So I'm making a character that is a tabaxi echo Knight fighter.
His backstory revolves around the idea of cats having nine lives so the idea is that one of his nine lives has offered to help him in exchange for his current life help him in some fashion.
I have most of the concept but wanted some advice particularly with weather or not dual wielding would be a good idea.
The feature of the Echo Knight don't particularly work better or worse based on your weapon choices. Two-handed, dual-wielding, or weapon and shield are all viable options. As a Tabaxi, a particularly agile species, dual-wielding is probably the most common for the theme, but there is nothing wrong with going against the norm. Play the character you want to play, and have fun with it.
Ok I was just worried about action economy so thanks for the input and if you have any ideas on what the backstory should be don't be afraid to post all advice is good advice.
I’d suggest talking with your DM about how they work. There’s a 50-page, 5 years running thread on here debating how many of the echo knight powers work. A lot of their powers cause confusion. It’s much better to talk it through out of session and make sure you both have the same understanding of them.
To your question, dual wielding and echo knights don’t work very well together. Both manifesting the echo, and some of the things you do with it take a bonus action. Your off hand attack also takes a bonus action. So there’s a little competition for that action. The other issue is attacking from the echo’s position says “When you take the Attack action on your turn, any attack you make with that action can originate from your space or the echo’s space.” The off hand attack is a bonus action, not an attack action, meaning you can’t use it from your echo’s space. So the big thing of the class, attacking from a second space, can’t utilize the bonus action extra attack.
Some DMs may rule otherwise, but that just brings us back to the first point of talking it through before you start.
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So I'm making a character that is a tabaxi echo Knight fighter.
His backstory revolves around the idea of cats having nine lives so the idea is that one of his nine lives has offered to help him in exchange for his current life help him in some fashion.
I have most of the concept but wanted some advice particularly with weather or not dual wielding would be a good idea.
The feature of the Echo Knight don't particularly work better or worse based on your weapon choices. Two-handed, dual-wielding, or weapon and shield are all viable options. As a Tabaxi, a particularly agile species, dual-wielding is probably the most common for the theme, but there is nothing wrong with going against the norm. Play the character you want to play, and have fun with it.
Ok I was just worried about action economy so thanks for the input and if you have any ideas on what the backstory should be don't be afraid to post all advice is good advice.
I’d suggest talking with your DM about how they work. There’s a 50-page, 5 years running thread on here debating how many of the echo knight powers work. A lot of their powers cause confusion. It’s much better to talk it through out of session and make sure you both have the same understanding of them.
To your question, dual wielding and echo knights don’t work very well together. Both manifesting the echo, and some of the things you do with it take a bonus action. Your off hand attack also takes a bonus action. So there’s a little competition for that action. The other issue is attacking from the echo’s position says “When you take the Attack action on your turn, any attack you make with that action can originate from your space or the echo’s space.” The off hand attack is a bonus action, not an attack action, meaning you can’t use it from your echo’s space. So the big thing of the class, attacking from a second space, can’t utilize the bonus action extra attack.
Some DMs may rule otherwise, but that just brings us back to the first point of talking it through before you start.