The ULTIMATE Debuffer: Glamour Bard Build | NEW D&D 5E 2024

[@comradewarners]

I hope you guys enjoyed the Build! By the way, TONIGHT I will be streaming Baldur’s Gate 3 with my Wife! Here is the link to the stream! You can set a reminder for when I go live! 😊 kzbin.infoJDtnlAEVnQg?feature=share

[@evansmith2832]

When you use command and choose the flee option, they do necessarily dash away. It says fastest available means, and the dash action is well within their means. If I were the dm and the monster had the haste spell, I'd go so far as to make them cast haste on themselves to get away faster.

[@comradewarners]

@@evansmith2832 That’s true, so I feel like using Dissonant Whispers and the Approach Command is a good way to counteract this problem since they will come back to me, also luckily at later levels we get an insane speed as well.

[@arkonos4406]

Nice build, seems fun 😊

[@bponcho414]

Enjoying the build. You could give a BIT of diversity by getting true strike for when you run into really good saves or condition immunities. I guess EB works too. Philosophically, control doesn't replace damage at all. You still need focused damsge to take advantage of all your control. It actually replacing healing support. The best kind of healing is not taking damage! VPR is OP

[@comradewarners]

@@bponcho414that is a good point, True Strike for sure wouldn’t hurt! this build is assuming your party is gonna bring the hurt, and with enemies wasting their actions, and getting so many penalties to hit, I agree that this is more of a damage negation build for sure!

[@xiongray]

It's good to be a Bard. I'd have gone with Lyre (Harp), Lute (Guitar), & Horn (Saxophone)~ 🎶 🎵

[@glitchking666]

Possibly making a big bad eat most or all of their legendary resistance in a single turn, that shouldn't be underestimated , i know it would change the vines and dpr calculations, but i can see going draconic sorcerer instead of warlock to gain some extra hp and a better armor class and access to mind whip sooner and some meta magic mischief. Excellent build crazy amount of debuff in a single turn

[@comradewarners]

@@glitchking666 Thank you so much! 😁 Yeah, a sorcerer Multiclass would for sure work well with this build, especially if you aren’t gonna take it to super high levels. This is probably out of all of my recent builds, one that I might actually try to play at a table sometime! 😎🤘

[@glitchking666]

@comradewarners I definitely want to try this build as well, I usually look at videos like this for inspiration for a build or if I'm stuck on something, I've never played a build from KZbin before, but this feels like you're doing so much in a turn and actually making a difference. I see this build getting used a lot especially for high level one shots! Keep up the good work

[@comradewarners]

@@glitchking666 Thank you so much! I really do appreciate it! 😁

[@BlaykeStevens]

If legacy content is allowed, Undead Warlock might be a fun multiclass for the Frightened condition. I think most Undead are immune to Charmed and Frightened, but theres a good chance other mobs will get debuffed.

[@comradewarners]

That is very true! I feel like this would especially be good if your table does longer combats(my table does!) mostly just because of bonus action bloat. (I would LOVE a subclass with BONUS Action Surge! lol) once you get everything set up you would be doing so much fearing and charming every single round it would be insane! 😁

[@ariashkenazi9211]

Area effect spells like fireball don't target characters, so charm wouldn't protect you. Sanctuary is explicit about this difference

[@comradewarners]

@@ariashkenazi9211 good to know! So would only work on attack rolls. 😎😁

[@mjust7119]

Okay, here's my unrelated question of the day: Does Horde Breaker work with True Strike? Do you do another true strike or just a regular attack? Anyway, love the new glamor bard.

[@comradewarners]

@@mjust7119 ooooo, that is a juicy question! I would say based on the wording you can 100% do a second attack after using True Strike because it meets the requirement of being an attack with a weapon, but I feel like the second attack would need to be a regular weapon attack, but just with that same weapon. The wording isn’t clear enough though so I could see a DM letting you double True Strike! (I would allow it) the fact that you normally can only hit 1 target with True Strike makes this a fun interaction especially because you have to set up having two targets next to each other, but rules as intended I don’t think the designers would like this! 😂

[@mjust7119]

Pretty much exactly what I settled on. You probably should just do a normal attack but if I'm a wisdom build, cmon, it's just 1d6 lol gimme it. Also I love the heavy crossbow to push enemies into place to then hit a second.

[@ericmunnisjr4763]

How much spell slots are you using to get this rotation off? Seems pretty inefficient early on.

[@comradewarners]

Totally understandable! The thing is, every time you use Command with Mantle of Majesty it doesn’t use a spell slot. So you’re only using 1 slot per round. 😁 Also as you get into higher level encounters since a lot of the spells being used don’t actually scale, you will be using your second level spell slots even at level 20. Plus we also eventually pick up Warlock levels and they give you an extra 2 slots! I will say my DPR calculations are usually meant to show you what you are going to do in an encounter that you have all or most of your resources, and are planning to use most of them in this 1 encounter. This is mostly because my table usually does only 1 or 2 encounter days, and when polled a lot of viewers said their tables are similar. So I would say with most of my builds it’s good to keep that in mind. If your table does a ton of encounters in an adventuring day I would advise to switch to using cantrips for sure a bit more often! 😎😁