ive learned that of all the classes bard is very versatile in what can be done. skill monkey, to sword flair. to the best dame support and everything else inbetween." please lets hear your ideas.
i have a valor builds dwarf whomen i gonna give a deeper and slower style that seems to echo with a two handed weapon and heavy armor
Assuming you want to use that style, you will have to figure out how to get Warhammer and Heavy Armor proficiency. Warhammer is easy enough, you can get that by being a dwarf, which you were already doing. The Heavy Armor is trickier, and you have a few options.
1: Spend a Feat at level 4 to get Heavily Armored. This will slow down your progression of getting higher Strength, Con and Cha.
2: Start with 1 level in Fighter or Paladin. This will slow down your spell slot progression by a level, but will give your some other benefits. Fighter would probably be better here for the Fighting Style.
3: Multiclass into a Cleric domain that grants Heavy Armor, like Tempest or Life. This won’t slow your spell slots, but now you also need some Wisdom to Mulitclass and use your new abilities effectively.
What you need to ask yourself is why you are doing this type of build. If you are trying to have a little bit of everything, then you will be fine, but you are not going to be the best damage dealer, the best tank, or the best support, though you will be decent at all of those. Consider if you would be better off living with just Medium Armor, or playing a Paladin, which is a tanky-support class that seems like what you are trying to build.
If you're looking for a Bard that puts the most emphasis on Bardic Inspiration, Eloquence is amazing. It is one of the stronger bard subclasses but also leans pretty heavily into the Bardic Inspiration feature. They can use it to help important spells land on enemies by decreasing their saving throws, allies don't lose an inspiration if it fails, and eventually when it succeeds you can use a reaction to move that inspiration to another ally. I think it's a really fun playstyle.
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ive learned that of all the classes bard is very versatile in what can be done. skill monkey, to sword flair. to the best dame support and everything else inbetween." please lets hear your ideas.
i have a valor builds dwarf whomen i gonna give a deeper and slower style that seems to echo with a two handed weapon and heavy armor
Assuming you want to use that style, you will have to figure out how to get Warhammer and Heavy Armor proficiency. Warhammer is easy enough, you can get that by being a dwarf, which you were already doing. The Heavy Armor is trickier, and you have a few options.
1: Spend a Feat at level 4 to get Heavily Armored. This will slow down your progression of getting higher Strength, Con and Cha.
2: Start with 1 level in Fighter or Paladin. This will slow down your spell slot progression by a level, but will give your some other benefits. Fighter would probably be better here for the Fighting Style.
3: Multiclass into a Cleric domain that grants Heavy Armor, like Tempest or Life. This won’t slow your spell slots, but now you also need some Wisdom to Mulitclass and use your new abilities effectively.
What you need to ask yourself is why you are doing this type of build. If you are trying to have a little bit of everything, then you will be fine, but you are not going to be the best damage dealer, the best tank, or the best support, though you will be decent at all of those. Consider if you would be better off living with just Medium Armor, or playing a Paladin, which is a tanky-support class that seems like what you are trying to build.
If you're looking for a Bard that puts the most emphasis on Bardic Inspiration, Eloquence is amazing. It is one of the stronger bard subclasses but also leans pretty heavily into the Bardic Inspiration feature. They can use it to help important spells land on enemies by decreasing their saving throws, allies don't lose an inspiration if it fails, and eventually when it succeeds you can use a reaction to move that inspiration to another ally. I think it's a really fun playstyle.