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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9684457" data-attributes="member: 6790260">They suddenly gain spellcasting. That's a pretty dramatic shift.Sure they do. Consider the Beast Master Ranger, or the Valor Bard.Nnnnnnope! Like unless you have some FRESH new research that is completely different from the other stuff, that's literally not true, and the Warlock class specifically demonstrates why it's not. At any level-up, the player can decide to become a bladelock.Yet that is still a (dramatic!) change in gameplay. If you truly do run out of spells, you are functionally on "magic crossbow" duty--it's just one that uses Cha/Int/Wis and thus you don't objectively suck at using it. And that's why the Warlock's eldritch blast is rather more powerful than most cantrips...and why they can make it one of the best baseline offensive options in the game with a single invocation. (EB+AB is, effectively, a one-handed +1 longbow with a slight range penalty, no ammunition, and the possibility of wielding a melee weapon at the same time if you're a Bladelock; if you add a second invocation to get Eldritch Spear, then even at level 3 it already exceeds the base range of a longbow and by level 16 it exceeds the maximum range thereof.)</blockquote>