Speak with animals still is extremely useful. Being a ritual, it doesn't consume a spell slot if used outside of combat and it lasts till a long rest.

Druid is a fighter/healer/summoner with diverse abilities including control powers, hyper-mobility, big damage (melee or spells), or even tanking... And this is rated the second least popular class in BG3??? .. its just mind boggling, m8

Spores Druid is quite odd on its own, granting bonuses to melee damage and slight survivability, summoning creatures to fight enemies, and granting a bit of an AoE control ability at level 10. They feel more like a Jack of All Trades than anything else, with their Circle spells being the most noteworthy part of their kit. Oddly enough, they function well as a dip for a Monk. The additional Necrotic damage works with Unarmed Strikes, and any additional HP is helpful for Monks.

Hey, I like how straight forward you are with the information and I appreciate you demonstrating them so we can get a clearer understanding of their mechanical functioning. I hope you do the other classes as well.

Keep up the great work man! I'm impressed you only have 3 videos and you're doing a really awesome job. I can tell you care what the viewers want bc you take the time to listen and make more content from requests, so thank you and keep em comin!

This is super helpful! You have a way of giving info that feels concise but also doesn't under-explain anything. Thank you for making this! I have to wait for the ps5 version but after watching this I think my first run will be a Lolth-sworn Drow druid with this subclass, because I just love the idea of running around in a spider form and dipping into necromancy, plus most fungi grow in the dark so it seems especially fitting for that race, at least from an RP/lore perspective

Just made a Durge Lolth Drow who is a spore Druid, I feel it’s quite a fitting class for a follower of the spider queen. Looking forward to playing this durge

I can assure there many people that cant decide if play druid or not and thanks to you nkw they have a clear idea. Your the best , hope you do more classes

First time playing this type of games i was completely lost how things work now i understood it quite well thanks for guides druids are fav so far

Oh, this is going to be *So* fun to multiclass into with my Hunter Ranger.

Liking the vids. Hope you can make one for all the sub classes.

Amazing video man!

great content mate, subscribed

Thanks for these videos, they really help visualize the stuff you get and learn a bit of what Larian changed from PHB. Just a couple questions, english is not my first language so I failed to get the information, does the spores zombies you raise scale or not scale with ur lvl? Because having a mere 8 hp at lvl 6 is already kinda bad but if it doesn’t scale… well… anyways, also, can these stack with the raise dead spell? So if u have 4 zombies from spores can u still summon more from raise dead? Also is it always 4 charges or is it based on wisdom modifier like in the PHB? Thanks in advance 🙏🏻

Thanks for the Druid coverage! Can you do Barbarian Wild Magic next please?

Those cute dance when they casting spells, Im sold! 😬

SPOILER: there is a really dope purple item in act III that lets you use 3 new spore types. I put it in my camp for testing, as i've not touched the druid yet.

Symbiotic Entity end pretty fast when you are attacked. It ends when the temporary Hit Points are gone. And the additional necrotic dmg is not triggered with spells.

An additional comment that is worth noting is that adding Monk as 1 level really makes the Spore Druid shine as a forward character as druids have an infamously low AC value. It's pretty easy to get at least 16 for both Dex and Wis putting your base AC at 16 for Level 1. Early Bracers of Defense put you at AC 18; and then increasing your Wisdom at Druid 4 and 8 get you up to AC 20 which is equivalent to Plate Armor with a Shield. Except now, every short rest, you get to add 4*Druid Level HP twice to your character, putting your effective HP on par with the party Barbarian. Unfortunately, one of the big draws to the multiclass is not currently working right now which I hope they fix. Monk Unarmed Strikes and Flurry of Blows *should* apply Symbiotic Entity damage but currently do not. Finally, I think you might have mixed up on the Necrotic Spores reaction explanation. Essentially you are giving up your Reaction for making Opportunity Attacks (or other nonsense your character might have) to try to squeeze out extra damage. You'll get the Reaction back at the Start of your next turn. I like using it when there's a low health enemy that needs that little push to get knocked; or if I'm near melee fighters that will not try to run from me. If you're fighting archers and you close the gap with them, you'll want to threaten the Attack of Opportunity because having 1d8 (Shillelagh) + WIS + 1d6 (Symbiotic) will always outpace the Spore damage. In summary; you get to be a caster in the thick of the fight. You get to pad your HP with wild shape charges but still maintain access to your spells; and that additional HP is protected by a reasonable AC score which, again, druid's are infamous for lacking. You get the flexibility of "Am I going to run in and pressure enemy backline" or "Am I going to hang back and sling spells to debuff the big evil guy" by situation and resources available. Definitely a build I'm having a lot of fun with so far.

Nice work! Party of 4 spore Druids it is!

Do you plan on making these videos for other classes? Like the paladin.

That's unfortunate that your clickers don't scale with you. I love the mushroom people and want to roll this at somepoint. Super cool class.

After going over every Druid subclass which one would you consider the best?

thank youuu

Can we use fungal infestation on Bulette, that mini boss on the underdark? I can with Sovereign Glut

At first I thought the 'Circle of Spores druid' would be like Sovereign Glut, in that you could resurrect really strong enemies like the Hook Horrors and have them fight for you.. When I found out you could only resurrect pretty weak zombies I was pretty disappointed..

Excited to play BG3 and was hoping to use a build I have from dnd but having trouble getting my questioned answered: I see the text for fungal entity says you deal the extra damage and you show it on the weapon but because of the wording I’m wondering if it applies to your cantrips? In the TTRPG dnd5e (symbiotic entity)it is worded specifically as “your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 poison damage to any target you hit” clearly they changed the damage type and die used but wondering if it applies to cantrips because would open a whole new play style if it did. If you know or have tested please let me know. Thanks and good video.

I thought the fungal infection actual raised a version of the creature you target. I know when I used it in the underdark with glut it raised a fungal version of a hookbeast and I was able to raise that giant lizard thing also. Does it not work like that or did you not try it on anything other than orcs ?

did you quickly say "last of us" when reanimating the zombie at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="298">4:58</a>? at first i thought it was a sound effect from the game

So I dont fully get why so many focus on the 1D6 bonus damage you get from Symbiotic Entity. Atleast when we are talking pure builds and not multiclassing. Am I missing something cause to my knowledge it doesnt scale so after lvl 5 or so cantrips will probably do more. It gives some extra damage if you need to bonk with Shillelagh but thats mostly it. Anywho I find this subclass interesting. Most classes are pretty specifically long range or Melee but the Spore Druid seems to be.... Mid range I guess. Symbiotic Entity makes you able to take hits but you dont want to be an outright tank and Halo of Spores has a fairly short range but it Isnt Melee. Druids also have shield and medium armour proficency so their AC can get alright. I really think that beyond the necromancer aspect people who want something more akin to a Battle mage should look this up.

please do monk video

Spore druid its like chess, zombie its pawn, dryad its queen, main character king, and a other its horze or rook.

Bro the fact they actually have STONE SKIN in this game makes the game goated

A friendly critique on all of your videos. Watch out for misrepresenting the damage numbers. You have a tendency to not account for multiple dice rolls increasing minimum damage. So, something that has multiple damage rolls for an attack or ability. You tend to combine them to state the maximum base damage. But then still stating one as the lowest base damage. When that's not the case. As well as not mentioning ability modifiers (if any) for to-hit and damage rolls on abilities. Especially when Wild Shape changes your stats and what modifiers are applied to attacks/abilities. Keep up the videos, mate.

So thats the Last Of Us Zombie

The ultimate triping character. High in mishrooms baby

This class NEEDS Multiclassing to be fine because dmg is low when you loose your halo of spores ( like tier one spells ) and fungal zombies are one shoot dead - other hand you loose tons of stuff that two other specs got

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