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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7019863" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Well for one thing, it gives you arbitrary numbers of Armor of Agathys castings if you really need it. How powerful is at-will Armor of Agathys II? How powerful is at-will Shield? Pretty powerful. How powerful is having loads and loads of spell slots? Almost exactly as powerful as at-will Armor of Agathys and Shield. Plus, loads of Web spells, Scorching Rays, Bless spells, sorcery points for Quicken, Darkness for your Devil's Sight, etc.It's a huge pain to build up those spell slots so I've never seen anyone build up a huge spell slot balance in practice, and at higher levels it ceases to be important, but at low levels it is quite interesting. Just imagine a Devil's Sight sorlock who spends 24 hours building up 16 2nd level spell slots (so he's at 4/18 sorcerer slots but 2 1st level warlock slots) and then goes into battle by casting Quickened Darkness followed by Fire Bolt, then starts spewing out Scorching Rays every round at advantage. AC 18 including Shield, and he's doing 21 * hit rate damage per round, plus a Quickened Fire Bolt for 2d10 (11) if he wants to spend sorcery points. He can hit an AC 15 Gargoyle for 19 points of damage per round (30 on rounds when he's Quickening a Fire Bolt), which compares favorably to a Str 18 GWM fighter's 17.50 damage (35 if Action Surging).Obviously in real life (as opposed to a thought experiment under FrogReaver's no-Eldritch Blast constraint) he'd use Eldritch Blast instead of Fire Bolt, but it makes a relatively minor difference. Eldritch Blast just substitutes for Scorching Ray to save on spell slots, and does slightly more damage than Fire Bolt to increase nova DPR to about 34 instead of 30.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7019863, member: 6787650"] Well for one thing, it gives you arbitrary numbers of Armor of Agathys castings if you really need it. How powerful is at-will Armor of Agathys II? How powerful is at-will Shield? Pretty powerful. How powerful is having loads and loads of spell slots? Almost exactly as powerful as at-will Armor of Agathys and Shield. Plus, loads of Web spells, Scorching Rays, Bless spells, sorcery points for Quicken, Darkness for your Devil's Sight, etc. It's a huge pain to build up those spell slots so I've never seen anyone build up a huge spell slot balance in practice, and at higher levels it ceases to be important, but at low levels it is quite interesting. Just imagine a Devil's Sight sorlock who spends 24 hours building up 16 2nd level spell slots (so he's at 4/18 sorcerer slots but 2 1st level warlock slots) and then goes into battle by casting Quickened Darkness followed by Fire Bolt, then starts spewing out Scorching Rays every round at advantage. AC 18 including Shield, and he's doing 21 * hit rate damage per round, plus a Quickened Fire Bolt for 2d10 (11) if he wants to spend sorcery points. He can hit an AC 15 Gargoyle for 19 points of damage per round (30 on rounds when he's Quickening a Fire Bolt), which compares favorably to a Str 18 GWM fighter's 17.50 damage (35 if Action Surging). Obviously in real life (as opposed to a thought experiment under FrogReaver's no-Eldritch Blast constraint) he'd use Eldritch Blast instead of Fire Bolt, but it makes a relatively minor difference. Eldritch Blast just substitutes for Scorching Ray to save on spell slots, and does slightly more damage than Fire Bolt to increase nova DPR to about 34 instead of 30. [/QUOTE]

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