D&D General Pact of the Blade Warlocks - How often do you change your weapon?

[jmartkdr2]

Might need to have an Artificer Battle Smith in the party to get custom magical weapons ;

I am hoping that my son experiments a bit and gets a feeling for the benefits of push, vex, cleave, slow, etc...

It does make it difficult to pick feats...

For a brand new player, switching weapons every day can be fun even if it’s not optimized. He can play around with the system, try out the different masteries and find out which are the most fun.

After a while he’ll probably settle in on a favorite and stop switching most of the time, but trying the sampler platter first is a good idea.

 

[Tessarael]

For a brand new player, switching weapons every day can be fun even if it’s not optimized. He can play around with the system, try out the different masteries and find out which are the most fun.

After a while he’ll probably settle in on a favorite and stop switching most of the time, but trying the sampler platter first is a good idea.

Sure, but in that case don't invest a feat until you are ready. This is one of the motivations to start characters at level 1, to give players, particularly new players, time to figure out how they want to play the character and where they want to focus.

 

[BigMac75]

Sure, but in that case don't invest a feat until you are ready. This is one of the motivations to start characters at level 1, to give players, particularly new players, time to figure out how they want to play the character and where they want to focus.

For sure. Yeah, he is just starting out and is still learning what the different weapons are. He has an anti-dragon thing in his origin story (he is Dragonborn) so big weapons of some type - either greatsword/greataxe or polearms - make sense (and his Warlock cannot use a shield).

He does not get Pact of the Blade till Lvl 2 so will use True Strike with his Light Crossbow at Lvl 1. I am going to recommend that he put Repelling Blast on True Strike at Level 2 so he can at least play around with pushing things around (he can use True Strike with either the crossbow or the Pact Weapon and that is pretty optimal setup till Lvl 4 when he gets a feat).

If he wants to play it safe he could wait till Lvl 3 (till he gets Fiend's temporary HP from kills) to really get into Melee w/ his Pact Weapons but only time will tell what playstyle he prefers.