Ranking Every DRUID Subclass In D&D

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Let's break down the druid subclasses in Dungeons and Dragons 5e to find the best of the bunch!
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0:00 - Intro
0:12 - Dreamy Boi
2:44 - Shroomy Boi
5:33 - MUSIC!!!
7:07 - Starry Boi
9:45 - Warm Boi
11:51 - Landy Boi
14:16 - Moony Boi
16:14 - Broken Boi

[@DnDShorts]

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[@Treebohr]

Liked for the Fur Elise bit.

[@alexanderratliff8917]

I have a question about ryoko's guide. I was curious to know if the finished book will give more information on how big the kaijus are. For example, bakuryo is a gargantuan dragon, but how long is the dragon? If my players were to climb bakuryo's tail, how many feet would it take for them to reach bakuryo's head? Sorry I'm a new player to dnd and I'm learning to dm. I was really curious about this.

[@davidperte62]

Didn't know you played Piano! That was really neat, especially the ending!

[@jonp8015]

And now that song is stuck in my head.

[@ryanblakely5786]

Your piano playing is beautiful

[@Klaital1]

A correction on moon druid, you can't turn to a brown bear twice per long rest, you can do it twice per short rest.

[@matedervarics9827]

I've seen this in game as well.

[@Kirk9019]

Yep, wild shapes recharge on a short rest. That goes for all features that use wild shape charges (wildfire spirit, symbiotic entity, starry form). It's extremely powerful in a party that has multiple members that need short rests to be effective (primarily fighters, monks and warlocks).

[@joshdimaggio5764]

​@Kirk9019 don't NEED short rests, but wizards and clerics are incentivised to short rest too, although it's much more minor lol but one of the most important classes to short rest with that I'm surprised you didn't mention, BARDS! Eventually they get their Bardic Inspiration back on short rests lol

[@hardhatlunchpal]

Another clarification. At 6th level you're able to start turning into any beast 1/3 your level. So level 18 you can turn into a 6 CR beast

[@charlesr7269]

​@@joshdimaggio5764I hope you were being sarcastic about the short rests being most important to bards

[@apjtv2540]

Druids are the class that, in my experience, can always do just a little more than you thought they could.

[@thunderwe_ryesiam]

Druids are known for poor mobility until you want to travel in a direction in a rush but don't know the destination and the Druid pulls out Wind Walk giving you a nice speed of 69 miles per hour(600 ft per round, 900 for rogues) P.S : flying speed btw

[@apjtv2540]

@@thunderwe_ryesiam they do also have a million ways of giving others around them equally poor mobility

[@sirseacow4514]

Conjure Animals, Magic Stones, conjure some monkeys and give them the stones. Yeet delete.

[@aaronwhite1882]

​@@thunderwe_ryesiam I was in a high level campaign with three druids and an elk totem barbarian (doubling our travel speed). We literally would turn into clouds and zoom 120 mph across the continent. One Druid always had transport via plants prepared, allowing us to get back to places instantly. The DM eventually handwaved all travel.

[@robertprueter3292]

Stars Druid is peak 5e Druid. Strong, but not broken, and flavourful. It does everything right

[@DemonMankeyMan]

It is absolutely my favourite druid

[@Small_Panda]

I think you highly underestimate it, as it is broken. The Woe feature is legit just better bard/sorcerer that doesn't require any resources at all outside of a reaction. Star druid is leagues ahead of all the other druids.

[@chad8767]

Gods, I love the Gith Star Druid I am playing now. 3 person party, I was doing WAY too much damage as archer so the BBG focused everything on me, so yes, I went down. Another player gave me just 2 hit points so I went Chalice instead, healed to full 1 round and then kept everyone full every round after. Both are incredibly powerful. I also just love the flavor text of the star map, I made a Star Sickle and I cast through the center "moon" of it, stuff like Guiding Bolt. Also made her an astronomer and academic and have a science group meeting up weekly to track astronomical events.

[@joshdimaggio5764]

​@@Small_Panda Uh, it's probably because it's banned at your table, and most tables for the matter, but Shepherd druid is BY FAR the best druid, not only that, one of, if not the best subclass in the ENTIRE GAME, at level 2 you gain one of the most versatile combat abilities that exist, providing massive amounts of healing, a chunk of temporary hit points, or being able to give CONSTANT advantage on attack rolls for one creature of your choice (like giving your rogue permanent sneak attack) AND you also gain the main feature you take this subclass for, mighty summoner, summoning is already the best effect in dnd, now let's make it better! The passive that makes every creature you summon just has, extra health, Insane! Being able to use conjure animals to summon 4 dire wolves with 47 health and pack tactics? NUTS. Even if your DM is picking the beast you'll still trivialize every encounter in which you aren't focused on specifically, at just level 6 pretty much every combat encounter is solved, you summon a handful of extra healthy beast for your action, and for your bonus action you give them an extra 11 temp HP AND advantage on strength checks and saving throws, just in case you also want your beast to grapple more effectively, this class Is banned at all 7 tables I've been to, and while I don't think I could ever play one just do to how insane it is, I definitely see why most DM's don't want to deal with it lol

[@Small_Panda]

@joshdimaggio5764 2 things shepherd is strong but not because of its features but because it focuses on summoning, which is doesn't have exclusive use of. It's not banned at my table but people don't play it as nothing is worse for flow of game play than a single player going I'm going to double the number of creatures taking turns this combat. Without the emphasis on summoning, shepherd is still strong, giving constant tp hp is really good, but the twilight cleric has an extremely similar feature. If you take away the summoning, which all druids have access too it isn't really OP or even that far ahead of other druids. Not to mention, as written, the DM is supposed to control these creatures as in what gets summoned so you could get very useless creatures. Lastly, just because the "summoner" subclass is busted doesn't make another subclass less so. As getting a free -1d6 to saving throws in a game backed full of save or suck spells with no resource loss is insane. Getting free extra damage, free extra hp, and getting multiple free guidingbolts is so much better than the other subclasses it's insane. Your only reason shepherd is busted is because summoning is busted but thing is all druids can summoning and get basically the same effect. Dnd was balanced around action economy giving either side and extra 8 or so actions is busted and all druids can do that. Do shepherds do it better, sure but it's not their features that are broken it's summoning in general.

[@matthewbeard8860]

My favorite thing about the Druid is how unique each subclass feel from one another. Makes for great role play too. Thanks for doing my favorite spell casting class justice

[@zacharypowers2175]

Playing as a spores druid in my current campaign, I'm so glad to see that someone making a ranking put them in at least A tier. People always say it B or C because "why would a caster want to be in melee?" With that temp Hp I actually became my parties tank since we lack a fighter, barbarian, or even a paladin.

[@paulbarton1119]

I was honestly looking at building a Druid Tank using Hill Dwarf with shillelagh Polearm Master for multiattack...but I when I was looking at a lv 5 build I was just feeling it was underpowered and would only get worse. Was thinking you could combo it with Rage but then you're spending so many actions on setup before you're taking actions. It also puts you in danger of losing your concentration which you haven't been able to protect with Feats.

[@NovaKnight]

I had been a lifelong paladin player, but playing a spores druid completely changed me. It's too much fun.

[@zacharypowers2175]

@NovaKnight it's funny, I ended up rolling pretty well on stats, I ended up getting 18, 17, 14, 2 12's, and 9. Put my 18 in Wisdom, 17 in Constitution, never regretted it. Now at lvl 15 I have 201 hp, I took tough as my first feat and I think I've only gone below 1/3 hp twice because of good teamwork and all the temp hp

[@SilverionX]

@@zacharypowers2175 People still roll for stats in this day and age!?

[@zacharypowers2175]

@@SilverionX yup, it's fun and well get to roll the math rocks more

[@hades91245]

Dear God. Hearing Für Elise on a keyboard just gave me such a flashback to Secondary school music lessons. Great list. I love Druids and it's good to be reminded of all the fun you can have with each subclass. I've refrained from Shepherd though. Need to find a table that'd be cool with having to deal with it.

[@traehouston1141]

One way that helps on getting by is to talk to the other players and see if they want to play 1 or 2 of summons. If there are 4 of you that's 2 wolves per person. It spreads the pet love around a lot too.

[@0Fyrebrand0]

A friend I lived with for a bit tried to teach himself piano. He was practicing Für Elise, but for some reason wanted to "speed run" it without screwing up. So all I heard for a while was the first 8-9 notes of it played ultra-fast, over and over and over. And yeah, Shepherd druid seems so cool and powerful, but I feel like I'm not allowed to play it because it would be awful for the rest of the table to deal with.

[@Joker-yw9hl]

I played as a shepherd druid for the best part of a year and for table etiquette never summoned more than 2 creatures at any one time. E.g., I'd summon 2 tigers even though 8 wolves would have been way better. I think I could have gone through them quickly but some of the players in that party already didn't like 5e battles as it was so I didn't want to rock the boat too much, especially as I was a late addition to that party

[@yamato9753]

What i sadly never saw is a Druid subclass that allows you to turn into Things other than Animals. Things like Monstrosities and Plants. Like the "master of many forms" class that existed in 3.5 (but balanced)

[@Pyrous56]

Plants should be fine(most of the time) but monstrosities have such a wide variety power levels that could just end games if a player got their hands on them.

[@yamato9753]

@@Pyrous56 thats why the subclass could just be restrictive with the CR

[@Pyrous56]

@@yamato9753 Even if you want to do the Druid 1/4, 1/2, and 1 cr rate, it’s still problematic, for example, rust monsters are cr 1/2, young kruthitk’s have a 10 feet burrow speed, 30 foot climb speed, AND tremor sense for cr 1/8! And skulk’s are perma-invisible for cr 1/2

[@yamato9753]

@@Pyrous56 ah crap. Then I'd just argue "Monstrosities to the GMs discretion". Will be really bad for some People, but its the same with Summoning Spells

[@Pyrous56]

@@yamato9753 That’s fair, I think most people won’t be upset at an owlbear or other “animal-like” monstrosities. Edit: Also if you want more “monster” animals, I’ve seen a subclass called the circle of mutation where you get points to customize your beasts with extra arms, dark vision, extra ac and so forth

[@princephantom1294]

You massively underrated wildfire. The pet has an infinite use 15ft teleport that can bring along any number or allies and deals damage to enemies it left behind. Infinite teleportation automatically gives that subclass an A at least.

[@Klaital1]

And it also is the best spellcaster overall of all druids, having more spells prepared than even land druid, and they also get all their healing spells buffed as a free bonus on top of all of that, they are just the most versatile overall druid as a result of all of this, lot of people just get hyper fixated on the fire part and miss all the rest, even though they only really have 1 ability that interacts in any way with fire spells.

[@LupineShadowOmega]

While true, your pet also isn't super durable. The mobility makes up for some of that, but not all of that.

[@princephantom1294]

@@LupineShadowOmega I mean it flies, so it’s immune to 60% of monsters attacks, and I’m more than willing to re-summon it if necessary. It’s also only dying in combat, and out of combat infinite teleportation is just as broken as during combat

[@LupineShadowOmega]

@@princephantom1294 Ranged attacks exist and likewise if you want to take advantage of the teleport it isn't going to be able to stay in the air cheesing all comers. As for resummoning it, yeah but it takes a resource to do so. Which is why you'd need to be careful.

[@princephantom1294]

@@LupineShadowOmega ranged attacks exist, but not on all creatures. Not even on most creatures even. And yes, it can stay out of melee with ground-bound foes while still teleporting, you just have it move next to who you want to move, teleport the both of them, then have it fly up with its leftover movement. It also won’t go down to just a single hit or anything, it’s not the most durable creature but it’s way better than a familiar. Also, any attacks targeted at it are not targeted at your party, so that’s still a win.

[@jacobyullman5005]

Circle of Stars is hands down my favorite Druid subclass. When I played a Stars Druid my character had rolled pretty good stats, so I was able to take both the Resilient (Constitution) feat and the War Caster feat. Pair that with a 16 Constitution and a Stone of Good Luck, that gave her a final +10 to concentration checks as well as advantage on them. This meant that using the Dragon constellation she couldn't get less than a 20 on concentration checks, meaning it would take over 40 damage from a single source for her to even need to roll for concentration, and Full of Stars made that virtually impossible for enemies that rely on weapon attacks. If you build for it, Circle of Stars is easily the undisputed king of concentration. And for that character, she also had an 18 Dexterity with Serpent Scale Armor and a shield for 20 AC, as well as the Tough feat to bring her final HP to over 200. Add in her Staff of the Woodlands, and her 22 Wisdom thanks to a Tome of Understanding, and you've got one of the most fun and powerful characters I've ever played. And just throwing this combo out there, If you play a level 20 Stars Druid and cast the 9th level spell Shapechange, you can have your Starry Form active while in the shape of an Ancient White Dragon. That's an Ancient White Dragon with resistance to all Bludgeoning/Piercing/Slashing damage, and a +14 to Constitution saves (24 minimum for concentration checks to maintain Shapechange).

[@RoninXDarknight]

Honestly Stars is one of the few druid subclasses that's a decent multiclass dip if you're planning to be concentrating on spells a lot. 2 levels for reliable talent on concentration checks plus additional utility is pretty sweet.

[@rolancritz1853]

I did not expect a mid-video musical number... You never fail to deliver something different!

[@NegaDruid]

Basically, give each player control of one or two of the wolves. Which was the suggestion offered in said mentioned game breaker video. Give everyone else more shenanigans to do during combat will make them feel involved.

[@kylesousa2051]

The wildfire teleport has been the game changer for my partner in so many fights. Someone gets grappled by a Manticore, or stuck in a gelatinous cube, or we're roof hopping or getting around traps, the spirit is always there to help out

[@monke7914]

Damn bro the piano really caught me off guard

[@sirroMrM]

For Circle of Spores The temp HP doesn't only last 10 minutes, It lasts until you long rest like most other Temp HP sources. Meaning if you're a caster focused druid (higher level) you can grab your temp HP early in the day and just ignore the 10 minutes of bonus damage, which falls off a cliff as you wouldn't have extra attack. The actual text states "Also at 2nd level, you gain the ability to channel magic into your spores. As an action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to awaken those spores, rather than transforming into a beast form, and you gain 4 temporary hit points for each level you have in this class. - This is seperate While this feature is active, you gain the following benefits: When you deal your Halo of Spores damage, roll the damage die a second time and add it to the total. Your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 necrotic damage to any target they hit. These benefits last for 10 minutes, until you lose all these temporary hit points. or until you use your Wild Shape again. So, the "benefits" 1. Halo of spores bonus damage and 2. +melee damage) Note the last sentence, there are 3 ways to lose the above 2 benefits 1. After 10 minutes 2. Until you lose all the temp HP granted by the feature 3. Until you use your Wild Shape again (this also means you couldn't get a boosted halo of spores as a squirrel)

[@kieranhornsey8663]

Finally, my favourite class gets the attention it deserves!

[@blaze048]

Druids for life!

[@dark_matter4803]

I’m a Druid in my really long campaign favorite class I’ve played! Been playing from lvl 1-15

[@rmaa_sd]

And since it's Druids, the attention it deserves is very little 😜

[@kevinphiggins]

I think if you could activate Symbiotic Entity with a bonus action instead of an action, that might push Spores into S-tier

[@Hrafnskald]

Personal head-canon: the music video for "Who let the Dogs Out" is really a party of 5 Moon Druids driving their DM up the wall :)

[@Link-ch1xr]

I absolutely loved the ad read in this! Super fun and creative, best one yet! I appreciate the content and the positivity that you bring into the community, keep on being awesome and inspiring us all!

[@MakinItRain24-7]

12:26 I'd like to point out the Lv. 1 spell entangle, that is not only good for restraining targets but good for field manipulation and overall altering the battlefield, which imo is the best part of being a druid

[@Kirk9019]

It's one of my must-pick spells on a low level druid, especially if you know you're fighting low strength enemies (goblins and kobolds come to mind)

[@fanboykc9140]

Thanks for making all the dice optional add-ons for Ryoko's! I can't wait to get them!

[@bananabanana484]

I think Dream Druids are a little better than you gave them credit for. Cure wounds + Balm of the Summer Court is good burst healing, and a +5 to perception checks while Hearth is up is great for keeping watch

[@luiken3]

I'm with you! I've played a low level dreams druid (wish that game longer) and the clean Action Economy with Balm was huge. The first time I used it I picked up a down ally while also pushing enemies off another ally with Thunderwave. My DM straight stopped the fight, looked at me at goes: "Wait, thats not a spell? Damn." Its not flashy, but man is it good. Also, Hearth's perception bonus and my familiar's help action gave my party on guard GREAT perception checks all the time!

[@Sonic177sChannel]

There is also a fun fact about BotSC. Since it's not a leveled Spell, you can use it in the same turn you use a 1 Action healing Spell, effectively letting you get two potential allies back in the fight or even better one out of critical and one back in.

[@apawhite]

The big thing that sucks, as a fellow Dream Druid, is that I'm pretty sure we actually DON'T get Dream inherently, RAW. It's not listed anywhere in Xanathar's, so in theory you only get Dream at 14th level as part of the Walker in Dreams feature. I obviously spoke to my DM and we house-ruled it, since it's silly that Grassland Druids get Dream but we don't.

[@Thamer4life]

Druids, always, forever. Best class. Best aesthetics. Moisturized. Unbothered. Contented.

[@Edman459]

I really like the spores druid, but there a caviat about the Symbiotic Entity feature. It's only active while you have the temp hp. So you'd be pretty lucky to make use of this feature for more than one round, at least for early levels.

[@theresemalachowski1923]

Have a glamour bard or artillerist artificer in the party to pump out temp hp every round. There's probably other ways to get this, too.

[@daniel_.-]

​​@@theresemalachowski1923that doesnt work because it states:'after 10 minutes or when you lose Those temp hp '. So when you apply some new form of temp hp you lose the hole feature.

[@NovaKnight]

They are tricky to make work at first, but the abilities that you get later are sooo worth it.

[@pumpkinknight5732]

@@daniel_.- I default to the BG3 variant: Doesn't matter where they come from, Symbiotic Entity is up as long as you have temp HP.

[@Golmov_the_Wretched]

Spore druid is sooooo cool,but sooooo poorly designed mechanically.😢

[@mentalrebllion1270]

I want to point this out with the healing ability for circle of dreams. No where does it say that you can’t use it while wild shaped. So this is one of the few healing abilities you got that can still work while you are doing that. I mostly chose this for its theme but it was neat to figure this out.

[@zackcrow1776]

That song for the ad was actually really impressive.

[@seethlaemmert5175]

My man. You just keep cranking out the most amazing videos!

[@animefan3794]

I have wanted to play a high level shepherd Druid for a long time, for one reason. The last time we got direct numbers for how many creatures were in a “swarm of X” was in 3.5, where they note that if the creature by itself would be considered “tiny size” and has a fly speed, there’s about 1000 of them in the swarm. Swarm of Ravens in 5e is a CR 1/4 creature, and Ravens are size category tiny, with a fly speed. A high level Shepherd Druid can summon 36 creatures of CR 1/4 with maximum level Conjure Animals. I want to go full Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” on the BBEG! Even if we lose, they *will* have Ornithophobia for the rest of their existence if I have anything to say about it!

[@guilhermebrito1998]

this has to be one of the best sponsor sections I have ever seen. I have replayed it like 3 or 4 times now

[@faithfullyfaithless]

Love the subclass ranking videos!

[@iqaznili]

you always deliver on those ADs! Nice work mate.

[@DasVogelDasVogel]

This was one of the most impressive advertisements I have seen in the last years. Oh, btw nice tier list XD. GJ mate!

[@BiigBean]

I needed a dnd shorts video today. Thanks

[@jannismueller2586]

I was really surprised about the little song but I also think its really good!! 👏 👏 👏

[@thehulk86]

best thing about moon druid is the fact that wildshape becomes a bonus action, you can heat metal a knight, flip him off as a free action, then wildshape into a badger and burrow underground while maintaining concentration, all on the same turn. Also, Conjure Animals doesn't have to summon things on the ground, you can summon 8 cows, 20ft in the air above a target's head, and beef bomb them to death

[@PatMurphyXD]

best comment lol ideas from hell haha

[@thehulk86]

@@PatMurphyXD I one-shot a roc at level 5 with the cow trick. 656 damage

[@user-cf6qo1gf3d]

Love the song for the book

[@ferryhillebrand4497]

That ad was so good!

[@James_Irish]

Amazing video as always!

[@bmccubben]

FYI you got my like and subscribe straight after your “BAAAAAAAD” joke, love it. Also it was super informative, im about to begin my first dnd game and wanted to look into the Druid classes. Thanks heaps.

[@marchmaps]

I love the flavor of Land druid because I think your land of origin forming your powers is a really cool concept. So I've played them a few times. I've felt really important with one game and completely frivolous in another game. I think a lot of how much fun I had in this subclass was dependent on which race I complemented it with and who I was playing with, whether it be group size or classes. What campaign I was in mattered to moderate extent. I never got to those high levels where their features got really bad, so that didn't matter.

[@simonthedevil452]

I love your ads sooooo much. Never change.❤

[@Hakaimono]

The songs ad was great!

[@lakakoi2965]

I love those vids. Can't wait for Cleric!

[@alexpratt8533]

I was not prepared for the piano ad, but I really enjoyed it

[@patrickhannon2694]

The at-will party-wide misty step in B tier is crazy

[@jaspermooren5883]

Scrying is a very situational spell?! It's one of the most powerful spells in the game and I would argue basically a must take for anyone that can at 9th lvl. I mean you can literally see anywhere in the world, this spell is one of the bigger gamechangers in basically how the entire game is played and integral to the story of basically every game I've been in at that level. This doesn't just kill the BBEG 1 turn faster, it actually changes the whole narative.

[@hirosoli]

That was the best ad. Top tier stuff!

[@tomisabum]

Favorite fixation of mine: Circle of Spores plus a setting adjusted Semic Hybrid race is a great way to indulge in the body horror potential of the class, more so if you get creative with how you cast spells. Primal Savagery cantrip works great as a close range option as well as playing out the mouth/jaw horror, and flavoring Thornwhip as coming out of your mouth as a detaching tongue is great. If you're flanking and helping other fighters up close, you'll get more use out of your zombification reaction than you'd think, honestly; just more problems for the squishy, rapdily rotting and tendril filled distractions. A good way to turn an encounters minions against them in my experience. Good stuff. Barbarian Path of Beasts can also get flavor twisted with Semic Hybrid easy for just as creepy body horror enjoyment too.

[@LordBrittish]

Druid Subclasses gooooooo! Smoke that J with a Dire Wolf! *Also, pretty sure a Club and Shield or Quarterstaff and Shield works with Shillelagh too. Still a 1d8 Magic Weapon.

[@daneroberts1996]

That Fur Elise cover was great!

[@huntermcdonald6306]

Loved the ad bit

[@mikecarson7769]

very fun and informative review, especially with your creative comments

[@pedrostormrage]

8:41 "If you have a d1, you can guarantee that you get Woe every single time" Holy crap, I never realized that Cosmic Omen doesn't say what kind of die you need to roll (this is the kind of loophole that I like).

[@krissscott2432]

As a shepherd druid I made sure never to summon more than 4 creatures, knowing that any more would be just a headache for everyone. That being said, my 4 giant goats tended to batter down any enemy the DM tried to throw at us

[@orlandoriviere2]

Would also say one strong point in favour of the dreams’ balm of the summer court is that like healing word it is a bonus action, but unlike HW it doesn’t use a spell slot so you can still cast a levelled spell if you want

[@captainmarvel4857]

Respect the background music choice, my dude. A man of taste

[@macromondo8026]

I swear this guy makes the most entertaining adds on his videos, skipping them is a crime lol.

[@Kroda-]

Great vid once again!!! Always love your sponsors XDDD

[@shmutsy1924]

Your land druid/bottom of the C pun was glorious.

[@danthemanno]

We have missed you king 👑

[@craftsecond]

Listening at double speed, as I am wont to do, the Fur Elise ad plug serious slaps.

[@hollowblaze2320]

Circle of Wildfire is my favorite Druid subclass. I was fortunate to play that class all thr way to lvl 14 :)

[@paulbarton1119]

Quick heads up with Circle of Spores it's a CON Save to deal the damage otherwise it does nothing. Feels like you should just be able to do that damage automatically given that it's burning your reaction.

[@fdmitry89]

"To Elis" was awesome. My favorite comercial ever!

[@patdav56]

In terms of Wildfire not getting fireball, i like it. Every other fire spell on the list *and* for druids are controlled flames, whether directional casts, pointed casts, moving the aoe every turn, or Fire Storm being shapable and not burning plants as you wish A wildfire doesnt have to be all encompassing and, well, wild. It can often be controlled to help a forest grow the helthiest it can be by protecting where a lot of animals live while burning a dead part of the woods to make room for healthier growth. That is VERY in line with druids if you ask me

[@tyree403]

OH MY GOD! The icon you used for the Shepherd Druid is exactly what I used for my high level Shepherd Druid!

[@gabriellecureux5528]

Would really like more of these

[@jeremypalmer5695]

Played, a few moon druids, land, dreams (actually super fun, if you flavour up your spell casting) and now I just want to play a wildfire, spores, stars and shepard. All this video has done is add stars and Shepard to the list.

[@cstuart5638]

I always skip the ad segment, but that sudden piano playing was great.

[@cactizach1363]

Dude that song legit made me think of elyse in a positive light and made me feel like buying it.

[@bignelly9476]

I’ve been waiting for this one. I want to play Druid for my first magic caster

[@davidtrottier7066]

A great way to adapt the shepherd druid so it's not incredibly painful is perhaps only target up to two creatures per turn with your summons and the roll to hit will apply to all summons attacking that creature so you aren't rolling for every single one.

[@JojovonKoopa]

Currently playing a wildfire druid and having the time of my life. I love coming up with new ways to utilize the features of my beloved wildfire Spirit fire buddy. For example, I came up with a strat where I would position him directly above the enemy, and then cast Thorn Whip through him, thereby pulling the enemy 10 feet in the air, before letting them fall again for guaranteed fall damage and knocking them prone in the process.

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[@rhylin26]

I played Spores Druid for a stretch of time. The 6th level ability was my favorite.

[@Comrade2261]

I was playing a Druid multiclass, but unfortunately had to leave due to bowling league starting back up again at the time. I was 1 barbarian/ 5 moon druid. My plan was get to 6 druid, then go into bear totem barbarian. My character's race was Kalashtar, so already had resistance to psychic damage, but advantage on Wis saves and telepathy. Soo good imo.

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Great video

[@murphythelatecomer4608]

I once played a circle of stars druid when play testing some upcoming new material, and it was only one time, and I’m really bummed that I didn’t get a chance to try out their other features because they sounded awesome to me. Glad to see them in S tier.

[@SloppyMcFloppy1029]

I honestly love the shepherd because it is amazing support too and I heard of a fix for the summoning spells that I ended up using and is really fun. When a mass-summoning spell is cast, divide control of the summoned animals among all of your players. The animals will still act according to the druid's commands, but the attacks and damaging is handled by the players the control is granted to. This gives all players smth to do and doesn't make combat feel like a massive drag.

[@crashnburn506]

My dms usually run the summoned creatures as one mass of creatures on one initiative number, using dice bots to smooth out the attacks by rolling them en masse, making the game significantly faster, and the summons go from slogging meat grinder to high intensity slugfest while the other party members still get to do their things

[@CheckersMcGavern]

I have a Path of the Beast Barbarian I'm leveling up and I'm very much considering multiclassing into Spores Druid. It just sounds like a super fun combo

[@Kirk9019]

It is, and it's good too. Barb rage helps keep your Symbiotic Entity up longer, and you can still use all of its abilities. Then pick utility/healing spells for outside of combat.

[@giantbat4290]

My DM and I are home brewing groups of animals so that summoning 8 wolves only takes up 2 actions instead of 8. We simply separate the wolves into groups of 4, make them do less damage based on if they are below 75%, 50%, or 25% health. Remove advantage at 25% health (unless the other group is in range), and take bones damage from area attacks.

[@kevindragon3883]

Yea, I played a Circle of the Sheppard Druid and my DM and I did a work around for the huge number of animals I summoned. I would just roll all of my creatures attack rolls at once and everyone who got to attack would then get their damage die rolled. It really helped cut down on the time on my turn.

[@woutvanostaden1299]

It also very much depends on how you choose to use the spells. Yes, the greatest number of the lowest CR rating isn't going to help the game, but the higher the CR rating the somewhat more manageble it becomes. Giant insect is another multi summon spell that shouldn't be too great a disfupter yet still worth casting.

[@graysonguevara3377]

Neat little trick, star druids dragon form with shapechange can make you pretty crazy with staying in shapechange. It is an easy way to dominate encounters

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[@DungeonsandDeadlifts1]

Period is one of my favorites because it offers something you need to do with wild shape. It's a very different place style And multiclasses with a ranger or a monk and it's really fun

[@nathans9764]

People miss the point of the dream druid level 2 and 10 abilities: breaking action economy. In fact, if they worded it different people would probably bemoan how broken it is. Is level 2 just healing word? Sure, except that it has double range. Is level 10 just misty step? Sure, but with double range. And the fact that they aren't casting spells. Not that they don't take spell slots, but that they aren't casting spells. How many character builds take 2 levels of fighter to get action surge just for the ability to cast 2 spells in one turn? Dream druids get to do that ALL THE TIME, with two of the best spells in the game. The biggest drawback to both healing word and misty step are that if you use them, you're limited to a cantrip for your action, and druid cantrips are pretty mid. Dream druids throw that rule out of the window, and by the time you get the level 10 ability, you can effectively cast 2 leveled spells per turn 15 times per long rest. Additionally the level 6 ability - hearth of moon and shadow - doesn't just give you a +5 to stealth. It also gives a +5 to perception, great for keeping lookout, and light inside doesn't show outside. So you can be on watch at night, it's pitch black outside the dome but you're in bright light--so no disadvantage on your perception rolls, but even creatures with darkvision would have disadvantage on perception rolls to spot you. You also get total cover. So if someone DOES see you, they still can't actually attack you, unless they come inside the dome. It's a more interesting (and less noticable) version of Leomund's tiny hut, which people lose their minds over.

[@omega311888]

we just completed Avernus in which i played a circle of the shepherd druid. he definitely turned the tide of many battles. having 64 giant owls, whos attacks were considered magic by the time he could summon that many, ripped many high level demons and devils to shreds. AND IF YOU PLAY IT RIGHT, it doesnt have to slow down combat. our dm allowed me to start calculating my attacks before my next turn began. i even had two other players, who are otherwise just waiting for their turn, help keep track of the number of attacks and damage. i was doing an average of 140 to 180 points of damage per turn. and with their flight speed and flyby ability, i made sure that any injured ones returned back to the totem's radius to regain some health. its my favorite subclass! 😁

[@shard640]

im gonna start a campaign soon using cirlce of winter by blackbando its pretty cool, obvi cold centered the big thing is that instead of wildshape, i can become cold and get 5+ temp hp and deal more damage

[@BeanLord69]

I loved my Shepherd Druid, and with work around for the summons + macros, even when I summoned 16 velociraptors, it was smooth and fun for all my fellow players. Shepherd Druids are fun and are a really strong subclass!!!

[@travishollingsworth378]

With the shepherd druid I use the custom swarm mechanics. So instead of 36 magical individual velociraptors, it's just one or two swarms to keep track of.

[@airproci]

👏👏👏👏 Nice play

[@mikekoski7050]

My favorite way to deal with mass summons is give each player an equal number of the summons and treat them as extra attacks so it may slow it down a bit because having to roll for extra hits but it helps speed it up