shield, blur, and blink, while great defensive spells, don’t scale with levels. Warlocks have limited spell slots and can only cast them at the highest available slot.The Expanded Spell list that Hexblades get is pretty horrendous. The medium armor, shields, and the Hexblade Curse provided by the subclass are also beneficial if you want to stay at a distance and use a ranged weapon or eldritch blast. The Hexblades benefits do not solely benefit melee Warlocks. This brings melee/ranged Hexblade builds from Multiple-Ability Dependent (MAD) to Single-Ability Dependent (SAD). The biggest boon of the Hex Warrior trait allows Hexblades to add their CHA bonus to weapon attack rolls and damage, instead of STR and DEX. The Hex Warrior class feature gives access to armor, shields, and maintainable ability scores all at 1st level. The Hexblade solves a lot of problems that casters usually have when dipping their toes into weapon combat. Hexblades are held to similar restraints as typical warlocks in terms of spellcasting, but their Hex Warrior feature allows them to make weapon attacks their CHA, rather than STR or DEX. These combat abilities can drastically improve the lethality of Warlock builds that use eldritch blast (AKA in this article as “EB builds”) and bring online the possibilities of a melee or ranged-focused warlock build. Hexblade Warlocks are warlocks that, in their pact with their patron, gain access to additional combat abilities. Full customization and control of your character, none of the flipping through hundreds of pages to reference obscure rules.

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Eldritch invocations 5e