Top 10 6th Level Spells in DnD 5E
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- Most spell casters get the ability to cast sixth level spells at level 11, so this list be going over 10 of the best six level spells that you might be able to pick up.
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-The List-
Intro: (0:00)
10-Otiluke's Freezing Sphere: (0:10)
9- Globe Of Invulnerability, Fizban's Platinum Shield: (2:27)
8- Chain Lightning: (4:49)
7- Heroes' Feast: (7:06)
6- Heal: (8:24)
5- Otto's Irresistible Dance: (9:00)
4- Mass Suggestion: (10:15)
3- Eyebite: (11:33)
2- Contingency: (13:08)
1- Mental Prison: (15:11)
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Heroe's Feast is a great use of Wish. If you are picky with your uses of Wish, you can always cast Heroe's Feast with it at the end of the day for a nice healthy free buff to your party.
I will always throw my hat in the ring with Distintegrate. Is it the best option for dealing damage? No. That part is mostly just a fun gamble unless you can paralyze the target. Where Disintegrate shines is in permanently affecting the world around you. A tower in the way? Turn a structural corner to dust and watch it fall. An army crossing a bridge? No more bridge. Need to get through a wall/ceiling/mountain? Cut a 10-foot hole. Wall of Force? Forcecage? Destroyed. A bad guy monologuing on the edge of a cliff over a lake of lava? No legendary resistance to dust the ground beneath him. Do you want to start carving tunnels to craft an underground lair? Disintegrate. Its a spell that requires creativity and improvisation to use well, but it's surprising how many problems are solved by turning something to dust.
A great thing about heros feast is it's utility as a magical secret for college of creation bards. Who at 14th level can create multiple non-magical items of whatever value.
In TCE heros feast is added to the bard’s list.
They can learn it without magical secrets it's in the bard spell list
My chef creation bard currently does this!! Knows heroes feast and magnificent mansion 😅😅
My wizard just acquired the weave ruby magic item from Fizban’s. I plan to use it to learn Hero’s Feast and casted at night using two churches, so that I don’t have to have the expensive material component for this awesome spell
Minor thing about Mental Prison, you said you cannot use it on a target thats immune to being charmed. Technically not correct, they will just automatically save. So they will still take 5d10 damage.
Not the greatest option, but its not like it fizzles out and does nothing
Fizban's Platinum Shield also give you +2 to dex save since it’s grant half cover.
• Disintegrate
Flat 40 force damage part is nice, but the fact that it can tore down Wall of Force and Forecage is the most important, especially if you have evil DM who like to trap you in Force Cage + Ray of Sickness combo.
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I love Distintegrate too! I made another comment on all of the out-of-combat uses for it as well. It's funny how many problems are solved by turning something to dust.
Or the Microwave combo: Wall of Force + Sickening Radiance
I get excited whenever I see your content, thank you for making it.
Honestly a great video! 6th level spells are always just weird to me after getting 5th, it's just weird in it's power jump and I love havign a rundown because I apparently never read eyebite correctly lol
Another point about mental prison is that it still qualifies as a control spell even with its massive damage output. A creature caught by the spell can only perceive the area within the spell's effect and nothing beyond, and since the spell takes effect in "the area immediately around the target's space" this means they cannot make AoO or reactions since they can't see or hear anything beyond the effect (they also can't cast any spell that requires them to see their target or target area). Additionally any attacks are made at advantage against them since according to the spell the target is restrained on top of everything else. Finally if they are moved from the affected area by any means the target takes a boat load of extra damage, making this a ridiculously powerful spell if you combo it with any one of the multitude of forced movement abilities in the game.
Of course this all assumes the target fails their save and isn't immune to being charmed. But since there's plenty of other strong single target damaging spells I'm going to assume the player isn't going to knowingly waste a coveted sixth level spell slot on a spell this powerful just to do the base damage.
Imagine opening a weight loss clinic that's just you casting Mass Suggestion with 1 month or year duration and telling people to follow their diet and exercise 3 times a week.
What are your opinions on the spells True sight and Tasha's otherworldly guise?
One is a non concentration cheap buff that allows your party to completely ignore several puzzles and be immune to illusions, and the other is a massive concentration buff that acts as a pseudo haste+fly spells while adding four immunitys (two damages depending on what type you choose + two conditions.)
Your vids are getting better, I still miss 4th ed warlock...one of the few things I loved about it.
Otto's Freezing sphere(s) can also be given to a flying familiar to drop. Bombs away!
Good video! Have you done a 'best spells to upcast?'
I was thinking of avoiding this due to the blast radius being dangerous to party if someone tries to sling it or whatnot, then I remembered I have bigby's hand. :D
Top 10 variant items, items that can come in multiple forms (such as different armors, different weapons, etc)
Scatter also should have been on this list. Definitely much better than mental prison.
You forgot Blade Barrier. Great battlefield control spell to put in front of minions before they rush your companions.
I would have put disintegrate on the list just for the utility. Being able to burn through walls of force or just regular walls is good. I love contingency with mislead, perhaps with a trigger word.
Not to mention Disintegrating towers, the hulls of ships, the king's throne if you're feeling sassy, digging perfectly shaped tunnels, trivializing doors, getting rid of bridges, siege weapons, or anything non-magical. Yeah, Disintegrate's utility is so often forgotten because it happens to have a fun risky damage option.
Globe of invulnerability on your BBEG means no healing word for the melee characters if they go down as well, potentially drawing a sorcerer or bard into close range.
8:24 I'm curious, why was Heal nerfed in 5E? In 3.5E, Heal used to restore 110 to 150 HP. Now only 70 HP.
Heal also cured a large number of conditions ... many more than just blindness, deafness and disease.
0:36 it's 9 times the fireball's area, and 27 times its volume
I think create homunculus is an under estimated spell. If your dm does not let you drink poisons as a bonus action you can use the homunculus to cast make it feed it to one of your friends. Another way it is useful is I you have a spare wand of some kind or other magic items that can do damage. It can also help as a lookout when your party is sleeping. It’s limitations goes as far as your creativity in my opinion. It does also offer many role-play potentials.
Does contingency still take the gold if the 10 days are up
No, the material component is never consumed on cast. However, Contingency will end if the material component is not on your person.
dude how do you make so many videos and know all of this shit its crazy
Upcasting absolutely _does_ get around Globe of Invulnerability. The level of a spell is the level of the slot used to cast it as described on page 201 in the PHB under 'Casting a Spell at a Higher Level': "When a spellcaster casts a spell using a slot that is of a higher levei than the spell, the spell assumes the higher levei for that casting. For instance, if Umara casts magic missile using one of her 2nd-levei slots, that magic missile is 2nd leveI. Effectively, the spell expands to fill the slot it is put into."
Same thing goes for the limited magic immunity of the Rakshasa or any other similar effect.
That was my thought too, but the spell description specifically says upcasting doesn't work.
Actually a spell cast using a higher level slot assumes the level of the slot used for that casting.
“Well actually” lol
Read the specific spell description. Specific beats general.
While I mostly agree with your list I don’t take much stock in mental spells as WotC and most dms seem to kinda just blanketed all boss monsters with immunity to most mental effects. I do enjoy the concept of mental prison though. Still though I think the utility of Disintegrate maybe is not considered here? Objects automatically fail dex saves meaning if you need to destroy something fast such as a really well guarded rooms door, a wall of force, or some particular item as fast as possible in combat those things are all dealt with with a free shot of around 75 damage. A couple sessions ago the group I’m in was up against a boss who was powered up by a massive crystal in a tower. Things were looking bleak for us so I casted my Disintegrate on it and dealt 90% the damage needed to destroy it. Pretty much saved my entire group due to using disintegrate for what its honestly best suited for. Destroying objects and doing it fast.
Isn’t Ottiluke’s Resilient Sphere like 10 times better that Globe of Invulnerability? I can’t seem to figure out why anyone would take Globe over sphere when sphere is a 4th level spell slot and Globe is 6th level and sphere protects from so much more!
You cant attack anything outside the sphere. So you are useless when in it.
No Tenser’s Transformation or Tasha’s Otherworldly Guise. Inappropriate.
Not to be pedantic but my pre-algebra lessons taught me that area of a circle is pi times radius squared. A circle with a radius of 20 ft would have an area of 1256 sq.ft while a circle with a radius of 60 ft would be 11,304 sq.ft. So otiluke's freezing sphere is nine times the size of a fireball and not three times the size.
me using Mental Prison to laugh at people with it
Irresistible Dance is not a good spell. There are LOTS of monsters that are immune to charm. And advantage just isn't that hard to come by. Same with Legendary Resistance, it's just not that hard to work around anymore. I'd take Scatter or even Soul Cage over this every time.
Mental Prison is a good spell but has one major problem. If your DM doesn't play nice all you get is damage. If that's all you get it's definitely not the top spell. Blasting just isn't good in 5e. Without the added control it's just average.
Mass suggestion is the best spell at this level. Think about it, Suggestion is pretty good at level 2. This is literally 12 times as effective at level 6 without needing concentration. This is the only 6th level spell that can end a significant combat encounter in a single action.
"It's literally 3 times as big as a fireball."
That not how volume of spheres work nor area of circles.
Magic jar is the strongest sixth level spell. You can use it to bust the game completely.
Mental prison os definitely not the best, or even close to it. Maximum it does at this level is burn LR.
Mass suggestion at 4th place 😂😂😂. I was wondering what will come next lol. MS is by far the strongest spell
@@Maximum7077 Magic Jar and Contingency are both more powerful unless your dm is super loose with the interpretation and let’s you get away with using it to auto win encounters.
@@davidwilfand916 what ? Lose ? Its an absolut fact that mass suggestion destroys encounters. As well as beeing non concentration and 24 hours.
Its insanity to argue for anything else to be better honestly,.
@@davidwilfand916 contingency can be great. Magic jar can be broken but still not comparable to the level of consistent power you get from MS
@@Maximum7077 It absolutely isn’t. It’s great but I’ve seen dm’s rule that it does very little. It’s completely up to dm fiat.
imo chain lightning doesn't deserve to be on this list. here's some honorable mentions which i think could've made the list:
1. soul cage-free advantage/healing for minimal action economy cost
2. summon fiend-summons are always useful
3. bones of the earth-non-concentration control spells are always a premium
4. create homunculus/planar ally-an additional body on the field without using your concentration is always useful. action economy is king in 5e
5. scatter- this is vortex warp (a good spell) on steroids. being able to reposition everyone on the field as you see fit can be a lifesaver/combat ender
I feel like the videos on this channel arnt as entertaining as the ones on your yugioh channel. When you talk about cards, you get to teach us about their effects and how to counteract them, and because yugioh is a competitive game, that information feels relevant. Its not the same with D&D, it doesnt really matter what spells are strong or weak because you arnt trying to win. Maybe a video like "top 10 online resources for DMs" or "top 10 coolest viewer submitted traps" would make for a more engaging video.
If it doesnt matter than why dont you take spells like true strike all the time and see how it goes ?
wow youre so cool @@Maximum7077 and your reading comprehension is excellent
thx bro. You too judging a playstile which you have absolutly no clue about ! Amazing dude ! Beiing a close minded person is so smart !@@ftlog_iamdave1181
"it doesnt really matter what spells are strong or weak because you arnt trying to win"
Wrong. you absolutly trying to win combat and survive. Thats why combat excists and is the fun of combat.
You do understand why the game is called DUNGEONS and DRAGONS , right ? Its not called "Rollplay Fantasy with Dragons". Or other bs you are trying to sell.
Otto’s Dance really seems like a raw vs rai argument. Literally no other spell has the effect just start without a save, and the creature can make a save the next turn, meaning the spell can be resisted by the creature, so I’m 99% that was just poor wording on the spells part.
Like why could a creature resist being forced to laugh but not dance, especially when both spells were made by the same guy in verse.
Because the spell is literally called 'irresistable dance'...
@@ainevek But the spell goes on to say you can resist it within its description. Ignoring how the names of multiple spells and abilities can be extremely misleading or completely wrong (sneak attack isn’t an actual sneak attack for example). I mean if that’s truly what the game designers meant for the spell, that’s what it does, but I just find it weird. No other spell, even ones in much higher spell levels, get to just auto do their things (except time stop but it stops if you try anything but running away), so a 6th level spell being able to do it comes off as unintentional. Especially when it doesn’t specifically say it gets to auto work, it just doesn’t mention the starting save.
Regarding Mass Suggestion, *is it* reasonable for an Enemy to see you cast magic on them and just listen to an order that is the direct opposite of their current action, let alone their their party's overarching goal?
Just saying "Go away", doesn't seem reasonable to me
It is reasonable . there is a example in the spell which you can use as a Parameter .
If Contigency has to be a Spell that can target yourself
Wouldnt a self inflict Fireball will work?
If I recall correctly, your Contigency spell has to target ONLY you, instead of just include you in a list of potential targets.
Lol if you're level 11 and cant deal with a river what have you been doing with your character?
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Mental Prison is just bad, becouse of true sight that is realy common on higher lvel monsters and rant imunity to any visual base ilusion.
There is deference between visual illusion and mental illusion the mental ones aren’t effected by true sight.
Even if RAW the monster can see through it, if they fail the save they'd take the extra damage.
Terrible list. Mental Prison is the best? Really? You should never take that spell, it's complete garbage. This list was mostly garbage.
Its not great but how is mental prison garbage ? CC, damage and intelligence save which are the best .