Mage Armor is a must - it's far superior to light armour. You can then focus on spells that offer defense or increase attacks. You can essentially forgo warcaster if you wanted. Longsword requires strength but for bladesinging you should focus on Dexterity but the rapier is finesse and you can use dexterity for that so, proficiency with rapier is the only weapon proficiency you will need.īladesong features let you add your intelligence mod to your AC, increases speed 10 ft, lets you add your Intelligence modifier to Concentration checks, and advantage on acrobatics for escaping grapple attempts. You will also: delay your wizard abilities including bladesinging, lose 4 free spells, lose 1 7th level spell slot.īladesinging nets you: light armour proficiency and since you cannot use anything more its all you need but is best to ignore, proficiency with a one-handed weapon of choice: the two most damaging one-handed weapons are longsword and rapier which are both 1d8. ![]() Taking 1 level of fighter will: net you medium and heavy armour proficiencies you cannot use, shield proficiency you cannot use, all simple and martial weapons most of which will be useless for the build, a fighting style but you are limited to +1 defense that is so not worth it or +2 attack that is nifty but you can use spells to make up and don't need, Con saving throw proficiency that you can get later anyway with a feat, and increased hit die that is handy, certainly, but not enough of a draw. ![]() To use bladesong - the only reason to ever take bladesinger tradition - you cannot use medium armour, heavy armour or a shield and if you make an attack either as one attack with a two-handed weapon (or a one-handed versatile weapon wielded with both hands) your bladesong goes bye bye. The instant you try an attack with the second weapon you immediately lose your bladesong, the core feature. Just so we're clear you're taking bladesinger and ignoring the bladesong feature entirely? Doesn't that seem a tad, I dunno, stupid? You cannot dual wield as a bladesinger. Should I take the defense fighting style? I can still dual wield, just not as potently. Is dual wielding worth it as a bladesinger? I am worried that I will too often spend my bonus action to cast spells and do other things that I won't get to use both scimitars in combat very often. I originally wanted her to dual-wield scimitars as her primary melee style as opposed to using a rapier. I am mostly confident in play style and spell selection when the time comes but I was curious on my fighting style. d10 hit dice, constitution saving throw, and fighting style. This means that I can not gain the warcaster feat until fifth level, but the trade-off seems worth it to me. I kind of like the idea of a true fighter/mage but don't want to spend any more levels not gaining spells than I can afford. However I am going to have her start as a level 1 Fighter before I continue on the wizard's path. We are starting Curse of Strahd in a month and I am going to play an elven bladesinger.
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