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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bganon" data-source="post: 6362372" data-attributes="member: 60886">Exactly, I think of the eldritch knight as something like 80/20 warrior/mage, while the bladelock is more like 30/70.  Valor bards and war clerics seem to me like they might be closest to 50/50, maybe leaning a bit more toward mage, while paladins can go from 80%+ warrior to maybe 60/40 if they don't burn all their slots on smites.Of course, it depends on where you put "50% warrior".  My criteria is something like "spends 50% of combat swinging a weapon well enough to not just be wishing for more spells instead".  I think bladelocks don't quite meet this - they're generally going to better off opening with a debuff and 1-2 eldritch blasts before closing to melee for mop-up.</blockquote>