He is hit with an attack dealing 3 damage (now has 2 temp hp) and deals 5 back to the creature due to AoA. Armor of Agathys for D&D All the time, while using this Armor Of Agathys spell a protective magical force always surrounds you and also manifesting sort of a spectral frost that covers not only you and your gear too. Hello playground! At low levels, 5 temporary hit points and 5 damage isn’t great, especially because you don’t get to really direct that damage. As far as I'm concerned, Armor of Agathys is accessible only by warlocks or bards through magical secrets. A protective magical force surrounds you, manifesting as a spectral frost that covers you and your gear. You said "Oath of Redemption" and I think you mistyped, but just to make sure: I talk about the Oath of Conquest, for which Armor of Agathys is not optional but in the classe description as a guranteed (always prepared) spell. D&D 5e Armor of Agathys is an equally cool spell, but inappropriately, it isn’t a mainly real one. I was recently trying to build a character around the spell Armor of Agathys for a friend. It didn't go as planned (he won't play in that party) but i really got curious on whether there are any ways to maximise the benefits of that specific spell. And with Warlock 2 you can only cast it at 1st level meaning as soon as you take 5 damage the spell is over, and after lvl 2 pretty much anything would have done that in 1 hit (maybe 2 with resistance) so you would have dealt 5-10 damage. 1st-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S, M (a cup of water) Duration: 1 hour All the time, while using this Armor Of Agathys spell a protective magical force always surrounds you and also manifesting like a spectral frost which … Armor of Agathys … For most spells scaling goes something like this: spell x does 3d8 damage when cast normally, for every level above what it's normally cast at the damage increases by 1d8. The fact that D&D 5e Warlock Armor of Agathys takes a whole action to cast means it’s not accurately something you’re getting to be dropping back on once you’ve previously been involved within the fight. I would say not as much as you may say. This is okay, but not great and you'd usually want to just use a higher level spell rather than upcasting. We came across this question when playing last night. A warlock (level 1 for this example) casts Armor of Agathys. Armor of Agathys ends once you lose the temp hit points. He now has 5 temp hp.