Solasta | SHOCK ARCANIST WIZARD | BEST STARTER BUILD GUIDE | CATACLYSM DIFFICULTY
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- Roll for initiative, take attacks of opportunity, manage player location and the verticality of the battle field in this upcoming Turn-Based Tactical RPG based on the SRD 5.1 Ruleset. In Solasta, you make the choices, dice decide your destiny.
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Intro 0:00
Race 0:20
Class 2:18
Background 2:39
Ability Score 3:51
Proficiencies 5:38
Spell Cantrips 6:25
Level 1 Spells 12:40
Level 2 19:28
Level 3 24:58
Level 2 Spells 25:06
Level 4 29:53
Level 5 32:02
Level 3 Spells 32:33
Outro 37:01 - Hry
Late to the party, but shocking grasp has a very good use in it's rider effect. The target can't take reactions. So, in the event something runs up and bases your wizard, you can shocking grasp them and run away without taking an attack of opportunity. Very useful.
So true mate! I've definitely put shocking grasp way higher up on my recent sorcerer guide analysis!
I think I'm going to be making a spell tier list revamp for each class soon since these guides are abit rough and vague to keep the video relatively short. Thanks so much for watching! ❤️
It's also a way to deal damage before you GTFO instead of disengage. I put it on all my arcane casters
excellent video! dropping a huge thumbs up and a full watch! have a excellent day!
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Hey mate, I think you might of posted this comment on the wrong channel... 🤭😂
But thank you I will! Great praise you have given! Into picture frame this comment will go... ❤️
nice upload👍🏼😊
Awesome gameplay as always
Really good vidéo my friend 🥰
Hey it was awesome bro! You know all the ins and outs of this!! Great job!
No he doesn't, so many wrong things.
@@kennyvermeulen4105 Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one. You're entitled to yours. 😊
GGWP Bro 😊👍
Amazing video my friend ! +1 like, stay connected ! 👍🏻😉
Thanks for the Guide!
I'm glad it helped mate!!! Got any questions feel free to ask! Thanks so much for watching! ❤️
There is a quest in the game where you can get 5 level 3 spells and it appears you always get the same ones which include Fireball, Fly, Lightning bolt and Haste. I think the 5th one is revive or something. This could impact your selection here.
Great shout mate! Discovered that quest myself while playing through, I'm pretty sure it's before you choose your level 3 spells so can definitely adapt to what you receive! Thanks so much for watching mate! ❤️
I love the Light cantrip and take it on all my Wizards and Clerics. I think it is really strong surprisingly and a stand out above other cantrips. You can only have one Light active on each character so having multiple is not redundant. I put it on my armor so even if I switch weapons the Light stays. The reason why it is so strong is because undead have disadvantage against it and will also take some damage if near. Normally dodging while having Spiritual weapon and/or Spirit Guardians up is a good tactic for a Cleric, but with Light on you just get it as a passive bonus against undead.
Light is definitely one of the best if not the best cantrip in the game. More so if you're a race without dark vision. I normally play a full Elf party and my playstyle makes it so more then one light isn't needed, also having dancing lights for backup on far away ranged targets.
I have picked up 2 lights in my current playthrough as a backup precaution Vs certain enemies but I have found that the extra light wasn't needed in my party composition I still have the same results as I did with just one light on my main tank. Each to their own though! 😊
Thanks so much for watching mate! ❤️
I had different experience with charm person. Once the spell landed, the charmed person was attacked by his own allies. He also attacked them. so not only you were taking him out of the combat against you, he also diverted attacks from the other enemies. I didn't noticed him attacking my party. One more thing, interestingly, while he is charmed, if you kill all other enemies, its a victory. you don't need to deal with him. In conclusion, based on my experience in the early game, this spell is awesome if it lands.
Wow that's completely different to how it's supposed to work must be a bug! Great shout though mate thank you for bringing that to my attention! Thanks so much for watching as well! ❤️
'Shine' is like 10x better than light, especially against light sensitive enemies.
First of all, you light up your target (undead and spectral enemies will take radiant damage every turn), making them light up, leaving you in the dark, aka you get an advantage on them,
while they keep disadvantage against you as you're barely visible in the dark.
'Sparkle' is also great.
Most of the time you can light up ( out of stealth) by lighting all the torches before you even get into combat, remaining stealth and hidden,
to get a light advantage while remaining in the dark ( and stealth) for surprise attacks, sneak attacks and advantage on your rolls.
Combining those 2 cantrips can often win you a fight before it even properly starts.
I think the problem with shine is it just pales in comparison to it's older brother dancing lights.
As you said it requires a will save to get it to work then on top of that they get a will save roll each turn to negate it and also takes up your action which you could spend doing damage.
Compared to dancing lights which you can cast before combat so it doesn't take an action during combat or can cast it during combat and it's guaranteed to work, also can reposition it with the bonus action. Where as shine if for some reason it doesn't get negated is stuck to the enemy you have put it on. The Soraks and undeads have a nasty habit of running everywhere like a renegade hamster that has been let out of it's cage. 😂😂I prefer to have something reliable rather then relying on more RNG ( random number generator ) in combat.
Thanks for the great comment though mate and for watching! ❤️
copy and pasted this and agree with sparkle being good in main campaign, dlc not so much.
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Shine is actually very VERY good because it can be used on enemies at a distance, meaning certain foes that might NORMALLY get a bonus in the darkness suddenly doesn't. You might say, " but you can just walk up to them " and i'd say --- not always. There are lots of moments in the game where, light is less valuable then shine, and even though shine requires a save it will make alot of fights much easier by proxy.
I think the problem with shine is it just pales in comparison to it's older brother dancing lights.
As you said it requires a will save to get it to work then on top of that they get a will save roll each turn to negate it and also takes up your action which you could spend doing damage.
Compared to dancing lights which you can cast before combat so it doesn't take an action during combat or can cast it during combat and it's guaranteed to work, also can reposition it with the bonus action. Where as shine if for some reason it doesn't get negated is stuck to the enemy you have put it on. The Soraks and undeads have a nasty habit of running everywhere like a renegade hamster that has been let out of it's cage. 😂😂I prefer to have something reliable rather then relying on more RNG ( random number generator ) in combat.
Thanks for the great comment though mate and for watching! ❤️
@@Methfu you clearly haven't even tried it.
frankly, your entire vid is half assed.
@@thomasneal9291 That's fair enough mate, hopefully your video is better... Oh wait... 😂
Gotta appreciate Methu bestowing his wisdom upon us!
Lol! Imma have to start running a tab for you mate, I think you been getting too much wisdom... 😂😂 Thanks so much for watching! ❤️
@@Methfu 😂😂😂😂
Btw, idk if it is intended or not, but the goodberry spell in this game is massively overpowered... Basically one cast of this gives You the option to equip 10 berries in your action slot. You can use your action to feed an ally, giving them 1 hp... Now this sounds kinda troll, except... if they are downed, giving them that 1 hp actually brings them up and they can even hit in the same turn!!! This combined with the not very smart AI, that likes to keep focus on the same target until it's dead... This means that, if I am in a very hard fight early game on hardest difficulty and everything is exhausted and it's my pal tank and greenmage behind him left standing, the boss kills the pal, I give berry the pal goes up and hits, the boss hits pal again, he might or might not go down. If he goes down, give him berry again... Eventually the boss will miss, then you attack with both of them... It's kinda hilarious actually... Also when you exhaust all your spells you can use the last one for hunter's mark and shooting with your bow... Shock arcanist on the other hand gives you the most important thing on cataclysm difficulty... burst damage... So it's really hard choice, but I lean towards greenmage personally :)
Haha that was a great explanation of the Goodberry spell! 😂😂 I played a ranger in my team in the early access and did something similar to this! The bosses were like *"how many berries can you eat?!??"* 🤢😂
Green mage definitely crazy good! Thinking about doing a 2 sorcerer 2 wizard run and gonna have the green mage in there so much utility! 😍🤤
Thanks so much for watching! ❤️
@@Methfu btw, if You have to do same class challenge, for cataclysm, which party you think will be the best? imo 4 battle clerics will be the strongest, but I could be wrong here :P
@@zyfryth Haha I think you're right on that one mate, 4 battle clerics would be insane! I would probably mix it up abit for variation, have law, sun , battle and ethier life or fire as the 4th.
Law cleric is pretty crazy there's some broken combos you can do with it and sun is great! 💪
@@Methfu On the surface it looks like clerics lack number of attacks, but practically speaking battle cleric gets to hit 2 times, and he can have spirit weapon which is not concentration and is pretty much like extra attack and they can have spirit guardians as well, soooo it kinda sums up as 4 attacks ? :D On top of that having magic missle on 4 characters sounds insane :D
@@zyfryth Haha yeah that's true 4 "attacks" each! That would be 16 all together pretty funny! 😂 the early game would be magic missile something to death! Lol if you try it lemme know how it went. 🤭
It seems there's a new level 2 spell added called Shatter. It's an AOE thunder spell. What're your thoughts on this spell? Is it worth considering next to Flame Sphere and Knock?
Also for the Magic Weapon spell, I'd imagine it's more useful for buffing your melee ally to give them that extra boost? Or is it still pretty weak with only a +1 to A and D?
Love your content and your energy btw!
When I first saw it I was like "dayum a mini fireball!" Then I saw it had a constitution save for half damage.
Strength and constitution are the universal highest saving throws for most enemies so naturally most the time it will be only doing half of 3d8. Then as you said it's up against flaming sphere, knock (which I suprisingly haven't had to use once during my new campaign lol) misty step, blur and also scorching ray which is probably the best spell in that tier and my go to for damage! 💪
I think magic weapon isn't worth the concentration it requires, I'd much rather have flame sphere out for more damage or a blur on to mitigate it, if I know I'm going to be swarmed.
There is a time around level 5 when you face two undead legendary bosses that are semi resistant to non magical weapons is the only time I thought it would come in handy but at that level you want to use your concentration to use haste on whatever melee or ranged attackers you have or slow to limit enemies attacks to 1 per round so even then it kinda loses out to better spells. 😔
Great questions though mate hope this helped! Thanks so much for watching! ❤️
stealth proficiency was very useful for my mage, so spy or lowlife, if going no armor way
Hope you have time to read/respond to this even if it's a little long:
After all that I saw in your guides/read I will play Paladin Oath of Tirmir Half Elf Aristocrat, Cleric Battle Sylvan Elf Acolyte, Rogue Shadowcaster High Elf Spy, Wizard Shock Arcanist High Elf Sellsword. My problem is the following: I plan on playing this on the max difficulty, but now I got the idea of first playing on a lower difficulty to learn/understand the mechanics and if so I can play all the other classes/backgrounds.
Here's the setup and problems with it: Fighter maybe spellblade since it's different but I don't know how exactly to play it, he will be tank and hopefully a damage dealer too, your ranger archer but i'll choose shadow tamer and from what I read undead, monstrosity(or something else if you know it's better), since i'll play battle cleric in my main campain, maybe i should play elemental fire or life ? But how will I play it ? How much will the somantic restriction contribuite to the playstyle |? And my last question: even if it's the first time that I'll play, I want a sorcerer for the charisma aspect and it being a mage/non wizard :) But since I have no prior knowledge of the game I don't know what spells to choose.
So what are you thoughts on me playing a fun/learning team first then playing my main on for the hardest difficulty ?
Haha that's awesome, it looks like we will be playing exactly the same party at launch! I got my Rogue Shadowcaster guide releasing tomorrow at 12pm just incase you were interested.
I'm personally not to keen on the Spellblade Fighter subclass, it just feels a tiny bit clunky and not optimal, unless there are some big buffs coming on release for it.
I would take a Mountaineer instead for Fighter tank, since that subclass is actually pretty decent compared to the other 2 choices for Fighter.
Shadow Tamer is a great subclass definitely on par with the hunter ranger, I would pick humanoid if that is an option at release if not undead, monstrosity is excellent choices.
From what I've seen the Sorceror subclass will not be available straight away on launch but that might be subject to change, so would make sense to grab it for a second playthrough once you know which spells you like the most.
I think this game definitely deserves 2 playthroughs espcially to see all the background quests! The hardest difficulty Cataclysm can be quite frustrating to begin with since it has some really nasty early game fights, after you get past them though it gets a lot more smooth sailing. If I were to do two playthroughs I would most likely play one difficulty below the hardest just so it isn't such a shock to the system on the second playthrough. Or just go all in with the double hardest difficulty playthroughs!
Hope this helps mate! ❤️
@@Methfu It helps a lot, hope you will be playing/making guides for pathfinder wotr and bg3 when they come out; again, I can't believe my luck I found your channel, your subscriber count will surely grow with these games!
And what do you advice me about the cleric ? what domain should I choose ? elemental, law, life and what playstyle, dex or str based ? Since you said sorc won't be in, i'll probably ad a Greenmage
@@MosCraciun777 Will definitely be covering Baldurs Gate 3 closer to release, played a ton of the early access already! I played the crap out of Pathfinder Kingmaker the original release so I will try to cover Pathfinder Wotr if real life allows me to lol!
I would say Law/Sun/Life are all strong in different ways.
Law has crazy anti mage capabilities like a spellbreaker. I would grab Sylvan Elf 10/16/14/10/16/8 pick concentration feat at 4 or pump wis for spellcaster or melee pump dex.
Life is great for being a tanky frontliner coupled with strong healing, can even make it your main tank if you took concentration feat at level 4.
Half-Elf 16/10/14/8/16/10 pick concentration feat at 4 or str for melee. Will be mostly healing and buffing no wisdom hit needed for that.
I haven't had a chance to test elemental that much but I know Sun is very strong with the sacred flame cantrip also great spell selection.
Sylvan Elf 10/16/14/10/16/8 pick concentration feat at 4 or wisdom for spellcasting. Sacred flame is your bread and butter.
Hope this helps!
@@Methfu So much information, so detailed, thank you! I saw that they added new stuff to each class up to level 10. I'll read what each class/subclass has now and maybe change my strategy but now at least I have an overall idea
Is this the current build? There’s no alignment selection like that in my game.
This is the early access build 0.9 the current build is 1.0.
The alignments have now all been shifted into personality traits similar to the back grounds you can pick but with a rectangle shaped graph. The alignments are still there since it shows you the spectrum of how close you will be to evil or good and lawful or chaotic with your choices.
For the wizard nothing really changed combat wise they gained the grease spell at spell level 1 and shatter at spell level 2 so far.
So the guide is still absolutely true to nature so you don't need to worry if it's outdated. Hope this helps mate and thanks so much for watching! ❤️
Are you going to do an Baldur Gate 3 series in the future.
I will 100% be covering a Baldurs Gate 3 series closer to release, I've played a lot of the early access already, so super excited for when it comes out! Lol 🥳🎉🤤
so why a Longbow at the start if the Fire bolt does 1d10?
Hello mate, longbow at level 1 with 16 dex = 1d8+3 because of the dex modifier.
Firebolt at level 1 with 16 intellect is 1d10. So the longbow will out damage the Firebolt until level 5.
They both have the same chance to hit but the intellect proficiency doesn't effect the spells damage that's only effected by caster levels. Hope this helps! ❤️
@@Methfu thanks :D
Hay I didn't get spider crawl 😪
If I take four short rest is it then a long rest 😅
Lmao 😂😂 I actually wish that was true for IRL!
Just saying that if I was a girl, your knowledge on these cards would've turned me ON LOL
Lmao! You gotta get to the back of the line mate!!! There's a hoard of girls after me for my knowledge on Dungeons and dragons 5th edition ruleset... Might need to get a stick to beat them off me... 🤔😂😂😂 Thanks so much for watching! ❤️
your cantrip analysis is terrible. example: sparkle. sparkle is an free action spell. meaning, you can cast it even if you have already attacked or cast another spell. in a room where there are things that can be lit... you can light up the whole damn room for free during combat!. the idea of shine is the range. shine actually HAS range, where light is a touch only cantrip. maybe these things were different when you were reviewing them?
That's your opinion buddy, opinions are not fact. 😂
There was not a single time during my whole Cataclysm playthrough that I thought "I wish I had sparkle instead of dancing lights or Light" lol you pre cast the Light cantrip before you explore on your main melee character so it never takes an action.
If you see where the enemies are, using cautious mode you can use firebolt to light up everything similar to sparkle, there is alot of times where you can't even use sparkle on anything.
Where as dancing lights can be used wherever and can pre cast it before combat if you got a sense of it coming... On top of that you can reposition the effect using a bonus action. Would be great if you actually tried the cantrips out in a full playthrough before you started spreading random negativity. 😂😂