Blood (Wizard) Subclass Guide and Power Ranking in D&D 5e - HDIWDT

[@tytincrimin6032]

I played this subclass in a campaign. The second level feature fluctuates in value based off of how much gold the dm gives out. This was an AMAZING feature to have since it was a grim campaign and we had very little gold. If my familiar died I could bring it back without worry. If I needed to set up magic mouth as an alarm network I could. We had a house that I could set up glyph of warding around. The hex feature was ruled to work with magic missile, so for 1-3 damage taken to me I could boost my damage significantly (sometimes doubling it). With set up and downtime I could cast instant summons on my items, which let me recover them from our base if they were lost, and I could never have done that without the 2nd level feature. Not the most broken subclass, but if you use the reduce cost outside of combat it’s insanely useful if you don’t have lots of gold.

[@stephenlewis6922]

Should have been a Warlock subclass but it is certainly flavorful if not particularly "powerful"

[@Shadowsword12]

I like the concept, but wish it had more healing sooner or like a blood drain ability.

[@douglaspope-gz1eq]

I personally believe that this is the only subclass that you should start in a different class which i believe artificer is the best option it has a decent d8 instead of d6 and it has proficiency in both intelligence and constitution and personally gnome is the best race/species option i really don't want another variant human or custom lineage feat spam because it's so god damn boring in my opinion but it's not my channel so if we get another boring variant human or custom lineage feat spam i would accept it but i wouldn't be happy about it but don't mind me I'm just tired of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich easy build i want variety and variant human or custom lineage doesn't count as vareity in my opinion

[@jeffanderson6390]

Matt Mercer thinks the word "blood" is super cool. I bet he was total goth in junior high. Lol