I had an idea and it reminded me of my favorite character from a MOBA that had its servers taken down so they could be used for another game.
The character is Sevarog, the game is Paragon. He was an evil being that would float around the battlefield swinging an ax and stealing the souls of the weak. He had a few abilities. The normal attack was just swinging his ax, abilities were a dash, a distanced root ability, an ability where he would reach out with some kind of spirit hand and anything killed by it had their souls stolen, then his ultimate was just a slow, heavy ax swing. I wanna know what class/subclass or multiclass could work for him and what abilities could be used that are similar to what was listed before.
MOBAs and TTRPGs have very different mechanics, so you will not be able to translate the abilities directly.
vengeance paladin gets misty step (bonus action blink that could be re-flavored as a dash) and hold person (ranged snare) at 5th level. Go with a great axe and smites will feel like the ultimate.
EDIT: Eldritch Knight with booming blade could work too, but wouldn’t come on until lvl 8 :END EDIT
not sure about the soul stealing, what mechanical benefit did they give? Healing? Extra damage?
warlock with hexblade patron. Pact of the blade. Greataxe as pact weapon. Get the spells hold person and misty step, as you level up misty step can be upgraded to thunder step and dimension door. At fifth level you can get the spell vampiric touch with deals damage and heals you for half, doesn't trigger on death but kind of works I guess? At level 11 you can choose soul cage as your mystic arcanum. Lots of things you can do with the captured soul. For your invocations make sure you have thirsting blade and eldritch smite.
this should give mechanical support for the concept but doesn't come fully online concept wise until level 11. Not going to say this is the only way you can build this or even the strongest, but is a straight forward no multi-class way to do it.
Edit: realized I missed the float part. This could be handled with winged boots or the fly spell which you can get at level 5
I had an idea and it reminded me of my favorite character from a MOBA that had its servers taken down so they could be used for another game.
The character is Sevarog, the game is Paragon. He was an evil being that would float around the battlefield swinging an ax and stealing the souls of the weak. He had a few abilities. The normal attack was just swinging his ax, abilities were a dash, a distanced root ability, an ability where he would reach out with some kind of spirit hand and anything killed by it had their souls stolen, then his ultimate was just a slow, heavy ax swing. I wanna know what class/subclass or multiclass could work for him and what abilities could be used that are similar to what was listed before.
what about something along the lines of a warlock hexblade with mage hand and a rogue subclass so that you can use a bonus action to dash?
Full of rice, beans, and bad ideas.
MOBAs and TTRPGs have very different mechanics, so you will not be able to translate the abilities directly.
vengeance paladin gets misty step (bonus action blink that could be re-flavored as a dash) and hold person (ranged snare) at 5th level. Go with a great axe and smites will feel like the ultimate.
EDIT: Eldritch Knight with booming blade could work too, but wouldn’t come on until lvl 8 :END EDIT
not sure about the soul stealing, what mechanical benefit did they give? Healing? Extra damage?
I know I can't directly, nut want to as closely as I can. Kinda miss the character, lol.
And they gave extra damage mainly if I remember right. Though if that can't be done, healing would still be acceptable.
jonniipalos suggestion works well then
warlock with hexblade patron. Pact of the blade. Greataxe as pact weapon. Get the spells hold person and misty step, as you level up misty step can be upgraded to thunder step and dimension door. At fifth level you can get the spell vampiric touch with deals damage and heals you for half, doesn't trigger on death but kind of works I guess? At level 11 you can choose soul cage as your mystic arcanum. Lots of things you can do with the captured soul. For your invocations make sure you have thirsting blade and eldritch smite.
this should give mechanical support for the concept but doesn't come fully online concept wise until level 11. Not going to say this is the only way you can build this or even the strongest, but is a straight forward no multi-class way to do it.
Edit: realized I missed the float part. This could be handled with winged boots or the fly spell which you can get at level 5