The Arcane Sharpshooter – Fighter/Rogue Multiclass Build Guide

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For spellcasters, you may notice substantial overlap between the spell lists of builds with the same base class. This is due to each guide utilizing a generically good spell list and not considering extenuating factors that will influence how you particularly sculpt your spell list. When creating your own spell list, you should take into account the campaign setting, what spells any other party members are capable of casting, potential overlap (ritual spells tend to overlap so it’s rare you need multiple people capable of casting them), or potential shortcomings in the parties total spell list. While this guide can definitely help point you in the right direction for crafting a spell list, you should use your judgement and preferences to figure out what spells make the most sense for your character.

To that end, please refer to the Spell List and Spell Tier list for any substitutions you’d want to make to the build.

The Arcane Archer is an awesome subclass, but critically lacks spellcasting and scaling in general as the amount of Arcane Shots you can fire never increases as you level up. While this would normally hold the class back, you can instead pivot to a different class to help you out. Enter Arcane Trickster. As both classes want you to have high intelligence, the Arcane Trickster perfectly pairs with the Arcane Archer to not only give you spellcasting, but access to True Strike and Sneak Attacks for extra damage. So between True Strike, Sneak Attack, and an Arcane Shot, you are dealing massive amounts of damage with one shot and/or appyling multiple layers of CC onto a target making this a fun and surprisingly versatile build!

Level	Class Features/Feat	Notes
1 – 1 Fighter	Fighting Style (Archery), Second Wind, Weapon Mastery	–
2 – 1 Fighter 1 Rogue	Expertise, Sneak Attack, Thieves’ Cant, Weapon Mastery	Sneak Attack 1d6
3 – 1 Fighter 2 Rogue	Cunning Action	+ Prestidigitation (Arcane Archer Lore) Banishing Arrow Grasping Arrow
4 – 1 Fighter 3 (Arcane Trickster) Rogue	Spellcasting Mage Hand Legerdemain	+ Mage Hand + Minor Illusion + True Strike + Feather Fall + Find Familiar + Shield Sneak Attack 2d6
5 – 1 Fighter 4 Rogue	Feat: War Caster (INT)	+ Absorb Elements
6 – 2 Fighter 4 Rogue	Action Surge, Tactical Mind	–
7 – 3 Fighter (Arcane Archer) 4 Rogue	Arcane Archer Arcane Archer Lore (Prestidigitation) Arcane Shot (Banishing Arrow/Grasping Arrow)	+ Prestidigitation
8 – 4 Fighter 4 Rogue	Feat: Intelligence to 20	–
9 – 4 Fighter 5 Rogue	Cunning Strike, Uncanny Dodge	Sneak Attack to 3d6
10 – 4 Fighter 6 Rogue	Expertise	–
11 – 4 Fighter 7 Rogue	Evasion, Reliable Talent	Sneak Attack to 4d6 + Misty Step
12 – 4 Fighter 8 Rogue	Feat: Dexterity to 18	+ Suggestion
13 – 4 Fighter 9 Rogue	Magical Ambush	Sneak Attack to 5d6
14 – 4 Fighter 10 Rogue	Feat: Dexterity to 20	+ Light + Knock
15 – 4 Fighter 11 Rogue	Improved Cunning Strike	Sneak Attack to 6d6 + Augury
16 – 4 Fighter 12 Rogue	Feat: Speedy (CON)	None
17 – 4 Fighter 13 Rogue	Versatile Trickster	Sneak Attack to 7d6 + Counterspell
18 – 4 Fighter 14 Rogue	Devious Strikes	Slippery Mind + Dispel Magic
19 – 4 Fighter 15 Rogue	Slippery Mind	Sneak Attack to 8d6
20 – 4 Fighter 16 Rogue	Feat: Boon of Combat Prowess	+ Haste

The Arcane Sharpshooter is quite straightforward as you are mainly a damage dealing class, just with a bit of spellcasting from your Arcane Trickster side. You’re still looking to get advantage, True Strike with your bow, and ideally reap the rewards of a lot of damage. You can even add an Arcane Shot onto the arrow as well for added benefits when necessary or look to cast some spells, but at the end of the day, your main focus is to stay back, guarantee advantage, and deal damage.

• Technically, imbuing an arrow with your Arcane Shot specifies it has to be part of the attack action on your turn, which the cantrips initially were, but are now technically not as cantrips are a part of the Magic action now. If your DM abides by RAW, on the turns you want to imbue your arrows, you will need to make a regular attack rather than using True Strike. Personally, I think RAI would let you imbue arrows with True Strike, but that’s up to the DM and really not a big deal considering when you use Action Surge, you can’t True Strike again anyway making a regular attack your most common action.
• As mentioned, Action Surge does let you take the Magic action so you can not True Strike twice in one turn.
• Like other cantrips, cantrip improvement cares about your total level, not your individual class level.

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Species: Goliath (Cloud Giant)

Attributes:

	POINT BUY
STRENGTH	8
DEXTERITY	15 (+1 background) = 16
CONSTITUTION	15
INTELLIGENCE	15 (+2 background) = 17
WISDOM	8
CHARISMA	8

Class: Fighter

Class Features: Fighting Style, Second Wind, Weapon Mastery

Skill Proficiencies: Insight and Perception

Background: Criminal (Alert)

Starting Equipment: Studded Leather Armor, Scimitar, Short Sword, Longbow, 20 Arrows, Quiver, Dungeoneer’s Pack, and 11 GP + 50 gp from background

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Species: Goliath (Cloud Giant)

Since you are going to be fighting at a range and don’t need the Hill Giant’s Topple, getting free Misty Steps is an extremely good alternative, especially as the Fighter does not use their bonus action too often.

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Attributes

	POINT BUY
STRENGTH	8
DEXTERITY	15 (+1 background) = 16
CONSTITUTION	15
INTELLIGENCE	15 (+2 background) = 17
WISDOM	8
CHARISMA	8

DEX based Fighters are always going to prioritize DEX and CON, but for this build in particular, Intelligence is actually the primary stat!

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Proficiencies: Insight and Perception

Just excellent skill proficiencies for any character.

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Background: Criminal

Good skill proficiencies, good stat distribution, and an excellent origin feat.

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Starting Equipment – Studded Leather Armor, Scimitar, Short Sword, Longbow, 20 Arrows, Quiver, Dungeoneer’s Pack, and 11 gp + 50 gp from background

The standard for a ranged Fighter.

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Class – Fighter

Fighters get three abilities to start off with in Fighting Style, Second Wind, and Weapon Mastery.

Your Fighting Style is an easy choice for ranged Fighters – Archery. +2 to your attack rolls is absolutely excellent, even if ranged combat has been nerfed in the 2024 rules.

Second Wind is a cool feature where, for a bonus action, you can heal yourself a bit. This is obviously great for tough fights when you are running low on health and this not only scales with level, but also gets additional features later on.

Weapon Mastery gives you the Mastery property of three weapons and I would recommend taking the properties of your three starting weapons. To that end, make sure you are always using your Scimitar in your main hand to properly access the mastery property.

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Not every inherent interaction here is going to be mentioned in the guide, so check out the multiclassing guide to help answer any additional questions you may have!

The Ultimate Guide To Multiclassing in One D&D

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Level 2

Class: 1 Fighter 1 Rogue

Class Features: Expertise, Sneak Attack, Thieves’ Cant, and Weapon Mastery

Now that you have started Fighter, we’re actually moving on to Rogue! I know it may seem weird to not continue with Fighter until you reach the extra attack, but extra attack is actually not important on this build as you’re going for a True Strike build!

So to that end, Rogues come with four abilities: Expertise, Sneak Attack, Thieves’ Cant, and Weapon Mastery.

Expertise allows you to take two of your skills and add double your proficiency bonus to them to make them extremely reliable. While the skills you select really depends on what you personally prioritize, it’s hard to go wrong with Insight and Perception. These are two excellent skills you are going to constantly use so you may as well be good at them!

The second ability is the Rogue’s most iconic one – Sneak Attack. Sneak Attack adds extra damage if you can attack an enemy while you have advantage from any means whether that’s through having allies near, attacking from hiding, or any other means of gaining advantage you may naturally have.

The third ability, which is really just pure flavor, is Thieves’ Cant. This is like its own language that only other rogues or similarly nefarious individuals would know so you can speak in code and such.

The final ability is Weapon Mastery which you don’t really need considering Fighter gives you a million masteries, but what can you do.

Level 3

Class: 1 Fighter 2 Rogue

Class Features: Cunning Action

One of the best abilities on Rogue, you can now convert your Bonus Action into a Dash, Disengage, or the Hide action. While the Hide Action is going to be the most common action taken so you can continuously get Sneak Attacks, Dash and Disengage are also excellent actions to take if you really need to get out of wherever situation you’re in.

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Level 4

Class: 1 Fighter 3 Rogue (Arcane Trickster)

Class Features: Spellcasting, Mage Hand Legerdemain, Steady Aim, Sneak Attack to 2d6

Spell List Change: + Mage Hand + Minor Illusion + True Strike + Feather Fall + Find Familiar + Shield

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield

This level brings your subclass, Arcane Trickster, and two new features to the table – Spellcasting and Mage Hand Legerdemain.

Spellcasting is what makes Arcane Trickster so powerful, even if you are only a “one-third caster”. To that end, you get a lot of spells this level with three cantrips and three first level spells.

Mage Hand is a forced cantrip choice as you need it for your other ability this level – Mage Hand Legerdemain. More on this later!

Minor Illusion is a nice cantrip that’s only limited by your creativity! While you’re mostly going to be using this out of combat, you could use this in combat if your DM is willing to play ball!

Finally you get the cantrip this build is built around – True Strike. True Strike is a unique attack cantrip that doesn’t require you to use a melee attack in particular, but works for any weapon. To that end, you can use this on an arrow and get free, extra damage without putting yourself in harm’s way which is awesome.

For your leveled spells, you get to pick up Feather Fall, Find Familiar, and Shield.

Feather Fall isn’t a spell you’ll need often, but especially in lower levels, fall damage can be super brutal so avoiding that entirely is always good.

Find Familiar is an excellent spell as having a familiar can help you scout locations, help in combat, and many more helpful uses!

Finally, you have the excellent Shield to help protect you if an enemy gets close enough to hit you!

You could pick up Silvery Barbs over Feather Fall if your table allows it, and if so, you’ll pick up Feather Fall next level.

For your second ability, you get Mage Hand Legerdemain which is a huge buff to Mage Hand. Now you can cast Mage Hand as a bonus action, make your Mage Hand invisible, it can stow items in containers, retrieve items from other creatures, or have it use thieves’ tools for you to pick locks or trigger traps from a distance. This does take up your Cunning Action in combat so you probably wouldn’t use this too often, but this is excellent out of combat with all the versatility it grants.

For your third ability, you get a base Rogue class feature in Steady Aim. You can decide to not move for the turn to get advantage on your next attack roll. Simple, effective, and really good on ranged builds.

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Level 5

Class: 1 Fighter 4 Rogue

Feat: War Caster (INT)

Class Features: None

Spell Change Log: + Absorb Elements

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield

You get your first feat, and since you want to max out Intelligence first to get your best True Strikes possible, you’re going with War Caster! Being able to spellcast with your hands full is really important considering you are always going to have your hands full, and advantage on concentration checks is also very nice!

For your spell, you can pick up Absorb Elements. While it is better in later levels where large chunks of elemental damage are more common, it can still be strong early to not get randomly got by a random deluge of elemental damage. If your table isn’t playing with spells outside of the 2024 rulebook, I would grab Jump as a nice utility option instead.

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Level 6

Class: 2 Fighter 4 Rogue

Class Features: Action Surge, Tactical Mind

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield

Now that you have a feat, you’re hopping back into Fighter for a bit to pick up Action Surge and Tactical Mind.

The Fighter is one of the most popular multiclass options in D&D, and Action Surge is a huge reason why. While you can only use this once every short or long rest (twice at 17, not that this build is going to get there), getting an additional action is generally very powerful. To that end, a common play with this build is to True Strike with your action, action surge, then ready your action to attack an opponent on their turn to get an additional trigger of Sneak Attack (assuming you still fulfill the conditions). You can’t use this in fights often, but in a particularly tough one, you’ll be happy to have this as an option.

Tactical Mind is a neat new feature that allows you to use a Second Wind charge to reroll a failed ability check with a bit of a bonus. While this won’t come up too often, this is a nice feature to have for particularly important ability checks.

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Level 7

Class: 3 Fighter (Arcane Archer) 4 Rogue

Class Features: Arcane Archer Lore (Prestidigitation), Arcane Shot (Banishing Arrow, Grasping Arrow)

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield

This level brings your second subclass and it’s Arcane Archer. Arcane Archer brings two abilities to the table immediately with Arcane Archer Lore and Arcane Shot.

Arcane Archer Lore simply gives you the choice between learning Prestidigitation or Druidcraft (which is a much worse Prestidigitation), so this is an easy decision. Furthermore, you get a skill proficiency between Arcana or Nature, and this pick can be whatever the party is lacking. If your party already has both or neither, I like Arcana more.

The second and much more important ability is Arcane Shot. You are able to imbue your arrows with a magical effect twice per short or long rest and you get to start with two different effects to imbue. To that end, you should pick the most powerful options to start with and I think that those are clearly Banishing Arrow and Grasping Arrow.

Banishing Arrow is a one round CC spell that can deprive the enemy of their turn if they fail a Charisma saving throw, and while you can’t hurt them for that round if you banish them, depriving an enemy of their turn is an obscenely powerful ability.

Grasping Arrow deals additional damage, restricts their movement, hurts them when they move, and takes an action to remove. This is a lot of abilities for an enemy to deal with and can be absolutely crippling to an opponent in a fight.

The awkward part about this ability is that it specifies it has to be part of the attack action on your turn, which the cantrips initially were, but are now technically not as cantrips are a part of the Magic action now. If your DM abides by RAW, on the turns you want to imbue your arrows, you will need to make a regular attack rather than using True Strike. Personally, I think RAI would let you imbue arrows with True Strike, but that’s up to the DM and really not a big deal considering when you use Action Surge, you can’t True Strike again anyway making a regular attack your most common action.

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Level 8

Class: 4 Fighter 4 Rogue

Feat: Intelligence to 20

Class Features: None

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield

No need to overthink your feat choice here, just get your Intelligence to 20 for the best spells and Arcane Shots possible!

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Level 9

Class: 4 Fighter 5 Rogue

Class Features: Cunning Strike, Uncanny Dodge, Sneak Attack to 3d6

Spell Change Log: None

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield

Now that you grabbed a feat from the Fighter, you’re switching back to Rogue!

This level brings two new features to the table with Cunning Strike and Uncanny Dodge.

Cunning Strike is an interesting ability that lets you trade in Sneak Attack damage dice for a small, but generally good additional effect. You start with three different options for your Cunning Strike – Poison, Trip, or Withdraw.

Poison can be solid, but Constitution saving throws are generally the easiest to save out of.

Trip is definitely solid if you have other martial allies and especially if they’re behind you in the turn order (which they will likely be).

Withdraw lets you reposition without drawing opportunity attacks so you don’t have to use your Cunning Action to disengage.

Overall, this ability is pretty good as you have versatile options that can all be impactful!

Uncanny Dodge lets you use your reaction to halve the damage of one incoming attack. Unfortunately, this is a pretty bad ability as multiattacks are going to really common, but having something to do with your reaction is better than nothing.

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Level 10

Class: 4 Fighter 6 Rogue

Class Features: Expertise

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield

You get two more bouts of Expertise to pass around, but since you started Fighter, you only have two skills you’re even allowed to pick in Acrobatics and Performance (from your background). Definitely far from ideal, but that’s the price you pay for starting Fighter (which I still think is definitely the correct choice).

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Level 11

Class: 4 Fighter 7 Rogue

Class Features: Evasion, Reliable Talent, Sneak Attack to 4d6

Spell Change Log: + Misty Step

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield
2nd Level Spell	Misty Step

7 levels in Rogue brings two neat abilities with Evasion and Reliable Talent.

Evasion is a really solid ability that makes any effects that forces Dexterity based saving throws way worse against you as you naturally mitigate half of their effect and potentially the whole effect if you pass the save.

Reliable Talent is a cool ability that makes all rolls for skills you’re proficient in be a minimum of a 10, which means you have a much higher chance of passing skill checks with skills you are proficient in and you’ll very rarely fail checks involving skills you have Expertise in.

For your spellcasting, you now get second level spells! This is an easy choice for what spell to grab as Misty Step is just excellent on any character that can afford to take it. Since this build is a Goliath with Cloud Giant ancestry, you could argue that this is unnecessary, but I will always take as many repositioning tools as I can personally.

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Level 12

Class: 4 Fighter 8 Rogue

Feat: Dexterity to 18

Class Feature: None

Spell Change Log: + Suggestion

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield
2nd Level Spell	Misty Step
2nd Level Spell	Suggestion

You get another feat this level, and with Intelligence already maxed out, I would now look to boosting Dexterity for better AC and saving throws!

For spells, you can’t go wrong with Suggestion. This has excellent in and out of combat utility and works extremely well with Magical Ambush! This is a great pick up overall!

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Level 13

Class: 4 Fighter 9 Rogue

Class Features: Magical Ambush, Sneak Attack to 5d6

Spell Change Log: None

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield
2nd Level Spell	Misty Step
2nd Level Spell	Suggestion

Magical Ambush is a super cool ability that makes the best use of your sneaky attributes! If you have the Invisible condition (which the Hide action gives you) any enemy you’re using a spell against has disadvantage on saving throws against your spells! Suggestion in particular works extremely well with this as getting this to work as they only get the initial save in order to stave off the effects.

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Level 14

Class: 4 Fighter 10 Rogue

Feat: Dexterity to 20

Class Features: None

Spell Change Log: + Light + Knock

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Light
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield
2nd Level Spell	Knock
2nd Level Spell	Misty Step
2nd Level Spell	Suggestion

Another feat and it’s the same logic as level 12, so buffing Dexterity to maximize your AC and saving throws!

For spells this level, you get a new one and a new cantrip with Light and Knock.

Light is a great utility cantrip that can be useful in a variety of scenarios so it’s always nice to have.

As the Rogue, your party is going to expect you to open locks, and sometimes, you will embarrassingly fail those checks or face a lock you can’t unlock with conventional means. That’s where Knock comes in! Use this when you really need it as it does make a loud sound that can alert enemies in the area!

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Level 15

Class: 4 Fighter 11 Rogue

Class Features: Improved Cunning Strike, Sneak Attack to 6d6

Spell Change Log: + Augury

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Light
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield
2nd Level Spell	Augury (R)
2nd Level Spell	Knock
2nd Level Spell	Misty Step
2nd Level Spell	Suggestion

11 levels in Rogue brings an improvement to your Cunning Strike! Now you can use two Cunning Strike features simultaneously, and while you still have to pay the associated costs, this is still a pretty solid ability!

You get to grab another prepared spell this level, and I’m always a big fan of Augury. Information gathering spells are generally underrated in D&D as even getting to ask one question of the DM can be really powerful.

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Level 16

Class: 4 Fighter 12 Rogue

Feat: Speedy (CON)

Class Feature: None

Spell Change Log: None

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Light
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield
2nd Level Spell	Augury (R)
2nd Level Spell	Knock
2nd Level Spell	Misty Step
2nd Level Spell	Suggestion

You get yet another feat and it’s time to help Constitution out with Speedy. Having additional movement speed is always good, but it’s especially good on any character looking to keep a respectful distance from their opponents.

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Level 17

Class: 4 Fighter 13 Rogue

Class Features: Versatile Trickster, Sneak Attack to 7d6

Spell Change Log: + Counterspell

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Light
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield
2nd Level Spell	Augury (R)
2nd Level Spell	Knock
2nd Level Spell	Misty Step
2nd Level Spell	Suggestion
3rd Level Spell	Counterspell

This level brings another spell and your next subclass ability – Versatile Trickster!

Versatile Trickster is a new way to gain advantage on attack rolls by having your Mage Hand mess with your enemies. If you use the Trip Cunning Strike feature, your Mage Hand can also trip a creature that’s within 5 feet of it. While this can be a good ability, that means you would need to set up your Mage Hand earlier in the combat which may not be particularly feasible, and even then, you’ll probably have to move it around to get this to work. I’m not sure that, in the average level 13 encounter, you can justify using two of your bonus actions just to potentially trip a target. Unfortunately, this ability is a bit disappointing.

What isn’t disappointing, however, is access to third level spells!

Counterspell is simply the best third level spell in the game and should be an auto-include for any caster. Being able to potentially stop an enemies action with your reaction is extremely powerful.

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Level 18

Class: 4 Fighter 14 Rogue

Class Features: Devious Strikes

Spell Change List: + Dispel Magic

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Light
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield
2nd Level Spell	Augury (R)
2nd Level Spell	Knock
2nd Level Spell	Misty Step
2nd Level Spell	Suggestion
3rd Level Spell	Counterspell
3rd Level Spell	Dispel Magic

You get your final upgrades to your Cunning Strikes with Devious Strikes!

Like the original Cunning Strikes, you get three more options that have both higher costs and more powerful effects with Daze, Knock Out, and Obscure.

Daze can limit somewhat limit what an enemy does on their turn, but considering not many monsters have uses for their Bonus Action, this probably isn’t that good of a feature.

Knockout takes out most of your Sneak Attack dice, but you have a chance to render an enemy unconscious until it passes the save or takes damage. This ability could have been strong if they were stunned for a full turn cycle, but just one ally being able to take advantage of this makes this pretty bad.

Obscure is easily the best of these options as you can potentially blind an enemy which is a pretty brutal status condition.

Overall, this ability is not particularly great, but they can’t all be winners.

For your spell choice, I like picking up Dispel Magic. You won’t be able to Counterspell everything, so having another means of dealing with a nasty spell effect is really important.

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Level 19

Class: 4 Fighter 15 Rogue

Class Features: Slippery Mind, Sneak Attack to 8d6

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Light
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield
2nd Level Spell	Augury (R)
2nd Level Spell	Knock
2nd Level Spell	Misty Step
2nd Level Spell	Suggestion
3rd Level Spell	Counterspell
3rd Level Spell	Dispel Magic

Gaining proficiency in Wisdom and Charisma saving throws is very strong, even if it comes a bit late in your progression. Wisdom, in particular, is the most common spell saving throw you’ll have to contend with so you’ll have a substantially better chance of passing these saves now.

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Level 20

Class: 4 Fighter 16 Rogue

Epic Boon: Boon of Combat Prowess

Class Feature: None

Spell Change List: + Haste

SPELL LEVEL	SPELL LIST
Cantrip	Light
Cantrip	Mage Hand
Cantrip	Minor Illusion
Arcane Archer Cantrip	Prestidigitation
Cantrip	True Strike
1st Level Spell	Absorb Elements
1st Level Spell	Feather Fall
1st Level Spell	Find Familiar (R)
1st Level Spell	Shield
2nd Level Spell	Augury (R)
2nd Level Spell	Knock
2nd Level Spell	Misty Step
2nd Level Spell	Suggestion
3rd Level Spell	Counterspell
3rd Level Spell	Dispel Magic
3rd Level Spell	Haste

Your Epic Boon choice, as I will pick for every martial character, is the Boon of Combat Prowess. Converting a miss into a hit is incredible, especially on this build which is super reliant on hitting the enemy with one big attack.

For your spell choice, this is a good time to pick up one of the best buff spells in the game – Haste. While it wouldn’t be that strong on you, giving this to one of your martial allies can turn them into a monster as them getting an additional attack each turn can stack up damage extremely quickly.