2024 Warlock Changes - First Level Invocations

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[djburk]

Pact of the Talisman: Am I a joke to you?

Everyone: Yes

[merrittterrell]

Now you can be a Hexblade, take the Pact of the Blade invocation and still have a Quasit or Imp companion. Not bad.

[darcraven]

on one hand, i love the idea of being able to have multiple pact boons.. (i made a sorlock once i was planning on playing as a gish but i wanted guidence so ended up taking pact of the tome instead of blade.. if i coulda done both it woulda been nice) and i like having it as a level one option (i had an idea for a farmer who accidently found a blade that gave him warlock powers and functioned as his pact weapon but having him be lvl 3 when getting the weapon never worked, so now it does) but on the other hand i feel like it takes away from the meaningful pact boon choice.. like, the boon always sounded like it was meant to be a reward from your patron (giving you better martial abilities, more eldritch knowledge in the form of spells, or a servent to do your bidding) but now you get one without "having" a patron (or at least knowing them) and can aquire all three..

[matthewconlon]

1-Tome, Shillelagh, Truestrike
2-Agonizing Blast: Shillelagh and Truestrike
Your default melee attack deals d8+Cha+Cha+Cha
4- Warcaster
5- Bladepact, Thirsting Blade, Roll Agonizing Blast off Truestrike, to take Eldritch Smite

Your 2 attacks deal d10+Cha+Cha. Add smite or hex as needed

Level 12 take The next Blade invocation, 3 attacks at d12+10.

[julianmehlmann]

I think one reason to give subclasses at 3rd was hexblade (aside from clerics(armor etc) and divine sou) but they defeated the purpose with pact of the blade at level 1

[alfonsovallejo]

I'm really saddened because I just found out Pact of the Tome no longer gives you a lv 1 slot.

[Dan]

Wow! Yeah that was my first thought of taking two invocations that were packs

[leivaslt]

I’m looking forward to play with my new GOO Warlock

[joeking]

So I can conjure magma mephits and wall of fire and use the mephits to hold enemies in the fire while launching them back in with Elrich blast. Nice

[douglaspope-gzeq]

I think the warlock changes are my favorite

[victorlopez]

What about pact of the trigger? Sure its one of the newer pacts but it definitely rocks. Especially paired with either pact of the blade or pact of the chain.

[falconnm]

Weird captioning, either "pact" is being voice recognized incorrectly, or we need to work on Kelly's pronunciation 😉

[jesseseva]

Hexblades with Pact of the blade can now use 2 Cha weapons.

[davea]

I wonder how quickly the 2024 rule changes will be adopted into common games of D&D?

[lyntonfleming]

5e just now getting 3.5 stuff will never stop being funny to me.

[bubbles]

So you can be a Beast Master Ranger in a sense?

[jf_kein_k]

Dumbest idea, the Warlock has several weaker entities, lets say Fiends, as patrons, rather than one really powerful one. And some want a bigger claim on the Warlocks soul, so they try to bribe them with these Pact Boons.
Could also be used as someone who makes a deal, but doesn't become a Warlock fully. Grabbing a Boon with Magic Initiate.

[jiminkpen]

They seem to be taking away meaningful choices in 2024.
Many choices you seem to be able to change after a long rest, you can choose your aasimar transformation each time you use it, can have multiple pacts and many other examples.
I like an awful lot of the 2024 changes but will definitely make a fair few setting rules for the games i run. I want powerful fun pcs but it feels like some mechanics dont actually support an actual character but just as versatile set of powers as the game can support.

[burnznugz]

Yes give WOTC your money for the same content you have already so you can keep homebrewing all the broken aspects of their system. Our just play PF2E