Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
what is the preposed difference for the sword mage from say the Pladin what makes it feel different to play so to speak as all I see is people wanting more smite options?
besides the obvious of being elemental/arcane focused rather than divine, personally, a swordmage differs in that they're more of a controller and skirmisher than the 'smite it to death' striker of the paladin, their attacks inflicting status effects on the enemies or other effects like forced movement, as well as being more mobile to get around the battlefield,what is the preposed difference for the sword mage from say the Pladin what makes it feel different to play so to speak as all I see is people wanting more smite options?
Striker skirmisher control martial weapons extra attack for multiplicative bonuses spellcasting and some have strongly suggested armor... The class you were talking about left to go drink punpun's beer and challenge it to arm wrestling.besides the obvious of being elemental/arcane focused rather than divine, personally, a swordmage differs in that they're more of a controller and skirmisher than the 'smite it to death' striker of the paladin, their attacks inflicting status effects on the enemies or other effects like forced movement, as well as being more mobile to get around the battlefield,
i'd also like to see it function as an AoE 'martial' attacker but that's just me, it'd also be a good class structure for being able to target elemental vunerabilities from being able to switch up their active element on the fly.
Edit: there’s also probably a good portion of people who’d love to be able to play a ‘magic martial’ without having to focus on the resource management of spell slots and just be able to use cantrips or similar infinite use class abilities.
I agree the Swordmage can be, and usually is, a Skirmisher. It has extreme mobility, both agile Athletics and even full-on teleport. It avoids any armor that might interfere with this mobility, and can "fire fight" and "trouble shoot" by arriving anywhere in the combat area where there might be an urgent situation.besides the obvious of being elemental/arcane focused rather than divine, personally, a swordmage differs in that they're more of a controller and skirmisher than the 'smite it to death' striker of the paladin, their attacks inflicting status effects on the enemies or other effects like forced movement, as well as being more mobile to get around the battlefield,
i'd also like to see it function as an AoE 'martial' attacker but that's just me, it'd also be a good class structure for being able to target elemental vunerabilities from being able to switch up their active element on the fly.
Edit: there’s also probably a good portion of people who’d love to be able to play a ‘magic martial’ without having to focus on the resource management of spell slots and just be able to use cantrips or similar infinite use class abilities.
Those classes can cast OR attack. There is not many ways that actually combine sword and magic.
I.e. Teleport 2 times and attack 3 people.
Also, ways to "taunt" an enemy into attacking you instead of an ally.
Which is not doing sword-magic.This is not true. Virtually every class can cast and attack as long as you are doing one of those as an action and another as a bonus action.
Steel Wind Stike is exactly what I want, and Ensnaring Strike, and Thunderous Smite. Make more spells like that (and not spread out over multiple classes).So you want to essentially do the equivalent of 5 actions in one turn? This is similar to the Steel Wind Strike spell which is available to several casters at relatively high level.
well that's the thing about brainstorming a concept, lots of people suggest lots of different things they want or think would be good for the theme, but you don't actually expect every single one of those ideas to make it into the final product.Striker skirmisher control martial weapons extra attack for multiplicative bonuses spellcasting and some have strongly suggested armor... The class you were talking about left to go drink punpun's beer and challenge it to arm wrestling.
It is a thing about brainstorming, but there are an awful lot of posts that blatantly call for something that would be embarrassed slumming it in a party with mediocre wannabes like punpun and a gm blessed coffeelock.well that's the thing about brainstorming a concept, lots of people suggest lots of different things they want or think would be good for the theme, but you don't actually expect every single one of those ideas to make it into the final product.