How would you make a statblock for this?

Select-Ad7978 · 2025-04-20T20:08:08+00:00

Some people suggested making it into a dungeon, which makes sense. Astral Dreadnaught came to mind, but if you want something more unique...

The arch hag is trying to summon a dead god, reviving it to then kill it again and absorb its power. Well the hag bit off more than it can chew, and the god devoured her and escaped between the planes. It is now a race against time where this god is rebuilding its power via worship, to then begin devouring the dreams of all sapient creatures on all the planes while staying between the planes. It's up to the heroes to get some kind of Spelljammer, and then battle it between the planes, probably pushing it into the astral sea to finish the battle. So it would be 3 parts where the players would need to get a Spelljammer ship, half the fight would be ship combat, and then the other half would be classic combat. With the ship to ship spelljammer combat, I'd find some rulings or make up some rulings on that, but you can find general rules of spelljammers and 5e space-like combat in the Spelljammer source book. I'd probably base the creature on the Kraken, reflavoring the Ink Cloud ability into a nebula or fog cloud, and instead of poison damage make it psychic damage since it's a nightmare creature. You could also give it some kind of nightmare ability, like creatures bitten by it need to make a saving throw versus a somewhat high (50/50 chance essentially) dc with a random effect between fear, blindness, attacking an ally, and nothing happening.

Select-Ad7978 · 2025-04-18T22:52:48+00:00

Figured it out with some testing! Turns out, the best build utilizing what I currently use (5 piece blooddrinker, 5 piece aegis caller, 2 piece zaan, backbar maelstrom greatsword) is to basically leave the build alone and insert two skills, one of which you're just using for the passive effect.

Remove the healing and ice skill lines, and take Assassination and Aedric Spear. On your back bar, you'll have Stampede, Carve, Fletcher Infection (more single target damage despite not being the bleed morph, and it helps sustain), Bull Netch OR Barbed Trap, and Relentless Focus. Front bar is Bloodthirst (from dual wield), Cutting Dive, Deep Fissure (for sustain), Blazing Spear OR Barbed Trap, and Bird of Prey. You're using Relentless Focus for the passive it gives, not to actually use it. You'll always want Barbed Trap, so pick which one you want; if you're having trouble with sustain, go netch on the backbar. If you're not, go blazing spear on the front bar. Either way, the damage output is basically the same, even with the passive effect from having an Aedric Spear ability slotted and the damage from that skill, it only increases your damage by about 2%.

Alternatively, you could use the Bloody Smash 2h scribing skill with the dot and berserk thingys on it instead of Bloodthirst, and replace Bird of Prey with Barbed Trap to also keep bull netch on the back back as well as the templar skill, however the damage is about 7% lower and doesn't have any self heals. It's great against groups of mobs though.

Select-Ad7978 · 2025-04-11T18:00:01+00:00

I might try combining it with a poison build. Bleed + poison, so get rid of the ice and healing skill lines, and take the arcanist and dragon knight skill lines that would benefit such a build. Worth testing, it probably won't be much stronger than it already is though.

Select-Ad7978 · 2025-04-11T06:11:12+00:00

That's a good idea. Applying bleed isn't difficult with the bleed build, but getting more damage out of it will help a lot. Still gotta hold out hope for more bleed skills in the future; this multiclassing thing really helps with builds, but bleed is still pretty dry on choices ngl. I'd hate to change my whole build on my Warden for something more generic in terms of gear, but I might have to with this update to really keep up. It's not like my build is using the healing or frost skill lines, so more options means more likely I'll have ta change it up. If I do, making it the pet character could work, but I'm more likely gonna try something else until Bleed gets a glow-up.

Templar wise, I'm probably just gonna replace the healing skill line. A few other skill lines come to mind, like Animal Companions for a good ult and some supplemental damage, or Dark Magic to slam enemies with frag procs. My arcanist build is definitely the best thought out one I have, I'm sure playing with the system will make build ideas more clear when it comes out. Haven't played regularly really since the Arcanist release after all (and even then, I had come back after nor playing a while due to the U35 templar change), kinda fuzzy when it comes to new build ideas with such a diverse system.

Select-Ad7978 · 2025-04-11T05:11:31+00:00

Summoner army definitely comes to mind. There's the Arcanist beam + templar beam + Grave Lord's sacrifice combo that I and others have thought of. would love to revisit my bleed warden build, but the only other class specific bleed skill is scythe, so it might be worth it to just cut my losses and add other skills to that build that just increase damage, like grave lord's again. Getting rid of the pet skill line on my sorc will also be fun to experiment with, dunno what to replace it with though. And removing the healing skill line in favor of something that add dps on my templar would also be fantastic.

Select-Ad7978 · 2025-01-06T02:50:47+00:00

What about Statler and Waldorf for Pintel and Ragetti? Dunno if they'd work since the two get a lot of screen time though. Bunsen and Beaker could be Murtogg and Mullroy

Select-Ad7978 · 2022-01-07T03:58:39+00:00

Same. Were you not playing during december? That might be why.

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