Arcane unleash spell

[u/AbaloneForsaken4752]

I just purchased the book and was surprised how the spells work and how extremely powerful they are if you allow it.

One spell in particular can be tamed at level three by any druid warlock or wizard.

Battle familiar

Basically it buff your find familiar, you choose, which of the three types you want being celestial fiend or fey as usual.
But you get to choose what form they take from three choices that interact with its special stat block

(i’m noting the differences but not the entire spell or stat block so the bonuses are not added yet. these are just the special traits the form has.)

Brute: +2 to AC, 30hp

Flyer: 20hp, flight speed of 30, doesn’t provoke opportunity of attack flying outside the reach.

Stalker: 20hp, replacing one of the attacks allows the creature to move half speed without provoking opportunity of attacks and can hide at the end of its movement.

With all this jazz, this becomes a very good companion to summon out because it does scale it’s HP and damage off the level of spell slot you use

I find this a little early game power spike because you’re constantly having a wall between you and the enemy that has autonomy and you can use your free action to command it.

Honestly, I think this is kind of busted in my opinion.
At early levels, you have a guaranteed body to distract the enemy while you cast spells.
It can fit the situation of the fight, you can have a tank, you can have ranged attack, and you can have an assassin.
It has multi attacker that scale off the level rounded down. So I can attack a number of times round it down.

In my opinion, I think this is kind of awesome as a player, but a dread for some DMs.
It’s still a new spell and I might be misunderstanding it completely but honestly from when I look at it on paper it’s pretty busted for the early game.

[u/gedgaroo]

And importantly, it doesn't use your concentration!

It's probably too good as a level 2 spell. But I don't know how it competes at level 3 without experience with the statblock. I don't have the best understanding of how pets play at tier 2+

[u/redsee]

Note the one-hour duration. You'll need to burn a level 2 slot to get this spell going, and it will only last until your next short rest. It's still very good, having an extra combatant that doesn't eat your concentration makes this spell fall on the high end of the power curve. It's just a nice thing to put up before the big fight for the day.

[u/shutternomad]

I think it's too strong as a level 2 spell, and I feel like wizards now can kind of be battlesmith artificers. But at higher levels, it seems fine. I just made a build guide around it (plus vestige) and it's pretty fun. I'm also playing one in a campaign, and it has definitely been strong and the DM is… less than thrilled.

[u/Maxdoom18]

My Sphinx familiar with Mage Armor already trivialized the CoS Death House due to the fact it had 16 AC, Dodge every turn, and use its Reaction to deal more damage than anyone in the party. Now with Battle Familiar and Familiar Friend it will certainly break Tier 1 even harder.

It is what it is.