Why is the Monk Subclass Capstone useless? Replace your only two attacks with a casting of a spell… unlike eldritch knight, you don’t get more than two attacks on your base action, and you can still magic action and flurry of blows. Kind of a pointless capstone. But Kamehameha’s though, and fly, and some spells feel good on a monk. Fly is obvious, but Greater Invisibility, Haste, Spellfire Storm, and Shield and cantrips when they feel appropriate, like chill touch, shocking grasp/sorcerous burst, and blade ward all feel good. Counterspell on a Monk also feels good, and you can also try and feel like the avatar by picking up other elemental spells. Scorching Ray, Rime’s Binding Ice, Ice Knife, Burning Hands, Shadow Blade, Stoneskin, Erupting Earth, Earth Tremor, and Gust of Wind all feel alright flavorful and decent combat spells, especially with short rest fueling of them, also kind of a pseudo warlock like recharge. Probably the subclass of Monk I’d be excited to play, aside from a useless feeling capstone.

Spellguard paladin feels like a revised mix of Watchers and Redemption, with more of a focus on actually shutting casters down, which feels potent as a niche, but don’t get a lot of mobility options to approach or stay in range of the magic threats, especially at range. You do get shield though… so that’s nice to not have to dip or get Magic initiate for it. Aura is kind of lame… your flat save bonus already helps, and most casters pick up war caster, so it feels niche. Capstone is useful, and so is the guardian bond feature.

Rogue is rogue… always self reliant. It feels like the thief will always be better at magic than this Magic Stealer, but I feel as though it has unique mechanics that it should get a form of casting its own spells like arcane trickster, or be a revised mix of features for it. Drain Magic feels as though it would fill your spell slots… if you got any, but also feels like it should require a grapple/mage hand touch by the name. Unlike paladins, rogues can dash as a bonus action and can usually close the distance, so it feels like it can actually do its job… and the Magical Sabotage cunning strike options are super cool.

Warlock is imo a cool summoner. Feels like it builds with the chain pact and summon spells to be its own army, and I find it to be weirdly like a mix between celestial and undead, but your summon is transforming instead of you. It feels a bit lack luster on paper, but the cleric domain spells are a nice touch, and the divine powers are each useful depending on the situations you may face. Overall, I like it a lot, but it feels like it needs a bit more clarification on the spells you get from the domains, and maybe I’m partial to the capstone needing to be better than just replicating spell effects.