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Rune Knight Is The Best Fighter Overall IMHO.
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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9199755" data-attributes="member: 7030563"><p>Yes a large portion of foes - elementals, undead, celestials, fiends, fey, and aberations. It certainly varies by campaign, but that is 44 pages of monsters on D&D beyond out of 138 pages total. In addition to the disadvantage on attack rolls, it also completely nullifies frightened and charmed from those creatures (assuming you cast it before their turn). These are two very debilitating conditions on a melee combatant, frightened completely stops movement towards the enemy and charmed stops you from attacking them. That is in addition to other effects that often come along with these conditions when imposed by an enemy (incapacitated, controlled, must run away etc). It turns an encounter from something like a Chain Devil from a very tough fight to a walk in the park for a tier 2 fighter.</p><p></p><p>IME, it is the second best EK spell after Shield. It is more useful than Absorb Elements, which I would say is the third. All three of those are abjurations and none of them require intelligence, making them ideal on an EK.</p><p></p><p>A 3rd level EK has two spells to pick from this small list, and a 4th-6th level EK has three spells to take:</p><p>Absorb Elements</p><p>Alarm</p><p>Mage Armor</p><p>Protection from Evil and Good</p><p>Shield</p><p>Snare</p><p>Burning Hands</p><p>Chromatic Orb</p><p>Earth Tremor</p><p>Frost Fingers</p><p>Magic Missile</p><p>Tasha's Caustic Brew</p><p>Thunderwave</p><p>Witchbolt</p><p></p><p>What spells would you pick from that list instead of the 3 I mentioned?</p><p></p><p>If you are running a high intelligence a few of them are decent options, but even those are very situational as these are 1st level spells without slots to upcast effectively, none are good controls spells (even when compared to other 1st level spells) and they are not going to do a lot of damage for this level or any future level.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 9199755, member: 7030563"] Yes a large portion of foes - elementals, undead, celestials, fiends, fey, and aberations. It certainly varies by campaign, but that is 44 pages of monsters on D&D beyond out of 138 pages total. In addition to the disadvantage on attack rolls, it also completely nullifies frightened and charmed from those creatures (assuming you cast it before their turn). These are two very debilitating conditions on a melee combatant, frightened completely stops movement towards the enemy and charmed stops you from attacking them. That is in addition to other effects that often come along with these conditions when imposed by an enemy (incapacitated, controlled, must run away etc). It turns an encounter from something like a Chain Devil from a very tough fight to a walk in the park for a tier 2 fighter. IME, it is the second best EK spell after Shield. It is more useful than Absorb Elements, which I would say is the third. All three of those are abjurations and none of them require intelligence, making them ideal on an EK. A 3rd level EK has two spells to pick from this small list, and a 4th-6th level EK has three spells to take: Absorb Elements Alarm Mage Armor Protection from Evil and Good Shield Snare Burning Hands Chromatic Orb Earth Tremor Frost Fingers Magic Missile Tasha's Caustic Brew Thunderwave Witchbolt What spells would you pick from that list instead of the 3 I mentioned? If you are running a high intelligence a few of them are decent options, but even those are very situational as these are 1st level spells without slots to upcast effectively, none are good controls spells (even when compared to other 1st level spells) and they are not going to do a lot of damage for this level or any future level. [/QUOTE]
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