![]() I think it would depend what level range you're planning to spend time in.Įdit: I forgot about elven accuracy. But then you could grab the 2nd fighter level at 10th to get action surge and make 4 x (3d8+6) attacks all at advantage. Or you could start with one level of Fighter for CON save proficiency and dueling style, freeing up an ASI, but at the cost of delaying those key milestones (CD, shadow blade, extra attack). The biggest downside I see is competition for your bonus action in the first round, but you're also still a wizard, so you could spend the first round casting a spell and entering bladesong (or using CD when needed), and then start with shadow blade in round 2. You won't have metamagic but you'll have more and better spells, and more utility than you would as a sorcerer. In bladesong your concentration bonus will be +8, and you have a nice mobility boost. You get extra attack at 8th, by which point you'll have five 3rd and 4th level slots, plus arcane recovery, so you can pretty much be using a 3d8 shadow blade all the time at (2 x (3d8 + 3) with advantage per turn compare that to (1 x (4d8+3) using booming blade). Grab Resilient CON at 6th, boost DEX at 10th.Īt low levels wear the medium armor and shield, but when you get bladesong you can switch to unarmored with mage armor with bladesong you have an AC of 19 (or 18 if you run out of bladesong and just equip a shield), which you can get up to 23/24 with the shield spell. Why not go high elf, do bladesinger instead of sorcerer, so you eventually get a second attack which you really want with a shadow blade, a concentration buff that largely replaces proficiency from sorcerer (and stacks with it if you get Resilient CON)? Something about being a shadow-based character clad in clunky armor just seems off to me. Also thematically it feels to me like a shadow blade user ought to be in light armor or no armor (mage armor). Never getting extra attack seems like wasted potential with shadow blade, especially if you have a reliable way to generate advantage on all your attacks. Could also pick up EA with Half Elf which is +2 CHR and +1 probably DEX & CON, but that has even less DEX for getting away from STR for heavy armor. Elf gives me +2 DEX for weapons and Elven Accuracy, but I need to worry about STR for heavy armor unless my DEX is good enough to go for medium. Hill Dwarf gives me +2 CON, +1 HP on top of it, +1 WIS, and I can ignore STR for the heavy armor, so go DEX for weapons for the things it brings be. Where from here? More sorcerer for SPs? Maybe cleric up to 8th for Divine Strike and ASIs. We're now character level 5 with 1st level cleric spells, 2nd level sorcerer spells - but full weapon & armor and cantrips to make up for the lack of extra attack. ![]() Not a lot of SP though, may be breaking down slots for more if I do not use judiciously. It also give me metamagic - Twin for using with buffs and quickened to get a spell off as a bonus, then attack with one of the melee cantrips. I now have plenty of slots to use, including 3rd to upcast it for 3d8 base damage. Sorc 2 & 3 gives me 2nd level sorc spells known to pick up Shadow Blade, and 3rd level slots. Go shield and a 1H weapon.Ĭleric 2 gives me the CD and 2nd level slots. Multiclassing cleric gets me medium and shields, and as a subclass feature the heavy armor and martial weapons still come into play. Both Booming Blade and Green Flame Blade are among the cantrips picked up.Ĭleric (Twilight) 1 next. CON for Concentration, and CHR for the Strength of the Grave feature. Not perhaps the best in terms of actual features, but oh so on point for flavor. Okay, sorcerer it is.Īnd then there is a thematically gorgeous Shadow Sorcerer in XGtE. Wizard gives lots of spells - but only a few levels of it won't really take advantage of it, while Sorc gives metamagic I can use on clerical buffs. Warlock won't add to casting, so it's not likely it. But that's only on the Warlock, Sorcerer, and Wizard lists. The reason for looking for this was for the Shadow Blade spell, which has advantage on attacks in dim light. Now, it takes an action, their CD, and only lasts a minute, but still. One thing I noticed because I had looked for it elsewhere unsuccessfully - they have a way to make an area filled with Dim light, regardless of the lighting around. So I was reading the new UA with the Twilight domain in it.
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