It's insane to me that wizards came up with this system for warlock, requiring them to write up so many unique invocation options. Almost like writing up a second feat list for only one class. It's so much work, compared to the amount of writing and thought other classes get.

I have to say take Devil's Sight every single time. You will _always_ need to deal with darkness and being able to combine Eldritch Blast with Devil's Sight is amazing since there are a number of powerful creatures that can cast Darkness, thinking it will give them some kind of tactical advantage at range over you and/or your party. Even if the rest of your party is blinded by a Darkness spell, being able to hit back at a range of 120 feet while your party members deal with the Darkness will always throw off a magical attacker. Especially flying Oni (speaking from personal experience). "Surprise! In brightest day and darkest night, no evil will escape my sight!"

I'm running a creation bard/warlock multiclass right now who took misty visions. It has comes in handy a ton. He uses it to illustrate his points when he is persuading. It is basically his thoughts manifesting as illusions, then if he concentrates he can physically create them with his creation bard powers. The combo of Silent image and minor illusion is super clutch. You can create sound through minor illusion so it makes them very realistic. My favorite thing is creating pyrotechnics and lazer shows when I do a performances though. This invocation makes this character super fun to play.

Casting levitate on yourself during combat is a great way to avoid melee attackers. It is also a great way to get down from a great height.

The mage armor invocation is a trap. You get light armor as a Warlock and you can scrape together 45 gold for Studded leather. And at that point an invocation for 1AC. You can but I feel there are much better uses for an invocation.

Tomb of levistus is actually really good. The amount of times it saved novas life on the high rollers channel it testament to this. In all but the most severe cases, it’s effectively a “ become immune to all damage for one Round “ which is really damn good

You have no idea how much I appreciate this video, about to play my first warlock and this channel is a gold mine. Hope you get even more views and subs as time passes, you deserve it. Quality is superb.

I'm currently trying to level up my Warlock to Level 2 while playing this class for the first time and was completely overwhelmed with all the options. Thanks for explaining so much, this really helped!

The only problem with the War Caster feat's advantage on con saves, is that it''s only versus damage. Eldritch Mind gives advantage at ALL times to maintain concentration. Granted concentration checks without damage are rare, but things like sleet storm force a concentration check without doing damage so War Caster wouldn't apply where Eldritch Mind would.

One thing to think about with lifedrinker is that you already deal weapon damage + cha with your pact weapon and this is now an additional amount of damage in necrotic damage so you are basically for each strike dealing weapon damage + 2xcha damage (Maxed out meaning +10dmg) with each hit

Be Me: A warlock with a Great Old One patron... 1st Invocations: Devil Sight and Beast Speech... I can see perfectly well in the dark and I can always speak to animals. I start by finding any rats I can find, as well as birds. I start making deals for information, simple stuff really. I give bits of food to any animal with information on the goings on in the city. I develop a nearly untraceable information network, especially because I can do ALL my communication telepathically. Then I include cats in the network by feeding them the rats or birds who trick me (if they became that crafty), and dogs get the cheap bones as snacks. I expand further and further until I have hawk eyes, cat ears, and dog noses all over the city. Oh, it will cost a pretty penny to feed them all, but the information I might gather could pay for itself. Back alley deals, illegal activities, illicit adultery, violence and murder, maybe even the occasional case of necromancy... Very useful for blackmail, becoming the city's new secret crime lord, or perhaps handing information to the just authorities (*gagging noises*). Granted, this depends on having a prolonged base of operations and a VERY willing DM... but this is also just the extreme. All kinds of information can still be gained from communicating with animals. You can show pictures of your target for them to find, or scents for them to track, all for the price of food and perhaps some good scritches and belly rubs. Imagine being able to communicate and "tame" almost any animal you meet. You could have a whole team of dogs or wolves at your call, as well as hawks or owls. They aren't your familiars or your summons, but they will obey you if you give them food and shelter because that is simply how normal training works. You would just be cheating the usual time investment since you can ACTUALLY communicate with them all the time to explain quite specifically what you want. A warlock can out druid any druid... or a druid can make a deal with an otherworldly power as a feat to become the greatest of all. But as a simple warlock of any type... you can TOTALLY have a pack of wolves around for each of your adventures, maybe even a bear and an eagle or two. Your DM will probably hate you for it though, especially if you start adding barding to the game. Why stop there? Swarm of rats, tigers, giant apes, venomous snakes, giant spiders, bats (for epic blindsight), and just possibly a dinosaur. Though... maybe invest in a bag of holding or two for all the food you'll need to carry around. Do NOT underestimate speak with animals. Simply having dogs for tracking purposes or a bat for searching can change everything... just talk with your DM. If they're on board, they might reward you for your creativity. My personal belief is to not treat your DM like an enemy, but rather a partner in the story you want to tell. If they won't have fun with what you're planning... then maybe that's a sign the story won't be one you WANT to be told. I would ALSO like to add there are MANY ways to outplay this type of play. Simple prestidigiation could remove ANY scent to track, and animals might find it difficult to differentiate faces (especially with a bad perception check), and there is ALWAYS the chance they could lie, depending on how fed up or playful your DM is. They could also fail their checks just as you would, and you'd STILL need to feed them, so it could quickly become a net loss at medium or higher levels of play. Add in the fact that animals won't always get along, and you could start losing your little "army" to infighting and simple predation. Because... these are stile WILD animals. Still, I never pass up on the opportunity to multi-class without multi-classing. I love playing a class like its another class entirely, and a warlock that should have by ALL rights been a druid tickles my fancy so much. Have a good one everybody!

Something I never hear mentioned when discussing darkvision vs devil's sight. Dim Light is a lightly obscured area. Creatures make perception checks in these areas with disadvantage, if they rely on sight. Darkvision allows you to see in nonmagical darkness as if it were dim light and dim light as if it were bright light (you are still making perception checks with disadvantage in total darkness, if they rely on sight). Devil's Sight you see normally (effectively ignoring the darkness entirely) without disadvantage! So not only is devil's sight longer range than most creatures' darkvision, and in full color, and works in magical darkness, you are also not rolling with disadvantage in total darkness, like most creatures should be

Just gotta say you look like a Viking but you have a great commentary voice so I hope you keep doing these awesome videos breaking down classes and how they can be OP which is also my favorite series you do 👍 keep it up

I always wanted to be an oath of vengeance paladin, but after watching your video on warlock, I am now totally hooked.

Combining Grasp of Hadar, Lance of Lethargy, AND Repelling Blast with the same cantrip sounds awesome. 1 blast to pull someone in and/or reduced speed in order to prevent them from escaping or slowing them down from escaping, and the rest get a repel (maybe 1 of them getting the lance instead to slow them from getting to you in a short amount of time).

Book of ancient secrets FTW. Speak with dead should be a ritual, talk to your DM

An idea I had the other day for a more espionage or investigation themed campaign was a warlock changling. +2 racial bonus to charisma, proficiency in deception snd persuasion, grab the mask of many faces invocation, and they're set to be one of the best infiltration agents around.

My favorite mini build so far is to be a chain warlock with investment of the chain master and pick up flock of familiars (the spell functions as if you were benefiting from multiple familiars sharing the rules from find familiar which is inherently modified by the pact boon and Invocation giving you some minions to control as a bonus action all benefits from investment of the chain master)

I actually feel like invocations are poorly designed. They're all really cool, but since they all compete for very limits slots, the niche ones are never taken. It's a great system when the campaign has a very telegraphed theme to it that ISNT combat. I wish invocations had like a learned/prepared system, where you could know twice the amount of invocations as you currently do, but you can only have half of them prepared at any given time, with it requiring a long rest to swap them around.

One thing I’ve always wanted to do with tomb of levistus is to use it to make myself an ice sculpture so I can infiltrate a lavish party.

Voice of the Chain Master is great for a warlock who wants to spy in a town. I used it in a campaign where I didn’t think I’d need to be a spy and it was incredibly useful in the first session of the campaign.

18:20 Undying servitude actually does not require use of a spell slot, it's free :)

Book of ancient secrets and eyes of the rune keeper are a great combo so you can decipher spellbooks you find.

I like all the ones involving vision: eldritch sight, devil's sight, eyes of the rune keeper, ghostly gaze, etc. I want to get them all as an aspect of my pact. Sight beyond sight. And so forth. My character concept is to be like Betsy Braddock, a mutant telepath from the X-Men who received her sight from the other dimensional villain Mojo (patron?) in exchange for being able to see through her eyes. Like a TV camera. (Mojoverse is boring, so Mojo scours the multiverse for content for his people to keep them amused and pacified)

Levitate at will is really good if you have many encounters per short rest. Yeah if you have a spell slot left there’s better things to concentrate on, but if you don’t, being essentially immune to any melee attack is a pretty enticing option. Also the mobility lets the rest of the party save spell slots getting to place’s provided they have enough rope

For me, I have my warlock at level 10 with dips into Fighter for the action surge. I also have the metamagic feat so I get quickened spell. With those combined with the invocations Lance of lethargy, agonizing blast, repelling force and eldritch spear so once I reach level 11, I can yeet a single enemy 90 ft away and immobilize them for a turn too

The darkness in a party setting can be amazing with other ranged characters. I do this in my party sometimes and the ranger uses the darkness like cover ducking in and out of it.

Why would I play a warlock without eldritch blast? Because of people who ask, "Why would you play a warlock without eldritch blast?".

1/2 Artillerist Artificer 1/2 Pact of Blade (fiend) Warlock 1/2 Infusion 1/2 Invocation 1 Arcane Firearm (Pact Weapon) 1 Eldritch Cannon (that can be carried by Homunculus)

awesome, awesome, awesome. Just that.

I think all the Warlock Invocations that required the Warlock's to use their spell slot, should've been a free cast at the lowest level instead. THEN also be granted the option to actually use their Spell Slot for that same Invocation if they wanted to upcast the spell. In either case, the Warlock shouldn't be able to cast that spell again until they finish a long rest. If they did that, it would by far make those Invocations feel less like a trap to obtain.

I have an idea for a multiclass Warlock/Bard with Voice of the Chain Master. Love the idea of them having a singing familiar

One note about Lifedrinker which you didn't mention and, honestly, I've seen other GMs and players miss: Hex Warrior lets you already add your charisma modifier to your damage roll. Lifedrinker then DOUBLES it. So let's do some theory crafting, level 11 warlock, you have a +1 pact weapon from other invocations or you just found one, and a +5 charisma bonus. And let's say it's a polearm and you took Polearm Master because you're min-maxing. So while true you may be doing only 2 attacks per round, it's 2x(1d10+11) + 1d4+11 so 2d10+1d4+33, averaging 48 damage. Then add in anything from your greater ability to provoke opportunity attacks, especially if you double-up with the Sentinel feat, the damage-spike-nova of Eldrtich Smite, etc. With Agonizing Eldritch Blast, that's 3x(1d10+6) or 36 damage. Then it's not until level 17 you get the fourth beam, bringing it to 48, matching what you were already doing at 11.

I just found out about the UA Kiss of Mephistopheles invocation. It's so hilarious and busted- I must build a character around it.

Relentless Hex definitely has it's uses for Hexblade for mid-combat battlefield movement. My last campaign I took it at a level up replacement after having endured a long series of combats with mobile monsters or knockbacks. Then there was the epic use of it to stab her pact weapon in the heart of the body of her Patron that had been posessed by the Avatar of Death. Stealth/Sleight of Hand rolled for Hexblade Curse cast, then Relentless Hexed up 30' right next to it, then blammo, stabbed in the chest.

Ah yes, the Daolock's very own Spike Growth and Repelling Blast + Grasp of Hadar combo

My first Warlock (he was also my first Bard, that's where he started) was a Great Old One Warlock. His first two Invocations were Eldritch Mind and Book of Ancient Secrets, since finding an obscure leather-bound book was the impetus for his gaining Warlock levels in the first place. Then his third Invocation was Aspect of the Moon. I might swap one later for Armor of Shadows. I haven't decided yet. Currently, he's a Bard 6/Warlock 5 with a LOT of Psychic damage and mind boggling spells. Also, my favorite combo of spells and invocations is Repelling Blast, Lance of Lethargy, and Devil's Sight comboed with a casting of Hunger of Hadar. Just keep pushing them back into that dark, cold and slimy sphere of difficult terrain.

Yey new vid on a topic i'm passionate about. hoping misty visions is given it's proper respect here. haha. i find it funny that arguably the best invocation in the game is rarely mentioned in lists and an inferior version such as devil's sight is mentioned in high regard.

3:33 Its mechanical benefit is MASSIVE. The crafting rules say they give their number of days assuming an 8 hour workday while crafting. You don't need to sleep for 8 hours every night anymore, so effectively you've gained an 8 hour work day, as long as it's light activity. Scribing a spell scroll is light activity. Scribing a 1st level spell scroll takes 1 day, i.e. take 8 hours of work, i.e. the duration of a typical long rest. Taking Aspect of the Moon means as long as you have the materials, you can make a 1st level spell scroll every night. Or you can even work on something multiple nights. It could be a 2nd level scroll every 3 nights or a 3rd level scroll every week. Warlock slots grow with level. Several of their spells do not, or do not in a way that is often negligible. Hex, for instance, is a 1st level spell, thus would take 8 hours, i.e. 1 long rests worth of time to craft. And using a scroll would save yourself wasting one of your 2-3 4th or 5th slots on it. Depending on party composition, you can even have the wizard learn the spell you scribe so you can trade it for another spell at level up, or just so you both have it in cases like find familiar and counterspell.

In my case voice of the chain master gets a lot of use. I'm playing a pretty squishy warlock and so every time I'm not sure if a social interaction will result in a fight my imp goes out there and becomes my long distance bluetooth speaker. The scouting potential is also insane - just take a short rest while your familiar maps out entirety of your surrounding letting you know whenever he sees something noteworthy and allowing you to instantly take over and even cast some spells if necessary

Grasp of fadar you through the spikes, push you back through the spikes into a barbed wire pit. ROund one. ROund tow, walk ove rto pit ROund three Hit with eb and pull up, then push to equal extra fall damage. Dm. you get quarter ex for the encounter being easy.

Step 1: Have someone cast spike growth. ("2d4 piercing damage for every 5 feet it travels") Step 2: Hit the enemy with an eldritch blast with grasp of hadar and repelling blast. (20 ft of movement) Step 3: Watch the carnage for every missile sent out, that's 1d10 + 4d4, so if you have agonizing blast and you're level 18, that's 4d10+20+16d4 , or an average of 82 with just a cantrip!

Why I didn't take Eldritch Blast. For my character I was focused on a mobility build, my base class was Barbarian and as a Levistus Tiefling in an adventure that focused on undead hunting with my Raven Queen supporting Grave Cleric friend, I opted to go with Chilling touch for the dual purpose of potential damage and Undead "Can't regain HP until next turn" so when they try to drain us, "You get Nothing!" I also took Ray of Frost to slow them down so I could catch up with my Barbarian Speed and Totem of the Eagle (Redubbed Raven for the Raven Queen)

18:20 it says without using a spell slot. Undying servitude is actually wlquite cool because of it

Look, I didn't take Eldritch Blast because I'm a Hexblade with a focus on ranged weaponry (comes online at level 3, as one of the level 2 Invocations gets swapped out for Improved Pact Weapon, since I now have my Pact Boon). My Pact Weapon IS my Eldritch Blast now.

I had a hexblade, bladesinger multiclass character with metamagic adept in one of my games using demon sight and greater darkness to constantly tear anything that relied on eyes to shreds

Invocations are what makes the Warlock/Witch worthwhile. I mean, you get what 3 spell slots! Anything that uses spell slots I ignore. Not worth it. I've only played pack-of-the-chain but I would like to play a hex-blade at some point.

I love the idea of eyes of the rune keeper but the problem is that often times DMs don't know how to properly work with it or outright don't want to. Here's a real example from a game I played in: The party my character was in arrived at an ancient temple that was the center of worship for a dead god of knowledge and scholarship, and deep within its bowels we discovered an ancient tome of divine knowledge. The GM said "The tome undoubtedly carries some sort of powerful magic within, though it is written in a language forgotten to time. You can tell from the carvings on the walls that you will need to find a special sacred runestone if you want to learn the language." and I responded with "My character can read it because he has eyes of the rune keeper." and the GM hit me with "Uh........ *checks notes* It's written in a cypher you can read but don't understand." and he only said that so we could go find the McGuffin he planned for us to get to read the book. It was honestly such a dick move because it essentially made my choice to take that invocation irrelevant.

Thumbnail source?? Good vid btw im playing warlock currently this helped!

I had an adventurer's league game where someone took both grasp of hadar and repelling blast, and used it alongside the druid's spike growth and someone's(can't Remember who cast it) wall of fire to devastating effect

I read some forums saying that any spell that has the ritual tag can be cast as a ritual by casting it with 10 min of extra time but the feats and features that let you cast a spell as if it were a ritual just let you cast them immediately, I don't know if that was wrong or something cause in this video you say that the book of the ancients "allows" them to cast rituals and this contradicts what I just said

Devils sight and darkness forever

your camera quality is so damn crisp it's like you're using the james webb space telescope

Eldritch spear+spell sniper is only like 600ft. While I could respect that in a forest 600 ft is a long distance and you can't see that far but that's only because trees grow in a very sporadic pattern. 600 ft is not that far to say that your vision would be too poor to hit it. I don't know, without foliage and stuff 600 ft is fine when you don't have poor vision.

Catnap, summon animals, and a genie lamp. Even better with catapult. Suddenly one gets destroyed and surrounded by angry stench kows.

Playing a multi class hexblade warlock whispes bard. Great fun. Going to taking agonizing blast and thursting blade. Enemies won’t be safe anywhere

I love warlocks but to me they are not worth sticking out as a single class. Everything is front loaded, minimal spell slots and invocations that feel obsolete at the level you get them. I am super excited to see what they come up for them in One Dnd as I would like to see them scaled a bit better, including nerfing or distributing the hexblade bonuses over more levels. Its too tempting for every CHA class to dip a level for that CHA to attack bonus.

i took beast speech just to turn my divine sorceror celestial warlock multiclass more into disney princess fibes.

undying servitude can be used once without using a spell slot

...the xray woulda been nice in the tomb of annhilation

I've been looking at these because I've wanted to try Warlock. The idea I had was a Fire Genasi The Fathomless Pact of the Blade Warlock that will subclass into Barbarian. I was looking at Agonizing Blast and Armor of Shadows at level 2. Trading Armor for Improved Pact Blade at 3rd level. At 5th I would add Thirsting Blade. I would then start putting levels into Barbarian, maybe enough to get an ASI or 5th level but not quite sure. I'm hoping to have a decent mix of long range and close range options. Also quick question: when it says 15th level for the evocations level requirement does that mean Warlock level or Character level? It makes a difference when you want to do multiclassing and I am a little unclear.

Book of Ancient Secrets - what about the Ritual Caster feat?

Eldritch Sight can break a DM's campaign if you are running a high magic campaign. Thankfully there have been some limitations placed on it in the last few years but it brings up a lot of tricky questions for a DM if they don't live on Sage Advice.

Here's my top 10 optimization inputs on some of the good invocations i think you weren't able to highlight enough in the vid: 1. armor of shadows-great for replenishing arcane ward of the abjurer. 2. book of ancient secrets-great way to get find familiar AND phantom steed + tiny hut. 3. cloak of flies-great way to ensure you don't fail the contested check for infernal calling. 4. devil sight-great in combination with darkness for a level 6 or lower melee warlock. otherwise, skip it and use superior options on your spell list (shadow of moil for melee) or invocation list (misty visions for ranged/casters). 5. eldritch smite-great to use even on ranged martial warlocks as the knocking prone isn't mandatory and with no save it's fantastic for knocking enemies out of the sky. 6. grasp of hadar-great way to trigger warcaster when used in combination with polearm master and a staff. also triggers brace maneuver. 7. improved pact weapon-there's alot of good magic weapons that don't have the generic +1 to hit and dmg like flametongue, weapon of warning, etc. 8. investment of the chainmaster-not only does this work with the familiar's own abilities like poison or scare but also it's usage of any item you may give it (which increases the usefulness of the item in their hands compared to yours) such as poisons (i like inhaled and contact), hunting traps, caltrops, ball bearings or any useful magic item with a save DC such daern's instant fortress. 9. lance of lethargy-great to use with speed reduction control like spirit guardians, black tentacles, plant growth, etc. 10. misty visions-of course i have to mention the best invocation in the game. great utility and out of combat use, one of the best surprise generators, action-economy free obscurement for ranged/casters that can even benefit your allies. if you can only pick one, this is the one to pick! honorable mention: tomb of levistus-one of the fey ways to trigger the faithful summons of the sheperd druid without putting yourself in danger.

It's a little weird not being able to see your arms/hands when your body is moving like that whenever you are speaking. Just something to consider!

The only useful invocation is agonizing blast. Change my mind

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I understand that you can not just change the invocations freely. However I do find it a bit absurd that you can only change them and spells for that matter when you level. I do however think that it would be sensible for the character to be able to change an invocation though a weeks work/study, or perhaps two~four weeks. Or perhaps though a significant offering to their patron or by spending time connecting to their patron.. just something like that. It seems to me that would free up a warlock player so they can try out various options and stuff, rather than having to pick up the absolutely needed invocations right away as not to miss out. A warlock is not a wizard, so it should not be easy for the warlock character to change. However the very fact that you can change when you level up seems to indicate to me that this really should not be quite so restrained as it is. I wonder as well, if Eldrich Blast should not be demoted to 1d8, with all the invocation modifications unlocked. However you must similarly spend time to swap out what buff you equip to it. As it levels you could have more buff slots allowing you to use your eldrich blast to do the stuff you currently need the invocations to do... I guess I am saying, I basically think the Eldrich Blast's invocations should be put in its own little system. ... I would for that matter like to see a LOT more options as well. Really build and dig into that 'modify yourself' thing warlock got going for it. That is another thing. Why just why? I understand why you can not slow something several times. But would slowing 4 creatures by 10 for a round really be that broken up in the higher levels? And grasp of Hadar. Is dragging something 40 feet toward you really THAT much better than pushing something 40 feet away? Or rather, is dragging 4 creatures 10 feet toward you really game breaking? Then how about just reducing the amount you can drag something to 5 per hit? At higher levels it would only be 10 feet more. But you could theoretically do more controll nonsense moving up to 4 characters in various directions. "You come 5 feet closer, you come 10 feet closer, and you go 10 feet away. And lets say all four of you are now also slowed by 10 feet. Or perhaps one could have the same thing for speed. 4 hits would mean up to 20 feet movement would be lost for the enemy. Although I can see that being broken. 20 foot slow and 40 foot push. Then again we already have 10 foot slow and 40 foot push so...

Just FYI. Undying Servitude specifically says WITHOUT using a Warlock spell slot. So it's a free once per Long Rest spell.

Warlocks in Arcanum can actually do more

I have a strange question. Is there any way to determine what class in DND is the most likely to win? Meaning, if you would put a warlock against a paladin, what are the odds that one would win over the other cannot be applied to every class to determine who the best and worst would be?

300 ft sounds really far. But it’s just 100 yards. Close enough to see a persons torso. Same with 600ft/200 yards. 1200 ft / 400 yards (using all the tricks for range) is somewhat dubious though. It makes you think of how small combat ranges actually are. 30 ft = 10 yards. 90 ft = 30 yards. Not all that far really.

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Im playing a level 3 lore bard and just took my level 4 in 1 level of hexblade. I want him to be mainly bard. But how many levels of warlock would be the best to take?

Thirsting blade allows you to attack 4 times if you have extra attack and 8 times if you have action surge on top of that because as written there's no restrictions so long as you attack with the pact weapon

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Free false life is amazing esp low levels or those eating damage a lot. The comp languages might actually be useful for a orphan or other low iq character. Animal speak..if a druid maybe.

Undying servitude doesn't require a spell slot, does it?

Not sure if I agree with your assumption on the repelling blast that you can push a target 40 away. I suppose it depends on the game ruling if an eldritch blast as a spell is the effect or does each bolt from the single spell count as a separate push. If it does, then the grasp/pulling one would be the same case right?

_Ascendant_ _Step_ is such a disappointment, I had this idea of playing a Genie Warlock (the only one that appeals to me) and taking Ascendant Step to narratively include the Wish-lock's ability to fly at later levels (and swap it out of course), then I realised that Wish-lock's fly at 6th lvl and Ascendant Step is at 9th lvl 😒

The animate dead invocation is once for free

17:01 "If you are largely concentrating on spells in the back of the party." ???!!!???!!! 1- You can only concentrate on -1- spell at a time (spells?) 2- Invisibility itself requires concentration, so you would not be able to "concentrate on spells in the back of the party" with this because... again - you can only concentrate on 1 spell at a time> Basically nothing what you said here makes sense.

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18:20, undying servitude DOES NOT require you to spend a spell slot. Still not worth it in my opinion.

If you have a familiar (Pact of the Chain or Tome) then taking Sign of Ill Omen plus Relentless Hex at 8th level by either switching an earlier invocation or taking the Eldritch Adept feat means that you can cast Bestow Curse on your familiar, ordering it to "not resist" (i.e., fail the save). This means that, starting at 9th level, you get EIGHT HOURS of free, unlimited Misty Step (or it's "I'm not casting a spell" equivalent). Or seven hours once you've recovered your spell slots. Since short range teleports like this are really not a good investment for a class with so few spell slots, I actually *WOULD* recommend Sign of Ill Omen ... for this specific purpose. (Give the familiar the crappy "Disadvantage to Attack YOU" curse; it shouldn't be attacking you anyway) 😉

Voice of the chain master is actually very good because if you pick it in and you look through it senses you gain devil side of 120 feet so you don’t have to take double side because you’re constantly seeing through its eyes and yours at the same time

When taking Hexbladepact Warlocks second and third Level at 7th and 8th Level overall, you have acess to Relentless Hex and Thirsting Blade, which can be a Hand Crossbow - just mind the Loading Property here. If you wanna go Abserd with this: Add in a Paladin(2) and Fighter(2), Divination Wizzard(2) and Star Druid(2) and Divine Soul Sorcerer you have a pretty freaky Build for a Melee-Caster. Keep in mind, you can Pick Spells your Class has acess to a Slot for. So, only the Locky-Spells are limited. Wizzard allows you to freely choose additional Spells to choose from to cast, Star Druid is just fluffy Cool in the Appearance. You have 2 Fighting Styles, a Second Wind, an Action Surge, 2 Attacks per Attack Action, can Smite, have 2 D20-Rolls in your Pocket you can force on any Roll and have Acess to the Cleric Spell List via Sorc (Spirit Guardians is mandatory as learning Counterspell and Shield via Wizzard). Have fun getting thrown out of evey Group righteously.

I found Voice of the Chain Master extremely useful and not niche at all. It really helped out the entire party.

Disguise Self at will is broken as all hell.

Eldritch mind is so much better than using an ASI/feat on warcaster; unless you are a hexblade pact of the blade and need to perform somatic components whilst wielding a weapon and shield.

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I'm playing the most fun warlock ever and I don't have eldritch blast. Why ? In the setting I'm playing in, casters are either burned alive or snitched to the Red Wizard, who will pay for them and take them away as slaves for them never to be seen again. Generaly, if you are seen casting a spell in public or you are discovered to be a "witch", it's only a matter of time before you will need to make a new character. Also, we play with the rules of gritty realism, so a short rest is a day and a long rest is a week long. I'm playing a water genasi bard/warlock. I'm of the college of Eloquence and my patron is the Kraken (Fathomless). This is a game in which the invocation aspect of the moon (no need to sleep) is super useful, and a cantrip like eldricth blast would just be useless.

I think you underestimate the value of the less combat-focused invocations. One with Shadows is non-concentration invisibility if you just hide behind a pillar or round a dark corner, and Shroud of Shadows is a concentration version that lets you move and do non-combat things. Essentially, you are now the party's Arcane Trickster, but with Misty Visions as an upgraded "Minor Illusion", and at-will invisibility. Add in being a charisma build and Mask of Many Faces or Master of Myriad Forms, and maybe the Actor feat, and you're the best infiltrator in the game.

I disagree with Aspect of the Moon. You shouldn't "need" to take long rests. Unless you want to spend hit die or refresh a long rest based feature/item.

Minions of chaos is so good.

"You Want This" - terrible thumbnail lol

Carceri is pronounced kar-cheri.

I am a lvl 4 assassin, lvl 2 warlock. I took 3 lvls of Rouge then 1 of warlock back to Rouge for one and from here out it will be all warlock. Voice of the chain master is broken. I will be swapping misty visions next level for voice once I pick pack of the chain. It basically allows you to be in two places at once. Need intel send your familiar. Want to watch a target send your familiar. Want to make sure that your element of surprise is still in place as you sneak into a hide out. Send your familiar ahead to watch and alert you if they figure out that you are sneaking in. Want to spy on a conversation send your familiar. I can eavesdrop on a conversation 1000 miles away if I wanted. I'm also fairly sure that I am going to get an ear full from my DM as I abuse the shit out of this. Voice of the Chain master is 100% broken if you just do a little outside of the box thinking.