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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6780290" data-attributes="member: 5834">I'm hoping for some folks to provide examples based on experience. My experience has shown me it is a big deal. Enemy casters don't have to worry about conserving slots. They can blow them off in a single combat. A powerful enemy caster has a lot of slots to counter the warlock and not break a sweat doing other things. Even one dispel or counter to a warlock with 2 slots is half their spell power gone. A caster with the equivalent of level 18 casting ability is only a CR 12 encounter. If that CR 12 caster is supporting a group of minions, he can pretty easily dispel a warlock without using much of his overall power available for the entire battle. If he is able to use counterspell, then he need only spend a reaction. The casters I've used so far to counter the low level warlock have been in the lvl 7 caster range. They were able to elminate the warlock's 2nd level darkness spell without a serious expenditure of their spell power and still have plenty available to fight the rest of the party. The warlock players in my group try to use combos with a lot of bang for the buck. If that combo can be shut down very easily by a dispel or counterspell, they're pretty much reduced to eldritch blast, not even necessarily with hex given they've  used up their concentration trying to cast the darkness ending their hex. That means both spell slots are down. I felt mean doing it as a DM given how much it neutered the warlock. At the same time I can't see an enemy caster allowing a warlock to walk into his minions wiping them out using the darkness and devilsight combination given how effective it is when it works.I wonder if I were to eliminate the concentration requirement for hex that might help them some, at least allow them to maintain their damage output.</blockquote>

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