xyrad
Web Dev
I've ranked all 410 of the 2024 5e spells into how popular they are. Have a look!
You can see fun things like Resistance being one of the least picked cantrips in the game, or Wish being the most picked level 9 spell.
So how does it work?
Well I've shared 5e Spellbook Builder here before and received so much great feedback, so I keep tinkering with it. One feature that came to mind was using it to determine the most popular spells in the game. Now I've worked hard to ensure this is a good website where it's not tracking you — no Google Analytics, no email addresses, no log ins, and all your data lives on your device. But I did decide to start counting what spells get added to spellbooks. The data has started rolling in and there's been tens of thousands of adds, so I added it to the website.
It's neat to see the most picked spells/most commonly found spells in the game. But low level spells that are accessible to the most classes will of course rise to the top so I wanted to figure out what spells people grab the most when they're available to them. So I used a bunch of math to come up with an Appeal ranking — how often a spell is chosen relative to the spells of its level, reduced by how many classes have access to it and how popular those classes are.
So in addition to sorting by popularity, you can take a look at the most appealing spells in the game. Misty Step leads the way in all of 5e, but you can look at things like the top spells for Wizards, or the most appealing damage spells in the game.
You can read about how it works in further detail in a blog post I wrote.
So let me know what you think! I also added some fun features where you can view a graph of your spellbook's roles and spell appeal too, I attached a screenshot. Thanks all.
You can see fun things like Resistance being one of the least picked cantrips in the game, or Wish being the most picked level 9 spell.
So how does it work?
Well I've shared 5e Spellbook Builder here before and received so much great feedback, so I keep tinkering with it. One feature that came to mind was using it to determine the most popular spells in the game. Now I've worked hard to ensure this is a good website where it's not tracking you — no Google Analytics, no email addresses, no log ins, and all your data lives on your device. But I did decide to start counting what spells get added to spellbooks. The data has started rolling in and there's been tens of thousands of adds, so I added it to the website.
It's neat to see the most picked spells/most commonly found spells in the game. But low level spells that are accessible to the most classes will of course rise to the top so I wanted to figure out what spells people grab the most when they're available to them. So I used a bunch of math to come up with an Appeal ranking — how often a spell is chosen relative to the spells of its level, reduced by how many classes have access to it and how popular those classes are.
So in addition to sorting by popularity, you can take a look at the most appealing spells in the game. Misty Step leads the way in all of 5e, but you can look at things like the top spells for Wizards, or the most appealing damage spells in the game.
You can read about how it works in further detail in a blog post I wrote.
So let me know what you think! I also added some fun features where you can view a graph of your spellbook's roles and spell appeal too, I attached a screenshot. Thanks all.
