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<blockquote data-quote="JackOfAllTirades" data-source="post: 6609374" data-attributes="member: 6790063">My advice is not to get too obsessed with all the optimizers telling you what you &quot;have to do&quot; with a warlock character. There's more than one way to make the class work.If you don't want to get stuck spamming Eldritch Blast all the time, take the Blade Pact and grab some spells/invocations useful for melee. Your first instinct might be a great weapon, but a finesse weapon is also a good choice. Put some points in DEX and you'll have superior AC, Initiative and DEX saving throws too. Consider the Medium Armor feat and you'll have an excellent AC. Combo the Devils Sight and Thirsting Blade invocations with the Darkness spell and attack foes with advantage twice each round. I cast Darkness on my blade, then cast Blink; when my warlock blinks out between his turns, his Darkness field goes with him so his allies can see. I'm not saying this is the best build or even an &quot;optimal&quot; one, but it works great for me and my group. I'm just saying you should experiment with other builds and don't get &quot;locked in&quot; to what the optimizers here insist is best, because you might miss out on the character that works best for YOU. And don't forget, every single time your warlock levels up, in addition to any new spells/invocations you gain at that level, you can also retrain one old spell and one old invocation you don't use/want any more. Over the course of two or three levels you can practically re-design your whole character if it's not working.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JackOfAllTirades, post: 6609374, member: 6790063"] My advice is not to get too obsessed with all the optimizers telling you what you "have to do" with a warlock character. There's more than one way to make the class work. If you don't want to get stuck spamming Eldritch Blast all the time, take the Blade Pact and grab some spells/invocations useful for melee. Your first instinct might be a great weapon, but a finesse weapon is also a good choice. Put some points in DEX and you'll have superior AC, Initiative and DEX saving throws too. Consider the Medium Armor feat and you'll have an excellent AC. Combo the Devils Sight and Thirsting Blade invocations with the Darkness spell and attack foes with advantage twice each round. I cast Darkness on my blade, then cast Blink; when my warlock blinks out between his turns, his Darkness field goes with him so his allies can see. I'm not saying this is the best build or even an "optimal" one, but it works great for me and my group. I'm just saying you should experiment with other builds and don't get "locked in" to what the optimizers here insist is best, because you might miss out on the character that works best for YOU. And don't forget, every single time your warlock levels up, in addition to any new spells/invocations you gain at that level, you can also retrain one old spell and one old invocation you don't use/want any more. Over the course of two or three levels you can practically re-design your whole character if it's not working. [/QUOTE]

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