HOW TO PLAY WARLOCK (again)
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- here we go again, I really really like this class.
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I created a Tiefling Warlock who made a pact with an Aboleth with the sole purpose of becoming the best fisherman in the multiverse. He uses his fishing rod to cast spells.
very nice wizard
Why, you sly dog you...
@CogentPhilosopher I think I see a correlation here..
@CogentPhilosopher Good... eh.
Creative, yes.
You HAVE to get the Eldritch Blast modifications that allow you to push, pull and slow enemies.
"This is a one-shot" has the same energy as "Ma'am, this is an Arby's."
I guess you could say it's *D'Arby's* restaurant
Ok i'll leave
Jackson Inc. Nono, go ahead, Mr. Joestar
Go ahead, Mester Johsturr
@@Moths05 nope (obviusly lying)
@@jacksoninc.4062 "everything turns blue" Yes yes yes yes.
Warlock "Damit I can only cast spells twice!"
Patron: "You've severely underestimated the power of a short rest"
Warlock "You've severely underestimated the bone headedness of my party"
Ranger: "Come on guys just a bit longer then we can take a short rest"
Rest of the party: "You sad that 4 HOURS AGO!"
I play a warlock and my party never wants to take a short rest cause they all waste there spells during combat and I'm over here doing that intentionally cause I know that i can just get them back.
@@mrscechy8625 Get your DM to make the characters eat lunch every day. If you eat slowly, it can count as a short rest.
As a ranger main, that sounds like me
Not sad “said”
My Character was originally a Bard so he has 5 Spell Slots
Maybe the great old one warlock's abilities are weaker because their contracts don't have any conditions because their patrons don't know they exist.
makes sense no drawbacks for less power
I just finished a campaign with GOO warlock. My character accidentally entered the pact and started using the powers he got. Over the course of the campaign he prayed to Walmart Brand Cthulhu every day until the gaze of the Old One saw the earth. Then I accidentally opened the world up to eldritch invaders and we spent the second half of the campaign fixing it.
The main reason my patron actually mattered was because my DM wrote his master's thesis on H.P. Lovecraft so he really knew what I was going for.
@@jold3174 I think the drawbacks wouldn’t be clauses of a contract but rather physical and mental consequences of exposure to such crazy and alien magic
@@dynawesome
ah well that depends on how strong you are mentally and upon how deep you dive in to the rabbit hole
Me, staring at the Warlock in my old campaign, who had a GOO pact with the giant fucking world-eater snake and it became the final boss of the campaign.
"I don't make the rules, I just make the rules."
- The DM
BlackLion I don’t make the rules,I just change them at will
I don't make the rules, I just think them up and write them down
how about, "i dont make the rules. i _am_ the rules."
@@r.s.2890 you're not chuck 'norris
Wizard: studies hard
Sorcerer: naturally smart
Warlock: seduces the teacher
Bard: is the teacher and the seduction was a part of the test
oh I know this one.
Wizard: studies hard, gets an A+
Sorcerer: doesn't study, still gets an A
Bard: seduces the teacher, gets a B+
Cleric: spends all year becoming the dean's favorite and gets an A+
Palladin: never as succesful but tries hard and gets a B
Druid: skips the test to go smoke weed with his cool uncle F
Warlock: buys the answers from an upperclassman and gets a C+
PJ VC xD
Druid sells weed to the teacher
Wizard : nerd, so basically everyone who plays D&D
Sorcerer : my dad rolled nat 20 on seducing a dragon
Warlock : "yea, i would kill a child"
"YOU'VE STUCK WITH YOUR PATRON AND YOUR CHARACTER THIS LONG, AND YOU GET.... YOU GET....."
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honestly yea pretty much...your basically just downloading spells from your patrons cloud storage of power and now you have verizon so you can do it FASTER
I got a wendy's chicken sandwich
Oh my god srsly
I got ebay
I got an add for Liberty Mutual.
"The cleric isn't happy with my life choices!"
Our cleric was never happy with the life choices of my tiefling rogue, little does she know that what recently saved the whole party from dying in a 2000ft fall was not in fact Bahamut, but an arch-devil the rogue sold her soul to in a desperate move xD
Roguelock, because one shady class just wasn't enough ;)
The only way this can be shadier if you were a yuan ti pureblood and told them very late or never and they found out later without you telling them.
By the way I am making a yuan ti pureblood swashbuckler rogue, a lot of shadiness but at least we don't have anything divine in our campaign and the closest thing to healing we have is a bard.
@@kykisaky7841 i shall make this shaddier evil god cleric
@@garyvincent7397 yeah this is going to give the good paladin a heart attack
@@kykisaky7841 well, she is also a member of the thieve's guild that raised and trained her 😅
Plus she's 15, so the cleric and sorcerer try to play the disapointed mom and dad a lot of the time. Last time she snuck out to attend a guild's meeting they considered the fantasy version of boarding school: sending her to a temple xD
20 min but in the end we all know the answer: Eldritch blast
This is the only answer with xbow expert feat!
Just button-mash Eldritch Blast - it makes it easy to be on your phone and still make the correct decision in combat every turn ! xD
*cries in Eldritch blast *
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I took Chill Touch instead as I wanted to avoid Eldritch Blast. Built around a storm theme. But can we please rename it to Ghastly Grasp.
"Thanks to the patrons" right after a warlock video cracked me up
I just got the joke because of your comment.
I understood that joke!
God damn you Was gonna make that joke
I was waiting for Cthulhu
true me to man
18:15 he got cut off after "you will now be rewarded with--" by a Little Caesar's ad that said "Cheesy Stuffed Crazy Bread"
I got cut off by a lipstick ad.
I got the samsung ad
I got Dominos pizza
I got a phone case for iPhpne
i got Papa John's pizza
I can't believe they're actually arguing about the abundance of healing in their party.
I know it's so weird considering that for my campaign I'm dming everyone can do some form of healing. I have a shepherd druid, and cleric, a divine soul sorcerer and the ranger has their aasimar healing ability.
I do think it’s supposed to be hyperbolic. Because the meme is that no one wants to play a character built around healing. For some reason “healers don’t get to play the game”.
"You have severely underestimated the power of a short rest"
Warlocks in a nutshell
The Battlemaster Fighter agrees.
@@2MeterLP Though it is kinda sad that... basically the class gets screwed over by its party over all else.
IF your party actually uses short rests, you can have a good time.
IF your party just does long rests all the time, then you're screwed.
@@aquamarinerose5405 in my current game, I am a hexlock and it is fun because they do take short rests. I can actually use my spells in combat and act as a harraser using misty step to throw spectral flails at my target before beating them down with my pact weapon.
@@aquamarinerose5405 Yeah, as much as I love the flavor and customization of Warlocks I never felt like playing a warlock character(at least without me mostly multi-classing into something else) since none of the groups I've joined use short rests that often besides one, and that was a group I was dming in which we were playing with gritty realism rules. In just about every campaign I've played in, my party is almost always in a situation where we either have enough time to do a longrest or don't have the time to do a short rest and need to constantly keep moving, so the warlock's ability to regain spell slots on short rests is kinda useless for me.
I kinda wish that warlocks were either given a few more spell slots to work or have the ability to lose a portion of their current health in order to regain spell slots, since I don't think short rest regen is really worth that much when the rest of the party very rarely has any reason to use it over a long rest.
@@trevordavis6830 you could maybe work out a deal with your dm* were out of combat you can expend a hit die to gain back a spell slot?
If the group doesn't take short rests, you aren't really using them anyway, right?
Edit: em to dm
I always saw the point of Eldritch blast being such a generic sounding spell is that they're giving you the opportunity to reflavor it however you want.
Had a archfey warlock obsessed with bees who was over the moon when I told them their EB could be a bee or bees
I can't upvote this enough ! D&D is a game about *imagination* where rules exist to make it a game and not just make believe. So what if a player wants his longsword to be a katana ? It's a katana now that still follows all the rules for longswords. Same for Eldritch Blast etc. Reflavoring is even heavily encouraged in the PHB for Monks who might want to reflavor their monk weapons to closer resemble Far Eastern martial arts weaponry.
Nr4747
The designers getting you to do their work for them is not a wonderful innovation worthy of praise.
@@gma5607 wasnt that a big reason city of heros stood out from other mmos?
TheCinderfang
Ah yes, 5 Edition Dungeons and Dragons that famous MMO!
"And she's salted her family's fields like, two or three times."
"She keeps going back."
Something about an Archdevil periodically stopping her cosmic war to just ruin some random family's farm is simply hilarious.
I can imagine Zariel stopping her armies from desecrating and goring demons to getting a 5 pound salt bag to slowly ruin this family’s fields
and even though she has a huge army and can kill the entire family, she just decides to personally salt the fields, i like to imagine its like a hobby to let of the steam, after a long day at war you just take a trip to the farm and salt the field
It's a great tale of u don't have to mess with them, but I have nothing better to do for 20 mins an I just had this bag of salt...
@@mranderson9553 Just imagine some heroes come and try to stop her, and she's just like "Listen, I've had a long day, and I just need to vent some frustration. Can y'all just let me have some me time?"
You guys need to read that story where Thanos ruins a random guy's birthday for the rest of his life.
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The warlock level chart looks really empty until you realize that most of the "empty" levels are levels where you're get to pick a new eldritch invocation
1. Be edgy.
2. Don't study or be talented
3. Eldritch Blast
4. Have an eye for opportunity.
5. Keep a spare firstborn child and sacrificial dagger handy (see above)
6. Profit
Sounds like sorcerer with extra steps.
The best thread I’ve seen today
The real reason you are remaking it is because the first one lacked a song isn't it?
probably
Definetly
Pretty good though
absolutely
You fucking gottem
“Lich bolt, not witch bolt.”
“Sorry I don’t make up the rules I just make up the rules.”
This is why your my favorite youtuber
5:04 Ah the gulock, the warlock that made a pact with Stalin
ok but where's the glock then.
@ y e s
CCCP bitch!
@@teedeegremlin i mean you can have a gun as a pact weapon thanks to ua
@ artificer-warlock multiclass. That actually sounds fucking fun. I guess it's basically percy from critical role.
My character that I'm playing right now is a tiefling warlock of the celestial. She sought out an angel to make a pact with so that she would be the last of her family to have fiendish blood.
That is... a very appropriate and flavorful reason to make a pact with a celestial that I am ashamed of myself for never thinking of. Nice work!
@@BigBoi237 I know! I'm really proud I thought of it all on my own! The Solar keeps me on a tight leash though, because angels don't trust tieflings much.
Yes I love the dichotomy. Having that sort of divison is so good for rp and storytelling. Genius.
Don’t mind me while I steal this.
@@lucascoleman6801 Go right ahead! I love it because it lets me be great in both combat (racial modifier synergy) as well as in rp. Truly the best of both worlds.
6:00 ok but I was totally disappointed Spencer didn’t come in and be like “hey guys, here’s my character and sorry I’m late. I’m a Divine Soul Sorcerer”
Edit: oh lord I posted this a little early into the video. Damn Jacob you truly want people to hate you for your very unpopular opinions don’t you. Seems to be a major trend on this channel 😅
oof that would have been great considering she played a Divine Soul Sorcerer in Strahd in Arcane Arcade
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And then a 5th person is playing a Circle of Dreams Druid
@Kristina Payne "hey welcome to the rouge again ok page one fuck the the rouge, and there you go"
The thing is, all of those ideas for Eldritch Blast *severely* decrease it’s power. Force damage makes it so powerful because nothing has immunity nor resistance to it. You could flavour it, so it’s a golden beam of light for a Celestial, or a flaming crack in reality for Devils, or... okay, purple beam of mysterious energy still works for a goolock, but the point stands - change its flavour to fit your tastes, not its mechanics.
Edit: never mind, some creatures are immune to specifically eldritch blast, and the helmed horror is the one creature to get immunity to force damage - but my original point does still stand, giving it a different damage type does diminish its power somewhat.
well in all honesty I would trade flavour for mechanics any day. If i choose to recolour my eldritch blast into a fire blast and now have to deal with fire resistance than I'm up for it
You can't Eldritch blast a tarrasque
@@ThePi314Man what do you mean by this? Eldritch blast can deal damage to a tarrasque.
@@benjaminkingsley-jones7832 "Any time the tarrasque is targeted by a magic missile spell, a line spell, or a spell that requires a ranged attack roll, roll a d6. On a 1 to 5, the tarrasque is unaffected. On a 6, the tarrasque is unaffected, and the effect is reflected back at the caster as though it originated from the tarrasque, turning the caster into the target."
Eldritch blast is a "spell that requires a ranged attack roll" therefore you either do nothing to it at best, or at worst the tarrasque goes "no u"
@@BillytheCorgi huh, didn’t notice that, yeah you’re right about that then, my bad!
Thanks for pointing it out!
"The cleric isn't happy with my life choices"
Me, cleric who struck a deal with my deity's deva to get holy mace of holy face-ripping: "uuuuuuuuh..."
But in the name of your deity though, so it's ok. Bash away with their blessing. Lol
My Drow Feylost Death Domain Cleric sworn to the Raven Queen potentially tolerates you and the Warlock depending on what you do.
IF YOU HARM INNOCENTS OR ARE A THIEF THEN YOU UNLEASH HER WRATH!!!
Undying Half-Ocs be like:
DM: "you've already come back from the dead!"
PC: "that was my Race ability. now, I'm using my Class ability!"
DM: gfy
Gfy?
Anthony Norman i think he means Good for you
@@anthonynorman7545 Good For You
@@fofolacosa123 ah, gfy
@@CornBreadtm1 gfy as well
Long Answer: Eldritch Blast
Short Answer: Eldritch Blast
Yes.
or as Liam said it:
Ehldreitch blaaaaaaahyst
Answer: eldritch blast
Your pfp is cursed.
@@torinsmith9867 thanks, I am a true warlock
Warlock: *walks 2 feet*
Also Warlock: Aight it's naptime
Everyone elses’ Warlock: Super cool edgy backstory on why they wanted their powers
My Warlock: I was drunk and summoning a Dark God seemed like a fun idea at the time
I have a Warlock who was an angsty teenage aristocrat who got bored and made a pact with Belial and ran away.
Relatable
I made a warlock that got drunk on at a party made a deal with George Washington and became a skeleton but does not know he's a skeleton his name is Hugh Mann
My warlock works as an apprentice librarian and carelessly read a ritual out loud that bonded herself with her patron.
"WE CAN ALL LIVE FOREVER!!"
"YOU DONT NEED TO, THIS IS A 1 SHOT"
“AND IN THAT WAY WE WILL LIVE FOREVER!!”
Fuckin cracked me up
“The cleric isn’t happy with my life choices”
Meanwhile my cleric died and chose to be reborn as a celestial warlock 🤣
It doesn’t say paladin but my paladin serves a devil, is oath of vengeance to kill lolth(are a drow) and is also a rogue yea he would be ok with a fiend warlock
Edit: or be one himself
I know you probobly won’t see this but I just heard a cleric scream as he dies MY GOD HAS FAILED ME
Dude I want to know more of the story
The Doctor her heart got ripped out by a Rakshasa, everyone got her heart and body before an ancient temple crumbled to the ground, and rezzed her 3 days later. Meanwhile on the other side, my cleric was in trial on what to do with her and her god said she’d spend eternity helping others pass on to the upper planes. But my character begged to send her back and her pleas were heard by a wish granting deity that offered her a second chance at life but must promise her service in exchange via selling her heart, her memories of her family, and her ability to feel romantic love.
And boom boom the party got her back but not as a cleric
I played a GOOlock with a pact of the “coin” and it was basically a 50/50 nat 20 or nat 1 roll a few times a day. Super fun flavour for my power using me for amusement it fed into the randomness vibe well.
Multiclass into a wild magic sorcerer.
@@Cov1ngtonsGhOst multiclass in divination wizard and be like fuck the outcome i like it
Pact of the blade: the optimal pact boon, for players who want to be as strong as possible
Pact of the chain: some potentially cool roleplaying scenarios and strategy if you use the familiar well
Pact of the tome: for when you wish you played a wizard instead
Nathan Coughran pact of the blade kinda sucks for every warlock subclass other than hexblade. And even then it’s not really amazing
I’m choosing pact of the tome for backstory reasons. He has a friend who was a wizard. She tried to teach how to do spells. She was lost( it would take to long to explain) and now he is going to chose pact of the tome to symbolize him still trying I learn his friend’s spells.
Tome Warlock is the strongest ritual caster in the game. This is always overlooked.
@ tomelock is a better ritual caster than wizard that gets it by default? why? because you can cast ritual tag warlock spells (4) without a spell slot?
I personally picked Pact of The Tome because my character was a priest in a world without gods and he wanted to write the names of those spirits he came across(Initially Undead Warlock, but due to shenanigans, ended up becoming a Celestial) then I saw the invocations you get with the Tome and I can say, it's the secret best one for a support Warlock. Book of Guardians allow you to write names of those in your party up to your prof. Modifier and essentially give them the Half-Orc's ability to say "no" to death on one of those people once per long rest. Combine that with the ritual casting abilities and that you can use Sending on the list by simply writing in the book and there's quite a bit there for a support Warlock.
A party arguing about who's the healer. That'll be the day 🙄
ikr
when I'm DM and nobody picked healer, I just pull out one of several nameless DMPC templates. divine soulcerer? yet another bastard child of zeus. life cleric? PRAISE ILLMATER! celestialock? "my village was flooding, I called out for help, and this is the price I paid. I suppose it could be worse." alchemist artificer? "there was a mixup where I sent the boner juice to the constipated guy and the laxative to the elderly baron, and now I'm exiled."
Ben Thomason I just take out some sidekicks I made
@@benthomason3307 why not just have the adventure being one where they have to watch their health and be sure to rest often, instead? Seems kinda going against the party to force a role in there. It'd be the same for any other role. If there's nobody who's ever gonna be good in a fight (unlikely) then rework it to be more about intrigue and mystery, and give them weaklings to fight as a reward for making good decisions. If there's nobody who casts spells, don't throw anything at them that requires spells to defeat unless there's a reasonable way around it they can figure out in the middle of the situation. If there's no healer, I imagine an adventure could be made to feel more perilous and edge-of-your-seat. Or there's always stuff they can buy to make up for it so throw some gold at them, or something. Even a magic item here or there, maybe. Plenty of options - why force an extra party member?
my party has 2 clerics
How to Play Warlock: "So anyway, I started Eldritch blasting"
Currently hoping to play a chaotic good tiefling warlock in a marriage pact with an archfey! I really love the idea of a marriage pact because it's (in my opinion) such a cool idea! I'd love to see this idea explored more by other people.
Ooo! I have a similar one. Not a fey marriage, but my child teifling was adopted by his fey patron. She and his devil father don't get along fo obvious reasons, hehe
She's Chaotic Good, he's lawful evil, and their child is true neutral
I dread to even explore the idea... but please, continue.
Did a similar thing except I had my male aasimar divine soul sorcerer get engaged w/ an angel. Nabbed pact of the tome and played it off as a divine wedding planner.
An idea that i wrote down for a character is this Dragonborn that has impressed Hlal ( the CG Draconic Goddess of humour, inventiveness and pleasure of the Forgotten Realms), that now wants to befriend him, and wanna see his deeds just to be amused. They have that very casual relationship, where she basically appears in his dreams to hang out. Then she slowly starts to develop a crush on him...
"I'M THE CELESTIAL WARLOCK, I'M THE ONE WHO HEALS"
Silly Cellock!Jacob; having more healers who can keep each other standing is a good thing! Otherwise once the healer's down, it's probably all over.
Warlock 2: Electric Boogaloo
Warlock 2: Eldritch Boogaloo
Can't wait for Warlock 3: Tokyo Drift and Warlock 4: On Stranger Tides
Warlock 2: The Rise of Gru
Or as Jocat put it:
Eldritch *BLAST*
12:30 to be fair Travis genuinely enjoyed being a hexblade warlock but he kind of broke his pact and was bullied by his patron... But I see your point.
Nah fuck that, we need to instead cherry pick a scene and make shit up in order to suit our narrative... this is youtube after all.
Bro. Did you not read the little disclaimer at the bottom of that scene? It was a joke.
@@eldinoor7072 Is that directed at me or op? Cause if at me then yeah i saw that literal .5 second disclaimer that said "this is a joke, i'm aware of Fjords really cool character progression" saying its a joke in a half second disclaimer that doesn't say that the joke is the complete opposite of what happened doesn't change anything... If that is directed at OP, then maybe they didn't see that literal half second disclaimer that is over in the time a person blinks and also doesn't actually change anything about what OP said.
So basically, Hexblade's patron is a magical sentient weapon connected to/from the Shadowfell. Sometimes connected these weapons were created by the Raven Queen. This is the reason why you're not only more martially proficient, but able to curse people and summons spectres
"Totally not evil member of the group"
My warlock, who made a celestial pact: Am I a joke to you?
Pallua, my feathered dragon Hexlock with a Sapphire dragon living in her sword: I know right? So inconsiderate!
My celestial warlock is a femboy magical girl lmao
Cleric: "What have you got there?"
Warlock: "A knife"
Cleric: Nooo
Warlock: "I sold my soul for the power of a 1D10 cantrip!"
Wizard: "Oh you mean Fire Bolt? Yeah I learned that one too in Wizard School
Warlock: A R E Y O U K I D D I N G M E
Warlock: But did you learn how to put your back into it then push giants away?
Eh. Eldritch Blast has a few bonus beyonf Fire Bolt. Fire is easily (and quite often) resisted, or enemies are straight-up immune, and the spell is all-or-nothing, meaning it gets one attack roll against one target to deal all of its damage once.
Eldritch blast is Force damage, which is less easily resisted, and it adds more attacks instead of just dealing more damage when it levels up, so you can "fork" the bolt to split-target enemies, so your entire action isn't lost if you whiff one attack roll.
Which is *important* for a Warlock, because they're going to be using their EB cantrip like a reliable weapon more than a Wizard, due to the former's lack of spell slots. A Warlock saying "I cast eldritch blast" is really no different from a Fighter saying "I shoot it with my bow", except Eldritch blast is such a meme.
I'd like to note that 1)both the classes get access to toll the dead, which is normally a d8, but becomes a d12 if you slap them even once. and that 2)E. Blast is the only cantrip that grants extra attacks as you level up rather than extra damage dice, and that said attacks can be directed at separate targets.
Sorcerer: wait you needed to do work?
4d10+20 +300 range + knockback +a whole load of other stuff jesus why is does Eldritch blast get so many invocations *inhale* would like to have a word with you
One of my players is playing an Undying Warlock/ Gloomstalker Ranger multiclass. He was betrayed by his father and wrongly sentenced to hell for crimes he didn't commit. His patron found him years later and bought his soul. After resurrecting him, he was made a warlock to hunt down his father and bring him to justice.
Me an Aasimar Pakt of the celestial warlock: yeah warlocks so evil....
It's like people forget that there are good warlocks (celestial pact), evil paladins (oath to demon or dark god) and evil clerics (worships and draws power from a dark god).
@@voidstrider801 my favourite paladin ive ever played was a Pirate with an oath to piracy, it was so unlike any other paladin I’ve played before
That is what I like about DND. They are a warlock because of how they get their power, not who they are allied with. Warlocks, whether they are good or evil, gets it by forming the pacts. Just like a wizard is a wizard because they study it and work for it. That is what makes them a wizard. Paladins get it from their oaths and you can swear an oath to anything good or evil.
I tried to nake an NE Warlock that had his soul bound to the celestial and was unable to do egregiously harmful acts.
So the Character was evil, but the Pact was keeping him in check.
But I never had a chance to break him out.
I want to do something like the blood elf paladins from WoW. The celestial warlocks have imprisoned an angel and are siphoning off their power.
Celestial Warlock Tiefling: "screw u devil daddy! it's not a phase!! I'm good aligned! At least Iulius the Repentant takes me to McDs!"
S.R Nohbody I had this with a Zariel tiefling, yea I had them kill Zariel and take her sword, then the dm said I was worthy and attuned to it, nice time
I once heard someone suggest a life cleric/fiend warlock, human (assuming aasimar/tiefling heritage just cancels out, also Diablo lore) character who's respective parents were in a prolonged, planar custody case.
Intro POV: using Hold Person on Jacob against the floor or wall, interrogating him about his new homebrew packs
Favorite class, my one gripe is how few spells actually get better when cast with a higher level spell slot. At least until level 5, there aren't many spells that get better other than damaging spells, but eldritch blast is already a consistent "don't worry about your combat too much, grab some utility instead" cantrip
Should have totally been
*"There is only the Void."*
*"..."*
*"Want to be a Warlock for me? I can hook you up with a Great Old One Pact."*
I always imagined Eldritch Blast as pent up release of magic energy, like a warlock has this immense store of magic power, but not way to really channel it unlike a sorcerer or wizard would
That's cool. I like that.
More like the sorcerer, since they are kinda literally stuffed with magic
Hexblade Warlock make a pact with a entity from the Shadowfell. That entity takes up home in your pact weapon. The flavor behind this is the entity does NOT want to be in the Shadowfell anymore and ultimately gives you powers in return from “saving it”
the celestial warlock, the divine soul sorcerer, and light cleric walk into a bar, suddenly no one is drunk anymore
Wait so is Jacob a warlock of everyone who supports him on Patreon?
No, it count like one eldritch entity, a multitude of spirit in one body (kindna like Legion, the multitude of demon in one body but in an eldritch way)
Yes
One of my favourite warlocks I ever played was a hexblade who didn’t actually have a magic sword, the way the subclass is built allows it to apply to any weapon, nothing in the abilities says it has to be one weapon, so he had a magic ring that gave him his hexblade powers, and went pact of the tome, had the spells inscribed as runes on the ring.
Another that I have planned, but haven’t used yet is a Fallen Aasimar divine sorcerer/fiend warlock. He’s not to happy with great grandad
Just to add to your idea: My current hexblade warlock (Pact of the Blade) is in fact using a longbow as the main form of his weapon. We're currently level 5 so I've picked up Devil's Sight, Improved Pact weapon and Thirsting Blade Invocations. I should also mention that he's a variant tiefling with wings. I'm looking forward to a big boss fight where I can cast darkness on myself fly up so the darkness doesn't hinder my party members and finish with Hexblade's Curse. Then it's crit fishing time! ;)
@@loka7783 remember, once you set down the darkness it doesn't follow you
@@JayF2912 no, you can cast I'm on an object, then it follows the object, so cast it on their bow and they're set
@@Neutral_Tired _oh no_
@@loka7783Just be wary of spellcasters. If they notice the darkness moves with you, they can target center mass with aoe spells. I had that occur and got hit with a fireball and cone of cold.
Here's my Celestial Warlock idea.
"Jeff as a grown Ki-Rin, its time for you to make your first pact. Doing so can allow you to do good in the mortal realm. We the Ki-Rin council recommend you make a pact with wizard; they have the greatest potential for good."
"Pact with a lizard got it, on it."
"Semuanya! Is that you! Of course this one will make a pact."
"That's a weird way to say Ki-Rin, must be a lizard thing."
Then a lizard who just wants to survive and eat things gets shiny golden scale patches and is compelled to do good. Bonus points for pact of the chain with a fey dragon to keep tabs on you.
OMG I never imagined making a lizardfolk warlock before, especially with a Celestial patron, but now I can't get over how terrifyingly weird idea that is
I have to say that all of his characters have taken the Entertainer background - proficient in Performance and one instrument of their choice.
Dude that song that the beginning was like actually awesome. Also, I made a barbarian/warlock named Valstead the Destroyer, but it's a sprite. And Erinyes fell in love with Valstead after burning down his village and now Valstead rides around on her shoulder.
Well this was a curve ball. Oh, hey, Eldritch invocation idea.
a baseball pact lock, eldritch blast gain the form of a baseball curve toss, -3AC on target
"GET OVER HERE"
Ok we need songs for all of the classes that have no song originally
They all rock
Rouge is just Jacob doing bleeped over swearing for a minute
RAGE RAGE RAGEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I made a gray ooze that found a magic ring with a Fairy sealed inside who granted the blob intelligence and power in exchange for increasing its power and freeing it from the sealed ring. There’s a LOT of fun things you can do with warlock guys. Also it’s an excuse to play a slime.
Rimuru mode unlocked
Jacob: I wish we had a Warlock subclass that gave you different perks by picking either a sword, a staff, or a ring.
Me: That - that's just the Pact Boons feature
One spell combo that can start at first level I really like on warlock is Hellish Rebuke and Armor of Agathys for a ton of return damage.
In other words:
I C Y H O T P A I N R E L I E F
Armor of Agathis layered under Shadow of Moil is my favorite.
@@williamwalton9154 why not all three?
@@goldfish6525 true, forgot about that. Works at level 3 though. Also, if your a tiefling you get an extra hellish rebuke.
It gets even better if you're a Fiend Warlock cuz then you gain access to Fire Shield for even more Icy Hot goodness. Also FYI, Warlocks get Elemental Bane ;)
@@pandacakes6613 limited slots and I always keep one open to crit smite, which Shadow of Moil helps with. Soon to add Foresight as my 9th level spell for semi permanent (non-concentration) advantage.
6:33
Celestial warlock!
Shows Archfey again...
Dang archfey warlocks up to their trickery again...
5:55, the Divine Soul Sorceress in your party: "REEEEEEEE"
You could do a really fun Barbarian-Warlock mix if you go for the Ancestral Barb and Undying Lock. Basically your ancestors give you strength.
I made a Hexblade Warlock who's backstory was that one day as a child a demon attacked his village and he got gutted and as he was dying he made a deal with a voice he heard asking him if he wanted to live and when he woke up the demon was torn to shreds and he has a fancy demonic sword in his hand telling him to go murder demons. the fun part was that his patron was an ex-devil who made weapons but was banished and almost killed due to being betrayed and used all of her power to call out to anyone and found the equally dying character. the two had a symbiotic relationship of keeping each other alive and had the goal of trying to do enough good to somehow turn the Patron into a celestial (DM okayed that) which typically boiled down to killing demons that are bothering people. not anything crazy original and a bit edgy in some ways but it was fun and the banter was cool. I even had a cool moment were my character swore to become a Paladin of her's when (he never said if to show how much he believed in her).
When you stand back to back with someone you are actually just facing them from the furthest distance away
On earth
Oh god, oh fuck.
If the trajectory youre talking about would go around earth and not into the abyss
brain just melted
The 20th level ability seems awesome until you realize that is just gives you back 4 spell slots.
my problem with warlock is that even though you get spells back on short rests, all the other magical classes have so many slots that by the time you get your 2 slots back, the wizard will still have like 6 of them left even though he just casted three times more than you did
Though Cantrips can be quite helpful. Imagine a High Elf with Gate Warden background before becoming a Warlock. You get 2 Cantrips at lvl 1 separate from your class.
I'm with you on Hexblade. The flavor of it's a bit... weird. And it really "encourages" the warlock to take the pact of the blade.
Honestly it was implemented to fix the problems bladelocks faced and make it a more viable, less MAD option. It's mechanically great, almost too great, but thematically awkward. (If they felt there was a problem, I wish they just implemented an errata or something instead of trying to fix a class's issues with just a subclass.)
Theme-wise, in my game I run, I play up the Raven Queen aspect of Hexblade, making the spirit in the sword an agent of her, and it pressures the player to destroy undead at any cost. It helps make the themes at least a little more consistent.
11:57 I do not really understand why hexblade is so misunderstood, it's literally in the name: HEXblade. Your "Patron" is a cursed weapon which allows you to bestow that curse upon others and steal part of their essence when they are killed or even enslave their soul for a temporary amount of time. The extra damage from charisma is literally because you're feeding your own magic into the attacks. *It's a toned down version of Elric of Melnibone,* the character concept has been around for 59 years.
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For hexblade - your weapon is literally a shadowfell entity which grants you it's power. In the case of the Raven Queen - Hexblades patron's are the entity which gives them power, not the Raven Queen. If your patron is the raven Queen - you're not a hexblade. Your patron can be the Raven Queen (Codex: Unearthed Arcana page 69) and you can choose the pact of the blade - but you're not a Hexblade and you do not gain access to Hexes or hexblade class features. There is _flavor text_ that Hexblades are all actually working on the Raven Queen's behalf (Xanathars guide to Everything page 55), based on the idea that such Shadowfell entities, acting as patrons for hexblades, were created by the Raven Queen. However - the raven Queen herself can also be Patron and if she is: you don't gain Hexblade boons or class abilities. Hexblade is it's own thing.
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Quote: *"or why hexblades don't automatically start with a cursed weapon and are able to change what weapon is their hex weapon once per long rest?"*
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You're "changing the weapon" in so much as you are changing the entity's physical manifestation on the material plane. It's the same entity. That's also why a hex blade has to perform a ceremony to make a magical weapon into their pact blade - you're transplanting the entity giving you power into a new container to house it, that new pact weapon serves almost as a phylactery, _similar to_ but *not* identical to a lich in that a lich's phylactery is a physical object which contains it's soul.
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In the case of Elric of Melnibone, Stormbringer was a very specific weapon with a very specific form and it was what it was. It was a "cursed weapon" in so much as it was more akin to a very powerful sentient object, but it was the object: the sword was a person. In the case of hexblade, "stormbringer", as it were, is an entity which is _embodied as_ a weapon, the weapon itself only being a physical manifestation through which the entity is able to exist on the material plane.
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Quote: *"Your "entity" doesn't "change form," the hex weapon is a regular weapon you own that you touch and imbue with magic"*
Keep in mind that the _Pact of the Blade_ can pertain to any Patron but *Hexblade* is a Patron, the shadowfell entity embodied in the weapon is the *Patron.* You took a quote from page 55 of Xanathar's guide to everything when referencing Hex Warrior - but you ignored the very beginning of the Hexblade description, which is on the same page, side by side to the section you quoted. Quote: *"You have made your pact with a mysterious entity from
the Shadowfell-a force that manifests in sentient magic weapons carved from the stuff of shadow."*
@ I like Hexblade well enough, it has some neat features, but I never liked how it functions around the curse mechanic, it's too big a part of the class's damage output and abilities. At lower levels you're without your main schtick if the cursed target dies because you only have one use between short rests.
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At later levels, you better hope your DM allows you to use Codex: Unearthed Arcana - because if you're stuck with just Xanathar's guide to Everything then you can apply the same curse to a new target - but a finite rule most people don't pay attention to - the curse itself only lasts 1 minute. So between every short rest you have 10 round of curse time available to you, no more. You can wrap invocations and extra damage and such into your curse - but it's still a pick-and-choose when to use it ability. the Codex: Unearthed Arcana uses different language. Xanathar's guide to everything states "When the creature cursed by your Hexblade’s Curse dies, you can apply the curse to a different creature you can see within 30 feet of you" - keywords being "you can apply the curse to a different creature" - meaning it's the same curse and that curse only lasts 1 minute. While Codex: Unearthed Arcana specifically states "you can use your Hexblade’s Curse again without resting" - see the difference? If you DM allows the Codex Unearthed Arcana version you're not shifting the same curse with the same time limit to a new creature to tick down those 10 rounds, you're using Curse again which means you're casting a new curse. The Unearthed Arcana version also effectively removes the time limit of 1 minute because you can simply cast curse again.
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Neat idea, cool lore, makes for an interesting character concept - but I don't like the curse mechanic.
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I much prefer the other patrons, particularly the Raven Queen. Her Patron gifts aren't op, ie the celestial and undying light cheat death revive nor quite as utilitarian as fiend patron's ability to take a five minute stretch and suddenly decide to take half damage from whatever damage type the dragon fight is likely to have them doused in. I like the lore of the Raven Queen and the ability to turn into a Raven. Combined with Pact of the Tome, I made Medivh, because I'm that kind of nerd, shut up. XD
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Quote: *"My man how long are your combat encounters that they last more than 10 turns?"*
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LuLz, my group started with 3, moved to 3.5, visited 4 and went back to 3.5. We never run book adventures or wotc preplotted campaigns and mobs are, not always but often, specifically designed to counter our characters. Ninja goes invisible 8 times per day? The cultists are all at least 1 level warlock with see invisibility. Fighter has ultra high AC? Trap room filled with ethereal undead and statues spam firing magic missile. My druid shapehsifter likes to grapple and is levels of warshaper making him immune to critical hits and precision based damage? Murder-Death-Killededed by a Goliath reaping mauler. All those things happened. In my campaign I don't look at offensive or defensive spells which are round-per-level without extend spell or sudden extend, otherwise I only use minute-per-level.
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Quote: *"Hexblades aren't really hyper dependant on their curse at all"*
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Didn't say they were - but if you're building a Warlock around the Hexblade Patron: you're probably going to want to pick up the evocations which allow you to do extra damage to cursed target. Otherwise you could just play some other Patron other than Hexblade. Remember: any *Patron* can grant you Pact of the Blade. Hexblade - is - a - Warlock *Patron* : a patron who grants you extra damage and effects based on or around using your curse. You can even take Pact of the Chain or Pact of the Tome with the Hexblade *Patron.* There are, however, specific abilities you get from the Hexblade's patronage if you go with pact of the Blade.
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The strongest Melee warlock is probably Hexblade with pact of the blade because you can combine Thirsting blade invocation (gives an extra attack) with lifedrinker invocation (necrotic damage equal to charisma modifier) on top of Hex Warrior's proficiency bonus to damage against cursed target: then use either Chilling Hex or Burning Hex as a bonus action to deal charisma modifier damage to the cursed target. That's the highest routine, every round, damage output a melee warlock can get.
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A 12th lvl Warlock Hexblade with pact of the blade and a charisma modifier of +5 would do weapon die +5 charisma (hex warrior), +4 proficiency damage (hexblade curse), +5 necrotic damage (lifedrinker), x 2 (two attacks, thirsting blade) and as one bonus action that turn another 5 damage either fire or frost from either Chilling hex or burning hex. So at level 12 that's 2d# + 33, every round, assuming both attacks hit the cursed target. However, as soon as you lose your hexblade curse - you also lose the proficiency bonus to damage and your bonus action damage because they both ONLY apply to targets under the effect of your hexblade curse. At which point 2d# + 33 becomes 2d# + 20.
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Eldritch Smite is fine, but 1) you only ever get 4 spell slots per short rest - and 2) you *don't* have to be Hexblade to get Eldritch Smite. Any 5th level Warlock with pact of the blade can get Eldritch Smite.
"What benefits us, benefits Asmodeus."
"What benefits Asmodeus, benefits us all."
I like using Hexblade for almost any patron when the warlock in question has previous martial experience. Like, a soldier making a pact with a demon to avenge his comrades by slaughtering the enemies that felled them the best way he knows how, or a roguish rapscallion that knows his way around a rapier made a fun little deal with an unseelie faerie or great old one that seemed like a great idea at the time after accidentally stealing a gateway to the beyond.
Thank you for the alternate eldritch blast idea! It helped inspire me to build my own warlock. An undying warlock, who's patron is a Wendigo. Her spells are ice based, including her eldritch blast. She lived in a village that made pacts with Wendigo to protect their home from raiders and the dangers of the north.
Oh nice! (29 for stealth, steal)
"Want bardic inspiration?"
"hah, no."
"Me neither."
That spoke volumes 😭
CZcamsrs are warlocks, since they have a _Patreon_ (Tasha's hideous laughter)
Nice
Get out of here, bard
I succeeded my save partially as a meh.
I once made a Great Old One Warlock who do to campaign related shenanigans (we all knew this was going to happen ahead of time) got whisked off to an alternate universe and I no longer had a connection with my patron, so in order to regain my magical powers I had to make a pact with the first being I found that was powerful enough. So my Great Old One Warlock was now a Celestial Warlock and beholden to a unicorn which he hated. It was great, he kept trying really hard to not find out about tyrannical rulers or oppressed innocents because due to the agreement he’d made with that unicorn if he found out about anything like that he was then obligated to go and help. He was a borderline evil character (mostly just cruelly indifferent) who had to keep doing good deeds to retain his power and he was always super grumpy about it.
My Warlock is in a relationship with that great old one.
I can't tell whether you are a weeb or just have *great* taste.
6:32 talking about Pact of the Celestial, but showing Pact of the Archfey... Have I been charmed?
I guess You could use... a BARD!
“This is looking like a bad day for Vecna... AAAHHH!!!” Why is that so funny for me?!
I started playing a Goolock a few months ago. Now level 5. I dropped Hex as, like most casters, I keep a longer distance from enemies and using my limited slots to cast more utility type spells. Like Hold Person at 3rd level, for example, or Hunger of Hadar. Yes, I did take the invocation that lets the warlock see into magical and nonmagical darkness.
There is only one way to play warlock
WITH A SORCERER MULTIECLASS WHOOOOOOOOOO MUNCHKIN ALL THE WAYYYYY
Some of my favorite patron ideas for each category:
Fiend: an exiled Devil trapped in a Tiefling body (your body unbeknownst to you) in the mortal realms.
Great Old One: literal aliens from outer space. Other dimensions are cool, but what about a f**king Deoxys?
Archfey / Celestials: certain types of Yokai from an eastern setting, especially things Ki-rins, longs, or kami such as Amaterasu.
Hexblade: Ancient Dragons. It kills me that there isn't a dragon warlock, so I try to spin it that an Ancient Dragon gives you power through a weapon or item from its hoard that it loans to you to fulfill a purpose in exchange for not killing you for trying to steal from it. I feel this works especially well for Copper, Silver, Green, Blue, or Sapphire Dragons.
Austin Hicks NaRUtO
I had an idea of a hex warlock this petron is tattooed on him .the petrone id literally a tattoo thats whit every level grows a little whit every level antill its will consume him. Why did he take it? Well there's many ideas from containment,to memory of some one(like you known him before and he was about to die so you sacrifice your self to be whit him),to revenge (pretty much giving your self power for shorter life to get something) many ideas. And every spell can be a different part of tha tattoo thats goes out. Like a hex blad could be like a 2d sword just crawling out of your arm into your hand extra
The warlocks features and spell selections give it the ability to be almost anything the party needs to fill party gaps.
Eldritch blast features can keep strong reliable damage that scales almost exactly in line with sneak attack, which is the standard for striker class design.
Fiend, hexblade, and undying warlocks can supplement with tanking as needed.
Eldritch blast can be used for control purposes to move creatures around the battlefield.
Hex is usually looked at for its damage, but an ability that gives disadvantage to all of a chosen scores checks without a save is pretty ridiculous.
A warlock who takes pact of the tome with book of secrets is the best ritual caster in the game. This also isn’t wasted if other party members can cast rituals as they can possibly help fill your book from their own classes rituals. If they are prepared casters then your party gains the benefit of these rituals without them having to be prepared, freeing up their prep slots.
The celestial warlock is a great support class and can also be incredibly effective by basically taking out one dangerous creature by using forcecage and sacred flame at high levels.
I agree that they are very versatile, even more so than you are giving them credit for because any one of them could Forcecage and kill something, and they can be damage (significantly higher than Rogue if built that way), tanks (Armour of Agathys allows you to be an excellent tank when upcast, and Fiendish Vigour at low levels is amazing), buffers/debuffers (some subclasses get better spells for this, but they all have access to Mire the Mind and Sculptor of Flesh), healers (with celestial) and more. All of this with the ability to get practically a full refresh on a short rest.
I thought that the hexblade warlock works really well for Baphomet, even though he is a fiend, because it allows you to almost mark prey, as if you were a hunter which is kind of the point of Baphomet. On top of that, the spells the fiend subclass gives you are all fire based whereas the hexblade gives you weapon based spells that match the fact that Baphomet is one of the only 3 demon lords who acctually have weapons.
19:08 Just imagining a warlock taking a rest in the back for ten rounds and just standing back up with all of their spellslots in the middle of a battle. lol
You got the perfect warlock, her weapons and supplies. But you need a place to track your stuff cause you're so disorganized. You *click* open the web page. You heard about a Critical Role. And now you're ready to kick some butt in a mine shaft full of gnoooooolls. IT'S DNDDDDDDDDDDDDD
IT'S DNDBEYOND
IT'S DNDDDDDDDDDDDD
IT'S DND BEYOND
You got your stats, you got your sword, and you got your invisible WAAAAAAAAALL
It's Dndddddddddddddd
DNDBEYOOOOOOND *Epic fanfare*
Invisible wand
Ohmygodyes
Yo, no joke, this warlock song is super good. Like, memes aside, I'd listen to it unironically if you released it separately.
Homebrew idea: Influencer Warlock. Instead of a regular otherworldly patron, your patron is somebody from your Patreon
"The cleric isn't happy with my life choices."
Love that little line.
When I played a warlock I used telepathy to pretend that I was everyone’s subconscious (not players I wasn’t stupid) but I caused a uprising of Cthulhu worshipping goblins to free us from a orc prison. Twice. The first one failed but the second one I got three companions to kill a orc keeping guard over us. Afterwards we went to a town were I use my telepathy to turn the ENTIRE town into Cthulhu worshiper. Except the blacksmith he didn’t care for it.
I loved the intro song for this one more than even the Bard. Warlock is easily my favorite spell-heavy class.
Also, Eldritch Blast FTW
A warlock who is in a seriously committed relationship with their succubus/incubus partner.
That heal sketch is basically my campaign.
A heal bard, a paladin, a cleric npc
Yes, this was the first class I ever played, and I love seeing any amount of talking about it
"You don't need to! This is a one shot!"
I spit up my water
I once made an Undying Warlock. We were playing a game set in Explorer's Guide To Wildemount.
I was overjoyed at the race option "Hollow One". It was *So good*
I roleplayed as a fallen warrior, who'd laid dying on some long forgotten Battlefield. He'd prayed for salvation, for any chance to stay alive. He'd exhausted his list of known Gods, eventually he'd offered up one hell of a bargain.
"My soul, but I get to kill him." He'd muttered. 'Him' being a prince who'd stabbed him in the back... Literally.
So, his body is inhabited by some strange magic in place of his soul. He's basically a simulacrum who *thinks* he's still him.
He was an absolute *JOY* to play, and I highly recommend Hollow One for any Undead based character.
I love how the celestial pact skit has the “serves a higher being” trio
Jacob: "I love devils you guys"
*DEUS VULT*
🙂
He probably could've worded it better
Begone Crusader, thou racism hath not a place within this forum! I CAST THEE BACK, TROGLODYTE!
"YOU DONT NEED TO, THIS IS A ONESHOT!"
I made a Tiefling Warlock with a great old one patron who just wanted some company, he writes relatable poems to attract angsty teenagers to join their little tea and book club. It’s actually rather wholesome.
Hey, recommendation for fellow warlocks to spice up your actions in combat; take the 2nd-level spell Shadow Blade at 3rd or 4th. Concentration spells are your friend and concentration spells that give you a special attack each turn are even better! This one is particularly tasty, though, and matches most warlock patrons’ flavor.
Also, don’t take agonizing blast. It’s really not necessary. Rolling a 1 on damage sucks, sure, but as a warlock, you want to be creative in combat, too. Chain? Use your familiar. Tome? Now you’ve got things BESIDES eldritch blast, like Troll the Dead. Blade? YOU HAVE. A SWORD.