D&D 5E (2024) The Most Meta Party to Make the DM Cry?

[DrJawaPhD]

Just a clickbait way of asking which is best

Well ok, annoying clickbait phrasing aside, how are any of these party compositions better than another? Whatever approach the party goes with, the DM will tailor encounters to match up with whatever is required to challenge that composition.

The entire concept of a "best" composition doesn't even make sense unless you assume the DM is running a published module and not allowed to change it (in which case literally any composition of remotely optimized characters should steamroll it)

 

[FrogReaver]

Well ok, annoying clickbait phrasing aside, how are any of these party compositions better than another? Whatever approach the party goes with, the DM will tailor encounters to match up with whatever is required to challenge that composition.

The entire concept of a "best" composition doesn't even make sense unless you assume the DM is running a published module and not allowed to change it (in which case literally any composition of remotely optimized characters should steamroll it)

Consider this...
If the DM is tailoring encounters to the actual party and what the PCs actually do then full caster heavy parties that are stingy with spell slots and don't always play optimally is going to lead to the least difficult encounters with the greatest ability to punch harder if/when things go badly.

Thus, any DM trying to calibrate encounters to what players actually do, the players already have a legit optimization method specifically for that. It's not especially complicated and synergizes well with other optimization ideas.

 

[Zardnaar]

Just a clickbait way of asking which is best

I might cry with my players tbh.