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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClaytonCross" data-source="post: 7413124" data-attributes="member: 6880599">I can completely see this making the class more bearable however.... There is nothing about first few levels or the sub classes that indicate that is the intent. The warlock by name and by its focus on spell slots, spell casting abilities like Mysitic Arcaneum, as well as the large number of Eldritch Invocations on based on spells tell the player that this is a caster class. The sub classes are very clearly designed as arcane melee, scout by proxy, and improved caster versatility. The class also lacks the skill proficiency to be an effective "ranger" focusing on social manipulation and arcana instead. So while I don't disagree with your statement, I feel like players taking warlock for the first time are mislead on what to expect and how to play the class. I would say that the Pact of the Chain is arguably the most suited to your line of though as the scouting abilities come from your  familiar which of many I am sure is the "fey spirit imp" with decent perception, invisibility, and devils sight which leaves a lot of room for the warlock to build an "archer with a pet, ranger type" with some social abilities and fun invocations. Pact of the blade has enough evocations since Zanthar's to make if functional as burst sudo paladin in my opinion which makes the need for eldritch blast almost void which is in direct opposition of your warlocks as archers unless your taking improved pact weapon to make you pact weapon a bow, then it comes back around. Tome however, looks like a flexible caster subclass then ends up being the "archer" you speak of by giving you false choices, because 3 cantrips from any class makes you go wow I can do all sorts of .... wait I can only find 3 or 4 cantrips even worth choosing from that I don't already get... well at least I a have tome of ancient secrets and I can get all those rituals...but almost all of the good ones are wizard and it requires that your GM provides scrolls and you don't have a wizard in your group taking them all. If your GM uses random roll tables for all magic drops the book of ancient secrets becomes random as to whether it will be useful in the campaign at all. So yes as a tome you end up being and "eldritch archer" while everything about the class tells you you could be a Warlock calling on the powers of magic granted from your patron to be a spell caster like a cleric with a different system as you might consider a sorcerer a different system for wizard. I just feel like the Tome warlocks don't get any dependable self reliant abilities that let them live up to what the sell them selves as. Even a few good Tome only eldritch invocations thought could fix that. Though I don't know exactly what those might be.  An extra pact slot would be good and I really like the invocation I wrote for mystic Araucanian but I feel like smarter poeple could makes something better. Maybe even "at will" invocations for higher level spells that are tome only.</blockquote>

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