Bilbrons advice on Spells

Remember throughout, Bilbrons is awesome, but he is very defensive minded. He's going for the safest route and doesn't mind if things take a long time or are goofy. Cool ideas, but I'm still going to be offense minded no matter what. 

Skills https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEIUNUYuR8o

• focus on combat of course
• Arcana is critical they say, and basically only the Wizard will be good at it. (Was this Bilbrons or somebody else saying that?)
• His S-Tier = Perception, Stealth, Athletics (Don't forget my new game DM doesn't do passive perception)
• His A-Tier includes Arcana and Insight.
• His B-Tier includes Investigation and Acrobatics (High Dex even if low Str, use it)

2nd level Spells top 10 (remember, he's defensive) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1xIJ394WgRo&t=453s

• Tasha's Mind Whip = level 2, 3d6 psychic or half, debuff = no reaction, can only do one thing next round. 
• Rope Trick is so powerful, many people use it sparingly b/c too cheezy. 
• Web
• Misty Step
• Levitate - use offensively too
• PwoT - Pass without Trace.
• Phantasmal Force
• Silence
• Shield
• #1 = FIND STEED - wow. Paladins get to keep it all day or something. 

Other spells:

• ~Phantom Steed my notes - LVL3, it is RITUAL spell. Lasts an hour... but it's a RITUAL SPELL. 
• ~Pyrotechnics - LVL2, obscurement no concentration! https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:pyrotechnics …. Oops, dragons can have blindsight, problems. 
• ~Summon Greater Demon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ4dmvcPvYc - level 4 spell, but changes when upcast of course. 
• Gotta say its NAME, how, gotta command it to give you its NAME (Does that take a whole round extra?). 
• Gotta Speak Abyssal! 
• Blood from a humanoid killed for a circle, not required. 
• A RP paladin might baulk, but... we have a Tiefling he is OK with so, fine eh? 
• We're going to kill the demon after anyway.
• Many Free spells, so consider that. 
• Bilbrons is a full obscurement + Blindsight nut, so that's half the reason he likes this. 
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• Infernal Calling (level 5 spell) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vmKs71NnI&pp=2AZC 
• Devils are more a pain than demons, but this spell is better than some other devil spell. 

Cantrips https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uOJlEyfIrcs

• Dancing lights can light up enemy, but leave u in dark hidden. Wait it needs concentration!!!!! Nevermind!
• Light. Says you need at least one of them, either dancing or regular light. I do love light to cast on a rock to throw constantly down hallways. 
• My ideas. Use prestidigitation to cover a tiny speck of a pebble in mud, dry it out. Now throw it and when the mud shatters, bam, light (but before shatter, maybe almost zero light? Ask DM.)
• Mold earth is meh for me. I like the comment "It's not for battles, it's for warfare and good at that. Digging under a castle wall to put a ~bomb~ thing. Redirecting rivers. Multiple casters using it to make a trench for trench warfare". 

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Sleet Storm -   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VqSf-WOHT8c&t=314s

• Not so great unless your whole party does blindfighting. Then you'd only use it for retreat. 
• If everybody in the party can see through it, then it's awesome.