The Circle of Stars Druid is ideally positioned to use the Luminous Set. This set of equipment revolves around applying the radiating orb condition to enemies, which lowers all of their attack rolls by the number of turns remaining on the condition, and also emits bright light. By wearing the Callous Glow Ring and Coruscation Ring, the Druid can easily apply radiating orbs and buff their radiant damage against targets who are illuminated. Pick up the Hellrider's Pride Gauntlets to apply Blade Ward to allies whenever you heal them, and replace them with the Gloves of Belligerant Skies once you can to stack Reverberation, and regularly knock enemies prone just by using your Luminous Arrow and Guiding Bolt.
Wood Half-Elf: Traditionally, Wood Half-Elves retreat to quiet lives in the forests of Faerun. For the Wood Half-Elf, their half-heritage drives them to continue journeying across the rest of the Realms. As Half-Elves, they give Bards the Fleet of Foot (walking speed becomes 10.5m) and Mask of the Wild (Stealth Proficiency), making the Wood Half-Elf Bard ideal for long-ranged builds.
If you go with the Soldier background, proficiency in Athletics and Intimidation are already granted. In this case, choose instead to go with Insight and Perception, as the game gives players a lot of dialogue checks involving these two skills.
Athletics and Survival are great for exploring the world, while Athletics and Intimidation is better for an in-your-face Fighter. Either way, Fighters have plenty of opportunities to naturally trigger Inspriation from these two Backgrounds.
Dungeon Delver: Bards get Advantage to Perception Checks when detecting hidden objects and to Saves to avoid traps. They gain Resistance to trap damage as well. Given how their bonuses can help them Disarm Traps they see, being able to spot them beforehand could be useful.
The Circle of The Land is a spellcasting-focused subclass that has access to a wide variety of damage types, allowing players to work around resistances with multiple elements, or focus on a single element and push it to its limits. Players could take advantage of this by grabbing some of the element-themed magic items that can be found throughout the game, many of which can be found as early as Act 1.
This subclass also immediately grants the Druid the Guidance Cantrip and the Guiding Bolt Spell. Guiding Bolt is always prepared, and the Druid can expend a special resource called “Star Maps” to cast it without using a spell slot. They initially receive two Star Maps per long rest. At fifth level, the Circle of Stars Druid gets an additional Star Map per long rest. At sixth level, they gain three “Cosmic Omens” per long rest. These can be spent to add 1d6 to their own attack rolls or saving throws, subtract 1d6 from an enemy's attack roll or saving throw, or add 1d6 to an ability check made by the Druid or an ally within 1.5m/5ft.
As a Level 11 Fighter, players can attack three times in a single turn, but by putting one point into barbarian, they can attack four times minimum every turn – as long as a bonus action isn't used for another ability.
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At level three, the Druid learns “Blindness” and “Detect Thoughts” as additional spells which are always prepared. This allows them to temporarily blind their foes and read minds with ease. At level four, they learn an additional cantrip. Level 5 has them learn “Animate Dead” and “Gaseous Form,” letting them create undead allies from nearby corpses and transform someone into a gaseous entity to move through tight spaces and/or better evade damage.