D&D 5E Has Anyone Seen the Following Builds?

[Zardnaar]

I'm surprised not to hear of uses of Fighter 2/Wizard xyz, especially for starts at higher levels.
We had a wizard going with Mountain Dwarf race partly for the medium armour proficiency but I'm surprised that more wizards haven't started with fighter for the armour, con saves and (the strangely applicable to magic) action surge.
(For this I might require something like inheritor background to explain the spellbook of a start with magic initiate feat).

Yeah Mountain Dearf is so good at. Also for a armor and weapon using Sorcerer.

But still not seeing them or that many wizards even.

Power doesn't mean popularity but I've suspected that for a long time (3.5ish).

 

[UngainlyTitan]

In an actual real game? Close enough also counts the level don't need to ve exact

Eldritch Knight 6, Bladesinger 2

Paladin 6/hexblade1 (or any hexblade dip on a charisma class).

Divine Soul xyz, Death Cleric 1

Fighter 2/Wizard xyz

Eldritch Knight 6/Paladin xyz

If you've seen them how did they play out in a real game? I have only seen the divine Soul in action.

I have played an Eldritch Knight and considered a Bladesinger dip but did not go with it. The school restrictions on the EK and lack of slots make it not really worth while in my opinion.
Not seen a Pally/Hexblade the closest would Travis Willingham's character Fjord on Critical Role but Fjord has 5 levels of Hexblade for narrative reasons.
DS/DC nope but I have seen Warlock DS
Ftr2/ Wiz yes on a oneshot, I have seen a couple of Ftr1/Wiz any. Mostly played like a standard Wiz. It was mostly for the AC

 

[Seramus]

Seen Paladin/Hexblade and it was fine. Actually used eldritch blast over melee unless the enemy got in his face. He enjoyed the paladin saves of course, but mostly liked the social strength.

Saw Divine Soul / Order Cleric and she had a lot of fun. The party loved her and she spent her sorcery points recovering 1st level spells to give people free attacks. Funny thing is she cast bless so often she ended up hating the spell and never cast it again on any character she played since then.

Saw Fighter 1/Abjuration who spammed mage armor for THP. Wasn't anything notable or impressive.

Had a Fighter 1/Sorcerer who spammed Shield. Just buckets of shield. It was more than a little silly, but they were happy.

 

[Zardnaar]

Seen Paladin/Hexblade and it was fine. Actually used eldritch blast over melee unless the enemy got in his face. He enjoyed the paladin saves of course, but mostly liked the social strength.

Saw Divine Soul / Order Cleric and she had a lot of fun. The party loved her and she spent her sorcery points recovering 1st level spells to give people free attacks. Funny thing is she cast bless so often she ended up hating the spell and never cast it again on any character she played since then.

Saw Fighter 1/Abjuration who spammed mage armor for THP. Wasn't anything notable or impressive.

Had a Fighter 1/Sorcerer who spammed Shield. Just buckets of shield. It was more than a little silly, but they were happy.

I've seen wizards blow all their spells on things like shield and misty step and resort to spamming fireball or whatever.

 

[TerraDave]

I have also seen "class" features picked up through background, race, and subclass--that can work well.

Multi-classing might let you do things you can't otherwise, but it almost never seems to be a powerup in practice.

 

[Zardnaar]

I have also seen "class" features picked up through background, race, and subclass--that can work well.

Multi-classing might let you do things you can't otherwise, but it almost never seems to be a powerup in practice.

I thinkbt is if you know what you're doing.

Aldo the payoff might be long term eg level 7+ so something basic like a fighter/rogue is better when it matters.

 

[OldSchoolGamerGirl]

In an actual real game? Close enough also counts the level doesn't need to be exact

Eldritch Knight 6, Bladesinger 2

yes, although I often see the reverse. the blade singer 5 eldritch knight 3

Paladin 6/hexblade1 (or any hexblade dip on a charisma class).

all the time...
like hexblade/pal hexblade/bard hexblade/sorcerer (especially divine soul sorcerer) are super common

Divine Soul xyz, Death Cleric 1

no

Fighter 2/Wizard xyz

yes and no, at this point I often see them take that 3rd level of fighter to take eldritch knight but not always

Eldritch Knight 6/Paladin xyz

nope

If you've seen them how did they play out in a real game? I have only seen the divine Soul in action.

we mostly are all full or half casters, so it works well

 

[nevin]

none of them.

 

[TwoSix]

Most wizards I've seen have taken a 1 level dip for armor proficiency, but I've seen cleric or artificer way more than fighter.

Hexblade dips are super common, seen a bunch of them.

I've never seen someone go EK6 ever, but fighters aren't very popular at my tables.

 

[AmandaBarbarian]

In an actual real game? Close enough also counts the level doesn't need to be exact

Eldritch Knight 6, Bladesinger 2

this one seems the oddest to me, what is eldritch knight 6 giving you that would not make more sense as blade singer 6 fighter 2?

caster level is 4 on f6/w2 but 6 on w6/f2 I have seen people take level 3 in the fighter just so they can get an extra pt out of second wind an extra d10 HD and the caster level from ek3. but taking more then 3 levels seems out of this world.

My first character was a fighter, and I quickly learned that spells were the main way to do things in D&D and as such maximizing caster level was important.

Paladin 6/hexblade1 (or any hexblade dip on a charisma class).

OH boy paladin levels 1 and 2 are huge and give you access to smite, hexblade 1 gives you cha to hit and damage, after those levels any full caster of cha is a power house.

My favorite character of all time was "Evlyn Defrey-Balefire" who started as a hexblade, took 3 levels of paladin for oath of vengeance, then alternated between warlock and divine soul sorcerer.

We made it to 14th level when she was a Paladin of vengeance 3 warlock Hex blade of the blade 5 Divine soul sorcerer 6

Divine Soul xyz, Death Cleric 1

never seen a death cleric, and never have I seen Sorcerer/cleric at all

Fighter 2/Wizard xyz

many times, that dip for second wind action surge and the extra hp is a big one. If you start at level 2 or 3 with the character you can even have your 1st level be fighter max the hp, and be prof in con saves.

If you've seen them how did they play out in a real game?

all of them are great, I wish that hex blade and finesse weapons had more ways to use other stats for weapon attacks