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'Cure Wounds' is D&D's Most Popular Spell
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<blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 7777873" data-attributes="member: 57112"><p>Mostly the sunken costs. A bladelock can produce close to that level of damage with riders using SCAG cantrips and similar other sunken costs, and only starts lagging too far behind at levels that are unlikely to be reached. There's a few other assumptions at work here that aren't necessarily true. Multiple attack rolls vs. one big attack has pros and cons that I don't think is so cut and dry. There's also the idea that pure DPS is the Warlock's primary concern. If you envision your Warlock as more Controller than Striker (if you'll pardon the 4e-isms), then many of the other available attack cantrips (though there are clearly garbage ones) are going to be "better" choices even if they sacrifice some damage (and in the right circumstances, Booming Blade or Chill Touch might even provide more damage in the long run, though that's obviously more circumstantial.)</p><p></p><p>It's clear that the ranged DPS Warlock is meant to revolve around Eldritch Blast, but 5e gives us many different ways to Warlock, and be just as effective in doing so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gradine, post: 7777873, member: 57112"] Mostly the sunken costs. A bladelock can produce close to that level of damage with riders using SCAG cantrips and similar other sunken costs, and only starts lagging too far behind at levels that are unlikely to be reached. There's a few other assumptions at work here that aren't necessarily true. Multiple attack rolls vs. one big attack has pros and cons that I don't think is so cut and dry. There's also the idea that pure DPS is the Warlock's primary concern. If you envision your Warlock as more Controller than Striker (if you'll pardon the 4e-isms), then many of the other available attack cantrips (though there are clearly garbage ones) are going to be "better" choices even if they sacrifice some damage (and in the right circumstances, Booming Blade or Chill Touch might even provide more damage in the long run, though that's obviously more circumstantial.) It's clear that the ranged DPS Warlock is meant to revolve around Eldritch Blast, but 5e gives us many different ways to Warlock, and be just as effective in doing so. [/QUOTE]
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