The Problem with Warlocks in D&D

Warlocks in D&D are one, if not the best class for roleplaying in all of DnD, so what's the problem with the warlock class?
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[pointyhatstudios]

Alright who is giving their soul to me in exchange for magic tricks

[tigerfire]

Next series being call "Will it Warlock!?"

Taking random creatures (that aren't patrons already) and turn them into patrons!

[GraveRobbinJake]

I dont like how you ignored the Fae. We have taken this as a slight and will be inviting ourselves to the birth of your firstborn and cursing them in retaliation.

[jabadahut]

I like the "eldritch blast isn't op... everything else is under powered and therefore everyone picks the eldritch blast option leading to boring bullshit" take.

[philipdiamond]

I have a Great Old One Warlock who sort of communicates with her patron through random inscrutable glyphs that appear in her book of shadows. Her patron is a nameless, formless entity of the Elemental Chaos that is just curious about the alien (to it) material plane and is using her as a sensor to look around. It works great for a Chaotic Neutral character with mental health issues.

[DukeRevolution]

I've been playing a half-orc barbarian for the last year and a half. I wanted to swap to a Goolock, but was hesitant because of the Eldritch Blast trap. My DM soothed my concerns.
Me: "I just don't want to do the same thing in every round of combat..."
DM: "What do you do now?"
Me: "Rage and hit stuff... oh."

[hikari_owari]

The Problem with Warlocks: Not having a patron that demands (and funds you) being fashionable in exchange of power.

[mitchhaelann]

Counterpoint on Pact of Chain being weak: Imps can turn themselves invisible whenever they want. Just, infinite invisibility. You need a spy, a saboteur, or a thief? Imp's your boy. Imps also have a call-out in the Monster Manual that, when bonded as familiars, they share their Magic Resistance trait with their summoner. Advantage on all saves versus magic, hands down. Might require DM approval, but it's there, Rules As Written.

[ConiferCreates]

The soul eater music when you started bringing up Hexblade was a nice touch, very classy

[XNAGS]

Me: Hey Cleeeriiic!
Cleric: What did you do
Me: I kiiind of made a pact with a sentient hat
Cleric: Oh boy... what does it want you to do?
Me: It wants me to watch this funny looking scroll and write stuff in it.
Cleric: DEAR GOD

[mldyzgp]

Dragons? AGAIN!? Looks like dragons rolled a nat 20 to seduce Pointy Hat.

[anthonybooyay]

In my campaign our Warlock and her patron are pretty much just friends. We reflavored Archfey to fit what she was going for. Basically, her character is really into using psychedelics/tripping. One day she tripped so hard that her consciousness transcended into the Feywild. This is where she met her patron, and they just kind of hit it off so the fey spirit decided to give her power. The fey spirit is now her ”supplier”, and she uses a component pouch filled with ”gifts” as an arcane focus. Also, her pact of the tome is actually a “pact of the pipe”, which she smokes to cast the cantrips it came with.

[atashgallagher]

I had a celestial patron warlock that had a patron with a giant god complex and they just absolutely insisted that they were a cleric or a paladin, and it was hilarious.

Over the course of the game they slowly built up a cult for their patron until they actually became a god and they became a real paladin.

[iamlegend]

Agonisizing blast should just apply to all cantrips instead if just eldritch blast. That way all warlocks would use different cantrips.

[papierowyszczur]

My first warlock character had a Great Old One patron. It was fun, because instead of just warlock learning from the patron how to cast spells through understanding secrets of Far Realm, the warlock was also teaching the patron secrets of Material Plane. Many of these Material Plane secrets would be worthless to most, but to the warlock... well it kinda taught him to appreciate the world a new, because the patron made him question things he took for granted.

[katelundberg]

The adopted child of the party becoming a Warlock to avenge said party but ending up as the Warlock to the Dragon that slayed said party is a wild story idea even without the cool subclass story going on

[EFoxx]

Just because I don't seen anyone else brought this up, I believe the full caster/half caster thing comes from the multiclassing rules where some classes only count as partial for the purposes of figuring out spell slots.

[TricksterModeEngaged]

draconic warlock really IS an obviously D&D-appropriate patron type that it's weird isn't official. Your version of it sounds cool!

[th_Law]

Alternate title: “I’ve never hidden myself and my entire party behind an illusory wall while spamming prestidigitation and minor illusion to make some thugs think the place is haunted, while meanwhile, my familiar which I have because tomelocks are the best, keeps watch.”

[baronvonjerch]

I've always interpreted Hexblade as making a pact with specifically a warrior entity. Like the Green Knight from Arthurian myth, an Einherjar from Norse mythology, the Archangel Michael from the Bible, Kai from Kung Fu Panda, Saint Celestine from Warhammer 40k etc. That's the reason why your pact primarily manifests through your weapon. Your patron is a supernatural warrior, and as such, so are you.