Archer of the Stars: A STUNNING Ranged D&D 5E Build!

[@comradewarners]

I forgot to mention in the video how I would flavor Conjure Animals! It would essentially be a giant orb of blue glowing comets spinning around and ricocheting off of each other, as The Archer rains arrows down this radiant orb of comets hovers around the battlefield destroying her enemies!

[@glitchking666]

Very interesting build, adding monk was a cool choice. I know you said you wanted to do a barbarian build ( which I can't blame you the world tree looks incredible) I think a great build idea is the dance bard as a mage slayer. Building around the spell silence. Taking magic initiate for primal savagery so you can do decent damage in silence and then go with a bonus action unarmed strike. I think so many people are sleeping on the dance bard because it doesn't get extra attack, but I think because it gets unarmored defensive the general feats giving a +1 getting a decent ac and the things that you need for the build really sync. I could be wrong, haven't run the numbers, but it looks solid

[@comradewarners]

@@glitchking666 I’m glad you enjoyed the build!! That seems like such an awesome build idea! If I don’t do it next week I will for sure have it in the books for the future! Thanks so much for everything!! 😄

[@legendario2511]

new to the channel, congrats on the build, I really had no Idea where you were going with the monk levels but this is awesome

[@comradewarners]

@@legendario2511 Thank you so much! I’m glad you liked the build! More videos coming! 😁

[@xiongray]

Ranged Kensei are awesome. You gave me an idea for Blowgun Stunning Strike.

[@comradewarners]

@@xiongray oooo that sounds super cool!

[@joshuasmith9061]

Great video, this starts off similar to my ranger/monk blade dancer which focuses on scimitars I'm planning for my secondary campaign. For heavy crossbow I was planning on going fighter/rogue with steady aim and archery and the piercer or elven accuracy feats for a deadeye sniper if I get the chance.

[@comradewarners]

@@joshuasmith9061 oooo, that sound like a super fun combo! I’m glad you liked the build, and thanks for watching! 😁

[@ChristnThms]

Conjure Animals is better than you described... a LOT better. "You Conjure... a Large pack of spectral, intangible Animals in an unoccupied space..." That's the part that's the same size as Moonbeam. But... "When the pack moves within 10 ft... make a dex save... 3d10..." So the damage area is a 30ft diameter, not 10ft diameter. It also doesn't have friendly fire. The no action move and large area means you'll get multiple enemies in it far more often than with Moonbeam.

[@comradewarners]

@@ChristnThms indeed!! I probably could’ve included more targets for the DPR, but I tend to lowball damage that is harder to guarantee. The no half damage on a save is rough… but if you have a lot of targets, it’s pretty insane!

[@AndrewBrownK]

just finished the agathys and ranger rant videos but I have a feeling THIS is going to be a good one.... Stunning strike archer? Consider me intrigued...

[@comradewarners]

@@AndrewBrownK I hope you enjoy it!! Got a Melee Warlock build video as well for afterwards! 😁 Thanks so much for supporting my content! 😄

[@guardiantree8879]

I think swarm keeper might be better than gloom stalker here. You get action free forced movement on an enemy with a hit or can choose to do additional damage or move yourself or an ally.

[@comradewarners]

@@guardiantree8879 that is a fair point! Especially if you want to go spike growth! You could also flavor the swarm easily as your gravity magic!

[@guardiantree8879]

Also what does that one ranger spell you wanted at lvl 5 do? I think more Druid lvls sooner would benefit you more?

[@comradewarners]

@@guardiantree8879 Magic Weapon, it will make it so my weapons can be up to +3 to hit and damage when casted with a 6th level spell.

[@guardiantree8879]

@@comradewarnersahh thanks, for some reason I thought you chose something besides that. Arguably at that level, you’d have at least a plus 1 magic longbow I’d guess, but that is DM dependent. Though new crafting rules make that a more reasonable assumption. Still cool build, always happy to see a Druid build that uses the bow. My change would be to leave Ranger at three for swarm keeper & go Druid rest of the way until lvl 19 then get 4th lvl in ranger for another epic boon feat. Though that’s assuming you reach lvl 20. In practice though, 1 lvl ranger, 5 monk, rest stars Druid.

[@comradewarners]

@@guardiantree8879 yeah, if I was playing it at the table I would most likely skip out on those 2 Ranger levels and go more into Druid. Just looks good on the sheet when I can guarantee a +3 weapon. These are meant to inspire anyway, not to be followed exactly. Thanks so much for watching, and I will have more soon! 😄

[@gassimo16]

sorry, i really tried to understand, but i couldn't. when you do the damage report, what is this damage added after the damage from the attacks?

[@comradewarners]

@@gassimo16 So for the damage report 11 it is moonbeam damage if it causes two targets to make a saving throw, in the 17 and 20 damage report it is conjure animals damage for two targets as well. This math was more complicated because I wanted to account for the possibility of a stunned creature autofailing the save. Normally when save damage is calculated it takes into account that they could succeed on the save and in conjure animals case, take no damage. I did the math so that 1 target auto fails half the time. I hope that makes sense!

[@ericpeterson8732]

I stand corrected. Kensai weapons ARE monk weapons. I was using an online summation of kensai that didn't include that language. After watching this video, I went back to Xanthar's, and it definitely stated that kensai weapons are considered monk weapons to you.

[@comradewarners]

@@ericpeterson8732 I never read your original comment, but I love being challenged on these things! I’m glad you found the info though! Isn’t this a fun interaction? 😄

[@ericpeterson8732]

​@comradewarners because I read the online summary of kensei monk instead of the book or dndbeyond, I believed that WOTC was pigeonholing monks into melee only. And actually I still believe that for the base monk since the PHB 2024 monk gets no ranged monk weapons. But I was wrong about the kensei as rereading Xanthar's showed me.

[@christianschnabel]

Why did you have 13 strength? I thought you might multi class into barbarian but I guessed wrong. 😂

[@comradewarners]

@@christianschnabel so I forgot to mention it in the actual video! Great Weapon Master now requires a 13 strength to take!

[@christianschnabel]

@@comradewarners I just came back to say I figured it out. You are fast! Thanks for your response.

[@comradewarners]

@@christianschnabel no worries! Trying my best! Lol 😁

[@ericpeterson8732]

This build is TOO crazy. Too many pieces with too many moving parts. I liked the stunning arrows bit, but then I think you should go ranger the rest of the way. Ranger gets the most archery attacks, with spells like conjure barrage and conjure volley. Hunter ranger gets bonuses or horde breaker.

[@comradewarners]

@@ericpeterson8732 it’s mostly just a bonus action arrow attack you get from Stars Druid, and then you pick a spell to concentrate on. I get what you mean though. Just remember these videos are for inspiration, you do whatever you would like to change it to your liking. 😄 I get what you mean though. Just want to make the most of every action and reaction available when I make builds.

[@jamesknowles9236]

Sounded cool...until you started mixing in the 2014 stuff. I've seen all the old stuff played to death, and was hoping for some cool 2024 only builds.

[@comradewarners]

@@jamesknowles9236 Well you do know they interact differently with the 2024 rules, right?! You couldn’t ranged stun with a bow in the 2014 rules. This is a completely different build not possible with old rules and the only old thing I used was that subclass.