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Hey everyone, the character I plan on playing is an orc berserker barbarian/champion fighter, I had read that with improved critical and advantage the crit chance is around 19%, and once the fighter picks up superior critical at 15 it increases to around 28%. My question is whether that increase...

You would need to compare it to 4 attacks, you're comparing a 17th level casting greenflame blade and a 17th level fighter gets 4 attacks. It's a bit less average damage to use greenflame blade, and it's split between two targets which must be 5ft from one another. Greenflame blade is great at...

War Magic is probably the only "big" thing that you'll miss, it's really nice to use Blade Ward and attack in the same round, though this tactic falls off as you level, it's still really good when it comes online especially with the new cantrips in the sword coast adventurer's guide. Also...

That's only true if the weapon uses a d6 die, the rapier is d8 so it doesn't fit. Though I play in a game where I use a shortsword and hand crossbow and the DM doesn't mind since it's the exact same as using just a hand crossbow by itself except I put myself in melee for flavor.

If we assume Elemental Adept is on the playing field I think it may shift even more in favor of not being overpowered to swap the element. there are 15 acid immune creatures and 40 fire immune, so 25 things more that are immune, but there are also 9 things vulnerable to fire and acid has 0...

I wouldn't mind that as an alternative, though I would have to mention that lightning is almost identical to fire in number of creatures resistant, though only 1/4th the number of immunities, and necrotic is even less resisted/immune than acid...

The +cha dragon sorcerer ability was errata'd to clarify that it is only a single time per spell, so scorching ray only adds charisma for a single ray, and melfs acid arrow only adds charisma to the initial damage. As for melfs acid arrow not being a bad spell, on average it deals only a single...

Comparing flame tongue to frost brand isn't a good comparison because frost brand also gives resistance to fire, the rest of your comment makes sense though. Though when you really look at the monster manual, there are only 38 fire resistant creatures out of roughly 430, and only 40 fire immune...

The problem with that is Melf's Acid Arrow is an awful spell, a level 2 Chromatic Orb would do more damage, hell you might as well just cast a level 2 Magic Missile since its only 1 average damage less and auto hits.

So I was imagining a draconic sorcerer with a black dragon heritage (green for RP, black for all the mechanical gamey bits) however there aren't too many acid spells available to sorcerers, to my knowledge only 3 if you include Chromatic Orb and Elemental Evil pdf, not to mention that the best...

It's almost as if putting out new sorcerer archetypes with bonus spells makes the core archetypes obsolete and they wanted to avoid power creep or something... No, that couldn't be it... Could it?

The issue with this is that not all barbarians want to be totem warriors because of the fluff surrounding spirit animals, and the berserker has such a huge penalty that it's weak unless you have very few combats per day. Barbarians definitely need more than just new totem spirits, and the new...

I'm probably too late to the party for this to matter, but Colossus Slayer is also once per turn, not every weapon attack.

There is also the level 15 ability to negate the side effect of a single mutagen once per long rest, but once again its late in the game.

The thing about the Ghostslayer though is it only gets the devil's sight at 15th level, where as the Mutant gets darkvision at level 3 if you choose the mutagen. With the campaign taking place probably exclusively in the underdark and ending around level 15 I dont think the ghostslayer vision...

I'm also worried about the survivability of the Witch Hunter I'm making for an Out of the Abyss campaign, if I want to dual wield I lose a MASSIVE amount of hp for a melee character yet it seems like the class pushes you towards dual wielding with the blood rite ability. For instance, a level 10...

I think in the back of everyone's mind despite what class you WANTED to see here, you knew it would be these two and despite that I would love for the fighter to win, and voted for him, we all know the wizard is going to win...

Extra Attack features don't stack so its redundant with the ranger extra attack.

If by "regular" you mean "not drowcraft" then there is Dawnbringer, which is a sentient Sun Blade, if you mean regular as in just a +1 or +2 longsword for instance, then no, as far as im aware there isn't.

I think the main reason it wasn't designed this way is to prevent the opportunity to full attack in addition to this spells effects as previously stated by someone further up, as well as to provide synergy with the War Magic feature of Eldritch Knights.