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The hexblade is insanely powerful. One thing not mentioned is that the wording on the hexblade/pact of the blade allows you to dual wield a weapon you’ve performed the ritual on, and summon your pact weapon, meaning you can do some seriously massive damage, especially if you’ve taken two weapon fighting and get can a couple d8 weapons in the mix. The lvl 20 ability for warlocks can be powerful, but isn’t really needed for a hexblade, so if you forgo that for 2 levels in fighter for the action point, you’ll easily be cutting through the toughest of foes in a few rounds. This also means that you can take heavy armor. This, coupled with the armor of hexes means that you can tank about as well as any fighter, if not better, and if you wanted to go this route could take the shield instead of extra weapon and up your AC even more, with a 50% chance of them missing even when they do slip past your armor. Hexblade is by far my new favorite class and as a melee fighter, it’s easily a top contender.

Am I the only one wanting to do a Celestial Pacted Warlock Tiefling? Cuz I think that'd be nifty. Have them mock and goad enemies to hit this warlock with radiant with "Stop trying to hit me, and HIT MEH!" **snickers** Nevermind if you take the Tiefling feat, also in Xanathar's, you can have RESIST VS Fire, Cold, Poison, & Radiant for just walking around. And for the RP side of things ... a tiefling getting in a pact with some Celestial to "stick it" to Asmodeus? That's some entertaining shenanigans if you ask me.

This seems like an early gem channel I found! Great vid and good luck growing your channel!

Alex, your videos are amazing and I cannot wait to see how your channel grows.

Played my first warlock yesterday and decided to be a hexblade. I took my patron in a little goofy route making my former becromancer master trapped in my sword after a ritual gone wrong so my dm and I would have constant interaction with that. But even mechanically it feels great, getting to deal great damage with your blade and curse, my race was scourge aasimar so I could add even more damage to my regular attacks as well. It’s just great the amount of burst potential you can have!

Great video. I also just gotta say... the amount of times you blinked... is astounding and impressive.

The additional spells for both Sorcerers and Warlocks being added to their spell list, but not bonus spells like the domain spells of Clerics is an issue with the mechanics that is often houseruled to the SAME as Clerics.

My warlock is a gold dragonborn celestial warlock and is a "Claw of Bahamut". I have "renamed" most of the lower planes styled warlock abilities into "Heavenly" named abilities. Celestial Sight instead of Devil's sight, Tome of Heavenly Light instead of the Book of Shadows, and "Bahamut's Fist" instead of Eldritch Blast. They have the exact same text, just a different name to reflect the Celestially good bent of the character. The main thing I like about the celestial warlocks is the creative use of the cantrips... You really need to become a master of the cantrip versatility since you only have a couple spell slots for all the rest of your known spells. They get some really great enhancements for specific damage types, and since you get Agonizing blast, and the radiant enhancements for Eldritch Blast and Sacred Flame, your cantrip "go-to" spells have enough kick behind them to remain relevant for longer. Now, what makes the pact magic ability REALLY shine is when you "go off script" add in your first level of Sorceror. Now you open up many more spell slots for use, since you now get the multiclass spell slot chart to cast from. Since you are able to use the spell slots for ANY spells you know, (limited to their actual spell level instead of the pact magic MAX level for each slot of course) Your Warlock/Sorceror has much more versatility now that they have many more spell slots to cast per long rest. Love the warlock content... It's pretty much my favorite class.

We've houseruled the HexBlade. They still have to pick a Fey,Fiend,Great One,Undying Patron to gain their Hexblade from.

As a relatively new DM, I really appreciate how these videos are explaining things a bit simpler so I can wrap my head around it. I sometimes have difficulty helping out my players, who are also new to DND, with working out their classes and the rules/rp requirements of those classes, so I really appreciate how easy it is to just jump into these videos and understand the abilities. Thanks! =D

Enjoy the way you cover each class feature and talk about how they can be used. I overlooked that the d6 can be rolled every turn.

I had the idea of a Banished Goliath finding a strange looking battleaxe sitting upon an alter in the mountains. Upon picking it up he feels imbued with amazing strength as well as new arcane energy. He then hears a benevolent yet sinister voice in his head that says the power can be his so long as he will take up the axe and slay everyone in the tribe that banished him. He agrees to do so under the justification that if they are not strong enough to fend off the man they banished then they deserve his wrath, survival of the fittest afterall. To ultimately seal the pact between the Goliath and the axe he must devour the souls of those that he has slain to achieve the power and must continue to consume some of the souls of those he slays using the power of the axe. As for his Eldricht Blast I thought it would be cool if instead of a blast of energy he instead fired off a soul he has consumed to deal the damage. This would ultimately build this into Chaotic Neutral Goliath Shaman-like hexblade (pact of the blade).

I don't know if you know this, but the Hex Warrior+pact of the blade removes all conditions for the charisma bonus to attacks (as per sage advice). That means you could use a great weapon or two weapon fighting if you like as long as you have pact of the blade.

I just started Curse of Strahd, playing a Warlock, celestial patron. My patron is my grandfather, who's been trying to get me to fight for good. Started off two levels of fighter, now going Warlock. Really good role playing possibilities here with this patron and it just screams a doting parent like figure trying to guide their charge into a life of goodness and heroism. Great breakdown and really well explained, thank you for this video! Additionally, a way I imagine the hexblade warlock being role played is Critical Role's Grog when he has the sentient sword. The interactions between him and the weapon are gold. People could do something similar to that, a weapon wanting death and the player needing to make choices.

I'm using the Celestial Pact to multi-class with Paladin (vengeance). I think it's a really cool thing they did, allowing a lighter-themed warlock option. The flavor of this combo is really great in my opinion! Great videos my man

The hexblade is best understood by looking up the gods of chaos in Micheal Moorecock's eternal champion series. Several demonic gods have long passed on, became weapons to seek influence in the universe again.

I'm playing an aasimar hexblade pact of the tome warlock. It's actually really cool because even though my hexblade weapon is a small dagger that imbues me with it's power, I can still go pick up any weapon, as long as it doesn't have the two handed property, and use it with proficiency once pretty long rest. It can lead to some very interesting situations. Having pact of the tome gives the access to a bunch of ritual spells, so I have the chance to play an extremely versatile character

Just finished making my Celestial Warlock for my party's healer! Can't wait to put my tiefling into play!

Man i love the warlock so much. I struggle to make character concepts that don't at least dip into it.

I have a Hexblade that draws his power from the Raven Queen, his binding mark is that he grows feathers out oh his hair. (Rather unnerving as his hair is silver grey.)

Something about this dude's voice is very soothing and relaxing

We've got a player who is actually questing for his pact weapon as a hexblade, it's trapped somewhere on the mortal plane, but it's because the spirit within it is actually a bound being that wants to be released. Throughout time it reached out (the guy's character is mentally unstable) and whispered to him until he made the contract. Once he releases the spirit the DM has already said the weapon can be his, BUT, that's only if we find it. Our choices may or may not bring us into the encounter with it. We also have had someone in another game try the radiant warlock, he failed as a cleric so instead decided to find another way to gain the power... It wasn't a long campaign but he ended up as Archdeacon

One really important thing to note about Searing Vengeance is that it only kicks in when you have to make a death save on your turn, which keeps you incapacitated until your turn and it doesn't protect you from things like Disintegration or Finger of Death.

Thanks by the way for the xanathar reviews. LOVE this book. I'm also a huge fan of multiclsssing. One of my biggest joys is finding the synergies between classes.

It can work as Gaara's gourd that has some kind of deamon in it.

I am currently playing a Dragonborn Hexblade in my DND group and a Vishkanyan Slayer in my Pathfinder group, if you don't know what a Vishkanya is it's a a race of humans who evolved to have snake features ( scales for skin on some parts of their bodies, poison resistance, poisonous saliva and blood, low light vision, that sort of stuff), and so far my Hexblade has reached level 3 and my Slayer is level 4. Slayer is a class in Pathfinder that combines Rogue and Ranger but also has its own abilities but you can also take an ability from either of the aforementioned classes instead of the ones the Slayer has whenever you level up.

Nice video. QUESTION... eventually: 12th lvl bladelock can take the invocation "thirsting blade", adding cha as necrotic damage. Oathbreaker paladin gets to add cha as necrotic damage at lvl 6? Hexblade gets to use cha for both attack and damage. SO my obvious question is, would those three abilities stack, or rather, would you allow it??? I played a SUPER BADASS Oathbreaker/ Old One- Bladelock and his eventual damage was pretty awesome... at lvl 18. In this build it all come together at lvl 19, if this was you rspecific focus.

Hex Blade/Paladin that's just deadly.

Pike's armour was probably inspired by this ability.

Our group had an Aasimar Celestial Pacted Warlock and her Patron was a Kirin. Thasi Stagfell sacrificed herself so that the rest of the party could flee from the Yuan-Ti. RIP Thasi.

Celestial patron synergizes pretty well with Scourge Aasimar racial abilities. You really don't mind being surrounded, since you end up melting the faces of everything around you with Radiant Consumption's AoE radiant DoT, at the cost of your own health. However, you can then just say fuck you to death, spring back on your feet and literally explode with your Searing Vengeance, doing even MORE AoE radiant damage to whatever's left of the mob that thought they could zerg-rush you. Then you proceed fighting on at full health. And you can do the whole thing again the next day, everyday.

I wish they would make a warlock that has more a summoner flare. You already have your patron so let's bring minions of that patron into the world.

Hurray for discount Healing Words!

I wonder if it's possible the weapon can be a bow and when you cast your spells it's just magical arrows lol. (won't stick just some flavor type of thing.

I want a draconic patron! Like a spirit of an Ancient dragon or soul of a powerful Dragonborn that persists because of unfinished business or just Bahamut or Tiamat. I imagine natural armour and breath weapons would be a thing, maybe a tail of claw attack. At higher levels you can shapeshift into a dragon of course I'm spit balling.

Okay theroy crafting. Well more a theme, a hex blade that uses the wand of Orcus and could mutilclass as a necromancer or that might be pushing the limits of fair. Any suggestions.

you know you re a DM when you hear the word 'curse' mentioned in the class description and get excited b/c u think it means u can build in a curse on your pc's.

Awesome video! Very informative and well put together. We need more creators making videos like this. My only gripe is that sometimes at the end of your sentences you sound like you're running out of breath or something lol. It almost makes you sound like you're speaking with a sassy German accent...hmmm....yaaa

I'm playing a hexblade.. we are playing the patron as if my grandfather made a fiend pack & unknown to my family the fiend was trying to make a sentient weapon.. in doing so he cursed me w/the hexblade in order to evoke his blade to gain its sentience when my powers manifest.. I took the knight variant noble.. grandfather used his powers to become a noble family, when I turned 15 my eye turned black w/red iris & my powers manifested. Thus my family cast me out into the world as a knight in order to maintain the families status

*comes to learn Hexblade, way more jazzed about Celestial instead now*

I feel like the Hexblade using medium Armor is just perfect because you won’t be using high strength or dexterity.

What is the best race for the warlock class

My idea for a character would be a Scourge Aasimar Hexblade. The Scourge Aasimars are charged with ridding the world of evil. So my idea was to have a form of ritual where in order to be inducted into the order of the Scourge Aasimar you must be attuned to a weapon of power. And in my characters case, a shadow deity cursed my weapon, so when I grab it to finish the ritual I become a hexblade warlock. I also plan to allow the DM to shape my story. Am I fighting this newly gained power to return my purity? Or is the cursed deity convincing me that it is in fact the correct path to follow him and that the Scourge Aasimar are the corrupt ones? It also gives a cool RP element to the Scourge Aasimars ability to do radiant damage to himself and those around him, so you can be using your new warlock abilities and then erupt into a cleansing radiant burst, showing the conflict within your soul.

Here I thought Hexbades had a pact with the Raven Queen

My Unicorn Warlock's identifying mark is a big ass horn on thier face

The warlock isn't new, it was in 4e. Also Hexblade is a good 1LV dip.(roleplay or otherwise)

What'd b fun is to have a celestial force a pact with an evil human who was saved from death or to prevent going to one of the Hells, and is forced to join the party to become good. And don't even have their free will restricted by the pact, but he just has a few necessary actions he must take that are small, like give some money to the poor (possibly not even on a schedule, but up to the discrepancy of the patron to instill it as a habit), or providing food for orphans, or healing a stranger. Have the celestial be a common pseudo party member who acts as a parental figure. And for Hexblade, you could reflavor it as neutral or good, an have the actual blade push you on a quest to find it, so it can be used again! If it's evil, it tempts you to take, especially innocent, life more often, if good, slay evil no matter what!!! Neutral? Your pact requires blood, no matter the source, as long as it was ending a sentient (doesn't have to be sapient, but it may not satisfy a kill count as fast) living being. Or it was forged by a king's wizard and you now have to swear fialty to his empire and become a knight, subclass with Paladin for flavor/actual buffs.

I have a question about the Hexblade's patron (I cant seem to get a straight answer anywhere, everything contradicts). Is the patron LITERALLY the blade itself? Fjord from critical role for example seems to have a non-sentient blade, a patron who has bestowed the weapon upon him. Or is the blade a 'part' of the patron? It just seems weard to have a fully sentient sword that... well, basically obeys all your commands. Summoning it, using it in battle, stuff like that. The backstory I thought up for my hexblade was kinda based on the idea that a patron can hand out multiple weapons, so I was wondering what the real deal is here.

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I can see the Hexblade as a really great villain since a Hexblade could be used as a villain in that he's masquerading as a Paladin that has a few spells granted to them after years of service to their god and could fool everyone with this since they do get some Smites from the Paladin's spell list. With them corrupting a council and the people of a town or city to be corrupt enough to be a playground for their patron or to eventually rule over as their own twisted empire and it would be up to the group to see through the machinations of the Hexblade who has been secretly murdering council members so that he or she can stand unopposed as the sole figure of power.

Man just imagine a yuan-ti hexblade warlock. Given the yuan-tis defensive abilities and racial benefits would have the opportunity to make it a mix between a Dps and tank at the same time.

does the blood hunter with profane soul with celestial get searing vengence and if so what level

I'm planning to play a hexblade as the only melee fighter in my group, do you think I would be effective at this more specifically as a tank?

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If you'll bear with me for a second I'm gonna come across as a total hater, so before I get started know I love the theme and style of the Warlock and even of the _Hexblade_ Patron, I also think _Hexblade_ plays well and is mechanically sound. However, I despise the existence of the _Hexblade_ as a whole. If they had merely added an invocation to allow the _Pact of the Blade_ to use charisma, it would have brought the pact up to speed with tome and the rest of the _Hexblade_ could have been turned into a nice, thematic, shadow-style patron *independent of which pact type you choose.* The way they've made it now it's bloody impossible to justify decoupling the _Hexblade_ Patron from the _Pact of the Blade._ Part of the draw of warlocks is the slew of choices you get to make to customise them, Patron then Pact as style and feel then Invocations and Arcanums to diversify your mechanical toolkit, I couldn't disagree more with the decision to homogenise these choices. In their desperation to improve non-tome warlocks they have diluted this class *in my opinion.* I find myself wondering how long it will be before we see a Patron similarly shackled to the _Pact of the Chain_ Anyone else? Thoughts?

Hexblade pact weapons are not garunteed evil. Yes they are from Shadow Fell but they were originally created by the Raven Queen whom is neutral. Now being that they are an intelligent weapon and not one of "good" they are likely selfish or a bit crazy in our point of view. Story wise I have a hexblade protector aasimar that my DM has allowed me to flavor as "corrupted" so instead of doing radiant damage or having radiant wings as a protector I have shadowy wings and do necrotic damage with my racial ability. My hexblade patron is chaotic in nature, hard to tell if evil or neutral. Since its been corrupting my aasimar to become negative energy filled could argue evil however he has gone down a dark path of his own choosing so that could be the source of the corruption more than the hexblade....not to mention the hexblades powers are dark in nature whether evil or not. Regardless interacting with my hexblade patron has been a blast. Sometimes he is very helpful with information and other times seems quite crazy. Although my character has learned that the hexblade won't steer him into his own death as that would be counterproductive for the hexblade itself since it receives energy and souls whenever my character kills something. It should be fun seeing the redemtion evolution possibilities for my character and the effect it has on the interactions with my hexblade patron.

Im a humble guy I’ll just sign with the Hells

How can the patron be grudgingly part of the contract?

I don't think RP elements should make the character suck to play. It should be no more difficult than playing a Cleric

why cant the hexblade's patron be the Raven Queen herself?

Why is having a mark silly, why would having to make a mark every so often be silly, and why would doing a bizarre ritual be silly?

Hey just a quick bit of criticism, you should look into your audio you /S/ and /T/ sounds are super harsh thats all.

Celestial lvl 6 abilities are lame. Resistance to a damage no enemies deal, and a tiny boost to damage once per cast for fire/radient. Sacred flame is still worse then endritch blast. Would have been cool to see some saving throw benefit like casting resistance as a reaction. Lvl, 14 is also meh since you still have to be unconscious until your turn. Makes you still a sitting duck, and by that time someone will have probably been Able to heal you. Level 10 temp hp is very nice. And the healing word is great.

sooooo late on this information bro

I appreciate the enthusiasm, but other than seeing that D&D players can still read, I'm not picking up any real revelations here.