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How are you getting two attacks? Warlocks (which this conversation is about) don't get extra attack without Pact of the Blade - in which case you have better weapons than sticks. And the cantrip itself can combo with extra attack but can't grant it.

The sorcerer's thing at low levels is oodles of cantrips (five I think). There's a lot of utility there. Of course Tomelocks at low level can take on wizards with rituals (you only need Find Familiar once and can flex what you know) and sorcerers with cantrips at the same time.

The problem with the entire "how good is PAM" question is that it's something that's almost entirely dependent on the local meta and what tactics your DM uses. The bonus action attack is dependent on what else you would get a bonus action attack for, and the GWM bonus action attack is just...

Agreed. Needs to go in the feedback. Also needs to go in the feedback, along with the idea that you can use an actual firearm as an arcane firearm (and possibly even get weapon rules if you make your own). Mr "ten fireballs per day at level 11" scales just fine. They just don't have an...

If you're using your bonus action to heal then, before level 9, you're basically equivalent to a cleric casting a damaging cantrip and casting Healing Word (or Shield of Faith). Even here you don't exactly compare well to the cleric when the cleric does what you do. Of course there's the level...

What's wrong with True Strike for melee? Before level 5 it's better than Eldritch Blast anyway - and from level 5+ that extra 1d6 damage means it outdamages Shillelagh. And there are definite power curves - for example at levels 1-2 I'd call wizards and sorcerers the worst and warlocks the...

The key problem with this is that Alchemical Savant (and it's a far bigger problem for the Alchemist than the Artillerist) is the artificer version of the cleric Potent Spellcasting. And yes it applies to non-cantrips, but you're multiple spell levels behind the cleric.

I'm not sure where it was said, but I believe that there's going to be a Tasha's/Xanathar's refresh to 2024 rules. Of which this will be a part.

... you're practically asking for some joker to play a coffeelock aren't you? And have you nerfed cantrips (or rather prevented them from scaling past level 10)? 4d10 firebolts against a standard two attacks is pretty strong - and that's before we get into Eldritch + Agonizing Blast or other...

OK. Initial thoughts: Some polishing (and making the Homonclucus Servant a spell akin to Find Familiar is nice) , but core features aren't fixed. Firearm proficiency appears to have been taken away. Permanent magic items? Does having your "Plan" make it easier to create e.g. a permanent bag of...

The 2024 ranger is not at all the 2014 ranger. The 2014 ranger was a disasterpiece whose special abilities meant that you spent less time doing what they should be good at and one of whose two subclasses turned your life into an escort mission trying to keep your pet alive. The 2019 update in...

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I think an artificer would. A ranger? I'd far rather they got more low level stuff they knew and could do. Either Invocation style or a lot of low level pact slots rather than a couple of high level ones.

And this is a good thing. I don't want to see 0.763 casters. Indeed I find the concept of "half caster" to be its own type of ugly mess and would far rather see more classes be like warlocks and do their own thing rather than being spell level beancounters. And given that a substantial group of...

They can ... as of the 2024 update paladins and rangers can both swap one spell per long rest.

Way OP. At that point the become essentially a druid as a caster with martial level attacks and strong skills.

I'm not sure how you are judging this; an issue with half casters is that they get spells too late to be that useful. One of the Fey Wanderer's party pieces is Summon Fey - but on a level 11 battlefield AC 15, 30hp is a speed bump (the CR 11 Roc has +13 to hit and multiple attacks averaging over...

Can't agree. They aren't full casters and too much doesn't take their one trick pony stuff; better hope you're not up against celestials, constructs, fiends, oozes, or undead all of whom commonly ignored charmed and frightened. Mmm - they aren't bards. They can stand up to sorcs and warlocks...

A few notes: The ranger really is a jack of all trades; I've been calling it the hedge wizard and it's thematically bland In 2023 the ranger was probably the premier ranged damage dealer but with no defensive tech other than weak self healing and defensive spells was at best a glass cannon on...

As a rule of thumb with 0 short rests a warlock has the casting power of a subclass (arcane trickster/Eldritch knight), with one a half caster, and with two a full caster. They are balanced round 1.5 I think. But their burst power comes from their magic, and hex is a bad spell, only ever having...