#SHADOW BLADE BLADESINGER FULL#

While Fighters, Rangers and Palasins have more HP, the bladesinger will get hit far less and in melee this more than makes up for the hit point differential. In pure melee combat, a bladesinger in bladesong will survive longer than any other character except a raging barbarian and even those two are close. It is martial but in melee it is purely defensive, not offensive, take a dodge action or at 3rd level pick up blur and you are a rocking a 24AC that the enemy needs to roll against with disadvantage. I disagree that a bladesinger is not martial. If you need a spell caster that does good damage in melee I would look at other options, including arcane trickster, eldritch knight or a multiclass with a dip in a different type of wizard (diviner or war magic). For high damage you are going to have to use real spells though. Your AC is high enough that you can also consider using booming blade and move away without disengaging and eat the OA. Your best melee option is going to be green flame blade when there are multiple enemies. With a high-elf point buy that would be something like: S8 D17 C12 I16 W8 Ch13Ī bladesinger is not usually going to deal a lot of damage in melee. That would give you dueling fighting style and flourish which I suppose you could combine with bladesong without giving up any spell slots. I have never done it myself but a sword bard might be a good combo for 3 or 4 levels.

#SHADOW BLADE BLADESINGER FULL#

If you really want to take a dip I would take a full caster to get the slots. A badesinger gets advantage on acrobatics checks while in bladesong and if you take proficiency in that it pretty much closes grappling and shoving as a viable option for enemies. If you can't target a bladesinger with save spells, the next best way is often by grappling or shoving because her insane AC does not apply to those. I would also take proficiency in acrobatics. I like having the constitution save for the rare occasions you get damaged (usually by a spell) and I like having the dex save because save spells or cantrips are generally the best way to attack the bladesinger. If you get to 12th level I would take an int ASI there. As such, Bladesinger is the one class that I do not think benefits from a dip.Īs far as stats I would take 17 Dex, 13 Constitution and then take resilient-Constitution at 4th level and Resilient-Dexterity at 8th level. The thing with bladesinger is you want the spell slots because you are going to use them on shield, and you want to still have some spells left for offense and at 10th level for song of defense. The bladesinger doesn't need cunning action because she has a high enough AC to stay in melee and if she stays in melee she usually can't use dash or hide as a BA very much. You give up SA dice to get wizard levels and the rogue doesn't really need the insane AC because she can disengage as a bonus action. Rogue and bladesinger don't really gel very well IMO. Of the other two others fighter is better than rogue IMO.

Shadow blade bladesinger