Not just a melee blade: Now that's just an example and if you take pact of the blade you could say your pact weapon is a manifest as a mirror image of your hexblade patron but its not required. Moonblades were named in part because of the moonstones found in the pommel of each sword but also for the moon elves that wielded them, with the only exception of the half-elf assassin, Arilyn Moonblade. If you absolutely must multiclass and not concerned about losing higher level spells then consider 4 levels of Rogue (Assassin) taking Expertise in Stealth. With shadow blade, spells and bonuses there is little point to dual wielding so you're much better off keeping your bladesong up and whacking away with shadow blade or your rapier with spells. I'm trying to figure out if it'd be better for my Great sword paladin to take Blade Mastery, giving him the same to-hit bonus, as the STR increase would, as well as the option to use my reactions to boost AC to 19. Close.

You can gain the +1 bonus for attack rolls which you make with the weapon. First, Strength should be your highest ability score, followed by Dexterity. 1. ... definitely worth using, and it's unlikely the DM will ban the character. After getting over my cursebringer sour grapes, I decided to start building a Hexblade to see how useful/strong it would be. 5th Edition. It seems, according to Jeremy Crawford, that D&D players had been exploiting mechanics that didn’t exist.So when you take the Attack action you have to use ALL the attack action BEFORE you get the bonus action feature. Some of them are downright broken, while others are very underwhelming. 5th Edition. You can make a Blade Master quickly by following these suggestions.

Class Features. After going through 95% of the way I want the build to go, I was considering his main weapon. Medium Armor Master: A DEX-Fighter could get 1 more AC with this feat than from studded leather, but that’s hardly worth an entire feat. Mage Slayer You have practiced techniques in melee combat against spellcasters, gaining the following benefits. Posted by 2 years ago. 5e Blade Mastery and Great Weapon Master Feats - Traps? As a Blade Master you gain the following class features. Second, choose the Soldier or Folk hero background. Archived. Pact of the Blade, uses melee and falls back on EB for range. 5 Broken Character Builds For D&D 5e (& 5 Underwhelming Builds) D&D 5e features a lot of builds. Hit Points. Also you gain the following benefits whenever using any of them.

At first I thought the longsword would be a no brainer, going Variant Human for Lucky or Blade Mastery. Savage Attacker : Damage reroll only applies to weapon dice, so no Superiority Dice or Booming Blade benefits.