Best Wizard Feats in D&D 5e

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Today, I would like to talk about wizards and feats. Spellcasters have a unique problem where they often don't know what to do with their feats

because they just rather invest in their stats to up their DC

or the feats just aren't very tempting or effective. But we recently got an influx of all kinds of new feats that are wonderful for spellcasters

So let's talk about feats today on Flutes Lute. So as I'm getting started, I want to remind everyone that fluteslut.com is the website that Opel and I have built

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So in my article, I focus on five different types of feats that a wizard might be interested in

The first being augmenting your spell casting or expanding it, working on your mobility and escape mechanisms

improving your durability and your ability to heal yourself and others, enhance your ability to work as a team with your allies

and fifth, just a few niche feats that wizards could find useful. But today I'm going to focus in this video

just on some of the feats I think are the best to consider. Again, it doesn't mean there aren't others that are useful

And I'm sure there will be comments and there always are of people who maybe see another feat as being more valuable than how I presented it or didn't present it

And that's always valid as well. So let me know in the comment section if you think any feats I missed deserve to be on this list or if you disagree with any of my choices

I'm always open to having my mind changed and it happens all the time. First of all, feats kind of come in two categories where one is like a full feat and sometimes there's one that's like a half feet

and a full feet usually doesn't come with like a stat boost to make it a little bit better

A full feet usually is just standing on its own without having a stat boost to go with it

Because usually an ability score improvement gives you two points towards a stat. So if you put one point towards a stat, it's kind of like you got half ASI and half feet

So they call them half feet. I didn't come up with that, but that's how I've heard it presented and it made sense to me

Tasha's Caldron of Everything came with a lot of these half feats, which is really cool to see because they come with an ability that's

cool, useful, but without the stat boost that comes with it, it's like, eh, I'm not really sure

But if you can add plus one to your intelligence while gaining an extra spell, that's awesome

If you think about the magic initia feat, which for a long time has been one of the best

feats in the game, and it can help wizards expand what spells they know and everything, you don't

get a stat boost with it, you just get some cantrip in a first level spell. But with a few of these feats, you'll get a stat boost as well

The first feat I want to discuss at length is Faye Touched

Not to be confused with Faye teleportation for elves only, which is from Xanathars as a racial feat

That one's fine too, and it's in my article. But Faye Touch is for anyone

You don't have to be an elf. Fay Touch will allow you to boost your intelligence by one point, as well as giving you a free

Misty Step, and a spell from either the divination or the enchantment school of magic of first level

This will open you up to have the blessed spell, for example. to bless your allies with a D4 once in a while if you're willing to concentrate on it

Especially nice at low levels. If you doing very intuement or the variant background whatever it called in Tosh where you can get a feat at level one this is a great one Misty Step is already one of the best spells in the game for having just an escape mechanism up your sleeve or being able to get through jail bars or get past a front line of people to get to where you need to be

without risking your flesh and blood with just moving through things. If you want to know what kind of divination and enchantment spells are available

you can go to D&D Beyond and do a filter for your spells and hit

school of magic enchantment and divination and level one. And you can just do a filter to just very quickly see what's on the menu

Next feat if you're augmenting your spell casting is for T-Flings and it's Flames of Flagathos

This boosts your intelligence stat for one thing. It gives you the ability to wreath yourself in flames when you cast a fire spell

And Flames of Flagathos does a better job of augmenting your spell casting to do more damage

than the old elemental adept feat does. It puts elemental adept to shame

So if you're a teafling, I highly recommend this spell if you're going to focus at all on dealing fire damage with your spells

Metamagic adept is the next one that gives you a little bit of spiciness from the sorcery class by learning some metamagic

The metamagic options that are best to learn are, A, affordable with only two sorcery points that come with this feat and are actually useful

Settle spell is one of them, because subtle spell. allows you to not be counterspelled as you cast a spell as long as there's not a

material component you can omit the verbal and somatic component which is talking

and moving and just do it with your mind and no one will know that you're casting a

spell counter spell doesn't work if they can't perceive you casting a spell so

use it when you are casting a spell that is crucial and you don't want it to be

countered I won't go into every single meta magic option because I actually have a whole article about using MetaMagic

for the sorcerer. I recommend checking that one out as well. But the article I have for this

wizard feat concept also goes into each one and which ones might be the most useful to pick with

this feat. It's an excellent feat. It's a shame it doesn't come with a plus one stat boost, but I think

it's good enough even without it. Next feat to consider is telekinetic. I think this is just an amazing

feat for most spellcasters to choose. You can boost your stat and you get a really cool

mage hand ability that is pretty much being able to force push people around. And it utilizes your

bonus action as a wizard, which you don't often do. You can reposition allies, you can push foes

into your cloud kill spell or whatever area of effect you want to keep them inside. And it's especially

useful if them leaving the area and then you pushing them back in immediately triggers the effect again

on their turn because then you're just doing all kinds of damage to them. You can push people off

of bridges with your mind. It's just got so many possibilities that I highly recommend picking it up

Another one to consider is telepathic. So we had telekinetic, now telepathic. This is an interesting

one because the image for it in Tosh's makes it clear that a bard could inspire someone with bardic

inspiration telepathically without having to speak out loud or use their instrument. That's really

interesting to me. So if you have a spell that only requires verbal components, you might

be able to cast it on people without them noticing, kind of like a subtle spell meta magic

This is a little bit iffy with raw rules is written but I would ask my DM to say can I cast a spell on someone if it requires them to hear me but I do it in their mind

and the spell only requires verbal components? Like, could I cast suggestion telepathically

So yeah, the suggestion spell also has a material component, so you'd have to supply that or use an arcane focus

component pouch. But when you speak the words of the suggestion spell

when you say, hey, here's what I want you to go do my temporary

minion, could you do that telepathically? I think that'd be a really cool way

to play this off. And I think it's worth asking your DM if they would allow that

and if they would, have fun with it. Moving into more like escape feats

the mobile feat is always good. You can boost your movement speed by 10 and you can

use booming blade or some other cantrip at close range to attack

someone and then they won't be able to attack you as an opportunity attack as you

don't have to disengage. You just move away, regardless of whether you hit them or not

Usually I'd use, like, shocking grasp and take away their reaction, or I would just disengage and run away if I didn't want to risk it

But this way, it's not a risk, and you have the extra 10 movement speed

you could actually get a distance away from them that is maybe 10 feet more than they can move

so they have to dash to reach you again, and then they don't get to attack you until their next turn

by which time you will have moved away again, so you become, like, a kiting expert, as you just kite enemies

as they keep chasing after you with their axes but can't reach you. The resilient feat is really good to pick as a wizard

You'll boost your constitution with this one, which could increase your hit point maximum

if it was an odd number before, and you can plan that out. And you gain constitution saving throw proficiency

which means when you are concentrating on spells, you'll have a much better chance of maintaining concentration

when your proficiency bonus can be added in. Infernal constitution is another great feat for wizards

if you are playing a teafling. You can boost your constitution for one thing. It's always useful to have more hit points and to have a better concentration saving throw

And you'll just gain a few free resistances to damage. If you're worried about damage and you don't love mage armor

you could invest in a few feats and take lightly armored and moderately armored

Then you just need a dexterity score of like 14 to get a plus two to your medium armor

And then you can use a shield. That could get your armor class upwards of like 18 without much problem

sure it takes two feats to get there unless you want to multi-class or gain armor in some other way armor proficiency but if there's nothing else that interests you from the feats you might as well just armor up and become more durable those feats will also allow you to boost your stats that are relevant to them so check it out the lucky feat is always useful uh the alert feet might be useful if you're getting surprised a lot if you want to heal people you'll want to take artificer initiate so that you can gain cure wounds from the artifice or spell list but you might also just take

the healer feet and be able to heal people with your healers kit where you can usually not actually

restore hit points with it normally. If you want more hit points, you could also just take the tough

feat and every level you gain, you get another two hit points. Moving on to like some teamwork feats

I really love bountiful luck. It just makes me want to play a halfling every time I look at it

You can take your ability to re-roll ones and stack it with your party. Every time they roll one

and they're nearby, you can allow them to re-roll it with your reaction. As long as you're not

needing that reaction to do counter spells or the shield spell or anything like that

It a great way to buff your allies and make it so they don roll ones and they will love you for it But you do need to make sure that you actually going to be 30 feet away from them because as a wizard you like to keep your distance often and if your fighter is running in 60 feet away your 30 foot range on Bountiful Luck is not going to help them

now if you're an abjurer a blade singer or a war mage

you might want to take the mage slayer feet it's not just for rogues and fighters that are getting up in the face of

wizards to attack them and everything you'll have advantage on saving throws while you're up next to other spellcasters

which they won't really see coming. They'll expect like a long-distance wizard duel

But you'll get up in their face. When they cast a spell, you'll be able to attack them

which is a blade singer you'll be very effective at. As an abjurer, you'll be really good at saving against their spells

or take like half damage if they're trying to damage you with a spell. And war mages can alter their armor class

and their saving throws to be boosted upward so that the other spellcaster is just really having a hard time

getting away from them. Like if I'm playing a wizard, I do not want to, abjurer or a war mage getting up in my face and being able to have advantage all the saving

throws that I'm tossing at them. If they have the warcaster feet too and they could like

opportunity attack me with booming blade or some other spell, I'm going to panic and I'm going to have

to use misty step to get away. And then I'll only have a cantrip to use on my turn. And then they'll

probably just move up to catch me anyway. So you can really give enemy spellcasters a tough time if you're

one of these subclasses of wizard that is meant to kind of like wizard duel. I mentioned warcaster

one of those subclasses that doesn't mind getting in the thick of battle, Warcaster might be great

for improving your action economy so that you can cast spells as a reaction, potentially getting two

leveled spells per round. Not bad. And your saving throws for concentration will be done with

advantage if it's taking damage that is the reason you're doing it. Lastly, mounted combatant is a

excellent way to make a wizard more mobile and able to keep their mount alive. In my wizard multi-classing

article and video, I don't know which is coming out first. I talk about how the necromancer using

vampiric touch is kind of hard to pull off because you're not very mobile or durable. But with a mount

to get you around, you can go in vampiric touch, maybe even kill someone with it so that you

regain hit points very much between vampiric touch and grim harvest. And your mount just carries you

away without you having to worry about it. And you're just weaving in and out of combat at the right

moments to get these killing blows and heal yourself. Now you don't have to take mounted combatant to

do that as a feat, but it is a great way to make it more reliable so that you and your mount can work as one

So that's been a really quick overview of some of my mindset that goes into picking feats in those

like different five categories that I mentioned for my article about like what kind of feeds do you

want to choose based on what need you're trying to fill. Again, let me know in the comment section

cast message down there and I'd love to have a discussion with you about

Feets. That's just a really fun part of the game. Even though it's optional to have feats in your game

it almost seems like an expectation of players that, like, feats are always going to be available

I've yet to play in a game. The DM said you can't have feats. They're a lot of fun. So

Wizard shouldn't feel left out in picking ones that change up their options and increase their

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