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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 6949471" data-attributes="member: 6799649">The point seems to be that warlocks would never choose the Armour of Shadows invocation because they are proficient with light armour, therefore these NPCs are badly made.But is it the case that Armour of Shadows is a wasted invocation? The way to test this is to see if PC warlocks have this enchantment, and it would be helpful if the example warlocks were designed using some system mastery.Me! I have a degree of system mastery (although min/maxing is not my design goal), and I have played three warlocks in 5E so far, and they all happen to be multiclass and all designed (mainly) as melee characters:-* Pal 2/War 3, fiendish chainlock. Wears full plate* Bar 3/War 8, frenzied barbarian, fiendish bladelock. Relies on Unarmoured Defence.* Ftr 1/War 7, undying bladelock. Dex-based, two-weapon wielder. Despite proficiency in all armour and shields, does not use a shield because she is focussed on TWF with hex, and with Dex 16 and Armour of Shadows has AC 16, which will increase as her Dex increases (and Dex is her favoured stat). The base 13 AC from the invocation is better than any light armour, better than any heavy armour she has the Str to wear, and better than any combination of medium armour and Dex that she has access to. Even if she found some half plate it would only give her AC 17, while with 18 Dex she would have AC 17 anywayIt's no different for warlocks as it is for any other class: if you are not a Str-based, heavy armour wearing PC, then Armour of Shadows/mage armour/Unarmoured Defence/Draconic Resilience gives you a better AC than any light or medium armour if you are Dex-based.</blockquote>

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