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Updated #dnd Hexblade Warlock in #UnearthedArcana!
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May 14, 2025
Updated #dnd Hexblade Warlock in #UnearthedArcana! I think this one is going to be controversial. #dnd5e #2024dnd #ttrpg #characteroptimization #dungeonsanddragons
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we got the new version of the Hexblade
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Warlock in the recent horror subasses on
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Earth D Arcana and I think it's easy to
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say that it's going to be controversial
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so everyone really liked the Hexblade in
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2014 because it allowed the warlock to
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be an effective marshall character like
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you could very effectively use weapons
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and it did create a lot of problems
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where multiclass dipping into hexlade so
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you could build entirely around charisma
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as a marshall character like that was
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great for paladins bs sorcerers like
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there was a lot you could do there the
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hexblade dip was kind of like I
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frequently call it the MSG of
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multiclassing like you can put it on
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everything and it tastes better the 2024
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version that we got in Unearthed Arcana
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detaches the hex blade from using
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weapons like and sure you could build an
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Eldrich Blastbot hex blade and that was
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perfectly fine but it's not really what
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you wanted from the subclass the new
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version conceptually very very different
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from the 2014 version there's no medium
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armor shield proficiency so you
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immediately lose that durability you
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lose the ability to be an effective
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melee marshall character in favor of
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focusing on hex kind of like the ranger
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where you get the free castings of
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hunter's mark hex blade curse now gives
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you free castings of hex every day and
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like hex is a perfectly fine spell you
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can get a lot of use out of it it's
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great in social situations it's great in
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combat like all around fantastic spell
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but the warlock also has a ton of other
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great concentration spells and the
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subclass simply does not function if
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you're not running hex so much like the
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2024 Ranger there's exactly one way to
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build this hex blade and it's you build
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around hex and you attack things and how
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do you get good at attacking things you
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use Eldrich Blast which means we've gone
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from the 2014 version which was a medium
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armored potentially melee marshall build
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to you are the Eldrich Blast bot and
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that is basically all that you can do
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effectively now like the the loss of
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choice there is very very frustrating
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the loss of theme there is disappointing
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this is a perfectly fine subclass
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otherwise like the effects are good the
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features are good um the explades
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maneuvers adds a rider effect onto your
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attacks which is really fun kind of like
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weapon mastery but you can put that on
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Eldrich Blast to make it even better on
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top of all the invocations so I don't
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think this is a bad subclass but I think
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calling this Hex Blade is going to make
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people really really disappointed it's
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all hex no blade and it's a completely
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different flavor from what people
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actually wanted out of the 2014 Hex
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Blade
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