The Best Battlemaster Fighter Maneuvers in Dungeons and Dragons 5e

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[fatcoyote]

My Field Medic character is a Battle Master. She has a Hermit Background, Longbow, Healer's Kit, and the Healer feat. She can use the longbow to distract/move/push enemies away from vulnerable allies, even if she's far away, Rally to boost HP, and maximize the usefulness of her Kit. Atop that, she can make Healing Potions and Antitoxins. Great healing character without using any magic.

[blantonman]

*Two days ago: I wish the DD's made a guide for the Battle Master I am kinda new and want to play this class
Today: Satisfaction 100%

[SchplatJR]

Don’t forget that when you get to choose more maneuvers, you are also able to swap an existing one for a new one. It gives you flexibility and you aren’t stuck with a bad choice.

[mr.t]

You could use disarming attack to knock a shield out of an enemy fighters hand, which lowers their AC and makes it easier to hit them

[Randoman]

Enemy: (Attacks)
Fighter with Riposte: "No U"

[TheFrozenite]

Bugbear polar master fighter with lunging Strike!! 20 ft reach!

[DragonKnightJin]

I want to make a Battlemaster that makes heavy use of Disarming Attack and the Tavern Brawler feat.
Basically, their whole deal is to flex on enemies by taking *their* weapons and beating them with it.
Bring in Trip and Pushing Attack to get a bit of an Armored Monk kinda feel to the character.

[ChitenBugMan]

I honestly feel that battlemaster is the most utilitarian, as well as the best subclass choice, of the fighter. it gets really interesting features that not only make it unique compared to the champion but also come in more handy than the Eldritch Knight.
I really feel bad for the Arcane Archer however.

[AmGroot]

So a bugbear battle master who uses lunging attack with a reach weapon has a 20 ft. reach... WITH A MELEE WEAPON!!! That's the same range as throwing a dagger, and you get a d10 for the damage instead of a d4.

[teknopagan]

Quick note about Precision Attack - you can use it after making the roll, and it doesn't say you don't get to know whether it hit or not.

[cattrucker]

Battlemaster maneuvers sure are a trip. Gotta be pushy and precise to get them, they can be really evasive and distracting, disarming even. Don't let them goad you, parry, rally and riposte, don't fall for their feints and sweep them away with your command of knowing them.

[janhendrik]

Menacing attack is basicly the funniest thing you can do on a halfling fighter:D:
I played a halfling dualwielder Fighter in Tomb of Anihilation and every fight we came across a Dinosaur I scared the living hell out of atleast one of them xD. The image which this drew in my mind was one of the most hillarious I ever had in DnD. Like you got a 3 foot dude with 2 rapiers pinching a dinosaur and he this beast gets scared the hell away from that little hobbit xD
*Edit: Yes some dinosaurs are immure to beeing frightened but unfortunatly (for them) not all of them xD
**Edit: deeper in the Video now^^: yes I had Trip Attack too xD and most dinosaurs are just large ;)

[RedneckWraith]

During a nautical themed campaign I was playing a battle master Triton, using Pushing attack to knock enemies who boarded our ship back into the sea haha.

[DBebeful]

I agree with both of you on your choice of TOP5 maneuvers! My personal favorite is Riposte! ;)

A short story:
In one campaign we were fighting against a hydra when a dwarf battle master managed to intimidate a hydra with a Menacing Attack maneuver, which already had 7 heads! Thanks to the frightened condition, the hydra attacked with disadvantage and missed all of its seven bite attacks, none of which hit our dwarf warrior! That was the moment when we realized how great this maneuver can be when it's used in the right place at the right time!

[EslocoSoldado]

I've never clicked on a Dungeon Dudes video this early. For Caspia!...U'mm I mean Drakkenheim!

[andreacristiano]

After having watched something like 40 videos, always skipping the introduction, today I heard you say "register so you don't miss..." and I fucking realized I wasn't registered!! Insta-register! I live how you eviscerate every topic, with a written and prepared discussion, instead of something more similar to an interview or a Pub chat, like others do. I learned a lot thanks to you. Gonna forward this video to my friend playing fighter first time after 15 years not playing!

[TheHornedKing]

Could I request an in depth guide on the Eldritch Knight? I know there are other ones out there, but I wanna learn from you 2.

[manaraxjendo]

I remember using disarming strike to once cause the enemy troll to drop the unconscious child they were trying to kidnap. Since that child was a major plot point this was critical, and a real life saver.

[Seritnin]

OMG yes!!! I'm leveling up next session to level 3 and I've been agonizing over these maneuvers for a month. There's no other videos on this subject.

[dragonmaster]

Fighter class... Straightforward, yes.
Simple, Nine Hells no!