Here Are The Most Popular D&D Feats (War Caster Leads The Pack!)

It's time for some more D&D Beyond stats! This time we take a look at the most popular feats! War Caster, Tough, Lucky, and Sharpshooter lead the pack. We recently looked at stats for adventures, classes by tier, subclasses, and multi class combinations.

The last time DDB looked at this, the number of characters using feats was lower than it is now. Once feats come in properly at levels 4-7, over a third of characters choose a feat. By the time they reach 8th level, half of characters are using feats.

These are the most popular feats across all classes. A year ago, the dev says that Great Weapon Master was in the top four.

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And here we have the top feats broken down by class.

See the full dev video here.

 

[chunkosauruswrex]

I'm surprised sharpshooter is so popular for the rogue. I would figure with one attack it is far too risky to use half the feat.

I do think the prevalence of warcaster shows just how important whether good or bad that keeping concentration is for casters.

Also surprised to not see healer for the Rogue.

Everything else was fairly predictable

 

[lyracian]

Interesting to see the Bard is the only Full Caster without War Caster as the top feat (Druid does have it as joint first)

 

[chunkosauruswrex]

Interesting to see the Bard is the only Full Caster without War Caster as the top feat (Druid does have it as joint first)

FTFY

 

[lowkey13]

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[S'mon]

Not enough people seem to realise the awesome power of Polearm Master!

 

[Ganders]

A few of the numbers surprised me. But the biggest surprise isn't even about feats:

Only 4% of characters are variant human! Since we know from a previous reveal that over 25% of characters are humans, that makes variant-human much less popular than I expected.

 

[Jay Verkuilen]

Not enough people seem to realise the awesome power of Polearm Master!

No kidding, especially in combination with Great Weapon Master!

 

[S'mon]

No kidding, especially in combination with Great Weapon Master!

And Barbarian Reckless Attack!

 

[Jay Verkuilen]

And Barbarian Reckless Attack!

I'm playing a Variant Human with Polearm Master in a campaign that just started. We're only level 2, but the plan is Level 3 Samurai and Level 4 Great Weapon Master. Let the pain begin!