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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClaytonCross" data-source="post: 8084744" data-attributes="member: 6880599">Your already likely pushing for max constitution to maintain concentration on spells both due to your lack of spell slots and due simply to most of the good spells on the warlock list being concentration. Your also pushing Charisma to make your spell casting functional because a low DC means again your success rate when you cast versus enemies will be low and with only two spell slots most of your life you can't afford that. Dropping a dexterity requirement opens up strength, intelligence, or wisdom as possible choices you would not already have, or simply spreading the stats around a bit. If you wanted to push dexterity for stealth, athletics, or slight of hand... sure.  .....But what if you don't? What if you want strength to carry more gear? wisdom to be more insightful in conversation or more perceptive as a scout with devil's sight? intelligence for investigation or down time research? maybe a bit of each to remove the -1 to those stats.  In those cases, having the ability to drop dex to 8, get AC14 form armor +2 from shield for an AC16 and still be able to do that is significant and worth it to the character design.We are not talking optimization here, we are talking minimum survivability with enough flexibility to build it your way and be distinct from other pact of the blade builds. The frustration of pact of the blade is that you have one of he most flexible classes in the game but it puts it in a box and takes a lot of your flexibility away. Eldritch Armor makes a huge step in giving you an option to return that flexibility if you need it. The only problem is its another pact of the blade tax on invocations.... I really wish, hexblades got a defensive abitliy at level 6 instead of pet, something more like he Archfey's Misty escape that recharges on short rest but with 2 charges for single combat days, and some "at higher level" scaling around levels 11 and 17. So much so I made a<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/homebrew-my-first-subclass-attempt-warlock-otherworldy-patron-the-rilmani.674467/" target="_blank"> homebrew that uses a "lesser blink" mechanic</a> to try and get it and I really don't do homebrew much because it causes arguments and RAW short a RAI sage advice clarification prevents a lot of problems. My GM feels the same but actually encouraged this homebrew build because it should support any pact, but it should make a significantly more functional pact of the blade without adding anything to its damage.</blockquote>

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