When talking about using your spell slots to stack the field with minions, I'm surprised you didn't touch on Animate Dead. If your DM lets you have enough short rests, you can grab an army of skeletons, and have them do the fighting for you. I mean, it's the lazy approach to combat, but... Warlock. You sold your soul to be lazy. ...Also, last I checked, Multiclassing doesn't give you saves, since if it did, someone could just multiclass twice and gain all saves.

@@LucanVaris I could have been clearer in the video, but multiclassing gets you the saves of the starting class. So a Sorc/Warlock gets you the CON save proficiency!

@@DnDShorts That's what I thought you might have meant, but it sounded like you were insinuating that starting Warlock, _then_ going Fighter or Sorcerer, would still net you those saves.

Unrelated criticism I have to say while it's in my mind... Instead of Big -stripper- Pecks, Sculpted Physique works better and actually suggests nine abs are involved.

If you are mainly a Sorcerer take a level in Wizard. Wizards can put higher level spells into their spellbooks. Sorcerers can use those spells.

If your DM allows it, at lower levels the Ring of Spell Storing works great with this; you can load up the ring with spells you currently have access to but intend to switch out, then level and get your new spells too.

Hypnotic pattern should be dropped once you get Sickening Radiance though, as the damage sickening radiance does outweighs hypnotic pattern which is going to fall off soon as more and more creatures are immune to charm. But you could also wait until you have access to 5th level spells before doing that so you have Hold Monster, which will work on everything. Such a shame Warlocks don't get Confusion very easily... At least you have Banish at 4th level.

There is also the optional rule that really makes Charisma casters a little easier to play which allows you to do the silly "replace 1 spell per level up" to "replace 1 spell per long rest". Still gives you a restriction to one spell a day but at least you could grab a situational spell here and there like Water Breathing or something.

@@KHBogWitch I think that the most importent thing is that players and DM are on same page even before session 0. If you as player have some idea how you want to build your chatacer and DM dont allow then if this is a big thing for you then is better to find new DM.

@@KHBogWitch but that's unneccessary, since spell scrolls exist. And, eventually you'll use those spells stored in your Ring of Spell Storing. I can just find spell scrolls or go to the local mage's college.

@Minotaur of Malicethey take to long to make

I abused this, combined with proficiency in the forgery kit, so I was always selling incredibly realistic fake scrolls.

Is this something you could do as a genie warlock inside the lamp whilst someone else carries you?

@Minotaur of Malice The issue is downtime is super, SUPER rare in official modules unless you have travel rules. And even if you do have downtime, it also takes awhile to make anything beyond 3rd level in a spell scroll due to the rarity table time/cost thing. Basically once you reach Tier 2(5-9) or Tier 3(10-14) play, the levels where you have the resources and IC knowledge to scribe spell scrolls, MOST official modules such as Frostmaiden/Avernous/Tomb/ext will not give you enough downtime to scribe scrolls without DMs specifically changing the time restraints in the campaign setting as your often on a massive, massive time crunch during these periods.

Exactly! Lots of 1st or 2nd spells should be on scrolls. To stimulate scroll uses we homebrewed that every class can use scrolls. But if you dont have the spell on your spell list it's an Arcana check DC 15+spell level and failling is really bad. If you fail you take 1d12 dmg per spell level and roll a wild magic effect.

I like howard

@@ChaoticTrapper JUSTICE FOR HOWARD!

When you discuss multiclassing into Sorcerer and Fighter for constitution saving throws, are you saying that you would start as those classes and multiclass out of them, or that multiclassing into them gives you saving throw proficiencies?

@@madscientist7126 i want to know too

@@madscientist7126 you don't gain multiclass proficiencies unless they are explicitly given out at lvl 1. So you have to start as a fighter to get the fighter proficiencies

Builds like this are why flying races tend to be banned at a lot of tables. ;P

Eldritch spear more like eldritch sniperrifle

take spell sniper and distant spell for the hilariously over killed 1200ft sniper rifle

@@emmettbrolly4338 Good gods... that's almost as broken as 3.5e's "God's Apocalyptic Fidget Spinner" combo 😬

or, just genielock

Lucifer is an angel...

Same as Divine Soul Sorcerers. People forgetting such a thing as evil gods exist. Divine doesn't mean good.

@@Noobie2k7 does a warlock patron even have to be evil? I probably won’t be allowing evil PCs in my upcoming game, so I gotta know

​@@HippoEnjoyer no

@@HippoEnjoyer nah, my current warlock is an evil character but his celestial patron is good.

IMO Wizards should always protect themselves with Enduring Spellbook. It's common, doesn't require an attunement and protects their spellbook from most common ways of destruction. Then again if your DM is hell-bent on messing with them in such a way, they either won't give them Enduring Spellbooks to begin with or will try to destroy it through some means other than fire, water or wear-and-tear... So in that case yeah, what you said would be a great way to ruin the DM's plans. Provides some flavorful RP about caster camaraderie as well. As to BoAS vs RC, BoAS is obviously superior for a Warlock, but if you go for another Pact Boon, RC is still a great choice.

I have played a tomelocke who litterly just sat around and copied all my wizards spells and this very thing was so clutch as when there spell book got stolen they weren't completely screwed as I had banked a handful of there utility

Honestly, my Warlock concept was gonna go for BOAS. I liked the idea of the group chilling in a tavern, then I snap my fingers, summon my book, looking through stuff or noting it down. :)

@@captianbacon Nice.

Turn out, the enemy is immune to level 6 and lower with CON save of 19

I call it "The Microwave"

Also, it's one of the few options Celestial Warlocks can trigger their extra Radiant damage with.

@@IchigoShinagami Yeah, I just kind of stumbled onto Sickening Radiance, and then when I heard about the Forcecage interaction, I lol'ed hard for about a minute.

@@justnoob8141 Damn Rakshasa.

That's psychic damage to me if a player did this in a game of mine.

​@@alextrollip7707 kills all enemies at once!

And Genie has Hover/Flight so send them 15ft up for a lil bit more dmg and let them fall, with "prone" at the end.

How does the crusher feat help your eldritch blasts? It only affects bludgeoning damage attacks. Edit: Ah, dao genie adds bludgeoning damage to one attack per turn, gotcha.

Dao Genie you make with one attack per round extra bludgeoning dmg based on your PB. Edit: i was to late

R.a.w. being moved doesn't count as movement. Consult your GM beforehand to ensure hilarity.

eldritch blast is force, crusher triggers on bludgeoning

the only problem with Mire the Mind is that it uses a spell slot. I's still call it a worthy trade-off

Given the massive debuff you can cause with Slow to everything within a 40 foot cube, it's definitely worth the spell slot.

I have a question, how does slot farming work on a War/Sor multi class build?

@@charliedepino7768 Prior to a Short Rest, turn your Sorcery Points into Sorcerer Spell Slots, then your Warlock Spell Slots into Sorcery Points, and then those Sorcery Points into Sorcerer Spell Slots. Proceed to take your Short Rest. Upon doing so, you'll recover your Warlock Spell Slots. Rinse and repeat for each Short Rest. Once you Long Rest, you lose all your farmed Spell Slots. According to RAW in the DMG, you only need *a* rest. It doesn't matter if it's long or short. So by proxy, you can ignore an 8-hour Long Rest and instead take 8 Short Rests, farming spell slots the whole time. There *IS* a limit to spell slots you can farm, based on your level, and you cannot do it during downtime unless the DM allows it, as downtime doesn't have individual rests as legitimate activity in the DMG. Additionally, ignoring Long Rests means you cannot recover Hit Dice, so you're risking your health in exchange for those spell slots.

@@carumsarene Awesome reply, thanks for the info.

Would and a genie suit this build? I want to build one around the satellite Cannon.

@@blindbrad4719 it’s super good with Fathomless because your tentacle does cold damage, and irrespective of it it actually HARMS the enemy, they lose 10 feet of movement for being hit. Adding Lance of Lethargy, Repelling Blast, and Grasp, and you can ping pong enemies around, and one poor bastard loses another ten feet of movement because he got hentaied.

Or get melee cantrips like Shocking Grasp - with the added benefit that you can get out of melee better since shocked enemies lose their Reaction.

Or you could pick a melee cantrip that scales with level.

@Sebastian of current thing is valid Not a cantrip, but right idea.

@Sebastian of current thing is valid Multiclass yes, not sure of you could give it to someone else.

I don’t get why so many people like shillelagh. It doesn’t scale and it’s not like you get extra attack with it. It’s kinda a trap can’t rip to take.

Imps have that as an optional thing in the Monster Manual, and are much better scouts. They literally urn invisible and shapeshift however you want. I once got the entire party out of jail by having the Imp familiar shapeshift into a rat, turn invisible, then sneak through a dwarven prison to the evidence locker, and eat all the evidence against us. Witness statements, sworn testimonies, arrest warrants, the works. You have an invisible scout drone that can map out dungeons ahead of time with ease.

I dont get that, would you mind explaining it? :) Thanks

Huuh actually for the Pseudodragon RAW you don't get it, because it is a fey/celestial/fiend that takes the form of one, you need a actual pseudragon then make a familiar pact with it to get that

@@arashbeheshtiro7799 Magic Resistance isn't tied to the creature type, but to the creature itself. As per RAW: "...the familiar has the statistics of the chosen form, though it is a celestial, fey or, fiend (your choice)" (PHB 240) Only the monster type changes, none of its other statistics. Pseudodragon is an outlier, most dragons don't have Magic Resistance (they have Legendary Resistance instead), but nearly all fey, and a number of celestials and fiends have the trait.

Pseudodragon's Magic Resistance does not extend to the warlock. You can perceive through the familiar's senses, have the familiar speak with your voice, increase HP gains, use your DC for its special abilities, make an attack, deliver your touch spell, but no invocation allows you to benefit from Pseudodragon's Magic Resistance.

Or the Cocainelock at higher levels depending on which of the two classes you choose to have divine origins.

Better yet, go Divine Soul plush Celestial patron for the Cokelock! Greater restoration gets rid of a level of exhaustion and consumes 100gp of diamond dust for material component.

@@jemm113 You don’t need Celestial patron; Divine Soul gets Greater Restoration. And since you are taking sorcerer first, your sorcery point limit increases, allowing you to make more and higher spell slots.

@@jemm113 You don't need Greater Restoration. The idea that you need Greater Restoration (or some other way to reduce Exhaustion) for Coffeelock to work most likely revolves around the (optional) rule about foregoing long rests from XGtE (which is what gives Exhaustion in context of Coffeelock). Specifically, the wrong interpretation of those rules. Because all you need to bypass that rule is to be sleepless. So just play an Elf (or some other sleep-less race/lineage) or take Aspect of the Moon Eldritch Invocation. Because the "no long rest = exhaustion" rule is actually about lack of sleep. It literally says so in the first paragraph. In clear-cut wording indicating that it's RAI, because at one point it says "If you want to account for the effects of sleep deprivation use these rules." And that rule is in a larger section dedicated to, lo and behold, sleep. So the interpretation that this rule counts for foregoing long rests and not just foregoing sleep right off the bat requires cherry-picking the first paragraph out under the pretenses of "it's just RP", even if that "RP" explicitly states the design purpose of this rule. And instead it focuses on the "strictly mechanical" parts of the rules and how the second paragraph opens with "Whenever you end a 24-hour period without finishing a long rest". Which is still flawed, for more than one reason. First of all, by that same "logic" characters that don't need to breathe can still suffocate because the rule about suffocation doesn't explicitly exclude them (it's almost as if WotC expected players not to be idiots and be able to operate in the context of a given rule). Secondly, the third and last paragraph of this rule is also "mechanical" and yet it reiterates that it is about sleeping. Finally, you can just look at what long and short rests even are. A long rest is at least 6 hours of sleep. And the rest can be spent on light activities. And a short rest is at least one hour of light activities. So if you don't need to sleep, all that's left in a long rest is 2 hours of light activity. Which is the exact same thing you'd be doing while chaining short rests (and you'd be chaining them for more than just 2 hours anyway, because you'd fill the entire 8 hour time the rest of the party spends on their long rest with your short rests).

@@Jyggalag actually the sleep rules in Xanathar prevent features that allow you to forgive sleep from letting you bypass long rests. The rule specifically calls for you to make the con save after not taking a [long rest]. The flavor of the rule says it’s about creatures needing to sleep but any character despite any abilities to the contrary still require taking long rests or getting exhaustion. And no DM worth their salt would just allow an aspect of the moon coffeelock to just get infinite spell slots since it would completely upset the balance of the entire party. The thing about suffocation is that being able to breathe underwater explicitly allows you to use water as a medium to breathe in thereby bypassing the suffocation rules. The rest rules are explicitly telling you to take long rests and all of the sleep bypass mechanics still have mechanics for you to take long rests. Ergo you still need to rest. And again any DM worth their salt would count short rest spamming as a long rest with the sleep bypass mechanics since they explicitly allow you to perform light tasks in place of sleeping for those 6-8 hours.

unholy shieeeet this sounds amazing

Witch bolt is a good one for taking on a single powerful target as its continuous concentration so you can cast that then on following turns hit the same target with eldritch blast

Warlock multiclasses well with any charisma casting class. You can be a hexblade paladin or a coffeelock or even go for 3 in one combos.

Glibness also guarantees a 19 on charisma checks, which includes counter spell, so your 5th levelled pact slots can always do away a BBEGs 9th level spells, it's another consideration.

@@DoomsdayR3sistance I don't often see multiple 9th level spells from enemies in a single hour, and it requires some prediction to set up. I'm not saying it's not worth considering, especially as a traditional caster, but if I was going to take Glibness as a Warlock, it would be for its social uses rather than for counterspell, because on a social character it's much more likely to come up every day. But, being an 8th level spell, it's competing with a lot of weak options. I'd say its main competition is probably Dominate Monster, for its sheer reliability. There will never be an adventuring day when Dominate Monster isn't at least a little bit handy. Given that you only ever get one 8th level spell, that seems like the most important thing to me.

This also works for bards btw

This is where warlocks shine. Every full casting class can get some form of massive damage concentration spell. Warlocks are the only ones that can regularly push foes BACK INTO the damage zone. IMHO (and I play warlocks 90% of the time) repelling blast is the best invocation, hands down... And only gets better if there are more casters in the party. (bonus mention: it combines best with aoe spells that do damage "when a creature enters or starts it's turn", such as cloud of daggers, black tentacles, or moonbeam.)

I believe they said pick Sorcerer for your 1st level, so you gain the proficiencies in Saving Throws, and then multi into Warlock for the armor proficiencies.

my bad, forgot that it did! I was thinking of regular Find Familiar!

@@DnDShorts Find Familiar can still be worth it since you only cast it when your familiar is dead. But getting it via Ritual Caster, Book of Ancient Secrets, or Pact of the Chain is much better.

Becaus your other partymembers don't have Devil's Sight and a lot of spells require you to see the target and all range attacks are with disadvantage and wont work against blindsight which some enemies have?

Spirit Guardians + Sanctuary + Dodge Action Pretty OP with the right enemies, but don't abuse it, if you don't want your DM to bomb you with AOE

"Just don't believe anyone who says Clerics should be healers, they're literally the best casters in the game"

It's only strong if you and your DM don't know how to play...

@@whydidiwatchthis5174 or if you and your DM don't know how to play. My first character was a Cleric and I put all of my stats not in Wisdom, but he still was a strongest member of the party

@@GhizTheKobold Sanctuary drops the second you deal damage with Spirit Guardians. It doesn't drop if you make an attack roll, it drops when you cast spells on others *or deal damage*

Most times I drop it as well. I go with whatever is thematic with the character. Normally, eldritch blast doesn't fit.

@@zeekeno823 I don't know who you are, but I respect you.

I've built a Great Old One warlock for an upcoming one-shot who is built entirely around screwing with people's minds, via illusions, psychic projections, and mind control, while operating from the shadows. So I deliberately avoided 'flashy' spells like Eldritch Blast because a crackling blast of energy isn't exactly subtle.

yeah same, Warlock is the class I've probably played the most but after my first full campaign with one I got totally sick of EB. I like running my warlocks as super manipulative tool box casters who have a spell/incantation for any social encounter. The incantation that lets u cast disguise self at will, mixed with the one that lets you create any illusion in your hand + an extremely high charisma means I can basically get anyone to believe anything I do and say outside of combat. I have driven more than a few DMs crazy this way

Same. I developed a hexblade vengeance pallock that was more of an espionage field agent for a Neutral god (Silvanus rocks). Went with all the knowledge/appearance change abilities a warlock could offer instead of the flashy/noisy stuff. Amazing how effective the character was at fighting/infiltration/spying. And negating troublesome personalities.

Eh, that strat requires a DM that would allow that. It also doesn't get around the fact that it eats up your concentration. Which should be used for more impactful spells as you level up. Not to mention that it eats up a known spell. So it's fine at lower levels. But kind of like hunter's mark, it's a trap option past tier 1 play. It's not worth blocking the concentration spells you need to use to get the most out of your slots.

As am I, though I haven't gotten to play much I struggle in making my character concepts NOT be warlocks

@@ericharrison4067 very understandable, I have gotten my fair share of all classes, but I grew up playing primarily warlocks. Though I do have a bit over 6 years of 5e under my belt at this point. I’ve always loved the warlock concept.

Because misty step is once, and far step is once per turn for a minute. It's misty step x10 and for twice the distance. Either way you're using a 5th level slot, so pick the better one.

This is one of the most variable parts of playing a warlock. How often does your party short rest and how often does combat occur? These factors totally change how the class plays, and that is the chief reason why many dislike it. If the party never short rests, or the DM never gives you a chance to, you have to be very conservative with your slots. In those conditions, tip 3's advice is sound. And yeah, synaptic static ignores all of this.

I am the only character in our group who is able to do aoe damage - and Fireball should be a good damage option for Curse of Strahd given how good Burning Hand has been on the way to level 5.

You can probably still go sorcerer level 1 for the level 1 slots and con save. Shield is great no matter the tier of play! Shadow is pretty good for free darkvision and death protection. Draconic for keeping the hp comparable to a d8 and permanent 13+Dex armor which is as good as +1 studded leather. Though admittedly the draconic bloodlines don’t mesh too well with Dragonborn’s due to the shared resistances between similar ancestries. This is mitigated by higher levels letting you spend sorcery points for immunity for a minute.

Be sure to go with the Fizban Dragonborn options, if your DM allows it. Metallic dragonborn get the option to incapacitate enemies in a 15 ft cone or knock them prone. Or you go with Gem ancestry for a rare resistance to force, psychic or thunder damage, and a reliable way to dish out the same.

To the first question: I don't plan on doing anything besides warlock, but if I did starting with a level in sorcerer would be my best bet To the second one: I am playing a Topaz dragonborn because of how much I like topaz dragons and multiple other elements, plus it is thematic for my character

That's situational, takes a full round to set up and against really fast enemies or flying enemies your damage would be pitiful. Plus it's 5 damage on every hit of eldritch blast which is about the same as the 2d4 from spike growth with several added asterisks cause like i said it's not gonna work in every situation. The only time it may be better is if your dm allows repelling blast and grasp of hadar to activate on the same hit. I personally know two DMs that don't allow this. If you want to build a cheese grater you're better off using crusher to pull towards you before level 5 via variant huma or custom lineate and at level 2 pick up agonizing blast and also repelling bladt.

@@crunchevo8974 It's not 2d4 in this case, it's 4d4. Spike Growth deals 2d4 per 5 feet of movement through the spikes and Invocations that add movement to EB move the enemy by 10 feet. And since multiple beams of EB are separate hits, you can move an enemy multiple times. The only caveat is that unlike Repelling Blast Grasp of Hadar has "once on turn when you hit" in its wording, so depending on where the enemy stands in regards to the spikes you may only grate them 3 times instead of 4 even if you have 4 beams of EB. But that's still 12d4. But that's still an average of 30 damage compared to 20 of 4 hits of Agonizing Blast. Then again you could always combine them for a bonus of 50 (on average).

Oh damn I did not realise that! Yeah, that's wicked, it totally is a great choice then on Pact of the Chain Warlocks!

@@DnDShorts Yeah, my DM has come to regret letting me have winged snakes *evil cackle*

Not only that but you can get multiple scouts, multiple helpers for complex tasks, use them to aid the rest of the party against multiple targets... I played my Pact of the Chain warlock as a spy master of sorts. I don't think my DM will ever allow us to have flock of familiars ever again.

Warlock familiars require you to give up an attack in order to attack with them. Only one familiar gets to attack per attack given up.

@@CallenExile Easy way to get around that is to hand them things. Using something like a wand of magic missles or fireball, ect. is considered using an item, not making an attack.

Consider the following: Hecho (pronounced hecko).

There’s a lot of questions I have about this but the first one is “ how do you get an extra attack if your only a level 3 fighter?

I added bear totem barbarian to that and mainly use spell slots for smiting.

Blood Huner is still just Mercer's half-a$$'ed rip-off of Witchers.

thanks fam, appeciate you!