How do I best build a wizard to be effective teammate in combat situations? I don’t necessarily want to be a multiple class build, just don’t want to be the needy useless without spell slots wizard, nor do I want to be the wizard that just throws fireballs.
Well War Magic sort of fills that role as does abjuration but not quite in the way you want. What I can see is you want a Gish (martial who can still do combat magic, I think this is what you want tell me if I’m wrong). For this there are in my opinion a few options but only 1 is wizard. Bladesinger wizard does the Gish thing with multi attack, and I tried my hand at redesigning war magic to be more Gish like (it’s maybe the 3rd or 4th thread of this forum. The other options are Hexblade,Eldritch knight,undead warlock,fiend warlock.
Hexblade-Pros-SAD(read happy),Decent spellcasting,great armour and generally good features Cons-limited spellcasting at a time, often relies on hex for sustainable dpr,very eldritch invocations investment heavy if going melee
Eldritch knight-ProsGood hit die,all armour proficiency’s and weapons,most feats,ACTION SURGE, very solid to great features at every level Cons-limited slow levelling spell casting, best uses magic defensively(shield,silvery barbs,blur,haste etc),requires int
undead lock-Pros-form of dread is amazing,thirsting blade eldritch smite and lifdrinker are insane spike dpr,grave touched gives very good bonus damage, tackier than they look Cons-Warlock casting,no medium armour or martial weapons,heavy eldritch invocation cost if going melee if not then EB all the way
Fiend-Pros-Fireball up to 6 times a day at level 5 :),nice temporary Hitpoints when something dies,gets some resistance at 10th, Hurl Through Hell is the best Cons-Warlock casting,eldritch invocations heavy if going melee , no medium armour or martial weapons
Sorry long post but hope that helps
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How do I best build a wizard to be effective teammate in combat situations? I don’t necessarily want to be a multiple class build, just don’t want to be the needy useless without spell slots wizard, nor do I want to be the wizard that just throws fireballs.
Well War Magic sort of fills that role as does abjuration but not quite in the way you want. What I can see is you want a Gish (martial who can still do combat magic, I think this is what you want tell me if I’m wrong). For this there are in my opinion a few options but only 1 is wizard. Bladesinger wizard does the Gish thing with multi attack, and I tried my hand at redesigning war magic to be more Gish like (it’s maybe the 3rd or 4th thread of this forum. The other options are Hexblade,Eldritch knight,undead warlock,fiend warlock.
Hexblade-Pros-SAD(read happy),Decent spellcasting,great armour and generally good features Cons-limited spellcasting at a time, often relies on hex for sustainable dpr,very eldritch invocations investment heavy if going melee
Eldritch knight-ProsGood hit die,all armour proficiency’s and weapons,most feats,ACTION SURGE, very solid to great features at every level Cons-limited slow levelling spell casting, best uses magic defensively(shield,silvery barbs,blur,haste etc),requires int
undead lock-Pros-form of dread is amazing,thirsting blade eldritch smite and lifdrinker are insane spike dpr,grave touched gives very good bonus damage, tackier than they look Cons-Warlock casting,no medium armour or martial weapons,heavy eldritch invocation cost if going melee if not then EB all the way
Fiend-Pros-Fireball up to 6 times a day at level 5 :),nice temporary Hitpoints when something dies,gets some resistance at 10th, Hurl Through Hell is the best Cons-Warlock casting,eldritch invocations heavy if going melee , no medium armour or martial weapons
Sorry long post but hope that helps
And you run, and you run
To catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
And racing around
To come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way
But you’re older
Shorter of Breath
And one day closer to death
currently in love with redesigning subclasses send me a message and I will try