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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gadget" data-source="post: 7105212" data-attributes="member: 23716">The complaints about Blade'locks are not that they are not as good as a fighter, but not as good as other 'locks.  They are 'less survivable by strapping some melee option on them' by virtue that they are now expected to mix it up in melee more than your average lock.  And it requires quite a bit of system mastery (Choose the right race and/or optional feats, choose fiend patron for temp HP, make Dex a priority b/c your AC is poor--you thought Armor of Shadows would do the trick--or the ever popular 'take your first level in fighter') to 'realize' the vision offered by the sub-class.  I've constantly heard in defense of Blade'locks that they aren't supposed to be front line bruisers, and they need to be mobile skirmishers that only engage in melee when the opportunity it right, or when forced to, etc.  Okay, fair enough, but at that point, why not just play another 'lock that has more synergy with class abilities and could do at least some of that for far less investment?  Why don't they have any features (beyond the two invocations) that synergize well with the gish role?  Yes, they have spells, but even the Valor Bard gets Battle Magic, and the Eldritch Knight has the War Magic features in addition to spell casting.  I would posit that the recent UA Sword Patron is at least a partial do over for the blade'lock.  While admittedly not fine tuned (Not to mention a kind of silly patron), look at all the gish-enhancing abilities it gets right off the bat to help it fulfill that role.</blockquote>

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