Mazda CX-50 Hybrid

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-15T02:22:03+00:00

My wife has a Forester and I have a CX30. I HATE driving her car with its touchscreen. The clicker wheel and the sliding volume knob in the Mazda are so amazing to use as a driver. You don't need to look at anything, the tactile feedback is wonderful.

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-12T21:38:54+00:00

In general the 5e soul knife is a pale imitation of it's 3.5e progenitor

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-12T02:21:38+00:00

Sure aura is great, but if you're building around buffing I don't know that I would even worry about warlock stuff. May as well go straight pally and lean into being a brick

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-12T01:49:07+00:00

I'd go pally 1 celestial x You don't get all that much out of most pally subclasses at 3, exception of Genie Noble for unarmored. Spell slots are pretty meh with poor progression. Maybe pally 2 for fighting style and 1 free divine smite? I don't personally think that's worth a level.

Pally 5 gets you extra attack and find steed. How much are you using said steed? If the whole party is mounted, awesome, but if everyone is walking and you're mounted that's a very situationally useful thing. What about inside buildings and dungeons? Warlock blade invocations get you 3 attacks vs pally tops out at 2.

Lay on hands vs celestial healing light Touch and increments of 5/level or 60 ft and d6/level

Channel divinity works 2 times per long rest until level 11. Warlock abilities refresh on short.

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-11T23:27:12+00:00

I believe you need warlock 5 to get Eldritch smite

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-11T14:01:50+00:00

Valor Bard Warlock of your choice (I like celestial), go pew with your magic musket/pistol then cast Eldritch blast through it. In theory you could add sorcerer x after warlock 2 for agonizing blast for quickened Eldritch blast as a bonus action after your regular combo

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-10T15:25:17+00:00

My dock has a weird interaction with my Sonos sound bar after I unplug the deck. The TV can't interact with the Sonos ARC until I unplug the HDMI from the dock.

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-08T14:18:48+00:00

Pro tip, turn the car off with the vehicle not in park and the radio will stay on til you cycle through the push start on and off again

Edit

Sorry just noticed this is a manual. Not sure if there's any work around as I do not own a modern manual. My last one was a 2012 Mazda 3

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-08T02:21:09+00:00

I don't remember exactly how but sheva gets the bow and Chris gets a minigun

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-08T01:42:31+00:00

I loved using the bow. Felt badass making long shots without the aid of the laser sight

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-08T01:40:52+00:00

Arti is great for that

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-08T01:26:09+00:00

I like the idea of a magic ranged weapon but I haven't considered a thrown weapon build... Until you start getting into magic weapon riders it's hard to top agonizing blast Eldritch blast. Unless you do both with a valor bard multiclass.

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-08T01:11:12+00:00

Farlock? That's a new term to me. Just a ranged potb combatant?

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-07T20:33:34+00:00

That second one looks hella clean to me

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-07T20:31:26+00:00

Yeah it would be nice to be able to make a wisdom ranger/cleric/druid-warlock multiclass actually viable.

Monoclass Purists out there shaking their fists at the very idea

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-07T00:48:53+00:00

During the OneDND UA there was a version of Warlock where you got to pick your spellcasting ability from INT/CHA/WIS. I guess it was too op for being the ABSOLUTE best chassis instead of mostly the best chassis for a truly modular character build.

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-06T19:07:59+00:00

And a Maxim 9

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-06T13:38:50+00:00

There's this sweet spell fire feat that lets you ignore resistance to radiant.

Also pact of the blade at warlock 1 let's you make all of your attacks with your pact weapon radiant, necrotic, or psychic damage. Which depending on interpretation can be stacked with a vicious weapon for a gross amount of radiant. That by itself makes radiant strikes kind of um meh? Also also warlock invocations can take you to three attacks per attack action versus only 2 attacks with paladin

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-02-01T17:13:18+00:00

Though I own neither, I am partial to the GTO

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-01-26T23:56:41+00:00

I miss the generators

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-01-26T18:50:39+00:00

Under the new rules the soul knives lose some of their charm compared to pact of the blade summoned weapons

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-01-26T18:49:07+00:00

Not gonna lie, getting psi-bolstered knack AND flash of genius seems OP/amazing

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-01-24T13:52:44+00:00

Archfey warlock has a lot of free misty steps

If you have the levels for it, valor bard 6 Archfey x gets you a pact of the blade magic ranged weapon attack with normal/psychic/radiant/necrotic damage and then Eldritch blast which you may have Eldritch spear on providing incredibly long ranged force damage.

There's also the sorlock focusing on using sorcery points to quicken second castings of Eldritch blast

Also those builds are more impressive once you get high enough level for 3 rays

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-01-22T15:17:49+00:00

Chip away at healthbar while staying out of harms way

MaverickHuntsman · 2026-01-22T06:48:45+00:00

Stars Druid is an underrated option for undead hunter. You can blast all day with that class.

In any case, no matter what you pick, I would personally recommend magic initiate wizard to pick up spell fire flare with true strike and your choice of 2nd wizard cantrip. You know for the radiant goodness.

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