You Might Be a Hexblade | Warlock Subclass Guide for DND 5e 

It's actually insane how just one level of Hexblade can be a complete build changer for any character. Like Swords Bard for example. It wraps up the package so perfectly, that it's hard to find any reason not to dip.

The one thing that I absolutely love about the Hexblade is that they can cast Wrathful Smite at level one before the Paladin.😅

I’m really looking forward to The Oath of the Ancient paladin, and the shepherd druid. Nothing is cooler than walking out of a wizard fireball and telling him that barely hurts. Also, with the shepherd druid, you can reenact that scene from Shrek two where Snow White summons, a flock of birds to attack her enemies.

Whenever I'm asked "How can you justify a lawful good Hexadin / Witchknight?" my answer is just: "Garran Crowe".

Lore heavily implies the hexblade is a gift from the raven queen, goddess of death.

When I watched this video it was such high quality, good content and hilarious that I thought for sure it would have hundreds of thousands of views and probably be years old. I checked under the video and was incredibly surprised to see how recent the video was and how few views it had. This is some top tier content and I was a bit disappointed that I didn’t have 30 other videos like this to binge, but that just means I’ll gladly watch you blow up in this space! Cant wait for more videos. I rarely subscribe to channels but you definitely earned my subscription. Excited to see the next video man!

These vids are sick and have the quality of someone with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. You're hilarious and the edits are timely and practical. Keep up the same quality and you'll be there in no time.

I knew the witch-knight would be mentioned! While I know the power isn’t exactly great, the flavor of the Horizon Walker Ranger Conclave would be perfect for one of these videos!

Thanks for the content. I stumbled into DnD and went pure hexblade on a whim. I've played other classes since, but never felt so casually powerful.

Yay. Another video. Combine Hexblade with Paladin for an amazing multiclass.

These videos have been so great. Can't wait to see what's next

Loving the content. Keep up the great work 👍😁👍

I love this whole series. The perfect combination of information and humor.

You didn't mention this, but Spirit Shroud is god-tier for Hexblades. It gives you an extra 1d8 damage on all of your attacks that goes up to 2d8 at level 9, plus some nice debuffs. My Hexblade uses this spell all the time and he can just tear through hordes of enemies like its nothing.

Man oh man, I love all these small DnD channels popping up. I'm going to look forward to more from you with this type of fun editing

I’m playing a hexblade this Friday starting a new campaign. And god was your video top tier. You got a like and a sub keep it up man you’re going places with your videos 👏🖤🗡️💀

Excellent video. Appeared at the top of the list when I searched Hexblade. No regrets, keep making banger content my dude!

Really enjoying your content you make dnd super relatable. Good stuff bro👍👊

"I don't know what this has to do with the Hexblade's kit" says someone who has never read the Elric of Melibone books from which the hexblade is directly lifted.

First time watching your videos after youtube suggested to them, and man, i love your style already Excited to see what you bring in the future!! nwn

Another top 5 subclass -- thanks again!!!

Actually, eldritch smite is 1d8 plus an additional 1d8 per spell level, so at level 7 it would be 5d8 damage.

Wow, you’ve made your videos on my 3 latest characters, love your content

Thinking about creating an Aasimar hexblade and I’m glad to see a complete breakdown

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

This might be my favourite channel for a while.

Hope these keep coming.

This is am awesome channel not sure how it doesnt have more followers.

Very high quality content. I will share. Cheers 🍻

Man, how come such a small and new channel have such fire and bingeable content? And even worse, there's only THREE videos, looking forward to more Keep up the amazing work

I am working on a Rogue hexblade and this helped ;) dual wielding hexblade and pact weapon is pretty bad ass using charisma for both attacks.

Lesgoooo new vid!

In one of my groups I am currently running a Samurai/Hexblade multiclass. For thematic purposes mostly. Will have to see how deep into Hexblade I am going to go with that one. Probably 10/10 tops.

I'm sold on hexblade. gotta try it now

I choose to believe the spectre ability is the soul within your weapon coming out to do its own stuff

I like this vid but the Totem Barbarian is on another level!

This is gold 🏆

Oh, look my other favorite subclass! Hell yes,

I'm looking forward to see what you come up when it's the mystic

I hope you do every class eventually cause you're definitely better then the PHB at selling it

Guess im a Hexblade then😅 Verry nice editing and writing by the way ❤

I love this channel

i knew this was gonna be the next video. My next assumption is that i will be paladin or echo knight

I have had a hexblade for the last 3 years, I use my spells for more teleportation, so I can be anywhere, and If I say it, you die, my party calls me the glass nuke, I only get one shot, but that shot is going to kill you, as long as I don’t die first

I wanna make an actual hex girl now with hexblade x bard

my actual character is a hexblade/swashbuckler. i did like the bonus to the initiative and the way sneak attack works in that subclass, besides it goes along with the personality

Fun fact; 11 levels of EK combos well with 6 levels of Bladesinger. But that leaves 3 levels…. GUES WHAT WORKS WELL WITH THOSE TOO. So you don’t get smites, but you can blade beam Eldritch Blasts from a +1 spooky weapon 7 times if you’re under the effects of Haste WHILE HAVING A FREE +INT TO DAMAGE, and also, the Invocation feat goes off TOTAL LEVEL except for pact specific ones, so you can still have your Relentless Hex, Hexblade Curse + Hex combo

Hey buddy... you're gonna get subs fast with this awesome content

Would love if you did Swashbuckler soon!!

I’ve never played D&D but I’ve always wanted to and even though I know basically nothing about the game I honestly want my first character to be a warlock and wield a rapier and now I know i can

I love the immediate meta of 'didn't I just do that?', with how this guy sounds like he's been doing this for absolute YEARS and has it down. Tell ya one thing tho, looking forward to this guy's future.

I honestly dont know why i cant make a character without hexblade..... at least a 1 level dip on any caster makes a huge difference.

Was just toying with a Hexblade/Barbarian build... just debating on which flavor of rage I want to slap on my hexblade

Hexblades are tied to the shadowfel, which is where the undead stuff comes from

YES ANOTHER

Eldritch smite is 1d8 + 1d8 for every level of spell slot. EVERY level. So, with 4th level spell slot, its actually 5d8.

Hexblade 12 oath of ancients 8. Max feats, high ac, resistance to spell damage, resistance to radiant damage, a +1 to all saves for you and all in your aura of protection (in addition to sharing your resistance to spell damage) and most of the crazier things that hexblades do.

lvl 12 Hexadin 5paladin/7warlock: first turn hex + HexBlade's Curse (+4 weapon). +3 charisma, (good Great sword + great weapon master +10dmg) Second turn. +9 hit, 1d10+20 dmg + divine smite 2 d 6 + (2 hex triggers) 2d6 necrotic (weapon+DS is two attacks) Then Extra attack for a repeat: +9 hit, 1d10+20 dmg + divine smite 2D6 (at first level) + (2 hex triggers) 2d6 necrotic (weapon+DS is two attacks) Average damage on the second turn is: 74 point of damage with a max of 108 possible damage. (can repeat one time) Heavy armor AC 19 + shield spell (AC24) and all the warlock goodies with pally utility.

Hexblade+Oathbreaker Paladin= Hexbreaker. Aka Hexbreak their KNEES TIMMOTHY!!!! Add your charisma to damage 3 separate times! Or *BESTOW CURSE YOUR FOES INTO THE GRAVE* 3 times per short rest. Or obtain funny skelebro friends

So I have a concept for a patron that facilitates a more heroic version of the hexblade warlock, and I have a goal of doing this for each warlock subclass (that needs it). For the heroic hexblade patron, I present to you "The Myriad" This patron is not one entity, but a collection of entities, each entity being a previous wielder of this power. The inherent nature of the power they grant is of that of death, but they only choose to grant that power to those who share their core characteristic and/or ideal. You can make this characteristic or ideal whatever you like, but I'm proposing a patron that facilitates the heroic hexblade warlock, so for that purpose, the characteristic would likely be best if it were something heroic like an innate tendency to help those in need. Its not all nice. Part of being a warlock is often times offering your soul. This is no different, because by accepting the pact with The Myriad, you devote yourself to joining them after death, being the conduit through which someone else gains this power, as well as the judge of whether or not they're worthy. Now, why a blade? Or a weapon, even, since the warlocks hex blade and/or pact weapon can take on a myriad of forms themselves? Imagine an ancient warrior of great power binding their very soul through death magic to their own weapon, sacrificing their chance at an afterlife just so a great evil can be defeated, or, to slip into critical role nomenclature for a second, a weapon that was like a failed attempt at a vestige of divergence, granting it great power with minimal connection to the God or Goddess of death, but still has much of the power that it was intended to, and has been binding those who take up the charge of wielding it, the first person to wield it informing the requirements for future wielders. Not a lot of abilities that hexblades uniquely have need to be further explained, so I'll leave you all with a flavoring idea I had for one of the more questionable hexblade abilities; accursed specter. If you or your player have problems running a "heroic" character who kills people and raises their souls, work with your dm/player, whoever this idea is being presented to. Take the time to make a list of 8, 10, 12, 20, or even 100 (some people will go that far) characters that your dm can pull from when you use accursed specter. All you need is visual descriptions, because these will be previous "chosen" of the myriad patron. They still need life force to manifest, but you're not keeping a soul from passing, you're using a soul that willingly bound itself to your patron, as you did, to take form once again and fight on your behalf. You can even use this idea for other necromancy abilities like summon shadowspawn and danse macabre. Hope some people like this idea!

Oh man, can't wait for Gloomstalker!

Goddamn I love the Hexblade. They’re just so versatile and still ridiculously powerful, both inside and outside of combat. I’m currently playing face for my party with a Hexblade that is a mix of a rogue and a bard rp-wise while doing as much damage as any Barbarian or fighter, thanks to devils sight-darkness-great weapon master wombocombo, and I’ll only go up from here, getting some party-support with things like permanent detect magic outside of combat, thanks to eldritch sight or invisibility on demand at level 15. Sure, it ain’t no wizard in terms of Swiss knifing situations, but it’s still decently close if you’re careful about your spellist.

the shadow sorcerer should get the accursed specter but with a better hp scaling since they're more of a full caster type class......

holly this sub class is stupid good

I used to be a Hexblade, but then I became a Magus! As I shrugged off that critical hit I took from a wizard in the back. And walked away like a boss to explore new lands!

You should do rune knight next

Yes 🙌🏼

Got my sub mainly because of the tripp pants reference.

So I kinda have to disagree with everything but that hex girl reference gets you my like.

I would take fiendish vigor 2-4 because you have so few hit points, 8 extra replenishable ones are indispensable.

One tiny correction: Eldritch Smite deals 1d8 force damage PLUS another 1d8 for every level of the pact magic slot used. So a 5th-level slot will result in 6d8 damage, it's amazing. Make sure to save it for crits, which you're basically MADE to fish for with Hexblade's Curse and Shadow of Moil. (If you also have Elven Accuracy, go absolutely ham.) I'd also recommend Tomb of Levistus for real "oh shit" moments, cuz sometimes you don't have the PM slots to teleport away, and maybe you can't afford to eat that crit from the boss.

Quality video

Thanks for tha video

Spooky is the fact that im planning on making a hexblade with no research done on it and this popped up in my recommended

I decided to flip the archetype and play a King Arthur or Lancelot like character, basically a character blessed by the Lady of the Lake, given a magic longsword, named Caliban. Scale armor, sword in hand and slinging spells when called for, I was the moral lead of the party. Basically, when everyone wanted to go murder-hobo, I persuaded them otherwise.... Most times. There was a deal with anti-religious hunters who were burning priest and children ins stakes.... And I just kin of said "Fuck that, Dragon Pack, murder the fuckers". My party was a little surpsied to heaf me say that, bu were moooore than eager to comply. My chrcter had a soft spot for children. And we turned the hunters into soft paste. We changed the specter for a spirit warrior, called by the Lady for my bravery in combat (only worked if my DM through the creature was dangerous enough, goblins did not count) , and I could not use necrotic damage, but radiant, fire or ice, for flavor. Best moments, critical strike on a demon lord, eldritch smite, full damage, thew him off a siege tower into the floor, breaking his wings. Which is important for when our wizard and our druid decided to go full on Death Star on his ass. Or the time I literally tanked seven speel to the face with armor of hexes and our paladin oth of ancient aura. And lastly, teleporting with relentless hex above an enemy mindflayer..... After ha in been trhwo from a cliff. My DM, who likes physics, decided to apply the law of gravity with my strike. I ended thee hitpoints from permadeath..... While completely cutting and elder mindflayer in half. Also, hexblade let's you create a very nice magical item. Caliban was GREAT. Magical, sentient (I had to play the sword most fo the time, which was hilarious because I needed to force an accent on the sword), detect evil and had a few extra spells, plus, against demons and undead, critical on 18-20, which later increased. We killed a lot, a lot, of demons and undead.

So far this channel has covered 4 edge lords -Hexblade Warlock -Gloomstalker Ranger -Assassin Rogue -Grave Domain Cleric

Oathbreaker paladin could be next

I like how you talk about how hexblade is totally not for nerds yet I chose it for being the closest to the tactician class from fire emblem 💀

Can’t wait to see vengeance paladin

The only thing that would make the hexblade absurdly broken beyond redenption is that they learned haste and steel wind strike by themselves.

Eldritch Smite is 1d8 +(1d8 per Spell slot level)

My Count Dooku character is a Hexblade (multiclassed with Swashbuckler)

Oddly enough, my Hexblade Paladin multiclass character was probably the purest, most wholesome straightforward good guy character I've ever made. ...He was also incredibly traumatized....

I'm looking forward to more. Do you have any other media?

6:33 Actually, Mystic Arcanum explicitly states they do _not_ take a spell slot

Wow this is great! I'm new to dnd and trying out my first campaign. I was doing an arcane trickster pirate captain, but then I saw this video and it has me thinking about going hexlock instead. I made the mistake of looking into warlock more, is Fiendlock a summoner?! Could you make a Fiendlock video when you have time? I find your delivery so enjoyable and pretty much streamlines it for a beginner. Thanks again for your videos.

DAMN THE HEX GIRLS!? My favorite scooby doo verse band.

Can you do a video on the witch knight that you mentioned?

Hexblade backstory idea: your patron is your necromancer lover who transferred their soul into the hexblade.

So i can heh nothing personal kid people? Definitely trying this class.

0:09 The class that started his meme

I low key thought of dealing with these 3 as a dm and my soul died a little.😢

Hexblade shall henceforth be known as Witch Knight 🔥 🔥 🔥

Do fighter please!!

I am a hexblade because per jeremy crawfords tweet the eberron setting changeling has a +3 to charisma at level one xD

Joining a campaign soon as a hex blade that doesnt know hes a hex blade. Heavily inspired by the fulgrim/laer blade story from horus heresy. Basically, every time the blade speaks to him he just thinks its his subconscious thoughts coming to the surface. Also, taking no offensive spells, only taking spells that can manipulate people or creatures. Eg. Mass suggestion, friend, compel duel etc etc. Flavouring these spells as my character just being very charming and charismatic, with any spell that isn't some form of manipulation to be a movement spell lioe blink, again which is flavoured as the character just running really fast from one place to the next, without the character being aware that its the sword giving him these powers. Cant wsit to play it

I would so flavor this as a cleric subclass

If your channel doesn't have half a million subscribers before 2024, eldritch blasting the president

Nasty!

If you combine this with the eldritch knights weapon bond ability you can have 3 weapons bound to you at a time for three times the magical weapon swaping fun