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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6942379" data-attributes="member: 6677017"><p><em>Shillelagh</em> should have been something more like <em>greenflame blade</em>, but they hadn't figured out how to do melee weapon cantrips yet when they designed it.</p><p></p><p>Like [MENTION=6787650]Hemlock[/MENTION] said, <em>shillelagh</em> doesn't scale, which means it is essentially crap at higher levels. If you pair <em>greenflame blade</em> (or to a lesser extent Polearm Master) with it, then it can maintain usefulness.</p><p></p><p>The problem with the design of it is that Land Druids have no way (without feats or such) to have scaling melee weapon damage. Once they get past low-level, they need to use ranged cantrips for their damage scaling. I suppose the designers may have considered that if you are going the Land route, you are more spellcastery and would want to be throwing <em>produce flame</em> at your foes. I just like the ability to effectively wield that staff that I'm carrying around for style though.</p><p></p><p>NOTE: Lore bards had exactly the same problem originally. Despite having proficiency in a variety of weapons, their melee weapon damage had no way to scale. However, because of Additional Magical Secrets they can take one of the melee weapon attacks introduced in SCAG, which eliminates that problem for them (although it makes Valor bards less attractive, as without heavy investment in an attack stat <em>greenflame blade</em> --which they can't get until 10th level--is probably going to be superior for them to their Extra Attack).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 6942379, member: 6677017"] [I]Shillelagh[/I] should have been something more like [I]greenflame blade[/I], but they hadn't figured out how to do melee weapon cantrips yet when they designed it. Like [MENTION=6787650]Hemlock[/MENTION] said, [I]shillelagh[/I] doesn't scale, which means it is essentially crap at higher levels. If you pair [I]greenflame blade[/I] (or to a lesser extent Polearm Master) with it, then it can maintain usefulness. The problem with the design of it is that Land Druids have no way (without feats or such) to have scaling melee weapon damage. Once they get past low-level, they need to use ranged cantrips for their damage scaling. I suppose the designers may have considered that if you are going the Land route, you are more spellcastery and would want to be throwing [I]produce flame[/I] at your foes. I just like the ability to effectively wield that staff that I'm carrying around for style though. NOTE: Lore bards had exactly the same problem originally. Despite having proficiency in a variety of weapons, their melee weapon damage had no way to scale. However, because of Additional Magical Secrets they can take one of the melee weapon attacks introduced in SCAG, which eliminates that problem for them (although it makes Valor bards less attractive, as without heavy investment in an attack stat [I]greenflame blade[/I] --which they can't get until 10th level--is probably going to be superior for them to their Extra Attack). [/QUOTE]
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