Swords bard

[Edstyles]

Any1 tried this subclass? It felt super powerful for me. Being able to hit 2 times via bardic inspiration + extra attack which can be used again with bardic inspiration is 4 attacks + bonus action is 5 attacks without haste. In addition to having decent spells and possibly being your rogue for outside battle stuff and charisma checks. Was running with 26 ac or so at the end counterspelling casters left and right.

[['w']]

thank you for the tip, will try a bard next

[Cl∅VER]

Swords bard is very good if you want to be a full caster and martial, currently playing a half-orc swords bardbarian and been having a blast, confused why Valour was chosen as a subclass option rather than Glamour since Swords kinda wins in terms of combat bards

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BardBarian

[Edstyles]

found a helm as well that increases wep damage by your charisma modifier so an extra 5 damage per attack.

[Velesianus]

Originally posted by Edstyles:

Any1 tried this subclass? It felt super powerful for me.

Bards used to be the ultimate meme class back in the day. They were what you picked if you wanted a challenge or simply to grief your party. The running joke was that they were "Last into the breach and the first to die".

In tougher campaigns with unforgiving DM's, bards had the life expectancy of a fruit fly.

On paper they were ok (to an extent) but in practice they were really only good for identifying magical items and, after level 9, attracting followers.

What you're seeing in-game is the end result of decades of trying to make the class as viable as the rest without breaking what attracts people to bard builds in the first place.

I wouldn't call 5e bards "super powerful" but they're certainly no longer the joke that they once were.

[Edstyles]

tried 10 swords bard + 2 paladin it wrecks :D you have a ton of spell slots for smites. Was running around with spirits (cleric spell) smiting and counterspelling while hitting many times per round .
There is also a scimitar that gives you offhand attacks really cool. Even gives you an whirldwind attack like hunters get.

[Edstyles]

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