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<blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 6883596" data-attributes="member: 284">You guys are nuts.&nbsp; Bladeward is wonderful on the right build or the right situation.&nbsp; My favorite use is on a Fighter1/Warlock X build when you are doing a dungeon crawl and are in &quot;Kick the door in&quot; mode.&nbsp; In this case, the character has Heavy Armor Mastery and the Armor of Agathys spell.&nbsp; The whole idea is to protect the temp HP from Armor of Agathys.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Cast Bladeward, open the door and step in.&nbsp;&nbsp; If nothing is on the other side, nothing is lost.&nbsp; If there is a group of mooks on the other side, they can take free hits until they figure out it's a bad idea.&nbsp;&nbsp; (Say your Armor of Agathys is the 2nd level version, so 10 hp.&nbsp;&nbsp; With bladeward and Heavy Armor mastery if they do 4 points or less you take 0 damage, but they take 10 pts of cold.&nbsp; If they hit you for 10 hp, you take 3 hp and they still take 10pts of cold damage.)I've had a pure tiefling warlock use it to help deal over 70 pts of damage in one round - a bulette was underground but we knew it was about to surface.&nbsp; Bladeward while it was underground.&nbsp; Take the hit when it comes up (damage reduced by bladeward and absorbed by existing temp hp from fiend pact),&nbsp; then on her next turn cast Armor of Agathys (15 tmp hp) and move away from it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Bladeward is still in effect (last until the END of your next round).&nbsp; The bulette hits for 30 (reduced to 15) - warlock takes 0 damage, the bulette takes 15.&nbsp; Then uses her reaction to cast Hellish Rebuke (tiefling racial) - bulette fails the dex and takes another 20 points of fire.&nbsp;&nbsp; Safely out of melee, she uses her bonus action to Hex the bulette and then hits it twice with Eldritch blast for another 35 points.&nbsp; (She rolled well on damage.)I've often used it in conjunction with Armor of Agathys to move through an enemy formation - forcing them to ignore me or eat a lot of damage if they take their AoO's.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; It's definitely situational, but the situations aren't that rare.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Caliban, post: 6883596, member: 284"] You guys are nuts. Bladeward is wonderful on the right build or the right situation. My favorite use is on a Fighter1/Warlock X build when you are doing a dungeon crawl and are in "Kick the door in" mode. In this case, the character has Heavy Armor Mastery and the Armor of Agathys spell. The whole idea is to protect the temp HP from Armor of Agathys. Cast Bladeward, open the door and step in. If nothing is on the other side, nothing is lost. If there is a group of mooks on the other side, they can take free hits until they figure out it's a bad idea. (Say your Armor of Agathys is the 2nd level version, so 10 hp. With bladeward and Heavy Armor mastery if they do 4 points or less you take 0 damage, but they take 10 pts of cold. If they hit you for 10 hp, you take 3 hp and they still take 10pts of cold damage.) I've had a pure tiefling warlock use it to help deal over 70 pts of damage in one round - a bulette was underground but we knew it was about to surface. Bladeward while it was underground. Take the hit when it comes up (damage reduced by bladeward and absorbed by existing temp hp from fiend pact), then on her next turn cast Armor of Agathys (15 tmp hp) and move away from it. Bladeward is still in effect (last until the END of your next round). The bulette hits for 30 (reduced to 15) - warlock takes 0 damage, the bulette takes 15. Then uses her reaction to cast Hellish Rebuke (tiefling racial) - bulette fails the dex and takes another 20 points of fire. Safely out of melee, she uses her bonus action to Hex the bulette and then hits it twice with Eldritch blast for another 35 points. (She rolled well on damage.) I've often used it in conjunction with Armor of Agathys to move through an enemy formation - forcing them to ignore me or eat a lot of damage if they take their AoO's. It's definitely situational, but the situations aren't that rare. [/QUOTE]

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