That's about where I'm at. If you go Eldritch Blast heavy you don't have room to do much else in terms of invocations. I find EB spam a boring as dirt character to play, so I don't go that route. Mask of Many Faces might be my favorite low level invocation.
Totally fair, but I'm definitely in the opposite boat. I've been playing 5e steadily with multiple groups since 2014, and most of our games are relatively short (about 9-18 months), so I've played or seen played pretty much everything in the PHB, and a good portion of the stuff in Xanathar's and Tasha's at this point. I'm also just a rules sponge and our resident rules expert, so just seeing stuff in a play for a few sessions generally makes me feel I've got a good grasp of what it does.This thread has turned into evidence for why I keep a tight rein on what I allow in my games, because I have no friggin' idea what most of you are talking about and don't have much enthusiasm about doing the reading I'd need to do to get it.
I wonder if this is in part because because I only started with 5E in very late 2019 - and thus the core rules still provide enough new stuff for me. I literally read the rogue class for the first time last week (no one in my groups have played one) and I have no idea how warlock powers work (I banned them for now from my current games because I did not want to deal with a third way of dealing with spells and am playing with mostly newbies who look to me to explain stuff).
Ah, between hexblade and taking Armor of Agathys I had assumed you were melee. I should have known.
