Unearthed Arcana Review: Subclasses, Part 3 | Nerd Immersion

[@NerdImmersion]

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[@nathanjoachimi2917]

I think the lightning launchers advantage buff applies to attacks made by creatures other than you. More like guiding bolt than faerie fire.

[@jaredbledsoe-sams9827]

The opening speal cause me to not want to watch it at all. That said. Er ma gerd power armor :D

[@davidblakley6806]

The druid is getting ready for theros book Constellations are important for that plane

[@VonSnootingham]

I love how everyone is making the Iron Man comparison for the Armorer when it's CLEARLY Samus Aran. You power up your armor, have an arm canon, get a grapplebeam, and can pick and choose your modular upgrades

[@mikemerchant9242]

Or mega man.

[@zeterzero4356]

Or a Kamen Rider.

[@gungamesh4184]

Or fallout

[@kappakiev9672]

Literally any armored hero or villain that fires beams

[@hectortoledo8938]

Well the most recent pop culture reference is iron man but the magic about it is that it has oh so many ways in which you can play that subclass I love it

[@devildham]

How does the Star Druid NOT get Crown of Stars as a spell known?

[@thant0s]

Asking the real questions. Amazing spell, too.

[@noblestrings]

It's still UA. I'd rule that it is just for fun. Can't hurt much.

[@shaylic3795]

Probably because the other Druid circles with spells known don’t get spells higher than 5th. Crown of Stars is a 7th level spell. Clerics follow the same rule of known spells only going up to 5th level.

[@NerdImmersion]

It'd have to be the level 14 feature or part of it. "Additionally, Crown of Stars is considered a druid spell for you"

[@marcperez2598]

I'd settle for Minute Meteors to fit with the subclass spell limitations

[@bruisedfrog]

Xanathar's 2: Planescape Boogaloo

[@brunop.8745]

I prefer Electric Xanadu myself

[@jinxtheunluckypony]

I want to make a Warforged Armorer Artificer. I’d be an android who’s constantly upgrading herself.

[@leperv4423]

Imagine a steampunk warforged miner running it down in his power armor with a drill in one hand

[@alexk8083]

Jinx Jade so, Ultron?

[@theyonlycomeoutwhenitsquiet]

I saw the circle of stars and immediately thought of playing Glenstorm the centaur from chronicles of Narnia. “I watch the stars, badger, for they are mine to watch as they are yours to remember.”

[@DuonDRaven]

Guiding Bolt and Augury were likely a thematic choice, the Stars were often looked at by our ancestors as a way of foretelling the future and seeking guidance in they're actions.

[@kylestanley7843]

It's thematic, yeah. But, uh... being able to pop guiding bolt 5 times as if it were a cantrip... that's a *bit* overtuned for me.

[@abacate4492]

@@kylestanley7843 5 times? Assuming your wisdom score is 20, yes.

[@abacate4492]

Also, Augury and Guiding Bolt will share those uses

[@galion1991]

I really like those because of the theme, as well as the cosmic omen. The rest of it is all over the place thematically. You get one form with a little bit of extra healing, one with a little bit of extra damage, and one which you'll probably always pick because it makes concentration checks almost irrelevant, especially for lower levels. What role does this druid fill? They should just lean in to the divinatory theme all the way.

[@jaredprice4415]

Do note that the Fey Ranger's 11th level feature that allows them to charm, frighten, or damage when anyone close enough succeeds on a save against charm or frighten keys off of their new pseudo smite ability that gives a save or be frightened effect in addition to the no-save. So potentially the ranger can smite damage each round while spreading out the damage/mind altering effects each time an enemy succeeds against the fright. The new ranger is amazing at dealing with several targets with this tactic!

[@jemm113]

The new ranger definitely favors taking on a skirmish playstyle not dissimilar to how monk's are usually geared! What with the extra damage on your weapon not working on -the same- enemy multiple times a turn. That along with what you've pointed out definitely means this is an alternative way for rangers to jump into groups of enemies at a time.

[@Deathwhisper2]

The circle of stars is awesome. The idea is just so enticing to me.

[@westcoastgeeks7294]

That what's I was thinking, when I heard about this Druid.

[@TyranusRex721]

Me too. I love the idea, it just needs some more work.

[@peinoftheakatsukiXx]

Finally. I can be the power ranger of the party.

[@jemm113]

Bro, you gotta go full Kamen Rider and convince your DM to let you do a full Henshin (homebrew infusion, maybe?)

[@hummzwallypeez8294]

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[@fireknight4151]

I totally love the Armoror subclasses as it totally screams Fallout series to me. I wanna have Cartographers tools in mine to have a map and even flavor in some gold old pip boy music. All while searching for my lost father or kidnapped son and getting revenge on the man that shot me and left me for dead. I will have trouble if I get a dice curse cause "Rolls... Rolls never changes."

[@Alurkerdood]

Hoping to see a grenadier artificer archetype kind of like Pathfinder’s bomber alchemist.

[@salvadortoscano2534]

They already made one: Artillerist :P Just flavor spells like Acid Splash and Fireball into grenades!

[@zeterzero4356]

You even get fire ball with artillerist. If that ain't a grenade I don't know what is.

[@muker83]

How about a "Minsc's guide to all rangery stuff", this will have all the subsclasses like you've mentioned and a new class "Ranger 2.0" with both updated versions of Beast Master and Hunter, and some other subclasses.

[@BlueCappy77]

Well that was fast! I really didn’t expect the artificer to get an unearthed arcana this early.

[@Arasmuss]

Assuming you sold your starter gear for chainmail, and plus 1 armor and attack infusions, at level 3 the armoror can have 19 a.c., the shield and cure wounds spells, a 1d8+1 thunder attack that grants disadvantage against attacking allies, thorn whip to pull enemies closer, firebolt for even further enemies,but doesn't need a separate spell focus, doesn't need to meet str requirement, and gains 3 temporary hit points every bonus action. That's crazy strong.

[@exqueue3813]

The disadvantage debuff and temp HP come from the guaridan variant, the lightning attack from the infiltrator variant. You can't do both at the same time.

[@Arasmuss]

Thunder my bad.

[@Rodrik18]

My take: Artificer (armorer): decent subclass, good flavor. The guardian getting temp hp equal to level as a bonus action so early is very strong, and i would probably make this the higher level "guardian" bonus and give the pulling field at a lower level. The infiltration one doesnt feel ties to the theme well at all. Druid (circle of stars): starts off decently enough, but cosmic omen is a touch strong and steps on portents from divination pretty hard-- cosmic omens is more numerous and easier to use as you see the roll first. The mass teleport is also poorly worded -- intelligent monsters could opt in to following you after the first time. Perhaps make it "creatures of your choice" get teleported. Ranger (fey traveler): its ranger. Its a mess. The theme is decent enough, but there's too much extra verbage to try to make it useable. The "bonus action to deal extra damage once per turn" is also a thin reskin of nearly all the other ranger subclass options. Blessings of the courts is a poorly worded smite clone without scaling. This means it is competing for low level slots that have several good options and entirely front loads the feature; it is also odd that the class gets the bonus dmg per turn *and* a smite. The beguiling twist is also fairly situational, but decent enough. Misty presence has too harsh a failure penalty, considering it is only a nerfed Greater Invisibility (to be clear, it does have some benefits, but immune for 7 days??? Hope your campaign can ignore the bbeg that got away *for a week* before the heroes try again). Overall, ranger is still being handled poorly. It needed a bit of damage boost, but this is 99.9% damage options on a theme that should be much more focused on nuance and tricks. Base ranger needs an update, as well as all ranger subclasses. Its just in a bad place, and i say that as someone who has played several.

[@hectortoledo8938]

About the action of the ranger while dual wielding. As per the Shield master Sage advice that says you need to do the action 1st before taking the bonus action it gives access too; to attack with a extra weapon you need to attack 1st which means that you then already attacked once or twice that round with no bonus from the ability to dmg, and sure a creature can take the dmg once, but that doesn’t mean you can’t target different enemies or that the extra attack feature doesn’t help to compensate for misses

[@UmekCrafter]

Wizards forgetting their own rules? More likely that You think! (It's the second time this happens)

[@blackfang0815]

The first time I read this UA I was kinda meh on all of the subclasses other than the Ranger one because psychic damage, but now that I see this again I kind of love all of them and hope they continue working on these subclasses in the future.

[@dojojolly]

They finally added Blitzcrank and a Boomkin

[@drakkonusfrostburn4038]

Armorer Artificer Review Tools of the Trade: Everything here makes sense. Armorer Spells: I like the list of spells. Power Armor: Wow! The replacing of missing limbs is so perfect for when your character starts or losses a limb during the campaign. Armor Model: Loving the ability to change your armor’s model to fit your needs for the day. · Guardian: A very cool melee or tanking option if your party needs a frontline player. 1. Thunder Gauntlets: Way more powerful than a Monks unarm strike at the same level. 2. Defensive Field: THP is always welcomed. · Infiltrator: Your party need a rogue? Here it is. 1. Lightning Launcher: So, if you multiclass into Rogue you can get Sneak Attack. Wow! 2. Powered Step: Extra movement is always good. 3. Second Skin: Did someone say they need a Rogue? Cool. Extra Attack: Nothing to see here move along. Armor Modifications: Very awesome. I guess this means your Power Armor feature does not make the armor magical and therefore unelidable for infusion. Perfected Armor: Make sense. · Guardian: “Get over here!”-Scorpion · Infiltrator: This is basically Ironman’s Unibeam. Summary: Who wants to be Ironman, War Machine, Rescue, Ironheart, Iron Spider/Scarlet Spider, Steel, or Cyborg? This is how.

[@LostBoysCrewDE]

*looks at new artificer subclass* Me: "Nice armor you got there ... ... would be a shame ... ... if someone heated it!" Is this going to be be the one subclass that gets countered by a 2nd level spell? Even if I'll enjoy playing Iron Man in 5e without rolling some MAD forge cleric / warlock build.

[@UmekCrafter]

Nice concentration spell You've casted on me. Would be a shame... If my Magic Missile forced You to make 3 concentration checks.

[@eruditecaptain3117]

No, it wouldn't be the one subclass that gets countered by that spell. Any character that wears medium or heavy armor is going to be just as harshly crippled by Heat Metal as this subclass.

[@LostBoysCrewDE]

But when half of your class features are based on wearing that armor and you have to doff it then it could get ugly. But seriously guys. This subclass is by far my favorite from the new UA material, don't get me wrong. Can't wait to try it out 😋

[@LostBoysCrewDE]

Plus the defensive field from the guardian armor and the always-prepared magic missile should counter heat metal pretty easily.

[@fedrikrose2277]

Technically if I am not wrong one of the power armor can be worn under the clothes, so your enemies need to find out you are warning armor and for them it would be almost impossible to realize that.

[@lordvaust5830]

Druids, Rangers, and Artificers. Oh my! All the new subclasses I’ve wanted. Seriously, we don’t need more Clerics and Bards.

[@robbiehussey4723]

We need more Bards not more Wizards

[@aidanthornton173]

Fey ancestry give the player advantage vs charm effects and magic can't put them to sleep. The ranger Grant's them the same thing plus advantage vs Frightened effect, so elves still get improvements.

[@dylanmorris5352]

It blows my mind that Artificer, previously an UA class, now has UA subclasses.

[@Recoil1808]

...Why wouldn't it? It's a class, ergo it needs to keep up with the other classes.

[@Exaltable]

It’s officially released now lol?

[@Klaital1]

Funniest part is that no artificer subclasses that will be published can ever be used in AL since the base class itself is from a book other than phb, and AL doesn't allow you to use material from two non-phb books.

[@Recoil1808]

@@Klaital1 that right there IS a problem. And why I'd rather play almost anything but AL.

[@drakkonusfrostburn4038]

Artificer Infusions Review Armor of Magical Strength: Perfect for the Armorer or any party member with INR higher than STR. Armor of Tools: Sweet. Very flavorful. Helm of Awareness: Alertness feat no longer needed. Mind Sharpener: Wow! Every spellcaster in the party will want one. Spell-Refueling Ring: Wow! Every spellcaster in the party will want one. Summary: These are mostly good for Armorer Artificers but I can see other Artificer taking these infusions for twinking out the party.

[@victorrivas2350]

Heard the info at the beginning of the video! Greatly enjoy your content during my breaks at work while I regain my sanity!

[@UmekCrafter]

The Armorer is crazy and I love it. Although it can easly reach AC above 23 and that Armor Modifications is unclear in tearms of infusing armor that already is magical. RAW artificer can't infuse magical armor, but this feature says You get 2 extra infusions that must be part of this armor, so I assume by RAI making magical armor into power armor, adds empty infusion slots in form of boots, bracers, and weapon, while chestpiece holds the original enchantment. Now for the AC calculations (reminder that character with +3 platemail and +3 shield has AC of 26). Enhanced Defense infusion gives +1 stackable AC bonus (+2 for level 10 artificers). So putting this infusion on chestpiece, boots and bracers makes +6 armor on 10th level. Now if it was platemail we add +3 sheld we have AC 29. If the armor was already +3 and we have second sheld (base shield AC bonus doesn't stack but their +3 enchantment bonus does!) and our character was an warforged we can get to the AC of wooping 34!!

[@runedoom]

And don't forget they get access to the spells shield, mirror image, blur, and sanctuary

[@LordZeebee]

I feel like the Druid is just a tad underpowered tho that might just be bias talking, i LOOOOVE the concept overall but i fear people will just ignore this one. I agree tho that the idea of getting to use wild shape charges for abilities is dope, feels like i'm not wasting an entire class feature just because i need to stay in base-form to be effective. Also i can not overstate how much i like the idea of giving classes different freebie spells depending on your choice of spellcasting focus(or lack thereof). Such a neat idea. Imagine if choosing a Hazel wand would give you Guidance and Locate Object due to the Celtic connection to wisdom or an Alder staff giving you Bladeward and Barkskin due to being a hardwood.

[@ashwinmurali8391]

For the cosmic omen feature Here is what i would have added to it Weal(even) Whenever a creature you can see within 30 ft of you makes an attack roll, saving throw or ability check, you can use your reaction to roll a d6 and add the number rolled to the total. If the roll succeeds, that creature then has advantage on either all ability checks or saving throws or attack rolls for 1 minute. Woe(Odd): Whenever a creature you can see within 30ft of you makes attack roll, saving throw and ability checks, you can use your reaction to roll a d6 and subtract the number from the total. If the roll fails, the creature then has disadvantage on either all ability checks, or saving throws or attack rolls for 1 minute. You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your wisdom modifier, and you regain all uses when you finish a long rest. That's how I think it could be made a little better.

[@mikecarson7769]

your review of fey wanderer helped for me to try this option for a ranger moving into level 3 just recently -- so far, great fun and excellent fit for this particular campaign -- in forest setting, and the ranger in this case is a shifter of wild hunt variety (werefox ancestry) - all quite satisfying so far at levels 3 and 4

[@hectortoledo8938]

As a note on the closing notes for the Artificer you can’t use infusions in a magical suit of armour but you can still make it power armour for sure

[@rodneyg9746]

I loved these extra UAs for Sky Bard and Iron Man; approve of the Fey Paladin subclass for Rangers, but only with the alternate ranger features released earlier in UA. One thing I heard you miss on the Perfected Armor Infiltrator feature: Any creature that gets hit by lightning is shiny, AND THE NEXT ATTACK ROLL AGAINST IT BY A CREATURE OTHER THAN YOU has advantage. Just pointing out that you would not benefit from the advantage but one of your allies would.

[@Reyn_Roadstorm]

I think whoever designed the the Star Druid is a fan of the Astrologian from FFXIV. "Astrologians look upon the stars to foresee the coming seasons and use their magic to employ spells. By attuning to the constellations, astrologians can draw cards to unveil mystical magicks to aid their allies in battle." In it's current form the cards just apply varying damage buffs to players, but in previous versions some cards would also deal damage to enemies. And probably their most iconic ability is called Earthly Star, which doesn't have any sort of teleportation effect like Star Flare, but instead heals allies and damages enemies when it detonates. /watch?v=ULHHIFd9bto I also noted for the Ranger ability Misty Presence is says that it hides you from a creature's senses, but then says it can't see or hear you while leaving out any other specific senses. So you could use this on a creature which rolls a Nat 1 and fails the save horribly. And then while you are oh so quietly stealing from the dragon's hoard, it simply turns around and eats you anyway because *_it can still smell you._*

[@shinon748]

Been seeing people say the ranger sounds weak. Let me math his out real quick opinions always welcomed. If we go dual wield scimitar that's potentially 3d6+15(max dex, two weapon fighting style, and multi attack) + 1d6 from bonus sction + 3d6 hunter's mark + 3d6 smite. That's a total of 10d6 +15 per round or 16d6+15 on a crit if one scimitar scores a crit as you double all dice. With a chance to do an extra 3d10 based on how saving throws play out. With the 3d10 going on a separate target than the one you hit.

[@seanmcgcostumes]

The Starry Form is everything I wanted for the Circle of Spores. It's sorely tempting to homebrew my backup character with my DM to use a Wild Shape slot for something like this Starry Form, but with fungi and spores, moss and mushrooms. Also: Imagine taking 2 levels of Circle of the Stars druid for a Fey Wanderer ranger. That aesthetic would be *amazing!*

[@drakkonusfrostburn4038]

Fey Wanderer Ranger Review Feywild Gifts: I always love these Quirk tables. Fey Wanderer Magic: Archetype Spells are always welcomed. A nice flavorful select. Cool. Cunning Will: A nice little addition. At least you probably won’t forget going to the Feywild. Dreadful Strikes: All Rangers get these bonus action equals more damage features now. Fine. Blessings of the Courts: Ranger Smite! Awesome. The damage should scale with the spell slot though. Beguiling Twist: Par well with Blessings of the Courts. Nice. Misty Presence: Wow! Invisible to a creature. Interesting. Summary: It’s a nice set of features I guess but I still feel like it is trying to put Band-Aids on the ranger.

[@orrangutan3977]

Honestly as much as I love the armorer flavor, I feel like it’d be so much better if you multi class into warlock and use eldritch blast instead

[@UmekCrafter]

Well which caster ISN'T better with EB?

[@orrangutan3977]

Monstrous Emila There’s a difference in spell dipping and class dipping though. Without invocations EB is just a crossbow (worse). You can just play a wizard without EB just fine, but a d6 is horrible.

[@ARO377]

@@orrangutan3977 I don't quite know what you're talking about here. First, EB is a d10 and therefore superior to the crossbow in terms of damage, unless you mean a heavy crossbow in which case it's just as strong. Second, force damage is pretty rare, so encountering resistance to it is far less likely than for common piercing damage. Third, the number of blasts fired scales with your character's overall level (not class level), giving you way more bang for your buck than the crossbow. Fourth, the range on EB outclasses the first range increment of all crossbows and firing with disadvantage for more range has always been kinda sucky. Finally, because I'm nitpicking here, EB has no cost whatsoever as opposed to crossbow bolts which cost 1 gold per 20 bolts according to the PHB. Conclusion: EB is far superior to any crossbow and every single class, except barbarian because rage, would benefit from EB. There's a reason why EB is considered one of the best, if not THE best, damaging cantrip in the game. All that without invocations.

[@orrangutan3977]

ARO377 Heavy crossbow does 1d10 damage + modifier, meaning on average you’ll be doing maybe like 8 damage, if you have a dexterity of 20, you’ll do 10 damage on average. The crossbow only goes farther then the eldritch blast by a long shot and if you have crossbow master feat, it also scales to your level. But of course EB is better then crossbows, if you’re a warlock you’ll boost it with invocations and it’ll be better, it’s your best cantrip and that’s the purpose of it.

[@archmagemc3561]

Nope, since EB needs Charisma, and your an int caster. Second, you can't use sharpshooter with eldritch blast, but you can with the lightning launcher. So basically you do 2d6 + int + sharpshooter on your first attack, 1d6 + int + sharpshooter additional after level 5. Yeah you don't get the 3rd or 4th eldritch blast beams, but your also not needing to spend more ASI into charisma and those 2 warlock levels to make EB useful to you, letting you advance through artificer faster and get more feats. And having 6 items you can be attuned to is insane since your effectively an archer in plate with a shield.

[@TwilightShadow1000]

The Star Druid actually seems a tad overpowered at low levels to me. Best case scenario (rolled high for stats and picked a WIS-boosting race), you could cast Guiding Bolt 5 times for free at 2nd level. Not to mention the Archer Constellation gives you a bonus action d8+WIS attack for the 10 minutes you're in the Starry Form, also at 2nd level. The Monk also gets a bonus action attack, but they have to use a d4 for damage until 5th level, and their Flurry of Blows is limited by their ki point pool. The Fighter's Action Surge is once per short/long rest, so they also get shown up a bit until higher levels. I get what they were trying to do with giving the Star Druid Guiding Bolt and constellation forms, but I think maybe just making Augury and Guiding Bolt circle spells would work better, and the Archer constellation might need some tweaking.

[@westcoastgeeks7294]

Looks like you broke down this class already. Good job 👍

[@Vawk20]

It's trying to mimic the moon druid lol

[@bobbobby475]

Druids are OO

[@taustyz5875]

I find that you could make Darth Vader with the Artificer Subclass

[@serenitysilvermoon]

I rolled a Fey Wanderer up using the Class Features UA too and while I haven't had the chance to play it yet it seems fairly solid, at least for RP, with Variant Human, Courtier Background (from SCAG) I ended up with 6 languages, including Common, 7 first level spells, 10 skill proficiencies and 2 tool proficiencies (including thieves tools) (took Sharpshooter and Skilled as feats) at 4th level

[@NobodyDungeons]

So what I tend to do is let everyone prepare the spells they know like a cleric, and the wizard still needs to use his spell book though the wizard gets the benefit of casting unprepared spells as rituals unlike any of the other casters except the pact of the tome warlock they get that ability as well

[@UmekCrafter]

...and everyone with ritual caster feat. Listen, when Your party's casters are sorcerer and ranger, it's really good option for rogues, to access find familiar, detect magic, identify and comprehend languages.

[@daverevisions2843]

Dude, HOW are you this fast on these?!?

[@orrangutan3977]

If someone can help me clarify here. The 9th level ability for the armorer splits the armor into three sections. Armor (Chestplate), Bracers and Boots, so you could put an infusion that required “armor” on the chest plate, and one that required “boots” on boots. But there’s no bracer infusions I know of? Is this just a waste?

[@ghosttoaster163]

The power armor compensates for missing limbs, so I think it would be cool if it was expanded to help damaged limbs, like if something fell and crushed your leg.

[@SparrowBrian]

I don't think Armorer class is meant to have magical armor as it's base. I think you are meant to apply infusions to the armor itself, and if it is already magical I don't think you can do that. It would be like infusing a magical shield with any other shield infusion.

[@NerdImmersion]

True but it doesn't say you can't use magical armor as the base

[@allenfortenberry9924]

You just would not be able to apply any extra infusions if the base is already magical armor

[@NerdImmersion]

@@allenfortenberry9924 not sure how that works if it counts as separate pieces for infusions

[@salvadortoscano2534]

@@NerdImmersion The way infusions work is that whatever the artificer is using to apply the infusion effects into *has to be* nonmagical. That's part of the flavor of the artificer, especially the infusions: "Give me like an hour and I'll have some temporary magic stuff for ya!" So if magical armor is then turned into power armor, it would not be able to gain *any* infusions, because it's already magical.

[@binolombardi]

The first sentence of “infusing an item” in the artificer class feature section states: “Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch a non­ magical object and imbue it with one of your artificer in­ fusions, turning it into a magic item.” The power armor feature does not limit you to choosing non-magical armor. The first sentence of the armor modification feature says you learn how to use your infusions to specially modify armor with the power armor feature. If magical armor can be power armored, and it can, then it can be infused too with the words used as written. At least when the 9th level feature is concerned. Two paragraphs down this sentence pops up. “Moreover, no object can bear more than one of your infusions at a time.” The Armor Modification feature gained at level 9 specifically breaks the class feature for no object bearing more than one infusion as long as it’s the armor you’ve selected for your power armor feature. They have written it in such a way as it allows magic armor to be chosen, but I suspect this is a way to allow armors already infused to be selected for power armor use. This is because the infusions are themselves magic items. I think they will probably modify this to exclude magical items that are not infusions after revision. I do like the idea of an Armorer artificer building everything around a set of cursed armor though.

[@davidotoole2853]

my idea for the rogue subclass would be something like a "Torturer" that would essentially give them a more powerful familiar that can give them something to set up sneak attack with. It would either be tied to Hell or the Shadowfell. Maybe their sneak attacks could deal necrotic damage equal to your rogue level or something.

[@eruditecaptain3117]

My thoughts, for whatever they're worth: Armorer: I was personally wanting something along these lines, but what we got is kind of a let down to me. For starters, a silly thing I was wanting was for the armor to let small creatures count as medium while wearing it. But on a more serious note, the 3rd level is bloated, the spell list has an awkward split, or even a lack, in focus (passwall? why?), and the ability to very rapidly switch from a heavily armored frontliner to a sneaky lighting blaster seems odd. I feel like most players would pick one and only switch if a party member dies. Circle of Stars: Mechanically, I like this one, though the flavor is... It's fine. I don't love it, but it sounds cool in the right setting/campaign. My spelljammer group would love it. My only gripe is that, of the three forms you can take, Chalice is clearly the worst. Archer lets you do bonus damage every round, Dragon makes it impossible to fail Concentration checks unless you take at least (assuming your Con bonus is only +1) 24 damage in one hit, and even then it's not a guaranteed failure. Chalice, however, only benefits you when you expend a spell slot ( a limited resource) to heal, a thing you will most likely not use ALL of your spell slots for. Like, yes it makes your healing notably better (cure wounds for 2d8 + WIS + level/2, all on a 1st-level slot? Yes PLEASE), but that only does the trick if you aren't trying to blast away your enemies. Other than that issue, I like the whole subclass. Fey Wanderer: I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS ONE. I enjoy the thought of "delicate antlers" on my very serious witch-hunting ranger, I love the flavors, and I love the various abilities I'm granted by this. I especially love Beguiling Twist. Imagine with me for a moment: The party encounters a terrifying dragon. The beast, angered by our presence, roars out, using its Frightful Presence ability. The party generally fails, but the fighter remains steadfast. Using this, my ranger, quaking in his boots, points at the dragon and tells it that it should be scared. And then it is.

[@eruditecaptain3117]

TL;DR: I like the flavor of all of them, but the Armorer generally feels wrong and the Chalice option for the druid is underwhelming. Fey wanderer is too good and pure for this world.

[@tychobrandsma2929]

But what level is augury and guiding bolt from the stars circle?

[@Xtra_Medium]

Finally I can make my Tony Stark as a Kobold.

[@acespades5722]

His name will be tiny spark

[@jstewart_1]

Was also thinking kobold artificer sounded like a good combo.

[@jinxtheunluckypony]

A Kobold in a Mechadragon!

[@thejesteramongfools]

I am thinking warforged

[@johnl340]

I assume you can use Blessing of the Courts with a ranged item since it says weapon attack and not melee weapon?

[@NerdImmersion]

Yeah, I think that was the intention

[@sillvvasensei]

Not really sure what the design intention was on some of the spells in the armorer spell list. I figured they'd include more spells related to enhancement. Like Enhance Ability, Elemental Weapon, etc.

[@anthonynorman7545]

EXPLOSIONS!!! And other mech stuff

[@JoltLordofThunder]

Whilst the Armorer is nice it just doesn't feel as supportive as a shield based protection class/subclass should be, it seems more of a combat caster. New druid seems nice thematically unsure on the actual performance of the subclass but at least it's neat. Fey Wanderer seems like it'll fill that spot of being a ranged paladin which we never got.

[@UmekCrafter]

There already is melee support Artificer and it's the Battle Smith.

[@JoltLordofThunder]

@@UmekCrafter Thanks for letting me know, I don't really know much about Artificer as my current DM doesn't allow the class in his campaign.

[@dapperdrifter5449]

I've really liked the base artificer but not a super big fan of any of the previous subclasses, but this armorer looks really fun.

[@SuperDre1990]

Enjoyed the video. I wonder what comes next a part 4 going back through the classes or something different

[@NerdImmersion]

My guess Part 4: Fighter, Rogue Wizard. I know they had done that back in November, so they may try again. However last time they did a big release like this, they revisited some based on feedback to further refine things before their eventual release in a published book

[@TheCoolerDrilis]

Good lord, the Armorer sounds busted. -I freaking love it.-

[@kkcapwn]

As an Artificer, in order to infuse an item, it must be non-magical. So by this class description, you may be able to take a magic plate mail and use it, you won't be able to benefit from the 2 additional infusion slots :) hope this helps "Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch a nonmagical object and imbue it with one of your artificer infusions, turning it into a magic item. An infusion works on only certain kinds of objects, as specified in the infusion’s description. If the item requires attunement, you can attune yourself to it the instant you infuse the item." E:RftLW - Page 57

[@drakkonusfrostburn4038]

Stars Druid Review Star Map: The augury and guiding bolt spells are nice and all, but no added Circle Spells. What gives? Starry Form: I really like the flavor with this. · Chalice: A healer mode. Cool. · Archer: Extra spell damage always welcomed. · Dragon: Warcaster no longer needed here. Awesome! Cosmic Omen: The randomness is chaotic. Not a bad thing per say but not a plus either. · Weal (even): This is basically Bardic Inspiration. Fine. · Woe (odd): This is basically Cutting Words. Fine. Full of Stars: Mage Rage for the win! Cool. Star Flare: A cool little nuke feature that is save or suck. It doesn’t feel like it’s worth a 5th level spell slot though. Summary: I honestly feel very underwhelmed by this. Maybe add in Circle Spells and some more altering of fate features.

[@tagabundok1]

Looking at druid subclasses I'm noticing that giving them bonus spells is actually not the norm. It's mainly a function of the Circle of the Land though Circle of Spores also gets a bonus list the three other official subclasses do not.

[@LaviCor-md7ks]

The flavor of the druid is amazing in my opinion. One of the things missing the most to me in dnd and the druid class in particular is non-animal/plant druid... I want druids who has connection to nature itself, to the earth and stones, the weather, the seasons, the stars, fates, past and future... The circle of land is too "old fashioned" and lackluster in comparison to other subclasses, while the dream druid was heading towards that direction but it still had that half backed fey flavor... This druid is indeed imperfect mechanically, but its a blessing flavor wise (with some supporting mechanics. Of course you can reflavor everything if you want to)

[@trashynecromancer1155]

Could a small race (Gnome, Kobold, ect) use a set of Plate designed for a medium creature like a mech? I like the idea of a character who's physically weak so they compensate with the mech.

[@ThatGuyFromLI]

I subscribed after this episode

[@Ghastly_Grinner]

Why wouldn't they release more subclasses for the Artificer?

[@Vawk20]

When xanathar's came out with the racial feats, that section was only for the phb races and didn't include and of the volo's races, due to the "official" dnd adventurers league only allowing players to use the phb + 1 other book. If this subclass comes out in a book, you'd need phb+eberron+new book. People were spooked that volo's racial feats would happen again and artificer would be left behind forever.

[@dickonlord]

Who knows they might release the Archivist

[@Ghastly_Grinner]

@@dickonlord Hope so

[@SRautaro]

Daaaamn. I have an Animated Armour Artificer PC that just hit level 3. This is absolutely perfect for it.

[@neonlexicon8958]

Yes! Love your vids man keep it up!

[@allenfortenberry9924]

You forgot to mention that the star map for the druid can be used as a spellcasting focus

[@allenfortenberry9924]

@sum body He mentioned that you can cast Augury and Guiding Bolt with the map, not that it can be used as your spellcasting focus for all druid spells.

[@maxx8362]

While there is nothing preventing you from using magic armor as your power armor, using magic armor as your power armor would completely negate the armor modifications feature. You can't add infusions to magic items.

[@Abyssionknight]

I absolutely love the Armorer! I've wanted to play an Artificer, but none of the subclasses was quite what I was looking for, but this definitely hits the nail on the head. The Starry form Druid is pretty cool too, and I'm happy to see it's not as bonkers as that Astral Form Monk from a while back. I would like it if your Star Map melded into your body when using Starry Form though, so that you become your own spellcasting focus while in that form, kind of like how the Artificer Armorer is their own spellcasting focus in that subclass. I can't really have an opinion on the Ranger, since the class, and all it's subclasses just don't interest me. Everything about the class and it's subclasses just feels bland to me, and this is no exception.

[@Year2047]

Bard: Starts playing White Reflction Wizard: Casts enlarge/reduce. Gnome Artificer looking at goblins in front of him. “Gundam!!!!”

[@illoney5663]

21:50 except there was a save to completely avoid the effect.

[@kjgarber7922]

Im rolling up a star circle/x ranger for that bonus action star shot

[@thejesteramongfools]

Warforged Armoror I am the power armor and it never comes off

[@deirakos]

never clicked so fast on one of your vids. curious what you think of the artificer and its infusions

[@CptnCardboard]

I hope they bring back the scribe-like Artificer subclass that was in the UA before soon, it was rad

[@ATinyWaffle]

The Ranger's Misty Presence ability does not say it makes you invisible to the creature. It just says the creature cannot see or hear you. RAW this means that even a creature with Truesight cannot see you. They would need Blindsight or Tremor sense if you are on the ground.

[@NerdImmersion]

Good point, it's weird to think you'd be undetectable by true sight but blindsight would still work. If they can't hear you, I wonder if tremorsense would still work

[@allenfortenberry9924]

Tremorsense is based on vibrations made by walking, not the sound the steps make, so it should still work

[@shaylic3795]

I believe the infusion feature for artificer prevents you from infusing items that are already magical.

[@anix712]

Yep. You can only infuse nonmagical items, so you either use a magical set of armor OR you can use your 2 infusions on it, not both.

[@shaylic3795]

Lucas it looks like you can have 4 infusions on the armor at 9. And the maximum number of infusions you can have active at 9 increases by two as long as the extra infusions are apart of the power armor. It seems really good regardless.

[@anix712]

@@shaylic3795 Yeah, you could have 4 total infusions on your power armor, I was more meaning specifically the extra 2 that can ONLY be on the power armor. If you use magical armor, you can't use those two infusions (cause you can only infuse nonmagical items).

[@zacharygadzinski3147]

These seem cool. Yet I wonder if we'll get new races soon. Would be cool to see new monsters too.

[@gEEkyxgAmEr67]

Well, this might be the earliest I’ve ever been to a video

[@jstewart_1]

I kind of like the artificer and was considering playing as one... If DM allows I'll probably play as this version.

[@dragonblade3200]

lol had you maximized and went to tab over to open a PDF on YOUR computer.

[@KcBull]

Subbed, the unearthed arcana videos are great so you won me over

[@dragonmaster613]

Is D&D stealing from DM's Guild Homebrew? The Artificer here was in a Artificer Homebrew. Same with the Barbarian of part 1 (Skinchanger from Sterling Vermin Adventuring Guild) and a couple of ones in part two.

[@RodrigoKuerten]

Technically, once something is published in DM's Guild, it belongs to Wizards of the Coast, so they can use it if they want to.

[@dragonmaster613]

@@RodrigoKuerten I didn't know that. then why is Blood Hunter or Duck Barbarian official?!?

[@SeeAche]

@vynat draco probably because matthew mercer is so well known

[@shaylic3795]

vynat draco they aren’t official.

[@shaylic3795]

Also a lot of people mentioned wanting iron man subclass. I mentioned it in play test review soo not entirely impossible that they are just listening to the consumers.

[@justinbellizzi6758]

You cant use your infusions to magic items/armor but the other class stuff would still work in theory

[@shaylic3795]

If the Ranger gets the variant features made official content then I’ll be playing a ranger upon release. Honestly I’m so excited for upcoming books this year.

[@Ricardo-zo1ti]

I'm in love with the new druid. I'd rather have the 14th hability be just Crown of Stars, but the idea and the lore is just awesome

[@corywaltz7238]

I didn't think you could apply infusions to items that were already magical. If correct then then although you could use a magical suite of armor you could not apply infusions to it.

[@Tracks777]

lovely content

[@stugod5000]

kinda want to multiclass that ranger with a war cleric feels like that could be a fun mix

[@kronosshadow1554]

Is this me or are we getting a Spelljammer module?

[@eblausund]

pretty sure we are. I remember seeing a panel with chris perkins and some players that was going to playing in one of his livestream campaigns. and basically there was something that he said that was more or less hinting hard at a upcoming spelljammer setting.

[@TuckBolt]

YES. This is my new favorite artificer.

[@westcoastgeeks7294]

How long until they clean everything up and publish this book?🤔

[@keeganmbg6999]

You don’t get advantage on your own lightning launcher attack. I thought the same thing but it says other creature.

[@kenneth6989]

I was just thinking of a war machine Bill and then they just came out with one for the Unearthed Arcana

[@SirFuffy]

I'm a bit disappointed that the artificer subclass doesn't get some bonus in doffin and donning your armor, it would be so awesome. Nevertheless it's still great

[@anasb.8647]

I play a Druid Circle of the Stars and IT IS AMAZIIIING, never played druid before cuz I never liked that gimmick, but starry forms are amazing, though we are playing a heavy rp campaign in my game,also I have a pretty cool DM who allowed me a bunch of spells from cleric and even wizard, and switch them with the more "plant" spells from druid class,

[@Tracks777]

nice video

[@knwjb5844]

Adamantine Armor FTW!!!

[@breandan3280]

I'm so hoping for a book with a slew of alternative class features for the ranger. They're better then they were but they're still the weakest martial class. More worrying to me then combat damage is the fact that quite simply, the rogue scout subclass does the wilderness survivalist niche better then the ranger, and that's just sad.

[@binolombardi]

The rogue scout is a great subclass that shows what’s possible with a outdoor skirmisher concept on rogue core features. Rogue sneak attack let the designers not have to focus much on damage since it’s already the standard they use to compare all other damage when creating classes and subclasses. No need for magic or anything. The outlier is that while themed for survival and outdoors adventure, all of the scouts features are always on, and are not dependent on environments. The ranger can be very powerful but with it’s limited slots and spell choices, it is very possible for players to pick spells or features that may not be used or are ineffective. This is why there is such a large gap depending on player choices, similar to the bard, warlock, and sorcerer. Frankly a ranger can be “built wrong” if a player doesn’t firmly understand the rules and class features. And by “built wrong” I mean taking features and spells thinking they will have effects they do not, and not having the play experience that may have been expected.

[@bacchus8081]

Those Armorer Artificer subclass spells are boooonkers :P Not sure how many of them fit into the subclass theme but ill frickin' take it and not complain about it.

[@_claymore]

I was excited to see a new Ranger subclass, hoping that they push the class a bit more. then I read through it and was quite surprised. then I reread it and was a bit bummed again. I feel like they know what they have to do to make the ranger an actual good class, going into the right direction with some features. but it's still not enough to actually make me wanna play a ranger. I wish they gave the class something (change the core mechanics or via a subclass) that makes Two-Weapon Fighting actually good. the ranger seems so iconic to be either a bow wielder or the dude with two weapons - but the mechanics are just wonky at best.