Why the heck did they take away the AoE damage fun from Warlocks in 5.5e?
A warlock without Shatter!?!?!??! WHAT?!?!?!?!
Hunger of Hadar is....boring. Can be useful, of course, but where's the UMPH?!?!
I don't really care about not having overlaps in caster options, sometimes you need all the casters to drop AoE spells which don't change the battlefield, but just do massive, raw damage (fireball, lightning bolt, etc). A sorcerer or wizard casting them instead isn't "better" - warlocks not having access to ALL of the possible spells to be cast doesn't make sense, in my opinion, given there are eldritch beings and feylords etc. giving access to the multiverse's spells. If Pact of the Tome allows you to access so many different classes magic, whyyyyyy would there be any gatekeeping for at least Sorcerer & Wizard spells (I can fully see blocking Druid, Paladin, Cleric, Artificer spells, but come on, anything Sorc or Wizard a warlock should have access to given we are essentially "cheating" as a warlock! XD)
No need to even reply to this; I'm just frustrated because I am the only spellcaster besides a cleric in my dnd group and we don't really have AoE to speak of right now and we *desperately* need it for some of these trash mobs in Tomb of Annihilation. Not having at least Shatter is kind of ridiculous! How can a Warlock feasibly *not* have access to it? Makes zero sense.
They decided attacking people is not very warlock, warlocks can only have a few crowd control spells and worthless spells. They had a bad spell list in 2014, they decided they needed to make it far worse in 2024.
Crux of the question in the title.
/rant
Why the heck did they take away the AoE damage fun from Warlocks in 5.5e?
A warlock without Shatter!?!?!??! WHAT?!?!?!?!
Hunger of Hadar is....boring. Can be useful, of course, but where's the UMPH?!?!
I don't really care about not having overlaps in caster options, sometimes you need all the casters to drop AoE spells which don't change the battlefield, but just do massive, raw damage (fireball, lightning bolt, etc). A sorcerer or wizard casting them instead isn't "better" - warlocks not having access to ALL of the possible spells to be cast doesn't make sense, in my opinion, given there are eldritch beings and feylords etc. giving access to the multiverse's spells. If Pact of the Tome allows you to access so many different classes magic, whyyyyyy would there be any gatekeeping for at least Sorcerer & Wizard spells (I can fully see blocking Druid, Paladin, Cleric, Artificer spells, but come on, anything Sorc or Wizard a warlock should have access to given we are essentially "cheating" as a warlock! XD)
No need to even reply to this; I'm just frustrated because I am the only spellcaster besides a cleric in my dnd group and we don't really have AoE to speak of right now and we *desperately* need it for some of these trash mobs in Tomb of Annihilation. Not having at least Shatter is kind of ridiculous! How can a Warlock feasibly *not* have access to it? Makes zero sense.
./endrant
They decided attacking people is not very warlock, warlocks can only have a few crowd control spells and worthless spells. They had a bad spell list in 2014, they decided they needed to make it far worse in 2024.
Invest everything in Eldritch Blast. It can push you, pull you, pants you, steal your gold, do your taxes, and from half a mile away.