Top 10 Defensive Magic Items in DnD 5E
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- In this video going over the best magic items that help you stay alive, by either making you a harder to hit, allow you to avoid taking damage altogether, or just do something that improves the suitability of your character by a lot. With a big focus on items are usable by every class.
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-The List-
Intro: (0:00)
10-Ring of Spell Storing: (0:14)
9- Cloak of Protection, Ring of Protection: (3:09)
8- Serpent Scale Armor, Elven Chain: (4:18)
7- Animated Shield: (7:34)
6- Ghost Step Tattoo : (8:42)
5- Ring of Evasion: (11:07)
4- Mantle of Spell Resistance, Spellguard Shield: (12:13)
3- Winged Boots: (13:37)
2- Cloak of Displacement: (15:05)
1- Cloak of Invisibility: (16:42)
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You never want to roll a 1d4-1 for a 1d3. That can give bad results, and alters the statistical chances of the results. Instead, roll 1d6, with a 1-2 equalling a 1, a 3-4 equalling a 2, and a 5-6 equalling a 3.
Seconded, that's how I do my 1d3 rolls
I do that as well but pair the numbers differently. 1-4 is 1, 2-5 is 2 and 3-6 is 3
I have an app that rolls a d3 😏
D12 1-4=1 5-8=2 9-12=3
I'm a fan of the Rod of Alertness. Advantage on Perception checks and initiative rolls, some pretty good free detection spells you can cast at no cost, and a special ability where you can place the rod into the ground and give all allies within 60 ft. around you +1 to AC and Saving Throws. Now, an enemy can use an action to get to the rod and pull it out of the ground, but that still costs them an action, if they can even reach the rod and are smart enough to realise that they can do that. You could place down the rod and cast a Spike Growth right under it so that it couldn't be easily removed by non-flying enemies
The best defensive item is whatever kills the enemy the fastest so it stops dealing damage :)
I found the barbarian!
Says the barbarian.
What i got from the video
Serpent scale armor + shield + cape and ring = possibly 23 ac, now monks and barbarians can get in wisdom to their ac as well, and stat raising tomes can get you to 30 ac with no equipment, just a regular naked dude who is able to tank a dragon more than a fully plated paladin
Pardon me? Are you perhaps a barbarian my friend
@@gamemaster9314 Nah, Cleric. When the enemies die my party members don't take damage :D
If allowed at your table, silvery barbs is also a pretttyyy good option for a ring of spell storing. Just keep one charge in there for when you really need to dodge a crit
But if you're giving it to the tank, who'll probably be facing multiple attacks, shield will still be better most of the time. Crits are overrated in 5e. Until you get to higher CR's most of the time you're talking about a single d6 or d8.
Either way is kind of a waste of the item. A ring of spell storing can be exploited in a lot of interesting ways. It's borderline broken.
@@backcountry164 Yeah but you would still have four slots left. If you know that you can reliably fill the ring every couple of adventuring days, I would still recommend silvery barbs.
@@backcountry164 Shield is nice but a crit is a issue that silvery barbs not only deals with but let’s you give yourself or another a advantage. If is one of the powerful spells in the game for the level.
The new strixhaven spells are all insane , idk what WotC were thinking tbh
@@gamewrite9 WotC's DnD team don't write the MtG content, a MtG team does. It does need an okay from WotC however.
some of my favs are: defender weapon, +3 armor and shield, ring and cloak of protection, stone of luck.
When it comes to why the Cloak and Ring of Protection are different rarities I think it's because RAW suggest you only have cloak slot.
That, and the ring is probably easier to hide in case someone wants to take your magic items. (Though in-universe nobody bats an eyelash if some adventurer sits in the Yawning Portal in full plate wearing a cloak and some ornate crown, but that's just RPGs for you.)
yeah,you could have 10 rings on but you can only have 1 cloak...BUUUTTTT how if you had all of them on thats a +11 to all saving throws and ac
You can wear 2 cloaks as long as you have enough attunement slots.
Ring of Spell storing is SO underrated, I love it for the exact reason you mention. Have 3 shield spells on a tank or squishy backline is unbelieveably good
Keep in mind that you need to be able to see your target for an attack of opportunity, so being invisible is pretty neat.
I really don't like the artificial limitations like "2 hours of invisibility" to make it more balanced.
Much prefer monsters having good enough perception otherwise (noise, smell... hunch?) or for some rarer ones simply ability to see invisible, to reduce the effect.
For my old blind fighting rogue/fighter, my Ring of Obscuring was basically a robe of invisibility at uncommon. Though to use that, you do need blindsight from either a fighting style or also carry a Dagger of Blindsight.
I also carried an Eversmoking Bottle, but that smoke area was so big that I rarely ever used it as to not screw over my party. I'd rather the smoke only sit on me and not my enemy
Do you play solo? Do the rest of your party have blindsight? I'm not convinced that this tactic would work well in a group.
I usually play tanks in my parties, so thanks for all the ideas of stuff to ask my DM for!
this video was exactly what I needed thank you
Ioun Stone of Protection, Ring of Free Action, Sentinel Shield... we upset our DM when a couple of us all gave the lvl 14 Fighter a mix of items (Spellguard shield, Cloak of Displacement and his Defender) + Bless and Bane lol so much that our DM doubled the challenge rating of our next fight! it was an Epic struggle!
Just a reminder for people too
Artificers at Lv. 20 can attune to 6 items.
Let that sink in for some broken fun
Actually, that's level 18 (The one you're thinking of is the UA version, which had this at level 20). However, what makes that even better is Level 14 which says "You ignore all class, race, spell, and level requirements on attuning to or using a magic item". NOW think of the broken fun!
Yeah, with some +3 armor and Defender shenanigans you can build an artificer to have an AC of 40. Just from the stuff they are wearing.
@@DracoCordraconis just curious, how are you getting to 40? Off the top of my head, best I can think of is 32.
Warforged +1
+3 plate (21)
+3 shield (5)
Ring+Cloak of protection (2)
+3 Defender
If we add in stuff like turrets and Haste, that adds a functional +4, so 36 AC is possible, and shield would get that to 41 AC.
I'd say that still counts, but is there something I'm missing that would get you to 40 before spells and abilities?
Important would be that we are proficient with heavy armor and martial weapons - at least the one that's gonna be the sword we'll be using. Idea would be to start as a Fighter, and then take 18-19 levels in artificer, but that would mean we'd have to do without the big bonus on saving throws. Alternatively we'd have to get the proficiencies via feats, and that might cripple our stats, so this is by far NOT an optimal built for all situations, and just purely focussed on AC
Plate Armor +3 (21)
a Shield +3 (26)
Defender (29, 1 attuned)
Race: Warforged (30, 1 att.)
Defense Fighting Style (31, 1 att.)
a genuine Ring of Protection or Cloak of Protection (32, 2 att.)
4 more Rings of Protection via Infusion: Replicate Magic Item (36, 6 att., 4 Infused Items)
Infusion: Enhance Defense on Armor (38, 6 att., 5 infused)
Infusion: Enhance Defense on Shield (40, 6 att., 6 infused.)
@@DracoCordraconis I don't believe that works, RAW. You could also grab the fighting style as a feat. For the armor proficiency, we can get around that by taking the Armorer subclass, but the issue is Enhanced Defense.
First, you can only take one instance of an infusion, so that's only one Enhanced Defense. Second, infusions can only be placed on non-magic items. The +3 equipment is ineligible, as it is considered magical. The jury is somewhat out about taking multiple ring infusions because, strictly speaking, it does say you can take Replicate Magic Item more than once, but it's unclear whether you can pick the same one more than once.
ring of spell storing us great, it can fit 1x spike growth (lv2) and 1x windwall (lv3) and does so indefinitely untill used
If my thief rogue has the ritual caster feat and the use magic device class feature, would he be able to spend ten minutes doing a ritual and store that in the ring of spell storing so he can cast it instantly later?
I've never played 5e, but I want to play a thief rogue with the ritual caster, tavern brawler, mounted combatant and healer feats. I want to lean into ritual caster with find familiar as a source of advantage and phantom steed and mounted combatant as a way to give my character a speed of 100'. I also want to lean into fast hands with healer so I can raise two downed allies in one round with a healer kit, and with tavern brawler, allowing me to be proficient with acid flasks and alchemist fire, so I can sneak attack from 20' away as a bonus action with them.
I think it's a kick ass build.
The Ring of Protection is rare because it's a ring so, you can have many copies of the item.
Actually, multiple magic items with the same name doesn’t stack but you can wear a cloak of protection which does stack
@@010WhatMy I suspect the actual answer is that you have 10 fingers, but only one back. So the item that takes up your back is more common than the one that only needs a finger because you have more room for finger items.
Also, from a non-mechanical point of view, it should be much easier to gain extra ac from a magical cloak (which covers your whole body and can function as minor armor if enchanted) than from a ring, which just covers a part of a finger. The magic to enchant the ring should be more powerful than the magic to enchant the cloak, meaning the ring is rarer.
@@010WhatMy you're 100% correct, and the same principle applies to spells - number of fingers is irrelevant to this despite what folks think... 😬
because you have multiple fingers you can use ring of protection and another ring, while you can use only one clock - so the ring would be more sought after
I am now concocting a boss fight for the party against someone with the ghost tattoo. Might give them a few of the weaker items on this list as a reward for beating them too.
Yes!!!!! Thank you for understanding that mobility is defense! Some people can not seem to understand that
Cloak of displacement is simply amazing. The average of +3 (and not +5, i've done the math) effective AC it gives makes my Eldritch Knight basically impossible to hit outside of a critical (I also have the shield spell). And heavy armor master reduces all damage further by 3. I built that as an answer for the lack of healers in the party. 1 player chose a druid that doesn't heal but himself so... Been relying on regular health potions, second wind, short rests, and a magic healing item the dm brewed for us healing a greater about twice per day. Of course i can live on this strict healing diet, but I can't say this isn't a challenge for the whole party... And they unfortunately gobble my potions constantly. I always have to get 10 regulars on me for they never buy enough for them...
The cloak of invisibility, tho is legendary and better, even if it can be countered by flour, a mundane item.
It can only be countered by flour if you know roughly where to throw. Cunning action hide coupled with silent movement a la boots of elvenkind and just peppering them with arrows and good luck catching them with that flour.
Boy, if I had a dollar for every time I ran into a monster that was carrying around a bag of flour, I'd have...(checks notes)...$0.
@@Schmeethe88 sure, works better against ones of the nonrogue persuasion.
@@teafx3 thankfully, in dnd, not many monsters are bakers. Or make sticky dust, for that matter.
@@VeteranVandal hell, they can even just be goblins. Don't necessarily have to be a rogue to hide as a bonus action
Looking for some magical items to boost my lvl 9 barbarian's AC, so this video was very helpful. Thank you!
I did know Hiru had a dnd channel. Love it!
If the DM allows it "Brigandine Armor" also gives you AC 14 but allows +3 Dex bonus. So 1 better. But as you pointed out,...
even ONE BETTER EVERY TIME is actually an awesome thing.
I have had a blast playing a Oath of the Open sea paladin with 3 of these magic items for about a year.
She is currently level 9 and and her main stats are Dex: 16 Wisdom: 16 and Charisma: 20.
She mainly fights with a firearm, hence the dex.
Winged boots, for mobility
Serpent scale armor, for all its benefits (only have a +3 dex mod tho)
and the Cloak of displacement.
What makes this even better is that by being a Open sea paladin she, and any creature within 10 feet, cannot be grappled or restained. Which means the only way that the Cloak of displacement is not gonna work is if SHE goes down.
Effectively having 17 AC (without a shield), all attacks agaisnt her at disadvantage (until damaged). Immune to grapple and restrained and high maneuverability.
In our high fantasy hero campaign we have a homebrew magic point buy system, so we can choose what we want when we have completed a difficult task. Depending on the task we dont get many points.. So her getting both the serpent scale armor and cloak of displacement was very time consuming and difficult!
My character also earned her high defence as she ran through most of the start of the campaign with only 14 AC. Disliking heavy armor cause of the clunkyness and disadvantage on stealth. So she played more like a rogue than a front line combatant.
She is is now the paladin of "Do not touch without consent"!!😎
Force cube is a great defensive item, I can just prevent enemies from getting closer or even prevent attacks from entering. It can also benefit allies close to you as well
I quite like the "Tattoos" offered by Tasha's Cauldron. It brings back fond memories of the huge host of tattoos made available in the RPG "Planescape: Torment". PS:T had some really incredible ones that can be easily adopted into a DM run game but Tasha's got some pretty cool ones as well. Gotta agree though, that some may be TOO powerful, depending on level the DM provides them to. :)
Sentinel shield is badass as well. Advantage on initiative and perception is probably worth more than a +1 bonus at least. Last campaign i was in i played a warforged star druid that used one. I was essentially a walking spy satellite, and in fact i RP'd that i was especially a sentient probe that was charged with monitoring the world and was charged with maintaining the balance of fate
I had a cleric once who found a ring of spell storing. He'd either load up on Shield spells as you suggested here, or He'd drop Spirit Guardians into it and hand it over to the paladin. 😄
Staff of Defense from Lost Mines of Phandelver. +1 AC when held. 10 charges. 1 charge to Cast mage armor. 2 charges to cast shield. Regaisn 1d6 +4 charges a day. Tier 1, 2, when you probably aren't maxing out attunement slots, its a great item.
The Ghost Walk Tattoo is actually extremely powerful if you give it to a Arcane Trickster Rogue. They can turn Invisible and Dash as a Bonus Action, meaning every other turn they can essentially just move normally through objects while remaining pretty much undetectable due to being invisible and having an incredibly high sneak skill (which they can use Pass Without Trace to make even stronger). Theirs no point in thr DM even asking for stealth rolls at that point and pretty much no consequence if they're caught lol 🤣
Silvery Barbs is the new (1st level) spell to cheese into a [Ring of Spell Storing]
Personally I think that the hype around Silvery Barbs is overblown precisely because I'd still rather have Shield a lot of the time, but it's still a phenomenal choice that will definitely cover some situations that Shield doesn't.
(I guess what I'm really saying is if you ban one in your game you should also ban the other)
I agree that the spell is on the same level/effectiveness as shield (which was why I figured to comment on it).
It's just used for different things.
I personally don't ban either spell.
@@Spoopball I don't either, but I do recognize how they affect the balance of the games I run and play in. DMs should also be aware of how much more staying power they give your bosses if you add them to their spell lists >:)
For Ring of spell storing, if you have down time, use your highest level spell slot to store in, just in case of a counterspell
Mr. Log's way of making Top 10s.
Here's the Top 10 *insert topic here*
Number 1.
Number 2.
Number 2.1
Number 2.2
Number 2.3
Number 3.
Number 4.
But for real this is definitely a much better way to list Top 10s imo. So you're not completely stuck with just the Top 10 and are also informed of your other options in similar categories.
Great, now I need to make a Tank to mess with my DM friend! Whatever will I do!
"Have you ever been in a campaign with no walls?"
No, but a friend of mine has. It's one of the most bizarre things I've heard. Nothing but fucking open fields
I am currently playing a non-optimized artificer. You are able to create some magical items (limited number, fixed list) and the winged boots are coming in clutch.
Niche case, but I'd argue the Ring of Protection could be a higher rarity because it's smaller/more concealable?
Might have to take the cloak off for a formal event/might be taken if captured, but the ring could be hidden with a sleight of hand?
Not really worth a whole tier of difference imo, but just a thought
@@beluga1246 Also a good argument. Kind of like the thought of a super awkward looking dude wearing three or four capes/cloaks layered over eachother though
My guess is that it's to make it slightly harder to have both at once to stack them.
Criminally underrated
I would have mentioned the bracers of defense and the stone of good luck. I'm not suggesting either are better than most of your list, but I feel that they should be talked about. Perhaps also the Staff of defense
The number one item on this list further cements my belief that air genies are hugely underrated.
Permanent invisibility with invocation.
Has access to greater invisibility.
Can see through walls with invocation.
Can see through magical darkness with invocation.
Can fly for free for an hour a day.
Infinite eldritch blasts so no need for other spell slots.
Can teleport for free if Eladrin.
Just a few reasons for brokenness.
11:17 - 1d4-1 is worse than 1d3. 1d4-1 means you could get 0 charges on a roll of 1, while on a 1d3 you get at least one. If you don't have virtual dice or an actual d3, just take 1d6/2
1d4-1 (minimum 1) done.
@@paulonery2913 Gives a 50% chance for a 1, and 25% each for 2 or 3.
1d6/2 gives an equal 33% chance for 1, 2, or 3 ;-P
You forgot the "Ascendant Scale Ornament" from the Fizban's book. (+1 AC, immunity to charmed and frightened and a reaction to absorbo one instance of a damage type)
What about adamantine armor? Maybe its because I run a gritty game with lingering injuries on a criticals but, my players love it regardless.
we convinced our dm to let us prepped spells longer then a round in the spell storing ring go off as regular spell time. cuz i already put in the time to cast the spell to store in the ring. i used it for tiny hut i was damn near unkillable. the only thing bringing down this 8 hour dome of protection is wish, disintegrate or an act of the gods. at the start of the game for a bard it was amazing no one had those spells
I kinda wanna see Top 5th Level Spell and Top 6th Level Spell lists soon.
Does pariahs shield's force damage redirection capable of being reduced if you have armor of force resistance?
My guess the diffrence in rarity between the cloak of protection and the ring of protection is that you can wear more then one ring but not more then one cloak
Don't forget Absorb Elements' secondary effect! It's a) cinematic as hell and b) damage is damage
I believe that one of the ways to get an absurdly high AC would be a Warforged Artificer at level 18
I have a Warforged Battlesmith (lvl 3 Artificer) Echo Knight (lvl 10 Fighter) with 22 AC lol And that's with choosing Dueling fighting style over Defensive fighting style, because I didn't want to be THAT obnoxious
Warforged forge cleric. 20 ac at lvl 1
I'm surprised the _Cloak of Invisibility_ was mentioned instead of _Ring of Invisibility_
One has these conditions and caveats, whereas the other is just outright invisibility with no strings tied.
Some minor nitpicks;
1d4-1 is not equivalent to 1d3, you should use 1d6/2 rounded up instead.
At 15:30 the text saying "This includes all weapon attacks [...]" is correct, the voice over saying it includes "all melee attacks" is not. The Melee Attacks section includes the Grappling and Shoving a Creature subsections, which each describe a special melee attack you can make using the Attack action that require a contested ability check instead of an attack roll. Someone could grapple a creature wearing a cloak of displacement without any issue to reduce their speed to 0 and make attack rolls normally.
Would the bonus of the animated shield stack on top of a normal shield's ac bonus if you chose to hold another shield ?
Rod of rulership. Basically jedi mind trick cranked up
serpent scale armor, 15 + 5 --- 20 from medium armor, seems powerfull enough for me to be rare, it shouldnt be uncommon!
So, Scale Mail is base 14, making this give 19 rather than 20. Technically, you can also get a 19 AC from Uncommon +1 Plate Armor.
However, this does not give stealth disadvantage, require heavy armor proficiency, or have a strength requirement, so I think there's still a strong argument that it should be considered Rare. I'd definitely price it up if this magic item was available for sale in my game!!
Considering whats in uncommon im surprised THIS is what i hear needs to be moved,good point though. I guessed its balanced needing high dex
@@thedootlord There's a lot of crazy uncommon items. My table is in the unusual position of having too _many_ DMs rather than too few, and several of my friends have had a special shop or two where they allowed us to buy pretty much any uncommon or lower magic item. It makes me feel awkward because I don't always know what the others will pick and I don't want to make my characters way stronger or weaker than the rest of their party. Between that and trying to decide what I'd want in character I'd usually prefer the DM pick out what I have access to.
@@DoctorFalchion my dm is sorta similar in that vain
@@DoctorFalchion very considerate of you...
I’m still weighing if I’m going to offer much beyond common magic items in a store. I definitely won’t offer the more broken uncommon items w/out serious hoops! The old school approach of: you want it, go find the home of something ancient and powerful...
also, the item creation approach really speaks to me. While giving players agency, it also encourages connections to the world and downtime activities
I've officially found 3 magic items one of my bbeg will be using
Don't know if you'd add the endless smoking bottle it's great for field control when things don't have blind sight/fighting
For the cloak vs ring of protection rarity id imagine it’s roleplaying reasons. A cloak with +1 to ac isn’t that special really, it’s just armor which is common enough. A ring is much more impressive though cuz it’s just a little ring that’s somehow shielding your whole body.
I think the main reason is you can only wear one cloak, whilst you can have many rings.
Does the shield spell protect against nonmagical attacks such as arrows or sling shots?
Serpent scale armor is +2 studded leather. That went from legendary to uncommon by being labeled medium Armor.
I guess the uncommon cloak and rare ring thing with the same effects have different rarities because it’s not uncommon to be limited to only one cloak, but you have ten fingers for rings
I'd justify the cloak of protection being less rare due to all of the other defensive cloaks available. (It has more competition for that slot)
That's an in world explanation,
Or they just messed up, that's entirely possible too lol.
I always belived it was because you can only have 1 cloak but you can wear up to 10 rings and at higher levels there ar just way better options for cloaks
@@J3r0nix but you can only attune to three things by default, and having three rings of protection is still just +1 because they don't stack.
What I couldn't ever wrap my head around was that the cloak of displacement is only a rare item, disadvantage on all attacks seems to be something that should be vrare bordering on legendary
AC 23 isn’t ‘unhittable’ outside of critical hits. Any attack of +4 or greater can hit without a critical.
Don’t roll a 1d4-1 to represent a 1d3. That changes the odds of the results from being 33.3% each to 50% for a 1 and 25% each for a 2 or 3.
The Tarrasque doesn’t have a ranged attack in its stat block. But characters (including NPCs and monsters) aren’t limited to just the actions in their stat blocks. Any creature (with an appropriate physiology) can use other actions, like improvised weapon attacks. Meaning a Tarrasque can throw something. And per Sage Advice, the Tarrasque would be able to throw rocks like a giant. The DM would use the Rock rules for Giants (from the Monsters Manual).
Rock: Ranged Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 28 (4d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
I often pair a Cloakof Protection with the Stone of Good Luck. The Stone also grants +1 to saves, but also to ability checks.
3:39 My guess is that you can pretty much just wear one cloak while you can wear a great number of rings.
If your wondering why the Cloak is Uncommon while the Ring is Rare, that's because you can only wear 1 Cloak while you can wear multiple Rings.
I was hoping for some stuff that doesn't require attunement. I'm playing a level 18 barbarian, I have a belt of giant strength, a very rare weapon and winged boots attuned but my unarmored AC is 14 mostly from a low dex score. I do have bracers of defence, but too many enemies have been able to counter me by flying so I need the boots more. The only other thing I could get to bump my AC is a +2 or +3 breastplate, but I was hoping for something else
Yea, I too would very much like to see a list of items that do not require attunement. My attunement slots are also already committed to highly valuable items.
Periapt of Proof vs. Poison, Cape of the Mountebank, and Goggles of Night are good items that don’t require attunement.
Cube of Force is the most OP defensive item in D&D
Have a melee valor bard (yeah I know, but probably the best stat block I've ever rolled so it works well) with what I consider the best set of attuned items I've had in 5e; Displacer cloak, Ring of spell turning and a Flame tongue great sword.
Have gotten some serious millage out of those defenses. Early in a fight she typically face tanks relying heavily on healing word or mass healing word (magic secrets pick up) to do ranged healing on a bonus action so she can keep flailing her sword about. Those baked in cloak/ring defenses frustrate the hell out of my DM, it makes her a tough nut to crack for sure. Mid to late fight utility spells may come out if needed and she will fade back to pass tanking duties to the actual tanks, but when that cloak and ring defense work and she can stay in the fight with the melees up front? Game over. Collect loot.
As soon as I saw Elven chain I was like: Let'ss gooo. I decided id join my first ever Dnd campaign on roll 20, and decided to go for a rogue high elf. Lots of languages, high dex. Problem is it's only light armour so i only have 14 ac. So it should be good if I find it
The defender sword which technically stack with dual wielding
And the ring of invisibility
10:32, what chapters did they skip?
The serpent scale armor is effectively a +2 AC for light/medium armor that wants Dex. So basically its a Ranger only item.
Animated shield is really really bad IF you have to always use your first bonus action in a combat to speak its word and it deactivates if your CC'ed by a spell. But if your DM waves that whole thing, it lets a 2h weapon user or a grappler get that +2 AC if they wouldn't be using a bracers of defense. If only it didn't need atonement...
But...barbarian during rage cannot cast, or am i wrong?Does "ring of spell storing" count for that?
I think you are technically using a magic item, so should be in the clear
Thanks for the list. How about the ring of invisibility?
"You remain Invisible until the ring is removed, until you Attack or Cast a Spell" As soon as you attack you are visible. With the Cloak of Invisibility you stay invisible.
Where you took the images for the items?
Just a question that I've never had answered in the 4 years of playing I had, how many items can you be attuned to at the same time? (referring to any class that's not artificer)
3 items
@@TheDuelLogs
The imposter!
So I'm guessing you never read the rules of the game then. You had 4 fucking years to do it
Technically I dont think theres a rule for it in 5e, but the ring of protection may be higher rarity as you can wear many rings but only only cloak
I don't know if a ring of spell storing is apropos of this list because it doesn't inherently have those spells. If your casters in the party are druids and clerics, you don't get those spells at all.
The exact wording for the ring a spell storing is 5 Levels of spells? So what that means is you can have unlimited cantrips in there for your non caster buddy to use as well
Except it *only* stores leveled spells.
Ring of Spell Storing ... two Absorb Elements, two Shield and one Silvery Barbs
HOLY SHIT IS THIS FUCKING HIRU BUT FUCKING D&D!???!?!???? WHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS CHANNEL SOONER
The ring of protection has a higher rarity vs the cloak of protection because of the slot type. This isn't an official rule in 5e, but many of the official tables reinforce it, probably as a hold over from 4e.
If it is a holdover rule, you get 2 ring slots, which means you have twice the opportunity to wear a ring of protection versus a cloak of protection. Having two ring slots effectively doubles the demand for the item right? Instant higher rarity via supply/demand bottleneck.
I imagine the ring of protection is rare and the cloak is uncommon because a ring is easier to conceal, it has more hit points, durability, and AC, plus it takes up less space, and you can wear more than 1 ring but can only wear 1 cloak
There is another disadvantage of the cloak of invisibility over the cloak of displacement. If you fight something with truesight like a dragon the cloak of invisibility won't do anything while the cloak of displacemant would still work.
BTW: How about turning this into a format where you'd equip a character of different classes with the best (defensive) items for each slot and make a video discussing your choices?
The cloak of displacement explicitly states that it projects an illusion. True sight can see through illusions, so a dragon would be able to attack you just fine.
Tho he doesn't have Ring of Evasion but a Barbarian-Rogue in my campaign survived 3 Fire Breath without took any damage thanks to danger sense + evasion.
For a d3 roll a d6 if you get over 3 subtract 3.
3:30 specifically I don't believe the cloak is supposed to work with armor where as the ring can
I feel that +3 Fullplate needed a special honorable mention at the end. It is the single best AC item that does not require attunement.
I dunno. My Dwarven Fighter right now is walking around in a suit of deathless adamantine plate that is a 'mere' +2. I'd wear that over a +3. ;-)
@@panpiper I don't know that one. Where is it from? Does it require attunement? If it requires attunement, you may have missed my point.
@@gmradio2436 I guess I was making a stupid post. The armor was something that was built in game over the course of a year in game. It is not a published piece of gear, so it's rather irrelevant to the subject of the video.
It started out as a gift to my dwarven fighter by his father, a dwarven master smith. (My character started with a fairly well developed backstory that did 'not' encumber the GM but 'did' offer him a wealth of plot hooks, and it also resulted in some perks.) He was officially retiring and this was to be his finest masterwork. He made a suit of adamantine +1 plate armor that also gives advantage in charisma checks versus dwarves due to its obvious quality. Shortly after that, the armor was stolen, leading us on a long quest versus demons and undead for it's retrieval. As part of that quest, what came back was the same armor with an additional enchantment on it, the 4th level 'deathless' enchantment. Later another quest allowed me to increase the +1 to a +2 on the plate as a reward.
@@panpiper That armor sounds awesome. Legendary story.
@@gmradio2436 And no attunement. :-)
Stone of Good Luck? Anyone? Boosts saving throws and ability checks, which include proficiency and initiative (Dex based) and, if your DM is generous, death saving throws. It has a larger affect than most other items and is uncommon.
3:39 Maybe because there are other cloaks so it's better to have a Ring so it doesn't take the space? I dunno
One good item to pick up is The Stone of Good Luck.
the big question here is what is this shade race?
No staff of defense? It's from the starter module it gives a +1 to ac and has and has 10 spell charges that can cast shield for 2 or mage armor for 1
How many cloaks can you wear vs. how many rings can you wear? The answer might help explain the difference in rarity.
The reason for cloak and ring of protection rarity gap is because you can wear 2 rings . but only one cloak.
No armor or shield? -> Bracers of defense +2 AC (attunement)
Now I say go with Ring of Spell Storing with 3 shield, 1 silvery barbs and 1 Absorb Elements.
I'm in the minority here because I think that silvery barbs is actually not a very good spell. It's not terrible, it's just usually not worth a spell slot. But in my group we often go upwards of 10 encounters per long rest so that definitely biases me.
I will say it is good if you use it to make a monster fail against a hold monster or a psychic lance. But if it's not saving you from wasting a high level spell slot I don't think it's worth it about 80 percent of the time.
Bracers of Defense. +2 AC so long as you aren't wearing armor or shield.
does this guy do yugioh content as well? I swear ive heard his voice and his text style before
He has a few channels, mans got dedication 👏
5:30 - This is PERFECT armor for a Ranger as they get Medium Armor prof but are commonly going DEX builds.
hol up didnt know deul logs was here lol
Ah yes, extra AC will help...
(laughs in advantage, +5 to hit and proficiency bonus, and +3 weapon)
-barbarians probably (already dedicated to max con and dex, with a shield)
also for ghoststep, it says "when you end in a SOLID OBJECT" not creature so you can avoid damage by ending inside a creature