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[5E] Looking for Build Feedback Vengeance Paladin + Hexblade Warlock.
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<blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 7494812" data-attributes="member: 6795602"><p>Yea, with booming blade that shouldn't be too far behind a single classed character. You likely will get more smite spells off and more of them will be higher level than a paladin 5. Booming blade makes up part of the extra attack damage. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's not just rhetoric as you put it. Though with a solid source of advantage from the Barbarian it deserves a bit of a reevaluation. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yep, I understand the combo you are going for. Elven accuracy requires advantage and you have solved that. GWM requires advantage and you have solved that. Baleful curse (I assume you mean Hexblade's Curse) is fairly limited use if you are using the actual printed material instead of the UA hexblade. It's once per short rest and you don't get to move it around enemy to enemy.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>That figure is misleading. +5 is only true if you are assuming you will only encounter AC's in the range you are capable of hitting AND that those AC's will be equally distributed across that whole range. That's not likely the case. AC 13-18 will be the most likely AC's you will face till way later in your career assuming the DM is using a decent assortment of Monster Manual Monsters. Given the -5 to hit from GWM that means you your average +hit over advantage would be closer to +2.5 more than advantage.</p><p></p><p>The main takeaway is that as long as you have a reliable source of advantage that elven accuracy and GWM together are probably even better than you think for most of the game.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">This is only against 1 creature per short rest (unless you are trying to run the overpowered UA version of the hexblade)</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yep, that is one of the most overlooked benefits of the feat.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The first issue is how are you having 20 charisma, elven accuracy and GWM by level 11 on a multiclass build that at most could only take 2 ASI's?</p><p></p><p>I also don't know if you are trying to take crits into account or haste or really anything else for those numbers.</p><p></p><p>Anyways though, your numbers will be fairly comparable to GWM / Polearm Master on a warlock / paladin multiclass.</p><p></p><p>With all that said the pure Paladin class with just polearm Mastery looks like it's likely still in the lead for damage at level 11.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrogReaver, post: 7494812, member: 6795602"] Yea, with booming blade that shouldn't be too far behind a single classed character. You likely will get more smite spells off and more of them will be higher level than a paladin 5. Booming blade makes up part of the extra attack damage. It's not just rhetoric as you put it. Though with a solid source of advantage from the Barbarian it deserves a bit of a reevaluation. Yep, I understand the combo you are going for. Elven accuracy requires advantage and you have solved that. GWM requires advantage and you have solved that. Baleful curse (I assume you mean Hexblade's Curse) is fairly limited use if you are using the actual printed material instead of the UA hexblade. It's once per short rest and you don't get to move it around enemy to enemy. That figure is misleading. +5 is only true if you are assuming you will only encounter AC's in the range you are capable of hitting AND that those AC's will be equally distributed across that whole range. That's not likely the case. AC 13-18 will be the most likely AC's you will face till way later in your career assuming the DM is using a decent assortment of Monster Manual Monsters. Given the -5 to hit from GWM that means you your average +hit over advantage would be closer to +2.5 more than advantage. The main takeaway is that as long as you have a reliable source of advantage that elven accuracy and GWM together are probably even better than you think for most of the game. [LEFT] [COLOR=#222222][FONT=Verdana]This is only against 1 creature per short rest (unless you are trying to run the overpowered UA version of the hexblade)[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT] Yep, that is one of the most overlooked benefits of the feat. The first issue is how are you having 20 charisma, elven accuracy and GWM by level 11 on a multiclass build that at most could only take 2 ASI's? I also don't know if you are trying to take crits into account or haste or really anything else for those numbers. Anyways though, your numbers will be fairly comparable to GWM / Polearm Master on a warlock / paladin multiclass. With all that said the pure Paladin class with just polearm Mastery looks like it's likely still in the lead for damage at level 11. [/QUOTE]
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