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I thought I'd have a go at making a water-focused druid. In 5e, you can easily shoot fire, lightning, ice, or arrows, but your options for a water-based character is more limited outside of refluffing another build or begging your DM to let you use pre-errata water whip from the 4 elements monk...

Hold Person and Hold Monster are not defensive "remove someone from the fight" spells, they're damage buff spells. They're at their best when the initiative order reads: You -> Your melee-focused allies -> The target. If the targets fails the first save, it should die before it makes its...

Yeah, the stat requirement is a bit rough. I'm not using GWM for the -5 to hit/+10 to damage, I'm just using it for the bonus action attack on a crit, which works with any weapon. This build would be focused on Assassinate which grants auto-crits during a surprise round, so I don't as much need...

The Gloom Stalker Ranger looks like a pretty excellent 3-level dip for a Crit build, specifically for Dread Ambusher "You can give yourself a bonus to initiative rolls equal to your wisdom modifier. At the start of your first turn of each combat, your walking speed increases by 10 feet. If you...

You lose 1d8 damage (4.5) from a higher level Eldritch smite and gain 2d6 (7) damage from a higher level Psychic blades. Eldtrich Smite is 2/Short Rest, Psychic blades is 5/Long rest, which is about the same in my experience. You also gain an additional Expertise and Magical Secrets to learn any...

Once you have the pact of the blade, you can manifest ANY melee weapon with your hex warrior feature and use Cha to attack with it, so you can you a glaive. That's why 3 levels of warlock is required for a build like this.

I'm not sure what you need 5 levels of hexblade for. You get an extra invocation and level 3 warlock slots, but Thirsting Blade is redundant for you because yuo've already got Extra Attack. Going down just one level would allow you to get the 10th bard level for a psychic blades dice.

I think you should go up to Fighter 5 before going into Cleric, Extra Attack is a great ability.

Here are some preliminary numbers that I will leave you with while I go do my schoolwork. Odds of critting: Roll one dice, crit on a 20: 5% Roll one dice, crit on a 19: 10% Roll two dice, crit on a 20: 9.5% Two dice, crit on a 19: 19% Three dice, crit on a 20: 14.26% Three dice, crit on a 19...

I could but I would need a target AC. I don't have the DMG so I don't know what the average AC of a monster is at a certain level.

Wow, Holy Weapon looks really good. The only problem is it doesn't work with darkness since the weapon now sheds magical light, you'll need another source of advantage. Probably worth finding one for an extra 2d8 damage though.

Most familiars have 10 AC and 1 HP, usually if a DM notices you're using the familiar in combat for the help action (which is melee ranged) they'll flatten your familiar in one swing from a monster.

One interesting thing you can do with Vampiric touch is attack with your bare hand, which makes it an interesting option for Grapple Builds. With the feat Shield Master, you can grapple someone and shove them prone in one turn, after which you can use your vampiric touch at advantage on them...

As I understand it, dropping a weapon takes no action and drawing a weapon takes your "interact with an object" action, so theoretically a rogue could attack once with a rapier, apply sneak attack, drop the rapier, draw a greatsword, and make the rest of their attacks with the greatsword. I'm...

Tieflings are the only +Cha race that can start with wings at level 1. That benefit alone I think is enough to make them a strong contender, at least for the bloodlines that don't grant flight. Trivialize melee encounters and attack from a distance.

Wait what, has there been an errata about that? Because per the PHB I've got you don't learn the spell you select with Magic Initiate, you cast it using the feat.

(This is the character optimization forum, you'd be more likely to find the answers you seek in the general 5e forum: http://www.enworld.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?506-*D-amp-D-5th-Edition-News-Rules-Homebrews-and-House-Rules)

You could run a Half-elf Hexblade up to level 9, so you can cast Elemental weapon out of a level 5 spell slot for an extra 2d4 damage on all of your weapon attacks (+5 on average, doubled to +10 on crits) Darkness+Devil's Sight+Elven accuracy allows you to roll 3 d20s to hit, Hexblade's curse...

According to a lot of guides, the "blade" cantrips, Booming Blade and Green-flame Blade, are highly desirable, but I cannot understand why. Yes they scale where a character's melee attacks don't, but so does every other damaging cantrip and those don't require you to also have competent weapon...

I do like that, the problem is that Land Druids aren't much suited to melee combat. They're stuck in light armor or hide because of the no metal restriction and have no way to make more than one attack per round without feats. Changing the 4EM to be a 1/3 caster with druid spells would be...