
Including several crucial healing options. To heal their allies and to cast some spells from the Cleric spell list, The Celestial: Some warlocks swear pacts with celestial creatures, gaining the ability.The Archfey gain spells and abilities to confuse, surprise, and charm other The Archfey: Fey are tricky, unpredictable creatures, and warlocks who swear pacts to.Otherworldly Patron: Warlock subclasses are briefly Most of your non-Face skills are Intelligence-based.

You get two skills and access to a couple of Face skills, but Weapons are fine since you definitely won’t use weapons, but the skill list isįrustrating. Saves: Wisdom and Charisma saves are greatįor resisting things like mind control and paralysis which might subdue you,īut Warlocks will have lots of issues with effects that affect their Optional Class Features are detailed below under Optional Class Features.

Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. RPGBOT is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Keep in mind that the state of the meta periodically changes as new source materials are released and this article will be updating accordingly as time allows. The advice offered below is based on the current State of the Character Optimization Meta as of when the article was last updated. We also won’t cover Unearthed Arcana content because it’s not finalized, and we can’t guarantee that it will be available to you in your games. We will not include 3rd-party content, including content from DMs Guild, in handbooks for official content because we can’t assume that your game will allow 3rd-party content or homebrew. Blue: Fantastic options, often essential.Red: Bad, useless options, or options whichĪre extremely situational.RPGBOT uses the color coding scheme which has become common among Pathfinder build handbooks, which is simple to understand and easy to read at a glance. Example Warlock Build – Tiefling Warlock (Fiend).Warlock Spells Breakdown Table of Contents.The Hexblade subclass also offers theĪbility to serve as a Defender, though Hexblades still lean more toward damageĪfter reading this handbook, I encourage you to read my supporting articles Terms of Utility spell options compared to similar spellcasters, but that canīe mitigated with Pact of the Tome and a few Invocation choices if your partyĬan’t compensate for that shortcoming. Warlock can also serve as the party’s Face. Options as a Controller and Striker, and with some minor investments the The Warlock typically fills the party’s Wizard-equivalent role, offering Warlocks back-to-back with very little overlap in your builds. This wide degree of customization makes it easy to play

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Warlock’s Subclass) and your Pact Boon, plus spells known and a pile ofĮldritch Invocations. You get two major decision points with your Otherwordly Patron (the Warlocks also get the most powerful damage cantrip in the game, giving them a solid, reliable option for damage output in between your big spells.Īt the same time, the Warlock is one of the most customizable classes in the Warlocks learn spells permanently, so you don’t need to worry about changing your spells on a daily basis. You get only a handful of spell slots at a time, and never have to juggle multiple spell slot levels.

I appreciate all your knowledge and wit.The Warlock is likely the easiest of any spellcaster to play. Hit whatever meat sacks are left, if any, with dagger. shoot holy fireball in face of closest baddie. Choose annoying caster or champ, hurl him to hell. And swap in crush weakness for feat.īuff up, get all your Temp HP from Shining Through and Guard up (US). For more DPS you can go Fury stance for amp against helpless. But it's meant to play in a group, hence the Angel healing aura. Chainz for CC, aura, burst and pretty OK SWF for kills. Inspired by Strim's use of the goldcurse dagger and two chain attacks to turn literally *everything* to gold based on a DC 100 fort save, I thought "they're gold now, how do I melt them down to make SHINIES?" The answer? My very own Easy Bake oven, aka a Fiend Pact Warlock. The Pawn Shop takes your Gold and keeps it under 'lock and chainzzzz (nod to Strimtom)
