Blood Hunter 5e Class Features

Hit Points: d10 is normal for front-line martial classes, and since the Blood Hunter supposes their own hit points it's important to have as many hit points as you can.

Saves: Dexterity saves are important for preventing damage from area damage impacts, but Intelligence saves are infrequent. You'll also add the ability to add your Intelligence modifier to your physical saving throws, which will go a very long way to keep you alive.

Proficiencies: Martial weapons, medium armor, and shields. The Blood Hunter also gets competence with Alchemist's Supplies, letting you craft things such as Alchemist's Fire, as well as three abilities from a set of course choices. Thanks to the change from Wisdom to Intelligence in the redesigned version of this class, the skill list makes considerably more sense today.

Hunter's Bane: The Blood Hunter 5e is a class that looks for any excuse to track a monster, therefore the Advantage of Wisdom (Survival) tests to monitor some monsters is helpful.

Blood Maledict: Blood Maledict seems a little bit like spellcasting. It's not spellcasting, but it definitely feels that way. You receive a max of four uses per short rest, so when you resort to a Blood Curse it needs to be a scenario that really justifies it instead of throwing it in the very first enemy you visit. Blood Curses especially only affect creatures with blood unless you invest hit points to amplify your Blood Curse, so if you encounter elementals, constructs, or some types of undead get ready to spend some hit points.

Fighting Style: Fighting Design is a welcome addition for any martial character. The Blood Hunter gets each the offensive alternatives, but unlike the Ranger, they have no defensive options. With just medium armor, the choice to take Defensive would be fine, however, the Blood Hunter is apparently too competitive for things like AC. There's nothing attractive for the Purchase of the Lycan to utilize while transformed, so if you're considering Purchase of the Lycan search for something that you may use as you're not charged.

ArcheryPHB: The most obvious selection for ranged builds. +2 to strike is a big deal in a game where a 20th-level personality can anticipate a maximum of +11 to strike.

Great Weapon FightingPHB: This adds an average of just more than 1 damage per assault on typical, and even then the only using a greatsword. The Blood Hunter doesn't get a better option when you're planning to use two-handed melee weapons.

Two-Weapon Struggling PHB: The Blood Hunter's attacks more closely resemble the Ranger's than the Fighter's. You only get two attacks, and you are able to employ Crimson Rite to weapons to acquire the on-hit damage boost. However, beware of the piling costs of Crimson Rite, and remember that several of the Blood Hunter’s abilities use your Bonus Action so you'll often give up your extra attack to do something different.

Crimson Rite: Crimson Rite provides a scaling damage bonus that does similar harm to Hunter's Mark or Hex, but costs you hit points instead of spell slots. It's a crucial part of the Blood Hunter, and several of your other course attributes will depend on you having Crimson Rite running. If you're going somewhere which you hope to encounter enemies, then draw your weapon, then trigger Crimson Rite ahead of time, and do not put your weapon down until you're prepared to break. The result expires when you take a brief or long rest, but otherwise, if you don't drop hold of your weapon you can get a lot of bonus damage to get a rather minor quantity of harm.

Additionally, it is interesting to notice that the bonus harm is magic, but it doesn't make attacks with the weapon magical, so creatures that you attack may resist your weapon damage but not the bonus damage from Crimson Rite. The damage bonus scales with level, and it seems really good on top of Extra Attack. The ability can also be worded to disadvantage two-weapon fighting and thrown weapons, but it works really nicely for Crossbow Expert users. You have to spend additional hit points and an extra Bonus Action to affect additional weapons, so be careful about two-weapon fighting assembles.

Primal Rites: You receive two of the three Primarily Rites options, so be sure to pick options that are effective against as many opponents as possible. Blood Hunters normally confront evil creatures like fiends, so you wish to take options that aren't commonly resisted by these creatures.

Rite of the Flame: Nearly all fiends have resistance to fire damage, and it's commonly resisted by other creatures too.

Rite of the Frozen: Many fiends have resistance to cold, but not so many have resistance to fire.

Rite of the Storm: Fiends typically don't have immunity to lightning damage.

Esoteric Rites: You just get one, and the Rite of this Roar is much better compared to other options.

Resources

Top Categories

Product

Company