thegreatqwerty
2023-10-28, 08:48 AM
The Penguin God
[disclaimer: can’t be used in AL, needs PHB + 2 sourcebooks.]
Also, can kill Tiamat at level 1 (2, if counting fealty levels)
Ever wanted an ARMY of minions casting big spells? Well in this guide I’ll show you how to! At Level 1! So, you see, this can work at level 1, and it’s so ez, your DM will cry!
So let’s go over the character real quick!
So they can either be [any race] Wizard 1, Knight Background, or a Variant Human -Feat is Magic Initiate, make sure you pick up Find Familiar, [any class], Knight Background.
I personally think that a warforged group of people is cool so..
But on the alternative if you are a Variant Human - Feat is MI, you get Find Familiar, class is Artificer.
Artificer? Why, Qwerty? Because at level 3 (when the rest of the party is level 2) you can get a nuke as an Artificer.
So, why do I care so darn much about the Familiar? Well your familiar is Fey! Can you see where this is going? No? I’m disappointed in you, theoretical internet optimizer.
You make a Fey Contract of course! So you gain Fey Ancestry in exchange for your name. You choose a new name. Your new name is Qwerty. More on this later! [after we go through why the Knight Background was necessary.
Yeah, so murd3r one of your Chaotic Retainers, and pray above their body to Devil McMeanie. So ask for da Wish spell in exchange for Fealty.
Well, so what’s Fealty? You gain a level of Warlock, and you must choose Fiend within it. Additional Cheese, maybe: (If you use Tasha’s subclass switching your DM might say you can change it to Genie and get a Ring of Three Wishes. I think that personally it doesn’t work so this doesn’t really work). Oh no, you gained a level! Tragedy, tragedy!
Simulate da Wish Spell -> copies the effects of Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion, which is of course decorated with Wish Scrolls and Time Stop Scrolls and Tomes of (Understanding, Bodily Health, Clear Thought, Gainful Excersice, Leadership + Influence, and Quickness to Action.) Since you cant read them all, just have a lot of them and now you can get 30 in all ability scores. With your wishes, keep on making simulacra AND max out everything. Then that’s great. So you have an army.. Of Level 2 Artlocks.
So? I mean I guess they could all shoot low level blast spells and create a nuke but.. Oh yeah, Find Familiar Contracts (totally RAI). An army of Artlocks that happen to be able to cast a 4TH LEVEL concentration spell + Blasting (Like Sickening Radiance or Evards Black Tentacles)-> then cast Find Greater Steed for a minion..
So now if you only had 99 simulacra (why? You could’ve gotten millions!)
Assuming you only created 99 simulacra, you now have 400 Concentration spells running, (because 1 you + 99 simulacra + your greater steed + 99 simulacra greater steed + 100 familiars!)
Oh, and your buddies are spamming stuff like Ice Storm AoE, Vitriolic Sphere AoE, Blight, and other bam bam spells.
So now if you only made 6, if they all cast Sickening Radiance = Level 6 Exhaustion. So now you have theoretically infinite casts of 4th level spells. I mean like that’s great and all but what about that wizard? Well first of all DON’T group all together, that makes it too ez to Fireball the heck out of ya. If you’re feeling squishy cast Polymorph (4th level spell :P) to get some HP like wild shape. Oh, yes, and we’re being Onyx for no damage taken! And now if you’re polymorphed no more blasting but you can just Onyx when you’re low!
Oh, wow! Thanks to your familiars, and Artlocks, you guys now all have Fey Ancestry. Sweet! Now we can all give Fey Contracts for Level 4 Spells. So now 400 Concentration (you need probably 6 sickening radiance casters for instakills), and you can also cast blasts like Blight on your turn. Oh, and did I mention that you’re only Level 2? (supposed to be level 1 but fealty :P)
Well let’s say that by the time we shred everything with our army, we have became Level 2 (3 with fealty levels) we create twozies bags of holding. So now we send our familiar to put them together for a no-save nuke to the Astral Plane. Just another thing you can do! You can now nuke with 300 blasting spells, 300 concentration spells, and a 1-way trip to the Astral Plane. Golly, that’s impressive.
oh yeah and your simulacra can go to Devil McMeanie to offer THEIR fealty so they get wish (do the same thing as we did)
for even more simulacra. and then it repeats! Exponential growthhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh yeah, and if anything has hit points now we can nuke it by sending them to the astral plane, shooting them 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999 times with spells, Level 6 Exhaustion, and you can absolutely SLAY hordes. with your 99999999999999999999999999999999999999 simulacra casting sickening radiance strategically placed hordes can never get past you. it's just a shredder. and spamming AoEs 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 times is good. however this is annoying because it clogs up the action econ. but theoretically the most powerful build (I think?) ever.
[disclaimer: can’t be used in AL, needs PHB + 2 sourcebooks.]
Also, can kill Tiamat at level 1 (2, if counting fealty levels)
Ever wanted an ARMY of minions casting big spells? Well in this guide I’ll show you how to! At Level 1! So, you see, this can work at level 1, and it’s so ez, your DM will cry!
So let’s go over the character real quick!
So they can either be [any race] Wizard 1, Knight Background, or a Variant Human -Feat is Magic Initiate, make sure you pick up Find Familiar, [any class], Knight Background.
I personally think that a warforged group of people is cool so..
But on the alternative if you are a Variant Human - Feat is MI, you get Find Familiar, class is Artificer.
Artificer? Why, Qwerty? Because at level 3 (when the rest of the party is level 2) you can get a nuke as an Artificer.
So, why do I care so darn much about the Familiar? Well your familiar is Fey! Can you see where this is going? No? I’m disappointed in you, theoretical internet optimizer.
You make a Fey Contract of course! So you gain Fey Ancestry in exchange for your name. You choose a new name. Your new name is Qwerty. More on this later! [after we go through why the Knight Background was necessary.
Yeah, so murd3r one of your Chaotic Retainers, and pray above their body to Devil McMeanie. So ask for da Wish spell in exchange for Fealty.
Well, so what’s Fealty? You gain a level of Warlock, and you must choose Fiend within it. Additional Cheese, maybe: (If you use Tasha’s subclass switching your DM might say you can change it to Genie and get a Ring of Three Wishes. I think that personally it doesn’t work so this doesn’t really work). Oh no, you gained a level! Tragedy, tragedy!
Simulate da Wish Spell -> copies the effects of Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion, which is of course decorated with Wish Scrolls and Time Stop Scrolls and Tomes of (Understanding, Bodily Health, Clear Thought, Gainful Excersice, Leadership + Influence, and Quickness to Action.) Since you cant read them all, just have a lot of them and now you can get 30 in all ability scores. With your wishes, keep on making simulacra AND max out everything. Then that’s great. So you have an army.. Of Level 2 Artlocks.
So? I mean I guess they could all shoot low level blast spells and create a nuke but.. Oh yeah, Find Familiar Contracts (totally RAI). An army of Artlocks that happen to be able to cast a 4TH LEVEL concentration spell + Blasting (Like Sickening Radiance or Evards Black Tentacles)-> then cast Find Greater Steed for a minion..
So now if you only had 99 simulacra (why? You could’ve gotten millions!)
Assuming you only created 99 simulacra, you now have 400 Concentration spells running, (because 1 you + 99 simulacra + your greater steed + 99 simulacra greater steed + 100 familiars!)
Oh, and your buddies are spamming stuff like Ice Storm AoE, Vitriolic Sphere AoE, Blight, and other bam bam spells.
So now if you only made 6, if they all cast Sickening Radiance = Level 6 Exhaustion. So now you have theoretically infinite casts of 4th level spells. I mean like that’s great and all but what about that wizard? Well first of all DON’T group all together, that makes it too ez to Fireball the heck out of ya. If you’re feeling squishy cast Polymorph (4th level spell :P) to get some HP like wild shape. Oh, yes, and we’re being Onyx for no damage taken! And now if you’re polymorphed no more blasting but you can just Onyx when you’re low!
Oh, wow! Thanks to your familiars, and Artlocks, you guys now all have Fey Ancestry. Sweet! Now we can all give Fey Contracts for Level 4 Spells. So now 400 Concentration (you need probably 6 sickening radiance casters for instakills), and you can also cast blasts like Blight on your turn. Oh, and did I mention that you’re only Level 2? (supposed to be level 1 but fealty :P)
Well let’s say that by the time we shred everything with our army, we have became Level 2 (3 with fealty levels) we create twozies bags of holding. So now we send our familiar to put them together for a no-save nuke to the Astral Plane. Just another thing you can do! You can now nuke with 300 blasting spells, 300 concentration spells, and a 1-way trip to the Astral Plane. Golly, that’s impressive.
oh yeah and your simulacra can go to Devil McMeanie to offer THEIR fealty so they get wish (do the same thing as we did)
for even more simulacra. and then it repeats! Exponential growthhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh yeah, and if anything has hit points now we can nuke it by sending them to the astral plane, shooting them 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999 times with spells, Level 6 Exhaustion, and you can absolutely SLAY hordes. with your 99999999999999999999999999999999999999 simulacra casting sickening radiance strategically placed hordes can never get past you. it's just a shredder. and spamming AoEs 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 times is good. however this is annoying because it clogs up the action econ. but theoretically the most powerful build (I think?) ever.