff of the Woodlands) Bag of Holding Boots of the Elvenkind Periapt of Health Ring of Animal Influence There are quite a few items that do require attunement by druids, clerics, or paladins that are really quite awesome.

[@darktower74]

I think it's time for Wizards of the Coast to take an international poll, gather up 450 pages worth of new magic items, spend six months contracting artists to draw/paint each item and release them in a book. I think most people that play D&D could homebrew a dozen better magical items than what we see offered here. Hell, there are probably some better ones that Nerdarchy didn't feel were good. Like the water breathing class of items? Items that grant flight (to be with the birds that druids love so much). How about homebrew items that let them shrink so they could counsel with the shrews and voles. Or a cape made of bees that sends out a swarm. Come on. Do better.

[@David25512]

Oh wow, never knew about the Verminshroud! Definitely want to find one in my campaign!

[@mattisbette3932]

I actually prefer hide of the feral guardian over Verminshroud. It has the cool polymorph ability of verminshroud, but it also gives a decent amount of AC both in with and without wildshape.

[@goyasolidar]

Chitin starts with a k sound and is pronounced like 'titan'.

[@highbarian]

chi tin yo

[@dynestis2875]

No.

[@mikesands4681]

Good for high level druids. What about first tier budgets?

[@VaughanCockell]

Re the Vestiges of Power - It's good to see Earthdawn-esque Thread Items turning up in D&D again. Seems like these cleave close to the source concept, I am not sure to what extent Legacy items did in 3rd edition.

[@darklight002]

If you are here after tashas cauldron was released you should also look to the item Moon Sickle! Its a great item for any druid.

[@DBoyTommie]

Intelligent Living Armor = Symbiote storyline :D

[@popeofpuns5722]

my personal favorite item is the staff of the python. I played a Halfing druid named crash, and he named the giant snake Havoc. the Strategy i used with it was to hide in it's mouth since it was huge and i was small, cast beast sense, and then use all manner of damage spells that would emanate from its mouth. dm didnt like this much because he could never hit me, i had full cover because Havoc would close his mouth on his own turn. he didnt mind me constricting almost every boos we fought though which i suppose is its main purpose

[@eliinthewolverinestate6729]

I like vine armor from Eberron also livewood root armor.

[@RIVERSRPGChannel]

Some cool magic items there Good video

[@CL30]

Damn. Staff of the Woodlands is amazing for only being a rare item!

[@ANIMOUS8]

Regarding the Living Armor. Since the armor is alive and has a symbiotic relationship with you, would it work with your wild shape? This would make the armor especially coveted among circle of the Moon Druids.

[@paigemoehlman9753]

Awesome I was looking for magic items for my druid

[@DaBlueIghuana]

i think that the living armor creeps me out more than the Verminshroud

[@The_Sharktocrab]

They're actually called vestiges of divergence if I remember correctly

[@beneteus3833]

they were in the first campaign but they changed the items a bit for the book and the name, since not all are from that time or directly related to the battles fought then between the gods and hte betrayers gods

[@x0Vinny0x]

I would go with helm of telepathy so I could communicate with my party while in wild shape.

[@RIVERSRPGChannel]

How many Ioun stones can you use at a time?

[@Twosocks42]

Your attunement limit (usually 3). The effects can stack, but you are still bound by any stated limits (such as not bumping a stat past 20).

[@mrcarbis796]

1 per attunement slot I think, so 3 total. (Unless you are an undead lich called Larloch.)

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Can you all please mention the controversy about crediting artists? It seems like you all have been having this problem a lot on Twitter and it would mean a lot of you addressed it straight up. I appreciate your content wholeheartedly, but these types of actions are making me extremely worried about whether or not I should even support you.

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You are talking bout bun bois post right?

[@luuuvbung8990]

Thanatos GodOfDeath yeah, I am :(

[@Nerdarchy]

Thanks for asking. Most of what we've gotten has been screaming, yelling, death wishes, and some blatant misrepresentation of facts. We've been accused of selling Bun Boi's art among other things. Here's what we did and I acknowledge it in hindsight it was a mistake and wrong. We repost a lot meme and meme like content on our Facebook page. Recently we started adding links to our web store alongside these posts. Some of which are funny webcomics. The webcomics we share we try to make sure they've been branded by what we believe to be the original creator. I wrongly considered that enough credit. The artist decides not us. We won't be sharing anymore of those types of pieces going forward and if we desire to we'll 1st seek out the creator and get permission. My interactions with Bun Boi started about 16 months ago we shared one of Bun Boi's webcomics. They reached out, asked us to give more attribution, and so we did. The other day he reached out angrily, because we did it again. It's his art so he is absolutely entitled to feel the way he does. We did wrong by him, but things escalated very quickly as did the retaliation by him, his friends, and followers. It wasn't intentional we repost a lot of stuff. By the sheer volume of the amount comments, DMs, messages, and emails we get I forgot the original conversation. In this way I am totally at fault. He immediately put us on public blast, called us thieves, accused us of building our brand on art theft, and told me the conversation was done. At that point I didn't see the point in continuing the conversation since he took it to a public forum and ended the conversation. I blocked him on Instagram because I wasn't I interested in seeing him blasting us there and he'd told me our conversation was over. The piece was immediately taken down. I went back and removed other similar pieces from other artist with the links to our site. Except one, because they reached out us and asked us to add a credit to the post. We did and left that piece up. I feel like anything we say at this point will only feed the mob. All of our digital products include art from artist we've commissioned. We believe in paying artist. We've made the mistake of viewing the free art artist post on social media differently. We will do better going forward. While what we did wasn't right, it doesn't make the cyber bullying and harrassment we are receiving right either. One of the emails we recieved was "I hope you have a heart attack on camera." Nerdarchist Dave

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@@Nerdarchy I appreciate you taking responsibility for your actions. I would have preferred this be something sent to me directly and that this entire exchange could have been addressed appropriately within our one on one conversations at the start. I specifically asked for users on reddit not to witchhunt and that they should be kind to one another as my intent was to shine a light on the damage that the practice of content aggregation has on content creators in the context of this interaction. So on behalf of whatever threats, harmful messages etc. that may have been received, I apologize. That kind of behaviour was not something I expected from the Dungeons and Dragons community. I remind others constantly to be kind, and remind them they are loved through the content I create. What happened today got rapidly out of hand, and I hope you and your team know that it was not my intention to put you on blast, but to hold you accountable to your actions. I had felt that our conversation did not allow my voice and concerns to be heard. I felt extremely disrespected as a content creator. I wanted to feel understood, appreciated and for your past promises to be honoured. This was a situation where it was clear a one on one conversation would not have sufficed. Based on our previous interactions with representatives of Nerdarchy it was clear that there was a stark difference in our feelings regarding proper attribution. I am glad that in future an effort will be made to properly credit artists so that they will know that their work matters.

[@Nerdarchy]

I'd be willing to jump on a call or video chat and hash things out. We will be doing things differently in the future. Canada is a bit far away for handshake, plus plague and all. But we do have zoom. I was shorter and terser with you the other day than I should of been. I apologize for that and using your art again. Not an excuse you just caught me while I was in a meeting, blood sugar running a little low, and me being a bit devaish. Do I have your permission to move this to a private conversation? Nerdarchist Dave

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Why does Dave's mic sound like it has a Kua-Toa filter on it, garbled like a bunch of marbles 🤔

[@Romino98]

I really liked the list but was bummed that it was full of basically all very rare and legendary items which, dms can be kinda stingy with

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I'm disappointed with how you guys had previously acted with the crediting situation, but I respect your response. I'm sad so many people went out of their way to send death threats. While you definetely made a mistake, stuff like that is never warranted. Stay cool.

[@darktower74]

Uh... living armor? I guess that shows how few magic items are suited to druids. Yikes.

[@quincybriley4113]

I have to disagree with part of this list. Suggesting Unique named magic items that your players are never going to encounter is not productive. Staff of the woodlands, Living armor, stuff like that is fine, but suggesting the Vestiges would be like "oh your ranger uses scimitars, I suggest Twinkle and Icingdeath, the two scimitars Drizzt wields in the forgotten realms" Absurd shenanigans aside, they'll never have that gear.

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Guys i freaking love your videos!!! That scroll noise is kiiiiilllling me on this one. It is as bad as someone chewing with their mouth open.

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I seriously cringe like having a hard time finishing this one....

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