![]() ![]() After that, it can still be situationally useful – Lightning Lure followed by a melee attack is a combo I’m very fond of myself. Casting spells and then attacking very much lines up with a gish, and it’s also very powerful indeed for a few levels (before you get your third attack). One of the Eldritch Knight’s saving graces as a gish, however, is in its seventh-level feature, War Magic. For instance, Shadow Blade is a powerful and thematic spell for a gish, but you need to get to 8th level before it’s a real possibility, and you don’t have many spell slots to cast it with. The non-restricted spells help somewhat, but you only get a few of those (one per spell level). The Abjuration school is infinitely more useful, but doesn’t necessarily fit into the fantasy of a gish, where magic is used just as much to enhance attack as it is for defense. It’s less impressive when you cast it at Level 13, twice a day, with a low saving throw because Intelligence is your tertiary stat, and that’s how a lot of the Evocation school goes for a third-caster. One of these schools, Evocation, is largely not of use to them, and not overly good for gishing either. The Eldritch Knight has low spells known, few spell slots, and a restriction on the spells they know to largely two schools. Instead, its issues are squarely in how it interacts with the gish fantasy. Its issues do not lie in its overall performance. It plays great, and it’s one of the single tankiest characters you can make. It’s genuinely one of my favourite subclasses of my favourite class in the game. I’m going to reiterate this every time I write a post here that criticises the Eldritch Knight’s design as a gish: I love the Eldritch Knight. We’re running low on pictures of knights, not gonna lie So below, the five best subclasses for a gish character will be discussed, with a run-down of their strengths and weaknesses for that playstyle. Now, as discussed, not all of those are one hundred percent satisfying for a gish playstyle, but a lot of them are more than sufficient. So when they don’t cut the mustard, for whatever reason, there are plenty of subclasses for both martial and caster classes that look to blend magic and swordplay. Not every game allows multiclassing, and some multiclasses take a while to get off the ground. But this gives rise to multiclasses some consider to be ‘cheese’, such as the Sorcadin, or even the dreaded Sorlockadin. I tend towards martial characters on the whole (I have twelve fighters planned, that is not an exaggeration), so when I do want to play a spellcaster, one who can still kill things with a sword tends to appeal.Īs discussed in the previous article on this blog Four Gish Multiclasses to Show They’re Not All Hexblade Paladins, multiclassing is sometimes used when people really want that gish-y feel. This is probably going to become a recurring theme on this blog.
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