Druids are an exceptionally powerful class in Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, and they only get more powerful when augmented with a couple of feats.

In Dungeons and Dragons, adding feats to a character's build can augment their abilities in a variety of ways. The list of feats available in the Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition is expansive. With this in mind, players must choose their feats carefully, assuring that they benefit the character's role in the party and existing strong points.

RELATED: D&D: 10 Ways That Druids Can Improve Your Party Druids can be one of the best classes in D&D due to their versatility and might. A high-level druid is one of the most powerful characters one can create. The best feats that players can choose for a druid build would improve upon the responsibilities that their character holds in the group.

The Lucky feat can be a benefit to any character build. A character with this feat has three luck points that they can use to reroll any roll they've made with a 20-sided die or to force the Dungeon Master to reroll an attack roll against them. This feat could keep a druidic powerhouse in motion or make a powerful spell succeed when it would otherwise fail. With luck points, players can assure victory in situations where the dice went against them and the results could have been disastrous.

Using this feat can take any character to the next level. Ability scores are extremely important to a character's build, and increasing them can make a character significantly more powerful. With the Resilient feat, players can add one to any ability score of their choice. They also gain proficiency in saving throws for that particular ability.

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Taking the Alert feat gives players the ability to add five to their initiative rolls. It also prevents them from being surprised and takes away the advantage that enemies have on attack rolls when the character cannot see them. Druids have a unique place in adventuring groups, and their adaptability gives them the ability to occupy different roles based on the party's needs. If a table needs their druid to be more of a damage dealer, then the Alert feat will assist them in getting a jumpstart on combat encounters.

Druids are champions of the natural world, but that doesn't always make them the masters of it. They struggle as much as anyone else does when faced with a rocky slope or an overgrown forest floor. With the Mobile feat, that's no longer a problem. Mobile enables players to use the Dash action on difficult terrain without using additional movement and increases their movement speed by 10. It also means that whenever they make a melee attack on an opponent, whether or not they hit, they cannot provoke opportunity attacks from that enemy on that turn.

Druids are wise beings, with expertise in the natural world. The Keen Mind feat expands upon that expertise and wisdom. With this feat, characters can exactly remember any events that occurred in the past 30 days and are imbued with the innate knowledge of which way is North and when the sun will be rising or setting each day.

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Adventurers frequently rely on druids for their knowledge, and the additional knowledge that Keen Mind brings is a fantastic addition to any druid's repertoire.

One of the best features that druids have is the ability to Wild Shape into any animal they've seen before. They can make unique unarmed attacks when in these forms, based on the physical attributes of the animal they chose. These attacks make an excellent combination with the Sentinel feat. Sentinel gives successful opportunity attacks the additional effect of reducing the attacked creature's speed to zero for the rest of the round. With animal-based opportunity attacks and this feat, a druid could prevent their adversary from escaping.

Druids' hard-hitting spells are some of the best attacks they have access to. By taking the War Caster feat, they increase the efficacy of their magical capabilities on the battlefield. This feat grants characters advantage on their saving throws to sustain spell concentration and can even allow them to use certain spells as reactions in opportunity attacks. By taking this feat, a druid assures that they will be far more capable of keeping their concentration during an intense encounter and that their opportunity attacks can pack an even harder punch.

Another feat that increases a druid's effectiveness on the battlefield is Spell Sniper. This feat teaches the player one additional combative cantrip, doubles the range distance on attacking spells, and allows the caster to ignore the advantage their enemies gain from certain forms of cover. Given that druids have highly powerful spells, increasing their ability to use them in combat situations can make them even more impressive warriors. With Spell Sniper under their belts, druids can unleash elemental fury on their foes from significant distances away.

By taking Metamagic Adept, druids gain access to capabilities that are typically limited to the sorcerer class. Metamagic can allow spells to hit more targets, do more damage, or even take a bonus action instead of a full action. Metamagic Adept grants players access to two metamagic abilities and two sorcery points that they can spend on those abilities.

RELATED: 10 Best Feats For Combat In D&D, Ranked The wide variety of spell enhancements available via this feat can take any druid's spellcasting to the next level and empower them to become a metaphysical powerhouse.

The best feat that a druid can take is one which will build upon the abilities that they already have. Since so many of their spells do elemental damage, the Elemental Adept feat is perfect for them. This feat allows the caster to ignore resistance to one type of elemental damage that gets chosen by the player when they take the feat. It also lets them treat any ones rolled when doing damage of this elemental type as a two instead. Elemental Adept takes their elemental powers to the next level and makes druids into true forces of nature.

Rebekah Krum is an avid fan of both video and tabletop games; she takes great interest in their history and cultural value as storytelling mediums. They enjoy a good story, regardless of the method by which it is told. She grew up in Northeastern Nevada before moving to Ashland, Oregon for college in 2014 and subsequently settling down just outside of Portland, Oregon in 2019. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Southern Oregon University.

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