Dragonborn = Minion Mincer

[Phasics]

Just wanted to know if this is just a looks good on paper but never really pans out vs yes this is a sweet way to clear minions.

Basically a Dragonborn of any class with the enlarge breath feat to get a 5 Blast that will clear away any minions in the first round assuming they all fall within the blast radius.

Thoughts ?

P.S Yeah I know a good DM would then start to spread out his minions but we don't all have smart DM's now do we (*runs and hides*)

 

[DLichen]

Don't you still have to hit with the thing? I don't see how it's significantly better than having thunderwave or scorching burst.

 

[Phasics]

Don't you still have to hit with the thing? I don't see how it's significantly better than having thunderwave or scorching burst.

ummm because you don't need to be a wizard to use it ?

 

[Lurker37]

It's really only good if the dragonborn is from a class build that has a physical stat as primary. Otherwise the chance to hit drops as you level up.

 

[Ginnel]

Yeah its handy, our 6 man group (well I say man we don't have a human amoung our number) has a dragonborn wizard with thunderwave and cloud of daggers and a dragonborn fighter, who has taken thunderwave as the wizard multiclass power.

But I can't say we've taken the majority of minions down with them, at will melee and ranged attacks seem to be equally as useful, as we've been hesitant to include allies in the blast so far, as a group we are newly formed so blasting a new ally isn't exactly how to make friends and influence people.