HOW TO PLAY WARLOCK (again) 

very nice wizard

Why, you sly dog you...

@CogentPhilosopher I think I see a correlation here..

@CogentPhilosopher Good... eh. Creative, yes.

You HAVE to get the Eldritch Blast modifications that allow you to push, pull and slow enemies.

3. Eldritch Blast

4. Have an eye for opportunity. 5. Keep a spare firstborn child and sacrificial dagger handy (see above)

6. Profit

Sounds like sorcerer with extra steps.

The best thread I’ve seen today

I got cut off by a lipstick ad.

I got the samsung ad

I got Dominos pizza

I got a phone case for iPhpne

i got Papa John's pizza

I know it's so weird considering that for my campaign I'm dming everyone can do some form of healing. I have a shepherd druid, and cleric, a divine soul sorcerer and the ranger has their aasimar healing ability.

I do think it’s supposed to be hyperbolic. Because the meme is that no one wants to play a character built around healing. For some reason “healers don’t get to play the game”.

BlackLion I don’t make the rules,I just change them at will

I don't make the rules, I just think them up and write them down

how about, "i dont make the rules. i _am_ the rules."

@@r.s.2890 you're not chuck 'norris

Bard: is the teacher and the seduction was a part of the test

oh I know this one. Wizard: studies hard, gets an A+ Sorcerer: doesn't study, still gets an A Bard: seduces the teacher, gets a B+ Cleric: spends all year becoming the dean's favorite and gets an A+ Palladin: never as succesful but tries hard and gets a B Druid: skips the test to go smoke weed with his cool uncle F Warlock: buys the answers from an upperclassman and gets a C+

PJ VC xD

Druid sells weed to the teacher

Wizard : nerd, so basically everyone who plays D&D Sorcerer : my dad rolled nat 20 on seducing a dragon Warlock : "yea, i would kill a child"

I play a warlock and my party never wants to take a short rest cause they all waste there spells during combat and I'm over here doing that intentionally cause I know that i can just get them back.

@@mrscechy8625 Get your DM to make the characters eat lunch every day. If you eat slowly, it can count as a short rest.

As a ranger main, that sounds like me

Not sad “said”

My Character was originally a Bard so he has 5 Spell Slots

makes sense no drawbacks for less power

I just finished a campaign with GOO warlock. My character accidentally entered the pact and started using the powers he got. Over the course of the campaign he prayed to Walmart Brand Cthulhu every day until the gaze of the Old One saw the earth. Then I accidentally opened the world up to eldritch invaders and we spent the second half of the campaign fixing it. The main reason my patron actually mattered was because my DM wrote his master's thesis on H.P. Lovecraft so he really knew what I was going for.

@@jold3174 I think the drawbacks wouldn’t be clauses of a contract but rather physical and mental consequences of exposure to such crazy and alien magic

@@dynawesome ah well that depends on how strong you are mentally and upon how deep you dive in to the rabbit hole

Me, staring at the Warlock in my old campaign, who had a GOO pact with the giant fucking world-eater snake and it became the final boss of the campaign.

I guess you could say it's *D'Arby's* restaurant Ok i'll leave

Jackson Inc. Nono, go ahead, Mr. Joestar

Go ahead, Mester Johsturr

@@Moths05 nope (obviusly lying)

@@jacksoninc.4062 "everything turns blue" Yes yes yes yes.

This is the only answer with xbow expert feat!

Just button-mash Eldritch Blast - it makes it easy to be on your phone and still make the correct decision in combat every turn ! xD

*cries in Eldritch blast *

666 likes I can't like ur comment sorry. Edit: Someone broke it here Is your like.

I took Chill Touch instead as I wanted to avoid Eldritch Blast. Built around a storm theme. But can we please rename it to Ghastly Grasp.

honestly yea pretty much...your basically just downloading spells from your patrons cloud storage of power and now you have verizon so you can do it FASTER

I got a wendy's chicken sandwich

Oh my god srsly

I got ebay

I got an add for Liberty Mutual.

The only way this can be shadier if you were a yuan ti pureblood and told them very late or never and they found out later without you telling them.

By the way I am making a yuan ti pureblood swashbuckler rogue, a lot of shadiness but at least we don't have anything divine in our campaign and the closest thing to healing we have is a bard.

@@kykisaky7841 i shall make this shaddier evil god cleric

@@garyvincent7397 yeah this is going to give the good paladin a heart attack

@@kykisaky7841 well, she is also a member of the thieve's guild that raised and trained her 😅 Plus she's 15, so the cleric and sorcerer try to play the disapointed mom and dad a lot of the time. Last time she snuck out to attend a guild's meeting they considered the fantasy version of boarding school: sending her to a temple xD

I just got the joke because of your comment.

I understood that joke!

God damn you Was gonna make that joke

I was waiting for Cthulhu

true me to man

Dragonborn in a nutshell

The Battlemaster Fighter agrees.

​@@2MeterLP Though it is kinda sad that... basically the class gets screwed over by its party over all else. IF your party actually uses short rests, you can have a good time. IF your party just does long rests all the time, then you're screwed.

@@aquamarinerose5405 in my current game, I am a hexlock and it is fun because they do take short rests. I can actually use my spells in combat and act as a harraser using misty step to throw spectral flails at my target before beating them down with my pact weapon.

@@aquamarinerose5405 Yeah, as much as I love the flavor and customization of Warlocks I never felt like playing a warlock character(at least without me mostly multi-classing into something else) since none of the groups I've joined use short rests that often besides one, and that was a group I was dming in which we were playing with gritty realism rules. In just about every campaign I've played in, my party is almost always in a situation where we either have enough time to do a longrest or don't have the time to do a short rest and need to constantly keep moving, so the warlock's ability to regain spell slots on short rests is kinda useless for me. I kinda wish that warlocks were either given a few more spell slots to work or have the ability to lose a portion of their current health in order to regain spell slots, since I don't think short rest regen is really worth that much when the rest of the party very rarely has any reason to use it over a long rest.

I can imagine Zariel stopping her armies from desecrating and goring demons to getting a 5 pound salt bag to slowly ruin this family’s fields

and even though she has a huge army and can kill the entire family, she just decides to personally salt the fields, i like to imagine its like a hobby to let of the steam, after a long day at war you just take a trip to the farm and salt the field

It's a great tale of u don't have to mess with them, but I have nothing better to do for 20 mins an I just had this bag of salt...

@@mranderson9553 Just imagine some heroes come and try to stop her, and she's just like "Listen, I've had a long day, and I just need to vent some frustration. Can y'all just let me have some me time?"

You guys need to read that story where Thanos ruins a random guy's birthday for the rest of his life. imgur.com/gallery/FWN0yMv

“AND IN THAT WAY WE WILL LIVE FOREVER!!”

Fuckin cracked me up

That is... a very appropriate and flavorful reason to make a pact with a celestial that I am ashamed of myself for never thinking of. Nice work!

@@BigBoi237 I know! I'm really proud I thought of it all on my own! The Solar keeps me on a tight leash though, because angels don't trust tieflings much.

Yes I love the dichotomy. Having that sort of divison is so good for rp and storytelling. Genius.

Don’t mind me while I steal this.

@@lucascoleman6801 Go right ahead! I love it because it lets me be great in both combat (racial modifier synergy) as well as in rp. Truly the best of both worlds.

But in the name of your deity though, so it's ok. Bash away with their blessing. Lol

My Drow Feylost Death Domain Cleric sworn to the Raven Queen potentially tolerates you and the Warlock depending on what you do. IF YOU HARM INNOCENTS OR ARE A THIEF THEN YOU UNLEASH HER WRATH!!!

Had a archfey warlock obsessed with bees who was over the moon when I told them their EB could be a bee or bees

I can't upvote this enough ! D&D is a game about *imagination* where rules exist to make it a game and not just make believe. So what if a player wants his longsword to be a katana ? It's a katana now that still follows all the rules for longswords. Same for Eldritch Blast etc. Reflavoring is even heavily encouraged in the PHB for Monks who might want to reflavor their monk weapons to closer resemble Far Eastern martial arts weaponry.

Nr4747 The designers getting you to do their work for them is not a wonderful innovation worthy of praise.

@@gma5607 wasnt that a big reason city of heros stood out from other mmos?

TheCinderfang Ah yes, 5 Edition Dungeons and Dragons that famous MMO!

Yes.

or as Liam said it: Ehldreitch blaaaaaaahyst

Answer: eldritch blast

Your pfp is cursed.

@@torinsmith9867 thanks, I am a true warlock

Multiclass into a wild magic sorcerer.

@@Cov1ngtonsGhOst multiclass in divination wizard and be like fuck the outcome i like it

oof that would have been great considering she played a Divine Soul Sorcerer in Strahd in Arcane Arcade

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XP to Level 3 aaaaahhhhhhh noooooooo! The missed opportunities!!!!!! 😱

And then a 5th person is playing a Circle of Dreams Druid

@Kristina Payne "hey welcome to the rouge again ok page one fuck the the rouge, and there you go"

ikr

when I'm DM and nobody picked healer, I just pull out one of several nameless DMPC templates. divine soulcerer? yet another bastard child of zeus. life cleric? PRAISE ILLMATER! celestialock? "my village was flooding, I called out for help, and this is the price I paid. I suppose it could be worse." alchemist artificer? "there was a mixup where I sent the boner juice to the constipated guy and the laxative to the elderly baron, and now I'm exiled."

Ben Thomason I just take out some sidekicks I made

@@benthomason3307 why not just have the adventure being one where they have to watch their health and be sure to rest often, instead? Seems kinda going against the party to force a role in there. It'd be the same for any other role. If there's nobody who's ever gonna be good in a fight (unlikely) then rework it to be more about intrigue and mystery, and give them weaklings to fight as a reward for making good decisions. If there's nobody who casts spells, don't throw anything at them that requires spells to defeat unless there's a reasonable way around it they can figure out in the middle of the situation. If there's no healer, I imagine an adventure could be made to feel more perilous and edge-of-your-seat. Or there's always stuff they can buy to make up for it so throw some gold at them, or something. Even a magic item here or there, maybe. Plenty of options - why force an extra party member?

my party has 2 clerics

Silly Cellock!Jacob; having more healers who can keep each other standing is a good thing! Otherwise once the healer's down, it's probably all over.

well in all honesty I would trade flavour for mechanics any day. If i choose to recolour my eldritch blast into a fire blast and now have to deal with fire resistance than I'm up for it

You can't Eldritch blast a tarrasque

@@ThePi314Man what do you mean by this? Eldritch blast can deal damage to a tarrasque.

@@benjaminkingsley-jones7832 "Any time the tarrasque is targeted by a magic missile spell, a line spell, or a spell that requires a ranged attack roll, roll a d6. On a 1 to 5, the tarrasque is unaffected. On a 6, the tarrasque is unaffected, and the effect is reflected back at the caster as though it originated from the tarrasque, turning the caster into the target." Eldritch blast is a "spell that requires a ranged attack roll" therefore you either do nothing to it at best, or at worst the tarrasque goes "no u"

@@BillytheCorgi huh, didn’t notice that, yeah you’re right about that then, my bad! Thanks for pointing it out!

probably

Definetly

Pretty good though

absolutely

You fucking gottem

It doesn’t say paladin but my paladin serves a devil, is oath of vengeance to kill lolth(are a drow) and is also a rogue yea he would be ok with a fiend warlock Edit: or be one himself

I know you probobly won’t see this but I just heard a cleric scream as he dies MY GOD HAS FAILED ME

Dude I want to know more of the story

The Doctor her heart got ripped out by a Rakshasa, everyone got her heart and body before an ancient temple crumbled to the ground, and rezzed her 3 days later. Meanwhile on the other side, my cleric was in trial on what to do with her and her god said she’d spend eternity helping others pass on to the upper planes. But my character begged to send her back and her pleas were heard by a wish granting deity that offered her a second chance at life but must promise her service in exchange via selling her heart, her memories of her family, and her ability to feel romantic love. And boom boom the party got her back but not as a cleric

ok but where's the glock then.

@ y e s

CCCP bitch!

@@teedeegremlin i mean you can have a gun as a pact weapon thanks to ua

@ artificer-warlock multiclass. That actually sounds fucking fun. I guess it's basically percy from critical role.

I have a Warlock who was an angsty teenage aristocrat who got bored and made a pact with Belial and ran away.

Relatable

I made a warlock that got drunk on at a party made a deal with George Washington and became a skeleton but does not know he's a skeleton his name is Hugh Mann

My warlock works as an apprentice librarian and carelessly read a ritual out loud that bonded herself with her patron.

Warlock 2: Eldritch Boogaloo

Can't wait for Warlock 3: Tokyo Drift and Warlock 4: On Stranger Tides

Warlock 2: The Rise of Gru

Or as Jocat put it: Eldritch *BLAST*

Ooo! I have a similar one. Not a fey marriage, but my child teifling was adopted by his fey patron. She and his devil father don't get along fo obvious reasons, hehe

She's Chaotic Good, he's lawful evil, and their child is true neutral

I dread to even explore the idea... but please, continue.

Did a similar thing except I had my male aasimar divine soul sorcerer get engaged w/ an angel. Nabbed pact of the tome and played it off as a divine wedding planner.

An idea that i wrote down for a character is this Dragonborn that has impressed Hlal ( the CG Draconic Goddess of humour, inventiveness and pleasure of the Forgotten Realms), that now wants to befriend him, and wanna see his deeds just to be amused. They have that very casual relationship, where she basically appears in his dreams to hang out. Then she slowly starts to develop a crush on him...

Nathan Coughran pact of the blade kinda sucks for every warlock subclass other than hexblade. And even then it’s not really amazing

I’m choosing pact of the tome for backstory reasons. He has a friend who was a wizard. She tried to teach how to do spells. She was lost( it would take to long to explain) and now he is going to chose pact of the tome to symbolize him still trying I learn his friend’s spells.

Tome Warlock is the strongest ritual caster in the game. This is always overlooked.

@ tomelock is a better ritual caster than wizard that gets it by default? why? because you can cast ritual tag warlock spells (4) without a spell slot?

I personally picked Pact of The Tome because my character was a priest in a world without gods and he wanted to write the names of those spirits he came across(Initially Undead Warlock, but due to shenanigans, ended up becoming a Celestial) then I saw the invocations you get with the Tome and I can say, it's the secret best one for a support Warlock. Book of Guardians allow you to write names of those in your party up to your prof. Modifier and essentially give them the Half-Orc's ability to say "no" to death on one of those people once per long rest. Combine that with the ritual casting abilities and that you can use Sending on the list by simply writing in the book and there's quite a bit there for a support Warlock.

Pallua, my feathered dragon Hexlock with a Sapphire dragon living in her sword: I know right? So inconsiderate!

My celestial warlock is a femboy magical girl lmao

S.R Nohbody I had this with a Zariel tiefling, yea I had them kill Zariel and take her sword, then the dm said I was worthy and attuned to it, nice time

I once heard someone suggest a life cleric/fiend warlock, human (assuming aasimar/tiefling heritage just cancels out, also Diablo lore) character who's respective parents were in a prolonged, planar custody case.

Gfy?

Anthony Norman i think he means Good for you

@@anthonynorman7545 Good For You

@@fofolacosa123 ah, gfy

@@CornBreadtm1 gfy as well

Nah fuck that, we need to instead cherry pick a scene and make shit up in order to suit our narrative... this is youtube after all.

Bro. Did you not read the little disclaimer at the bottom of that scene? It was a joke.

@@eldinoor7072 Is that directed at me or op? Cause if at me then yeah i saw that literal .5 second disclaimer that said "this is a joke, i'm aware of Fjords really cool character progression" saying its a joke in a half second disclaimer that doesn't say that the joke is the complete opposite of what happened doesn't change anything... If that is directed at OP, then maybe they didn't see that literal half second disclaimer that is over in the time a person blinks and also doesn't actually change anything about what OP said.

a baseball pact lock, eldritch blast gain the form of a baseball curve toss, -3AC on target

"GET OVER HERE"

It's like people forget that there are good warlocks (celestial pact), evil paladins (oath to demon or dark god) and evil clerics (worships and draws power from a dark god).

@@voidstrider801 my favourite paladin ive ever played was a Pirate with an oath to piracy, it was so unlike any other paladin I’ve played before

That is what I like about DND. They are a warlock because of how they get their power, not who they are allied with. Warlocks, whether they are good or evil, gets it by forming the pacts. Just like a wizard is a wizard because they study it and work for it. That is what makes them a wizard. Paladins get it from their oaths and you can swear an oath to anything good or evil.

I tried to nake an NE Warlock that had his soul bound to the celestial and was unable to do egregiously harmful acts. So the Character was evil, but the Pact was keeping him in check. But I never had a chance to break him out.

I want to do something like the blood elf paladins from WoW. The celestial warlocks have imprisoned an angel and are siphoning off their power.

That's cool. I like that.

More like the sorcerer, since they are kinda literally stuffed with magic

OMG I never imagined making a lizardfolk warlock before, especially with a Celestial patron, but now I can't get over how terrifyingly weird idea that is

Dang archfey warlocks up to their trickery again...

Rimuru mode unlocked

No, it count like one eldritch entity, a multitude of spirit in one body (kindna like Legion, the multitude of demon in one body but in an eldritch way)

Yes

Just to add to your idea: My current hexblade warlock (Pact of the Blade) is in fact using a longbow as the main form of his weapon. We're currently level 5 so I've picked up Devil's Sight, Improved Pact weapon and Thirsting Blade Invocations. I should also mention that he's a variant tiefling with wings. I'm looking forward to a big boss fight where I can cast darkness on myself fly up so the darkness doesn't hinder my party members and finish with Hexblade's Curse. Then it's crit fishing time! ;)

@@loka7783 remember, once you set down the darkness it doesn't follow you

@@JayF2912 no, you can cast I'm on an object, then it follows the object, so cast it on their bow and they're set

@@Neutral_Tired _oh no_

@@loka7783Just be wary of spellcasters. If they notice the darkness moves with you, they can target center mass with aoe spells. I had that occur and got hit with a fireball and cone of cold.

They all rock

Rouge is just Jacob doing bleeped over swearing for a minute

RAGE RAGE RAGEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Armor of Agathis layered under Shadow of Moil is my favorite.

@@williamwalton9154 why not all three?

@@goldfish6525 true, forgot about that. Works at level 3 though. Also, if your a tiefling you get an extra hellish rebuke.

It gets even better if you're a Fiend Warlock cuz then you gain access to Fire Shield for even more Icy Hot goodness. Also FYI, Warlocks get Elemental Bane ;)

@@pandacakes6613 limited slots and I always keep one open to crit smite, which Shadow of Moil helps with. Soon to add Foresight as my 9th level spell for semi permanent (non-concentration) advantage.

Warlock: But did you learn how to put your back into it then push giants away?

Eh. Eldritch Blast has a few bonus beyonf Fire Bolt. Fire is easily (and quite often) resisted, or enemies are straight-up immune, and the spell is all-or-nothing, meaning it gets one attack roll against one target to deal all of its damage once. Eldritch blast is Force damage, which is less easily resisted, and it adds more attacks instead of just dealing more damage when it levels up, so you can "fork" the bolt to split-target enemies, so your entire action isn't lost if you whiff one attack roll. Which is *important* for a Warlock, because they're going to be using their EB cantrip like a reliable weapon more than a Wizard, due to the former's lack of spell slots. A Warlock saying "I cast eldritch blast" is really no different from a Fighter saying "I shoot it with my bow", except Eldritch blast is such a meme.

I'd like to note that 1)both the classes get access to toll the dead, which is normally a d8, but becomes a d12 if you slap them even once. and that 2)E. Blast is the only cantrip that grants extra attacks as you level up rather than extra damage dice, and that said attacks can be directed at separate targets.

Sorcerer: wait you needed to do work?

4d10+20 +300 range + knockback +a whole load of other stuff jesus why is does Eldritch blast get so many invocations *inhale* would like to have a word with you

I guess You could use... a BARD!

Oh nice! (29 for stealth, steal)

Though Cantrips can be quite helpful. Imagine a High Elf with Gate Warden background before becoming a Warlock. You get 2 Cantrips at lvl 1 separate from your class.

11:57 I do not really understand why hexblade is so misunderstood, it's literally in the name: HEXblade. Your "Patron" is a cursed weapon which allows you to bestow that curse upon others and steal part of their essence when they are killed or even enslave their soul for a temporary amount of time. The extra damage from charisma is literally because you're feeding your own magic into the attacks. *It's a toned down version of Elric of Melnibone,* the character concept has been around for 59 years.

@ Quote: *"then explain where the shadowfell or the fact that the Raven Queen is considered a hexblade patron comes into play,"* . For hexblade - your weapon is literally a shadowfell entity which grants you it's power. In the case of the Raven Queen - Hexblades patron's are the entity which gives them power, not the Raven Queen. If your patron is the raven Queen - you're not a hexblade. Your patron can be the Raven Queen (Codex: Unearthed Arcana page 69) and you can choose the pact of the blade - but you're not a Hexblade and you do not gain access to Hexes or hexblade class features. There is _flavor text_ that Hexblades are all actually working on the Raven Queen's behalf (Xanathars guide to Everything page 55), based on the idea that such Shadowfell entities, acting as patrons for hexblades, were created by the Raven Queen. However - the raven Queen herself can also be Patron and if she is: you don't gain Hexblade boons or class abilities. Hexblade is it's own thing. . Quote: *"or why hexblades don't automatically start with a cursed weapon and are able to change what weapon is their hex weapon once per long rest?"* . You're "changing the weapon" in so much as you are changing the entity's physical manifestation on the material plane. It's the same entity. That's also why a hex blade has to perform a ceremony to make a magical weapon into their pact blade - you're transplanting the entity giving you power into a new container to house it, that new pact weapon serves almost as a phylactery, _similar to_ but *not* identical to a lich in that a lich's phylactery is a physical object which contains it's soul. . In the case of Elric of Melnibone, Stormbringer was a very specific weapon with a very specific form and it was what it was. It was a "cursed weapon" in so much as it was more akin to a very powerful sentient object, but it was the object: the sword was a person. In the case of hexblade, "stormbringer", as it were, is an entity which is _embodied as_ a weapon, the weapon itself only being a physical manifestation through which the entity is able to exist on the material plane.

@ Quote: *"Your "entity" doesn't "change form," the hex weapon is a regular weapon you own that you touch and imbue with magic"* Keep in mind that the _Pact of the Blade_ can pertain to any Patron but *Hexblade* is a Patron, the shadowfell entity embodied in the weapon is the *Patron.* You took a quote from page 55 of Xanathar's guide to everything when referencing Hex Warrior - but you ignored the very beginning of the Hexblade description, which is on the same page, side by side to the section you quoted. Quote: *"You have made your pact with a mysterious entity from the Shadowfell-a force that manifests in sentient magic weapons carved from the stuff of shadow."*

@ I like Hexblade well enough, it has some neat features, but I never liked how it functions around the curse mechanic, it's too big a part of the class's damage output and abilities. At lower levels you're without your main schtick if the cursed target dies because you only have one use between short rests. . At later levels, you better hope your DM allows you to use Codex: Unearthed Arcana - because if you're stuck with just Xanathar's guide to Everything then you can apply the same curse to a new target - but a finite rule most people don't pay attention to - the curse itself only lasts 1 minute. So between every short rest you have 10 round of curse time available to you, no more. You can wrap invocations and extra damage and such into your curse - but it's still a pick-and-choose when to use it ability. the Codex: Unearthed Arcana uses different language. Xanathar's guide to everything states "When the creature cursed by your Hexblade’s Curse dies, you can apply the curse to a different creature you can see within 30 feet of you" - keywords being "you can apply the curse to a different creature" - meaning it's the same curse and that curse only lasts 1 minute. While Codex: Unearthed Arcana specifically states "you can use your Hexblade’s Curse again without resting" - see the difference? If you DM allows the Codex Unearthed Arcana version you're not shifting the same curse with the same time limit to a new creature to tick down those 10 rounds, you're using Curse again which means you're casting a new curse. The Unearthed Arcana version also effectively removes the time limit of 1 minute because you can simply cast curse again. . Neat idea, cool lore, makes for an interesting character concept - but I don't like the curse mechanic. . I much prefer the other patrons, particularly the Raven Queen. Her Patron gifts aren't op, ie the celestial and undying light cheat death revive nor quite as utilitarian as fiend patron's ability to take a five minute stretch and suddenly decide to take half damage from whatever damage type the dragon fight is likely to have them doused in. I like the lore of the Raven Queen and the ability to turn into a Raven. Combined with Pact of the Tome, I made Medivh, because I'm that kind of nerd, shut up. XD

​@ Quote: *"My man how long are your combat encounters that they last more than 10 turns?"* . LuLz, my group started with 3, moved to 3.5, visited 4 and went back to 3.5. We never run book adventures or wotc preplotted campaigns and mobs are, not always but often, specifically designed to counter our characters. Ninja goes invisible 8 times per day? The cultists are all at least 1 level warlock with see invisibility. Fighter has ultra high AC? Trap room filled with ethereal undead and statues spam firing magic missile. My druid shapehsifter likes to grapple and is levels of warshaper making him immune to critical hits and precision based damage? Murder-Death-Killededed by a Goliath reaping mauler. All those things happened. In my campaign I don't look at offensive or defensive spells which are round-per-level without extend spell or sudden extend, otherwise I only use minute-per-level. . Quote: *"Hexblades aren't really hyper dependant on their curse at all"* . Didn't say they were - but if you're building a Warlock around the Hexblade Patron: you're probably going to want to pick up the evocations which allow you to do extra damage to cursed target. Otherwise you could just play some other Patron other than Hexblade. Remember: any *Patron* can grant you Pact of the Blade. Hexblade - is - a - Warlock *Patron* : a patron who grants you extra damage and effects based on or around using your curse. You can even take Pact of the Chain or Pact of the Tome with the Hexblade *Patron.* There are, however, specific abilities you get from the Hexblade's patronage if you go with pact of the Blade. . The strongest Melee warlock is probably Hexblade with pact of the blade because you can combine Thirsting blade invocation (gives an extra attack) with lifedrinker invocation (necrotic damage equal to charisma modifier) on top of Hex Warrior's proficiency bonus to damage against cursed target: then use either Chilling Hex or Burning Hex as a bonus action to deal charisma modifier damage to the cursed target. That's the highest routine, every round, damage output a melee warlock can get. . A 12th lvl Warlock Hexblade with pact of the blade and a charisma modifier of +5 would do weapon die +5 charisma (hex warrior), +4 proficiency damage (hexblade curse), +5 necrotic damage (lifedrinker), x 2 (two attacks, thirsting blade) and as one bonus action that turn another 5 damage either fire or frost from either Chilling hex or burning hex. So at level 12 that's 2d# + 33, every round, assuming both attacks hit the cursed target. However, as soon as you lose your hexblade curse - you also lose the proficiency bonus to damage and your bonus action damage because they both ONLY apply to targets under the effect of your hexblade curse. At which point 2d# + 33 becomes 2d# + 20. . Eldritch Smite is fine, but 1) you only ever get 4 spell slots per short rest - and 2) you *don't* have to be Hexblade to get Eldritch Smite. Any 5th level Warlock with pact of the blade can get Eldritch Smite.

Austin Hicks NaRUtO

I had an idea of a hex warlock this petron is tattooed on him .the petrone id literally a tattoo thats whit every level grows a little whit every level antill its will consume him. Why did he take it? Well there's many ideas from containment,to memory of some one(like you known him before and he was about to die so you sacrifice your self to be whit him),to revenge (pretty much giving your self power for shorter life to get something) many ideas. And every spell can be a different part of tha tattoo thats goes out. Like a hex blad could be like a 2d sword just crawling out of your arm into your hand extra

On earth

Oh god, oh fuck.

If the trajectory youre talking about would go around earth and not into the abyss

brain just melted

I can't tell whether you are a weeb or just have *great* taste.

I agree that they are very versatile, even more so than you are giving them credit for because any one of them could Forcecage and kill something, and they can be damage (significantly higher than Rogue if built that way), tanks (Armour of Agathys allows you to be an excellent tank when upcast, and Fiendish Vigour at low levels is amazing), buffers/debuffers (some subclasses get better spells for this, but they all have access to Mire the Mind and Sculptor of Flesh), healers (with celestial) and more. All of this with the ability to get practically a full refresh on a short rest.

Nice

Get out of here, bard

I succeeded my save partially as a meh.