20 levels of EK will be functional, but behind the other gish options in terms of DPR and utility. While its not best in breed, It's not a trap that I would warn people away from like Elemental Monk or most builds of beast master ranger.
Also Blade locks generally take their first level in...
Gish is a fighter magic user, and while it's exact definition varies from edition to edition, in this edition it generally means cast arcane spells and gets at least two attacks per attack action. It's from the AD&D days when people would play Githyanki fighter/mages, gith got turned into gish...
Balancing against bard isn't a real good comparison right now since lore bard is the most powerful of the caster (arguably the most powerful class). A full 9 stack of spells, gets to pick and choose spells from every class, the most skills in the game with half prof bonus to the few they don't...
Sorcs are specialist, wizards are generalist. Some seem to think Sorcs can only specialize in blasting, but metamagic can be applied to any specialization. There are other specializations, for example;
A save or suck sorc using heighten and twin can affect the battle in ways a wizard never...
Seems there is two mechanical (ie metagame) styles of dual wielding being discussed interchangably,
First is a Rogue (swashbuckler or otherwise) who is using his bonus action for a second chance to deal sneak attack damage.
Second is a fighter who is using his bonus action to get a chance to...