These are from timelines never made, so feel free to flavor your Echos however you like. [OC] [Art] Elf Echo Knight 14 / 6 Hexblade. Apparently, this is intended to be a scouting option and not work with any of your other abilities (such as your teleport). I do not think taht the fighter is . Well, dont worry. This is kinda like the War Priest ability of the War Cleric. And one of them is a ghost. Manifest Echo is incredibly powerful, but also rather nuanced. My relevant stats are CHA 18 and CON 14. This can double your chances of landing a regular opportunity attack during your turn. On which levels are Echo Avatar and Shadow Martyr? Youre a gem of the community here. Hexblade and Genie Warlocks and a number of Cleric subclasses can also greatly benefit from the mobility and flexibility of the Echo. This refreshes with any kind of rest. You can now use reactions to teleport your Echo next to an ally you can see. 1. Your echo is just a translucent image of yourself. Sharpshooter is always great for ranged builds and can be combined with Piercer. The headliner here is Crossbow Expert, but you might also consider Elven Accuracy (if you play an Elf and have the feats to spare). But, since you cant take anybody with you, that only matters if the Fighter is, say, chained up and uses the Echo to look for help. Hexblade Warlocks are warlocks that, in their pact with their patron, gain access to additional combat abilities. So I would recommend choosing one of those to focus on and do with something like 18/2 or 16/4! Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Echo Knight 7/Hexblade Warlock 3: A Build Conundrum #1 Jul 11, 2022 ZotarDragonSlayer View User Profile View Posts Send Message Adventurer Join Date: 2/18/2019 Posts: 3 Disclaimer: I'm rarely if ever use forum's so if this is the wrong place for this kind of thread or I commit some kind of faux pas I'll happily make corrections as needed. While both Hexblades Curse and Hex are options for increasing that damage, it is better to get buffed by other party members when possible. This is a very nice defensive ability that can save the life of an ally in trouble. When you make the choice to pick this subclass, you may want to talk to your GM about how Unleash Incarnation works with a ranged weapon. 2. In today's video I go through the subclass, offer some tactic. Hex takes your concentration and uses a bonus action. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. A halberd-wielding Dwarf with Sentinel with Great Weapon Master. So If youre a butterfly, dont read any further. Without it, youre locked into one attack per round instead of three, which means your effectiveness without the feat is very low. 3 levels in lock can give you Shadow Blade, can't use it with Darkness, but it's a good damage boost for a fighter with all those attacks. A heavy reach weapon is also nice, allowing you and your Echo to combine a lot of coverage of the battlefield (although it wont increase the 5ft range of your Echo opportunity attacks). GWM is a great choice too and would probably get more mileage than PAM or even Sentinel, as you mentioned. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Which one would ya go for and why? Vampiric Bite. Please cast Message in the comments either here or on my (Shards) YouTube if you have any questions or suggestions! If i . summoning her echo knight 3 Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. It also cannot be the target of certain spells. Im not a great optimizer, but those who are will need to know. Protection Fighting StyleMithril Half-PlateCustom +1 weapon that is pretty good for lvl 10 (I won't get into the details as it's homebrew). Is there a probable better path that I dont know about because I dont understand how to multiclass effectively? This isnt too much temporary health 2d6 + 5 at the highest Con possible for a Fighter but do this 5 times and youve gained a respectable amount of damage reduction. Thats frightfully good. In the interest of focusingthe conversation I've jotted ideas some ideas that made sense to me. Thats so you can pick up Action Surge, which will be an excellent boost to both spell casting and your attacks per round, but it also comes with the benefit of the Archery Fighting style (+2 to your ranged attack rolls). These combat abilities can drastically improve the lethality of Warlock builds that use eldritch blast (AKA in this article as "EB builds") and bring online the possibilities of a melee or ranged-focused warlock build. Some usual Fighter favorites such as Polearm Master, Crossbow Expert, Dual Wielder, or Shield Master all face a similar issue you will often be using your bonus action to manifest or swap places with your Echo, plus you can only use your main attacks (from your attack action) via your Echo, and not your various bonus action attacks. Wizards of the Coast LLC.Use, modification, and distribution of Wizards of the Coast's content is under theOpen Game License v 1.0aCopyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.Flutes Loot Privacy Policy. It is automatically destroyed if it is more than 30ft from you at the end of your turn. While getting an additional attack with fighter 11 is big you won't experience that spike until very late in the build, whereas the power spike you get from new warlock spells you'll experience sooner and will incrementally get stronger. This build only really needs Charisma, but if your Dexterity and Constitution are too low, your survivability is really impacted. Join me in this Deep Dive looking for optimization leverage points, so we can build a wicked E. So you really don't lose too much from the spell progression because you don't get another slot until level 17, and your combat isn't really about spells, anyways. This does favor the use of melee weapons over ranged. The Hexblade Warlock's patron exists somewhere in the Shadowfell, and it is from that place the powerful shadow weapons they wield in combat are shaped. This build is fairly flexible, but Crossbow Expert is essential. Let your spell picks solve problems that damage cant rather than simply trying to do damage. A question on polymorph. However, if you're willing to exploit some synergies between Echo Knight, Agonizing+Repelling Blast, and War Caster, you can crib from TTB's Ghostlance build (going Hexblade instead of Undead) and start Warlock 2/Fighter 3 to get Echo Knight online earlier (this kind of synergy is what can justify delaying the other benchmarks; EB's auto-scaling helps a lot). Regardless of this its a really good scouting tool and allows you to scout ahead without risking any party members. None of these abilities say they require somatic components! Its also unclear whether your Echo has any mass and can trigger traps. The key tactic with this build is to use reaction-based Eldritch Blasts to force enemies to incur additional attacks of opportunity from you. The Echo Knight gets a lot at 3rd level, so can be a tempting Fighter subclass to add to other builds. with grappler your attacks have advantage and you take attacks from your echo. Thats a really good thing for Wizards, who have a penchant for wielding magic, but What about our sword-swinging friends on the Martial side? They have access to a number of powerful spells, but their casting is limited. Seriously, the amount of ideas Ive gleaned from your posts has been valuable. If we both survive that encounter I'd probably stick with Fighter for the aforementioned lvl 11 Extra-Extra-Attack. Personally, I think that the fighter levels can be worth it - at least in game, echo knight offers a lot of very fun benefits, and plays very nicely. This can greatly extend your available movement during your turn. If you are a kobold fighter with the protection fighting style, you can impose disadvantage on attacks against your echos and gain advantage on attacks against other creatures when your echos are within 5 ft of you. You will be blinded and deafened and can use your Echos senses instead. Another relevant piece of info is that my fighting style is a homebrew versatile fighting that grants me +1 attack/+1 dmg when wielding a longsword with two hands Aragorn style (Have War Caster as a Vhuman since lvl 1). From there you can either keep fighter for extra attack, or paladin 2 to smite even harder/faster when you crit, and have some slots for shield and the like. The extra toughness and fighting style are welcome as well. This may not be the strongest Fighter subclass ever devised. After all, it's just another Fighter for the player to work with. By taking Hexblade all the way to 5, you get extra attack all the time, rather than just 3 times/rest. This is incorrect. Hexblade is a combat art introduced in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Now, you can kill you from another timeline! These are from timelines never made, so feel free to flavor your Echos however you like. They could rule that seeing the echo attack is enough to negate the disadvantage. Your email address will not be published. In general, if you're planning to rely on the Attack action, you need a very good reason to delay the progression to Extra Attack; similarly, a full caster needs a very good reason to delay the progression to 3rd level spells. The idea is that you don't need Extra Attack in Tier 2 with PAM, Action Surge, and your Con-based Echo strikes, as you have 2-4 attacks in a round without it as a TANK. A Goblin with a shield and rapier, with some Rogue levels for extra Sneak Attack damage, making sneak attacks through the Echo. The Echo cannot be blinded, it is immune to conditions. Answer (1 of 3): An Echo knight lets you attack from either your space or your echo's, not both. The Unleash Incarnation buff is actually pretty decent. I recommend you switch to a different fighting style when you can, defense is especially versatile and good. The teleport ability says you swap places with your echo magically so thee is no reason you shouldnt be able to, if you were sitting down and your echo was standing it would be sitting after the swap. 1n terms of information abilities, how good is this? Thats where War Caster comes in. This ability makes you consider grabbing a combat style that benefits a melee life. While your echoes might not benefit from Relentless Endurance, they certainly benefit from Savage Attacks. Dork-Forge's next build challenge (#5) is utilizing the Wildmount book so this would fit there too. It occupies its space so can be used to block advancing enemies. The invocations for this build are pretty similar to the previous one. Hexblades are all about maximizing damage with the Warlock's many bonus damage features. Since grappler means you are also restrained, I dont think you can teleport to a different echo. Echo knight/Hexblade build help D&D 5e I was watching a video on echo knight and one of the comments was a build someone did at level nine that wrecked the PVP arena (I'll add the build at the end) and I was inspired to ask you guys how I would distribute the levels and what spell (s) and cantrips to take. Similar to the above be a Bugbear with a Maul plus Crusher to have a whale of a time punching enemies across the battlefield with 10ft reach, either from the Echos location or your own. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Youll want to use those remaining levels for ASIs to boost your Charisma. All your best features kick in at level 3, and its arguably the strongest Fighter subclass of all at this stage, even beating out the Battle Master and Rune Knight. check out the. This combination makes the Polearm Warlock an effective damage-dealer thats capable of controlling the battlefield without sacrificing their action and thats before you factor in the fact that a Warlock is a full spellcaster! 1 /r/dnd , 2023-01-03, 21:18:10 another picture of Kalida Audrei. Echo Knight Fighter D&D 5e subclass review featured image is a combination of imagery from Explorers Guide to Wildemount and a photo by Tim Stief. Specifically in the areas ofwhat featsshould I be looking at? Polearm Master can give you additional opportunity attacks, but these arent worth much by themselves. Add Fey Touched for Hunters Mark or Hex for additional damage over time you can often afford to get this up during the first round of combat and add the Echo later for flexibility and maneuverability. You can find more articles by me (Shard) here. This costs 15ft of your movement. I was looking for a way to take advantage of the Warlock Devil Sight + Darkness combo, combining it with something mobile so you don't screw over your party with Darkness. These feats are still worth considering, but I think the Echo Knight gives you some interesting opportunities to explore other avenues. The Echo Knight is a wild departure. In all seriousness, it does leave me wondering 'where now?' Both builds tend along similar paths in terms of Invocations and techniques, but they implement these in very different ways. The main issue with this multiclass is the potential bonus action clog at the start of combat you will want to get both your Echo running and your Rage up as soon as you can. Hexblade Warlocks have a lot of good options. And now Theres two of them! Echo Knight's Echo is better than Invoke Duplicity. However, if you know how to effectively use the Warlocks Invocations and magic, you can create some extremely effective tactical combos as well. You can do this with a bonus action. Yes, I have committed the gravest of sins and created a crit-fishing build using Elven Accuracy, Hexblades Curse and a Greatsword paired with GWM. However, unlike a lot of Fighter subclasses, this one allows you to get really creative on the battlefield. But it doesn't feel like it was the . Then well assess some feat, race, and multiclass options. The shadowy force behind these weapons can . This refreshes on long rests. Tempest Cleric / Swashbuckler / Echo Knight / Divination Wiz / Eloquence Bard / Conquest Paladin / Hexblade / Divin Soul Sorc - they're missing some of the best subclasses for each class. 2. Do I hit Fighter next and go up to 3? Whenever tapped by a creature, the object emits a recorded message that can be heard up to 10 feet away. Enemies can still see it and destroy it quite easily, but it does have surprisingly high AC, so it might take them a while. 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