How to Play a Genie Warlock in D&D 5e 

While not necessary, it is highly encouraged that the initial meeting with your Genie patron involves said patron doing an elaborate song and dance number about how you'll never have a friend like them.

Earth Genie Patron and their vessel is an unsuspecting rock with a small crack. But when Bottled Respite is used, the inside reveals it to actually be a beautiful geode. Edit: Wow guys. Thanks for the likes and comments. This was the first idea I had when making a GenieLock because my mom was super into geodes.

One thing with Kelly's feats... if you take the +2 Cha at lvl8 and Fey Touched at 12, you're sitting at 19 Cha for 4 levels. Why not take Fey Touched at 8, making Cha an 18, which is basically the same as 19, and getting the Misty Step and other spell?

I play a Water Genasi, Marid Genie Warlock with a Germphobia and a soap dispenser as a vessel. Im Excited to hear what you guys have to say :)

I quite literally searched for this video 3 days ago hoping you guys did a video on it, and low and behold my WISH was granted

I'm pretty new to D&D and Genie Warlock was a love at first sight. The theme and flavor of the subclass is so good that I had to try it out and so I made a kobold tomb raider who during a heist gone bad had to make a deal with a Dao who was bound to a magic ring to save his friends and himself from being buried alive under the desert sands.

Right now I'm playing a marid genie/ pact of the tome warlock, and have it flavored as an ink spirit that lives in the tome and feeds off of knowledge written in the tome. The DM allowed me to make the tome also be the genie vessel, and every time I enter it I go into like an illustrated form on the pages. I'm still pretty early in the campaign (only 3 sessions), but I'm absolutely loving the flavor. My eldritch blast is an ink glob, I have inky tendrils when I use arms of hadar, I have an ink puddle for grease, and I have an inky raven as a familiar. I play them as a curmudgeonly old man who couldn't quite cut it as a scholar, and lived most of his life as a librarian, where he found the magic tome.

I'm playing a Dwarven Dao Genie warlock with the pact of the blade named Einar Brinjar. He won his abilities through a drinking contest with a Dao when that Dao attacked his city. The Dao granted his pact in exchange for not telling his peers that he lost to him.

The shenanigans of theft using the ring are insane. You just need six seconds with nobody looking and anything you can hold is transported into your vessel, dropped as a free action, and you jump back out empty handed. They can search you all they want. Dig through your gear. You have nothing stolen in your pack 😂

I played with a Dao Genie with the Crusher feat and it was very fun. Crusher with Eldritch Blast has a bit of decision making. Since you get more attacks at higher levels you might not want to use Genie's Wrath on your first hit cuz you might get a crit on the 2nd/3rd blast and give everyone advantage attacking the target you just critted on. Also resistance to bludgeoning in general is nice. Useful with Armor of Agathys.

Playing an Air Genasi/Sylph named Scheherazade (Scher for short) who's the daughter of her Djinn Queen mom warlock patron. Her quest, go out to the material plane, write down as many people's life stories, historical events, or adventures she goes on and bring them back to her mom to read to her. Scher's hoping to find at least 1001.

Genie Warlock is my favorite of them all. It's so good! I think the overall plan that Kelly had in mind would've worked better with Dao Genie, since they get Spike Growth added to their spell list. All that forced movement would synergize really well with it.

I recently dipped into Warlock in my campaign after taking six levels of Paladin. I am going Celestial Warlock and plan eventually on taking Pact of the Tome. I really like the potential of the Warlock class and the roleplay it offers with the patron, since there are now solars in the campaign. Love the content on the channel, as always.

I played the Genie Warlock for awhile & it was awesome. Our party was about to get TPK’d, but I was the last one left. My friends were dead aka objects, so I brought them into my bottle & was able to escape. It set up a whole arch of the campaign where I teamed up with other characters (the other players) to search out a cleric who could bring them back to life, and getting the components. Fun times.

Love the content you guys make, however, I must say that I am very excited for the “All bard party” video.

I've been playing a Marid Genie warlock for a long time and I LOVE this subclass so much. It made me realize that warlocks are my favorite class to play because of the versatility.

With Metamagic Adept, I actually think Distant Spell is incredibly useful for warlocks. Because you’re forced to upcast a lot of really good spells (invisibility, fly, etc.) at later levels, you often get to choose more than one target. The biggest limitation, especially in a chaotic combat encounter, is that they’re touch spells, but not with Distant Spell. When it hits the fan, whole party is now invisible or flying with 1 spell slot and 1 sorcery point. And then even with some of the Limited Wish options y’all discussed, Revivify and Greater Restoration being delivered from downtown is so incredibly strong. Makes a support warlock so much more viable.

Genie warlock has been one of my new favorites. I played a one shot with a dao patron. Added crusher feat and all three forced movement invocations and flavored as gravity magic and had a blast jumping in my ring and letting the rogue get both of us behind enemy lines. I would love to have played this character to high levels, since we only were at lvl 10. One of the few times i would be actually willing to NOT multiclass. Which for me is crazy.

I'm playing a Tortle genie warlock and my patron is a marrid, and I'm absolutely loving the flavor and the theme of it. I chose the tome as well as it just adds so much

Also the Dao Genie gives you Spike Growth which you can abuse with Repelling Blast and Grasp of Hadar. I have a character who is Custom Lineage who is based on a kakapo who grew up among his flying brethren but one day found himself falling into the plane of earth, and meeting a Dao who offered to show him how powerful earth can be.

With metamagic adept on warlock i can strongly recommend subtle spell + extended spell. Extend it where it counts, extend an hour duration spells to 2 hours, so you can cast them, short rest and still have it around for another round, etc

I've been waiting for this for a while guys. I really like the way you guys break down information and couldn't wait to see what you guys would come for my favorite subclas of my favorite class

I appreciate that you went back to the format of each of you making your own build

For an Efreeti-focused Warlock, one fun idea I've had for a vessel is an old, rusted censer that nonetheless always seems to be smoldering or giving off just a little bit of smoke. And also ignites in certain ways whenever you cast fire-bases spells :)

I played as a Genie warlock in a Dragon Heist game. She was a curious scholar from the City of Brass in Waterdeep to study, and got roped into the party's shenangians. She was the unofficial party caretaker as she got them all out of trouble with her charisma and even saved them from a sudden ambus of a ghost and animated furniture (she now has a phobia of brooms). I really enjoyed playing her and the Genie Warlock is my favourite Warlock subclass

Thank you guys for the steady amazing content.

Rules as written you actually don't need to worry about losing wish because you can create a simulacrum with wish and then it can cast wish instead of you. Also a bonus for warlocks is that because arcanums are a class feature not a spell slot their simulacrums can use wish multiple times before you have to summon a new one.

I was waiting so much for this video from you, and I loved it! Also happy that you didn't do the "classic Daolock", the Dao is amazing (probably the best), but there are already a lot of videos about it and you show that the others have a lot of potential too! As always, thank you for the amazing video!

I'd love to see how the Eladrin race interacts with the Genie Patron Warlock. The combination of seasons with elements could be interesting, at least thematically

I love this format, one of my favorites that you do. Seeing how much you can personalize a subclass for variety and flavor while still making something effective at the table. Been a fan since I saw you do this for the Battesmith Artificer, I'd love to see more subclasses built "the Monty way" and "the Kelly way"

I think it would be great to have a tool kit being my genie vessel, based on what my genie patron is: for example a Marid patron where the vessel is a set of Navigator's tools, and inside the compartment is a Captain's cabin (which is always swaying as if it were at sea), complete with charts on the desk, etc

I’ve had an air genie warlock in the barrel for a while now and I’m excited to see your suggestion on how to optimize it!

I’m a big fan of using Pact of the Chain to allow your follower to pick up your Vessel. Extra points if you choose the Sprite, who could pick up your Vessel and turn Invisible while carrying you around.

I multiclassed a Lore Bard with Genie Warlock. It was super fun and flavorful. The DM was kind enough let me use my lire as my genie vessel. Would recommend.

FINALLY IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS! I have my own Dao Genie Warlock and when i was making it, i was looking for advice on how to build one, so this helps alot

I like the idea of using Galder's Speedy Courier to deliver your vessel, with the party inside, to anyone you want in the world.

in our last campaign, we had a genie warlock and I played a Harengon Scout Rogue. We had one situation where the DM basically had poison cloud in a combat situation against Yuan-Ti. My rogue had 10 feet blind sense . Party hopped in the ring, Rogue went hunting for the caster. Then tossed the ring at their feet. Party hopped out and had surprise because the caster didn't see a group of people coming out of no where. We used that ring for transport -- stealth, escape, etc. Because the Rogue could get in and out without really being seen. And while doing that, the casters could get their short rest / get your spell back situation.

Ever since this subclass was released I wanted to play it. Finally got the chance last year and built a water genasi with a marid patron who's spells were thunder damage themed. The lore was that her patron was her distant ancestor and so she called her grandma. Took pact of the blade and used far step to teleport around the battlefield slashing at enemies with booming blade. It was a lot of fun.

Played two separate GenieLocks across two campaigns: Utterly Love them! Current one is a Mastermind Rogue multi-class which, thematically, is a great combo with the support spells, Chain Pact and the slight damage boost.

Starting 13 dexterity and getting moderately armored is also worth a mention. As it massively increases your survivability. Also allows for 12 Wisdom.

YES! I've been looking forward to this episode since I discovered their class a few months ago! ^_^

Imagine a Warforged holding the Vessel (or wearing the Ring) with the whole party in it, then taking advantage of both their ability to look like an actual suit of armour AND their ability to "keep watch" while long-resting for the ultimate in hidden party long rest defence; now that's a good party combo (or even all on one character) I almost imagine Futurama's Bender putting the Vessel inside his chest compartment, even, though of course that's DM fiat on rule-of-cool

You guys have like the best build ideas ever. I absolutely love your creativity

Being an Elf with Genie warlock is nice as well because the 4 hours you can spend in your vessels at 1st to 4th is also a long rest with trance.

You guys are like my comfort channel :))

Air Genie Patron, with a primal element orb vessel, that's a glass like sphere containing a captured thunderstorm, and on the inside it looks like your in the eye of a hurricane.

I love playing the Genie Warlock. I typically use the Efreeti Genie but someday I'm tempted to try out the Dao Genie. Then again, after hearing Kelly's take on the former, I might not. :D He made it sound even more interesting than I have thus far explored. :D

I have a plasmoid genie sorlock that’s pact of the chain for filler sessions when people can’t make it. Such a blast, so many goofy ability interactions for endless fun

Can't believe they didn't mention the weird edge case of Dao Genie and crusher feat. Especially since they get spike growth on expanded spell list. Best cheese grater build in the game.

hot damn, i've been designing a genie warlock for the past two weeks as my next PC. this could not have come at a better time.

I’ve built a few Genie Warlocks, and have found that you benefit greatly from taking your first level as a Sorcerer, which nets you Con save proficiency and two additional lvl 1 spell slots. And you can net some synergistic bonuses such as Divine Soul and Celestial patron, or Storm Sorcery and Djinn patron. You don’t really lose anything other than pushing the Warlock features back one level, and the lose of the 20th level feature isn’t a loss at all. My newest Genie build is a small Owlin Aberrant Mind Djinn sniper that hides 600’ up while dropping blasts out of nowhere. Went Chain for an Improved Imp skinned to look like a tiny Owlin. Went Astral Drifter for Magic Adept: Cleric. Running them like big game Hunters that hunt the most dangerous game, sentient beings. Talked the GM into letting him have a Lamannian Wood focus that’s a scope mounted to a wooden stock like a firearm, but with out a barrel. His name? Boom Chachalaca.

It's amazing how you can use the limited Wish for creating a spelljamming helm to have your own spaceship!!

I´ve built a warforged genie warlock called "Clothes" - he was basically a set of magical garments that could retract himself inside his hat, pretty fun character, went wild sorcerer also

Currently playing an autognome Dao Genie Warlock in a Spelljammer campaign. The synergy of repelling blast and spike growth on the small battlefield of a spelljammer ship has been very effective. The autognome "built for success" feature also allows me to add a d4 to proficiency bonus number of attack rolls if I miss a blast by a point or two to make sure I'm keeping enemies in the spike growth field.

Used the ring to escape a bunch of tricky situations. Had a friend chuck it in an open window, over a locked gate, under a door, and popped into it while running towards bars to slip between them. I loved using it!

yep, maybe my favorite warlock subclass. I also really do love that the subclass does complement their Genasi counterpart too with Fire being the only one doubling up on stuff.

A dwarf that wished to become a wizard. Received a magic tome, he can go inside the pages and it teaches him spells. With his high charisma he can just act smart.

One of my favorite Genie patron Warlocks I played was with a Dao patron and the vessel was a jar. The DM allowed loose substances such as dirt enter the jar through the top so my Warlock would use mold earth (obtained via feat) to fill the jar with dirt and would shatter it to release massive amounts of dirt. Especially effective in confined spaces at burying foes alive XD

My Water Genasi warlocks patron was his Marid mother. It's very fitting thematically even though some of the bonuses kind of double up. Still fun to play.

I was so pleasantly surprised when Kelly mentioned using Limited Wish for Passwall. In my opinion, it is such a strong spell that is totally underused in the campaigns I have participated in. It would definitely be a great contender for the Limited Wish usage.

You can flavor a talisman genie warlock as a member of the Green Lantern Corps with the lantern as the vessel and the ring as the talisman.

AH! I have another one; Air Genie patron and their vessel is a metal (like brass, copper or silver) or crystal wind chime with oscillating fascinators that orbit around the chime itself, strung with chains and a little hoop to hook it onto the ceiling or whatever. When Bottled Respite is used, you go inside a chamber at the center of the chime. The chime can ring, but since everyone is so small/the influence of the Djinni, the sound is soft and melodious.

I just started of a fire genasi genie warlock just to lean into the fire thing a lot and it ties in the the background story for the character. Chose the pact of chain, pseudodragon, for the practical reasons of scouting and helping out. Went with a oil lamp vessel cause, well fire and theme :P The general idea of the character is that they are distantly related to the patron but as they live in the material plane they can act there to help the patron out with information and (the sort of main thing here) finding relics and artifacts to further the patron goals (these are not made quite clear to give out DM something to have fun working with). Just remember for camping in the vessel, you can still hear everything around you so someone can still be on watch to avoid being snatched up or at least you can wake people up and handle the situation, that is if the thing taking the vessel makes enough sound.

I essentially made my Efreeti Genie Warlock a better Artillerist. His vessel was a gun that he used to cast all his spells through. The gun would change shape based off of what he was casting. Long range? His gun becomes a sniper rifle he uses Eldritch Spear through. Up close? He blasts his enemy back with Repelling Blast from his shotgun. Multiple enemies? Fireball through his grenade launcher. But no matter the gun, it would always have rotating chambers which you could rotate from inside the gun. Inside one of the chambers was a gaudy lounge room for resting, another was a vault for storing gold, one was for crafting, and the rest were guest rooms. My friend is going to be playing one soon and she's gonna be a Water Genasi who's vessel is a bong. That's probably one of the coolest character concepts I've ever heard.

There’s a super interesting interaction between Crusher and the Dao genie. You get to push with bludgeoning damage and it stacks with repelling blast too. Stack spike growth on that from the Doa and take Grasp of Hadar. Boom. Cheese grater.

The Genie Vessel is BIG inside. 20' radius is a small two bedroom apartment. Mine has a bedroom with a featherbed, an alchemy lab, library with comfy chairs and a bar, a bathroom with plumbing, and a storeroom full of chests for storing our party stuff in an impregnable vault. I went Pact of the Chain with the Ritual Caster feat. The Chain familiar is just. so. good. A familiar with hands can cast a Magic Stone on your Bonus Action, if you have the Investment of the Chain feat. Currently level 11 and I could go on for pages on the shenanigans you can pull off with a familiar that's smarter than most of the party (INT 14 WIS 13) and can use magic items.

The Genie subclass also gives the DM some fun opportunities to add some RP, character, backstory, connections to campaign-wide stories, etc. The different elemental patrons expand on this, especially with questions about whether the player's specific patron is typical or unusual for their culture in terms of attitude, plans (or lack thereof), alignment, politics and plotting among genies, etc. Just about any player character will have connections with individuals/groups/organizations, but warlocks in particular have a built-in connection for story hooks built into the class, and the various genie patrons are already notorious for schemes both convoluted and improvised, so...

I made a Genie Warlock multiclass that puts the War in Warlock. 3-4 levels in Fighter to get proficiency in Constitution and medium armor, Pact of The Blade for Extra Attack later on, and Eldritch Mind for advantage in concentration saves. 14 Dex and Con, the rest in Cha

The addition of Spike Growth to the Dao spell list is a great pickup too. Most of the time if you're playing a blastlock pushing enemies around the battlefield, you're pushing them into a spell AoE that doesn't take effect until the start of the creature or caster's turn. So there's always a chance that they might be moved by another effect, or have a reaction that allows them to escape, or else they just die before the next round of combat. Plus it usually only does damage once. Spike Growth is nice because it does damage whenever the creature moves, immediately, and it does damage based on however much distance they cover. So every time you hit an enemy in the area with a Repelling Blast or Grasp of Hadar, they take an extra 4d4 piercing damage. If you hit them with more than one blast, you can push and pull them through the spikes, creating the cheese grater of death.

I love Will from DnD shorts idea of a halfling warlock running through someone’s legs and repelling blasting them straight into the air

Another great feature that I don’t remember hearing being covered is that genie warlocks are able to bring their entire party into the vessel and complete a short rest in 10 minutes! Amazing utility there too

I've been building a Genie Warlock that I've been wanting to play for so long. I love the idea of your patron potentially being a companion NPC as well, giving into more roleplay scenarios. I go with Chain Master for a more reliable familiar to keep the ring safe when the party is resting (who doesn't love a sidekick like Abu?). I love the JoJo's Coco Jumbo/Mr. President safe space for the party to just be in, it can act as a fun hub to plan in or relax after a dangerous encounter. I picked up this idea from Chris Zito, but I made it so that the vessel is a wedding ring and your Genie is your partner, your pact being your marriage to this powerful being. It makes handing off the ring to someone else feel more impactful, both in trust and fear of losing it.

Agreed on the cross-element build. My Triton with Dao patron was a very effective emissary, especially with a few levels of bard and college of eloquence.

My favorite warlock subclass is "The Fathomless". I played a tabaxi fathomless warlock as a straight class through a campaign and it felt powerful from start to finish.

My Dao Genie's Vessel is a funeral urn with an ornate label. When I first found it and pulled it out of a fireplace the urn itself was cold, but as I turned it over, the ornate symbol on the label flared to life and burned my hand leaving an imprint there. While it blistered my patron used that pain, that link to talk to me about how he needed an agent in the mortal world and offered me magical power in return. Once the pact was struck, the mark cooled and healed over instantly. Now, as an Eladrin ELF, the starting duration for time spent in the bottle (2 x PB in hrs = 4 at lvl 1) was enough for me to meditate and get a long rest IN the bottle. :) I would hand the bottle to our Cleric of Kord to hold onto while I rested and he assumed as an Eladrin, this was just some Fey thing. As a performer before adventuring, I put in a clothing rack for costumes, a desk we came across, an old nature based stone throne, anything our party needed me to hold onto. My DM was kind enough to let me use the Daolani (3rd party mini genie type familiar) as my Pact of the Chain choice. His broadsword is about the size of a small shortsword to the rest of us, but he uses it well. I took Eldritch Sight to detect magic at will, always useful, Investment of the Chain Master mostly to make sure I'm only using BA to get my Familiar to take attack actions and to increase it's DC's on it's abilities to match mine which level much higher, and building off my performance skills, Mask of Many faces. It pairs up nicely with my Cloak of Many Fashions and when I finally got a feat, it was Actor! :) I'd love to get some Glamorweave, and look forward to the day the group can come down and join me in the bottle for their short rests. :) Now, Monty said you can SEE thru the vessel, I didn't read that, I only saw that you HEAR thru the vessel. I also didn't go Genasi because it seemed like double dipping into the same pool and didn't want to dip into two pools myself. You still get a lot of cool things as an Eladrin and thematically makes my go to Summon Fey ;)

I’ve just started playing a goblin (genie) warlock (currently level 2) and I’m recalling enjoying it. I look forward to seeing where I can take it

Currently, I’m playing a Hexblood Genie Warlock with Pact of the Chain. The Toothie Talkie (eerie token), Familiar, and the Ring (vessel) itself are there, so they can be effectively be in 3 places at once, talking to the whole party while split up… I also flavored them as a witch with a demonic patron (Flying on a Broom, Imp familiar, and the food creating spell from the genie fits well, as a particular witch does live in a gingerbread house…).

My character only splashed 3 levels of Genie (Dao) Warlock. He's a Rock Gnome that really wanted to become a Wizard, but didn't have enough skill in magic to attend the academy. He makes a pact with a Dao to cheat his way in, then starts levelling Wizard. His goal is to open a magical museum for wonderous and historical magical artifacts. The Dao points him towards these artifacts (which are often guarded by his enemies and rivals). My character doesnt particularly like his patron, and the Dao isnt too fond of him either, but for now, their goals are somewhat aligned. I flavor his Eldritch blasts as magically imbued peddles he flicks at people like marbles.

the strategy of "get into the ring and have the familiar carry it away" is exactly what my own genie warlock had been doing to run away from places, have yet to test it to sneak into places!

I like the genie warlock because it's really funny to go into your vessel and have your invisible imp fly you into places undetected

I'm not in a game and this is what I want to play next campaign. I love warlocks, and this is just so thematically and mechanically op

I am currently playing a Verdan tome water genie (lvl 6) and have really enjoyed it. I also took telekinetic, and the misty visions invocation and have been having a lot of fun as a utility warlock with all of the ritual spells, and the craziness you can do with at will silent image mixed with minor illusion. I have a raven familiar to carry my ring, but have yet to need to do it.

One of my favorite things about the Limited Wish feature it states, "the spell simply takes effect as part of this action" so RAW the spell you use can't be counterspelled.

I'm playing a Genie/Rogue 7 rogue/6 lock. Being an invisible, flying rogue is AMAZING! Big damages with Booming Blade and the passive damage from lock and so much versatility outside of combat

I played a Deep Gnome Dao Genie Warlock in Curse of Strahd to level 15. It was great fun. I to am excited to hear what you have to say about it.

My Genie Warlock is a tabaxi with his patron being a genie-like pseudodragon who just likes to vibe and have fun with his best buddy and his friends. His whole spellcasting vibe is more on the draconic side and is pretty much him just pokemon-like yelling commands at the drake 😂

I use this subclass to play a Santa Warlock: Fire Genie Spirit is a white bearded Djinn named 'Zjei-Nik' (Saint Nick) whose vessel is a snow globe depicting a warm north pole cabin. Naughty or Nice List is the pact tome. My character is a scrooge like man who gains warlock powers the more he embodies the ideals of christmas.

We just started a new Dragonlance campaign and my better half is playing a Genie Warlock. She is an Eladrin race, and took an Efreeti as her patron with pact of the chain. (with much help from the group). So far, she is loving it (we only just reached 4th level). Me, I'm playing a gnome artificer :D

The Dao giving spike growth makes being an Eldritch Cheese Grater a possibility and I will always love that.

Bond of the Talisman is why you would NOT want your genie vessel and the talisman to be one and the same. If you do give the talisman to someone else (like in Kelly's teleport scenario) you have also given them your spell casting focus. That's like cutting off your own foot to loan someone your shoes.

campaign I'm doing now features an Efreeti Genie Warlock, he took variant human-polearm master and basically is all about stacking those hex+fire damage on the multiple hits using the polearm and later eldritch blast, and eventually he also got a wand of magic missile to combo with it further.

This video came out exactly at the right time im playing this weekend a genie warlock with the efreeti and my vessel is a pipe

I definitely like the talisman idea and choice. I've been pondering what style of warlock it fits.

Loved Kelly's shirt in the sponsored segment.

28:20 was such a genuine laugh I believe that wasn't even on the script for the video LOL

Genie warlock has and will always be my favorite to play. Currently I'm doing a Dao genie that's flavored to be a spriggan, forest gnome. That is basically a nice baba yaga. Talisman pact, she crafts and gifts those crafts, making new talismans all the time, not the best but RP wise it's lovely. "Jack Frost" marid , slowing and controlling caster. A multiclass of genie and creation Bard can do a lot of different thematic things that I've done an illusion build. That I flavored as a reality bender, making illusions real, making items come alive. Lastly a 6 level dip for flight, a wonderful pocket dimension, and 2 decent spell slots that you can use for almost any reason depending on your multiclass. Go rush 10 for that party disappear act with the pact of the chain and the invocation to communicate better and you can get away almost always. Cheese tactic but do it few and far between and it'll be accepted more. 😅 Wonderful video y'all!

Perfect timing on this. In a few weeks I am playing a goblin genie warlock. The goblin unknowingly stole the genie vessel from a traveling merchant and accidentally got into a pact with the genie.

Such a fun subclass. I did a weird thing and made a Punck Rock Strength/Con/Charima(int & wis dump) based Air Genasi Dijin pact whos vessel is a bottle of Jin. She is Pact of the Talisman who kicks ass with a Chain whip and a Studded Club(Weapon Master) - With rebuke to knock enemys about.

Dao genie for that spikey growth and push pull invocations for the cheese grater!

I'm playing a Dao Human Warlock 10 + Divine Soul Sorcerer 4. Spell Sniper + Crusher. My vessel is a ring that inside has an arabian room. Recently unlocked the party vessel, and now it's like a whole house for relax (smoke pipes, telescope, japanese garden, lots of sofas, rugs). We are going to travel using my crow carrying the ring. Anyway the Genie is very powerful. I'm the strategist of the group. Every action I take shapes the fight (pushing enemies, blocking sight, making walls, incapacitating them, kill everything with radiations) and I can play recklessly without fearing to go first and absorb hits.