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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gadget" data-source="post: 7091849" data-attributes="member: 23716">Assuming variant human is an option, yes.  Assuming feats themselves (an optional rule) are used, then yes.  One could just pick dwarf as a race (medium armor proficiency) and be fairly well off as well.  I'll take your word on 'hitting like a truck', assuming you prioritize strength and choose a high damage two-handed pact weapon, so you will be decent in melee.  You have spent significant resources to make yourself so.  A Book Pact Warlock could do almost as well with Shillelagh, Green Flame Blade or Booming Blade, but that too would be a significant investment.Well said.  I'm sure you have a fun character.  While I can't speak for others, I think the 'arguments' against the single classed blade'lock seem to stem from the fact that the flavor implies a melee-ish character, but does not deliver such without a fair bit of system mastery and character resource investment beyond the obvious, or a character/play style that heavily emphasizes the light mobile skirmisher aspect.  Especially in games that don't use all the optional rules like feats, multi-classing, variant human, etc.   Point taken, and I don't think anyone wants them to outdo fighters (at least not without a significant investment in limited use resources), just an effective 'gish' character.  And I think many are coming at it from an optimization angle as well.</blockquote>