Patrons: 8:12 fey 9:18 celestial 10:49 fathomless 11:58 fiend 13:00 genie 14:41 great old one 16:13 hexblade 18:18 undying 20:18 undead 22:20 invocations

Fun trick with blade lock. If you are in a game where magic items are super rare, and you know you will go into the mid and higher levels you can give your weapon to the fighter. It only disapears if it is away from you for a full minute, more than long enough to finish most fights.

love warlocks. Such a cool and unique class. I just wish that the patron spells would automatically be spells known.

Warlocks are great for role play. I play a warlock that is a human child who answers the question “what if The Children Of The Corn was a person?” Their very pregnant mother was infected with a Mindflayer tadpole. Adventurers broke into the colony just their mother was a) giving birth and b) undergoing cephalogenisys. The adventurers didn’t know what to do with this newborn weirdling baby so they tried to raise it. The character is a great reminder that high Charisma doesn’t automatically mean likable. It just means someone whose personality leaves everyone around them greatly affected.

the really OP'd part of hexblade's armour of hexes is that forced miss works on a crit as well. Demonlord manages to roll a natural 20 with his vorpal blade? roll a 4 or higher and nope, he missed, and you keep your head.

"Well actually," as I push my glasses up the bridge of my nose, " the spell casting ability modifier is just your ability score modifier for the ability that you cast spells with. In this case Charisma. The formula you referenced was for your spell save DC."

I run a GOO warlock in a low magic campaign. I have alot of access to psychic damage in a non-psionic campaign. I am pact of the tome and pretend to be a wizard. Awakened mind provides so much amazing shenanigans. Good for being scout and informing since I can invis. Good for intimidating the shit out of folks by whispering into their mind. The versatility the book of shadows and book of ancient secrets make me very useful out of combat as well. Don't under estimate the Eldritch Magus!!!

Repelling Blast into a Hunger of Hadar or similar is always a classic move

Dude! How did I not know about your channel before, and how do you only have 6k subs??? Your production value is awesome! Keep up the good work!

Well, the genie 'any spell' of 6th or lower also has to be one with a casting time of 1 action. Which does knock off a lot of the more powerful options.

Had this really interesting idea: a Fire Genasi Fathomless Pact of the Blade Warlock that subclasses into Path of the Beast-Tail Barbarian down the road. So I would pick the Marine Background and after an accident having been rescued by the Fathomless that is when he became the Warlock. His mission is to learn about the land-folk and be an agent on land. His frustration he gets over time builds until he becomes a Barbarian but because he has the Fathomless patron he grows a tentacle in place of a tail. Been really interested in trying this out, especially with the changes to Fire Genasi I found out about.

I created female desert elf efreeti patron warlock with entertainment background. I based her off of Leetah from elf quest. Role playing was fun and she rocks in combat. If I need money I go to a tavern and dance to music using presdigitation to create slight fire effects to enhance the dancing. My eldritch blast at level 1 can do 1d10 plus 1d4 fire per genies wrath ability. She’s really fun to play.

Love the soundscape in your video

Eldritch Blast and Prestidigitation are my go to Cantrips.

Been waiting for my second favorite class. Excellent video as always Alex

Love these 'broken' vids. And everything is top quality. From script, to production to hunky host. Can clearly see the effort and you deserve your subs ten times over.

Subbed for months now - still very confused at the low view rate. These videos are on par or even rivals the quality and energy of D&D Beyond

Been waiting for this one. My favorite class. Despite my screen name I've become a constant warlock over the years. My favorites: The Great Old One (love psionic abilities), The Undead(Grave touched lv 6: changing one damage roll to necrotic and adding an extra damage die while in form of dread, that's a savage double eldritch blast), & The Archfey (especially since Beyond the Witchlight) My all time favorite invocations: Agonizing blast (can't beat adding your cha mod to your eldritch blast), mask of many faces, and devils sight.. My favorite spells : hellish rebuke (5d10 damage as a reaction at level 7) and spirit shroud (an extra d8 on each attack. If both your blast hit, that's potentially 2d10+cha mod on each and 2d8. Now that's broken lol

I just wanted to say, the quality of this in incredible, and i appreciate that.

My first walk into your channel -- really great summary. I'm now subbed and will be checking out more of your videos -- THANKS!!!

I love playing multiclass warlocks. A ton of good info in this video. As a creative warlock player, I just wanted to point out it is very misleading to keep saying warlocks sold their soul for power. Not all warlocks or builds focus around that one type of pact, and describing it that way can be very off-putting to new players/DMs or players looking to try new things. (I've run into several DMs who only understand warlocks to be a person who sold their soul & are now owned by their patron, & cannot run stories for warlock players any other way.)

I went lvl 1 to 17 in Hexblade Warlock before multi-classing with 2 lvls of Rouge (expertise & cunning action) and 1 of fighter (blind fighting for story reasons). Even so I could go warlock again as either the Genie Warlock for fun blaster times or Dr. Victor Van'hess as a Celestial Warlock (family bond to a Solar) if a healer is more needed. LOVE LOCK

Great video. First time I've seen you. Keep up the good work

Amazing video, the quality is so good for a channel with only 16k subs, you definitely deserve more! question: what is the name of the song you used in the intro theme of this video? it fits the warlock so well and i want to play it during campaigns

Hmm yes character level vs class level... So if you start as warlock and become something else, you gain more eldritch blast power anyway as you rise as a cleric or whatever. Which suggests that there's a class shift that a patron may not object to, that being, to proselytizing for the patron as a cleric, openly, using warlock powers to impress others to join up with such powerful players/gods. Healing Word is particularly nice. I like Spider Climb too as you can sit up in a location non missile non flying enemies find hard to hit. Then Eldritch Blast away from there. Also even without Healing Word you may be able to get to wounded comrades and administer potions.

Warlock is my favourite class in DnD with Ranger and Monk taking a close second.

Human Noble Fathomless Warlock. First campaign I've ever played and I am having a fantastic time. So happy I finally found a group to play with locally. Never planned on playing a caster in my first go at this, but now I wouldn't change a thing.

Fun fact, Warlocks don't have to sell their souls. I have a Sorlock and her pact only requires that she accepts her patron's help when they require her to. Her great grandmother was a dragon and her patron is her adopted parent.

I played a hexblade shadow sorcerer in one campaign. His goal was to free his lover from the shadow fell l. His lover being a daughter of the raven queen.

2:43 Even when warlock was introduced in 3.5 it was kind of broken because you could legitimately just take 1 level and get some ability or other, which you could use continually whenever you wanted. Several of the "least" level of invocations were *stupidly OP.* I had a character who would use Baleful Utterance as a "key to the city", in that any lock or door or gate he wanted into: he would simply destroy the hinges or the lock mechanism or even the door's bolt. Basically - if it didn't have an anti-magic field: it could be opened with one standard action, instantly. What warlock 1) lacked in destructive abilities compared to other spellcasters and 2) lacked in variety of utility: it made up for in that it's few utilities - didn't have a limit on how often you could use them and were really quite powerful in retrospect. That was 3.5 however, in the current 5e Warlock is just stupidly op out right.

I am currently in a campaign and am using a warlock with the undead patron. I love the flavor I have created for it and between this and the fiend it is hard to choose. The undead is extremely fun and I highly recommend it, especially if you can come up with something that makes your “Form of Dread” really unique.

I’m doing an island and or pirate campaign and I’m loving the fathomless warlock with my patron being the olhydra and this video was a great help

Undead, GoO, Fathomless, and Fey are my favorite Warlock subclasses. Just haven't had a chance to play one yet. I prefer talisman pact if you take an invocation or two to add more flavor.

The only problem is that most DMs never present a chance to take a short rest or discourage it by always making a choice between short resting or more people dying… making it the weakest class of all of them if you have a dm like that

Contructed Chaos: "Warlock is Broken" Vengeance Paladin: "Hold my 2H sword"

I love the concept of warlock, by have not played a d&d game in years, since 3.5. I can’t find anyone nearby that plays, sadly. That, and I don’t have the time that I used to. I wish there was a GOOD d&d game with warlock. Like an updated version of DDO. I particularly loved my “hellfire” warlock with the controversial “vest” feat. He was an immortal that focused on crafting in his castle, but did not shy away from adventures to find odd and rare components to use in crafting or just selling in his shop/

I made a warlock who didn’t chose his pact at all. My hexblade/sword bard was chosen by a sword that wasn’t meant for them. Then slayed their clan leader who ordered tos word to give to them as if he was possessed by the sword. I went hexblade 5 and sword bard the rest. But I alternated levels until 10.

I am taking another look at warlocks and realized now how strong they truly are. I like the Fiend and genie pact the most 😁

Made a Fiendlock whose patron is a succubus but he himself is a nerveous wreck in anything lust related and gets teased by it by his patreon.

I'm so looking forward to these vids .. I love warlock as a class.. the djinn patron is one of my favs

Warlock is very front loaded. It's definitely OP in the first 1-2 levels great for dipping (especially hexblade). Getting medium armor profiency, charasima as your attack stat for weapons, plus scaling eldritch blast all at 1 level, plus short rest spells back. Other than that it's actually pretty poor past t2.

Okay so, I started to get interested in D&D and have been thinking of making a Warlock as my first character. They are a Tiefling and their sort of patron is this spirit that is tied to them, they essentially function as two characters. Though the spirit can't do much besides give power to the Tiefling, she can appear to anyone and has her own stats on Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma only. Is something like actually allowed? To have a character like this that is

As someone who played as warlocks for over half of my campeighs, i have to say it, don't use hex past level 2, it's a trap, on level 3 you get your level 2 spell slots, and then it's not worth the upcast since i doesn't deal more damege, you get better spells worth that slot, as soon as you hit level 3, switch hex for any level 2 spell, be it hold person, invisibility, suggestion, earthbind or litteraly anything else, it is worth more then using a level 2 or higher slot on hex, unless you multiclass into something that have level 1 spell slots, you should never keep hex, 1 d6 extra per hit isn't worthit when hold person can make all attacks that hit a target become crits (wichi comboes very well with pact of the blade) or a spell like earthbind wich makes flying enemies unable to leave the ground, or invisibility wich help with surprise setups or suggestion that is perfect to setup combos with your party, anything will be worth more then hex, so please, to all warlock players, don't be so much harder on yourself then you nead to be, just don't use hex when you get level 2 slots.

The undying warlock would be for a specific uncommon setting, like the water one. Maybe a zombie setting where you must find a cure. You play in sessions that span 10-100 years at a time, as you must wait for the test results or keep at it for so long between, spending down time on improving the research or learning new processes, or a hobby so you don’t go crazy. You age slower though your patron so you can find the cure, you go without food and water because you don’t have time to stop, and no air because you want a controlled environment for your tests, or maybe you stop yourself from breathing when you go out because it’s airborn. When your bitten in combat you sever the limbs because you can cure those small parts but not the brain, once you cure those limbs you reattach them. Or some other setting that lends itself to this patron. Again I wouldn’t be choosing the nautical patron on a land based game unless I’m doing it for the RP, but I’d only do that for short oneshots.

Most Warlock Patrons RAW don't really take interest with their charges once the contact is signed. Great Old One is the "classic" example of a great power not even being aware they are in such a contract 😂 Second, your PC may have not been the original signer of the contract. Your parents may have entered into the contract giving up their "first born" to be the one who must fulfill the obligation their parents signed. Third, Multi-classing in and out of a contract with a Warlock could be a PC trying to exert some control over a contract that in the end favors the supernatural entity. You may be resigned to your fate but you are going on your own terms. That entity is going to collect once you pass beyond the mortal realm and isn't going to break the contract themselves. Souls are the only true commodity on the known planes of existence.

I generally agree with what you said except about the hexblade's spell list. It's really streamlined and good if you know how to use it, doubly so if you multiclass (a number of classes would love both shield and wrathful smite if they had spellslots to use them with! Blink is a whole battle, non-concetration 50% avoid all damage buff and banishing smite comboes wonderfully with eldritch smite. Also I think you underestimate how powerful the imp can be at levels 3-4 before you get your second blast and how powerful the pixie/pseudodragon poison might be as with the improved familiar invocation.

I LOVE this series!

My soul was broken. My patron was imprisoned. I gave my soul, that he may mend it. I freed him from his imprisonment. We work together. I do not serve him. If anything, he serves me. More accurately, we have a mutual arrangement. He sacrificed the last of his power to get us out of a sticky situation. Those warlock powers? Are mine, not his. But as my power grows, so his returns. We work together, we grow together, we fight together. Our souls are one.

forgot to add this in my initial comment, here's my ranking of the warlock subclasses: 1.hexblade- duh 2. genie-gets better the more walock levels you have 3. fathomless-very underrated and enables so many speed reduction control builds 4. celestial-it's main niche optimization wise is to give the clock sorc a way to gain a cha based sacred flame 5. fiend-hurl through well is awesome but gotten very late. otherwise, lots of good abilities but nothing worth building around 6. archfey-fey presence is great for frightened builds (like conquest paladins) and skill check based builds (like a wild sorc using telekinesis) 7. great old one-nothing worth building around mechanically nor impactful to combine with other abilities btw great stuff with Khonshu in the build. here's my top 10 favorite invocations: 1. misty visions- this is THE reason to take eldritch adept. great surprise generator, great for providing action economy free obscurement that benefits the party. this is something any ranged attacker shouldn't leave home without. IMO this is the most powerful invocation. 2. eldritch smite- no save prone. great dmg especially for crits. 3. thirsting blade- extra attack is always good. 4. improved pact weapon- allows you to do a hexbow and early access to magic weapons. 5. repelling blast- forced movement is great with entry spells and playing with range. 6. grasp of hadar- see #5. 7. lance of lethargy- great for speed reduction control builds. 8. agonizing blast- gives warlocks one of the best sustained dmg options in the game. 9. investment of the chain master- weaponize your bonus action. great utility. 10. book of ancient secrets- find familiar, tiny hut and phantom steed! honorable mention- eldritch mind- helps protect your concentration. yes no devil's sight. i find this irrelevant if you're already using misty visions. the darkness + devils sight combo works the same as misty visions but unlike with darkness, misty visions doesn't cost you a spell slot, doesn't annoy your party nor consumes an action (you already have it on at the start of combat) and party members can actually take advantage of it.

Me, the chaotic evil warlock, summoning demons and just letting them run rampage: "Me? Overpowered? I could never!" Turns out my patron was the main antagonist of a few arcs in our campaign.

I play a Marid genie warlock tortle, with the pact of the tome and I love him. The abilities you get and the roleplay potential is amazing

P.S. forgot to mention the ranger/ warlock/ sorcerer build gets 4 ASI with which I took an ASI of +1 dex and +1 Cha. Also took feats crossbow expert, sharpshooter, and metamagic adept.

Warlock was the first class I ever played in D&D so I appreciate it getting this kind of positive feedback. Everyone always thinks warlocks are weak but that just means they aren't using them correctly.

I love the warlock with spell sniper feat, lance invocation and agonising blast invocation Just makes a eldritch blast super sjiper the spell snipers range ontop of the eldritch spears range is so broken a 600 range cantrip attack with the cha bonus ontop to damage thats just so fun Also if use or alow unearthed arcana material their is the arcane gunslinger that alows u to change the pact of the blades malee weapon for a ranged gunslinger like weapon make your own critical role percy but as a true warlock

Thank you! this vid was helpful in making my 2nd build

I made a Bard-lock, (level 7 bard, level 1 Warlock), her Patron is an Archfea satyr. Talk about lust, and she is a blast to play so far.

Ok, not what I was expecting, this is more about how to play: warlock, not about how op the class is. Good video, although I don’t think that warlocks are very powerful in general. That’s not to say I don’t like playing them but some of the subclasses are underwhelming and today not many groups play so that the warlocks can really use the fact that they regain their spell slots on a short rest. Unfortunate but true

One of my favorite uses for Warlock, is to reflavor Eldritch Blast as the conjuring of a Spectral Longbow and firing Spectral Arrows. It helps mitigate the feeling that I'm just spamming the same cantrip over and over, but it also keeps up with the Fighter's Extra Attack at later levels. With Improved Pact Weapon, I can use my Pact Weapon as the Focus for my Eldritch Blast, so I can fire off anything from energy waves from a blade or continue my Spectral Arrows.

Glad I found this video. Been looking into finally starting to play D&D lately and my first choice of character would be a Warlock with a Genie (Djinn) patron. I envison the patron as staying mostly in his cloud palace in the Plane of Air but every now and then summoning me to show off his mortal pet, ask me to entertain him or give me a little quest on the Material Plane to do for him. The way I see it he'd be thinking of me as a pet, getting more and more attached until eventually learning to respect me a little more (provided the DM makes that choice). I had a little scene in mind to introduce my Warlock nature to the party. While talking with my party around our campfire we all hear this loud voice calling for his pet (insert whatever funny pet name you can think of, I personnally thought something like "Cookie"). While the party is a bit confused, I sigh and say I have to go before turning into smoke and disappearing into my ring... Would love to see the other players' faces XD

Some of the Pacts that I didnt know of like Undying is clearly asking for a stealth Utility warlock. This is awesome! One of the better things that warlocks can do is elements that does not have to do with combat. Too many features + Invocation + Spell combos create for an overwhelming victory for your party in combat, but also just possible to avoid fights or create a scenario into happening. For instance, talisman is pretty weak on paper, but is an amazing utility boon. This is literally the best Leader/Hero Of The Group Pact that gives you a greater chance at success to whatever the hell you want. Focusing on amazing feats (Yourself or someone else) rather than doing damage. I mean, at 12th level, the talisman feature is godlike. My warlock used the invocation to disguise self, and misty visions and had actor feat, and just with those three combinations you can already tell what kind of a crazy warlock shenanigans you can do, in story, in combat. Its so fun thinking outside of the box, its more of a wizard than the wizard.

Warlocks ARE powerful, at least for most of the subclasses. Still, 3 Spell Slot is too much of turn off for me.

I've played a Hexblade Simic Hybrid, and a Celestial Swiftstride Shifter so far, and I'm thinking about creating either a Lightfoot Halfling, or an Air Genasi for a Genie Warlock in my next campaign. I really love them all.

The linked video to the warlock invocations can be found here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fMijaJqdzKvShmw.html He does a great job of summarising them!

the words say dnd the music say love

I play a pact of the fiend tomelock! He's a tiefling and his grandfather is a devil who serves Mephistopheles and is also his patron. It's probably the most oddly wholesome character I've ever played. He struggled with homicidal urges as a young person but his grandfather kind of took him under his wing and molded him into a weapon that executes the full letter of the law where other non lawful evil characters maybe would hesitate. And he does it out of love cause he doesn't want people to get taken advantage of because of their kindness. He sure loves killing though. It's a little Dexter but he's charismatic :P Taking 3 levels of aberrant mind sorcerer as its thematic but the extra spell slots and the five sorcery points (two from metamagic adept) go a long way to give him flexibility in and out of combat. Currently I've picked up fireball, hunger of hadar, and repelling blast. Can't wait to commit shenanigans

Black Tentacles for the Fathomless... Yeah. The swimming/undersea powers are underrated. Water is a barrier to all sorts of pursuit, so being able to get across a water barrier fast and blast at range over it is really a superpower.

I like the optimism on the warlock capstone haha honestly, if I were in a campaign, I might just take it all the way for flavor, because in my build, if I revamped all my slots in 1 minute, I could maim the inmaimable.

My Warlock, that I just LOVE , she has a genie patron, Man the fun I had in the game I was in with her

My current Warlock for Strahd (Started at 3): Half Elf, Mark of the Storm Djinn Genie Warlock Pact of the Chain Point Buy: --Strength: 8 --Dexterity: 15 (14+1) --Constitution: 14 --Intelligence: 10 --Wisdom: 10 --Charisma: 17 (15+2) Invocations: --2: Agonizing Blast --2: Mask of Many Faces --5: Investment of the Chain Master --7: Guift of the Ever Living Ones --9: Voice of the Chain Master --12: Eldritch Mind --15: Chains of Carceri --18: Eldritch Spear Feats/ASIs --4: Moderately Armored (Dex 16) --8: Elven Accuracy (Cha 18) --12: Constitution +2 (16) --16: Charisma +2 (20) --19: Constitution +2 (18) Full on Robin Williams style Genie while RPing. LOOOOOVE the flight, thunder damage & RPing with a talking, intelligent familliar.

There is a build where you can take 1 level in life cleric and 19 in warlock.. Grab your invocations as usual.. Except you will have 6 extra level 1 spells to use once per long rest.. 2 from half elf drow magic, 2 from fey touched and 2 from cleric level 1... Go for the invocation gift of the everliving ones and chain / tome to get maximum self healing when you have your familiar up.. Now you have spells, have defenses, a decent AC and strong riders on your eldritch blast.. You still play as a backline mage but you sre not squishy.. Plus take summon fey and ASK your DM if you can take it again as a level 8 spell as a mystic arcanum.. You can establish a deal with your patron / DM its very powerful if you can get it.. You get 4 multiattacks each dealing 2d6 + 11 damage and 80 hp.. With your class feature it can go to 90.. A bonus action misty step with a reliable charm / defensive darkness and an AC of 20 if you cast it at 8th level... Plus your eldrich blasts and healing.. N.b. Its broken and should only be used as a last resort.. I believe a DM should allow the use of broken combos and spells as an act of desperation by players eg: hp falls below 50% or party members are going down freely but the use of them broken combos for no reason should be met with consequences eg: rupture of spacetime summoning more enemies, being hunted down by the city guard for use of forbidden magic, losing stats and hp etc... Players should be given the choice to build all the broken shit they want like this without breaking the balance of the game

I always find it useful to start with 15 Constitution. Eldritch Mind at 2nd level is a necessity, but Resilient: Constitution at 4th (or 1st) is also necessary.

Undying warlock, sounds like Meryl Streep & Goldie Hawn from “Death becomes her”

I have a Celestial Warlock from Ravnica. He is part of the Orzhov Guild, so his pact is with a Deathpact Angel. My character is Lawful Evil. Not my first Celestial Warlock character. My first Celestial Warlock was the party healer. He did really well. MY favorite pact is with the Fanthomless, however. I love water breathing characters. Genielocks are fun. I have one that uses his vessel as a sort of bag of holding or a place to hide and sneak into places.

I made a Fighter 1 Warlock X (ended at Fighter 1 Warlock 13) that had just 14 charisma, but was extremely powerful. With the defense fighting style and a shield, I was very tanky. Add in Pact of the Chain to get Gift of the Ever Living Ones, and my Second Wind, Healing Light, and Cure Wounds always healed me for maximum healing (and with a Bonus Action for the first two). Fiendish Vigor was great early on, but a few levels after its usefulness wore out, I got Celestial Resistance to replace it. Darkness (with Devil's Sight), and later on Shadow of Moil also made my character extremely difficult to damage, as most enemies would have disadvantage on attacks (means that crit chance goes from 5% to 0.25%), and many of their spells couldn't even target me. Getting advantage on most of my attacks was a nice bonus, too. But the best thing was later on when I would upcast Invisibility on the entire party, or when I would cast Fly on myself and two others (usually the evocation wizard and battlemaster archer) for combat. I also loved that instead of using Feather Fall if I lost concentration on Fly, I could just use the Tomb of Levistus, which is a much more badass way to survive a fall. Having just 14 charisma (I suck at rolling good stats for characters) did mean that I was a bit more limited in how many Healing Light I could use at once, and the extra fire damage on Green Flame Blade was a bit low (but it's not like that makes much of a difference, and I usually used Booming Blade instead), but that's about all that it did in combat. Out of combat, I was still good at social situations, but I wasn't as OP as a Warlock, Sorcerer, or Bard that made Charisma their main stat. I was more like a Paladin when it came to social situations. Aside from Booming Blade and Green Flame Blade (and occasionally Sacred Flame if I couldn't get into melee range), I wasn't really casting spells on enemies. I was casting spells like Darkness and Shadow of Moil, sometimes Lesser Restoration, Greater Restoration, Revivify, or Cure Wounds (upcasting it automatically means that the lower base healing doesn't matter as much), and quite often, Fly, Dimension Door, or Invisibility. So the low charisma didn't really affect my spellcasting. Celestial gives you enough of the key Cleric spells that I was basically able to perform the healer role of the Cleric (but not the Bless/Spiritual Weapon/Spirit Guardians Cleric stuff), while being extremely tanky. Casting Fly on 3 people or Invisibility on 4 people with a spell slot that comes back on a short rest makes exploration much easier. And I had the improved find familiar (a Sprite) that also came in very handy with exploration.

My two fave warlocks are Shadarkai elf Genie chainlock and Plasmoid Hexblade swordlock.

I played curse of Strahd and used Great Old One as my subclass. Patron was Strahd, but the character didn't know that.

Thanks!

A viable substitute for eldritch blast might be magic stone. It does decent damage, with one of the least resisted damage types, and you can accomplish that damage all in one round with npcs or martial players who lack ranged options. If you have a sling, the damage it does is comparable to eldritch blast for a quite a while, factoring out items like illusionist bracers.

Question: With Pact of blade feature and being a Hexblade, after one makes a magical weapon a pact weapon can they still summon other types of weapons or are locked into said magical weapon? My understanding is the magical weapon is in a “shunned space” waiting to be called forth. But having the above features still allows you to create other weapons too?

Its funny that the assumption is that a pact is always for a soul. I mean, sure the stereotype is that a devil's bargain is in exchange for your mortal soul. But even crossroads demons have plenty of stories where they'll bargain for other things. Fae/Fey are well known for wanting firstborns. Then you have witches who like fae/fey bargain for firstborn or other things someone holds precious like their voice, their beauty - or even physical things like blood or bones. Djinn wishes very similar in nature and their price paid can come in all kinds of forms.

Played a hexblade multiclassed with swords bard. I was the only healer/support person in the party. Went with pact of the chain, specifically the imp. Best decision I could’ve made. That imp was so useful in so many ways, it was practically another party member. (It helped that we gave it a smartass personality, with the DM and I sharing the roleplay duties.)

Warlocks need a way to cast low level spells like Shield which is a great example, without wasting their higher level slots, they get absolutely 0 benefits from doing that with their 5th level slot. They way they are now, makes the use of such spells be a huge NO at later levels. The only way to work around that right now, are a few levels into Sorcerer or Bard for those extra low level slots. Unfortunately multiclassing is not always an option depending on the DM (seriously, these DMs suck, don't play with them, they will probably start crying if your character is somewhat strong).

I have just multi-classed in to a Warlock from a 5th level Fighter. I have chosen the Otherworldly Patron - The Celestial. So this is more of a Good Patron rather than a demon type one. Now he can do a little healing and still get the Warlock bonuses and with 2 attacks each round plus a bonus off hand attack all having +1d6 with Hex and action surge for another 2 attacks.

My warlock (gennie) satyr was very fun. Pact of the tome + ancient secrets ftw.

I have been playing D&d since technically 1st edition, but really got into it starting with ad&d 2e. I really got into warlock class in 5e but I knew about it in 3.5 but really didn’t understand it til 5e. Ok just wanted to preface with that. You said you thought about using The genie in a build sometime. Well this is the build I am in the process in making now. I went mountain dwarf using tasha’s rule I instead went +2 Dex / +2 Cha. It is for an Adventure’s League game so had to do a point buy. The DM is trying something for one dnd I think and giving use a choice of tough, magic initiate, or skilled as free lvl 1 feats. I took tough. The buy was : STR 8, dex 15, con 10, Int 8, wis 14, Cha 15… making with race bonus Dex and Cha both 17. I took divine soul sorcerer at lvl 1 for the con saves. At lvl 2 I took Ranger for the next two lvls. I wanted to actually delay 1 lvl of ranger from getting subclass so I can take it at lvl 5 character lvl due to that’s when I get proficiency bonus to +3. The reason is the subclass is Drakewarden . For those that don’t know the drake scales in some stuff with proficiency bonus like his armor class , and I wanted to bring it in with an AC of 17. From there I did another 2 more lvls in Ranger to extra attack. The 2 more lvls of Sorcerer to get an ASI, and metamagic. Twinned spell will be a lot in this build. This is where I bring in The genie (dao) lvls . I went warlock the next 3 lvls to get pact of the chain and got my second pet, the imp. I took at lvl 2 in warlock eldritch mind , and devil’s sight, but at lvl 3 I swapped out devil’s sight for Investment of the chain master. Next I took 2 lvls in Ranger and got roving and Bob of Fang and Scale . I then took a lvl in sorcerer to get an ASI, then a lvl in warlock to get an ASI, then last lvl in Sorcerer to get to lvl 3 spells. From here I will finish out as Ranger and at my 11 th lvl in ranger for Drake’s Breath. All in all the build is 11 lvls Drakewarden Ranger / 5 lvls in divine soul sorcerer, and 4 lvls in The Genie ( Dao) Genie. I took Dao from warlock sub because of Genie’s wrath and AL gives you a magic weapon at lvl 5, which I will be taking a +1 Heavy Crossbow. What is nice with that is the drake can apply to one attack with crossbow an extra 1d6 damage of its chosen element type , and with The Genie sub I can add to another attack with extra attack the Proficiency bonus as extra damage. The idea with the two pets is to keep imp perma invisible. And when they both gain flight to twinned spell an up cast Dragon’s breath spell to both imp and drake. Have them fly up 15 feet and attack straight down on where they want to focus the attack so it is a 15 ft radius of the chosen damage type . The build can get dragon’s breath spell to 6d6, and your using it twice a turn, once by pet with your bonus action, and once with imp on its turn. Using the spell does not break imp’s invisibility. The drake can also share its damage immunity as resistance to player. Ranger can also get access to spell ashardalon’s stride which was my second choice to use for pets to use. But really wanted dragon’s breath so they can rain down there mini “fireball” I say fireball but the spell lets you pick a damage type it uses. Also thought of a tanky build with 12 lvls of fathomless warlock, 2 lvls of Paladin , and 6 lvls totem barbarian . For race I will go emerald gem dragon for psychic resistance.

In my current campaign, my warlock is a trifling who made a deal with an otherworldly being who he transferred his power to Gemwyn (my character) he is a super intelligent and super strong warlock machine. he is built to be chaotic neutral and is built to be hyper aggressive in combat, he loves his trident and his wings of flying

One thing as well is the invocations that are Pact of the ??? specific can be super powerful, one of the things they do is give some stupidly powerful invocations for the weaker pacts to make them more balanced... such as the free casting on deathward between prof bonus individuals. I still think the lower levels of warlocks 1-3 are more impactful for other characters than the higher level warlock abilities are for warlocks unfortunately.

What i like with warlock is that they get their spells back on a short rest. From level 3 onwards they get 2 spell slots. D&D encounters are balanced around 6 encounters a day with two short rest in-between which is huge. Meaning that from level 3 onward they can essencially drop a battlefield control every fight. They are the true tanks of d&d. Also 2 levels are enough for them to make ok damage with no ressource expenditures

I have this character I've been holding onto that I've yet to play as that i think you might find interesting. Hes a teiphling warlock/cleric who is in the fiend contract for the warlock and one of the moral subclasses for the cleric. the idea was that his contract with the devil was made at his birth and in his attempts to reject the contract he followed a path of peace.

my warlock was fiend pact. The agreement with the Fiend in question was simple. He had been locked away because he had decided to try and rise up against the big guy. Somehow my singing was so bad that it was actually able to adjust reality and reach his prison In return for freeing him, so he could once again wage war on the forces of the The one who imprisoned him. He gave my character all the power that she could ever dream of. Just with the simple caviot, When the time came I would be the one who would be their scion. The marshal of their army of hell My voice would Break the barrier and open the door. Considering that they only wanted to take over hell and had no interest whatsoever in the mortal world. It was a genuine beneficial win win for the both Of us. One of my favorite combos with that build was I was also one point into sorcery. So I would combine eldridge blast with fireball. And link that into hurdle through hell. I called it the show stopper. R p wise my character was a failed bard. Although she didn't think she failed. She believed she was the best because she had something all the others didn't. presentation! ( And the cheers and praise of all the Minions of darkness that were locked away with her patron.)

Nice video

would love to see the Genie build as a full build

I have a question can you play a hex blade warlock and fighter

Our group is starting a Princes of the Apocalypse (POTA) campaign from Level 1-12. I'm going with a male Water Genasi (Mordenkainen's version) Urchin nicknamed "Gurgle" from Baldur's Gate who was chosen by a kindly Djinni (Air Genie) to serve as her eyes-and-ears in the Material Plane. He takes the Pact of the Blade at Djinni Warlock 3 after he multiclasses into a Soulknife Rogue 3 then goes all the way to Genie Warlock 9 (at 12th Level). If the game lasts up to 15th Level, I might even make him become a Shadow Sorcerer 3 or a Swords Bard 3.

*grumbles in uncharismatic fighter* I could see my character multiclassing into a warlock, but she doesn't have the charisma, and probably won't get it for a long time even if I spend all of my ability score increases on charisma. Any advice?

currently playing a blind GOO warlock in a campaign, we started at level 3, so i took pact of the chain and worked with my DM to make a modified owl familiar. through the voice of the chain master invocation, he could see and hear through his owl, making them possibly one of the best scouts ive ever played. they are indispensable with the help of phantasmal force, which, might get a little less useful as you level up, but is essential to distracting enemies and dealing a little bit of damage. GOO Warlocks are fun to play as long as you get creative and work with your dm to improve some of their abilities (6th level ability is a 1st level cleric ability, 14th level ability can be more flexible, range of awakened mind being limiting at high levels, etc...)

Íd like to point out a couple of things about the GOO patron,. First, to get the most out of this subclass, you have to think outside of the box. If you do this subclass is quite powerful. Second,as the Geek Pantheon pointed out ín his GOO Warlock guide, the GOO patron is amorphous, ít can be anything¡ Ñot necessarily a Lovecraftian horror, I can easily imagine a Ancient dragon or a Ancient Hag as a GOO patron...

Eldritch Blast and Mage Hand are staples. Edit-5 levels of hexblade, 3 levels of vengeance paladin, rest in hexblade can cause a lot of fun.

Changeling Warlocks are my favorite 😊

Warlocks are great. It was the first class I used, then I explored paladin, druid, rogue, cleric, fighter, back to druid again, and now a warlock once more. I feel like I'll almost alwayd br playing a druid or warlock in the future. Why warlock for me? Because Eldritch Blast. It's one note but it works phenomenally.