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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 2762702" data-attributes="member: 284">Neither do sorcerers, but they can use metamagic feats.  Memorizing a spell has nothing to do with this.There are two reasons that you can't use Energy Substitution with the Eldritch Blast:1)  The Eldritch Blast ability on page 7 states: "Metamagic feats cannot improve a warlock's eldritch blast (because it is a spell-like ability, not a spell)."  The Sudden Metamagic feats are a specific exception to this.  Although the reasoning given for them applying would seem to work for metamagic feats that don't increase the spell level, it doesn't get around the specific prohibition against metamagic feats.2)  Even if you could use the feat, it wouldn't work with standard Eldritch Blast.   Energy Substitution only works on spells that have an energy descriptor to begin with, and Eldritch Blast does untyped damage.   It would only work with blasts that have been modified by an invocation to do energy damage.</blockquote>