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<blockquote data-quote="Solarazhade" data-source="post: 8768647" data-attributes="member: 7037767"><p>Treantmonk posted a build video for a hexblade bard but you wouldn't know it from the title. It's called The Flying Knight. </p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]Z2VAoFleVn8[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>It's very similar to my spear build but with find greater steed spell and using a lance which later becomes a spear/shield, glaive, or halberd and instead of holy weapon he gets Tenser's Transformation at 14 bard so it comes online a bit later. It's a bit feat hungry so spear/shield seems like a safer choice as you won't be getting GWM/GWF anyway.</p><p></p><p>The notable benefit though is that your mount also gets the bonuses from tenser's transformation so they are almost more like an animal companion then a mount and can do a lot of damage. You can do the flying mounts he suggested but it's notable that the tiger has a chance to get a bonus action attack in addition to the 2 claw attacks, so it can potentially do higher damage when using tenser's transformation. That being said it's not as sustainable as holy weapon since it takes a 6th level spell slot that you'll only get 1 of before you start cannibalizing your even higher spell slots. Plus it only lasts 10 minutes vs an hour though that is fairly respectable. It's more of a 1 combat a day type of build, with a few more per day at very high levels. If you plan ahead you could probably squeeze a few combats in 1 tenser cast. </p><p></p><p>Another thing that you can do that I didn't include in the calculation is cast the 9th level spell foresight for advantage to all your attacks. I don't like including it in a baseline calc because it's so easy to get advantage from a lot of different sources that it overstates the benefit from foresight but it is on the bard spell list, lasts 8 hours, and doesn't take concentration. It also has a lot of defensive benefits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Solarazhade, post: 8768647, member: 7037767"] Treantmonk posted a build video for a hexblade bard but you wouldn't know it from the title. It's called The Flying Knight. [MEDIA=youtube]Z2VAoFleVn8[/MEDIA] It's very similar to my spear build but with find greater steed spell and using a lance which later becomes a spear/shield, glaive, or halberd and instead of holy weapon he gets Tenser's Transformation at 14 bard so it comes online a bit later. It's a bit feat hungry so spear/shield seems like a safer choice as you won't be getting GWM/GWF anyway. The notable benefit though is that your mount also gets the bonuses from tenser's transformation so they are almost more like an animal companion then a mount and can do a lot of damage. You can do the flying mounts he suggested but it's notable that the tiger has a chance to get a bonus action attack in addition to the 2 claw attacks, so it can potentially do higher damage when using tenser's transformation. That being said it's not as sustainable as holy weapon since it takes a 6th level spell slot that you'll only get 1 of before you start cannibalizing your even higher spell slots. Plus it only lasts 10 minutes vs an hour though that is fairly respectable. It's more of a 1 combat a day type of build, with a few more per day at very high levels. If you plan ahead you could probably squeeze a few combats in 1 tenser cast. Another thing that you can do that I didn't include in the calculation is cast the 9th level spell foresight for advantage to all your attacks. I don't like including it in a baseline calc because it's so easy to get advantage from a lot of different sources that it overstates the benefit from foresight but it is on the bard spell list, lasts 8 hours, and doesn't take concentration. It also has a lot of defensive benefits. [/QUOTE]
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