I'm kinda new to Dnd so the thing you said about being repetitive are all new to me and quite enjoyable as of the time of writing. The reason I asked because I made a echo knight 3/wizard X. I wanted a tanky wizard and looked for a good fighter subclass and stumbled upon echo knight.
What I wanted initially was to make the echo just a meat shield for melee enemies before they could reach my wizard. Then what happened was enemies are ignoring my echo because its attack of opportunity don't have enough damage. So then I searched if I could activate booming blade as I already have warcaster to add more damage and they wouldn't ignore my echo anymore.
I think that's a waste of three levels, if I'm behing being honest. Casting booming blade means making a melee attack with a manufactured weapon. You can't use your spellcasting ability, so you need a decent Strength or Dexterity score. The default 13 to multiclass isn't going to cut it, and 14 (+2 modifier) won't be helpful over a longer campaign.
The echo has an AC of anywhere from 16 to 20, so while it might not get hit often it'll go down whenever it does. And constantly moving it or teleporting is going to tie up your bonus action. This means you're not casting one of the wizard's many bonus action spells, never mind the loss of three levels of spellcasting. But, hey, you're proficient in at least medium armor and shields, depending on when you multiclassed, so your AC should be decent. Though, you could get most of that by playing a mountain dwarf. Or just one level of multiclassing. Or even a Fateful Moment that I rolled and turned into a feat for my halfling rogue.
You were press-ganged into military service, and were left shaken by what you saw on the battlefield. You have proficiency with medium armor, shields, and martial weapons. You also have a random form of indefinite madness, determined by rolling on the Indefinite Madness table in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide.
I think your wizard is tanky enough without the echo knight.
Maybe it really is too much, but the ability to get in and out of the battle is satisfying and it saved my wizard a lot of times.
My wizard by the way is a divination and I focused on battle field control combined with portent.
Our DM is throwing a lot of encounters without letting us rest to increase the difficulty but my wiz have always a lot of spells left because I save my spells just for hideous laughter, grease, hypnotic pattern. And I don't cast shield that much.
Most of the time, the other party members like the paladin, fighter, cleric and one pure wizard are almost dying due to suprise enemies and lots of encounters. But my wiz is about 75-100% Hp most of the time.
We enjoy the difficulty and the way our DM handles things made us really think about optimisation which is fun for us.
I don't do much damage, but I shine through crowd control.
I'm kinda new to Dnd so the thing you said about being repetitive are all new to me and quite enjoyable as of the time of writing. The reason I asked because I made a echo knight 3/wizard X. I wanted a tanky wizard and looked for a good fighter subclass and stumbled upon echo knight.
What I wanted initially was to make the echo just a meat shield for melee enemies before they could reach my wizard. Then what happened was enemies are ignoring my echo because its attack of opportunity don't have enough damage. So then I searched if I could activate booming blade as I already have warcaster to add more damage and they wouldn't ignore my echo anymore.
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Maybe it really is too much, but the ability to get in and out of the battle is satisfying and it saved my wizard a lot of times.
My wizard by the way is a divination and I focused on battle field control combined with portent.
Our DM is throwing a lot of encounters without letting us rest to increase the difficulty but my wiz have always a lot of spells left because I save my spells just for hideous laughter, grease, hypnotic pattern. And I don't cast shield that much.
Most of the time, the other party members like the paladin, fighter, cleric and one pure wizard are almost dying due to suprise enemies and lots of encounters. But my wiz is about 75-100% Hp most of the time.
We enjoy the difficulty and the way our DM handles things made us really think about optimisation which is fun for us.
I don't do much damage, but I shine through crowd control.
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I'm kinda new to Dnd so the thing you said about being repetitive are all new to me and quite enjoyable as of the time of writing. The reason I asked because I made a echo knight 3/wizard X. I wanted a tanky wizard and looked for a good fighter subclass and stumbled upon echo knight.
What I wanted initially was to make the echo just a meat shield for melee enemies before they could reach my wizard. Then what happened was enemies are ignoring my echo because its attack of opportunity don't have enough damage. So then I searched if I could activate booming blade as I already have warcaster to add more damage and they wouldn't ignore my echo anymore.
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Can we cast booming blade through the echo if you have a warcaster feat?