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<blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4520196" data-attributes="member: 35909"><p>They're MUCH less powerful than primary casters. If you think of them as an archer or jack-of-all-trades (mainly from ease of item use and creation with Use Magic Device), they compare fairly evenly with Rangers, Rogues, and Bards IMHO.</p><p></p><p>So, my answer to the OP's question is...depends.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: And yes, few combats per day hurts the warlock's usefulness. In my experience, Warlocks thrive in more brutal games. Ones where there are nearly unending fights and/or low treasure. My last Warlock was very weak. The DM insisted on rolling for stats and I ended up with my highest being a 14, two 8's, overall I think I had the equivalent of 22 point buy. Others in the party had equivalent point buys of as much as 45 points (I was angry and mathed it out). Despite this, the game itself was very rough. We started out making a prison break with the clothes on our backs at level 5. We struggled to even get food let alone gear for the next several weeks. So despite my terrible stats, the fact i could shoot from 250 ft (thank you, eldritch spear), climb walls to basically become un-attackable half the fights we had, and later on could at will make people my friend...the DM was pretty clear who he considered the most powerful one in the party. Which was bad, cause he was doing an almost adversarial DM style. I ended up leaving, fed up with being punished for playing intelligently and foiling his encounters. But darn if my underpowered warlock didn't rock.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StreamOfTheSky, post: 4520196, member: 35909"] They're MUCH less powerful than primary casters. If you think of them as an archer or jack-of-all-trades (mainly from ease of item use and creation with Use Magic Device), they compare fairly evenly with Rangers, Rogues, and Bards IMHO. So, my answer to the OP's question is...depends. EDIT: And yes, few combats per day hurts the warlock's usefulness. In my experience, Warlocks thrive in more brutal games. Ones where there are nearly unending fights and/or low treasure. My last Warlock was very weak. The DM insisted on rolling for stats and I ended up with my highest being a 14, two 8's, overall I think I had the equivalent of 22 point buy. Others in the party had equivalent point buys of as much as 45 points (I was angry and mathed it out). Despite this, the game itself was very rough. We started out making a prison break with the clothes on our backs at level 5. We struggled to even get food let alone gear for the next several weeks. So despite my terrible stats, the fact i could shoot from 250 ft (thank you, eldritch spear), climb walls to basically become un-attackable half the fights we had, and later on could at will make people my friend...the DM was pretty clear who he considered the most powerful one in the party. Which was bad, cause he was doing an almost adversarial DM style. I ended up leaving, fed up with being punished for playing intelligently and foiling his encounters. But darn if my underpowered warlock didn't rock. [/QUOTE]
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