a lonely soul

Core Abilities

The general premise of this build is that magic missile has one damage roll that we will exploit.

Artillerist gives us Arcane firearm at 5th level which lets us and a d8 to a damage

roll when a spell is cast through it once per turn.

Hexblade gives us hexblade curse that lets us add our proficiency bonus to damage rolls on

the cursed target.

Scribes grabs us the awakened spell-book which lets us change damage types to fire which

will be useful later.

Wildfire gives Enhanced bond at 6th level which adds an extra d8 to damage rolls when we

cast a spell that does fire damage while our spirit is summoned.

Draconic Bloodline gets us Elemental affinity which lets us add out charisma mod to one damage

roll of our associated ancestry. We would choose fire obviously.

Play Style

For our stat distribution only charisma has a huge impact on the build so we would prioritize

Charisma then either intelligence or wisdom.

Surprisingly this would work pretty well as a support caster with support spells that aren't

heavily dependent on our stats for DCs and attack rolls and use magic missile as our primary

damage source.

Supporting Abilities.

Because magic missile is hard countered by the shield spell we will obviously pick up counter-spell because who up-casts shield?

Distant spell, subtle spell and quickened spell will be useful.

Feats

Elemental Adept and Warcaster are the only ones that provide significant improvement.

And Magic initiate for access to the spell.

Items

I don't really like having builds rely on items as they are given at the DM's discretion but

a wands of magic missile is a possible addition. Unfortunately because we can't change the

damage type of the darts from the wand to fire we would only get a +6 from our hexblades curse

dart. At that point the damage become comparable to a fire-bolt. Though the damage of comparable

The fire-bolt is better as it consumes no resources.

Damage

With all our abilities and preparations we get a first level spell at 20th level that does

1d4 + 2d8 + 6 + Cha (5) + 1 fire damage per dart.

On average that's 23.5 damage on average, 32 damage maximum, 18 damage minimum per dart.

So at maximum we get 11 darts.

Which comes out to (258.5) fire damage from a 9th level magic missile.

In comparison Meteor Swarm does 70 bludgeoning damage and 70 fire damage on average.

Things to Note

Up to 6th level this build has comparable power level to other classes but from there it

generally falls behind until about 20th level where it overtakes them. Which makes the build

work best at either low level campaigns or 20th level campaigns or one shots.

If we would be playing the low level version then intelligence should be prioritized and

magic initiate might be needed for access to magic missile