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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7417053" data-attributes="member: 6799649">My current PC is Bar 1/War 4 (fiendish bladepact) built around armour of agathys.My current options for my bonus actions include: starting my Rage, casting or moving hex, casting misty step, using the extra bonus action weapon attack generated by scoring a crit or reducing an enemy to zero HP from the GWM feat.One&nbsp; trick I now have is to pre-cast AofA, cast the otherwise completely useless and rubbish cantrip blade ward, then use my bonus action to misty step into a bunch of mooks, hoping that they hit me!The reason I have to use blade ward to get damage resistance rather than Rage is that I cannot cast spells while Raging.If I want to Rage first and then misty step I can't because I can't cast while Raging.If I misty step as my bonus action first then I cannot Rage when I arrive because that takes a bonus action and I've just used it!Of course, I don't usually need this trick because I would usually be able to just move through the mooks normally, deliberately triggering OAs so they hurt themselves on AofA, but occasionally the terrain prevents that; chasms, balconies, big bags of HPs, and so on. It's nice to have the trick in reserve.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 7417053, member: 6799649"] My current PC is Bar 1/War 4 (fiendish bladepact) built around [i]armour of agathys[/i]. My current options for my bonus actions include: starting my Rage, casting or moving [i]hex[/i], casting [i]misty step[/i], using the extra bonus action weapon attack generated by scoring a crit or reducing an enemy to zero HP from the GWM feat. One trick I now have is to pre-cast AofA, cast the otherwise completely useless and rubbish cantrip [i]blade ward[/i], then use my bonus action to [i]misty step[/i] into a bunch of mooks, hoping that they hit me! The reason I have to use [i]blade ward[/i] to get damage resistance rather than Rage is that I cannot cast spells while Raging. If I want to Rage first and then [i]misty step[/i] I can't because I can't cast while Raging. If I [i]misty step[/i] as my bonus action first then I cannot Rage when I arrive because that takes a bonus action and I've just used it! Of course, I don't usually need this trick because I would usually be able to just move through the mooks normally, deliberately triggering OAs so they hurt themselves on AofA, but occasionally the terrain prevents that; chasms, balconies, big bags of HPs, and so on. It's nice to have the trick in reserve. [/QUOTE]

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