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<blockquote data-quote="Bishmon" data-source="post: 3827000" data-attributes="member: 56176"><p>Thing is, the warlock class is exactly for me. I loved the idea behind the mechanics when the class first came out. An arcane magic user who has access to a few select abilities but can use them all the time? It was everything I thought the sorcerer should have been.</p><p></p><p>It was just so unfortunate that it was such a pain in the ass to pry the flavor out of the mechanics. I wouldn't have much cared if the whole infernal power thing was just in the flavor text, the same way sorcerers connections to dragons are in its flavor text. But while I can ignore that sorcerer flavor text and easily make a sorcerer who had more fey-like powers, or one who just liked blasting things, or whatever else, I couldn't really do that with the warlock. Not when half its powers are about summoning swarms of bats, growing bat-like wings, turning into a hellcat, etc.</p><p></p><p>With 4E, I was hoping they'd give the class a bit more flexibility, but this article doesn't leave me optimistic. It'd be a small victory if one of the options for the 4E warlock was more of a connection with fey, but I still would have liked to have seen flexibility akin to that of sorcerers, wizards, and clerics because of how much I liked the idea behind the mechanics.</p><p></p><p>Oh well. Hopefully the 4E sorcerer will be more of what I'm hoping for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bishmon, post: 3827000, member: 56176"] Thing is, the warlock class is exactly for me. I loved the idea behind the mechanics when the class first came out. An arcane magic user who has access to a few select abilities but can use them all the time? It was everything I thought the sorcerer should have been. It was just so unfortunate that it was such a pain in the ass to pry the flavor out of the mechanics. I wouldn't have much cared if the whole infernal power thing was just in the flavor text, the same way sorcerers connections to dragons are in its flavor text. But while I can ignore that sorcerer flavor text and easily make a sorcerer who had more fey-like powers, or one who just liked blasting things, or whatever else, I couldn't really do that with the warlock. Not when half its powers are about summoning swarms of bats, growing bat-like wings, turning into a hellcat, etc. With 4E, I was hoping they'd give the class a bit more flexibility, but this article doesn't leave me optimistic. It'd be a small victory if one of the options for the 4E warlock was more of a connection with fey, but I still would have liked to have seen flexibility akin to that of sorcerers, wizards, and clerics because of how much I liked the idea behind the mechanics. Oh well. Hopefully the 4E sorcerer will be more of what I'm hoping for. [/QUOTE]
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