D&D 5E Polearm Master + Warcaster feats

[gyor]

I just noticed the Syngery between Polearm Master and Warcaster.

Example Warlock Blademaster, weapon of choice a Glaive. This Warlock has all the Eldrich Blast buffing invocations.

Polearm Master allow you to take an opportunity attack when someone enters reach of your Polearm, and Warcaster allows you to use a two handed weapon and somatic compenents and to cast spell at them instead of an opportunity attack.

So the Warlock could nail someone with Eldrich Blast with agonizing blast and repelling blast on it, hitting it hard and knocking it backwards when it enters the range of your Glaive.

A Fey Knight could use it to cast Moonbeam on it instead. Of course the Fey Knight would be better off just hitting it with Ensnaring Strike and its Glaive and then on its turn cast moonbeam. Or depending upon the enemy banish.

 

[gyor]

I'm sure you guys could find other synergies between these two feats.

 

[Tormyr]

One thing to keep in mind is that opportunity attacks only trigger when someone moves using their own movement. Forced movement from push and pull effects do not count.

 

[Cernor]

A Fey Knight could use it to cast Moonbeam on it instead. Of course the Fey Knight would be better off just hitting it with Ensnaring Strike and its Glaive and then on its turn cast moonbeam. Or depending upon the enemy banish.

Unfortunately you couldn't cast Moonbeam, because the spell you cast as an OA has to target only that creature and Moonbeam is an AoE... But you could banish it! Or levitate it 20 feet in the air and laugh at its impotence.

 

[Zardnaar]

This combo was spotted about 5 seconds after the game launched on the WoTC forums and they asked the developers about it. Their recommendation was these two feats do not stack and let you make spell AoO via the polearm feat at 10'