How to Use the Most POWERFUL SPELL in Dungeons and Dragons 5e

Wish is easily one of the most powerful spells in dungeons and dragons and so many people misuse it in order to destroy their dungeon masters' hard work. Today I, Offbeat Outlaw, am going to be going through 3 of the best uses of wish in dungeons and dragons in order to help you elevate your dnd play to the next level!

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[iZikGetPsycho]

"I cast wish. I wish that the bad guy disappears." "Ok, the bad guy has vanished." Meanwhile, the bad guy suddenly turns permanently invisible and goes even more mad over time.

[yuvalamir]

1. Cast Simulacrum without Wish.
2. Have the simulacrum cast Simulacrum with it's 9th level spell slot *on you* because your main body hasn't used its 9th level spell slot yet.
3. Have the new simulacrums cast the Simulacrum on you again and again.

You've created infinite wizards. You've achieved infinite damage.

[NobodyDungeons]

I remember I made myself immortal by using wish to create hundreds of clones. So, I could die as many times as I wanted without worry. I also did the same for the rest of the party, so the party ended up killing a tarrasque by bum rushing it with infinite lives.

[dredgendorchadas]

NEVER make a healer, always broaden out up to a general support. You should be buffing, debuff canceling, healing, and maintaining a "livable" area (keep away environment or suddenly environment disasters from devastating the party)
It makes that "healer" class far more entertaining to play and you do more than "so I heal grok for 2d4..."

[jonasboel]

On that note, I saw a player loose wish by not having a telleport spell prepared, and using wish to "be over there" 60ft teleport. Lost the spell. *everyone* were like "are you sure" the DM was like "you really shouldn't, you can replicate *any spell*" and then he went "I am sure"

[Adurnis]

Wish-cast tsunami, wish-cast symbol, wish-cast holy aura, wish-cast… so many great freaking options. Don’t do anything other than a lower level spell unless you’re literally on your campaign’s last turn.

[draghettis]

5:41 I've done some quick math, and here are my results :

Probability of having at least one, among 5, casting of Wish that results in the loss of being able to cast it again : around 86, 5%

Same probability, for 10 castings : around 98, 2%

This math ( binomial law ) is probably not perfect, but it can give a first estimate

[xBucketx]

Great video. I just "Wish" i had a group to play a lvl20 game with. most of the groups i have played with disbanded before those higher lvls. i have never gotten to play past lvl 10..i can only dream. Anyways, Enjoying all your content, your Uhm Ackshually build is one of my favorite of your videos. I showed it to my wife( who is not a dnd fan) and she laughed through the whole video... thanks for all the inspiration and guidance.

[TheTsugnawmi]

Another beautiful use for Simulacrum: True Polymorph when it runs out of spell slots. It still retains its personality, so it's still YOUR personality and stays loyal to you. In other words, you just "promoted" yourself to be an Ancient White/Bras/Crystal Dragon.

[Quintinium]

I would actually argue that what you should do is wait until you have access to "Wish" cast "Simulacrum" at 7th level, and then have the simulacrum cast "Wish" to replicate "Simulacrum" using you as the target, creating another simulacrum which then cast "Wish" to replicate "Simulacrum" using you as the target, rince and repeat.

Of course, you shouldn't actually do this because you want to play nice with your DM, but this is technically a way to mass produce infinite Simulacrums.

[harrywhiteley]

A few extra mentions for Wish spells in my opinion
Heroes Feast is also a shout if you have 2 days before encounters (day one Simulacrum, day two Heroes Feast) you also avoid the material component cost of the spell,
You also have Find Greater Steed as well if you have time,
Forbiddance can also be used to stopping escapes through Teleports,
Tsunami is an interesting Druid Spell to deploy against hordes but at the same time you already have Meteor Swarm for your 9th level slot,
Wind Walk is a nice spell as well as it gives the whole party a 300ft fly speed if teleports have been stopped and you need to escape,
Regenerate is actually a nice spell as it gives you 1 HP at the start of every turn for 1 hour which can keep you alive unless you get damaged 4 times in a round,

[baseupp]

If you can no longer cast wish just have another level 20 caster (bard, genie warlock, sorcerer or wizard) cast wish on you to allow you to cast wish again

[palehunter]

"I wish I had a simulacrum of the tarrasque" or "I wish I had a simulacrum of Tiamat" during the boss fight twice (so two casters with wish) means you just win the fight as your simulacrum's have the same health double the turns, double the damages, but no layer actions.
SO VICTORY!

[lasermanso]

monkey paw a custom wish is one of the dm's fun too. one of my player once made a wish to an effereth lord, writing down every details of his wish on a sheet of parchemin before asking '' create exactly what is on that sheet'' .... so i gave him a puddle of ink

[druid_zephyrus]

Normally I write the correct Genie Wishes, but as Wish is not a Genie I will offer what I believe is the best RAW use for non 8th level spells for Wish.

Make a 5'x5'x5'x5'x5'x5'x5'x... multidimensional object of Graphene Aerogel, with one face being empty. Just 4 dimensions gives us a hypercube, so make as many dimensions as you would like. Only Mystra can attempt to impede you.

Then use Catapult/Mage Hand/Unseen Servant/etc. upon it and throw it at your enemies, dropping the open face upon them.
As most known entities can only see in 3 dimensions they will fall into the multidimensional object's open face and be trapped in near endless multidimensional of spacetime. We are *NOT* talking alternate Planes. And Wish says "any dimension" which clearly means (x, y, z, a, b, c, ...x1, y1, z1, a1, b, ...xxx1, xxy1, xxz1, ...) *ANY* dimensions.
[Suck on that Newton! Where is your calculus

You are very welcome.

-Your Friendly Neighborhood Druid

[arcaydeaxiii]

My go-to simulacrum cast via wish was to use it on our lv20 moon druid at our endgame table. Infinite wildshape made the lack of hp or spell slots and gear semi pointless.

[androgenius_alisa]

"Make bad guy disappear" is just wishing for labyrinth to be cast. Might as well use it with 8th level slot

Reincarnation is also a useful one.

If you have like a week of spare time, stack a bunch of buffing spells with glyphs of warding inside of a demiplane and pop in with your friends before the next bug fight.

Spam clones for free

You can have all kinds of fun with wish

[calcite_dragon]

If my players wished to make the bad guys disappear, I would just make them invisible.

[Phox]

Amazing video man! Not many people cover this stuff from the GM side!

[KnicKnac]

If only 5E had Mage's Disjunction.
Good way to create tension countering a big healing spell, but only once.