I am currently playing a level 3 Archfey Warlock and am slowly planning for level 4 choices, as I like to be prepared for those. The theme of the character is a bit of a comedic one, but with a twist. She is a human girl from a low born family, but her parent's skills allowed them to open quite a well established inn, which was quite popular amongst the nobility and merchants of the city. The character is a great cook, which resulted in the pact she is now in. Her patron is a very lazy and a very hungry fey bear. She gives him sweets and pastries in exchange for assistance and her warlock powers. Right now she is in possession of an ancient elven cook's book, from which she draws inspiration for food to haggle with the bear. It also works as her Book of Ancient Secrets, where each ritual is actually a specific recipe, which she has to prepare for her patron for him to cast the spell. For the bear, imagine Sloth Demon from Dragon Age Origins mixed with Whinnie the Poof and you have an idea.
Now since we already have a Hexblade in our team, I am not focusing on damaging spells. Especially since the character is a rookie adventurer and wouldn't really want to harm people that much. For now she knows Fearie Fire, Sleep, Suggestion and Enthrall as well as Find Familiar and Identify from the Tome. She also sports Eldritch Blast, Infestation, Shillelagh, Dancing Lights and Prestidigitation for cantrips. She also is in posession of a homebrew (I think) magic item, that lets her spend a charge out of three available to give Bardic Inspiration to someone within 60ft. It regains one charge at dawn. So I am fully embracing my support role.
Now some raw numbers: Str - 8, Dex - 16, Con - 12, Int - 8, Wis - 14, Cha - 18.
From my options, I figured three main courses of action, that might be worthwhile.
Use ASI to bump Charisma up to 20.
Take a feat, Eldritch Adept and use it to get the Eldritch Mind Invocation for the Advantage to maintain Concentration on Fearie Fire or Sleep.
Take a feat, Fey Touched and use it to get access to Bless or Heroism. Especially the second one seems good, cause I can use a Warlock Spell Slot to cast it, letting me buff up all my melee fighters with Temporary HP.
1. Always useful to get Cha to 20 2. Instead of E Adept to get E Mind why not just get Warcaster which gives you that and more. 3. LOVE Fey Touched and currently playing a warlock with it. I have a level of cleric as well so bless works great. Heroism is a good choice as well. On mine I chose Hex with the idea that I would be casting it everyday anyway. Bless is amazing for a support character and if you have EB+Agonizing Blast you can lean on that to help through an encounter while concentrating on bless.
I ditched Hex to free concentration for Fearie Fire. But I think, I am leaning towards Heroism over Bless for tough fights. Being able to just give friendly melee fighters a recurring 4HP a turn is not bad. 5 once I reach 20 Charisma.
Another option I considered was the Metamagic fest with Careful Spell and Subtle Spell as the option choices.
Bless is going to give you more in the long term. The temp HP from Heroism doesn't stack so they're only ever going to be +4 or +5. Even at your level now you're probably encountering monsters that are regularly giving double digit damage. That extra 4-5 HP is probably not going to be the difference between life and death as you get to higher levels. But an extra d4 on the attack roll from Bless can mean that the monster dies before it can hurt anyone.
Are there other means of learning a spell and being able to treat it as your Class spell? Book of Ancient Secrets gets you a bunch of cantrips. Fey Touched lets you get Misty Step plus one level 1, but you can only take the fest once.
Magic Initiate doesn't let you cast the spell from your own slots, unless the spell is on your class spell list.
Pact of the Tome is the one that gets you Cantrips. Book of Ancient Secrets gives you ritual spells, similar to the Ritual Caster feat.
The Telepathic feat says that you can cast Detect Thoughts if you have 2nd level spell slots. But when I add it to my Warlock with 3rd level slots DndBeyond doesn't show it as an option.
Some of the patrons give you spells that Warlocks normally don't get, but are Warlock spells for you.
You can always talk to your DM and see if they'll bend the rules or let you do something different. Or you can multi-class.
Shadow Touched is the dark brother of Fey Touched. Invisibility plus a necromantic or illusion 1st level. The choices are better for Fey Touched, but shadow is quite good.
Gift of the Metallic Dragon gets you Cure Wounds and a reaction ability kind of like the shield spell.
The thing is, Shadow Touched is not gonna fit the OC. Fey Touched fits like a glove, but pushes 20 Cha back till level 8 :( Which is not terrible, but not amazing either.
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I am currently playing a level 3 Archfey Warlock and am slowly planning for level 4 choices, as I like to be prepared for those. The theme of the character is a bit of a comedic one, but with a twist. She is a human girl from a low born family, but her parent's skills allowed them to open quite a well established inn, which was quite popular amongst the nobility and merchants of the city. The character is a great cook, which resulted in the pact she is now in. Her patron is a very lazy and a very hungry fey bear. She gives him sweets and pastries in exchange for assistance and her warlock powers. Right now she is in possession of an ancient elven cook's book, from which she draws inspiration for food to haggle with the bear. It also works as her Book of Ancient Secrets, where each ritual is actually a specific recipe, which she has to prepare for her patron for him to cast the spell. For the bear, imagine Sloth Demon from Dragon Age Origins mixed with Whinnie the Poof and you have an idea.
Now since we already have a Hexblade in our team, I am not focusing on damaging spells. Especially since the character is a rookie adventurer and wouldn't really want to harm people that much. For now she knows Fearie Fire, Sleep, Suggestion and Enthrall as well as Find Familiar and Identify from the Tome. She also sports Eldritch Blast, Infestation, Shillelagh, Dancing Lights and Prestidigitation for cantrips. She also is in posession of a homebrew (I think) magic item, that lets her spend a charge out of three available to give Bardic Inspiration to someone within 60ft. It regains one charge at dawn. So I am fully embracing my support role.
Now some raw numbers: Str - 8, Dex - 16, Con - 12, Int - 8, Wis - 14, Cha - 18.
From my options, I figured three main courses of action, that might be worthwhile.
Any advice what would be decent to consider?
So. Couple of thoughts.
1. Always useful to get Cha to 20
2. Instead of E Adept to get E Mind why not just get Warcaster which gives you that and more.
3. LOVE Fey Touched and currently playing a warlock with it. I have a level of cleric as well so bless works great. Heroism is a good choice as well. On mine I chose Hex with the idea that I would be casting it everyday anyway. Bless is amazing for a support character and if you have EB+Agonizing Blast you can lean on that to help through an encounter while concentrating on bless.
I ditched Hex to free concentration for Fearie Fire. But I think, I am leaning towards Heroism over Bless for tough fights. Being able to just give friendly melee fighters a recurring 4HP a turn is not bad. 5 once I reach 20 Charisma.
Another option I considered was the Metamagic fest with Careful Spell and Subtle Spell as the option choices.
Bless is going to give you more in the long term. The temp HP from Heroism doesn't stack so they're only ever going to be +4 or +5. Even at your level now you're probably encountering monsters that are regularly giving double digit damage. That extra 4-5 HP is probably not going to be the difference between life and death as you get to higher levels. But an extra d4 on the attack roll from Bless can mean that the monster dies before it can hurt anyone.
Agreed. Bless scales better than Heroism does.
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Are there other means of learning a spell and being able to treat it as your Class spell? Book of Ancient Secrets gets you a bunch of cantrips. Fey Touched lets you get Misty Step plus one level 1, but you can only take the fest once.
Magic Initiate doesn't let you cast the spell from your own slots, unless the spell is on your class spell list.
Anything else?
Pact of the Tome is the one that gets you Cantrips. Book of Ancient Secrets gives you ritual spells, similar to the Ritual Caster feat.
The Telepathic feat says that you can cast Detect Thoughts if you have 2nd level spell slots. But when I add it to my Warlock with 3rd level slots DndBeyond doesn't show it as an option.
Some of the patrons give you spells that Warlocks normally don't get, but are Warlock spells for you.
You can always talk to your DM and see if they'll bend the rules or let you do something different. Or you can multi-class.
Shadow Touched is the dark brother of Fey Touched. Invisibility plus a necromantic or illusion 1st level. The choices are better for Fey Touched, but shadow is quite good.
Gift of the Metallic Dragon gets you Cure Wounds and a reaction ability kind of like the shield spell.
The thing is, Shadow Touched is not gonna fit the OC. Fey Touched fits like a glove, but pushes 20 Cha back till level 8 :( Which is not terrible, but not amazing either.