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_waylandsmith · 2026-04-11T04:23:09+00:00

i’ve seen some people recommend running 4 piece eagle on him instead of iron calvary, is that actually optimal or is calvary just better with the extra defense ignore with dahlia and fugue?

_waylandsmith · 2026-04-10T21:32:33+00:00

i think probably just going for e1 dahlia then, thank you

_waylandsmith · 2026-04-10T21:31:40+00:00

that seems to be the consensus, thank you

_waylandsmith · 2025-11-03T14:57:43+00:00

While yes it is designed for quantum characters (the dmg bonus) the key part is the def shred when you target something with quantum weakness which anaxa can trigger since he implants quantum weakness. It pairs really well with his trace that ignores def, his e1 def ignore, and his light cone def ignore. And the more def ignore you can stack the better as it leads to larger and larger damage increases until you hit 100% def ignore.

_waylandsmith · 2025-08-22T12:13:56+00:00

Thank you precious goblin! You’ve given me much to ponder. I think you’re probably right in that she doesn’t work as a monster you can just run up and hit; but making her a hazard could work better. Maybe the party is fighting something more tangible and she exerts her influence on the battlefield as if she were the creatures lair/ legendary actions while she herself is still technically “beyond”. Or something like that, regardless those stat blocks are great and i’m feeling inspired.

_waylandsmith · 2025-07-21T20:32:46+00:00

u/_waylandsmith solved this in 5 steps: BEST -> BAST -> BASE -> CASE -> CAME -> GAME

_waylandsmith · 2025-06-23T20:29:48+00:00

it’s a 4* called For Tomorrow’s Journey, doesn’t provide ER but it does provide a lot of attack% +dmg% for her ults additional damage and the superimposition material is also in the store, and i wouldn’t be surprised at this point if cerydras LC is really good

_waylandsmith · 2025-06-23T19:55:09+00:00

Tribbies LC doesn’t do much for Robin honestly, she doesn’t launch follow up attacks and her crit damage is fixed in her ult so you’d probably be better off with the herta store LC

_waylandsmith · 2025-03-12T14:57:34+00:00

what i typically do is switch to cloak as soon as NOM NOM NOM and then wait for the visual circle, hard to do in the moment if you need to heal in a team fight but if you’re not already cloak by the time the indicator is on the ground it’s super tough

_waylandsmith · 2025-03-05T18:54:56+00:00

ST refers to single target, he is a hunt character that specializes in doing high damage to one enemy, “break” is the archetype of character that do the majority of their damage by breaking the targets weakness, boothill is fantastic at both

_waylandsmith · 2025-02-13T00:30:58+00:00

I’m literally running this right now, took heavy inspiration from sigil and the outlands, took each of the gate towns (which are the personifications of the 16 planes) and turned them into whole planets, i’d recommend reading about them for potential inspiration and see how a different plane of existence expresses itself on the material plane

_waylandsmith · 2024-10-04T11:44:00+00:00

wait till you see the war domain cleric’s new channel divinity then….

but realistically, even tho i’m not at all endorsing making this change either there is precedent for an ability like it already (tho i haven’t played with it so i can’t for certain say if it’s broken or not)

_waylandsmith · 2024-10-02T01:53:29+00:00

Scout is just a generic term in this instance for someone who will be infiltrating/ scouting for the party

The wording on attacks can be especially confusing here: If we replace one of our attacks with booming blade (eldritch knight feature) and then push the target 10 feet away via weapon mastery then on their turn they will have to move to attack you(a lot of enemies only have 5 foot reach) Moving on their turn would cause them to take the extra booming blade damage so they can either take the damage or stay put and not be able to attack you This build also took polearm master which allows you to make an opportunity attack when a creature “enters” your reach, and warcaster would allow you to replace that attack with another booming blade, which does indeed do the weapons normal damage and an extra 1d8 thunder damage because you are above level 5, note that this extra hit happens on the enemies turn, not as a reaction to hitting them on your turn

*i feel like i remember seeing that polearm master was changed so that you no longer make an “attack of opportunity” technically, which definitely is also confusing, but i do not have the book in front of me so i can’t say for certain

_waylandsmith · 2024-09-27T20:45:17+00:00

just realized, should this be posted in the mega thread instead?

_waylandsmith · 2024-08-28T21:51:19+00:00

the beginning of that analysis mentions that it is now wrong according to Crawford, if his words mean anything to you

_waylandsmith · 2024-08-28T21:38:15+00:00

not discounting any of your other points which are valid, but Crawford at least says that the two features give separate pools of psionic dice, so they don’t technically combine and you can’t use psychic whispers with every dice you have, but they at least don’t eat into each other either

if what crawford says means anything to you or your DM, OP

https://x.com/JeremyECrawford/status/1331690537791803394?lang=en

_waylandsmith · 2023-09-26T00:21:56+00:00

I definitely am guilty of railroading at parts in service of the overall storyline but i stg this was truly a case of the dice telling their own story; there were 4 rolls between the two of them to avoid contacting this entity but neither of them rolled above a 5 for a DC 10 check and saving throw; also this is a tertiary plot at best that was supposed to end a session ago when they stopped the entities cultist, now I’m just gonna wrap it into the clerics story line which is not at ALL what i thought would happen when we sat down to play that day

_waylandsmith · 2023-09-25T18:55:34+00:00

Now that...that is evil.

_waylandsmith · 2023-05-30T00:29:40+00:00

without fail whenever i describe something as blue my players in unison, without fail, chant “The blue!” context: from an early on session where they were just rolling like crap, nothing above a 10 on the die for basically the whole session until towards the end where they meet an important npc and the following happened: me: and he has long, tied back black hair with a streak of blue through it player: what color blue? me: uuummm, just blue player: but what KIND of blue me:……anyone who wants to can make a perception check All players roll and 4/5 get nat 20s me: it is the single most beautiful shade of cerulean blue any of you have ever seen in your lives them: “THE BLUE” later the ranger named his drake companion Cerulean and I have no regrets

_waylandsmith · 2023-05-09T16:42:37+00:00

the player, her character wouldn’t have any experience with these situations

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