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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RonLugge" data-source="post: 7105164" data-attributes="member: 6863787">Because EB is just that good.  Frankly, it's probably too good; I often comment that EB and Hex are class features disguised as spells.  The issue primarily being one of the defensive advantages of being at a range; it makes it much easier to keep your concentration going on hex if you aren't in the thick of things.  The end result is that a warlock at range can usually keep his hex up, while a warlock in melee -- minus several ASIs spent on building up concentration -- generally can't.The issue isn't the actual, underlying damage outputs.  The issue is that a warlock in melee doesn't have the tools to keep his concentration going without spending a few ASIs on things like Warcaster / Resilient(Con), while a  warlock at a distance does.  Acknowledging that you're not into Character Optimization, the point of the analysis was actually about putting mathematical numbers on my emotional impressions.  Or to put it another way, I was trying to analyze what I 'felt' to be true the best I could.  Frankly, the bladelock spends resources to be almost as good in melee as the blastlock is -- with fewer resources spent -- at a distance.  That's... OK.  I can accept being inferior to the fighter in melee, inferior to the blastlock at range, in return for flexibility.  It wasn't what I expected the results to be.And of course, you spend way more resources to be good in melee; it takes multiple ASIs and invocations to keep up, while a single invocation gets you all the power of EB's core damage output.</blockquote>

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