Oh, I'm sorry...I didn't realize that 3d6/round at ECL10 was considered "contributing", even from 180' away under the cover of greater invisibility. I guess the demon will just kill/eat your friends, then teleport out before you put a meaningful dent in his HP.
so you're friends are even less optimized than you? and this is a complaint against pixie or your friends for sucking? and the only way to "contribute" is by doing damage in combat?
SR 21 is overcome by a 13th level foe on a roll of 8 or higher. That's a 65% chance. SR on a PC, especially for a PC who has 4 HD behind the OTHER PCs and generally 6+ HD behind any meaningful caster is almost worthless. It'll bite you in the butt during buff rounds more often than it will ward off harmful incoming attacks.
again, why is a 10th level character taking on 13th level foes? in your example of two hezrous, even without a pixie in the party, your alll human party is still dead.... 6 rounds of just standing there. Warlocks buff themselves all day, so the buff problem doesn't ever come into play. Oh and it will ward off WAY more attacks than your humans with 0 SR.
And a single CR13 foe is not out of line for a 10th level party. Thats only APL +3 encounter. According to the d20SRD encounter calculator, it is "very difficult", and worth 2250 XP each. Heck, in Living Greyhawk, we used to have 3 APL+3 encounters per mod, sometimes all in the same day. You could even throw in a few CR4 mooks and NOT even affect the EL at all.
ok, again, is this a complaint against pixie not being the best race for warlock class or is it a complaint against the completely arbitrary CR system? I don't care about your experience in living greyhawk without a warlock in your party and I'm pretty sure the OP also doesn't care.
Hezrou CR 11 Blasphemy 3/day
2 of them would be an EL 13 encounter, 6 Blasphemys per day total.
Also, 13th level evil clerics tend to Blasphemy first, ask questions later. They have the benefit of CL boosting items like IWIN Stones or Beads of Karma.
Pixie being best race for warlock, this information doesn't help the OP, it just shows that broken items, when allowed to stack, make clerics disgusting and also shows how a CR13 encounter comprised of 2 CR11's can TPK the party REGARDLESS of their being a pixie or warlock in the party. Good Job sir.
High level D&D gets tough, and bogging your character down with +4 LA is generally a path to a quick death. If you can't contribute SOMETHING meaningful in combat other than being slightly annoying from afar, you might want to reconsider your selection. By the time a pixie gets high enough level to be meaningful, enough things have either heightened senses (Dragons with Blindsight) or True Sight (most true Demons/Devils +casters) that you'll still get dead.
Did you forget about what makes a high level rogue nasty in combat? UMD. And warlocks get that too, oh and they can take 10 whenever they want.
Pixie might look good on paper. Its not. Lack of HD will get you killed. SR is bad for a PC. Superior Invisibility is nearly worthless past ECL 12 (when you'll only have 8 HD), and the stats, while decent, aren't worth their weight in LA. At higher levels, you'd be better off with the HD and getting the pixie abilities from invocations (Fell Flight + Retributive Invisibility).
This whole block of information is bad. Espeically the SR part and the Invisibility part, cuz we all know that you will never ever fight anything in any campaign that doesn't have True Seeing or Blindsight 260 feet.
You need to learn how to think outside your box, man. There's way more to 3.5 than combat, and if combat is the only thing you are interested in contributing to, then go have fun and play with other power gaming munchkins that just want to "win d&d". Don't try to tell me I'm wrong by saying a pixie warlock sucks in combat against real casters, big dragons, and true demons, that makes you look ignorant. This post isn't about comparing warlock to real casters and how their abilities are worse than real casters, this post is about picking the best race to play as warlock.
1. Pixie doesn't need to pick Fell Flight or Walk Unseen or Retributive Invisibility as invocations, if he wants to he can take Improved Flight to make his maneuverability Perfect. Since Warlocks need feats to get more than 12 total invocations, not having to pick 3 of them means you are more versatile than even a race that would be nice and give you 2 bonus feats post 11 hit dice.
2. Built in Spell Resistance of 15 + class levels is only 1 less than the Spell Resistance granted by a cleric of 9th level and higher, except that for the first 5 levels of a Pixie's career he's got SR and the cleric 4-8 don't. AND he can take feats to improve it since it's natural to him (like the feat from Book of Exalted deeds that adds +4 vs. evil) And you say SR doesn't matter to PC's? And then you give a classic example where SR is the ONLY thing that will save you or your party? way to contradict yourself there.
3. Awesome stats for a warlock, everything you care about (3 more skill points per level is good)
4. Built in 10 DR that goes up as you gain warlock levels.
5. Weapon Finesse and Dodge for free.
6. Small Size and all its benefits.
7. Fey creature type makes you immune to a lot of "person" spells. Oh and no maximum age category AFAIK.
With that being said, if the DM throws encounters at the party designed to kill your character, and he succeeds, WHY are you playing with that douchebag DM? It's about having fun, and taking someone's fun away just to prove a point proves the point that you are a douchebag.
