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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barolo" data-source="post: 7019651" data-attributes="member: 61932">Some other fun options: for low level, heavy armor master is really nice. Combined with warlock's armor of Agathys, you may be absorbing a lot of punishment while retaliating with cold damage. In this case, you could start off as variant human fighter with the feat and then choose between 4 levels of warlock (for lvl 2 armor or Agathys twice per short rest 2 x 10 temp HP, go fiend for extra temp HPs on enemies down after your armor of Agathys run down) or go fighter 4 (eldritch knight) / warlock 1 (for booming blade + shield as [MENTION=6781797]kbrakke[/MENTION] suggested, with warcaster also for nasty opportunity attacks, but armor of Agathys is limited to 5 temp HPs). The other nice amenity of playing a tank with warlock levels is that you can have a decent ranged attack more or less for free.Cleric 1 (any with heavy armor) / Sorcerer 3 / warlock 1 allows for some tricky stunt. Again variant human with heavy armor master, but now take the blade ward cantrip and quicken spell metamagic. Now you have 10 temp HPs per armor, that you can extend to 20 by using blade ward. Keep yourself close to your enemies and let them die trying to kill you. If they are not biting the bait, you can even move around provoking opportunity attacks. With "20" temp HP, taking -3 dmg and retaliating 10 dmg per attack this can be really fun. If you get bored, quicken spell is there for other spells. You can even quicken the blade ward while grappling/shoving prone your enemies (doable even with mediocre str, as most monsters lack skill proficiencies, but you can actually have decent str, as all you need is 13 wis, cha, and you want 15 con). You can also have shield spell and choose whatever is more suitable for the encounter, be it high AC (against ranged enemies) or temp HPs + retaliation (melee cannon fodder is specially vulnerable here).</blockquote>

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