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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8787751" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>All I see is it not being included on any of the three general lists, which could simply mean that it is given to Warlocks separate of the Arcane list, but still a spell. And if there's one thing we should never doubt WotC's capacity for, it is unnecessarily making every class feature that can be reduced to a form of spellcasting into spellcasting. </p><p></p><p>I've certainly heard the arguments for why Eldritch Blast would work better as a class feature, I agree with many of them. But stepping back and looking at the whole game a bit more abstractly, it would be very strange indeed if the same people who still feel that Hunter's Mark has to be handled as a spell were to decide to make the explicitly magic blasts of a warlock not a spell.</p><p></p><p>My guess is it will be a spell. Whether they'll change the spell to be more dependent on Warlock levels (say, make multiple blasts a level 5 invocation rather than just part of the cantrip) I have no idea. I'm going to guess that they will make it an automatic pick for Warlocks, because not letting people mess up their characters by missing something obvious to everyone in the know seems to be the current vibe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8787751, member: 6988941"] All I see is it not being included on any of the three general lists, which could simply mean that it is given to Warlocks separate of the Arcane list, but still a spell. And if there's one thing we should never doubt WotC's capacity for, it is unnecessarily making every class feature that can be reduced to a form of spellcasting into spellcasting. I've certainly heard the arguments for why Eldritch Blast would work better as a class feature, I agree with many of them. But stepping back and looking at the whole game a bit more abstractly, it would be very strange indeed if the same people who still feel that Hunter's Mark has to be handled as a spell were to decide to make the explicitly magic blasts of a warlock not a spell. My guess is it will be a spell. Whether they'll change the spell to be more dependent on Warlock levels (say, make multiple blasts a level 5 invocation rather than just part of the cantrip) I have no idea. I'm going to guess that they will make it an automatic pick for Warlocks, because not letting people mess up their characters by missing something obvious to everyone in the know seems to be the current vibe. [/QUOTE]
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